➡ The article discusses the impact of tariffs on the global market, particularly on car imports from Europe and goods from Canada, Mexico, and China. It highlights how these tariffs, including a potential 100% tariff on BRIC nations, could lead to inflation and economic slowdown. The article also mentions the increase in U.S. credit card debt and suggests that the tariffs could encourage Americans to buy domestic products. Lastly, it discusses the possibility of a gold-backed currency in America and the shift of such economic theories from being considered conspiracy to mainstream.

➡ The discussion suggests that there might be an audit of Fort Knox’s gold reserves, which could reveal either a lack of gold, a full reserve, or gold that doesn’t belong to the U.S. This could potentially lead to the U.S. backing its currency with gold. The article also mentions the rising value of gold and the potential for growth in alternative investments like cryptocurrencies. The aim is to move away from the current system, which could lead to significant changes in the global economy.

➡ The text discusses the US’s involvement in Ukraine, with Senator John McCain stating that the US aimed to bring about a peaceful transition in Ukraine. It also mentions the US’s support in various sectors in Ukraine, including training police officers and soldiers, and improving tax collection. The text also includes an interview with Putin, who expresses regret over the strained relationship with Ukraine and blames the current Ukrainian ruling elites for prioritizing personal interests over the welfare of their citizens. Lastly, it includes an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who believes that President Zelensky should apologize for his antagonistic behavior during a meeting with President Trump.

➡ The text discusses the ongoing conflict and the need for negotiations to bring it to an end. The speaker expresses frustration with Zelensky, questioning his desire for peace, and emphasizes the importance of getting Russia to the negotiation table. The speaker also defends President Trump’s approach to deal-making and diplomacy, arguing that public accusations and name-calling won’t help end the war. The speaker concludes by expressing hope for a resolution and emphasizing the urgency of ending the conflict.

➡ The article discusses the strained relationship between Presidents Zelensky and Trump, with the latter seeking to bring about peace. Despite facing criticism, Trump is seen as the only one actively trying to end the ongoing conflict. The article also mentions a potential ceasefire and the need for diplomacy. However, Trump’s approach has been questioned, with some suggesting that Zelensky should resign if he’s not ready for peace.

➡ The text discusses the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, emphasizing the need for negotiation to end the war. It suggests that President Trump, with his business negotiation skills, is the only one capable of bringing the combatants to the table. The text also highlights the human rights abuses and violence in Ukraine, including attacks on religious institutions. Finally, it calls for prayer and divine guidance to navigate these complex issues.

Here’s where Trump is right. You know, I don’t think it was just to better edit everybody’s lives in in the eurozone. It’s you better everybody’s lives in the eurozone by being able to compete and hopefully overtake the United States. That’s why. Right. So anyways, he mentioned that tariffs are going to be applied generally and he specifically called out our import folks. We have a great interview with Dr. Kirk Elliott concerning the current trade wars, tariffs, stock market and those who are working behind the scenes trying to keep you and me from owning precious metals. That’s right.

This is going to be good. Also, before we get there, I wanted to let you know what’s going on with the Russia Ukraine shake up. We had a video out yesterday, some other things played out and I wanted to talk about that real quick moving forward. And I’m going to play an interview after our interview with Dr. Kirk Elliott with Marco Rubio on the Communist News Network. But first, Ukrainian MP Dubinsky just called for an emergency session of Ukraine’s parliament to initiate impeachment proceedings against Zelensky after the Oval Office shouting match. It’s huge. That’s been playing out.

Also, I forgot to show you guys yesterday in the video, the Ukrainian ambassador, look at her reaction when she was watching yesterday all of this play out. Check this out. So you see she’s grabbing her, she’s grabbing her nose like, oh no. She seems to be the only Ukrainian in the room who understood how much damage Zelensky actually did to his own cause. Some other things shaken up Norwegian Fuel giant snubs US Navy amid Ukraine Debacle. That’s right. Norwegian fuel company Hot Back Bunkers refused to refuel the American nuclear submarine the USS Delaware. The company’s public statement cited frustration with the current US Administration’s handling of Ukrainian relations, branding recent American diplomatic actions as a backstabbing TV show.

It’s a huge move. It’s starting to show you what’s going on. The truth is playing out in front of us one moment after another. A quick video clip on just the truth about Russia Ukraine war. For the past two years, we’ve been bombarded with one message. Russia bad, Ukraine good. The Western media and political establishment have crafted a simplistic, almost comic book like narrative where Vladimir Putin is the villain and Ukraine’s government led by Zelensky is the noble defender of freedom and democracy. But as with so many global conflicts, reality is far more complicated than the headlines would have you believe.

Let’s start with some context. This war didn’t begin in February 22nd as many would have you think. The roots go back to 2014, where Ukraine’s democratically elected government was overthrown in what many argue was a Western backed coup. The new Western leaning government took an aggressive stance against pro Russian regions in the east, sparking a brutal civil conflict. Russia’s annexation of Crimea wasn’t some random land grab. It was a strategic and defensive move in response to what it saw as NATO encroachment on its borders. Now, let’s talk about NATO. We’ve been told that NATO is a defensive alliance, but if that were true, why has it expanded eastward since the 1990s despite promises to the contrary? Reality is that Russia has a legitimate security concern, ones that have been completely ignored by the West.

Imagine if China or Russia started building military bases in Mexico. Would the US stand idly by? Of course not. Yet when Russia reacts to NATO forces creeping closer to its borders, it’s painted as the aggressor. And then there’s the issue of Ukraine itself. Zelenskyy has been hailed as a hero of democracy, yet his government has banned opposition parties, shut down critical media and cracked down on dissent. Not exactly the beacon of free speech and liberal values we’ve been sold, is it? And what about the documented cases of neo Nazi elements within Ukraine’s military, particularly the infamous Azov battalion? These inconvenient facts are swept under the rug because they don’t fit the narrative.

Of course, none of this is to say that Russia is entirely innocent. Putin’s government has its own authoritarian tendencies and war always brings human suffering. But to pretend this is a one sided conflict with all the blame falling on Moscow is disingenuous at best and dangerous at worst. The real question we should be asking is who benefits from this war? The answer is clear. Western arms manufacturers, geopolitical strategists pushing for global dominance, and a political class that thrives on keeping tensions high. The Ukrainian people, they’re just being used as pawns in a much bigger game. So before we swallow the mainstream narrative whole, let’s ask ourselves, are we getting the full picture or.

