Freedom, finance, and warfare—are these the pillars or pitfalls of America today? Join us on the Arterburn Radio Transmission as we dissect the foundational importance of freedom and its erosion under the weight of the military-industrial complex. We'll discuss our exclusive interview with David Knight on the manipulation of silver prices by financial giants like JP Morgan Chase, urging the need for greater financial literacy. From the soaring costs of defense projects like the F-35 program to the economic forces driving military actions, we scrutinize the dissonance between America's ideals and its practices.
We also tackle the grim realities of war and empire, reflecting on the human and moral costs of military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. Drawing from personal experiences and Christian values, the discussion critiques the alarming casualness towards nuclear warfare and the economic motives lurking behind military strategies. We'll uncover the staggering sums spent on defense and the deceptive media narratives that obscure the real financial and human toll of continuous armed conflict.
Turning to the political arena, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s complaint about his exclusion from a presidential debate serves as a lens to examine the systemic barriers facing non-establishment candidates. By revisiting the struggles of third-party candidates like Teddy Roosevelt and Ross Perot, we shed light on the undemocratic nature of modern political processes. Finally, we question the relevance of America's outdated post-1945 world order, contemplating a shift towards nationalism and more localized security interests, as discussed with scholars Francis P. Sempa and Hal Brands. Don't miss this thought-provoking episode that challenges conventional narratives and explores the urgent need for an America that truly lives up to its founding principles.
Freedom, finance, and warfare—are these the pillars or pitfalls of America today? Join us on the Arterburn Radio Transmission as we dissect the foundational importance of freedom and its erosion under the weight of the military-industrial complex. We'll discuss our exclusive interview with David Knight on the manipulation of silver prices by financial giants like JP Morgan Chase, urging the need for greater financial literacy. From the soaring costs of defense projects like the F-35 program to the economic forces driving military actions, we scrutinize the dissonance between America's ideals and its practices.
We also tackle the grim realities of war and empire, reflecting on the human and moral costs of military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. Drawing from personal experiences and Christian values, the discussion critiques the alarming casualness towards nuclear warfare and the economic motives lurking behind military strategies. We'll uncover the staggering sums spent on defense and the deceptive media narratives that obscure the real financial and human toll of continuous armed conflict.
Turning to the political arena, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s complaint about his exclusion from a presidential debate serves as a lens to examine the systemic barriers facing non-establishment candidates. By revisiting the struggles of third-party candidates like Teddy Roosevelt and Ross Perot, we shed light on the undemocratic nature of modern political processes. Finally, we question the relevance of America's outdated post-1945 world order, contemplating a shift towards nationalism and more localized security interests, as discussed with scholars Francis P. Sempa and Hal Brands. Don't miss this thought-provoking episode that challenges conventional narratives and explores the urgent need for an America that truly lives up to its founding principles.
Veteran of three foreign wars entrepreneur and warrior poet, tony Arterburn, takes on the issues facing our country, civilization and planet.
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Speaker 2:What is our common bond? Truly, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom. Without freedom, you can't be a christian, no matter what denomination you belong to. You can't be a buddhist, you can't own a donut shop, you can't drive from here to oregon. You can't be an american, because that's what it's all about, and that's the only thing that it's all about. Nothing else, nothing else.
Speaker 1:It's about freedom, I'll set my coffee right on top of the monster box of American Silver Eagles. Why didn't I think of this before? Welcome to the Art of Burn. Radio transmission. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the official broadcast of the apocalypse Weapons, great truth, cutting edge, counterculture, conservative radio uh, right here on free world Dot FM, as well as nine 30 AM, the answer, out of San Antonio, my home station, and uh, rockfincom on the America unplug channel. I've got both Charlie the chocolate Labrador and beans the brave in studio. I got both my hounds. I can't have a bad show now. So I'm completely relieved. As long as my hounds are with me, I can't have a bad show. We are broadcasting in defiance of globalist goblins, the neocons, the new world order, the build back better, biden, beelzebub, baphomet, bilderberg, bohemian Grove, bankster Bunch. It is the 30th of May 2024.
Speaker 1:Had a fun interview with the great David Knight this morning. Usually on Thursdays around 930 central time. I joined David Knight about halfway through his show and we'd just go over the economy, precious metals, whatever's in the headlines about finance, and it's made me a much, much better broadcaster over the years, trying to harness like especially really getting to the, the root of what I do in the realm of finance, precious metals, geopolitics and just that wheelhouse, just making sure I always have something to talk about. And I was going off on, you know cost overruns on the with the military industrial complex and just how far, just how far away we are now from fiscal sanity. Like we can't fathom the amount of dollars that they throw at this bloated American empire. And, by the way, I love my country, I die for this country. I've fought for my country. What I'm talking about when I'm going after, uh, these war pigs and the, uh, the MIC, the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned against.
