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Dr. Vladimir Kozin discusses the Ukraine conflict and explains that Kiev and NATO are the aggressors against the Russian Federation. The U.S. is threatening the use of nuclear weapons on NATO’s eastern flank and has abrogated all arms control agreements. There is little no communication between either side. The Pentagon has stated this war of attrition will continue for at least five years. The western and eastern blocs are fast approaching a Third World War. He comments on Western “state terrorism” (e.g. Nord Stream), Color Revolutions, and believes COVID-19 was a U.S. biological weapon. The West seeks a strategic Russian defeat but Dr. Kozin believes Moscow will win. Watch On BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / PentagonTube Geopolitics & Empire · Vladimir Kozin: Western & Eastern Blocs Fast Approaching Third World War #358 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! 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Geopolitics & Empire: Well, we met briefly in 2017 in Moscow when you spoke to our group, which toured Russia with Sharon Tennison. I’m not a Russian agent. Us Americans, we’re simply engaging in peace diplomacy because we were worried about what’s happening now. We were worried about just that happening. Do you recall those days speaking at Sharon Tennison’s events? Dr. Vladimir Kozin: Well, unfortunately, when we met that time, you have already specified a long time ago, the situation was totally different. Ukraine attacked Donbas and killed a lot of civilians in that area sometimes previously belonged to the Russian Federation before 1922, but the situation was not so dramatic and dangerous as it is nowadays because at that time, when you and your colleagues from Sharon’s organization visited Moscow and talked to me, there was only one aggressor against Donbas, namely Ukraine. But currently, we are confronted with a combination of aggressors, mainly Ukraine, plus NATO alliance. And unlike in the past, when aggressor was launched against two republics inside Donbas, currently it’s a direct aggression of Ukraine plus NATO against not Donbas, but against the Russian Federation. I have to explain shortly this phenomena because since last October, two republics in Donbas, namely Donetsk People’s Republic, and Luhansk People’s Republic, plus Zaporizhzhia region or Oblast in Russian and Kherson region, they joined voluntarily of the Russian Federation. And when we are talking to you, they are 100% accurate subjects of the Russian Federation since 2022 October. The Crimea Republic joined the Russian Federation in 2014. So, that’s the gist of the situation in that part of Europe. The second issue, when we met before in Moscow, there was not so dramatic situation with nuclear weapons, threats to use it. Threats to use it came not from the Russian Federation because in all statements quoted by Western academic community or journalists, there was not a single word like nuclear weapons. There was no such a terminology. But, and why, I’m wondering why the Western community just interpreted Putin’s words as a desire or wish to employ nuclear weapons against Ukraine and the rest of the world. But on the contrary, the desire of the USA and NATO to use nuclear weapons against the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, our ally, have intensified, especially in the area called forward-based areas, where NATO, where Eastern flank of NATO is located, mainly in the Baltic Sea area of the Black Sea area very close to our territory at the Republic of Belarus and to the Russian exclave of the banks of the Baltic Sea. Unfortunately, negative stance that have been pursued by the United States of America in terms of arms control, conventional or nuclear, the situation has not improved. On the contrary, it worsened. And we are still confronted with 15 negative attitude, to 15 arms control agreements that are signed on either on bilateral or on multilateral basis. And during the President Donald Trump tenure, he withdrew from four arms control agreements. And Joseph Biden has not returned or has not rewritten them or renewed them in some way. So, the situation, as I said, is very dramatic, very dangerous. And the Eastern Bloc and Western Bloc approach to the Third World War very close. So, that’s the end of my bullet points. And I’m looking forward to hearing your questions. Geopolitics & Empire: Just as you’ve mentioned, I recently had on a Western academic who said that he went through 50-plus of Putin’s speeches, and he agrees with you. He said that Putin never used the threat of nuclear weapons. So, we’ve got both West and East agreeing on that, academics And maybe to further get your thoughts as to what is really going on with Ukraine, to me, it seems like a once-in-a-century moment, a very serious moment that signals great power, conflict, a stage of transition even because we’re dealing with serious economic issues in the West as well as this desire by the West for global hegemony, domination. You’ve, in previous talks you’ve given, called this Cold War 2.0, which is even deadlier. And you cite Putin, who said the goal of US and NATO is to deliver a strategic defeat of Russia. So, if you could go further. We understand you laid out the Ukrainian assaults on Donbas. But if we go deeper, looking at the bigger historical context, what do you feel is really happening? Dr. Vladimir Kozin: Well, currently, as I said, there is an all-out aggression of NATO alliance against the Russian Federation per se. We are also feeling direct threat from nuclear wars or nuclear weapons stored nearby and conventional weapons also moved very closely to our territory. We are also seeing that there is no major breakthrough in resolution of the outer space activity despite the Mir scientific research lab in outer space. And we, despite all this calamities and difficulties and attacks and arm deliveries, we are still collaborating in outer space with the United States of America and some other countries like situated in Persian Gulf area or in Japan, for example. The threat is very high because I haven’t seen any improvement in Western position towards the Russian Federation. We have confronted with a huge amount of economic, financial, and individual sanctions. And nowadays, only the United States of America will be able to send its armored vehicles, tank, and Multiple Launch Rocket Systems and any petrol interceptors, interceptor systems in 33rd time. So, in the 33rd basket, as Washington puts it, there are no negotiations. There are no telephone exchanges like in the past using code lines and direct presidential telephone lines, no delegations. We have, the Russian Federation, suspended our participation in the new start and without any glimpse of hope to resume our full-fledged participation. So, the story is not good; it’s very bad. And you were right when you reminded me that the Cold War is not over. It acquired completely qualitatively new dimension called the Cold War two-point or 2.0, like the second version, the second type of Cold War. And I’ve heard that the joint chiefs of staff of the United States Armed Forces, especially General Mark Milley, revealed that the Americans are planning to continue this aggression against the Russian Federation in the heart of Europe, I mean in Ukraine for the next five years. That is actually the war of attrition, and nobody except us was able to protect the civilians in Donbas. And by the way, several figures updated from April 2014 when interim president of Ukraine, Turchynov, signed a decree to launch an anti-terrorist operation against Donbas, but actually using a regular armed forces of Ukraine against the civilian in Donbas till February last year when the current president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, started another stage of aggression exactly on 14 of February 2022. That’s 10 days before we launched counterattack against Ukrainian aggression. So, plus nearly 5,000 more civilians have been killed in Donbas only, in this two republics I mentioned. So, totally 14,000 in the previous stage of aggression, plus nearly 5,000 in the current aggression. So, it’s more than 19,000 people killed in Donbas and several dozen thousands injured, wounded, etc. I am not talking about huge destruction of social infrastructure, houses, schools, hospitals, water and gas supply systems, whatnot, everything. So, there are no chances to continue political negotiations that started soon after we responded to the Ukrainian aggression at the end of February 2022, and it lasted till the end of March last year, interrupted, by the way, by the Kyiv side. There are no chances to resume such negotiations because Kyiv and Moscow, they have totally opposite view what could be the agenda of the next round of talks and what will be the preferred options for a political settlement of this story. So, 180% degree totally different. So, that’s it. Geopolitics & Empire: You mentioned terrorism. That was my next question, something you’ve been writing about as well, referring to Syria and what recently transpired with the destruction of Nord Stream, which Putin called state terrorism. And objectively, I would agree with him. We had Seymour Hersh come out. I had a guest on last year, a Vietnam veteran back in October, who his thesis was that the blowing up of Nord Stream had the fingerprints of the CIA on it. And we’ve seen political assassinations of individuals, of non-combatants, like Darya Dugina. I understand that the FSB recently reported that they stopped another assassination attempt on the owner of the Orthodox TV channel Tsargrad TV. We had the Kerch Bridge incident in Crimea. And I know the Russians like to use the term provocations. I like to use the term false flag operations. And what is your