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Operation Gladio-Vietnam Viet Cong vs Viet Minh; Charlie

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0:00 Okay, welcome everybody. How are you doing today, Bridget? Wonderful, wonderful. Can't wait for today's space. Man, I'm just blown away at all the new information, you know. It's, yeah, this is going to be interesting. I've decided since we're kind of at the end of the week, I'm going to use today to...
0:32 Lay it a little bit more of the foundation and get into the operational aspects of it on Monday and then kind of just roll with it as it was phased in and then accelerated. Because there's some foundational pieces that still need to be put together, like terminology.
0:55 terminology, as we have learned, is critically important to make sure that we're all talking about the same things. And we also know that they specifically use terminology to confuse us. They hide behind certain terms. And so I want to make sure everybody, as we go into the operational aspect of it, when we use terms, we know exactly what the terms mean.
1:24 Because that's critically important. So one of the things that you're going to notice is there's two terms that are used to describe the nationalistic efforts in Vietnam. One of them, and the original one, was Viet Minh. So you spell it V-I-E-T.
1:56 M-I-N-H. And it wasn't enough that you have that term because if you were, and I'm going to go into this in just a second, if you look at that term and you research that, you are going to find basically not a lot of difference in
2:26 Someone that the U.S. was supporting like a Chiang Kai-shek because Viet Minh was a nationalistic group that simply wanted a cohesive country, a united North and South, which it was at the time. And let me go back. They wanted to unite the country because what I was showing you.
2:56 Prior to the French arriving, it had the sections of tribes there under a royalty situation. So France administered Vietnam as an entire entity. And once they were there, the resistance to the imperialistic French colony and then subsequently the Japanese colony that they tried to make.
3:25 originated in the North. And that's where you kind of get the beginning of the North versus South rhetoric. But I'm going to read to you what the Viet Minh requirements were. When they went to Paris at the end of World War II, I'm going to read to you what they wanted.
3:52 And the other term that is often conflicted with that and one that the U.S. created was Viet Cong. And the reason why they did that is because Viet Cong specifically refers to communist, Vietnamese communist. And by creating that term, then the focus became on the rhetoric of them fighting communist. They weren't fighting.
4:22 That's a made up term. They were fighting a nationalistic group that originally was referred to as Viet Minh. OK, so let me lay out what the demands were of the Viet Minh when they went to Paris to declare themselves an independent country and tell the French they weren't welcome back. Number one.
4:52 the overthrow of French imperialism, Vietnamese feudalism, and reactionary bourgeois, which is like the elite. Number two, to make Indochina completely independent. Number three, to establish a government of workers, soldiers, and peasants. Number four, to confiscate foreign banks.
5:21 and other enterprises belonging to imperialists, like the rubber plants from Michelin, and put them under the control of the government, meaning not necessarily in a communistic way, meaning that it was the government and the people that was going to benefit from the profits of those businesses. Number five, to confiscate all plantations and property belonging to the imperialist foreigners,
5:50 you know, like we don't want China owning our property, and the Vietnamese reactionary bourgeois, which means the ones that were bought off by the French, and distribute that to the poor peasants, which is where it came from. Six, to implement an eight-hour working day. Oh, the bastards. Seven, to abolish the forced buying of government bonds.
6:22 Think about that for a second. They were forced to buy government bonds of the French. The poll tax, which if I'm not mistaken, we did away with that. And all unjust taxes hitting the poor. These guys are evil. Number eight, to bring democratic freedoms to the masses. Number nine.
6:51 To dispense education to all the people. Number 10, to recognize and achieve equality between men and women. What? Are you kidding me? Okay, snap. So now, if I was to tell you that those are the 10 demands that Ho Chi Minh went to Paris to argue.
7:20 that they did not want the French back in after having fought beside the allies, mainly the U.S., during World War II against Japan, who had basically kicked the French out and had occupied Vietnam. Anybody in their right minds looking this up under the proper term of Viet Minh would go, what the hell's our problem?
7:49 What? That doesn't sound communist at all. As a matter of fact, I would make the argument that I could cut and paste this into President Alente's agenda. I could cut and paste this into Nicaragua's agenda. I could cut and paste this into Panama's, Guatemala, El Salvador, the Congo, any place we've been that the U.S. and the West.
8:19 namely via the CIA, has went in and couped a government. I could cut and paste this as their demands. And yet in every single one of those cases, our government called them communist and went in and killed several hundred thousand, if not millions of people for those demands.