Or just the version that suits those in power? Let me know in the comments and follow for more. So that’s a good update there from Mart’s views on TikTok. Great to have that. And also from John Rich. Globalists need World War three to accomplish their end goal of worldwide submission to their authority. Trump just threw cold water on the witch yesterday when he basically ended the war in Ukraine by cutting off funding we’re watching the collapse of the New World Order in real time. Of course, that happened the other day. And so I wanted to just give you this quick update.

And also after this interview with Dr. Kirk Elliott where he proves even more so that these folks that try to run this earth don’t want us owning precious metals. We’re gonna get there. I’m going to show you clips from John Noname McCain. Right. And also from Victoria Newland, how they set this whole thing up and how we’ve been lied to for so long. Also a clip from Putin on some of this. And then at the very end, we’re gonna have this amazing interview that Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, did on Communist News Network. You do not wanna miss this, folks.

Now to Dr. Kirk Elliott. We have Dr. Kirk Elliott with us again every week. Great Updates. And we know.com Gold, folks, easy link right below this video or the podcast, if you’re listening in, you just click on that link and you’ll have the same conversation I’m having with Dr. Elliott now and you can have all your questions asked. And, you know, his team’s pretty amazing. They’ll take their time with you, pray with you if you want. Prayer also. And it’s just been amazing to watch this journey that we’ve been playing out now for almost two years.

It’s hard to believe the amount of time that’s been going by thus far for all of us. And so we’re grateful to you and for what you’ve done and your team and how you’ve helped us navigate through the storm, this whirlwind of all types of strange things happening on the money side and getting us back to gold and silver. We really appreciate it. And so, you know, great things happening. Of course, President Trump’s been busy. He’s got everybody in now finally. And of course, all the things that they’re up against must be pretty enormous. I always tell people, do you think they’re going to walk into the office and they’re going to bring them a platter with everything that they’ve done wrong in the FBI or and the, you know, with the attorney general, Pam, Bonnie, she’s just going to walk in, they’re going to hand her the here, here’s everything we’ve done illegally, you know, not going to be that easy.

And we knew that that was going to happen. And of course, we’re on, a lot of folks are on pins and needles, but the emotion, I try to warn people all the time, Dr. Elliott, just to keep the emotion down and just be grateful that we, we have, I believe, a great president in a great cabinet. And these guys are going to do all they can to help we the people. And the, one of the biggest ones I think is on our money side. And so that’s where you come in and you’ve got a lot to share today.

Well, it has been a wild journey. You know, Trump’s first month. Ish. Plus he’s been in office and you know, it doesn’t get any, any tamer. Right, so what did he do a few days ago? He, he had this cabinet meeting that was televised, at least part of it. Right. And, and he’s talking about tariffs now. We’ve talked about tariffs a bunch, but it just hit a whole new level. Right. So he said that the 25% tariffs are gonna be announced very soon and that the eu, the European Union was quote, formed to screw the United States, end quote.

I mean, and when you think back to why, you know, when the European Union was started, know, America was the big kid on the block, just massive. Right? So none of the smaller countries in the European Union could compete with the big, huge, massive United States. So they formed this union, you know, put all these countries together and came up with a common currency, you know, common sort of political system. Brussels. And now they can compete. It’s a larger trade block. Right, but, but here’s where Trump is. Right. You know, I don’t think it was just to better everybody’s lives in the Eurozone.

It’s you better everybody’s lives in the Eurozone by being able to compete and hopefully overtake the United States. That’s why. Right, so, so anyways, he mentioned that tariffs are going to be applied generally and he specifically called out car imports. So you think about what kind of cars are coming from Europe. BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Volkswagen, Porsche, Lamborghini. I mean, all these expensive cars. Right. What’s the tariff? 25%. 25%. So come the beginning of April, if you’ve got $100,000 Mercedes, it’s going to be 125. That’s right. So what is this doing to the market? It’s trashing, right? It’s like you look at the stock market had a big massive sell off.

You look at bitcoin, it’s come crashing down as well. Because oddly enough, and I, you know, common sense would tell us, and sometimes our common sense is wrong, that bitcoin is kind of a flight for quality away from banking assets as we know them. Right, right. Because it’s decentralized blockchain, but, but they tend to track together because the blockchain, all these cryptocurrencies need liquidity for people to buy them. If the markets are coming down, the traditional markets, the liquidity is going to dry up. Right. So you’re starting to see them all kind of come down together.

Now you look at what’s happening, what Trump stated, Right. So there’s some documents that I’d sent you about in Mexico and Canada. They’re still going to be set in April, but it’s going to be April 2nd instead of the first, you know, so it’s not much of a delay. But he said the tariffs are scheduled to hit Canada and Mexico next month. They’re moving along very rapidly. Right. And so he still wants to halt the flows of undocumented migrants and illegal drugs such as fentanyl. Right. So here’s where. What tariffs do we have on the table? So, number one, 25% on Canadian goods.

Number two, 25% tariffs on Mexico. 25% tariffs on the European Union. 10% tariffs on China for now. Right. I don’t think that’s going to stay at 10%. It’s probably going to go up dramatically. And then a potential. This is why I say that for 100% tariff on all BRICs. 100%, meaning the price of anything that comes in from BRICS nations will double. Well, okay, what’s one of the biggest BRICS nations where this is going to be a problem for us? Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, oil producers that joined the BRICS this earlier last year. That means oil could actually double.

Now, is Trump going to have any exclusions on the things coming back? I don’t think so. I mean, you’re going to have some strategic minerals that are, I think, going to be excluded because I saw a list earlier. Right. But he’s basically mentioned, yeah, we’re not going to have any. On things, you know, even packages, parcels coming in from China and Hong Kong, they’re stopping at customs, they’re only letting letters go through. So it’s like, man, is. He’s really serious on all this. Right. So. So this would cause a normal, not a luxury car like you’re getting from most of Europe, but normal cars like, I don’t know, Hondas, whatever that are manufactured in Mexico are all going to have like a $3,000 increase on them.

