TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Russian War Threat: Germany Crossed the Red Line in Ukraine


Episode Date: September 12, 2022

The Russia-Ukraine war took a sharp turn over the weekend when Ukraine’s army launched the largest European counteroffensive since World War II. News reports claim that thousands of Russian soldiers dropped their weapons and fled to escape the advancing Ukrainian army troops. The question today is this: Will Moscow retaliate by hitting Ukraine’s capital city with a weapon of mass destruction? Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 9/12/22It’s the Final Day! The day when Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. You can order the second edition of Rick’s book, Final Day!  https://rickwiles.com/final-day

The following program is made possible by the faithful prayers and financial support of listeners just like you. To find out how you can help, visit www.truenews.com. This is True News, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help us God. I'm Rick Wiles. The Russia-Ukraine war took a sharp turn over the weekend when Ukraine's army launched the largest European counter-offensive since World War II. News reports claim that thousands of Russian soldiers dropped their weapons and fled

to escape the advancing Ukrainian army troops. The question today is this. Will Moscow retaliate by hitting Ukraine's capital city with a weapon of mass destruction. Doc Burkhardt and I are ready to tell you what we know so far about been resolved regarding our film, The Greatest Reset. We will release the entire film on Saturday, September 17. Now, let's look at the Wall Street Journal article about Ukraine's surprise counter offensive. Here's the headline. Today, Russia withdraws more forces from northeast Ukraine as Kiev presses advance.

And so you've got to kind of filter this. You don't know if it's white propaganda, gray propaganda or black propaganda, Rick. I agree. But, Doc, even the Russian press is alluding to this, that something happened over the weekend. Well, Russia withdrew more forces from the Kharkiv region on Monday, as reported by the Journal, retreating from a swath of northeastern Ukraine as Kiev's forces continued their push into Russian-occupied territory, and the government pledged that all areas seized by Moscow would be retaken. Since the start of its offensive earlier this month, Ukraine has retaken about

9,000 square kilometers, or about 3,500 square miles, of territory from Moscow's forces in the region of Kharkiv, handing Russia the biggest setback since it invaded in February. Now, here's a report from Novosti. Ukrainian media published a video with mercenaries from the United States at the entrance to Izyum. Here, Rick. It's a very short video clip, but it's clearly an American soldier.

Let's watch it. Hey, boys, where the f*** are we? Izyum, baby! So, the guy where the f*** are we? He's you, baby! So the guy in the lead is an American. Right. And he was there on the battlefield of Ukraine. So, you know, the U.S. has private military contractors. That's the way we do war now.

We outsource it. Right. And there are British, American, and as we're going to show you here today, some very sharp statements have come from Russian leaders in the past 24 hours. And I'll hold my comments because I want to talk about what I said on Friday, but things have changed so quickly in less than 72 hours that it's a different situation today than what it was on Friday. So the next one, this is Kadyrov,

speaks about the imminent surprise for the armed forces of Ukraine. This is the Chechen yes warlord right so the russian military is prepared and this is what he's saying a surprise for the armed forces of ukraine the head of chechnya ramsan katarov said in his telegram channel our fighters have prepared an interesting surprise for the ukrainian, which will soon become known. In the meantime, I will not reveal the cards, he wrote. I go back to that other slide with this guy.

There's a guy I would not mess with. Yes, he has been known to be pretty ruthless in his own approach. But the Chechnyans have a large presence on behalf of Russia in Ukraine. And it's interesting that a lot of this war is being fought on social media, too. So he posted this on his Telegram channel. We'll talk a little bit about that later on today, too, as far as the social media stuff. You know, Doc, in another article, I translated from Russian to English.

I saw this over the weekend. He made a very straightforward statement. This was, I guess, was on Saturday. Could have been Sunday morning. In which he said, he was talking about, it was in response to what happened with the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Right.

And he said, there's got to be a change. There's got to be a change coming out of Moscow. There has to be a change in strategy. And I am, basically what he was saying was, I'm going to give the Kremlin a day or two here to make that change. It sounded like he was infuriated by the way the Russians had managed that war.

And he was openly saying in the Russian press, the Kremlin must make changes. So the pressure's on. Putin fired another general. This guy had only been on the job for 11 days, and he got to boot. And I think the Russian, well, let's hold this, because there's a concept that you have, and then I have my own idea about what could be happening. But mainly what we want you to understand is

the battle changed over the weekend. And it definitely tilted to the favor of the Ukrainians against the Russians. Now the question is what's going to happen in the coming days. Will the Russians withdraw? Or will they do something that will stop the war very quickly? That's something you've got to consider. So let's take the next one. This is about the nuclear power plant.