Speaker 1:That's antithetical to what the American Republic was built to do, what it was built to become. Its destiny was not to become an empire. It was supposed to be a republic, from sea to shining sea. It was supposed to be the shining city on the hill that Ronald Reagan talked about. That's what it was supposed to be. We were supposed to be a well-wisher to all who sought liberty. We were supposed to be an example, a beacon, and we've turned into this ugly, funhouse, mirror, inversion of ourselves. Well-wisher to all the who's who sought liberty. We were supposed to be an example, a beacon, and we've turned into this ugly funhouse mirror inversion of ourselves and that's what I'm talking about when I'm talking about, I'm talking, I'm the same. I'm the same ilk as is smedley butler, the most highly decorated uh marine in history up until the 1930s and 1940s, who was a general and he wrote a book called war is a racket, and he started talking about this is before eisenhower. Famously, in 1960, before or 1961, before he left office, he you know his farewell address.
Speaker 1:He warned against the military industrial complex well david and I were talking this morning and, um, I heard an interview, uh, with andy Sheckman, who's head of Miles Franklin Precious Metals. He was on with Robert Kiyosaki, who wrote Rich Dad, poor Dad, one of my favorite books, and Robert Kiyosaki's books have been very helpful. He's been a great mentor to me. I've never met him. I'd love to talk to him someday, but he had Andy Sheckman on and Andy Sheckman and Robert talked about the price of silver.
Speaker 1:And the thing about silver is it's not sexy. People don't understand why the price doesn't go parabolic and we don't understand it. We put all our money in silver. It never goes anywhere. Well, then you start uncovering, you peel back the layers and you start to see that you know JP Morgan chase, the largest holder of silver in the world. You know JP Morgan chase, the largest holder of silver in the world, physical silver just has been convicted, uh, uh, for suppressing the silver price. So you know again, unpack that the average American, the average person who watches the news, like, okay, so JP Morgan chase got convicted of making the price go down. Well, I don't, I don't understand that. Well, you don't understand it because they're an operator trying to accumulate.
Speaker 1:Right, this is a, this is an inside game, right? And George Carlin said it's a big club and you ain't in it. What is a big club? But there, I think there's something, as I rest my coffee, on top of this a monster box of American Eagles. What's important for you to understand. I think this is something I brought up with David and maybe you listened to me on the David Knight Show. But check this out, guys. This is a monster box. I'm shaking my entire. This is 500 ounces of silver. Okay, this is a monster box of American Silver Eagles. There's 20 in a tube for those listening on audio, the audio only. This is 20 Silver Eagles and each tube 500 ounces in this box.
Speaker 1:That's how much silver is in a Tomahawk missile when they blow it up. See, I didn't know that. I thought I knew there was some. It's kind of like when, um, when you hear about, well, there's going to be a revolution in electric vehicles and silver is really going to take. I've been talking about this for years and people are just eyes glazed over like how much silver is in an EV, tony? Well, it's about two kilograms, right? Well, a kilogram is 32.13 ounces or so. So two kilograms, it's 65 ounces. Okay, la-di-da, there's 500 ounces. There's a monster box of silver in a Tomahawk missile.
Speaker 1:Now do you start to see, do you start to unpack a little bit of why we have such a skewed commodities market and maybe why silver is this protected thing that they really don't want to go up? Because the largest arms dealer in the world Is the United States government and you got to supply All these other countries that you deal with with arms. And of course, there's silver and all these elect. It's the most thermoconductive metals. Was anybody else taken aback? And we're going to talk a little bit about, uh, trump's vp pick um, I, I'm trying to amplify how bad it's going to be because that's usually what we get. You know, everybody hypes up and america first and maga, and we're going to push it in this. We're going to get all this america first stuff and we never do.
Speaker 1:Uh, you know you get the, you get the, the neocons always somehow returning to power. It's like the, all the kings that were reinstalled during the napoleonic wars. You know, the 19th century had all these upheavals and they were going to fight for. You had the french revolution and liberty and we're going to do all these things and there's again, napoleon and the. You know king louis the 16th beheaded, but all the bourbon kings, all the. They came back like after that, all the wars were done, everybody's exhausted, they just reinstalled the kings and they'd learn nothing and forgotten nothing. That's how the neocons always seem to come back.
Speaker 1:Well, nikki haley was riding on the bombs. You know that they're going to drop in gaza. I mean, finish them and stuff like that. I mean, you realize that that's a very dangerous kind of a disgusting thing. You know, you're talking about a, a war on on people that just doesn't, doesn't translate into strength. I don't know, I'm I've always taken aback by warmongers and people like Nikki Haley who just seem to have no, no understanding of what happens when you actually drop bombs on people.
Speaker 1:See, I know what happens when you drop bombs on people. I've seen what happens when you actually drop bombs on people. See, I know what happens when you drop bombs on people. I've seen what happens when bombs are dropped on them and there's human beings with children and lives and dreams and hopes and you're just savaging the place that they live and they call home. See, we haven't had to deal with that here in this country. We just project it onto other people, you know, and I'd go to these churches after I'd come back from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other places and I hear people I was just nuke them. You know there's like nuke them, nikki Haley, you know, just finish them.
