MAGA as La Résistance? - Bryce Greene, Aaron Good (DCC51)

[Music] something beside me a light to the kerosene and the places aren't real anymore and the faces don't say anything in the silent light of the Mind wind blown sphere it's a game Devil's [Music] chest Devil's chest [Music] clown welcome to Devil's chess club I'm Aaron good in this episode Bryce green and I will be talking about a number of subjects including the criminally bad New York Times coverage of the ongoing Slaughter in the Holy Land the US presidential debate farce how Harris picked up the coveted Dick Cheney endorsement and how Russia and Iran are deepening their strategic partnership then we get into the anniversary of 911 and mag's new strange and conspiracist resistance spectacle Devil's chess club is part of the American exception podcast if you want to see this episode in its entirity and have access to in my biased opinion the best podcast collection of deep political and historical analysis please subscribe to the American exception on patreon the URL is patreon.com American exception the link is in the show notes if you can afford it please subscribe the more subscribers we have the more we can do so please do subscribe to the American exception podcast on patreon whether you can subscribe on patreon or not please kindly like this video And subscribe to this American exception Channel thank you Bryce green great to be back with you it's good to be here Aaron you are in Bloomington and perhaps you could give us an update on the situation now that students have returned to school and uh you have decided to uh challenge the uh regime the Bloomington Indiana University regime in a in a way uh can you explain that yeah I mean it's pretty strange here uh I still haven't had you know whatever hearing with student conduct yet uh I was kind of kind of delaying it just coordinating with the people uh you know like lawyers and whatever advisers but it seems pretty straightforward and I I believe it's set for for this next week uh not this coming week but uh you know the week after um and there is in a situation where the university is like freaking out over people who are protesting against this speech restriction rule uh if you haven't been you know following me and my Adventures Indiana University put a restriction on what hours you're allowed to do anything to protest uh the but the policy is so that it actually prohibits people between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. from doing anything that would be cons considered expressive activity so things like wearing a t-shirt or gathering with your friends or sending a tweet from your dorm room all of these are First Amendment protected activities like candle light a candle light vigil would be cand violating that rule exactly and so the first candalite vigil uh in protest of this policy uh I went to uh and then they hit me with the violation but they left everyone else uh well all but another professor uh alone but then the next week they came out they had you know the the chief of police they had a head of Public Safety and some police officers uh you know all there just like watching people and uh in the third night they had like undercover officers walking around with cameras in people's faces and trying to get pictures of people's faces and uh he had Deans and the the chief of police was there again like this is insane all because people are going out there and uh after 11 after curfew basically and saying words there's no safety risk I mean it's it's just insanity but there was actually a write up about this and other schools and their similar policies in the New York Times um I'm blanking on the uh the by line but uh it was it was a pretty you know decent piece as far as you know times overviews of uh University goings on in America go uh but if you want to learn more about that you can look you can look at that um and but you know organizing still continues the union planning a lot of stuff uh the Palestine group planning a lot of stuff and uh we even got faculty out here motivated and pissed off and that's more than you can say for most of the time so there there's a There's Something Something Brewing here and we'll see where it goes in the next month semester year right because didn't Bloomington always have a big takeback I don't know how long this is if it still goes on but they had a take back the night kind of um protest in the past like you know for like to oppose like um you know a date rape and such like that like sexual assault and and this I don't know what the times were for it but it was like I think that they were part of it was that you would have a vigil until fairly late at night so I don't know it's just seems so obviously um to be a you know this Jack boot kind of response to uh to protest and for people who are protesting a uh a foreign government's policy you know the policy of a foreign government this is it doesn't make any sense uh by virtue of what like the US is supposed to be focused on like it really puts the lie to a lot of these um excuses that they make but that's part for the course uh we get a lot of ridiculous man manipulation over the policy of uh of Israel and I think that um this