TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Medvedev Hints Russia Will Hire Hitman to Kill Senator Lindsey Graham

Episode Date: May 30, 2023

U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham met last Friday with Ukrainian President Zelensky. A widely circulated video showed the South Carolina Republican senator saying that Russians are dying in Ukraine and supporting the Ukraine war is the best money ever spent by the US government. Senator Graham claims the video was edited. His alleged comments created an uproar in Russia. The country’s interior ministry, similar to America’s homeland security agency, issued an arrest war for Sen. Graham. A warrant for his arrest is the least of Mr. Graham’s worries. Some high level Russians have hinted that the South Carolina Republican senator should be assassinated. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 5/30/23 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 down 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

This is True News, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help us God. U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham met last Friday with Ukrainian President Zelensky. A widely circulated video showed the South Carolina Republican senator saying that Russians are dying in Ukraine and supporting the Ukraine war is the best money ever spent by the U.S. government. Senator Graham claims the video was edited. His alleged comments created an uproar in Russia. The country's interior ministry, similar to America's Homeland Security Agency, issued an arrest warrant for Mr. Graham. A warrant for his arrest is the least of Senator Graham's worries. Some high-level Russians have hinted that the South Carolina Republican senator should be assassinated.

Let's start with a report from London's Daily Mail. Here's the headline. Lindsey Graham says Russians dying is the best money the U.S. has ever spent while in meeting with Zelensky, as Moscow's London ambassador threatens escalation if the West continues to help Ukraine. Doc Burkhardt is here. We're going to delve into this. We're going to play the video and assume that it's the unedited version. It's the one released by Zelensky's office. Right. Now, we found a video on friday and it had music overlays on it and things like that but now we have this version that we'll show

in just a moment that uh out makes it very clear where zielinski and uh mr graham stand uh to quote the daily mail here the article it says free or die Zelensky. Now you are free and we will be. And the Russians are dying, replied Graham before the video cut to him saying the best money we've ever spent. Thank you so much, said the Ukrainian president. Now, according to the Ukrainians, according to the Ukraine's prosecutor general, Andriy Kostin, during the meeting, they also discussed the continued joint efforts to counter the criminal activities of the Wagner Group and the possibility of redirecting $5.4 million confiscated from Russian oligarchs' assets to rehabilitate Ukrainian war veterans. We're going to show you the video here. This is Senator Lindsey Graham speaking in a meeting that he had with President Zelensky of Ukraine.

Whether it's edited or not, it still, I think, issues Graham's sentiments. My understanding is that this video, we have a longer form. We're only going to show part of it, though. Right. That this video was released by Zelensky's office. That's right. So if this is the unedited version, to me, it still says the same thing. That's right.

Let's watch you make your own judgment. We have, I think, just a little meeting. Thank you very much. Thanks, United States people of the United States for all big support. President Biden bipartisan support, Congress and really we thank you so much. Free or die. Free or die. Now you are free.

Yes. And we will be. And the Russians are dying. This is the best money we've ever spent. Thank you so much. You know, we're on the fourth, let's see, this is, it makes life possible. Yes, more than a thousand or so. And it was a result of this, how to fight against, how to defend our people.

One of our better selves in America. There was a time in America that we were... So you'll worry about that. Yes. Whether it's edited or not, I think it expresses Graham's intent. We've heard Senator Graham talk about

the assassination of Putin now for more than a year. He smiles every time he talks about it and obviously has no problem with killing Russians. And so the more this time he he seems like he's trying to walk it back. But his claim is the Russians edited the video. That video is the one released by Zelensky's office. Yes. So let's take Mr. Graham at his word that these are two parts put together. So he did say Russians are dying and he had a grin. Right. And he did say the best money America has ever spent.

So for the Russians, they're looking at this and they're seeing and hearing Lindsey Graham saying, Russian soldiers are dying in Ukraine. And he's got a that the U.S. support of the Ukrainian war against the Russians is the best investment America has ever made. Right. Even if it was edited, the two statements on their own implicate him in the eyes of the Russian people. Right. And they're extremely inflammatory in the current situation.

But knowing Senator Graham, he probably meant it to be that way, but didn't expect the blowback that he got. He thought everybody loved the war. What we always do here to help our audience think this through, and to see it from the

eyes of other people, and this is what's important, is to see things through the eyes of other people. And this is what's important, is to see things through the eyes of others. If during the Iraq War, and President George W. Bush was in the White House, and thousands of American soldiers were in Iraq, the Russians were not sending billions of dollars of military aid to Iraq. But if they did,

and Vladimir Putin or another Russian leader was recorded saying, Americans are dying in Iraq and it's the best money Russia has ever spent. saying, Americans are dying in Iraq, and it's the best money Russia has ever spent. In post-9-11 mentality, what would have been the response of the American people? Oh, they would have risen up.

I would hope they would have in response to that. They would be demanding an end to the war, an end to the conflict. No, but if Russia was sending troops to Iraq, sending weapons to back up Hussein, a billion dollars, and a Russian leader said, hey, Americans are dying in Iraq, and this is the best money we ever spent. Russia would be our new enemy. They'd be in the target. And with the mentality, the mindset that was in America in the days after 9-11, there would have been calls for blood. Now, when you put it in that perspective, you can understand why Russians are looking at this thing. Oh, so you a senator?

