Judging Freedom - Ryan Dawson : WAR FOR PROFIT - The Military Industrial Complex

Episode Date: February 29, 2024

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Thank you. The American Pronunciation Guide Presents ''How to Pronounce Gaza'' I mean, you just have to see what's going on in Gaza. They're killing children, destroying all of the civilian facilities, the hospitals, the schools. 1.7 million Palestinians living in Gaza have been made homeless, completely displaced. And the idea of saying, so what's there for them to come back to? How are they going to live? What are they going to do? No water, no bread, no schools, no hospitals, no facility. This is the plan ultimately. The Israelis bombed the most crowded refugee camp in Gaza twice.

They leveled an entire neighborhood called Block 6. People were digging their children out of the rubble with their bare hands after this bombing. I've seen the footage and it is horrific. But there is lots and lots of footage of children and babies being pulled out of rubble in Gaza and it's gruesome it's terrible these are the deaths of children in conflict zones and it's children killed per day the Iraq war it was 0.6. Ukraine is 0.7. Yemen, 1.5. Afghanistan, 2. Syria, 3. Gaza, 136. Thank you. Hi, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Wednesday, February 28th, 2024.

Ryan Dawson returns to the show with much appreciation from so many of you and of course from me and my team. Ryan, it's a pleasure. I know you're directly on the other side of the world from us now, but thank you for the time and thank you for your thoughts and for your insight. Pleasure to be back. I love the sweatshirt you're wearing. Maybe you can stand up so we can all see it and all aid to Israel. We'll talk about that in a minute, of course. I do want to start with Ukraine. Over the weekend, there were these crazy numbers released by President Zelensky claiming only 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died in this two-year conflagration. Colonel McGregor says his sources tell him it's 500,000. His sources are

based on counting obituaries and counting new graves dug since the Ukrainian military like the Israeli defense forces doesn't reveal truthful information what is your take on the the relative uh destructive power of the Russian military and the losses of the ukraines well it's definitely not 31 000 i would put that number closer to mcgregor's estimate of about half a million for sure 31 000 is a ridiculous statistic i don't know how usually when they lie they get a little bit closer to the truth that's just absurd that's if it's 31 000 why are they dragging people out of their bed trying to press them into service they're sending pregnant women to the front line ukraine's desperate they're getting hammered worse than paul felosi night nice comparison and i think you're right usually when the government lies there's some

kernel of truth in there in which it can hang its hat or some kernel of respectability but there's no kernel of respectability whatsoever for that number, but yet President Zelensky has come out with it anyway. Also over the weekend, this will raise your blood pressure if you haven't seen it already, is the mastermind of the disaster in Ukraine going back to 2014, Victoria Nuland. She gave a speech, and we have a couple of clips for you. I'm going to play this first one, number eight, Chris, where she says Putin is wrong. Listen to what she says about the city of Kharkiv in this clip.

Ukraine, as we saw in the news, has been forced to withdraw from Avdeyevka. Kharkiv, one of Ukraine's proudest eastern city, a Russian-speaking city, is bombarded daily in an effort to disable it. And Ukraine's economy is still fragile, with almost 100 percent of tax revenues going to defense now. Vladimir Putin, in addition to planning anti-satellite weapons in space and bearing responsibility for the death of his most popular opponent, Alexei Navalny, thinks he can wait Ukraine out. And he thinks he can wait out all of us. We need to prove him wrong. Let's unpack this nonsense from the princess of neocons.

Kharkiv is being bombed, yes, by the Ukrainians. It's a Russian-speaking city that they are bombing in an area that they claim is Ukraine. How deceptive. How deceptive can she be? Go ahead, I'm sorry. The most popular opponent, Navalny, is about as popular as CNN Plus, 2% at most. He's most likely a spy. I agree with Scott Ritter's assessment on that.

Victoria Nuland doesn't know how to tell the truth, nor does her husband. Robert Kagan was the co-founder of PNAC that dragged us into war in Iraq based on deceptions. He wrote those papers about sourcing the Israelis, by the way, claiming that Mohammed Atta got anthrax from Iraqis in Prague. That never happened either. She's also on the board of the National Endowment for Democracy, which is supposed to be an NGO, yet it's financed through the government. So it cannot be a non-government organization being funded by the government. How that works, I don't know. But they're the masters of newspeak.