That’s what that do. So this is kind of ravaging the market. They’re coming down hard because it’s going to be a massive slowdown for the rest of the countries in the world. So you look at that and what is inflation doing? The inflation numbers now because of tariffs coming in from other countries. And that’s going to cause inflation. Right. If you’ve got a car that was 100,000, now it’s 125, the higher price. That’s inflation. Right. So but the point is just don’t buy them, buy American where there is going to be no tariffs. Right. This is Trump’s plan.

That’s right. Now, the one year inflation expectations report that just came out, they went from 2.7% to 4.3 and could easily double from their lows. Right. So you’ve got this. That’s happening. And I’m painting a picture of what Trump inherited. Right. So he also inherited debt up to his eyeballs as a country. That’s right. So you look at what’s happened over the last four years of Bidenomics. Wages came down, unemployment skyrocketed, inflation went through the roof. Because they were printing money to provide every stimulus under the sun since COVID Right. So, so what does that mean? Means people couldn’t afford to live.

So what did they do? They started putting money on their credit cards. Right. And they were living on the credit cards, using their credit cards as like a proxy for a savings account. Your credit card isn’t a savings account because you have to pay it back. That’s right. And it’s got interest. So I was looking at the credit card debt outstanding in America. It just hit $1.21 trillion. So four months ago it was a trillion. Like what in the world? In about a third of a year they added $250 billion. A quarter of a trillion dollars added to US credit card lines.

It’s like this is a lot of debt we added so quickly. Now Trump is going to get blamed for it because whoever’s caught holding the bag when something falls apart is going to get the blame. But none of this is his doing. He’s only been here for like a little over a month. Right. So then who’s doing? Is it the prior administration and administrations prior to that? Right. But he’s going to get the blame for it. And the left is going to really try to point out, the globalists are going to really try to point out whose fault it isn’t.

Right. It’s not our fault. We weren’t here when this all happened. Like, yeah, it really was your fault. So now what is this going to do? All this inflation, the world falling apart economically. I think they’re Entering. The rest of the world is starting to enter. When you look at the Chinese M1 money supply, when you look at still the monetary policies of central banks around the world, I think in layman’s terms they’re entering into an inflationary death spiral, right. It’s like an inflate or die moment. Because if they don’t print money to get themselves out of it, like what they’re having to do in China right now, well then, then they’re just going to go into a massive recession and depression.

So they’re doing everything they can. It’s the last gasp of air. But that’s going to cause massive inflation. And how do we know how this is going to turn out? Well, just look at the United States over the last four years since COVID Biden was printing money like a drunken sailor and spending it like a drunken sailor, right? And this caused the inflation that we have. So the rest of the world is still going to be in that because with Trump’s tariffs, he’s going to reduce the demand for foreign goods. Nobody’s going to want them from America because they’re gonna be too expensive.

Therefore we’ll buy American. But it’s not rocket science. It’s actually really, really easy. Well, you have all this, and you and I have talked about this and we know viewers, this is not necessarily a new message for them. But you know what’s a new message is this message for the rest of the world that’s not in tune. And we know, right, and other podcasters in our space that have been talking about this and covering this. Tucker Carlson just had this amazing interview with a gentleman named Luke and he’s like an old school Wall street trader of some sort, right? He’s an analyst.

Well, he said a lot of really good things. Well, you know what’s interesting is you and I have said just about everything that he said. It wasn’t anything new. When I was listening to him, he said, oh yeah, you got gold leaving London. There might be a gold backed currency in America. I mean, saying the same kind of stuff that we’ve said now for a while. But you know what is so important about this interview? It’s hitting mainstream. That’s what the great part about it was. Not that what they said was earth shattering or, or new.

We’ve talked about all of it numerous times, but the fact that it’s hitting mainstream with Tucker Carlson interviewing this guy and they’re coming to the conclusion, why is there so much gold leaving London? Why is it coming to America? Why are they going to audit Fort Knox? Are we going to have a gold backed currency? Those are not the things that actually been on mainstream media before. And I’m not saying that Tucker is completely mainstream media. He left it. But it’s more, it’s more. I don’t know what you would call a lot of the news in our movement more controversial or you know what I’m trying to say, it’s like it’s just more mainstream and that audience is starting to listen.

Where the conspiracy theories of yesterday are the reality theories of today and now it’s normal. And that’s what’s being talked about. And it’s so amazing to see that truth ultimately permeates people’s hearts and minds. And they realize, I love to see it when the light’s gone on people’s eyes, when they realize, nuts, I’ve been lied to for a long time. And that’s what’s starting to happen in America. Right. So in the title on that video is why the CA doesn’t want you owning gold. And is Fort Knox lying about our gold reserve? I mean what. Can you summarize a little bit about what that entails there for all of us? Yeah.

So when, when you know, you’ve got former congressman Ron Paul, Elon Musk saying that they’re going to audit Fort Knox, like why would you need to audit Fort Knox if it’s just the kind of there and gold is just like something that they might have. Well, you audit it for a reason. The reason I think was highlighted by Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessant who said we’re going to monetize the assets of the US balance sheet. They happen to have 8,500 tons of gold that they actually value at $42.02 an ounce. Stupid 1950s archaic pricing mechanism when gold is $3,000.

So revalue the gold. Why would you need to revalue the gold? Because you’re going to audit it. Why do you need to audit it? To make sure it’s there. Why do you need to make sure it’s there? Well, because we want to monetize the assets of the US balance sheet. Well, why do you need to do that? Well, because we’re going to use it to back up our currency. Right. I mean, when I start connecting dots and you keep asking a series of whys, you finally come to a plausible explanation. Right. They’re not just going to audit it just because.

Right. But let’s say what happens when they go in there and it’s not Going to be like, remember when the Al Capone vault got raided by Geraldo Rivera and there’s like, nothing there. Right, right. Embarrassing. You know, this is a big. I remember that as a kid. Well, what could happen when they go in an audit for it now? Number one, maybe there’s no gold in there at all. Right. And what would that do? That would be a huge plus for, for Trump, because now everyone would realize, yuck, we’ve been lied to our whole lives. We thought that Fort Knox actually had all kinds of gold in it.

