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Save America with your host Sean Parnell.

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Good evening, America, Welcome to Battleground Live. This is the show where we kick ass, we take names, we lockhorns with the radical left. We never quit, we never surrender. From sea to Shining Sea and everybody in between. Welcome Patriots on this glorious, glorious Friday. Now it's Black Friday, and so thank you all the loyal og members of the Battle Crew and mcgroin nation. Thank you all for joining us today. We know it's kind of a holiday, and we get it. I don't like to take days off, you know, I really don't. I also recognize the need for holidays and family and spending time together and all of that. That's of course, extremely extremely important. So you know, it's always a balance, right, of course, take Thanksgiving off because when I make sure that I'm completely present with the family. Black Friday has always kind of been a holiday. People go out shopping. They really start their Christmas shopping for sure, and really today's a day to put up a bunch of Christmas decorations. I know, believe me. I know. Commander Melanie, my amazing wife. Boy, she was a rock star yesterday is funny the girls and I you know, she really is a rock star. She she's I told Melanie last night. And this is not me trying to get some cool points or whatever ingratiate myself to her, but I told her this last night too, Like, I am very lucky because I have an amazing wife who she is an amazing cook, She cares a lot, loves the family more than anything. She's unbelievably protective. She's willing to go to bat for anybody in the family, go to war for anybody in the family. I mean, she's beautiful, she's smart, she's got great political instinct. And yesterday, you know, it was our Thanksgiving and she was probably prepping five or six different courses for the meal. I'm not even exaggerating. She's got this big turkey and then she's she's got this world class stuffing, and she loves stuffing, and every year, stuffing is probably one of her favorite parts of Thanksgiving. She cooks all these pies. She got this apple pie, loves apple pie. Got cherry pies as well. She makes this also world class mac and cheese, and you know, listen, We've got lots to talk about tonight. We've got Brian Dean right on deck. It's right night, so I'm not gonna waste too much of her time with this. But she makes the most amazing mac and cheese in the world. And I have this rule of thumb battle crew, I just do. I am a very meat and potatoes kind of guy. Anytime I order something, it's just plain with cheese. The way I instruct the waitress or waiter at restaurants on the occasions that we go out. Just imagine I'm a two year old and I'm ordering something just like that, so very much like that. And I judge all restaurants. I don't care if it's five star restaurant, but I judge all restaurants on their quality of their mac and cheese. And I am telling you just so you know. I am a mac and cheese connoisseur. I love mac and cheese. And here I'm just telling you, Commander Melanie makes some of the best mac and cheese, probably the best mac and cheese that I've ever had. And I know that the kids will probably back me up on this as well. Listen to me, folks, she's just that good and so okay. So listen, don't forget to smash that like button, that little green thumb beneath the video, don't forget about official Seanparnell dot com, don't forget to follow me on locals. Uh, listen, lot to talk about tonight. We're going to get to lots of awesome stuff with Brian Dean Wright. But before we get to Brian, the Associated Press had an article out the other day, and it was interesting that it was released the other day because they know that we're going into Thanksgiving and so many people aren't going to be paying attention. The Associated Press, by the way, is not typically a publication that is friendly to conservatives at all. In fact, they are a liberal rag. They are fake news. But what makes the Associated Press so dangerous, particularly effective fake news, is that all of their articles, if they're published by the national Associated Press, all of their articles are then taken and placed in local newspapers all across the country, So they have a real local type feel. And you've got to read the fine print to see if it's an Associated Press reporter who's writing it, and make sure it's not a local reporter. But That's why the Associated Press, I think could be dangerous fake news because even though they're a national or global organization, they give you a sense that everything that they publish is local, right, and how it gives you And the reason why that's important is that if you're running an election, their writing is if they're local, it gives you a sense of how people feel locally. But that's really not the case. If it's written by the Associated Press or for the Associated Press, chances are they have some global interest or liberal interest behind everything that they write. That's just the truth. So they had an article out the other day, and I'm pointing this out to you because a lot of what we're going to talk about tonight is the Democrat globalist worldview is on the ropes in a very, very big way. And the title of this episode is the Great Reset is Collapsing. And the reason why I titled the episode that way is because I believe the Great Reset is collapsing, and that's a great thing for patriots all around the world, but especially here because in order for the Great Reset to happen, and of course we all know what the Great reset is, it's this anti capitalist, anti American view very globalist view. They demonize free markets, they embrace socialism and communism, and they advocate from more control over your life. You'll live in the pod, you'll eat the bugs, you'll be happy, type stuff, really dystopian healthscape type stuff. Well listen, it's on the ropes in a big way. And so this is why this Associated Press article was very interesting to me because I think the Democrats and the media know this. They see the writing on the wall, and now they're questioning what to do moving forward. And you can always see what the Democrats are thinking, what their battle plan is, by reading between the lines and some of these articles. So, of course, the title in this Associated Press article Democrats in Pennsylvania lost its nineteen presidential electoral votes, a US Senate seat, three other statewide races, two congressional seats in what was once a reassuring advantage, and voter registration. The title of the article itself is very simply, is Pennsylvania still a swing state? Now? For those of you all who have listened to the show for a very long time, you know what I think about Pennsylvania. It's the ballgame. Okay, back to Pennsylvania real quick. The Democrats are worried about Pennsylvania. Why does Pennsylvania matter? Folks, you've been watching the og. Members of the Battle Crew, many of you all who have been in the live chat, are been a part of this show for a very long time. Pennsylvania is the ballgame for Democrats. The Democrats just got their asses whipped in Pennsylvania, likes of which they haven't seen in a very very long time. You know, I told you. You know, if you've been watching this show, then you know that I've been involved on the back end of everything Pennsylvania for the last two years. Now, then you also know that I ran for Congress in Pennsylvania in the twenty twenty cycle with President Trump. I also ran for Senate in twenty twenty two. I know this state, I knew what needed to happen here, and I knew that whatever we did moving forward would be outcome determined to do. And so we went to work raising a ton of money trying to fight the political fight in Pennsylvania, just like the Democrats did. In twenty twenty, the Democrats had over a six hundred and fifty thousand, actually closer to eight hundred thousand person voter registration advantage in this year, in this election cycle that their voter registration advantags was about three hundred and twenty five thousand. So with the help of other great patriots like Scott Presler, we were able to cut that number in half by fighting the fight the way that the Democrats do. What we also did in an organization that I ran was fight the mail in ballot game, in the early vote game. For those who might be new listening or watching the program, No I don't like mail in ballots. No I wish we didn't have them. If I were governor of Pennsylvania for a day, first thing that I would do was sign election reform and get rid of mail in ballots and go back only to absentee ballots for very for very specific reasons as outlined in the Pennsylvania State Constitution. But that's not the point. If you want to change election law, you got to actually win. And so we went all in on this early vote and mail in ballot program. And listen to this, at the end of the cycle, we added over two hundred and forty thousand, four hundred and thirty Republicans to the permanent vote by mail list. This was the very first election cycle where Republicans added more voters to that list than the Democrats. We also produced get this number. This is this is no bullshit data here, folks. We also produced three hundred and sixty five thousand first time vote by mail voters. Those are the first three hundred and sixty five thousand people that we need to fold into the program for the next couple of years. The point is this will benefit at our party, the America First Movement immensely moving forward. The goal is to take Pennsylvania off the board for the Democrats. The goal is to turn Pennsylvania into Florida. If we do that and the map continues to shrink for the Democrats, it makes it very hard for them to win the electoral College. Damn near impossible because if Kamala Harris lost Pennsylvania. We've talked about this many times, ninety six percent chance that Trump is going back to the White House. That's not going to change anytime soon. That's not going to change in subsequent cycles. The only thing that we need to do on our end is make sure that our people show up and adding people to the permanent vote by mail list where you have their name, you have their address of where a ballot is being shipped and all you do is pick up the phone and call them or send a piece of mail to them. It makes our job a hell of a lot easier. So if we're talking about a pathway to Republicans in power as often as possible, then going all in on Pennsylvania and taking it off the board for them while their map continues to shrink does just that. So that's why the Democrats are panicked. And again, so much of what Brian and I are going to talk about are going to be the history of the great Reset why I think it's collapsing or might be at least on the ropes all over the world. The Democrat radical leftist globalist agenda here in America is also on the ropes. It's part of all of this. So I've got Brian Dean Wright on deck right now. I want to bring them on. Welcome my friend, Brian Star, host of The Right Report Daily podcast. If you are not listening to this every day, you are wrong. You should do that. You should subscribe to Brian also former CIA operations officer. Looking dapper as usual, my friend.