8:45 I don't know about you, but other than maybe the limited eight hour a day, those all pretty much sounds like what the United States agenda is. Right. Especially now that we're demanding no foreign governments own any of our farmland. I don't know. Maybe that's just me. But you can clearly see if they use the word Viet Minh.
9:13 As the terminology, someone's going to stumble across that list of demands and go, what the hell are we doing in Vietnam for then? Why wouldn't we want that for those people? Right. So let me read you a little bit about their history and where it came from. And you guys, this is you just can't make this shit up. So Viet Minh was one of several Vietnamese groups that struggled against foreign rule.
9:43 In time, it evolved into a significant political movement and a military force, strong enough to defeat the French. Viet Minh, and the United States eventually, Viet Minh was formed in the 1940s as a nationalistic group seeking Vietnamese independence. And they thought, fighting alongside the United States, that we would ensure that happened. They were wrong.
10:10 As in other Asian countries, Vietnamese nationalism was largely a product of the early 20th century, you know, because they actually believed our rhetoric. And at the time this is going on, and this is the most critical point that I will make today, at the exact same time this is going on, our government is spending billions of dollars to prop up Chiang Kai-shek in southern...
10:40 China against Mao. And Mao was actually a communist, okay? Chiang Kai-shek was a drug lord, but we labeled him a nationalist. Ho Chi Minh wanted exactly the same thing, minus the drugs, that Chiang Kai-shek was on record saying he wanted. That list of 10 things, you could have cut and pasted it onto what Chiang Kai-shek said, not what he did.
11:15 what he said, but we were giving him billions of dollars and we went to war against Ho Chi Minh. You see why they don't want you using the same words? And they purposely camouflage this using words. That's why I'm very specific about the, or particular about what words I use to describe what, because they twist our language to hide.
11:46 And we're not going to let them hide anymore. So now let me just go one step further because I have to make this point. Chiang Kai-shek, while he said he wanted those 10 things, when he was kicked out of China by Mao, then he was kicked out of Burma by the Burmese government. And we funded more billions of dollars to prop him up in Taiwan. The very first thing he did, which we will go over when we get to Taiwan.
12:16 was institute martial law and he didn't do any of those 10 things given the chance and all of our money he didn't do any of those things so that is the nuts and bolts of the disconnect and why was that well ho chi minh could not be controlled and ho chi minh didn't want any opium in vietnam that's the bottom line
12:49 Ho Chi Minh cared about the Vietnamese people. The people that the United States and the French propped up in Vietnam didn't give a damn about the people in Vietnam. They didn't give a damn about them being flooded with opium and that their entire country was basically a drug station. They didn't care anything about that. They sold out their people and their country to make it a drug market. And that's exactly what...
13:19 Chiang Kai-shek did when he was in southern China, when he was in Burma, and when he was in Taiwan. That is exactly what has happened. As a matter of fact, and I've said this, and I'm going to say it every single day that we're in Asia, Paul Helliwell of the OSS and the CIA was the military slash U.S. liaison to Chiang Kai-shek during all of this time.
13:49 his right hand communicating with the United States in the OSS and eventually the CIA. It was Paul Helliwell that picked up the phone and told Alan Dulles, oh my God, you're not ever going to believe this. This guy's got a racket going here. He's paying for his war through selling drugs. I think we need to do this to do Operation Gladio. We can pay for the entire damn thing off books.
14:16 Keep the entire thing secret off books and no one will even know we're doing it. So Chiang Kai-shek gave them the business model, not that they wouldn't have come up with it themselves, but he actually illustrated the business model that was the origination of Operation Gladio during World War II to fund it off book. And that's the guy we supported, not Ho Chi Minh. So moving on.
14:52 The Vietnamese nationalism condemned French colonialism and demanded a struggle to remove it. They assured the Vietnamese people that they had the capacity to govern themselves and believed in a rule society with experience of democracy and representation. The Vietnamese raised on their Confucian diet of obedience.
15:21 were accustomed to simply accepting their lot and basically not questioning a political order. And Ho Chi Minh realized that that's what had got them into their colonialist occupation and wanted to change that. So he created Viet Minh, the nationalist group, as an umbrella effort to take into...
15:51 all of those different regional groups to create an umbrella organization to organize resistance against imperialism. You know, kind of like our Revolutionary War. Many Vietnamese nationalists used European political ideas and methods to argue their case.
16:19 They formed societies and discussion groups. They used Western political text. And you'd ask yourself, well, where did they get those? Well, the French, driving their own nails in their own coffins, exported Vietnamese people as basically forced labor into France. And many of these people would...
