The Team House - Putin Makes Nice with Kim Jong-Un & Bibi Calls Out the U.S. | EYES ON | Ep. 28

Episode Date: June 20, 2024

Support the show here:https://www.patreon.com/TheTeamHouseAndy's back from South Africa and we talk about Bibi Netanyahu's comments saying the U.S. isn't doing enough to support Israel, we also talk about Putin's visit to North Korea to kiss the fat mans ring.Find Andy here:Twitterhttps://twitter.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_login=%2Fandymilburn8LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewmilburn2023Substackhttps://amilburn.substack.com/Andy's bookhttps://www.amazon.com/When-Tempest-Gathers-Mogadishu-Operations/dp/1526750554Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support.

Hey guys, it's Jack. I just wanted to talk to you today about a way that you can help support the podcast if you're not already. To support the channel is to become a Patreon member. So we have Patreon memberships that start at just $5 a month. And when you sign up, you get access to all of our episodes ad free. That's the big bonus for that. I mean, we also do some Patreon bonus episodes for our subscribers. But this is the biggest and best way that you can support the Team House. channel and podcast if you'd like to and we really appreciate that so go it and check us out at patreon.com slash the team house hello everyone welcome to another episode of eyes on i'm andy muleburn i'm jason lyons i'm demichie contacos so much to iman's relief i've been away for a couple weeks um and i i heard that the episode while i was away was the best yet so which is like maybe would be discouraging, right? But I'm here back, plugging away.

Not to make this kind of a show and tell about my summer, but for audiences out there who might be interested in a more adventurous holiday, I took my son Marcus to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia. There's another country thrown in there, too. I'll remember it in a moment. And then we flew to Ozambia. And then we flew to Mauritius, right? Mauritius is a tiny dot in the Indian Ocean,

a thousand miles away from the nearest land, which is Madagascar. All in all, awesome time. And happy to post more details of anyone's interested in doing that themselves. We saw in Zimbabwe, aside from Victoria Falls, which is truly stunning. even though, I mean, I grown up learning about Victoria Falls, actually being there, what was extraordinary. I mean, I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to wonders of the world, but this really took my breath away.

And we did a helicopter flight down, you know, over the falls. I mean, it's astonishing. Saw lions. I mean, we saw everything except rhinos close up too. Yeah, it's extraordinary. Okay. that's sorry about that but i you know i mean it's it's andy's travel blog is coming soon yeah why not you know i mean if i get edged out i mean by by jack again um that's that's what i'm

like do anyway so while i'm away um things really haven't changed that much right except you I mean, the latest is Netanyahu's address to the state of Israel, but with a very clear message with the U.S. audience, too, in which he not very subtly attacks. The U.S. essentially with the implicit, not attacks, that's a strong word, but criticizes the U.S. the implication being for for not backing Israel, specifically the weapons. And he quotes Winston Churchill more than once in his speech. And it's available on Twitter.

You know, he says, give us the tools and we will do the job. But, you know, even if you don't understand Hebrew, I don't understand Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. I have to get, you know, people to translate it. And then, of course, Israeli papers did a transcript, which I went through. But what's really bizarre is if you're holding this transcript and you're, watching him. It's like it's a very, it's, it's ethral. It's so detached from reality. It's totally

untethered. Um, you know, and, and on the other side, I can't help thinking. And I hear it's not a political statement, but our own president should have seen this coming as early as November. And then again in December and then in January, because essentially what has happened is we've got the president of or prime minister of a sovereign state, foreign country, criticizing the president and right before, I mean, not the president, but the administration right before announcing his intention to accept the invitation offered to him by, I think there's Chuck Schumer, right, to come and visit the United States, which I, you know, I mean, we'll see how this one works out.

Okay. So, you know, in the transcript, and Netanyahu says, put your confidence in us, you know, give us your faith and your blessing and under Providence will be well, blah, blah, blah, blah. So give us the tools and we will finish the job.

