WEBVTT - The Truth with Lisa Boothe: The Left's Obsession with Russia 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.360 Russia, Russia, Russia, Well, Russia's back in the news. The 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.840 Department of Justice has insisted on that they just announced 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:10.520 the Department of Justice did that they were seizing thirty 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:15.400 two domains tied to Russian influence campaign. Basically, these court 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:20.320 documents alleged that rt a Russia state media network which 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:23.080 was previously called Russia Today, that they deployed nearly ten 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.440 million dollars to finance and direct a Tennessee based online 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.760 content company to post videos I guess, you know, allegedly 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.440 pushing propaganda and whatnot. 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:35.319 But we've seen a. 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.080 Lot of this, right, I mean, we recently found out 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.960 that Governor Kathy Hokel had an alleged Chinese spy working 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:45.159 for her office for nearly a decade. That comes on 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.360 the heels of previously learning that Eric Swolwell was caught 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.960 with a Chinese spy having connections to Fengfeng. We know 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:56.280 that Diane Feinstein Center, Diane Feinstein had employed a Chinese. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.000 Spies your driver for quite some time. 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.960 You know. There's also been newss are on Envoy Robert 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:06.680 Malley had a security clearance suspended was also under investigation 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.720 by the FBI. Senator Bob Menendez how to resign following 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.560 a conviction for acting as an agent for the Egyptian government. 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:19.520 You know, Mayor Adams is under investigation in relation to Turkey. 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:24.800 So a lot of influence by foreign actors, right, you know, 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.040 this is all what's been alleged, a lot of this influence. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:32.440 So why the specific focus on Russia by the left 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.400 and the media. I think most normal people would say, hey, look, 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.000 I don't want any foreign adversary to be messing with 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.480 our country. I don't want them infiltrating or politicians. I 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:46.720 don't want them having influence in our public policy decisions 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.560 that are lawmakers are making. I think that's a normal 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.800 conclusion for us all to draw of saying all these countries, 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.360 I just listed our enemies. They're not our friends. 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:57.840 So why just the focus on Russia? 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.880 And why now when you know there were some you know, 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.920 conservative people tied up in the recent DOJ drop, you know, 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.560 particularly after we've already seen the FBI and the Department 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.240 of Justice engaged in the Russia hoax against Donald Trump. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.440 We know that fifty one former intelligence officers lied to 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.760 US about Russian disinformation, claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop was 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.440 Russian disinformation? So what a make of all of this? 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.120 You know Rebecca Kaufler, we've had her on the show before. 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.240 She's the author of Putin's playbook, Russia's Secret Plan to 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:29.400 Defeat America. She's also a former intelligence officer who served 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:33.040 as a Russian doctrine and strategy specialist in the Defense 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.440 Intelligence Agency from twy and eight to twenty sixteen. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.520 We're going to get her take on all of this. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:40.400 What should you know? 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:43.840 How much influence do these enemy nations have in our country? 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.840 And why this dropped from the Department of Justice now 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.480 heading into the election. What's the intention behind it? Is 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.960 it just because people did something bad or are they 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.360 trying to again influence our elections. We'll also get into 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:00.440 to where the war between Russia and Ukraine stand today. 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.720 It's hard to really know, so we'll dig into that 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.320 with her. So a lot to get to stay tuned for. 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:13.440 Rebecca Coffler. Well, Rebecca, it's great to have you. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.760 Back on the show. Appreciate you making the time. 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.040 Of course, thanks for having me, Lisa. 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.200 I wanted to get you know, Russia is back in 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.440 the news. I mean, I guess it really hasn't left. 