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As people are watching this they may say

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why the A Front row globally front running

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health journalists show dealing with manmade disease or

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talk about military things. Will sometimes you have

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to pause because world events start to really

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class really fast. Your deposit say what are

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we doing here Let's look at some of

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the evidence and was pay attention to something

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has happened recently. As a lot of people

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talking a lot of people pop in the

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brakes and it was a Are Secretary of

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State Tony Blinken. He said something during a

0:28

press conference that had people's ears perk. Up,

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take a listen. Or it. Were. Also here

0:32

at Nato to talk about the

0:34

summit that are coming in them

0:36

in the summer in Washington celebrating

0:38

the seventy fifth anniversary of the

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of The Odds are Ukraine. Will.

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Become a member of Nato.

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Our purpose of the summit.

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Is to help build a

0:50

bridge to that membership and

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to create a clear pathway

0:54

for for Ukraine. Moving

0:57

forward with a lot of work on that

0:59

over the last couple days here and Brussels.

1:01

Lot more work to be done between now

1:03

and the summit. But we

1:05

will see I think in the

1:07

summit very strong support for Ukraine

1:09

going forward in this relationship with

1:11

for with Nato. Now.

1:15

There's an interesting point there from people

1:17

that miss what's going on that some

1:20

it's gonna be in July by the

1:22

way, nine through eleventh in D C.

1:24

but having Ukraine join Nato Nato as

1:27

a defensive military grouping of countries thirty

1:29

two countries to be exact, and what

1:31

that means in plain talk, as if

1:33

Ukraine joined Nato is allowed into Nato.

1:36

They. Have they have a pact of

1:38

anybody in that Nato experiences and attacker

1:41

is under military conflict everyone will join

1:43

so he can do one plus one

1:45

equals to at this point because Ukraine

1:47

isn't military conflict if they joined Nato,

1:50

that means. The You and

1:52

the Us would have a green light to

1:54

join into this Conflict wise this problem? Well.

1:56

This is been a promise for very

1:59

long time. You Russian the Soviet

2:01

Union that Ukraine will not join

2:03

Nato or facts always called I

2:05

have read minds Thanks George Washington

2:08

University's National Security Archive. We actually

2:10

have the transcript. In Nineteen

2:12

Ninety Two Wind at that time Secretary Us

2:14

Secretary Stadiums Baker met with the right the

2:16

Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev and they were

2:19

discussing with the fall the Soviet Union just

2:21

a year prior. I'm sorry to the fall

2:23

of a Germany just year prior. They are

2:25

these Germany West Germany. They were unifying Germany.

2:28

At that point, a lot of superpowers had

2:30

vested interest in what direction Germany was gonna

2:32

go. the Us and Soviet Union primarily. So

2:34

is meeting took place in Moscow and we

2:37

have the transcript. Yeah, I'll rewrite from it.

2:39

This is that you A Sixers to gyms,

2:41

Bakery. Says and the last pull A

2:43

and the last point. Nato is the

2:45

mechanism for securing the Us presence in

2:47

Europe. If Nato was liquidated, there will

2:49

be no such mechanism in Europe. We

2:51

understand that not only for the Soviet

2:53

Union, but for other European countries as

2:55

well. It is important have guarantees that

2:57

if the United States keeps his presence

2:59

in Germany within the framework of Nato

3:02

and an inch of Nato's present military

3:04

jurisdiction will spread in an eastern direction.

3:06

So. To that Mikhail Gorbachev obviously agree

3:08

to that, so there is. There is

3:10

kind of a loose promise they're not

3:13

an inch further. I would imagine a

3:15

little conversation is happening because of attention

3:17

their Gorbachev is having. like wait a

3:19

minute, You know the the walls coming

3:21

down, your all moving in here, Nato's

3:23

taking over and frankly it feels like

3:25

you're all lined up against us. What

3:28

Is your plan? I mean we've always

3:30

been worried about like all these paranoid

3:32

people with their finger on the button.

3:35

Yeah. Exactly. And Russia has a

3:37

reason for that because rewards you.