He's happy that our sons are dying? He says this is the best investment America has ever made, killing our sons? That's how the Russian people are interpreting Lindsey Graham's words. And it's enough for the Russian Interior Ministry to issue an arrest warrant for him. Lindsey Graham blew it off today and said, big deal. I'm proud to have an arrest warrant. I think we've got, this is his video. Well, here's a still.

This is from Fox News. Right. So Lindsey Graham offers fiery response after Russia issues a warrant for his arrest. See in the Hague, he says, quoting from that article. Here's an offer to my Russian friends who want to arrest and try me for calling out the Putin regime as being war criminals. I will submit to jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court if you do, Graham said Monday. Come and make your best case. See you in The Hague.

Well, the U.S. doesn't participate in the International Criminal Court either. And so only when it suits their needs as well. Good point, Doc. Senator Graham failed to mention that. Senator Graham, why isn't the U.S. signatory to that treaty? Because you don't want to be held liable for decisions that you have made. That's right.

The senior editor of RT, Russia Today, has suggested that Lindsey Graham be liquidated, removed, eliminated, whatever word you want to use. Okay, this is equivalent to the chief of the BBC in London or NPR in America. Calling for the assassination of a foreign leader. Right. Yeah. Well, London Times is reporting that the head of the criminal-controlled Russian broadcaster RT,

notice how they word that, Margarita Simonian, has called for the assassination of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham after he voiced support for American funding of Ukraine during a visit to Kiev. Simonian invoked a historical Russian intelligence agent involved in the murder of politicians, including Leon Trotsky, while criticizing Graham, saying, We have his address. Graham, a Republican ally and former President Donald Trump, went to Kiev to reassure Ukrainian officials about American support after Donald Trump and Ron

DeSantis suggested they could end the war funding if elected. Now, this is quoting Simonian here. It says, if Lindsey Graham really said that the money for the killing of Russians is the best money the U.S. ever spent, I hope that in our country, the sons or grandchildren are alive. His pupils or the descendant of his pupils, Simone said, it's not even hard. We have his address. Basically, they have a long memory and we know where Lindsey Graham hangs his hat at night or his bonnet, as may be the case. That's precisely what they're saying. We have his address. We have his address and they're saying our intelligence agents have, we have his address in Washington, D.C.

We have his address in South Carolina. We know where he's at. We can get to him. Now, Dmitry Medvedev was more blunt than the RT chief. Yes. He posted a message on Telegram, and this is what he said. So this is coming from a vet. He said, old fool Senator Lindsey Graham said that the U.S. has never been more successful in spending money than on killing Russians. He was wrong to say so. In his beloved America, not only are ordinary people routinely murdered, but dirty money is spent killing senators as well.

Let him remember the sad fate of Robert Kennedy, Huey Long, Clement Carlos Pickney, John Milton Elliott, Wayne Owens, and other American politicians. You were making the comment earlier about the dirty money aspect of this tweet. What is he alluding to there, Rick? He's saying that Russia is going to hire a hitman. That's what he's saying. Dirty money. He's saying dirty money kills U.S. senators. We know how it's done in America.

When you American leaders want to get rid of a senator, we know you use dirty money. You hire a hitman to kill a senator. And then he gave a list of senators who were- Who had been killed. Had been killed. Alluding that they were killed using dirty money by Americans. That's right. And so to me, the way I'm interpreting it is that Mr. Medvedev alerted Lindsey Graham, we're going to hire a hitman. Could be a drug cartel killer.

Could be a mafia killer. We're going to find a hitman. We're going to pay a hitman and we're going to take you out. That's how I'm interpreting it. And I don't think he's, I don't think he's bluffing at all. I really think they're going to put a contract on Lindsey Graham. This was not the first time Mr. Medvedev has warned Lindsey Graham was it a month or two ago? Back in March. Was it March? Yes and so we have this tweet

from back on March 17th where Mr. Medvedev basically warned Lindsey Graham, hey accidents happen it says in that post drone case, Yankees got brazen, to be polite with them is wrong, especially at the time of military operations.

The military should surely keep in touch while guys like Senator Graham say Russian planes should be shot down. In fact, such beasts get into plane crashes sometimes. So basically he's saying, you know what? Accidents sometimes happen in airplanes. So, Doc, if you put the two together, he warned in March, he warned Lindsey Graham, be careful about the airplane you're in. This weekend, he warned him, we're going to spend some dirty money.

We're going to hire a hitman. If you put the two together, they're going to hire a hitman. If you put the two together, they're going to arrange for Lindsey Graham's plane to go down. I think that's the message to Lindsey Graham. His propeller is going to fall off his plane. His landing gear is not going to open. Something's going to happen. They're not going to shoot it out of the sky.

Something will happen to his airplane. That's the message I'm getting. Look, this is serious stuff. We're in World War III. Lindsey Graham should keep his... Full mouth shut. I don't want to see anything happen. I don't want anybody thinking...

