russia-insider--2020-05-22--Brain Drain: Many Wildly Successful Russian IT Entrepreneurs Move Their Companies to Europe - a List

Like in other countries , there is no lack of entrepreneurial , ambitious and creative people in Russia .
However , starting a business in Russia has certain national peculiarities and limitations .
Some founders with scalable ideas prefer to move to Europe to start or grow their business .
The reasons for this choice include easier access to European and global markets , better investment opportunities , a larger high-skilled talent pool and others .
This article is a snapshot of 10 among many other successful young companies around Europe founded in last 5 years by people with a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ founded in 2017 in Estonia by Russian duo Gleb Markov and Vladimir Gorbunov .
This pair hail from Moscow and decided to startup in Tallinn due to its proximity to the rest of Eastern Europe .
Crypterium is a cryptobank which offers a mobile app allowing instant payments in cryptocurrency .
In 2019 they launched Bitcoin card – the first global crypto card that enables users to spend their favourite cryptocurrency on the go , around the world .
The startup closed an ICO ( initial coin offering ) of €47.5 million in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to 65+ people .
Endel – Founded in Germany in 2018 by Oleg Stravitsky ( Moscow , Russia ) and Kirill Bulatsev ( Kiev , Ukraine ) , Endel developed a cross-platform audio ecosystem that creates personalised , sound-based adaptive environments to improve health , well-being , and mood .
The company launched as the brainchild of a Berlin-based team of artists , developers , and entrepreneurs and so far , has raised a €1 million seed investment .
Backed by Amazon ’ s Alexa Fund , Kima Ventures and world-famous DJ La @ @ @ @ @ @ @ graduated from the Techstars Music Accelerator , signed a distribution deal with Warner Music Group and got nominated for The Webby Awards , the leading international award honouring excellence on the Internet .
Humaniq – Humaniq is a secure mobile bank which aims to eradicate poverty with the use of blockchain technology .
The startup provides next-generation financial services focusing on worldwide financial inclusion .
The company was founded in 2016 by Alex Fork , one of the most important members of the international Blockchain community who has previously worked with the UN @ @ @ @ @ @ @ founded the fintech startup accelerator in Russia .
Headquartered in London , Humaniq closed an ICO of €4.5 million in 2017 and has over 85 employees in different international locations .
Revolut – Founded in 2015 by Nik Storonsky and Vlad Yatsenko , Revolut is one of Europe ’ s top unicorns that specializes in mobile banking , card payments , money remittance , and foreign exchange .
Revolut was launched as a digital alternative to traditional banks and claims to have successfully handled more than 350 million transactions for more than 10 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ €460 million series D investment in February 2020 making it one of the highest valued fintechs currently in the world .
By now , Revolut has expanded to 2000+ team members in 23 offices .
Kewazo – German robotech startup Kewazo recently closed a seed funding round of €2.5 million for its scaffolding robot and the management team expansion .
Founded in 2016 by the international team including Artem Kuchukov and Ekaterina Grib , Kewazo develops smart robotic elevators for industrial and construction sites .
Alongside with a robotic system , the Munich-based @ @ @ @ @ @ @ platform which facilitates better controlling , planning and suggestions for process optimization in painting work , roof work , facades , insulation work , etc .
Compass Pathways – Founded by husband and wife team Ekaterina Malievskaia and George Goldsmith , Compass Pathways is a mental health care company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health .
Founded in 2016 , the UK startup secured a Series B investment round of €73.1 million in April 2020 with the goal to expand its programme for psilocybin therapy for treatment-resistant depression @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also plans to continue developing digital technologies and advancing the company ’ s preclinical pipeline .
Marine Digital – Marine Digital ’ s Russian founders left their home country to set up the startup in Riga , Latvia in 2019 .
The company offers a warehouse management system for bulk terminals and a system for port call automation which helps to automate cargo acceptance and handing and to exchange data with the supply chain participants .
In August 2019 , the startup announced a pilot project with the Riga-based logistics and stevedore service @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its turn , arouse interest from some of the largest ports in Europe , including Hamburg and Rotterdam .
The same year Marine Digital closed €100K funding from angel investor and opened an additional office in the Netherlands .
iFarm – Driven by the mission to empower everyone to grow their own healthy food in a sustainable way , iFarm offers automated vertical farms .
Founded in 2017 by Russian team Alexander Lyskovsky , Konstantin Ulyanov and Maxim Chizhov , this Finnish startup has developed automated and modular greenhouses which can be set @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , at home or in a country house .
With its innovative technology , iFarm has won a Nordic Startup Award and secured an approximate €914K investment in early 2019 to further develop their technologies , expand the team and pilot their product in the European market .
Novakid – This Polish edtech startup was founded in 2017 by Maxim Azarov , Russian entrepreneur from Moscow .
Based in Krakow , NovaKid is an online English language school that allows children aged 4-12 to learn English with native-speaking teachers .
Its online classes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reality and gamification technologies .
Currently , Novakid provides services to pupils from 36 countries , including Poland , Russia , Spain , Germany and Turkey .
In January 2020 , the team raised €1.3 million seed investment to expand the platform online .
Anna – Anna – whose name stands for ‘ Absolutely No Nonsense Admin ’ – is a Welsh startup founded in 2017 by a ( mainly ) Russian team .
Anna offers a mobile business account for freelancers and small businesses which can be opened in 3 minutes and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ payments on the app .
With multiple perks for the users , the startup has been on a roll winning numerous awards like the Finovate Awards , the Cards and Payments Awards , the 11fs Marketing Award and the FSTech Awards .
Last week , Anna joined forces with ABH Holdings SA ( ABHH ) , who are taking a majority stake and investing over €19.7 million into the company .
By the way : If you ’ re a corporate or investor looking for exciting startups in a specific market for a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our Startup Sourcing Service !

Like in other countries, there is no lack of entrepreneurial, ambitious and creative people in Russia. However, starting a business in Russia has certain national peculiarities and limitations. Some founders with scalable ideas prefer to move to Europe to start or grow their business. The reasons for this choice include easier access to European and global markets, better investment opportunities, a larger high-skilled talent pool and others. This article is a snapshot of 10 among many other successful young companies around Europe founded in last 5 years by people with a Russian background.
Crypterium – Crypterium was founded in 2017 in Estonia by Russian duo Gleb Markov and Vladimir Gorbunov. This pair hail from Moscow and decided to startup in Tallinn due to its proximity to the rest of Eastern Europe. Crypterium is a cryptobank which offers a mobile app allowing instant payments in cryptocurrency. In 2019 they launched Bitcoin card – the first global crypto card that enables users to spend their favourite cryptocurrency on the go, around the world. The startup closed an ICO (initial coin offering) of €47.5 million in 2017 and has since grown its team to 65+ people.
Endel – Founded in Germany in 2018 by Oleg Stravitsky (Moscow, Russia) and Kirill Bulatsev (Kiev, Ukraine), Endel developed a cross-platform audio ecosystem that creates personalised, sound-based adaptive environments to improve health, well-being, and mood. The company launched as the brainchild of a Berlin-based team of artists, developers, and entrepreneurs and so far, has raised a €1 million seed investment. Backed by Amazon’s Alexa Fund, Kima Ventures and world-famous DJ La Fleur, the German startup has already graduated from the Techstars Music Accelerator, signed a distribution deal with Warner Music Group and got nominated for The Webby Awards, the leading international award honouring excellence on the Internet.
Humaniq – Humaniq is a secure mobile bank which aims to eradicate poverty with the use of blockchain technology. The startup provides next-generation financial services focusing on worldwide financial inclusion. The company was founded in 2016 by Alex Fork, one of the most important members of the international Blockchain community who has previously worked with the UN, spearheaded the harnessing of blockchains and founded the fintech startup accelerator in Russia. Headquartered in London, Humaniq closed an ICO of €4.5 million in 2017 and has over 85 employees in different international locations.
Revolut – Founded in 2015 by Nik Storonsky and Vlad Yatsenko, Revolut is one of Europe’s top unicorns that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange. Revolut was launched as a digital alternative to traditional banks and claims to have successfully handled more than 350 million transactions for more than 10 million customers. This London-based startup raised €460 million series D investment in February 2020 making it one of the highest valued fintechs currently in the world. By now, Revolut has expanded to 2000+ team members in 23 offices.
Kewazo – German robotech startup Kewazo recently closed a seed funding round of €2.5 million for its scaffolding robot and the management team expansion. Founded in 2016 by the international team including Artem Kuchukov and Ekaterina Grib, Kewazo develops smart robotic elevators for industrial and construction sites. Alongside with a robotic system, the Munich-based startup provides its customers with a data-analytics platform which facilitates better controlling, planning and suggestions for process optimization in painting work, roof work, facades, insulation work, etc.
Compass Pathways – Founded by husband and wife team Ekaterina Malievskaia and George Goldsmith, Compass Pathways is a mental health care company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health. Founded in 2016, the UK startup secured a Series B investment round of €73.1 million in April 2020 with the goal to expand its programme for psilocybin therapy for treatment-resistant depression across Europe and North America. It also plans to continue developing digital technologies and advancing the company’s preclinical pipeline.