has to do with the sections of the US oligarchy who have a lot of money who are invested in Zionism and so this is a they have used their in America if you have the if you can pay the piper you can call the tune in many respects and that seems to be a big part of what's happened with you know Zionism and its prevalence in the US uh mainstream which is I think shrinking and I think the global mainstream is if you could say there is such a thing is really sick of it let's talk about one of your articles you wrote recently uh here for uh fairness and accuracy in reporting uh New York Times on critically reported Israel's version of Galan bombing and uh you wrote this with Laura uh nor Walton and here we go I'll just read a part of it and then you can comment on it uh as the us back genocide and Gaza continues Us Media assist in netanyahu's plan to widen the war paring the words of the aggressor consequential example of Us Media support for escalation was the coverage of the July 27 strike that killed 27 Drews children on a soccer field uh in the Golan Heights which is sub Syrian territory but Israeli occupied uh and the US Israel and us immediately blamed Hezbollah for this citing Israeli intelligence reports of an Iranian fakan missile being found at the soccer field uh despite eyewitnesses just saying it was an Israel missile Iron Dome missile uh the times insisted on spotlighting Israeli and US claims rather than genuinely assessing the facts facts on the ground July 28 they published fears of escalation after rocket from Lebanon hit soccer field so this one is pretty egregious pinning the blame squarely on lebanon's Hezbollah next day reporting on the potential escalations times headline described the strike as a deadly rocket attack tied to Hezbollah okay and this is this is the actual thing that they posted on the times fears of escalation after rocket from Lebanon hit soccer field so they basically just State this flatly as Lebanon you know rocket from Lebanon yeah so uh what what what what's the significance of this story to you I mean for me it seems like just absurd media malpractice but uh yeah I mean that's that's really what it is here I mean it's it hit me hard because well you know you follow these these conflicts and there's all sorts of ways of getting information well the first time I heard about the the mar sham strike uh was on the in the New York Times like I was uh reading the New York Times and I I saw that this is how it is reported and I was surprised I was like well hisbah hit uh you know a group of people killed a lot of people um even even even if it was uh uh like on accident it's still going to cause a lot of problems going to be dangerous and it also came uh one day or two days after the US had given a you know it had been reported that the US had given a go-ahead for Israel to launch and carry out a wider war in Lebanon as part of their desire to expand the war from justtin Gaza to uh ensure that the us would get involved in spark a Brier War which has been the Israeli goal the the problem is that this was far from the uh the definitive uh you know attribution of responsibility you you you turn to you know alternative press well I say alternative but just like not not us mainstream media not regime media essentially yeah not not regime media yeah exactly and you you can go to you know there journalists on the ground there are journalists in different regions in the world who are interviewing people and talking to people about this and they say that no this was not a a Lebanese Hezbollah rocket this was an errant Iron Dome missile uh but the significance and I all of our viewers and listeners understand that the media lies and manipulates uh but this is a case study in how it does that in this case they simply repeated what the Israeli intelligence people said and repeated what the Americans said who were of course repeating what the Israelis were saying uh and they just printed it as fact uh despite the fact that they know for a fact that each and every claim from Israelis should be taken with a grain of salt because even the New York Times has reported on false statements from Israeli officials and it's well known by anyone who has looked at this conflict for more than a half hour that Israel uh cannot be trusted uh but uh for them Israel Israel's word was enough to print this as fact and it's dangerous it's extremely dangerous because like I said this was at a moment and it's still at it's still at this moment where the conflict could expand to areas uh Beyond Gaza that it could uh end up in a regional War involving the axis of resistance you know you have Iran uh the anti-us militias you you have Iraq you have um uh you know all these different groups uh that are it's kind of a powder Kake in that if Israel expands the war into Lebanon you could easily see the world erupt into a World War uh and so the New York Times Syria I mean it apparently only Chinese ships are going through the Red Sea at this point so it's like there there's really Israel seems in a bad way more than people want to admit oh yeah and the houthis are developing even more sophisticated ways of enforcing their blockade you have almost you know half the US Navy