assessment of these types of events that the West keeps on carrying out, Nord Stream, this state terrorism or false flag operations in Syria, the staged chemical attacks that we saw? I know Lavrov and others like to use the word cynical. I think it’s too soft. But what do you make of this strategy and the West continuing to apply this? Dr. Vladimir Kozin: Well, as to the first portion of your question concerning the explosion in the Baltic Sea of the Nord Stream pipelines, we do not have any doubt that this blast was engineered and implemented by the United States of America and with the help of Norwegian Armed Forces. I don’t know whether Denmark and/or Sweden knew beforehand, but I have a personal suspicion that the Federal Republic of Germany knew about the preplanned explosion of the Nord Stream pipelines because I can recall the press conference conducted both by President Joseph Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz exactly on the 7th of February 2022. That is before our special military operation. And it was a clear statement, especially from the US president, that he will be able to do that when he replied to a question of a lady news person. So, a simple group of saboteurs or terrorists cannot do this job. And we do not believe story that appeared on the 7th of March this year in the New York Times that allegedly pro-Ukrainian group was responsible for this underwater attack on our gas pipeline. No, it cannot be done by a group of six or seven persons alone because they won’t be able to deliver a huge amount of high explosive and put it on the pipes, on the gas pipelines exactly, you see, under deep water about roughly 90 or 100 meters deep in the Baltic Sea. It was especially invented story not only to cut off Russian gas supply to Europe via Germany, but the major plan was to attract Germany from the Russian side in terms of getting Russian natural gas to Germany and then some other countries on the European continent. And the Americans were beneficiary in this story. They tripled or quadrupled the price for its liquefied gas to Europe and also managed to urge Germany to supply more heavy weapons to the current Kyiv regime. But as to the Crimean Bridge explosion, it was a clear-cut story. As Ukrainian Special Services, Special Security Service stood behind its terrorist attack on the bridge, and currently, it’s fully operational, so it’s not a problem nowadays. But it was also arranged by Ukrainian side. Well, there are plenty of other terrorist attacks planned to be used, biological or bacteriological weapons and chemical weapons on Ukrainian territory. And more than 40 biolabs are run jointly by the Pentagon and the Ukrainian Armed Forces. They have been planning to use biological or bacteriological covert agents against the Russian Federation, but we prevented this plan to be effective, to be launched. So, chemical warfare agents are being dropped occasionally on the Russian troops deployment on this part of Europe. That is very bad because chemical warfare convention and biological or bacteriological and toxin weapons convention are prohibiting to use this kind of mass media weapons everywhere. But unfortunately, Washington and Kyiv disregard the fact that they have signed these conventions both together. So, we haven’t used either bacteriological, or chemical warfare agents, or nuclear agents, or nuclear weapons in Ukraine or against the Western community. But we managed to overcome economic and financial sanctions. And despite the fact that we lost some amount of money from selling oil and coal and gas to European countries, we managed to divert supplier routes of selling gas and oil, liquefied natural gas as well, plus coal to the countries located in the Asia-Pacific region, especially to India and the People’s Republic of China. So, the situation in Moscow is very good salaries and pensions. Wages are being paid in time without any delays. And government is increasing the volume of income in terms of rubles, in terms of local currency. The exchange rate is not so tragic as Joseph Biden once predicted. It’s today is $1 is being sold by the banks the level of 75 rubles per $1 and about 80 rubles per one Euro. So, yes. Are you okay? Any question? Geopolitics & Empire: Yeah. You mentioned biological. And I wanted to just maybe take a turn towards that because, related to COVID-19 as well, because back in January of 2020, I was the first to interview the author of the Biological Weapons Act that was signed into law by George Bush in 1989, Dr. Francis Boyle. In fact, I was contacted this week by a German film company who wants to use an extract of that interview. And he posits that COVID is a biological weapon. And it’s coming out more and more this thesis from the West, from American experts and politicians that COVID may have principally been a Pentagon project, DARPA, the Department of Defense. And I have listened to some Russian military experts claiming that this was a Western agenda, this COVID biological project, to lower the population and attempts to control parts of the world. Do you have any opinion on that? Dr. Vladimir Kozin: Yes. We still believe that this COVID-19, yeah, has been developed and specifically implanted in the People’s Republic of China by the US military delegation that visited China prior to this pandemic, the global pandemic, and spread it. And people were not familiar with this kind of thing, simply believing that it’s a seasonal flu. We call it in Russian [foreign language 00:29:39], not grip like this, holding something, but yeah, it is influenza. It’s a seasonal influenza, with a runny nose, with running temperature, a splitting head, etc. Nothing terrible. But it was very dangerous because the viruses went deeper into the lungs and then caused pneumonia. And people who have not been treated properly at the time just died very quickly in several days. I know from my personal contacts of France and colleagues that some people died very quickly because they think that they could simply lay in the bed, stay at home, consume normal medium pills, and they will recover very soon. But they lost the time because a special treatment was necessary. Currently, we managed to overcome this disease. And we developed a special vaccine to defeat the COVID viruses. And currently, there is a repetition of this COVID disease in the Russian Federation, but not at the highest level than it was let’s say one year and a half, two years ago, three years ago. I was very much surprised that our vaccine, I used by myself. I tested it several times by myself. It’s a two-stage vaccine called Sputnik V. V means victory, Sputnik victory. In Russian, that was called Sputnik V. I had several times vaccination procedures. And I never was affected. My family also wasn’t affected. We were not affected by any type of coronavirus because there was several forms of it, the previous or the initial one and then some forms of other types, etc. So, that’s it. And then I was very much surprised that the Russian-developed vaccine was neglected in the West. We wanted to provide it at very cheap prices, in some cases free of charge where the outbreak was severe and help many countries by sending them just on a grant-in-aid basis for free of charge. There were several other types of vaccines, and we are not afraid of any potential outbreak. But this is a very horrible planetary or global disease. And the world community should unite in combating this kind of disease rather than to separate and to refuse any potential vaccination. Geopolitics & Empire: And going back to what we were discussing, I’ve got another question. When it comes to NATO and missile defense, and when it comes to Ukraine, I’m very well aware the danger for Russia of Ukraine becoming a NATO member, and then the United States deploying into Ukraine nuclear missiles, missile defense, which can become offense and create, say, for Russia a defacto sort of first-strike situation from Ukraine to Russia. But then, we’re now hearing that Sweden and Finland want to join NATO. So, if Sweden and Finland become NATO members and then US deploys nuclear forces into, say, Finland and installs missile defense/offense there, what threat would that pose to Russia having Finland in NATO? Dr. Vladimir Kozin: Well, it will be considered in the Kremlin, in Moscow in general terms, and in the country, in my country in general terms as a very serious and direct threat to our national defense and our national security because from mid-50s of last century, there is still on the European continent, the US tactical nuclear weapons that sometimes if loaded on heavy strategic bombers can perform strategic missions rather than tactical nuclear missions and in four countries of Europe, like Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, plus in the Asian part of Turkey in Asia League near Adana. So, it’s one type of danger. Second type of danger is the Baltic air-policing, a NATO Air Force operation conducted 24 hours day and night and each day and night throughout each year. And there are dual-capable aircraft that are participating in this kind of operation that are capable to carry conventional and nuclear weapons. For example, the newly emerged B61-12 gravitational bomb, nuclear bomb, have a maximum yield of 50, like five-zero kiloton of the TNT equivalent, and it’s very close to us and the Baltic States. We believe that the NATO countries and the United States of America have already agreed to deploy nuclear bombs of the B61 family to the three Baltic Republics, plus Poland, and probably to the second version of the same kind of operation called the Balkans air-policing operations involving the Romania and Bulgaria. And plus, yes, there are possibilities that the U of S might employ tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine because the talks to deliver F-15 to Ukrainian Armed Forces that are able to carry nuclear weapons, nuclear bombs is very dangerous for us because the F-16 is a certified carrier of the US tactical nuclear weapons and depends on the type of the aircraft in terms of letters, because F-16 is divided in several modifications, so A, B, C, etc. If A is surely it’s a nuclear capable aircraft. Plus we cannot abstain from the fact that already of the US heavy strategic bombers like B-52H already flew above Ukrainian territory and approached several years ago southern regions of the Russian Federation, I mean near Rostov-on-Don, Rostov-na-Donu. And by the way, the same type of aircraft participated in US strategic drills in the sky of Lithuania, very close to the Kaliningrad exclave, Kaliningrad region 60 kilometers from the Neman River separating Kaliningrad region from Lithuania. And they fired missiles and dropped bombs naturally dummy bombs not stuffed with nuclear charges. It was kind of for educational, for training purposes. But nevertheless, it was also a dangerous situation. And unfortunately, all these kind of negative stories I have just numerated to you, we have tabled in the middle of December of 2021 to NATO and separately to the United States of America with certain draft agreements to be signed guaranteeing security for all of us, Russia and the Western Alliance. But unfortunately, in next January, in January of ’22, we received from each of these sources, from Brussels, from Washington a negative response. So, I think I do not understand why we cannot live in peace and tranquility like normal human beings, why America is threatening us. Does it envy that we have a huge economic potential, huge territory, water, resources, gas, oil, etc.? But it doesn’t matter. We can just sell it, buy something else from, for Western countries, from NATO. Like in the past, actually the former Soviet Union and later on the Russian Federation, we helped Europe to become very strong economically because we sold natural gas and oil and coal and wood, etc. and at very cheap prices. And I’m very much surprised at how we sold our natural resources at very cheap prices. So, we just made a very grave mistake that we have done so. Geopolitics & Empire: Yeah. I just feel the US, I mean, it’s been mentioned in previous interviews with you, we can read the white papers from the Rand Corporation, the Wolfowitz Doctrine, the Project for a New American Century, Halford Mackinder a century ago keeping Germany and Russia from coming together. And basically, recently, in the recent months, we’ve seen the major Western papers like Atlantic and others talking about decolonizing Russia, Balkanizing Russia, breaking it up. Putin in speeches going back many years says the West’s goal is to defang and declaw the Russian bear. I mean, would you agree that that’s their goal? I mean, I feel like they want full-spectrum dominance. Dr. Vladimir Kozin: Yeah. Geopolitics & Empire: They want to take over the planet. No? Dr. Vladimir Kozin: Yes. So, we have been considered as an enemy number one from the year [inaudible 00:43:16] in the eyes and in the minds of many, many V.I.P. politicians in the Western community. And all military and economic and financial schemes have been developed first of all to disintegrate the Russian Federation like we ourselves disintegrated the former Soviet Union. Second, to arrange a regime change and replace the current Russian president and commander-in-chief by some other person, always bowing to the West, always agreeing on the special rules invented in NATO countries. But the recent public opinion poll conducted in my country shows that President Putin has more than 80% of popularity, positive remarks from rank-and-file citizens of my country. That’s a very good, very formidable figure. And it says that he’s very popular, given that we have been pushed to forestall the under aggression from Ukraine and NATO against Donbas initially and later on against us, totally. But we will manage to overcome this kind of difficulties because we have a lot of aggressors in our history. And they sometimes captured even huge west territory of the Russian Empire, of the Russian land in the ancient times and medieval ages, and later on very close to our contemporary history. But we always won. We always won, and aggressor has been punished in all cases. And with each such outside aggression, we came out much stronger than we had been before such aggression. And I don’t understand why many Western leaders neglect the lessons of history. History shows that we will win even in this current combined Ukraine and NATO aggression against the Russian Federation and its people. We will win sooner or later. I don’t know when we will get this victory, but nevertheless, even recently, both president and Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, they have outlined the major three goals outlined in the famous Putin’s address to the nation in early in the morning of 24th of February 2022 to denazify Ukraine, to demilitarize Ukraine, and to maintain national security and national defense of the Russian Federation. These three strategic goals are ironclad for ourselves. And we will be able to do that. Certainly, it will take some time. It’s not an easy job. As I said, 33rd basket of military hardware delivery to Kyiv, it prevents us to be very quick because without US, and NATO, and non-NATO countries’ military assistance to Ukraine, we could have been able to finish this aggression very quickly because people in Donbas are on our side, plus two southern regions. Zaporozhian region and Kherson region, well Crimean as well, definitely, the referenda that took place in these five new territories showed that the huge majority of the people in these republics or just regions are in favor of joining the Russian Federation. And we accepted them. They are pure Russians. It was very normal exit or normal behavior for Zelenskyy, for NATO, for the United States of America, the way out in the following way, not to let Ukrainian aggression against Donbas and the Russian Federation, but to start normal behavior of Ukraine with Ukrainian citizens in Donbas, not blocking, not banning the use of Russian language, the national language, not prohibiting to profess Christian Orthodox religion, not to ban normal, local, cultural, etc., help them economically, financially. But instead, Zelenskyy have chosen quite an awkward path leading this country into a deep canyon, a deep abyss. Geopolitics & Empire: Yeah. As you mentioned, I often do refer to history. Napoleon failed. Hitler failed. And- Dr. Vladimir Kozin: Yes. First World War, also Kaiser just, we lost a little bit, but later on we, regained our territory. So, there are plenty of big examples and much deeper into history when Tatar and Mongols just intruded into the ancient Russia and even burned Kyiv and destroyed Kyiv. The capital of Kyiv’s the Rus at that time, a long time ago. But nevertheless, we managed to concentrate our efforts and as people and to deliver a decisive blow to any aggressor. And that definitely [inaudible 00:50:45] afraid of the current Ukrainian regime. It’s- Geopolitics & Empire: I had- Dr. Vladimir Kozin: Yes, go ahead, please. Geopolitics & Empire: One other concern I had that’s interesting for me now is apart from what we talked about, the nuclear aspect and these things, the use of color revolutions. And so, I wrote my graduate thesis on this in the Geneva School of Diplomacy. And we’ve seen how this other weapon that the West has deployed, the 2003 Georgia Rose Revolution. It seems like they’re trying to do another color revolution in Georgia as we speak. Last year, I used to live in Kazakhstan. I was employed by Nazarbayev. And I actually, on the ground, I came into contact with these color revolutionary forces. My Kazakh students were participating with NGOs financed by National Endowment, and Open Society, and USAID. And I actually told the Kazakh government. I had the Kazakh Secret Service speak with me about this. And I was, as an American, trying to warn Kazakhstan that I don’t approve of my government overthrowing foreign governments. And so, I was concerned for the sovereignty of Kazakhstan. And so, we saw they try in Kazakhstan last year, Pakistan, they even tried to assassinate [inaudible 00:52:05], Georgia again, now, on and on. Do you have any comment on this tactic, this strategy of color revolution? Dr. Vladimir Kozin: Yes. The color revolution strategy in many cases turned to be very fruitful and very positive for its masterminded people, for the engineers of this kind of color revolution, especially by using NGOs in every strata of society, in every professional circles, and widely supported and supplied with the US dollars and other currencies. In Ukraine, for example, why the position just got the power in 2014, simply because the United States, like USAID and some other agencies, official agencies, helped to flourish of 400 different Ukrainian NGOs who were hostile to the current regime that time. And they just took the power very, very easily. Something like 100 persons perished in during the Maidan resistance in February 2014 or early in December of 2013 as well. So, it was very easy just for a method of taking power by the opposition groups in many, many countries. And you mentioned Kazakhstan. Yes, it is the same story because while with NGOs and various centers, clubs, discussion, discussion community, whatnot, you can then penetrate into the society and persuade that they could live in a better world if they change the government, they will have a paradise and have huge football fields and palaces everywhere and they so desire. So, they have been cheated. But the thing is that all this color revolution were aimed to reach one aim: to make the leadership and