And yes, Kharkiv has been, that whole eastern region, Kharkiv, all of Donetsk and Luhansk has been getting bombed by Ukraine since 2014. But no explanation for that, of course. Here's another one from her in which she claims that because no American soldiers, as far as we know, have heretofore been at risk, the U.S. is safer since we've been funding the Ukraine the Ukraine war against Russia number nine Chris without sending a single US soldier into combat and Investing less than 1 tenth of one year's defense budget of the United States. We have helped Ukraine destroy 50% of Russia's ground combat power

50% and 20% of its vaunted Black Sea Fleet Ukraine has taken off the battlefield 21 naval ships 102 Russian aircraft and 2700 Russian tanks by every measure Ukraine's bravery and strength its resilience has made the United States safer too. Please challenge that, that this has made the United States safer, Ryan. Oh, and her claims about all the tanks and planes, just like they said, Russia was running out of ammo every month since the war started. It was NATO that ran out of 155 millimeter ammo and had to scramble around the world buying it from South Korea and other places all over to try to replace it. She doesn't know how to tell the truth. Even her lies, she's reading off a card. She couldn't memorize the little two-minute speech

she had to give. Well, she has a vested interest in the war going on and on and on, at least until the elections of 2024, after which it's hard for me to believe that Joe Biden would be elected. I don't think he's either not going to run or if he runs, I think he's going to lose. But I don't want to get into domestic politics with you. But just like Bibi Netanyahu has a domestic political vested interest in keeping the slaughter in Gaza going on because of what will happen to him when it's over. I think she has a domestic American political interest in keeping this war going on. I'll play you one more for her. Listen to this. At the very end, she says, we have a nasty surprise for Mr. Putin.

This is the woman who wants to use Ukraine as a battering ram to drive Vladimir Putin from office. Cut number 10, Chris. With the $60 billion supplemental that the administration has requested of Congress, we can ensure that Ukraine not only survives, but she thrives. With this support, in 2024, we can help ensure Ukraine can continue to fight, to build, to recover, and to reform. With this money, Ukraine will be able to fight back in the east, but it will also be able to accelerate the asymmetric warfare that has been most effective on the battlefield. And as I said in Kiev three weeks ago, this supplemental funding will ensure Putin faces some nasty surprises on the battlefield this year. What do you think? The nasty surprises on the battlefield. She must acknowledge, and you explained this the last time

you were on with us, that $60 billion is going to stay here in the United States and go to the American military industrial complex to build more weapons. And the older stuff that's in storage is what's going to be shipped there. And there might not even be, I'm speaking for you, a Ukraine government that gets there. Go ahead. A lot of that is going to go straight to a lot of greed martin excuse me lockheed martin that's where it's going to listen she sounds like she's giving a a middle school book report and she's not that stupid so who is she addressing this to they're not that dumb they don't really have these delusions that they're going to defeat russia and ukraine they keep saying it you said they use them as a battering ram i agree more with They're not that dumb. They don't really have these delusions that they're going to defeat Russia and Ukraine.

They keep saying it. You said they use him as a battering ram. I agree more with Larry Johnson. It's more like a crash test dummy and the wall won. What she's really talking to, the people she's talking to, are the people of the military industrial complex. They need to say, we need another 60 billion. If you look at Lockheed's stock for the last two years, it's gone up 100 points, 100 points, almost unheard of unless you're in the weapons industry. M.I.C., people call it, you know, infamous or famous from Ike's farewell address where he addressed them by name, the military-industrial complex, these donuts of lobbyists that sit around D.C. and McLean, Virginia, and these areas are getting hundreds of billions of dollars in what we call corporate welfare. We haven't seen this level of corporate welfare since Lincoln. And that's what this aid

is about. It's about cycling it through Ukraine back to industries. They dump all their obsolete stuff in the battlefield. If they were serious, if they were ideologically in this and trying to defeat the Russians, why did they dump the M777 towed howitzers? Or remember the javelins. That's what's going to do it. We're going to run up and hit it with a javelin, a Russian tank he had Nancy Pelosi Nancy Pelosi excuse me uh drunk on the podium banging her jewelry on there I want to bomb some tanks when the Russians had columns of tanks the Russians had columns of tanks in the beginning of the SMO because they were threatening Kev uh that all got changed after Boris Johnson sold them on don't we have your back, and they put all the money in.