Good evening, America, Welcome to Battleground Live. This is the show where we kick ass, we take names, we lockhorns with the radical left. We never quit, we never surrender. From sea to Shining Sea and everybody in between. Welcome Patriots on this glorious, glorious Friday. Now it's Black Friday, and so thank you all the loyal og members of the Battle Crew and mcgroin nation. Thank you all for joining us today. We know it's kind of a holiday, and we get it. I don't like to take days off, you know, I really don't. I also recognize the need for holidays and family and spending time together and all of that. That's of course, extremely extremely important. So you know, it's always a balance, right, of course, take Thanksgiving off because when I make sure that I'm completely present with the family. Black Friday has always kind of been a holiday. People go out shopping. They really start their Christmas shopping for sure, and really today's a day to put up a bunch of Christmas decorations. I know, believe me. I know. Commander Melanie, my amazing wife. Boy, she was a rock star yesterday is funny the girls and I you know, she really is a rock star. She she's I told Melanie last night. And this is not me trying to get some cool points or whatever ingratiate myself to her, but I told her this last night too, Like, I am very lucky because I have an amazing wife who she is an amazing cook, She cares a lot, loves the family more than anything. She's unbelievably protective. She's willing to go to bat for anybody in the family, go to war for anybody in the family. I mean, she's beautiful, she's smart, she's got great political instinct. And yesterday, you know, it was our Thanksgiving and she was probably prepping five or six different courses for the meal. I'm not even exaggerating. She's got this big turkey and then she's she's got this world class stuffing, and she loves stuffing, and every year, stuffing is probably one of her favorite parts of Thanksgiving. She cooks all these pies. She got this apple pie, loves apple pie. Got cherry pies as well. She makes this also world class mac and cheese, and you know, listen, We've got lots to talk about tonight. We've got Brian Dean right on deck. It's right night, so I'm not gonna waste too much of her time with this. But she makes the most amazing mac and cheese in the world. And I have this rule of thumb battle crew, I just do. I am a very meat and potatoes kind of guy. Anytime I order something, it's just plain with cheese. The way I instruct the waitress or waiter at restaurants on the occasions that we go out. Just imagine I'm a two year old and I'm ordering something just like that, so very much like that. And I judge all restaurants. I don't care if it's five star restaurant, but I judge all restaurants on their quality of their mac and cheese. And I am telling you just so you know. I am a mac and cheese connoisseur. I love mac and cheese. And here I'm just telling you, Commander Melanie makes some of the best mac and cheese, probably the best mac and cheese that I've ever had. And I know that the kids will probably back me up on this as well. Listen to me, folks, she's just that good and so okay. So listen, don't forget to smash that like button, that little green thumb beneath the video, don't forget about official Seanparnell dot com, don't forget to follow me on locals. Uh, listen, lot to talk about tonight. We're going to get to lots of awesome stuff with Brian Dean Wright. But before we get to Brian, the Associated Press had an article out the other day, and it was interesting that it was released the other day because they know that we're going into Thanksgiving and so many people aren't going to be paying attention. The Associated Press, by the way, is not typically a publication that is friendly to conservatives at all. In fact, they are a liberal rag. They are fake news. But what makes the Associated Press so dangerous, particularly effective fake news, is that all of their articles, if they're published by the national Associated Press, all of their articles are then taken and placed in local newspapers all across the country, So they have a real local type feel. And you've got to read the fine print to see if it's an Associated Press reporter who's writing it, and make sure it's not a local reporter. But That's why the Associated Press, I think could be dangerous fake news because even though they're a national or global organization, they give you a sense that everything that they publish is local, right, and how it gives you And the reason why that's important is that if you're running an election, their writing is if they're local, it gives you a sense of how people feel locally. But that's really not the case. If it's written by the Associated Press or for the Associated Press, chances are they have some global interest or liberal interest behind everything that they write. That's just the truth. So they had an article out the other day, and I'm pointing this out to you because a lot of what we're going to talk about tonight is the Democrat globalist worldview is on the ropes in a very, very big way. And the title of this episode is the Great Reset is Collapsing. And the reason why I titled the episode that way is because I believe the Great Reset is collapsing, and that's a great thing for patriots all around the world, but especially here because in order for the Great Reset to happen, and of course we all know what the Great reset is, it's this anti capitalist, anti American view very globalist view. They demonize free markets, they embrace socialism and communism, and they advocate from more control over your life. You'll live in the pod, you'll eat the bugs, you'll be happy, type stuff, really dystopian healthscape type stuff. Well listen, it's on the ropes in a big way. And so this is why this Associated Press article was very interesting to me because I think the Democrats and the media know this. They see the writing on the wall, and now they're questioning what to do moving forward. And you can always see what the Democrats are thinking, what their battle plan is, by reading between the lines and some of these articles. So, of course, the title in this Associated Press article Democrats in Pennsylvania lost its nineteen presidential electoral votes, a US Senate seat, three other statewide races, two congressional seats in what was once a reassuring advantage, and voter registration. The title of the article itself is very simply, is Pennsylvania still a swing state? Now? For those of you all who have listened to the show for a very long time, you know what I think about Pennsylvania. It's the ballgame. Okay, back to Pennsylvania real quick. The Democrats are worried about Pennsylvania. Why does Pennsylvania matter? Folks, you've been watching the og. Members of the Battle Crew, many of you all who have been in the live chat, are been a part of this show for a very long time. Pennsylvania is the ballgame for Democrats. The Democrats just got their asses whipped in Pennsylvania, likes of which they haven't seen in a very very long time. You know, I told you. You know, if you've been watching this show, then you know that I've been involved on the back end of everything Pennsylvania for the last two years. Now, then you also know that I ran for Congress in Pennsylvania in the twenty twenty cycle with President Trump. I also ran for Senate in twenty twenty two. I know this state, I knew what needed to happen here, and I knew that whatever we did moving forward would be outcome determined to do. And so we went to work raising a ton of money trying to fight the political fight in Pennsylvania, just like the Democrats did. In twenty twenty, the Democrats had over a six hundred and fifty thousand, actually closer to eight hundred thousand person voter registration advantage in this year, in this election cycle that their voter registration advantags was about three hundred and twenty five thousand. So with the help of other great patriots like Scott Presler, we were able to cut that number in half by fighting the fight the way that the Democrats do. What we also did in an organization that I ran was fight the mail in ballot game, in the early vote game. For those who might be new listening or watching the program, No I don't like mail in ballots. No I wish we didn't have them. If I were governor of Pennsylvania for a day, first thing that I would do was sign election reform and get rid of mail in ballots and go back only to absentee ballots for very for very specific reasons as outlined in the Pennsylvania State Constitution. But that's not the point. If you want to change election law, you got to actually win. And so we went all in on this early vote and mail in ballot program. And listen to this, at the end of the cycle, we added over two hundred and forty thousand, four hundred and thirty Republicans to the permanent vote by mail list. This was the very first election cycle where Republicans added more voters to that list than the Democrats. We also produced get this number. This is this is no bullshit data here, folks. We also produced three hundred and sixty five thousand first time vote by mail voters. Those are the first three hundred and sixty five thousand people that we need to fold into the program for the next couple of years. The point is this will benefit at our party, the America First Movement immensely moving forward. The goal is to take Pennsylvania off the board for the Democrats. The goal is to turn Pennsylvania into Florida. If we do that and the map continues to shrink for the Democrats, it makes it very hard for them to win the electoral College. Damn near impossible because if Kamala Harris lost Pennsylvania. We've talked about this many times, ninety six percent chance that Trump is going back to the White House. That's not going to change anytime soon. That's not going to change in subsequent cycles. The only thing that we need to do on our end is make sure that our people show up and adding people to the permanent vote by mail list where you have their name, you have their address of where a ballot is being shipped and all you do is pick up the phone and call them or send a piece of mail to them. It makes our job a hell of a lot easier. So if we're talking about a pathway to Republicans in power as often as possible, then going all in on Pennsylvania and taking it off the board for them while their map continues to shrink does just that. So that's why the Democrats are panicked. And again, so much of what Brian and I are going to talk about are going to be the history of the great Reset why I think it's collapsing or might be at least on the ropes all over the world. The Democrat radical leftist globalist agenda here in America is also on the ropes. It's part of all of this. So I've got Brian Dean Wright on deck right now. I want to bring them on. Welcome my friend, Brian Star, host of The Right Report Daily podcast. If you are not listening to this every day, you are wrong. You should do that. You should subscribe to Brian also former CIA operations officer. Looking dapper as usual, my friend.

