TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Moscow Hints West Involved in Drone Attack on Crimean Bridge

Episode Date: July 17, 2023

Ukrainian intelligence agents used drone boats to attack the Kerch Strait Bridge for the second time since the start of the war with Russia. The Kremlin hinted that it believes Western countries were involved in the attack. Russian President Putin said he ordered his country’s military forces to retaliate in an appropriate manner. Doc Burkhart and Eddie Da Cuna are here to discuss today’s world news headline. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 7/17/23 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.

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for the second time since the start of the war with Russia. The Kremlin hinted that it believes Western countries were involved in the attack. Russian President Putin said he ordered his country's military forces to retaliate in an appropriate manner. Doc Burkhardt and Eddie DeCunha are here to discuss today's world news headlines. We will start today with a report published by RT.com, Crimean Bridge targeted by Ukrainian terrorist attack. Doc, I'll let you go first. What do we have? Well, Russia's National Anti-Terrorist

Committee announced on Monday that a Ukrainian terrorist drone attack targeted the Crimean Bridge, a crucial connection between the Crimean Peninsula and mainland Russia. The attack, which involved two Ukrainian unmanned sea vehicles, took place around 3 a.m local time yeah that article went on to say the NAK statement comes after several Ukrainian media outlets described the attack as a special operation conducted by the country's security services and Naval forces publicly however Ukrainian officials stopped short of assuming direct responsibility while cheering the incident. I want to show you some video of the damage to the bridge today. It's hard to see a lot of video. It seems like the Russian government cleaned up the internet pretty quickly of scenes of the bridge, but this is some of the things that we saw early today.

Automobile traffic is halted. Right. Train traffic is still moving and going back and forth, so that is still underway. But as you said, road traffic has been suspended. But the Russians are saying

that several lanes will probably be open tomorrow allowing some traffic back uh going again would you uh would you how fast would you drive across that bridge it's been hit twice now oh man i would be like if i had to cross that bridge i would be moving at a high rate of speed i don't know what's scarier for that or there's reports saying that they need that they're going to put up a temporary bridge to fix it but also they might allow traffic through it or not i mean i don't know how that's what i was wondering when i read that too about a temporary bridge i thought where and how how are you putting up a temporary bridge so the reason why they're going to do a temporary bridge

is because typically what they would have done is they would have put a floating crane on the outside of the bridge to repair it. But the part that's damaged is in between the rail bridge and the road bridge or the automobile bridge. So there's no space for a floating crane. So you have to build a temporary bridge, possibly floating or I'm not sure the technology, but it's probably not as secure as a completely built bridge. But they have to build a temporary bridge to get construction in and out, fix it. And I don't know if they're going to allow traffic through there as well to help alleviate the traffic that's going to be happening on the limited lanes. Yeah. We've got a map.

It's a Russian map. But I wanted you to see the location. At the upper part of the map and that was the first attack right uh months ago and well actually last year it's hard to believe a whole year has gone by isn't it october 2022 yeah that's uh and and then the star in the center uh that's that's the attack that took place last night. Now, a lot of people don't realize just how big this bridge is. It's really from the top of the map to the bottom of the map.

We're talking about 12 miles here. So there's a lot of vulnerability when it comes to this map. If you've ever crossed the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, then you know what this is like. Oh, yes. Similar length of a bridge. And so it obviously is vulnerable at several different points along. The Russians have it heavily fortified. They've got anti-missile armaments

there and so much. Because this is a critical pipeline for the Russians. Russia needs it. Obviously there and so much so because this is the critical pipeline for the russians they need russia needs it um obviously there's civilian traffic there's uh railroad traffic there's there's a there's a railroad track on the bridge and uh but the military uses it a lot right and it is it's the main way that Russia gets supplies to the people living in Crimea, but it's also the main route for the Russian military to move equipment and people and weapons to Crimea. So taking out the bridge would be a major setback for the Russians, and psychological also. I'm glad you brought up about the civilians, because of the second attack, two parents were dead, and they left their 14-year-old daughter orphaned now. The child survived?

The child survived. They didn't give details on the injury, but she says she is not severely injured, but moderately injured right she's been hospitalized and putin made a statement to the to the governor or the official in charge of crimea to take care of her i mean you know just to make sure that see that she gets her relatives and she's taken care of but i mean i mean civilian lives are affected in all this and that's the yeah that's the sad part that's the sad part. That's the sad part about war. Yeah. Innocent people die because the nations are fighting over territory or over money or something. Well, now, CNN and U.S. News and World Report are both right now reporting that Ukraine has said they're responsible for the attack. They've taken responsibility. Right.