He finishes this. Actually, you know, the last two sentences, three sentences are all straight from church. I'm going to repeat them because it's a great speech, by the way, if you look at the original from Churchill, or not Netanyahu. You know, and remember, this speech is coming in 1940, right, after Dunkirk, after the fall of the European continent, etc.,

etc., Britain standing alone, cliched though it may be, that was true at the time. And so Churchill comes out and he makes this speech. He says, give us your faith and blessing and under Providence, all will be well. We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trial. that vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

That was directed towards Roosevelt in 1940, dark days of 1940. So now, according to Netanyahu, with questionable merit, he habitually likens himself to Churchill in Britain, in the beleaguered Britain of 1940, standing all alone against Nazi Germany, which is already occupied most of Europe.

And of course, that's completely analogous to Israel in 2024, fighting, you know, a fighter. Because, right, because Hamas is just like the Denmark. I mean, it's ridiculous. I think it is, there's someone who really doesn't understand, or understands the context and takes it in that context. It is a surreal pantomime. But nevertheless, it happened.

And we can't dismiss it because surreal pantomimes have become the norm in the Israeli government, sadly. So here's the Israeli Prime Minister standing all made up and festive in front of a camera, pretending to be distraught, faking a worried grimest expression. He's very good at this, Netanyahu, and sanctimoniously. accusing the US of not standing by Israel after providing a mere $14 billion in emergency military aid, after authorizing the sale of dozens of F-35 and F-13 jets, F-15 jets, or should I say, F-13, jump jet lag, after dispatching two aircraft carriers right to the med, no, two aircraft carrier groups to the med, total. And now he stands up and accuses us of holding up Armstrong.

and not supporting Israel. It's kind of, you know what it's analogous to, an actual, like, abusive, toxic relationship where it's like, this guy just keeps gaslighting you,

babe, like it's time to pull the plug, you know what I mean? Like, it's kind of ridiculous. And frankly, like, to be honest,

I don't think he should have been addressing Congress even before his speech that he gave in Israel about us not doing enough. Yeah. I mean, absolutely.

it's always been quite concerning the hold that Netanyahu seems to have over influential segments of US lawmakers and and he and he exploits that and for those of you accuse me being anti-Israeli this is nothing to do you know again I think I I mean I would put my stack my record against any one of your listeners when it comes to substantive support for his frail during the career, you know, no one can accuse me of being anti-Israeli. I am anti, I'm anti a lot of things to include puffed up, want to be dictators or what's the word poppin jays, dictator is rather a, it's not quite the right word, but who has no relationship with truth and who is willing to sacrifice even his own people

for his political career, certainly the good of his own country. And I find that absolutely, absolutely testable regardless of nationality. And no, that does not make me anti-Israeli. No, I mean, he's a politician at the end of the day, right? And he's in a corner now. I mean, well, yeah, but he's a criminal. I mean, he's, I'm sorry, he's an alleged criminal, too. We shouldn't forget that who is facing charges for corruption if he loses his premiership.

And that is, you know, that's always barking at his heels regardless. I mean, I just don't understand. He thinks what, like, do it, like plagiarizing a Churchill speech is like going to change the fucking winds that are blown politically in Israel? Well, you know, I mean, the Churchill. Churchill is, Churchill has this kind of iconic hold on the imagination of populations

that are not British and it's stronger, it's stronger in former Commonwealth countries, but particularly the United States and strangely enough in Israel, this almost heagographic eulogization of Churchill.

And believe me, of course, you know, that, I mean, I'm a Churchill fan, but you know, you have to, you have to, again, look at context and you have to look, you know, in fact, he was a flawed human being, he was not a God. But nevertheless, in comparison to Netanyahu, well, there is no comparison. So it's ridiculous for the Prime Minister to, you know, to present himself as Churchill. On the other hand, pretty savvy political ploy, right? Because he Israelis, certainly. kind of see themselves, maybe not in comparison to Britain the Second World War, but certainly as a beleaguered nation right now, isolated, which indeed they are. But by public opinion, rather than in the same way that they were in 48 or, you know, again in 73, actually 56, 67, right, where that existence was threatened. Now I would argue that, no, that it's not a direct existential threat.

yes, I have been up and down the border. And yes, I understand that Iran is looking in the wings. I'm saying right now Israel is not facing an existential threat. We will talk about the nuclear threat down the road, which is nearer than perhaps many of us thought, the fact that Iran, by all estimates now can, has enough enriched weapon-grade uranium to make several to make several weapons.