I'm just trying to bring it to the big Showan show, Come on now your top shelf people with this Sean show.

I'm just trying to bring it to the big Showan show, Come on now your top shelf people with this Sean show.

See that has a ring to it. Maybe I should have put my name in the title of my show. Damn it. See you have the Right Report. Your name is right there in it.

See that has a ring to it. Maybe I should have put my name in the title of my show. Damn it. See you have the Right Report. Your name is right there in it.

Yeah, well it makes me so famous. I can't step possible. Everybody informs me huge.

Yeah, well it makes me so famous. I can't step possible. Everybody informs me huge.

So people in the chat, someone was saying that your show yesterday you talked about you traced your lineage and journey here to America. So first of all, you got to tell me what are you doing over there on the right Report.

So people in the chat, someone was saying that your show yesterday you talked about you traced your lineage and journey here to America. So first of all, you got to tell me what are you doing over there on the right Report.

Well I gotta tell you. So yesterday I had such the distinct honor and privilege of giving everybody the family story going back to the sixteen hundreds in this country. It's just such an amazing story. My family came across the Oregon Trail in the eighteen hundreds, and we have all the old diaries and the old letters and huge photos. Yeah, it's so it's so amazing. You know, next year, I'm going to weave in more of the quotes they went back and forth from the family in Indiana and then the family in Oregon, which is where they were at at the time. So my fourth grade grandfather was in Iowa or in Indiana any rate. It's just such an amazing story. When we think about giving thanks, you know, we have so many reasons to get things for me. I remember the ancestors yesterday. That's such an important thing, and that was a fun thing to do with the audience, is just let them know that in my family, we've got a lot to celebrate. We all do, because we all have stories and grandparents and great grandparents upon which we had this amazing foundation of a country that we're trying to keep together a more perfect union. And it's tough to do, and sometimes we have some people who actually hate the country. So it's nice to just give ourselves a big old, warm, fuzzy hug and be like we are standing on the shoulders of giants who built this nation.

Well I gotta tell you. So yesterday I had such the distinct honor and privilege of giving everybody the family story going back to the sixteen hundreds in this country. It's just such an amazing story. My family came across the Oregon Trail in the eighteen hundreds, and we have all the old diaries and the old letters and huge photos. Yeah, it's so it's so amazing. You know, next year, I'm going to weave in more of the quotes they went back and forth from the family in Indiana and then the family in Oregon, which is where they were at at the time. So my fourth grade grandfather was in Iowa or in Indiana any rate. It's just such an amazing story. When we think about giving thanks, you know, we have so many reasons to get things for me. I remember the ancestors yesterday. That's such an important thing, and that was a fun thing to do with the audience, is just let them know that in my family, we've got a lot to celebrate. We all do, because we all have stories and grandparents and great grandparents upon which we had this amazing foundation of a country that we're trying to keep together a more perfect union. And it's tough to do, and sometimes we have some people who actually hate the country. So it's nice to just give ourselves a big old, warm, fuzzy hug and be like we are standing on the shoulders of giants who built this nation.

I really appreciate you saying that because I say it often, and you know, and talk about me joining the military as some after nine to eleven, twenty something, early twenties, thinking to myself, man, I just you know, want to get in the fight, take the fight to the enemy, younger version of myself. That's all I could think about. I just wanted to go after the people who attacked us. That's it. But now, being you know, a little bit older, probably some better perspective on life. I look back and think at all of the men and women who served our country and thought, holy smoke, had I known this going in, I probably would have. I don't know. I not taken any of that for granted, and I wish I would have. You know, when I talked to cadets at military academies, that's what I tell them. Understand that you're going in and really standing on the shoulders of giants here. And so wait, your family was on the Oregon Trail. My early experience with that is the video game and elementary So yeah, yes, but you.

I really appreciate you saying that because I say it often, and you know, and talk about me joining the military as some after nine to eleven, twenty something, early twenties, thinking to myself, man, I just you know, want to get in the fight, take the fight to the enemy, younger version of myself. That's all I could think about. I just wanted to go after the people who attacked us. That's it. But now, being you know, a little bit older, probably some better perspective on life. I look back and think at all of the men and women who served our country and thought, holy smoke, had I known this going in, I probably would have. I don't know. I not taken any of that for granted, and I wish I would have. You know, when I talked to cadets at military academies, that's what I tell them. Understand that you're going in and really standing on the shoulders of giants here. And so wait, your family was on the Oregon Trail. My early experience with that is the video game and elementary So yeah, yes, but you.

Know about sixty five thousand people died on that Oregon Trail through all those years of people trying to come out, well they found My family was not one of them. But yeah, my third great grandfather was born on the Oregon Trail in the Dibractic territory, no doctors, no nurses, back of a wagon with his mom and his father, Albert, and his two older sisters at the time. Yeah, it's incredible they actually held back through the winter because then they sent the brother first and two of his buddies on horseback to try to get to Oregon first because there were a lot of claim jumpers. So they went forward. They left the wagon train behind, so they waited until they that spring they're broke, and then they headed out west and they got to organ and time to get the claim. It's it's an amazing story. It's yeah, it's incredible.

Know about sixty five thousand people died on that Oregon Trail through all those years of people trying to come out, well they found My family was not one of them. But yeah, my third great grandfather was born on the Oregon Trail in the Dibractic territory, no doctors, no nurses, back of a wagon with his mom and his father, Albert, and his two older sisters at the time. Yeah, it's incredible they actually held back through the winter because then they sent the brother first and two of his buddies on horseback to try to get to Oregon first because there were a lot of claim jumpers. So they went forward. They left the wagon train behind, so they waited until they that spring they're broke, and then they headed out west and they got to organ and time to get the claim. It's it's an amazing story. It's yeah, it's incredible.

Well, you know, I not to go too far down this path, but do you ever think about just if things happened differently, how every like just sounds I'm real back to the future shit. But Melanie was reading this book about the Mayflower coming over about one of the passengers on the Mayflower getting swept overboard, but he clung to this chain. People rescued him. The guy survived, had a huge family. Three presidents come from this guy's family. But all that guy has to do is not hold on to the chain and drown and none of that happens. Like you exist, you know, I mean you talk about standing on the shoulders of giants. How close I mean did you come to like just not existing? Yeah, it's just insane.

Well, you know, I not to go too far down this path, but do you ever think about just if things happened differently, how every like just sounds I'm real back to the future shit. But Melanie was reading this book about the Mayflower coming over about one of the passengers on the Mayflower getting swept overboard, but he clung to this chain. People rescued him. The guy survived, had a huge family. Three presidents come from this guy's family. But all that guy has to do is not hold on to the chain and drown and none of that happens. Like you exist, you know, I mean you talk about standing on the shoulders of giants. How close I mean did you come to like just not existing? Yeah, it's just insane.