the country where the color revolution have been arranged to be pro-western, to be anti-Russian, to be anti-everything who is professing normal human behavior, and human contacts, and free trade, real free trade but not trade with the help of sanctions with a cap prices introduced or imposed by ill-visioned personalities. Geopolitics & Empire: A question, because you mentioned normal. And one of my final questions to get your thoughts on the West, I’ve been worried for 20 years as an American, also as a Croatian, now also a Mexican, but the decline of the West, the decline of US empire. But we’re seeing it economically deteriorate. We’re seeing the rise of authoritarianism in this country that pretends to be free and democratic. My own American government is shutting off my financial accounts just for having conversations like this, not doing anything illegal or violent. It’s happening in Europe. Alina Lipp, a German citizen, had even her parents’ bank accounts were shut off by Brussels and Berlin. This is not democracy, this is totalitarianism. And culturally as well, Putin, and Russians, and other, many other, I’ve been talking about this for 20 years, we see this, I think Putin called it this satanism. It’s openly being celebrated now at these Hollywood film awards. Recently, you had open displays of satanism in the entertainment industry. Next month in America, they’re going to have the biggest it’s literally called Satan Conference. And so, it’s so in our face. But what opinion do you have of the decline of US empire, but also this spiritual strangeness that’s going on? Dr. Vladimir Kozin: Well, I hate any spiritual wars because the Lord, the God created all of us as equals, as human beings on a very small planet called the Earth. And we have to understand the simple truth that we can benefit all of us. It doesn’t matter in what country we live or just in what countries we are traveling. We have to live in peace, not a [inaudible 00:58:00] manner of just intimidating or just changing the governments in some other countries. Only while this pattern and through increasing the bonds in the traditional families via traditional families, that is a normal behavior. In our constitution, we recognize, for example, the family affairs, official family affairs between he and her as the union between gentleman and the lady. Only they it can produce kids, etc. That’s also a sacred gift of the Lord. We cannot invent something else. It would be against Mother Nature, against the wisdom that the Almighty God advised all of us via his prophets that do everything that is in favor of your brothers and sisters. Do not create wars. Only sacred war are permitted. But selfish wars, aggressions for the sake of killing civilians by using regular armed forces in any country is a great sin and should be punished and condemned in every corner of the world. If people will understand this, I mean, all countries, we are having nearly 200 different countries, states, nations, if we understand this, I mean, we will live very good life, we ourselves and succeeding generations as well. But if we continue to intimidate people to supply arms to warmongers, we will suffer all of us- … because there is a risk that there will be no winners and no losers because everybody will die, especially if nuclear weapons are used in all-out nuclear war in Armageddon, in nuclear holocaust. So, that’s the noble task, not to this thing, this story to happen, to implement. That’s why the outcome, for example, to this Ukrainian and NATO aggression, the remedy, the cure role is very simple: The Western community should stop supplying arms to Ukraine and should persuade Zelenskyy to accept the five territories in Ukraine became the part and parcel of its Mother Russia. They belong to Russia historically, culturally, religiously, and linguistically. He should recognize that. And there are some other positive things, like paying compensation to those nearly 20,000 civilians killed in Donbas and in other areas. I am not talking about G.I.s, military service men, the Russian Federation of Ukraine. It’s a different story. But nevertheless, if the war continues, we will move with each inch, or centimeter, or meter very close to the Third World War. Unlucky scenario, unacceptable by any reasonable, rational personality. Geopolitics & Empire: Just one more question, then: Do you feel the future is multipolar? There’s a lot of talk about this. Do you feel the general trend, if we don’t go into a nuclear war, do you feel like we’re moving into a multipolar system? Dr. Vladimir Kozin: Yes. The multipolar, it’s the only way we have to follow. Unipolar world or one polar world is not a proper path for the future because unipolar world would be, I can imagine, if we can speak only English and we were just believing in one God. We just will have the same culture with the same taste of food, etc., etc., etc. But if we have been created by the Lord in such a way we are existing, that means that we should be internationalists and to treat the opposite number in dignity, with respect, with honor. To be internationalists, that’s the only way out. And if we are having still nearly 200 states, countries, we should live together like good neighbors, like good neighbors in my multi-story house in Moscow. Geopolitics & Empire: That’s a great final thought. Dr. Vladimir Kozin: Yeah. There is no other option. I like to travel to the United States when we had nice chats with the rank-and-file people. And even with the military, soon after when the Soviet Union disintegrated and we had this, so to say, a rose garden period in our relationship with NATO countries and NATO military men, I visited military centers in the United States, some military bases, just moved by British destroyer from one part of the Atlantic to the other one, then visited multilayer SSM US Navy, right? And we landed on the Carlos Wilson nuclear power aircraft carrier in the Pacific during [inaudible 01:05:34] trial, or a liftoff and land on using arresting gears and steam catapult. Yeah, it was a fantastic period of time. And we have managed to sign a lot of arms control agreement during that time though the Cold War was not officially over, wasn’t officially over between East and West. So, the Russian Federation is not guilty for what had happened in the year ’22 and in the year 2023. About Dr. Vladimir Kozin Dr. Vladimir Kozin is a member of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences; member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences; Vice President of the Russian National Institute for Global Security Research; Winner of Colonel-General Varfolomei Korobushin Reward (Russian Strategic Missiles Forces) and Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Reward; and a Leading Expert at the Center for Military-Political Studies of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). *Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Hügo Krüger gives his realpolitik perspective on the U.S.-provoked war in Ukraine. He explains how the U.S. is again attempting regime change in Iran. While he does fear the destructive force of nuclear weapons, he questions the danger of subsequent radioactive fallout. He still believes people will be able to adapt around the Algorithm Ghetto just like in apartheid South Africa or Soviet Russia. Watch On BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / PentagonTube Geopolitics & Empire · Hügo Krüger: Ukraine, Iran, Nuclear Fallout, & How I Learned to Love the Algorithm Ghetto #357 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopoliticseasyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.comEscape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopoliticsPassVult https://passvult.comSociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.comWise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites Website https://hkrugertjie.substack.com YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@hugo_kruger Twitter https://twitter.com/hkrugertjie About Hügo Krüger Hügo Krüger is a civil and nuclear engineer. He served on the SRC at the University of Pretoria in 2011 and had the portfolio Multilingualism and Culture. He is a graduate from UP and ESTP in France. His interests include technology, human nature, politics and economics. *Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Emmanuel Daniel discusses the idea of East versus West and it being a Western construct, we’re in a multipolar world. He argues the U.S. is a dysfunctional state because it spearheads the development of new systems of governance and suffers the consequences, but that the rest of the world shares in those benefits. He explains how China became successful and how the “reset” of the Cultural Revolution played a role. He doesn’t feel the U.S is declining but rather pushing ahead into the networked world. Just like the U.S. had to reinvent itself in 1971 by closing the gold window, he feels we are at another critical juncture where the U.S. will pull yet another trick and take the world into a digital economy (e.g. CBDCs, metaverse). Watch On BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / PentagonTube Geopolitics & Empire · Emmanuel Daniel: U.S. Will Pull Another 1971 & Launch World Into Metaverse! #356 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopoliticseasyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.comEscape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopoliticsPassVult https://passvult.comSociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.comWise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites Website https://www.emmanueldaniel.com Twitter https://twitter.com/EmmanuelDaniel Books https://www.amazon.com/stores/Emmanuel-Daniel/author/B0B816RMYF About Emmanuel Daniel Emmanuel Daniel is a global thought