TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Former NATO commander encourages Ukraine to destroy Russia’s Kerch Strait Bridge

Episode Date: July 7, 2022

A former high-level NATO commander is urging Ukraine to blow up the 11-mile long Kerch Strait bridge that connects Russia and Crimea. The stunning news was reported by the Times of London. Evidence that Russian forces appear to be preparing for a possible attack on the Kerch bridge has emerged in recent days. They have put in place countermeasures alongside the bridge to deflect a missile strike. What would be the repercussions if NATO pushes Ukraine to go through with the attack, and start World War 3? Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 7/7/22It’s the Final Day! The day when Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. You can order the second edition of Rick’s book, Final Day!  https://tru.news/3LknyuL

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. We were the first to tell you weeks ago that Ukrainian military officials were talking about blowing up the Kerch Strait Bridge. Now, a former high-level NATO commander is urging Ukraine to blow up the 11-mile-long Kerch Strait Bridge that connects Russia and Crimea.

The stunning news was reported this morning by the Times of London. And Doc doc burkhart and i will tell you who made this chilling recommendation and the impact that it could have on the world and if you're a long time viewer or listener to uh god cast it's going to be a name that's familiar to some people too so as rick said this is the Times of London reporting this. Ukraine urged to bomb Russia's bridge to Crimea. Some information from the article itself. Ukraine could deal a devastating blow to the Kremlin

by attacking the Kerch Strait Bridge, which links mainland Russia with Crimea using newly supplied Harpoon missiles, a former NATO commander has told the Times. General Philip Breedlove, who was Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 2013 to 2016, said an attack on the bridge was fully justified because of Russia's aggression against Ukraine from all quarters. Kerch Bridge is a legitimate target, he said. He goes on to say in that article that evidence that Russian forces appear to be preparing for a possible attack on the Kerch Bridge has emerged in recent days.

They have put in place countermeasures alongside the bridge to deflect a missile strike, and this includes barges packed with reflective radars to confuse missile guidance systems and smoke screen devices to try to conceal the bridge. In addition to the countermeasures alongside the bridge, Russia has significantly increased its air defenses in the western part of Crimea, partly to protect Kerch Bridge from a missile attack. It doesn't surprise me at all that the Russians are concerned about Kerch Bridge. It's incredibly important to them, Breedlove said. It goes on to say now that the

West has given Ukraine subsonic sea-skimming cruise harpoon missiles with a range of up to 200 miles, I think the Russians have every reason to be worried about Ukraine launching an attack on the bridge. There are many Western leaders and ex-leaders like me who are having conversations now about what would happen if Russia begins to sink Ukrainian grain ships or if the Russian naval blockade goes kinetic. So there's General Breedlove. Once again, there's not a target he doesn't like to hit. So, Doc, when we saw the Times article,

let's put the headline back up on the screen from the London Times. So when you see this, Ukraine urged to bomb Russia's bridge to Crimea. Well, you would think the person who made that recommendation was somebody in the Taliban. Right. Or Al-Qaeda. Yeah, let's blow up somebody's bridge.

But it's a former NATO commander. Right. Or Al Qaeda. Yeah, let's blow up somebody's bridge. But it's a former NATO commander. Right. And he knows what's going to happen if the Ukrainians use Western harpoon missiles to blow up that bridge. All hell's going to break loose in the world. Yes.

Guaranteed. It's possible Russia may find some other bridges that they want to blow up too, right? Or cities connected to the bridges. Like the Brooklyn Bridge or London Bridge, let's say. Or San Francisco Bay Bridge or the Baltimore, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Baltimore. There's a lot of bridges that could be blown up. But there are cities around those bridges too.

And I don't think the Russians are gonna waste their ammo on the bridges. I think they're gonna take out cities. If NATO encourages, and they are encouraging, you're talking about a former NATO commander. Yes, I mean, they're making it obvious now, aren't they? Yes, and he brags that he was trained as an engineer and he knows the weak spots of bridges. We have another story. This is from The Drive. Russia seems to be preparing the vital Kerch

Bridge for missile attacks. Yes. So Russia has deployed a number of countermeasures to the Kerch Strait Bridge connecting Russia and Crimea, including decoy barges covered in radar reflectors. These recent developments appear to be preparations to protect the bridge from a standoff missile attack. And while countermeasures are evidently being deployed and tested, it is unclear if they will be withdrawn or remain a static fixture going forward. So independent defense analyst H.I. Sutton reported on the findings Monday detailing that two target barges coming from Novorossiysk Naval Base had been towed to the location and murdered on the east side of the bridge. He went on to note that the vessels were covered with multiple radar reflectors, which are metallic devices that are affixed to a barge

in order to make it more visible to radar. Sutton used the term target barges to identify the ship because the Russian Navy is known to have utilized such vessels as targets during exercises with the Black Sea Fleet. Now, it appears their intended purpose could be to act as decoys, confusing incoming missiles aimed at the Kerch Bridge. Other radar reflectors were also seen affixed to the shallows near the bridge. It isn't clear if these were part of the countermeasures or navigational fixtures.

