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This week we hear from two different guests with insider perspectives on the Ukraine Proxy War: first is Jacques Baud, a former Swiss intelligence officer and NATO analyst who published early reports that Ukraine was overmatched in this war and should make peace. For expressing this analysis, the European Union sanctioned him, accusing him of spreading conspiracy theories and pro-Russian propaganda.

Jacques is now barred from using his own bank account or even buying himself food. It seems Russiagate truly never ends.

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Our second guest is Benoît Paré, who was a monitor on the ground for the OSCE after the Maidan Coup in Ukraine from 2014 to 2022 during the civil war which eventually led to the Russian invasion. For our full interview with Benoît, which gets into false flags, civil war, and whether Russia will be able to hold onto its advantage in the next year, please subscribe and support our work.

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Meet Hillary Clinton: tin-foil hatter!

During a crazy episode of Morning Joe (which had so much ridiculous content that it takes up the majority of this extended Friday Free-for-All), Hillary Clinton made the astonishing claim that Netanyahu (much like 9/11 theorists believe about George W. Bush) KNEW about the October 7 attacks BEFORE they happened and still let them occur.

Which begs the question:

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After over 6 months claiming that Iran was an existential threat to the US, consistently being “only two weeks away” from nuclear capabilities, JD Vance had to suddenly admit the US was lying about its war-of-choice on Iran.

“If you look at the Iranian ability to disrupt the normal lives of Americans,” Vance says meekly during a press conference, “I think it’s quite limited. It’s not zero, but it’s quite limited.”

So how did the “terror regime” that would surely destroy the West if not stopped suddenly become a “quite limited” actor? Simple: the global economic broke down and JD’s looking for an escape hatch out of this disastrous war.

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This week, a big development for the proxy war in Ukraine: CIA Chief John Ratcliffe made a surprise visit to Moscow, and depending on which corporate outlet you read, the reason for the trip is confusing.

The Wall Street Journal says Ratcliffe went to issue a warning to the Russians, (‘Don’t you dare attack NATO.’) But the New York Times reported that Racliffe was merely sharing some friendly advice that the war isn’t going well for Russia and they should end it before it widens further. Either way, the CIA in Moscow, nearly five years into the war, surely means something is about to happen.

To help sort out the confusion, we are joined by Richard Sakwa, author and Professor Emeritus at the University of Kent, who specializes in Russian and European Politics. He explains that, while Russia has dominated the war so far, time is actually not on their side.

Useful Idiots: This war has been going on for a long time, and the longer it drags on, the bigger the risk that it widens beyond Russia and Ukraine.

Richard Sakwa: That’s precisely the argument of the hardliners, the hawks in Russia, who basically say that time is not on Russia’s side in the sense that the West is in a vanguard of crossing all of Russia’s red lines.

Putin himself also added to the warnings that Ukraine and the West are opening a Pandora’s box. It wasn’t quite clear yet what is in that box.

In response, [UK Prime Minister] Burnham himself then said, ‘Well, you started the fire.’ Now that shows an extraordinary intellectual and conceptual myopia that the West has been locked into since the beginning of this conflict. They simply cannot understand the underlying logic of this conflict, as if Putin woke up one fine morning in February and attacked Ukraine in his mad zeal to re-establish the Soviet Empire if not the Russian Empire

So it’s just an entrenched a position. And of course, this raises, as you suggest, that if Russia does not respond, then it is a sign of weakness.

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“Government run health care? Bad idea!” yells Darline Graham, sister of the late Lindsey, during her primary victory speech as she runs to keep her brother’s Senate seat in South Carolina. She gives her pitch to voters, what some may call an alternative to Medicare for All:

“I have a different background. My parents worked long, hard hours. If they were sick, they had to get up and go to work. My mother passed away when I was 11, and my father just over a year later!”

Are you…happy your parents died young? And that’s what you want to give to the people of South Carolina?

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On this week’s show we find out that when you launch an unprovoked regime-change war against a big country like Iran, it turns out that not only is it a bad idea militarily, but it might also tank your economy.

The US debt just hit a record-setting $40 trillion, rising $3.6 trillion in the last twelve months alone. That high mark being more than double what it was in 2016. Check out the graph:

With a ballooning military budget for Pete Hegseth’s flailing Department of War and a strangled oil market from Iran’s continued control over the Strait of Hormuz, the US and global economies have been sent reeling.

Our guest, Middle East analyst Sharmine Narwani, explains why Iran’s surprise military strength has shocked both US commanders and economists, and gives her prediction that comes out quite bleak for the future of American interests on a global scale:

“Major financial institutions around the world are talking about the US potentially losing its position, and the dollar losing its position as a global reserve currency. When that happens, the house of cards falls apart.

You cannot finance wars. Nobody wants the dollar. Nobody’s stocking it.

You can’t hold other countries to anything if they’re trading in other currencies. If it doesn’t go through New York, you don’t have eyes on things anymore. You lose control.”

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Corporate AIPAC Democrats are panicking across CNN as the progressive wave sweeps primaries across the country. The latest in Florida brought a surprise upset victory for Democratic Socialist Angie Nixon, toppling Russiagate star Alexander Vindman whose pro-Israel donors gave him a 16 to 1 spending advantage over Nixon that proved inadequate on Primary Day.

So what does former Dem Congressman Bakari Sellers of CNN have to say about it?

Vote Blue except for you.

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It’s a wild episode of Monday Mourning today: we mock Hakeem Jeffries, Todd Blanche, Haley Stevens, Don Bacon and more, all before a special guest appearance by Florida House candidate Oliver Larkin who takes on Rep. Jared Moskowitz in the primary Tuesday.

Check out his campaign at https://www.oliverforcongress.com/

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This week, returning guest Sina Toossi joins us to check in on Trump’s regime change war on Iran: Trump is pausing the bombing campaign in an attempt to walk away from the war after realizing the total disaster it is for the US, falsely claiming that he controls the Strait of Hormuz, hoping that will let him save face and hide back home.

Now, he’s reverting to traditional neocon policy of suffocating Iran from afar, crippling Iran’s economy through murderous sanctions and hoping it submits.

Sina Toossi: It’s a strategic catastrophe for America as the global empire. This war has shown America to be weaker than countries around the world thought. And this is very significant in geopolitical calculations and alliance building and countries that depend on the US to provide for their security or to be in the US block.

The US war machine is not necessarily all it was made out to be despite the trillion dollar military budget. Iran was a mid-tier power that held its own and was able to inflict all these costs and destroyed a lot of US bases in the region.

Hear Sina Toossi’s full analysis of the US strategy in Iran and subscribe to hear our full interview with Michael Lange on Abdul El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani, Francesca Hong, and the battle between liberal Democrats and progressives.

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The topic of Ukraine comes up during an interview in which New Yorker editor-in-chief David Remnick speaks to the co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America Megan Romer like she’s a little baby – the type of smug downtalk that’s especially mastered by corporate liberals.

What’s strange is that Remnick, who lived in Russia for many years and won a Pulitzer Prize writing about the Soviet Union, seems to know nothing about how the Ukraine War began, asking in a kindergarten voice for Megan to please explain to him why the US shouldn’t be funneling hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons into Ukraine.

“We should be sending huge teams of diplomats,” Megan says, “figuring out how to negotiate, and get Russia off Ukraine’s back.”

He gives a soft smirk, oh little baby, and responds:

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