TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - First Cut Is the Deepest: Medvedev Threatens to Cut Undersea Cables

Episode Date: June 14, 2023

In an online post Wednesday on the Telegram messaging app, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said there were no longer any "moral limits" that would prevent Moscow from cutting undersea cables that transmit everything from gas to electricity, banking data and military communications between the USA and Europe. His threat echoed an argument that was used to justify Russian attacks on the two Nord Stream natural gas pipelines that run through the Baltic Sea. The explosions that ruptured them last year had severe implications for global telecommunications and internet connectivity. Mr. Medvedev's threats come after a series of other statements that suggested that Russia could fire hypersonic missiles near Washington, DC; warned that any loss of Russian forces in Ukraine would lead to a nuclear war in the West; and claimed that British officials are legitimate targets for attack. Before we delve into the Medvedev threat, we want to first take a look at a statement made yesterday by Vladimir Putin. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 6/14/23 You can partner with us by visiting TruNews.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 690069 Vero Beach, FL 32969. It’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today! https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/ Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858 The Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today! https://tru.news/faucielf

You are listening to True News with Rick Wiles. We appreciate you tuning in. To find out more information regarding the broadcast, including prayer and financial support, please visit our website at truenews.com. Our mailing address for all correspondence is True News, P.O. Box 6, and nothing but the truth, so help us God. In an online post Wednesday on the Telegram messaging app, Dmitry Medvedev said that there were no longer any moral limits that would prevent Moscow from cutting undersea cables that transmit everything from gas to electricity, banking data, and military communications between the USA and Europe. His threat echoed an argument that was used to justify attacks on the two Nord Stream natural gas pipelines that run through the Baltic Sea.

The explosions that ruptured them last year had severe implications for global telecommunications and internet connectivity. Mr. Medvedev's threat came today after a series of other statements that suggested that Russia could fire hypersonic missiles near Washington, D.C., warned that any loss of Russian forces in Ukraine would lead to a nuclear war with the West and claimed that British officials are legitimate military targets for attack. Before Doc Burkhardt and I delve into Mr. Medvedev's threat, we want to first take a look at another statement made yesterday by Vladimir Putin. This is the TASS news agency. Putin says Russia may consider creating a sanitary zone in Ukraine. Doc, on the surface, you think,

why is Vladimir Putin talking about a sanitary district? I mean, you would think about a county or city government saying, well, we're going to put a sanitary district in there. But he's not talking about sewage and water facilities. When he's talking about a sanitary zone, he's talking about sanitizing a geographical region in Ukraine to be without certain people. Right. In other words, they're going to sanitize it. Right. We'd compare it to a safe zone, but a safe zone to the extreme.

So the TASS is reporting that Russian President Vladimir Putin is stating that Russia may consider creating a sanitary zone on Ukrainian territory if the shelling of Russian regions continues. President Putin stated that if the situation persists, Russia may have to create such a zone on Ukrainian territory at a distance from which it would not be possible to reach Russian territory. President Putin made these comments during a meeting with military correspondents, adding that this is a separate issue that needs to be considered based on how the situation unfolds. Now, President Putin said, of course, the opportunity to shell our territory from Ukraine remains. There are several ways to solve it. First, by increasing the effectiveness of

counter-battery combat. But this does not mean that there will be no so-called arrivals on our territory. And if this continues, then we will have to consider the issue, and I say this very carefully, the need to create some kind of sanitary zone on the territory of Ukraine at such a distance from which it would be impossible to reach Russian territory. So actually, this is unfolding the way we talked about it months ago, that there would probably be divisions within Ukraine, maybe a demilitarized zone or something like that at some point. And then, of course,

Western Ukraine being occupied by Poland, and there'd be nothing left but a little district of Kiev, let's say, a Kiev republic, whereas the rest of Ukraine is either occupied by Russian forces, a sanitary zone, police forces, maybe even NATO forces in the southern part of Ukraine. So, Doc, what I believe Mr. Putin is saying is they know the distance that weapons supplied by the United States, Great Britain, and other NATO countries, they know the distance that these projectiles can travel, missiles, projectiles, artillery, whatever, in these various weapons. They know the distance in kilometers. I think what he's saying is

we're going to establish a zone that Ukrainian troops can't get within that firing range. Right. Which means that Russia is going to occupy a bigger portion of Ukrainian territory. So they're going to have to put a lot more troops in there because they're going to have to take control of a wide swath of Ukraine

to have that type of zone where no Ukrainian military units can get inside that zone to launch attacks on Russian territory. They've been hitting Russian towns quite frequently for the past month. So what Putin's going to do is back them up inside their own country, inside Ukraine. But the only alternative would be Britain and the United States to give Ukraine missiles that have a longer trajectory. Right. And this would kind of fall into the kind of the trap that NATO has set for Russia, too.