But however, you know, as Jason will tell you and anyone knows more about this than I do, which is a lot of people, it takes, it's having the enriched uranium and then and then weaponizing it are two different things. But nevertheless, the most conservative estimates, that is, the most optimistic estimates, although the Iranians could manufacture more than one nuclear weapon within two years, most conservative estimates, and as little as six months. That is frightening, and that is looking in the background, of course. But again, we've talked about Iran here too. And, you know, there's no, there's no playing this way and saying, oh, yeah, but the reaction, no, it's very frightening with the current administration that they, you know, are within reach or breakout. But this, but these are, but these are,

separate issues. And Netanyahu's presentation right now, I think was the most appalling pantomime. And we just have to see and hope that it didn't have a strong pro-Nethniahu influence within this country. Hey, anything more on that, guys? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Did I read correctly that the IDF was just authorized an offensive into Lebanon. I'm positive. I just read that. You may have. Yeah, I may have missed that news. I mean, it's what Israelis are. Most Israelis are kind of anticipating. But let's see, yeah, if that is indeed the case that the order has gone ahead. But I think that would be quite momentous. I think that would be headlines because that's the next step, right? You've still got 60,000 Israelis displaced in the north. And that is an issue. You know, they're living with other people. They're

living in northern Galilee. They're in hotels. There are effects on the Israeli economy of the fact that the, you know, all these communities in the north have shut down and are being targeted intermittently just enough to keep people out that are being targeted by Hezbollahs with missiles. And most frighteningly with drones, I say most frighteningly, I'm afraidingly, I'm afraid of written an article on Hezbollah's use of offline drones, which is, you know, which is kind of the latest trend, right, to avoid jamming. And the Israelis have a massive jamming barrage going on. It reminds me of the Ukraine in the north. I mean, you can't use your GPS. You have to pull out maps again, which is a shocking experience. But even with all that going on, now,

Hezboa is able to penetrate Israeli air defenses. In fact, a lot of these drones go undetected now. And one, you're probably reading some fairly large and more sophisticated ones are getting as far south as Naharia and even one to Haifa the other day. Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, gave a speech yesterday or day before, and it was about a 90-minute speech. I don't speak Arabic. I had to talk to someone who does.

But it's very interesting. And Nasrallah, he mentions drones, and then he laughs and laughs. And he says, I just don't know what to do with all the drones I have. And he talks about the fact that the Israelis will have no ability to stop them. And that is a real concern. The question, of course, is how much appetite for escalation Iran does. But right now, Iran's in the driving seat. You know, they've lost a few, they've lost a few, a few of their higher, higher level commanders,

but these guys are all replaceable and they become shah heads, they become martyrs. So there's no sense that Iran is suffering, has suffered from this whole thing. In fact, has profited greatly. And you have to look at, you know, when you look at the leaders involved in all of this, it just doesn't seem that Netanyahu belongs in that. that pack. I mean, even his adversaries are running circles around him. He does hold a sway over this extraordinary segment of the Israeli population, what we would call extreme, right. And there's two parts of this, settlers and the ultra-religious. They're not necessarily a shaded

area of the Venn diagram. But they're the ones from whom he derived support. But before we leave Netanyahu you know like just just just some memories of of what kind of guy we're dealing with here and how frightening it is

that we're inviting him to this not frightening I mean not frightening but it's the fact that we bought him an invitation okay so this is the guy who back in 1991

all right the first Gulf War he accused the US of getting it all wrong in the Middle East he was designated persona Nograda by then Secretary

of State James Baker okay that was that was our success for all, right? And then he spoke to the House of Representatives in 2002. Some of you may remember this. I know Dee was still at middle school. But, but, but it's so 2002 advising the Americans to invade Iraq because it would stabilize and democratize the Middle East from Netanyahu 2002, right? So that was, that was the last time he followed his advice. It's, it went really well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And now again, he's blaming the United States and dares compare it to, you know, his position to Britain in 1940 before the German invasion, the Soviet Union and Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

It wasn't genuine resentment at the U.S. that provoked this in any case. It was, he's playing to the gallery. And there, again, there's a segment of the U.S. population. There's a large segment of the Israeli population, of course, that is pro-U.S. and looks to U.S. for leadership. But there's also a segment among Netanyahu's followers. who are very resentful. You know, they play both sides.