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:26.480 But so the Justice Department just announced that it was 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.840 seizing thirty two domains tied to what they call a 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:35.880 Russian influence campaign. They alleged that, you know, these influencers 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:39.600 were basically used in the United States on behalf of 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:44.680 Russia to push propaganda. What do you make of this 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:49.680 announcement from the Department of Justice and what should people 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:50.280 know about it? 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:58.960 Sure two things, Lisa. Yes, Russia traditionally does try to 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:04.520 into veen in the US elections, right, just like China does, 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:09.840 and a lot of other countries do. Any major US 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:14.880 adversary with their standard intelligence service does that, just like 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:20.239 the United States. We do that to other countries. There's 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:25.040 a doctrine that the Russians have of elections sabotaged. And yes, 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:35.240 this announcement is accurate, but only partially because the Russians 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:40.760 don't do this to elect a specific person. They know 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.839 that they are not capable of that it's the US 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:48.440 voter that chooses the US president. They do that for 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:54.760 a completely different reason. They do that to foment conditions 0:04:54.800 --> 0:05:01.560 for social unrest. There's another doctrine called control instability. But 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:06.479 what's also interesting about the timing of this release, the 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:12.559 US spy agencies are actually either deliberately not understand either 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:17.880 unintentionally they don't understand the Russian doctrine, or they understand it, 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:23.200 and they push this narrative right now saying that the 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.880 Russians are trying to elect Donald Trump, they favored Trump, 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.720 And isn't it interesting that just two months before the election, 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.880 here we go again they're pushing that very same narrative. 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.600 It's them for trying to intervene in the election. It's 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.280 the US spy agency instead are trying to do that. 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:47.520 In my assess, you know, they said that the documents 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.960 alleged that you know, RTI, which used to be Russia today, 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:55.080 deployed nearly ten million to finance in direct to Tennessee 0:05:55.080 --> 0:06:00.080 based online content creation company to post certain videos. I 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:01.800 guess you'd kind of mention of what some of the 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:06.599 things that Russia tries to do. How influential have their 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.960 actions been and you know, trying to push some of 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.800 these propaganda, you know, I mean, is it effective at all? 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:12.240 Do you think? 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:17.560 Well, it depends on how you measure effectiveness. Again, what 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:21.120 the Russians are trying to do, they are trying to 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:28.680 pit Americans against one another. Uh, they're tailoring their narratives 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:35.279 to drive divisions among like religious people versus non religious people, 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:43.799 right pro police and against police. So but we, in fact, 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:48.080 we are already doing it to ourselves, right, just by 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:52.800 virtue of Kamala Harris. You know, she comes out and 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:58.640 she starts, you know, targeting certain people also, like Christians, 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:02.880 like JD. Van like she's attacking him. And so what 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.640 the Russians are trying to do they is simply amplifying this. 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:13.200 But if you measure effectiveness but by Russian ability to 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:17.600 actually change votes, then no, they don't have such capability. 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:22.360 They have not changed a single vote. So they're creating 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:28.000 all of that commotion, but it's not effective when it 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:35.720 comes to actual election influence. It's more of creating disorder. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:37.080 You know. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.440 It's the timing suspicions on behalf of the Department of Justice. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.000 You know, they typically have a sixty day rule of 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:47.800 sort of impartiality to not try to influence elections. Obviously, 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.640 you know there are you know, quote unquote conservative commentators 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.240 that are you know named in here and have been 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.880 in the news with this. You know, obviously conservatives have 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.200 suspicions on the way the Department of Justice and the 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.520 FBI have handled things involving Russia in the past. You know, 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.840 we all saw, we've discussed the Russia hoax that was 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.920 weaponized against Donald Trump, and then we also saw, you know, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:14.360 fifty one former intelligence officers lie about Hunter Biden's laptop 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.960 to the public, saying it was Russian disinformation when it 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.480 was not. So I guess, does this timing of this 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:25.000 strike you, as you know, interesting or suspicious on behalf 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.400 of the Department of Justice, or you know, kind of 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.280 what do you make of that aspect of this? 