Right. So Ukrainian forces are preparing a major offensive in the area of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. Ukrainian forces are planning a large-scale offensive in the area of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. Vladimir Rogov, a representative of the local administration, said on Russia One TV channel, he specified that the armed forces of Ukraine are deploying HIMARS, multiple launch rocket systems, U.S.-made, and M777 Howitzers, also U.S., to the area of the contact line. The offensive of the Ukrainian troops is being prepared in the area of the nuclear power plant itself, as well as crossings and slightly to the east. Rogoff stressed that Zelensky's militants continue to engage in nuclear terrorism. Now, according to the information available to the administration

official, all military actions in Kiev are led by representatives of the U.K. and the U.S.A. All coordination on the Zaporozhye Line of Contact is carried out by British and a little less by the Americans. In fact, NATO is now fighting us in the region in the form of Anglo-Saxons, but through the hands of our former fellow citizens who are convinced that they were not Russian at all, Rogoff noted. So it looks like they're going to make this advance on the power plant. Power plants, all the reactors have been shut down now. The last reactor got shut down over the weekend.

They're shutting off power grids around the nation right now THEY'RE SHUTTING OFF POWER GRIDS AROUND THE NATION RIGHT NOW IN ORDER TO COMPENSATE, I GUESS, FOR THE LOSS OF THE LAST REACTOR AND EVERYTHING. SO THE UKRAINIAN ARMY IS GOING TO ATTEMPT TO SEIZE CONTROL OF THE POWER PLANT. RIGHT. AT LEAST THAT'S THE STORY THEY'RE PUTTING OUT THERE. NOW, I SAW A VIDEO OF RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SPEAKING AT THE EASTERN ECONOMIC FORUM. I saw a video of Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum. And he made a great comment. He said, how stupid would we be to shoot the power plant that we're in? It makes no sense. So who would be shooting it?

Only the Ukrainians. They're the only ones. We wouldn't shoot if we're there. And, you know, but the West never reports that aspect of things. The way they always frame it, it's Russia shooting at the power plant.

Yes. But it's always Ukraine. It's always been Ukraine. But what we have now, Doc, is if these reports are correct, is that there's going to be a large-scale military operation to seize control of a nuclear power plant.

Have you ever heard of a war around a power plant, a nuclear power plant? No, not at all. Who does something like that? I mean, you've got to be crazy that you're going to launch a full-scale military operation at a nuclear power plant. And to add insult to injury to that, it appears that the U.S. is providing the tactical data necessary

in order for this attack to be carried out. So this is from Izvestia. Petrushev accused the United States of transferring data to Ukraine for the shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. Now, the U.S. provides Ukraine with data on the location of critical facilities of the plant in order for Ukrainian militants to fire at them. This was announced on September 12th by Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Petrushev. He says, a serious threat to radiation safety

is the shelling by Ukrainian nationalists of critical ZNPP facilities from heavy weapons supplied by NATO countries, target designation of which is carried out by the United States. And he said this at a meeting on ensuring national security in the Siberian Federal District. Now, Mr. Petrushev noted that the consequences of such actions could be catastrophic not only for the population of Ukraine and Russia,

but also for Europe. And in their scale, they could surpass the tragedies that occurred at the nuclear power plants in Chernobyl and at Fukushima. And so, Rick, we've touched on this several times where we talked about this, that if there should be some sort of radiation leak or some sort of drastic explosion there at the power plant, it's possible that Article 5 of NATO could be activated, bringing NATO now with, in their mind,

a legal reason to come into the conflict. They don't have one now. Now, they're still supplying weapons, arms, tactical information. They're doing everything else except being in the war. But for all intents and purposes, they are in the war.

But something happening to that power plant gives them the reason to basically say, hey, Russia is causing nuclear power plants to blow up, even though it's the Ukrainians shooting them. Doc, I'll tell you, you were here this morning when we opened our offices. Two different employees, unbeknownst to each other,

came in. They came to work this morning. Yes. And I was in the administration office making a cup of coffee, and one of them came in and said, Rick, I've got to tell you about two dreams that I had over the weekend. You were in both of the dreams. And he described it, and clearly there was some calamity was taking place in in the first dream and people were panicking and this was an in America people were panicking and in the second dream he was simply told make sure you tell Rick about the stream I I mean, that's what he, he dreamed that he was supposed to tell me about

the first dream. Then about two hours later, another employee told me about a very disturbing dream he had over the weekend. And some type of plague was released in the country and people were mandated to be vaccinated with some type of mysterious blue vaccine and people were dying within months after receiving the vaccine. But this was my Monday. Unusual. It was unusual.

Two employees to have dreams over the weekend that were warlike, calamity, warlike, you know? So what's happening? The Ukraine-Russian war took a turn for the worse over the weekend. And, you know, on Friday, I had said to you, you know, I've been saying all year,

we could be in a nuclear war by December. And on Friday, I said, you know, right now, it appears to me that both sides are trying to stretch this war out without it going nuclear. But the two things to watch for is if Ukraine blows up the Kerch Strait Bridge or they blow up the nuclear power plant. I said either one. Is that what I said?

I know I said the Kerch Strait Bridge, and the other one was the power plant, okay? So what do we have happening right here now today? If these reports are correct, the Ukrainian army is going to launch a major military offensive against the power plant because the Russians are in control of it. Doc, by the end of this week, we could be reporting that a reactor has exploded.

