TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Dark Winter: Ukrainian Commander Threatens “Limited Nuclear War”

Episode Date: September 9, 2022

North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong-un vowed today to never give up his country’s arsenal of nuclear weapons. He made it clear that Pyongyang has no intention of resuming talks with the United States about denuclearization. He also accused the USA of plotting to cause his government to collapse. Meanwhile Ukraine’s top military commander said he cannot rule out a nuclear war with Russia. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 9/9/22 It’s the Final Day! The day when Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. You can order the second edition of Rick’s book, Final Day!  https://rickwiles.com/final-day

The following program is made possible by the faithful prayers and financial support of listeners just like you. To find out how you can help, visit nothing but the truth, so help us God. I'm Rick Wiles. North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong-un vowed today to never give up his country's arsenal of nuclear weapons. He made it clear that Pyongyang has no intention of resuming talks with the United States about denuclearization. He also accused USA of plotting to cause his government to collapse. Meanwhile, Ukraine's top military commander said he could not rule out the possibility of nuclear war with Russia. Dr. Burkhart is here to help me discuss, analyze, and comment on today's biggest news stories from around the world. Let's start with North Korea's nukes.

We'll put our first article there. This is from Yonhap News Agency in Seoul, South Korea. North Korean leader vows to keep nukes. New law authorizes automatic nuclear strike. And that automatic nuclear strike is directed toward the U.S. And so North Korean leader Kim Jong-un publicly expressed his determination not to give up the country's nuclear weapons, accusing the U.S. of seeking the collapse of his regime, not just denuclearization. He made clear that Pyongyang has no intention of resuming negotiations for denuclearization as the North's rubber-stamped

parliament approved a new nuclear force policy during a key session earlier this week, and that's according to the official Korean Central News Agency on Friday. That goes on to say that the aim of the U.S. is not just to eliminate our nuclear weapons themselves, but also ultimately to bring down our regime anytime by forcing, that is, North Korea to put down nuclear weapons that can give up or weaken the power to exercise self-defense. Now, that was the leader, Kim, being quoted by saying in his speech at the Supreme People's Assembly meeting the previous day. Now, he took issue with the U.S. bid for the denuclearization of North Korea through the

biggest ever sanctions and blockade. He described it as a misjudgment and a miscalculation of adversaries. Most importantly, Kim added, the North should incessantly expand the scope of its tactical nuclear operation in order to bolster its nuclear combat posture. Now, this strong message came as the SPA adopted a new law that allows the regime to launch an automatic nuclear strike can be automatically and immediately carried out to destroy the origin of a provocation if the command and control system of the nuclear forces is in danger of an attack by hostile forces. And that's being reported by KCNA. The law gives Leader Kim monolithic command and all decisive powers concerning nuclear weapons, it added. Kim then stressed that legalizing the nuclear weapons policy has great significance in drawing an irretrievable line so that it can no longer bargain with its nuclear power. So, Rick, are we seeing the beginning of a dead man's switch

in North Korea at this point, or is it more than that? Well, I don't know. I don't think they're installing a dead man hand in North Korea. They have codified in the law making it legal to carry out a nuclear war if the country's attacked. That's really what it comes down to. If South Korea or the United States launches any kind of attack on North Korea, it is now the law of North Korea that the military responds with a nuclear attack against the origin of the attack against North Korea. It is, I think, more, in their view, a deterrent where they're saying to the United States and South Korea, probably Japan also, don't mess with us. Don't try to carry out any kind of operation against us. Or maybe an assassination attempt.

Yes, that's what I mean. Anything like that. Anything that you do against North Korea will result in a nuclear attack. That's what they're saying. So, you know, I wish I could snap my fingers and make all nuclear weapons go away. That would be wonderful. You know, I mean, wouldn't it be great if we had a world with no atomic nuclear weapons like we had before 1945.

I don't know if that will ever happen in my lifetime. The fact is, North Korea has nuclear weapons. Right. Okay? If you read Western news articles, North Korea is always painted as they're crackpots. These guys can go crazy at any hour. We've got to go in there and take their nukes away. It's because they're crazy. I mean, that's the image that they give you. at any hour, we gotta go in there and take their nukes away.

It's because they're crazy. That's the image that they give you. Well, it's not that they have nukes, it's that they're crazy and they have nukes. So we have to go in and we have to take their nukes away from them because they're crazy. Well, I'm only trying to analyze this from Kim Jong-un's viewpoint. You're not cheering him on.

I'm not cheering him on, all right? I'm not cheering him on. But he is a paranoid leader. And he's kind of China's unwanted stepchild. Right. I mean, it's helpful for China sometimes, but it's also a problem child sometimes. Yeah, but China's not good to him.

He looks to China, but China is not good to him. And so he's caught in the middle. He thinks the United States is after him, and China really doesn't do anything to help him. So he's like stuck there in that position. I think in his mindset, his nukes are the only thing that he has

to survive. Right. I'm only trying to think it through his mind that he's saying this is a small, impoverished country and the only thing I have to keep everybody away from me are these nukes. And I'm not going to give them up. And every time we talk about removing

his nukes, I mean, he's getting, we're triggering him. He's having all kinds of emotional responses. These are trigger statements to him. Maybe he was an abused kid. I don't know.

What I'm saying is, as long as I've been doing this program, somebody in the United States has been trying to take his nukes. So when I started this program, Bill Clinton was in the White House. And Madeleine Albright, and they were going to take his nukes. And we've been through this, I mean, how many presidents now? I see. You know, you've got Clinton, Bush, Obama. Yeah. So four or five presidents later. Yes. North Korea is still

there and they still have nukes. They still have nukes. And they have more nukes than they ever had. And better nukes now. And better nukes. Okay. And he's still paranoid. The U.S. strategy is not working. This is not working. What they said today is, look, we're going to make it very clear. We are not giving up these nukes. And if you even look at us the wrong way, I'm going to push the button and nuke you back off

get away from me stay away that's what this is about the U.S. has got to they won't but they should change their they just should change their approach they should just say

hey you know what you got nukes let's be friends yeah welcome to the nuke club yeah I mean we've welcomed other countries even countries that don't admit hey, you know what, you got nukes. Let's be friends. Yeah, welcome to the nuke club. Yeah. I mean, we've welcomed other countries, even countries that don't admit they have nukes.