Because NATO will turn right around and say, look, you were planning to invade Ukraine this whole time. Yes. You weren't just interested in the eastern provinces. Therefore, we have to give them more missiles that have a longer range. Right. So it's just going to lead to a further escalation of the war now the next story this one's big um this is one of those things you read at 4 a.m and you go oh boy

things just got serious you know so this is the one i read. Actually, I read the Telegram post when I got out of bed this morning. This is the Times of London. Dmitry Medvedev threatens to cut off the West Internet. Right. So we'll take a look at what the Times said. Then we'll go directly to the post from Mr. Medvedev. Yes, so the London Times reports that one of President Putin's closest allies is warning that Russia could destroy underwater cables that are vital for internet and other global communications in Europe and the U.S. Dmitry Medvedev, the hardline former Russian president,

said that Moscow had the moral right to target its enemy's communications infrastructure because of what he claimed was Western complicity in the blast that ruptured the nordstream one and two gas pipelines last year so going to mr mavedev's post on telegram it starts off with he titles it two good morning thoughts so this is the first of his good morning thoughts today. Yesterday, the president of Russia spoke about the need to create a demilitarized sanitary zone for the security of our country. And given the hostile decisions to supply the Kiev regime with more and more long-range weapons, such a line should pass on the borders of Lvov in order to play a real defensive role. Then this will be the new safe borders of what used to be called Country 404.

So let's keep that up for a second. What Medvedev is saying is actually an expansion on what President Putin had said. President Putin had suggested, you know, a sanitary zone, safe zone, if you will, in eastern Ukraine. But Mr. Medvedev said, no, actually, the safe zone should extend even along the Polish border, too. And so that means there's really nothing left of Ukraine after that. In the country that used to be called, he doesn't even call country 404 anymore. 404 meaning site not found, site not found.

So he's saying we don't even consider country 404 anymore right ukraine's history in their mind so doc the very first thing as you said is uh nevada is proposing that russia control all the territory up to the Polish border. Right. And then they're going to strike at Western supplies coming across the Polish border into Ukraine. I mean, it's taken a year to get to this point where the Russians say we have to hit them as they come across the border. Right. The NATO supplies go to Poland and then they cross the border. So the Russians are now saying there's no other choice now. We have to we have to control the border of Ukraine and Poland.

So his second good morning thought after he had his bowl of borscht this morning, he said, if we proceed from the proven complicity of Western countries in undermining the Nord Streams, then we have no even moral restrictions left to refrain from destroying the cable communications of our enemies laid along the ocean floor. So basically what he's saying is we know that the Western nations were involved in the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines. Therefore, we have the right, even a moral right, to defend ourselves the same way by destroying possibly undersea pipelines that belong to the West or undersea cables. Now, Rick, undersea cables has been a fascinating topic

that you've looked at quite often. I remember on several trips, you talking to me about certain areas of the world that acted like communications backbones for the Northern Hemisphere or wherever you might be. And so you've spent a lot of time looking at undersea cables and maps of undersea cables. So I'm a really big nerd,

and when I go to another country, especially Caribbean islands, I want to go see where the cable... Right. I want to go to the exact place where the cables come in to that country. Where you can actually see the cable come up on the beach.

You can see the cable come up out of the ocean onto the beach. They're there. Some of these islands, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands is one. Curaçao, a Dutch island in the Caribbean. These islands are basically giant routers. Just think about a router. They just have cables coming in and cables going out.

And those islands are really, there's massive bandwidth capability on those islands. Right. And the majority of our communications goes through those pipelines. It's not going up to a satellite in the sky. No, it's old-fashioned cable. So it's just running along the ocean floor.

Before I show our audience, I want to give the guys in the control room a heads up. I want to jump over to the number 16, the map. There you go. You're thinking ahead. So here is the map of the undersea cables you see the united states there in the left south america below and then crossing the atlantic those are all the cables from the usa to europe you look at the West Coast, those are the cables going to Asia. You see cables coming out of Miami, going down to South America. Miami is a major hub, major doc, huge center for

internet cables, communication cables out of the United States. And, you know, they're going down there to Brazil. And then you see cables, you know, the rest of the world, Asia, so forth. What Mr. Medvedev said today is, we're going to, see that all those cables right there between the United States and Great Britain and Europe? What he said today, folks, is we're going to cut them. Yes. We're going to cut them.

We're going to cut them in half. That's what he said. He said, you people took out our gas pipelines. Now we're going to take out your undersea cables. It's a threat. I believe he means it. The difference between the way the U.S. and European regime operates is that they do stuff and then they lie. The Russians tell you up front, this is what we're going to do.

That's the way it is, dog. They're just telling us we're not going to lie about it. We're going to cut your cables. See, the U.S. and Europe, we blow up stuff and then we lie about it. But the Russians are saying, we're not going to lie. We're telling you. We're telling you. And when the lights are saying, we're not going to lie. We're telling you. You'll know it's us. We're telling you. And when the lights go out, when your phones go dead,

when your banks don't work, you're going to know we did it. Folks, if they carry this threat out, if they carry this out, the U.S. becomes an isolated island. Internet is still going to work inside the USA, but you're not going to send emails to outside of the USA. You're not going to have access to servers outside of the USA. The Internet will work inside the USA,

but based on the servers that are here, and you'll have the ability to send emails inside the USA, but nothing outside of the USA. And that would also disrupt a lot of corporate activities here in the U.S. because companies like Amazon and Google and even the U.S. government, they park servers around the world, you know, as backup data, you know, or to offload, you know, bandwidth and everything. And that disruption will cause other disruptions within the economy. And people aren't

using the Internet any less now than they were. They're using it more. And as AI continues to advance, they're going to use it even more and more. Internet activity is up 57 percent year to year right now. So we made a list of things that depend on undersea cables. This may be a surprise to you. Of things that depend on undersea cables. This may be a surprise to you. Maybe you've known these facts for years and you understand the gravity of this threat. But I want to take a look at number eight on our list. So number one, Internet connectivity.