It's just my third great grandfather, grandmother or Julie Ann not giving Bert to Silas who was her boy, or if she had died and birth on the Oregon Trail in Nebraska territory, I wouldn't be here. But if you go back two generations prior to that, my fifth grade grandfather was born to a woman who we don't quite know who the father was. Through GNA or DNA analysis, we know that the last name was probably a Parker. In seventeen hundreds, if a woman was giving birth to a child out of wedlock, not a good deal. But we don't know the conception because there could have been a lot of very terrible things that have happened to her. But the point is a man in southern New Hampshire took her in, and my fifth great grandfather didn't have to, he had four sons of his own took her in and my fifth grade grandfather and raised the man or the young boy as his own son and gave him a life or he wouldn't have otherwise had it. So I come from very humble beginnings. I also come from the very beginning of this country. But you think about it, like, we have so many incredible stories in this country who've been for all kinds of places, for rich and poor and otherwise. But I think what unites a lot of us today in today's America is that you can still be successful if you work hard. And that's what my fifth grade grandfather I think showed future generations is he became a farmer and then a blacksmith. When his boys reached the age of eighteen, he give them an axe. He shook their hands and said good luck, and he did. And what we have in the family diaries, he taught or he treated his sons like a neighbor. From that point on. They were still his sons, of course, but he put them out, them out on the nest and said it's time for you to go on your own. And so two of his boys went across the Oregon Trail to find their destiny. And I'm here with you now because of that.

It's just my third great grandfather, grandmother or Julie Ann not giving Bert to Silas who was her boy, or if she had died and birth on the Oregon Trail in Nebraska territory, I wouldn't be here. But if you go back two generations prior to that, my fifth grade grandfather was born to a woman who we don't quite know who the father was. Through GNA or DNA analysis, we know that the last name was probably a Parker. In seventeen hundreds, if a woman was giving birth to a child out of wedlock, not a good deal. But we don't know the conception because there could have been a lot of very terrible things that have happened to her. But the point is a man in southern New Hampshire took her in, and my fifth great grandfather didn't have to, he had four sons of his own took her in and my fifth grade grandfather and raised the man or the young boy as his own son and gave him a life or he wouldn't have otherwise had it. So I come from very humble beginnings. I also come from the very beginning of this country. But you think about it, like, we have so many incredible stories in this country who've been for all kinds of places, for rich and poor and otherwise. But I think what unites a lot of us today in today's America is that you can still be successful if you work hard. And that's what my fifth grade grandfather I think showed future generations is he became a farmer and then a blacksmith. When his boys reached the age of eighteen, he give them an axe. He shook their hands and said good luck, and he did. And what we have in the family diaries, he taught or he treated his sons like a neighbor. From that point on. They were still his sons, of course, but he put them out, them out on the nest and said it's time for you to go on your own. And so two of his boys went across the Oregon Trail to find their destiny. And I'm here with you now because of that.

It's amazing and it's part of the reason why people should be listening to your podcast. It really is amazing, and people have come to really enjoy it. They're always talking about it in the chat on the show, and so yeah, I'm glad you're really I mean, I guess it makes sense that like you were in the CIA, because there's some overlap between being like an operations intelligence officer, spy type guy, but also being a good researcher. I think you've got to be both. I'm more of like a door kicker, knuckle dragger, I'm more of I don't think I could ever. I don't think I have the attention to detail to do anything like that.

It's amazing and it's part of the reason why people should be listening to your podcast. It really is amazing, and people have come to really enjoy it. They're always talking about it in the chat on the show, and so yeah, I'm glad you're really I mean, I guess it makes sense that like you were in the CIA, because there's some overlap between being like an operations intelligence officer, spy type guy, but also being a good researcher. I think you've got to be both. I'm more of like a door kicker, knuckle dragger, I'm more of I don't think I could ever. I don't think I have the attention to detail to do anything like that.

We see where we're teams. This is what we all bring our own stuff to the table. Friend, we need the door knockers. We need that. We need guys like you. Don't you worry about that right now? Look, you leave the fast cars and the pretty girls to me, but I'll have you going bang down the door. How about that? Does that work?

We see where we're teams. This is what we all bring our own stuff to the table. Friend, we need the door knockers. We need that. We need guys like you. Don't you worry about that right now? Look, you leave the fast cars and the pretty girls to me, but I'll have you going bang down the door. How about that? Does that work?

That sounds fine? That sounds fine. Okay, So let's shift gears to Ukraine and potential nuclear war. Now it's a real good transition right right there.

That sounds fine? That sounds fine. Okay, So let's shift gears to Ukraine and potential nuclear war. Now it's a real good transition right right there.

Heavy things giving everybody, we're all gonna die. Now, it's time for everybody gets to be super stressed. Let's talk about potential. We talked about what we're thankful for. Now let's just talk about how it could all get wiped out in just a second. So, so, in all seriousness, I do think that this Ukraine situation is not getting enough media. You you honestly would think it would be getting more given how close we are to really bad things happening. You and I texted earlier in the week that Britain and France are sending their advisors there. We definitely already have CIA people on the ground there. I would even bet that we've got Special Operations forces on the ground. They're actual, maybe non conventional, but US military types on the battlefield there.

Heavy things giving everybody, we're all gonna die. Now, it's time for everybody gets to be super stressed. Let's talk about potential. We talked about what we're thankful for. Now let's just talk about how it could all get wiped out in just a second. So, so, in all seriousness, I do think that this Ukraine situation is not getting enough media. You you honestly would think it would be getting more given how close we are to really bad things happening. You and I texted earlier in the week that Britain and France are sending their advisors there. We definitely already have CIA people on the ground there. I would even bet that we've got Special Operations forces on the ground. They're actual, maybe non conventional, but US military types on the battlefield there.

Is it's confirmed? Yeah?

Is it's confirmed? Yeah?

Is it? Is it really confirmed? I mean, I like we have uniformed American military personnel there. I mean, it's just the war keeps marching to me in the wrong direction. And I found this SoundBite which just is an interview I think on the BBC with Zelenski talking about what the end of the conflict could look like, and that just for the people who are listening and watching, that Zolensky might be willing to seed Russian held territory to Putin, but in exchange for them being granted access to Nado, which has always been a red line for Putin. So it's like, on one hand, here you have Zelenski saying, yeah, we'll give We'll see some of this terrain, but you know, we got to get access to NATO. Like, listen to him talking about this, and I want to get your reaction.

Is it? Is it really confirmed? I mean, I like we have uniformed American military personnel there. I mean, it's just the war keeps marching to me in the wrong direction. And I found this SoundBite which just is an interview I think on the BBC with Zelenski talking about what the end of the conflict could look like, and that just for the people who are listening and watching, that Zolensky might be willing to seed Russian held territory to Putin, but in exchange for them being granted access to Nado, which has always been a red line for Putin. So it's like, on one hand, here you have Zelenski saying, yeah, we'll give We'll see some of this terrain, but you know, we got to get access to NATO. Like, listen to him talking about this, and I want to get your reaction.

Well, one alternative perhaps again this is reported from the United States, and it's fairly simple, really, is that Ukraine joins NATO, but Russia takes control and keeps the land that it has to date, would that be a possibility.

Well, one alternative perhaps again this is reported from the United States, and it's fairly simple, really, is that Ukraine joins NATO, but Russia takes control and keeps the land that it has to date, would that be a possibility.

No one has offered us to be in NATO with just one part or another part of Ukraine.

No one has offered us to be in NATO with just one part or another part of Ukraine.

That's for once fucked.

That's for once fucked.

The fact is that it is a solution to stop the hot stage of the war, because we can just give the native membership to the part of Ukraine that is under our control. Fact more, yes, it could be possible.

The fact is that it is a solution to stop the hot stage of the war, because we can just give the native membership to the part of Ukraine that is under our control. Fact more, yes, it could be possible.

But no one offered, Trevor Aby.

But no one offered, Trevor Aby.

But the invitation must be given to Ukraine within its internationally recognized border. You can't give invitation to just one part of a country. Why because thus you would recognize that Ukraine is only that territory of Ukraine and the other one is Russia.

