TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Deep Denial: Public Ignores Talk of Nuclear War Over Ukraine

Episode Date: April 18, 2022

Today on TruNews, talk of nuclear war is increasingly mentioned in news headlines, but the public isn’t paying attention to the dire warnings. What does it take to get people’s attention these days? I’m not sure the arrival of space aliens would bother most people. Many people simply don’t care about what is happening in the world, and others who do care are so exasperated by an overwhelming feeling of powerlessness that they have gone into a deep state of denial to cope with the extreme insanity of the people running the world. This is a reminder that Jesus Christ is our only hope. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 4/1/22

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. Talk of nuclear war is increasingly mentioned in news headlines, but the public isn't paying attention to the dire warnings. What does it take to get people's attention these days? I'm not sure the arrival of space aliens would bother most people. Many people simply don't care about what's happening in the world, and others who do care are so exasperated by an overwhelming feeling of

powerlessness that they have gone into a deep state of denial to cope with the extreme insanity of the people running the world. Doc Burkhart and I will spend the next hour telling you about the insanity and reminding you once again that Jesus Christ is our only hope. So, Doc, the headlines throughout the world are talking about Russian nuclear bombers that buzzed Ukraine today. Yes. And a not-too-subtle hint about what Russia plans to do. And obviously the message is clear,

and so we have some video here that we're gonna share with you that imagine this flying over skies wherever you're at here in North America, and the intimidation that you would feel there. Let's watch the video and you'll get an impression of what they were seeing in Ukraine. There aren't just any war planes. They're nuclear bombers, right? And there's a war going on in Ukraine.

And there's one message that Putin said to Ukraine today. We're prepared to nuke you. Last week, the CIA chief, Mr. Burns, said he was increasingly worried that Russia was going to use nuclear weapons. I think today Mr. Putin told Mr. Burns, you're right, I am going to use them. You guys started this war. I'm going to finish it. One way or the other. One way or the other.

And it's got Zelensky up in arms, and so this is from the Jerusalem Post here. Yeah, so the world should be prepared for, he was certain that Ukraine would be victorious, but asked for more supplies to continue to fight. But in his message today, he was saying that they must prepare for Russia, a Russian nuclear attack, by encouraging countries to stockpile anti-radiation drugs and building shelters.

And so, you know, there's a lot that comes out of Ukraine right now from Mr. Zelensky that you have to take with a major grain of salt. But this case, I think he's maybe prophesying a little bit here. Zelensky does what he's told to do. He's a puppet. NATO is pulling his strings. He had the opportunity to negotiate a settlement with Russia before the war started. We know that from the Wall Street Journal.

They quoted what the German and other European diplomats, French President Macron, the German chancellor, both of them were working behind the scenes to work out a settlement before the war started. And all Zelensky had to do was promise Putin we will not join NATO right there will not be any NATO weapons on our soil so he had to do right and he turned it down he got the war all right he's tried to make himself into the victim. He's not the victim. He's a puppet. And he's he's willing to sacrifice the lives of the Ukrainian people for what? If he were a true leader, he would have peacefully settled it. So what are you winning in this, Mr. Zelensky? What do you win?

Well, I think he's got a thirty five't it a $35 million house in Miami? Yes. So, and some say a billion dollar bank account somewhere, but Mr. Zelensky had this video produced that he was talking, actually was talking to CNN in this particular conversation, where he makes the case, we're going to see Russia use nukes here in this current conflict. Watch this. ми побачимо Росію використовувати нуклики у цьому конфлікті. Дивіться на це. So, obviously, the temperature is heating up a little bit here. No pun intended on that either. But the Russians are absolutely committed that they're going to eliminate the Nazis in Ukraine. And, you know, we've, on this Godcast, we've shown you multiple instances

where these guys, these aren't neo-Nazis. These aren't some rebranded nationalists, national socialists. These are the direct descendants of the Nazis, politically and some even genetically. And so this, for Russia, this fight is, you know, the continuation of World War II. And they're going to see this. They're going to see this finished. A lot of people don't know that there was a security agreement that was in place for

Ukraine between Russia and NATO before all this started, that there was a security guarantee for Ukraine. And it's all these different instances of NATO just continuing to do little things and to continue to intimidate Russia that finally we're done. Now we're continuing to intimidate Russia, further economic sanctions, further tying them off from the rest of the world. Russia is going to respond accordingly. For some people out there, they're looking forward to it, Rick. They want to see Russia do something so they can do something to Russia. If Russia uses small tactical nukes against Ukrainian targets, do you think the West will do anything? Well, now, and we were kind of talking about this earlier today.

I don't know in this world anymore. I don't know if they would just say that's a bad thing or Russia would say the only other country to use nuclear weapons in a wartime scenario was the United States. So are you going to condemn the United States too? Did the United States, and you brought this up earlier, did the United States ever apologize for two nuclear strikes on Japan? No. Why? Because it was war, right? So would it be justified for Russia?