Okay. There's also reports, Doc, that the Ukrainian military or intelligence services used drones to attack the bridge. What do we know about these stories? Well, Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed retaliation for the new strike on the Crimean Bridge, targeted by two Ukrainian naval drones overnight. Exact retaliatory measures are currently being weighed by the country's defense ministry, he said, during an extraordinary meeting with senior officials Monday. He went on to say in that meeting, the incident is yet another terrorist attack by the kiev regime this crime is pointless from the military point of view since the crimean bridge has long not been used for military transport and brutal since only innocent civilians were killed and injured the president stressed now notice what he said in there that hasn't been

used for military transport for a while and that that begs the question I wanted to ask you as we got deeper into this. Why are they labeling this? I know why. I kind of tossed it out. Why are they labeling this a terrorist attack instead of a military attack? Russia is not at war with Ukraine. I know this sounds um idiotic but in in legal terms uh russia is not in a state of war it has a special military operation just like the united states has not declared war

since 1941 right they go in and do special military operations of their own right that's right and and international law has very different rules for limited military operations than it does for war so at some point i i think russia the russia duma their parliament will declare war on ukraine and then they're in a new set of rules and when those rules uh are in play russia is then free to do a lot more damage to ukraine i know it sounds to to civilians it just sounds ridiculous but because we toss around the word the war with ukraine the war in ukraine but legally they never say war right and there's a reason they don't say they don't use the word war because they're operating under a different set of rules i just think it's going to change sometime in the near future and mr uh one of our favorite spokespeople from Russia, reiterated this by saying there's no mercy to terrorists, he said.

But what do we do to terrorists in the United States? What's our attitude towards terrorists? We can hunt them down anywhere in the world if we wanted to. And there are no rules. Yes. If it's a terrorist. Right. Right?

Now, if it's a war, you can take prisoners. There are rules for how you operate in a war. But with terrorists, you can do whatever you can do, anything you want. You can waterboard them. You can dump them off in deep sites. And according to the United States and Great Britain and France and Germany, there are different rules for terrorists. I mean, George Bush declared a war on terrorism. The Congress didn't declare war, George Bush did. Global war on terrorism, yep. But he was allowed to do things that ordinarily would not be done in war, which you

can shoot a terrorist on sight. There are things that you can do. You can torture a terrorist that you can't do legally in a war. Right. So in a war, if you capture a prisoner, you can't turn right around and shoot him in the head. That violates rules of war. But you can with a terrorist.

Right. So that's why they're calling them terrorists. Well, Mr. Moveda had some remarks on Telegram, as he usually does. with the terrorists right so that's why they're calling them terrorists well uh mr mevita has some remarks on telegram as he usually does and so uh world in our own experience shows that it is impossible to fight terrorists with international sanctions intimidation or exhortations they only understand the language of power only personal and completely inhumane methods so he's making it very clear how they're going to approach this therefore yep therefore it is necessary to blow up their own houses and the houses of their relatives look for and eliminate their accomplices abandoning the inspite idea of trial against them

but the main thing is to destroy the top leadership of terrorist formations in whatever cracks these insects hide it's difficult but, but possible. So, guys, what does that tell you the Russians are about ready to commence? Their own war on terrorism. Mm-hmm. He said it is necessary to blow up their own houses and the houses of their relatives. So they are going to go

house to house in Ukraine blowing up the homes of Ukrainian military leaders and Ukrainian politicians. And according to Medvedev, they're going to blow up their uncles and their grandparents too. That's what he's saying.

Yes. Their own houses and the houses of their relatives. And he said it's going to be very inhumane. This thing's getting ugly now. They're about to turn loose the hounds of hell. And it's going to get real ugly. And what Medvedev is saying is, you think we've been playing rough so far?

Watch what we do now. But they're still, they haven't declared war. They're going after terrorists. And we've already said why that is important. At some point, I really do believe they're going to declare war. Now, I want to go back to this thing about the drones. Were you able to read any of the articles that came out today about the surface drones? These were not aerial drones, but water drones.

Just suppositions and speculations about the source of these water drones. And a lot of hearsay on social media and stuff like that. I think the next article might give a hint right there. This is Euronews. But they were suggesting that maybe the water drones, the seaborne drones, were of Western design. So the West may be complicit in the Crimea bridge attack. Now, following that recent explosion at the Kerch Strait bridge, Russia is suggesting that Western countries may have colluded with Ukraine in the terrorist attack, although no official evidence has been

provided and Ukraine hasn't claimed responsibility. Now, the attack, which caused the death of two people in temporary halted traffic, marks the second significant incident on the key supply route for Russian forces in southern Ukraine since it was damaged by a truck bomb in October and subsequently repaired. That article goes on to say if drones used in the alleged strike came from the West and if Ukraine's allies were involved in planning, sponsoring and carrying out this operation, that would confirm their culpability, Russia's foreign ministry said on Monday. And it goes on to say a spokesperson for Russia's foreign ministry said earlier that Ukrainian decisions were taken with the direct participation of American and British intelligence agencies and politicians. Well, that's important. Right. They did not provide evidence for this claim. But that's their foreign ministry. That's Lavrov's agency.