That's right. They have them, and nobody's trying to take Israel's nukes. Right. Nobody's trying to take France's nukes. Pakistan? Yeah, Pakistan's got nukes. Nobody's talking about taking them.

India? By the way, because I'm going off the subject, Pakistan's got nukes. Nobody's talking about taking them. India. By the way, I'm going off the subject. I read in an Indian newspaper this morning that India and China voluntarily withdrew their troops from the border. Well, there's another story I've been following

since I've been sitting here for 25 years, 24 years. Because every once in a while, you'll hear of another clash on the India-China border. Some soldiers get killed on one side or the other. So all of a sudden, in the last couple weeks, they've worked things out, and they've pulled their troops back. Remember I told you India participated

in that military drill with China? Yes. This is something going on behind the scenes where few of us are paying attention to. Have I ever told you that India participated in that military drill with China? Yes. This is something going on behind the scenes, where few of us are paying attention to. Where India's becoming a friend of China, which makes sense. They share a border, and each one is nuclear armed. I mean, what's the point in being enemies?

So someone in Beijing and in Delhi said, you know, this is crazy. Let's just, let's be friends. Let's talk it out. What I'm saying is, Washington should drop its belligerent attitude towards Pyongyang. If I were the president of the United States, I would say the past is the past.

And America is friends with everybody now. Everybody. We're friends with everybody. We don't have any enemies. We're not coming to blow you up. We're not going to blow you up. We're not going to blow you up. We're not going to spy. We're friends with everybody.

Do you know how refreshing that would be? And in a way, Donald Trump tried to do that in some of his approaches, even though initially with Ken Jones. Until he started bombing people. Right. And that was with the advice of people around him. He had John Bolton. He appointed John Bolton. What did he say? Bolton wanted to blow up

everybody. But look at his attitude toward North Korea. All right. He got very close. Right. But then he, I mean, President Trump stepped into North Korea. Yes. And so there's another avenue and there's another approach that we can take. We don't have to blow everybody up. That seems to be the policy of the U.S. for the past 75 years. If you don't go along with this,

we'll send a plane and blow you up. But the deep state in this country doesn't want us to get along with any countries. Right. Because there's a lot of money to be made blowing people up. Right. There's a lot of money to be made blowing people up. Right.

There's trillions of dollars to be made. The war business is a great business to be in if you like making blood money. And you've got these wealthy people in America that live off of blood money. And so our foreign policy is driven by blood. We have a bloody foreign policy. We do. So I was reading Charles Spurgeon early this morning. And Spurgeon, he was talking about the Beatitudes and Jesus said,

blessed are the peacemakers. This is Spurgeon writing in the mid-1800s in London. And what was his take on it? He said, there's not a Christian nation on the planet that would base its foreign policy on the Beatitudes. He said, no Christian nation would base its foreign policy on the Beatitudes. He said, no Christian nation

would base its foreign policy on the Beatitudes because they would see it as weakness. That the, quote, Christian statesmen of the country would say, the only foreign policy that we can have is one of might. We have to threaten to blow them up. And he wrote that in the 1800s. And he wrote that in the 1800s.

When his country, England, was the empire, when the British Empire was ruling the world, and yet it claimed to be a Christian nation. Without saying the name of his monarch at the time, he was saying, my country's foreign policy is based on war, yet we claim to be a

Christian country. Until you obey the king's commandments, you're not a citizen of his kingdom. Until you obey the king's commandments, you're not a citizen of his kingdom. I'm going to get back to North Korea. It would be wonderful if we had a president who just called up Kim Jong-un and said, you know what?

We want to be friends. We want to do business with you. You've got things that we would buy and we've got things you would buy. Let's just be friends. We're not going to bring up your nukes anymore. We ask you not to point them at anybody, okay? Put your gun back in the holster. Okay, calm down. Just relax, trigger. Just them at anybody, okay? Put your gun back in the holster.

Okay, calm down. Just relax, trigger, just bring it down, okay? But if we did that to other countries, to Iran, but we can't because the Zionist lobby in America won't let America's foreign policy be friends with Iran. We can't be friends with Cuba. We can't be friends with Nicaragua. We can't be friends with Venezuela.

We can't. Look at all the countries we're not allowed to be friends with. Why? What is it? Why is it? It's because there are powerful people that have something at stake in each one of these situations, each one of these regions. And usually it's a financial stake. It's always a financial stake. It's always financial. So what Kim Jong-un did today was it's defensive.

It's a paranoia, you know, a paranoid defensive move. We passed a law today. If you try to do anything, we're going to nuke you. And I think he means it. But you have to, I don't know why I'm saying this. I feel like you've got to look at Kim Jong-un as some type of really troubled kid in a man's body. That he would have something to prove. Yes.

That he doesn't feel accepted, respected. He feels China abuses him. America wants to beat him up. He wants to run to China for protection, but they really don't abuses him. America wants to beat him up. He wants to run to China for protection, but they really don't protect him. They don't give him food. They don't give him anything. And the only friends that they have

are outsiders like them, Iran. Right. So they share a lot of technology. So he's with outlaws. He's kind of like with outlaws. But the foreign policy is not working. It's just not working. Why not try something new?

Just try being friends. Just say, you know what? You got nukes. We're not going to bring the subject up anymore. Now, if you cross the line in the South Korea, we have to do something about it.

But if you don't cross the DMZ, we're not going to do anything about it. But if you don't cross that DMZ, we're not going to do anything about it. We want to do business with you. You got a lot of natural resources that we would love to buy. We have things you would like to buy, like food. Yes. You know?

I mean, see, if you open that up, he wouldn't be spending his country's, what money they have on buying weapons. He would be buying food and things that they need for their people. Anyhow, it's U.S. foreign policy. What am I going to do about it? I can't do anything about it. But you know what?