I'm not encouraging it. I don't want to see it happen. But you're putting Russia into a place where they, just weeks ago that the only time they would consider using nuclear weapons is they felt like their survival was at stake. So if we put Russia into such a place right now where they think their survival is at stake. And would that not include their economic system? Right. Because the U.S. is trying to crash the Russian economy, trying to bring down the entire economic system of Russia. That in itself is an act of war. And I expect Russia, I really think it's going to happen in the very near future.

They're going to use nuclear weapons, small nuclear weapons, tactical nukes against key ukrainian military targets the russians have maintained when i read the russian news sites and have them translated into english what the russians are saying is we are not interested in occupying ukraine we want to denazify the country. Right. And they have very legitimate reasons to believe that real Nazis are in major positions of power in Ukraine. And that's not a conspiracy theory. Right. The people, especially the military in Ukraine, openly boast of being Nazis. And what's sad is a year ago, outlets like New York Times, Washington Post were running articles about there's new Nazis in Ukraine. But now it's like we're cheering for the Nazis.

So think about World War III. America is now on the side of the Nazis. Yes. That's how upside down everything is. The United States is now defending Nazis in World War III. We're directly funding them. We're directly encouraging them. It's no joke at all.

Last week, President, there were various outlets that were reporting that if you saw NATO trying to bring in arms and equipment into Ukraine, that they became legitimate targets. Well, this is out of toss today. The Russian Defense Ministry announced the destruction of batches of foreign weapons for Ukraine from the U.S. and EU. So the RF armed forces destroyed the logistics center and the large consignments of foreign weapons that were in it, which arrived in Ukraine from the United States and European countries over the past six days. This was announced on Monday by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konishnikov. He noted that in the morning, high precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces of the Russian Armed Forces attacked the 124th Joint Logistic Support

Center of the Logistic Forces of the Ukrainian troops near Lviv. The logistic center and the large consignments of foreign weapons that were delivered to Ukraine from the U.S. and European countries over the past six days have been destroyed, he said. Now, what's interesting about this, Rick, is Lviv is in the western part of Ukraine. And so when the major news outlets here reported on over the weekend about a shelling of Lviv and everything, they, you know, they didn't, of course, include all the stories about the weapons and everything that were also in Lviv. And so now you get the other side of the picture. So Russia, they warned the West last week,

you start shipping this stuff in, it becomes a target. And so they made it a target. But they gave a warning. When does the United States itself become the target? Well, that's the question. When Russia is threatened. America and Great Britain and other European countries and Canada and other Western countries are actively participating in the war against Russia. They're fighting.

It's a proxy war. But the West is sending in the weapons to escalate it. What's driving them? The collapse of the Western banking system? Right. And so to shadow that out, they're looking to collapse the banking system. Right. And so to shadow that out, they're looking to collapse the Russian system. Yes.

So last week we mentioned, just briefly, I said watch what happens over the next week or two. You're going to start seeing NATO troops or foreign troops that get picked up by the Russians and trotted out and put on video. What happens over the weekend? Exactly that. NDTV is reporting Russia broadcasting video of captured Britons urging Boris Johnson to negotiate their release.

Russian state TV broadcasts a video Monday of what it describes as Britons captured fighting for Ukraine, demanding that Prime Minister Boris Johnson negotiate their release. The two haggard-looking men, identified as British nationals Sean Penner and Aidan Aslan, asked to be exchanged for Viktor Medvedchuk, a wealthy Ukrainian businessman close to President Vladimir Putin, who was recently arrested in the pro-Western country. Now, the broadcast did not specify where or by whom Russian forces or Moscow's separate allies in eastern Ukraine, the two men, were being held. The recordings were presented as interviews with journalist Andrei Rodenko of the Russian state broadcaster VGTRK. And in the clip,

Rodenko shows the two men a video published last week by Oksana Machenko, the Vedchuk's wife, who demanded her husband's exchange for the two Britons. The detainees then asked in English to be exchanged for the businessman. Aslan's mother had appealed for his release in an interview with the British Daily Telegraph newspaper published on Friday. The woman, Aang Wood, said that she had recognized her 28-year-old son from a Russian broadcast because of his distinctive tattoo. We actually have a video of one of the two Brits making that appeal for the exchange. So let's watch this.

Boris Johnson. Obviously, I'm Sean Pinner. A lot's gone on over the last five or six weeks that I'm not fully aware of. Obviously,n deall bod Mr Medvedchuk wedi cael ei ddewis ac rydyn ni'n edrych ar y cyflawni fy hun a Aidan Aslin ar gyfer Mr Medvedchuk. Yn amlwg, rwy'n hoffi eich helpu yn y mater hwn a'r pwysau hwn. and pushing this agenda. Myself, I've been treated well. I fully understand the situation that I'm in. We've been fed, watered, and that's all I can really say. But I beg on my behalf and Aidan Aslan's behalf to help us in an exchange for Mr. Medvedev. So I think you're going to see a lot more of those.