A lot of them, some of them do have U.S. passports. They go back and forth. Some of them are neighbors of D's there in Brooklyn. But they, you know, they go back to Israel. They spend most of their time in Israel where they push their extremist agendas and back guys like Netanyahu, who will, you know, who will bring prominence to their agendas.

So it's hard to see. I can't predict where this will go, but it's certainly going to be interesting. And it looks like every time, every point we say we're at a crisis point, right? I don't know what more the crisis point. This is, but it's certainly some kind of a benchmark. Maybe not. Maybe everyone would just push on.

Netanyahu will come here and who knows, a year from now will still be talking about him. I mean, probably sounds like that. that's probably the case yeah and his use of the term pressure right he used the term existential wall in his address which is again

just hard to you know it just fun all right enough enough of that all right we're doing great second big a second story was you know uncle Vlad in North Korea

visiting the great dear leader Kim Jong-un Yeah, that was, you want me to talk about it? Sure, yeah. What do you go? All right. So Wednesday, we fly to the great, beautiful city of Pyongyang.

Putin met with the dear leader, as you put it. And so what some are calling the probably the biggest or what could be, the largest, strongest connection between Moscow and North Korea since the end of the old war. It was a multi-part agreement that was delivered. It was it covered bilateral relations, security, trade, investment, culture on humanitarian ties. But the biggest part of it, which is of concern to the West is, and this is not a quote from it, Article 4 of the agreement states that if either one of the countries is invaded and pushed into a state of war, that the other must deploy all means at its disposal and without delay to provide military and other assistance.

So prior to this, that would have been stated bluff or stated just fluff, actually. But now as Moscow is looking to, along with Pyongyang, looking to create fissures between any country that has an issue with the West and the United States particular, that is. a pretty big, that's a pretty big gain for both of them. I know that North Korea has pledged fully to support the war in Ukraine with equipment and anything else that they can do. So it's a, it's a pretty big, pretty big agreement. So, yeah. Sadly, this is like huge for North Korea, right? It's the biggest strategic opportunity for North Korea since the end of the Cold War.

I'm not talking so much about the terms of the agreement about mutual assistance and time of need that really, I mean, there's an existing treaty between North Korea and Russia dates from 1961 and

the wording of that mutual assistance is in that treaty. So Putin's kind of just repeating that. But the fact that he has put the dear leader kind of in the driver's seat here is you know the North Koreans have filled a particular gap which has been arterious shells and they have the ability to continue doing so but there's also concern from the Ukrainians and the US that the North Koreans could potentially provide the Russians with other weapon systems.

Okay, not particularly sophisticated ones, but we're talking particularly long-range precision fires. And when, you know, the Russians don't care that much about accuracy anyway, when they're just, I mean, they're slacking infrastructure in towns behind the front line. So, yeah, both sides, you know, Russia will get that. and and Kim Jong gets this incredible prestigious position now being front and center in a strategic partnership with implications arguably for the defense of South Korea. That's what, you know, Putin. Another part of that agreement too is along with the mutual aid is neither, they agree

that neither of the parties can enter into an agreement with a third, with a third, party if that agreement would, uh, would hinder the, uh, core relationship between North Korea and, and Russia. So it, to me in, in my, to my knowledge, it seems that that is directed more towards China, because China's we kind of brushing off North Korea a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll get to you. And so I think it's on, uh, Pyongyang's side, it's creating just a little bit of a crack. between or trying to put a little distance between Moscow and Beijing, you know, trying to stir up the waters there a little bit. Yeah, that's a, I mean, that's a great point because, you know, I said that North Korea gets prestige out of it, certainly, but there are also potentially more tangible advantages that North Korea has been unable to get from China, right?

So, you know, help with nuclear weapons design, right? Reentry vehicles for intercontinental ballistic missiles. That has been, you know, that's kind of been a sticking point from the North Koreans of technology, and that will enable them to both extend the range of the missiles, but more importantly, evade, potentially evade, air defense systems. Yeah. Or at least make it much more tricky

from all the reasons that we've talked about here. But also technology related to satellites, submarines, hypersonic weapons, you name it. You know, China has been circumspect about helping Korea in this sense. Russia has no such compunctions, I'm sure. Yeah. And I'm sure you saw this story about North Korea sending balloons filled with trash and feces across the border. So I'm sure that Russia can pipe in some of its shitbags and trash. You know, that'll help out.