Right. I mean, it's very possible that that's the case. So there are other factors now that are weighing in this, too, because there are other scenarios that we should consider in this as well. Now, Wall Street Journal is reporting the Ukraine is sending signals that it needs a major weapons boost for a long-term offensive against Russia. Ukraine has signaled that it will make major new requests for weapons from the U.S. and its allies, including a long-range missile system Washington has declined to provide. That's so they can reach that Kerch Strait bridge, Rick. Now, as Kiev presses a successful offensive that has reclaimed thousands of square miles from Russian forces. A document shared with U.S. lawmakers and viewed by the Wall Street Journal lists dozens of types of armaments the Kiev government says it will need to press its

offensive into 2023. Now, keep in mind, the Russians are aware of this request, too. Among them are the Army Tactical Missile System, or the ATCMS, which has a range of about 190 miles. Now, the Biden administration, which has dispatched more than $15 billion worth of weapons and other security assistance to ukraine already the u.s has declined to provide that system over concerns ukraine could use it to strike russian territory and spark a wider conflict with the west now ukraine's list of requirements for offensive operations includes 29 types of weapons systems and ammunition. Among them are tanks, drones, military, excuse me, artillery systems, more harpoon anti-ship missiles,

and 2,000 missiles for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, the HIMARS, which the U.S. began providing earlier this year. Now, the way the Ukrainians are mapping this out, Rick, they're looking at a longer-term conflict going into 2023 and beyond. So they're, at least on this proposal, they're looking to stretch this out as far as they can. Now, the Russians have to know this, too. And so the Russians have a calculation to make as well, don't they? They do.

Do they want to continue to play in this proxy war? Because that's what this is. This is simply a proxy war. With the United States and the rest of NATO. Or do they want to finally get rid of the Nazis? That's the question that Russia

is going to be asking itself here. Well, I think we're going to get a better look at the answer here in a minute before we get to that story. at the answer here in a minute. Before we get to that story, I want to show you a report I got out of a European publication about Twitter and bots. Now, it says 60 to 80 percent of Twitter accounts posting on the Russian-Ukraine war are bots, and 90% of them are pro-Ukraine. Right. So who do you think are creating the pro-Ukraine bots, Rick?

NATO. Or Langley. Yeah, it's all the same. But it's interesting that all the chatter that you see on Twitter regarding the war in Ukraine, that there's, it's a robot war, Rick. Yes. It's a virtual robot war that's actually going on online. For your mind. Yes. The war is in your mind. Now, this article from The Print in India says,

between 60 and 80 percent of Twitter handles posting on the Russian-Ukraine war may be bot accounts. Research by scholars from the University of Adelaide, Australia has found, among other influences, these bot accounts may have been pushing people, listen to this, to flee their homes during the conflict between these two countries, the researchers added. The researchers also found more pro-Ukraine accounts than those that were pro-Russia. So imagine, Rick, social media has the ability to scare people out of their houses. Yes, that's what it says. By robots. So the researchers studied 5.2 million posts on Twitter, tweets, retweets, quotes, and replies to tweets shared between 23 February and 8 March this year.

Think of the volume of tweets there, Rick, just within a couple-week period there. It just astounds you, the traffic. To understand how bot activity may influence online discussions around the Russian-Ukraine conflict and how bots may influence human emotions. The study's posts contain hashtags like Stand with Putin, Stand with Russia, Support Russia, Stand with Ukraine, Stand with Zelensky, and Support Ukraine. The bot accounts were identified using Indiana University's Bot-O-Meter, a software which helps identify a bot account.

We can say that between 60% and 80% of accounts tweeting these hashtags we studied during the first two weeks of the war were bots, as determined using the Bot-O-Meter, Joshua Watt, one of the researchers, told The Print. That's just the first two weeks. Yes, 5.2 million tweets in two weeks. Late February, early March.

Right. Okay, so 5.2 million tweets, and 60 to 80% were non-human. As you say, they're robots. Right. Okay, it's a computer. That means somewhere between 3 million to 4 million of the 5.2 million tweets were fake. Yes.

Now, this is the- Or generated by AI, let's say. Okay, this is the real story about Twitter. This is why Elon Musk isn't buying twitter because it appears that most of twitter's accounts are non-human twitter is a propaganda machine i don't know why this story has not become huge twitter has been outed as a propaganda machine. And just this article alone shows it. I mean, proves it beyond anything. The Russia-Ukraine conflict proves it beyond anything at all. They're using bots to make people so afraid they flee their homes and become refugees.

Yes. Do they make people so afraid that they get a vaccine? Well, it appears to have worked over the past couple years doesn't it this is what i'm saying the biggest story out of all this is that twitter has been exposed as a massive propaganda operation and they know it the management of twitter knows it because they participated in building it. It's an inside job. They know it. But Facebook is too. All these social media platforms on the left

are propaganda platforms. And the reason that they got so bent out of shape with conservatives, patriots, and Christians is it was messing up the algorithm. Right. And they had to start deplatforming humans so that the bots could do their work. There were too many humans

starting to say opposite things. It was messing up the algorithm. But that's the real story here with Twitter. Now, I want to get to the, this is the real meat of today's program. This one you've got to pay close attention to. It's from Novasti News Service. Russian ambassador warned Germany.