But the invitation must be given to Ukraine within its internationally recognized border. You can't give invitation to just one part of a country. Why because thus you would recognize that Ukraine is only that territory of Ukraine and the other one is Russia.

It's god uridich no minimo bra.

It's god uridich no minimo bra.

So legally, by law, we have no right to recognize the occupied territory as territory of Russia. And here we must not make any mistake to study Vini. But if we want to stop the hot stage of the war, we should take under natal umbrella the territory of Ukraine that we have under our control. That's what we need to do fast, and then Ukraine can get back the other part of its territory diplomatically.

So legally, by law, we have no right to recognize the occupied territory as territory of Russia. And here we must not make any mistake to study Vini. But if we want to stop the hot stage of the war, we should take under natal umbrella the territory of Ukraine that we have under our control. That's what we need to do fast, and then Ukraine can get back the other part of its territory diplomatically.

So he's not saying he's he's because it's being I mean, I've listened to this several times. It's being reported as, yeah, look, we'll let Putin keep whatever he has. Now, just give us access to NATO. I don't think Putin's ever going to be okay with that. But let's say, for example, that that happens. He's never given that, She's never given that territory. Up, it's not gonna happen. And I'm not saying or advocating, hey, well let's back down to Putin, right, because I that guy's a terrible, evil dictator. But this stuff all seems like a pipe dream to me. Brian, Am I right? Am I wrong? Tell me what you're thinking.

So he's not saying he's he's because it's being I mean, I've listened to this several times. It's being reported as, yeah, look, we'll let Putin keep whatever he has. Now, just give us access to NATO. I don't think Putin's ever going to be okay with that. But let's say, for example, that that happens. He's never given that, She's never given that territory. Up, it's not gonna happen. And I'm not saying or advocating, hey, well let's back down to Putin, right, because I that guy's a terrible, evil dictator. But this stuff all seems like a pipe dream to me. Brian, Am I right? Am I wrong? Tell me what you're thinking.

Look, Zelenski's doing what he should do as a president of his own country, which is trying to defend its interest in only its interests. So he's doing what he is supposed to do what his people elected him to do. That does not mean that we our president and our Congress and guys like Vindemann and others in our Congress or in our political system, that we should do what Ukraine wants. So we have to back and ask ourselves what's the what are our interests here? Because you are correct, for folks unaware, we have a multiple CIA basis six to ten of them depending on who you ask, inside of Ukraine right now. We have special operations forces inside of Ukraine right now. And Yessu're quite right to say the United Kingdom and France are both concerned in putting their own ground troops in Ukraine in addition to their own contractors. So this war is absolutely escalating in the wrong direction obviously, so we should be asking, well, so why do we care what Zelenski wants or not? And ultimately I think our play here is we want Europe to be stable so we can have good trade relationships with that continent and do we have peace. That's fundamentally what we want. So when we have a conversation with Putin, whatever, the deal is fine, but let's make sure that it is a lasting and a durable piece that's the goal. That's the end goal. So that's why you might hear some people talk about it. In fact, I think some Trump's people saying, let's create like a de militarized zone through a good chunk of NATO. Did that DMZ becomes patrolled by European powers and the rest of the rump of Ukraine does not become NATO. It just becomes this sort of buffer state with the DMC absolutely the buffer as it were, between Russia and the rest of Europe. And that creates your piece. Now, that's a very unhappy outcome for a lot of people in Ukraine right now. Of course they're going to lose a chunk of their territory plus the DMZ, but they've also lost hundreds of thousands of their men. They're young men in a country with the demographic crisis that was already running out of men. And yes, what you heard this week from the Biden White House to multiple media outlets is that they're encouraging the government of Ukraine to lower their age requirement for the men that they're going to throw to this meat grinder from twenty five to eighteen. And the reason that Zelensky and the government in Kiev have not done that to date. Is because they want those men to have babies and reverse the demographic crisis and decline. But if you're going to throw the rest of your young men into this meat grinder, you're not going to have any men left to populate the nation. And yet that's exactly what the West is now telling them. By the way, the Germans are also telling kievan Zelensky the same thing. So you get the entirety of the West telling Ukraine throw your young men, all of them, all of them into this fight. That's interesting. Why what do we want Ukraine to bleed out in this war of attrition which we know the Ukrainians are not going to win. They have less than twenty five percent of the total population, and a war of attrition, if you are the twenty five percent, your enemy is the seventy five percent. You lose absent some crazy weapon which ain't gonna have because the Risidins have ANUK. So this war of attrition was lost from day one. The Pentagon, the CIA, the White House, they all knew this from day one, which really starts to get into some dark conversation around why the West, why the United States would allow a war of attrition knowing that it was going to slaughter the Ukrainian people, most of their young men.

Look, Zelenski's doing what he should do as a president of his own country, which is trying to defend its interest in only its interests. So he's doing what he is supposed to do what his people elected him to do. That does not mean that we our president and our Congress and guys like Vindemann and others in our Congress or in our political system, that we should do what Ukraine wants. So we have to back and ask ourselves what's the what are our interests here? Because you are correct, for folks unaware, we have a multiple CIA basis six to ten of them depending on who you ask, inside of Ukraine right now. We have special operations forces inside of Ukraine right now. And Yessu're quite right to say the United Kingdom and France are both concerned in putting their own ground troops in Ukraine in addition to their own contractors. So this war is absolutely escalating in the wrong direction obviously, so we should be asking, well, so why do we care what Zelenski wants or not? And ultimately I think our play here is we want Europe to be stable so we can have good trade relationships with that continent and do we have peace. That's fundamentally what we want. So when we have a conversation with Putin, whatever, the deal is fine, but let's make sure that it is a lasting and a durable piece that's the goal. That's the end goal. So that's why you might hear some people talk about it. In fact, I think some Trump's people saying, let's create like a de militarized zone through a good chunk of NATO. Did that DMZ becomes patrolled by European powers and the rest of the rump of Ukraine does not become NATO. It just becomes this sort of buffer state with the DMC absolutely the buffer as it were, between Russia and the rest of Europe. And that creates your piece. Now, that's a very unhappy outcome for a lot of people in Ukraine right now. Of course they're going to lose a chunk of their territory plus the DMZ, but they've also lost hundreds of thousands of their men. They're young men in a country with the demographic crisis that was already running out of men. And yes, what you heard this week from the Biden White House to multiple media outlets is that they're encouraging the government of Ukraine to lower their age requirement for the men that they're going to throw to this meat grinder from twenty five to eighteen. And the reason that Zelensky and the government in Kiev have not done that to date. Is because they want those men to have babies and reverse the demographic crisis and decline. But if you're going to throw the rest of your young men into this meat grinder, you're not going to have any men left to populate the nation. And yet that's exactly what the West is now telling them. By the way, the Germans are also telling kievan Zelensky the same thing. So you get the entirety of the West telling Ukraine throw your young men, all of them, all of them into this fight. That's interesting. Why what do we want Ukraine to bleed out in this war of attrition which we know the Ukrainians are not going to win. They have less than twenty five percent of the total population, and a war of attrition, if you are the twenty five percent, your enemy is the seventy five percent. You lose absent some crazy weapon which ain't gonna have because the Risidins have ANUK. So this war of attrition was lost from day one. The Pentagon, the CIA, the White House, they all knew this from day one, which really starts to get into some dark conversation around why the West, why the United States would allow a war of attrition knowing that it was going to slaughter the Ukrainian people, most of their young men.

Yeah, why why? And now you see Putin threatening Ukraine and Zelensky with hitting some of their commanding control centers with high personic missiles too. The West knows this, and yeah, it really does beg the question why continue to throw Ukrainian men to the meat grinder and essentially wipe out their population? As you said, sometimes in a war of attrition, you get you out all the time. In a war of attritionan you get exactly that attrition in Ukraine is not in a position to withstand that Russia just has more people, full stop. So what the hell? Why escalate? You know why?