Undersea cables form the backbone of international internet connectivity, carrying vast amounts of data between continents. They enable high-speed internet access, facilitating the exchange of web content, emails, instant messaging, and online services. So text messages going outside of the U.S., coming in to the U.S., all those things would be cut off. So let's just look at number one. If the Russians cut the cables, what do you lose? You lose the backbone of international Internet connectivity. Right.

You lose vast amounts of data between continents. You lose web content, emails, text messages, online services, anything outside of the USA. Right. That's just number one. We'll go to number two. So number two, telephone and voice calls. Thunder Seed Cable support international voice communication, including long-distance and international phone calls. They enable reliable and high-quality voice transmission between different countries and continents.

And so, as Rick said, if you start interfering with that, you reduce the amount of communication going on between various continents. And that traffic either gets rerouted to other cables, creating loads that maybe cannot be sustained, or it just doesn't happen at all. Right. So if you have a relative in another country, or you have a friend that's traveling to another country, there's no ability to communicate. Right. There's no phone calls. You're not going to be able to reach people outside of the USA. Number three. So video conferencing, of course, that's used, we use it all the time. And so with the increasing demand for remote collaboration and video communication, undersea cables play a vital role in supporting video conferencing services. These cables ensure the transmission of real-time audio and video data, facilitating virtual meetings, conferences, and webinars.

And so, once again, you get into a situation where you're starting to interfere with the flow of business. And business now operates at the speed of data along these cables. Number five, excuse me, number four, data transfer and file sharing. Undersea cables facilitate the transfer of large data volumes between the USA and Europe. They support file sharing services, data backups, cloud storage, and other data-intensive applications. Let's go to number five. Now, this is a biggie here. Undersea cables are crucial for secure and fast transmission of financial data, including online banking, stock trading, and international money transfers.

They ensure reliable connectivity between financial institutions and support the global financial network. All right. So, Doc, the West has talked about cutting Russia off of SWIFT. Right. They're going to cut SWIFT off from the world. Yes. SWIFT comes to an end. There's no bank wires at this point.

There's no way to get money from a bank in the USA to a bank in another country. Right. It just stops. It's done. Wire transfers. No wire transfers. you're trying to send money western union money gram your through your bank the money's not going to go anywhere

it has no ability to travel once those cables are cut all international financial transactions come to a screeching halt in seconds. I mean, it changes everything, Doc. Yes, we're still here operating. The lights are still on. Phone calls inside the USA. But your bank may be down. Well, your bank would be open inside the the usa but if it's dependent on international money coming in just think of the financial impact i don't know how how many dollars are are wired

that's something we should look up tomorrow how many dollars are wired from international banks to the united States each day? So banks are going to be expecting their daily allotment of money. You know, transactions have been made. Deals have been made. The bankers go home at night knowing that in the morning x many hundreds of millions of dollars are going to come flowing in from overseas they get up in the morning and they they're told the cables were cut well guess what that money can't get there now

right that money's that money is trapped in the other country. They're going to have to send an old-fashioned check. They're going to have to write a check and mail it in an airplane or a ship. International bank transactions will go back how many years? When did SWIFT start? I don't know what decade it started in. I don't recall. Well, SWIFT transfers, get this number, $5 trillion worth of funds each day.

Per day? Per day. Okay. That's $1.25 quadrillion in a year. Is that money going in and out? In and out, but it transfers $5 trillion per day. Okay, so we'll cut that in half. $2.5 trillion will get blocked on its way to the United States.

Another $2.5 million will get blocked leaving the United States, getting to Europe or Asia. At the end of the day, Doc, $5 trillion will be stranded in one day. That's just one day. And if it happens over a week, you're at $35 trillion, well, half of that. But still, and what a disruption that's going to be to the global economy as money isn't flowing. You're doing a real-time research.

Find out when was the SWIFT bank wire system, when was it turned on? When did it originate? Okay, let's find out. Because that's what we're going back to, whatever the date was before it. Was it the 60s? I don't know.

I'm finding out before you're here. Well, let's go. While you're looking, I'll continue to go down. Let's see. The next one here, research and education. Undersea cables are utilized for academic and research purposes, enabling collaboration between universities, research institutions, scientific communities across continents. They support data sharing, remote access to educational resources, and collaborative research projects. Did you get a date?