I'm proposing this. My gosh, I don't want Lindsey Graham to be shot. I don't want him to be killed in a plane crash. But he's talking like a fool. And when Medvedev calls him an old fool, he's correct. When you're in world war, in any world war, when you're in any war, if you're in a fight, you don't say stupid stuff about the other side. I remember my drill sergeant back in boot camp saying, don't make yourself a target. Don't make yourself a target. Lindsey Graham's making himself a target. He's going on Fox News and Hannity Show saying we ought to kill Vladimir Putin, assassinate him.

He's saying all kinds, he's bragging, going over to Ukraine saying, man, we're getting our money's worth. This is the best thing we've ever done. Look at those dead Russian soldiers. Lindsey Graham is a fool for saying these things. Apparently he doesn't think Russia has Spetsnaz inside this country. There are Spetsnaz commandos here now.

They've been here every day for decades. They will find a way to remove him without leaving fingerprints. That's where this is going. And when you're in a war, you should not be going on television calling for the assassination of the other country's leader or boasting that their soldiers are dying. There's just some things you just keep your mouth shut.

And I think they're going to make him an example. He's been the biggest cheerleader for this war. I think he's for the war more than Joe Biden. Maybe more than Zelensky. And what is it? What's propelling? What's motivating Lindsey Graham? Why does he want this war so bad maybe the ghost of john mccain is chasing him every night i don't know but i mean he is the

number one warmonger in dc right now i mean he's got the crown i think we can admit that when mccain died lindsey graham became chief warmonger. It was McCain who went to Kiev. In the first place, yes. In 2013, 14, and told the Nazis who were marching in the streets, we're going to back you. You overthrew this government, the Ukrainian government. You overthrow it.

You have a revolution, and the U.S. government will back you. Who was a sidekick? Victoria Nuland. Where is she now? She's in the State Department again. She was in the State Department then under Obama. She's in the State Department now under Biden.

She's still under Obama. Who is her husband? Robert Kagan, one of the original neocons. Yes. Who is her husband? Robert Kagan, one of the original neocons. The people who got us into Iraq. She's married to one of them. What's up with these people, Doc? They have to have war, Rick.

They have to have it for a number of reasons. Not only to feed the blood sex cult that everyone bows to, but they need this as a distraction for economic reasons as well. I also think that they do it for their paymasters. If you have investments, and I'm talking billions of dollars invested in defense industry, you make warplanes, you make tanks, you make artillery, you make ammo, and you're heavily invested, like a hedge fund, and you've got billions of dollars invested in defense industries, well, you've got to have war. If you want your profits up, you have to have war. And to have perpetual war, you have to have little puppets like Victoria Nuland and Lindsey Graham, who are just constantly agitating for more war so that the sales go up.

How many billions of dollars have been made in the past year by American defense companies for this war? For equipment that hasn't even started to ship to Ukraine yet. And where did the money come from to pay for it? We just suspended the debt ceiling. We suspended it. There ain't no debt ceiling right now. Doc, they didn't raise it. They suspended it. There ain't no debt ceiling right now. Doc, they didn't raise it. They suspended it.

The sky's the limit now. Just until the end of the year, though. Nope. No. Two years. Oh, to the end of 24? Yes. No. No. Two whole years. So you'd be going into 25. Two years with no debt ceiling,

which means Biden can spend like crazy. And he can borrow. For what? The war. Because that's the only thing we need to borrow for, really, isn't it? Because America is running on a war economy. We have to kill people to keep our economic system going. Somebody's got to die somewhere in the world for the American economy to keep going. What a sick way to run a country.

And it wasn't like that. President Eisenhower warned us. On his last speech, he warned us about a very evil force that was coming together in America. He called it the military-industrial complex. It's running this country right now. And Eisenhower was a general. And it scared him. The coming military scared a general from World War II. He knew it was too big and too evil

to control. That power that he saw killed John F. Kennedy. It killed Robert F. Kennedy. And that thing has taken control of this country.

And it's bleeding us absolutely dry. We're just as the American middle class, we've just been bled out. All for war profits, and Lindsey Graham is just a little prostitute for them. I'm sorry, Senator Graham, but that's my opinion of you. And they got Democrat prostitutes and Republican prostitutes.

They just wear different outfits. The next one, this is from Kiev Post. I just saw this a couple hours ago. Ukrainian intelligence chief says, we know where Putin and Prigzhin are often in real time. Right. So according to an exclusive interview with the Kiev Post, Andrei Yusov, a representative of Ukraine's military intelligence, has stated that they are aware of the location and security measures

in place for President Putin and Wagner chief Evgeny Prigozhin. Yusov revealed that Ukraine often monitors their movements in real time despite attempts to conceal this information, including the use of body doubles. However, Yusov emphasized that as a civilized state, Ukraine's priority is to capture rather than kill the two men, despite their knowledge of their location and level of protection. Now, as far as a quote from that particular article

is concerned, as for their whereabouts, of course we know, Yusuf said, Putin is guarded, he is a well-guarded person. Earlier this month, Major General Kriyolo Budanov admitted Kiev is behind several well-publicized assassinations. We've already successfully targeted quite a few people, he said. There have been well-publicized cases everyone knows about, thanks to the media coverage.