Yeah, why why? And now you see Putin threatening Ukraine and Zelensky with hitting some of their commanding control centers with high personic missiles too. The West knows this, and yeah, it really does beg the question why continue to throw Ukrainian men to the meat grinder and essentially wipe out their population? As you said, sometimes in a war of attrition, you get you out all the time. In a war of attritionan you get exactly that attrition in Ukraine is not in a position to withstand that Russia just has more people, full stop. So what the hell? Why escalate? You know why?

What you're asking is what we should all be asking two hundred billion plus dollars into this war. What's the strategy here? What's the endgame? What's the goal? Well we actually got some of that at the very beginning of this conflict in March and then again in April. Joe Biden and then the Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin respectively in March and April said that the goal here is a regime change. You may remember Biden delivered a speech in Poland in markets.

What you're asking is what we should all be asking two hundred billion plus dollars into this war. What's the strategy here? What's the endgame? What's the goal? Well we actually got some of that at the very beginning of this conflict in March and then again in April. Joe Biden and then the Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin respectively in March and April said that the goal here is a regime change. You may remember Biden delivered a speech in Poland in markets.

We've got to talk more. That's a great regime change, because that's what it's. People forget about that, Brian.

We've got to talk more. That's a great regime change, because that's what it's. People forget about that, Brian.

Well, that's only half of it. So regime change is the first part. That's the ultimate goal. Is Biden laid out the other half of it, which is what Secretary Austin said in April of twenty twenty two, is if it's not regime change, it is grinding the Russian military and the Russian state into such a weakened rump that it can be controlled regime.

Well, that's only half of it. So regime change is the first part. That's the ultimate goal. Is Biden laid out the other half of it, which is what Secretary Austin said in April of twenty twenty two, is if it's not regime change, it is grinding the Russian military and the Russian state into such a weakened rump that it can be controlled regime.

Change in Russia. You're talking about they want Putin out of there.

Change in Russia. You're talking about they want Putin out of there.

Well, it's either Putin remains that the preference would be that Putin is gone. Joe Biden made that clear that speech in Poland the next month when Lloyd Austin said the goal is to degrade Putin's forces so that he can quote never do this again sort of and go so some paraphrasing, but it's dark close to the exact quote. So if we can't remove Putin in other words, this is the strategy. Biden can't and his team can't remove Putin, We're going to degrade his military to the point that he can't create any sort of military havoc ever. Again, Okay, let's just say that that is a strategy. Can we be honest about that, and can we talk about it? And if that's the strategy, then that would make some degree of sense that the Pentagon and Western leaders in Saint Brussels or Paris in France would be willing to sacrifice every single last Ukrainian man for that mission. Okay, let's be honest about that. And now let's ask the Ukrainian people. Are you Happyrea? Are you okay with us using you and your men as our puppets as our proxy fighters? Are you okay with that? Are we okay with sending five eight hundred thousand and one million Ukrainian men to their deaths? I mean, that's the conversation we need to have, and then we need to ask ourselves a question. Well, wait a minute, So Boutin's not a good guy. Obviously, he represents his own interests and he's a meglomaniac, got it. But that doesn't mean that we have to engage an endless war. There are other options, diplomatic options like the DMZ and putting the French in the Russian or the French, of the British troops in the DMZ, etc. So are there other ways to deal with Moscow other than a war where the vast majority of men are slaughtered? And this isn't some hyperbole, by the way. You know, in other wars, for instance, the Three Nation War down in South America back in the eighteen hundreds, ninety percent of Paraguayan men died in that war. So you can have a situation where something like that happens, where you're talking about ninety ninety five percent of all the men of Ukraine gone. God, all right, if you were a mom or a dad in Ukraine, that's kind of bad. You would want the world to talk about that. Second, if you look at the men right now that are serving versus the men in Ukraine who aren't serving, there's a very important difference. Who's the canon fodder in Ukraine right now? Well, the men you can forward about ten thousand dollars to get out of Ukraine to go into Poland, Germany, Romania, those are the rich men. So the men in Ukraine who are not fighting, they're the rich men. The poor men, whether it be in Kiev or mostly in the rural areas of Ukraine that cannot afford ten thousand dollars, so they get snatched by the Ukrainian police, thrown into a unit. And those are the guys who are the cannon fought. It's the poor and the rural, as we have seen countless times in our own country's history as well as all around the world, that who suffers. So this gets back then to the strategy we want to use Ukraine as our puppet to try to degrade Putin. Okay, we're starting to get into this very State Department Harvard Ivory Tower conversation about getting down our maps and our pens and redrawing the lines of Europe. That sounds all lovely like we've read in some sort of history book, but we're talking about lives, young men. You and I have talked about this, not just on your podcast but otherwise. You and I have gone through this walk in this country's journey of the global War on Terror. We know what it's like to have friends who die. We know what it's like to have friends who lose arms and legs. We know what it's like to have them come back in their mind scrambled. That happens set on our porches and talk about suicide. So we know what this cost looks like in a very real, in a very personal way. We're not sitting at State Department headquarters or UB at Harvard having a conversation about remap on the world. So that's what I think in this new administration when I pray, is that that somebody represents those voices irrespective of this big power play between Brussels and DC and Moscow and all that kind of stuff, that we remember a little bit of our humanity as we think about trying to find ways to engage in peace. That doesn't mean that we absolutely take war off the table. There is such a thing as righteous war, that's correct, But in this case, it's really important that we recognize in a war attrition, Ukraine's not going to win unless we send in troops. And are we willing to do that? No, we're not. So why would you send another generation eighteen to twenty five year old men in Ukraine to their deaths because we want to puppeteer these guys who we can take out, putin or minimize or weaken his regime. Sorry, there are other ways to do that, And how dare our leaders in the West use these young men, these poor rural men in Ukraine to do their bidding as cannon fodder. It's absolutely evil.

Well, it's either Putin remains that the preference would be that Putin is gone. Joe Biden made that clear that speech in Poland the next month when Lloyd Austin said the goal is to degrade Putin's forces so that he can quote never do this again sort of and go so some paraphrasing, but it's dark close to the exact quote. So if we can't remove Putin in other words, this is the strategy. Biden can't and his team can't remove Putin, We're going to degrade his military to the point that he can't create any sort of military havoc ever. Again, Okay, let's just say that that is a strategy. Can we be honest about that, and can we talk about it? And if that's the strategy, then that would make some degree of sense that the Pentagon and Western leaders in Saint Brussels or Paris in France would be willing to sacrifice every single last Ukrainian man for that mission. Okay, let's be honest about that. And now let's ask the Ukrainian people. Are you Happyrea? Are you okay with us using you and your men as our puppets as our proxy fighters? Are you okay with that? Are we okay with sending five eight hundred thousand and one million Ukrainian men to their deaths? I mean, that's the conversation we need to have, and then we need to ask ourselves a question. Well, wait a minute, So Boutin's not a good guy. Obviously, he represents his own interests and he's a meglomaniac, got it. But that doesn't mean that we have to engage an endless war. There are other options, diplomatic options like the DMZ and putting the French in the Russian or the French, of the British troops in the DMZ, etc. So are there other ways to deal with Moscow other than a war where the vast majority of men are slaughtered? And this isn't some hyperbole, by the way. You know, in other wars, for instance, the Three Nation War down in South America back in the eighteen hundreds, ninety percent of Paraguayan men died in that war. So you can have a situation where something like that happens, where you're talking about ninety ninety five percent of all the men of Ukraine gone. God, all right, if you were a mom or a dad in Ukraine, that's kind of bad. You would want the world to talk about that. Second, if you look at the men right now that are serving versus the men in Ukraine who aren't serving, there's a very important difference. Who's the canon fodder in Ukraine right now? Well, the men you can forward about ten thousand dollars to get out of Ukraine to go into Poland, Germany, Romania, those are the rich men. So the men in Ukraine who are not fighting, they're the rich men. The poor men, whether it be in Kiev or mostly in the rural areas of Ukraine that cannot afford ten thousand dollars, so they get snatched by the Ukrainian police, thrown into a unit. And those are the guys who are the cannon fought. It's the poor and the rural, as we have seen countless times in our own country's history as well as all around the world, that who suffers. So this gets back then to the strategy we want to use Ukraine as our puppet to try to degrade Putin. Okay, we're starting to get into this very State Department Harvard Ivory Tower conversation about getting down our maps and our pens and redrawing the lines of Europe. That sounds all lovely like we've read in some sort of history book, but we're talking about lives, young men. You and I have talked about this, not just on your podcast but otherwise. You and I have gone through this walk in this country's journey of the global War on Terror. We know what it's like to have friends who die. We know what it's like to have friends who lose arms and legs. We know what it's like to have them come back in their mind scrambled. That happens set on our porches and talk about suicide. So we know what this cost looks like in a very real, in a very personal way. We're not sitting at State Department headquarters or UB at Harvard having a conversation about remap on the world. So that's what I think in this new administration when I pray, is that that somebody represents those voices irrespective of this big power play between Brussels and DC and Moscow and all that kind of stuff, that we remember a little bit of our humanity as we think about trying to find ways to engage in peace. That doesn't mean that we absolutely take war off the table. There is such a thing as righteous war, that's correct, But in this case, it's really important that we recognize in a war attrition, Ukraine's not going to win unless we send in troops. And are we willing to do that? No, we're not. So why would you send another generation eighteen to twenty five year old men in Ukraine to their deaths because we want to puppeteer these guys who we can take out, putin or minimize or weaken his regime. Sorry, there are other ways to do that, And how dare our leaders in the West use these young men, these poor rural men in Ukraine to do their bidding as cannon fodder. It's absolutely evil.

