TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - War Preparations? Russian Diplomats Removed From USA

Episode Date: June 28, 2023

A Russian government passenger aircraft has flown to Washington DC, Houston, and Chicago to remove Russian diplomats from America and transport them back to Moscow. Great Britain’s iNews reported that the Russian airliner is part of the Kremlin’s special flight squadron used to transport Vladimir Putin and important Russian government officials. According to iNews, the flight departed Moscow at 9:27 GMT on Tuesday and took an obscure route avoiding EU airspace. A US State Department spokesperson confirmed to iNews that the flight’s purpose was to bring Russian diplomats in America back to Russia. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 6/28/23 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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Houston, Texas, and Chicago, Illinois, to remove Russian diplomats from America and transport them back to Moscow. Great Britain's iNews reported that the Russian airliner is part of the Kremlin's special flight squadron used to transport Vladimir Putin and important Russian government officials. According to iNews, the flight departed Moscow at 9.27 GMT on Tuesday and took an obscure route avoiding EU airspace, a U.S. State Department spokesperson, confirmed to iNews that the flight's purpose was to bring Russian diplomats in America back to Russia. Doc Burkhardt and I have been following this story since yesterday, and we want to share our thoughts about it. Doc, the original story was iNews. We can't use iNews. They're behind a paywall. But the Daily Mail

reported on it, and this is the headline from the Daily Mail. Putin sends plane to Washington, D.C. to fly key diplomats back to Moscow just days after Wagner attempted coup. As State Department tells Russia, it expects same courtesy for American officials. So according to the Daily Mail article here, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a government plane to D.C.

to retrieve a group of diplomats just days after the failed Wagner coup. The State Department confirmed the arrival of the plane and emphasized that they expect Russia to reciprocate in returning American diplomats. The move allows Moscow officials to hear firsthand accounts from the returning diplomats about the events as seen in the U.S. Now, State Department spokesperson Matthew Mill confirmed the flight to Ainu, saying the U.S. government has allowed the Russian government to send a charter flight to the U.S. to transport to Russia those Russian diplomats whose assignments have ended. We also maintain strict reciprocity with Russia regarding special transport missions. Miller later told reporters in exchange for granting these courtesies, we expect Russia to maintain open transport for our diplomats and cargo to our embassy in Moscow. Now, in any other time, peacetime, when there isn't any conflict going on, this is, you know, just a normal run of events. But in

times of tension like this, any removal of diplomats can be seen as a breakdown in communication between two nations. Well, in peaceful time, is it a normal event? Diplomats just get on an airliner and fly home. Well, and that's a good point. They were saying that their assignments, their three-year tours basically had ended. That's been the story that's been floating around everything. But is Russia sending any replacements? That's the question. That's what we don't know. And this isn't some little small plane.

This plane will carry 300 people. I mean, it's a big plane. This is equivalent to like the Air Force One. This is a part of the fleet that carries Putin and Medvedev and Lavrov and all the top Russian officials. It's their top, you know, U.S., I mean, top Russian Air Force squadron for transporting Russian VIPs. Mr. Miller, Matthew Miller in the State Department said, we expect Russia to maintain open transport for our diplomats and cargo to our embassy in Moscow, meaning America is bringing people home.

That's right. And cargo, their personal belongings. I think everybody can figure out why I'm concerned about it. To me, it's unusual activity. And it's one of the things that Stanislav Lunov told me in 1998. Stanislav Lunov, the highest level Russian military spy to defect to the West. And I spent a couple of days with him. I flew him into Dallas, Fort Worth when I lived there in the 90s and spent a couple of days with him and questioned him,

had private conversations with him. And he knew I was very concerned about a nuclear war with Russia. And he said to me, look, Rick, the Russians aren't going to wake up one day and just decide, hey, today's the day we nuke America. He said, you're going to see a series of things happen over weeks and months. And when you see those things happening, you know that the preparations are being made for nuclear war. One of the things that he said would happen would be the removal of diplomats. And what I'm going to be watching for, Doc, is are we going to see in days, weeks ahead, an order from the Russian foreign ministry to all Russian college students to leave the USA and return home. It's summertime. Next semester would be starting, what, mid-August? Right, about that time. So not that far away.

So are we going to see a memo come from Moscow, all Russian students in America ordered to return home. And then weeks after that are we going to see another message all Russian citizens living in America advised to return home. If you see these things happening then war is very close. Now

something happened Monday night then war is very close. Now, something happened Monday night and I'm going to be, you just have to be patient with me. I have to tell the story carefully because I don't want to divulge any names, personal, private information. And I'm going to keep this very general. So I'm not in any way giving out clues of who it was.

