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hey everybody Peter Zion here um before
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we get into today's video and really
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this whole series keep in mind that I'm
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talking about very very Dynamic
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situations where somebody says something
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then somebody else responds uh
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specifically on today's video about
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Russia defense secretary hagith said one
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set of things he walked them back a few
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hours later Trump countermanded him he
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walked them back the other direction
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Trump said something it's all in motion
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so what I am presenting in the video is
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my best understanding of where we
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actually are as a post to all theah blah
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blah blah blah blah blah okay now that
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you know that here we go okay guys um I
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need my notes for this one so I'm going
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to try to look down as little as
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possible so there's not too much that
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has to be edited out but there's
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definitely going to be some it has been
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a remarkably good month for the Russ
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students uh ever since Donald Trump has
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come in he stressed America's Alliance
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System to an extreme and over the last
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few days we've seen a number of
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decisions made publicly that have
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basically been to the Russian will in
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any number of issues um it started
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probably in the first full week Donald
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Trump's turn when he turned Elon Musk
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and his Department of government
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efficiency on the Central Intelligence
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Agency now the agency has been the
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primary function within the US
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government for decades of informing the
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American president of the threats coming
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from Moscow in general and has actually
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been one of the bureaus has been most
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active en countering those threats and
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one of the first things that musk did is
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went after the senior staff at the
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agency specifically the folks that are
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involved in threat detection and
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briefing the upper ranks of the US
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government on possible options Donald
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Trump has made sure that his inner
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circle doesn't have anyone who is
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competent in it because competent people
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have opinions on topics because they
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know things about topics and Donald
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Trump doesn't like to be countered so he
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has always had a hostile relationship
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with the agency whose job it is to
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inform the executive branch uh the only
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other president that comes even close to
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Trump's degree of dislike for the agency
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was of course Barack Obama now of course
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the agency isn't the only uh agency
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within the US government that is
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involved encountering Russian threats uh
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the defense Department's right up there
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uh and Trump's uh directives against
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defense department have actually been
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more disruptive than what they have done
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against the
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CIA uh specifically the Trump effort on
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Dei diversity equity and inclusion
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basically the woke agenda if you want to
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call it that
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is something that has been around in the
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defense department before the Biden
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Administration it was actually
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implemented by the first Trump term as a
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recruiting tool to get people who are
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not simply white males uh we don't know
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what the future of the military is going
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to be but we know it's going to be a lot
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more technically involved than what we
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have now and we need to throw as wide of
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a net as possible Trump's words uh
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anyway uh by trying
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to comply with the blizzard of anti- Dei
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orders that the Trump Administration has
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handed down since taking over the job
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again on the 20th of January the
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military's basically stopped recruiting
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at anything that might be perceived as
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favoring anyone who isn't a white dude
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and that includes black technical
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universities so we've seen the
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possibilities for the Pentagon to do
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intake for people with the skill sets
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that we need to maintain today's forces
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much less build tomorrow's basically go
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to zero and uh for the Russians who have
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always been technically behind the
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defense department uh they're thrilled
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with that particular come then of course
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tying this all together requires some
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people and some important notes and
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Donald Trump has found a doozy in Tulsi
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gabard now you have to believe gabard
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falls into one of two categories uh
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number one you have to believe the
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Russians who have publicly been calling
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her one of their agents for the better
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part of the last decade something that
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us intelligence has corroborated to many
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more we listen or two you have to look
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at what gabard has said when she's been
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in or near Russia or China or Iran or
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Syria where she has consistently built
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up a long track record of taking
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anti-American positions and that's
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before you consider that dni job that
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she's taking uh is basically a
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management job to funnel all of the
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intelligence that's coming in into a
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single Source collaborate with the
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agencies to manage their output and then
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in for the president although she's
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never had a management job or an
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intelligent job so either she's a
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traitor or anti-American Amer or
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incompetent or some combination of the
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three and legless to say uh the Russians
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are over the moon at her confirmation
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and then there's Ukraine Trump made it
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very clear in the last week that
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whatever negotiations are involved
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between the United States and Russia
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that he will handle personally and that
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the ukrainians are not involved and the
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Europeans are not
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involved uh considering that the last