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:33.560 One hundred percent, I am very very suspicious of the 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:38.800 timing of this release. And here's why. I mean, we 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:45.679 already know that the Obama administration, the spy agencies, and 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:52.079 the Department of Justice completely weaponized the bureaucracy against Donald 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:57.800 Trump to create that Russia Trump collusion hoax that never existed. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.640 And at that point, at that time, I was in 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:06.640 the intelligence service, right in the intelligence community, in the 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:11.360 DiiA Defense Intelligence Agency, and we know that, and I 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:17.280 knew back then that it's John Brennan, the Obama CIA director, 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:22.320 James Comy, Obama's FBI director, and James Clapp of the 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:27.080 Director of National Intelligence in the Obama administration, they drove 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:32.920 the creation of the so called Intelligence Community Assessment that 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:39.520 was published the declassified version of it on January seventh, 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:46.800 or six, rather twenty seventeen, and that assessment claimed that 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.720 the Russians preferred Trump, and there was there and that's 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:55.920 what pushed out that false narrative of the collusion, and 0:09:55.960 --> 0:10:01.440 that's when the whole thing started. And here they come again, right, 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:05.160 And all they need to do is just so doubt 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:10.120 in the minds of Americans and use the word Trump 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.440 in the word Russia or Trump and Pudtin in the 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:18.360 same sentence. And certain people who are already preconditioned to 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:22.280 believe that they immediately will eat it up. And so 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:27.000 that's exactly the interesting bit about this, Lisa, is that 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:31.040 that's exactly how the Russians operate as well. They never 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:36.199 try to convert a person who is of the opposite 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.839 belief right. If you are a conservative, the Russians are 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:44.120 never trying to make you a liberal. But they already 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:49.000 are planting certain narratives to people who already to predispose 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:53.199 for certain beliefs. And the Justice Department adopted Putent's playbook. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.920 So they're doing the very exact same thing. And people 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:00.320 who the only thing that they listen to see is 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.920 a CNN and if they read New York Times, which 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:08.400 basically has become the US version of Pravda, right, the 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:15.679 Soviet Pravda, it's the it's the regime newspaper supporting the 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:20.240 Harris Biden administration. And so those people who already predisposed 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.640 to believe all of these hoaxes that are coming out 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:26.520 of US by agencies and the Justice Department, they're going 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.040 to believe that. And so, in fact, like I said, 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:33.040 it's the Justice Department that is trying to influence the 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:38.160 election by spreading, by amplifying this narrative. 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:40.960 We've got a quick commercial break more with Rebecca on 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:46.840 the other side. We've also just seen a lot of this, 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.719 you know, across the board. I mean, we just learned that, 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.360 you know, Governor Kathy Hochel had an alleged Chinese spy 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.520 working for her office for nearly a decade. It was 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.120 the former deputy chief of staff, Linda Sun. She was 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.280 charged with eating Chinese officials. 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:03.560 You know. 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:07.640 Eric Swollwell of course, was tied to Fengfeing a Chinese spy. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.760 You know, we know that Diane Feinstein had employed a 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.040 Chinese spy. I think it was their driver for a 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.880 long period of time. You know, unknowingly, we know that 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.280 the Biden family has close ties to a lot of 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:25.840 Chinese business individuals and Chinese companies. Uh, you know, I 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:31.640 guess you know, how did how does China operate you know, 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.640 to China and Rush operate similarly to influence elections? Or 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.320 how does China you know do it? It seems like 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.120 most of the their ties have been to democrats. We 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.680 have Tim Walls, the vice president nominee for for DEMS, 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.679 who has visited China something like thirty times. Like I 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:52.559 guess is the Chinese does China more specifically target democrats? 