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Speaker 1: Tulsi Gabbard is back with her very first speech at TPUSA Texas youth event.
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Speaker 2: Basically, I think a campaign speech.
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Speaker 1: Trump and Putin make a diesel deal that explodes Zelensky's head.
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Speaker 2: And guess what?
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Speaker 1: We find out now that cartels are volunteering to fight in Ukraine, going back in order to face off against our soft troops that are now running ops down in Ecuador and other places. Today on the David Rutherford Show. Welcome back to the show, everybody. Jordy and I just want to give you just so much gratitude and love because over the last couple weeks, we have been receiving so much attention and so much sharing and so much love on social media that we just really want to say thank you. We can't thank you enough. We appreciate you so much. You are the core and people are now responding to the shows and we're starting to hit the algorithms and we're just, we're so blessed and we're so grateful.
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Speaker 2: So thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: If you can, please continue to leave comments, rate us as five star, subscribe, share it with friends, man. We just want to make sure that everybody out there gets a little, a flashbang of truth and where we're bringing context to the tsunami of information that is trying to destroy our brains.
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Speaker 2: All right, man. All right.
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Speaker 1: So, Jordy, dude, as I was sending you the clips today, like, were you tracking what I was going to talk about? Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's tracking as well as I always can. Dude, you always go deep. You find the real stories. You find the fun ones.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm trying to find how everything's tied together. And today's three shows absolutely tie together in the grand context of how I believe the geopolitical scenario across the world is shifting radically, right? Now, many theorists out there are believing that Trump is doing this intentionally. He's destroying, some people are advocating that he's really reigning in power from the EU and from NATO and from you know, the IMF, you know, over in that region. And he's redistributing our power back to our hemisphere. I believe a lot of that is very true. But these other moves, I found it really fascinating. And the number one move as we come into the election season now, we're less than 30 days away from the midterm elections, which many people believe the Republican Party are going to get trounced out there. Some people within the Die Hard MAGA movement are like, hell no, we're doing great. We're going to dominate this thing. Again, finding the right polls is very difficult. But the one I found really interesting was the fact that Tulsi Gabbard came out of you know, her dedicated focus to her husband who had cancer and was undergoing massive cancer treatment. So she came out of that reality and, you know, she was invited to speak at the TPUSA Texas Youth Action Committee or Texas Youth Event. And I want to play you a little bit of her speech that she gave. So go ahead, Jordi, fire us up.
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Speaker 4: Maybe half the room wasn't alive, wasn't with us yet when that happened. But when that happened, in just 45 days, Congress passed the Patriot Act. Hundreds and hundreds of pages of new policies, new authorities that gave the government unprecedented surveillance power. Since when does Congress do anything in 45 days? They were able to move so quickly because these provisions were things that the government had wanted to pass for years, but couldn't find that window, that justification to do so. The attack happened on 9-11, and they took advantage of it. With those powers, the NSA started secretly collecting phone records on virtually every phone call in America. Every one of us. They know who you called, when you called, and how long that call lasted for. And when they were busted for this, they did this in secret. It was because a senator asked then the director of national intelligence under oath, does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions of Americans? And guess what his answer was?
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 2: Not wittingly.
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Speaker 4: He was lying. He knew he was lying and eventually was caught out on it. Later, a federal appeals court ruled that that program went beyond what the law allowed. Surprise, surprise. The government's own privacy board, they couldn't find a single case where this overreaching surveillance on everyone's phone calls in this country made any difference in stopping a potential terrorist attack. That program's gone now, but I can tell you from firsthand experience that this massive surveillance state that they built is very much alive and well, and it's growing.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Jordan, stop right there. So she also goes on to talk about a bunch of different stuff. She talks about the overreach and COVID and Fauci and his lies. She talks about, you know, that this overreach... is the foundation for justification of going into these forever wars.
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Speaker 2: She talks about how.
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Speaker 1: The massive expansion into the surveillance state is an utter violation of our Fourth Amendment, and that is eroding at a level never before seen. She talks about flock cameras. She talks about Islamist ideology as a core threat to freedom in Western civilization.