What do you really say? This is a bad translation. The Russian ambassador warned Germany. What do you really say? This is a bad translation. The Russian ambassador warned Germany that they crossed the red line. Right. Not that you're getting close to it. But they've crossed it.

You crossed it. So the article from Ria Novosti reads like this. Germany crossed a red line when it began delivering lethal weapons of its own production to Ukraine. Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergei Nechav said in an interview with

Izvestia, they should take into account the moral and historical responsibility of Germany to our people for the crimes of Nazism during the Great Patriotic War, the diplomat said okay let's hold it right there russia's ambassador to germany reminded the german government you started world war ii right and the russian people paid a steep price for nazism yes and it's not that they are transporting weapons they're making weapons and supplying the weapons. That's the red line that the Russians have said. Now you've crossed this. You've invested yourself here.

You're not some far-off country halfway around the world sending weapons over. You're right here in Europe doing this. So it goes on to say that Mr. Natchez pointed out that pumping Ukraine with weapons as the Anglo-Saxon NATO allies demand from the FRG from Germany is a road to nowhere, which only prolongs the conflict and increases the number of victims.

The diplomat stressed that, he added that the process of post-war reconciliation between the peoples of Russia and Germany is now in fact being eroded. So not only if the Ukraine war ended today, there would be a long road back for Russia and Germany at this point.

When he says the post-war, he's talking about World War II. Yes. He said it's being eroded. Yes. We're just getting into World War III, and they're still fighting World War II. Right.

So Russia has previously sent a note to NATO countries because of the supply of weapons to Ukraine. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that any cargo, now listen to this, any cargo that contains weapons for Ukraine will become a legitimate target for Russia. The foreign ministry stated that the NATO countries are playing with fire by supplying weapons to Ukraine. So at this point, Rick, I mean, for Russia to, you know, accuse Germany of crossing a red line here.

And to bring up World War II and Nazism. Yes. And say, we haven't forgotten. We have not forgotten. You started World War II. So while other nations may say there's red lines, remember the red line Obama kept talking about in Syria and everything,

and then did nothing about it. Russians take red lines seriously. When they established a red line back in February, and Ukraine and NATO refused to back away from that, Russia said, okay, you've crossed a red line, and this is now the new red line. So, Rick, what does this mean? Will we see a direct conflict between Russia and Germany at this point?

I mean, or just NATO in general here? Well, I noticed that the term Anglo-Saxon is showing up a lot in recent days. So this is taking in Germany and England. And that other story said about the mercenaries that were there, they were mostly British and less American. So you're seeing Great Britain and Germany

leading the way in this Western war in Ukraine against Russia. Right. If there are any two countries that are going to get hit by Russia, the first two will be Great Britain and Germany. That's the way I'm sizing it up. I agree with you there. They're at the top of the list, Doc. First and second.

So, Izvestia has this story regarding Germany and Russia and that relationship that really, I mean, basically the relationship is over. Okay, now this is the actual main article from where that other article came from. Right. The other article was a synopsis of this article. This is the- That's the ambassador. Right. So, and this is the quote from the article.

Berlin remains one of the initiators of this. Germany does not have the necessary capacity to receive LNG in order to completely abandon Russian gas in the short term. This was stated in an interview with his vestia by Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergei Nechayev. Nevertheless, Moscow is ready to launch Nord Stream 2 even tomorrow, despite the fact that the German government unilaterally went to the collapse of mutually beneficial relations with the Russian Federation, the diplomat stressed. Now, according to him, Berlin crossed the Red Line when it began to supply Kiev with lethal weapons of its own production, which are used against

Russian military personnel and residents of Donbas. Okay, so what you have here, the Russians are saying, we're ready to open up the pipeline, Nord Stream 2. We'll do it tomorrow. But... You've crossed the red line. You've crossed the red line. You're manufacturing weapons

and transferring them to Ukraine to kill Russian soldiers. And we've got to do something about this. So when they say that weapons being supplied to Ukraine are now legitimate targets, could they be talking about factories in Germany? I mean, could they be talking about supply lines coming in and out of Germany? I think this is where it's going. I think this is where it's headed.

I mean, we're looking at a full-scale European war at that point. Yes, we are. And the moment Russian missiles hit German targets, World War III is fully on. Right. Doc, we're close, really close. And, Rick, where can we hear more about this on any of the news outlets here in the U.S.?

Oh, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, all the alt-rights. They're all Christian television. Oh, they're full of it. They've got, yeah, they're full of it. I'm not hearing that on any of these outlets. They don't talk about it. Nobody talks about it. That's right.