A lot of the speculation online was that the seaborne drones were of UK design specifically. Now there's no confirmation on that. And would the Russians come out and say, if they did discover it was a UK designed drone,ussians come out and say if i mean if they if they did discover it was a uk

design drone yes i think they would they come out yes i think they will so a spokesman for the russian foreign ministry said the ukrainian decisions were taken with the direct participation of american and british intelligence agencies and politicians. Putin said today that he gave authorization to the Russian military and intelligence agencies to retaliate in an appropriate manner. If the Russians have evidence that London and Washington participated in this attack on the bridge, then a retaliation at appropriate measures might be outside the geographical boundaries of Ukraine.

Well, the U.S., they can't track down terrorists anywhere in the world, right? Yes. So if you're using the U.S. definition of that, then Russia would also have that same opportunity as well, too, right? That's right. And we, the United States, we've used drones to assassinate people. Yes. And we boast about it as a country. We boast about it. Hey, we took out somebody down on the ground. He didn't even know a drone was five miles away from him

and we killed him. And we're very proud of it. And it's all over the news and politicians pat themselves on the back and boast that they were able to use a drone to kill a terrorist. Look, what goes around comes around. And the U.S. and the Western nations of Europe have not had a dose of their own medicine for decades for many decades they become arrogant with power drunk with power and now their words are going to

come back to haunt them because if the russians do the same thing that the Americans and the Europeans do. If they use predator drones to assassinate somebody, then why can't the Russians do it? I'm going to tell you, this is the second attack on the Kerch Strait Bridge. You couldn't pay me enough money to drive a car or truck through the channel in the English Channel

between Great Britain and France. There's not enough money. I wouldn't drive through that tunnel for anything. And those of you who are watching us in Europe, you need to think about this. You need to stay out of that tunnel. That, to me, is target number one.

And it's really the same thing because the channel is a railway and roadway tunnel that goes underneath the channel. So that would be comparable to you know the curt straight bridge can you imagine being halfway through the tunnel the english channel and it explodes underwater you're in a tunnel under underwater Imagine what that would be like. I would be very concerned. If I were a European or a Brit,

I would stay out of that tunnel until this war is over. I'd stay off the London Bridge. I'd stay off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. I'd stay off the San Francisco Gate Bridge. I'd stay off anything that resemblespeake Bay Bridge. I'd stay off the San Francisco Gate Bridge. I'd stay off anything that resembles the Kirch Strait Bridge. Because they're going to retaliate. They're going to do something. And they're pointing out that there is complicity with the Americans and the Brits, the Anglo-Saxons.

We've been hearing about the Anglo-Saxons since this war started. And the Russians have made numerous hints that they will retaliate against the decision-making centers of this war. So, any day, any day, it's going to change. Any day it's going to change. I thought's going to change i thought it was going to be today i really did i mean if if they had managed to actually bring down all the bridge which could have happened today this whole you know scenario would have changed radically wouldn't it it would but i think it's going to i don't think't think the Russians are going to let this go by. I really don't. The next story is from Newsweek. Putin leaving grain deal raises risk of direct conflict with NATO. uphold the deal that they made last year to allow Ukrainian grain, particularly wheat,

to leave the ports of Ukraine and be transported to other countries. Which to me is a crazy deal in the first place that this has been going on. Russia is blowing things up in ukraine but we can let the grain come out i mean it just seems odd not if you're selling the grain so i mean if you're if you're the one who's in control of the grain i i don't think the ukrainians are getting the grain well that's that's a good point i don't think zielinski's getting his hands on any of the grain money but i do think the russians are paying and turkey is too that's what i say so turkey's getting its share but i think the ukrainian uh farmers are getting paid russia doesn't want to destroy the farms no they

don't want to destroy the ukraine is a one of the top grain producing countries of the world bread basket of the world it is they don't want to destroy the the farms of of ukraine um but i don't think i don't think they're letting zelinsky get the money right but something happened last week that the russians said we're not doing this anymore they were allowing the ships to leave the harbor of ukraine carrying the grain and keeping food flowing to the to the world something happened last week that the russians said we're done with this well okay i thought something Turkey flipped last week. Turkey went to NATO side last week. Turkey's the one that brokered the grain deal in the first place.

Is that a possibility there? It is. I have an idea. I got to give credit to someone, a friend, Nate, in Colorado, who has been a long time friend, and he called me Friday night after I got home and he watched the program, and we were talking about turkey flipping.

Right. Okay, and he had a very interesting idea about why turkey flipped and went back to nato um it's very machiavellian and um eddie now you know what machiavellians are as eddie was telling eddie today about machiavelli is telling Eddie today about Machiavelli. So what did they say? They said the BRICS, the BRICS nation said, you can join BRICS and you can default on your Western loans and we don't care. In fact, we'd encourage it.

