You k defense secretary ben wallace recently said im optimistic between this year and the next year. I think ukraine will continue to have the momentum with it and a position of strength. He also said, theres no magic one moment when russia collapses. In what universe does wallace reside . Ah, cross sucking confused narratives. Im joined by my guest, calling raleigh in apple valley. She is a retired f b i agent in a former Minneapolis Division legal counsel. In belgrade we have stephen guy each. He is a Research Associate at bell grades institute for european studies. And in cons we crossed to alex me hello bench. He is a veteran reporter and a Foreign Affairs analyst. I crossed rosen effect that music and jumping anytime you want. And i would appreciate was go to belgrade for stephen, let me go. You. I know its easy to pick on ben wallace. You know, a glorified nobody, but you know everyone throughout these at least they tell you exactly what theyre thinking, not what they want us to think. Ok. So he thinks that thing things are going just hunky dory, for the ukrainians and rushes is facing imminent collapse. Here all while in the background we have all of these leaks that came through a 21 year old reservists saying completely opposite things here. So, i mean, do we fill this, have any lead to message and, but the realities are hidden behind the curtain that every once in a while through leaks. If theyre real, i cant tell. They are not. Tell us a very different story. Go ahead in belgrade, i think that the elites in the west are, became victims essentially, and hostages of their own propaganda. They got high on their own supply. And this is why we hear all these. Kudos the green all the time. Whereas it, in fact things are turning really sour for of the western had germany not only in ukraine, but around the world. While the media in the United States is a preoccupied with january 6th, 2020 or with what is happening in some villages around backwards. Ah, the percent declarations are getting away from the western currencies. The a deal that to the United States had, with saudi arabia and the otter gulf countries. So when it comes to all, and the, the control of the price is a lot of oil is off, latin america is turning away from the u. S. And thats why probably we hear the is a fairy tales about about the dissolution of russia and so well calling, let me go to you in apple valley. I mean, you, you are in the f b, i hear you give us your sense of the veracity of these leaks here because we havent really seen them. Weve seen some reports on these and its very different. Like with weekly leaks. Ok, so you as an expert, could look at documents and figure out if theyre real or not, were probably very quickly. Now were just given these pictures. Ok. And they, and actually there are contradictory, different pictures out there to is this a psych off operation here, or is it just the usual incompetence we expect from these people go ahead calling . Well, i think the leaks themselves are a real. Are they got the u. S. Government would not have gone to the measures that they dag trying to hunt this guy down and find them. Unfortunately though, once they didnt get seen by a lot of people, just gamers in and out belin kat researchers. So it is possible that some of these documents now could have been tampered with, or, you know, forged except for it to change them slightly. Thats possible. If anything, leaks now, you worley would have to be skeptical. But i think initially that some of the reports of what they contained were correct. Its also possible that some, some higher level people, maybe not the top level. Actually were okay with some of the leaks. Yeah. You know, they try catch, they trying to manage our perception. And so a lot of this is through dis, information. And sometimes actually information can be skilled to allow that dis information. Well alex, i think, you know, cohen has a very good point. Ive thought about that myself, but theres also this growing, i wouldnt even say debate because debates not really allowed. But you know, this seems to be much more of a Biden Administration agenda, forcing in upon the european union. Its, and its nato allies. And then you have the Intel Community saying something very, very different. And i tend to agree with colleen. I think some people in the Intel Community are wanted to, to actually show that there is some kind of descent within the Intel Community as opposed to the Political Class your thoughts alex . I mean, weve seen this in the past strategically, so this will happen at a certain time for certain reason. This could be all timing on, you know, we, we know the situation on the ground and back votes and beyond. We know the situation is not exactly what the western media is making it out to be. So why not put a little, you know, shiny star on the corner to look over this way. We have a leak for you to, you know, Pay Attention to instead of whats actually happening on the ground. Theres also other reasons, obviously for there to be a distraction. I mean, the situation in western europe in the you itself is not the buster, the economy is suffering because of this war and has a huge part to do with whats going on. And the fact that the sanctions arent working. So, you know, i said this before, ive helped write the book on sanctions when i used to work in the former yugoslavia for an agency you an agency in belgrade. And so our conclusion at that time was that sanctions dont work. And i would stick to that to the state. So the in story is, i think when you have something of this magnitude, its allowed to slip out. Sometimes a 2nd of all, were looking at a 21 year. Ready gamer, how can you get your hands on this kind of information . So there must be something behind. This isnt just a distraction, or is it a lot more than that . Well, you, steven a, i, i about i destroying russia. Decoupling from china, its all over the place here. Stephen, go ahead. Are these simulations are, are getting wilder and wilder ah, where at the same time we see that the credibility of the politician is just plummet them. Politicians are