Yes, started in 73 with a small group of banks and then went global in 77. Okay, so if the cables are cut, banking transactions go back to where we were at in the 60s, in the 1960s. Did we have international transactions? Yes. You had to do it with one person on one end of the phone line and one person on the other end of the phone line to do that transfer? They had to do it with checks. How else can you do it? I'm certain, Doc, the only way it was done is that they had to fly checks across the ocean. It's just so hard for even me to comprehend that they would have to deliver a check. Maybe it was done by phone communication. I don't know. But whatever

it was, that's what we're going to be doing again. That's what's coming up. Let's go to the next one, media and broadcasting. Undersea cables play a crucial role in international media and broadcasting. They facilitate the transmission of television signals, streaming services, news feeds, and other multimedia content across borders. And the next one, government and defense communications. That's a big one, too. Undersea Cable supports secure communication networks for governments and for defense organizations. They enable confidential information exchange, diplomatic communication, and military operations coordination between the USA and Europe. And Rick, I'm sure that map doesn't have all the cables that are out there because you have the covert cables that have been laying in the ocean. Is Zelensky and the Nazi-occupied government of Ukraine,

is it worth us losing all these services and benefits? Is it worth it? You want to pay this price, Doc? You want to go back 50 years in time? For Zelensky. And what are we getting out of it? What's the upside for the United States of America? Freedom?

That's what we're told, right? Freedom for who? We're not experiencing new freedom at all. It seems like we're doing nothing but creating more problems for ourselves, which we are, of course. I mean, what did the Europeans get when the West blew up the pipeline? They got shortages, higher prices. How did they come out ahead? They didn't. So the Russians are staying calm and they're saying, okay, it's our turn you you blew up our pipeline and we didn't declare war on you we had a right to declare war but we didn't so now we're going

to cut your pipeline i mean your your cables and you need to refrain from declaring war on us by the way you're talking about the history of bank wires? The first bank wire was in 1872. How'd they do it? Through Western Union. So what the bank would do is they would take money to the telegraph office, telegraph that would send a message to another telegraph office. How did the telegraph get across the ocean?

Well, you didn't have international ones until... Okay, so when was the first international? I don't know that yet. All right. Still generating an answer here. So we'll still be able to do bank wires inside the USA. That's not going to end. Bank wires between the U.S. and Canada, Mexico, you know.

Well, I don't know about Mexico. Depends if they have cables run on land. It's the international transactions that's going to halt. It's the communications, the television, the Internet. All the infrastructure that we take for granted is going to come to a screeching halt on one day in hours. The Russians have trawlers with just big saws on the back. Right.

Another option, too, is you saw where all the cables are in the middle of the Atlantic, a couple of tactical nukes planted at just the right locations could knock out who knows how many undersea cables simultaneously. You know, and it's down on the ocean floor. It's going to make it difficult, maybe even take years, even decades to repair the damage that was brought about. And knowing the Russians, they might just do it as a show of force. And so just say, hey, use a really small bomb on the Nord Stream pipeline. We're going to show you how it's done the right way. Well, Doc, it's not just Mr. Medvedev who is making threats. Mr. Putin has made another threat about nuclear war.

This is Daily Mail. Putin threatens Ukraine war could turn nuclear and warns in the event of a third world war, there will be no winners, including America. Right. So this is continuing that security conference. According to the Daily Mail online, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that the ongoing conflict in Ukraine could escalate into a nuclear war. Now, during a press conference, Putin stated that Russia would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons if necessary to defend its interests in the region. He also accused the United States and NATO of provoking the conflict by supporting Ukraine's government and military. The comments come amid heightened tensions between Russia and

the West over Ukraine, with both sides accusing the other of aggression and destabilization. So amid Russia's response to Ukraine launching their much-anticipated counteroffensive, President Putin speaking at a meeting with Russian war correspondents in Moscow yesterday said, the United States pretends not to be afraid of an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, but sane people there clearly do not want to take this to a third world war. He said in the event of a third world war, there will be no winners, including America. Now, during yesterday's meeting with 18 Russian war correspondents and bloggers in the Kremlin, a gloating Putin Putin, as Daily Mail

saying this, also claimed that Western tanks, including U.S.-made Bradley fighting vehicles and German-made Leopards, burned nicely, as we expected. Putin's warnings come as Russian's former president, Dmitry Medvedev, said today there were no longer any moral limits to stop Moscow from destroying its enemies under sea cables. And so Daily Mail is also reporting on this. These undersea cables connecting Britain to the Internet causing widespread blackouts. And, Doc, as we have been reporting for several months that Russia was going to deploy tactical nukes inside the neighboring country of Belarus. Well, the nukes are there today. Yes.