Did you see the Pentagon press conference about that? No. I saw a clip on it. Yeah. It was a task and purpose, right? Japh, I forget his name, Shropal. He said it's something. something along the line. So he sits, you know, the North Koreans are sending their shit over

us as are a plan to reciprocate basically by loading American shit up on balloons and sending them over the North Korea. And South Korea just like a couple hours ago, the South Korean president said that like they're going to reexamine sending arms to Ukraine now. Really? Yeah. Interesting. I mean, I wonder if that, I don't think that's connected, though. I think they asked them about the Putin North Korea summit or whatever you want to call a meeting. And that's what it's saying right now. You know, when we're talking about satellite stuff or the sensitive technology related to, you know,

satellites, ballistic missiles, nuclear weapons, all of that. I think that's really the real danger here. And North Korea's satellite launch attempt, experts, I love saying that, experts say, may have used the variant of a Russian-made engine, erungent. So the point is they may already be helping them. So awesomeness. Anything more on this, this match made in heaven between Putin and Kim Jong-il. No, I'll keep an eye on. Sorry, wrong one. I'll keep an eye on it, though.

Jay, you want to talk about the Russian Navy and Cuba? Yeah, it's brief. So I'm going to start with a quote from Tassie. ask and purpose of all. It's an article from them from 13 June. And so they said, someone in the Kremlin must have opened Marco Rameas's letter because three Russian ships and one submarine

are conducting naval exercises in the Caribbean this week. So if anyone is a fan of Tom Clancy, as I am, and has read the book or seen the movie The Hunt for Red October, they will know what that means. So for Russian vessels, the frigate admiral. General Gorskov, cruise missile submarine Kazan, a tanker ship named the Poshan, and a rescue tug named the Nikolai Shiker, made port in Havana, Cuba about a week ago now. The deployment, according to Russian media, is routine one, designed to extend friendly

greetings between the countries and the ships, the visit come after the ships, they conducted exercises in the Atlantic first, which I believe included missile drills, which always fascinated me. I've obviously never been a part of live missile drills, but could you imagine being an aircraft, you know, a commercial aircraft flying over and seeing these freaking things flying it everywhere. I mean, that's close too, yeah. Yeah, exactly. The Russians would never try anything from Cuba, right? Absolutely not. Historically, not at all.

and actually allegedly this the submarine the Kazan I believe was rumored that it came within like 30 miles of Florida or something like that but that hasn't been some statuted yet

I would love to have seen that thing surface absolutely you know I saw pictures yeah there's Cubans just lined up taking pictures of these boats as they're coming into the port it's just nuts

but also a wonderful shot for Florida man out on that. Also on the pontoon book. Some of the pictures that I guess I don't know if they were experts or some amateur took

as they the Kazan was going past. They were taking pictures showing like panels missing all kinds of what looked like rust and stuff like that. So it in some expert minds it highlights the sad

state of the Russian Navy. Navy. So in response, which was actually a routine thing as well, the Navy has three destroyers, USS Truxton, the USS Donald Cook and the USS Delbert D. Black, as well as a P.8 Poseidon anti-submarine aircraft patrolling the area just to keep an eye on things. So everything I'm reading, I haven't had a chance to speak to anyone, but everything I'm reading is that this is not something we should necessarily be alarmed about. This isn't a second. Cuban Missile Crisis. Never count the Russians out, obviously, but it's highly unlikely that they would pull anything from Cuba, at least. Just a routine show of force. So interesting, but not necessarily alarming. Yeah, it's a very interesting, Spike, but a distraction almost, right? You know, to what Putin is really doing.

Absolutely. Dee, can, as we finish up, can we talk about a momentary? a momentous lawsuit, civil case that has come to an end with wide-ranging and strategic implications. Sure. Yeah, let's hear it. Okay. Well, here's the deal, guys. Bottom line, today or rather this week, a lawsuit against me was dismissed. You may say, well, I don't give a shit about that at all. But it's kind of interesting because there are, you know, I tell that story because there are all kinds of implications. I didn't even realize.