Okay. You can come into BRICS. Your record is clean, no debt. And so it was like, okay, this is a win-win. Man, our country can get rid of our debt. We can join this new economic military alliance. So what Nate suggested to me Friday night was this,

that Erdogan and Putin have a deal. How many houses does Turkey have to rebuild from the earthquake? It was tens of thousands from what I recall. I think it was even... It may have been much higher than that. Maybe 100,000. It was a vast number. What Nate suggested is that Turkey is going to accept

billions of dollars in Western aid. Rebuild the country. Oh, I see where you're going. And then default on the country. Oh, I see where you're going. And then default on the debt. Yeah. But that would take years. Right. That would take years.

When the BRICS summit is coming up here next month and there's a lot of things that are going to take place. So right now, maybe he's just pretending that he's not going uh he's not going to join bricks well russia coming out of the grain deal here uh according to newsweek raises the risk of direct conflict with nato over all this it says former nato supreme allied commander james stavridis says that nato will probably escort humanitarian grain and fertilizer carrying vessels to and from Ukrainian ports like Odessa. When that occurs, NATO warships will potentially be in direct confrontation with the Russian Navy. The results could be unpredictable and very dangerous, but he says it's the right thing to do.

Okay, let's just stop right there, guys. We're going to have NATO warships escorting grain ships and russian naval ships and submarines are going to intervene and stop it i mean either the russians can just let it happen but they're giving they're yielding to NATO they're allowing NATO to come into the war I can't see them doing that if the Russians allowed NATO warships

to escort Ukrainian ships carrying grain then Russia has submitted to NATO and is allowing NATO to officially enter the war. They're not going to allow it to happen, Doc. Yeah, I can't see that happening.

So they're going to sink NATO warships. I mean, there is no way this war gets better. Unless it ends. Yes, but the way both sides are going, it's going to end in a disaster. Because nobody's talking. Nobody's proposing a settlement. What are we fighting over? What is the purpose of this war?

Why are we going to blow up the entire world with nuclear weapons? Tell me, remind me, what is this all about? Nobody's talking about peace. There's no statesman anywhere in the world saying, this has gone too far. It's time to end the war. It's like some kind of madness is in the minds of these guys running these war machines.

They're so jacked up with adrenaline right now to fight that nobody is thinking about the consequences of nuclear war. And when you listen to the Americans, the American leaders, Joe Biden recently, I didn't hear him say it. I read that he said it. And that is, Putin is not going to go nuclear over Ukraine. That's not going to happen. He's making his decisions based on his belief that Vladimir Putin is not going to use nukes.

Well, this is a nuclear decision that has to be made. I mean, and he's saying he's basing that on his gut yes biden is made is running his administration on his belief that putin is bluffing that's why this is so insane so now we're being told eddie that nato may escort ukrainian grain. Because they've got to protect that grain. The world's going to collapse. Kids are going to starve in Africa if that grain doesn't get out. The only figure that I've heard that has been talking about ending the war is Vivek Ramaswamy. I believe I might have mispronounced his last name.

But Vivek, when he was with Tucker Carlson at another event, and his solution to it was if he gets elected president, that he'll try to sit down with Putin. He'll give away the Donbass region, what Russia is controlling, Crimea, Donbass, and just end it right there. At least try to end it where the lines are right now. That guy doesn't have a chance. And he's a Hindu, and he doesn't have a chance. I don't even know why they're giving him credibility. But that's another topic.

I want to go back to this story, number 16. It's a distraction. Yes. This is very bad news for international grain market. It also raises the specter of NATO deciding it needs to escort these grain ships. Stavridis tweeted, that could lead to a direct confrontation between the Russian Black Sea fleet and NATO warships if Russia acts recklessly. Stavridis told Newsweek in an email that simply allowing Russia to effectively blockade Ukraine would be a significant mistake on the part of NATO.

It would crush the Ukrainian economy and give Russia effectively veto power over ship movements on international waters. Hence, NATO could step in to escort shipments. So they're at a decision point here, aren't they? Both Russia and NATO. Yes. And so this is going to further escalate the tension between the West and Russia. Doc, you brought up a couple hours ago a story that appeared last week about the United Nations. Right.

And so I caught this story last Wednesday. And it almost sounded like it was the last ditch effort to keep that grain deal in place. Listen to what they were dangling in front of the Russians. The United Nations asked Putin to extend the Black Sea grain deal in return for swift access. Now, if you recall, you know, right now the sanctions on Russia, Russia is not allowed to use SWIFT right now. I think SWIFT is obsolete. I think the Russians said we don't care. We don't need it.