uh confronting them but can't really do anything to stop them uh the New York Times seems to be pushing a line that could erupt all of that into flames uh cuz this this is uh this area wasn't exactly you know these aren't these aren't Israeli citizens who were killed in this they were 12 children who were killed at a soccer game but these were drewy um they were people who were in The Goen Heights when it was occupied by Israel in the 1967 war and uh they've maintained this occupation you know ever since but the people there are not citizens and in fact when Israel and when Netanyahu and other Israeli politicians when they came to that area to you know pay their respects get some photo photo ops of them uh you know mourning the dead they were told to get out uh people started yelling like you you're you're murderers you guys are evil they were shouted down yeah because like it's not genuine they were trying to use the deaths of these people like so obvious yeah it's so it's so obvious they they were trying to use the deaths of these people to manufacture consent for a wider War and the New York Times was helping them do it and that's that's largely what uh what the piece was about but if if we look at just the facts of where this rocket came from um first you had the eyewitnesses saying that it was uh an Iron Dome missile uh an AED Iron Dome missile then you have the fact that even in this area there were reports of Iron Dome missiles you know failing and falling on random areas uh but then you have the the open source intelligence Community um there's a a researcher named Michael cobs who was doing some serious analysis of the the the video evidence and the sound evidence and you know it's kind of complicated but it's pretty easy to follow um that the the phallic one rocket that the that Hezbollah uses what's the name of the rocket uh phallic one okay it's not spelled like phallic like phis right no no no no f a l a q I mean it's a cliche that everybody that these missiles become like sort of phallic totems in the minds of you know military military men but so they're just naming the rocket like phallic whatever and that's that's even harder to wrap your mind around okay no I don't go to trans that I just was that when you said that I was like wait a second what what's the what was the rocket but anyway continue yeah no but these um they the way they work is that they are fired into the air over an area and then they the self-propulsion system stops and they use gravity to have it uh you know fall and hit their target um Okay so they special thrusting mechanism to drive the phus so that it penetrates the target yes Aaron okay and uh and so if whereas the Iron Dome missiles they're self-propelled for their entire Journey uh and so when it's going down when it's hitting the ground if it's being propelled by gravity you would have a different sound profile uh because it would be accelerating it would be increasing its speed uh as the as it gets closer to the ground uh whereas if it was an Iron Dome missile it would have constant speed because it's propelled the whole time the sound profile from the videos demonstrate that it does in fact have a constant speed which rules out uh the the phallic one rocket uh even though even though you know they had fired phallic 1 Rockets like in that area then Western media used that fact to bolster the Israeli claims that it was used here in this strike uh the evidence doesn't hold up and then you have the fact that the crater that was made by this rocket strike was uh I mean it killed 12 people but that's because you know it was a rocket but it didn't do much damage to the the field like it it blew out part of the fences the crater was relatively small and you know the falic 1 is described as like a bunker busting uh it's it can bury deep into places and cause some serious damage and you know all the experts that were consulted were were confused as to why people would expect this damage to be caused by a phallic one rocket it's far more consistent with the Iron Dome missiles which aren't uh you know they're not heavy ordinances they're just designed to intercept other missiles so Israel very likely did this I mean it's it's there there have been some people who speculated that Israel intentionally made one of their Iron Dome missiles uh you know kill these people would pass them yeah in in a false flag attack designed to justify the such an unconvincing one though such a poorly conceived false flag attack that nobody believed in the first place that's why I don't I don't necessarily think that that uh that that theory is you know the the best one but even so they tried to attribute it to Hamas they tried or to Hezbollah they tried to attribute to someone else and they were obscuring the reality of it and you had they they were able to rely on the New York Times and other Western media to just parir it the line yeah it seems that any pronouncement made by an Israeli official if the media operated on the basis of of any kind of reason and logic you know um that you would that any statements made by Israeli officials would be considered to be lies until they were proven to be true you know by over by preponderance of evidence