That’s one potential outcome. Right. What’s number two? It’s full of gold. All the gold is there. Right. Which is maybe why they’ve been pulling it from all parts of the world. It’s leaving London, coming here for the audit. So everything that should be ours is there. Well, then Trump still wins on that one because he can say the. We’re going to ultimately back up our currency with gold. We made sure that it was all here. We brought it from all parts of the world. Right. Or they could do what Ron Paul thinks is happening, which is the gold is going to be there, it’s just not ours.

Right. It’s been rehypothecated, it’s been sold, it’s been leased out. It’s some, some other countries. And you and I have talked about this when, when Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany in 2012, wanted her gold from the United States and they said, nope, not right now. Seven years later, we’ll get seven years. If it were my gold, I’d be really upset. Right? So. Right. Ultimately, that’s why I think Ron Paul might be right, because that was the precedent of knowing another country, a big country, wanted their gold to come back to their homeland, and it wasn’t there.

Right. It may have been there and it may have shown up on, on the, on a ledger somewhere, but it also showed up on somebody else’s ledger that they actually owned it, not us. Right. So, so this is a third potential outcome. Any one of those is going to be a very positive thing for Trump and even the talk of this hitting mainstream. I was just reading an article earlier today that came out during the week, and they think we’re awfully close to gold hitting $3,000 an ounce. We’re like at 2900. Well, when it hits 3,000, the analyst on this, on this article said when gold hits 3,000, it’s a very strong technical level.

Right. It’s just, it’s a nice even number. Then gold or silver will accelerate. We could hit $70 silver. It’s a pretty short order. And then they started talking about Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies and how XRP being used for this, you know, cross payment platform mechanism from central bank to central bank, for central bank, digital currencies, for ways to have decentralized finance and get away from this corrupt banking system which is about to fail. People are saying, well, wow, this thing could go from $2.11 to 8 bucks in pretty short order. Right. And so you’re starting to see alternative investments that have been time tested and true, like gold or silver or new investment mechanisms that are decentralized, still private.

Right. Decentralized blockchain is still private, by and large. Right. So this is why people invest into crypto, because they want something that’s private, they want something that’s out of the system and they want growth. Why do people invest in gold and silver? Because it’s private, it’s out of the system and they want growth. The tech, fundamentally and philosophically, they’re the same. They fill up the same mind space. The difference is one’s digital and one’s tangible. Right, but, but what’s the main point that I’m trying to get across? It’s away from the system as we know it.

I think what Trump is doing is going to upset the apple cart, turn the, the world’s banking system and political system and global economy upside down as he makes America great again. And we happen to be alive, living through all of this, and if we understand the fundamentals and the dynamics of what’s going on, you can allocate properly to take advantage of it. And that’s what we try to do every single week out from the rooftops. What can you do to protect and preserve? That’s right. Yeah. It’s amazing. This time you bring up, I keep thinking about, you know, the surgery deal, like you have to go in and it’s not going to be fun in the beginning.

You’re going to have to remove a lot of this, these things that are causing pain in the body of the United States. And after that pain is done, you start the healing process. And so even President Trump said it’s going to be a little rough at first, but once we get through this, we’re going to have a golden era. And I love how he uses that word, the golden era. And so it’s almost like he’s trying to get us to look, hey, guys, get to that Gold and silver, the precious metals, you’re not going to go Wrong.

It’s biblical. And we’re told it’s biblical even on the intel board that I talk about all the time. And I think we need to get back to biblical values and definitely during a good time now for what I believe is going to be plenty for the United States and others to get into precious metals now. And that’s why it’s important to move forward with you guys. Well, I couldn’t have said it any better myself. I mean, our passion, our heart, our calling and anointing in this world is to do just that, is to not just get people in the right place at the right time, but educate them as to why.

Because lt, you could be in the right place at the right time and not know why, and you’re still gonna be stressed out of your mind when you put your head down on the pillow at night. Right? Right. Or you could totally understand what you’re doing and be in the wrong place at the wrong time, still be stressed out of your mind when you put your head down on the pillow. But what we want to do is help you be in the right place at the right time, let you understand why we’re doing what we’re doing now.

We’ve won, right? We’ve all won. When that kind of stuff is happening because your, your heart and your mind are connected, it gives you peace. And just using biblical wisdom to navigate through these crisis is, is what we pray for our clients every single morning. Every single morning when I get up, I’m praying for wisdom. I’m praying for my clients. I’m praying for peace. I’m praying for the President. Just what we do. Jesus answers all of our prayers. That’s right. Yeah, that’s right. Yeah. It’s so wonderful, you guys. These updates have been phenomenal. And we know.comforward/gold in the description box below, folks.

Go check them out. It will change your life for good. Thank you so much, Dr. Kirk Kelly. We look forward to the next update. It’s amazing, right, how all this is playing out, how again, we have the opportunity to take advantage of great times while everything is in the shakeup mode to get involved in precious metals. I’m so glad our family did that. And so, as promised, I wanted to update you for those sticking around that the Ukraine. Senator John McCain was actively engaged in regime change in Ukraine in 2013, along with Victoria Nuland. They succeeded by 2014, resulting in the annexation of Crimea by Russia and the total invasion by 2022.

The US owns this war. And this is Richard. I put this out. John McCain stood in Kiev openly telling CNN that the US delegation was there to orchestrate a regime change in Ukraine. Joining me now, Senator John McCain, who I know. Senator, you have just addressed the crowd of protesters there yourself and Kiev. What is it you’re trying to do here? Hopefully what we are trying to do is bring about a peaceful transition here that would stop the violence, would give the Ukrainian people what they unfortunately have, not with different revolutions that have taken place, a real legitimate society.

This is a grassroots revolution here. It’s been peaceful except for when the government tried to crack down on them and the government hasn’t done that since. But praising their, their ability and their desire to demonstrate peacefully for change that I think they deserve. Let me ask you this about the US Role. I know that you have wanted the administration perhaps to consider sanctions, something to help boost, boost the anti government protesters. Question to you is while we’re trying to work on so many things with the Russians, for instance with Iran and in Syria, is this really a good time for the US to be taking on Russia? Well, I don’t think that we would be taking on Russia.

