And two years later, here we are. A sobering interview with national security expert Elbridge Colby.
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I am cautiously optimistic that the new Trump team will avoid appointing political hacks who revel in disobeying orders and undermining policy and leaking to the preferred state press. I think Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and others seem to be steadying the ship of state, but these are early times. Let’s hope for all of our sakes that everything moves smoothly without drama and a new lower tax and regulation regime moves in. Even more important than good economic times in the USA will be ending the hideous war in the Ukraine. Trump show himself to be a political savant if he can do that.
Just started… (at least) one of the commenters below on the YouTube page mentions Trump routinely watches/listens to Tucker’s interviews with those he’s interested in, think of this as part of the long form interview.
I’m so relieved to hear interviews of people who may/are going to be part of the incoming Administration, and especially not hearing “I don’t recall” as they’re being questioned in a congressional / parliamentary hearing… Knowing we’re moving away from the left having their voice of telling us what we think.
Maybe a year for tier 2 Canada to catch up with this, but it’s something to look forward to nonetheless.
‘ …. especially not hearing “I don’t recall” as they’re being questioned in a congressional / parliamentary hearing’
Maybe 6 months consecutive incarceration for every ‘ I don’t recall ‘ just might help them remember.
Ya gotta add a little persuasion to the mix.
Let’s get past the whiners by referring to it as tough love.
This sounded a bit like a job interview to me, too. I will listen to the rest; not heard of this guy before.
Munich betrayal?
Appeasement of thugs never works.
Killer alla unDORK
“Appeasement of thugs never works.”
That’s why USA needs to quit sending $$$$$ to JOOlenskyy the war criminal, who is sacrificing the Ukraine youth to appease the globalists, and his own bank account
“who is sacrificing the Ukraine youth to appease the globalists,”
The story is that Zelensky was told that he had to invade the Donbas even though he had run on a platform of making peace with the Russians, by the IMF, who said that they would not finance Ukraine’s debt otherwise.
That’s a very strange story because it was Putin that invaded the Donbas (via proxies) in 2014, long before Zelensky was elected.
Not only that, activity in the Donbas plummeted after Zelenskyi had a phone call with Putin. Until he escalated in Feb 2022.
There was a coup, backed by the US. John McCain and Victoria Nuland were in the crowd urging the overthrow of a democratically elected government. Shots were fired by snipers from a building occupied by Maidan people, the resulting deaths were blamed by the US and Maidan ultra-nationalists on the government, which was then violently overthrown.
The Donbas refused to accept this coup, and a civil war broke out which has been ongoing for a decade now.
Any “peace deal” on offer from the Maidan types in Kiev will be far harsher on the ethnic Russians living within Ukraine, in their ancestral homes, than the peace that Putin is now offering Kiev. For instance, he is not demanding that anybody stop speaking their native language. He is simply demanding that they give up their ambition to rule over the ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, who don’t want them, and have proven this in ten years of fighting, and that they must not join NATO, but remain neutral and respect the treaty which created Ukraine out of the Soviet Union in the first place.
As far as the Budapest agreement goes, the US agreed in that treaty not to use economic coercion against Ukraine, but then broke the treaty by imposing sanctions on Ukrainian governments that it did not like.
– The Donbas refused to accept this coup, and a civil war broke out which has been ongoing for a decade now.
Your views on the background aside, this statement is rather different from the one above with Zelensky invading the Donbas on behalf of the International Monetary Fund, is it not? It’s very interesting that you regard the Donbas conflict as a Ukrainian civil war. Somewhat different to the Russian view, is it not?
Who are the thugs, those who overthrew the legitimately elected Ukrainian government, for a second time, and sacrificed Ukrainians to overthrow Putin, or Putin?
Your proof of that is that NATO has been starting war after war, Yugoslavia, Syria, Libya, Serbia, Iraq, etc, etc, since the reason for their existence, the USSR, went out of business, and if that wasn’t an attempt to appease NATO, I don’t know what was.
Not to mention that when we change the regime in a country where we don’t like their politics, it hardly makes the papers. We installed the hypernationalist regime in Kiev by blowing smoke about an ethnically pure Ukraine, minus the Russians who have lived their for centuries, the largest ethnic state in Europe! It was the kind of bribe that no “not see” could resist.
NATO has been a tool of the globalists for years now, so it’s not about what NATO (as an organization) wants. I still don’t know what the heck we were doing in Libya; that one stands out for me because the General who ran the air campaign was a Canadian.