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:55.480 It seems is that is that the case? 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.000 If so, why you know, what do you kind of 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:01.120 make of China's desire to inflo and how they've got 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:01.560 about it? 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:11.319 Yes, the Chinese actually have penetrated the entire democratic apparatus 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.880 if you will, and you I don't even need to 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.840 name those, you have already done it, right, so uh, 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:23.200 and they do that for decades. They have infiltrated operatives 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:29.160 and these are intelligence officers. But they are unique in 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:35.040 the sense that they are here not necessarily to collect secrets, 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.600 although if opportunity to present themselves, they do that too, 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:45.880 But they are here to infiltrate the Democratic Party and 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:51.600 get close to decision makers within the US government so 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.640 they can influence policy. And so all of these people 0:13:55.760 --> 0:14:01.319 have been very close to the Democratic Party, and they've 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:07.000 been trying to uh to shape our laws, right because 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:14.000 remember the Congress people are creating, uh, the legislative branch 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:20.360 is uh writing and implementing these laws. But people who 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:27.360 are putting certain narratives into the brains of people like 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:32.880 Dane Feinstein and all of these Eric Swolfo, they are 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:39.000 under the influence of the policies of the Chinese government. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:44.560 And so everything that we see right now unfolding, especially 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:49.880 during the election season, is a result of decades worth 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:55.280 of influence, not just months, not just days or weeks, decades, 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.120 And that's how China operates well. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.720 And that's just you know Russia and you know China. 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.000 You know, we also saw that you know, Biden's are 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:08.000 on envoy Robert Bally had his Maley had his security 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:12.200 clearance suspended, has been investigated by the FBI as well. 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.280 And then you have New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez how 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.880 to resign after being convicted for acting as an agent 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.000 on behalf of the Egyptian government. So it's like it 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.320 kind of makes you wonder how much of our public 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:29.640 policy is dictated by foreign influenced a lot? 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.520 And that's and that's a good question. And that is 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:37.000 because the foreign advisories they have figured out how our 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.920 system works, right, and we have something called lobbying in 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:45.480 for example, like Russia doesn't have lobby and lobbying is 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:51.200 in America. It's a it's a legitimate way of shaping laws, right, 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.560 it's a it's a legal way of shaping laws. But 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.640 it was not meant to be used by foreign adversaries. 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.920 And so they've been paying attention. And that's exactly what 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:08.680 they're trying to do, is covert lowering by placing these operatives, 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.960 you know, Chinese, Iranians, the Russians, by the way, they 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:17.560 do the same thing. Remember the keen Russian operatives that 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:24.040 former President Obama sent back to Russia. Unfortunately, right, instead 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.320 of turning them and flipping them and having them work 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.680 for US intelligence, he just sent them back to Russia. 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.680 But that's exactly what they were doing here as well, 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:37.680 and they got very close to Hillary Clinton's circle, and 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:42.760 that's exactly why the FBI pulled the trigger on arresting 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:50.040 those ten illegals. That's another form of a contestine intelligence officer. 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:54.200 They're called illegals I legalis in Russian. So all of 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:59.960 these countries do that, and unfortunately there's no account to both. 