Now, back on July the 1st, a smoke screen test was also carried out by Russian forces, with footage of the exercise having been captured by locals attempting to cross the bridge while the aerosol was being dispersed. Smoke screens are a relatively standard defense tactic historically used to shield military movements, challenge the imaging functions of technologies like imaging infrared seekers used on precision guided munitions and especially more advanced cruise missiles that use scene or object matching to autonomously attack their targets. So multi-spectral cameras found on surveillance craft like the RQ-4 Global Hawk and other drones could also be impacted. They could also obscure some imaging satellites. Russia is notorious for using smoke screens as a major tactic

and has troops partially dedicated to employing them. And in the recent past, strategic targets have been obscured during exercises and operations, such as in November 2021 when the Russian Navy used them to shroud its naval base at the Syrian port of Tardis. And we reported on that then. We actually have some video, Rick, of the smoke screens that was so thick over the bridge that there were multiple car collisions that people were videoing from inside the car and then suddenly they're in the smoke they're in the smoke but there's another car stopped in front of them and they come to a stop, and then they're hit from the back. So those smoke screen operations are going on right now on the Kerch Strait Bridge.

But the insanity is that NATO is encouraging the Ukrainian military. And by the way, here's some missiles. We'll give you an idea. See the big bridge? That's really important to Russia. They like that bridge. And they've even gone so far, and we reported on this in the past too, that they've got all the plans on the bridge, and they've handed it to the Ukrainians.

Yeah, we showed this story a couple weeks ago, but here it is again. Yeah, that's from Ukraine Pravda, basically. Ukrainian intelligence officers got detailed technical documentation on the Crimean Bridge. How'd they get it? Well, they picked it up somewhere, I guess. Right, Rick? So, Doc, this story was from June 16th. So that's when True News first told you that NATO was encouraging the Ukrainian military to blow up the Kerch Strait Bridge so you heard it first because you watch true news right so you

need to tell your friends your co-workers your brother-in-law NATO is going to blow up a major bridge. It's as long as the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Right, that's a pretty good example there, yes. And it is crucial, it links Russia to Crimea. It's something like 36,000 cars per day use the bridge. There's also trains, it has train tracks on it. Right.

It has lanes for cars and tracks. But what it's really significant for is it's a major military transport conduit for Russia. That's how they're moving the troops to Ukraine. So NATO is saying, hey, Ukraine, you really want to make Russia mad? Blow up the bridge. And here are some missiles from America and Great Britain that will blow it up. And here's the plans. Here's the engineering plans. And we'll tell you the weak spots in the bridge.

We'll tell you where to hit the bridge. We'll even bring Philip Breedlove in who knows how to blow up bridges. Yeah, and he'll supervise the whole operation. What do you think is going to happen, my friends? This is one of the most insane things I have heard in a long time. When we first saw it a month ago, mid-June, you're thinking, are they really this crazy? The West, are they this crazy?

But when you see the Times of London quoting the retired NATO commander, saying, this is a great idea, we should get this done, then you know they're going to do it. It could happen any day now. Any day. The blowback from Russia is going to be fierce. We're going to show you in a minute how fierce the Russians

are telling us it's going to be. So you've got to think to yourself, where do these ideas come from and where do they get hatched at? Well, a lot of them come out of American think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute or the Middle East Institute. This is from June the 3rd in the New York Post, the story there. They had interviewed an expert. We'll talk about her in just a moment. We must stop Russia's land bridge to Crimea and destroy the Kerch Strait Bridge now.

So they're tossing that idea out there. Well, who would think of something like this? Well, Aulia Sabina Yoha teaches at Georgetown and George Washington University, runs the Middle East Institute's Black Sea Program in Washington, D.C., and is co-host of the American Enterprise Institute podcast Eastern Front.

This is an example of the ruling class. The American European ruling class. Educated, so smart. Yes. Much smarter than you and me, so smart that they come up with these ideas, blow up the Curt Street Bridge. They're brilliant people. Just think of the high intellect ability of these people and how they're managing the world affairs and making this a better place to live.

