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Bezrukov’s Eurasian Century: Trump, Sanctions, BRICS, and the Slow-Motion Collapse of American Empire in a Multipolar World Order · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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flavor comm so JR's got TVs all up
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in here and I've seen three times now
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this commercial Well, I've been sitting here for
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one of my favorite Christmas time movies.
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I don't know why but I just like
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it I like the original Scrooge with the
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one with Alistair Sim the the best, of
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course but probably my second favorite is Bill
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Murray in Scrooge and that has come up
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on some channel named Pluto that I've never
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heard of but I Have the movie anyway,
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so it's always one of mine that I
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watch every year and I don't know why
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I just Distracted by the TV and that
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is the name of that tune Last night
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I was trying to get past a Discussion
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that I've been talking about with Mr. Andre
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Bezrukov who is a former Well, he's a
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spy that came over in the early 90s
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and Resided in Canada and in the US
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educated in Harvard wife educated in America as
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well their children grew up not knowing that
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their parents were spies their children, I believe
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Still live here and visit their parents in
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Russia.
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Obviously their parents aren't allowed to come back
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Having issues coming back here probably can't get
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a visa Would be my guess so last
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night.
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We got to talking about it.
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And then I had some great calls and
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we were discussing Some of the Interesting topics
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of the day which I pretty much enjoyed
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Well, pretty much I did enjoy and had
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a good time doing it.
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So should you feel to interrupt me again?
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I have no problem with it.
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I did want to announce and I'm pretty
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sure JR has or might have or was
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going to and I don't know if he
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did or didn't I've listened to his show
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But I've been distracted I must admit I
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didn't listen all the time, but I am
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going from late night to Early in the
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day, I am going to attempt 730 to
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9 Central Standard Time from the Lake Ozark
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real estate of the art studio beginning after
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the Thanksgiving break and I will no longer
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do Sunday night.
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I Will do Monday through Friday 730 to
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9 We're at least gonna try that out
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for the month of December and see how
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that works out and I Believe I will
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be it might not start till Tuesday.
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I got some traveling that I'm doing I'm
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going To Florida and I got some some
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driving.
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So maybe I'll do the Sunday night and
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do it Tuesday I don't know.
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I'm making it up as I go along.
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But there you have it so I did
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want to announce that and that is what
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I'm going to attempt to do and Perhaps
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make it where I'm not splitting my my
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My days because it's created a small Scheduling
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issue for me.
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So I wanted to talk to you some
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more about my core theory last night, which
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came from Andre Bezrukov's thesis and his thesis
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Basically that he gave at the st.
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Petersburg International Legal Forum was it's called global
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geopolitics at the end of the new American
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reality And I got a little bit into
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it and I was I wanted to compare
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His thesis which the core points were we
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are at the beginning of a long global
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bake breakdown and reassembly like occurred between 1914
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and 1945 major technology shifts major world political
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shifts and his argument is that we're doing
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something similar and He questioned whether or not
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the u.s. was suited to come out
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of it on top and Or if they're
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gonna go the way of other world powers
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and similar circumstances notably England France Those two
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were the biggies and his point was that
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the technological wave centered on AI in related
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systems colliding with political economic orders of Founded
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on u.s. Dominance after 1945 which dominance
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is Maybe not gonna stick around.
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So his argument was the u.s. Itself
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is in a systemic crisis Polaroid polarized Run
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by an isolated expert cast in Washington and
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Rich and poor with the middle-class Devastated
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over the last 15-30 years between there
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and So I wanted to compare it and
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obviously when he gave this speech several months
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ago he was unaware of what Trump was
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going to be doing after he took office
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and I am taking the point of view
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that what Trump has done in Venezuela What
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he's doing with secondary sanctions what he's doing
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with Perhaps embargoes what he is doing with
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things of that nature are are gonna cause
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more problem for him and so we did
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get through the point where we were talking
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about the new 1914 moment Which is you
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know back in that that time period was
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the beginning of automobiles and getting away from
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horses and buggies to beginning of Radio the
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beginning of electricity the Development of Weapons that
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are Tanks and things of that nature and
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he's his argument was that now how militaries
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fight how economies allocate resources how international global
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systems are being affected and so Then I
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want to fold into that the analysis of
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what Trump is doing in the language that
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we are giving which is very similar to
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what England and China England and France were
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doing back in 2014 to 1914 1915 there's
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we're saying stuff now like Maduro's days are
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numbered.
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We're engaging in regime change same old nonsense
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Stuff like that using gunboat diplomacy instead of
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real diplomacy parking outside of Venezuela with a
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fleet or a small fleet of US military
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and threatening them and arguing that we're going
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to Potentially Blame our attack militarily on Them
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because for drug issues this has nothing to
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do with drug issues.
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No you can believe that or don't believe
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that I don't really care, but to me
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this is an excuse for doing what they're
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doing so I wanted to go into And
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make sure I could finish with this train
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of thought tonight, and we're gonna You know
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last night we talked a little bit about
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the 1914 issues big technical shifts power shifts
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the hegemons that were there before France and
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England and Now we're talking about the West
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having globalized itself into a corner It's hollowed
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out its own middle class And it needs
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permanent enemies to keep the whole mess from
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flying apart those enemies China Russia and we
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have been very Eager to make sure that
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they Continue to be painted as the Bad
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guys everywhere, you know you can blame anything
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on Russia these days and nobody will be
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surprised so in the 1980s to the 2000s
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Western elites built an economic model That moved
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production elsewhere in the world all over the
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place too expensive in America can't do it
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our Manufacturing was devastated, and it's just not
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there Bezrukov claimed it is the US and
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much of the EU that are Distracting and
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dividing their populations to Distract them from the
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realities that we you know that we are
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in the Collapse of the world dominance that
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we have enjoyed for 80 years do you
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know?
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Today, and I didn't read this for rum
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for my report for last night, but there's
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a Story that I have paid attention to
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that Says where is he?
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It was It was Mertz saying that That
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Multipolarity is a reality which is one of
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the first times I have seen that a
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Foreign well some Foreign that somebody in a
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Western Place has talked about it now Marco
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Rubio said something a long time ago when
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he first got into office talked about multipolarity
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and said that hegemony is dead and you
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know said that now we have Mertz saying
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the same thing and that it's The story
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is called and this just came out today
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It's called Mertz laments the end of the
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old world order Decades of established transatlantic norms
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and agreements are now called into question.
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He said Monday at an economic conferences conference
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hosted by the Zeitung newspaper the Chancellor argued
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that the world is undergoing the same thing
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that Bezrukov said a Fundamental shift in political
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and economic power which is forcing Germany and
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other nations to decide whether to remain passive
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or To take an active role in shaping
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the future political order which will extend far
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beyond the European continent his quote was We
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do not yet know what it will look
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like in a few years But we know
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quite clearly that the order we have known
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in the West over the last 80 years
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and in the East over the last 35
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years is now coming to an end on
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These very days weeks and months today the
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day we meet here He said he said
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there is a deep rift that has arisen
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in the u.s That calls into question
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Almost everything that we have considered right and
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necessary in Transatlantic relations over the past decades
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he pointed out The challenges facing Germany talking
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about the Ukraine conflict relations with China Trade
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disputes with the u.s. Which he described
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as being far more complex than simple tariff
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disagreements These remarks echo the Chancellor's earlier statements
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that the West is losing global eminence in
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an October Merit said that the appeal of
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what we call the free West is visibly
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declining Russian President Putin has consistently highlighted the
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inevitability of a Multipolar world as have many
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other world leaders and he criticizes the rest
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West for trying to maintain its unipolarity and
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hegemonic hegemonic Ambitions he has stressed that liberal
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globalization has outlived its usefulness That's quite an
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argument now.