But anyway, hey, so to backtrack, let's go back to Ukraine, all right, February or March of 2022. And Mozart Group was in its very, very inaugural stages, about five dudes in almost at Moscow, but in Kiev with Russians on three sides, right? Well, we're training local civilians to fight the Russians. in a very shortened time frame and wondering ourselves how we were going to get out of Kiev, should it fall, which actually a lot of us thought it was going to do at the time. Well, all that was going on, a former Marine, former Marine senior NCO by the name of Michael Ryan Burke, former reservist, recon guy.

He comes into Ukraine along with a whole Petri dish of hangers-on and want to be camp followers who never get near the action, but hang outside, you know, places like Leviv and party and, you know, and takes lots of selfies. Anyway, so Ryan Burke meets, you know, he checks in, he's on Leviv, he's on the, you know, the party hard wall kind of cycle there with his friends, they're going out drinking every night. He meets a girl who's also a volunteer working for another aid organization. in the course of that evening, she alleges that he rapes him,

beats and rapes him. This story gets, not story, but I get told about this. I'm in Kiev at the time, and the Ukrainian police approached me to ask me if I can get out just kind of a notice to all Americans. Remember, Com said, going to shit. I had signal,

and I had contact with Americans. A lot of Americans in Congress. country, you know, we'd establish kind of a network. And this was a chance, you know, they wanted me to put out the word about this guy because they thought he was going to try and escape across the border, which he did. Anyway, so I did the more. And as the information started coming in, remember as a journalist for task and purpose right at the time, I wrote an article about this and saying that, you know, Ryan, Michael Burke, 38 being sought by Ukrainian Polish police of the woman reported that he had raped and beaten her.

He subsequently, so this was published by task and purpose. Burke got back to the States, right? He evaded, he paid a car drive to get him across the border by his own admission. He checked him with the U.S. Embassy. The FBI wanted to speak to him there, apparently, but he took off, got back to the states. Once he's back in the States, he's free and clear, because, the FBI has no jurisdiction, even among American citizens in a foreign country, unless it's on a U.S. base or in a U.S. embassy.

So he knew he was good then. And he subsequently brought a lawsuit against me, encouraged by certain people. But anyway, you know, the point is, so as soon as he brought the lawsuit, the intercept jumped on. my old friends there, led by, what's his name, Peter Maas, yeah, Peter Maas, that very, very unpleasant, sanctimonious person who has good reason, not to like me, actually, let me say that. But anyway, so the interset public, poor old, you know, this guy has been vilified, you know, with no evidence, blah, blah, blah.

Milman wrote this article. Task and Purpose took the article down, all right? God bless them. They took it down because they were worried about a lawsuit. And I think, you know, underneath that all, I was a freelance. So they had no confidence that I had researched this, maybe. But a guy named Paul Sroda, who was kind of my point of contact at Task and Purpose, came to my support. Thank you, Paul, by the way.

And Task and Purpose decided to fight the lawsuit. Because as they started to uncover stuff, they realized, shit, you know, this guy, the article was substantive. Anyway, one year later, all right, all charges have been dismissed. Task and purpose lawyers, God bless them, uncovered, you know, the police reports in Poland, lots and lots, you know, witness statements. It was depositions that were. were very, very harming to Michael Burke.

Photographs of this woman after, you know, showing bruises after she'd been beaten, the medical reports, U.S. Embassy reports, you name it, all right, just comes piling in. He had, he thought that all this shit had been buried because Levy police station had been hit by rockets, I mean, hit by missiles and destroyed, so he thought there were no records or anything, but the polls kept records, thank God, as did the U.S. Embassy, of course, as did the DFP there, you know, although they were just saying, hey, this guy left the country, headed back to state. So anyway, but this took a year, right? And in the end, he walks away, you know, even though everything is dismissed, he doesn't go to jail. He doesn't,

nothing happens to him for, you know, for what he did. And I'm down, you know, he, yeah, I mean, even even with insurance from task and purpose, that only covered maybe, you know, a one fifth of my lawyer's fee. So I'm down hard off a year. But, you know, it just shows you. I mean, fuck, man, a guy with no backing, but given confidence by, you know, by two idiots in the media, Maas and who's the other? Oh, God.