right like it it's just the fact that you would put these pronouncements these flat assertions in the headlines is it's it goes it's beyond orwellian it's it's terrible but speaking of Beyond orwellian let's let's take us let's take the show to H the presidential debate which um you watch Bryce and I read about I actually couldn't stomach it I'm sorry for the to everybody out there that I should take one for the team and watch it but I I really have a certain amount of political PTSD at this point and like I I you I would have to have me with my eyes taped open Clockwork Orange style to make me watch a discussion between these two and I cannot imagine the person who is watching these and thinking I'm just not decided but I think I'm going to watch the debate and see who makes the good arguments to be and and that person will be the better president and I will vote for them yeah but anyway who are these people what was your take on the debate people say that uh Harris outperformed Trump um and I don't know do you think that that's really true or do you think it was a wash but then the media is going to spin it because she's a better look for the Empire or or what what do you think I mean yeah I I I really the way you judge presidential debates you know there once upon a time maybe even 10 years ago you could judge a presidential debate based on you know the temperament and the and how someone presents thems and uh you know they're offering competing visions and they're they're going over like you know even 10 years ago was fake you know Obama Romney were mostly in agreement about a lot of different things uh but uh now they they don't even talk about the issues they don't they're not even uh you know offering differing versions of America they're just yelling signals to the people that they believe will respond to the signals so you have Trump over here yelling about they're eating dogs they're eating cats and then you have Kamala over here uh talking about how um uh they Trump wants to ban abortion um or or you know won't protect the Reproductive Rights of women uh and you know that I don't think she actually said democracies on the ballot uh but it was that was the the general thrust of her uh of her of her pitch and she did continue with that killing machine business right like America's the going to be the most uh powerful killing machine or most lethal military whatever you're going to say but saying most lethal is just the same as we're going to be the the top killing machine and in fact they uh I mean they they went after each other Kamala was playing the hawk Kamala was going after Trump for being you know soft on dictators soft on uh Iran uh you know like oh you you're it was it was ridiculous who who is she planning to kill with this most lethal military force who how is her killing that she has in her mind she's so excited about apparently with this most lethal military force in the world who how does she think that she's going to murder her way out of the mess that the Empire is in I mean this just all seems in a in a weird way and I don't support Trump at all but his campaign and people around him are at least somewhat addressing some of these problems in totally disingenuous ways and I don't buy it at all which we'll get into in the second half of the episode but it's like the Harris is stick is so she doesn't even make a bow to try to appeal to some people who might get a sense of how messed up everything is it's just more doubling down on you know liberal 21st century liberalism and with Western imperialism sort of taken as this Bedrock assumption so you don't even have to like explain it or defend it for what it is you just you know make these statements about protect protecting Israel and being the most lethal killing force and yada yada exactly and they're all talking about oh you know I love I I love Israel I love uh I I believe that we need peace now or whatever just all these all these useless uh you know throwaway lines you had the moderators kind of pick on Trump a little bit for uh uh like this the like the Ukraine war like Trump was saying like Okay well you know if I was president of the Ukraine war never would have happened they were well do you want Ukraine to win and he was like I want the war to end just showing how these moderators are are in some cases pushing the candidates to be more hawkish uh like Trump you know he's not a dove he's not like a pecnik uh but at least on the Ukraine issue I do think that he uh would not have escalated or is not as invested in escalating against Russia as some people on the kamla Harris's side and so he was attacked by the moderators for that uh and you know there's there's plenty of plenty of problems with the with the Trump campaign but I mean you know oh it's demonic uh but the fact is that Ukraine is taken it to be sacros still even though its failure is pretty apparent to anyone who's paying attention and wind down that's what's frightening to me is that the if you want a good microcosm of how us politics is so completely insane and manufactured uh Illusions the discussion on Ukraine which is obviously not only is has Ukraine in my opinion obviously essentially lost the war meaning that