But a close friend of this ministry, somebody that loves this ministry, is friends of us and supports us for a long, long time. When I was leaving here on Monday night, Doc, you had already left. Yes. I was turning out the lights, getting ready to go home. And as I went to the lobby, I saw this gentleman standing at the front door. And I opened up the door and said, wow, what are you doing here? Surprised to see you here. He said, Rick, I need to speak to you. Now, he doesn't live here in Vero Beach.

He drove. He made an effort to drive here, hoping that I would still be here when he arrived. I said, sure. I took him into my when he arrived. I said, sure. Took him into my office and sat down and said, what's up? And he told me a story about a Russian couple that he has known for decades. Right. And they moved here several decades ago from Russia to the United States. He's known them since that time.

And he said the thing that always intrigued him was why this couple left Russia in the first place. They had a nice home. They had children. They had grandchildren. Their parents were alive, both the husband and the wife, and they just left the entire, everybody just left their entire life back in Russia. To move to the U.S.

Moved to the U.S., had no job, had to start completely from scratch and build a new life here. He said, I always wondered about that. So, he's not had a lot of contact with this couple for years. But on Monday, the husband contacted him and said, I want you to, I need to tell you, we have sold our house and we are leaving next week to return home to Russia.

After three decades of living here three or four decades two and a half yeah two and a half decades suddenly of all times and he's like why would you go now look at all the trouble that's in the world right now with russia why would you go back now um the gentleman had no explanation other than he's returning home. He's leaving as fast, he's leaving the U.S. as fast and suddenly as he left Russia 20 some years ago. So, do you give any explanation? Nope. None. And my friend asked him, said, look, when you came here two and a half decades ago, I helped you out.

I helped you get established here. Now you return the favor to me. I'm asking you a question. Is Putin going to nuke America? And the man said, what does nuke mean? He goes, you know what nuke means. He says, is he going to nuke America? And on the second time, the gentleman started talking about my friend's family. Changed the subject, started talking about his family. My friend asked him a third time.

He said, look, I'm asking you a direct question. Are you leaving because Putin's going to nuke America? And the only thing that this gentleman would say was love your family. That's pretty cryptic. Yeah. So Monday night

I thought about calling you and I thought I'm not going to bother you with it. I'll tell you later. I'll tell you about this story. So I thought, I'm not going to bother you with it. I'll tell you later. I'll tell you about this story. So I thought about it Monday night. And then Tuesday, this happened. Right. This happened the next day. I put those two together.

What do you have, Doc? That the birds are returning back to the roost that the word is out something is going down in the near future get out of the united maybe not tomorrow maybe not next week maybe not even next month but soon get out of the usa if you're and go home get out of the war zone get out of the kill zone it get out of the kill zone. It's troubling. And like I said, if we see in the coming weeks that other orders are issued by the Kremlin to Russian students,

various professionals that are here, doctors and professors and so forth, educators, if suddenly you see a lot of Russians departing the USA, then they have received the message that they need to get, for their safety, they need to get out of the USA. And that means war is imminent. That's what it means. It means war is imminent.

Doc, I'm doing this in front of you. If you say, no, I don't want to do that, do you want to share the dream? No, I don't think it would be a problem. It's up to you. I didn't talk to you about it. You told me just before we started recording. It's unusual for my wife to have any kind of bad dreams or anything like that because she's married to me. She only had good dreams.

But yesterday evening, she had a dream that bothered her, concerned her, woke her up. Last night? Right. And it's not something that, you know, there are people that claim they operate in the prophetic and everything like that. And I know there are people that have God-given dreams. She's not prone to that or anything. But this dream disturbed her because what it was, we were back in the Philippines, me and her, and we were with her family. And then there was a tsunami warning

that was issued. This wasn't just any tsunami. When the waves started coming in, it was high as the office buildings in downtown Manila. And you could see the wave crashing through the skyscrapers in downtown Manila. Most of the population of greater Manila lives in a flat plain around the center city. And so this giant wave was just washing over office buildings and then out into the outlying suburbs and total destruction, people screaming and everything. And we were trying to get up to our cabin up in the hills. The family has a small cabin up there to get high enough where the wave, the tidal wave wouldn't impact us. But it was so disturbing to her that she had a difficult time getting back to sleep. And this morning was sharing

it with me. And she doesn't have bad dreams. And so, but this was a bad dream and she doesn't know what it means. You know, it could mean anything really, but I believe God gives us dreams along this line or the information like this to help us prepare personally for what might happen, the unknown that might happen. And we live in troubling times. And my wife, she only gets a little bit of the news and everything just from watching the program. And so this kind of fed into that a little bit and concerned her. And so the first thing she did this morning after she got up was called her family in the Philippines. Everything okay there? What's happening there? It bothers her enough that she reached out to her mom and relatives.