Speaker 1:It's tough talk. There's not a lot of wisdom in there. It's very dangerous and these are the kind of people that are that we're promoting through these political parties, with no wisdom whatsoever. You call yourself a christian. It's so bizarre. We live in an upside down world.
Speaker 1:I always like to call that out and it just disappoints people. I can hear people like just tuning me out. But you, I did that when, you know, being on the air in San Antonio following Mark Levin. You know they'd have all these people calling in and I could tell they were callers from the same station. You know they'd call in and just excited about what we're going to do to blow up Iran or whatever, and I'd get on and start talking, start talking, pull up antiwarcom. And the phone lines would just die. Nobody wants to. It's not exciting, right? You know it's one of the reasons they uh, the deep state murdered JFK. You know he gave that famous speech at American university in June of 1963. You should go listen to it. There's a. There's a reason why they, why they murdered him at dealey plaza, but there's also another.
Speaker 1:We go back to the silver and I'm talking about these deep state degenerates, military industrial complex, war pigs, warmongers, right, the people that prop up politicians like nicky haley. They use these commodities for warfare. They need them cheap. I don't think they can hold on. There's a reason why there's a complete revaluation of all commodities going around the world. Folks and I know, if you turn on Drudge right now, I'm looking at the headlines of Drudge Just a complete waste of your time. There's almost nothing in here that is of substance that's going to affect your life in the next year, two years, five years almost nothing. I mean, there's something there's got to be. You keep scrolling down, you find something, but it's going to have to do with the magic trick that's going on right now.
Speaker 1:It's like Gordon Gekko in Wall Street talking about how he pulled the rabbit out of the hat a long time ago and nobody seems to know how they did it. He's like, you know, war, famine, uh, upheaval, the price of a paper clip. That's what you're, that's, that's what's going on. The world is changing and you're being bred and circused into a numbness, into apathy, and you're playing a false game. This is plato's cave the shadows on the wall and you're being rewarded for how well you can identify the shadows.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you, you start what you start, you unpack the fact that and I thought that was listening to andy sheckman talk to robert kiyosaki and then just the light bulb went off. I'm like why haven't I just gone and looked to see how much they actually use of physical precious metals in the war machine? Think about that, so it starts to make sense. It's not just about financial gain or 4D chess or who's going to control the price of silver. It's about the machinery of the empire continuing. It's amazing. So I'm never going to look at a monster box the same again.
Speaker 1:I mean these cost overruns, all the stuff that we were, david and I, were discussing. I actually caught myself in the middle of the interview because I started talking about the F-35 and just my memory came on it and it was like, well, you know, it's like a trillion dollars. And then through the interview, when David was talking, I went and I typed in just real quick. I typed in cost of F-35. Because I in my mind, I thought that can't be right Because we have like a trillion dollar foreign policy, like the entire foreign policy United States, you know, year on end it's like a trillion, right. And I think it's 700 billion or some on what we the annual defense. But I'm putting as quotations for the audio and this, this is that's what it supposedly costs, right, that's more than the next like five countries combined that we compete against.
Speaker 1:So I thought in my head for a minute I'm like did I just make a? Because I don't ever like to throw figures out. That I'm not. If it's not accurate, I will go and I will amend. I'm not like mainstream news. If I say something, I'll go back and correct myself. I don't care how stupid I look, I'm just like hey, I didn't mean to do this, it was just something in my mind. Stream of consciousness, sorry about that. So I looked it up. I was on air with David. It's 1.7 trillion. Do you know how long ago, if you took a trillion seconds in it's 32,000 years, just so you know how much a trillion is, a trillion one dollar bills stretched end to end will go to the sun. You know that's if you believe such a thing. It's 93 million miles away, right, but we live in.
Speaker 1:I think we're starting to see, like this, cracks in the whole system. And what's important to watch. You see, zimbabwe. They've got deflation folks. They have deflation. Their currency is getting so strong that their deflation prices are coming down. That's insane because Zimbabwe has always been, especially in the modern era. It's the joke. They had the trillion-dollar notes. They had such crazy inflation and out-of-control hyperinflation. They were the butt of the joke about. This is what happens. You're going to go full Zimbabwe. Well now, full Zimbabwe is like what we were in the 19th century and they're just getting started. The rest of the world is moving away from the old system.
Speaker 1:And then part of my job and I feel like I just in this little niche of history of being on the radio and talking about things like I was doing this years ago, but just the acceleration of historical events that we're in now, it's just monumental. It's so momentous, folks. There's a revaluation of all currencies going on right now and that's going to change the way everything is done. So don't get caught up.
Speaker 1:I can't even read the headlines of Drudge because it doesn't matter. This is bread and circus. There is nothing in here of substance. What does it matter for you or me or anything? It's all garbage.
Speaker 1:The one thing I found that was of any sort of significance was this. I'll pull it up. This is the. If you want to go into a little bit of politics, I'll entertain that. We can discuss and muse over how many angels can dance on the head of a pen. If you'd like, let's pull this up. This was the Washington Post. Discuss and muse over how many angels can dance on the head of a pen. If you'd like, let's uh, let's pull this up. This was the washington post.