You know, Ukraine doesn't do squat without the West being involved in it, providing the real-time information so the nsa right and the dia are telling the ukrainian intelligence agencies here's where putin's at right now doc i don't believe ukraine has the capability of tracking putin i don't believe it either so they're getting help from the west particularly the the U.S. So there was another attack today. Ukraine carried out a drone attack on Moscow. Right. And depending on which source you read, the Russian media tried to play it down. The Western media hyped it up that Moscow was under attack. Either way,

drones got into the airspace of Moscow and struck some apartment buildings today. News Australia is reporting that a Russian political leader said today's drone attack on Moscow was the city's worst attack since World War II. Russia's defense ministry said Ukraine had launched the attack on Tuesday morning. At least two people were injured and some buildings were damaged. One of the drones was reportedly brought down close to Russian President Vladimir Putin's compound on the outskirts of the city. We're going to show you first some of the drones that were flying over, and then afterwards we'll show you the Russian response.

Let's see the drones first and see what Russians were looking at in their skies. Russian response in the next video here. This would be what would happen if one flew over Florida I think let's watch this one clay pigeon that's right so anyway but that's a day-to-day occurrence now going on in moscow and in russia that they have to be concerned about drones flying over but they're not doing anything ukraine's not doing anything without the assistance of the west let's make that very very clear so do you know world war ii the japanese launched balloons over amer with fire to set American pasture fields on fire. Right, and woodlands on the West Coast on fire. And some of them actually made it.

There are several stories of significant fires started by the Japanese. These were balloon drones, if you would, with the capability of creating chaos. So this kind of warfare has been going on for really longer than anyone cares to admit. But we have entered the drone war stage now. It's happened. I think back in 2001 when the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were hit, and I said that it could have been remote-controlled aircraft. Oh my gosh, Doc, you would have thought I said maybe aliens from space flew into the Pentagon. I mean, the reaction to that statement, I mean, I was vilified, laughed at, mocked.

I said, how do we know that there were humans flying the planes? How do we know that? And we had the technology to remote control major airliners at that time. Why? Because what would happen if both pilots died? Of course. Right. Then you've got to have the ability for someone to be able to access the controls so the technology was available of course it was but here we are now today and nobody thinks twice about drones right drones are just

part of the uh it's part of the sky now we have drones and now we have drones and wars so the next time a drone goes up you know a a large aircraft without a pilot flies into a building there won't be a shock to anybody right oh it's a drone war and that's where we're headed right now so um mr biden today uh left the door open for the possibility of the u.s sending what's called attackums right it's a more powerful missile that could reach deeper into russian territory although you know every every shipment of missiles that America sends comes with a little instruction. Do not use on Russian soil. Do not fire these missiles towards Moscow. Right.

Promise. Scout's honor. Yes. as reporting that President Joe Biden has suggested that the U.S. could eventually supply Ukraine with a long-range missile system that Kiev has been calling for to fight Russia's invasion. The president made the remarks outside the White House on Monday when he was asked for his response to Russia stepping up its air attacks on Ukraine. Mr. Biden said that the move by Russia was not unexpected, adding, that's why we've got to continue to give Ukraine all that it needs. Here's a video of President Biden being grilled by reporters on the question. on Kiev. Do you have any reaction to that? It's not unexpected. And that's just pure...

It's not unexpected. That's why we've got to continue to give Ukraine all that it needs. Mr. President, are you expecting any movement on Sweden's membership in NATO on Erdogan's side? I raised that issue with him. We're going to talk more about it next week. Is it time for ATAC and for Ukraine? That's still in play. So,

to me, that means we're packing them up right now. They'll be there soon. He's going to send them and the war will be escalated i mean we see the pattern here where we say well we're not going to send this this is the line this is all we're going to send ukraine and then ukraine asked for the next level and said well we're not going to do that, but we'll do this previous one. And now we're saying, well, maybe, maybe not on attack.

They're coming. Why don't we just go straight to the nuclear bombs? Just go straight to it. Just cut out all of this. Because they're working their way, Doc. They're working their way there. They don't want to go there all suddenly. They're working their way there. You can't make money go there all suddenly. They're working their way there. You can't make money after the nukes fall.

Yeah, and that's the other thing. You've got to keep the cash flowing. Hey, by the way, I wanted to say to our audience, I really appreciate you showing an interest in what Doc and I do here. I don't know how many podcasts you listen to, how many programs you watch, and how much television news you watch, but I guarantee you, nobody's talking about World War III. Isn't this the weirdest thing you've ever seen? We're in World War, and nobody's talking about it. And there are people who say, you know, doc and rick they're really boring they've been talking about ukraine for a year why don't they why don't they talk about something else and we haven't run

short of material have we i'm like oh my gosh we're in world war three there's nothing else to talk about everything else is insignificant look at where we're going and yet you know you can scan the news channels and you're not gonna you're not gonna see or hear anything you might see a lindsey graham showing up on fox to you know talk about killing putin or something like that you can watch or listen podcasts they're not talking about these things they the hosts don't even understand it. You know why? I'll just be honest. I'm not going to name... It's too much work.