And she's paid to sit in a think tank and think. Right. And what does she think? Let's blow something up. Something that would start a nuclear war. This is why these people in the western ruling classes should be rounded up put in straitjackets and taken to insane asylums because they are a menace to society they really are these people are endangering seven billion humans, and they should not be allowed to move around freely outside.

They should be captured, put in straitjackets, put incarcerated in psych wards. And we'll call the psych wards think tanks. Willing to put a big sign yes insane think tank and they can sit in the think tank and think all day long of how to start a world war but that's as far as it goes they can't get no they have no internet no phone connectivity nothing but they think that they're running the world and they have put them all together in one insane asylum. Rick, this rhetoric now ramping up toward destroying the Kurt Strait Bridge, and of course, it's been ramping up over the past couple of weeks and

everything. Do you think it's this last desperate ploy to really try to get something started with Russia here? I mean, they see Russia, you know, Russia's just going through Ukraine. Russia's winning that war. Yeah, but you'll never know that in the Western media. Have you heard one casualty report of the Ukrainian army? If you believe the Western media, nobody's died. Right.

No Ukrainian soldiers have died. Just hundreds of thousands of Russians have died. But no Ukrainian soldiers have died. Just hundreds of thousands of Russians have died, but no Ukrainian soldiers have died. We've been told Putin is crazy. Putin is dying of cancer. General Shogo has heart problems. Putin is shaking. He's gripping the table.

Shogo acting weird. Just think of all the Russian soldiers are deserting and joining the Ukrainian army. Right. Propaganda story after propaganda story, but we've not heard one legitimate report about how many Ukrainian soldiers have died. How much land mass has the Russian military seized control? About a quarter of Ukraine right now. But you don't hear this. Yes. There are no reports about it. You just hear that Russia's losing the war.

They're losing the war. No, they're not losing the war. This is why Breedlove is saying blow up the bridge. Blow it up. NATO's getting frustrated. Nothing that they've done has worked so far. Not the sanctions, not the military. Nothing. Nothing.

That's why I think this is their stretch. And so, now Rick, one of the things we've talked about over the past several months is we've been kind of, you know, I wouldn't say confused, it's just that we know that Russia has a big military and they've got a well-trained military. It just seems like they should be able

to just go through Ukraine like a hot knife through butter. They could. So it's felt like they're restrained. Yes. And you and I have had that conversation that Putin and the Russian military are deliberately holding back their forces, their arsenal.

They don't want to spend it all in Ukraine for several reasons. Number one, NATO would like Russia to just bleed out, bring as many soldiers in, just bleed them out. Then NATO starts a land invasion of Russia and Russia doesn't have any troops left. Right. Number two, NATO would like Putin to show his hand,

bring his toys out of his closet, his new weapons, his scalar weapons, his sci-fi weapons that we don't know exist. They want him to come out with those weapons, demonstrate them, because if he demonstrates their new weapons, then the West, you know, develop a defense and offense to go against it. So Russia's holding back. Plus, it appears that NATO's, you know, poking the bear with Kaliningrad, too. And so that's going to be another front that might open up for Russia if Russia decides to do some sort of military action, open rails.

We predicted here. We predicted it, Doc, many, many months ago. If you are a regular viewer of True News, you know that I said I don't even know how many months ago it was. At the end of last year, the next hotspot will be Finland. Right. Okay? What are they doing? They brought Finland into NATO.

Right. Kaliningrad, Finland, all this is one region of Europe, and they're moving the battle there. They're losing in Ukraine. They're going to start another war in that region of Finland, Kaliningrad, Lithuania. But we want you to see this next story. This is from Russia's Interfax News Agency, published today. All right.

So Putin, President Putin, has said that Russia has not yet seriously started anything in Ukraine. So translate that into, I guess, hometown English here. You ain't seen nothing yet. That's exactly what he's saying. So today we hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield. What can you say? Let them try. This is President Putin responding to the West. We have heard many times that the West wants to fight us to the last Ukrainian.

This is a tragedy for the Ukrainian people, but it seems that everything is going to this. Mr. Putin said this on Thursday during a meeting with the leaders of the factions of the state Duma. He said, everyone should know by and large we have not yet started anything seriously. At the same time, we do not refuse peace negotiations either. Those who refuse should know that the further, the more difficult it will be for them to negotiate with us, he emphasized. So the key takeaway with that, of course,

is we haven't brought everything out yet. This is the junior varsity team, basically, that's out there right now. We haven't brought out the varsity team yet. But what happens when Ukraine blows up the Kerch Bridge? Russia cannot ignore it. No. That would be a devastating event for the Russian people to see that expansive bridge come down and sink into the sea and

Crimea cut off from Russia. Right. They can't allow it to happen. And if it does happen, there will have to be retribution. And if Western harpoon missiles were used, then what did they say weeks ago? They're going to strike the decision-making centers that made the decision to give the weapons to Ukraine. Right. They're not talking about Kiev. They're talking about Brussels. They're talking about London.