We should pray for Kim Jong-un. Yes. Pray that God would send a spirit of sanity on him. And also pray for those that threaten him too. I mean, one of the things, I've had rare visions, but one of the few visions I've had has been when I was living in Seoul and looking out the window of my apartment when I was living there and

working there and seeing the destruction of the city and seeing North Korean troops the military vehicles going up and down the thoroughfare there and seeing people being driven down into the subways because they could keep people under control when they were in the subways. And the way I saw it was God's hand being lifted off of South Korea, particularly over Seoul, and he allowed North Korea to come in. So that's been one of the things that has always stuck with me. But we need to realize that the little protection

that a lot of these Western nations have is really just the hand of God over them right now. And sometimes, Doc, these visions that the Lord will give us, these are visions of what could be. That's right. Not what will be. What will be. And that's where people get confused about it.

It's, you know, they say, well, you've had a vision. I mean, Jeremiah shared visions that didn't come to pass. Does that make him a false prophet? No. He said, these are things that could happen. Right. There are other things that did happen as a result of his prophecies. But we need to, God sends these things in order to prompt us to pray in

certain directions. What I remember is the day you and I were in St. Petersburg, Russia, and we met Jim Rogers. I was wondering if you were going to bring that up. The legendary investor, very, very successful man, very nice man to talk to. And he surprisingly said to me, Rick, you and I are going to go to North Korea someday together. And you're going to build a Christian TV station in Pyongyang. And that came out of the mouth of Jim Rogers. And it caught me totally by surprise. And I thought, well, now, is that just something he said,

or did God just prophesy through him? Because that put a thought in my mind I'd never had. I'd never, ever thought. First of all, I never thought about traveling with Jim Rogers into North Korea. That was pretty far out. And I never thought about building a Christian TV station in North Korea. But he planted that thought in my mind

as though that's a done deal. It's going to happen. God wants Kim Jong-un saved because he loves him. He wants North Korea to open up so the gospel can be preached there. Yes. There are a lot of Christians in North Korea who are suffering, but

the Lord wants the whole country saved. God wants China saved. God wants Israel saved. Yes. Think about that. God wants Israel saved. He wants the Jews saved. He wants China.

He wants every nation saved. He wants India and Pakistan saved. God is not willing that any should perish and any nation should perish. But that all would come to repentance. But he will judge nations at some point. He's going to judge them based upon their reaction to the gospel. Yes. But for right now, man just continues to move towards

self-destruction. So the next one we have is Washington Post. Ukraine military chief says a limited nuclear war cannot be ruled out. This has come from the Ukraine military here. I'm glad it's limited. I wouldn't want it to be ruled out. This has come from the Ukraine military here. I'm glad it's limited.

I wouldn't want it to be all out. Well, we had a limited war once before. We bombed Japan twice. That was a limited nuclear war. Ukraine's top military chief warned Wednesday that a limited nuclear war between Russia and the West cannot be discounted, a scenario with grave global implications. It's almost like they're wanting it, Rick. There is a direct threat of the use, under certain circumstances, of tactical nuclear weapons by the Russian armed forces. The Ukrainian commander-in-chief, General Valery Zaluzhny, I practiced this before the show started,

wrote in an article published by Ukrinform, a state-run media outlet, it is also impossible to completely rule out the possibility of the direct involvement of the world's leading countries in a limited nuclear conflict in which the prospect of World War III is already directly visible. And before we go on with this quote, you know, Rick, a limited nuclear war is still a nuclear war. By saying limited nuclear war, it's almost like, oh, I think we can handle that. It's not too bad. There's nuclear war and then there's limited nuclear war. Maybe only 100 million people would die instead of a billion. So Lazoosny also acknowledged for the first time that Kyiv was behind strikes deep inside

the Russian-occupied Crimea Peninsula in August. So this is a revelation today, Rick. The air bases and ammunition depot that were hit in areas previously thought to be out of range for Ukraine but were part of its strategy to shift the Russian Army's center of gravity, he wrote. And how were they able to do this? Because they were provided weapons by NATO to be able to strike that. So they now have weaponry. Now we know that they have weaponry

beyond what was promised to them. And I think about that. Now, when those strikes initially occurred, Ukraine denied that it was them. Remember that? They denied it. Now he admitted it was us. We did it. And we had the weapons to do it. But they got the weapons from the United States and France and Great Britain. By the way, I just wanted to know, Doc, I really appreciate you because I retired several years ago

from pronouncing foreign names. I keep trying. Especially the Russian ones are the tough ones. I can handle the Chinese ones. Have you noticed what I did? I was pretty slick at this. I just read the headlines and I set Doc up to read the article because you do have to study before you come out here to say these names.

I got tired of it. Before the God cast, I would say Zaluzny, Zaluzny, and probably thought I was crazy up in control. Hey, I want to say this. We've talked a lot this year about the real possibility of nuclear war this year. And I want to, at this stage of where we're at, September of 2022, this is how I'm perceiving it right now. Because you have to evaluate it week by week, month by month, where are we right now?

You know, a few months ago, we now know. We now know that back in February, the Pentagon was on full alert for a nuclear war with Russia in February. Right. We didn't know it back then, did we? No. But we now know it.

They just mentioned it in American newspapers as though everybody knows it. When all the missiles went on full alert. When was that? When did all the missiles go on full alert. When was that? When did all the missiles go on full alert? Yeah, we missed that memo. So I would say right now, the way this war is going,

neither side, and I don't mean Ukraine, I'm talking about the United States slash NATO and Russia. Neither side wants this Ukraine war to go nuclear. The possibility of it going nuclear, I think the way they're trying to do it right now, both sides are trying to achieve their objectives, which is the United States means they need Russia to withdraw and just leave, give up, declare victory and go home. Russia has got to stay in until the Ukrainian government collapses.

I mean, that's really where it's at now. Okay? I think both sides plan to just keep fighting at this level. The U.S. continues to just pour massive amounts. Biden just gave another $2 billion worth of weapons this week. Yes. Well, where is this money coming from? From you and me. It's coming from you and me, Rick.