The reason that a lot of people, they learn about war, I think, from video games in Hollywood. The reason Russia didn't just smash Ukraine in like one week, like some people thought, there is no point in playing capture the city in a war where you're not really depriving the enemy of resources since all the resources come from abroad anyway if all their money and weapons and things are coming from nato capturing cities doesn't really matter because you're not depriving them of manufacturing or income because they're not relying on that anyway if ukraine had to pay for all this war by itself it would have lost within months right because it was out of money right away but if you get hundreds of millions of dollars from abroad the only thing you can do is win a war of attrition by forcing

the other side to run out of soldiers which is a horrible way to lose a war and that's exactly what's happening you can't replace a soldier that's 17 18 years to grow a person here's um french president macron making what i think is a terrifying and stupid statement, but I'd like your thoughts on it. Cut 11, Chris. There is no consensus today to send ground troops in an official, endorsed and sanctioned manner, but in dynamic terms, nothing should be ruled out. But in dynamic terms, nothing should be ruled out. How reckless do you think NATO might be? Might they actually consider putting troops on the ground and commencing World War III?

They won't put troops on the ground. They do the Obama shenanigans where they finesse the language. These aren't troops. These are contractors. They're different. Troops on the ground, they do the Obama shenanigans where they finesse the language. These aren't troops. These are contractors. They're different. But they already have had contractor mercenaries on the ground, and they did get wiped out, especially Poland. Poland has put in a number of troops, and they've died just like the Ukrainians. I don't see a lot of the other NATO members stomaching this

because they can't handle the casualties. I don't know because you're around the world, of course, you can get this on the internet. If you saw the New York Times puff piece on the CIA, I think it was Sunday or Monday. I think it was Sunday. It's about 10,000 words. It's long. It obviously leaked what the CIA wanted leaked. But some of it was rather startling that the CIA has 12 bases in Ukraine. Obviously, the Russians know where those 12 bases are and probably hear everything that's going on there. uh showing uh ukrainian soldiers how to aim american weaponry so that it reaches inside russia so let me get this straight ryan dawson we have american weaponry being operated by american intelligence agents with american ammunition reaching inside the russian. Is the United States starting a war with Russia? I believe it already did. Everybody knows all of Ukraine. When you say NATO, it's mostly the United States. Most of the weapons they have in the field from day one have been from the United States. Those are American weapons. They've given them tanks. They offloaded their

useless Bradleys, a transport vehicle, so bad they made a movie about it called Pentagon Wars. I believe Kelsey Grammer starred in that. It's bad. All their obsolete gear, they just gave it to the Ukrainians. Here, you go die in this tin can. And it won't make a difference whether the CIA is it, but if you're going to won't make a difference whether the CIA is it. But if you're going to start targeting inside Russia, you're asking for it. Now, they have done this with some drone attacks in Moscow that happened before. British intelligence helped take out the Kursh Bridge in Crimea. Somebody blew up the Nord Stream line.

I guess it was dolphins. But we know who this is. And that is CIA. And they are that sloppy. And they are being listened to. And Russia knows. But what would you like them to do? They're not going to attack inside the United States. But we have soured relations forever. There is not going to be reconciliation after this war. And it's going to get worse for America and Syria and other places. But they don't know how to work with the russians they are just hell-bent on opposing anything russia and especially putin does were you um switching gears now since you mentioned this syria i'm going to switch to the

israeli embassy in washington dc into the sweatshirt that you're wearing. Were you surprised at the outpouring of emotion and support for Mr. Bushnell, who immolated himself much like the Buddhist monks did to protest American imperialism in Vietnam in the 60s? And were you surprised when those who rushed to his burning body didn't bring fire extinguishers? They pointed M16s at him. Yeah, pointing a gun at a man dying on the ground in flames. When you're being ordered, I don't need guns, I need fire extinguishers, and they're just panicking. The whole thing was sickening. It was sickening to watch. I've seen both things. I've seen an outpour of support. I've also seen people mocking him. The Israelis have telegram channels where it's just endless jokes about this man's death. People were thrown out and said, I don't endorse suicide, but I don't condone,

I don't condemn this either. I understand it. I'll just say, you know, in Japan, they, I'll say this and then I'll translate it, but they would probably say, he had a meaningful death because what he was doing, and he stated clearly, was an extreme form of protest against the genocide in Gaza. The more so if you read his social media, he gets into it further. It's not just Gaza. It's something that he felt like we absolutely cannot allow to be normalized. The slaughter of innocent people, whether that's starving them in Yemen and Iraq, up in Gaza, that cannot be allowed. And he felt like it by doing this. He wasn't targeting the Israelis. He knows they were going to laugh at him.