Mercenaries? Yeah, well, I don't know, because I get... Well, he's not on vacation, is he? Yeah, you go on Twitter and you see all these guys posting images, you know, I'm off to Ukraine to help fight for freedom. And, I mean, there's a lot of them. You go on Twitter and see all these different ones. They used to call them mercenaries.

Yes, but I can't help but think that some of these are working directly with NATO. Then they can say, well, I'm just a mercenary. I'm just here. The same thing happened in Vietnam. The same thing happened in Iraq. So, you know, you send mercenaries, but they're all, you, but it's amazing how many have black ops ties. And so I can understand there are some people out there that just love to fight in a war.

I don't understand that mindset, but I know that they're out there. But it just seems to me, Rick, that this is just yet another opportunity for, you know, for NATO and the West to inject, you know, trained military people that have been fighting in sandboxes all over the world and interject them into this. So what happens, Doc, when Russia publicly executes them? Well, are we willing to go to war over that that's the question that's coming they're going to line up american and british and other european mercenaries and they're going to shoot them and release the video and they're going to tell the west send some more that's where i think this is going i don't think putin cares at all public opinion. Do you think he cares about his social media profile? No, not at all. He doesn't care.

He doesn't care what the West thinks about him. And that's what's driving them crazy. He doesn't care. He's just going to take care of his country. And he's at that stage where he is so disgusted with the West, he's going to do whatever he has to do. And no matter how many sanctions, whatever threats they say that they're going to do, he doesn't care. And today's flyby of new bombers. That was a warning.

That was the warning. The next one will be the real thing. Right. So folks, in the next week or two, there could be a complete total change of the world atmosphere, politically, the atmosphere, and maybe the actual physical atmosphere. I was just going to say. But I am not taking lightly the flyby over Ukraine today of Russian nuclear bombers. It's a very clear warning. But they're not the only ones in the nuclear game anymore.

You still have North Korea. So North Korea has fired a short-range nuclear missile. North Korea said Sunday it succeeded in test-firing a new tactical missile that would be capable of striking Seoul from the front lines with a nuclear warhead. This new missile has a much shorter range than an intercontinental ballistic missile, but can be mounted with a tactical nuclear warhead. Notice those words.

And could pose a bigger threat to South Korea than an ICBM. The Joint Chiefs of Staff here confirmed that North Korea launched two projectiles into the East Sea from Hamheung, South Hanyang Province, at around 6 p.m. on Saturday. The JCS said that they flew to a height of around 25 kilometers and a distance of approximately 110 kilometers at a maximum speed of Mach 4.0. Doc, you lived in South Korea approximately. What is the distance from southern North Korea to downtown Seoul? About 10 miles.

10 miles? Is it really? Yeah, you can drive right up to the border. Oh, to the border, okay. Yeah, and you can drive right up to the border. Oh, to the border. Okay. Yeah, and you can see the North Korean troops on the line. I mean, it's a 10-minute bus ride. I did not know Seoul was that close to the border.

Yes, yeah, it really is. So this nuke that they tested over the weekend, it's a short-range. It will deliver a tactical nuke to downtown Seoul. It should. And just one would create amazing devastation. You know, there's always been the talk of reducing nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula and everything. But the North Korean leader sees weakness right now. He sees weakness in the world. They see weakness within the Biden administration.

How about Biden himself is weak? He shakes hands with the air. Right, and wanders around a diocese for moments. And so... Just picture, 3 o'clock in the morning, the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Marxist Milley, wakes up Joe Biden, Mr. President. Russia struck Ukraine minutes ago with tactical nukes. What does that scene look like in the White House with Joe Biden?

Will he even be aware of it is the question. How long does it take him to get up, get his dentures, get himself together? What state of mind is he in? Okay. How long is it going to take for Joe Biden to actually get into the Oval Office with the nuclear suitcase and be prepared to take action. This is a scary thought. And based on that video I saw last week of him in North Carolina the other day, wandering around the platform like he was lost, I got to thinking,

there's a guy right there that has access to nuclear weapons. And it is scary. So North Korea, you know, and its advances. The North Korea leader is assuming, you know, direct inspection over these new weapon systems. The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, oversaw the successful test firing of a new tactical guided weapon, meaningful in improving the efficiency of tactical nuclear operations,

the state media reported Sunday. The new weapon system is of great significance in drastically improving the firepower of the frontline long-range artillery units and enhancing the efficiency in the operation of tactical nudes, the DPRK, and the diversification of their firepower missions, the official Korean Central News Agency said. The DPRK is the acronym for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The test fire was carried out successfully, it added, without giving other details of the tested weapon, including its type. You know, Rick, I've only had what I would classify as two visions in my life. One, when I was a teenager, shortly after I got a call to the ministry, and another when I was in Korea. And I don't know if it was a vision or an insight. I don't know.

I hate, I don't want to sound like I'm special or anything like that. But one day I was standing at my apartment window, just looking out over the city of Seoul. Seoul's a beautiful city. And in a moment's time, I saw God's hand removed from Seoul. Because right now, I believe God has his hand of protection over Seoul because of the praying saints that are still there.