Well, we're launching something bigger and better. That's right. Guterres proposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the Black Sea grain deal be extended in exchange for connecting a subsidiary of Russia's agricultural bank to the SWIFT international payment system. Now, the deal had been jeopardized due to SWIFT for specific grain and fertilizer transactions. So they will suspend sanctions if it suits them, right? But that offer is a limited access to the SWIFT system. Okay. Let's look at this next headline jerusalem post new russian warship with hypersonic missiles joins the black sea fleet well a new russian warship the missile corvette cyclone equipped with hypersonic missiles has joined the country's

black sea fleet the cyclone is part of Karakut-class missile corvette warships and is armed with Caliber, Onyx, and potentially Zircon hypersonic missiles. The ship's capabilities include defense against incoming aircraft, missiles, and other ships, enhancing its operational flexibility. I want to say that the Slycon is also reportedly equipped with the Panseer M close-in weapon system missiles. This would allow it to defend against incoming aircraft and missiles. Now, essentially, it can let the ship defend itself more efficiently from missiles, drones, aircraft, and either other ships, giving it operational flexibility, as we mentioned before. This ship, armed with Zircons, is capable of delivering pinpoint and powerful strikes against the enemy at sea and on land.

And that's coming from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shogun back in January, when the first zircons were deployed on the Admiral Gorshkov frigate. So now we have several of Russian ships that are armed with hypersonic missiles. And apparently some of them have already been deployed from the Gorshkov early in their year, but they have not had their full implementation yet. And so... Doc, if this war erupts into a hot war between Russia and NATO,

people here in the United States of America are going to cry out, why didn't somebody tell us? You're right. They will. I'm here because of that reason. I'm here because of that reason. I'm here because of that reason. April 1998, I had a vision in the chapel of

TBN in Irving, Texas. I saw this country. I saw something on fire. I saw cities on fire. I went home that evening, didn't tell anybody. Next next day my daughter told me that Jesus came into her her bedroom and stood beside her bed and spoke to her she didn't wake up she just knew he was there he said daughter beginning tonight I will talk to you about the last days through dreams and visions. He gave her two dreams. The one dream, my family, my wife Susan, my daughter Carissa, my son Jeremy. They were college age at that time. In her dream, we were standing together, surrounded by thousands of people and they were rotating around us and carissa said that they were like skeletons and she saw their skulls and as she remembers the sockets of their eyes and she said dad they reached out long bony arms and

fingers and they cried out to you, Dad, in a loud voice, if you knew this was going to happen, why didn't you tell us? Yes. I've been telling you because I know this is going to happen. I've been telling you and I continue to tell you

there's not going to be one soul that's going to be able to cry out to God on Judgment Day and say, Rick Wiles kept his mouth shut and didn't tell us. No, I've kept my mouth open since 1998. And I've been telling people since 1998, there's going to be a horrific war. And you need to be saved. You need to be baptized. Your name needs to be in the book of life. I've been doing my job.

And those of you who have been watching me for quite some time and you are not saved, what on earth are you doing? What are you waiting for? What are you doing? You think this is a game? You think this is entertainment? It's because of your stubbornness in refusing to accept Christ. I have to keep coming out here doing this every day. Do you realize that's the reason I do this?

Because there are people watching. Who refuse to accept Christ. They're the reason I have to keep doing this. It's not. It's not all the other people that believe me. It's the people that don't. They're the reasons I have to keep coming out here. Doing this.

I could wrap this thing up. if these people would just get saved. I could go do something else. If all the people watching me for years who refuse to submit to Christ, if you would just submit to Christ, be saved and baptized, I wouldn't have to do this work anymore. I could go fishing. I could spend time with my grandkids. It's because of the rebellious people, the stubborn people, I have to get up every day and do this work to reach them. Do you ever think about it like that? I hadn't thought about it quite like that. I've always been thinking

that people that are just observers here at times, they think this is a rollercoaster ride. They enjoy the ups and downs and the going around the turn when they don't realize it's actually a rocket sled to hell. That's what it really is. There's going to be a day that you're going to have to make a choice. Today is the day of salvation, the Word of God says. It's not tomorrow. It's not yesterday.

Today is the day of salvation. And Rick's right. I mean, that's what motivates him to come out here on a regular basis every day and present this information. Why? Because the world's not going to get better and better. It is not going to get... it is going to get worse are you ready for that and that's why we're here every day to get you ready yes to get you ready um former vice president mike pence last week told Tucker Carlson that there is no persecution of Christians in Ukraine. He didn't.