But these are warning signs in our lives. Whether that actually happens or not, we leave that up to the Lord, but the warning is there. Um, and so when things like this happen as well, you know, you see movement of diplomats and, um, people, you know, suddenly moving back to a country they haven't lived in for 20 plus years without any explanation. Um, these are also things in our lives that we can say, these are signs that the Lord's dropping in our life. Are you prepared is really where it's at. Are you prepared? Are you prepared spiritually?

Are you prepared physically? Anything could happen. But anyway, that's what happened with my wife last night. Well, just everybody be alert, especially spiritually alert. Be watching for signs. Let the Lord speak to you. Be sensitive to messages that the Holy Spirit can send to you, reveal to you, show you things that are happening. Don't be so busy with the world that you miss these signs that the Lord is giving his people that trouble, very serious trouble is up ahead.

London Times reporting U.S. spy agencies had details of a Wagner mutiny days before the rebellion. And this is similar to the, I believe, the Washington Post article that came out. But it has other details. Yes, it has other details in it. And interesting details about information being withheld from some NATO members. So U.S. intelligence obtained details of Yevgeny Progozin's preparations for a mutiny against the Russian military leader Putin in the days leading up to the insurgency.

The intelligence was reportedly shared with select allied powers, including the U.K., but not with the rest of NATO. Progozin is, of course, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group that was allegedly planning to launch a march of justice on Moscow. Now, allies told Ukraine not to strike inside Russia during the mutiny, CNN reported, citing an unnamed official. Said, quote, Ukrainians were being cautioned by allies not to provoke the situation. Make hay of opportunities on Ukrainian territory, but don't get drawn into internal matters or strike at offensive military assets inside of Russia, the official said. So apparently the Ukrainians were given a heads up about the movement of the Wagner group. Now, even some European and U.S. government officials were not briefed and were caught off guard when Wagner troops crossed from Ukraine

back into Russia at the start of the offensive on Friday. It was an extremely tight hold, one person familiar with the intelligence told CNN. Now, some NATO officials have voiced frustration that the U.S. did not share the intelligence with the rest of the alliance, but CNN sources said that doing so might have risked compromising American spying sources and methods. I thought we were one big happy family, Rick. I thought we shared everything. We shared intelligence, weapons,

techniques, tactics, but not this time. The Ukrainians knew, the U.S. knew, the U.K. knew, but who else knew? Aren't they the key players? That's right. Why tell everybody? This was a big operation.

They kept their lips sealed. You're not going to convince me that Britain and America were not involved in this operation. This was an attempted coup against Putin. And they stayed quiet about it. It didn't work out the way that they thought. They stayed quiet, and they launched the operation. But this is the second media confirmation that U.S. intelligence agencies were aware that there was going to be a mutiny.

But the most fascinating part of it is they withheld information from other NATO members. We don't trust you enough with this information. I mean, that's where it's at, isn't it? Well, because they had too much invested in the operation. Yeah, and that tells you just how invested they were, doesn't it? I mean, if they weren't invested in it,

they wouldn't have kept it a secret. That's a good point. Financial Times, Ukraine, says main event in the counteroffensive is yet to come. All right. Well, the Financial Times is reporting that the Ukrainian government has responded to skepticism regarding the effectiveness of its summer counterattack. Now, despite modest gains against Russian forces, the country's defense minister has indicated that these victories are only a preview of a much larger offensive to come. Alexei Reznikov emphasized that the recent liberation of several villages under Russian occupation is not the main objective of Ukraine's planned attack.

The minister's comments were made in an interview with the Financial Times. He says, when it happens, you will all see it. Everyone will see everything, said Reznikov, brushing aside media coverage of slow progress against well-fortified Russian positions. Reznikov argued that the past weekend's insurrection by the Wagner military group had laid bare the fundamental weakness of President Putin's regime in Moscow.

It's like a snowball, he said, referring to the regime's self-destructive traits. The bigger it gets, the faster it rolls. That's Reznikov's viewpoint. He cautioned against Ukraine banking on further mutinies and riots in Russia for battlefield success, saying there were no immediate signs of a collapse in morale. Once it gets hot, we'll see how resilient they are, he said, pointing to future counter-offensive operations. He said, we need to trust in our security and defense forces as well as our partners providing weapons, he added, stressing these factors were more predictable than the situation in Russia. So I think Ukraine was also

betting as well that whatever happened last weekend was going to be much bigger than it turned out to be. They were betting on that for a weakness. I think they were involved in it. Oh, I do too. Again, those Pentagon papers that were leaked several months ago revealed that Prokhorov had back-channel communication lines with the Ukrainian intelligence agencies. And did he really have it, or was he playing a card out there? Because Reznikov here is saying, you know, we can't count on any more mutinies and riots in Russia. We just can't count on it.