So according to Times of London, Putin deploys nuclear weapons in response to Ukraine counteroffensive. Yeah, so this is moving quickly, this story. According to the London Times, Belarus has received Russian tactical nuclear weapons, and Moscow has warned that it could launch nuclear strikes on Europe to break the West's support for Ukraine. Alexander Lukashenko confirmed in an interview with Russian state television that they had received missiles and bombs from Russia. Now, this is the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union

that Moscow has deployed nuclear weapons outside of Russia. So this is a quote from President Lukashenko. We have missiles and bombs that we have received from Russia. He said this. Once again, it says the Belarusian dictator, that's the London Times saying that. The bombs are three times more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So even though these are tactical nukes, they still have enormous destructive power. Now, the deployment came as Sergei Kharaginov, an honorary chairman of Russia's Council of Foreign and Defense Policy,

said that Russia could and should escalate its nuclear rhetoric to try to force Western countries to back down over Ukraine, including by warning Russians living abroad to evacuate from areas near potential targets. He added that if this failed, the Kremlin should carry out nuclear attacks on European cities. So let me tell you what this means. This guy advises President Putin. He's the one that gives the advice on nuclear weapons. What he's saying is you should go ahead and carry out nuclear attacks. So what we should be, based on that, look at this, Doc,

what we should be watching for is if there is a warning, an alert issued by the Russian foreign ministry under Lavrov telling Russian citizens to evacuate certain Western cities, London. Brussels. Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Washington. If we see that type of alert coming out of Moscow, then the second part of this warning is probably pretty close. And that is, if that action doesn't force the West to back down, then what this gentleman is recommending to Putin is just go ahead and nuke the cities.

Now, he went on to say, and this is a quote from him saying, this is a morally terrible choice. We use the weapons of God, dooming ourselves to severe spiritual losses. But if this is not done, not only Russia may perish, but most likely the entire human civilization will end. He wrote this in an article, A Difficult and Necessary Decision, that was published by Russia in Global Affairs, a Kremlin-linked website.

Now, Karaginov, a hardliner who is thought to have influenced some of Putin's thinking on the West and Ukraine, said that there was little chance that Washington would retaliate to nuclear strikes on Europe. He says, Only if there is a madman in the White House will

America decide on a strike to defend Europeans, incurring a response and sacrificing, say, Boston for, say, Posnan. So it's interesting that he is recommending that Russia follow through on nuclear strikes and says that the U.s will not retaliate that they would hold back in retaliation unless there's a crazy person sitting on pennsylvania avenue dangerous think of where we've come in a year where the deployment of nuclear weapons now is a daily news story. Well, in other parts of the world. Not in American news. Just hear true news.

Right. Fox News is not going to talk about it tonight. CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, they're not going to talk about it. So now we've had these. Most of the American people, Doc. Right. 99% of the American people have no idea this stuff is being discussed. So for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, you have nuclear weapons being shipped out of Russia to another country, to Belarus.

Now Belarus has nuclear weapons on its soil. What are nuclear weapons for? They're to be used. This next title here, this next article, this is from RT. Lukashenko outlines how Belarus could enter the Ukraine conflict. So Belarus President Lukashenko stated that his country is prepared to join the conflict in Ukraine if the republic ever becomes the target of aggression. That's coming from RT,

of course. Lukashenko explained that his country was peaceful and had had enough war throughout its history. However, he also warned that it would not hesitate to respond and strongly enter the conflict if aggression is committed against us. He added that his primary red line was a full-scale incursion into Belarus, which he believes could potentially come from Poland, Ukraine, or any of the Baltic states. Now, the president noted, however, that he did not consider attacks such as those committed by Ukrainian saboteurs on the Belarusian airfields a few months ago in Russia's Belgorod region this year to be genuine acts of aggression and called them mere provocations that were being dealt with. Went on to say,

this is a very tangible, strong provocation where we are not doing enough. But now we have begun to address it and have delved into this nasty, unpleasant problem, Lukashenko said, noting that the saboteurs are already afraid of coming in groups. And so what you're going to be watching for in Belarus is if you see an incursion

of forces from Poland or from Ukraine, or as Mr. Lukashenko said, from any of the Baltic states, which very well could happen. You know, NATO could make a decision to make a move on Belarus instead of Russia. Well, if that happens, guess what? Now Mr. Lukashenko has the nuclear weaponry to respond as well. Plus a sizable army of Belarusian troops that could cross the border into Ukraine or maybe Poland. Right. This may be the plan, Doc.

Belarus goes into Poland. Ooh, I just thought about this. Has Lukashenko promised Putin that Belarusian troops will enforce the sanitary zone? In western Ukraine, yes. He's got fresh troops. His troops haven't been on the battlefield. He's got fresh troops.

They're not bleeding. They're not limping. We could see something happen soon where belarusian troops go into ukraine and they are the sanitary sanitation force that mr putin's talking about this next story is is about a russian a Russian reserve lieutenant colonel who in an interview with Bild magazine in Germany predicted that Zelensky's

suicide is being prepared by NATO. That they're done with him. That he's going to be bumped off and we're going to hear the story sometime soon that Zelensky has been eliminated. And he's not the only one that has suggested this. In fact, an editor at Build has suggested that that is exactly what may happen as well.

So the health and mood swings of Ukrainian President Zelensky have been attracting increased attention from Western media, and particularly the deputy editor of the German edition of Bild, Paul Rosheimer. And this has led to speculation that the groundwork is being laid for Zelensky's replacement with a more loyal politician or security official. Russian Oleg Avanikov, head of the Law and Order Foundation and a reserve lieutenant colonel, believes that this is highly probable and stated this and more in an interview with AIF Russia. Doc, let me ask you before we read this. Are you aware of any health and mood swings of Zelensky? Well, if you've been observing lately, some of the videos he's been producing,

he seems like he's, I'll say, like he's on crack. I mean, there are times where he'll speak really fast and then he'll speak really slow. And he's always had sleepy, droopy eyes, but here lately they've just been... I do all that myself. Well, you work for a living, and so you're not an international fundraiser. But yeah, there have been a number of people that have noticed. And besides that, Zelensky has been starting to be more critical of his partners in the West. Demanding more. Right.