3:39

Operation Barbarossa was comments by Germany

3:41

and which they invaded Russia partly.

3:43

Three, Ukraine's the biggest land invasion

3:46

in U S M. sorry world

3:48

history. so we're talking millions of

3:50

people with the biggest war as

3:52

known at that point throughout. We're

3:54

we're too. So what's also going

3:56

on is Prudent Has somewhat responded

3:59

to this. The movements and listen to

4:01

what he had to say. They gluttonous.

4:04

Nicorette. You should have to keep attribute it to

4:06

see ago I don't know new which imperfect it

4:08

was to believing it was loosely says if consequence

4:10

of is easily the this way to fertility to

4:13

leave with have to do infinite. Helping.

4:16

My telling us this is Ukraine a brutal,

4:18

Not that. It's volume and

4:20

put your boot with Russia severe.

4:22

Couldn't. You. Want peace

4:24

Israel may have to my teachers he

4:26

boarded them with the volume they complete

4:28

crises conditioner and the should to put

4:30

themselves are being in the vicinity and

4:32

I thing is for same room and

4:34

with doesn't if a new minestrone i

4:36

see a movie lucius they didn't didn't

4:38

have a fine you've been a companion

4:40

from passivity me on this to there's

4:42

a Mugger because it a busy to

4:44

be booted. You

4:47

look at it is down with him with a Catholic by

4:49

he must where you when it. Was.

4:52

A new species gloves Mcdonalds because of with

4:54

his own. It's been getting in earnings for

4:56

the don't have a spike in presented finished

4:58

with you which is as well as a

5:00

d Any pressure. You

5:03

can you fetch. I had the most

5:05

of I thought this enough. wouldn't say

5:07

he wishes meals risks of for a.

5:10

While. I was take a second

5:12

here because you know we are. we're

5:14

We're going into space that we you

5:16

know tend to avoid Jeffrey. We had

5:18

a lot of conversations this week is

5:20

this is his fit the courtroom with

5:22

the high was talking about but I

5:25

I think I said very simply when

5:27

we were discussing it. If we have

5:29

a new to the war and our

5:31

mission statement is dedicated to eradicating manmade

5:33

disease, we have a manmade Z. We

5:35

have a problem in which that so

5:37

many people across as world maybe all

5:39

of us gets sick. We. know where

5:41

this goes and for all of those

5:43

like i am not a sympathizer in

5:45

any way you know with potent in

5:48

fact i find it shocking that the

5:50

people who like he's a dictator a

5:52

lunatic is else warlord is a warmonger

5:54

whatever it is that they would say

5:57

the best thing we should do then

5:59

is back him into a

6:01

corner where this crazy person has no

6:03

other options. What he says there is

6:05

so chilling that

6:08

I know at that point if they join NATO, and

6:10

I'm in the middle of all, I mean, you know

6:12

in a war with Ukraine, I

6:14

will be outnumbered. You will now have every ability to

6:16

beat me. It's not lost on me that that's the

6:18

case. So what do you think I'm going to do?

6:21

I only have one option then because I still have some

6:23

of the best nuclear weapons in the world. And

6:26

we all basically know how that ends and

6:28

nobody wins. I

6:30

mean, it's really really chilling

6:33

stuff and I guess do we say oh he's bluffing. Oh,

6:36

he's bluffing. Don't worry about it. Really? I thought

6:38

you just said he was a lunatic. Which one is

6:40

it? Right and this

6:42

isn't something he did. This isn't a speech that just came

6:44

out of left field as we just showed since at least

6:48

1990. There's been talks about not doing this,

6:50

not expanding Ukraine and having

6:52

them join NATO. So this isn't something, this

6:54

is something that policymakers definitely know what they're

6:56

doing. And to really understand this

6:59

story, the recent history of this if you will, we

7:01

have to go back to the

7:03

Secretary of State, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria

7:06

Newland and at

7:08

the time in 2013 there was something

7:10

called the Maidan Revolution or the Maidan

7:12

Uprising in Ukraine. This was basically civil

7:14

unrest because at the time the Ukrainian

7:17

president turned away from the

7:19

European Union to sign a deal and turned

7:21

towards Russia to sign an economic

7:23

pact and that led

7:25

to an uprising in the country. The US

7:27

was heavily involved in parts that uprising

7:29

and in 2014 Victoria

7:31

Newland was caught on a call. This went

7:34

out to all the press. It was released.