Marine Digital – Marine Digital’s Russian founders left their home country to set up the startup in Riga, Latvia in 2019. The company offers a warehouse management system for bulk terminals and a system for port call automation which helps to automate cargo acceptance and handing and to exchange data with the supply chain participants. In August 2019, the startup announced a pilot project with the Riga-based logistics and stevedore service provider Port Magnat Group which, in its turn, arouse interest from some of the largest ports in Europe, including Hamburg and Rotterdam. The same year Marine Digital closed €100K funding from angel investor and opened an additional office in the Netherlands.
iFarm – Driven by the mission to empower everyone to grow their own healthy food in a sustainable way, iFarm offers automated vertical farms. Founded in 2017 by Russian team Alexander Lyskovsky, Konstantin Ulyanov and Maxim Chizhov, this Finnish startup has developed automated and modular greenhouses which can be set in a store, restaurant, warehouse, at home or in a country house. With its innovative technology, iFarm has won a Nordic Startup Award and secured an approximate €914K investment in early 2019 to further develop their technologies, expand the team and pilot their product in the European market.
Novakid – This Polish edtech startup was founded in 2017 by Maxim Azarov, Russian entrepreneur from Moscow. Based in Krakow, NovaKid is an online English language school that allows children aged 4-12 to learn English with native-speaking teachers. Its online classes are made fun with help of virtual reality and gamification technologies. Currently, Novakid provides services to pupils from 36 countries, including Poland, Russia, Spain, Germany and Turkey. In January 2020, the team raised €1.3 million seed investment to expand the platform online.
Anna – Anna – whose name stands for ‘Absolutely No Nonsense Admin’ – is a Welsh startup founded in 2017 by a (mainly) Russian team. Anna offers a mobile business account for freelancers and small businesses which can be opened in 3 minutes and allows to track all the transactions and payments on the app. With multiple perks for the users, the startup has been on a roll winning numerous awards like the Finovate Awards, the Cards and Payments Awards, the 11fs Marketing Award and the FSTech Awards. Last week, Anna joined forces with ABH Holdings SA (ABHH), who are taking a majority stake and investing over €19.7 million into the company.
By the way: If you’re a corporate or investor looking for exciting startups in a specific market for a potential investment or acquisition, check out our Startup Sourcing Service!


russia-insider--2020-05-22--Trump Is Risking Starting a War with Iran and Venezuela Simultaneously

Amidst the worldwide pandemic induced scare most of us have probably lost track of all the other potential dangers which still threaten international peace and stability .
Allow me to list just a few headlines which , I strongly believe , deserve much more attention than what they got so far .
Here we go : • : “ 5 Iranian Tankers Head to Venezuela Amid Heightened Tensions Between U.S. and Tehran “ • : “ Iran tankers sailing to Venezuela in effort to undermine US sanctions “ Notice that Military Times speaks of “ US pressure tactics ” , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of “ efforts to undermined US sanctions ” ?
I don ’ t think that this is a coincidence .
Folks in the US military are much more in touch with reality than the flag-waving prostitutes which some people call “ reporters ” or “ journalists ” .
Furthermore , the US has embarked on a new policy to justify its acts of piracy on the high seas with something called Visit , Board , Search and Seizure ( ) all under the pretext of the war on drugs .
To get a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ developments I asked a specialist of Maritime issues of our community , NatSouth , who replied the following : ( stress added ) If a ship does not comply with the request to be boarded , it is usual that the pursuing authorities must gain the permission of the ‘ flag ’ state prior to boarding , on the high seas and the pursuit has to have started in the coastal state ’ s jurisdictional waters .
The caveat here is that in the Caribbean – Caribbean Regional Maritime Agreement ( CRA ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Co-operation in Suppressing Illicit Maritime and Air Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances in the Caribbean Area ) .
So , there is an agreement with participating coastal states on boardings and pursuits in EEZs and the like .
You can find more on the legal aspects of boardings at sea here : https : //scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi ?
article=2344 & context=hlr and more info on so-called “ consensual boardings ” here : https : //www.lawteacher.net/free-law-essays/international-law/the-legal-implications-of-consensual-boarding-international-law-essay.php The anti-drug/ counterterrorism angle allows the U.S. Navy and the USCG to carry out interdictions on the high @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this approach will be taken to interdict the tankers , given that Venezuela is a declared narco-State .
The absurdity is that Venezuela isn ’ t the primary transit point in the region , Colombia holds that honour .
https : //orinocotribune.com/narco-state-the-report-that-leaves-venezuela-on-the-sidelines-of-the-cocaine-route/ If I could add at this point , the origins are that Venezuela didn ’ t wish to play ball with Washington anymore , specifically with the DEA back in 2005 , squaring the circle of sorts , ( or should that be a vicious circle cunningly used by Washington , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that narrative , aka the war on terror ) .
March : SOUTHCOM ’ s Adm. Faller : “ There will be an increase in US military presence in the hemisphere later this year .
This will include an enhanced presence of ships , aircraft , & security forces to reassure our partners… & counter a range of threats to include illicit narco-terrorism.
” At the same time , the State dept released this https : //twitter.com/StateDept/status/1260988270302777350so the US could effectively carry out boardings under the guise of counterterrorism as well .
While @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Washington released a ( delayed ) “ Global Maritime Sanctions Advisory ” , to the maritime industry , setting out guidelines to shipowners and insurers to enable them to avoid the risks of sanctions penalties related to North Korea , Syria and Iran .
This also concerns oil exports from Iran , ( but doesn ’ t apply to Iranian flagged ships ) .
This came after the State Dept gave warning notice to oil companies to stop operations , including Rosneft ( Russia ) , Reliance ( India ) and Repsol @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the following : What the US is doing is substituting itself for the United Nations and it is now openly claiming the right to board any vessel under whatever kind of pious pretext like , say , narco-trafficing , nuclear proliferation , sanctions against so-called “ rogue states ” , etc .
Clearly , the AngloZionists expect everybody to roll over and take it .
How likely is that ?
Let ’ s look at a few Iranian headlines , all from PressTV : • : “ Iran ’ s fuel shipment to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ • : “ Iran : US bears responsibility for any foolish act against tankers heading to Venezuela “ Three days in a row .
I think that it is fair to assume that the Iranians are trying very hard to convince Uncle Shmuel not to mess with these tankers .
Does anybody seriously believe that the Iranians are bluffing ?
Before we look at some of the aspects of this potential crisis , let ’ s just mention a few things here .
First , the US is acting in total and official @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Syria , the threats to Iran , or the US murderous sanctions Uncle Shmuel imposes left and right – the blockade of Venezuela is a ) totally illegal and b ) an act of war under international law .
Second , if USN commanders think they can operate with impunity only because the Caribbean is far away from Iran , they are kidding themselves .
Yes , Iranian forces can not defend these tankers so far away from home , nor can they take any action against the USN in the Atlantic-Caribbean theater @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can and will do is retaliate against any AngloZionist target in the Middle-East , including any oil/gas tanker .
Third , while Venezuela ’ s military is tiny and weak compared to the immensely expensive and bloated US military , being immensely expensive and bloated is no guarantee of success .
In fact , and depending on how the Venezuelan leadership perceives its options , there could be some very real risk for the US in any attempt to interfere with the free passage of these ships .
What do I mean by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had four squadrons of for a total of 22 aircraft ?
Did you know that Venezuela also had an unknown number of ?
And did you know that Venezuela had a number of and long range and medium range SAMs ?
True , that is nowhere near the amount of weapons systems Venezuela would need to withstand a determined US attack , but it is more than enough to create some real headaches for US planners .
Do you remember what the Argentinian Air Force did to the British Navy during the Malvinas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sink two Type 42 guided missile destroyers ( the HMS Sheffield and the HMS Coventry ) which were providing long-range radar and medium-high altitude missile picket for the British carriers , they also destroyed 2 frigates , 1 landing ship , 1 landing craft , 1 container ship .
Frankly , considering how poorly defended the British carriers were , it is only luck which saved them from destruction ( that , and the lack of sufficient number of Super Étendard strike aircraft and Exocet missiles ) .
I would add here that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on many occasions , has learned the painful lessons of their past defeats and does not suffer from the cocky-sure attitude of the US military .
As a result , they were very careful during the war against Argentina and that caution was one of the factors which gave a Britain well-deserved the victory ( I mean that in military terms in moral terms this was just another imperialist war with all the evil that entails ) .
Had the Argentinians had a modern air force and enough anti-shipping missiles , the war @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Returning to the topic of Venezuela , war is a much more complex phenomenon than just a struggle of military forces .
In fact , I strongly believe that political factors will remain the single most important determinant factor of most wars , even in the 21st century .
And chances are that the Venezuelans , being the militarily weaker side , will look to political factors to prevail .
Here is one possible scenario among many other possible ones : Caracas decides that the US seizing/attacking the Iranian tankers constitutes an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ action goes unchallenged , then the US will totally “ strangle ” Venezuela .
Of course , the Venezuelan military can not take on the immense US military , but what they could do is force a US intervention , say by attacking one/several USN vessel ( s ) .