They're talking about Paris. They're talking about Washington, D.C. All the cities you just mentioned, last week the head of the Russian Space Agency, their NASA, published the satellite coordinates of those cities. Washington, D.C., London, Paris,

Brussels, Berlin. What's he saying to the world? Here are the coordinates. This is where Russian strategic forces will strike. These are the decision-making centers of the West. These cities will cease to exist. You can't make it any clearer.

There is just no talk, there's no discussion in America about nuclear war. No. And maybe some of our audience, you may be saying, Rick, why are you just, you're stuck, you guys are stuck on this topic. It's bigger than any

other story. Can you think of anything else to talk about? The end of civilization? Here in the U.S., we're talking about gas prices. We're talking about food prices. We're talking about Supreme Court decisions. Those are important things. Yes.

But are they really all distractions from the big story that's out there? You have to admit that there is some, you know, something to say for that. You can watch Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, all the television news channels all day long. They will never report these things.

If they do, it's, it may be a crawl against, you know, along the bottom of the TV screen. Right. But there's no discussion that It may be a crawl against, you know, along the bottom of the TV screen. But there's no discussion that this is being proposed and what the ramifications of it would be. The next one, New York Post, Russia says U.S. risks the wrath of God if it backs Ukraine war crime tribunal. This is Medvedev. Mr. Medvedev is really becoming, he used to be the real laid back, calm, peaceful Russian leader. Not anymore. He has been issuing some very blunt threats against the U.S. and the West. He says that the U.S. will feel the wrath of God if it helps to establish an international tribunal

to investigate alleged Russian war crimes. And that comes from Vladimir Putin's right-hand man on Russia's Security Council. Dmitry Medvedev, Putin's deputy on the powerful governing body, made the threat Wednesday in a long diatribe on Telegram in which he accused Americans of trying to judge others while staying immune from any trial. Now, this is where he really gets down to brass tacks, Rick. All American history from the time of the conquest of the Indians is a bloody war of

annihilations, Medvedev said. The U.S. and its useless stooges should remember the words of the Bible, do not judge and you will not be judged. So that the great day of his wrath doesn't come to their home one day, he continued. The idea of punishing the country that has the largest nuclear potential is absurd in itself and potentially threatens the existence of mankind, Medvedev said, flaunting Russia's nuclear arsenal. And so that's the coming from Medvedev

from what he used to be to this and he's calling down the wrath of God on America. Saying American history is bloody from the beginning and that there's going to be a judgment day for America. How do we disagree with him? You can't. I mean, he's right. I mean, we're a bloody nation

in many aspects from the beginning to the end. And we've never really come to terms with that, that we're a war nation. And so, one of the other effects of him actually coming out and saying that, you know, why would you be going against someone that has the nuclear capability to wipe out the world?

Yes. Why would you even want to go in that direction? Unless that's your desire. So, it's gonna be, one day there's gonna be a price to pay for the blood that we've shed around the world. Doc, nuclear war was in the headlines

of the Daily Mail in London today. Right, so they asked a question, what would happen if Russia launched a nuclear war? Funny how they phrased that. Study shows firestorms would block out the sun and trigger a little ice age, resulting in crop failure and ocean famine. Well, of course, we have our own perspective on that, that there is a little ice age coming anyway.

But the article here, you have to sort through this, Russia has issued several doomsday threats to the West amid heightened tensions over Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Now, new research suggests that if there ever were to be a nuclear war between Russia and the U.S., it would likely trigger a little ice age lasting thousands of years.

That's not a little ice age. No. Firestorms would release soot and smoke into the upper atmosphere and would block out the sun and result in crop failure around the world. In the first month following detonation, average global temperatures would plunge up by about 13 degrees Fahrenheit. That is more than during the most recent ice age,

which lasted more than 100,000 years, reducing global temperatures by about 10 degrees Fahrenheit and killing off the woolly mammoth before it ended about 11,700 years ago. The analysis shows ocean temperatures would drop quickly and not return to their pre-war state even after the smoke clears. As the planet got colder, sea ice would expand by more than 6 million square miles and up to 6 feet deep, which would in turn block major ports including Beijing, Copenhagen and St. Petersburg. And then it would spread to normally temperate coastal regions and prevent shipping across

the northern hemisphere, while getting food and supplies into some cities such as Shanghai, where ships are not prepared to face sea ice, would become difficult. The sudden drop in light and sea temperatures, especially from the Arctic to the North Atlantic and North Pacific, would kill algae, the bedrock of the marine food web. So researchers said that fishing and aquaculture

would be halted by the creation of essentially a famine in the ocean. You know, the Bible talks about that in the book of Revelation. One model mimics the U.S. and Russia using 4,400, 100 kiloton nuclear weapons to bomb cities and industrial areas. In this case, fires would eject 150 teragrams or more than 330 billion pounds of smoke and sunlight absorbingabsorbing black carbon into the upper atmosphere.

