[000.00-003.68] I keep asking you five times. Do I have time to tell the Zelensky story? Sure.
[003.68-007.84] Because it's another one. It's just, you know, what is Zelensky in America? He's a hero.
[007.84-012.16] He's a real warrior. He's got that nice green, you know, warrior suit on.
[012.16-016.40] And here's the truth. And people know parts of this story, but they don't know it in its
[016.40-021.76] cleanest narrative. So he was a totally apolitical. He was an outsider to politics.
[021.76-024.96] Zero experience or interest in government or politics. He was a comedian.
[025.60-029.36] And with no manifesto, no party ties. And he does a TV show.
[030.00-036.64] A planned TV show called Servant of the People. And the main character in the show does a YouTube
[036.64-042.00] video that calls out oligarchs and corruption and eventually becomes popular and is drafted as
[042.00-048.64] a protest candidate and eventually becomes president. So Zelensky played on a TV show, a person
[048.64-056.16] who becomes president by popular demand. In real life, the TV show is supported by an oligarch named
[056.24-063.04] Colomoisky, who owned the TV channel. And Colomoisky did a huge non-stop promo on that
[063.04-068.56] TV show to make it the number one show. Primetime slots and ads everywhere and crossovers with
[068.56-076.48] the news and what have you. 2018, a year before the show goes off the air. Zelensky forms a political
[076.48-084.88] party called Servant of the People. The same title as the show. And in no press release, secretly done
[085.44-091.44] and then he does another season of the show. And in April of 2019, he announces his actual
[091.44-099.04] candidacy on Instagram. He has no campaign, no rallies, no real platform. He skips the presidential
[099.04-104.48] debates, others attended. He avoids press conferences and the few that he did were in the
[104.48-110.96] beginning were really bad. And Colomoisky's TV channel gave Zelensky's campaign endless
[111.36-119.44] airtime. And favorable polls and went after his enemies. The US intelligence agency CIA and NSA
[119.44-127.76] helped US spending $5 billion, by the way, on democracy campaigns in Ukraine, funneled through
[127.76-136.16] NGOs. And USAID embeds advisors in his organization to help with the campaign. I'm almost done.
[136.16-144.56] And on Election Day, Zelensky wins with 73% of the vote. And then the war happens with Russia.
[144.56-150.32] And he declares martial law and he ends elections. I suppose to be election in 2024. That's what we
[150.32-156.48] get for our democracy money. And quite literally, he is an actor in a carefully designed television
[156.48-163.92] show. He is a construct, like Epstein is a construct, meaning he's a created entity. And it worked.
[164.88-172.08] That is Zelensky American hero. I guess his star is maybe fading a little bit now. I don't
[172.08-175.92] know what do you think. Is he still wildly popular in America? Well, I think people are very
[175.92-181.20] disappointed by the fact that the war's continued to go on and the deaths, the amount of deaths.
[182.00-188.96] I mean, people are horrified by it. And that's a big failure of the promises of the Trump
[188.96-193.92] administration to because Trump famously said that he would get it done in 24 hours. You can't
[193.92-200.32] get it done at all. Yeah, it's tough. And they're conscripting 60-year-old men. They're setting
[200.32-205.36] them to the front line. And Americans and people from all over the world to go and fight.
[206.72-211.12] But the narrative, I think, you know, your very first question was do people do this on purpose?
[212.08-218.16] Things like this, like wars that are multi-billion dollar events, they are not organic.
[218.72-224.64] They do not just happen. You know, Putin does not just decide one day, hey, I got an idea
[225.36-231.28] you know, and to go into a part of Ukraine where they're Russian speakers, they're culturally Russian.
[231.84-238.64] And it is not, they are not organic events. It's not how people get into power in many countries
[238.64-243.04] around the world. Well, the crazy thing is the narrative that the soldiers in Russia were being
[243.04-248.08] told that this was going to be over very quickly. They're going to be welcomed. And then, you know,
[248.08-253.12] they had dress uniforms in their packs. Yeah, they thought it was going to be a couple of days.
[253.12-260.24] Storm in, storm out. You're a hero. Yeah, we were told that in Iraq that we will be, you know,
[260.24-266.16] welcomed in Iraq as soon as we get to Baghdad. So what do you think the Ukraine thing is really
[266.16-271.92] all about? Well, why limited to Ukraine? Just talk about human war. I mean, what is human war
[272.08-280.56] is about. It's about primacy and control and wealth. And you know, a thousand years ago, there's
[280.56-285.28] about a thousand what you would call government systems, right? There's warlords and there's
[285.28-291.04] shogans in Japan. And there's all these little entities. In our lifetime, it's down to 190.
[291.60-297.52] But is it really 190? It's more like five, right? NATO and China and the Soviet
[297.52-302.08] bloc when it existed and the oil producing countries. In other words, it's getting to be whatever
[302.08-305.76] number you want to make it. But eventually it'll be two fuckers sitting in a room and then they
[305.76-311.76] got to kill each other. Right. And then, you know, that is the decay of empire. And we are, you know,
[311.76-319.36] we have 760 military bases overseas.