It's too much work. Well, you and I do, Doc. We work. Okay? We work at this. If you watch True News, you're in the most educated portion of the american society because you know things that 99

of the population doesn't know you know things that most of the congress doesn't know right just think about that because people the news people and the podcasters don't work. It takes effort to drill down deep into these things and to know where to go and to be searching and to put it all together five days a week and say, this is where we're at in World War Three. I don't know, maybe maybe we should just have the same attitude just talk about politics just be pro-ukraine and yeah you know you know and just hang a ukrainian flag in here and and then when you know when the nukes arrive we just act like we're surprised right like where did that come from that's where a lot of people are going to be when the first nuke goes off they're going to be in a state of absolute terror and shock because they had no idea that we were that the world was

in that dire of a condition they just don't see it coming doc it's i'm i thought covet was weird the blindness that was on the people. But this is even stranger. But it's the same people. The people that brought you COVID and the deception regarding it are the same ones that are selling you the war. I know, but there were people that were aware of what was going on with COVID and the lockdowns and the vaccines who are unaware of what's going on with the war. They bought into the war. You got people who were opposed to the vaccines and the lockdowns and mask mandates and yet

they want Russia destroyed. They don't connect it. They don't see that the people who gave you the COVID propaganda are giving you the war propaganda. They just don't get it. They don't connect it. They don't see that the people who gave you the COVID propaganda are giving you the war propaganda. They just don't get it. They don't see it. We told everybody. We told everybody when COVID was winding down, we said, hey, they're changing the channel. Yes.

They're done with COVID. They're changing the channel. Something's going to happen. It was almost like to the day. Yeah. Suddenly it's like, hey. We're in war hey we beat covid yep and now and then suddenly everything started changing to ukraine right and now we're we're watching the war channel um let's see what else do we have here um so we um the long-awaited ukrainian counter-offensive doc either either the ukrainians are blowing smoke and they don't have they don't have it together militarily

to launch this big counteroffensive or they're waiting on the west to deliver certain items right which one which one do you think it is i think it's number two i think that's that's what it is and that's what's held russia back from making any moves to. So, first of all, BBC, it's saying the Ukraine counteroffensive is ready to begin. You know, that's what we're hearing. It's ready to begin. This is an article from Friday, I believe. The BBC is reporting that Ukraine is ready to launch its long-expected counteroffensive against Russian forces. One of the country's most senior security officials has told the BBC Alexei Danilov would not name a date but said an assault to retake territory from President Putin's occupying forces could begin tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or in a

week. All right, so take that statement by Danilov and compare it with what the Russian ambassador to the Ukraine is saying, also to the BBC, Andrea Kellen, issues a warning of escalation in Ukraine. So that tells me, you pair these two stories together, the Russians have withheld restraint because Western supplies have not started moving into Ukraine yet. The BBC is reporting that Russia has warned Western supplies of weapons to Ukraine risk escalating the war to levels not seen so far. Andrei Kelen, Russia's ambassador to the UK, he said that to the BBC that his country had enormous resources and it was yet to act very seriously. Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Mr. Kelen warned of a new dimension in the war. Insisting Russia hasn't just started yet to act very seriously, the ambassador said, Russia is 16 times bigger than Ukraine. We have enormous resources.

Here's a portion of that interview by the BBC. It's a big idealistic mistake to think that Ukraine may prevail. Russia is 16 times bigger than Ukraine. We have enormous resources and we can, we haven't just started yet to act very seriously. And Ukraine is living at the moment. You haven't even started to act seriously, so this could get a lot worse? No, I don't think so. Could this go on then for five years, ten years? That depends on the efforts in escalation of war that is being undertaken by NATO countries, especially by the UK. Sooner or later, of course, this escalation may

go to a new dimension, which we do not need and we do not want. What do you mean then by a new dimension? New dimension, it is a long range missiles that has been provided by United Kingdom. It is an escalation. Tanks provided, aircrafts provided. We're not afraid of aircrafts. In fact, we have downed now, by now, 430 Ukrainian aircrafts. And provision of new, it is only, will add to these numbers.

So the ambassador said, we haven't even started the fight. Right. We haven't even gotten serious yet. But if your country, Great Britain and the United States, keeps sending bigger weapons, bigger longer-range missiles, it's going to change things. It's going to add a whole new dimension. It's a whole new dimension. 3D all of a sudden.

So have the Russians been restrained? Are they fighting an old-style World War II campaign? Boots on the ground. Meat grinder. Just the stuff that we made movies about in World War II. Iwo Jima. Just think of the worst battles of World War II.

That's what's been going on in Ukraine for a year. Just a meat grinder. And they're just fighting on the ground with tanks and artillery and troops. And their attitude is, we haven't even brought out the big stuff yet. But if you were to listen to the Western narrative, the Western narrative would be saying

that Russia's on the retreat, Russia's on the run, Russia's losing. Well, they've been losing for a year then. Russia has, just Russia alone has more tanks than all of Europe combined. All of Europe combined. Russia has more, just in the tank department. That's not even counting the aircraft. And Russia hasn't even rolled out the aircraft yet. I mean, they could have been bringing out the big bombers and everything, but they haven't done that yet.