In other words, they played the card. We just can't count on it. In other words, they played the card and they can't play that same card again. That's right. It's done. But how shaken is Vladimir Putin? Did this scare him? It doesn't appear to me like he's scared. Well, I don't know, Doc.

I mean... I don't know. I have a feeling that in the Kremlin, this caught them by surprise, that they realized, man, you don't know next week, what's the West going to do to you next week? I mean, they've already hit the Kremlin with drones. Remember they tried to kill him? That's true. They hit the Kremlin with drones. Remember they tried to kill him?

That's true. They hit the Kremlin roof with drones. They tried to take him out when he was going to give a speech at an industrial park and a drone crashed before it arrived at the target zone. Now you have this attempt at coup. He's got to be wondering every week, what are they going to spring on me next week? Are any of these attempts going to work?

Are any of these drones going to hit my house? Am I going to be assassinated by one of my bodyguards? He's got to be assassinated by one of my bodyguards? He's got to be worried that they're getting closer and closer to killing him. Knowing that people like Lindsey Graham are cheering on the CIA, go get him, kill him. I think he's getting worried. I think he's getting nervous. But that makes him more dangerous. If you think that they're getting closer to killing you, what are you going to do?

That's my concern, is that the order for the diplomats to return home happened after the attempted coup. Right. Did Putin make up his mind? That's it. That's it. Done. I'm taking them out. Did he cross the line?

Did he cross the Rubicon? Did the West push him so far with that attempted coup that he said, no, that's it. Either they die or I die. One of us is going to die. That's what I think's happened. I think we just pushed him, we meaning the West, I think we just pushed him across the line where he realizes his

survival, his personal survival was at stake. Look, if they could get him out in the streets, they'd gut him like a deer. I think that was the plan. I think Prigogine was going to literally drag Putin out in the streets and gut him like a deer. I think that they were going to treat him like Saddam Hussein or Muammar Gaddafi.

They were going to make an example of him. But it didn't happen. It didn't happen. But he's now made up his mind. It ain't going to happen. I'm going to take care of this. I'm going to fix this problem. Well, now there's a new development today. Next to news and a couple other Russian outlets are starting to report that the former commander of Ukraine forces, General Serovkin, has been arrested for treason, him and his deputy.

Former commander of the Russian? The Russian-Ukraine forces. So Russian General Sergei Serovkin, who was former commander of all Russian forces in Ukraine, has been arrested in connection with the Wagner Rebellion. So he was participating in it. So something's happened, and there's going to be a big change, a big shakeup that's likely to happen. We're called diplomats. Now you're starting to fire generals. So maybe the purge is beginning within the military, but it just, you know, with, uh, you know, the Wagner group now being based out of Belarus and everything, I just, it's, it's a confusing situation. It is. I, you know, for, uh, president Lukashenko to have Wagner troops in his country is a mystery

because why would you invite an army of hired killers to come into your country after they just attempted to kill the president of Russia? Well, you hit the key word, hired, which means they get paid. Maybe he went to the highest bidder. I mean, maybe that's the case. Maybe Lukashenko hired them? Maybe Lukashenko said, how much is Russia paying you? I'll double it. Well, they've broken up. Wagner's over. It's finished. Yes. It's finished.

The mercenaries were given, I think, three options. They could join the Russian military. Russian army. They could quit and go home. And number three, they could move to Belarus. Right. So it's over.

It's very interesting. We've got a short story. This was a navasti news service uh nato secretary general jones stoltenberg uh speaking in brussels at a press conference with the prime minister of estonia yes this is uh callous Calla Callas. She's the Estonian prime minister. Now, during this press conference, she made some cryptic remarks about a surprise that would be coming up at the upcoming summit, NATO summit. And we've got a short clip here. This is number 14 for control. Let's watch what

she says here and we'll comment on it. We have to work on the wording so that everybody is on board and the worries that some allies have regarding further steps and also the hope that we should give to Ukrainians as I'm really confident that any grey zone in Europe is a source of conflict and war. And actually the only security guarantee that really works is NATO. And I can tell this by my own country's history. The reason we are not living through some really dark times right now is because we are in NATO. And that is important and that is also important for for the prosperity of European continent because if you don't have wars you have investments you have

economic security so it is in our interest that we find this pathway, but the wording is still working out and don't want to somehow spoil the surprise of the Vilnius Summit. She didn't want to spoil the surprise. Yes. So the summit is in July. Yes. I think the middle of July. And there's a surprise, a surprise announcement involving Ukraine's future membership in NATO.