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Speaker 2: You know, and she.
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Speaker 1: Talks about ISIS and Al Qaeda. You know, she talks about violent extremism and it's growing in Europe and all that, you know, and she talks about this personal reflection of, you know, recounting her first deployment to Iraq and what that's like. And she was basically rejecting complacency, that we need to be willing to act at all times. She quoted Martin Luther King, and she even brought up the memory of Charlie Kirk's approach to engage with opponents with respect, listen, and defeat weak arguments with
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truce and compassion rather than intimidation. Now, if it's, you know, most people will see this and they'll be like, all right, awesome. Definitely TPUSA needed to have Tulsi Gabbard. It's interesting to to see if she'll be speaking at all the major other bigger events. This was at like a Texas youth summit event, which I found was interesting. But the thing that really shocked me was here is a person that was formerly the head of the D she was the DNI, the director of national intelligence. That's means she was in charge of all 18 agencies that are known, obviously other, you know, little sub tentacle agencies run by NGOs and all this other stuff is there too. But here she was for a year and a half. We heard her talk about all this intelligence stuff that contradicted Ratcliffe. And then this past summer, she's like, okay, I got to go take care of my husband.
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Speaker 2: I'm out.
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Speaker 1: And then she just magically shows up right before elections. Because if you've forgotten, Tulsi Gabbard was a massive part of the coalition that was developed for 2024, right?
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Speaker 2: She's a former Democrat.
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Speaker 1: She's actually a former sweetheart of the Democratic Party. She was head of the Democratic National Committee back in the day when she first came on scene as a junior congresswoman from Hawaii.
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Speaker 2: War. She'd been to war.
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Speaker 1: She's, she was act, you know, in the reserves as I think a Lieutenant Colonel eventually. So like she is the poster child for MAGA and this coalition.
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Speaker 2: So what'd they do? They wheeled her out. Well, guess what?
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Speaker 1: It wasn't like she got up there and started pontificating about how awesome Trump's policies are and how awesome the war in Iran is going and how awesome all this other stuff is going on.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: What we got from Tulsi, in my opinion, was basically a reiteration of her displeasure with the deep state to which she was just a part of the deep state. And according to several people, most importantly, Joe Kent, which he's always been very protective. But if you understand the things he was saying is that a lot of the intelligence that that they were receiving, collecting, and offering up was not having the type of impact they had hoped it would have on Trump, most particularly not starting the war in Iran, all right? So does she get up and talk about Hey, low, let's not go to Iran. Let's not do like, no, because she still wants the affiliation. She still wants to piece, have a piece of that coalition that's behind her. And as we've seen before, if you come out against Trump in any way, shape or form, the MAGA army attacks you, discredits you, raises money to get you out of office.
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Speaker 2: They annihilate you. They discredit.
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Speaker 1: They go after your family. This is brutal. They're, in my opinion, in many cases, just as bad as the left, as the Democratic Party. Those in power have one defining principle to stay in power and anybody who's making commentary on their power or how they're maintaining or how they're using power, they're going to get obliterated, in particular now with the use of bots online. You can have whole bot armies go after and discredit people in their posts. What I heard was a woman that's still interested in politics, And she's giving a very neutral speech to conservative people, right? Conservative people, liberal social views. And basically saying, hey, I'm still here. I'm still here. And I still relevant. And I'm still pissed at the deep state, even though I was just there. And I kind of randomly coincidentally left in this difficult time.
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Speaker 2: But I'm still here. I'm over here. Don't forget about me.
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Speaker 1: Because I believe ultimately Tulsi Gabbard is going to run for office. Maybe it's with this new party people are talking about. the new American Liberty Party or the new Youth American Liberty Party or some version of that. Perhaps she comes under the America First component. Maybe she joins J.D. Vance and runs with J.D. Vance. That's a possibility, I think. You know, there's a lot of different scenarios that could play out. But at its core, when I hear, see the Republican Party push Tulsi Gabbard out at a low level TPSU event, they're trying to pull in those Tulsi fans that were a part of that coalition. And that's what, now if she's out there stumping on a regular basis during these campaigns and out there, and we have not really seen any of these people out there, uh, you know, uh, campaigning other than Trump with a few significant tight races out there, but man, we've not seen Tulsi.