But in a moment, I saw God's hand lifted from Seoul. And it went from one moment to the next where it was a bustling street scene and vendors and the noise of the street to troops marching up and down the street and people being loaded up into trucks. And in the distance distance you saw downtown Seoul and you just saw plumes of smoke just blowing to the south and I knew at that moment it was because God had lifted his hand of protection off of Seoul and North Korea had attacked and they had moved in like I said it's only

a 10-minute bus ride to where I lived in Seoul to the North Korean border. And once the defenses are down in South Korea, North Korea just moved right in. But it was a terrible scene. I still recall it as brilliantly as when I saw it the very first time. And it's one of the things that has really propelled me here in these last few years. We've got to warn people. There's a day coming where this all gets shut down. It does.

Doc, do you know approximately what year it was? That would have been 2012. Yes, 2012. Okay. So, yeah. Because, I mean, I've been mourning about a surprise nuclear attack from North Korea since 1998. And I had a, it wasn't a vision. What happened was, it was in the summer of either 2003 or 2004. I'm not quite sure right now which summer it was,

but it was definitely one of those two years. I was living in Texas, and I went home, and I went in my bedroom to pray, and I was very frustrated. This is in the early years of this ministry. I was very frustrated. I felt like not many people were listening to me. I was warning about nuclear war.

Right. Right? And I just felt like I can't get anybody's attention. All right? I can't get anybody's attention. And I heard the Holy Spirit tell me, get up from praying, go over to your desk and write a letter to the people who are supporting you. So I sat down and began to write a letter. Yes. And just pouring my heart out why I was doing this ministry, why I was on, at that time, on radio every day, and began with the vision when I was at TBN. Right. And in that letter, Doc, when I got to the place where I wrote, and I believe someday North Korea is going to launch a surprise ICBM attack on the West Coast of America. I think that's going to happen too.

But when I wrote that line, the Holy Spirit stopped me and said, stop, go outside. I heard it very clear. Stop, go outside. So I walked to the front door of the house and my wife, Susan was out there. And as soon as I came out the door, she said, look, she put it up in the sky. There was this massive mushroom cloud in the sky. Oh man, that must have chilled you. But it was a cloud. Right. But unmistakably shaped like a nuclear mushroom cloud.

And she goes, look, it's a nuclear bomb. And I said, yeah, I know. I was just writing a letter about it, and so we just stood there and watched it for a few minutes. About an hour later, my son came home, and he had been playing tennis about 10 miles away, and he was in college at that time, and he came in and he goes, hey, Dad, did you see?

I said, yes, I did. He said, I saw it from the tennis court. He goes, it was like a nuclear mushroom cloud. I said, I saw it. He goes, I told the person I was playing tennis with, I know my dad is looking at this. And you were. And I was. Okay.

Coincidence, right? What are these things that happen like this? God has been speaking to the American people for decades and decades. And some of you might say, well, Rick, that happened to you 2003 and there wasn't any nuclear war. God's merciful. Yes, he's merciful. He's held back the disaster for decades, giving America more time to repent. But America becomes more wicked. America doesn't become more repentant of her sins. She becomes more stubborn and rebellious. And that's where we're at right now in the year

2022. And so, you know, I'm at the place where I'm quite, I guess, resigned to the fact that it's more likely now than it was when I started this ministry in 1998 that there's going to be a nuclear attack. I'm just looking at the spiritual condition of the country. It's like we're not getting better. We're getting worse. And the hand of protection from the Lord is lifting off this country. Yes. And other countries too.

Like I saw in my vision, it was South Korea. South Korea is the number one consumer per capita of porn in the world. But it's also- More than the Southern United States? Yes. And so it's a big problem in Korea, but they're not addressing it. There's a lot of reasons why they don't in South Korea. But the idea is a lot of these Western nations, which were blessed by God for holding to Christian values, raising Christian families, doing all these things, they squandered that heritage by going into the war business, basically. And so it's going to be very difficult for any nation to go back on that path and return to God.

And so I think I'm resigned to that fact too, Rick, that they keep talking about a great end times harvest. Okay. So where is it? It's after the war. Yes? It's after the war. Yes. It's after the war. Not before the war.

It's after the war. There's going to be a harvest of the dead. And there's going to be a harvest on the final day, too. A quick harvest. Yes. South China Morning Post reporting that U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen, former Federal Reserve Bank official, is calling on her financial minister counterparts around the world for increased economic pressure on Russia. Right. So the U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen this week says she will call on her counterparts to ramp up the economic pain on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, a senior Treasury official said on Monday. Yellen will take part in the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank, as well as gatherings of finance officials from the G7 and G20 nations, where the fallout from war will be a key topic of discussion. Now, the Secretary believes that the Russian invasion of Ukraine

has demonstrated the need for the world's largest economies to stand together to defend international order and protect peace and prosperity. She will use this week's meeting to work with allies to continue our united efforts to increase economic pressure on Russia while mitigating spillover effects. Now, keep that in mind. She's saying we're doing our best. We're going to put the screws to Russia, and we're going to minimize the spillover effects, right?