Did he say that? I heard it. Okay, well, let's look at the Kiev Post. Metropolitan Pavel, house arrest, the house arrest order has been changed to detention. The day after Mike Pence said that there was no Christian persecution. So he was under house arrest order has been changed to detention. The day after Mike Pence said that there was no Christian persecution. So he was under house arrest, but Zelensky's government ordered him to be picked up and put in prison. This is the leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

And they have him in, right now folks, today, that man is in prison today in ukraine maybe mike pence will go visit him no mike pence won't go visit him and so uh russia is planning on bringing this topic up at the united nations russian federation uh meeting of the u.n security council raised the issue of the persecution of Metropolitan Pavel. Metropolitan is like a bishop by Kiev. We have some video here. This is Metropolitan Pavel praying for reporters, praying for the prosecutors and those that are placing him under arrest,

and then answering questions from reporters where he looks like a dangerous threat to security doesn't he he's just gonna whip out a knife there and start slashing everybody that's how dangerous he is no metropolitan pavel is you know to end up being the head of the church in Ukraine is not a political thing. It is something, you know, the Orthodox take a different view toward these positions of authority and power than even the Catholic Church does. They look at other characteristics in individuals. Well, please pray for him uh just think of bishop pavel and he's he's in a ukrainian jail today next story uh south china morning post a record 16

pla warships sailed close to taiwan in a single day eddie what's going on yes according to the south china morning post the people's liberation army of china sent a record-breaking number of Taiwan in a single day. Eddie, what's going on? Yes, according to the South China Morning Post, the People's Liberation Army of China sent a record-breaking number of 16 warships near Taiwan within a single day. This surpasses the previous high of 14 warships sent during Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan last year. The increased military pressure occurs as Taiwan prepares for presidential elections in January, and it is seen as a form of protest from Beijing against closer engagement between Taipei and other governments, especially Washington. The article from Hong Kong says that last week also saw an uptick in PLA forays around Taiwan with dozens of planes sent each day, according to the defense ministry in Taipei, PLA planes including bombers, drones, and advanced Su-30 and J-16 fighter jets made 32 flights in the 24 hours before 6 a.m. on Wednesday.

Right. And ROC armed forces, the Taiwan armed forces, have monitored the situation, tasked combat air patrol aircraft, Navy vessels and land-based missile systems to respond to these activities. Let's move on to another one from South China Morning Post. China and Russia to hold joint military drills in strategic waters near Japan. That's right, Rick. China and Russia have announced a joint military exercise called Northern Interaction 2023 in the Sea of Japan. Defense experts believe that this joint drill is a response to increased cooperation between the U.S. and its regional allies, Japan and South Korea, potentially posing a threat to both China and Russia.

Yeah, it goes on to say that this joint exercise aims at enhancing the level of strategic cooperation between the Chinese and Russian militaries, as well as strengthening both sides' ability to jointly safeguard regional peace and stability when dealing with various security challenges, the Chinese Defense Ministry said in a statement. All right, I'll take this one. Zhang Jian Ping, a former PLA instructor, said the strategic maritime corridors mentioned by the Chinese defense ministry included three straits near Japan, the Tsushima, Soya and Tsugar straits that could become key strongholds for the U.S. and its allies to block in order to break through the possible barriers of any potential risk it is very important for the pla and its russian counterpart to hold regular drills the next one i want to go to the london times have you heard anything about this one doc not till you brought it up earlier today folks look at this millions

millions of US military emails sent to Mali by mistake how do you send millions you can send one email by mistake how do you send millions and the worst part about this story is that

this isn't the first time it happens this exact scenario happened first time it happens. This exact scenario happened, I believe it was 2017 or it was earlier, where instead of putting the.mil, M-I-L, which is the military extension, they put.ml, which is the domain for Mali. And then the gentleman, Johannes Zabir, he was the one that tried to speak out about it because he saw a lot of potential information leakage to other countries. He was working as a Dutch internet specialist, but we'll get to that. Before that, actually right here, Johannes Zabier, a Dutch internet specialist who was contracted by Mali to manage a.ml domain, told the Financial Times he first came across the flow of email traffic from the Pentagon 10 years ago and sounded warnings.

This was 2013, excuse me. He said that his contract with the Mali government was due to finish and warned this risk is real and could be exploited by adversaries of the U.S. Are you saying this has been going on for decades? For 10 years. And he said, I'm sorry, it goes on here that he made multiple attempts to reach the Pentagon through the Dutch authorities. He wasn't with the Dutch. He was working for the Mali at the time. But anyway. Well, a Pentagon official said that wrongly addressed emails were blocked before they left the.mil domain.

However, Zubair said that since January, he had collected nearly 117,000 misdirected emails from the Pentagon, with about 1,000 arriving in Mali on one day alone. If you have this kind of sustained access, you can generate intelligence even just from unclassified information, Admiral Mike Rogers, former head of the U.S. National Security Agency, said. And he's 100% correct about this. In the military, we call this OPSEC, operational security. And it's how adversaries get information about military movement or government secret by small bits of information that seem harmless. A good example they use is if you keep telling your spouse, let's say you're in the Navy, you're a sailor,

and you're just texting your spouse, hey, I'll be home in 10 days, right? And he gets little bits of information from several people that by itself seems fine, but then if you compound that information, an enemy can get a clear picture. It's like ants carrying pieces of bread exactly they don't carry the whole loaf they carry little pieces chrome and then they reconstruct the bread at the other end and so you know it would have made sense if the pentagon simply would have gone to mali and purchased their their domain and said here we'll give you a billion dollars for it and you come up with a different one. MA or something like that, yes.