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Speaker 2: So I thought this was fascinating. Now, what does this mean?
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Speaker 1: The grander context well one of the things we realized is that tulsi was a staunch advocate for greater communication uh people forget she she went to certain countries to try she went to syria met with assad to try and open up relationships as the us was conducting a covert civil war using isis and al-qaeda as fighters against uh the assad and regime and the putin assistance right And.
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Speaker 2: That got her in a lot of trouble. Right.
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Speaker 1: So what I'm seeing is that as a person who's a staunch advocate for, you know, doing deals or really beginning a diplomatic reality right around the same time that guess what? Trump basically came out, got Putin on the phone and decided that they were.
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Speaker 2: Going to do a deal. Thanks everybody for paying attention to this episode.
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Speaker 2: And then out of nowhere, go ahead, roll, roll the tape for us.
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Speaker 5: You heard about the oil deal with Russia. That is a big deal. That is massive amounts of oil coming into our country. And I want to thank President Putin, to be honest with you. We have massive amounts of oil being coming into our country and it's diesel, which is what we want.
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Speaker 2: So thank you. All right. All right, that's good.
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Speaker 1: So there he is, old Susie Wiles behind him, looking all fired up.
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Speaker 2: They struck a deal.
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Speaker 1: And what's interesting is you have to understand what the size and scope of the deal are. Now, again, and this is all tied into another sequence of things that have been taking place between Trump, Zelensky, and Putin, the EU, and NATO, right? The week before this, basically Trump came out in one of those types of interviews and basically said, you know, Zelensky, you got to stop bombing Russian oil refineries. You're driving the price of diesel internationally up. Stop doing it or else. And so Zelensky comes out and is like, yeah, OK, whatever, and continues bombing refineries. And then Russia's like bombing civilian energy infrastructure. And then so they're just going back and forth. And basically Trump's like, oh, well, you want to mess with me?
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Speaker 2: Well, guess what?
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Speaker 1: We're going to pull sanctions back. We're going to do this deal, and we're going to make you look like an absolute idiot and pressure you into this, right? So here was the deal term. So Russia was to supply immediately greater than 300,000 tons of diesel to the U.S. and global markets, another 500,000 tons in November, 1 million tons immediately thereafter, plus a further 3 million tons immediately within a short period, and that was in quote, within a short period. Conditional on the condition of Russian refineries, many have been damaged by Ukrainian strikes, total potential is 4.8 million tons of diesel, right?
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Speaker 2: Now, what did the U.S. have to do immediately?
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Speaker 1: The Treasury's OFAC had to issue a temporary general license authorizing transactions for the sales. delivering and offloading and importation of Russian origin diesel until April 7th, 2027. So this is not a short-term diesel agreement. This is a long-term diesel agreement into next year. which, by the way, is interesting that he extended the timing of that, right? Because after the midterms, good chance there might be some impeachment trials starting. So now the Russian side, Putin confirmed his readiness to supply the oil and the petroleum products to the U.S. and global markets. Now, here's the deal. This is what you got to remember, right? This is the context and scale of this agreement, right? So volumes are, at best, modest, right? relative to the global demand. And the initial tranche of oil, of, of, of diesel promise to the U S is less than one day's U S transport diesel usage. So make that make sense to me.
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Speaker 2: Like, like, all right.
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Speaker 1: Is that Putin having the keys in his hand? Or is that Trump trying to soften Putin up to get a peace deal or a ceasefire deal?
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Speaker 2: Or what's actually going on with this?
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Speaker 1: Because if you're only going to get a modicum amount, maybe all it is is like, that's enough to knock it down from, you know, 675 to 625 right before midterms. And, Then he can say, we knocked it down by 20% prior because of my deal with Putin. Maybe that has something to do with it, right? Maybe he's shortened the diesel market.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. We don't know. Allegedly shorting the diesel market, right?