just wanna think, especially when it comes to european politicians. For instance, now im a cron is talking about right, a strategic economy of europe. At the same time when he has huge protests in his own country and when his words are discredited. Let sir, remind ourselves that back in 2018, he said that france, france needs to detach. When he got the security from a, from a, a United States that made through his brain that, that the Strategic Partnership with both russia and turkey should be done. Whereas in the meantime, im frank frank made a military deal with greece that hes essentially against the 3rd the turks. And it is a literally involved in the war against russia by supplying weapons and training ah, to the crane. So i think that, that, that, of course, in this atmosphere, us speculations became, became something you know, we are losing the, a border lets say, between a reality and, and the speculative world world, and this conte upon the western politicians as well. So that is why of course, now it is completely normal to you know, for them to sell out of the story that the gamer is capable of finding such kind of documents on his own and been calling. You can just play this shell game just so much because you just have to look out the window and thats what reality is. Crime, inflation adida, industrialization. And these wacky woke stuff that everybody i, which i simply cant comprehend. Ok, you can only play this diversionary game so much when you know, when the bill comes home, i mean, you know, even the cia is made it very clear. I guess another strategic gleick does how much the zalinski regime is skimming off of us aid here. Thats an untenable thing. When your water supply in your home town is polluted, go ahead in apple bill, im apple valley. Sorry. Yeah, thats the tricky part of managing peoples opinions and quote unquote, making your own reality is that it does, it works for a while and in fact its quite easy to do for a while as long as you control the mainstream media. However, it wears thin after a while and truth eventually, theres an old song about the grass grows through the concrete. You know the truth eventually get through to peoples heads regardless. And thats why this constant distraction is necessary. Its really frustrating to be a victim of it. I have to say, you know, i want to throw my my something at the t v all the time because its really frustrating to see this go on and not be able to push the truth out more. But you know, you have to hope that the people that are managing peoples perception with this information and constant distraction, etc. Well, well eventually there will be more leaks more, more with some more. And then you have to hope that and you have to hope that the recklessness of the people on the talk in their desperation, does not get worse, where they are, they feel forced to do even more reckless measures. Well, alex, a good example is that, is that most of the world doesnt by the nonsense about the destruction of the nord stream pipelines, more people asking questions or oh, and by the way, Seymour Hersh now is considered misinformation on facebook. I think of colleen is absolutely right. People have meaning to say, this is getting untenable at 30 seconds. Where are we going to break ahead alex this, what were looking at right now. A virtue similarly has become a priority over telling the truth. So i mean, my background is canadian, im from canada, born and raised, if you want the epitome of purchasing a lot, signaling that will be the country of canada, right now, minister, et cetera. It all comes down to about, oh look, were helping do it by doing this. Were hoping by doing that for you. Craig, for ukraine, for ukraine, for you. Great. Be in europe for just one day, you know, number of ukrainian plates. Good as be seen just driving around and im not about regular cars. Im talking about a 100000 euros or no, im talking about rolls royces with ukrainian lakes 2024 automobiles that were bought and ukraine, driven over here by somebody thats under the age of 50, usually a male. So everything that were thinking is happening in ukraine, that were setting some money there to help the people on the ground. Its helping a lot of people on, on your credit, ukrainians, a great lead. And as part of the program, were going to go to a short break and have her is our break will continue our discussion. Im confused. Narrative. Stay with our team with i. Rick sanchez and i am here to plead with you. Whatever you do, not watch my new show. Seriously, why watch something that so different opinions that you wont get anywhere else work if it pleases you to have the state department, the c i a weapons makers, multi 1000000000 dollar corporations. Choose your fax for you. Go ahead, i change and whatever you do, dont watch my show stay main street because im probably going to make you uncomfortable. My show is called direct impact. But again, you probably dont want to watch it because it might just change the way things fused narratives. Ah yes, go back to belgrade stephen, i know youve already mentioned in the program, but i think its worth talking about that. About the frenchman president talking about strategic autonomy, which i found to be quite mildly amusing because as youve already pointed out, hes kind of talked about these things before. But what makes it kind of comic and even tragic . Is it . Well, prefer the president of france. Its too late for you even to start thinking about these things. Choices have been made for you and youve made your own choices. So any talk of autonomy is almost a pipe dream at this point. Nord stream twos destroyed, Energy Prices skyrocketing, most countries in europe have double digit inflation. Those are the issues youre gonna have to be dealing with. Youre not to be talking about. Will we be strategically . Autonomy from the United States that ship is already sailed to the detriment of europe. Go ahead. Exactly as the late perimeter. Ill serve you as long as you once said. You can make fish soup out of aquarium, but you cannot make an aquarium with fish out of a fish too. So micron