Now, Zubir said that he tried to let the Pentagon know what was happening using various methods, including appealing to the Dutch authorities to contact the U.S. Worried about the implications of the wrongly addressed emails, he gave a copy of the legal advice he received to his wife, just in case the black helicopters landed in my backyard. I hadn't heard black helicopters in a while, so I had to throw that quote in. Okay, well, while we're talking about black helicopters,

we'll take it to another level. You probably heard this story over the weekend. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that COVID-19 was ethnically targeted to avoid Ashkenazi Jews. That was an explosive statement. And he made it at a small dinner. Right. Very similar to the one that I attended a couple months ago,

where he was just seated around a table. And, you know, I can picture what that event looked like. Italian restaurant. He likes Italian restaurants. And he opened up and made this statement that COVID-19 was a man-made biological weapon. And well, he made the suggestion at least that some reports suggested that it could be ethnically targeted. Now, whether he endorsed that idea itself. Yes.

He just said that there was discussion of it. And he went on to say that it was, well, genetically it shows a predisposition to um target whites and blacks more than more than other races right so and so what he said was that chinese and uh ashkenazi jews were genetically protected from the virus yes now. Now, what's interesting is, Doug, you remember this, in the beginning of the virus, of the pandemic,

in New York, New Rochelle, and other Jewish neighborhoods, many Orthodox Jews were infected. Right. So, I've had this brought up to me today. What's the explanation? Well, is, are we looking at a difference? Are Orthodox Jews genetically different than the Ashkenazi European Jews? Are the Orthodox Jews real Jews and the Ashkenazis are the fake Khazarian Jews. Because if this theory is correct, that COVID was genetically modified to protect Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,

then how do you explain that so many Orthodox Jews were infected? That would be a great argument there. That they're two different groups. So, we've got a short video of Mr. Kennedy making these remarks. We need to talk about bioweapons. I know a lot now about bioweapons because I've been doing a book on it for the past two and a half years. And, you know, the technology that we now have to develop these microbes,

we've put hundreds of millions of dollars into ethnically targeted microbes. The Chinese have done the same thing. In fact, COVID-19, there's an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks because of the structure, the genetic structure, genetic differentials among different races of the receptors, of the ACE2 receptor. COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese. We don't know if it was deliberately targeted that or not but there are papers out there that show the racial and

ethnic differential and the impact to that. We do know that the Chinese are spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing ethnic bioweapons, and we are developing ethnic bioweapons. That's what all those labs in the Ukraine are about. They're collecting Russian DNA. They're collecting Chinese DNA

so that we can target people by race. And where did the Chinese learn all this great technology, Rick? From Israel. That's right. Here's an article from 1998. Israel's ethnic weapon. Remember this, Rick? I sure do because I reported on this story. So this is from Wired and they're quoting the London Sunday Times where Israel reportedly developing a biological weapon that could harm Arabs while leaving Jews unaffected. All right. So they didn't shut down The New York Times and they certainly didn't shut down Wired or anything as a result of this.

And so is it so is it a possibility that there are ethnic bombs out there? And if that's the case, could be ethnic bio weapons well yes i do believe that there are ethnic bio weapons they exist and um but the fact that robert kennedy said that covet was designed to protect ashkenazi jews and the chinese meaning the communists the communist party and the bolsheviks and the Bolshevik Jews were protected. Okay. Well, politically, he probably would have been better if he put his head inside a killer beehive, because I can only imagine the attack that is going to come upon Robert Kennedy for making this statement. But he's a very courageous man, and I applaud him for doing this. Now, on the next one,

this is Fox News. I'm not happy with Robert Kennedy on this one. I don't like his answer on this one because he was asked about the Biden family corruption and he just brushed it off and said he's not going to talk about it. Well, that's a shame because it needs to be talked about. Here's what he's told Fox News. Corruption allegations against the Biden family concern you. And is it disqualifying for President Biden to seek reelection? I don't have a comment on that. You don't have any comments on the Hunter Biden findings and what the House Republicans

have released? What I've tried to do in this campaign is to focus on the issues and focus on the values and not focus on ad hominem attacks on people. Isn't alleged corruption an issue that voters should be concerned about? I think on every side it's something that people should be concerned about. But it's not something that I'm making a spear tip of my campaign. If you wanted to unseat a Democratic incumbent, any incumbent, regardless of the party, if you're running to unseat an incumbent president

and that incumbent president is corrupt and you don't make it a campaign issue, are you really serious about winning? I mean, it's victory on a silver platter. All he has to do is start saying, the Bidens are corrupt. The Democratic Party needs another nominee. For some reason, he's afraid to touch that one. I mean, here's a man that's willing to say the Ashkenazi Jews and the

communist Chinese were protected from COVID, but he's afraid of the Bidens. Here's a man that said the CIA killed his uncle and his father. But he's afraid of the Bidens. How do you explain that? This next one is Jen Psaki. And she's got a show now, MSNBC. Yes. You know, the revolving door between news networks and politics.