Such an attack , if even only partially successful , would force the US to retaliate , bringing US forces closer not only to Venezuelan air defenses , but also closer to the Venezuelan people which will see any US retaliation as an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ counter-attack .
Then there is the problem of defining victory .
In the US political “ culture ” winning is usually defined as pressing a few buttons to fire off some standoff weapons , kill lots of civilians , and then declare that the “ indispensable nation ” has “ kicked the other guy ’ s ass ” .
The problem with that is the following one : if they other guy is very visibly weaker and has no chance for a military victory of his own , then the best option for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is winning ” – meaning that if Maduro stays in power , then Venezuela as won .
How would the US cope with that kind of narrative ?
Keep in mind that Caracas is a city of over two million people which even in peacetime is rather dangerous ( courtesy of both regular crime and potential guerilla activities ) .
Yet , for Maduro to “ win ” all he has to show is that he controls Caracas .
Keep in mind that even if the US forces succeed in creating some kind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ somewhere near the Colombian border , that will mean nothing to Maduro , especially considering the terrain between the border and the capital city ( please check out this or this ) .
As for the notion of a USN landing on the shores of Venezuela , all we need to do is to remember how the immense Hodgepodge of units which were tasked with invading Grenada ( including 2 Ranger Battalions , Navy Seals , most of an Airborne Division , etc .
for a total of over 7,000 soldiers ( !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ expected to be invaded ( for details , and a good laugh , see here for a ! )
was defeated by the waves of the Caribbean and the few Cuban military engineers who resisted with small-arms fire ( eventually , most of the 82AB was calling in to fix this mess ) .
In other words , if Maduro remains in power in Caracas then , in political terms , Venezuela wins even though it would lose in purely military terms .
This phenomenon is hardly something new , as shown by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Minh : “ You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours .
But even at those odds , you will lose and I will win.
” By the way , this is exactly the same problem the Empire faces with Iran : as long as the Islamic Republic remains an Islamic Republic it “ wins ” in any exchange of strikes with the US and/or Israel .
Still , it is pretty obvious that the US can turn much of Venezuela into a smoking heap of ruins @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what the US did to Korea , Vietnam , Iraq or Serbia and Israel what did to Lebanon in 2006 ) .
But that would hardly constitute a “ victory ” in any imaginable sense of the word .
Again , in theory , the US might be able to secure a number of landing locations and then send in an intervention force which could try to take key locations in Caracas .
But what would happen after that ?
Not only would the hardcore Chavistas trigger a guerilla insurrection which would be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ last time the US prevailed in a counter-insurgency war ? )
, but many Venezuelans would expect the US to pay for reconstruction ( and they would be right , according to the rules of international law , “ once you take it , you own it ” meaning that the US would become responsible for the socio-economic situation of the country ) .
Finally , there is always the option of an anti-leadership “ decapitating ” strike of some kind .
I believe that in purely military terms , the US has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I do not believe that this option would secure anything for the US , instead – it would further destabilize the situation and would trigger some kind of reaction by the Venezuelan military both outside and inside Venezuela .
If anything , the repeated failures of the various coup attempts against Chavez and Maduro prove that the the bulk of the military remains firmly behind the Chavistas ( and the failed coup only served to unmask the traitors and replace them anyway ! )
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The bottom line is this : if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tankers , there is not only a quasi certitude of a war between the US and Iran ( or , at the very least , an exchange of strikes ) , but there is also a non-trivial possibility that Maduro and his government might actually decide to provoke the US into a war they really can ’ t win .
Is Trump capable of starting a process which will result in not one , but two wars ?
You betcha he is !
A guy who thinks in categories like “ my button @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” obviously understands exactly *nothing* about warfare , while the climate of messianic narcissism prevailing among the US ruling classes gives them a sense of total impunity .
Let ’ s hope that cooler heads , possibly in the military , will prevail .
The last thing the world needs today is another needless war of choice , never mind two more .

Amidst the worldwide pandemic induced scare most of us have probably lost track of all the other potential dangers which still threaten international peace and stability. Allow me to list just a few headlines which, I strongly believe, deserve much more attention than what they got so far. Here we go:
Military Times : “ 5 Iran tankers sailing to Venezuela amid US pressure tactics “
: “ “ Time : “ 5 Iranian Tankers Head to Venezuela Amid Heightened Tensions Between U.S. and Tehran “
: “ “ FoxNews : “Iran tankers sailing to Venezuela in effort to undermine US sanctions“
Notice that Military Times speaks of “US pressure tactics”, Time of “tensions” and FoxNews of “efforts to undermined US sanctions”?
I don’t think that this is a coincidence. Folks in the US military are much more in touch with reality than the flag-waving prostitutes which some people call “reporters” or “journalists”.
Furthermore, the US has embarked on a new policy to justify its acts of piracy on the high seas with something called Visit, Board, Search and Seizure ( VBSS ) all under the pretext of the war on drugs. To get a better understanding of the context of these developments I asked a specialist of Maritime issues of our community, NatSouth, who replied the following: (stress added)
If a ship does not comply with the request to be boarded, it is usual that the pursuing authorities must gain the permission of the ‘flag’ state prior to boarding, on the high seas and the pursuit has to have started in the coastal state’s jurisdictional waters. The caveat here is that in the Caribbean – Caribbean Regional Maritime Agreement (CRA) – (long name: Agreement Concerning Co-operation in Suppressing Illicit Maritime and Air Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances in the Caribbean Area). So, there is an agreement with participating coastal states on boardings and pursuits in EEZs and the like. You can find more on the legal aspects of boardings at sea here: https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2344&context=hlr and more info on so-called “consensual boardings” here: https://www.lawteacher.net/free-law-essays/international-law/the-legal-implications-of-consensual-boarding-international-law-essay.php The anti-drug/ counterterrorism angle allows the U.S. Navy and the USCG to carry out interdictions on the high seas. Important point to note whether this approach will be taken to interdict the tankers, given that Venezuela is a declared narco-State. The absurdity is that Venezuela isn’t the primary transit point in the region, Colombia holds that honour. https://orinocotribune.com/narco-state-the-report-that-leaves-venezuela-on-the-sidelines-of-the-cocaine-route/ If I could add at this point, the origins are that Venezuela didn’t wish to play ball with Washington anymore, specifically with the DEA back in 2005, squaring the circle of sorts, (or should that be a vicious circle cunningly used by Washington, because who is going to argue with that narrative, aka the war on terror). March: SOUTHCOM’s Adm. Faller: “There will be an increase in US military presence in the hemisphere later this year. This will include an enhanced presence of ships, aircraft, & security forces to reassure our partners… & counter a range of threats to include illicit narco-terrorism.” At the same time, the State dept released this https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/1260988270302777350so the US could effectively carry out boardings under the guise of counterterrorism as well. While the Iranian tankers were in the Mediterranean, Washington released a (delayed) “Global Maritime Sanctions Advisory”, to the maritime industry, setting out guidelines to shipowners and insurers to enable them to avoid the risks of sanctions penalties related to North Korea, Syria and Iran. This also concerns oil exports from Iran, (but doesn’t apply to Iranian flagged ships). This came after the State Dept gave warning notice to oil companies to stop operations, including Rosneft (Russia), Reliance (India) and Repsol (Spain).
Then NatSouth concluded the following:
Under international law, every merchant ship must be registered with a flag state, which has jurisdiction over the vessel. Hence, this time, the use of Iranian-flagged tankers, as a direct response from Washington’s latest version of restating “maximum pressure” campaign on enforcement of Iran and Venezuela sanctions, (back in Feb, literally the same language as in Aug 2019). There was talk back then of a naval embargo, which would a serious notch up in tensions. There was mention of the 4 U.S. warships in the Caribbean, the U.S. Navy tweeted about, but one the Preble went through the Panama Canal into the Pacific). https://twitter.com/USNavy/
Pretty clear, isn’t it?
What the US is doing is substituting itself for the United Nations and it is now openly claiming the right to board any vessel under whatever kind of pious pretext like, say, narco-trafficing, nuclear proliferation, sanctions against so-called “rogue states”, etc. Clearly, the AngloZionists expect everybody to roll over and take it.
How likely is that?
Let’s look at a few Iranian headlines, all from PressTV:
PressTV, May 16th : “ Iran’s fuel shipment to Venezuela guaranteed by its missile power “
: “ “ PressTV, May 17th : “ US aware Iran will respond ‘very strongly’ if Venezuela-bound ships attacked: Analyst “
: “ “ PressTV, May 18th : “Iran: US bears responsibility for any foolish act against tankers heading to Venezuela“
Three days in a row. I think that it is fair to assume that the Iranians are trying very hard to convince Uncle Shmuel not to mess with these tankers. Does anybody seriously believe that the Iranians are bluffing?
Before we look at some of the aspects of this potential crisis, let’s just mention a few things here.
First, the US is acting in total and official illegality. Just like the bombing of Syria, the threats to Iran, or the US murderous sanctions Uncle Shmuel imposes left and right – the blockade of Venezuela is a) totally illegal and b) an act of war under international law.