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I would tell you that Mr. Bezrukov has
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argued Similarly, and we'll get back to that
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in just a second another story that was
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published in October Here's Mertz again the appeal
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of what we call the free West is
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declining It is no longer self-evident that
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the world will look to us to the
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values of liberal democracy New alliances of end
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of autocracies are forming against us and attacking
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liberal democracy as a way of life JD
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Vance said in May he said that the
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following the Cold War US leaders mistakenly assumed
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that American primacy was assured but that the
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era of uncontested US dominance is over That
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was JD Vance He said that there are
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serious threats represented by China Russia and other
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nations Determined to beat us in every domain
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from spectrum to lower-earth orbit to our
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supply chain and even our Communication infrastructures now
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this was Vance.
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He said that over the past several decades
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Washington is excessively focused on so-called soft
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power and gotten into the habit of Here
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it is meddling in foreign country affairs even
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when they have very little to do with
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core American interests and You know President Putin
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said he observed at the Valdai Club in
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Sochi That I told you about previously that
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there are rapid and drastic changes multipolarity is
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a direct consequence of attempts to establish and
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preserve global hegemony a response to the obsessive
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desire to arrange everyone into a single hierarchy
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with Western countries on top That's very similar
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to what the world is saying and to
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what bezrukov said in his speech and what
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I am comparing his commentary to so You
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know sanctions embargoes Military actions against Venezuela for
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God's sake, you know that we get to
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tell them what to do Trump is basically
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bragging that you know, it's his idea to
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create sanctions and says is very Acceptable against
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anybody who wants to do Business with Russia
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it means Washington is telling the world We
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wrecked our own industrial base under globalization And
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we're now locked in a confrontation with Russia
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that our experts helped provoke and we expect
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India China Brazil the Gulf and Southeast Asia
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To pay for this by giving up cheap
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energy and profitable trade with Moscow.
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And if you don't We're gonna go after
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your exports and your banks That's what that's
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Trump and he said that's not well That
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isn't just foreign policy that is exporting your
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own crises abroad, right?
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Instead of fixing the contradictions of the American
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model Which has always been do as I
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say not as I do do as I
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tell you you must But those rules don't
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apply to me He wants to crank up
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sanctions abroad Force everybody to play his game
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short term.
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It might work but long term not He's
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gonna blame the resulting economic pain on the
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enemy country, right?
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and try to jam the rest of the
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world into this conflict as unpaid partners There
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was a dress rehearsal of this after 2022
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Europe blew up its own energy relationship with
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Russia taking higher prices inflation increased Deindustrialization all
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for the cause of Ukraine, right?
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Now the u.s. Is saying all right
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Europe jumped off the cliff now It's your
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turn Delhi your turn Brazil and your turn
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Riyadh and the reaction is exactly what you'd
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expect From them screw you I don't think
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so Because India let's talk about India India
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has expanded its imports of Russian oil after
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2022 It's refining it and reselling some of
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the product to other people u.s. Is
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trying to squeeze them with tariffs with threats
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But Delhi has consistently held the line Jeffrey
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Sachs said in August and he's an economist
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I think he understands these things the u
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.s. Has no right to tell India who
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it has the right to trade with Washington
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had hit India with extra tariffs only because
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it buys Russian oil and India should be
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looking to replace the u.s. Market not
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begged to keep it That was what Jeffrey
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Sachs said and that's not fringe Russian commentary
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that that's not you know in America That's
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that's that's not some some loony somewhere.
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That's Jeffrey Sachs That's an American economist that
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people have respected for decades in the West
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and You know they took him seriously when
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he was writing about development and inequality, but
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now it is saying You know basically the
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Emperor has no clothes They act like that's
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not true And that's India a country Washington
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still claims is its partner in democracy What
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do you think Brazil hears when it's told
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about 500% tariffs on countries trading with
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Russia What does Saudi Arabia here or the
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UAE when they see?
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US drone strikes and naval attacks that are
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killing alleged narco-terrorists with zero and I
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mean none due process under Operation Southern Spear
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a carrier battle group posted off of Venezuela
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and Trump threatening economic death to anyone who
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won't help Washington strangle, Moscow They hear the
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same thing if you don't obey we will
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find a legal label for you narco-terror
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Rogue aggressor, and then we will hit you
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with cruise missiles tariffs or both That's exactly
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what Bezrukov was saying in his theory in
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saying the u.s. Is in a position
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where they need because our Internal problems are
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so dramatic that you have this this Polarity
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between you know left and the right you're
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trained to hate each other You can't tolerate
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other people's points of view and on top
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of that the middle class is disappearing It's
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not gone yet, but it's disappearing Be nice
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if it was coming back, but I'm not
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so sure about that But because of those
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two things Bezrukov says that that's why the
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u.s. Needs enemies And not enemies in
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the Hollywood villain sense But structural enemies people
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you can point at to explain why the
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globalization folks Keep winning and losers keep losing
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so if Trump wins Temporarily, which I believe
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you know he might win for a little
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while temporarily on this path, but Then again,
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I also think he hastens the demise But
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he might have a short-term spike in
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success.
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You know what I mean so Trump was
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sold to a lot of people as the
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anti-globalist a corrective person fixing the 1980s
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to 2000s model, but if that were true
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in substance and not just in slogan I
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Believe for my part.
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I would expect him to Admit that the
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u.s..
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Cannot micromanage every trade relationship with every single
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country trading with each other on earth That
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he would be better at negotiating economic compromises
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frankly That's a little bit of a surprise
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to me, and he might even push for
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a more sane relationship with Russia and China
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Instead What are we seeing?
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I mean seriously?
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What are we seeing he's backing off to
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the Lindsey Graham's of the world right?
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He has endorsed now today.
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I saw something a little different that said
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he was gonna As long as he kept
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the ultimate authority whether to do something or
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not do something Then he would let these
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things be passed by Congress, but that's not
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what he's saying the other day He was
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endorsing the most extreme version of sanctions logic
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secondary sanctions on the whole world with tariffs
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designed and the levels of them not to
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Signal displeasure, but to destroy a country's access
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to the US market He was talking embargoes
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if these countries disobey and continue to trade
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with Russia And on Venezuela He's in a
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quasi-war posture the peace president is in
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a quasi-war process posture terror-listing the
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cartel de las olas allegedly running by being
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run by Maduro himself massive troop and naval
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build-up against a Country Then 16,000
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soldiers out there or soldiers military members Could
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be Marines could be Navy a string of
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lethal strikes on boats in the Caribbean labeling
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them lopsided Lee as Narco-terrorists, I mean
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why are we willing to believe the government
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when it says this?
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But we don't believe them about anything else
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I mean what makes this any different than
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any of the other scams that have been
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going on for years Nothing in my mind
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So basically he's behaving like a mob boss
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telling Maduro.
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Well come talk with me You know we'll
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we'll deal this out, and maybe maybe I'll
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let you live Maybe I'll let you live
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come to the meeting I'd hate for something
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unfortunate to happen inside your country You know
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what these 16,000 guys hanging out in
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the water out there in other words on
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the economic side Sanctions and the military side
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Southern Spear Trump isn't dismantling global machinery He's
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weaponizing it even more brutally Globalization globalization gave
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the Western capital the ability to move production
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anywhere in the world Sanctions and tariffs are
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now used to punish Any state that refuses
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to line up behind Washington's political agenda How
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is this any different than what?
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What?
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Was being forced upon the world under under
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Biden or under Obama?