there's really no conceivable way that they could militarily turn the tide against Russia if they were to do anything that was going to turn the tide that would also be catastrophic for the world and for the us if Ukraine were to suddenly become successful because it is clear that Russia views this as existential and this was known beforehand it's also come out recently as I understand it I should have pulled up a found a citation for this but Victoria more confirmation has come out Victoria Nan has acknowledged that they did Scuttle these piece talks back in Istanbul and as I understand it if I if I'm reading this correctly or if I heard I think I heard Larry Wilkerson talking about this that one of the details of this was that they didn't they the they refused to negotiate or discuss uh uh or allow the Russian provision that there would be none of these missile batteries in Ukraine uh that that n that the US was wanting Ukraine to put in there and these are things that within 20 that were supposedly for defensive purposes but within 24 hours can be um modified to be nuclear capable and then they are minutes especially as US missile technology increases because they're eventually going to catch up to the Russians you know within the next 10 years the Russians are ahead of them which is actually you know funny if you think about us posturing but like this was an issue that they actually I mean this is what I was saying as well was that like there were hints of it but it wasn't as clear as this but I was saying and after hearing other people talk about it that a key issue here was obviously the is the nuclear weapons issue that you're talking about basing missiles extremely close to the I mean the border from there is less than a day's drive to Moscow it's like I forget it's not that many miles the Ukrainian border at the closest point from Moscow is not very far at all this is a huge threat and and not to mention that it would could cut off the Black Sea from Russia which is its main warm water Port it's obvious why this is an existential threat to Russia and so they they can't they're not going to lose so this this was the most this has been the most unreal an absurd thing uh to watch unfold it's even more senseless and doomed than than Vietnam and Iraq I think and in terms of there's just no conceivable utility or any way to make to make it not totally a disaster uh you can't even win the winning is losing the win if you win if they start to win then it'll be nuclear doomsday exactly like no one no one actually thinks that Ukraine can win without a cost that would blow up the world and I mean it's well known but despite this I mean just yet yesterday or today it was reported that the US is authorizing Ukraine to use uh us provided Munitions to strike deep within Russia and this is just another you know Line in the Sand that uh the Americans Drew uh and then moved right past they said they weren't going to send tanks and they said okay we're going to send tanks they said we're not going to send himars okay we'll send High Mars we're not going to send f16s we're going to send f16s we're not going to be able to use the high Mars deep into Russia okay can do that we're not going to sponsor direct invasions into Russia yeah we did that too we're like it's it's busting past these lines and if you read some of the more hawkish think tanks and their their their commentators and their like you know their blogs or whatever they all talk every time the US does something escalatory and Russia SWS restraint they say that this is a demonstration that Russia's red lines aren't real and all you people complaining and worrying about nuclear war should shut up and let us start our bigger War like it it's unhinged they don't seem to understand that it's just you know like a pressure cooker that you're just adding more pressure to what's eventually going to be a major explosion a configration the same I think that they want to the the the election thing seems to be a big maybe that what they're calculating is that if you just somehow can Bluster enough and have enough of these little gambits in different ways you could some hold out until after the election and get and have a chance of not getting Trump in there that's what the current regime is hoping for uh maybe that's what they're that they're hoping for above all but it seems like they're actually accelerating that Russia's response has just been to accelerate the military campaign and it it I would wonder if they will last to the election at this I think they're I think they're going to last long just because Russia doesn't seem to be doing any massive major military thrust they've just been grinding down the Ukrainian forces slowly but steadily like you know you saw it in the run up to uh in bmud and then you know a few months later you had you know battle for afifa and then you now a few months later they're headed towards uh procross but these are like you know pretty close together geographically but the fact that ukrainians defenses are being ground down they're unable to replace the the Frontline people in fact there was just a report from a Ukrainian General who was talking about how like 2/3 of people are like leaving