Where's the authorization for it? Did the Congress, I mean, we don't have the money. Okay? It's total insanity. But anyhow, the U.S. and NATO nations are pouring weapons into Ukraine. And so as each week goes by, the Ukrainian military is getting stronger in its ability to hit deeper into the Russian military. And we're starting to see these strikes hitting targets. At this point right now, I don't see a nuclear war happening in Ukraine unless one of two things happens. The Ukrainians blow up the nuclear power plant. Right, and that activates Article 5 for NATO.

Then NATO comes swooping in to Ukraine. Or Ukraine blows up the Kerch Strait Bridge, which Russia's going to go into a fury and annihilate Ukraine. And who knows what else. Minus those two things, I don't think either side is going to launch nuclear weapons. But the day that you hear

that nuclear power plant blew up or the Kurtz Strait Bridge was destroyed, I think then you need to brace. Brace for impact. You need to brace for the real possibility that nukes are going to be used. So that's my evaluation of this right now. This war may drag out into 2023.

We may see this going into the spring and summer of 23. With NATO just continuing to give Ukraine more weapons and the Russians are going to retaliate with stronger and stronger. At some point, the Russians are going to flatten Kiev. And just be tired of it. They'll be tired of it. And then they'll split Ukrainians.

That's going to be the end. That's where we're headed. And even Zelensky earlier today said that the only way out of this is diplomacy. Yet he's the one every week that ratchets things up. Because he's a paid clown. Right. There's a payoff for him when this is over.

It's going to be in the billions of dollars. He will be a rich man when this is over. A very rich man when this is over, a very rich man. So he's working for wealth. He's gonna make more money in this war than he ever would as a standup comedian. This is the biggest gig he's ever done. So that's where I'm at in terms of possibility

of nuclear war. If you see the Kirsten Strait Bridge blow up or the nuclear power plant blow up, I think those are the triggers that will cause this thing to spiral out of control.

Without those two things happening, I think it's just going to continue to drag on and on and on and on going into 23. It'll just be more destruction, more bombing, more killing. But I don't think either side is going to bring out the nukes and hit the other side. They just want to bleed each other, bleed them out, and weaken them without going to nuclear war. To catch people up with history, Ukraine

once had nuclear missiles. There were nuclear missiles parked in Ukraine. Soviet. Soviet missiles. And the Soviets removed the missiles. Removed them. And so it denucleified. Doc, there was talk

back in the 1990s that they weren't removed. Right. I remember those stories too. They were sold. Yes. And stolen. And stolen.

And the story was that Beijing, China got some. And who was the other one? Was it Iran? I think Iran. So I've often wondered, does Iran secretly already possess nuclear weapons? Right. And do the Israelis know it?

And all this talk about Iran is going to build a nuclear weapon knowing that they actually, they've had them for decades. And that's what this is all about. So anyhow, that's my thoughts about nuclear war right now. But you're right, Doc, the Ukrainians, this commander,

he's talking like, man, if we could get our hands on a nuke, we'd use it. You know, I can't rule it out. I can't rule it out that I would use one. That's literally what he's saying. And this would be like Mark Milley coming out and saying, hey, I can't rule out that we won't use a nuke. Well, where does he

get nukes? He doesn't have nukes. I mean, for him to say, I can't rule out the use of nuclear weapons, well, you don't have any nuclear weapons. We know where they would come from. They would come from NATO. Well, then how would NATO explain the fact that Ukraine had a nuclear weapon?

Why does NATO explain anything that they do? But I've wondered from the very beginning. You know, every week we ramp up the level of armaments that we ship to Ukraine, right? Well, why not just give them a... I'm not endorsing this, but if we want Ukraine to win, why don't we just give them some nukes? That's the plan.

If the plan is to beat Russia, then let's give Ukraine some nukes. No, the plan is to bleed out Russia, that it would collapse, and then the Western elite go in, take control of Russia, and get control of its oil and natural gases. They don't want to destroy it. They want to bleed it out. And so they're willing to freeze Europe in order freeze Europe. Yes. In order to bleed Russia.

You got it now. Now you see it. You see how this is working. Right. Talking about freezing DW News in Germany. Winter is coming to Ukraine, warns NATO chief at Ramstein summit. Yeah, those soldiers are going to get cold this winter. RAMSTEIN SUMMIT. YEAH, THOSE SOLDIERS ARE GOING TO GET COLD THIS WINTER. NATO AND OTHER WESTERN DELEGATES MET AT THE U.S. AIR FORCE RAMSTEIN AIR BASE IN GERMANY ON THURSDAY TO ATTEND A WASHINGTON LED UKRAINE BACKERS MEETING.

PARTICIPANTS WERE LOOKING AT LONG-TERM GOALS AND MILITARY AID, WHICH PROMPTED NATO GENERAL, SECRETARY GENERAL STOLTENBERG TO CALL ON ALLIES TO MAINTAIN THEIR SUPPORT AS THE WAR APPROACHED A PIVOTAL MOMENT. HE SAID, WE NEED TO AT LEAST BE PREPARED FOR THIS WINTER, to call on allies to maintain their support as the war approached a pivotal moment. He said, we need to at least be prepared for this winter

because there is no sign of Russia giving up its goal of taking control of Ukraine, Stoltenberg told the Associated Press on the sidelines of the meeting in Western Germany. He said the war in Ukraine is approaching a pivotal moment where we see that the Russian offensive in Donbass has stalled. We see that the Ukrainians have been able to fight back, to strike back, and regain some territory. Now, Stoltenberg also warned of a long winter ahead for Ukrainian soldiers. He said as the conflict turns into a grinding war of attrition, Ukraine used the summit to ask for cold weather equipment on top of more weapons and ammunition. Winter's coming and winter is going to be hard on the battlefield in Ukraine.

We know that the size of the Ukrainian army is now roughly three times as big as it was last winter. Stoltenberg said they are in urgent need for more winter uniforms, for generators that create electricity, warmth, and also, of course, tents and other things that can help them through the winter. So NATO is preparing for this to be going on until after the end of the year, into 2023 and beyond at this point, unless, like we said earlier, there is a limited nuclear conflict that erupts. But Mr. Stoltenberg, what he admitted today at the NATO meeting is we don't see any sign of Russia backing down.