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.679 And nobody sat down and actually reviewed these laws and 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:10.040 some does this law actually benefit the United States or 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:15.400 does it benefit another country? And especially right now when 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.760 we see, for example, a report has come out on 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:25.000 deployment report that is actually foreign born the folks here 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:30.680 in America that gaining more jobs than American born, Right, 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.280 how did that happen? Well, Kamala Harris have led all 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:40.560 of these people in and it's not just crime that 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:45.600 the result is. It's not just crime, it's also changing 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:51.760 the entire employment landscape of this country. How did that 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.679 idea come to Kamala Harris and to her circle whoever 0:17:55.760 --> 0:18:00.560 is pushing that, who originally planted that idea? And it's 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:05.080 definitely not in the interest of US security, or US 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:09.960 stability or even economic prosperity of the American people. It's 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.359 in someone else's interest, it's very clear. 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.040 Yeah, and you've got a lot of foreign money going 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.280 to universities in the country as well. And then you've 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.800 got the Biden family into the Department of Justice found 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:23.000 that they've made something like twenty seven million dollars from 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:26.280 you know, foreign entities and foreign business people. It's very 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:31.080 hard to imagine that that didn't influence policy making, you know, 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.679 Joe Biden's policy making decisions. And to your point, you know, 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.880 we're supposed to have the Foreign Asians Registration Act, which 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:42.440 in my opinion, should be heavily enforced across the board, 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.600 but unfortunately we sort of see an unequal application of it. 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:49.080 It's typically used for political reasons, and I think if 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:53.119 it was actually applied universally and evenly and justly and 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:55.600 not in the name of politics, that might go a 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.400 long way and keeping some of this you know, foreign influence, 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.359 or at least keeping people honest knowing who's you know 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:02.600 working on behalf of hill. 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:03.720 Uh. 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.639 You know, I wanted to shift gears for for a 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.080 minute and just kind of get from you. You know, 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.959 what's it's hard to really ever know what's going on 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:17.560 with the war between Russia and Ukraine. Where do things 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:19.560 stand right now in that war? 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.160 Yes, it is very hard. And you know why, Lisa, 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:28.840 is because the US media is really not covering it accurately. 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:35.119 Because again there's this narrative, very simplistic narrative that is 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:38.479 spread not just in the years but across Western media, 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.440 and it's very simplistic. Put in bads, let's get good, 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:48.359 Russia bad, Ukraine good. So here's what's going on. Effectively, 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:54.600 this war is in a stalemate. But uh, there's no 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:59.760 military path for victory for Ukraine and so eventually you 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:04.919 Raine will collapse. That is my professional intelligence assessment. And 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.800 here's why from the very beginning this fight was an 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:12.879 unfair fight. You have a small country of Ukraine with 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:19.399 forty three million people population and you have Russia with 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:23.920 one hundred and forty three million population. In the military 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:29.280 that the Pentagon itself has designated as a near peer competitor. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.400 What does it mean a peer competitor. It means that 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:40.520 the Russian military, both capability wise and doctrine wise, is 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:44.800 comparable to US military. How do I know this to 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:51.200 be true is because again it's codified already within the 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:56.400 Pentagon's doctrine. I personally in June briefed the Northern Command 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.840 Combatant Command. Northern Command is on North comb we call 0:20:59.880 --> 0:21:04.160 it is the command that is protecting the United States 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:09.800 from foreign missile strikes, including from Russia, China, et cetera. 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:13.359 I was briefing them on the Russian war fighting strategy 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:20.399 and Putin's mindset. They are very concerned about escalation. And 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:23.919 so despite the fact that we have all these media 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:27.159 types saying how the Russian military doesn't know, you know, 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.720 how to properly hold an ik, you know, forty seven. 