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Speaker 1: So, you know, the reality is, right, what's really impacting is the entire structure of what was supposedly meant to crush Russia, which was these– oil and, and fuel sanctions.
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Speaker 2: That we were putting on.
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Speaker 1: Well, I did a show in the spring that basically said prior to a certain relative time to that, like, uh, uh, Russia had been supplying like $ 14 billion.
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Speaker 2: And don't quote me on that. It's somewhere around that in fuel to the, to the EU, even.
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Speaker 1: During, after the war was taking place, right? Hey, Jordy, look that up for me. Look how much total fuel has Russia supplied to the EU.
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Speaker 2: Since the war breakout. All right.
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Speaker 1: So as you you think about these sanctions now, there are a lot of people in D.C., both Democrats and some Republican
senators and all that. that are pissed off because this breaks the laws of the sanctions that were put in place, or the sanctions that were put in place based on different laws that were, you know, had passed and were like, you can't do any of this with Russia. So, you know, that in and of itself, a problem. Now, as a result of this deal, one of the unique things that emerged out of this was Zelensky lost his mind, right? Of course, as would anybody, basically calling You're supplying terrorists. You're enabling them to continue waging war on us. And the whole idea– and mind you, this was going on while there were peace talks or talks taking place in Miami with Kushner and Witkoff and all these people that were taking place.
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Speaker 2: All right, Jordy, how much fuel?
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Speaker 3: All right, roughly– 197 to $ 238 billion. So around 200 to 260 billion in fossil fuels and energy products from February, March, 2022 through mid to late 2026, depending on the source.
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Speaker 2: $ 200.
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Speaker 1: Billion in fuel to, and mind you, after this was.
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Speaker 2: Said, all the EU people, all the NATO people all freaked up.
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Speaker 1: You're breaking sanctions. This is going to, There's going to give you all this stuff. Meanwhile, they've been taking fuel from them since the beginning because basically Europe can't produce its own fuel anymore, right? Because they shut down all the coal plants, they shut down all of the nuclear plants, and they're in an energy crisis since this began, right?
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Speaker 2: So again, make that make sense to yourself. Here we are.
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Speaker 1: Running a proxy war through Zolensky, who, in my opinion, is an absolute cocaine buffoon that was an actor that was placed in that role because he would be a buffoon and allow the corruption to reach all-time epic proportions.
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Speaker 2: And we know that's true, right?
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Speaker 1: We figured all of the hundreds of billions of dollars, how much of that has been corrupted and taken, right?
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Speaker 2: Billions, at least billions of billions. All right.
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Speaker 1: So Zelensky comes back and says, you guys are full of shit, man.
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Speaker 2: You're helping our enemy.
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Speaker 1: And he said, well, here's what we'll do is we'll adhere to a non-energy strike if Russia agrees to a 60-day ceasefire. So apparently there was some back and forth.
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Speaker 2: Some people in Russia were like, okay.
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Speaker 1: But the reality was immediately that night, Uh, Zelensky says Russia went and bombed energy infrastructure after that was announced.
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Speaker 2: And then, so the next day.
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Speaker 1: Zelensky bombed like four of the bigger refineries again, basically to the EU and, and NATO telling.
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Speaker 2: Uh, Trump, Hey, right here, buddy, right.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to, I'm going to basically do what I want to do. And you're not going to stop me.
And your little Russia deal is reaped. So as I look at all of this and I say, okay, this is batshit crazy to me that how this is all working. It goes, all right, so we are in a proxy war against a guy that's going to launch nuclear weapons on the European Union, is going to drive in, wants to retain the old Soviet Union map post-World War II. But by the way, we're going to do a deal with them because the midterms, diesel's too high. Am I getting that right, Jordy? Am I on point?
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Speaker 2: Sounds right to me. Right? That's what the story is telling us. Okay. So, again.
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Speaker 1: Right before the midterms, we do a deal with the, in quotation, devil, Hitler, Stalin, whatever people are calling Putin, right? We do a deal with the devil to lower gas prices.