leader in the future of finance. He is an entrepreneur, writer, and listed as a top 10 global influencer in the “Fintech Power50” list for 2021 and 2022. Much of Emmanuel’s writing covers the future of finance, with a special focus on how cryptocurrencies, blockchain, gaming, and other technologies are opening the doors to new transactional opportunities. His next book, “The Great Transition – the personalization of finance is here,” is slated for September, 30th 2022 and covers how the US has shaped worldwide financial innovations. Emmanuel travels widely and has visited more than 100 countries and is working on his next book tentatively titled “The Winning Civilization.” As an entrepreneur, he was previously a member of the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO), a prestigious grouping of young business owners worldwide. Emmanuel was trained as a lawyer, has degrees from the National University of Singapore and the University of London, and attended a course on economics at Columbia University in New York. He travels widely and divides his time between Singapore, Beijing, and New York. *Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Dr. Adam Stulberg provides his analysis of the situation in Ukraine which has become a war of attrition characterized by constant surprise for all participants. The Russian military is learning from its mistakes. He discusses and quantifies the use of red lines by Russia, how they can be interpreted as hollow threats, but how they can also be understood as a different and opaque approach by Moscow to competitive bargaining which blurs lines between peace and war and increases uncertainty, which is doubly dangerous. The Russians see sanctions as part of a new definition of war (e.g. information, energy diplomacy, hybrid, next generation) and thus far have solidly absorbed the shocks. Energy is becoming less and less a potent instrument of political and strategic influence. Domestic politics is going to be playing a bigger role in the war going forward given the elections taking place in many countries. Watch On BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / PentagonTube Geopolitics & Empire · Adam Stulberg: On Russian Red Lines, Failure of Sanctions, & Energy Losing Potency as a Weapon #355 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopoliticseasyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.comEscape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopoliticsPassVult https://passvult.comSociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.comWise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites Sam Nunn School of International Affairs https://inta.gatech.edu/people/person/adam-n-stulberg 3rd Annual Nunn School Symposium: Lessons from Russia’s War in Ukraine for the West https://iac.gatech.edu/news-events/experts-reflect-year-war-ukraine About Dr. Adam Stulberg Dr. Stulberg is Sam Nunn Professor and Chair in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on international security, Russia/Eurasian politics and security affairs, nuclear (non)proliferation, and energy and international security, as well as inter-disciplinary courses on science, technology, and international security policy. His current research focuses on the geopolitics of oil and gas networks, energy security dilemmas and statecraft in Eurasia, Russia and “gray zone” conflicts, new approaches to strategic stability, internationalization of the nuclear fuel cycle, and implications of emerging technologies for strategic stability and international security. Dr. Stulberg earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as holds an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, an M.A. in Political Science from UCLA, and a B.A. in History from the University of Michigan. He served as a Political Consultant at RAND from 1987-1997, and as a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (1997-1998). He has worked closely with former Senator Sam Nunn drafting policy recommendations and background studies on future directions for the U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, building regional and energy security regimes in Central Asia and the South Caucasus, and engaging Russia’s regional power centers. Dr. Stulberg was a post-doctoral fellow at CNS; policy scholar at the EastWest Institute; and has been a consultant to the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Office of Net Assessment, Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense. Dr. Stulberg has authored and edited five books, and has published widely in leading academic and policy journals. In addition, he served on the Executive Committee of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Technical Group, American Nuclear Society (2012-14). Dr. Stulberg maintains a conspicuous presence both inside and outside of the classroom at Georgia Tech. He is a two-time recipient of the INTA Graduate Student Association’s “Professor of the Year,” and has received the same honor from Sigma Iota Rho, the international affairs undergraduate honor society. Dr. Stulberg was a CETL teaching fellow, and a Hesburgh Teaching Fellow. He also was the recipient of the 2010 Ivan Allen Jr. Legacy Faculty Award in recognition for his scholarship, as well as a “demonstrated commitment to serving students at the College, the Institute, and in the Community.” Dr. Stulberg has served on numerous school, college, and campus-wide committees, including as Chair of the Sam Nunn-Bank of America Policy Forum (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2020-21). He was previously on the Faculty Advisory Board and is currently an Associate Director of the Strategic Energy Institute (a GT Institute-wide Center). In 2016, the Neal Family Endowed Chair was bestowed upon Dr. Stulberg; he was appointed Chair of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in July 2019. *Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Etienne de la Boetie² explains how we are ruled by inter-generational organized criminal networks. He views government as a technique to rob and control populations and statism as a religion. He further discusses our rule by oligarchy, how media is controlled, and how Amazon is “A Mason”. He touches on solutions and how to unplug from the government scam. Watch On BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / PentagonTube Geopolitics & Empire · Etienne de la Boetie²: We Are Ruled By Inter-Generational Organized Crime #354 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopoliticseasyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.comEscape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopoliticsPassVult https://passvult.comSociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.comWise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites Linktree https://linktr.ee/artofliberty Government Scam https://government-scam.com Substack https://artofliberty.substack.com About Etienne de la Boetie2 Etienne de la Boetie² is the nom de plume of a voluntaryist author, father, technology entrepreneur, cyclist, runner, hot yogi, multi-disciplinarian truther, armchair economist, cryptocurrency enthusiast, and neo-abolitionist who is experimenting with large-scale cult deprogramming. Mr. Boetie² distills 20+ years of research into short, easily-digestible treatises on individual subjects and optimizes them for the 65% of society who are visual learners. Boetie includes references and links to more comprehensive research and the “authentic voices” of the developing alternative media. *Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Former GCHQ Officer Alex Thomson discusses the Anglo-American establishment’s fixation on Ukraine as the underbelly of the World Island and how it is not in the interest now of either the West or the Russians to de-escalate. The logic of the expansionist system on both sides is that they’re more interested in a Third World War or an eternal penumbra of Doomsday as opposed to the return of a Westphalian order. There is not a better world solution coming from Russia or China where there also exists world domination-minded elements. Very few national leaders remain who are willing and able to oppose globalism, there is an inevitable trend toward world government. He’s optimistic about being able to survive the Algorithm Ghetto via parallel structures and also comments on prophecy, information operations, and antisemitic trolls. Watch On BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / PentagonTube Geopolitics & Empire · Alex Thomson: Both East & West Are Interested in WW3 or an Eternal Penumbra of Doomsday #353 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopoliticseasyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.comEscape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopoliticsPassVult https://passvult.comSociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.comWise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites UK Column https://www.ukcolumn.org Telegram https://t.me/EastApp YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@AlexThomson-EasternApproaches About Alex Thomson After learning what today’s British Establishment was all about at Rugby School and Cambridge, Alex Thomson served in a Christian mission in the former Soviet Union and went on to spend the rest of his twenties as a GCHQ officer. He moved to the Netherlands aged thirty in 2009 and has spent the last decade more quietly as a translator and interpreter and a researcher of networked evil. Since 2014, Alex has presented his emerging findings via the Eastern Approaches brand on UK Column News, where his specialisms are Europe, geopolitics, religious affairs and constitutional matters. He maintains the Eastern Approaches channel, mostly of careful readings of key documents indicating the scope