Speaker 1:Rf k jr files complaint over potential exclusion from the debate stage. The presidential campaign of independent candidate robert f kennedy jr announced wednesday that it had filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission about Kennedy's potential exclusion from a planned June 27th debate between President Biden and former President Donald Trump. In the complaint filed Tuesday, kennedy's campaign alleges that Biden, trump, together, their respective campaigns and CNN colluded hey, there's some collusion to leave Kennedy off the debate stage. The complaint also alleges that CNN's decision to hold the debate could be tantamount to network making prohibited corporate contributions to Biden and Trump's campaign and thus the violation of the Federal Elections Act, act Kennedy is asking the FEC to act no later than June 20th to prevent the debate from taking place until the parties have come to into compliance with the Federal Election Campaign Act.
Speaker 1:Well, folks, this is where the duopoly, the two parties, along with mainstream media, which is the extension of Operation Mockingbird to control the narrative. That's what this is. We found the enemy and it's us. This is what they do. This is what the parties do. They squelch speech dissent. They work together. It's like when you hear the words bipartisan, bipartisan oh, it's bipartisan. Bipartisan, that means for the good of the country. No, it's for the good of the power structure. And you don't even have to like rfk jr at all to understand that this is.
Speaker 1:This goes against everything that we supposedly stand for. Like we're going around the world, you know, bombing people for democracy right, we're going to bring. Like we're going around the world, you know, bombing people for democracy right, we're going to bring. You know we're going to democratize mankind. Remember, and get the evildoers over in Iraq, you know, because all of those Iraqi hijackers we got to get, we got to fight them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here. Remember that we got to fight them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here, remember that. But first, democracy. Well, right, that's supposedly what we do. We spread democracy and we're for the rule of law and we're for equal justice and all that stuff. Supposedly right. But then it comes down to your elections, these sacred things and this ritual that we do every four years on the presidential side, and but you can't have any other opinions. So you know, they know, if you notice, you know 1912 was really big.
Speaker 1:The bankers, like JP Morgan, got behind Teddy Roosevelt, who'd been a president. You know he served two terms. Mckinley was assassinated at the turn of the century. He was vice president, so he served the rest of McKinley's term and then a term in his own right. Of course, he left Taft. Taft became president, but in 1912, teddy had been convinced by the bankers to run again.
Speaker 1:And it's kind of weird. You look back on it. They had to get Teddy to split the votes because Taft was popular. It was Republicans, since the Civil War had pretty much ruled, and they needed this. You know, intellectual from Princeton, they needed Woodrow Wilson, they needed the intellect PhD to carry out their wishes, but there wasn't a direct route to get him there. Well, the direct route was the Bull Moose. And now you can love Teddy Roosevelt.
Speaker 1:And I mean he got literally, was shot while he was giving a speech in 1912 and the bullet lodged into his chest. It was stayed there for the rest of his life and it, you know his speech was so thick and I think it went through his glasses case, but he went back and he finished the speech. I mean, the the guy was a warmonger but he said follow me. He didn't say charge, he went down, he would fight in the things. He wanted to lead troops. You know that's the difference between the elites today. They just use your kids as cannon fodder. It's all that way. Have these wars of choice and democracy experiments and you know, lucy, other Luciferian rituals, but know lucid, other luciferian rituals. But they used that.
Speaker 1:That was the time that the third party was big. And then again, when I was 12 years old, you had ross perot who and there's a lot of things about the ross perot candidacy and all that stuff. We could get into that at another time. I probably need to do like a paratrooper on that, just a deep dive into 1992, because that was the first time I ever wrote anything I was 12 years years old. My stepmom thought my dad wrote my paper. I was like why did you do that? Why did you write that for him? I remember that he said I didn't, he did. I was interested in the presidential campaign. There was that weird interlude where he dropped out and came back in. But that was the last time we really had a third-party candidate. But that was the last time we really had a third-party candidate.
Speaker 1:Pat Buchanan tried again in 2000. He'd ran for 92 in the primary. He ran in 96. He almost Pat Buchanan. If you look at the 1996 primary for Republican nomination, bill Clinton almost gave him Secret Service protection because he'd won Alaska, louisiana, he think louisiana. He won new hampshire. It looked like he was going to be the nominee. And then of course, steve forbes and bob dole and all these. They came in and they crushed it. You know, because you got to have the establishment was scared that we were actually going to have an america first person that was going to, you know, promote the republic, right. So that was squash.
Speaker 1:But buchanan thought, and he was a true believer. It's kind of like me when I ran for congress I knew it's like a long shot, you know winning the chance of winning very small. But let's just get out there and let's just make people, especially the other candidates, let's get some discussion going. Let's just it's stale and it's it's all can responses. Let's go out there and shake things up. Damn the torpedoes kind of mentality. I like that.