Who's the other guy I mentioned? mass. Doesn't matter. Anyway, given, oh, oh, shit, not the intercept, the other one. Intelligence online. Yeah, we want that too. Anyway, it doesn't matter. But encouraged to do this. And then being brazen, even after all this shit, starts piling out, he claims, okay, okay, well, maybe it wasn't slander, but Melbourne was trying to get me killed, all right, by. setting mercenaries on me. I mean, you just can't make the shit up. Anyway, it's been thrown out, but you will not see follow-up articles by the intercept for their shoddy journalism, and you won't see an article's by intelligence online, and I really would be interested.

By the way, guys, if anyone knows anyone who works for intelligence online, just interview me, guys, all right? I've been tracking what you've been writing in the last six, seven articles, and it's complete BS. All right, I don't know what your editorial standards are, but Come on. This is not adversarial. Just talk to me. No, I'm not in fucking Armenia, as you suggested the other day right now in March. It haven't been back. The Mozart group is done. Or your comments about how it came to be, you know, a total bullshit, you know, this idiot wrote, it was ITAR violations. What, for training, Ukrainians? Give me a fucking break. So intelligence online, please, please, live up to your name. Because right now you're looking like a severe.

lack of intelligence online. And you backing this guy, Michael Ryan, but simply because he was having a lawsuit against me is now making you look even more foolish. Intelligence online. Hopefully they will get a better journalism, better editor, what's the term,

policy, editorial policy. Or I would suggest not subscribing guys, this whole subscription only, but clearly, if that if my story is anything to go by it's certainly not living up to its name i want to go back to that guy my uh the guy who uh raped the girl and beat the girl what kind of what what kind of dummy are you yeah exactly slander down the lawsuit when you know like it's gonna if it goes to trial for kids continues to proceed like discovery is going to be an absolute disaster for you what but it's not

though, Dee, that's the thing. Because discovery won't be a disaster because the only thing out there in the public realm right now is a fucking intercept article and intelligence online. Right. And they're not going to write follow-ups, are they? I challenge those two papers to do proper journalism and follow up with what happened with this case after they accused me of writing an article without without doing the proper research. Right. And by the way, task and purpose, thank you. Thank you for supporting me on this. Um, uh, but I, I would like to see that article go back up, please, right? I mean, what clearer

victory for freedom of expression can there be than this? So I think you should trumpet it and be proud and just republish my article along with that fucker's face, you know? I mean, guys, those of you who are Marines,

take a look at this dude's face, all right? the way and think about this when that photo was taken he was the seniors non-o now those of your women's think right reservist senior non-fenceeo big old flaming mustache and idiot grin you know the type right um but anyway uh great great points d so so again intersect intersect um and intelligence online. Please. Yeah. I mean, I know, you know, I'm not, I'm not even worth going after.

I'm not, I'm not a Petraeus. I'm not a, you name it, you know, any of the other, any, any of the fat, you know, the fat, you know, the fat, you know, the fat, Lennard crowd of senior admirals who took money and lived a great life, you know, I mean, none of that shit. So, don't waste your time. But please, at least, just show some decent journalism and follow up on your trashy earlier stories by explaining what happened. The resolution of the law case that Ryan Michael Burke brought against me. Ryan, if you're watching, hey, buddy, really, really dumb.

But most of all, most of all, I am still shocked that you are a Marine and did that and did that to a girl. regardless of circumstance, regardless of all the other bullshit mitigation that you put up, the fact that you wore the uniform did that and then had the boss to bring a lawsuit. It really does sicken me. So you can probably the rest of your life,

hopefully just be known as the rapist. And here's hoping that his victim is recovering well. Yeah, that's the other thing. You know, I mean, there's an awfully tragic part of this story. I mean, she won't ever recover, right? Yeah. I mean, I mean, you know, having corresponded with her father during all of this, you know, I mean, my heart goes out. Yeah.

And during all of this, of course, nowhere, no one really spared a thought for her, which is sad. And she was overjoyed when that article came out. So task and purpose put it back up. All right. That's, that's me off my scope. Task and purpose, do the right fucking thing, dude. Yeah. You guys pushed out initially, then got involved in their lawsuit.