They haven't leveled Kiev. They haven't dropped a Moab, a mother of all bombs. They haven't dropped an air, you know. Air fuel bomb. Yes, an air fuel bomb. They haven't dropped it on Kiev yet.

I suspect that one, you know, devastating attack on Moscow or Kiev, excuse me, not Kiev, Crimea, and I believe Kiev will disappear as a city. I'm just, I'm suspecting that the Russians have made that decision. That Ukraine, if you use Western weapons to hit inside Moscow, or if you take down the Crimea Bridge or hit a military base in Crimea, then we're going to drop a bomb on Kiev, and you guys won't wake up.

You'll be gone. And then Washington and London, Berlin and Paris, we'll have to decide. The Ukrainian government is gone. Are you going to continue to send weapons? Who are you sending them to? Who's in charge now? Yeah. Who are you going to ship them to?

That's what I think's coming. And I don't think the Russians want to do it. I really think they're holding back, saying we don't want to do this. But you're going to make us do it. We keep telling you that we're going to do it. But you keep saying we're bluffing. Well, you just keep pushing us,

and we'll show you if we're bluffing. Because the Russians are not bluffing. And I think these drones today, Doc, I think that they're more significant than what we know as of today, if the Russians shot down drones, as we saw in the video, if those are accurate videos and not propaganda, if they shot down drones and those drones were made in America, made in Arizona, at a drone factory, made in any Western country, then Russia is going to have the evidence that Western technology and weapons are being used

to kill Russian citizens on Russian soil. And they're going to say this is an act of war? And, I mean, this thing could escalate so fast. You could have Putin telling Biden, you need to surrender or be eliminated. I mean, this is how fast it could go in a matter of days. Surrender or be eliminated.

What is Biden going to do if he gets an ultimatum like that? If he's even aware of it. Yeah, if he's aware of it. But his handlers will be aware of it. I'm telling you, these drones hitting Moscow, if this is accurate, that they got close to Putin's house again today,

then this thing could escalate rapidly if there's evidence that the drones were made in America or any Western country. I think what happened today is far more significant. The Ukrainians are kind of acting like, no, they're not ours. We don't know where they came from. Seriously? Like, well, of course you know where they came from.

So somebody's got to take responsibility for it. Somebody's got to take ownership of these drones. Or the Russians are going to pin ownership on somebody. Doc, if we, again, if Washington, D.C. were attacked today by drones from a foreign country, I mean, let's just say Cuba sent

drones to Washington, D.C. And the FBI and the Defense Department have wreckage of drones. And they go, these drones were made in Russia. What do we have now? We'd be at war. Yes, we'd be at war. This is what I'm saying about these drones that hit Russia today that hit Moscow. We could be at war with Russia within a week.

This could escalate that fast. Well, as far as the war goes, all of Europe is gearing up for war. We have this news item. I don't know how you find these news outlets, Rick. This is the Czech Republic radio news outlet, Iroslis. And quoting a Czech general here, he says, A NATO war with Russia is possible. According to him, the Army is preparing for that conflict. This is Czech radio.

This would be like NPR. So Czech Republic news outlet Erasmus reports that during a conference on international security and state resilience in the House of Representatives, Chief of the General Staff Karl Rejka stated that a war between Russia and the North Atlantic Alliance could potentially occur, and if it were to happen, the Czech Republic would be involved from the outset. Raika emphasized the importance of preparation and deterrence in preventing such a scenario, highlighting the need for proactive measures to ensure the country's security and readiness in the face of potential threats. So a few quotes from this article here.

Czech Republic broadcaster Roslis reported that General Rekha said a war between Russia and the North Atlantic Alliance, which is the worst scenario for us, is not impossible. It is possible. And according to him, the army is trying to prepare for a high intensity conflict with a technologically advanced adversary, particularly Russia. Because today Russia is on a trajectory of conflict with the alliance. with a technologically advanced adversary, particularly Russia, because today Russia is on a trajectory of conflict with the alliance, said the chief of the general staff. Rekha said that if such a war broke out,

a large part of the army would go to fight in accordance with the alliance plans. According to Rekha, however, the task would also have to be fulfilled in the Czech Republic, which according to him is a transit corridor from the west, both to Poland and the Baltics and to the southeast, to the Black Sea. So the Czech Republic would be right in the middle of every bit of action going on if a major war were to break out in Europe. Now, the Czech Republic would have to ensure army movements and overflights, concentration points, storage areas, and critical infrastructure security. He said the task is absolutely essential, and according to whom the Czech Army would need the support of other departments, the concept of development of all departments and all security forces must take into account war, he said. And so now you have the Czech Republic that is coming out and saying, we are preparing.