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from Bezrukov's Perspective the logical evolution is first
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you build an integrated global market That's under
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your rules Then you lose control that market
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as others catch up to you Then you
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turn the levers of the market currency C
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lanes banking sanctions into weapons to hold on
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to power and Trump's 500% tariffs fit
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that trajectory perfectly What's the other side of
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the story?
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Now to be fair.
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Let's give you the official Western Official narrative
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right for a minute because you'll hear it
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on CNN most European capitals even Fox Russia
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invaded Ukraine and it must be punished or
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Deterrence collapses right now.
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I don't believe that you have to believe
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that in order for the For this to
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even be remotely plausible sanctions and secondary measures
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are Defending the rules-based order.
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Yeah, but there is no rules-based order
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if it only applies to others and Not
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to you How would Russia invading Ukraine if
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you want to call it that be any
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different than the u.s?
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calling people narco-terrorists and invading Venezuela Venezuela's
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a narco dictatorship according to us undermining Regional
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stability and we Take it upon ourselves to
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go in and fix that but that's not
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what we're saying We're saying that they are
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exporting drugs to us and we can't stop
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them So we have to blow them up
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as soon as a boat leaves, Venezuela total
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crap Operation Southern Spear is about drugs, right?
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It's not about oil or regime change If
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you believe that I Have some beachfront land
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to sell you in Venezuela From that angle
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Trump is just doing what has to be
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done, right?
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I mean according to you know us He
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just has to do what he has to
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do push the Allies to be tougher on
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Russia use economic might of the u.s
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to isolate So-called aggressors and remove a
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corrupt regime in Caracas that is running a
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cartel Well, how about removing a corrupt regime
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in Ukraine?
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Oh I got tons of stories on those
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that I could share with you today but
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I wanted to finish my my topic from
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last night, so We might get to that.
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I'm Making pretty good progress here and we
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might be able to Speak about a few
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of those things There are some grains of
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truth that reasonable people can argue over Russia
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did move troops across an internationally recognized border
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in 2022 That's a fact but you can
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debate the context and prior provocation and whether
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they were invited after Referenda we use referenda
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all the time By other people, but it's
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only our referenda that count right?
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nobody else's referenda matter they Clearly were forced
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to vote that way that those those aren't
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that's not that way Venezuela is a mess
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internally corruption mismanagement criminal networks, but if you
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think that us Engaging in regime change You
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know hello Ukraine Eliminates corruption just take the
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articles.
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I read you on Sunday the news stories
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that I told you about So the the
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official story though in the West never ever
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confronts never Proportionality selectivity if punishment for aggression
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and corruption were really principles Saudi Arabia Israel
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half of Africa and a list of US
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allies Would be sanctioned back into the Stone
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Age, but they're not So the principle is
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clearly US power and alignment not some abstract
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term of law Let's talk about the domestic
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drivers Western elites also rarely admit that their
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own populations are angry and unstable because of
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our own decades of Deindustrialization and inequality it's
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easier to treat the anger as a response
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to foreign villains and social media misinformation and
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what does that create friends and neighbors a
31:09
boomerang effect threatening India Brazil the Gulf ASEAN
31:14
and the rest of the countries of the
31:17
Global South with 500% tariffs and Secondary
31:21
sanctions doesn't defend a global order it just
31:25
tells them You will never be safe here.
31:29
You should build something else Which is exactly
31:33
what they're doing with bricks the Shanghai cooperation
31:37
organization and others So where does this leave
31:41
us?
31:42
Bezrukov claim is that globalization itself wrecked the
31:47
Western middle class Who exported all X all
31:53
Manufacturing elsewhere it over concentrated the wealth among
31:57
them Because they didn't have any penalty for
32:00
moving all of their stuff outside of the
32:02
US and instead of serious reform Western elites
32:06
are holding the system together creating permanent enemies
32:10
and weaponizing alleged interdependence and Trump These secondary
32:16
sanctions on anyone who trades with Russia in
32:18
a quasi war posture against Venezuela Doesn't break
32:23
that pattern it intensifies it so what the
32:28
message is that the West and chiefly the
32:32
United States is Sending to the Global South
32:36
and to Eurasia the fastest growing parts of
32:40
the world With the fastest GDP growth to
32:44
by the way is saying you are not
32:48
our partners You are our subjects your trade
32:54
your energy your politics are all Conditional upon
33:00
our approval my approval if you're drunk Step
33:04
out a line Maduro and we're coming not
33:08
only for you But for your economy your
33:10
ports and your government if you still think
33:16
that sitting in New Delhi Brasilia Riyadh Pretoria,
33:19
Jakarta or even Mexico City This doesn't make
33:23
you say Wow America is back I Don't
33:29
think so.
33:30
I think it makes you say we need
33:33
bricks.
33:34
We need the Shanghai cooperation Organization and we
33:39
need most importantly alternative payment systems and supply
33:44
chains yesterday That's what they're all saying so
33:48
Trump is going to make the change occur
33:53
even faster one man in Washington Can destroy
33:59
all of these?
34:04
globalization efforts right With a pen stroke I
34:09
Don't know.
34:10
I think this is globalization's hangover.
34:12
I think it's the it's it's exactly the
34:15
opposite I think he's trying to save Globalization
34:19
and keep it the way it was but
34:22
the parties over the middle class is sick
34:24
and instead of sobering up and Making reasonable
34:28
choices the system is picking fights with neighbors
34:31
for making too much noise That's what I
34:35
think so now I Truly believe that Trump
34:39
is shoving the world into bricks and SEO
34:42
Let's zoom out from these and take a
34:44
look at the map the way bez Rukov
34:46
did right?
34:48
His third argument is at the age of
34:51
the single Western centered system is over, right?
34:55
from one pyramid to several civilization blocks For
35:00
30 years after 1991 the world has run
35:03
on a simple script dollars at the center
35:06
EU and US financial system is the spine
35:11
NATO and US bases are the enforcement arm
35:14
World Trade Organization IMF World Bank are the
35:18
alleged rules and funding But bez Rukov's point
35:23
is that the unipolar pyramid is crank cracking
35:29
And it is and what's emerging instead are
35:33
large regional blocks that want to engage in
35:38
their own rules bricks nine members and another
35:43
13 or 14 partner countries so 11 members
35:48
Brazil Russia India China, South Africa Egypt Ethiopia
35:53
Iran UAE Saudi Arabia and Indonesia On top
35:58
of that partner countries like Belarus Bolivia Cuba
36:02
Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria Thailand Uganda and Uzbekistan that's
36:08
a big a big pile and Shanghai cooperation
36:12
Organization has ten full members now China Russia
36:16
India Pakistan Iran Belarus in the Central Asian
36:19
five covers 65 percent of Eurasia's land and
36:25
42 percent of the world's population Add that
36:32
up and you are very close to most
36:35
of humanity concentrated a cost across Eurasia and
36:41
Its periphery trying in very messy and slow
36:44
ways to create something not controlled by Washington
36:49
these blocks exist because They think they say
36:56
to themselves We don't want Washington to be
36:59
able to flip a switch on us kill
37:02
our trade Regime change our leaders kill our
37:09
banks kill our energy flow even India India
37:15
doesn't need the US as much as the
37:17
US needs India now you can dispute that
37:20
But that's what I say and and I
37:24
believe that and I think that the that
37:27
the Proof will be in the pudding for
37:30
that.
37:30
Okay So Trump's sanctions bill and then a
37:35
block warfare Okay, let's drop that on top
37:38
of that So his bill that he's allegedly
37:41
backing is 500 percent tariffs on resale of
37:44
Russian oil Expanded sanctions to countries banks firms
37:50
that keep doing business with Russia He publicly
37:54
warns that countries trading with Russia and Iran
37:57
will be very severely sanctioned That's not aimed
38:02
at Moscow that's aimed at India the top
38:06
buyer of Russian seaborne crude China the Gulf
38:11
States Half of BRICS and SCO membership This
38:17
isn't just to punish Russia.