And when they don't come through, he'll, you know, say snarky things and do things like that. So but let's get in the article here and tell you a little bit more. Bill, deputy editor in chief, Paul Rosheimer, who interviewed Zelensky, recently released a separate article stating that he had not seen the president of Ukraine with such a change of mood since the beginning of Russia's special military operation. Now that's coming that's coming from the deputy editor of Bild, a very prestigious German publication. Right so they had done a full-length interview here a few weeks ago with Zelensky and then Paul Rosheimer wrote a separate article after the interview had aired or had been presented, stating that he noticed there's been a big change in Zelensky.

So Zelensky is starting to break under the pressure? Pressure or maybe some other factors might be involved. So AIF Russia asked Ivanikov regarding Zelensky, knowing that the president's eyes were increasingly sleepy and that the Ukrainian media had already begun to discuss his health. So even the Ukrainian media is starting to talk about Zelensky is psychologically overwhelmed by the long-term use of psychotropic and narcotic substances that foreign partners stuffed him with to support his performance. Now it affects the most negative way.

The West is considering the possibility of starting negotiations with Russia, said Ivankov. But Zelensky does not fit into these negotiations. He makes many statements about his disagreement with the negotiations on the proposal of China, African countries, and the West. I do not rule out that Western partners are thus preparing the soft elimination of Zelensky, hinting and leading the situation to the fact that he can either commit suicide on his own or die as a result of the use of psychotropic substances. Now, when asked if the West had a replacement for Zelensky and mine, Ivankov

responded, I see that the West is considering the head of the main intelligence director of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budenov. So they're going to take their CIA guy. Right. So Zelensky is deeply aware of this and is doing everything possible to delete Budanov from the information space to hide the activities of his administration from the Ukrainians as much as possible. And by doing so, he is trying to delay his own liquidation. Now, he makes his reasoning based on this. Budanov is a military man and is used to always following orders.

So if the curators from across the ocean, meaning the U.S., give an order, he will carry it out just as conscientiously as he followed the orders of Zelensky and the other Nazi leadership in Kiev, Ivankov added. You know, it's possible that Zelensky could, something could happen to him. You know, he could die a hero, Rick, defending his country. But really, yeah, I think they see the cracks in the wall with Zelensky.

And I think Ivankov makes a good case here that, you know, that Budanov might be a better alternative for cooperation with the West to carry out what the West wants done. So, but now people are talking about Zelensky's health. It's out there in the conversation now. And it's not just outlets like us, but outlets within Ukraine that are talking about it. So for over a year, we were told that Putin was going to die. All right. And he was very sick and getting treatments, but there's no sign that he's sick and no sign that he's dying. Now we're being told Zelensky's dying.

He doesn't look good. He's not acting right. He may commit Arkansas. He may fall down a flight of stairs. He may fall off the roof of a tall building. Is it accurate insight or is it propaganda? Well, and that's what we have to use discernment for every day, Rick, in trying to figure out where the truth lies.

The truth is probably somewhere out there in the middle of all this. I mean, if it's propaganda, then the Russians are, they're gaslighting Zelensky. I mean, they're getting this story, if the Russians are doing it, they're getting this story out saying, hey, the West is done with you. Your intelligence chief is going to knock you off and take your job. But there are rumors to the effect that Zelensky and the top tier of the Ukrainian government are heavily into narcotics and drugs. And it would explain a lot of where money is going to all over the world. Speaking of money, BlackRock now is basically running the finances of Ukraine at this point. So all the money that's going to Ukraine

is going through the hands of BlackRock now. It's a small world. Yeah. So Wall Street Journal says Poland is saying no to another Nordic NATO chief and is splitting the defense alliance. Now, this is an interesting story in the Wall Street Journal. It's saying that Poland is opposing the Danish Prime Minister, Matt Fredrickson, to be the next chief of the

North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Now, this move highlights a rift among NATO member states over the alliance's future, 18 months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Now, the opposition from Poland, a key NATO member, could lead to a split in the alliance and hinder its ability to respond to future threats. Now, Poland's concerns include a desire to install a leader from NATO's eastern flank in the alliance's top job and complaints that Denmark has fallen short of its defense spending commitments. Now, after nearly 15 years of former Nordic prime ministers at the helm, Warsaw is wary of installing yet another Scandinavian in the alliance's top job. The selection of a replacement for Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is front and center in talks

among allies ahead of NATO's annual summit in Lithuania's capital Vilnius in July, which President Biden and his counterparts are expected to attend. Which leads us to the next story. If they can't find a replacement, will Jen Stoltenberg stay in that position? Now, he's already on an extension now. Yes. Because he retired, basically announced his retirement once and then said, you know, because of the Ukraine war, rescinded that. Now there's talk about let's just keep Jens Stoltenberg in place. So the Financial Times are reporting that NATO leaders are considering extending Stoltenberg's tenure as Secretary General