16:48 occasionally traveled back to Vietnam, you know, if they got injured and were no longer useful to the French, they would return them to Vietnam. And they brought those ideas back of how the people lived in France. And they brought literature back. They mailed literature back to their families in Vietnam. And it was their bringing the Vietnamese to France as slave labor.
17:18 That actually infiltrated the Vietnamese society with all these lofty freedom ideas. That's how they knew it even existed in the way in which the West lived. Not that, you know, they didn't know what freedom was because at some point they lived under an emperor. Not that that's technically free, but it was an imperialist. And so I just love the irony that it was.
17:49 the French that taught the Vietnamese what nationalism was because they saw it and lived it in France. So during World War I and the Russian Revolution, they watched what they believed to be nationalist movements occur throughout the world.
18:18 During World War I, the French shipped over 100,000 Vietnamese to be industrial laborers in France, which, of course, we know was a losing cause anyway, at least for France. It was in France. Let's see.
18:44 that they learned many of the different skills, the fact that there was trade unions, and it was there that they were first exposed to Marxist theory in France. They also were told about things like racial equality and into imperialism, you know, all the things that they say and don't do.
19:13 So some even became active in the French Communist Party that was founded in 1920. The best known nationalist, of course, is Ho Chi Minh, and his original name is Nguyen Sen Khun, C-U-N-G.
19:40 And he submitted a petition at the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War II for Vietnamese independence, and everybody ignored it. Because France didn't want to give up the rubber plantations and the oil that they were gaining from Vietnam. So there was no significant communist organizations in Vietnam leading up to World War II.
20:14 Ho Chi Minh had traveled both to Russia, or the Soviet Union at the time, and to China to basically see from the inside what exactly communism was, because he had heard all about it from the French. And he actually even attended a school in Russia.
20:46 expressed the view that his countrymen lacked political consciousness and that they had a long way to go in organizing a popular nationalist movement. Let's see. Hold on just a second. There was another organization in 1930 that began to form after the French began importing Vietnamese people into
21:17 and then returning them home. And that was called the Indo-Chinese Communist Party, the ICP. But it was the ICP that originally suggested those 10 points that I went over. And as you can clearly see, those 10 points were not communist at all. They were very nationalistic. And so...
21:46 That's what I've been struggling with throughout this entire research project is the labels that have been created are once you look on the inside, it's like lifting the hood of a car and you actually look on the inside of it and you see something completely different than what the guy's telling you is inside of it before you lift the hood.
22:12 That's been the case in almost every one of these countries that have been labeled communistic. And it really begs the question, what is real when it comes to who and what is communist? We know what the book definition of it is, but at least in most of these countries that we've been in that we were taught had.
22:39 large-scale communist activity going on in it again when you pop the hood on it it doesn't look communist at all um so be that as it may um that at least is the name of it and that's what it was being called at the time so we're just going to go with it um the more the french uh cracked down on the vietnamese the more people that gravitated to this nationalistic
23:12 And hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, after French began taking over farmland and selling it and creating the bourgeois class of elites that they like to use to control all of the peasants, the Vietnamese began experiencing joblessness and looking for work and food.
23:40 because there were failures in supply chains to make the rice paddies work. The French just basically caused despair for most of the 1930s and into, and it got worse, of course, as World War II began. The French colonial regime offered no answers. However,
24:08 they did begin increasing taxes to the highest levels the people in Vietnam had ever experienced. And it was this that gave birth to these different political parties and the rise of Ho Chi Minh. The cadres began to incite the peasants against the French colonial powers and the wealthy landlords.
24:38 One of those, let's see, we'll come back to him. So the revolutionary movement in Vietnam was growing, as this one landlord said that was a French citizen that had been given appropriated land, that the body of a revolutionary movement in Vietnam was starting to grow a head and a body.
25:11 reprisals from the French military, they were savage in anybody that showed any resistance to their authority at all. And this was much more prevalent in the South than it was in the North. Let's see. In January 1941, Ho Chi Minh returned from a visit to China and took up residence
25:39 in a cave in an area called Pac Bo, P-A-C space B-O, and began preparations to grow even more body parts for the Revolutionary Force. He announced that he was creating a Vietnamese Independence League, which is where Viet Minh got its name.
26:08 Its whole name was Vietnam Doc Lap Dong Minh Hoi. And that is Vietnamese for Vietnam Independence League. Viet Minh for short. M-I-N-H. Ho went to great lengths to make the Viet Minh an exclusive and inclusive confederation for the entire country.