38:19
It's to punish anyone who dares act like
38:23
a sovereign partner of Russia that is anti
38:28
-block warfare the use of residual power of
38:33
the dollar and the US market to stop
38:37
the Eurasian economic space from working together and
38:43
They are working together the latest Shanghai cooperation
38:47
organization in the ocean that took place over
38:50
there Unbelievable cooperation and unbelievable projects.
38:54
They were putting out over there So it's
38:57
it's a big deal Same thing goes with
39:00
Venezuela put a carry group off the coast
39:03
frame their leadership as narco terrorists You send
39:06
a message.
39:07
What are we doing?
39:08
We're sending a message to Latin America the
39:12
Latin America half of BRICS and BRICS partners
39:16
your membership in our hemisphere is conditional on
39:21
obedience, right Brazil Bolivia Argentina are all watching
39:27
this very carefully Southern spear isn't only about
39:31
Caracas.
39:32
It's a warning shot across the entire Latin
39:37
American wing of any non-us-aligned block
39:43
What's did let's talk about this boomerang and
39:46
this is where bez Rukh of?
39:49
And I line up completely the strategy backfires.
39:53
This is a boomerang and The numbers and
39:57
the direction of travel just prove it Braxton
40:00
Braxton BRICS has expanded from 5 to 11
40:04
full members by 2025 Its own official outlets
40:09
and outside analysts say openly the goal is
40:12
to challenge the Western dominated Monetary order and
40:16
give the global South its own platform No
40:21
IMF No World Bank no increased BRICS
40:31
Development Bank increase Chinese Yuan backing Why are
40:40
countries lining up to join these things why?
40:46
Because every round of u.s. Sanctions and
40:49
threats screams at them if you stay in
40:52
our system alone We're gonna choke you anytime
40:55
we like when Trump threatens India with massive
40:58
tariffs and still it stops buying Russian oil
41:01
and India shrugs and keeps on buying from
41:04
Russia That is not a sign that the
41:07
u.s. Is running the place it's a
41:10
sign that India is already halfway out of
41:13
the Western tent and hedging through BRICS and
41:16
SEO ties When Washington hits Rosneft and Luke
41:21
oil with full blocking sanctions that are supposed
41:24
to take place What is it?
41:26
November 21 isn't it and hints at secondary
41:30
sanctions on China and India?
41:32
The result isn't everyone dumping Russia It's a
41:36
short-term pause a price spike and then
41:40
more creative routing of Russian oil through friendly
41:43
hubs The kind of sanction proof supply chain
41:47
BRICS in the SEO are trying to build
41:50
from Beijing Moscow Delhi Tehran and a lot
41:55
of African capitals Trump's posture is looking like
41:59
We will never treat you as equals.
42:02
The only safety for them is to build
42:07
a parallel system So yes threatening embargo like
42:12
penalties on Russia's partners Trump is giving BRICS
42:17
and SEO their best recruitment strategy So let's
42:21
try to be fair.
42:22
I don't want to beat up on Trump
42:23
too bad I disagree with what he's doing,
42:25
but the Trump camp says for balance, you
42:29
know, we're gonna provide that right?
42:31
Russia invaded Ukraine.
42:33
Here we go again secondary sanctions are Necessary
42:36
to close loopholes.
42:38
Otherwise, Russia will keep selling through India or
42:41
Dubai and our pressure is no good SEO
42:44
and BRICS are Authoritarian clubs that need to
42:48
be contained before they rewrite the so-called
42:52
rules in favor of Aggressor governments, right Rules
43:01
based order they're defending rules based order.
43:05
They're not talking about hegemony They're talking about
43:07
rules based order, but the rules never apply
43:11
to us, right?
43:13
So on moral grounds, you know, you could
43:15
talk about it, but it doesn't work so
43:19
bezruk of With Trump that is is I
43:23
think that that point purely and Positively points
43:31
out that these other Entities are here to
43:36
stay they might take a little bit of
43:39
heat little trouble in Creation a little trouble
43:44
in growth, but there you have it Now
43:49
Let's talk about because that was the outside
43:52
of America now, let's talk about inside of
43:54
America the American internal crisis Bezruk of says
44:02
there's been three cycles and this is why
44:04
in his in his Statement Trump is a
44:08
symptom not a cure now Maybe that's not
44:12
quite Accurate I don't know but he says
44:15
the American state model that ran the world
44:17
after 1945 is exhausted Trump didn't appear out
44:23
of nowhere.
44:24
He said He showed up because he's a
44:28
byproduct of American Exhaustion in that system and
44:34
what he's doing with Venezuela and sanctions tells
44:37
us whether he's treating the disease Or feeding
44:41
it on steroids So bezruk of gave three
44:45
state cycles and why the third one is
44:47
a breaking point He leans on the idea
44:50
from a guy named George Friedman that the
44:53
US has gone through three political institutional cycles
44:57
founding to the Civil War Confederation verse centralized
45:01
Union it ended with a strong federal state
45:04
Slavery got abolished Industrial North was victorious.
45:08
Okay, then the second period cycle Civil War
45:12
to 1945 US became an industrial superpower half
45:17
of the world GDP was US by 1945
45:22
and it built a continental economy tamed to
45:27
the West created the New Deal state and
45:31
then 1945 until now the u.s. Is
45:35
own imperial cycle Bretton Woods NATO the CIA
45:42
dollar hegemony US Agency for International Development IMF
45:47
World Bank institutions designed for one task in
45:52
one task only to run the world from
45:56
Washington the third cycle He says and I
46:02
happen to agree is dying The US share
46:08
of the world GDP is under 20%
46:13
Others have more industry nukes tech and satellites
46:20
but the US bureaucracy military posture and Political
46:25
mythology are still wired only for global management
46:30
So in plain language, it's like a 70
46:33
year old still trying to act like the
46:35
heavyweight champion of the world But his knees
46:38
are gone.
46:39
He can't hit his heart and his lungs
46:41
are shot and That is where I believe
46:46
We're we might not be there just yet
46:49
because we still have the strongest military in
46:52
the world I believe that I Believe there
46:56
are people nipping in our heels.
46:58
I Don't believe we're as invincible as we
47:01
think we are Let's talk about shareholder capitalism
47:07
and the bubble machine on top of that
47:11
institutional fatigue You know on top of that
47:15
there's an economic model that Bezrukov ripped in
47:19
his speech without Mercy, it's called shareholder capitalism,
47:26
okay that these elitists Spend a million bucks
47:32
paying for somebody's new New company some guy
47:37
invents something who knows what?
47:40
built a better mousetrap, right and So it's
47:44
all Somebody somebody puts up the million then
47:49
they get the same people to talk about
47:52
how wonderful this new this new mousetrap is
47:57
So that their initial shares turn into massive
48:03
piles of money Massive Growth in their million
48:11
-dollar investment and Everybody else throwing their their
48:16
money in there what it allows them to
48:18
do is maximize their growth the same elite
48:26
all the time and Doing the exact same
48:30
thing instead of in the country investing in
48:33
a long-term R&D or industry Corporations
48:38
borrow cheaply buy back their own stock pump
48:42
executive bonuses and call that value creation, right?