Second, if USN commanders think they can operate with impunity only because the Caribbean is far away from Iran, they are kidding themselves. Yes, Iranian forces cannot defend these tankers so far away from home, nor can they take any action against the USN in the Atlantic-Caribbean theater of naval operations. But what they can and will do is retaliate against any AngloZionist target in the Middle-East, including any oil/gas tanker.
Third, while Venezuela’s military is tiny and weak compared to the immensely expensive and bloated US military, being immensely expensive and bloated is no guarantee of success. In fact, and depending on how the Venezuelan leadership perceives its options, there could be some very real risk for the US in any attempt to interfere with the free passage of these ships.
What do I mean by that?
Did you know that Venezuela had four squadrons of Su-30MKV for a total of 22 aircraft? Did you know that Venezuela also had an unknown number of Kh-31A supersonic anti-shipping missiles ? And did you know that Venezuela had a number of S-300VM and 9K317M2 Buk-M2E long range and medium range SAMs?
True, that is nowhere near the amount of weapons systems Venezuela would need to withstand a determined US attack, but it is more than enough to create some real headaches for US planners. Do you remember what the Argentinian Air Force did to the British Navy during the Malvinas war? Not only did the Argentinians sink two Type 42 guided missile destroyers (the HMS Sheffield and the HMS Coventry) which were providing long-range radar and medium-high altitude missile picket for the British carriers, they also destroyed 2 frigates, 1 landing ship, 1 landing craft, 1 container ship. Frankly, considering how poorly defended the British carriers were, it is only luck which saved them from destruction (that, and the lack of sufficient number of Super Étendard strike aircraft and Exocet missiles). I would add here that the British military, having been defeated on many occasions, has learned the painful lessons of their past defeats and does not suffer from the cocky-sure attitude of the US military. As a result, they were very careful during the war against Argentina and that caution was one of the factors which gave a Britain well-deserved the victory (I mean that in military terms only; in moral terms this was just another imperialist war with all the evil that entails). Had the Argentinians had a modern air force and enough anti-shipping missiles, the war could have taken a very different turn.
Returning to the topic of Venezuela, war is a much more complex phenomenon than just a struggle of military forces. In fact, I strongly believe that political factors will remain the single most important determinant factor of most wars, even in the 21st century. And chances are that the Venezuelans, being the militarily weaker side, will look to political factors to prevail. Here is one possible scenario among many other possible ones:
Caracas decides that the US seizing/attacking the Iranian tankers constitutes an existential threat to Venezuela because if that action goes unchallenged, then the US will totally “strangle” Venezuela. Of course, the Venezuelan military cannot take on the immense US military, but what they could do is force a US intervention, say by attacking one/several USN vessel(s). Such an attack, if even only partially successful, would force the US to retaliate, bringing US forces closer not only to Venezuelan air defenses, but also closer to the Venezuelan people which will see any US retaliation as an illegitimate counter-counter-attack following the fully legitimate Venezuelan counter-attack.
Then there is the problem of defining victory. In the US political “culture” winning is usually defined as pressing a few buttons to fire off some standoff weapons, kill lots of civilians, and then declare that the “indispensable nation” has “kicked the other guy’s ass”. The problem with that is the following one: if they other guy is very visibly weaker and has no chance for a military victory of his own, then the best option for him is to declare that “surviving is winning” – meaning that if Maduro stays in power, then Venezuela as won. How would the US cope with that kind of narrative? Keep in mind that Caracas is a city of over two million people which even in peacetime is rather dangerous (courtesy of both regular crime and potential guerilla activities). Yet, for Maduro to “win” all he has to show is that he controls Caracas. Keep in mind that even if the US forces succeed in creating some kind of “zone of real democracy” somewhere near the Colombian border, that will mean nothing to Maduro, especially considering the terrain between the border and the capital city (please check out this very high resolution map of Venezuela or this medium resolution one ). As for the notion of a USN landing on the shores of Venezuela, all we need to do is to remember how the immense Hodgepodge of units which were tasked with invading Grenada (including 2 Ranger Battalions, Navy Seals, most of an Airborne Division, etc. for a total of over 7,000 soldiers(!) against a tiny nation which never expected to be invaded (for details, and a good laugh, see here for a full list of participating US forces !) was defeated by the waves of the Caribbean and the few Cuban military engineers who resisted with small-arms fire (eventually, most of the 82AB was calling in to fix this mess).
In other words, if Maduro remains in power in Caracas then, in political terms, Venezuela wins even though it would lose in purely military terms.
This phenomenon is hardly something new, as shown by the following famous quote by Ho Chi Minh: “You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.”
By the way, this is exactly the same problem the Empire faces with Iran: as long as the Islamic Republic remains an Islamic Republic it “wins” in any exchange of strikes with the US and/or Israel.
Still, it is pretty obvious that the US can turn much of Venezuela into a smoking heap of ruins. That is true (just like what the US did to Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Serbia and Israel what did to Lebanon in 2006). But that would hardly constitute a “victory” in any imaginable sense of the word. Again, in theory, the US might be able to secure a number of landing locations and then send in an intervention force which could try to take key locations in Caracas. But what would happen after that? Not only would the hardcore Chavistas trigger a guerilla insurrection which would be impossible to crush (when is the last time the US prevailed in a counter-insurgency war?), but many Venezuelans would expect the US to pay for reconstruction (and they would be right, according to the rules of international law, “once you take it, you own it” meaning that the US would become responsible for the socio-economic situation of the country). Finally, there is always the option of an anti-leadership “decapitating” strike of some kind. I believe that in purely military terms, the US has the know-how and resources to accomplish this. I do not believe that this option would secure anything for the US, instead – it would further destabilize the situation and would trigger some kind of reaction by the Venezuelan military both outside and inside Venezuela. If anything, the repeated failures of the various coup attempts against Chavez and Maduro prove that the the bulk of the military remains firmly behind the Chavistas (and the failed coup only served to unmask the traitors and replace them anyway!).
The bottom line is this: if Uncle Shmuel decides to seize/attack the Iranian tankers, there is not only a quasi certitude of a war between the US and Iran (or, at the very least, an exchange of strikes), but there is also a non-trivial possibility that Maduro and his government might actually decide to provoke the US into a war they really can’t win.
Is Trump capable of starting a process which will result in not one, but two wars?
You betcha he is! A guy who thinks in categories like “ my button is bigger than yours ” or “ super-dooper weapons ” obviously understands exactly *nothing* about warfare, while the climate of messianic narcissism prevailing among the US ruling classes gives them a sense of total impunity.
Let’s hope that cooler heads, possibly in the military, will prevail. The last thing the world needs today is another needless war of choice, never mind two more.


russia-insider--2020-05-23--Annexation Nation: Trump to Help Israel Conquer West Bank, STILL No Wall for Americans (FTN Podcast

Annexation Nation: Trump to Help Israel Conquer West Bank, STILL No Wall for Americans (FTN Podcast + Transcript)

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Just you know , our podcast is sort of like a triathlon where there 's some jogging , there 's some biking and some diving , some swimming .
So you get all three when you listen , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 're gon na keep going back to the well on this narrative for a while now .
And there 's just there 's just so much more to talk about with with a lot of this stuff .
And we 're gon na be going back to the very beginning on some of it today .
And people have asked us to define some of these narratives .
But first , we have a guy on the forum got to give a little shout out to .
He said that I 'm like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He like your mom .
I had no idea when I 'd do a revolution .
Bernie Brown .
Okay , listen here , guy .
New rule , either a Nazi or you 're gay .
OK. You people think it 's comfy inside your little kosher kabuki theater .
Hotbox N'Gai new rule .
Jews suck and should have all their assets liquidated to pay for jogger 's to go back to Africa and gay .
We 've got a couple of winners here .
James , we got winners all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Truth to power news .
Big shout outs to those guys .
Seriously , though , the bits over very , very big shout out .
So there 's a lot of losers , though .
The losers .
You know that you 're over the target when you 're taking flack .
And brand new podcasts keep popping up everywhere that ca n't seem to get off the ground .
And there 's another new one .
There 's another new one by Congressman Matt Gates called Hot Takes .
And it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has nine hundred and fourteen listeners on a YouTube channel that has tens .
How many tens of thousands of subscribers to verify channel verify their congressional channel ?
Yeah , and they 're using the same stinger as Jesse Jackson .
Jesse , you .
You called this to my attention , which I thought was absolutely hilarious .
It 's like , you know , they 're not only ripping off the the because what like for the pot or the popular podcast network .
Right .
Tiara 's , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from here .
And these guys are standing up their own because they do n't like what we 're saying .
They want to dilute what people are listening to .
And the overwhelming response has been am analysts in at once or twice .
And then , you know , that 's like , I do n't know , one one thousandth of the people that go and listen to these podcasts and then they do n't tune in and it 's like Vee Scott carrier Halflife , where week after week @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just decreased by half and a half again and half again .
And they keep trying .
James .
I mean , I give him credit for trying like hotcakes .
Jazz and Jesse Stinger .
Twenty three minutes of Matt Gates like lying to you .
It 's you know , the reason why we 're popular , you guys , is because we 're telling you the fucking truth .
And these guys ca n't compete with that .
They 're not going to be able to do it .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I do n't know what you 're going to do .
Right .