Thank you, urTray, we used to be the good guys, but NATO should have disbanded along with the Warsaw Pact. Now, we (NATO) just go throwing our weight around beating up on little countries. It has lost to Russia.
I’ll be amazed, and not in a good way, if Trump chooses this guy. Trump’s not a metaphorical 4D chess master, he’s a poker player. He wants the other players to sit there worrying about his hand. He can’t get that with Mr Earnest Swiveleye here gasping to everyone that the US is weak and not ready to fight one peer foe let alone three.
Aaaand, there we are, Trump has chosen the hawkish Mike Waltz for National Security advisor.
Poor old Tucker, his guy never stood much chance.
Lol
Hmmm…it’s not that I don’t like this guy, only because he did an ok job with Trump the last time but relatives of former spooks always makes me give people like him the side eye.
Why is Pompeo out ?
Because he was a CIA plant who flattered Trump in person and worked assiduously against him in his spare time.
Probably because he cheered on the FBI and DoJ harassment of Trump. Also, and this is going to be a hard lesson for the Democrats to learn, but Trump understands it, neocons like Pompeo are death to a political party. First they all but destroyed the Republican Party, leading to the Democrats taking over Congress due to Iraq, then the election of Obama. Seeing this, the neocons jumped onto their ship, which led to Ukraine and Syria and Libya done on Obama’s watch, the impeachment of Trump over lies over Russia, and then the disastrous Biden years of war! war! war!
Neocons like Pompeo can never get enough death, destruction, and misery because they are ideologues who never consider the human costs of their ideology.
. . . the disastrous Biden years of war! war! war!
We’ve had conflicts around the world precisely because the Biden administration (Obama III) is concilliatory, hesitant and generally too reliant on talking softly rather than waving the big stick. It has nothing to do with “neocons”.
President Trump was warning the Europeans about Russian aggression (he was literally laughed at). Trump sanctioned Russia’s Nordstream pipeline (and other Russian interests). Trump was the first to send lethal weapons to Ukraine (good weapons that helped Ukraine survive those first desperate days of the Russian invasion). Trump slaughtered Russian mercenaries in Syria. Trump abandoned diplomacy with Iran and returned to sanctions and confrontation. Trump assassinated a senior Iranian general. And on and on.
It’s truly bizzarro world to believe that Trump is a peacemaker standing up “neocons”. Trump knows you avoid war by being strong, and you avoid small wars becoming big by winning them while they’re small. Trump is a fan of Churchill, not Chamberlain. I suspect Trump will feign peace overtures but make Russia look like the ones refusing. And then he’ll lean on them good and proper until they go home of their own accord (see Reagan defeating Russia in Afghanistan and the Cold War).
Robert & imTay –
Great comments/summaries. I was going to wade in but no need; you painted a very accurate picture.
Pompeo – buh BYE.
mhb23re
I’ll say it again, I’m old enough to remember when NATO stopped at the German border and promised not move East one inch.
Me too.
I’m old enough to remember that NATO was supposed to end when the Warsaw Pact ended. We’ve lied every step of the way.
. . . I’m old enough to remember when NATO stopped at the German border and promised not move East one inch.
People do have an uncanny ability to form “memories” of events that did not occur. This perhaps explains why Russian leaders (except Gorbachev, the actual Soviet signee) claimed that eastern European countries joining NATO was somehow a breach of the “spirit” of the Two Plus Four Treaty, despite there being absolutely no trace whatsover of this “spirit” in the letter of the agreement (which is to do with the placement of nuclear missiles on the territory of former East Germany). The other explanation, of course, is that the Russians simply lied about the nature of the negotiations after the subsequent reality of the collapse of their ghastly empire (the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact) left them weak and isolated.
Quite why some westerners are so willing to believe Russian agitprop whilst regarding their own side with a seething revulsion is beyond me. I nominally put it down to what I call “lockdown dementure”, but that doesn’t quite explain the evangelical zeal. It’s very similar to the left’s undying support for Islamist causes over the hated west, in that it’s basically barking mad. A common denominator to both frothings is, of course, anti-semitism – as witnessed in these comments.
What a sad state of affairs.
I’m old enough to remember when NATO’s reason for existing ceased to exist. And yet the organization shuffles forward like the zombie it is.
You do know that a lot of the vids are posted to Rumble? I’d rather watch there than commietube.