That's what I couldn't agree with you more. I really, there really is something that's deeply unsettling about, Yeah, We'll just get the Ukrainians to do our fighting for us. And listen, I've heard Republicans and Democrats heard Lindsay Graham say this, the Ukrainians are killing Russians for us, And I'm just like thinking to myself, I don't find that honorable. You know that they're going to get killed. Why are we advocating for it? Why are we It's just something about that just seems very dishonorable. And I think for President Trump and you talk about, you know, this next administration thinking a certain way. When he was asked by Caitlin Collins on CNN like are you what do you want to you want putin to win this war, He's like, I want people to stop dying. I thought that was the right answer.

That's what I couldn't agree with you more. I really, there really is something that's deeply unsettling about, Yeah, We'll just get the Ukrainians to do our fighting for us. And listen, I've heard Republicans and Democrats heard Lindsay Graham say this, the Ukrainians are killing Russians for us, And I'm just like thinking to myself, I don't find that honorable. You know that they're going to get killed. Why are we advocating for it? Why are we It's just something about that just seems very dishonorable. And I think for President Trump and you talk about, you know, this next administration thinking a certain way. When he was asked by Caitlin Collins on CNN like are you what do you want to you want putin to win this war, He's like, I want people to stop dying. I thought that was the right answer.

Yes, you know, yes, Look, one of the things that makes me a little bit concerned, and you and I talked about this, is that the new point person that mister Trump has chosen to try to resolve this issue in Ukraine is a man who historically has made this argument that we will win this war and we will be with Ukraine for as long as it takes, and we will degrade Putin and the Russian military. Well, who's the wee friend General Kellogg? I believe is his name. With all due respect to his tremendous service, he's a good man, no doubt. But again, these same three four star generals are also the ones who got us into a rock in Afghanistan in Ukraine obviously, and we have lost. So there should be some very tough questions asked of men like him. Despite the fact that they're very honorable, that does not mean that they can't be wrong. And so he has advocated a position that I think is very very troubling to me, and I sure hope that he brings a very different perspective than what the mister Kellogg. General Kellogg has said for years now, which is we're going to use these young Ukraine men for our sort of puppet fight against Putin. I think that that is absolutely the wrong way to go, and the State Department under Makro Rubio has a much much better chance of resolving this issue. This needs to be solved with the diplomats, not with the barrel of a gun, not this one, not this fight.

Yes, you know, yes, Look, one of the things that makes me a little bit concerned, and you and I talked about this, is that the new point person that mister Trump has chosen to try to resolve this issue in Ukraine is a man who historically has made this argument that we will win this war and we will be with Ukraine for as long as it takes, and we will degrade Putin and the Russian military. Well, who's the wee friend General Kellogg? I believe is his name. With all due respect to his tremendous service, he's a good man, no doubt. But again, these same three four star generals are also the ones who got us into a rock in Afghanistan in Ukraine obviously, and we have lost. So there should be some very tough questions asked of men like him. Despite the fact that they're very honorable, that does not mean that they can't be wrong. And so he has advocated a position that I think is very very troubling to me, and I sure hope that he brings a very different perspective than what the mister Kellogg. General Kellogg has said for years now, which is we're going to use these young Ukraine men for our sort of puppet fight against Putin. I think that that is absolutely the wrong way to go, and the State Department under Makro Rubio has a much much better chance of resolving this issue. This needs to be solved with the diplomats, not with the barrel of a gun, not this one, not this fight.

I couldn't agree more. Can you stay right there? Can I take a quick break and come back talk about the Great Reset and the history of that and why I why you know? I you definitely at least I don't want to speak for you, but I think it's kind of on the ropes and they're afraid. Do you do you kind of agree?

I couldn't agree more. Can you stay right there? Can I take a quick break and come back talk about the Great Reset and the history of that and why I why you know? I you definitely at least I don't want to speak for you, but I think it's kind of on the ropes and they're afraid. Do you do you kind of agree?

Yes, sir?

Yes, sir?

All right, so stay right there. We'll be back with Brian Dean Wright. Back with Brian Dean Wright. Welcome back, my friend, host of the Right Report. Former CIA operations officer Brian the British Prime Minister came out today and said something that was kind of crazy and and what I mean by crazy is not in keeping with their ideological worldview. In fact, what he said today was the opposite of what people like him have been saying for a very long time. And anytime these globalists come out and say something that shocks me a little bit, that sounds like something Trump could have said to me, I immediately am suspicious and think that there's an agenda behind it. And so I want, I want to listen to this sound by it of the British Prime Minister and then get your thoughts on all of this.

All right, so stay right there. We'll be back with Brian Dean Wright. Back with Brian Dean Wright. Welcome back, my friend, host of the Right Report. Former CIA operations officer Brian the British Prime Minister came out today and said something that was kind of crazy and and what I mean by crazy is not in keeping with their ideological worldview. In fact, what he said today was the opposite of what people like him have been saying for a very long time. And anytime these globalists come out and say something that shocks me a little bit, that sounds like something Trump could have said to me, I immediately am suspicious and think that there's an agenda behind it. And so I want, I want to listen to this sound by it of the British Prime Minister and then get your thoughts on all of this.

What the British people are owed is an explanation, because a failure on this scale isn't just bad luck. It isn't a global trend or taking your eye off the ball. No, this is a different order of failure. This happened by design, not accident. Policies were reformed deliberately to liberalize immigration. Brexit was used for that purpose, to turn Britain into a one nation experiment in open borders global Britain.

What the British people are owed is an explanation, because a failure on this scale isn't just bad luck. It isn't a global trend or taking your eye off the ball. No, this is a different order of failure. This happened by design, not accident. Policies were reformed deliberately to liberalize immigration. Brexit was used for that purpose, to turn Britain into a one nation experiment in open borders global Britain.

Remember that slogan.

Remember that slogan.

That is what they meant, a policy with no support of which they then pretended wasn't happening.

That is what they meant, a policy with no support of which they then pretended wasn't happening.

I mean, it sounds a lot like President Trump. But this guy does not believe the same things that President Trump believes. And it's interesting that he says this now knowing that President Trump's going to be back in office in a couple of months.

I mean, it sounds a lot like President Trump. But this guy does not believe the same things that President Trump believes. And it's interesting that he says this now knowing that President Trump's going to be back in office in a couple of months.