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time that Putin and Trump engaged in
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negotiations uh Trump left behind his
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security detail his translation team his
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intelligence team his National Security
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team and he walked into a room where
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Putin had all of those things with him
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and the Russians basically pumped Donald
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Trump for information for three hours
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and used the information they got to
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reshape their world over the next
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several years which is one of the things
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that led to the Ukraine war negotiating
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Master yeah uh
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anyway I don't want to prejudge the
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outcome of negotiations at haven't yet
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started but the other couple of things
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that are going on in Europe right now
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don't make me
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particularly
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um confident uh has to do with Pete hagu
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who is the defense secretary he was
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recently in Munich for the Munich
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security conference which was all when
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all the Europeans and the Americans get
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together in power while about defense
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issues and he said very clearly and
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publicly and officially that NATO will
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never admit Ukraine as a member and US
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forces will never be on the ground in
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Ukraine and this is a European not a
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NATO
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responsibility and in doing that he
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basically hued to every demand that the
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Russians have made since the beginning
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of the war as the starting point for the
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American position uh I have not seen
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this degree of negotiating incompetence
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out of the American leadership since
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Barack Obama gave us that horrible deal
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with Iran what was it 10 years ago and
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from a fairly similar point of view
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Obama just didn't want to deal with it
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it looks like the Trump Administration
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just doesn't want to deal with this
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which brings us to the third and perhaps
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the worst one uh hagith in his speech
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made it very clear that not only would
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US forces never be involved that NATO
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would never be involved that the
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Europeans were going to have to do this
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themselves outside of NATO and if the
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Russians attacked the European forces on
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Ukrainian territory that NATO and the US
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would not get involved in the subsequent
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conflict basically abrogating Article 5
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as far as Ukraine is concerned and to to
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call this a sellout is to be generous
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because the United States founded NATO
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with the intent of guarding Western
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Civilization from Moscow and to say that
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now that the Russian forces are on the
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March literally Across The Plains of
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Europe backed up by North Koreans no
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less that the American position on the
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whole thing is basically
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me that haa speech was given in Munich
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which is is the place where the last
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time the West caved to a dictator
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setting the stage for a larger and much
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more violent War than needed to happen
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is not is not lost right and and I can
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tell you precisely where this will lead
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uh I've got a book here that kind of
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dives into this about how the United
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States is eventually going to lose
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interest in NATO and we will have a war
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in the plains of Europe between the
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Russians and the central Europeans now
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I had hoped over the course of the last
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three years that I was wrong um but here
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we are a couple things have changed
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first of all the Russian military is not
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nearly as capable of large scale
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lightning strikes as I thought it was 10
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years ago when I wrote that book it's
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more of a longrain and or attrition
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that's really ugly and takes more time
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and because of that it does buy the
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central Europeans more time to do things
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and to prepare not just to rearm for a
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broader conflict but to age in sort of
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technical military work that normally
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they wouldn't have had the time for and
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what we now need to watch for very
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closely is the nuclearization of the
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weapon systems in Central Europe uh
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specifically Sweden and Finland had the
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capacity to go nuclear a very short
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period of time measured in weeks if not
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days and once that happens Ukraine
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Poland and probably Romania will follow
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suit because this is really the only way
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that they can stand out if NATO forces
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are being completely withheld keep keep
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in mind that the best forces that the
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Europeans have are bound up within the
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NATO alliance and by saying to the
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Europeans that those cannot be used in
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Ukraine or against Russia despite the
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fact that that's the reason the alliance
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exists really limits what the Europeans
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can do so they have already given
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significantly more financial and
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military aid to the ukrainians and the
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Americans have and by now removing the
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best stuff from the table we're really
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giving the Europeans no choice but to
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play the nuke card and once a number of
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countries in Central Europe do this uh
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the junman will be forced to consider
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doing themselves and that triggers a
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serious of strategic entanglements that
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I really don't have the brain power to
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focus on right now I have always found
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it quizzical that people believe that as
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combative and erratic as Donald Trump is
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that somehow he's the person who's going
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to usher in World
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Peace it is difficult to come up with a
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more perfect set of circumstances than
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what the Trump Administration has set up
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in the last few days to trigger anything
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other than a horrific Continental war in
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Europe but here we are and tomorrow
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we'll talk about what the Trump
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Administration has cooking up in the
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Middle East