I'm going to call it Fared Square, brother. Yeah, I like that. We've been, we've been, so do why, but we've been shouting them out a lot on the channel. But put that article back up. Yeah. How, I mean, because it's chicken shit if you leave it down now. Everything in that article has been backed up now in a civil court. And at a great cost, by the way.

Right. And of task and purpose, too. Like, they spend money on their law. And there should be some, there should be some downside to beating and reaping a girl, right? And then, and then bringing a suit. against the people who make that public and try and bring him to justice. The fact that our, you know, that he gets rewarded at all by having a year of, you know, being center stage with certain idiots in the media who think he's some kind of fucking,

you know, some, the toll puddle martyr, right, this historical, historical reference for, you know, standing up against the Mozart group. Oh, fuck. Anyway. Good luck to you. It's pretty wild. And anyone who dates you, wow.

Be careful. Be careful. I mean, it's pretty insane to think about like different media outlets, uh, defending the guy or whatever or going after you. Just because you started the Mozart group and like, well,

no, no, um, I can't, I don't know who intelligence online is up to me. But, you know, if you're going to ask me if I've ever pissed off anyone in the intelligence field and the course of my

career, I would have to say possibly, right? What I mean is like defending a rapist. Yeah, yeah. Well, Peter Maas has a reason. Peter Maas is reason. Peter Maas, M-A-A-S, editor of The Intercept. He has a reason because he called me when I was in Ukraine back in April or May, right, when the first U.S. casualties started happening.

And there was a Marine whose name I won't mention who was killed there. And he was missing at the time. And so we were, we, the Mozegov, we were trying to find out what had happened to him. We were in contact with his family. And in this, all of this, Peter Mars calls me and goes, hey, Andy, you know, we had known each other since 2003 when he covered the march up. Hey Andy, listen, I've been, you know, doing some research on this, you know, this guy who's missing. And turns out, hey, you got in trouble in the Marine call. He was given a other than honorable condition discharge.

You know, can you verify that? Can you explain to me what that means? And I told Master, fuck off. You know, I say, hey, we, they haven't even found his body, you know, and you are here calling me talking about his discharge from the Marine call. And by all accounts, this kid, but he was a good guy. It doesn't matter regardless. He deserves more respect than that. And Moss was like, yeah, whatever, fuck you.

But he waited. And then I knew when we started having problems with Bain, that Moss would make a reappearance. And sure enough, that intercept article came out. But that was great. I'm glad it did. I am. I can't explain exactly why.

But the last year recovering from this coming back, you guys know this and especially especially if you've been in the military, your reputations, the most important thing you have. And when you have people in mass suddenly solidly that reputation, it's not easy. But the point is that that's not where I derive

my sense of strength or self-worth. You can say that. But in the end, Jason, you know this is true. your reputation still is so important. It's not a question, oh, I care about what people think, but we know when all else is said and done, that is the most important thing when we're trying to judge whether to, you know,

to trust someone with something like our lives or the lives of Marines. That's an important aspect. I'm sorry, I don't mean to go on. But recovering from that has been, I've grown more, I would say, possibly then, in the 30 years that I spent in the wrinkle in a sense or maybe in a more, you know, I mean, that's an exaggeration, but it was almost a decade of growth, I think, took place in that year.

But I'm still, and I'm trying to get past the resentment and bitterness, because if, you know, if I done shit, if I was a fat-landed guy, I would have nothing to complain about if the media went up to me. And I've got nothing to complain about anyway. You know, I was front and center. I was, I had to be raising funds for the Motsar group. Inevitably someone would come up to me. And you throw in the fact that the Russians were doing that anyway. It was the easiest thing in the world for a trash rack like the intercept to jump on the train. But anyway, I'm glad there's some resolution here.

And a rapist can be called a rapist. It's case. It's piece by piece. You know, the first lawsuit was dismissed. That one was the centerpiece of the centerpiece of the. The Intercept article, that lawsuit was dismissed entirely. The Intercept never did a follow up on that. And now the rapist ones being dismissed.

You know, it's incremental. But one thing I've realized is, I don't give a shit. Although I care about my reputation, I will narrow it down to say, I care about my reputation among people who matter, you know, obviously who include all of our audience, include you guys. You know, I mean, you can't get wound around the axle about what people say you don't even fucking know you. Right.

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