48:47
Financial firms do the exact same thing They
48:50
hype a tech or defense or a green
48:52
bubble floated on the market for retail suckers
48:55
Get out before it pops the military industrial
48:58
complex complex plays the game with their war
49:02
toys five billion dollar weapon systems that Don't
49:06
do what they say they did or rarely
49:08
get built in time Endless R&D a
49:11
handful of units built then we need to
49:14
create another one The point is that a
49:17
huge chunk of American elite income comes from
49:20
maneuvering these papers Not from building things the
49:26
economy is hooked on speculation and deficit spending
49:31
real industrial capacity Has eroded it so we
49:37
don't have it What do you need to
49:40
keep this going?
49:42
You need continued narratives that justify constant military
49:48
budget constant sanctions Constant emergency, I mean think
49:55
about it gulf 1 gulf 2 Afghanistan Ukraine
50:01
all of these are ours.
50:03
What do we get out any of them?
50:04
Seriously?
50:05
What did we get?
50:07
Since that the u.s. Is always under
50:09
siege and we must outspend everyone to protect
50:12
ourself and save our people Doesn't it sound
50:17
exactly what we're being sold about Russia China
50:21
Iran and now?
50:23
Venezuela, I think it does How about?
50:29
inequality Atomization and the expert state there's let's
50:34
look at here's what pegs bezrukov talks about
50:37
the American Countries itself and remember he was
50:42
here for 20 years that he was educated
50:45
at Harvard.
50:46
He says These are graphs that Americans hardly
50:53
ever see on TV The top 1%
50:57
line is shooting up the bottom 50%
51:01
line is crawling along the floor and has
51:04
been flat for decades Add to that no
51:08
stable community Families are scattered Friendships are replaced
51:13
by a TV screen or a phone screen
51:16
Education has decayed in the United States.
51:20
That is Absolutely true and it is without
51:24
question Russia creates three times the number of
51:31
engineers that America does China is producing them
51:35
faster than Russia and India is faster than
51:39
both of them and Not not junk ones
51:44
either Not at all and We aren't producing
51:49
anywhere near the amount that the rest of
51:52
the world is We have a debt culture
51:55
student loans credit cards car loans households and
51:58
permanent Hawk Into that vacuum steps what bezrukov
52:05
calls the expert state what Americans love to
52:09
call the deep state when they're angry and
52:12
his Deep state definition Is not the same
52:17
as mine, but I want to tell you
52:20
What he says it is It is career
52:23
officials in DC agencies think tanks lifers at
52:29
NGOs intelligence community operators and the compliant media
52:37
They stay regardless of which party wins the
52:41
election They set the default options Politicians come
52:46
and go but this permanent class defines what
52:49
is and isn't US policy The media is
52:55
a narrative engine not a watchdog He talked
52:59
about how years ago you actually got news
53:03
you got Investigation you got journalism and right
53:07
now We have a media system that doesn't
53:10
see itself as a watchdog, but as an
53:13
instrument of social management They select stories they
53:18
frame energies our enemies.
53:21
I mean and they suppress unwanted fact They
53:26
manufacture consent for whatever the elite project of
53:30
the month is Iraqi weapons of mass destruction
53:35
Russia gate hysteria see Chatham see just I
53:39
can't believe I said that that's Russian for
53:41
now Narco-terrorist Maduro Countries to buy Russian
53:46
oil are complicit in genocide these type sort
53:49
of narratives that are passed out along here
53:54
Bezrukov's line is that u.s. Discourse is
53:57
now a closed loop Experts and media talk
54:02
mostly to each other in DC in New
54:05
York and ordinary Americans live in a different
54:08
country entirely and The gap between them is
54:12
filled with anger conspiracy and mutual contempt for
54:15
each other I Think that's pretty damn accurate,
54:19
which is why I wanted to share his
54:22
his discussion his presentation as and so enter
54:28
Donald Trump Is he a reformer?
54:33
Hmm, or is he an amplifier now?
54:37
Let's bring him back into it his sales
54:39
pitch to the American voter was this They
54:42
sold you out to China They invaded Iraq
54:46
for nothing They let the border collapse They
54:51
got rich you got fentanyl and Walmart jobs
54:56
in other words He campaigned directly on the
55:01
crisis Bezrukov described hollowed-out industry corrupt elites
55:07
and useless war on paper Everybody imagines he's
55:13
very very different and you can imagine two
55:16
different Trump presidencies coming out of that a
55:20
real restructure perhaps slash overseas commitment De-weaponized
55:26
a dollar cut back the military-industrial Complex
55:31
rebuild manufacturing compromise with Russia and China where
55:36
possible hmm, that's a restructure, right or an
55:43
Angrier manager of the exact same Empire that's
55:48
been going on For at least the last
55:51
30 years and probably the last 80, right?
55:55
Keep the global machine running but shout louder
55:59
and swing the sanctions and military club harder
56:03
What what shocks me if I if I
56:07
can say so and I do say so
56:09
what shocks me about?
56:11
Trump is that for months all we talked
56:17
about was him and How he brought peace
56:20
everywhere peace peace peace Where's my Nobel Prize
56:24
while Obama got one?
56:26
Where's mine?
56:27
Obama didn't even do anything and I agree
56:30
with that concept but now we're bombing the
56:34
crap out of a little boat a Little
56:39
a little Narco-terrorist boat and not stopping
56:44
it Why not?
56:48
I don't believe that is creating peace.
56:52
I just don't I disagree Quite a lot.
56:59
I disagree with that topic.
57:02
So What?
57:05
Let's see Ask your own ask yourself these
57:12
sanctions These build up off of Venezuela Does
57:17
that weaken the expert state plus the military
57:21
industrial complex plus the media?
57:24
complex or Does it feed it?
57:28
Who benefits if more ships are deployed More
57:33
weapons are ordered more sanctions bureaucrats get hired
57:38
More think tanks write white papers about the
57:42
secondary sanctions architecture Not the guy in Ohio
57:47
that wants a decent job.
57:49
Not the woman in, Missouri You know working
57:52
at Walmart and drowning in medical debt That's
57:57
the exact strata that bez Rukov is warning
58:00
about the Imperial manager class that lives off
58:04
global tension What's the domestic political payoff Home
58:12
front politics Trump understands very very well that
58:16
foreign confrontation can help paper over domestic contradiction
58:22
Talk about a crushing cartel, you know crushing
58:26
a cartel in Venezuela and you can dodge
58:29
Awkward questions about US demand US based money
58:34
laundering and the fact that banks in New
58:36
York are Have been caught washing drug money
58:39
and nothing happens to them Talk about punishing
58:44
Russia's partners and you can blame domestic inflation
58:47
energy prices Industrial decline on countries that refuse
58:51
to stand with us Rather than on 30
58:55
years of offshoring and Wall Street rule in
58:58
Theory he's the guy who tells the hard
59:01
truth, but in practice on these two fronts.
59:04
He's offering the same externalized excuses Washington always
59:10
offers It's not our model it's not our
59:15
inequality.
59:16
It's Russians Venezuelans Indians Chinese Iranians narcos and
59:22
terrorists that's safer politically than walking into a
59:27
town hall and saying We built a casino
59:31
economy for years and we need to tear
59:34
half of it down and accept being one
59:37
strong country among several Not the Emperor of
59:41
the planet.
59:43
I Don't understand why we can't say that.
59:45
I think we should say that Let's talk
59:50
about the counter argument and why it still
59:52
falls short to be fair The case from
59:56
the other side would sound like this the
59:58
deep state has boxed Trump in He has
1:00:01
to use the existing tools Sanctions and deployments
1:00:05
to get leverage to get out.
1:00:08
He's using pressure on Venezuela and Russia to
1:00:11
do what?
1:00:13
negotiate better deals not for endless war and
1:00:18
And Secondary sanctions are the only way to
1:00:22
really hurt Moscow and end the Ukraine mess
1:00:25
quickly.