We got the memo already. There's a major war coming to our part of Europe. Doc, you would think these small countries like Czech Republic would be saying, whoa, whoa, slow down. Whoa, what are you doing? Russia is our neighbor. We don't want in this war. Everything was really fine

here. But you have these generals who are deeply indoctrinated by NATO. And all they're thinking is, we've got to fight the NATO war. This whole man's career, this gentleman's, his entire career has been for this war.

From the time he joined the Czech military, his entire career has been based on, someday you're going to go to war against Russia. And so he now is chief of the general staff. He's the Mark Milley of the Czech Republic. And that moment has now arrived. So instead of being a reasonable, cooler head who says, wait a minute, we don't need war with Russia. This fight isn't with Czech Republic. This is between Zelensky and Putin. We're going to stay out of it.

He's not going to say that because he's part of the NATO war machine. He was indoctrinated for decades in the Czech check in the czech republic military you're going to fight russia someday and so this intermingling of different forces you know on these drills and exercise and everything you make relationships you make connections and you become like one another that's the the purpose of it that's what all these drills are. In fact, we've got one of these that are getting ready to ramp up now. This is from ERR News out of Estonia. Warships have arrived in Tallinn for NATO's Baltops naval exercise. Now, this is an annual naval exercise. We usually talk about it every year that rolls around. ERR News out of Estonia reports that more than 30 NATO warships and almost

3,700 personnel have already arrived in Tallinn for NATO's annual Exercise Baltops, the largest ever held in Estonian waters. The event, which includes vessels from the U.S., Sweden, Poland, France, the U.K., and other countries, aims to improve maritime security in the region through partnership and sharing of resources. Exercise Baltops has taken place since 1972 and is meant to demonstrate NATO's commitment to the defense of Estonia and the entire Baltic Sea region. The U.S. Navy's press office also released information related to the exercise as well. So this is from the U.S. Navy website saying that the Sixth Fleet

and Naval Striking Support Forces out of NATO are kicking off this year's Ball Tops 2023. The 52nd iteration of Ball Tops operations, NATO's premier maritime-focused exercise in the Baltic region, is set to begin later this week, going from June 4th to 16th. The exercise includes 19 NATO nations, one NATO partner nation, 50 ships, more than 45 aircraft, and 6,000 personnel. That NATO partner nation is actually Japan.

Didn't know Japan was fighting a war in Europe. So it aims to demonstrate NATO's commitment to preserving regional peace and security by exercising a team of international forces that can rapidly respond in a time of crisis. The exercise will feature training and personnel recovery using unmanned surface vehicles and the collaboration of 16 chaplains representing three different faith life stance traditions from eight participating nations. That means three different religions? Yes, that's exactly what it means. Now they're activating the chaplains, Rick.

This exercise takes place every year. Usually we have some sort of story related to it. But now this year, it's more intense than ever. Okay, so you've got 19 NATO nations. Right. And all 19 generals, their chief generals,

have been indoctrinated. Someday you're going to fight Russia. Yes. And now they're all jacked up. And they're ready. They want this war. They're ready for it. They want it.

This is the annual Attack Russia festival, isn't it? What they're thinking is, finally, after years of preparation, we're going to go to war. This is the moment. This is what we've been training for. You know that this is the message going out is the moment. This is what we've been training for. You know that this is the message going out to the troops. Men, this is what we've been training for. This is the big moment. We're going to invade Russia. They're getting the troops jacked up with a bloodlust for this war. And it is not going to have a good ending. I promise you, this thing is not going to have a good ending for us. I got two more stories before we

go home for tonight. An interesting thing happened. Mark Milley, well, actually, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, wanted to have a meeting with the Chinese defense minister, and he said no. No. I've got other things to do. That's right. So NBC News is reporting that China has declined a request from the U.S. for a meeting between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chinese Defense Minister Ling Shunfu. The Pentagon had suggested a meeting between the defense chiefs on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue.

This is an annual security forum held in Singapore. The move comes as both countries struggle to mend ties, and China has outlined limits to that conciliation over its issues with U.S. sanctions and what it sees as a broader effort to contain its rise. Meanwhile, China's new ambassador to the U.S., Xi Feng, says he wants to bring the relationship back on track, even though he acknowledged that there are significant challenges. We have this brief report from NBC News. Thank you so much for traveling all the way to the airport to meet me.

I feel so honored to be appointed by President Xi Jinping to be the 12th new Chinese ambassador to the United States. I am the representative of China, so I have come here to safeguard China's interests. This is my sacred responsibility. I am also the envoy of the Chinese people, so I have come here to enhance China-U.S. exchanges and cooperation. And this is my important mission. At present, China-U.S. relations is facing serious difficulties and challenges. President Xi Jinping has put forward the three principles, namely mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation. And this is the fundamental and right way for our two countries to get along in this new era.

We hope that the United States will move in the same direction with China. We hope that the United States will move in the same direction with China. We hope that the United States will work together with China to increase dialogue, to manage differences and also to expand our cooperation so that our relationship will be back to the right track. As we're sitting here, we got some breaking news for World War III. And that is that North Korea has fired a missile. And Tokyo is on... Well, Okinawa is. Okinawa?