are saying these things after everything that he has personally done and, and hes still trying to pretend to be in a bike or somebody who has a dependency watching at the a process is aware. In fact, i think that by, than has brought back nato from this brain death that i was talking about. And, and in fact, what happened in the process is that france and germany in the 1st place became exactly want to my trump says that they should not be, they became vessels of the United States. And i mean, this reminds me of the prison psychology where once the prisoner gives in a little bit, then you know that no and to confessions. And that is exactly what france did. And now mac drawn, woke up after, after a year, being heavily involved in war with french weapons being sent to ukrainian front as we speak. And now hes talking about strategic autonomy. I honestly dont know what it was, what is happening . Well, you know, he said he sees in the same, you know, circle has been wallace. These people are, are delusional. Well, they think they have power. They think they have agency, they dont. Okay. And what they claim to speak for the people at least, adelina, better box, said the true, she doesnt care what her voters like. You know, at least she, she, you know, she was honest. Okay. She was transparent. The rest of them are a pack of liars. Only let me go back to you. One of the things, i mean, its already been kind of mentioned this program, but you know, i can remember what happened in ukraine with force regime change. They are, they attempted in syria. They succeeded in iraq and afghanistan. Not that the results were all that great, but it with the, what was happening now in the west is that the same kind of a liter or an acting regime change at home. Theyre using exactly the same playbook of disinformation, empowering certain groups um, disappearing others. We see this with social media all the time. You know, i give kudos the on mass, but if you know twitter is not going to change the world, it could influence it, but it wont change it. And i think this is what creating so much frustration is because the leads are saying what, what problems are out there and they will work on them, but theyre not my problems and the not yours go ahead. Well, is the regime change playbook has worked a lot, as you mentioned. However, there it hasnt worked on most recently, for instance, with hong kong. It, it didnt work real well. It didnt work real well with venezuela. So theres been, i think, a turn here where that playbook a regime change is becoming harder to enact. And yes, i think its also true. They are, theyre arresting. Ok. Just anti war people that are, you know, anti war were rusted in charge. I dont know what they can even be charged with for their opinions, but this seems to be again, more an evidence of more desperation on the part of the control. People who want to control the narrative at the top that they then have to resort to measures like charging people in the United States who are anti war by, by the censorship that they work in collaboration with social media. The seems you, as if you were in charge, you wouldnt want to, to engage in those measures because they actually are counterproductive. And i think all of this, you know, its just a blow back from the situation that the United States has been waging, you know, perpetual quote unquote perpetual war for so long. That it becomes more and more debt are harder to control the narrative. And they have to resort to these unique unusual measures where he is a alex, you know, ive been watching the Prime Minister of canada. I mean, you know, for an American Administration that wants to divide the world into a talk receives in democracies. I dont know why candidates in the democracy category seems very autocratic to me with the Prime Minister. You have mr. Trudeau autocratic that. Yeah, well i mean thats. Ready dable, i did judo, i mean, basically whats happening in canada, the problem is that there really is no other choice. There was 3 parties and youre looking at the same thing or all 3 parties. Everybody is a part of the World Economic forum. Everybodys being ruled by the exact same people. One person will say theyre conservative, the other will say theyre liberal. The other will say theyre socialists in the india and theyre all exactly the same. So true, dont. What is, what hes doing is basically just trying to maintain power. The whole thing with ukraine is, is part and parcel with that we have a huge ukrainian population. I believe its the 2nd biggest in english, canada after the English Speaking people. So thats your voter base, so thats who youre playing to, and the rest of the people just fall into line. But like there, i mean, im in france dental and i speak to canadians every day. I dont think the wall has been pulled over the populations eyes in general. Everybody knows whats going on. Everybody knows whats happening in ukraine. Everybody knows that Canadian Forces have been there are 2000 since 2014, alongside americans of britain, french training, supposedly probably sector in the outdoor battalion and everybody else. So our eyes are opening up even wider these days because people want the war to end and theyre looking for information that basically docs that truth, that there should be peace, not war. Yeah, well its go back to bell. Great. I mean, one of the most pathetic things and all of us have been watching this in real time in with this crusade of democracy versus a top chrissy. Its destroying ukraine. I mean, its, we had a chance last year about this time last year for that conflict to, to come to a very quick and abrupt end. But it was the west that wanted to continue this war. And lensky went along with it. And hes just as culpable. Ok, but you know, they were, they were shown that is no, theres only one outcome. It could be defeat of russia. Destruction of russia. Well, thats not, that doesnt do a ukraine. Any good. It is a terrible waste of money into the most core. One of the most corrupt countries in the world, as alex is already pointed out to us here. But this is the facade they have to not