Well, let's start with this. So we know that this gentleman is a lifelong socialist, and I mean lifelong Marxist. When he was eighteen through about twenty five, he was an editor for a Marxist magazine a couple of years ago. He was interviewed and he was asked if he was still a socialist, and he said yes. So let's start with this. So when we hear socialists talk about how open borders are bad, you're absolutely right to say, well, that's shocking, that's very surprising, that's not what they believe, because they don't. Marxists believe in open borders. So just make sure that we're all tracking on this. Marxists make the argument that human labor people should be able to go across borders at will because capital business owners do it all the time, So in order to make that more equitable, we should have open borders. That is the Marxist foundational position. So this man has been a Marxist entire life, and not just kind of like he thought about it in college. Right, He wasn't just experimenting. This guy was straight up Marxist. So for him to now say that one of the foundational beliefs of a Marxist, he no longer believes that, And he's in fact blaming open borders on the conservatives, who have long advocated for not having open borders, for actually having a strong Britain. In fact, in the UK, the previous prime minister, the Conservative Prime minister, was trying to ship these illegals that come across the channel to Rwanda. That was his plan because he was boxed in by European rules, by British rules, and so he was thinking about, you know, dumping these people off in Rwanda. So he's changing. So that's really important for us to think about a b This is the same guy who sent some of his staffers to help Kamala Harris win this last election. They failed. So wait a minute. Kamala Harris was not talking about open borders for the last four years. He did for the last for the last couple of months. So what is then that's changed. What does that suggest is happening? Well, we definitely should take this moment of surprise to pause. You were absolutely correct to say that there's something very very alarming going on here when a Marxist says, hey, open borders are bad. So this is when it's important to take a step back, and I do try to do this on my podcast. I know you and I have talked about this on your podcast as well. If you look at what's been happening over the past five years, and you compare that to say, thirty forty years ago, it's a very very different kind of Europe. So here's what I mean. Thirty four years ago, as the Cold War was coming to a conclusion, and then it came to a conclusion, we had a lot of people start to on the left start to percolate back up into power throughout the European continent. These were Marxist socialists, avowed obvious ones, so they weren't hiding it anymore. So that then translated to all kinds of things, so like much more social spending, much less dramatic, or much less spending on defense, much more you know, in many cases of open borders. And part of that was due to what the World Economic Forum guys like who had that up, lau Schwab and others. They argue that look, post Cold War, in post Second World War, capitalism just didn't really work out. There's too much inequity in the world, and so we need to sort of reimagine. They would say capitalism, and they call it stakeholder capitalism. All right, well, what does that really mean. What it means is socialism and Marxism. But like the socialists here in the United States who have openly said, look, anytime socialism has been tried around the world, it's failed. Status regimes have ruled in our name, So we can't so we can't say.

Well, let's start with this. So we know that this gentleman is a lifelong socialist, and I mean lifelong Marxist. When he was eighteen through about twenty five, he was an editor for a Marxist magazine a couple of years ago. He was interviewed and he was asked if he was still a socialist, and he said yes. So let's start with this. So when we hear socialists talk about how open borders are bad, you're absolutely right to say, well, that's shocking, that's very surprising, that's not what they believe, because they don't. Marxists believe in open borders. So just make sure that we're all tracking on this. Marxists make the argument that human labor people should be able to go across borders at will because capital business owners do it all the time, So in order to make that more equitable, we should have open borders. That is the Marxist foundational position. So this man has been a Marxist entire life, and not just kind of like he thought about it in college. Right, He wasn't just experimenting. This guy was straight up Marxist. So for him to now say that one of the foundational beliefs of a Marxist, he no longer believes that, And he's in fact blaming open borders on the conservatives, who have long advocated for not having open borders, for actually having a strong Britain. In fact, in the UK, the previous prime minister, the Conservative Prime minister, was trying to ship these illegals that come across the channel to Rwanda. That was his plan because he was boxed in by European rules, by British rules, and so he was thinking about, you know, dumping these people off in Rwanda. So he's changing. So that's really important for us to think about a b This is the same guy who sent some of his staffers to help Kamala Harris win this last election. They failed. So wait a minute. Kamala Harris was not talking about open borders for the last four years. He did for the last for the last couple of months. So what is then that's changed. What does that suggest is happening? Well, we definitely should take this moment of surprise to pause. You were absolutely correct to say that there's something very very alarming going on here when a Marxist says, hey, open borders are bad. So this is when it's important to take a step back, and I do try to do this on my podcast. I know you and I have talked about this on your podcast as well. If you look at what's been happening over the past five years, and you compare that to say, thirty forty years ago, it's a very very different kind of Europe. So here's what I mean. Thirty four years ago, as the Cold War was coming to a conclusion, and then it came to a conclusion, we had a lot of people start to on the left start to percolate back up into power throughout the European continent. These were Marxist socialists, avowed obvious ones, so they weren't hiding it anymore. So that then translated to all kinds of things, so like much more social spending, much less dramatic, or much less spending on defense, much more you know, in many cases of open borders. And part of that was due to what the World Economic Forum guys like who had that up, lau Schwab and others. They argue that look, post Cold War, in post Second World War, capitalism just didn't really work out. There's too much inequity in the world, and so we need to sort of reimagine. They would say capitalism, and they call it stakeholder capitalism. All right, well, what does that really mean. What it means is socialism and Marxism. But like the socialists here in the United States who have openly said, look, anytime socialism has been tried around the world, it's failed. Status regimes have ruled in our name, So we can't so we can't say.

How the hell do you know all of this? This is insane.

How the hell do you know all of this? This is insane.

So I wrote about this years ago when I was still a Democrat, because I was trying to warn my party at the time, we are letting this this radicalized leftist route, which is evil. One hundred and sixty eight plus million people I've died because of this ideology. Jack Kennedy and others knocked this stuff out of our party. It's coming back. We got to do something about it. And at the time I'm like Pelosi, knock it off. You know, blue dogs, where are you? Well we all see where that went. The point is this, socialists in this country know that the regimes around the world have tried socialism have failed, whether it be social or Marxism, whatever in between. So over the past thirty years, socialists and these reformed capitalists have said, look, we're going to ditch the old ways that we've done things. We need to reimagine the ways that we do it. We can't call it socialism. So we got to call it stakehold older capitalism. And a part of that, though, is still going to hold tight to certain socialists from Marxist tenants, one of them being open borders. And that's what you've seen throughout Europe now for thirty plus years. Sweden was one of the first, but we've seen it in places like Germany on Goola Merkel, while not necessarily a socialist, certainly embraced this reforming of capitalism. That's why she opened up her borders to one plus million Syrian and other North African and Middle Eastern migrants. Words are now trying to destroy that country. But we see this all over the place, from the UK to Ireland, to Spain, Portugal, Italy, on and on this goes. So that has been the experiment changing Europe to make it less what it was in the Cold War and more like the Claud Schwab version of this reformed capitalism which is just Marxism. Well as it trains out a great reset, the Great Reset, yes they called it the Great Reset. They want to reset capitalism and create and creates a sort of this reformed capitalism, the stakeholder capitalism. Interesting, so this is not a conspiracy. The World Economic Forum has talked a lot about it. Klaus Schwab has talked a lot about it, and that's his fundamental belief is the capitalism has just destroyed too many lives, it has made too many people poor, it has destroyed the environment, and it has caused global warming or global climate change. And so that is the foundational argument by a Marxist, although I think we could probably make the argument they don't really believe in all that stuff. They probably don't really believe in climate change. They just use it as a pretext to create this Marxist regime. But anyway, that's a whole different story. The bottom line is this my man. So this change then has been taken off in Europe, hasn't it. I mean, Europe forty thirty years ago does not look like the Europe today. And that happens to make a lot of Europeans very angry, very angry. It's what we've seen over the past five years is from Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Spain, Portugal, the UK, Ireland, all of these nations and more have started to swing to the right much more conservative. And of course the reaction by the media in Europe and the United States is, oh, there, those are not says, those are the radical rights all.