Another model showed India and Pakistan detonating 500 100-kiloton nuclear weapons, leading to 5 to 47 teragrams, 11 to 103 billion pounds of smoke and soot, just from that limited exchange between India and Pakistan. Well, I don't think we, if you have 4,400 missiles flying all over the world, I don't think anyone's going to be worried about whether there's algae in the ocean at that or what the temperature's going to be because everybody's going to be dead. Pretty much. I wish that they were.

Yes. The worst thing may be that you survive it. What a nightmare. And there are people that actually think we can win this thing. That's what I'm saying. We can win it. They should be in straitjackets

and taken to an insane asylum. Give them their think tank and a psych ward. But don't let them out. Don't let them roam out on the public streets. They're dangerous people. And the Russians are looking at us saying there's something wrong with those American leaders. Why do they want to fight a country that has thousands of nuclear warheads? There's got to be something wrong with these people.

Why are they doing this stuff? Why are they now talking about blowing up the bridge? These people are kooky. Don't they know? I mean, Medvedev said the very existence of mankind is at risk. The entire human race could be wiped out. And Russia said, if there's no Russia in the world, then why do we need a world without Russia? That's right. So that's how far they're willing to take this to preserve their nation, their identity. You know, whether you agree or disagree with what he says, you have to take what he says

seriously that they intend to defend Russia at all cost. That's not cheering for them. That's not saying rah-rah for Russia. That is simply saying that's where they're at. That's their thinking. And you have to take into account the mindset of the Russian leaders right now. Moscow Times, you think this is a...

Wait till you see this next one. Russian, the speaker of their house. This would be like their Nancy Pelosi. No offense, sir. Russian House Speaker threatens to take back Alaska. Well, Rick, the Speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament threatened Wednesday to claim back Alaska if the United States froze or seized Russian assets as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine. Let America always remember there is a piece of territory, Alaska, the Shelev Volodin said at the last session of

parliament, the state doomed before it goes on summer break. He says when they try to manage our resources abroad, let them think before they act that we, too, have something to take back, Volodin said. He noted that Deputy Speaker Peter Tolstoy had proposed holding a referendum among Alaskans to join Russia. Now, he said we don't interfere in their domestic affairs, Volodin responded, holding back laughter after applause from state-doomed deputies. Obviously making the inference, you know, we do that everywhere else in the world ourselves. So why not, you know, say to the Alaskans, Russia say to Alaska, why don't you have a vote? If you want to join us, come on on board.

This is not the first time a Russian politician has talked about reclaiming Alaska. Alaska at one time belonged to Russia. Right, well, he bought it and so got it for a pretty good price. But we reported on this idea a couple months ago back in March. Russian state TV calls for reparations from the US over sanctions and they demanded the return of Alaska and California's Fort Ross and and threaten nuclear strikes on U.S.

and call for public hangings in Ukraine. What we wanted to focus on, though, is these are all different pieces of territory in our hemisphere where Russia at one time had control. Of course, the entire state of Alaska. We learned Fort Ross in California used to be a Russian naval port. And then in Hawaii, you actually had two ports there that they maintained for about 100 years. That was history I never knew, Doc. And so Russia is saying, you know what,

if you want to say that you can claim lands back that belong to you and everything, well, how about us? We'll claim lands that used to belong to us as well. And so it's going to be interesting to see how these, we know the West is going to continue to put sanctions and they're going to require reparations, war reparations and things like that. Russia's obviously already setting their stake in the ground and saying, no, we're not going to play your game. Doc, is a land invasion of Alaska off the table? I mean, are we looking later this year that there could be a Russian land invasion? I mean, think of the potential of that. What happens if Russia seizes control of Alaska? There's not, I mean, wintertime, it's frozen.

They can just move across directly into Alaska. What happens if there's a landing force of Russian troops in Alaska and they seize control of the state? Is Joe Biden, is this where he's taking us? Is this a disaster that the Biden administration is leading America,

that we're going to lose the state of Alaska? You cannot rule out any of this right now. No, you can't. Nothing. We were talking a few minutes ago how Putin said today, you haven't seen anything yet. We just started the fight. We got a lot more that we can do.