We're in World War III, and everybody's got blinders on. And if you talk about World War III on some of these outlets, they'll kick you off. Unless you're singing the party song. Right. But if you tell the people the truth about what's happening, you're going to be shut down really quickly. But the public doesn't know how close we are to an all-out war with Russia. Now, Ambassador Nechayev made it very clear in this next quote what he means by this crossing of the Red Line by Germany. He says,

I see no reason to comment on the shades of opinion in the German coalition regarding the supply of certain weapons to Kiev. In other words, he's saying, I'm going to make this very clear at this point. The very fact of supplying the Ukrainian regime with German-made lethal weapons used not only against Russian military personnel, but also against the civilian population of Donbass is a red line that the German authorities should not have crossed,

including taking into account Germany's moral and historical responsibility to our people, the Russians, for the crimes of Nazism during the Great Patriotic War. However, he says, the Rubicon has been crossed. There you go. The Rubicon has been crossed. In other words, there's no turning back at this point. He says, pumping Kiev with weapons as the Anglo-Saxon NATO allies demand from Germany is a road to nowhere, only prolonging the conflict and increasing casualties. Many people in Germany are aware of this. Now, according to

German experts, Germany is unlikely to be able to completely abandon Russian gas in the short term. Hopes for a quick replacement of Russian energy sources with LNG from third countries are not justified. Germany does not have the necessary capacities for receiving LNG from third countries are not justified. Germany does not have the necessary capacities for receiving LNG, and the five terminals plan for construction will not completely solve the problem, not to mention the absence of firm agreements on future deliveries. Producers selling gas on the spot market send it to where they can offer a higher price. We remember well last fall when European LNG terminals were idle as all the gas went to Asia.

These are the laws of the market which our Western colleagues, contrary to logic, are trying to cancel by imposing artificial restrictions on the price of oil and gas. And so the red line that Germany has crossed with supplying military equipment has its own unique situation. But the situation regarding oil and gas is impacting all of Europe. It is. Because they won't play by the market rules. None of this had to happen, mind you. None of it.

That's going on now. And now we're looking at the edge of World War III. It changed in January. And you and I, we told our audience in January, we said, there's a different tone in the Russian statements. I remember the day. I remember the day back, I would say late January, February. I don't remember the exact date, but I remember the feeling that I had sitting out here reading the statements.

And I could discern the Russians have made the decision to go to war. For me, it was that article with Lavrov where he made a comment about, that's it, we're done, basically. He said, we're finished talking. And that's where I feel this is where we're at now. Yeah, they're telling you, do not. Even across the Rubicon. They understand the Rubicon. They sure do. That aspect of it. And then we hear former President Medvedev of Russia saying that Russia now, instead of just looking for the independence of certain regions of Kiev, now Russia in the future may demand a total surrender of the Kiev regime. This is the direction that all this is going now, where there's going to be the full fight over all of Ukraine. So Russia is now hardening its position and its demands are increasing.

Right. And that's in response to NATO. So the current negotiating position of the Russian Federation on Ukraine is nothing more than a warm up for children or child's play before future demands for a total surrender of the Kiev regime. This was stated by Deputy Head of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, in his Telegram channel on Monday. He says he drew attention to the words of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, who announced his refusal to conduct a dialogue with those who put forward ultimatums. He said the current ultimatums are a child's warm-up for the demands of the future, and he knows them, the total capitulation of the Kiev regime on Russia's terms, Medvedev warned.

Now, earlier, Zelensky said that at the moment he was not ready to negotiate with Moscow, and in an interview with CNN, he said, it's my principle. I don't talk to those who give ultimatums. Now, Rick, I don't know if you recall, but back in April, there was a tentative agreement between Ukraine and Russia. They were still talking at that point about winding down the conflict. And guess who pulled the plug on that? NATO pulled the plug on Zelensky on that. He said, no, you're not going to negotiate this. You're in this thing for the long haul. But we could have ended this months ago. But now this is where we're at.

Now Russia's going to demand the total surrender of Ukraine. All right, so at this point, Doc, let's take a look at the change in the atmosphere since last Friday. So last Friday, my view was maybe we're going to get through Christmas without a nuclear war. Right. It's starting to look like both sides are trying to avoid a nuclear war. The only thing that I think that could take this thing nuclear would be

the Ukrainians blow up the bridge, the Kurch Strait Bridge, or they blow up the nuclear power plant. Well, here we are on Monday, and the Ukrainian army launched a major offensive over the weekend, and now they're getting ready to attack the power plant and What is coming out of them out of Moscow today?

are very stark statements Not just to Ukraine, but to Germany. Yes, very stark Warnings to Germany saying Very stark warnings to Germany saying you've crossed the red line. You've crossed the Rubicon. It's saying it's too late. We've made our decision.

We're going to take out, I mean they're not saying in these words but between the lines you can read, we are going to take out the supply line from German factories to the Ukrainian army. We're going to strike. You have Medvedev saying, we're going to demand the total surrender of the Ukrainian government, meaning Zelensky and everyone involved with Zelensky, that Russia is not going to accept

anything short of total surrender. How do you bring about total surrender? You've got to overwhelm the enemy. What did President Truman do to Japan? He nuked them. Not once, but twice. And then they surrendered. Once wasn't enough. Yes. Not once, but twice. And then they surrendered. Once wasn't enough.