Yeah, and she says our new world order protects peace and prosperity. No, your foreign policy provokes wars and destruction. How long, Doc, will the world let this ruling class stay in power? And what is so frustrating, Rick, is they openly admit they're weaponizing the financial structure of the world. They're weaponizing it. And if they were using the same weapons against us, what would we be doing? We'd be crying foul, wouldn't we? But it's okay because we're the good guys. And so we get to do those kinds of things to people. Now Russia is saying that

the West has failed in their economic blitzkrieg. That's not the first time he's used this term. Yes. Blitzkrieg. Because blitzkrieg reminds us of the Nazis. Yes, he does that on purpose. So the main negative, this is President Putin said, the main negative factor for the economy recently has been this sanctions pressure, the next sanctions pressure from Western countries. The hope was to quickly undermine the financial and economic situation in our country, provoke a panic in the markets, the collapse of the banking system, a large-scale shortage of goods and stores. But we can already confidently say that such a policy toward Russia

has failed. And so Russia is still here. Russia is still fighting a war every day. Russia is still making money every day from selling oil and selling wheat. The West did not collapse Russia. And they're still out there making predictions. Well, by summer, Russia will be totally out of business. Then they keep moving the markers. By fall, it's all going to be done. By the end of the year, Russia will be no more. Well, they're using the same year, Russia will be no more.

Well, they're using the same propaganda that Russia's losing the war. I mean, this has been going on for over a month. Putin is disoriented. He's confused. There's going to be a coup in the Kremlin. His troops are going to desert. The war is going horrible. And I don't see that at all. No, not at all. They're just moving methodically across Ukraine, denazifying the military. Right. So keep in mind, Russia does not have unlimited resources

and unlimited manpower. They have to manage this conflict in their way. I'm not defending them. I'm just saying, you know. They're observing. Right. And the NATO countries I'm just saying, you know. They're observing. Right. And the NATO countries, they can dump, you know, they approved another billion dollars in lethal aid from almost a billion dollars in lethal aid last week to Ukraine. How much more is Ukraine going to need? So you've got a pipeline of money. You've got a pipeline,

unlimited pipeline of ammunition, arms, everything going into Ukraine. And so Russia is just simply managing its resources and its military. Hey, Russia's right next door. They don't have to fly all the way across the world to deliver aid. They've got their resources right there. And so the attempt to collapse the Russian economy, the West messed up on that. They really, really did.

So Financial Times in London reporting, again, always remember Financial Times owned by the Rothschild family. Great newspaper. I read it every day, subscribe to it. But, you know, you should know who owns various news outlets. Yes. It just helps you understand where they're coming from. So this came out this afternoon.

U.S. Treasury insists Russia's sanctions will not fragment the global economy. So they're making a big deal about this. And this story and the next story go hand in hand. But a senior official at the Treasury Department has pushed back on warnings that the sweeping sanctions package announced by the U.S. and its allies against Russia risks fracturing the international economy, vowing instead to take further retaliatory action if necessary. In a speech delivered on Monday, Wally Adeyemo, the Deputy Treasury Secretary, defended the unprecedented penalties imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine,

which have included sanctioning its central bank and restricting its access to the dollar-denominated global financial system. It goes on to say, this is quoting Mr. Adeyemo, we have shown not only how indispensable this global financial system is and how costly it is to be excluded from it, but also the futility of trying to avoid it, he said at an event hosted by the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Russia's efforts to insulate itself from sanctions have failed because of the strength of the financial system we have collectively built. But my friend, Russia's still there. When asked specifically about the dollar's role as the world's reserve currency, Adeyemo noted that the U.S. has the deepest,

most liquid capital markets, a dynamic economy, and a stable set of laws. The dollar is going to remain ubiquitous even for countries that are attempting to escape it, he said during a discussion that followed his speech. Adeyemo said the U.S. is prepared to take further action against Russia, with other top officials warning separately on Monday that the Treasury will also go after those who attempt to evade sanctions or facilitate such moves.

He said as long as Russia's invasion continues, our sanctions will continue. Even as we continue to pursue rigorous financial sanctions against Russia and its key financial institutions, the next phase of our work will be to take apart Russia's war machine piece by piece by disrupting their military-industrial complex and its supply chains.

Look what the Deputy Treasury Secretary is saying. Our next phase is to dismantle Russia's war machine, their defense industry, their Pentagon, piece by piece. We're going to take it apart piece by piece, disrupting their military industrial complex and their supply chains. Now, that's a declaration of war. And it is. It's a declaration of war. But it's also a lot of crowing, too, because basically they're saying, you know, we put these sanctions on Russia, but it's not going to hurt the world economy. It's not going to. We assure you it's not going to hurt anything that's going on in the world around us.