And by the way, I am very pleased with Secretary Kennedy. Secretary’s statement. Our Deputy Secretary Victoria Nuland who was here. Look, these people love the United States of America. They love freedom. And I don’t think you could view this as anything but our traditional support for people who want free and democratic society. We’re not talking about military action, we’re not talking about blockades. We are talking about the possibility of sanctions if they continue to brutally repress their people. That would require some action on our part just because that’s what the United States of America is all about.

So he expressed his satisfaction that Victoria Nuland was right there beside him helping to pull the strings. And US advisors serve in almost a dozen Ukrainian ministries and localities helping to deliver services, eliminate fraud and abuse, improve tax collection and modernize Ukrainian institutions. With US Help. Newly vetted and trained police officers are patrolling the streets of 18 Ukrainian cities. In courtrooms across Ukraine, free legal aid attorneys funded by the US have won 2/3 of all the acquittals in the countries. Treasury and State Department advisers have have helped Ukraine shutter over 60 failed banks and protected the assets of depositors.

And since there can be no reform in Ukraine without security, over $266 million of our support has been in the security sector, training 1,200 soldiers and 750 Ukrainian National Guard personnel and supplying life saving gear in FY16. We are continuing that training and equipment of more of Ukraine’s border group, guards, military and coast guard. That was Victoria Newland, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian affairs at the time U.S. department of State. And so let’s hear from the other side, shall we? Is it possible to come to an agreement with Zelensky? About what? About peace, about friendship.

This interview was done in 2020 with Putin. Hope dies last. So yes, there is. But unfortunately he came back from Paris and asked to restructure the Minsk agreement, and that’s concerning. Is it a loss that we are no longer friends with Ukraine? Yes, of course. But I’ve said this many times, I believe that we are one people. Ukrainians hate that statement, whether they like it or not. In reality it is the case because up until 13th century our languages were the same. It was until pollinization, when the part of Ukrainians that ended up under the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, which was around 16th century, then their changes in language began.

I believe until the 1st, 14th or maybe 15th century, those Slavs that lived in East Lithuania and in Moscow and in Poland were all called Ruskay. They were never divided. And all language changes came later. Mr. Putin. Yeah, history is one thing, but we are talking today. And for us to accurately talk about today, we have. We have to know our history, where we come from, our origins and what unites us. Right now, a lot divides us, actually, that’s fine, but we can’t forget what unites us and burn more bridges of, for example, our church. Why did they have to divide our common Orthodox Church? Sure, if significant portion of Ukrainian population have decided to embrace their nationality, we have to only respect that and stay in reality.

But we should never forget who we are and where we come from. Also, the founding fathers of Ukrainian nationalism, as strange as it may sound, never said that Ukrainians had to break their relations with Russians. In their fundamental works from 19th century, they’ve said one Ukraine is multinational and has to become a federal state, and two, has to have good relations with Russia. Looks like the modern nationalists have forgotten all of this. But do you know why they have forgotten this? I’ll tell you. Because the interests of current Ukrainian ruling elites has never been about the Ukrainian people.

Well, think about it. How can they care about their citizens if as a result of breaking relationships, they have lost critical industries? A full deindustrialization is occurring within their country. Why would they do this? Especially when uniting we can multiply our output and dominate our competition? For what? I’ll tell you because those that have reached the power in Ukraine, they always pursued their personal interests, which isn’t solely to keep robbing the population, but to also safeguard and keep what is already robbed. Where is their robbed money located? In foreign banks, which means that now they have to serve those that hold their money.

And from here, you get all of the problems, and the main one being Russophobia, because someone far away really loves dividing Ukraine and Russia. They believe that this task must be accomplished, as any union between Russia and Ukraine will create a superpower in Europe and in the world, which will dominate all competitions. And they don’t want this. They don’t want this. Interesting. First time I’ve seen that interview. So, speaking of interviews, here’s the one that I wanted to. You sit through this. It’s absolutely brilliant how Secretary of State Marco Rubio answers these questions to help us out, and then we’ll go to prayer.

Heard from President Zelensky. He said he does not think that he owes President Trump an apology for what happened inside the Oval Office today. Do you feel otherwise? I do. I do. Because you guys don’t see. You guys only saw the end. You saw what happened today. You don’t see all the things that led up to this. So let me explain. The president’s been very clear. He campaigned on this. He thinks this war should have never started. He believes, and I agree, that had he been president, it never would have happened. And now here we are, he’s trying to bring an end to this conflict.

We’ve explained very clearly what our plan is here, which is we want to get the Russians to a negotiating table. We want to explore whether peace is possible. They understand this. They also understand that this agreement that was supposed to be signed today was supposed to be an agreement that binds America economically to Ukraine, which to me, as I’ve explained, I think the President alluded to today, is a security guarantee in its own way, because we’re involved. It’s not us, it’s our interest, interests. That was all explained. That was all understood. And nonetheless, for the last 10 days, in every engagement we’ve had with the Ukrainians, there’s been complications in getting that point across, including the public statements that President Zelensky has made.

But they insisted on coming to D.C. this agreement could have been signed five days ago, but they insisted on coming to Washington. And there was a very, and should have been a very clear understanding. Don’t come here and create a scenario where you’re going to start lecturing us about how diplomacy isn’t going to work. President Zelensky took it in that direction. And it ended in a predictable outcome as a result. It’s unfortunate that wasn’t supposed to be this way, but that’s the path he chose. And I think, frankly, you know, sends his country backwards in regards to achieving peace, which is what President Trump wants at the end of the day, is for this war to end.

He’s been as consistent as anyone can be about what his objective is here. But what specifically do you want to see President Zelensky apologize for? Well, apologize for turning this thing into the fiasco for him that it became. There was no need for him to go in there and become antagonistic. Look, this thing went off the rails. You were there, I believe it went off the rails when he said, let me ask you a question to the vice president. What kind of diplomacy are you talking about? Well, this is a serious thing. I mean, thousands of people have been killed.