And so we're not going to back down either. So we're not going to back down either, but winter's coming. And it's going to be rough. It's going to be cold. It's going to be brutal. And we've got to find we have to find uniforms and boots and tents and heaters and generators because we didn't plan on Russia staying in it this long.

That's really what I come down to. We didn't expect it to last this long. So this is why I'm saying my personal evaluation right now is this war is going to drag into the winter. Well, they said that. Yes. This is a war of attrition. Yes. We're each side down.

We're going to go into the winter. The war is going to be still going on in January, February, March. Russia's ace that it has is the natural gas that they're cutting off in Europe. Europe is going to have serious problems this winter. It's going to be very, very difficult. And the European people are going to have to be asking, why are we suffering for Vladimir Zelensky? Why?

Why should children in Germany and Switzerland WHY? WHY SHOULD CHILDREN IN GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND AND BELGIUM AND THE OTHER ONES, WHY SHOULD CHILDREN BE COLD IN THEIR HOMES FOR ZELENSKY? WHY? WHILE THE UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS ARE WARM BECAUSE WE SEND THEM GENERATORS. KEEP THEM WARM. BUT WHY? EUROPEANS NEED TO ASK THAT QUESTION. WHY?

AND THEY HAVEN'T, WELL, THERE'S A FEW OF THEMPEANS NEED TO ASK THAT QUESTION. WHY? AND THEY HAVEN'T, WELL THERE'S A FEW OF THEM THAT ARE STARTING TO ASK THAT QUESTION BUT NOT IN MASS YET REALLY. NO, BECAUSE IT'S NOT COLD YET. RIGHT. BUT AT SOME POINT IN THE COMING MONTHS IT'S GOING TO BE VERY COLD IN EUROPE AND PEOPLE ARE GOING TO ASK THAT QUESTION AND THAT'S WHY THEY'RE NOW TALKING LIKE IN SWITZERLAND And that's why they're now talking like in Switzerland, they're going to have heat police with thermometers going door to door to come in your house

and measure the temperature. And if your house is one degree warmer than the government says it can be, you could be facing three years in prison in Switzerland. And I know it gets cold in switzerland you better believe it but whoever imagined that switzerland would go police state it's it's just hard to believe that the people are tolerable but see they got they got a mentally ready with COVID. Go in your house, wear your mask, stay there.

You can come out when we say you can come out. Put this experimental drug in your body, put it in the body of your children. If you don't do it, you lose your job. In Austria, you're going to go to jail. They got the people conditioned. So now, and we predicted earlier this year, there would be climate lockdowns. Well, this is essentially climate lockdowns. Right. They're getting the people now accustomed to climate lockdowns. Oh, it's war. But really-

It's a climate lockdown. Yes. Because in the coming years, there will be climate lockdowns. We have to save the planet. It's mandatory. You're going to have King Charles now leading the way for climate lockdowns. Because he said it would require a military campaign.

Right. Military-style campaign is what he said. To fight climate change. Let's see. Oh, Politico. As he arms to Ukraine, Biden readies new weapon pipelines to Eastern Europe.

So these stories happen so often that we don't even consider how many armaments are being shipped overseas it's every week yes it's another two billion a week as top u.s officials on thursday unveiled another 2.8 billion dollars in new military and humanitarian aid for ukraine and eastern european allies marking a shift from just-in-time weapons transfers to Ukraine to a longer-term effort to equip nations all across NATO's Eastern Front. Now, the announcement came as Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in Kiev for

his second trip since the start of the war, while Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley huddled at Ramstein Air base in germany to discuss the war in ukraine with dozens of their counterparts from around the world look at that doc what it says is marking a shift from just in time weapon transfers to ukraine to a longer term effort to equip nations yes all across the eastern front so the United States is now sending weapons to multiple nations in Eastern Europe. What's the Eastern Front? The border with Russia. Right. They're preparing for the all-out war. They're preparing for an invasion of Russia. It's probably not going to take place this year. It might be next year. But they're preparing for an invasion of Russia.

They're building up their troops and their weapons on the Russian border. And the Russians know it. They know they're coming for them. They know NATO is coming for them. NATO plans to move troops and tanks into Russian territory and march on Moscow and capture the capital city. That's what they're seeing. That's why this war is not going to end anytime soon.

The Russians know we can't quit. We have to win this thing right now. But they also know if they get any reprieve, it's going to be short-lived because NATO is going to be built up on their borders. And that next phase, it might be 2024 or 2025, but the Russians know the troops are coming. If God allows us to live,

we might be here in two years from now still talking about the military buildup in Eastern Europe. That's a real possibility. If the Russians know that NATO's coming, NATO's not, they're not going to change their mind about this. Russia has oil. Russia has gas. Russia has gold. Russia has forests, minerals, fertilizer. They got all kinds of stuff.

And the global elite want it. It's just that simple. They want what Russia owns. What did Apostle James say? Why do we have wars? Basically he said because men want what other people have.

That's what wars are about. You got land, you got resources, you got something that another country wants. That's why we have wars. It's greed. It's greed. It's men saying, I'll kill, I'll murder. I'll murder, I'll kill to get what you have. That's what war is about. There's nothing patriotic about it. There's nothing glorious about it. It's murder. It's mass murder for the purpose of thievery. That's all it is.

You're right. God's watching this. He's been watching it for thousands of years. Here they go again. Sometimes it's in Europe. Sometimes it's in Africa. Sometimes it's in Europe sometimes it's in Africa sometimes it's in Asia in Asia

it's men killing men to get what other men have that's all it is I mean can you imagine if you were looking down at two ant hills and you see the two colonies of ants

clashing there they go again that ant hill wants that ant hill Ant hills. And you see the two colonies of ants fighting. Clashing. There they go again. That ant hill wants that ant hill. And you just watch it. You go, oh, well. They'll beat up each other for a couple hours, and then one of them will win,

and then they'll repeat this a couple months from now. That's how God's looking at us. Like, look at them. Look at them killing each other. And what's it about? Lust, greed, rich people wanting what other rich people have. That's all war is. When you explain it like that, people wanting what other rich people have.