as the alliance faces increasing skepticism about reaching an agreement on a successor before next month's summit. Now, despite having no intention of seeking an extension, Stoltenberg, who's been leading the alliance since 2014, has not ruled out continuing his role. So Mr. Stoltenberg recently met with U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington where the issue of his potential extension was presumably discussed. We get some quotes here from this Financial Times article. In the interest of continuity, it makes sense, said one senior Western diplomat

who has discussed the possibility of an extension with him. He would do it. He is a man of duty. Don't forget there's somebody else that wants that job. And that's Mr. Wallace, the defense minister, Ben Wallace, defense minister of Great Britain. So is somebody blocking Wallace also? Are they bringing Stoltenberg back in, telling Stoltenberg you've got to serve another term to block Great Britain from getting control of NATO? Because I think, Doc, I think the British government is saying to NATO, hey, we have been players. We have we've been in this war all the way we've outdone almost everybody but the united states

we've earned that job and i think i think one of the reasons that britain has been so eager to get weapons and british commandos into ukraine is that they wanted that job they wanted a britain in that job of running nato I think at the heart of this, this is really a struggle for power, the future, if you will. Poland is rising in strength in Eastern Europe. And they made the big deal about this. Britain and Poland were working together this past year. I think we're on to something. I think somebody in NATO wants to block a Great Britain-Poland alliance to run NATO. There's politics involved in this, Doc.

Well, another NATO foreign minister said Stoltenberg has been an excellent Secretary General. I don't see the point in rocking the boat right now. We're talking about Ben Wallace, Well, another NATO foreign minister said Stoltenberg has been an excellent secretary general. I don't see the point in rocking the boat right now. We're talking about Ben Wallace. Just a moment ago, who is the next secretary general? There doesn't seem to be a handbook on how you choose one. And that's coming from UK Minister of Defense Wallace. He said that yesterday, adding that there were an awful lot of good candidates out there when asked about his own ambitions for the role. Wallace suggested that the decision could even be delayed until after the summit next month. Who knows, he told reporters, that could be done in Vilnius. It could be done in

October. It just depends. All right, let's turn our attention to politics here in the United States and the scandal-ridden Biden administration administration out in the open now that Joe Biden and his son Hunter got $10 million in bribe money from Burisma Energy in Ukraine. Why are we in Ukraine? Because there's money in Ukraine. There's fingerprints in Ukraine. There's records. There are witnesses in Ukraine. There's records. There are witnesses in Ukraine. There are servers. There are labs in Ukraine. There's a lot of crookedness of American politicians in Ukraine.

They have to protect Ukraine because Ukraine's been a good place for corruption. And the Americans have been at the forefront of exporting and outsourcing corruption to Ukraine. They found the perfect country that said, yes, we'll run your corrupt activities for you. It's an industry for us. That's the way Ukraine has operated for the past since 2014. Like a corruption clearinghouse. Yeah. Bring your corruption to Ukraine.

Let us get a little piece of the action. You guys, we'll launder the money back to you. We'll roll it in the front door and out the back door. So Mr. Biden was asked by a reporter about the stories that he and his son were each paid $5 million from Burisma. This is how the president reacted. his son were each paid $5 million from Burisma. This is how the president reacted.

Are there tapes that you accepted bribes, President Biden? Is that true? Would you comment on the arrest of the former president, sir? I guess it's funny. It is funny to him because he knows he can't be arrested. Right. Who's going to arrest him? The FBI director?

Nobody. The Justice Department? The FBI's not going to do it. Nobody's going to do it. He can laugh. He's like the Clintons. He laughs about it. Because he's got to get out of jail free card but the world the rest of the world knows that joe biden is a crook and you may not see the headlines in the united states doc but the headlines are showing up around the world joe biden took bribe money. People know it now. It's just the American people don't know about it because the media is covering it up. You showed me this video.

We're going to show you the next one is a Russian AI-generated deep fake video. And you showed this to me before we started today's True News. So this actually was produced by RT. And what you're going to watch was completely generated by artificial intelligence. The entire video you're going to watch. Nothing's real. Right. Nothing that you're going to see is real.

It's all been generated within an AI environment. And if this is the future of information, they're doing it in a funny way. It's a parody of the basically the Western leaders and their frustration at the sanctions not working on Russia. And, you know, can they come up with some new ideas for sanctions? We'll let you watch it, and we'll have some comments on it. This is really an amazing piece of technology here. Watch this. No, no, no. That's bull. That's nonsense.

We need some fresh ideas. Better, stronger, and effective. Oh, God. I'm so tired. The Nazi international. It's funny. It's funny, but it's funny. It's funny, but it's scary. Nothing in that video is real. All made with artificial intelligence. Yes. So if that capability is present right now.