Speaker 1:Well, buchanan tried to do that in 2000, and his goal was to get into the debate and he knew that if you poll, I think you had to poll at 5%. I think that's the, I think that's the, the threshold. And of course, they're going to skew this any which way to keep rfk jr out of the debates. You don't even have to like rfk jr, it's just all the scripted stuff. If so, if this election's real, why wouldn't you want other people? If, especially as it can't, why wouldn't you want another person in there, especially if you're going against the establishment? Why wouldn't Trump's campaign want RFK Jr in the debate or the libertarian candidate? I mean libertarians have ballot access in pretty, I think, all 50 states. Why don't they have representation? Because they can't poll above the five percent.
Speaker 1:And one of the reasons that buchanan couldn't get above that threshold is because in 2000 donald trump came in and made sure that the reform party was destroyed from the inside. You guys can go read this history. I was reading about this, uh, in a book called crusader. Uh, there's a biography of buchanan that I was reading while I was running for Congress and I remember going well, what, what happened in 2000? And it was. It was really devastating. Because he wanted to get into the debates, because he just wanted the American people to get the information that they needed. It's just like that's one of the reasons that you I question RFK Jr's candidacy.
Speaker 1:I don't understand why he's running if it's not. If he he knows he can't win because you can't get 270 electoral college votes. He could be a kingmaker of sorts, but if you're going to be that, why not lean into it? Why not actually be a disruptor? Why not actually be the idealistic campaigner? I don't understand it. So I have questions whether he's just a plant from the establishment or whatever. But understand it. So I have questions whether he's just a plant from the establishment or whatever.
Speaker 1:But the point of all of this is is if, if you want a good example of why our politics are not real in the sense, like you know, you're most likely your election for sheriff on the local level. That's probably about as real as it gets. That's about as real as your politics get. The farther you go up the chain, the less real it is. You know, starting down here is like a street fight and all the way up here is WWE, to the highest, to the nth degree, to the hilt, all the way up Down here. That's real, I think. So. Are elections real? Yes, where they really matter, and that's right down on the local level.
Speaker 1:As far as you go up to this, one of the reasons you go back to 1912, why the bankers had to back teddy to, to siphon off from taft, to split the vote, is they needed Wilson. Because they needed Wilson for for, not for, the plan of 1913. I think it's pretty occultic, 1913. Then one, the one, nine, the one, three, if you'd look into the occult and the cult just means hidden. That's what these, you know. It's something JP Morgan said. He said you know, millionaires don't use astrology, but billionaires do. So that's the plan. They needed woodrow, they needed, they needed ww to bring that in. And of course you get the 17th amendment. And what is the 17th amendment?
Speaker 1:The 17th amendment is the direct election of senators from the states, instead of going by the constitution set up by geniuses, that we had this balance, that you know the, between the Senate, which was there was the executive right, and of course there was the, the house of representatives. The Congress was supposed to be more of the popular will and the Senate was supposed to check both of those. That's what the Senate was going to be, because it wasn't. It was rotating nominations by the state legislatures, so the state legislators were the ones who sent the senators to Washington and they could be recalled by the state legislators. So the state legislators had all that power. So the power wasn't in the direct election of senators. So now you just get that the senator is elected by bankers because they go into these states and they decide which Senate member they're going to get. So you have national funds pouring into states and that was always the design. So we went away from that. That was one of the curses of 1913 was the direct election of senators.
Speaker 1:So all of this, all the fakery, right, it stems with not having any sort of dissent in the debate itself. So it's like the headlines of drudge and everything that we're talking about here that has nothing to do with what's actually going on. All this courtroom drama and what's going on with P Diddy and whatever, it doesn't matter. What matters is we're careening headlong into the greatest financial shift in the history of mankind. Geopolitically, power structures, the whole grand chessboard of the planet is being reset right now and we're being primed and geared for a whole bunch of weird stuff. We're buckle up and I and this is something I tell myself every day because I'm looking at the headlines going there's no, this is so momentous and it's hard to even articulate it, but you can, you can just feel it Like this is the end of something, going into something else, like this is, and we're in a fourth turning as well.
Speaker 1:You know that's about every 80 years. This is the lifespan of a person. You know you get. Uh, there's four different. There's every 20 years. There's a turning which is the fourth turning. It culminates in massive change for society. The romans call it a saccharum and it's pretty true. I mean now the whole world's linked up pretty much to our same. You know cycles and we're seeing that massive change.
Speaker 1:The last 80 years ago was the end of World War II. You had 50 million dead. The world turned upside down the release of the atomic weapon. But you also had in 1944, you had Bretton Woods and the dollars being the world's reserve currency and gold's $35 an ounce and the IMF birth of the International Monetary Fund and the's $35 an ounce and the IMF birth of the international monetary fund and the world bank. So you have that come online and that was the economic world order for up until now. But now we're just literally just undoing everything that was done in the previous world order. So it's a new world order, folks, just like the beginning of the show is, george HW Bush is like it's a big idea, it's a new world order.