So she's got her own show there. And she questioned whether House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer might be working with a Chinese agent. I've got to tell you, one thing about the Democrats in the far left, they have no shame. There's no shame. They never stop attacking. They never stop lying. Their propaganda is always on go. I mean, pedal to the metal. Propaganda, pedal to the metal. They don't back down. When they're caught in a scandal, they don't blink. They don't blush.

They just push right through. They push through it and they point at the people who are investigating them and they say, I wonder if he's working with a spy. And they always accuse others of what is happening to them. Yes. It is amazing. It's the one thing you have to admire them for doing in a sick way. They won't back down. No.

No matter how much evidence is out there. This is what now what she's talking about is Gal Luft. Right. Who was the whistleblower who said that he had evidence that the Bidens received tens of millions of dollars from the Chinese Communist Party. And the Biden Justice department arrested him last week he's he's in jail right now he's not going to testify before congress he's going to a prison because they charged him with working with the chinese but the very fact that he the company he was working with is the same company that was paying Hunter Biden. CEFC, yes. So if he's guilty of working with the Chinese communists, then what is Hunter Biden?

Protected. That's what he is. This is what Jen Psaki said. So how concerned are you that James Comer was the chairman of the committee, was knowingly, unknowingly working with, co-opted by a foreign agent? I'm just concerned that the House Oversight Committee, which has a very proud history with, you know, Congressman Waxman as chair, the great Elijah Cummings of Maryland as chair, is suddenly being compromised in a really serious way. Our legitimacy is being eroded by the tactics adopted by Chairman Comey. And of course, that's Baltimore, Maryland's famous Jewish Democrat congressman, Mr. Raskin who was more than eager to go along with the storyline. The speculation that James Comer somehow

being shanghaied by a foreign agent. Well, we have a few minutes to do a little bit more politics. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, he went to John Hagee's CUFI meeting, Christians United for Israel. And he's if the reports are correct, Governor DeSantis's campaign is starting to slow down. He's running out of money, starting to lay off campaign workers. And some of his biggest Jewish backers are shopping for other puppets. Yes. To buy. Yeah. So there's two clips we got from this summit. And the first one is, I see he made these two points about one, the first one about Joe Biden's horrendous treatment of Israel and how he would do things

differently. Let's watch that clip. Senator Sanchez, thank you for speaking with Daily Mail. I wanted to start off by if elected, what would your foreign policy strategy be and compare that to the president's today? We would toss aside Biden's horrendous treatment of Israel. We will reestablish an ironclad relationship between the United States and Israel. And that means things like butting out of their internal affairs. It means things like being tough on Iran. The air of appeasement against Iran is over. And then, of course, making sure that we're standing by their right to defend themselves. So if you get a governor DeSantis in the White House as president, DeSantis, it's all Israel all the way.

It's all Israel. Nothing changes, does it? No, but he's not going to win the Kufi ballot. I'm telling you right now no uh and but you know what's interesting is that john hagie's organization kufi which is run by non-christian jews yes not run by christians it's run by jews that is a truth and mr hagie knows that he's just a figurehead the washington examiner reported that they did not invite donald trump to speak at the event over the weekend he was snubbed conservative christian group snubs

trump during its annual summit and the article says that uh uh says a senior kufi source told the examiner while he has been invited in the past former president donald trump was not invited to speak at this year's summit but who was invited was mike pence nicky haley and ron desantis and their their girl is nicky h. Oh, yeah. Oh, I mean, big time. That's who they want. They want Nikki Haley. And then one more on politics. Forbes reporting billionaire Ron Lauder may back Tim Scott. Now, he is supporting Ron DeSantis, but he is now deserting Ron DeSantis and flirting with south carolina senator tim scott and it's not

just tim scott but he uh it says here that he might be interested in um speaking with other politicians as well and some campaigns as well exactly shopping right now making phone calls and yep who will jump when he says jump for israel and how high, right? Yes. Well, and Ron Lauder is the president of the World Jewish Congress. And so he's not just a billionaire. He's a billionaire who speaks for the entire Jewish world. He's like the king of the Jews right now. Pope, the Jewish Pope. So that's what's happening in politics.

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