Judging Freedom - Phil Giraldi : Boots On The Ground Fraud.....

Episode Date: June 27, 2024

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Thank you. Hi, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Thursday, June 27th, 2024. Phil Giraldi joins us now. Phil, a pleasure, my dear friend. Thank you very much for joining us. You were away for a few days. You were missed, and your fans have been asking for you, and I'm sure they're happy that you're back, as am I, and as is our team. Last Sunday, it was a special religious holiday in the Russian Orthodox religion. It's their Pentecost. It's a special religious holiday in the Russian Orthodox religion. It's their Pentecost. It's a major feast day and holiday. The Americans supplied and aimed ammunition,

which dispersed a cluster bomb on a beach in Sevastopol, which killed a half dozen people and injured 100. Two or three of the half dozen killed were children. Is the United States at war with Russia? Well, I would say absolutely yes. I mean, by every measure of what constitutes war or what traditionally constitutes war, the United States is at war with Russia and is also at war with the Palestinians. And this is just something that they're in denial about. They don't want to call it that. But the fact is that when you use a U.S.-provided cluster weapon, cluster bomb, which this apparently was,

when its targeting and guidance system is apparently controlled by a United States-controlled satellite, and this thing goes off on a holiday and hits a beach where it does as you described well the russians have no doubt about it they've immediately denounced this called on the pentagon to provide some kind of explanation of what had occurred and why and And the Pentagon, of course, refused to respond. The U.S. government has been very quiet about it. And the U.S. media has been playing, you know, no look, no see about it to a large extent, too. So this is everybody looking at it from outside would have to agree that this indicates by all accounts that the U.S. is engaged in this war, fully engaged, providing the weapons, providing the money, and even providing technical support, shall we call it. Here's the Russian ambassador to the United Nations articulating the Russian view precisely as you just indicated

representing or hinting about the extent of their full knowledge of American involvement. Number 10, Chris. Kiev regime supported by the USA and carried out a heinous attack against civilians in the Russian city of Sevastopol in Crimea. Ukraine launched five U.S.-supplied attack MS missiles armed with cluster munitions. An American Global Hawk UAV was patrolling the airspace over the Crimean Peninsula. There will be measures in response. The Russian Federation will continue to protect its people and its national security until no threat is posed by the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev that was breeded, raised, and financed by the West.

So a couple of key phrases, breeded, raised, and financed by the West, and cluster munitions at civilians, how could the Pentagon or the State Department or the White House possibly justify this if they ever gave a straight answer? Well, it's clear that they cannot justify this in any way. I mean, apart from anything else, cluster weapons are generally perceived as being illegal. So that's one thing. And of course, these weapons are only in the hands of the Ukrainians. If indeed the Ukrainians had them in their hands, this might be something that was kind of done under control of and monitoring from the United States uh and uh there's just no excuse

for this there is no way to justify it uh it's like what's going on in southern lebanon right now with the israelis using phosphorus weapons uh this is there's a pattern here isn't there i mean we have we have these allies who are fighting wars that never had to be fought in the first place. We've gotten hip deep in both these wars by financing them, arming them, and also providing, as we've discovered in both cases, direct hands-on support to what's going on by virtue of intelligence operatives and special forces operatives who are deeply embedded in both these places. Before we get, you're teasing me with your knowledge of Israel and Gaza. before we get over there. The Russians obviously knew of the satellites that were used to direct these weapons. The Russians knew the satellite was there and they know what the satellite does and they know the satellite can only be operated by Americans because as you and

Scott Ritter have pointed out, it requires a top security clearance, an American top security clearance, to download the codes to trigger the information from the satellite. Okay, we know all that. Wouldn't Intel have told the Ukrainians or the Americans, hey, there's a beach there. It's a Sunday. People are on the beach. They're civilians. Well, one would expect that they would not target something like that unless they intended to target something like that. So this is the really scary part about all of this. targets for some ulterior or indeed even upfront objective of broadening this war, of bringing the risk level of what is going on, elevating that. I mean, the Russians have made, Putin and Lavrov have both made pretty clear that Russia, there are no pieces off the chessboard, that the weapons that Russia has to defend itself are there. And, you know, so this is the closest it has ever been since the end of the Second World War.

So this is stuff that's being provoked, I suspect, deliberately. And what is the objective here? So what would the Americans have done if the Russians set off a cluster bomb on Long Beach Island, New Jersey, or Miami Beach? Well, you know what it would be. There would have been an outcry from Congress. There would have been an immediate response of some kind and uh all the while the the united states would be piously claiming that it had not provoked this or had not brought this about and and uh even even when it's uh clearly to blame for the escalation of what's going on in both these wars. Here's a full screen of Foreign Minister Lavrov, who's a little angrier than his colleague at the UN. The U.S. is

responsible for this massacre, and they will get an answer. All flight missions for American ATACOMs missiles are programmed by American specialists based on their own U.S. satellite intelligence data. We were just talking about this. Therefore, the responsibility for the deliberate missile strike against the civilian population of Sevastopol lies primarily with Washington, which supplied this weapon to Ukraine, as well as with the Kiev regime, from whose territory the strike was launched. Such actions will not go unanswered. What do you think the answer will be? They're not going to attack Long Beach Island. What are they going to do? A no-fly zone? Or is Putin just going to manifest this remarkable patience that he shows? Well, I think the Russians are much more organized in terms of their responses than is the United States. It seems the United States is acting in an ad hoc fashion where it's coming up with these provocations and responses and refusing to respond even verbally to what took place.