Thousands. And he talks about all these horrible things that have happened to President, prisoners of war and children. All true, all bad. This is what we’re dealing with here. It needs to come to an end. We are trying to bring it to an end. The way you bring it to an end is you get Russia to the table to talk. And he understands that attacking Putin, no matter how anyone may feel about him personally forcing the president into a position where you’re trying to goad him into attacking Putin, calling him names, maximalist demands about Russia having to pay for the reconstruction, all the.

All the sorts of things that you talk about in a negotiation. Well, when you start talking about that aggressively, and the president’s a deal maker, he’s made deals his entire life. You’re not going to get people to the table. And so you start to perceive that maybe Zelensky doesn’t want a peace deal. He says he does, but maybe he doesn’t. And that active, open undermining of efforts to bring about peace is deeply frustrating for everyone who’s been involved in communications with them leading up to today. And I think we should apologize for wasting our time for a meeting that was going to end the way it did.

You yourself have said previously that Putin cannot be trusted in negotiations. That was the point that President Zelensky was ultimately making during that conversation, is that there cannot be an agreement without security guarantees, because he was talking about all the cease fire agreements before or agreements that Putin has just blown past. I mean, do you still feel that way, that Putin cannot be trusted in these negotiations? Well, I was there yesterday when the president said in front of the media that our approach is going to be Trust, but verify. Donald Trump has made President Trump’s made deals his entire life.

He’s not going to get suckered into some deal that’s not a real deal. We all understand this. We understand it on our end for certain. And so the goal here is to get to a place we have to explore whether peace is possible. I’ve said this repeatedly. I don’t know. I think it is based on what they’ve said so far. But we have to explore that. How else is this war going to end? I ask people, what is the European plan to end this war? I can tell you what one foreign minister told me, and I’m not going to say who it was, but I can tell you what one of them told me, and that is that the war goes on for another year, and at that point, Russia will feel so weakened that they’ll beg for a peace that’s another year of killing, another year of dying, another year of destruction.

And by the way, not a very realistic plan in my point of view. So if there’s a chance of peace, even if it’s a 1% chance, that needs to be explored, and that’s what President Trump is trying to do here. President Trump said, just when he was leaving the White House after that meeting, that he doesn’t think President Zelensky wants. But isn’t that why the Ukrainian leader was in the Oval Office for that meeting today? Well, he was in the Oval Office to sign a minerals rights deal. That’s what he was in the Oval Office to sign today.

But again, when you have comments that deliberately appear to be deliberately. I mean, after having discussed this repeatedly, deliberately appear to be geared towards making the argument that peace is not possible. You know, again, I turn to the. He turns to the vice president. What kind of diplomacy are you talking about? Almost as if to say, these people, you can’t deal with them. We can’t be. You can’t have any negotiations with Putin because he can’t be trusted. And you’re just wasting your time on negotiations. Well, he’s directly basically undermining everything the president has told him he’s trying to do.

Look, there’s no need for that. You start to suspect, does he really want an end to this war? Does he just think that, you know, we have to do whatever he says and give him anything he wants without any end game? That was the Biden strategy. That was the Biden strategy. We were funding a stalemate. We were funding a meat grinder. And unfortunately for the Ukrainians, the Russians have more meat to grind. And they don’t care about human life. We’ve seen it. Human waves, the North Koreans, etc. And so this is a very complex thing. It’s very delicate, it’s very costly, it’s very bloody.

It needs to be brought to an end. But it isn’t going to be brought to an end with public pronouncements and maximalist demands in the public, but in real diplomacy. The Vice President was right when you say they don’t care about life. Are you talking about the Russians or the Ukrainians? Well, the Russians, I mean, they’re conscripting by the hundreds of thousands. They brought in North Korean troops that were slaughtered and Kursk, and they keep going because they got more people. That’s the other fact. Look, and it’s, you know, again, we go back to the same point.

I’m not going to fall into this trap of who’s bad and who’s evil. People can make those conclusions. People have seen how this narrative has played out and where we are today and how this all started and so forth. The point now is it has to end. And the way it ends is you get people to a negotiating table. And the President, who’s the ultimate dealmaker, knows you don’t get people to a negotiating table when you’re calling them names and you’re accusing them of things. Because at the end of the day, this is not a political campaign, okay? This is high stakes international diplomacy and an effort to bring about an end to a very, very dangerous war.

But you yourself, sir, have said before that you believe Putin is a war criminal. That that is a widely accepted fact. You’ve called him a but. And you said that as a Secretary of State, you do believe it’s important for someone with such global influence as you have to speak with that kind of moral clarity. Yeah. And at this moment, as Secretary of State, my job working for the president is to deliver peace, to end this conflict and end this war. Ultimately, that is the job of the State Department. The State Department doesn’t fight wars. It ends them.

It tries to end them. And that’s usually, by the way, celebrated. I mean, throughout history, I’ve watched presidents to bring about an end to war, wars and conflicts, and people celebrate that. They applaud it. I think we should be very proud and happy that we have a president whose prime objective is not to get into wars, but to prevent wars and to get out of wars. That is a very noble, laudable goal. Everyone should be applauding it and he should be given the space to do that, not undermined by demands that he call Putin names or that we say things that impede the ability to conduct real diplomacy.

As the vice president said today, to follow up on what you just said a moment ago, are you saying that you have doubts that President Zelensky wants this war to come to an end? What I have doubts about is whether he’s willing to say and do the things that we need in order to get a negotiation again. You got this has been going on for 10 days. And, you know, to see things in the press saying we’re not coordinating with the Ukrainians, that’s absolutely false. Over the last 10 days, the Ukrainians have met with the secretary of commerce, the secretary, secretary of State.

The vice president of the United States had a phone call with President Trump and he was in the Oval Office today. I’ve talked to the foreign Minister of Ukraine three times in the last 10 days. The argument that we’re not engaging, but yet you keep reading these press accounts about, oh, well, they’re leaving us out, we’re not involved, we’re not engaged. None of these things are true. And it continues. So all that led up to today and a deep sense of frustration. And my hope is that this all can be reset and matured, can kick in and some pragmatism, because this war, tonight, people will die in Ukraine.