But Russia is still standing. Russia is still fighting in Ukraine every day. I bet an all-out nuclear war would disrupt the world economy. Well, to listen to the Treasury Department here, you would think that we were going gangbusters, that we were winning the financial war against Russia. But then you see an article like this that pops up. This is from CNBC. The U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen to meet with top finance ministers to address

global food crisis. What global food crisis? It's not happening right now, Rick. It's going to be happening soon. There's going to be a food crisis? Yes. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will this week meet with ministers from the globe's leading industrial nations to address a growing international food crisis caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Notice they're saying it's Russia's invasion of Ukraine, not the sanctions. So Secretary Yellen is deeply concerned about the impacts that Russia's reckless war Ukraine, not the sanctions. So Secretary Yellen is deeply concerned about the impacts that Russia's reckless war are having on the global economy, including the risk

rising food insecurity in emerging markets and developing countries around the world, particularly as which are still struggling to recover from the pandemic. The Secretary believes the Russian invasion of Ukraine has demonstrated the need for the world's largest economies to stand together to defend international order and protect peace and prosperity. Well, peace and prosperity, that's definitely not being attended to right now. So on the one hand, we're going to continue with sanctions on Russia. We're going to continue to put the screws on Russia. And dismantle them piece by piece.

And attempt to take them apart. But that has nothing to do with the global food crisis that's going on. It's Russia's fault. Not the sanctions that we put on them. It's Russia's fault because they refuse to do what NATO told them to do, and that is surrender. Right. It's Russia's fault. They would not surrender. Therefore, we have a global food crisis.

It's not the policies of the global elite. No, no, no. Not the Yale and Harvard-educated big boys. No, they didn't mess up. They're so smart. It's Russia's fault. We told them to stop acting like a sovereign nation and just surrender and let the West take over their country. And those Russians refused to do it. Now look at the mess we're in. Well, are we? Look at the mess. There's another fine mess you've got us in. So it's the distorted thinking of Western leaders. They have the propaganda machine of the newspapers and the television networks to perpetuate their lies.

It's a full-time job just to keep up with the propaganda. Right. Doc, how big is the propaganda apparatus? Just how big, how many people are employed in propaganda every day? I mean, it has to be in the tens of thousands every day. They're pumping out this information. And it's not just propaganda. There's different varieties of propaganda, like we talked about before. White propaganda, black propaganda, gray propaganda.

And the difficulty is discerning that. Now, for those of us who desire to follow Jesus Christ, the Word of God gives us the ability to discern the times. And we know that these are troubled times. We know that these are times where men's hearts are feeling them for fear. But that's why we're here every day. That's right.

Not to scare you, not to frighten you, but to give you hope that even in the midst of all this information, that yes, it's dire, but it's always been dire. Yes. It's always been dire. And Christians have always made it through. Yes. The the most dire situations the church has been alive and well for over 2 000 years and you know the early church saw the collapse of the roman empire that didn't stop them yes they

weren't organizing and trying to you know make rome great again. They just said, let it, let it fall. It's decadent. It's evil. Let it fall. The apostles were building the kingdom of God. And that's, that's the mindset we should have. You know, Daniel in the old Testament, basically was a prime minister. He, he served under four different kingdoms. Yes. Not politicians, governments, countries. He served under four, and yet he just stayed faithful to God. Right.

Did his job. Conquerors came and gone. They came and went. It didn't faze Daniel. He stayed faithful to God. And that's the attitude we should have. Whatever's going on around us in politics, that's not the main thing. The main thing is that we as children of God are advancing the kingdom of God, telling people about the king, telling people how to live in his kingdom, telling people about the arrival, the full manifestation of the kingdom of

God on the final day when Jesus Christ comes back. So let's stay focused on what we're supposed to be doing every single day. If nuclear war comes, we'll have to deal with it at that time. I hope and pray I never see it. It is the one thing I dread. I just don't want to see it, Doc. I don't want to see it. I don't want to live through it. I don't want us to say we were right. Yes. But the fact of the matter is we know that these times are troubling. And yet at the same time, we have a great hope in the midst of things. Hey, you've got one more story out of Russia. Vladimir Putin is demanding that Israel return to Russia, ownership of a Russian Orthodox church in Jerusalem. Now, this is actually the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity,

also known as the Alexander Nevsky Church. It's in the Christian quarter of Jerusalem. And a few years ago, there was a prisoner that was being held in Russia by the name of Naaman Issachar. They got arrested for marijuana possession and everything. And basically, he was released back to Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu had made a deal that if Mr. Issachar was released,

then Mr. Netanyahu would make sure that the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity would be given back to Russia. It had been out of their hands for a while. It had belonged to the Russians since the late 1800s when the Ottoman Empire was still in place and everything. And in the collapse of the Ottoman Empire when they were carving everything up, the world powers,

Russia was given title to this church. And Putin wanted it back. And it was promised back to him. Right now it's going through the whole rigmarole in the Israeli Supreme Court over whether they can do that or not. But it was promised to them by Benjamin Netanyahu as a result of that prisoner exchange. It's interesting that Mr. Putin is interested in this church, isn't it? It is. So here in America, the conservatives and the liberals,

the pagan left and the religious right are all cheering for the Nazi government of Ukraine and wanting to take down the Christian nation of Russia. Think about it. And Putin is fighting for control of a Christian church in Israel, controlled by Christ-hating Jews, and he's trying to save a church for Christ-loving Christians.