of corruption of British and Western public life. *Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Raw Egg Nationalist discusses the ancient understanding between diet and social control and how food plays a key role in the enslavement as well as the liberation of humanity. The original Great Reset took place during the Agricultural Revolution with a transformation from animal-based agriculture to a plant-based diet. WEF’s Great Reset seeks a global corporate governance where the citizenry once again returns to a meatless diet. Climate Migration will be one of the key ways globalism is advanced. We’ve been on a civilizational trajectory where liberalism has led to the liberation of humankind from itself which is essentially transhumanism. There is nowhere to hide from world government, we have to stand and fight, here and now. Watch On BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / PentagonTube Geopolitics & Empire · Raw Egg Nationalist: Nowhere To Hide From World Government, We Must Stand & Fight #352 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopoliticseasyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.comEscape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopoliticsPassVult https://passvult.comSociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.comWise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites Twitter https://twitter.com/Babygravy9 Man’s World https://mansworldmag.org The Eggs Benedict Option https://antelopehillpublishing.com/product/the-eggs-benedict-option-by-the-raw-egg-nationalist Raw Egg Nationalism Cookbook https://antelopehillpublishing.com/product/raw-egg-nationalism-cookbook Raw Egg Nationalist https://www.raweggnationalist.com Lnk Bio https://lnk.bio/RAWEGGNATIONALIST About Raw Egg Nationalist Raw Egg Nationalist is the star of the recent Tucker Carlson documentary The End of Men, author of multiple books on health and fitness, and figurehead of the raw egg nationalism movement. His latest book, “The Eggs Benedict Option”, is the ultimate guide to the Great Reset plan for food, and how we can resist it and usher in a new pro-human future. The book is available now from antelopehillpublishing.com, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other third-party retailers. NOW ANNOUNCING: The MAN’S WORLD Magazine website and store. Visit the new MAN’S WORLD website (mansworldmag.org) to view every issue of the magazine and buy amazing exclusive merchandise, including based t-shirts and much more! *Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Gilbert Doctorow discusses how the U.S. and Russia are testing each other’s red lines in a bid to avoid Doomsday. Russia felt existentially threatened and thus needed to push back U.S. and NATO presence in Ukraine. The war is also existential for the U.S. Both sides seek to prolong the war. The most depressing thing is that everything Gilbert disliked about the Soviet Union has now moved to the United States. Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / PentagonTube Geopolitics & Empire · Gilbert Doctorow: The U.S. & Russia Are Testing Each Other’s Red Lines #341 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! 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You discussed Russia revising their nuclear plans in light of fears the US via Ukraine targets Crimea and heartland Russia, these plans for sea counterstrikes against US military instillation in Europe and in the continental US using hypersonic missiles and you point out that a panelist on Russian TV for the threat of counterstrikes in Europe and the US to made public and explicit so that no one is in doubt about what to expect from the Kremlin. You also wrote that, “The Russians are stripping away the fiction of a proxy war and revealing the cobelligerent status of the US and its NATO allies in preparation for a kinetic war with NATO.” And your conclusion in your recent piece, freaking me out, you write, “Back in 1937, there were Jews in Berlin who decided they could ride out the storm and stay put, there were others that took the first boats out to England, to the US, to South America. All of us in the Northern Hemisphere now may be facing the same existential choice,” and apart from what you’ve pointed out, I am seeing many similar signals, reports, and movements to back up what your possible vision of the future. And so could you give us your breakdown of the Ukraine war and this East versus West proxy war, which is basically a World War 3 scenario, could you tell us from your vantage point what’s going on? Gilbert Doctorow: First of all, there is a lot of mirror imagery here between what the Russians are doing and the United States are doing. In the United States, they don’t see this, there is a condescension towards Russia, a condescension towards most of the world, and in Washington, they cannot simply take in the fact that the Russians could be playing them the same way they think they’re playing the Russians. What do I have in mind? Both sides have been playing what is commonly described as turning up the temperature on the frog in a pot. That is to say both sides have been doing baby steps, incremental escalation of the sort that they’re testing the red lines of the other side and as for the United States, they don’t see the Russians are doing this. But I assure you they are and what is behind it on both sides is a caution not to do something dramatic. The Russians have from the very start, for a variety of reasons, have avoided the American way of war of shock and awe, devastating the enemy and then proceeding to clean up. Of course, that shock and awe and easy cleanup was done is in recent by the United States against third-rate military powers, whether it’s Iraq or any of the smaller countries that the United States has devastated, and there’ve been many of them in the last 20 years, they were never peer to peer fights. What we see now in the case of Russia and Ukraine can be described as a peer to peer combat. Ukraine, after all, may be three times smaller than Russia, but none the less, it is packed with weapons and they had built over the last eight years very competently defense trenches and fortifications on the border, at the point of demarcation with the Donbas to ensure that they would be well protected in case the Russians came up to the line and started striking them. So the Ukrainians have, what was called, the second largest military in Europe and the United States was very happy to pit them against the Russians or to provoke the Russians into attacking them very much as the United States hoped and nearly succeeded in destroying the Iranians and the Iraqis some time ago, feeding both sides, in that case with military aid, and letting them slaughter one another. And there the Russians didn’t need any help with munitions and with equipment, they’ve be doing quite well on their own, thank you. But the Ukrainians were being fed every imaginable kind of destruction and support discipline by American and British primarily, instructors over a period. So you had the potential for a very dramatic fight between these two major European countries egged on by the United States. And it has been widely assumed that the existential nature of the war pertained to Russia, after all this was stated by Vladimir Putin himself that Russia will come up and will fight for its national interests when it feels challenges in an existential way as the continuing arms deliveries due to Ukraine had been changing the security situation of Russia. In defacto, Ukraine had by the time of the outbreak it of this war achieved the equivalent of NATO status, NATO membership status in terms of the military support it had been receiving. So from the standpoint of Moscow, the need was there to turn back the American and NATO support for Ukraine to move back, to push back the American and NATO presence at its borders and to stymie the plans, which the Russians were well aware about, to install in Ukraine missile systems which could conceivably reach Moscow in seven, eight minutes and left no decision time for leaders in the Kremlin to take action, essentially giving the United States, and through Ukraine, a first strike capability on Russia. So we know that from the Russian side this was, from the very beginning and before the beginning of this, went back to the discussions which Russia held with United States and with NATO in December of 2021. It was described as existential, but it has been assumed by most everyone that United States, this was a conflict of… it was optional, a conflict which would be played out by proxy, by cat’s paw, the Ukraine being the cat’s paw, and that at any time, United States could walk away from it. I have been reading some very interesting commentary by a French historian the last few days, which forces [inaudible 00:09:32] to persuade you and listeners to this program that the war is existential to the United States as well. And it’s precisely for that reason that this conflict is so dangerous and runs the risk of escalating into a nuclear exchange. The other fact that should be bought in as we try to size up what the conflict is and how it differs from what conflicts we’ve had in the past between, what used to be said, superpowers from the 1990s Russia was no longer a superpower, but Russia had remained a preeminent nuclear power, which is highly relevant to our considerations of will we survive or not this current conflict. There have been, since the start of the Cold War, a whole series of proxy wars. Everyone knows it’s called a proxy war but people have short memories. The first proxy war in the Cold War was the Korean War. The war in Vietnam was a proxy war between the superpowers. In some ways the both sides came as close to being cobelligerents in that war as we see today with NATO supposedly holding