1:00:26
I Don't believe any one of those Arguably
1:00:32
the deep state on boxing him in I
1:00:34
think that's probably true You could grant that
1:00:37
some people around Trump may sincerely believe those
1:00:41
three Concepts you can even accept that he
1:00:44
doesn't like some of the things that he
1:00:46
has to be selling us You know parts
1:00:50
the CIA and you know stuff like that.
1:00:52
He sees them as saboteurs to DOJ any
1:00:56
of them but outcomes matter more than intentions
1:01:00
here every new sanction paction package deepens bureaucracy
1:01:06
of economic warfare Every carrier deployment feeds shipyards
1:01:13
weapon manufacturers and four-stars who live off
1:01:16
of global policing Every time he sells confrontation
1:01:21
as the answer to our domestic pain He
1:01:25
avoids admitting that the pain comes from America's
1:01:28
own model that's why through the lens of
1:01:32
Bezrukov Trump looks less like a Revolutionary and
1:01:37
more like yet another in America's long political
1:01:42
crisis The system is too rigid to reform
1:01:46
honestly too fragile to accept a retreat So
1:01:49
it produces louder Cruder leaders who promised to
1:01:54
fix it with more of the same medicine
1:01:59
so where does this leave the u.s.
1:02:01
According to Bezrukov and Why does it matter
1:02:04
anyway for everybody else Bezrukov's forecast was that
1:02:09
the internal American crisis institutional economic and social
1:02:15
Will last at least another decade before a
1:02:19
new equilibrium appears In that time and remember
1:02:23
this all started with saying that we're in
1:02:25
for a 10-year change That is going
1:02:28
to be dramatic because of a lot of
1:02:31
things And in that time policy is in
1:02:35
the u.s. Is going to be erratic
1:02:38
Personality driven and contradictory You're seeing that even
1:02:43
now talk about America first combined with moves
1:02:47
that overextend American power even more embargo threats
1:02:52
against half the planet Possible new Latin American
1:02:58
Quagmire that we don't need for the rest
1:03:01
of the world, especially Eurasia in the global
1:03:03
south The lesson is very simple.
1:03:06
Don't expect Washington to be a rational settled
1:03:09
actor anytime soon We're gonna have mood straight
1:03:14
mood swings domestic grandstanding policy driven by internal
1:03:19
decay as much as by any coherent strategy
1:03:22
and The same thing is going to occur
1:03:25
every three four years.
1:03:28
We're gonna reverse That's unfortunate But that's the
1:03:32
world Bezrukov describes and Trump whether he likes
1:03:35
it or not is part of the symptom
1:03:38
Not the surgical team.
1:03:40
That's gonna fix it.
1:03:42
I Wish I was wrong.
1:03:44
I really do but I don't think I
1:03:47
am so let's talk about the Globalists The
1:03:54
two different American economies how Trump has slid
1:03:58
back into Lindsey Graham's world Let's talk about
1:04:02
this Has Trump actually broken with globalist empire
1:04:08
or has he been?
1:04:10
Brought back in or has he himself bought
1:04:14
back in good question two economies two different
1:04:20
elite classes and Bezrukov's lecture he described two
1:04:25
different American economies layered on top of each
1:04:27
other The first economy is globalism centered on
1:04:33
finance big tech media consulting and law It
1:04:39
lives in New York DC Silicon Valley few
1:04:42
wealthy coastal metros Make money from what global
1:04:47
capital?
1:04:49
IP rent Financial engineering ad tech and surveillance
1:04:54
and government contracts If push comes to shove
1:04:58
a lot of these firms could move their
1:05:00
headquarters to Singapore or Dublin never miss a
1:05:03
beat Their real home is the dollar system
1:05:06
in the Anglo-American legal financial Architecture not
1:05:10
any particular town in Ohio The second economy
1:05:16
is the real America factories logistics energy Agriculture
1:05:21
construction trucking Lives chiefly in the Midwest the
1:05:26
South and the interior West the places DC
1:05:30
pundits call flyover country It competes directly with
1:05:36
Japan Germany China Korea Mexico They need sane
1:05:42
exchange rates stable energy prices predictable trade not
1:05:47
constant sanctions chaos Bezrukov points out that these
1:05:52
two economies have very different interests and their
1:05:56
elites increasingly hate each other The globalist layer
1:06:02
want open borders for capital permanent war for
1:06:06
contracts and a world where the dollar is
1:06:08
the?
1:06:09
unquestionable unquestioned referee The real layer want protection
1:06:14
from Chinese overcapacity European subsidies and Wall Street
1:06:19
offshoring all of their industrial capacity That's what
1:06:24
they want.
1:06:24
He also made a very interesting comment about
1:06:32
because I definitely believe this the strongest arm
1:06:37
of American regulation law Whatever is The
1:06:47
judiciary Absolutely without question the people who run
1:06:55
the top of all of these things of
1:06:58
the legal practice Nationwide and I get a
1:07:03
lecture on this topic for days Are people
1:07:06
that are picked?
1:07:08
from the very beginning of law school They're
1:07:12
already in the mix don't tell me that
1:07:16
the people who get judicial Clerkships at the
1:07:22
Supreme Court or any appellate court are people
1:07:26
from you know Joe's School of Law They
1:07:30
all come from big-time schools that these
1:07:34
and this is how you get put into
1:07:39
These positions later in life that that's You're
1:07:44
picked Way back when you are in the
1:07:49
mix and you got to screw up to
1:07:50
be pulled out of it And if you
1:07:52
don't kiss the ring, and you're a lawyer
1:07:54
Trust me.
1:07:56
I know all about this they will destroy
1:08:00
you as soon as and they won't think
1:08:02
twice about it and They control remember me
1:08:06
what is all this nonsense about Unconstitutional this
1:08:12
or we're striking down that or we're gonna
1:08:15
make the president to X you know We're
1:08:18
all of these things the power is Not
1:08:22
in the other branches to powers in the
1:08:24
judiciary and it's worse in the states It
1:08:29
just is so Let's go further into and
1:08:34
I sidetracked that because that was one part
1:08:37
of his but it's not a huge part
1:08:38
of his of his speech, but after 2016
1:08:44
Trump's red America against a globalist that was
1:08:48
a big deal back in 2016 Trump rode
1:08:50
to Washington as a political weapon of Red
1:08:54
America he slammed NAFTA China trade deals.
1:08:58
He trashed Iraq and Libya Adventures, he called
1:09:01
out NATO freeloaders.
1:09:02
He talked about bringing factories home drilling at
1:09:05
home ignoring Brussels in Beziruk of analytic framework
1:09:10
Trump was the rebellion of red America in
1:09:13
2016 the America that fights the wars runs
1:09:17
the rigs against the blue-glass classes in
1:09:19
DC in Manhattan He had some sympathy inside
1:09:23
the military especially among officers who'd watched Iraq
1:09:26
and Afghanistan Up close and knew that the
1:09:29
the war machine is broken Beziruk of sketched
1:09:34
an idea of a new model move from
1:09:38
an Apple world one control center the u
1:09:43
.s. to an Android world several strong powers
1:09:48
where the u.s. Is still first among
1:09:50
equals But is no longer a dictator This
1:09:55
was his suggestion in that model a Trump
1:09:59
would have cut loose hopeless imperial projects like
1:10:05
Ukraine Pulled troops and bases back out of
1:10:08
Europe like he said he was going to
1:10:11
accepted that Eurasia can organize itself and Focused
1:10:15
on rebuilding America's domestic base and regional sphere.