their position like of like recruits are leaving their positions because they don't think that they can they don't they're scared they're horrified they've been trained for like two weeks after being abducted from their families and then they have thrown on the front lines uh some uh like commanders are talking about how no one actually wants to shoot like they'll fire above the heads or they'll drop their weapons and run away like they're they're not going to win in this War uh and so you've even got zalinski at the point where he's saying yes maybe it's time for a peace peace talks he's been he's been pretty uh like wishy-washy about that for a while a few months ago he said that yes we should have this giant peace Summit to start talking about an endgame uh and then later he said okay well Russia can't come yeah well well okay but I think the French President macron he mentioned that zalinski had indicated to him that they are willing to have a real peace Summit with Russia which seems to indicate that the Ukraine operation is coming to some sort of close and what I keep telling people is that like this is going to end uh along similar lines to Russia's earlier demands except Ukraine is going to be a lot smaller and a lot more a lot less uh I mean I I'd say a lot less Sovereign but I mean the Ukrainian sovereignty is like kind of a like a abstract nonexistent concept they may end up they may end up taking the whole coast and uh you know up going all the way because I if if Ukraine does start they killed someone around Moscow with they launched like 140 drones and one of them got through and just hit it hit a apartment or something and killed a killed woman something to that fact he killed one Russian citizen so if if they keep continuing with with uh strikes like that even ones on a bigger scale I think that the Russian the intensity of the Russian military operations will ramp up and I it's it they seem to have lost as I understand that the curse thing is basically done and they're just mopping up now um yeah and they they lost a huge amount of of armored vehicles and there some of their best reserves and you you do wonder when they're going to run out of these because it's a pretty steady amount of casualties and they're they're basically just sending guys straight from like off the streets to to the front now they don't even really train them as I understand it uh 600,000 is the number you hear of of troops they've lost uh more so it was 500,000 not that long ago so I that seems to track uh they just would seem to be it would seem to be that they're doomed and uh you can't I can't imagine this being reversed and I can't I don't know what the US with the change in presid presidencies what are you going to do with a new president what would a Harris Administration do what would Trump trump seems to want to negotiate an into it but you know this is I don't know and who knows if he'll be allowed to do that I mean like who who knows how his if he wins like his transition team is just going to be filled with like insane people and so then his cabinet will be filled with insane people and I don't know to what extent Trump's own personal instincts are going to win out but I mean mean if Harris wins uh it's going to be the same more of the same Biden stuff just more fact that you can't this is this is really what this is where this election is the weirdest of all of them to me and the most disturbing is that as much as the people are bitterly on the side of well actually let's go if you look at this part Liz Cheney finally proved me right this isn't the nation supposedly this Progressive magazine you know it's been around forever and uh you know they even used to have Alex cockburn posting there you know writing there years I mean a Aaron M was doing his rushia gate stuff in there so they become more and more like MSNBC and Joan Walsh was always one of the worst she was at Salon before and then you know she turned into this Hillary Rush Gator you know white wit Rich liberal nutc case and now she's writing this Liz Cheney finally proved me right 15 years ago she told me we had no Common Ground I disagreed this week she endorsed kamla Harris and she has my gratitude so and Dick Cheney also uh you know this should be a time for some soul searching as to like you know why uh Joan Walsh is is um why does Dick Cheney have the same political preferences as you now what does that say about you yeah it it's kind of funny uh because like I think this this morning or yesterday Kamala released this list of 200 former like Dick Cheney and George Bush staffers uh who who are like Republican staffers who were just like proa and just like wielded it as just like some some victory for Unity or whatever uh but I mean what it's telling me is just that it's always been an oligarchy and these people who have you know some of the most blood on their hands uh like in the in the entire world quite literally in the entire world are now coalescing around the so-called ceasefire candidate uh the progressive candidate like all that should just show how captured the doop is and how hopeless it is for any sort of meaningful political change but that's not the less they're getting yeah no I