That's all war is. When you explain it like that, it just strips away all the romantic covering that they try to put on war. The heroes, the statues, the parades, the music, the movies, John Wayne. It's murder, it's mass murder to justify thievery. That's what it's about. And yes, sometimes you have to go to war

because some idiot. Is trying to take. Is trying to take your stuff. And you do have to fight. But the principle's still the same. Hitler wanted Eastern Europe. Okay, he started to take countries. Countries went to war, but if you go back and look at all the wars of history,

one country wanted what another country had. They wanted to move the borders or they wanted to seize resources. They wanted to enslave the people. Something. They wanted something. And innocent people die. Children die. The elderly die.

And a lot of brave men die. A lot of brave men. And they're told by their king or their president, you will be a hero for going out there on the battlefield for me and giving up your life for my greed. We'll build a statue to you. We'll remember you, okay?

Because you killed people for our greed General Smedley Butler figured that out and he wasn't a wimp at the time he was the most decorated American soldier in this country

and he figured it out and he said you know what all these medals I got, I got this one for the Banana War. I got this one for, and he started naming it. The Sugar War. The Sugar War. And he started to realize, I went into these countries in the Caribbean, the South America,

fighting for the corporations. Those countries didn't do anything to America. Some rich guy wanted that land. And the president sent the Marines in there to kill people to get what that rich guy wanted. That's what war's about. I'll probably watch another war movie war movie always like war movies but when you really see the romantic glorification of killing that's what

that's what the movie industry is for propaganda you're right war movies are propaganda to keep everybody happy about killing people. So the next time you need a war, people have all those warm fuzzy, boy, that last one, that was a good one. Some good movies came out of that war. But there's no one here in America that's against war right now. Nobody.

You and me. There's nobody against the war in Ukraine. Just think about that. Doc and I are the only people in media in America against war. Name one other person out there that says, you know what, this war in Ukraine's a bad deal. There's nobody.

There's nobody saying it, nobody. We got this lane all to ourselves, Doc. No competition. Not even in the alternative media. Nope. They're all pro. Let's go. Russia's bad, man.

We got to kill them. Yeah. Okay. Well, look, we got some more war news here. So this is from NATO itself. They had a big meeting today. And this is a press release from NATO today. Well, actually, it says... No no, actually it's from last week.

A couple days ago. The 5th. First German NATO brigade troops arrive in Lithuania. Now, this is significant because Lithuania's had its issues with Russia here over the past few months. Around 100 German soldiers arrived in Lithuania on this previous Sunday, this past Sunday, part of NATO's increased presence on the alliance's eastern flank following Russia's invasion

of Ukraine. So what does it mean? NATO's moving troops to the Russian border. Right. And what's that going to do? That's going to increase the tensions with Russia. The German troops make up the command unit of a new brigade, a force usually made up of around 3,000 to 5,000 soldiers.

The soldiers are part of Germany's 41st Tank Brigade and arrived in the Klaipeda port by ferry from Kiel. The unit consists of about 100 personnel as well as equipment for command and control, communications and logistics. And this is the quote from the NATO press office. The arrival of the first German troops as part of the NATO brigade represents an important step in strengthening NATO's deterrence and defense at a critical time for our security and sending a clear message that NATO will defend every inch of allied territory. And that came from NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu. Next one is from Novosti News Service. Russia transfers heavy flamethrower systems. Right. So the Russian military is deploying heavy flamethrower systems, the Solitsypek system, to the Kharkov direction.

Ria Novosti correspondent reports intense battles are going on in this direction with the ukrainian troops who on the 7th of september launched a counter-offensive the tos-1as are designed to destroy manpower equipment and fortifications using thermobaric munitions of 222 millimeter caliber from which you cannot hide in dugouts that's fire. Right. We've got a short video that the Russian military put out of this flamethrower moving into position in Ukraine. Yeah, unfortunately, they're not showing it shooting off the flamethrower here or anything. It's just showing it moving in position. But imagine that thing coming up on your dugout and you're dug in. Well, if you lived in that house, let's show that again.

Think about the people living in those homes in Ukraine. You look out your window and you say, is that a flamethrower? Yeah, and to be thinking about what impact that could have. Now, earlier the Ministry of Defense published footage of the transfer of troops and equipment, namely, Uragin multiple-launch rocket systems, Kamenets Army trucks, MSTA artillery tractors, and infantry fighting vehicles.

Translation, Russia's digging in. They're digging in. And we got another video from the Russian military showing Russian troops, or actually trucks. This is inside Ukraine. So while NATO is saying, well, you know, it looks like Russia is not making any advancements or anything, Russia is moving further troops, further equipment into the Kharkov region. They're not leaving Ukraine.

They're not doing anything but building up right now. They're in this for the long haul. And so NATO has to consider that in their calculus moving forward. So. Doc, on the topic of natural gas in this winter, Russia warns South Korea, don't even think about participating in America's price cap on our gas, or you're gonna be cold. Right, so as Russia's President Vladimir Putin threatened to suspend energy supplies to countries participating in the G7's attempt to impose a price cap

on Russia's oil and gas exports, Korea might be affected by this measure as well. The G7 finance ministers agreed last week to impose a cap on the price of Russian oil as a way to pressure Russia in regard to funding its war against Ukraine. Now during the economic forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Putin, Mr. Putin described the price cap on Russia's gas and oil as stupid, adding that the measure would only lead to higher global prices and economic problems in Europe. We will not supply anything at all if it is contrary to our interests, in this case economic.