And we were talking about, you know, are the Russians holding back their weapons, holding back their technology? Well, this story from Jerusalem Post says Russia claims to use electromagnetic anti-drone gun. Right. So just using anti-drone gun. Right, so just using a ground-based gun, just as you press a button, Stupor,

that's the name of this particular device, jams the operator's signal to the drone. After that, the drone is neutralized and forced to land in a designated area. The need for such portable anti-drone weapons became evident because the Ukrainian troops are using a large number of UAVs and various small copters, the source said, according to TASS. The veracity of the reports surrounding the stupor is unclear,

though the weapon itself is known to exist, having been unveiled by Russia at an international military technical showcase in 2017. Also in that year, Russia was reported by independent Russian media outlet Mill Today to have been testing the stupor and other anti-drone systems in Syria as well. And so we know Russia has hypersonic missiles. We know they have anti-drone devices. We haven't seen them actively deploy these devices, or if they have, it's not been reported. But fortunately, America is up to the challenge, right, Rick? Right? Well, there was a test at Vandenberg, and it was one of our new missiles. Right.

And it did not go right. It exploded. Now, this is the website of the U.S. Space Force. Right. So the Minotaur II Plus exploded shortly after liftoff. Now, you go back through history, you've seen explosions and everything, but there's been a lot of money that's been spent on the Minotaur 2 Plus system

because, Rick, it's the replacement for the Minuteman missile system. This is the next generation of Minuteman missiles, basically. And so this loss is significant because it shows we have some shortcomings in this particular area in order to respond. We're using 1970s tech in Minuteman missiles. Unless the Pentagon put a decoy out on the launch pad. And that's possible too. Whenever I see these things, these explosions during a test, I always think it's a decoy. They want Russia and China to think it didn't work. It blew up. It's also possible it was sabotage. Right. And that was another thought that came about too. We have a report. This is from Channel 13 KUIT in the area of Vandenberg Space Force Base.

They have this report. Also breaking overnight and new this morning, a rocket test launch failure at Vandenberg Space Force Base. That's right. It exploded just seconds after takeoff, sparking a fire. Our Keith Carls is live outside of the base with what we know so far this morning. Good morning, Keith. Yeah, well, we're slowly learning more, Elise and Joe. We can tell you that this was a Minotaur 2 plus rocket launch test launch that took place just after 11 o'clock last night out at Vandenberg Space Forest Base here behind me, and 10 seconds or about 10 seconds into the launch, the rocket exploded. Now, the Minotaur 2 Plus apparently carries some type of missile-type projectile as well, and so we're being told by Vandenberg

that there were no injuries in this explosion last night and that the debris was contained to immediate vicinity of the launch pad, which is launch pad number one. In a statement released by the base early this morning, basically the vice commander says, we always have emergency response teams on standby prior to every launch and safety is our priority at all times. The Vandenberg Space Force Base Fire Department was on scene to put that fire out that was ignited by the explosion. But smoke from that fire and explosion scene drifted into the Lompoc Valley here and also into Santa Marina Valley, and that caused a lot of concern from local residents. We can tell you that Vandenberg says an investigative review board has's intended to replace the decades-old Minuteman 3

ICBM program, and they're calling it the Sentinel program. And so this was a test launch for that program, obviously a major setback. And so the good news is that nobody was hurt. The fire has been put out, but it did leave quite a bit of smoke drifting into the Lompoc Valley here where I'm at in Vandenberg Village. Well, either it was a major setback or it's a decoy. We don't know. Or sabotage. Or it was sabotage. When I was watching, I was trying to remember some years ago, Doc. I'm not sure what year this was. It was, I'm going to say at least eight to ten years ago. I think it was before your time when you came on board. There was a Russian rocket that exploded on the liftoff.

And a Russian general blamed HAARP in Alaska. I remember that story. I don't remember what you hear about it. That's a true news story. I mean, that's the kind of stuff we report, okay? But the generals, he said that the U.S. military used HAARP to cause an explosion of their rocket. I have no idea. I just remember that as an unusual story that happened a number of years ago.

So it's possible that it was sabotaged. Did you find it? Actually, I did find the story. Are you serious? You found it? It's still on the Internet? They haven't sanitized it? I don't know if our guys can pop it up or not,

but Scientific American had it. What year was it? 2011, December 2011. Was it? Okay. There it is, off the beam. Did a U.S. radar research station disable Russia's Phobos probe. And so, well, this is one of them.