They 're gon na have to crack the code and just put Matt Gates down in a basement painting Warhammer figurines and smoking cigars and maybe that maybe then they 'll be able to crack four digits .
But yeah , the funny thing , too , about hot takes is you can not actually find it in a number of different places .
It 's only on YouTube and not doing so well there , Matt .
Maybe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of work .
I was amazed .
I mean , I was amazed , like night .
Like to at least break a thousand nine hundred .
Your congressman totally based .
Congressman , you 're getting nine .
I mean , I 'll tell you , man , this this this whole , like , fake .
And that stuff is fake and real .
Like , whatever whatever it is is is not working out very well .
It 's sort of that table that that patient is lying on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So .
So .
And we 'll tell you why .
Because we have an explanation .
We we 've been talking about this for a couple weeks .
And we 're gon na start with what 's actually happening right now in the world .
And that is Pompeo , who has not traveled anywhere in two months , flew to Israel for a couple of hours to prep for West Bank annexation .
Now , some people think that he did this to make sure that the timing was correct and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And there are some people , you know , some of the more reform Jew sides saying , yeah , he 's he 's trying to talk , you know , Netanyahu out of doing this , are only doing a symbolic annexation , but that 's not what actually is going on .
Pam Payo went over there to make sure that Netanyahu is actually going to follow through on this , because what a lot of people do n't know is that Netanyahu , in a very kind of eerily @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of West Bank annexation in front of people in Israel on the campaign trail , then gets in power and does n't do it .
Now , it 's a totally different you ca n't project our politics onto their politics because it 's a totally different situation .
But they are waiting for the right .
Moment .
And they did n't , waiting for the right moment for a very long time .
We 'll be talking a lot about that today .
But .
It 's imperative that this happens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ annexation of the West Bank is boomer bait .
And if angelical bait and they want to make sure that Netanyahu , not Netanyahu , is actually to follow through on it this time , they want it to happen now .
Maybe there 's some deliberation between Netanyahu and when he actually wants to do it .
They 're gon na do it .
Make no mistake , there 's no question of whether or not they 're gon na do it .
But it matters the most to Trump right now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , when you think that Trump should be delivering you a wall or an EO on birthright citizenship or whatever .
Just rest assured , James Pompeo and Donald Trump are working very hard to make sure that they deliver for Jews and for Jerusalem and for Israelis and for Netanyahu and for Jews in the United States and evangelicals and everybody else .
Yeah , and you see this being kicked back up in this was this was going to happen around this time probably anyways .
But you see a renewed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these other pathways to victory for Trump in 2020 have been closed and immigration has been closed since the start .
As we pointed out on the midweek , and the economy now is is no longer a a card he can play .
And what are we left with now ?
Right .
We 're re restarting the , you know , us versus the swamp , the people versus the deep state stuff from 2016 and 2017 with this rallying around Michael Flynn , the Indian Israeli agent and with Israel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ annexation , which is really a throwback to , gosh , what 2004 ?
2005 was the last time this was .
Was a big deal like it is now .
So , yeah , they 're trying everything that they can .
And and they recognize , too , that this is going to win them favor and , you know , inspire a lot of confidence and donations and and support from the Jeannette contingent , not only in Israel , but also in the US .
Well , yeah .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ agreement .
We talked a lot about this on on the midweek show , but we did n't talk about who we 're using it as a jumping off point into some other subjects today .
But there 's this power sharing deal between Netanyahu and Benny Gantz right in the Israel is new government was sworn in on Thursday .
The only non coronavirus legislation that they 're allowed to discuss under this new power sharing deal , annexation of the West Bank .
Of course .
And he can , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ July 1st .
But this gives enough time to declare sovereignty over this territory before the U.S. presidential election , which which is what Trump wants .
And so , you know , and there some of the jig nets are saying things that like in 100 years known will remember what happened to achieve the annexation .
We know the Palestinians do not want us to be in this land , but Netanyahu must not be deterred .
And he 's that wrong .
Nobody 's gon na remember how and why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Donald Trump wants them to remember one hundred years from now that he was the guy who did this and made this possible .
That 's what Trump cares about .
But dig , that 's just care about getting the job done .
And they want it done now .
And Netanyahu is dragging his feet a little bit .
And for Netanyahu , he also does not want to leave power , as we mentioned .
So for him , the play here is to to do this annexation , get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or whenever before the power sharing agreement is set to come into effect and then make the argument that because this is such a tumultuous time for Israel because of the conflict or however he wants to argue it , that this is not the right time to to change hands and we need to delay this deal or they can also call new elections .
Right .
And if the annexation proves to be as popular as it will be in Israel , then Netanyahu can win another term and not fear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to hand over power .
And also , Trump is firmly in support of this .
Right .
The this is this is U.S. policy that annexation should go forward .
And if Netanyahu can make the argument that he is going to have the better relationship with with the U.S. and Trump and Pompeo and others , then that 's another feather in his cap , so to speak .
Yeah .
This is Jared Kushner 's Middle East peace plan .
I mean , ultimately , this is and this is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Israel , is they let the United States be the one to make the policy and then they get to go along with it so that they do n't become the the center point of international scrutiny in the U.N..
I mean , they 're going to be to a certain extent anyway .
But if it 's us making the policy and saying here 's the peace plan and the plan is that you 're going to annex the West Bank and we will backstop you , then it is n't @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United States reacting .
It 's it 's Trump in jig that 's leading the charge .
And people have to remember that there are ultra nationalists even to the right of Netanyahu pulling him in this direction , too , because they 're waiting for the right moment to do this .
We 're gon na get into some of that intra Judaic debate today a little .
Trying to understand what that is and the fact that this has been a 100 year struggle .
But Daniel Shapiro , former U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ around Pompeii 's high speed mid pandemic trip was to coordinate the annexation , which he said Trump sees as an electoral boon if it can be pulled off before the U.S. election in November , like we said .
He says , quote , For Trump 's evangelical and Right-Wing Jewish base , Israel annexation and the last rites it will administer to the dying two state solution is wildly popular , Shapiro told Haaretz , of course .
There is also mounting opposition to this .
Potentially obstacles growing in France @ @ @ @ @ @ @ punitive economic measures if Israel breaks international law .
They 're not going to do anything , but they 're going to scream about it potentially .
EU foreign ministers meeting on Friday and Joseph Borel , the EU foreign policy chief , said annexation would be the most important issue on the agenda .
He added , however , that the unanimity that was needed to impose sanctions on the subject was divisive among member states .
There is another Jewish trick , right ?
Like in the EU , you can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is unanimity , meaning everyone is on board with it .
For those of you out in Rio Rhinelander .
So there are going to be sanctions .
So it allows places like France and Ireland and Belgium to , you know , hem and haw and make threats .
But ultimately , no bite , no teeth in that bite .
And even if they wanted to even if they really did want to in these representatives of the EU , oh , our interested in sanctioning Israel .
The other the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Grug caveman country , America .
Walking around waiting to hammer down any European partner that does not play 100 percent along with the US Israeli foreign policy agenda .
We 've seen them do this to Germany in the last few months with the Nord Stream two pipeline .
They 've done it to some Russia .
You know , there 's been been action against Russia as well .
And so .
So , yeah .
Like the US .
This is another element to this , right .
Not only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the next few months extremely important , it 's also in the arc of history .
They recognize the US as an empire in decline , as a an empire with falling global power and an inability to project power in places that it was able to just a decade ago , just two decades ago .
So , you know , while they have this big , big empire at their disposal , they want to get their money 's worth out of it .
Empire in decline .
I mean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they 're having the life sucked out of them by a certain country in the Middle East .
It 's always the same old story over and over and over again .
And we 've seen it all before .
The two major objectives for Israel after becoming a state or international recognition of Jerusalem as the capital gobbling up territory and the annexation of the West Bank in the Jordan Valley .
And so this is something that goes all the way back to the Balfour Declaration .
Of course , everybody @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now .
We 're not going to rehash that here .
We assume that you have some a priori knowledge about that .
But it was issued by the British government in 1917 and long before there was this intra Judaic dispute over optics , which has always raged .
You have the Zionists , hiim Weismann , outmanoeuvring the establishment optics Jews led by Lucius Wolf , to get the British government to publish the Balfour Declaration optics .
Jews were worried at the time that by declaring the Jewish people a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ behind the meme that Judaism is just a religion and that they do not host any d'hote dual loyalties .
They were also deeply guns earned that if Israel was established , that most Western countries would inevitably deprive them of the rights and deport them to Israel , which did n't sit well with Jews that had integrated themselves with the British elites and elites of other countries .
And so this is why most of the jig nets in Britain were like Weismann , recent immigrants from Eastern Europe and Russia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ extremely abbreviated version of this history .
But this should serve as a primer for those who are not familiar so we can add greater context in this episode into the rest of the material that we want to cover here today .
Right .
James Mean gymnast 's one and Jews got their state .
Yeah .
So , yeah .
And part of the European consideration , of course , was the terrorism and havoc that Jews were wreaking in the region and threatened to wreak in these European states if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And yeah , so this is GeoNet strategy was was ascendant at the time and prevent a very importantly in this case , prevailed .
It did .
It did .