7:36

She was caught on a call. This was the headline.

7:39

Intercepted F-bomb phone call shows the US

7:41

role in Ukraine. And she was on a

7:43

call with the US ambassador to Ukraine and

7:45

they were talking about which government to install,

7:47

which people they wanted to install that were

7:49

friendly to the West when the regime

7:52

toppled, which eventually it did. The president was

7:54

ousted. He had to leave the country. And

7:56

so from that point on the US was really

7:58

kind of in a pull position. the seat because

8:00

Ukraine, as you know, turned towards Europe

8:03

and the United States. But

8:05

Newland still had her hands in this

8:07

as well. So she helped with the

8:09

sanctions. This was the headline, US-Europe weighing

8:11

potential deeper Russian sanctions, that's Reuters. And

8:14

remember, the sanctions were to stop Russia from

8:16

invading Ukraine. We were told that's why we

8:18

were doing that. More on that in a

8:20

second, but obviously that didn't work. And then

8:22

in 2020, Newland penned this in Foreign Affairs,

8:25

pinning down Putin, in which she called in

8:27

this article for expansion of NATO, a wider

8:30

expansion of NATO with Ukraine involved in that. And

8:33

so that brings us to, you know,

8:35

so Newland's an interesting character in this

8:37

space because she's really just has

8:40

her foot on the gas in this

8:42

conflict, really charging towards this conflict with

8:44

a lot of, it seems like blunders

8:46

to make Russia really just cause this

8:48

invasion even faster. But we go to

8:51

the current headlines now. Biden warns, warns

8:54

risk of nuclear Armageddon is highest since

8:56

Cuban Missile Crisis, which is

8:58

ironic because during the Cuban Missile Crisis, that was

9:00

John F. Kennedy's tenure. That's when

9:03

Russia put military armaments in Cuba on our

9:05

border. So that was obviously a really big

9:07

deal for us. And that took about two

9:09

weeks to really figure that out.

9:11

But so let's look at some of the

9:14

headlines here, because we're not only talking about,

9:16

I can't believe I'm reporting on this,

9:18

but potential nuclear war, but we're talking

9:20

about military mobilizations for a greater war

9:23

in Russia and Europe. These are the headlines just

9:26

over the last two months. This is France. I'm

9:28

going to go through these. This is in February.

9:30

Macron stands by remarks about sending troops to Ukraine.

9:32

This is in January 24. UK Army chief

9:35

says citizens should be ready to fight a

9:37

possible land war. New York Times

9:39

February 2024. Germany braces for

9:41

decades of confrontation with Russia. March

9:44

24. Van der Leehen asks

9:46

Finland to prepare EU for war. And then

9:48

here's another one. UK and other NATO allies

9:51

urged to consider conscription. That's a

9:53

draft as Ukraine war enters third year.

9:56

I Mean, these are just one-off topics. This is

9:58

preparing me. We gotta understand what

10:01

the during the populations as well. This is preparing them

10:03

for. A potential engagement. I mean

10:05

I don't know if everyone into this

10:07

is where we were gonna play. Both

10:09

sides are so many people want to

10:11

go to war at this point. a

10:13

prolonged war with superpowers nuclear weapons. We

10:15

said you can to use them if

10:17

they exist. this happens. but Ukraine has

10:19

a problem at this point because this

10:21

is in March is the end of

10:24

March Draft dodging plagues Ukraine as keep

10:26

faces a cute soldier shortage so there

10:28

seems to be an inflection point here.