Speaker 1:Speaking of that, and I'll go to the let me go to the Rockfin chat and say hi, it's, I get on. I get on the show and I forget to forget to tune into my comments. I see a guard on twitter. It says go, tony, as this guard goldsmith over at liberty conspiracy. Go check him out. Uh, guard is one of the most magnificent human beings on planet earth. Thank you, guard. Uh. Harp says uh, good day, good to see you, harps. Uh, I'll go over in the rockfin chat. Milburn Stone. I don't think I've seen Milburn Stone in the chat before. Good to see you, angus Mustang, patrick S over in the chat. Of course, guards there.
Speaker 1:If you want to catch me on video stream, you can find me on Rockfin, r-o-k-f-i-ncom forward slash America Unplugged and my Twitter or X or whatever it is at Tony Arterburn. You can go find me over there and find the video stream. Of course we're streaming on free world Dot F M, a lot of great hosts over there. We've got some improvements coming up to free world. You want to go check it out, save it, stream it, look at some of the hosts there. That's a project from myself and Billy Ray Valentine and others who have done a lot of work. Melissa Arterburn has done an amazing job on Free World as well. So, speaking of the old world order and then the new world order, let's let's talk some geopolitics.
Speaker 1:I saw this article up and I think it's always important, like if we're going to frame our arguments, like when you, when you're talking to somebody who's been indoctrinated by the public school system or if system, or the mainstream media or mainstream politics, you talk about an indoctrination system, I mean like just MKUltra mind control, if you find some. I would love to see a scientific study of the brain of a partisan, like if you believe, like boy, I just got to be Republican or I got to be Democrat and you don't have any pliability or plasticity in your brain. I wonder, I wonder, like of a fanatic, you know like the difference between like a fanatic and somebody who is a partisan? Or just like the hardening of the brain, like where you can't see and think outside of partisanship. It's like when you see somebody, if they have an r next to their name, they can do no wrong. Right, it's like they're on our team. You know he's playing 4d chess, for he'll lie to us, but he's also lying to other people. It's it's lying to help us, you know, or or whatever. It's like.
Speaker 1:You know, like when, um, the right was supposedly anti-war. Like man, what's going on in Ukraine? Can you believe this? Given Zelensky all those billions of dollars? And it's just, we got to get out of there. Hey, man, war, what is it good for? And then you know the Israelis start smashing Gaza and they're like hey, we got to get over there. What is wrong with us? Like you need to pick a lane. That's partisanship. Folks, they have the. It's goldilocks war. They're like oh uh, the right doesn't like this ukraine thing. We really need to get into world war three was what? Let's throw in some spring, let's get something they'll like. Oh, I know we'll get nikki haley to ride on the bombs, all right. So let's look at this article. Let me stop the screen over on this one and this is. I think this is a good piece. Hopefully I got enough time.
Speaker 1:We blew through the first part of the show. I wasn't. I was supposed to do like three other articles. This is what happens. This is why this is the official broadcast of the apocalypse, because, uh, the chaos, the chaos in my brain and bringing up, but at least you're going to leave with something. I think we learned. So we learned about a monster box of silver at a tomahawk. Let's put on this article. I've been. My crew turned the lights off on me Thanks guys, I'm kidding. My crew is getting here at Wise Wolf and they shut the lights off on me. So no, I wasn't getting. I wasn't getting murdered by the deep state. You thought it was going to be much more exciting. I think they'll. I think they'll just use a drone.
Speaker 1:This was up on zero hedge America's globalism versus America. First, I thought this was. This is a good piece authored by a Francis P Sempa, via real clear defense, and I thought there was some good ideas in here. We'll see if we can knock this out before closing the show. But just the, the juxtaposition, the differences, right, the dichotomy between the two things, and it's interesting, people get hung up on. You know this, like the phraseology, like what does it mean? But this is how brands, a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute and a professor of the johns hopson school of advanced international studies, has laid out in an essay in foreign affairs the key differences between what he rightly calls American globalism and what has been called the America first approach to global affairs.
Speaker 1:Brands clearly is in the America globalist camp but, unlike other supporters of the liberal international order, he does not label America first first as isolationist. That's how it was the time I was a kid, like you, couldn't even use that term. Uh, it was. If you look at it, america first was also called anti-semitic. That's one of their favorite things too, as to demonize any sort of nationalism that way, especially in the 90s. Like you couldn't even touch that phrase, but it's been put back on and I think we got to be careful because they're using it. They're going to dump some failure in the lap of it.
Speaker 1:But I'll get back to the article he does. He does not label it as isolation. Instead, he lauds the global benefit to the post-1945 world order and worries that they will eventually disappear if Donald Trump regains the presidency. Brands doesn't want the United States to be a normal country that only looks after its own national interests. What he fails to appreciate, however, is that the post-1945 world order he supports is already gone. I love that. It's like we're pushing against an open door. This article is so right because you hear these same globalists, internationalists, talking about this world order, the liberal international world order.