back and crossing red lines to [inaudible 00:11:06]. But that’s all how you want to read those red lines and how you want to understand the promises that the West has been giving to Ukraine. Well [inaudible 00:11:19] there’s a slight side remark, the Russians freely admit that in the Vietnam War they had pilots and jets fighting on the Vietnam side, they had navy fighting on the Vietnam side. So if we looked at what’s the United States NATO are doing today in Ukraine, it is not greatly different from proxy wars that took place, including the Vietnam War. If you look at the wars in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, the war in Libya, the war in Syria, these all were described as proxy wars. So what’s different now and why should we be alarmed? The difference is that all of us preceding proxy wars Cold War 1 and in Cold War 2 were taking place in third countries. The present proxy war is taking place on the territory of the Russian Federation. Now there are some people they dispute that, but from the Russian standpoint, from the standpoint of Russian law, Crimea, the two Donbas republics now are regions of the Russian Federation. South Zaporizhzhia and Kherson [inaudible 00:12:45] these territories, formally part of the Ukraine, are not under Russian law, parts of the Russian Federation, and that is where the fighting is going on. So from a standpoint of the Russians, this is home territory and it is very dramatic. All of that complicates the defining of a resolution. Now, there are many people on the sidelines here in the West and particular who are saying, “Oh, we should push the peace.” But the United States and NATO are looking for a long war to weaken the Russians. This has been said explicitly by Austin, the head of the Pentagon, Ministry of Defense of the United States, and it is assumed to be so. But on a closer inspection, things get more complicated. The Russians are also interested in a long war. Now they don’t say that, but when you look at their behavior, they are crushing, grinding into dust the Ukrainian military forces, whether it’s 150,000 Ukrainians killed, a little bit fewer, a little bit more, basically the fighting forces of Ukraine are being destroyed, Ukraine is being demilitarized, which was stated as the objective by Mr. Putin from the outset while we stand and watch. The border is slowly moving westward, there were two departures from this general rule that we don’t know about back in September, a bit earlier, the Russians lost a very thinly guarded and protected part of the the Kherson regions, which were overrun by Ukrainian forces who drove then back, that was a temporary defeat, receiving defeat for the Russians. But today the Russians are moving inch by inch forward in the Donbas with the prospect of, in a certain period of time, whether it’s a weeks or months, retaking or taking the entire Donbas region. And what do I mean by taking? The Russians held referendum in the Donbas, and this goes back to last September, at a time when Russia and the forces aligned to Russia, the local militias in these two [inaudible 00:15:55] they called provinces in Ukraine, only held about half of each, the rest was held on the other side of the line of demarcation by Ukrainian forces. There was a brief period of time in 2014 when pro Russian forces, local militias in Donbas, in [inaudible 00:16:21] went to the middle of the republic and held an area for 85 days but became famous in the same way that remember the Alamo is famous to the United States, that is [inaudible 00:16:34]. The Russians are moving in that direction to recapture [inaudible 00:16:38] and since it is a critical central point in [inaudible 00:16:42] almost capture that would inevitably bring them to control the whole Donbas, they’re moving that way. Geopolitics & Empire: This sort of brings me to another question, and you reference Emmanuel Todd, the French historian and thinker, whose interviews I’ve also been watching and I think he’s correct and you are correct and you also mentioned in a piece you wrote related to, I think it’s important what you point out to be listening to Russian media and sources to see they are thinking, and you mentioned a high level talk show moderated by Vyacheslav Nikonov, grandson of the communist leader Molotov where he states that he gives no weight to Biden and the Biden Administration as leaders and the strings are being pulled by the deep state, which absolutely requires that the US be at war and that they have no wish to see an early end to the conflict, and this has been my view as an American and as a European citizen, I view that Washington historically has been very aggressive and that they not only want to prolong conflict, but actually there are maybe some crazies in Brussels or Washington that would provoke Russia into initiating World War 3 proper. At the same time, I would agree with you that on the Russian side they also to prolong the war for various reasons that are usual to governments to bolster their economy, to distract from errors, but you also mentioned the Scott Ritters and Douglas McGregors of this world, I’ve had Scott Ritter on this program maybe two years ago, and even back then before this war started he said we were still under the Biden Administration under the nuclear specter and the Scott Ritters and McGregors speak as if the war is just about over and the Ukrainian capitulation may be expected in a couple of of weeks, but this is sort of what you were getting at, where do you see things going from here, will this war just drag on for years, become sort of a Yugoslavia? Will the eastern part of Ukraine become sort of like the Korean demilitarized zone or will someone keep pushing until we cross some nuclear red line? Gilbert Doctorow: Well, before I answer your very specific questions, I’d like to deal with something as in the very start of the year marks now and to say explicitly where the strengths of my analysis are and where I do not pretend to have expertise. In criticizing McGregor and Scott Ritter, I didn’t mean to be disrespectful, I make no claims to military expertise. Anyone who is looking for military predictions in my writings is looking in the wrong place. What I bring to the table is something different, I say this because it’s very easy to be contemptuous of people who do not have the expertise that you have and to claim a disproportionate weight to what you bring to the table. I try to avoid that and also when I give interviews, I only give interviews to answer questions where I feel I have a unique contribution to make as [inaudible 00:20:13] expertise. And from where do I derive this unique contribution? It is am I a fluid Russian speaker, I follow the Russian media very closely daily, and I catch things on the fly. People say, “Oh, where’s a link to what you’re saying?” And this happened today, someone asked me, “Please and I’ll have it translated on Google.” I said, “My friend, I’m listening to Russia 24, which is a news program and they do not have video clips, and there’s nothing that you can take down and translate, I catch it on the fly and you have to take my word for it that’s what I heard.” Another aspect of the same question is what am I pretending to do? I am not a Putin stooge, I am not an advocate for Russian positions, I am an interpreter of Russian positions. The thing that’s missing and it’s woeful, it’s tragic because of the race to shut down Russian sources of information and to control completely European and American audiences so they only have available the Russian narrative. It has been very successful, but it’s also extremely dangerous because not only the general American audience, but even the people at the top don’t know what the other side is saying. In the last few days I’ve be useful or maybe interesting exchange of emails with a lieutenant colonel from the United States who is, obviously, working in a think tank and following the daily military action on the ground. But he doesn’t know Russian and he doesn’t have a clue to what the other side is thinking or planning. That is a terrible lack of information and I tried my best to fill this void. So I watch programs which I know are authoritative, which I know are setting out the thinking of Russian political, business, and social elites, and even cultural elites because some people who represent the creative classes in Russia, artistic classes also are invited to these talk shows. And this is important because, again, they’re very simplified, Russia has 146 million people, it has a very centralized government, it always has for the last 500 years, for obvious reasons, what I learned when I was an undergraduate in psychology courses as a cat’s character because of the cat’s body. And so it with Russia, Russia has its national character and it’s high centralization of revenue because it has [inaudible 00:23:20] the world’s largest country which would fall apart if it didn’t have strong central leadership. So we can talk politics and democracy and decentralization, all of these things, but I’d say coming back to what Russia is, it is what it is for specific concrete reasons that one can point to, and not to individuals. The contribution that I’m making, as I said, is to set out the thinking of these elites because they establish the limitations on what a man like Mr. Putin can do. Now the statesman likes to speak about this authoritarian government, it takes me back to what used to be said about the Soviet Union and how totalitarian they are, which was fine if you were sitting in Cambridge, Massachusetts and sitting in your study hall and thinking over a cup of coffee of how this totalitarianism should work. It looked very different when you spend time on the ground in Moscow, as I did, and you looked at the infighting between, when I was there in the 1980s