What do you think they're going to do, Doc? You know, I don't think they'd go so far as to give them full membership. They might give them some sort of provisional membership. But what does that mean if it's provisional? They're up to something um which is only going to infuriate putin yes but they may be thinking now that putin's weak that he's been you know uh put in a situation where he's going to have to struggle to maintain power i look at it the other way if that's the case then he might go to extremes to maintain that power.

Precisely. That's my viewpoint. Not that he's going to go anywhere or step down, but that'll just provoke him to do even something more radical. That's my viewpoint, Doc. But they're going to make an announcement at this summit meeting, and they're either going to announce a pathway to membership you know with a date ahead or they're going to give ukraine some type of junior membership now which could mean that they legally could start moving military bases into ukraine nato military bases well what that would also mean too is they could use nato pilots uh you know at that point because then the war they could use NATO pilots at that point.

Then the war is on. That's right. The war is on at that point. Because they don't have airports to land planes in Ukraine. The Russians have blown them up. They don't have jet crews in Ukraine. There's no one to operate them. So they've got to figure out a way to get air control over Ukraine, and they can't do it currently. Well, the president of Belarus, Mr. Alexander Lukashenko, he had some interesting

things to say today, and he was talking about, hey, there's a considerable number of Russian nuclear weapons in my country right now. That's right. A considerable number. Yeah, he said a considerable part of Russian nuclear weapons, my country right now. That's right. A considerable number. Yeah, he said a considerable part of Russian nuclear weapons, which are supposed to be deployed in Belarus, are already on the country's territory. President Lukashenko made the relevant statement during the ceremony held on 27th of June to present shoulder boards to high-ranking officers as he talked about details of his negotiations

with the head of the Russian private military company, Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin, back last week. So that's being reported by Belta there. So he's sending the signal out here, don't mess with Belarus. We have Russian nuclear munitions now on the territory of Belarus. And so this is a clear signal to those in Western Europe, if you're thinking about sending those freedom fighters into Belarus, you better think twice. And in a press conference, he continued to talk about nuclear weapons. And he mentioned the algorithm for the use of nuclear weapons by his country. We've got a couple of quotes from President Lukashenko. Right. He said, no one has ever fought with a nuclear power. Now the main task,

Gulevich, the chief of general staff of the armed forces of Belarus, is just present here. He, the minister, Viktor Krenin, and the chairman of the KGB of Belarus, Ivan Turtle, have been tasked with determining the algorithm or the math for the use of these weapons. That's Mr. Lukashenko speaking Tuesday at a solemn ceremony of handing over general shoulder straps to senior officers at the Palace of Independence in Minsk. He is quoted by the presidential press service in this. Now, the Belarusian president noted that the basis of the algorithm should be that we must apply it in difficult times if we are attacked. This means that they will attack, as Russia has already begun to pronounce,

the Union state. Went on to say, but that's not the point. Let's say this is only permissible. We can apply it in the agreement with Russia. Here's this idle reasoning. We are used and so on. It's all garbage. This is not and cannot be. This is our weapon and we will use it.

Mr. Lukashenko stressed. Now, he also went on to say, this is from Interfax, that if something should happen to Russia, if there's an attack on Russia, that in the event of the collapse of Russia, everybody's going to die under the rubble of it. He says, my position is if Russia collapses, we will remain under the rubble. We will all die. And that was Mr. Lukashenko stressing that point. Basically, he's repeating what the Russians have said from the very beginning. If there's no Russia, there's no world. The whole thing's going to come down and everyone's going to get buried underneath it

that's right I think it's very dangerous to continue to ignore what these men are saying let me show you a headline we're not going to read all of this it's too much by the way I have Let me show you a headline. I don't know if we're, we're not going to read all of this. It's too much.