He was targeting U.S. media. by doing this, he wasn't targeting the Israelis. He knows they were going to laugh at him. He was targeting U.S. media. And he forced their hand because what did U.S. media do? They said that he died and didn't say why. But what that does is it makes it harder and harder for regular couch potatoes to sit there and watch that and not admit that there is absolute bias for Zionism in American media. Well, there's no question about that, my dear friend. I think I was watching one of your clips when you were arguing how history will find this slaughter in Gaza funded by the United States and opposed by no one. Unforgivable. Unforgivable. Because that's what it's become.

How is it not mental illness to drop bombs on apartments full of people? Right. How is it not mental? Israelis have dropped those bombs that shoot the blades out and take people's legs off they broke into a hospital shot people in their hospital beds they've taken bulldozers to desecrate the dead and just bulldoze up in graves they're they're poking people's eyes out and peeing on corpses they're causing mass starvation they attack the aid trucks they use the aid trucks as bait and use snipers to shoot civilians trying to go get food for their families. They're smothering to death little babies.

They turn the electricity off so babies on incubators would freeze to death. They're torturing people. They rape people. And then they always accuse others of what they're actually doing. Their accusations are confessions. That's mental illness. It's mentally ill what they did to Mohammed Abur Kandir, where they poured gasoline down his throat and burned him from the inside out,

kidnapped a 16-year-old boy. And, you know, the U.S. had a different stance on immolation. You mentioned the monks in Vietnam, but remember you know, in the U.S. had different stance on immolation. You mentioned the monks in Vietnam, but remember Jan Palak in the Czech Republic. They named streets after him. You know, it depends on the political cause. It's not mental illness then. It's only mental illness and just crazy veteran when it doesn't fit the state narrative. And we do have a state narrative. Every single mass media outlet refused to even acknowledge the message he was trying to send. This was a caring man in an insane world.

He had orders, by the way. Stand by, ready to bomb. Yes. And I don't know how many... We saw the orders, and even though the orders were dated in november i'm sure as it got closer and closer to the likelihood uh of american troops and his unit being sent there uh he was prompted and internally within his brain and within his soul uh to do uh to do what he did and the american media still doesn't want to go there.

The mainstream media, I mean, forums like this, people like you, like the guests that I have here, openly discuss this without condoning suicide, but with condoning the message that he's trying to send and catching the media flat-footed. Your last statement, Ryan, was so articulate. There's nothing I can say to enhance it. It was so articulate.

Well, I'll tell you this. We wouldn't know about it if he didn't live stream it. Because this happened in December. A woman set herself on fire on a Palestinian flag in Atlanta. I don't even know her name it wasn't live stream and the media buried it they only talk about it because they were forced to it was all over facebook and they couldn't censor it quick enough and people saw it they said and he stood there he didn't stop and drop and roll on the ground he stood there re-palestine as long as he could his clothing falling off as he burned to death

this is some this is serious and he felt that way and he probably went to those extreme lengths because there is no free speech and he did not see any other way to get the message to reach as many people as he felt was needed to stop this slaughter and genocide, this ethnic cleansing, which has been going on long before October 7th. Brian Dawson, thank you very much. Very emotional stuff we're talking about, and you're so clear-eyed and articulate. I'm deeply grateful for you spending the time joining us.

I know you're doing a lot of traveling. I hope you can come back again next week. I would love to. Thank you, my friend. All the best. Tomorrow, we have your regular friends. We have Colonel McGregor. We have Professor Mearsheimer. We have Scott Horton returning. And we have Professor Jeff Sachs. Judge Napolitano for Judging Freedom. Altyazı M.K.