Speaker 1:But we were supposed to reset the thing after the fall of the Soviet Union and there was a reason why we kept the empire in place, and it was not for our own best interest. The geopolitics of 1945 to 1991 disappeared with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The war in Ukraine, despite the claims of many globalists, has not recreated the Soviet threat to Europe. If Ukraine or parts of the Ukraine remain under Russian control, us national security will not be endangered, nor will Europe's NATO right, nor will. Europe's NATO has doubled in size since 1991. Russia is, in relative power considerably weaker than the Soviet Union was throughout the Cold War and its ruling class no longer has a revolutionary ideology that legitimizes its continued rule and motivates international aggression.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is. You go back to the end of the Cold War. There's something really interesting that happened. You have the collapse of the Soviet Union on Christmas 1991, gorbachev gives up the ghost, the breaks into 16 pieces. We had secretary of state James Baker gave a verbal promise to Gorbachev that if they withdrew and broke up the Warsaw pact and drew Russian troops back into the national international borders of russia, that we would not expand nato. Look, nato has doubled in size since 1991. So we lied and we doubled nato with a weak russia at the same time. And that this in 1992. You had something you should go look it up, and I know guard has uh, guard goldsmith knew when I brought this up last time.
Speaker 1:But the wolfowitz memorandum. This is paul wolfowitz who I had to go run security for when I was in Iraq. That's one of the civil servant duties I had to do as a military policeman. But he wrote a memorandum in 92 about American hegemonic dominance through military policy and mainly the adversary after in 92 forward for him was russia and that we could box it in and never ever be rivaled by any other power. Like that was the whole thing. Like we should never allow any regional power to rival the united states. So basically, forever, uh, pax, americana right, the American peace, and enforced by what? The military-industrial complex? Forever he didn't say how he was going to do it and why Russia wouldn't retaliate if we continued to antagonize them.
Speaker 1:But that's been their hobby horse. That's the neocons. Of course. Neocons are usually really obsessed with what happens in the Middle East and that's why you always see, like everything is middle eastern centered. That's why the right gets excited about it and gosh, you can follow the, follow the line of logic back to why that is. But they always stay in that same realm. Right, it's not oil, folks. Only 26 of the world's oil comes out of the middle east. So it's not just oil. There's something else. There it's ideal, it's ideology, right, and it's finance. And there there's something else. There it's ideology, right and it's finance, and there's a lot of things that come out of it. It's why we have such a. You know, we should have been looking at the larger scope of the Pacific and trade routes and other things that we should have been doing the last many years and we haven't.
Speaker 1:Let me get to the rest of this article. Let me get to the rest of this article. It says the architects of American foreign policy after the Second World War formed alliances and built up US military power to protect our national interests, which were threatened by Stalin's Soviet Union. They understand that American security depended on the geopolitical pluralism of Eurasia. Our policymakers at the time had read their Macintyre right, their Berman, their brands had read them as well. And these are foreign policy experts insightfully about their geopolitical wisdom. The geopolitical pluralism of Eurasia continues to be important to US security, but the primary threat has shifted from Europe into the Indo-Pacific, from Russia to China. This is exactly what I just said. This is why, of course, the author of the essay about American globalism labels America first, including Donald Trump, have recognized this. Indeed, it was the Trump administration that says the real pivot to Asia began to occur, led by the key national security officials like Eldridge Kobe, secretary of State Pompeo and others.
Speaker 1:American Cold War foreign policy was not based on a selfless commitment to globalism. What Brands calls american globalism was undertaken to protect us national interests. Brands quotes dean atchison, which was secretary of state under truman in 1952, to the effect that the post-world war ii situation required the united states to broaden its view of our natural national interest. Yeah, I've got a book by Dean Acheson I. It was called uh. It was like his memoir of working for Truman. You know his and Dean Acheson's friend was Alger Hiss, which gave away our secrets to uh, a Soviet. He was a Soviet spy. He works for Roosevelt soviet. He was a soviet spy. He works with for roosevelt uh. As a matter of fact, he was aldrich. Hiss was the first uh key figurehead in the un. He was the. He was the head of the united nations over the presidio off the coast of california post-world war ii.
Speaker 1:Just a little bit of history there for you. But this is exactly right you have. We went because of the scope of the cold war. After the end of world war ii we became and this is 1947. You had nsc, document nsc 68. We created the national security state and the national security state that's where you get birth to the cia, the nsa, the air force that became its own branch of the military. So many other things came out of 1947 for a host of reasons, but we became something else, and that was supposed to. We had no victory, no resetting of what happened after the fall of the Soviet Union. We literally just continue to ramp up, and that was I tend to look at it through the lens of this is an on-purpose experiment.
Speaker 1:To you know, I say the calls are coming from inside the house. It's an inside job to weaken us, to demoralize us, to bankrupt the United States and, of course, enrich those who would put a monster box of silver in a Tomahawk missile. That's what that is. So Gore Vidal called it perpetual war for perpetual peace. I happen to agree with that. I'll skip around here in the article, but I definitely want to finish this line of logic.