Yes. Had to drop a second one. Then they surrendered. And that's what... Took two atomic bombs... Right. ...to get the Japanese to surrender. So that's what a limited nuclear war looks like.

Yes. Right there. Okay. Look, I think, Doc, I think where we're headed, if these reports are true, that the Russians retreated and the Ukrainians took over large swaths of land, if that's true, it can only be one of two things. The Ukrainian army truly put the Russians on the run. They retreated, they caught them by surprise,

overwhelmed them, and the Russians retreated. The other option is something you brought up to me today. Right, it could be a maneuver that's been used in battles since men have been fighting one another. Which is what? Called the feint and draw. The feint and draw is basically you bring your troops back to your safe line, wherever that safe line is, to draw the enemy troops in and then flank them and then to take them out, usually with one swift maneuver.

Generals have used it down through the centuries. Patton used it in World War II. It was the feint and draw. And so it just seemed unusual that all of a sudden Ukraine had this superpower of being able to overwhelm the Russian army. And I'm not the only one thinking along those lines. There are a number of political analysts that are saying this could be a fake, you better watch out. And it could also be an opportunity,

and this is another possibility too, bring the Russian forces back to a safe line because it's possible that Russia may actually use a nuclear weapon and end this whole war. And so, the website 1945 speculates on this too. Russia may actually use a nuclear weapon and end this whole war. And so the website 1945 speculates on this, too. This is a couple weeks ago. And could Russia's sudden Ukraine retreat mean a tactical nuclear weapon strike is coming? This was two weeks ago.

This was yesterday. Oh, yeah, yesterday. That's yesterday. Oh, yeah, yesterday. I'm sorry. That's yesterday. So the whole idea here is that the reason why Russia is pulling troops back out of the Kharkiv region is that there is coming a tactical nuclear strike, possibly on the capital city of Kiev itself. Which the tactical nuclear strike would be, the motivation would be one of two things. Either, as you said, they're using the Muhammad Ali rope-a-dope. Right, that's basically what it is, yes. Hang over the ropes, pretend that you're almost ready to pass out,

and then when your opponent gets up close you knock him out so either the russians are deliberately retreating to pull the ukrainians into the kill zone or the ukrainians really did chase out the russians over the weekend and putin has no other option but to use a nuke. Either way, guess what? People die. They get blown up in the whole situation. And what Medvedev is saying, Russia may demand the total surrender of the Ukrainian government. Meaning not only Zelensky, but the cabinet, the military leadership, everything.

Like, get on a plane and leave. Leave the country. And if that's the case, they may give Zelensky 24 hours. I mean, what we may see here this week is a Russian ultimatum. You have 24 hours to surrender. And if you don't, Kiev disappears. What's going to be the reaction to that ultimatum? Well, and that's what we don't know.

Will NATO respond in kind? Would they drop a nuke on Moscow? Well, then they have just started a nuclear war with Russia. Right. And so that's the calculation we can extend beyond. There was some interesting things that happened. Well, they don't have to use a nuke. Russia has other weapons.

Right. They've got scalar weapons. That's right. They have old-fashioned MOABs. They've got aer weapons. They have old fashioned MOABs. They've got a lot of weapons that they have. You've pointed out, Doc, throughout this war Putin has held back.

He's used his old weapons. It's like he's put the varsity team, junior varsity team out there as well. Not the battle hardened guys yet. Some of the western news articles about us, you know, wow, we're surprised that Russian troops are fighting with old equipment,

old trucks, old tanks, old everything. He's using up his old stuff. Right. Why would you blow up your new stuff when you blow up your old stuff? He's saving the new stuff for the war with nato and that's a good point another aspect to this faint and draw aspect some of this happened in russian media over the weekend rick what is that on several russia media outlets

that are normally rah rah russia and you know that are friends of Mr. Putin, there was criticism of what's going on in Ukraine on some of these shows. And I thought, well, now this is really weird, because all of a sudden now you see this open criticism of the offensive in Ukraine about drawing back troops, about all of this. What changed? Because up to Saturday, there was none of this kind of talk. All of a sudden, it'd be like somebody getting up on Fox and saying, you know, we're withdrawing all the U.S. troops back home because we're just scared.

But now that seems to add weight to my thought about this faint draw aspect of things or that there could possibly be a tactical nuclear strike or, you know, new weapons display here in the very near future. Rick, right now, as it looks, you know, this situation is intensifying, but in ways we couldn't have foreseen even a few days or. No, I couldn't see it on Friday. Right. This happened over the weekend. So if Putin gives Zelensky a hard deadline, 24, 48, 72 hours to resign and leave the country, plus the rest of his government,

what would you expect him to do? He might come to his house in South Florida. Zelensky owns a home there. So he'd be a government in exile. And they split Ukraine. But you have to, if you are the leader of a country, you have to make a decision. Do I stay and defy them? Or do I, and if I stay,

maybe a million people are going to die quickly. Plus him. He's going to die also. Or I get to live. I get to live on the wealth I've accumulated. I can still do photo shoots for Vogue magazine. Yes, and host his own podcast. Right. And I can compete with Joe Rogan.