So I think the Russians basically will be more cautious. I imagine there will be what they see as a response, but I rather suspect it will be directed against some kind of materiel military target of the United States. I don't quite know what that would be. That would be dependent on what they have available and they're targeting. But yes, I think there will be a response. Are the facilities in Poland and Romania, where American equipment is received and assembled and loaded, where American soldiers do this, fair a game for the fact that that expands the war in a NATO direction, which I more so than it is already. And I think that's something that the Russians would be perhaps reluctant to do.

Again, I don't want to do their thinking for them. I would think something maybe like some kind of ship at sea, something that would be seen in a neutral space might be a more preferred target, or maybe even take out a couple of U.S. satellites. You have written a piece about boots on the ground. Much of it is about Israel. We'll get to Israel in a minute, but there are American boots on the ground in Ukraine, are there not? Absolutely. With all this equipment going in, there are boots that go with them. This is either military personnel who are adept at training and setting up the equipment or some civilians working for defense contractors that serve a likewise role, but this is an active military role they're in. And one of the things I pointed out that occurred to me immediately, but hasn't

really been explored much by some other commenters, is the fact that in the embassies in these two countries, there is a huge defense attaché's office, which has all kinds of people with different skills, intelligence skills and analytical skills and training skills, and even going out as advisors in combat roles and stuff like that. These people are often undercover. They're often not in uniform.

And it's wrong of the president and his associates to be saying these people are not filling some kind of combat role or warfare role in what they do. And these people are all over the place. I've served in these places myself. I've in fact served under those kinds of cover. So I know what they are and what they do. One of these days, we'll talk about what you did under cover. Here's General Pat Ryder, who's the Pentagon's equivalent of Admiral Kirby, not answering a question about whether the president has authorized contractors to be on the ground in Ukraine. Cut number five. There's a report out that the Biden administration is considering allowing U.S. military contractors

in Ukraine to help maintain U.S.-provided weapon systems in Ukraine without getting into hypotheticals of what could be decided. What's the difference between doing this and having U.S. military boots on the ground? Yeah, thanks for the question, Liz. What I'd say right now is I'm not going to comment on any reports of internal discussions or proposals that may or may not be under consideration. You know, the bottom line is the president and the secretary have been clear that we're not going to send U.S. troops to fight in Ukraine, and that won't change. A non-answer. We're going to take a break for a commercial. When we come back, Phil and I will explore boots on the ground in Israel and in Gaza. But first this.

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learjudgesnap.com. Tell them the judge sent you. The president has repeatedly denied, Tony Blinken has denied, Jake Sullivan has denied that there are American boots on the ground in Gaza. Wasn't the president either foolishly or inadvertently photographed in Israel with American special ops in uniform, faces visible and fully loaded with their gear? Yeah, this was about a year ago, and he was photographed as being over it. Well, this was earlier on in the war, obviously. He was photographed as being there to provide support for Israel, and he was with a group of special forces, Delta Force, as a matter of fact, and he said that they were there to assist Israel.

So, you know, there are a lot of contradictions in what's going on. That's only one example. We have also the fantastic pontoon bridge that they built, which pretty clearly was used as a staging area for Israeli soldiers to raid that refugee camp about a little over a week ago where they killed 276 civilians. So it's pretty obvious that the United States is up into its eyeballs in this. And there have been admissions from the government that the United States has intensified its intelligence and other logistical support for the Israelis. So you're paying for the war, you have soldiers there, you're providing all the equipment, pretty much. You have airmen at an air base in Israel where they are in charge of a depot of equipment that is also additionally provided for Israel. And you are providing political cover for Israel in the United Nations and everywhere else.

So you're going to say you're not involved in this war as a combatant? So, I mean, what does a special ops do? They're not there to provide food and water. They kill, don't they? Yeah, they kill. And very often, some of them have a dual role where they work in intelligence targets and providing intelligence assistance, which would mean maybe they're not standing in the front line and shooting their M-16s, but they are possibly in a role where they're just behind the Israeli soldiers and providing them with up-to-date satellite and other information that enables them to operate against the Palestinians. Does the U.S. have drones and satellites over Gaza that are helping the Israelis to aim at people so as to kill them? I think the simple answer to that is yes. And I think to a certain extent, this has also been kind of conceded by those spokesmen or people who have off the record addressed the issue to say that this is what was going on. Because intelligence on a battlefield is not a neutral

thing. It's something that you use to kill people. And if united states and britain is involved in this too are providing information from their satellites and from their drones that the that are perhaps techno technologically superior to what the israelis have which is also what has been implied uh then we're again we're in the war you uh mentioned earlier that the Israelis are using phosphorus in Lebanon. I mean, what is that? What does it do? Isn't it illegal under international law? Or is this one of these laws that doesn't apply to the Israelis?