And , of course , you know , this is people it 's important not to project our own dialectic , which is fakin gay between left and right onto them .
It 's they at the end of the day , the the optics Jews are going to go along with this no matter what .
I mean , they 're @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do .
They may not like it .
They may disagree with it .
They may have their sort of intra Judaic debates on these subjects and they may see risk with certain plans put forward .
Both the jig Nazi risks with what the optics Jews are doing , that it might be too slow , that it might be too drawn out , that they might be risking .
Maybe the plan .
Right .
The the long term agenda .
And that likewise is true for for that 's as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ five years of wars .
Millions of dead Europeans , land grabs , dead presidents , stolen nuclear weapons , fake genocides and trillions in financial aid and weapons .
And two very Guignard objectives that are trying to be carried out are annexation .
The West Bank of Jordan Valley and international recognition of Jerusalem as the capital .
And both of these things are illegal according to international law .
But this is something these are goals that they had to work to or they had .
Their state now has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take back Jerusalem .
They have to fully kick out the Palestinians off their land .
And so there 's glue .
There 's been global opposition to Jerusalem in the early 1980s where our story begins today .
You had liberal reform .
Jews were this growing dominant force in U.S. and European politics .
And thus there was not much of an appetite for either objective .
The G20 and one hundred and forty other countries all had varying statements on the issue of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know , and we recognized Tel Aviv as the capital .
Right .
It 's like the most watered down were totally not against you guys .
You ca n't even accuse us of being anti-Semitic .
We 're just stating the facts here .
So violation of international law and Tel Aviv is the capital like this is the pushback that these countries give .
But it 's they they 're not they 're not down with it .
Right .
They 're not giving them what they want .
And so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ war to the six day war in 67 .
The status of Jerusalem has been hotly contested .
It was declared its eternal capital of Israel in 1949 .
In 1980 , the Knesset passed the Jerusalem Jerusalem law , which declared Jerusalem the unified capital of Israel .
Then you had jig nets .
Yitzhak Rabin , Netanyahu , Ariel Sharon , Ehud Olmert all give full throated support to a unified Jerusalem .
So whenever you hear a politician come out and say , I believe in an undivided Jerusalem , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rhetoric .
Right .
Even Obama said , I believe in an undivided Jerusalem .
So based Obama .
Right .
Of course , he was surrounded by Jews , too .
So but then you had optics .
Jew Ehud Barak became the first Israeli prime minister in history to allow for a possible division of Jerusalem , despite his campaign promises .
So he in order to get elected , in order to be popular in Israel , he had to be for a unified Jerusalem because that 's what Jews @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you ?
Right .
And but , you know , then he gets into office and he says that I 'm OK with maybe dividing this city up .
And that 's caused a lot of problems .
Yeah .
And even if you 're not if you 're in Israel , even if you 're not a hardline right wing ultra Zionist .
The Jerusalem problem is , in their calculations , just more headache than it 's worth .
Right .
Trying to manage this holy city that 's holy for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there .
These one could argue to themselves and you could argue to themselves , even if they 're not an ardent right wing Zionist , that the easy and quickest solution would just be to annex the whole thing and do it painlessly and quick with lead .
Just get it over with .
Right .
So , yeah , this is something that much more so than annexation of the West Bank .
And Jordan Valley has a lot of support in Israel .
Yeah , because if they had done @ @ @ @ @ @ @ why else would these wars have been fought ?
Obviously , they could not have achieve these goals in 1948 .
They tried it could not achieve the goals that they wanted in the Six Day War in 1967 , although incrementally they have achieved these goals slowly over time .
They have achieved the goals , but it 's not fast enough .
Right .
Jig Nats want more .
And then there are ultranationalists to the right of Netanyahu that want even more than what the official gick that narrative is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I know this is hard to imagine because you 're not Jewish , but imagine being a Jew in Israel and thinking that Netanyahu is a cook and Trump is a cut , too .
But there are a lot of them who feel that way because not enough is happening quickly .
Right .
And so you have global opposition to annexation as well .
The West Bank is internationally recognized for now , for now as held under military occupation by Israel .
Israel disputes this , of course , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the West Bank .
Now , with over 400000 Israelis living in that region on somebody else 's land .
So an Israeli annexation would likely be opposed internationally because the plan would violate multiple principles .
Number one , the principle of territorial integrity that the territories should not be acquired by war , which they have been as stated in this U.N .
Resolution 242 .
I 'm not going to bore people with this , but it would be a violation of the Oslo Accords and the permanent day to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a foreign power .
Right .
So these are all these tenants where this would be a violation .
But Israel 's done it anyway .
Nobody 's really stopped them .
And it 's kind of continue to pace .
And they played this game where , you know , United States comes in as the bad guy , the big asshole in the room , the golomb of Israel that gets trotted out every time there 's a problem .
But nobody 's actually stopping this .
But you have sort @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , token objection in these various countries to this prospect .
But run the time out long enough , James .
Right .
Like , drag the decades out long enough .
Who is gaining ground and who is losing ground ?
Oh , absolutely .
Is Israel is winning .
Palestinians are losing .
And this Middle East peace plan by Jared Kushner .
It basically says , like , yeah , we 're gon na do this and you do n't even get to have a seat at the table .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ have invited you in the room , but you 're not welcome .
We 're just gon na do this now and you 're not going to do anything about it .
Yeah , that 's exactly right .
And they have got , you know , generally in the Israeli community , in the Israeli press , have come to the conclusion that this is going to happen .
It 's simply a it 's a matter of it 's almost like when you have to fire someone who 's an employee @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decision has been made , but now they 're coming to terms with how they tell that person .
It 's like , yeah , Palestinians like we 're taking all of your territory .
What 's the what 's the most diplomatic way we can put this ?
And the other element here , too , is that even if the European powers , again , wanted to stop this , even if Belgium was really upset or France or or Sweden were really upset about this , what are they going @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the back in the 90s and the 2000s , what are they going to do ?
And does this matter as much to them ?
And this is this is the what you get with the US as this massive Israeli golomb is they are going to be calculating , is sabotaging our relationship and incurring the wrath of the U.S. worth standing up against Israel .
And because there was never an ability of these European countries or world powers generally to put up a united front against the U.S. in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unabated , relatively unabated until we 're at where we are today .
Yeah , I mean , they would have given leaders of France , leaders of Belgium the same choice that they gave John F. Kennedy .
You can have silver or you can have lead .
You get one or the other .
And most people take silver and some people take lead .
And when you try to get in the way of Israel getting nuclear weapons , you get led .
And that 's what happened .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pretty much there 's no reason to suspend all this time on these conspiracy theories that boomers have for decades .
But pretty simple to understand in hindsight .
And so it 's nineteen eighty your Benjamin Netanyahu .
And you 've been made ambassador to the U.S. for Israel .
How do you get from there .
Nineteen eighty four .
And where he was then to today , where you 're on the precipice of annexation of the West Bank in the Jordan Valley .
And you have gotten the United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ capital and move the embassy there .
I mean , you 're Benjamin Netanyahu over the course of 30 years has just been racking up those wins .
Hundred and thirty five years , really just just going ham on this stuff .
But how does he get there ?
Right .
Because it does n't just you do n't just wave a magic wand and make it happen .
And and we know because we 've talked about this , that when Bibi was ambassador to the U.S. for Israel , he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nineteen eighty four here .
He knew Donald Trump .
He also knew the Rebbie .
And the Rebbie is very interesting guy .
And we 're gon na talk about the Revy here and talk about how bad , Lubavitcher , when you talk about Netanyahu and how all of this got started , because you do n't get from where things were in 1984 to where things are today .
And it 's not just with annexation .
It 's not just with the embassy move because those things , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for a while .
And previous American presidents kept signing the waiver and they were n't allowing it to move forward .
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Yeah, we keep we're gonna keep going back to the well on this narrative for a while now. And there's just there's just so much more to talk about with with a lot of this stuff. And we're gonna be going back to the very beginning on some of it today. And people have asked us to define some of these narratives. But first, we have a guy on the forum got to give a little shout out to. He said that I'm like the Gentile version of Bill Marr.
He like your mom. I had no idea when I'd do a revolution. Bernie Brown. Okay, listen here, guy. New rule, either a Nazi or you're gay. OK. You people think it's comfy inside your little kosher kabuki theater. Hotbox N'Gai new rule.
Jews suck and should have all their assets liquidated to pay for jogger's to go back to Africa and gay. We've got a couple of winners here. James, we got winners all around us. The Grug report. Truth to power news. Big shout outs to those guys. Seriously, though, the bits over very, very big shout out. So there's a lot of losers, though. The losers. You know that you're over the target when you're taking flack. And brand new podcasts keep popping up everywhere that can't seem to get off the ground. And there's another new one. There's another new one by Congressman Matt Gates called Hot Takes. And it's been up since Wednesday. It has nine hundred and fourteen listeners on a YouTube channel that has tens. How many tens of thousands of subscribers to verify channel verify their congressional channel? Yeah, and they're using the same stinger as Jesse Jackson. Jesse, you. You called this to my attention, which I thought was absolutely hilarious. It's like, you know, they're not only ripping off the the because what like for the pot or the popular podcast network. Right. Tiara's, is this the king? And everything flows from here. And these guys are standing up their own because they don't like what we're saying. They want to dilute what people are listening to. And the overwhelming response has been am analysts in at once or twice.