Tonight, people will die in this conflict. We’re trying to bring an end to this conflict, which is unsustainable. It’s an unsustainable, bloody war that has to come to an end. And right now, the only leader in the world that can even have a chance of bringing about an end to this is named President Donald Trump. And we need to give him the opportunity to try and do that. And when you see efforts to impede it, when you deliberate, when you tell someone, don’t say, let’s not talk about these things, let’s not go in this direction because it makes it harder for us to engage.

And they insist on doing it anyways. You start to wonder. You start to wonder. I don’t like to impugn people’s motives, but you start to wonder what’s behind it. So look again, let’s hope. Can I ask you, Secretary, I’m not sure after today, you don’t believe that this can be. You’re not sure that this can be salvaged. I mean, can this relationship between Zelensky and Trump be repaired, in your view? I think anything is possible. But it has to go back to the point that President Trump is interested in being involved in this for the purposes of bringing about an enduring and lasting peace.

That’s what he wants to achieve. And I think if I’m a country, okay, that’s involved in a war with a bigger country who’s losing thousands of people, who’s had 3 million people leave my country because they can’t be there, who, you know, is facing these challenges. I would be thanking a president who’s trying to help bring about an end to this war. I would be thanking him, and I would be supportive of what he’s trying to do, at least in my public pronouncements and in my public posture. And we didn’t see that today, and we haven’t seen that for the last few days now.

Will that change? I hope so. It should for the purposes of global peace and stability in Europe and around the world. Vice President Vance was criticizing Zelenskyy for not saying thank you specifically during that. That meeting, those 40 to 50 minutes that we were in the Oval Office. But certainly, and you know very well, Secretary Rubio, your time as a senator here in Washington, that whenever Zelensky has come to Washington before, he has very much expressed that kind of gratitude. Just, just listen to this. Thank you for both financial packages. You have already provided us, really, all my appreciations from my heart, from the heart of Ukrainians, all Ukrainians.

So what can I say to American people in English, My English is poor. To say all. All my messages and all my thanks to you and thank you very much for supporting us, our people. Thank you, United States. Thank you, America. Ukraine is grateful to the United States for its overwhelming support. Do you think you can make the argument that he hasn’t said thank you? Well, I think the vice President said he hadn’t said it today. He hadn’t heard it today in that meeting. And we were hoping that that meeting would begin by thank you for everything you’ve done for us.

We wouldn’t be where we are today without you. We wouldn’t even have a chance to negotiate a peace without the help you gave us, by the way. Without the help you gave us when you were president in the first term because President Obama refused to provide them defensive capabilities in terms of military hardware. He did provide them blankets. Yeah. And that was brought up. Humanitarian aid meeting. Well, but it was brought up and I was there. In fact, I vividly recall at the time, Vice President Biden saying to me in a meeting that we had at the vice President’s residence that the reason why we didn’t want to provide them those weapons is because they might use them.

That was his exact quote. And that was the attitude I remember clearly then, the Ukrainian leaders saying, we don’t need more blankets or MREs. We need weapons to defend ourselves. And they didn’t do it. President Trump did. He provided them weaponry, some of it, much of it, which was used at the beginning of this war. And without those weapons being in their stocks, this war could have been over very quickly. Two, three, four days. Another potshot that Zelensky took today when the president pointed that out, you know what Zelensky said? He said, yeah, yeah, we’ve heard that from the Russians.

That’s not a Russian narrative. That was the official position of the United States. I vividly recall being briefed by leaders in the Biden administration telling us that this war was going to be over in five to six days. They believe that. That was their assessment at the time. And it wasn’t the case because of the weapons that Ukraine had in stocks because of President Trump in his first term. So he should have been grateful for that and grateful for what we’re doing now. And one more point. It’s not just President Trump. There’s actors, news reports out there from NBC News at least is one of the place.

I recall reporting that Biden had a shouting match with Zelensky for not being grateful and not being thankful for everything that was provided back in 2022. Now, that didn’t happen in front of the press. That was leaked, but it got out there. It’s these frustrations are not unique to President Trump. There was those frustrations in the previous administration, if NBC News is to be believed. But obviously, we’ve never seen anything like what we saw today. But the point that Zelensky was making there is that everyone predicted his demise and Ukraine was able to fight and to survive.

Zelensky was able to survive. The Ukrainian people have been fighting for three years. You yourself have said previously that. That the United States should assist Ukraine as long as the Ukrainians are willing to fight. So I think the question coming out of that meeting is what happens next year? I mean, you are the US Chief diplomat. Is there a path for diplomacy? Is a cease fire still a possibility tonight? Well, number one, you know who else said that Ukraine is very brave and very valiant? President Trump. He said it today. He said it repeatedly. Your soldiers have been very brave.

Your fighters have been very brave. Your people have been very brave. He said that repeatedly. And everyone recognizes that. But we’re three years into a war, war that has no End in sight and no exit strategy. The EU doesn’t have an exit strategy. I saw the comments tonight from the leader of the EU saying there needs a new leader of the of the free world. I mean, these people are just playing silly games and saying these things. What is their exit strategy? What is anybody else’s exit strategy? The only person on the planet who is actively trying to bring an end to this conflict is named Donald Trump, the President of the United States.

He’s the only one that’s trying to do it and we should be helping him to achieve it. And so do I think it’s possible. Yeah, I hope it’s possible because that’s what we do try to do at the Department of State as we try to bring end to conflict, not start new ones and certainly not extend them. Senator Lindsey Graham, after having lunch with President Trump today, said Zelensky either needs to resign or they need to send someone over that we can do business with. Do you feel that President Zelensky needs to resign? Well, that’s Lindsey’s feeling because he feels very passionately, you know, he’s been a very strong support border of Ukraine.

Lindsey Graham has been one of the United States for Ukraine. Well, the United States, the President’s taken no position on that. What he said today is let him come back when he’s ready to do peace. That’s what he said. Let him come back when he’s ready to do peace. So I can’t speak for what anybody else said. I can only go off the words from the President of the United States. And that is today. We’re not, this is not going to be productive any further. When Zelensky is ready to make peace and he’s serious about peace, let him come back then, and that’s when we’ll re engage with them.