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Speaker 2: So in the hopes we win midterms.
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Speaker 1: We roll Tulsi Gabbard out at a small TPUSU event. And what was interesting is the day after she spoke, a bunch of people were promoting a speech that she gave last December at a TC or December 25, a TPUSA event that went, you know, that went viral over the few days. And it wasn't even the speech she gave. It was from, you know, December 21st, 2025, which is hilarious to me because again, Is she a liability or.
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Speaker 2: Is she not?
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Speaker 1: Well, certainly before the midterms, we need those coalition people that are pissed off at this war to come back in and say, well, if Tulsi thinks it's okay, then it's okay.
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Speaker 2: Right. So, all right.
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Speaker 1: So now the final one, which I find absolutely hilarious. Right.
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Speaker 2: And just let me, let me, you know, let me finish this, this thing.
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Speaker 1: So basically, You have, in the Ukrainian war, there are large groups of people that are influencing. Zelensky's a puppet, hands down. And Russia has, over the last, since this began, has refined its war footing. It's restructured its fuel distributions to Asian countries, Middle Eastern countries.
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Speaker 2: It's exporting.
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Speaker 1: It's making money. Their currency is not impacted. None of the sanctions are breaking them. They have plenty of reserves for this, and they're just getting better at waging war. And the other side, the EU and NATO, they're not winning in any way, shape, or form. They're not advancing. They're not regaining territory from the Russians. They're not doing anything. all they're doing is burning money and weapons and all that money into this group, subjecting to the people, not coming up with something that, you know, will actually guarantee a ceasefire constraining Zelensky because the Lindsay's not just firing drones without someone at NATO saying here, here's your targeting material. These are where, where these strategic locations are. Here's what's happening. You know, that's all not having. So in my mind, you know, and you're doing the major supplier of weapons and Intel and all that is doing a deal with the guy you're fighting against. So back in World War I, at least, you know, both sides were being funded by the same people.
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Speaker 2: We didn't know that because you couldn't get that information.
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Speaker 1: Now we realize both sides are being funded by the same people, like out in the open now.
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Speaker 2: But guess what?
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Speaker 1: Midterms are coming and your diesel's going to be 32 cents cheaper for about a month.
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Speaker 2: So just so you know.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 2: Last piece. All right. Last piece, which kind of ties this all up.
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Speaker 1: Cause what, what I was thinking throughout this whole thing, well, at least, you know, the Western hemisphere, we're regaining our footing here. We're gaining control. Things are looking good, right? We're, we're, we're more dominant. There's been a whole host of, of right-leaning people that have taken over these socialist communist governments. Like the most recently there was a big election in in Brazil and Bolsonaro's son was actually running. He came in just under 50 at 48%, which wink, wink, nod, nod, right before. And they have electronic voting machines, uh, against Lula. Who's a former criminal who basically has this Bolsonaro's the senior Bolsonaro in jail through the help of his corrupt, uh, uh, uh, Supreme court. The guy looks like bald below to more or whatever it is.
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Speaker 2: Fucking crazy looking dude.
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Speaker 1: Um, so Brazilian, this is happening, which is also interesting because Bolsonaro's wife, his cousin, or some, a bunch of family members, one seats in their Congress as well too. So whether the runoff works and he gets it and wins, we that's yet to be seen. It'll really, really give a, an estimation of how much control, uh, the powers that be China amongst others, uh, are still dominating Brazilian, uh, politics, but we'll say we'll see. So as all that reshuffling on the board's going on, what do we get a report of? We get a report that Marine scouts and Raiders, Marine Raiders, the special operations, that's not it yet.
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Speaker 2: Hold on, on that one.