And so soon after the ill-fated Phobos grunt spacecraft stalled in Earth orbit, a former Russian official implicated powerful American radars in Alaska. Is there a basis to the claim or is it just scapegoating? But the fact that they even got the question in Scientific American says a lot right there. Yes, sure it does. And that radar station is the HAARP station.

So a long time viewers and listeners have heard us talk about that in the past as well. December of 2011, we had just moved to Vero Beach. We had just opened up our facility in Vero Beach at that time, Doc. Wow. That's a state in my mind. So do governments sabotage the launch of rockets for other countries? Well, we know Israel has on our right. Clearly.

With Iran. But then they can do that. They're allowed to do that. Well, while we're talking about blowing things up, we're going to end today's program on the Georgia Guidestones. Because yesterday, as we were doing True News, we were talking about

that a mysterious explosion occurred yesterday at 4 a.m. and severely damaged one of the guidestones and partially damaged another part of the guidestones. And when we finished our True News episode yesterday, as we walked out of the studio, we were informed that the entire remaining structure had been imploded. Yes, that's right. So, and this is from Fox 5 Atlanta. So, yesterday, when we were talking about the explosion

or whatever happened early in the morning, they've confirmed now it's an explosion, but even when we were doing the GodCast yesterday, they were still speculating, was it lightning? What was going on out there? But the Georgia Guidestones have now been completely demolished after explosion destroyed a part of it. That's from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

So the GBI said an explosion damaged a controversial northeast Georgia landmark, forcing officials to demolish it on Wednesday. Investigators said unknown people detonated an explosive device around 4 a.m. Elbert County investigators arrived and noted a large portion of the structure damaged. Video of the explosion was released by the GBI late Wednesday afternoon, and they even have another video, Rick, a second video, showing a silver sedan driving away from the area. That's also been released to the public as well. But not only did they recognize the damage that had taken place yesterday, they just knocked the whole thing down yesterday. So who made the decision to implode it?

Now, that's a great question. Was it, you know, the county architectural supervisor? Or, once again, you know, that's private property belonging to somebody. Right. So it's private property. So

did they contact the owner? So if I have property, you know, if I own a piece of ground, you can't just come on and demolish everything without asking me. And didn't they need a permit, a demolition permit? I guess the county could get one that fast. Right. But they were in a hurry, weren't they? They actually have video. Look at this. You guys, you're awesome.

So this is them knocking down the rest of the Georgia Guidestones. This is one of the greatest days of my life. Honestly, look at that. Did you ever think you'd see this happen? No. I'm not advocating blowing things up, but if something not advocating blowing things up,

but if something needed to be blown up, that could have been it. And so that called about the reduction of the Earth's population to 500 million people. That means 8 billion have to go. That's right. Like in a nuclear war. Right. Whoever put those guidestones up

wanted to kill billions of people. You can't get away from this. It was a population reduction monument to death. And it was brought down. Yes. Okay, I got a couple questions. I kind of think I know where you're going here. All right.

The pillars, the monument were made of granite. You could see how big they were. I never went to it. Well, they're as big as that crane. Yes, I've been invited there many times. I just never went to Georgia to see it. I didn't care to go see it. But it was a large structure made of granite

that means really heavy how much explosive power do you need to blow up granite pillars well you saw the rubble yesterday I mean they didn't just knock it over I mean it blew up a pillar I mean it was

in pieces and everything when I was a kid I blew up a lot of stuff with firecrackers. Oh. You know. There's a video here. This is from the surveillance camera. But you didn't do that with cherry bombs. No. You have to have something significant to blow up granite. Like C4?

Yes. Well, who has C4? Who has access to C4? Yes. Well, who has C4? Who has access to C4? Well, that would be military, black ops. They would have access to C4. Intelligence agencies, okay. Was that a rogue, a patriotic rogue unit in the military or an intelligence agency. Did some patriots do it as the beginning of a counter-revolution? Well, that's certainly something to think about. Another thought is, could the people

that actually did it, built it, sabotaged it themselves? For what purpose? To kind of take people off the path of what they're really doing now. I don't know. I don't see a reason for it, Doc, because they wanted population reduction. That was the main message of the pillars, population reduction, global government, population reduction. Well, there's something to be said for what you suggested because up until a few months ago, you could just walk right up to it. I mean, you could just, you know, but they put up a fence. Why did they put up a fence?

You know, I guess because people were coming out there. It's been there for years. I know. It had it open to the public for, what is it, it's got to be close to 20 years. Okay, so it was private property, but it was open to the public. Right.