mean I it's but what is remarkable about this is that Trump speaks about ending the forever Wars or what and so on he poses as a opponent of imperialism in a sense and he's kind of absorbed the RFK you know some of RFK supposedly anti-corporate stances but you know you know the different aspects of RFK style populism that he's tried to absorb but what if you go how does this how is this congruent at all with Trump getting $100 million from adelon for example okay it it doesn't because Trump and and RFK both will say like oh these neoc cons are terrible but RFK is for is pro Hardline Zionism and uh Trump had people like Bolton uh you know as part of his white house so you don't get more neoconservative than that you it doesn't it doesn't make any sense but it also I I feel that regardless of which person is the president and regardless of how close they are to Israel or how much they owe to pro-israel people or how much dirt you know the uh Pro the neocons and and the ultra zionists have on them that they are limited in what they could do to actually change the fundamentals for Israel I mean I I I said this when you know back with RFK that the smartest thing for obviously Kennedy's campaign but even for Israel would be to adopt the Jeff Sachs plan and to use the UN to establish a Palestinian State and make that a pro and make building that up a project for the whole world because at least that would potentially allow the chance for survival I mean I I get that the settlers are insane you might have Civil War but like I just don't think that this maximal extermination version is going to Prevail but it looks like they're in real trouble and it doesn't seem to matter who is president and if you're if it's if you're going to do something drastic may as well do it now and have nuclear war but that's actually what kind of scares me dayto day is that they're going to you know realize like it doesn't really matter who's President because we're going to have to have this war or otherwise we're going to have to suffer the ultimate you know catastrophe which is not running the world and a a post a post Whitey world uh this they can't deal with that I but I don't know what their alternative is it's like that's happening regardless it doesn't matter which one of these clowns from the clown show it becomes you know the Uber clown it it it doesn't matter where they're they're basically uh they're they the endgame is here I think for this the for the project for a New American Century for unipolarity yeah right uh I mean like the the the pck people like like again it's been it's been a like the last 25 years of this you know American Century but the original Pac gang squad or whatever is now fractured over both parties like now they have influence in both the the Biden world the Democrat world and the Republican world and so it's it's their world we're living in and they they're going to have to again contend with the uh the hard limits of what you can do with an Empire in a world where you're no longer the global hegemon and we'll see we'll see how that goes whether or not again there's a benign uh Elite coup by some rationalists or they're just going to you know wave their hat while riding the bomb uh as it as they drop it yeah it's I mean I think they'll be down in a bunker somewhere but I don't know that that's going to be so awesome either if it if it were to come to that um another another thing here on this in this vein of like this the decline of us imperialism and all the forces that are kind of that are arrayed against it uh this piece from the cradle Russia puts finishing touches on a new Interstate agreement with Iran um so this is like what the US is is facing here and what the US has brought upon itself uh this is just a short summary here uh the Russian Security Council secretary uh Sergey shyu revealed on the 10th of September that the Kremlin is close to completing the required procedures to sign a new bilateral treaty with Iran we're ready to expand cooperation between our security councils uh keeping an eye on the Practical implementation of top level agreements shy said hope to sign a new framework Interstate agreement soon finishing domestic procedures necessary to prepare documents for signing by the presidents so this is apparently something that does deal with um that does deal with security issues and military issues I mean they're already selling they're trading things like barter basically like Russia sends them wheat and other products that they need and then uh Iran been making all these drones you know and so they send them to to Russia you know to for the war effort uh and they just there's also been all this military equipment uh air defense systems that Russia's been flying into Iran since the uh Israeli assassination of uh the uh you know the Hamas negotiator so there's a lot of cooperation here and if they were to play I mean the US places countries like Japan under their nuclear umbrella and so on and you know Germany there's really nothing to stop Russia from putting nukes in Iran and put making and having a military alliance with them well I mean by the US standards as much as they say you're free to join any Alliance you want it's not like