Hey, by the way, I have to leave a little bit early tonight because we're having our first private seminar tonight, a webinar. It's not a seminar, a webinar. And I'm meeting with a select group of True News supporters, and many of you have received emails from me, invitations to online Zoom meetings. The first one is tonight. Many more coming in the coming days. Go by the date that's in your email. We can't accommodate everybody on one date. So we've divided it up. You have different dates in the emails. So the first one is tonight. And so I

need to, I'm going to have to leave RT article is the headline. Here's why Russia has to consider launching a nuclear strike on Western Europe. And I want to read what RT said in the opening of this article. This is an op-ed piece. This is why it's very long. We're just not going to have time to read it. But I want to read what they said in the beginning. According to RT, there has been an active debate throughout this month in Russia, about the possibility of Moscow

preemptively using nuclear weapons, which would be at variance with the established doctrine. It began after the publication of an article by Professor Karanoff, which prompted a wide response from the domestic expert community. Now, while the professor has been advocating relaxing the rules of nuclear warfare,

others have different opinions. One expert, Mr. Lukanoff, thinks that the West cannot be sobered up by using the nuclear bomb. Another one believes that Russia should not take NATO's bait and unleash the ultimate weapon. This is the introduction to RT's article that was on their front page today. Doc's saying that, you know, for the past month, there's been a debate in russia have we reached a point that we must nuke europe and maybe the united states right and basically he's calling for a change in thought of instead of using nuclear weapons as a weapon of last resort which has basically been the the doctrine up till now, to ask ourselves some hard, or the Russians asking themselves some hard questions,

what good is it to have nuclear weapons if we can't use them? What good is it to have these weapons and deliver the destructive power if we can't use them? And so the argument, and Mr. Korogunanov had stated in an article last week, he said, and we wouldn't be the first to do that. The United States dropped two nuclear weapons on Japan for the purpose of ending the war and ending the destruction that the war was proceeding in. Now, the United States has been condemned for using nuclear weapons, but it did end the conflict with Japan.

Some would argue it would have ended anyway, but we don't know. But the concern was that possibly millions of American servicemen could die in greater battles with Japan. That's right. I mean, they were planning a land invasion of Japan, and that would have extended the conflict who knows how long. But Karaginov, Professor Karaginov, is actually putting this out in the atmosphere, if you will, and they're having these open discussions now, considering what if Russia

was a first strike nation? But of course, on the other side, there are those that are saying, even if we did, let's say we nuked Brussels, would that be enough to stop the West from all their craziness? And there's some arguing, no, they would still proceed down the road with this. But we're getting dangerously close. The fact that we're talking about this, the fact that it's open, that we're having conversations about this. Should we or shouldn't we? That's how far we've gone in one year, a year and a half of this war. And the United States has changed its doctrine in the past few years, too.

We're no longer a last resort nation. We've opened up the possibility of a first strike, even a first strike, a nuclear strike in response to a cyber attack. We've put that out there. So the fact that we're having these conversations where we have the destructive power of nuclear weapons that can wipe out virtually all of humanity. Doc, a Russian senator is accusing the West of plotting a collar revolution in Serbia. Yes. So the Speaker of the Upper Chamber of the Russian Parliament, Valentina Matvienko, has accused Western nations of trying to destabilize Serbia by instigating a collar revolution in the country. Matt Vienko has claimed that public anger is being whipped up after two mass shootings in the country, suggesting that Western powers are trying

to stir up public fury over gun violence to create confusion and sow discord. The Russian senator has called for a thorough investigation to uncover potential manipulation of the crimes and urge nations to be aware of and withstand any attempts at foreign-influenced coups. So basically, she's saying, hey, the deep state intelligence networks out there are creating these incidents in countries in this case uh in serbia they've had uh several uh you know uh shooting incidents over the past several weeks yes which they've never had they've never had before doesn't that sound familiar yes for the mass shootings and and then what happens after that gun control right demands for crackdown on free speech and so forth.

And now they're having mass shootings in Serbia where they've never had them before. And who's involved? Who's stirring it up? Who's destabilizing little Serbia? I would say the same group that created Serbia. That's right. And how did they do that they they they started revolution in a country called yugoslavia and it doesn't it doesn't exist anymore because it's country 404

yes it's country 404 not found anymore why because nato said we're not going to let you exist anymore as a nation while we're talking about western intelligence agencies destabilizing societies and instigating collar revolutions we have a collar revolution going on in america it's called the rainbow revolution that's a collar revolution isn't it just put all the colors together isn't that a collar revolution? Well, the controversy still is swirling around Anheuser-Busch. Their share of the

market for Bud Light continues to drop. They're now down 30%. And they've fired their director of marketing that were related to the Bud Light event here last month. And it's so bad, Doc, that they're giving, the company is giving distributors, corporate welfare checks to the

distributors to keep them happy because the distributors are losing money. So the company is sending corporate welfare checks to the beer distributors i never heard the like before of you i've never heard anything like this now you would think that that the corporate executives of van hauser bush would just run run away from the homosexual lobby but they're not they won't they won't they're still continuing to support them, still giving money to them. Yes. Still backing their pride parades and, you know, funding their political operations. So the CEO of Anheuser-Busch, Mr. Brendan Whitworth was on CBS Morning News to make a statement. And he actually, my personal opinion is he just got his shovel out and dug the hole deeper.