26:37 He opened it up to any political group or organization. Its foundation charter was more nationalistic than communist, which we've already went over, the 10 points, all that stuff. It was for soldiers, workers, peasants, intellectuals, civil servants, merchants, young men, old men, women, everybody. Throw in together. And their goal was to overthrow the French jackals and the Japanese fascists.
27:05 That's pretty much right on. Viet Minh's first chairman was a name, a guy by the name of Ho Gok Lam, L-A-M. And he wasn't a communist. He was 100%. He not went to all of these different places, nothing. He was a local guy that was going to be kind of the umbrella organization leader.
27:33 Which is really interesting if we were to believe all the things that was written about Ho Chi Minh, why wouldn't he actually step into the leadership immediately? He didn't because it wasn't about him. In reality, the Viet Minh was steered by several of these different groups. In late 1941, Ho told his comrades in a newly formed Viet Minh.
28:03 That the time had come to remove the foreign aggressors and solve their political differences together. All right. And he left them with the ability to basically kind of bridge.
28:28 all of their differences. That kind of was what his job was, is to be the ombudsman for all of the different factions, to try to get them to work together and against the actual declared enemy. All right, so now I'm going to go over the term Viet Cong, and I want you to know where that came from. At the height of the Vietnam War, which would have been around 65 to
29:01 like 75, those 10 years, you had asked an American who their country was fighting in Vietnam, and they would have said Viet Cong. It was a network of, quote-unquote, communist agents and subversives supplied and controlled by North Vietnam, but active within the southern area. The origins of Viet Cong begin with the Geneva Accords in 1954.
29:30 Under the terms of the accord, military personnel were ordered to return to their place of origin, either north or south. Many Viet Minh soldiers, however, stayed wherever they were and remained in their rural settings. Now, keep in mind, this is after the big migration that was a forced migration.
30:00 by a psyops campaign to relocate the million people from the north to the south so they've set this whole thing up right their region their reasons for doing this um there's different rationale that you read in different um places where you research on why they did that um as far as why they even added that to the accords um others claim that they
30:31 did so based on local leadership, and they viewed it as protection in their local villages from the French, and they didn't necessarily want these people to relocate if they had came from different areas. So pretty much everybody stayed where they were. By 1959, there was as many as 20 different cells scattered throughout the South Vietnam.
31:01 almost like a northern version or a Ho Chi Minh version of stay-behind units, kind of that thought process that were distributed throughout the South, which is where the French liked to hang out the most because it had better weather. The formation of an organized communist insurgency in the South Vietnamese was mastermind by a guy by the name of Lee Duang.
31:30 D-U-A-N. And again, keep in mind, I'm putting caveat or quotation marks on the communist part of it. A native of the southern provinces, Lee Duane, was active in these groups in the Mekong Delta region in the 1940s. And by the mid-50s, he was the high-ranking...
32:01 guy in that area. And he actually traveled to the north to coordinate with Ho Chi Minh routinely as part of his apparatchik to kick the French out. He was kind of like his senior deployed general in the south under this nationalistic effort to kick the imperialists out.
32:30 This senior military guy, Le Duan, developed a plan that was called Road to the South. In it, he called for an uprising and gather support to overthrow the propped up leader from the South that the West had designated, who was No Den Dem, D-I-E-M, Dem.
33:00 and to expel all foreign advisors and businessmen out of their country. So he also helped set up the domestic policies and the economic and military reforms of those 10 points.
33:20 building educational places and ensuring that equality was occurring and that type of thing. So he's working on, and he was working with some of the smaller businesses to try to get them to limit the work hours during the day. So he's that guy. He began conducting operations against the foreigners in 1957.
33:54 They called it the extermination of traitors. And in 1957, there were over 150 people killed by La Douane as a result of his operations in trying to kick the French out or be in a royal pain in their side to him. So by July, people...
34:23 were operating under some underground facilities. And I sent Bridget a picture of these underground tunnel systems. And let me just say, these are referred to as the Coochie Tunnels. And I've actually been in the Coochie Tunnels. When I went to Vietnam,
34:57 um, we were walking down a very wooded path and the novice person would have in the, the picture that I sent is very indicative of where we were. As a matter of fact, it could have been where we were walking. Um, very, um,
35:20 wilderness-ly looking rock formations, B-52 bomb craters nearby. And we walked right by what was one of the entrances to it. So our host basically took us back and showed us where it was. And we had just walked right by it. And he lifted the...