No gas, no oil, no coal, no fuel oil, nothing, Mr. Putin said. Did he make himself clear on that? I believe he did. Now, as part of this move, a Russian government official mentioned possible retaliation against Korea in the case that Seoul joins the move to put a ceiling on Russian oil prices. In July, when Korea's finance minister, Chu Kang-ho, met his U.S. counterpart, Janet Yellen, Korea showed its willingness to join the U.S.-led price cap on Russian oil. Now, Russia supplies about 5 percent of the crude oil

imported to Korea and 6 percent of its natural gas. Now, that may not sound like much, but if it's a particularly cold winter, that becomes a multiplication factor. And so that's going to mean higher prices in Korea. And I'm telling you, it gets cold in the winter in Korea. I know. Cold enough where your shoes stick to the sidewalk cold. So you want to stay warm. And you'll pay whatever you can to stay warm. So this is going to be interesting to see if this actually develops here. Now, I see Korea going along with South Korea going along with it, Rick, because they're all in. G7 is all in on this. You know, the G20 summit is coming up. Right.

And Russia's a member, and Putin's going to the G20. He is. He said he's going. We should apply for press credentials. I would love to be there. That would be better than a cage fight. Can you imagine? Can you imagine being there

to see Putin at the G20 summit? It's going to be in Malaysia this year, right? I don't know. I think so. I'll figure it out. That is going to be,

I would do a pay-per-view to watch that. Can you imagine the tension that's going to be in that room? He's going to walk in there and sit with Biden and Liz Truss and Macron and all these guys. He's going to sit there with them? And they're going to have to talk to him? That would be really interesting to watch. That's what you get when you have the G20 board of directors of the world.

Bloomberg reporting, natural gas buyers are hoarding fuel at sea to prepare for the winter. Right. So this is an interesting story. Energy traders and power utilities are storing more liquefied natural gas at sea. And this unusual move to hoard supply for winter as the market faces a severe shortage. Energy-starved utilities in Europe are parking LNG shipments off the coast in a scramble to replace Russian pipeline gas this

winter. They simply can't import the fuel into onshore storage because terminals are maxed out and so are choosing to pay to keep the ship nearby. Now this strategy used frequently in the oil market is rare for LNG because the liquid fuel slowly evaporates in the ships making longer periods of storage challenging. There are at least nine vessels storing LNG because the liquid fuel slowly evaporates in the ships, making longer periods of storage challenging. There are at least nine vessels storing LNG in the ocean, according to Bloomberg and Kepler Shipping Data. The tanker British partner was idling in the South China Sea this month after loading a cobbled-together cargo of Omani and Qatar gas via ship-to-ship transfer near Malaysia. Meanwhile, the Aerostatus-1 is waiting in the Caribbean with Dominican Republic Origin and U.S. gas on board, said Matthew Ong, an analyst at

Kepler. And so this is a unique strategy. But there aren't enough tankers, Rick. That's the problem. They can't get enough in. And LNG dissipates as it sits there. So it can't sit forever on the sea. But it does show you the frantic effort that's going on right now where countries are buying the natural gas and just putting it in a ship and parking the ship on the sea and just say, just stay there till winter. All right, so they are worried. They're definitely afraid they're not going to have gas this winter.

And I thought it was interesting, they said their onshore storage tanks are maxed out. Well, then that says that they have been pretty successful in stockpiling for the winter. But if you remember, Germany said that if they were able to reach their maximum, and I think they said 85% was their goal, they would have enough for two and a half months. And we said at that time,

well, what do you do? In month three. In month three. Because Russia's not going to turn the pipeline on because you ran out. You have enough to get through two and a half months. Now, what I think they're going to do is they're going to impose severe rationing.

Okay, really severe. To stretch it out to four months. That's my guess. They're not telling the people yet. But this next, well, I'll show you here in just a second. The next story here, Bloomberg, Europe's top aluminum plant will cut output 22% on energy costs. I'm not going to go into the story. It's what we've been telling you. The factories are shutting down. So if the biggest aluminum plant in Europe has reduced their productivity by one-fourth,

then the supply of aluminum in the world is going to take a major drop in the coming weeks. Which means the price of aluminum is going to skyrocket. Yes. And they're not the only plant that's shutting down. Right. This is just the latest one that we've found. The next one, President Erdogan of Turkey asked Putin for a price discount on natural gas. Your country, sir, is in NATO. Once again, you see Turkey playing both sides. Yes.

He's pretty shrewd. He's pretty shrewd. What he's doing, he's saying, I'm going to watch out for my country. I'm in NATO, but I am not going to let my country suffer. And I'm going to do what I got to do. And Germany, you guys want to freeze, go ahead. But my people aren't going to freeze. You know, he's not the most popular guy in NATO,

but they can't kick him out. Because they need him. They need him, and he plays it so shrewdly. So he cut a deal with Putin. And so what was the deal? Well, I wasn't in the meeting, but I'll tell you what I think it was. All that Ukrainian grain.

Putin had all that grain stored up that the Ukrainian government, the farmers couldn't ship it out anywhere. And Russia was holding up the ships in the harbor. And I believe what he did is he cut a deal and said, Putin, or Erdogan said, I'll move the grain through Turkey. Of course, we'll take our cut. And we'll let the rest go on the market.

And I think in return, he's saying to Putin, I did you a favor. Now you do me a favor. You sell gas to Turkey, and we get to use this coupon. We get a discount. Bottom line is, Turkey's not gonna suffer. They got food and they got gas. And they've got money because they're dealing in both. Yes, and if I recall, there's an election

coming up in Turkey. And Mr. Erdogan's gonna win that election. Yes. Because he kept his people fed, and he kept them warm. In spite of skyrocketing inflation in Turkey. Yes, yes, 80%. The next one, German economic research institutes

are forecasting a recession, damages up to 150 billion euros. I'm not gonna go into all the details about it, but the bottom line is the European businesses are starting to realize it's going to get bleak in Europe. There's going to be a severe recession next year in Europe.

And this, one more here, 37 Bloomberg, Amazon sellers see scary holiday season as U.S. consumers are pulling back. Yeah, and this is kind of surprising. Well, it's surprising, not surprising, because Amazon is saying sellers are bracing for a bleak holiday shopping season as inflation-bitten consumers curb their spending. Many merchants who sell more than half the goods on Amazon's web store fear they'll be forced to cut prices to move a mountain of unsold inventory. It's an abrupt change from the previous two years when sellers

scrambled to get enough products into Amazon warehouses to meet pandemic-fueled demand, even as chronic shortages let them jack up prices. I guess I'm a little hesitant on that, Rick, because I see Amazon trucks all over the place. They're coming up, driving in front of my house all hours of the night. But then we're near an Amazon distribution center too. And a massive one that's just been built. It's going to open up in October. It's just a few miles from our church here. It's going to open up in October. It's just a few miles from our church here. It's massive. One of the biggest

warehouses I've seen and almost directly across from it is another massive warehouse and that's Walmart. But in this article, it says Amazon is abandoning some of their plans to build warehouses.