Speaker 1:The American globalism touted by brands has not been an unvarnished success. It has made the nations of an entire continent content with resting their security on the United States which he's talking about Europe and imposed an unnecessary burden on American taxpayers to provide for Europe's common defense. That's another great question why. You know, when I'm on my way back from afghanistan, I stopped in germany. You know like we have bases in germany. That's weird, right there's. Who are you protecting europe from itself? No, there's a, there's a reason we stay, right, we go, we stay. We have 700 bases in 132 countries. And have you looked at the globe lately? How's the globe doing? How's the world peace? How is commerce? How are human rights doing right? Not well.
Speaker 1:And again, our own internal health, the health of the United States, our crumbling infrastructure, our degraded politics, our culture, everything withering from within while we're out on the outskirts of empire, and that's what a lot of these. I think they're going to be weighed in the balance and found wanting. You know, at the end of the day, uh, those who push the liberal, uh international order, uh have have nothing to show for it. You know, you, what was it? Uh? The? The writer, francis fukuyama, wrote years ago that book called the End of History, like the liberal democracy had triumphed and there was not going to be any more nationalism. Okay, fast forward. That was in the 90s, in the early 90s. Fast forward to today. How's that holding up? That didn't age. Well, that's just not how history works.
Speaker 1:You have to have, you know something like we will have a country again. You got to understand this. Like, russia became a a more nationalistic country. It was the, the, you know patient zero for, uh, the Soviet union Right, and because the Soviet union wasn't was backed up by international bankers, that's who backed it in the first place to have its revolution. It was an experiment. It's like proto-globalism. That's the.
Speaker 1:So if you want to look and see how, like, how does the, how did the super elite want to set up a state? The model is the soviet union folks. That's what that is like. You have a ruling class, uh, you have a distribution of goods and services through like one set or two sets of things, and then all the people that run the machinery and keep the cogs going, but they can't compete with the ruling class. That is like proto globe. That's what they.
Speaker 1:Bill Cooper behold a pale horse. He said it was a one world totalitarian socialist government that they wanted to set up. That's what that is. Totalitarian socialist government that they wanted to set up. That's what that is. And it kind of comes under the guise of, you know, American globalism. So if you're talking about America first and nationalism. That's just a way for you to get back to first principles, to protect yourself, to build things, uh, to have sanity. You can't have. You can't have any kind of any kind of sanity at all when you're you're overstretched everywhere, always.
Speaker 1:Let's go back to this article. It says uh, it has led to an inconclusive war on the korean peninsula that cost the lives of nearly 40 000? U military personnel, a humiliating military defeat in Vietnam that cost the lives of nearly 60,000 US military personnel, and, more recent, endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have resulted in the deaths of more than 7,000 US military personnel for no appreciable gain. It has led to the establishment of a national security state and what President Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex that impinges on the liberties of American citizens and profits from wars.
Speaker 1:The American foreign policy tradition has much deeper roots than the post-Second World War. World Order, world order right. It reaches back to George Washington and the wise counsel of his farewell address that warned against permanent alliances and permanent attachments to other nations, while allowing for temporary alliances that serve our nation's interests. Time and circumstances have not rendered the wisdom of Washington's words obsolete. Well, that's 100%. We used to read George Washington's farewell address Congress would read that all the way up until the 1930s. I wonder why it stopped then. No entangling alliances, staying out of foreign war. Staying out of, you start to lose yourself. Going out in search of monsters to destroy.
Speaker 1:But that's what the ruling elite are tied to globalism because they don't believe in the nation state. The secretary of state for Bill Clinton, before Madeline Albright was, was strobed Talbot, who was his roommate in college. Strobe said that the nation-state was irrelevant. Now can you imagine that You're the secretary of state for the most powerful nation on earth and you say that the nation-state is irrelevant? That's because these are Council on Foreign Relations, trilateral Commission internationalists. They don't believe in borders. That's why we are Council on Foreign Relations, trilateral Commission internationalists. They don't believe in borders. That's why we don't have one.
Speaker 1:If you want to see how does the American elite or the American government think about borders other than, like the borders of Ukraine or the borders of Syria or wherever they're going, how do they feel? They feel like it looks, which is, you know, use it as a. It's an imaginary line that you can move people and things across and no big deal. We can exploit that however we want it, but they don't believe in sovereignty, they don't believe in countries, and that's why you're so perplexed by our politics. You're thinking I keep voting for these people to get secure boards, I keep doing all this but I don't get a border. It's because, at the top, they don't believe in the country that they run. That's where we are now.
Speaker 1:I think that'll change and I think it'll change because a lot of these same arguments, they are dying on the vine. A lot of these, these same arguments, they are dying on the vine. These are, these are uh, what is it? Uh, lord salisbury, that one of the, the british lords the 19th century, said that, uh, one of the main failings of a political party was sticking to the carcasses of dead policies. This is a dead policy. American globalism, internationalism, the foreign policy of policing the world this is dead and it's bankrupt. We have, you know again, it's bankrupt not only on paper, but it's bankrupt financially. Folks, you can't even pay for it. The F-35 costs $1.7 trillion. It's an airplane. That's insane, all right. And then you know, david and I talked about how they're just using drones. Now, I mean cheap, nonlinear things, right, asymmetric, all right.
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