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Speaker 1: Marines, uh, uh, scout, uh, Raiders are operating. And by the way, I have an inside source who was a part of some of these operations and the training, the buildup and all this and, and hands down. Pete Hegsack actually traveled down to South America prior to all these things really ramping up and gave, you know, good speeches and all that. It was like, hoo-yah, boys, let's get after it. Well, guess what? What has been reported, right, was from the Wall Street Journal, CBS, Sofx, AFP, ACLED, Latin Times, and more, details concrete recent examples of On or around September 24, 2006, roughly 50 U.S. Southern Command personnel with DEA personnel joined more than 320 Ecuadorian police in multiple pre-dawn raids across Guayas, Los Rios, and El Oro provinces against a cocaine network linked to
Mexico's Jalisco New Generation cartel.
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Speaker 2: That's the CJNG.
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Speaker 1: There were 30-plus arrests, including alleged leaders, and photos showed personnel with the Marine Raiders' insignia on their kit while they were down there.
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Speaker 2: Okay. So now we've got SOF.
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Speaker 1: and Southern command officially running ops with Ecuadorian police.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: And all you gotta do is just close your eyes and think Afghan national, you know, uh, army, the ANA or Afghan national police or Iraqi national army or Iraqi national police, right. Or wherever we're operating, what do we do? We take a bunch of nitwits, right. That we've trained. And we mentor them on missions, right? I've done a couple of those with Blackwater in the past and some other groups.
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Speaker 2: So here now, we're.
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Speaker 1: Doing the same thing in South America because terrorists are now, or cartels are terrorism.
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Speaker 2: And you know what?
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Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I'm all for this one. There's been more fentanyl, more destruction from drugs in our country than anything else, I believe, over the last, you know, 40 years, all the way back to the crack epidemic in the 80s, right? I believe that this is the thing that ultimately destroys. And the whole argument, well, Americans like to get high is the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: Well, guess what?
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Speaker 1: If it's available so easily on every single corner, every single house, I mean, you could probably door dash your shit with secret groups out there that you find on 4chan, right? You go to this one pizza hut and you order, you know, a Mexican pizza, and then they bring you a pizza and you've got, you know, uh, you know, a bunch of fentanyl underneath and, uh, you know, these sealed bags. And I don't know if that's happening, but that's in my mind, that's how easy it is to get this stuff.
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Speaker 2: That's why so many people are overdosing.
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Speaker 1: So now you've got right. This incredible operation that's building. And there's a lot of people reporting that back there was a recent uprising in Puerto Vallarta a while back. You saw things burning on the street. People were saying that ground branch, allegedly ground branch is down there operating. That's within the special activities division and CIA. They're basically like tier one units that work in conjunction with local ground forces. Right. So my imagination is, you know, they were absolutely a part of the Ecuadorian thing for sure. And then, You know, we've got these other reports, and this came from Air and Space Forces Magazine, the Military Times, Miami Herald, and South Com made statements. It covered the transition from temporary Joint Task Force Southern Spear to Operation Southern Spear to permanent Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere. And this coordinates military capabilities with 18 partner nations, right? that include for counter-cartel coalition operations. And they include El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia joined later, and several others, as said. Now, this integrates intelligence, surveillance, maritime interdiction, and training. Components of prior Southern Spear work included counter-maritime operations, drone strikes involving U.S. Special Operations Command assets, Exact soft numbers and specific kinetic soft missions beyond maritime strikes are not publicly detailed, which means are they happening? Hell yeah, they're happening. Hell yeah, we're doing ops down there. What we're actively, I guarantee we've got ground branch down there. We've got all the other special missions units down there. It's wide open now. And now that they permanently gave funding to this, where do you think in the big, beautiful bill, why did we go from $ 850 billion annually for the annual Department of War budget to $ 1. 5 trillion? Well, because we had to add a completely different theater. So I go back and I talked about this just the other day. We got war in Ukraine and Russia while we're dealing with Putin. We've got a war in Iran, right? With us in Israel against Iran. And now the Houthis, the Saudis, that area, there's some Lebanon stuff going on, right?
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Speaker 2: And guess what?
00:34:10
Speaker 1: We're still in negotiations with Pakistan, India, and Iran to try and figure it out because we still want that access to.
00:34:19
Speaker 2: That fuel, right? So we're dealing on both sides there again too, right?
00:34:23
Speaker 5: And now.