1:10:19
That's the fortress America idea One big hard
1:10:25
rich North American block not a global cop
1:10:30
Okay Trump in 2025 Hugging Lindsey Graham Now
1:10:40
compare the theoretical Trump with the one we
1:10:43
actually have in front of us today on
1:10:46
Russia, he's now Explicitly backing a Senate effort
1:10:51
led exactly by Lindsey Graham crowd to impose
1:10:57
devastating secondary sanctions and tariffs on countries that
1:11:01
keep trading with Russia Tell me that Lindsey
1:11:05
Graham isn't getting rich off of this Personally
1:11:10
tell me that Lindsey Graham spends more time
1:11:14
in his home state Than he does in
1:11:18
Kiev, I don't think he does Those things
1:11:22
this means he has to hit India China
1:11:25
Gulf Brazil anyone who buys oil and gas
1:11:28
It doesn't launder it through a u.s.
1:11:30
Approved channel.
1:11:31
That isn't fortress America America, that's a globalist
1:11:35
enforcement again Same old people just different time.
1:11:41
We still think the u.s. Has a
1:11:43
right to police who trades With who and
1:11:47
everywhere?
1:11:47
I don't think so on Venezuela he's fronting
1:11:51
a massive military buildup carriers destroyers submarines 16
1:11:56
,000 troop because of anti-cartel operations drug
1:12:01
runners he's allowed the system to frame Maduro
1:12:04
and The cartel de la souls as narco
1:12:07
terrorists this opens the door to decades of
1:12:10
bombing raids Sanctions and regime change more importantly
1:12:16
floats talks with Missouri, but Maduro but refuses
1:12:19
to rule out ground troops and Also says
1:12:23
that Maduro's days are numbered that also is
1:12:26
not fortress America If you Lynn say who
1:12:30
the winners and losers are from this winners
1:12:34
defense contractors Sanctions lawyers compliance departments DC think
1:12:40
tanks as same old people financial players who
1:12:45
live on volatility and emergency policy Who are
1:12:49
the losers?
1:12:51
US manufacturers US consumers and Latin American and
1:13:00
American citizens who bear the cost of the
1:13:03
conflict war Seems to me that Trump is
1:13:11
citing at least in practice with the globalist
1:13:14
war economy and not the real economy America
1:13:18
the red America that voted for him So
1:13:21
has he been bought by neocons?
1:13:25
I?
1:13:26
Don't know I Don't think it's crazy to
1:13:29
think so Lindsey Graham wing is scripting the
1:13:32
Russia sanctions for sure The same neocon networks
1:13:36
to push Iraq and Libya are pushing regime
1:13:39
change in Caracas That also is for sure
1:13:43
The air America first rhetoric is still there
1:13:46
for rallies, but the policy machinery Doesn't smell
1:13:50
that way From my standpoint that isn't accidental
1:13:55
not right now The Empire is reabsorbing the
1:14:00
maverick You can rant about CNN and the
1:14:03
FBI But if at the level of action
1:14:07
you give the system more sanction more deployment
1:14:10
and more foreign enemies the core projects survive
1:14:15
and in fact get stronger and that is
1:14:20
What we are watching Trump may genuinely loathe
1:14:24
this part of the bureaucracy He may genuinely
1:14:27
believe he's being tough to get better deals
1:14:31
But the net effect is the same more
1:14:35
integration between Maga-politics and the old neocon
1:14:38
foreign policy Elite not a break from it
1:14:44
the counterpoint to this and a lot of
1:14:47
people tell me this the counterpoint is He's
1:14:53
just leveraging for a better deal his defenders
1:14:56
say this all the time.
1:14:58
This is rhetoric Venezuela build up his pressure
1:15:02
to negotiate not Iraq or Ukraine 2.0
1:15:07
500% tariffs threat is to force India
1:15:11
and China to bargain and then he'll cut
1:15:14
a beautiful deal Long term he still wants
1:15:17
to reduce war bring troops back home and
1:15:20
shift cost to allies Maybe he does believe
1:15:23
some of that.
1:15:24
I don't know but the brutal question that
1:15:26
has to be asked is does any of
1:15:30
this talk Any of what he's doing Weaken
1:15:34
the global war and sanctions machine or does
1:15:39
it feed it?
1:15:41
Every time you normalize threatening a country with
1:15:44
nuclear level terrorists for trading with somebody you
1:15:48
dislike or Put a carrier group off of
1:15:51
somebody's coast if they piss you off or
1:15:54
create a political problem You know like you
1:15:57
train the system to default to exactly the
1:16:00
same tools Institutionalizing exactly the same behavior and
1:16:07
That is the behavior of the globalist first
1:16:11
economy Not the red America economy the real
1:16:17
America economy truck drivers Machinists nurses small businesses
1:16:21
don't need another front in the Caribbean in
1:16:24
a sanction war with half of Eurasia the
1:16:27
people who need that are in very specific
1:16:31
zip codes around the Pentagon and in New
1:16:36
York City, so I Don't know.
1:16:40
I thought it was an interesting concept to
1:16:42
talk about the fortress America versus the Android
1:16:46
Android world.
1:16:47
I thought that was interesting There was an
1:16:54
interesting sixth concept and The West media hates
1:17:00
this because it takes all the pretty words
1:17:03
out It only talks about money and assets
1:17:07
and this If it's not eye-opening it
1:17:11
should be So the current Western financial system
1:17:15
according to bezaruk of is headed for a
1:17:18
structural crisis when the paper burns Only real
1:17:24
things matter when the dollar collapses in other
1:17:27
words, what are the real?
1:17:30
assets land oil gas metals food water infrastructure
1:17:39
so the people at the top are quietly
1:17:42
moving out of paper and into real assets
1:17:46
and That is one of the biggest parts
1:17:51
of why Russia especially Russia and Venezuela are
1:17:57
under permanent pressure and they're under permanent pressure
1:18:00
by Trump right now These two Trump moves
1:18:04
Plug right into that paper wealth to hard
1:18:09
assets For 40 years the West is run
1:18:13
on cheap money ballooning debt Financing everything and
1:18:18
evermore exotic paper claims on the real economy
1:18:22
stocks at absurd multiples Derivatives stacked up on
1:18:26
top of derivatives real estate bubbles private equity
1:18:29
leverage People like Ray Dalio not fringe Conspiracists,
1:18:35
but big-name investors openly warning that the
1:18:38
u.s. Led order is at the end
1:18:40
of a long Debt cycle and that China
1:18:43
is rising as a competing center The big
1:18:47
players already know the math you cannot inflate
1:18:51
and borrow your money out of that forever
1:18:54
so what do you do if you're sitting
1:18:56
on a mountain of inflated paper and You
1:19:00
can read a balance sheet You start rotating
1:19:04
into land and water rights energy infrastructure Mines
1:19:09
ports Ukraine Controlling states in companies and countries
1:19:15
that produce things people can't live without Because
1:19:18
when the dust settles nobody can eat a
1:19:22
derivative They need to eat food grown on
1:19:25
land cooked with gas or electricity Moved on
1:19:28
rails and roads paid for with something people
1:19:31
trust That's bezaruk of basic point at the
1:19:35
top end of the system the survival instinct
1:19:38
is Already kicking in and the globalist elites
1:19:43
are not stupid and they aren't going to
1:19:46
sit there holding meme stocks When the music
1:19:51
stops, they're not gonna do it.
1:19:53
Why is Russia the biggest prize?
1:19:56
Let's take this as a as a logical
1:19:58
step on Any sane metric Russia is a
1:20:05
ridiculous concentration of oil and gas fresh water
1:20:12
timber metals and rare-earths arable land plus
1:20:16
a population that is Educated enough to run
1:20:21
a modern industrial economy It's also Relatively underpriced
1:20:28
compared to the resource base precisely because it's
1:20:32
been sanctioned demonized and politically Isolated for the
1:20:37
Western asset hunter.