You could drive, the name of the road is, you know, the Guidestone Road. It goes right to it. Well, does anybody in the county know who owns the land? Certainly, is it a trust? Do they pay taxes? Did the county give the owner an exemption to property taxes? You know, I read the story about the origin of the Guidestones,

and even reading it and knowing the facts about it, there's so many missing holes in the story. A local granite contractor there, granite's big in that part of the state, said an anonymous person came in with the money and all the designs and the dimensions and everything and handed it to the granite contractor to build. How did they pay for it?

Was it in a bag? They don't explain that either. They don't explain what it required. Why is it so mysterious? If there's nothing sinister about it, why is it so mysterious? Well, that's the question, Rick. So I'm going to go back to my question.

Was C4 used to bring it down? And if it was C4, whatever was used, I mean, that had to be a massive amount of dynamite to bring down pillars made of granite. Was it carried out by current members of the U.S. military or intelligence agencies or former members of the U.S. military, is it a sign of the beginning of the resistance?

Well, no, that's a very real possibility because nothing outlines the goals of this new world order more than the Georgia Guidestones have been. Nothing. And if you've been following this story for decades like we have, I was talking about the Georgia Guidestones 20-some years ago. I mean, this is not a new story. Right.

If you know the message of the Georgia Guidestones and you know about the plan for global government, and for the last two years you have watched the Great Reset being rolled out to the world, the loss of freedom, the loss of liberty, the mandates, the depopulation through the COVID vaccination program. If you're watching all this, and then the insane march to nuclear war, which will clearly reduce the world's population. And you know about the Deagle website, right? That there will be a massive drop in the American population by the year 2025. Did somebody in the government, did they just launch a resistance to the globalists?

Is the fight on? Has the resistance started? Are we going to see more things toppled in the weeks ahead? That to me would be the sign. If we see more things like Georgia Guidestones come down, that to me would be a sign the resistance has started. And that there are, there's a group of patriots that has now went into action to take down the new world order. That's something you got to consider.

Because those were not just boys playing around with a quarter stick of dynamite. That just wasn't some Georgia farm boys said, hey, let's go down and blow up the Guidestones. It was a serious operation, Doc. I don't know, but they sure took it down fast. Yeah, they did. They didn't waste any time, did they?

And, you know, whoever built the Guidestones, and there's the story behind it, meant for that thing to be there for a very long time. They wanted that to be American Stonehenge. It functioned as, it was a clock, it was a calendar, it was a compass. It had 12 different languages on it, including four languages that no one even speaks today. What, Klingon? The ancient Egyptian, ancient Greek.

So a couple others. Sumerian text, and so Egyptian hieroglyphics, plus other languages. They meant that thing to stay there for a very long time. It came down in seconds. Yes, yes. I want to end with two, I want to show you two political ads that are running presently

in two different states in America. The first one is Eric Greitens running for the U.S. Senate and he's a former Navy SEAL. He's created a lot of controversy with this ad. We're going to show you the the ad. Make up your own mind what you think about it. We're back. And everybody remembers when we first rolled on the scene. Well, I'm no career politician. I'm a Navy SEAL, and I'll take dead aim at politics as usual. Everyone also remembers that because I fought for you, they came after me. Well, we're back.

Wiser, stronger, still fighting. And this time, with an army of patriots. Now think about that ad and the Georgia Guidestones coming down. Has the counter-revolution started? Have the patriots finally said, enough, enough. This is a communist revolution. We have to stop it.

And for someone to even in a political ad, no less, I've got an army of patriots. Those, as we say back home, them's fighting words. And so and that's Eric Greitens. That's the Senate candidate for Missouri right now, former governor of Missouri, by the way. And so don't mess with Missouri folks. But there's another one, too, and I like this one even better, Rick. So we've got a candidate out in a Jerome Davidson out in Arizona. He's running for Congress, running as a Republican. So GOP candidate releases, make rifles great again,

showing black Americans using guns to fend off the Ku Klux Klan. And if you were Democrats, that's right. And what he's saying in this ad is they're still Democrats. Yes. And so here is that ad.

You thought Eric Greitens was something else. Watch this. Democrats like to say that no one needs an AR-15 for self-defense. That no one could possibly need all 30 rounds. But when this rifle

is the only thing standing between your family and a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods, you just might need that semi-automatic in all 30 rounds. We have candidates for the House and the Senate who are saying, we have to

take up arms to defend the Constitutional Republic. I know. Can you, how far have we come in politics? And the Guidestones came down yesterday. Yes. Something's happening. Something is happening.

There are other candidates out there that are also using gun imagery and explosions and everything. I think Ms. Boebert, she did an ad similar to that. So, Rick, you may be on to something there. The counterrevolution may have already started. We'll see in the coming weeks. That's it for today.

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