And then, you know, that's like, I don't know, one one thousandth of the people that go and listen to these podcasts and then they don't tune in and it's like Vee Scott carrier Halflife, where week after week after week, claig, the listeners just decreased by half and a half again and half again.
And they keep trying. James. I mean, I give him credit for trying like hotcakes. Jazz and Jesse Stinger. Twenty three minutes of Matt Gates like lying to you.
It's you know, the reason why we're popular, you guys, is because we're telling you the fucking truth. And these guys can't compete with that. They're not going to be able to do it. It's all subversion. So, yeah, I don't know what you're going to do.
Right. They're gonna have to crack the code and just put Matt Gates down in a basement painting Warhammer figurines and smoking cigars and maybe that maybe then they'll be able to crack four digits. But yeah, the funny thing, too, about hot takes is you cannot actually find it in a number of different places. It's only on YouTube and not doing so well there, Matt. Maybe time to move into a different line of work.
I was amazed. I mean, I was amazed, like night.
Like to at least break a thousand nine hundred.
Your congressman totally based. Congressman, you're getting nine. I mean, I'll tell you, man, this this this whole, like, fake. And that stuff is fake and real. Like, whatever whatever it is is is not working out very well. It's sort of that table that that patient is lying on the table and it's just like.
So. So. And we'll tell you why. Because we have an explanation. We we've been talking about this for a couple weeks. And we're gonna start with what's actually happening right now in the world. And that is Pompeo, who has not traveled anywhere in two months, flew to Israel for a couple of hours to prep for West Bank annexation. Now, some people think that he did this to make sure that the timing was correct and everything was going on and like whatever. And there are some people, you know, some of the more reform Jew sides saying, yeah, he's he's trying to talk, you know, Netanyahu out of doing this, are only doing a symbolic annexation, but that's not what actually is going on. Pam Payo went over there to make sure that Netanyahu is actually going to follow through on this, because what a lot of people don't know is that Netanyahu, in a very kind of eerily familiar way, has dangled the prospect of West Bank annexation in front of people in Israel on the campaign trail, then gets in power and doesn't do it. Now, it's a totally different you can't project our politics onto their politics because it's a totally different situation.
But they are waiting for the right. Moment. And they didn't, waiting for the right moment for a very long time. We'll be talking a lot about that today. But. It's imperative that this happens now for Trump because an access to annexation of the West Bank is boomer bait. And if angelical bait and they want to make sure that Netanyahu, not Netanyahu, is actually to follow through on it this time, they want it to happen now. Maybe there's some deliberation between Netanyahu and when he actually wants to do it. They're gonna do it. Make no mistake, there's no question of whether or not they're gonna do it. But it matters the most to Trump right now that it happens because, you know, when you think that Trump should be delivering you a wall or an EO on birthright citizenship or whatever. Just rest assured, James Pompeo and Donald Trump are working very hard to make sure that they deliver for Jews and for Jerusalem and for Israelis and for Netanyahu and for Jews in the United States and evangelicals and everybody else.
Yeah, and you see this being kicked back up in this was this was going to happen around this time probably anyways. But you see a renewed focus on it now as all of these other pathways to victory for Trump in 2020 have been closed and immigration has been closed since the start. As we pointed out on the midweek, and the economy now is is no longer a a card he can play. And what are we left with now? Right. We're re restarting the, you know, us versus the swamp, the people versus the deep state stuff from 2016 and 2017 with this rallying around Michael Flynn, the Indian Israeli agent and with Israel stuff and and the West Bank and annexation, which is really a throwback to, gosh, what 2004? 2005 was the last time this was. Was a big deal like it is now. So, yeah, they're trying everything that they can. And and they recognize, too, that this is going to win them favor and, you know, inspire a lot of confidence and donations and and support from the Jeannette contingent, not only in Israel, but also in the US.
Well, yeah. And so there's this power sharing agreement. We talked a lot about this on on the midweek show, but we didn't talk about who we're using it as a jumping off point into some other subjects today. But there's this power sharing deal between Netanyahu and Benny Gantz right in the Israel is new government was sworn in on Thursday.
The only non coronavirus legislation that they're allowed to discuss under this new power sharing deal, annexation of the West Bank. Of course. And he can, but he cannot bring it up until July 1st.
But this gives enough time to declare sovereignty over this territory before the U.S. presidential election, which which is what Trump wants.
And so, you know, and there some of the jig nets are saying things that like in 100 years known will remember what happened to achieve the annexation. We know the Palestinians do not want us to be in this land, but Netanyahu must not be deterred. And he's that wrong. Nobody's gonna remember how and why and what happened. I mean, Donald Trump wants them to remember one hundred years from now that he was the guy who did this and made this possible. That's what Trump cares about. But dig, that's just care about getting the job done. And they want it done now. And Netanyahu is dragging his feet a little bit.
And for Netanyahu, he also does not want to leave power, as we mentioned. So for him, the play here is to to do this annexation, get this process started in July or August or whenever before the power sharing agreement is set to come into effect and then make the argument that because this is such a tumultuous time for Israel because of the conflict or however he wants to argue it, that this is not the right time to to change hands and we need to delay this deal or they can also call new elections. Right. And if the annexation proves to be as popular as it will be in Israel, then Netanyahu can win another term and not fear, you know, enough air having to hand over power. And also, Trump is firmly in support of this. Right. The this is this is U.S. policy that annexation should go forward. And if Netanyahu can make the argument that he is going to have the better relationship with with the U.S. and Trump and Pompeo and others, then that's another feather in his cap, so to speak.
Yeah. This is Jared Kushner's Middle East peace plan. I mean, ultimately, this is and this is how this this works out really well for Israel, is they let the United States be the one to make the policy and then they get to go along with it so that they don't become the the center point of international scrutiny in the U.N.. I mean, they're going to be to a certain extent anyway. But if it's us making the policy and saying here's the peace plan and the plan is that you're going to annex the West Bank and we will backstop you, then it isn't Israel making the move and then the United States reacting. It's it's Trump in jig that's leading the charge. And people have to remember that there are ultra nationalists even to the right of Netanyahu pulling him in this direction, too, because they're waiting for the right moment to do this. We're gonna get into some of that intra Judaic debate today a little. Trying to understand what that is and the fact that this has been a 100 year struggle. But Daniel Shapiro, former U.S. ambassador to Israel, said the hurry around Pompeii's high speed mid pandemic trip was to coordinate the annexation, which he said Trump sees as an electoral boon if it can be pulled off before the U.S.
election in November, like we said. He says, quote, For Trump's evangelical and Right-Wing Jewish base, Israel annexation and the last rites it will administer to the dying two state solution is wildly popular, Shapiro told Haaretz, of course. There is also mounting opposition to this. Potentially obstacles growing in France, Ireland and Belgium are considering threatening punitive economic measures if Israel breaks international law. They're not going to do anything, but they're going to scream about it potentially. EU foreign ministers meeting on Friday and Joseph Borel, the EU foreign policy chief, said annexation would be the most important issue on the agenda. He added, however, that the unanimity that was needed to impose sanctions on the subject was divisive among member states. There is another Jewish trick, right? Like in the EU, you can only impose sanctions on Israel if there is unanimity, meaning everyone is on board with it. For those of you out in Rio Rhinelander. So there are going to be sanctions. So it allows places like France and Ireland and Belgium to, you know, hem and haw and make threats.
But ultimately, no bite, no teeth in that bite.
And even if they wanted to even if they really did want to in these representatives of the EU, oh, our interested in sanctioning Israel. The other the elephant in the room is the big Grug caveman country, America. Walking around waiting to hammer down any European partner that does not play 100 percent along with the US Israeli foreign policy agenda. We've seen them do this to Germany in the last few months with the Nord Stream two pipeline. They've done it to some Russia. You know, there's been been action against Russia as well. And so. So, yeah. Like the US. This is another element to this, right. Not only is the timing in this immediate sense in the next few months extremely important, it's also in the arc of history. They recognize the US as an empire in decline, as a an empire with falling global power and an inability to project power in places that it was able to just a decade ago, just two decades ago. So, you know, while they have this big, big empire at their disposal, they want to get their money's worth out of it.
Empire in decline. I mean, empires are always in decline because they're having the life sucked out of them by a certain country in the Middle East. It's always the same old story over and over and over again. And we've seen it all before. The two major objectives for Israel after becoming a state or international recognition of Jerusalem as the capital gobbling up territory and the annexation of the West Bank in the Jordan Valley. And so this is something that goes all the way back to the Balfour Declaration. Of course, everybody's should be familiar with that by now. We're not going to rehash that here. We assume that you have some a priori knowledge about that. But it was issued by the British government in 1917 and long before there was this intra Judaic dispute over optics, which has always raged. You have the Zionists, hiim Weismann, outmanoeuvring the establishment optics Jews led by Lucius Wolf, to get the British government to publish the Balfour Declaration optics. Jews were worried at the time that by declaring the Jewish people a nation, they could no longer hide behind the meme that Judaism is just a religion and that they do not host any d'hote dual loyalties. They were also deeply guns earned that if Israel was established, that most Western countries would inevitably deprive them of the rights and deport them to Israel, which didn't sit well with Jews that had integrated themselves with the British elites and elites of other countries. And so this is why most of the jig nets in Britain were like Weismann, recent immigrants from Eastern Europe and Russia. Of course, that is the extremely abbreviated version of this history. But this should serve as a primer for those who are not familiar so we can add greater context in this episode into the rest of the material that we want to cover here today. Right. James Mean gymnast's one and Jews got their state. Yeah. So, yeah.