He should have said to CBS News, we're out of politics. You know, we make beer. We're not in politics. My policy now as CEO is we're not giving money to anybody that's in politics. You know, people can have their views. We just make beer. We're going to stay out of politics. You have your own opinion.

You would think. You would think that's what he would say, but that's not what he said. No, it's not. And he refused to apologize. And so I've got two soundbites from the CBS Morning News interview with their CEO, Brendan Whitworth. Here's the first one. For more than two decades, Bud Light was America's top-selling beer before being dethroned by Modelo back in May. Now, this came after a boycott of Bud Light and its parent company, Anheuser-Busch,

by some consumers. The controversy, I know you've heard all about it, began after trans social media star, that's Dylan Mulvaney, posted a video on Instagram, this was in April, showing the company had sent her personalized Bud Light cans. It was all part of an online promotion.

Anheuser-Busch then faced more backlash for its handling of the boycott. Still, the company says it remains the country's number one brewer, with brands like Budweiser and many craft breweries under its umbrella. Anheuser-Busch, U.S. CEO, that's Brendan Wentworth, we're happy to say, joins us at the table live and in color for an exclusive interview. Number one, we're glad to have you here. Many people in your position, Mr. Wentworth, would be running for the hills at this point

because since April, you all have faced a lot of incoming. How and why did it go so off the rails? Because that certainly wasn't your intention when you did one can to one person. It's been a challenging few weeks. And I think the conversation surrounding Bud Light has moved away from beer. And the conversation has become divisive. And Bud Light really doesn't belong there. Bud Light should be all about bringing people together. And there's been impact on the business. And I think that's publicly covered on Bud Light specifically. Yeah. So what was your intention? Take us to the beginning. What was your intention? What were you all trying to do here? And you've done this before, these promotional campaigns. the impact that it's had. And like I said, you know, that impact has taken place.

But it's the impact on our employees, the impact on our consumers, and as well, the impact on our partners. And I think one thing that I'd love to make extremely clear is that impact is my responsibility. And as the CEO, everything we do here, I'm accountable for. Given the moment we're in, this moment in America with trans issues at the top of a Republican social or conservative political agenda, knowing what you know now, if you could go back, would you send this can to this one person again? There's a big social conversation taking place right now, and big brands are right in the middle of it. And it's not just our industry or Bud Light. It's happening in retail. It's happening in fast food. And so for us, what we need to understand is, deeply understand and appreciate, is the consumer and what they want, what they care about, and what they expect from big brands.

So this is a part of why you're getting it from all sides, because I asked you, would you do it again? And people on the trans right side of things supporting that community want you to say, yes, of course, we want that fortitude. And people on the right would criticize you for saying yes. So where are you on the issue? I mean, was this a mistake? You know, Bud Light has supported LGBTQ since 1998. So that's 25 years. And as we've said from the beginning, we'll continue to support the communities and organizations that we've supported for decades. But as we move forward, you know, we want to focus on what we do best, which is brewing great beer for everyone, listening to our consumers, being humble and listening to them, making sure that we do right by our employees, take care and support our partners, and ultimately make an impact in the communities that we serve.

So you did point out that Anheuser-Busch has in the past supported the queer community. In fact, you had these cans in 2019 that were rainbow bottles that were sold in stores all across the country. But the political arm of Anheuser-Busch has donated to anti-LGBTQ plus politicians. So where do you stand and where does the company stand on queer rights? You know, as from a, we support politicians that support our business. And when we say that we talk about things like things that work for the industry, allow us to grow the business, allow us to employ more people and really help drive the economy. Wow. Oh, I'm trying to imagine Walter Cronkite talking about queer beer.

What happened to CVS? I mean, old Walter was a globalist, but he wasn't queer. He wasn't. I mean, Anheuser-Busch, the CEO, basically said, we're going to be queer beer. We're not apologizing for it.

So from here on out, when you see Anheuser-Busch products, Bud Light, whatever product that they produce, if somebody's talking about it, you just call it queer beer. They want it to be called queer beer. That's right. He said, we've been backing the homosexual movement for 25 years. Since 98. In other words, we're not going to stop now. Well, guess what? Your customers stopped buying your product.