Right. Did you read that? I hadn't got down to that. Yeah, where is it there? It's in that article. Yes, number 41. So Amazon itself is being forced to adjust to the new normal. The world's largest e-commerce company was saddled with too many warehouses and workers when the pandemic boom ended. Amazon has since abandoned dozens of existing and planned facilities around the U.S.

And that's according to a closely watched research firm, MWPVL. And so this is going to be an unusual year. And so when you see major retailers like Target struggling, now news of Amazon here that if this holiday season is going to be dropping off. See, that'll go all through 2023. If they shut down plans to build new warehouses, well, when Christmas is over, they're not going to say, well, let's start building again. Those plans are going to be on hold for a year or two.

So they're preparing for a long, a long economic recession in the United States. And I would say probably 18 months. That's typically what a recession is, which would take us into 2024. Presidential election. Not going to be good for the Democrats. The only way they could win is if you had a rigged election. One more. Let's go down to 46. King Charles.

You've got to get used to saying this. King Charles III chokes up an emotional first address to the nation as he hails time of change for his family, pays tribute to his darling wife, and extends an olive branch to his estranged son, Harry. And we have a short video clip. We don't have the entire video. It's about short video clip. We don't have the entire video. It's about nine minutes long, but here's a short segment of that

address from the new King Charles the third I Speak to you today with feelings of profound sorrow Throughout her life her majesty the Queen my beloved mother Was an inspiration an example to me and to all my family, and we owe her the most heartfelt debt any family could owe to their mother, for her love, affection, guidance, understanding and example. Queen Elizabeth was a life well lived, a promise with destiny kept and she is mourned most deeply in her passing. That promise of lifelong service I renew to all today and to my darling mama as you begin your last great journey to join my dear late Papa I want simply to say this thank you thank you

for your love and devotion to our family and to the family of nations you have served so diligently all these years. May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. You know, I know there's a lot of people that they have less than kind thoughts about Queen Elizabeth. But you can't dismiss the fact, Doc, that yesterday when she died, there was a double rainbow over Buckingham Palace. You can't fake that. You can't fake it. I mean, there's somebody probably writing a whole, they did it with harp. No. There was a double rainbow. And writing a whole, they did it with harp. No.

There's a double rainbow. And I'm just going to leave it at that. When Jesus says, do not judge, people misunderstand that teaching because it's typically interpreted as, don't you judge me, okay? My behavior, my actions. Yeah, don't be judging me, okay? That's not what he's talking about.

No. you and I, Doc, me, you, none of us are qualified to judge where a person's soul is at when they die. You're not qualified. I'm not, you're not, and you're not. Don't even go there. Don't go there. You know, I hear people,

when someone dies, I'll tell you what, the fires of hell, they got hot. You don't know that. You don't know that. And Jesus said, don't judge. You're not qualified to make a statement on where somebody's soul went when they died.

Right. Jesus doesn't choose to judge a man until he's dead, neither should we. That's right. That's right. So I leave it alone. You'll never hear me saying, oh, that person's in hell. That person's in heaven.

That person, I don't know. I don't know. When they die, only God knows the state of their soul when they left this planet. And for people that are making comments about Queen Elizabeth, you're not qualified. All right? You're just not qualified.

Leave it alone. It's a very dangerous thing to do on anybody. When anybody dies, do not make statements about where their eternal destination will be. And Jesus said, wherewith you judge, you shall also be judged. Yes. Now, think about that. I don't want to be judged like that.

So zip your lips when people die and just let it alone. Let the Lord take care of it. One final thing, you know, we announced yesterday our trip to Jordan is sold out. All the seats on the bus are full. And we now have an overflow list. And people are calling and, you know, they're asking if they can be on the overflow list. And so we're building up a list of people who are saying they want to go along. We're working with the travel agency.

We're trying to get some more seats on the plane. We're trying to get some more hotel rooms. We will have to get another bus. That's for sure. Right. Because the bus only got 48 seats. We can't put you on the side of the bus. And the challenge is hotel rooms and airline seats.

That's the real problem. Yes, I mean, if we can get the hotel rooms and the plane tickets, we'll find transportation. Even if we have to rent an entire 48 passenger bus, we'll just split up the group, 20 some, you know, 30 whatever in each bus. We'll just split up the group, 20 some, you know, 30 whatever in each bus. But we're working on it. So if you are interested, go ahead, contact the travel agency or email us at info at truenews.com

and say I'm definitely wanting to go because we're doing our best to figure out how to take more people. It'd be great if we could take twice as many people. We'd love it. We'd love it. But when we said this is limited, we meant it. It really was limited.

You just can't go back. The plane only has so many seats on it. I mean, you can't add more seats to a plane and the airline is selling those seats right and because of changes in the you know uh economic uh economics of airlines here over the past several months we can't buy them at the same price you could yes when we were able to lock it out so we even if they do have more seats, we may have to pay more for the seats. All I'm saying is we're doing our best to figure out if we can get some more people on the trip.

If not, we'll go next spring. God willing, we'll go back probably in April or May. The best times to go to the Middle East, to Jordan or Israel, excuse me, is October, November and April and May. So almost all the tours are in those four months. So God willing, we'll go back in May. But we can't guarantee the price is going to be the same.

Who knows? That's it. Enjoy the weekend. Spend time alone with the Lord this weekend. Just block out time, get your Bible and sit quietly with the Lord, study his Bible and talk to him about his word and see what he says to you. And just take note of the peace that comes into your life by you making time to be with your heavenly father and then find a church and go to church and worship the lord we'll be back here monday god bless god bless you