And he can go back to being a comedian. But I I mean it's an ethical question that you have to wonder how would he respond to it if he is given an ultimatum,

resign or your entire capital city will be toast. And knowing that Russians mean it, that they will carry out the attack. I wonder if these were the kind of conversations that were going on in Japan at the end of the war there, where two nuclear bombs had been dropped where two nuclear bombs had been dropped, two atomic bombs had been dropped, and maybe there was talk about a third one that was readied,

and that was going to be the kill one, really. So I wonder if that conversation actually took place where they said, if you don't surrender, we've got the next one ready. Right. Because they didn't hit Tokyo. Right. And so they... Maybe the third one was Tokyo. Right. But didn't hit Tokyo. Right. And so they... Maybe the third

one was Tokyo. Right. But the West won at Tokyo. Right. So there's lots of calculations and the calculation today is you've got nations all over the world with nuclear weapons. Now if Russia starts using

a tactical nuclear weapon, does that give other nations the thought, well, hey, the door has been opened, now we can use it too. And that opens, like for Pakistan, India, Iran, Israel. I mean, suddenly you could be in a global thermonuclear war with limited theaters. Yes, and also it can go the other way, Doc,

where the shock, the terror, stuns the world, and people say, we can't let this happen again, because the world is gonna be shocked if Kiev disappears. And they don't have to use a nuclear weapon. Just a Moab. How about, what if what if russia did to kiev what america did to baghdad with shock and shock and awe and the american people sat in their living rooms and watched it as prime time entertainment eating popcorn watching the bombs fall. Yes. But the American military pulverized Baghdad.

And the American people thought it was entertaining. It was like, this is better than Roman gladiators. Man, our military, we can sit in our homes and watch TV, and we can watch a real war in real time. This is amazing, you know? Yeah, it brings back to those stories about at the beginning of the Civil War where people would sit on the banks of the Potomac

and watch the battles go forth until they got involved in the battle. That's true. And so it didn't become real until they started being impacted by it. And it's never become real for us here in America, has it? It's always been something that happens a long ways off. You know, it's on TV.

It's not real. I mean, it doesn't feel real. Yes, men and women come home maimed or in coffins and everything. That's reality. They don't even show that anymore. Yeah, they don't even do that. They hide that. Well, I want to show you a couple other things that are happening the the energy crisis

in europe where russia has cut off the gas to europe and europe is clearly going into a very dark winter it is already having a major impact on politics in Europe. There was an election in a European country over the weekend. Socialist Sweden. And we have Swedish viewers. We love you. Glad that you watch True News. But you've been under socialist political control for decades.

Well, they had an election over the weekend. Guess what? The socialists were defeated. And it was a close call. Yes. Oh, it's always the far right. Yes. It's never the far left.

It's always the far right or the extreme right. Sweden's far right makes gains in tightly contested elections. Results too close to call, meaning we haven't figured out how to cheat enough yet to make sure these populists don't take control. But the main thing is, as of today, a center-right coalition.

Yes, which for Sweden is far right. Yes, yes. Is now in control of the parliament and it's so close uh the uh the coalition of the center right is 175 seats socialists and leftists are 174 seats so it's a very tight race and so but But it not only shook up Sweden, it has rocked Europe. Yes. Because Sweden is not the place that they expected conservative populists to win a national election. Now, the next one to watch is Italy. Yes. And the same thing is happening in Italy. Right. So this is Giorgia Milani. And she was one of the speakers in Verona a couple years ago when I was there.

Oh, really? Yes. She's far right, too. Look at that. Yeah, by their definition. But it's interesting what she stands for. So with just two weeks to the election, final polls show her heading for a landslide victory. Now, she's built a coalition out of several different parties. Hers is the Brothers of Italy, which just a couple years ago only had four seats in Parliament,

but now has advanced quickly. So, Melani has wooed Italians with her motto, gosh, Rick, this is so radical, God, country, and family. Stealing support for once popular Salvini, who analysts say sealed his own political fate by botching a power grab in 2019. Now, she's pledged to cut taxes and bureaucracy, raise defense spending, close Italy's borders to protect the country from Islamization, renegotiate European treaties to return more power to Rome, and fight LGBT

lobbies. So, Rick, she and she's supposed to be heading toward a landslide here. She's a devout Christian. Yes. She has the left and the news media, which is the same thing, have mocked her. They have made fun of her Christianity. Right. They've tried to make her, they've called her a fascist. They basically have said she's Mussolini's daughter. They've done everything that they can to smear this woman, but she is leading and it looks like she will be the

prime minister of Italy. Now, it's interesting to see this change over the past several years because it looked like Salvini was going to be the one that would lead this coalition. Yes. But it took a different face, a different character to put this majority alliance together. And who just resigned just a few months ago? Mario Draghi, who was a European central bank governor, that the banksters put in that position. They forced, I mean, they literally made Italy accept him. So they saw the writing on the wall then, didn't they? Yes, he resigned.