And what he means by that is that, well, I think it’s everything I’ve said already, and that is, how are you going to get Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation to a table to discuss even the opportunity, whether, even to explore whether there’s an opportunity for peace. You’re not going to do it by calling them names. It makes everybody feel very good. You can pass resolutions, you can put out very strongly worded statements. Senators can do it. I did when I was in the Senate. House members can do it, commentators can do it, and countries that have no real skin in the game can do it.

But when you are the President of the United States of America and you’re trying to bring about peace the way Donald Trump Is trying to bring about peace. The only way to do it is you have to create space for people to come to the table and talk. And that is something we should all be applauding, not criticizing and not pretending that we can just extend this war forever until, and that everybody has unlimited resources to continue to fund it on both sides, by the way. And President Zelensky has said he does want this war to end.

He just cares about how it ends. We heard that from the other European leaders who came to the Oval Office also this week. President Trump said to me today, before that shouting match erupted in the Oval Office that he doesn’t believe there have to be security guarantees in place before the cease fire, that you can come to a cease fire agreement and then put those in place. Do you agree with that? That’s not what he said. What he said is, why am I going to be talking about security guarantees? Let me get a peace deal first, is what he said.

That doesn’t mean they can’t happen as part of that negotiation. But you have to have an agreement. What is that? What peace is there to secure if you first don’t have an agreement on peace? Like what? What do the Russians need in order to end this conflict? So you’re saying it would happen as part of the negotiations? Well, again, how do you end a war? You have to find out what the combatants require in order to stop shooting at each other. What are the Russians needs, what do they need to see in order for them to stop fighting, what do the Ukrainians need in order to stop fighting.

And then once you have that in place, then you can decide the next step, which is, and what do we need to do to make sure this never happens again, that it doesn’t happen in two years, three years, five years? I don’t think President Trump is interested in a one year cease fire. I don’t think he’s interested in a six month cease fire. He wants this thing to end. He has said that repeatedly. But again, he’s not going to use the kind of language that maybe plays well in the public sphere or in the political sphere for people that want to take shots at him.

But it’s not going to allow us to have a negotiation or even to explore a potential negotiation. President Donald Trump is a man who’s made deals his entire life in business, and he’s bringing those principles to government. And he’s the only one in the world that has any chance. If Donald Trump tomorrow decides, I don’t care about Ukraine, I don’t care about Russia, and I don’t care about this war. And he walks away. I ask you, I ask everyone, well, who on this planet has any chance whatsoever, even a 1% chance, of getting the combatants to the table? The answer is there is no one.

He is the only one on Earth right now that has any chance. If there is a chance at peace, is he only one that has a chance to deliver on it? Do you still see a meeting happening with President Putin there, President Zelensky and President Trump? Is that still possible? Well, I think that’s premature. I mean, what would they. You first need to make sure that this is even a possibility and you have to explore it. And look, there’s good signs, I think, maybe, you know, somewhat about at least the Russians willingness to engage, but we have to explore all that.

But that’s not going to be done in front of cameras. It’s not going to be done in an open ballroom. There’s a lot of work to be done before we get to this point. This is a complex war that has causes behind it that go back a number of years. There’s a lot to navigate. A lot has been invested on both sides. Gains have been made by the Russian Federation in some places. All of these things have to be worked through, but it’s not going to be done through press conferences and in the media. It has to be done through what the vice President said today, the serious work of diplomacy.

It’s, you know, it’s a lot easier to just say, well, we’re with Ukraine all the way, no matter what, however long it takes. Well, 15 years, 12 years. I mean, that’s absurd. That’s not sustainable and everybody knows it. The President wants to end this war. He wants to explore whether there’s a possibility to do it and do it quickly. He campaigned on it. It was a promise of his and he intends to come. When he says these things, he doesn’t just say them, he means them. And he’s doing it. And it’s the first time we’ve seen that in a long time in American politics.

Secretary Marco Rubio, thank you for your time tonight and joining us on such a historic day. I really do appreciate your time. Thank you. Reminder, Slovak Prime Minister Fico says Slovakia will not support Ukraine financially and militarily and demands an immediate ceasefire. This comes one day after Ukrainian President Zelensky was kicked out of the White House. Very interesting how that plays out. And as we head into prayer, just wanted to show this clip also of what happened in Ukraine with the. With those here we go a lot of violence, a lot of people have been killed.

Non combatants have been killed by the Zelensky government, beaten our priests, beaten our parishioners. And I have this all on video. If you go to savetheuoc.com you will see the videos of our parishioners being beaten. These are the elderly parents of people at the front fighting for the liberation and protection of Ukraine being beaten very often by sbu. That that’s their secret police wearing death masks with Nazi insignias on their arm. So the fact that he’s destroyed civil society, he’s destroyed a free media, he jails or sanctions or charges with treason, his opponents, we’re supposed to ignore all of that because if we mention it or if I stand on a soapbox to scream that he’s jailing and torturing priests, we are somehow disentitled to speak.

The banning of an entire religion during wartime represents among the worst human rights crimes. Robert Amsterdam there’s no freedom religion in Ukraine. The occupation destruction of Christian Sanctuaries continues on October 17, 2024 in the city of Cherkassy. Excuse me, about 100 people in mass storm the the Archangel Michalowski’s cathedral and beat up parishioners and priests. A lot of prayers needed out there. The police silently observed what was happening and covered the attackers attackers actions during the pogrom. Ancient icons were destroyed and the cathedral’s property was looted. Lot to talk about, a lot going on. We’ll have more updates this week.

Let’s go to prayer. Heavenly Father, thank you again for constantly showering us with your love, your grace and your mercy. We certainly need it. There are so many days that go by that just seem to one week seems to be one day. Now as we go through so much information when bombarded in so many different directions with how evil has taken over this entire earth, one layer is being peeled back at a time and you know how much we can handle. And it’s brilliantly being put together in such a way that we’re trying to take it in.

But at the same time we know we can’t make it without you. So we do ask for continued guidance and direction in our lives. Help us in our decision making with our finances and more. We certainly need you every second of every day. We ask all this in the name of your son, Jesus Christ Yeshua. Amen and amen folks. Thank you for tuning in. I hope you have a great week and hope this update was good for you. For now this is LT St. Semper Fi with and we know, signing out.
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