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:35.960 I'm kind of, you know, marking a little bit tight here, 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:41.640 but that's what essentially they've been saying. The Russians can't fight. Eventually, 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:44.679 Ukraine is going to be destroyed because it's already the 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:50.720 critical infrastructure is almost entirely destroyed. By Putin has prepared 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:54.479 to fight a very long, protracted war It's called the 0:21:54.520 --> 0:22:00.879 war of attrition trinally, and he will prevail simp because 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:05.600 Russia has three times more people and it has a transition. 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:09.680 Putting has traditioned its military and economy on a wartime 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:14.080 footing seven years prior to the invasion, so he is 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:16.840 going to our class and we, on the other hand, 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:20.280 all of this weaponry that we have provided to Ukraine 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:25.000 and two hundred million dollars worth of military assistance, both 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:29.080 in cash and the military hardware, we are depleting our 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:33.879 own arsenal already, right we are two dangerously low levels 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:40.640 one hundred and fifty five millimeter shells and a javelin stingers. 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:44.399 It's going to take us anywhere from five to eighteen 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:49.320 years to replace. And so who understands that those resources 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:54.400 are not finite and the patients of the American voter 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:58.399 and the taxpay is not finite either, And so the 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:04.680 longer the lens Ski weights to negotiate, the more Ukraine 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:08.199 is going to be destroyed. And it's already ceasing to 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:14.879 exist as a viable independent country because it completely relies 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:18.520 on us, the United States and on the West for 0:23:18.760 --> 0:23:22.480 its existence. We're providing about fifty percent of its GDP, 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:25.960 and the Ukraine government will collapse as soon as we 0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:27.600 pull that assistance. 0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:31.680 We've got more with Rebecca, but first we're quickly approaching 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:35.119 the one year anniversary of the horrific Commas attacks on Israel, 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:37.920 and still the Holy Land continues to be attacked on 0:23:38.040 --> 0:23:42.120 multiple fronts. Deadly threats are increasing in northern Israel. Constant 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:45.800 rocket attacks from Hesba have been fired at Israel, causing 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:51.080 widespread damage, with raging wildfires destroying precious farmland. Since the 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:54.399 war started, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has 0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:57.399 been on the forefront in Israel, addressing the needs of 0:23:57.400 --> 0:24:01.000 the most vulnerable. 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You know, I guess 0:25:07.160 --> 0:25:07.800 what does that mean? 0:25:08.640 --> 0:25:10.440 So there's there's. 0:25:10.320 --> 0:25:15.119 A little bit of significance here in the sense that 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:23.320 Lendscape has demonstrated that he is able to. 0:25:21.359 --> 0:25:25.000 To violate Russia's traditional red line. What is the red line? 0:25:25.000 --> 0:25:29.840 The territorial integrity and sovereignty of Russia has not been 0:25:29.920 --> 0:25:34.159 violated since World War Two. Well, Zelenski was able to 0:25:34.280 --> 0:25:41.359 do that, but Putin has retaliated massively. Uh, And it's 0:25:41.400 --> 0:25:46.199 not going to dramatically change anything in terms of the 0:25:46.280 --> 0:25:49.000 dynamics of the war and in terms of the outcome 0:25:49.680 --> 0:25:53.320 of the war. The reason why Zlanskap did that, in 0:25:53.400 --> 0:25:57.560 my assessment, is because he wanted to demonstrate to the 0:25:57.680 --> 0:26:01.800 United States and to the West that he can stay 0:26:02.080 --> 0:26:05.560 in the fight. Because what he's concerned right now is 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:08.720 to lose, you know, to lose our money, to lose 0:26:08.720 --> 0:26:14.119 our military hardware. And he's also desperate because remember Zelenski, 0:26:14.160 --> 0:26:18.840 because the entire career is dependent on this narrative that 0:26:19.840 --> 0:26:23.639 the Western media has created that he is this amazing 0:26:23.720 --> 0:26:26.639 you know, democratic leader Churchill in the T shirt, and 0:26:26.680 --> 0:26:29.560 nothing can be further from the truth. Z Lanski is 0:26:29.960 --> 0:26:34.080 a mini cho whutin he is only you know he's 0:26:34.200 --> 0:26:37.760 he's not a democratic leader because he has outlawed all 0:26:37.840 --> 0:26:43.159 of the opposition. He outlawed all of the independent media 0:26:43.280 --> 0:26:48.439 in Ukraine. The intelligence services who work for Zelenski, the SBU, 0:26:48.560 --> 0:26:54.000 s Luzburg Spee Ukraine, they grant Ukrainian men off the 0:26:54.080 --> 0:26:57.080 street to send them to the front line because nobody 0:26:57.080 --> 0:27:01.399 wants to go fight anymore. And so this man is 0:27:01.480 --> 0:27:07.840 effectively having its own country destroyed by unwilling to actually 0:27:08.840 --> 0:27:13.960 come up with achievable war goals, because he has articulated 0:27:14.000 --> 0:27:18.520 his definition of victory to be able to kick the 0:27:18.560 --> 0:27:22.560 Russians out of the entire Ukraine, and that's unachievable because 0:27:22.720 --> 0:27:26.119 Russians control about twenty percent of Ukraine. And so the 0:27:26.119 --> 0:27:30.359 fighting is going to go on as long as nobody 0:27:30.680 --> 0:27:35.240 pushes Pudin and Zolenski to sit down at the table 0:27:35.400 --> 0:27:42.120 and actually negotiate and stop the senseless dying of Ukrainians 0:27:42.160 --> 0:27:48.600 because these are healthy, young European men, you know, child 0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:54.120 producing age, that are simply being illuminated from the Dean pool, 0:27:54.280 --> 0:27:55.840 if you will, Right now. 0:27:56.240 --> 0:27:59.560