And part of the European consideration, of course, was the terrorism and havoc that Jews were wreaking in the region and threatened to wreak in these European states if they did not get their way. And yeah, so this is GeoNet strategy was was ascendant at the time and prevent a very importantly in this case, prevailed.
It did. It did. And, of course, you know, this is people it's important not to project our own dialectic, which is fakin gay between left and right onto them.
It's they at the end of the day, the the optics Jews are going to go along with this no matter what. I mean, they're going to backstop whatever the jig nets do. They may not like it. They may disagree with it. They may have their sort of intra Judaic debates on these subjects and they may see risk with certain plans put forward. Both the jig Nazi risks with what the optics Jews are doing, that it might be too slow, that it might be too drawn out, that they might be risking. Maybe the plan. Right. The the long term agenda. And that likewise is true for for that's as well. But fast forward through seventy five years of wars. Millions of dead Europeans, land grabs, dead presidents, stolen nuclear weapons, fake genocides and trillions in financial aid and weapons. And two very Guignard objectives that are trying to be carried out are annexation. The West Bank of Jordan Valley and international recognition of Jerusalem as the capital. And both of these things are illegal according to international law.
But this is something these are goals that they had to work to or they had. Their state now has to expand and now they have to take back Jerusalem. They have to fully kick out the Palestinians off their land. And so there's glue. There's been global opposition to Jerusalem in the early 1980s where our story begins today. You had liberal reform. Jews were this growing dominant force in U.S. and European politics. And thus there was not much of an appetite for either objective. The G20 and one hundred and forty other countries all had varying statements on the issue of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, its violation of international law. You know, and we recognized Tel Aviv as the capital. Right. It's like the most watered down were totally not against you guys. You can't even accuse us of being anti-Semitic. We're just stating the facts here. So violation of international law and Tel Aviv is the capital like this is the pushback that these countries give. But it's they they're not they're not down with it. Right. They're not giving them what they want. And so you have the 1948 Arab Israeli rule war to the six day war in 67. The status of Jerusalem has been hotly contested. It was declared its eternal capital of Israel in 1949.
In 1980, the Knesset passed the Jerusalem Jerusalem law, which declared Jerusalem the unified capital of Israel. Then you had jig nets. Yitzhak Rabin, Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert all give full throated support to a unified Jerusalem.
So whenever you hear a politician come out and say, I believe in an undivided Jerusalem, they have picked up the jig net rhetoric. Right. Even Obama said, I believe in an undivided Jerusalem. So based Obama. Right. Of course, he was surrounded by Jews, too. So but then you had optics.
Jew Ehud Barak became the first Israeli prime minister in history to allow for a possible division of Jerusalem, despite his campaign promises. So he in order to get elected, in order to be popular in Israel, he had to be for a unified Jerusalem because that's what Jews in Israel want. Why wouldn't you? Right. And but, you know, then he gets into office and he says that I'm OK with maybe dividing this city up. And that's caused a lot of problems.
Yeah. And even if you're not if you're in Israel, even if you're not a hardline right wing ultra Zionist.
The Jerusalem problem is, in their calculations, just more headache than it's worth. Right. Trying to manage this holy city that's holy for three different religions and keeping the peace there. These one could argue to themselves and you could argue to themselves, even if they're not an ardent right wing Zionist, that the easy and quickest solution would just be to annex the whole thing and do it painlessly and quick with lead.
Just get it over with. Right. So, yeah, this is something that much more so than annexation of the West Bank. And Jordan Valley has a lot of support in Israel.
Yeah, because if they had done this immediately, I mean, why why else would these wars have been fought? Obviously, they could not have achieve these goals in 1948. They tried it could not achieve the goals that they wanted in the Six Day War in 1967, although incrementally they have achieved these goals slowly over time. They have achieved the goals, but it's not fast enough. Right. Jig Nats want more. And then there are ultranationalists to the right of Netanyahu that want even more than what the official gick that narrative is through Trump. I mean, imagine I know this is hard to imagine because you're not Jewish, but imagine being a Jew in Israel and thinking that Netanyahu is a cook and Trump is a cut, too. But there are a lot of them who feel that way because not enough is happening quickly. Right. And so you have global opposition to annexation as well. The West Bank is internationally recognized for now, for now as held under military occupation by Israel. Israel disputes this, of course, and has created 200 Israeli settlements there in the West Bank. Now, with over 400000 Israelis living in that region on somebody else's land. So an Israeli annexation would likely be opposed internationally because the plan would violate multiple principles. Number one, the principle of territorial integrity that the territories should not be acquired by war, which they have been as stated in this U.N.
Resolution 242. I'm not going to bore people with this, but it would be a violation of the Oslo Accords and the permanent day to day control of the civilian population by a foreign power. Right. So these are all these tenants where this would be a violation. But Israel's done it anyway. Nobody's really stopped them. And it's kind of continue to pace. And they played this game where, you know, United States comes in as the bad guy, the big asshole in the room, the golomb of Israel that gets trotted out every time there's a problem. But nobody's actually stopping this. But you have sort of, you know, I guess, token objection in these various countries to this prospect. But run the time out long enough, James. Right. Like, drag the decades out long enough. Who is gaining ground and who is losing ground? Oh, absolutely. Is Israel is winning. Palestinians are losing. And this Middle East peace plan by Jared Kushner. It basically says, like, yeah, we're gonna do this and you don't even get to have a seat at the table. I mean, normally, we would have invited you in the room, but you're not welcome. We're just gonna do this now and you're not going to do anything about it.
Yeah, that's exactly right. And they have got, you know, generally in the Israeli community, in the Israeli press, have come to the conclusion that this is going to happen. It's simply a it's a matter of it's almost like when you have to fire someone who's an employee. Right. They know that this decision has been made, but now they're coming to terms with how they tell that person. It's like, yeah, Palestinians like we're taking all of your territory. What's the what's the most diplomatic way we can put this? And the other element here, too, is that even if the European powers, again, wanted to stop this, even if Belgium was really upset or France or or Sweden were really upset about this, what are they going to do? Right. Even back in the back in the 90s and the 2000s, what are they going to do? And does this matter as much to them? And this is this is the what you get with the US as this massive Israeli golomb is they are going to be calculating, is sabotaging our relationship and incurring the wrath of the U.S. worth standing up against Israel. And because there was never an ability of these European countries or world powers generally to put up a united front against the U.S. in Israel. It's it's continued unabated, relatively unabated until we're at where we are today.
Yeah, I mean, they would have given leaders of France, leaders of Belgium the same choice that they gave John F. Kennedy.
You can have silver or you can have lead. You get one or the other. And most people take silver and some people take lead. And when you try to get in the way of Israel getting nuclear weapons, you get led. And that's what happened. I mean, that's I mean, pretty much there's no reason to suspend all this time on these conspiracy theories that boomers have for decades. But pretty simple to understand in hindsight. And so it's nineteen eighty your Benjamin Netanyahu. And you've been made ambassador to the U.S. for Israel. How do you get from there. Nineteen eighty four. And where he was then to today, where you're on the precipice of annexation of the West Bank in the Jordan Valley. And you have gotten the United States to recognize Jerusalem as the official capital and move the embassy there. I mean, you're Benjamin Netanyahu over the course of 30 years has just been racking up those wins. Hundred and thirty five years, really just just going ham on this stuff. But how does he get there? Right. Because it doesn't just you don't just wave a magic wand and make it happen. And and we know because we've talked about this, that when Bibi was ambassador to the U.S. for Israel, he was already friends with Fred Trump. Nineteen eighty four here. He knew Donald Trump.
He also knew the Rebbie. And the Rebbie is very interesting guy. And we're gonna talk about the Revy here and talk about how bad, Lubavitcher, when you talk about Netanyahu and how all of this got started, because you don't get from where things were in 1984 to where things are today. And it's not just with annexation. It's not just with the embassy move because those things, they don't wanting to do those things for a while. And previous American presidents kept signing the waiver and they weren't allowing it to move forward. They kept signing the waiver every six months. We'll talk about that, too. But they weren't getting what they want. But now all of a sudden, you have all these nationalist populist leaders all over Europe and America and Latin America with both scenario. I mean, you know, you have all these chips on the board. Now, how do you make that happen? How do you transform politics in all of these white countries? Well, we talked about that a little bit with Arthur Finkelstein and how that's worked and all of his proteges and how that has evolved. But we have to go back to the beginning to understand the goals that these people had that they wanted to accomplish and they needed to accomplish accomplish them quickly per the jig net sort of doctrine.
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