It doesn't apply to the Israelis or the United States. The United States has been caught using phosphorus. They did in Iraqaq for example um yeah it's a phosphorus is one of those weapons like cluster weapons that are generally conceded to be illegal because they have obviously a devastating effect on local populations be they civilians or what this is not a necessarily a battlefield weapon this is a weapon that is a superiority weapon that is used uh basically to kill people and uh to kill them in as brutal a fashion as possible and this is um this has been verified that there have been

attacks over the last couple days days on Lebanese villages carried out by the Israelis using phosphorus. Wow. Does the Israeli government, which seems to be on unstable ground politically because of domestic political matters, particularly the Supreme Court of Israel by 9 to nothing ordering the Obama the Netanyahu administration to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jews, which may pry apart Netanyahu's coalition. But whatever it is, don't they recognize the odds they're up against in Lebanon against Hezbollah, whether they're using phosphorus or not? Well, there are a couple of possible answers to that. I think that essentially what

Netanyahu wants to play for is to involve Hezbollah and by extension, Iran, in an increasing conflict. Now, how far he wants to go, how deep he wants to get, but the whole intention, of course, is to involve the United States, particularly when it comes to Iran. And Joe Biden has basically indicated that if, in fact, he's indicated quite clearly that if it comes to Israel fighting Hezbollah, the United States will be on the side of Israel, will be involved. And presumably, if this war expands, the United States will be to Iran. The United States will be the one who has to do the heavy lifting, which is what Netanyahu would like to see. And I would point out for the conscription issue, there's, of course, legislation I'm sure you're aware of in the U.S.

Congress to accelerate conscription because none of the armed services of the U.S. are meeting their enlistment quotas. And also there's talk that this will include women as conscripted. Wow. Here's Yoav Galant, the Israeli defense minister, saying that our war is with Hamas and with Hezbollah, not with the people that live there. וחדש של המחקר, הוא אומר שערון שלנו הוא עם חמאס ועם ה'הסבלה, לא עם אנשים שמיוחדים שם. ובכן, הנגד הרעיון הוא איראן. זה מה שדהיינו, נמצא 3. אני עומד פה, בוושינגטון, כמחדש של ישראל, כדי להגיד את המחקר.

אנחנו עומדים על ידי דיל הממשל, We stand firmly behind the President's deal, which Israel has accepted and now Hamas must accept. But let it be known that our war is not with the people of Gaza. Our war is not with the people of Lebanon. Our war is against Hamas, against Hezbollah, and their backers, the Iranian regime. Okay, you slaughtered 38,000 civilians in Gaza. Can you imagine if their war was against the Gazan people? So there are two points in there. One, they are fixated on Iran.

You could explain that. And two, they accept Joe Biden's proposal. That's the proposal that Biden and Admiral Kirby insisted emanated from the Israelis. And then Netanyahu said, I want nothing to do with it. And then the defense minister comes here to say we accept it. So maybe you can untangle that mess as well. Well, yeah, sure. I mean, I guess we were encountering another liar over this war. The fact is that Netanyahu and his ultra-extremist government, now that he's lost

two of the moderates, so-called moderates, that were supporting him, have made clear numerous times that they have no interest in any kind of ceasefire or peace treaty. They have interest in pursuing this war or these wars as long as it takes. And that's, to me, the clear response. If Mr. Galant thinks he's got a better insight into it, then I don't know what it is. But there are, as you say, 38 000 uh people dead in gaza i mean that's the civilian population and there are probably 20 000 there's an estimate i saw from the u.n yesterday there are 20 000 more bodies likely in the rubble in gaza and now we're getting

uh attacks not by the by the israelis with the weapons various weapons they're using including phosphorus uh against villages that these attacks the other day were against villages they weren't against military targets that of course belies what galant said but it's no but it's no surprise. I think they're all cut from the same cloth. I mean, you, perhaps with a little sarcasm, referred to Benny Gantz as a moderate. We all know that when he was the head of the IDF, he was as vicious a butcher as the IDF people are today. Just has a softer tone. He's a nicer person.

He's easier to deal with than Netanyahu. Not as personally pugnacious, but his use of the military is as reckless and genocidal as what Netanyahu is doing. Is that what the Israelis can expect if there's a new election and Netanyahu loses and he goes back to being a criminal defendant, he'll be replaced by somebody just as bad. Well, that would be what one would predict. I mean,

basically, Netanyahu has made very clear that this war will continue because apart from anything else, it keeps him from being booted out of office and sent to jail. And the fact is that the Israelis are at this point committed to continuing the war. And the ultimate end goal and end objective of this war is to take what once was a place called Palestine, and basically get rid of the Palestinians and turn it into what would become a Jewish state, and that would be Israel. Bill Giraldi, thank you, my dear friend. Always a pleasure. We'll look forward to seeing you next week. Okay, thank you. Sure, all the best. Coming up later today at 315 Eastern this afternoon, Colonel Douglas McGregor at four o'clock Eastern this afternoon. Max Blumenthal at five o'clock

Eastern this afternoon. Professor John Mearsheimer, Judge Napolitano for Judging Freedom. We'll be right back. I'm