Commercially available. Commercially available. We know it's been available privately. No doubt it's been used. How many videos have we watched over the last 10, 15, 20 years that were not real? We don't know what,

we don't know what, the narratives that we have been fed, we don't know what's real anymore this is this jesus said if it were possible the very elect of god could be deceived yes now we're starting to understand what that means that the ability to create a fake narrative will be so powerful, so persuasive that even the saints of God will be wondering, is that real or is that fake? We don't know. A couple more stories I want to get through quickly. Let's jump, let's bypass, guys, let's go down to number 50. I wanted to play this last night, and we didn't have time. This was the second part of a Fox News interview with former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker.

And in this part of the interview, he explains the difference between the Espionage Act and the Presidential Records Act. So yesterday when we were talking about President Trump, we didn't get to this part, and I wanted to explain this. So I want to try to state this again. But what I was saying yesterday about President Trump is he should have worked with the Biden administration. I understood the difference. I know what President Trump is arguing. I know. I get it. I know.

I've known all along what he's arguing. What I was saying was you can't bargain with snakes. A snake isn't going to bite you. So were boxes of papers worth allowing snakes to put you in prison? Yes, he was right that he had the authority to declassify the documents and keep them. I get that part. I understand it. But was it wise when you know that the snakes are trying to find a way to put you in a prison? It would have been wiser to give

them the records and say, on the matter of principle, I think you're wrong, but I'm not going to let you put me in prison. Here are the documents. That was the point I was trying to make. But Mr. Whitaker explains in real easy to understand language the difference that the U.S. Justice Department is arguing that President Trump violated the Espionage Act. Mr. Trump is saying, no, I adhered to the Presidential Records Act. Here is that part of the interview from Fox News. So, Matt, we're hearing from legal experts that this case is going to come down to the Espionage Act versus the Presidential Records Act. Can you explain these two laws in layman's terms and which one you think better applies here?

Yeah. Well, it's very simple. The Espionage Act was passed in 1917 in the Woodrow Wilson administration. And the Presidential Records Act was passed 50 years later after Richard Nixon applied to, Ronald Reagan was the first president it applied to. But it says on its text, all documents, all records of the administration. And so that's a very broad statute. And obviously, when Congress passed the Presidential Records Act, they knew that the Espionage Act was in existence and could apply. And they didn't accept national defense information or classified information. So, you know, for me, that is the main issue in this case.

And, you know, I think President Trump is right when he says that, you know, he was operating under the Presidential Records Act, which, you know, required him to cooperate with the archives, required them to sort through what was personal and what was presidential records. And I think that is the analysis. Let's just be honest. Like presidents and former presidents are different under the Constitution and under some of the statutes, especially this Presidential Records Act. And there's a case actually that applies to Richard Nixon, which was a predecessor of the Presidential Records Act called the PRSA. And there's some interesting case law in that. and it may be helpful in the guidance on this case as well.

Good explanation. That's the man that should have been Attorney General in the Trump administration. Got a lot of respect for him. I want to go through just three more items, then we'll wrap it up. The headline from Novasti, Russia supports Egypt's application to join BRICS. This is a major development. Egypt is the powerhouse of the Middle East. It's not Saudi Arabia.

It's not Israel. It's quiet Egypt. Egypt is quiet, but it is the powerhouse of the Middle East. And it's at the juncture of Africa and Arab nations. I mean, it's both African and Arab. So we've got Egypt joining BRICS. This is a big development. Next one.

The U.S. Senate just barely confirmed Bernstein, this is Jared Bernstein, as Biden's economic advisor. This happened, I guess, last night or this morning. So Jared Bernstein, confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Joe Biden's chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors. Now, why am I bringing this up to you? Who really cares who is the economic advisor to to Joe Biden? I went back and I pulled, I think, a 2014 editorial, an op-ed, not an op-ed, written by Mr. Bernstein in 2014. Dethrone King Dollar. Jared Bernstein, going back to 2014, was openly proposing that the dollar be eliminated as the reserve currency of the world. Yes. And he just got appointed as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors.

And at the time that he wrote this article, he was the economic advisor to Vice President Joe Biden. He's a longtime friend of the Bidens. And so he's been with them for a couple decades. Why would anybody want to bring—how could you be a chairman of an economic council of economic advisors to the president of the United States, and your biggest proposal is, we want to bring down the dollar. Well, you all know the answer, don't you? You all know the answer. We've been sold out.

The American people, we've been sold out. We were sold out years ago. It's just now, we're seeing sold out. We were sold out years ago. It was just now. We're seeing it. We're seeing the fruit of it now. They're actually implementing the plan. Joe Biden is owned by so many foreign nations, primarily China. But he'll take bribes from anybody, but he works for China. He's bringing down the U.S. dollar.

He's taking actions that deliberately hurt this country. He opened the border and told illegal immigrants, come across the border, don't worry about it. And that's not just Mexicans coming over or Central Americans. They're Afghans. People from, what, 172 nations have come across the border in the past year or so. It's wide open. If you want to come to the United States, why get a visa? Just go to Mexico.

It's wide open. That's not a crisis. That's a deliberate plan policy by a man working for China to bring down the United States of America. And then Donald Trump got arrested. It's surreal. It is so surreal. It's bizarre. It is bizarre that we have fallen into this state.

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