And yet the Christians in America are on the side of the Christ-loving Christians, and yet the Christians in America are on the side of the Christ-hating Jews. Right. It's really messed up, isn't it? And so this whole disagreement over the Church of the Holy, I mean, Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Jerusalem was sparked because up until a few weeks ago,

Israel's position on what was going on in Ukraine was like, you know, let's kind of wait and see. But now they condemned Russia for the, quote, Buka massacre, which no one can prove that Russia did in the first place. So then suddenly then Putin said, oh, that reminds me. Yes, hey, I have a list here of things, Israel, you promised in the past.

Something happened last night that I privately predicted here in our offices months ago, and that is Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy last night. Right. So Mr. Jones was found liable for damages in a trio of lawsuits last year. Rick, this is all related to the Sandy Hook incident many years ago and the information that Mr. Jones shared on his show. Family sued and the court has said... Well, he's facing multiple lawsuits. And they actually have filed some new ones last week, too.

Yes, and I predicted this. I told Doc months ago, Alex Jones will file for bankruptcy. I took note that he had started a new company, and I did some research into it. And I told Doc, I said, he's going to file bankruptcy. Yeah, you did. And then come out in a new company. See, you now have a federal judge who is now in control of InfoWars. So you need to understand that.

A U.S. federal bankruptcy judge is now in control, legal control, of InfoWars. As of today, Alex Jones has no control of InfoWars. A federal judge does. What does that mean for Alex Jones, Rick? It means he's lost control how InfoWars shall be managed and what bills are paid. The judge has the power to take the money from him and give it to others. Alex Jones lost all control of InfoWars. It's no longer his.

It's now a federal judge. And he might come out of it over, if he presents a plan to the judge and the judge approves the plan, he might come out of it in a couple years. Right.

But the main thing, the main reason he did it was to stop the lawsuits. So the lawsuits are now put on hold. But the federal judge is in control. So the federal judge could make decisions and literally take everything away from Alex Jones and give it to the court that is hearing the lawsuits. So, and I don't mean to literally take it and give it, but set it aside. Sequester the money, the assets.

So the bottom line is Alex Jones can't write a check anymore. That's the bottom line. So where does he go from here? What does he do? He has to re-emerge under another company, another name. InfoWars is over. He has to come back with a new operation. All right.

I don't know if he personally filed for bankruptcy. I know this was for InfoWars. I don't know if he personally filed for bankruptcy, but InfoWars is over, and I do not see them recovering from this at all. Wow. Well, I would never would have imagined to see this day that you'd actually be hearing that,

and so I'm not the biggest fan of Alex Jones at all, but it's interesting. There were several different groups that kind of appeared at about the same time, early, late 90s, early 2000s, you know, WorldNetDailyU, Alex Jones, several others. And it's been interesting to see all the various paths and different tracks that have been on. And now here's where Alex Jones is all these years later. And all I can say, the thing that we did differently is that we put our faith and our trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and always honored Jesus Christ. Always did my best to obey Christ, to honor him and made mistakes along the way. But always stayed humble before the Lord and asked that Jesus Christ be in charge of everything that we

were doing. And so we're still here and we're still going strong and we're still growing. And by the way, Doc and I are leaving, God willing, we're leaving Sunday, this coming Sunday for Jordan. We'll be there for two weeks. Now we're not going to be doing a daily true news program the way we do it. We will be doing something daily. But it will be from Jordan and it's not going to be about news unless Russia nukes Ukraine while we're there. But we're going to be going to biblical sites. And so we will be hosting true news from various biblical sites like the Jordan River, Mount Nebo and other places.

And I can tell you this. There are exciting things happening that I did not organize. I was I was informed over the weekend a dinner has been planned for me in Jordan. And there are 16 high level government and business officials coming. I mean, at the highest levels. And I'm just in awe of what God is doing. I didn't ask for it. I didn't organize it. It was organized on my behalf

because Jordanian officials know about True News. They know about me. And they are eager to greet us and open doors, not only in Jordan, but throughout the Arab world. So God is going before us and preparing the way for us on this trip and I am very very humbled by it

and I'm very excited I can't wait to get there because I want to see what the Lord has yes and be praying for us for divine appointments and divine connections as we make this journey to Jordan it's going to be an exciting time

and we appreciate you partnering with us hey one good thing this is number 35 we don't have to wear the stupid mask on the plane when we fly to Jordan and we appreciate you partnering with us on that. Hey, one good thing, this is number 35. We don't have to wear the stupid mask on the plane when we fly to Georgia. Hallelujah. Florida judge overturned the CDC mask mandate for public transit and planes

because today was the day that was supposed to end. And then last week they announced that they were going to extend it two more weeks. And when I heard that, I was like, oh, man, come on. Then you saw this. Aren't you glad to live in Florida? We've got some smart judges here in Florida. Yeah, but this is nationwide.