1:20:39
This is a dream scenario They have huge
1:20:43
reserves depressed valuation a Political class in the
1:20:47
West that can be sold on any pressure
1:20:50
tool as defending democracy, right?
1:20:54
So bezaruk of his argument isn't it's all
1:20:57
about Rothschild's in the smoke-filled room It's
1:21:00
even uglier and simpler than that Pressure on
1:21:03
Russia is not just about NATO and so
1:21:07
-called Democratic values.
1:21:09
It's about making sure that the Russian resources
1:21:13
stay under a framework ultimately controlled by the
1:21:17
West dollar clearing Western law Western capital or
1:21:23
are so crippled that they don't empower a
1:21:27
rival Okay, so from that point of view,
1:21:31
let's look at Trump's sanctions gamble He is
1:21:37
in content with sanctions on Russia's on Russia
1:21:40
itself banking technology Individuals he's backing a bill
1:21:45
to hammer any country that keeps doing substantial
1:21:48
business with Russia Especially on energy Strip away
1:21:54
the PR and what does this mean?
1:21:57
It's an attempt to choke off Russia's ability
1:22:00
to monetize its resource base outside a US
1:22:05
controlled framework scare away third countries from entering
1:22:10
long-term energy and mineral deals with Russia
1:22:13
and Make sure that if and when a
1:22:16
financial storm hits Russia's either trapped in the
1:22:20
old dollar circuit or So economically wounded that
1:22:26
it can't turn its resources into independent power
1:22:29
That is the asset logic that is Under
1:22:35
the movement right now Why is Venezuela exhibit
1:22:40
B?
1:22:41
Let's look at Venezuela on paper the current
1:22:44
US buildup is about Narco-terrorism and drug
1:22:48
smuggling, but in reality Venezuela even according to
1:22:54
I forget her name the girl who won
1:22:58
the won the Nobel Prize instead of Trump
1:23:02
down there We'll sell all our oil to
1:23:06
the West to us, right?
1:23:08
Remember that Throw him out and we'll make
1:23:12
sure you get all the oil.
1:23:13
She says Venezuela has some of the largest
1:23:18
proven oil reserves in the world Sits in
1:23:21
South America where the u.s. Still thinks
1:23:23
the Monroe Doctrine gives it spiritual landlord rights
1:23:27
It has a government that plays hardball with
1:23:30
Western oil majors and and look to Russia
1:23:32
China Iran and others for alternate bank backing
1:23:36
Does Caracas have corruption and criminal networks?
1:23:40
Sure.
1:23:40
It does It was us not have Don't
1:23:44
don't we have some pretty good corruption going
1:23:47
on here But so do half of other
1:23:50
u.s. Allies of convenience, too So what
1:23:53
makes Venezuela special is oil location political?
1:23:58
Disobedience, so what's happening the u.s. Designates?
1:24:02
you know narco-terrorist and Creates a legal
1:24:06
basis a fake one, but there it is
1:24:10
for open-ended Operation for war that it
1:24:14
gets to create it deploys carrier strike group
1:24:18
Conducts lethal strikes on boats Calling everybody that
1:24:23
it kills Narco-terrorist no meaningful public evidence
1:24:28
zero due process If you do view that
1:24:32
through bezaruk of This is not a moral
1:24:36
crusade It's asset management Either you bring Caracas
1:24:42
under a government that cooperates with the u
1:24:46
.s. Or you break it you sanction it
1:24:49
you keep it too weak to be meaningful
1:24:52
part of any non u.s. Centered block
1:24:56
bricks SEO links Russian naval presence whatever So
1:25:02
Russia is a continental prize Venezuela is a
1:25:05
hemispheric asset same playbook Two theaters Rules and
1:25:11
human rights versus real stuff to be fair.
1:25:14
We should lay out the Western official narrative
1:25:17
against Russia We're defending borders sovereignty deterrence after
1:25:23
Ukraine Sanctions the secondary measures are about stopping
1:25:26
aggression not taking their assets In Venezuela, we're
1:25:32
fighting narco trafficking and defending human rights.
1:25:35
Yeah by blowing up humans Maduro's a dictator,
1:25:39
uh-huh Operation southern spear is narrow and
1:25:44
intelligence driven not about oil.
1:25:47
Oh, yeah Just like Iraq and yes some
1:25:51
people in bureaucracy genuinely believe that Systems are
1:25:55
full of true believers and it's not all
1:25:57
mustache twirling villains, but the pattern the bezaruk
1:26:02
of is talking about is Aggression corruption human
1:26:06
rights abuses are selectively enforced concepts Especially when
1:26:12
it comes to oil rich resource rich states
1:26:15
that cross, Washington As opposed to I don't
1:26:20
know Israel they can do whatever they want.
1:26:23
Nobody gonna say a word.
1:26:25
We aren't sanctioning them.
1:26:26
Are we I?
1:26:29
Have skepticism on all of this Where this
1:26:32
leaves the to Trump moves Where does it
1:26:37
leave them functionally an attempt to prevent Russia
1:26:39
from turning its resources into independent power?
1:26:43
verse through bricks SEO or anything else Are
1:26:49
politically sold as punishing aggression and in Venezuela
1:26:53
an attempt to either change the regime but
1:26:57
the political packaging is Same as always so
1:27:02
from the Global South Perspective what this looks
1:27:05
like is the Empire knows the paper game
1:27:08
is wobbling gonna collapse So it's grabbing the
1:27:11
last big cheap chunk of the physical world
1:27:15
it can And if you get in the
1:27:17
way, it'll call you a terrorist or sanction
1:27:20
you to death, right?
1:27:24
That's what's gonna happen So How does Trump's
1:27:29
overreach speed up bez Rukavs vision?
1:27:33
We've walked through all six of bez Rukavs
1:27:36
pillars the 1914 moment globalization hangover and enemy
1:27:41
manufacturing age of blocks bricks SEO America's internal
1:27:47
crisis American economies and Trump's slide back into
1:27:50
the neocon late and the asset grabs Hmm,
1:27:55
what's the final?
1:27:58
Russia is no longer the east of Europe
1:28:02
It's the north of greater Eurasia the top
1:28:07
of the most promising continent on earth either
1:28:10
it builds a Eurasian macro region with its
1:28:13
own rules and model or repeats 1917 through
1:28:17
1991 and collapses from within while others divide
1:28:21
the spoils I Think that's an interesting talk
1:28:26
the greater Eurasian project in the concrete terms
1:28:31
are bricks and SEO and the Eurasian Economic
1:28:34
Union eae you For closer integration into post
1:28:38
-soviet spaces the new north-south and east
1:28:42
-west corridors Rail port energy I've talked about
1:28:45
them before They are there Russia is the
1:28:49
balancer between China and everybody else India Iran
1:28:52
Arabic countries Central Asia They provide security guarantees
1:28:57
energy military backing industrial niches and they help
1:29:01
global South countries escape dependence on the US
1:29:05
and EU system that's the theory and I
1:29:11
think Trump is very much against that and
1:29:14
Wow if Bezrukov is right, we're not watching
1:29:20
Trump save America We're watching him help write
1:29:23
the obituary of the American Empire and to
1:29:27
preface a Eurasian century The only open question
1:29:31
is whether Russia and the global South can
1:29:33
turn that into a stable Alternative or whether
1:29:35
we'll all just stumble through another 1914 and
1:29:39
do the whole damn thing all over again
1:29:42
This has been international flavor where the truth
1:29:45
just tastes better Very glad you participated this
1:29:49
evening.
1:29:49
I will see you again tomorrow night.
1:29:52
Hope you join me Have a very good
1:29:55
evening damn radio