10:30

They have a soldier shortage of their

10:32

the running out of money. The

10:34

armaments. And so we're talking either peace

10:36

deal or to you know troops in

10:38

armaments from other countries have to join

10:40

this fight it seems. And for

10:43

the U S for the U S

10:45

purposes let's remember a just about a

10:47

month or so after the invasion and

10:49

twenty twenty two Russia's invasion Ukraine we

10:51

had Secretary Defense lawyer Austin who is

10:53

the had military guy that quote this

10:55

when Cnn awesome says us wants to

10:57

see Russia's military capabilities weekends So we

10:59

were told that this is supposed to

11:01

help the democracy in Ukraine and to

11:03

fight a you know why the world's

11:05

most brutal dictators than you avoid Awesome!

11:07

Thanks! We wanted basically see Russia weekend

11:09

to a degree it can do this

11:11

kind of. Thing so. That's. An

11:14

interesting angle: their women are not that

11:16

really com esses as a proxy war,

11:18

we just use a Ukraine to wear

11:20

down pool which means all of those

11:22

of you know they were in the

11:24

hundreds weren't weren't only reason someone your

11:26

us a half a million Ukrainians are

11:28

now dead in the middle of this

11:30

conflict as it olds really dire. I'm

11:32

is and really really bad and the

11:34

think that we're just. Ah,

11:36

using them and now pressing

11:39

Poodle to bring all of

11:41

the Nato military upon him.

11:44

It's. Are. We. I mean

11:47

I you know these things are me.

11:49

I grew up my my parents have

11:51

said it before. My parents were hippies. I

11:53

grew up anti war. I wars not the

11:55

answer of but these types of things.

11:57

I was always warned. Ah, if warmongers to.

12:00

I'll be your country. And you start,

12:02

you know yelled taking a hornet's nest.

12:04

That's how you start World War Three.

12:06

It's just it's really really silly because

12:09

these are commentaries and conversations Now that

12:11

we only heard about before I was

12:13

born first, I'm a really seen this

12:15

kind of conversations in my lifetime. right?

12:18

And these narratives do We vince you health,

12:20

well being, wellness because obviously what we talk

12:23

about the top there but for the U

12:25

S it with where they're checking the Senate

12:27

Foreign Aid package which is currently up for

12:29

a a vote is another sixty billion dollars

12:32

that's going to Ukraine self. The the Cato

12:34

Institute did some calculations of all the money

12:36

that has been has went to Ukraine including

12:38

if the sixty billion are packaged passes and

12:41

the interests. This is what they found the

12:43

high Cost of War Ukraine eight top two

12:45

hundred forty billion. The set a time when

12:47

the Us. Has extremely high inflation grocery

12:49

bills or through the roof of the

12:52

having a hard time even at affording

12:54

are buying houses at this point and

12:56

you know speaking about those the sanctions

12:58

those are supposed to stop all of

13:00

this from happening Sanctioning Russia Will It

13:02

actually did it is it caused them

13:04

to to run into the arms of

13:06

China this is writers just recently China

13:08

to foster new cooperation and consolidate friendship

13:10

with Russia and I get to the

13:12

largest commodity produces in the world that

13:14

has basically cozied up to each other

13:16

ends at at turn their back. On

13:19

the the West and the European Union

13:21

and made life harder for them As

13:23

far as energy and oil and things

13:25

like that so visits geopolitically. There's a

13:27

lot of things moving right now, lot

13:29

of big movements and it's It'll be

13:31

interesting to see other shakes out because

13:33

it's will have decades long consequences for

13:35

as several countries including ours. Wow.

13:39

All. right? Well as keep our eyes

13:41

on it. I mean is that these

13:43

are very scary developments. I'm certainly not

13:45

moving towards the Evolution of Humanity which

13:48

is is a way to establish peace.

13:50

Have a we had enough wars or

13:52

any way we can just say you

13:54

know to we all just get into

13:56

having strong economies and making sure our

13:59

population thrive. The gotta keep attacking each

14:01

other And man that nuclear I've a

14:03

bad I thought were beyond that. I

14:05

thought were beyond threats of nuclear war.

14:08

And we are exactly it's It's really

14:10

really. Radar Times is really sad times

14:12

to to have his conversations with these

14:14

leaders.