00:34:24
Speaker 1: We've got operations going down in the southern hemisphere where we just did the most awesome strategic strike in Venezuela.
00:34:31
Speaker 2: Now we're basically, are we running their fuel? We don't know.
00:34:35
Speaker 1: We haven't seen any of the contracts yet. And now all these other places, and you mark my word, you'll see something kinetic in Cuba. You're going to see something in these other places.
00:34:44
Speaker 2: All what?
00:34:45
Speaker 1: To get natural resources. So that's a lot going on right there, right? All right before the midterms. We're going to start kicking ass and taking names against those cartels right against the midterms. Now, here's the kicker, right? Here's the kicker. The kicker to this sucker is that there's also this other video. Play this video for me right here, buddy.
00:35:07
Speaker 2: All right. Okay, so let me repeat what he said. At the end, he said, cartel Mexico, viva cartel Mexico.
00:35:20
Speaker 3: And then his buddy was like, oh yeah, viva cartel Colombia too.
00:35:46
Speaker 2: And guess what?
00:35:46
Speaker 1: That was not in South America, everybody. That video was taken in Ukraine. So what many sources have reported, including the French intelligence focus outlet, the intelligence, intelligentsia online. that reported Ukraine Security Service, SBU, and Military Intelligence, HUR, launched an investigation after a warning from Mexico's
National Intelligence Center that the CNI alleged that Mexican volunteers with cartel links had joined the international legion, not.
00:36:28
Speaker 2: For ideological reasons, but to train on FPV drones.
00:36:33
Speaker 1: The probe focused on Spanish-speaking units, tactical groups Ethos and Dones and Carcave areas. Details including a Mexican operative codenamed Agrila 7, who used false Salvadorian documents in March 2024, showed advanced technical skills and live training electronic warfare thermal evasion.
00:36:57
Speaker 2: And was linked to the former.
00:36:58
Speaker 1: GAFE Special Forces, some whose alumni forces joined Los Zetas in Mexico, which were a brutal cartel, right? It also mentioned at least three former FARC members down in Venezuela and Colombia using forged documents. Now, the Financial Times of London said, has detailed Colombian illegal armed groups, cartel, former paramilitary groups, attempting to send people to Ukraine for drone expertise, right? The Washington Post has also cited unnamed U.S.-Mexican officials reporting that Mexican cartels were recruiting Colombian veterans returning from Ukraine using money, year-long contracts, and sometimes family threats for drone strikes, and in some cases sending their own people And that's led me to that video that you just saw. All right, so let me, there are no hard numbers of how many people are actually phoned. So some estimates of total foreign fighters in Ukrainian forces have varied from one figure citing 16,000 with 72 countries. Colombians are consistently described as the largest national group of foreign volunteers, roughly 1,000 to 2,000 currently active in some reports, up to 7,000 have served since 2022.
00:38:20
Speaker 2: There have been estimated 25.
00:38:22
Speaker 1: To 40% of foreign fighters in Ukraine forces at various points. Latin Americans overall have estimated in the thousand. One official figure says 6,400. Casualties among Colombians are the most significant with hundreds killed.
00:38:39
Speaker 2: Early figure says 348. All right.
00:38:43
Speaker 1: So basically, we have now launched full-blown kinetic operations against the cartels in South America, central South America, who for since 2022 have been sending key members of their organizations over to Ukraine to learn trench warfare, drone warfare, modern tactics on the most up-to-date modern tactics and fully supplied with full kit night vision, the whole thing, learning how to use mortars and rockets and all.
00:39:17
Speaker 2: It's, In order to do what? In order to do what?
00:39:24
Speaker 1: To come back, work for the cartels in preparation for the cartel us war that most likely will be emerging here soon.
00:39:38
Speaker 2: All right before the midterms. So saying all that.