So you no longer have to wear a mask on a U.S. commercial airliner. You don't have to wear a mask on any public transportation, including buses and everything where they've overextended their reach. CDC did not have the authority to do these things. Thank God that a judge finally put them in their place. And Jordan no longer requires the COVID test to enter the country. The whole country is open. The restaurants are open. The tourist sites are open. When we land, we don't have to show

that we've had a COVID test to get into the country. Now, we have to have a COVID test to come back in our own country. Yes. So who's more free, the Jordanians or Americans? You can go to Jordan without a PCR test, but to get back in the United States, you need a PCR test. Yes.

Well, maybe by the time we get back, that stupid rule will be over too. Hey, Florida judge, find that one too. Who knows what would happen? I was surprised today to see the judicial ruling. Hey, while we're talking about, well, Florida, this is number 34. This is from the Florida Department of Education. Florida rejects publisher's attempt to indoctrinate students.

Doc, the leftists have put critical race theory in school math books. Yes. Math is about numbers, not politics. It's numbers. And the whole idea here, too, is this is, you know, the opportunity for, if Florida can do this, your state can do it, too.

And they're pushing back on critical race theory, pushing back on common core, which has been shown to have a direct connection to lower SAT scores over the past few years. And this other concept of social emotional learning. Two plus two equals what? How do you feel about that? It's all based upon how you feel feel I wish I'd had this when I was in school because I didn't do good in math and I could have told my math teacher I don't feel good about these answers I don't feel good about the the uh the d that it gave me on my math test making me feel bad you know it's it's amazing how out of all the years of recorded history, going back to the Greeks and discovering geometry and

Newton and calculus and everything, none of them ever had to worry about how they felt about a triangle or how they felt about a multiplication answer. It was just either that's the correct answer or not. But education is more about indoctrination today. And Florida is taking the first step to fight back against that indoctrination, against critical race theory, against Common Core, and against social emotional learning. You know something else that's happening, Doc, and it's so encouraging because I've been a pro-life supporter ever since I've been a Christian. That was 1978. Abortion was legalized in this country in 1972, 73 with Roe v. Wade. And in recent months, a number of states under Republican Party control have passed pro-life laws. Some, like here in Florida, it didn't go far enough for me, but it limits abortion to the first 15 weeks. So if a baby

can live 16 weeks, hey, in Florida, you're going to make it. You've got to get past the 15th week. But in other states, like Oklahoma, it's pretty much illegal now. And Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, I'm trying to remember some of the other states, Kentucky have been passing pro-life bills. And so slowly, a number of states are starting to undo the genocide, the Holocaust, a massive murder of babies, tens of millions of babies, 60, 70 million babies murdered in America since the 1970s.

The darkest stain on America's soul. Absolutely the darkest. It's worse than any Holocaust. It's worse than any social injustice. It's mass murder. And it is starting to come to an end. Hallelujah. That's a good sign of all the things

we've been talking about in this country, how dire things look. There are some places. Some light. There's some light in some states where Christians are making a difference and we're starting to reclaim the land that we lost, the territory, the political territory that we lost decades ago. Sadly, many babies are dead, but at least it means babies in the future aren't going to be

dead in those states. But at the same time, other states like New York, Maryland, my home state, California, they are passing the most extreme pro-death bills ever. They want to kill babies like there's no tomorrow. And they also want to kill old people too at the end of life. I don't know if you caught this last week or not, Rick, but a church in Canada actually had a live... I saw the headline, but I didn't read it. Actually had a live, what they called crossing over for service in the church. It was an assisted suicide in a church.

And so they had people there. They had a congregation there. They had someone up front and someone administered. They had a congregation that showed up to watch it? Look at these guys in control. Canadian church hosts controversial assisted suicide ceremony for a member with ALS. Now, I know the ALS is debilitating and it's painful, but Rick, this is where we're headed. Now, churches are celebrating

that it was a United Church of Christ in Canada. And so this, but it could be any church. Would any church shock you at all? The United Church of Antichrist. Right. And so if it's not, if we're not trying to, you know, rip a baby from the womb, we're trying to throw grandpa in a tube. And so one way or the other, they love death. Man,

these people are so focused on death. They love it. It is. It's a death cult. Now they're having it in church. Why don't they just have an abortion in church too? I mean, I wouldn't be shocked by that. What does this look like, Doc? If you had to paint a picture of the last days, of falling away, the time before the Antichrist appears, what would you paint as a picture? That headline I just showed you.

Can you imagine Paul the Apostle looking at this and said, this is the church. This is where the church is today. They're killing people in church. Yes, this is where we are today, and we're celebrating. Except it's no longer Christ's church. This is where the church is today. They're killing people in church. Yes, this is where we are today and we're celebrating. Except it's no longer Christ Church. It's anti-Christ Church. Hey, thank you for watching. We appreciate your prayers and your support for True News. Once in a while I've got to remind you that hey, we are supported by the generous love gifts

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