He's not gonna win. What do we say? There is a swing to the right. Right. And the 2020s, even though it will be turbulent, it may be a decade of conservative populism. Now, do these wins in Sweden and the potential win in Italy give us a forecast of what we're going to see here in the fall in the US? That's what I'm saying. I think we're headed,

I think this is gonna be a decade of conservative populism. Because even in the Republican Party, you've got, you know, you have anti-establishment Republicans defeating establishment Republicans in the primaries. Right. And it's happened so often this year that Mitch McConnell doesn't even want to go out

and campaign for Republicans because they're not his style of Republicans. The Mitt Romneys are losing control of the Republican Party in the United States. So it's sweeping the USA too. Canada. I didn't bring this up. I forgot his name. Sorry.

Canadians. I'll try to bring it up tomorrow. They had a contest over the weekend for the leadership of the Conservatives, the Tories. So they had their establishment kind of Mitch McConnell guy running to be the Jeb Bush of Canada.

Let me guess, he got trounced. Big time. He got something like 16% of the vote. Wow. Okay? So it's happening in Canada also. Now, Trudeau, of course, is acting like, I've got this election in Canada, not worried about it.

But I think there's a populist uprising in Canada too. And it's going to spread throughout the world. And, you know, we may see a lot of these establishment globalists be chased out of office this year. Now, here in the USA, a Democrat senator from Virginia, Mark Warner, in an interview compared the January 6th rioters in the Capitol, the protesters, he compared them to insurrectionists. No, not insurrectionists, insurgents. Well, he actually compared them to terrorists of 9-11. Yes, but he also called them insurgents, which is a military term. You take out insurgents in a war.

I didn't catch that before. Yeah, just watch. And our country came together. In many ways, we defeated the terrorists because of the resilience of the American public, because of our intelligence community. And we are safer, better prepared. The stunning thing to me is here we are 20 years later

and the attack on the symbol of our democracy was not coming from terrorists, but it came from literally insurgents attacking the Capitol on January 6th. So I believe we are stronger. I believe our intelligence community has performed remarkably. I think the threat of terror has diminished. I think we still have new challenges in terms of nation, state challenges, Russia and longer term, a technology competition with China. But I do worry about some of the activity in this country where the election deniers, the insurgency that took place on January 6th. That is something I hope we could see that same kind of unity of spirit. So they just exited a conversation about the anniversary of 9-11.

And then he made a direct comparison of the terrorists of 9-11 to the January 6th protesters. But this time he called them insurgents, which is a military term. And he talked about the insurgency. You bring out the military to put down an insurgency. He also referred to them as election deniers. Right. you bring out the military to put down an insurgency. He also referred to them as election deniers. Right. So you get climate deniers, vaccine deniers, election deniers, 9-11 deniers. I mean, anybody who challenges the official narrative, you're a denier.

A denier of what? Denier of propaganda? Right. And you're not allowed the privilege of free speech to deny it. I don't deny there was an election, Rick. I'd just say they cheated. I don't deny there was an election. There really was one.

But somebody cheated. That's right. A lot of rumors floating around today. I think it's mostly just hot air rumors. But somebody cheated. That's right. A lot of rumors floating around today. I think it's mostly just hot air rumors. But Newsweek reporting Walter Reed Hospital responds to Donald Trump health speculation. Right. So Walter Reed Hospital in D.C. has said it cannot confirm or deny reports that Donald Trump visited the facility on Sunday amid speculation surrounding the former president.

Now, questions have been raised about why Mr. Trump's plane landed at Dulles Airport in Virginia, an airport frequently used by those heading to Washington, in an unannounced visit on Sunday. Now, in a statement to Newsweek, the hospital said it could not comment on the reports. Out of respect for all of our patients' privacy. Walter Reed National Military Medical Center's policy is that we do not provide patient information. Now, the reason why all this came up, the nature of the surprise visit from Mr. Trump has led to further speculation that the former president is in the Capitol because he's due to be indicted by the Department of Justice. A number of social media users speculated that Mr. Trump's visit to D.C. was taken at short notice

because he appears to be wearing golf attire and footage of him arriving at Dulles Airport, which was posted online by freelance reporter Andrew Lydon. And we have a screenshot of that arrival. That's number 42 for control. How about because he was going to his own golf course? Right. He owns a golf club in the D.C. area. A golf course.

Right. So why not go? And so could that, sometimes the most obvious reason is the right one. Right. And he is a former president who has access to Walter Reed Military Hospital. And so if he went, then he went. For a checkup. It could be a checkup. But did you see all the different social buzz and everything out there?

He was actually arrested this weekend. They released him on his own recognizance. They have their own Q stories, don't they? Right. So there's Q left, Q right. That's it for today. We're going to exit right and go home for the day. Don't forget the movie, The Greatest Reset, will be released this coming Saturday. Hallelujah.

Thank you, Jesus. It's been quite a battle to get that film released, but it is coming out this Saturday, and we'll tell you more about it throughout the week. Thank you for watching True News. We love you very much. Doc and I will be back here tomorrow. God bless you.