So you just keep on doubling down and tripling down, and you just go down, down, down, down, and go out of business. You've got to make these companies hurt. They'll be selling more Billy beer than Bud Light here pretty soon, the way it goes. I'm not a beer drinker, but I would drink Rolling Rock before I drink a Bud. You ever drink Rolling Rock? Oh, yes. Latrobe rock is? Oh, yes. La Trobe, Pennsylvania. Oh, yes.

Beer that made La Trobe famous. I don't know how they even call it beer, but anyhow. Well, Rick, color revolutions everywhere else in the world are run by intelligence agencies and everything. And, you know, so when we're talking about Ukraine, we know all the deep state and everything, intelligence and Soros that was involved in that color revolution, what's happening in Serbia and other countries that have experienced color revolutions, and we're having the rainbow revolution. That's right. Here's a big corporation losing one-third of its market base.

So is there a connection between the intelligence agencies and... The gay movement? and queer beer? Yes, there is. The next segment of the CBS News interview. Let's listen to what the Anheuser-Busch CEO, Brendan Whitworth, what he said about his career. We should point out that you're a former United States Marine and you were also at the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA. Correct. So you know a little bit about stress. Yeah.

Just a tiny bit. Just a little bit. How did you go from the CIA to Anheuser-Busch? You know, I thought the highest calling that anybody can have is serving the country. But for personal reasons, made the decision after eight years in service of the country to move into business. I worked for PepsiCo for a number of years and I came here 10 years ago and I've been in this position for two years. You still like this job? I love this job and I love the company. Could he still be in the CIA? Do you ever leave the CIA, Rick? That's the real question. Oh, this is so raw fascism. Folks,

this is what fascism looks like. A guy's in the Central Intelligence Agency and then he ends up as the CEO of Anheuser-Busch and he wrecks the company's sales by pushing queer beer. That's what fascism looks like. Government and corporations together. It's not communism, it's fascism. That's right. Hey, let Anheuser-Busch go down the toilet drain. I don't care about these companies anymore. It would be great if a lot of them went out of business. Stop giving money to these companies that hate your values don't give them any more money um doc i gotta leave soon so well things are so rough in the lgbtqi alphabet community that even google has found itself in a position where it's distancing itself

from a planned drag performance after employees petitioned christians christians working at google said we're tired of it that's right we don't want to participate in the drag queen garbage anymore and you're turning this into a hostile workplace. That's right. So according to CNBC, Google is now distancing itself from a drag performance it planned as the closing event for Pride Month after a group of employees circulated an internal petition opposing it, claiming religious discrimination. Now, each year, Google sponsors a series of Pride events in San Francisco and other locations for employees and the public. each year, Google sponsors a series of Pride events in San Francisco and other locations for employees and the public. This year, the closing event was a Pride and

Drag Show featuring popular performer Peaches Christ, who was scheduled to perform Tuesday at an LGBTQ plus bar in San Francisco to wrap up this amazing month, according to a now removed internal description of the event viewed by CNBC. Now, an internal team planned the closing drag event without going through our standard events process. You see they're covering themselves now, Rick, said spokesperson Chris Pappas in a statement. While the event organizers have shifted the official team event on site, the performance will go on at the planned venue, and it's open to the public so employees can still attend.

So they've distanced themselves, but they haven't cut themselves off from the event. We're going to fund it, but we're going to open it up to the public so it's not a company event. But, I mean, it does give you a little glimmer of hope that there were enough Christian employees at Google that were offended by what was happening, by this performance, that it did move the needle. You know what scared them? When Christians started using the phrase hostile workplace, corporate attorneys got afraid. They know they can be sued.

You've turned the workplace into a place of hostility. Hostility to what? Christians. You feel threatened. You're being, I mean, they're making you watch a blasphemous homosexual sodomite perform as the role of Peaches Christ. Christ, the anointed one. And you're a Christian and you're supposed to sit there and watch this stuff? No, it's highly offensive.

And you're being told as an employee, you have to watch it. You have to participate. You have to affirm it. No, they've made the workplace hostile. And you have rights. And you have authority in Christ. So stand up. Wherever you are, if your employer tells you you're going to celebrate gay pride in the month of June, you say, no, that's offensive to me. And this cannot be a hostile workplace. They're not going to allow you to have Christian pride in the workplace. That's right. There's no way they're going to let you do that. And just say to them, well, then let's make July Christian pride month. And I'll organize prayer meetings and praise meetings. We'll have worship teams come in and preachers.

And let's just see how long they tolerate it. Their tolerance will go out the door really fast. Christians, take your stand and take authority as representatives of the kingdom of God. Amen. I've got to run. I've got to run. I've got to get home and get ready for this private Zoom call tonight with a big group of True News supporters.

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