I am cautiously optimistic that the new Trump team will avoid appointing political hacks who revel in disobeying orders and undermining policy and leaking to the preferred state press. I think Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and others seem to be steadying the ship of state, but these are early times. Let’s hope for all of our sakes that everything moves smoothly without drama and a new lower tax and regulation regime moves in. Even more important than good economic times in the USA will be ending the hideous war in the Ukraine. Trump show himself to be a political savant if he can do that.
Just started… (at least) one of the commenters below on the YouTube page mentions Trump routinely watches/listens to Tucker’s interviews with those he’s interested in, think of this as part of the long form interview.
I’m so relieved to hear interviews of people who may/are going to be part of the incoming Administration, and especially not hearing “I don’t recall” as they’re being questioned in a congressional / parliamentary hearing… Knowing we’re moving away from the left having their voice of telling us what we think.
Maybe a year for tier 2 Canada to catch up with this, but it’s something to look forward to nonetheless.
‘ …. especially not hearing “I don’t recall” as they’re being questioned in a congressional / parliamentary hearing’
Maybe 6 months consecutive incarceration for every ‘ I don’t recall ‘ just might help them remember.
Ya gotta add a little persuasion to the mix.
Let’s get past the whiners by referring to it as tough love.
This sounded a bit like a job interview to me, too. I will listen to the rest; not heard of this guy before.
Munich betrayal?
Appeasement of thugs never works.
Killer alla unDORK
“Appeasement of thugs never works.”
That’s why USA needs to quit sending $$$$$ to JOOlenskyy the war criminal, who is sacrificing the Ukraine youth to appease the globalists, and his own bank account
“who is sacrificing the Ukraine youth to appease the globalists,”
The story is that Zelensky was told that he had to invade the Donbas even though he had run on a platform of making peace with the Russians, by the IMF, who said that they would not finance Ukraine’s debt otherwise.
That’s a very strange story because it was Putin that invaded the Donbas (via proxies) in 2014, long before Zelensky was elected.
Not only that, activity in the Donbas plummeted after Zelenskyi had a phone call with Putin. Until he escalated in Feb 2022.
There was a coup, backed by the US. John McCain and Victoria Nuland were in the crowd urging the overthrow of a democratically elected government. Shots were fired by snipers from a building occupied by Maidan people, the resulting deaths were blamed by the US and Maidan ultra-nationalists on the government, which was then violently overthrown.
The Donbas refused to accept this coup, and a civil war broke out which has been ongoing for a decade now.
Any “peace deal” on offer from the Maidan types in Kiev will be far harsher on the ethnic Russians living within Ukraine, in their ancestral homes, than the peace that Putin is now offering Kiev. For instance, he is not demanding that anybody stop speaking their native language. He is simply demanding that they give up their ambition to rule over the ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, who don’t want them, and have proven this in ten years of fighting, and that they must not join NATO, but remain neutral and respect the treaty which created Ukraine out of the Soviet Union in the first place.
As far as the Budapest agreement goes, the US agreed in that treaty not to use economic coercion against Ukraine, but then broke the treaty by imposing sanctions on Ukrainian governments that it did not like.
– The Donbas refused to accept this coup, and a civil war broke out which has been ongoing for a decade now.
Your views on the background aside, this statement is rather different from the one above with Zelensky invading the Donbas on behalf of the International Monetary Fund, is it not? It’s very interesting that you regard the Donbas conflict as a Ukrainian civil war. Somewhat different to the Russian view, is it not?
Who are the thugs, those who overthrew the legitimately elected Ukrainian government, for a second time, and sacrificed Ukrainians to overthrow Putin, or Putin?
Your proof of that is that NATO has been starting war after war, Yugoslavia, Syria, Libya, Serbia, Iraq, etc, etc, since the reason for their existence, the USSR, went out of business, and if that wasn’t an attempt to appease NATO, I don’t know what was.
Not to mention that when we change the regime in a country where we don’t like their politics, it hardly makes the papers. We installed the hypernationalist regime in Kiev by blowing smoke about an ethnically pure Ukraine, minus the Russians who have lived their for centuries, the largest ethnic state in Europe! It was the kind of bribe that no “not see” could resist.
NATO has been a tool of the globalists for years now, so it’s not about what NATO (as an organization) wants. I still don’t know what the heck we were doing in Libya; that one stands out for me because the General who ran the air campaign was a Canadian.
