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#691: Faith in a Time of Global Uncertainty | Michael Snyder (Clip) · Macroaggressions

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  What if you lose the war with Russia? Then what happens to Europe?
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  Well, the kind of scenario we're talking about is chilling, because these crazy politicians,
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  they've got war fever, and it's all over the world we're seeing it.
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  And we're not going to have a nuclear war because everyone sits down and agrees,
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  let's have a nuclear war, but we're going to have a nuclear war because someone decides
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  that the next escalation will still be manageable.
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  That's why we're going to have a nuclear war, and so there's going to be a miscalculation.
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  There's going to be someone that says, okay, we can push it a little bit more,
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  and we'll still be able to manage it. No, they won't respond by going up.
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  A lot of these leaders in Europe somehow seem to think that they can fight a conventional war
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  with Russia, or that they can send troops into Ukraine, and Russia won't up the ante.
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  But Vladimir Putin, and you probably saw this footage, he recently came out and said,
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  yeah, Europe's talking about a war, we don't want a war with Europe,
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  but if they attack us, well, we'll respond.
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  And he said, you know, if we get into a war with NATO, we are outgunned by NATO.
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  And Russia is. Now, back during the heyday of the Soviet Union, that wasn't the case.
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  The Soviet Union, in terms of conventional forces, you know, they had, they outgunned NATO.
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  But today, NATO has expanded, and you know, and Russia,
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  Vladimir Putin realizes, hey, in a conventional conflict with NATO, we're outgunned.
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  So he even said, we would have to use, you know, other capabilities, essentially,
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  is what he said, basically referring to nuclear weapons.
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  And then the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, not too long ago,
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  he was asked about a potential war with Europe.
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  And he said, hey, a potential war with Europe would be, quote, very short,
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  unquote, also referring to nuclear weapons.
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  So in a Russian television all the time, they talk about nuclear war using nuclear weapons.
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  It's a common topic on like their nightly news programs here in the United States,
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  not so much. Most Americans have no idea.
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  But this is, this is the kind of scenario that we're headed for.
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  I mean, I think it's so foolish.
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  I think we should have negotiated an end of this thing in Ukraine long, long ago.
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  And the longer we stay in this and the more we press things,
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  by now we got these long-range cruise missiles going into Russia and the drones
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  and the refineries being attacked, you know, it's escalated.
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  The risk of something going dramatically wrong is a lot higher than it was at the beginning of the war.
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  Most Westerners don't understand any of this.
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  Most Westerners are parting, they're having a good time.
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  They, you know, they don't get it.
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  But the risk of something going really, really bad is greater than it's ever been before.
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  Even greater than the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, any of it.
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  We're closer to nuclear war right now than we've ever been before.
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  Thank you for watching.