and 1990s, or 1970s, of the fighting that went on between the ministries. It was anything but perfect top-down run state and so it is today. Mr. Putin is a politician and a politician works within certain parameters, what is accepted by the people who support him and this partly the people on the street, but it’s more directly the people who are all around him in the Kremlin and in political circle in Moscow, and these are the ones who are the talking heads on his shoulders. They are academics, they are deans at Moscow University in think tanks, they are members of the Duma, they are members of the upper house, of the Russian Legislature, they are responsible people, they are not fools, and Mr. Nikonov is a case and point. There are few fools at that level in Russian society, just as they’re relatively few fools, and people may question this, the similar level in Washington DC, the problem lies elsewhere, in values and in comprehension, but not in the IQ measures. Geopolitics & Empire: You mentioned authoritarianism and I have to keep pointing out, myself, again, as a Croatian American that we’re seeing in the West now totalitarianism come to fruition. People like myself and others, we’re having our financial accounts shut off, I’m banned from PayPal just for having conversations like this. Where the liberty and the democracy? German journalist Alina Lipp had her bank account frozen as well as her parent’s bank account, who have nothing to do with anything and in a few minutes that we have left, any thoughts on that or any other points that you wanted to bring home? Gilbert Doctorow: Well, I am a Russia specialist and I’ve been in this business since 1965, since I was still an undergraduate in that year. I traveled to the Soviet Union, my first trip there was back in 1965 [inaudible 00:26:42]. I traveled expensively to Russia between 1975 and 1980, that is the period of when [inaudible 00:26:53] that was the high and the low point of Soviet Government. I understood very well what it meant to be living in a authoritarian or totalitarian state. It was very unpleasant, you had to be very careful what you said and you had to be very careful whether the people at the next table in the restaurant weren’t looking at you too closely listening to you. For me the most depressing thing about the last 20 years is to find that everything that I disliked and I found so awful about the Soviet Union has now moved to the United States. The United States has not gone all the way, of course, and you are fortunate, in a way, to have had such limited deprivation of income compared to what was experienced by a close colleague in Canada, a retired Canadian diplomat who spent time and he had never seen Moscow and who had a very influential blog. He was visited by the Canadian Intelligence Services, they told him that if he kept this up, his pension would be terminated and his life savings would be confiscated. He very wisely threw in the towel. In Canada with all those Ukrainian Bandera kids, grandkids, it is much more difficult place to find freedom of speech than United States is. So in a sense, let us be fair to Uncle Sam in a period of relative repression, still freedom of speech manages to hold on in the States. It’s also true here in Europe, but not in public space, not in newspapers which follows the dictates of Washington the state department with knee-jerk reaction, that’s all that’s all there is now. Geopolitics & Empire: Any thoughts what we can do? I think one of the most basic things is continuing this conversation such that we’re having and so any final thought for us then? Gilbert Doctorow: Yes, my hope is, and this was in that very same article that you were alluding to before which I explained how very dangerous the situation around us is and how a escalation to a major war, not necessarily a nuclear war, but the article was criticized and people said, “There’s a nuclear war, then we’ll have a nuclear winter and it doesn’t make any difference if you head to the Southern Hemisphere.” Well, of course, that thesis is a thesis and nothing else, a hypothesis, but the more important overriding issue is will it become nuclear? Not necessarily, the Russians have, and I think the United States also has weapon systems that are devastating and are conventional. Like I said, Russia it’s their hypersonic missiles, everybody talks about they’re evading air defenses, nobody talks about the physics of those missiles, which are taking the simple rules of physics of mass times velocity and the impact of those missiles is just short of nuclear. So it’s not necessary to go to nuclear war in what looks like a total war between United States and Russia. In that context, it makes sense to look for a bolt hole or an escape hatch to place like Argentina. However, I hope it doesn’t come to that and this audience, which you address, has some chance of preventing it if they get out of their seats and exercise their civil rights, that’s all that has to be done. I’m very happy to say that even in Germany, which is not known for courage particularly in the political domain, there will be on the 25th of February a demonstration at the Brandenburg Gates calling upon Olaf Scholzs to stop sending tanks and to start negotiating a peaceful settlement with the Russians and the Ukrainians. That is a left-right combination that is issued a manifest for peace, on the left is [inaudible 00:31:46] headed by Sacra [inaudible 00:31:48] a remarkable parliamentarian, a hell of a speaker, and a heart hearted devoted to peace. On the right, what the American newspapers extreme right, we have the alternative introduction who are vilified in mainstream media but you have expressing some very common sense measures to save Europe and save themselves by reverting to a song dates from the early 1950s, “Go home, we’ll let you go home Americans.” So there is a chance simply by exercising perfectly legal rights to demonstrate and to express your opinions to do something to save us all and I do hope your audience will take that to heart. Geopolitics & Empire: You’re leaving us with some optimism, which is good and also, I think, separately, in New York, I don’t know if it’s already happened or it’s happening these days, the Rage Against the War Machine Conference events, Ron Paul and may other will be speaking there against what’s going on Ukraine and everyone be sure to follow Gilbert’s blog, links will be in the description, Gilbertdoctorow.com. Thank you for being on Geopolitics & Empire, Gilbert. Gilbert Doctorow: Well, thanks for having me. About Gilbert Doctorow Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher going back to 1965. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. In the year 2000, he closed his corporate career as General Director in Russia and the CIS for a UK based multinational. Doctorow regularly publishes analytical articles about international affairs on the portal of the Belgian daily La Libre Belgique and has recently been a contributor of Op-Ed articles on US-Russian relations to the English-language Moscow Times. Mr. Doctorow is a Research Fellow of the American University in Moscow.From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize. He was a Board Member of the American Committee for East-West Accord from 2015-2016. *Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

GoldCore CEO Stephen Flood gives us a situation report on the state of the world economy and says we are in the beginning stages of a monetary experiment based on a unipolar system. The exorbitant privilege bestowed to the U.S. and the dollar in that system is now being abused as we shift toward a multipolar world. When inflation begins to occur, people and governments begin to act desperately, and we now have all of the components for global military conflict. In terms of preparing for the fallout on an individual level, he says that owning precious metals is an essential act of personal sovereignty. He discusses the different ways one can purchase gold, how much to proportion, as well as a potential future price. He also gives his thoughts on CBDCs, the Social Credit System, Bitcoin, and crypto. Watch On BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / PentagonTube Geopolitics & Empire · Stephen Flood: We Now Have All The Components For Global Conflict #339 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopoliticseasyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.comEscape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopoliticsPassVult https://passvult.comSociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.comWise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites GoldCore https://www.goldcore.com GoldNomics – Cash or Gold Bullion? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HaqwFJj4ZY About Stephen Flood Stephen is the CEO of GoldCore and has been part of the company for over a decade. Ensuring the business runs effectively, he works with select clients and strategic partners to cultivate new business opportunities. After a BSc Hons degree in Business at Portobello Business College in Dublin, Ireland, Stephen began his career in finance. He held financial and trading posts in New York, before joining Goldman Sachs as a Sales Trader in Equity Derivatives. Later returning to Ireland from the US, he put his experience in trading, risk, and financial markets at Goldman to good use. His entrepreneurial drive led him to establish his own financial services firm at GoldCore. Stephen now leads a group of professionals who advise clients on gold and silver purchasing. He is married with three young, lively boys, and, when he’s not at work, he loves the outdoor life. He resides in the rural Dublin Mountains and enjoys mountain walking and biking with the family. *Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)