Okinawa is on alert right now. They were... Now, North Korea has issued a statement here just a few minutes ago saying that this is a launch of a spy satellite. It's not a missile test. They're putting a spy satellite in orbit. They had told Japan that sometime between May 28th through June 11th they were going to do it. They ended up doing it today, but the flight path took it over Okinawa, and so that portion of Japan was on alert here while we were talking earlier. Because earlier today, Japan had threatened to shoot it down.

Yes. If it crossed Japanese airspace. And then we have another story also, and that is Congressman James Comer has issued. Well, he's announced he will. The Republicans are going to issue the contempt charges on FBI. Contempt of Congress against the FBI Director Wray. Right. Over that 1053 document that Director Wray just a few moments ago said, I will not turn it over. And so the response now the republicans saying well then we're going to hold you in contempt and so this talk the director of the fbi telling the chairman

of a house committee investigating corruption we're not going to release a document to you i can't figure out if if you're an honest man i'm assuming maybe too much for Director Wray, but let's say you're an honest man, what would be your motivation in holding a document back from Congress? What possible scenario could exist out there within the political universe that says, I can't let Congress have this? None.

None. He's covering for Biden. Right. It's just that simple. Because i can't think of a plausible uh you know explanation for anything else here i don't know if congress has the power to impeach an fbi director they can impeach a cabinet minister a cabinet secretary can be impeached and removed because they're ratified by the Senate. I don't know. We've never been in a situation where the FBI director is corrupt and has to be removed from office, but we might be moving in that direction where the House Republicans impeach FBI Director Wray?

Well, it's according to Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution, the Senate can remove any civil officer if they are convicted of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors. Any? Any government official. Wow. I guess Marjorie Taylor Greene has already introduced articles of impeachment against him. And obviously they haven't moved very far, but obviously you can, according to Article 2 of the Constitution. That's interesting. There's also been a motion to it was set in motion the procedure to have a vote on removing House Speaker McCarthy.

Yes. mr mccarthy is telling mr coma and others hey get tough get tough on on ray and and the biden's because i gotta i need all the support i can get i can't afford to lose four or five six republicans who who decide to vote to remove me and that would be over the debt deal. Hey, one more story, then we're going to turn the lights out. Financial Times, Saudi Arabia in talks to join the BRICS Bank. This is a big story. Any other day, if there was a war or a debt deal going on, this would be it. That would be our first story without World War III. Right.

Because this will change the future of money in the world. It's going to change everything. The Financial Times reports that the new development bank, Shanghai-based lender, better known as the BRICS Bank, is in talks with Saudi Arabia on admitting the country

as its ninth member, a move that would strengthen its funding options as founding shareholder Russia struggles under the impact of sanctions. Now, the addition of the kingdom would reinforce ties between the bank, which was established by the world's biggest developing economies, as an alternative to Western web Bretton Woods institutions and the world's second largest oil producer translated the petrodollar is coming to a close that's really what saying we are seeing the curtains and draw down on the petrodollar right

yes the bricks bank when this was established years ago after the 2008 financial crisis the brics bank is the alternative to the world bank world bank was established by in in the new world order in the post-world war ii new world order the world bank was established by the western powers and now the eastern nations creating the bricks alliance created the bricks bank to compete with the world bank it is their version of the world bank so saudi arabia is in talks to join the bricks world bank that's what this means it's big it's a big why because saudi arabia is the linchpin in the petrodollar right our financial system completely changes it's upside down the moment saudi arabia pulls the rug out on the petrodollar because then we don't we don't have gold we don't have anything to back it all we can do is threaten to kill people right which is what we're doing right now i am so glad jesus

christ is coming amen i think about him every day i think about his kingdom he is coming my friends jesus christ is ruling and reigning right now he is the king of heaven a lot of people have been taught that jesus christ will set up his kingdom when he comes back no his kingdom is set up now and you and i are in his kingdom if you've been born again and baptized into his name then you are in the kingdom and he should be ruling and reigning in you. He is coming back. And when he comes back,

boy, Doc, I can't do this in two minutes. This is a whole new teaching. I'll just toss something out to you. When Christ comes back, his kingdom ends. And then he presents the kingdom to his father. And then his father presents it to the church. The Christian Zionists teach you that when Christ comes back, he sets up his kingdom in Jerusalem.

And the Jews rule the world for a thousand years. And the judgment is a thousand years away. That's not what the Bible says. It says that when he comes back, his ruling and reigning in the kingdom of heaven comes to an end. And he presents the kingdom to his father. He lays down his crown before the father. You know when he does it?

When he kills death. When death dies. Yes. How do you kill death? I don't know, but Jesus knows. His mission since Calvary has been to kill death. And when death is dead, his kingdom has come to a conclusion

and he presents the kingdom to his heavenly father. And his heavenly father then takes it and presents it to the triumphant church. And we live with almighty God, Jesus Christ, the Son, and the Holy Spirit forever, forever and ever, and even some more forever. That's the gospel.

And it's wonderful. And I think about it all the time. We've given you a lot of stuff about world war. We got to live through this. We got to get through it. We can do it through Christ. Take care. We'll be back here tomorrow. God bless.