Thank you, urTray, we used to be the good guys, but NATO should have disbanded along with the Warsaw Pact. Now, we (NATO) just go throwing our weight around beating up on little countries. It has lost to Russia.
I’ll be amazed, and not in a good way, if Trump chooses this guy. Trump’s not a metaphorical 4D chess master, he’s a poker player. He wants the other players to sit there worrying about his hand. He can’t get that with Mr Earnest Swiveleye here gasping to everyone that the US is weak and not ready to fight one peer foe let alone three.
Aaaand, there we are, Trump has chosen the hawkish Mike Waltz for National Security advisor.
Poor old Tucker, his guy never stood much chance.
Lol
Hmmm…it’s not that I don’t like this guy, only because he did an ok job with Trump the last time but relatives of former spooks always makes me give people like him the side eye.
Why is Pompeo out ?
Because he was a CIA plant who flattered Trump in person and worked assiduously against him in his spare time.
Probably because he cheered on the FBI and DoJ harassment of Trump. Also, and this is going to be a hard lesson for the Democrats to learn, but Trump understands it, neocons like Pompeo are death to a political party. First they all but destroyed the Republican Party, leading to the Democrats taking over Congress due to Iraq, then the election of Obama. Seeing this, the neocons jumped onto their ship, which led to Ukraine and Syria and Libya done on Obama’s watch, the impeachment of Trump over lies over Russia, and then the disastrous Biden years of war! war! war!
Neocons like Pompeo can never get enough death, destruction, and misery because they are ideologues who never consider the human costs of their ideology.
. . . the disastrous Biden years of war! war! war!
We’ve had conflicts around the world precisely because the Biden administration (Obama III) is concilliatory, hesitant and generally too reliant on talking softly rather than waving the big stick. It has nothing to do with “neocons”.
President Trump was warning the Europeans about Russian aggression (he was literally laughed at). Trump sanctioned Russia’s Nordstream pipeline (and other Russian interests). Trump was the first to send lethal weapons to Ukraine (good weapons that helped Ukraine survive those first desperate days of the Russian invasion). Trump slaughtered Russian mercenaries in Syria. Trump abandoned diplomacy with Iran and returned to sanctions and confrontation. Trump assassinated a senior Iranian general. And on and on.
It’s truly bizzarro world to believe that Trump is a peacemaker standing up “neocons”. Trump knows you avoid war by being strong, and you avoid small wars becoming big by winning them while they’re small. Trump is a fan of Churchill, not Chamberlain. I suspect Trump will feign peace overtures but make Russia look like the ones refusing. And then he’ll lean on them good and proper until they go home of their own accord (see Reagan defeating Russia in Afghanistan and the Cold War).
Robert & imTay –
Great comments/summaries. I was going to wade in but no need; you painted a very accurate picture.
Pompeo – buh BYE.
mhb23re
I’ll say it again, I’m old enough to remember when NATO stopped at the German border and promised not move East one inch.
Me too.
I’m old enough to remember that NATO was supposed to end when the Warsaw Pact ended. We’ve lied every step of the way.
. . . I’m old enough to remember when NATO stopped at the German border and promised not move East one inch.
People do have an uncanny ability to form “memories” of events that did not occur. This perhaps explains why Russian leaders (except Gorbachev, the actual Soviet signee) claimed that eastern European countries joining NATO was somehow a breach of the “spirit” of the Two Plus Four Treaty, despite there being absolutely no trace whatsover of this “spirit” in the letter of the agreement (which is to do with the placement of nuclear missiles on the territory of former East Germany). The other explanation, of course, is that the Russians simply lied about the nature of the negotiations after the subsequent reality of the collapse of their ghastly empire (the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact) left them weak and isolated.
Quite why some westerners are so willing to believe Russian agitprop whilst regarding their own side with a seething revulsion is beyond me. I nominally put it down to what I call “lockdown dementure”, but that doesn’t quite explain the evangelical zeal. It’s very similar to the left’s undying support for Islamist causes over the hated west, in that it’s basically barking mad. A common denominator to both frothings is, of course, anti-semitism – as witnessed in these comments.
What a sad state of affairs.
I’m old enough to remember when NATO’s reason for existing ceased to exist. And yet the organization shuffles forward like the zombie it is.
You do know that a lot of the vids are posted to Rumble? I’d rather watch there than commietube.