00:39:43
Speaker 1: To say this, um, I always find the, the times of, of, of political recalibration to be fascinating as to the decisions that are made in proximity to big elections. If you're paying attention
at all, the word on the street is that the MAGA movement no longer has the full force of its entire coalition. Anybody who's paying attention, no, there's a profound split or civil war taking place within the Republican party and conservative movements. I think all the libertarians have abandoned us or them or whoever. I don't even know where I'm at right now with all of this taking place. And then you have people in the MAGA movement that are at each other's throats because they essentially, what I'm hearing is that are reading or what I'm seeing and reading into comments and podcasts is that they're giving up on the midterms. Even Mike Johnson was quoted the other day and saying that Basically, you know, people don't understand the midterms, don't understand that it's not Congress's fault of what's taking place with high gas prices. And he said it with a straight face too, which is interesting because Congress controls the purse.
00:41:07
Speaker 2: Strings of the U.S.
00:41:09
Speaker 1: Government and the ability for us to wage conflict or war overseas.
00:41:13
Speaker 2: They have the oversight on it, all that.
00:41:16
Speaker 1: But, you know, as it has proven to point, both Congress, both sides of the aisle, they don't give a shit where we're fighting as long as we're spending money, which then those, those defense intelligence corporations or defense corporations, along with, uh, you know, the, the asset management firms that are invested in the, these fortune 500 companies that are making more money, people are going to buy more of their ETFs to pad their stock market prices because it's at an all the time high. And it's this self-looking fucking ice cream cone that just goes round and round and round and round. And that's the reality. I mean, that's just the way things roll, right? So if you're not capable of understanding that and you're not capable of reading between the lines, that's why I'm here to try and help you understand how all this stuff fits together. Now, the challenge that I think we're really facing is what are the long-term repercussions of these types of things that are going to happen?
00:42:13
Speaker 2: And at the end of the day, all of it.
00:42:16
Speaker 1: Just continues to destabilize different aspects of all these different regions.
00:42:23
Speaker 2: And maybe we're.
00:42:24
Speaker 1: Just in that time and space in human history where destabilization process or period is what we go through and able to lead us to the next harmony. We did this show a few weeks ago. If you saw it, these seven key things leading up to big wars and what their indicators of what's coming next, certainly people are predicting everything from complete and other worldwide economic collapses to world war three to hemisphere wars, to nuclear wars, to, you.
00:42:56
Speaker 2: Know, all of these things.
00:42:59
Speaker 1: Um, but all I can tell you is things are destabilized right now and we're in an election. And so these quick fixes are going to be announced. These new propaganda messages are going to come out. Uh, that's what I would do if I was running to try and save face to try and bring out the, the, the last people holding on by a thread of, of this coalition to say, Hey, actually, this is what's going on and this is good.
00:43:24
Speaker 2: And so just pay attention.
00:43:27
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying, because your vote.
00:43:30
Speaker 2: Is going to have an impact on what happens for sure.
00:43:33
Speaker 1: To what degree I'm not a hundred percent anymore, but I do know that if, if the Republican party loses the house and the Senate, uh, things are going to be really interesting.
00:43:47
Speaker 2: Over the next two years.
00:43:49
Speaker 1: All right, man, that's my two cents. I hope it was somewhat interesting. I hope you understood what I was getting at. If you've got any ideas that you want me to report on, please reach out to us at info at davidrutherford.com. Go to the website, join our newsletter. We do a weekly newsletter where we dig into these stories a little bit more in depth. do some other kind of reporting in there. Some motivational stuff for me. Um, also follow us on social media, uh, the shows at David Rutherford show, uh, on all the major platforms on exits at D Rutherford show. Follow me at team frog logic on X and Instagram. That's where I'm mostly at. Um, and we just really appreciate your, once again, we can't thank you enough. The uptick in awareness and what's going on.
00:44:39
Speaker 2: We can't thank you. And Jordy, I can't thank you enough, buddy.
00:44:43
Speaker 1: For all the hard work and you're getting us out there and people are seeing us and man, you're making it happen.
00:44:48
Speaker 2: You're, you're, uh, you're worth your weight in gold, brother. I appreciate it. Appreciate you, sir. It's great.
00:44:54
Speaker 1: Awesome.
00:44:54
Speaker 2: All right, everybody be cool. Don't be crazy and think.