the us could even make the case that Russia does with Ukraine that hey this is our backyard it's not our backyard so this seems to be part of of Putin's strategy and the Russian strategy which you assume is also coordinated with China that they've been building up these places I mean it's it's it's scary because the r Russia actually has a pretty efficient military production I mean they're beating a NATO Army right now yeah a deao NATO Army this see what how is what's the US plan to counter dict or to counteract this yeah I mean this this Falls in a long line of uh post Ukraine war realignment I mean you had uh just 5 years ago Russia was part of the Swift system they were still on the table of negotiating a Minsk uh along the Minsk agreements in Ukraine uh you still had tensions between Russia and China that could be exploited and that that think tanks were talking about exploiting uh same with India and China India and Russia and of course like you know the whole bricks block it was a lot less uh you know unified but come the Ukraine war come the American dictat for sanctions against Russia uh now with the belt and Road initiative other countries can refuse the US and their and to put sanctions on Russia and still have an opportunity for you know a way to develop their countries so all of that that shock has pushed all these countries together you started seeing almost immediately you saw Russia and China uh sign a a memorandum of understanding between their two militaries you saw Russia announce Partnerships with places like Cuba and Venezuela uh to enhance their military saw agreements between China and India between Russia and India all these all these different bilateral bilateral military agreements I don't think there's been one between China and Iran yet but I might be missing something I think I've heard statements and stories about how China uh would would would intervene to uphold uh Iranian sovereignty or to in the event of an attack yeah yeah something that effect so I think that there is there's some understanding that Russia and Iran and China need to be you know have some connections to prevent any of them from falling but especially you know Iran is kind of vulnerable because they're in a particular situation there Visa the Imperial Beach head that is Israel which comes to take on more properties than just being that beach head but you get what I mean yeah yeah and so like all all these countries are coming together and we're going in the next five years we're going to we might even see a formal announcement of some military Alliance now this is just me speculating I don't know if that's what that's what people are talking about about it someone like a like like a like a Pepe Escobar might have more a closer idea about what basically the bricks could make something like a League of Nations you know what I mean they could have a League of Nations kind of treaty where you cannot violate the sovereignty of other nations I mean the reason the League of Nations never worked and the reason you couldn't really Outlaw war that way was because the US didn't you know in Congress they made the case that it would be too much of a restriction on us sovereignty and it was imperialists who made that argument like Henry Kat Lodge it's not that woodro Wilson wasn't an imperialist but you know he thought was a better way he wooder Wilson probably wanted something like the UN where eventually you know the US signs the UN and ratifies the UN Charter and they're not supposed to fight Wars but they just do it anyway because who's going to tell the us to stop I think that was the difference where woodro Wilson wanted something like that and then the uh the the other conservatives at the time didn't even want to sign a treaty to that effect you know people like Henry Kat Lodge so this is uh you know but it seems like the the bricks could do something like that where they're basically saying that it's a mutual defense I mean that's what the League of Nations was basically supposed to be it was like NATO for the whole world you know where like if a mutual defense treaty for the whole world essentially you couldn't attack other countries uh that was a part of it so yeah and and keep in mind like the the Empire is also watching this happen I don't know to what extent they understand it but that's going to play into their calculus about how they how they play their cards over the next five years that that's why it might actually be useless useful because it would make it very clear that uh there is no benefit from you know starting any other kind of preemptive war that the wolfowitz doctrine is going to have to be abandoned the project for New American Century is going to have to be abandoned and uh all the in the in the background of all of this you're going to have dollarization continua or accelerating and that's going to erode the monetary economic Rumple stiltskin basis of the American uh political economy the US management of global capitalism these things seem to be uh kind of inevitably uh approaching now for subscribers uh we're going to be getting into a couple extra topics here uh one of them is going to be 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