35:48 lid to the tunnel or the over whatever the cap to it and we actually shimmied down a ladder just like this one here then you go off to the side and you go all the way over um Bridget did you get that posted yep it's up in the right about all right all right so if you go all the way over to the right you see where that water river is so that's how they got
36:18 how they retrieved water. So right by where that would be, where that water would be, would be a kitchen, their bathrooms, and their infirmary. And then away from that would be offices and barracks. And I mean, they had, I would say, half of a football field.
36:45 worth of like a dorm room that was just stacked with nothing but like three high bunk beds. And that's where they slept. And do you see in the area to the left of the entrance where those people are cooking? That's actually not what that looks like. Let me tell you what they did.
37:10 They took bamboo piping and they took that pipe from the top of that room that looks like where they're cooking because they did the same thing with the bathrooms. And they ran a bamboo pipe all the way under that ground over to that water. And that bamboo pipe water or bamboo pipe with the steam from the cooking would exit right at the water's edge so that it looked like.
37:40 the steam coming up off of the humid water. And there's always like this steam that is coming off of this water. These waters were basically like spring fed volcanic kind of waterways, the rivers, but they were very clear. And because of the humidity in the area, there was always steam coming up off of them because it was fairly cool. And they,
38:09 they would pipe those bamboo pipes all the way over. They would exit just above the waterline. So you would never know, because again, they're camouflaged, that it was steam coming from these underground tunnel systems. That was one of the crazy things about this. And you can also see how wherever the waterline was,
38:35 They also had other sources where they could hit water and filter that off to the different things. But this is very deceptive when it looks like where they show that bunk room at. That bunk room is humongous. The dining room that they had outside of the kitchen area where they cooked all of their meals, humongous. And how they excavated these tunnels was...
39:04 They were usually put in close proximity to rice paddies and the women primarily would come to the area that like it would go all the way up to the ground. There would be, they would take the dirt and put them in the rice paddy bowls.
39:28 and strap them on those poles that they wear across their shoulders. And it would look like they were bringing rice back and dirt out. And they had like cloths laying over the rice and it actually was hiding the dirt. And like little ants, they would just go back and forth, back and forth, back and forth all day long, excavating these tunnel systems in order to set this thing up.
39:57 What was the most interesting while I was over there, we went to Den Ben Phu and they have this elaborate tabletop display that's about 10 feet by 10 feet, maybe 20 feet by 20 feet. It was huge. And it showed the, it was kind of like up on a mound. They showed the French forces in.
40:27 Their fort and how secure they had. And I'm not kidding. I mean, to scale, they had all of the buildings displayed. They had little figurines for the Frenchmen standing post all around the fort. And through a lighting system underneath this, they showed the tunnel system. And that is not the Coochie Tunnels. It was a different tunnel system, but one very similar to it.
40:57 They showed by a light display over a phase of nine months the tunnel system that was built underneath of that fort. So what happened was when they wanted to take dirt out of a particular area, they would shoot.
41:20 from the opposite side to draw attention. And then they'd all run up with their dirt and pretend like they're carrying, you know, your rice out and blah, blah, blah. But over a nine month period of time, they built that entire tunnel system. So when the day came that they were going to overrun the fort, literally thousands of them come out just like a fire ant bed. They came out in droves and overran that fort. They stood no chance at all.
41:49 They had completely surrounded that fort, to include some that came up right underneath the fort itself. There was no way of surviving that attack. And that only comes about from a force that is motivated to get people out of their country.
42:18 Because at this point, and you have to understand this, between the French and the Japanese, these people for, you know, 30, 40 years had been enslaved by these people and they were sick of it. So I wanted to provide you that perspective because it's until you actually see this, because obviously this depiction is very rudimentary.
42:47 The walls looked like they were polished. The floors of this place was very level. And it was just simply amazing. And most of the furniture and stuff like that when we were there, I was there in 2003, had been removed. But I was just, I'm literally, and so in some cases, because they make it hard.
43:16 To go from room to room, you actually did like from one big dormitory room to get to like maybe the dining facility, you actually did have to crawl. It was not like head height or anything like that. It wasn't meant to be a convenient place, but it truly was amazing that they were able to do this.
43:42 Definitely a very interesting warfare tactic because it was ingenious. It was just absolutely an ingenious way of conducting warfare. So I wanted to share that with you guys so that you can understand. And here's the crazy thing about this. Now, that happened to the French before we got in there. The U.S.
44:13 knew about the Coochie Tunnel systems. The French was very open about the fact that they got their ass kicked. They were very open about the fact that these people were dedicated to killing them because they wanted their freedom. And still the dumbasses in Washington, D.C. decided that the opium that they were going to be harvesting
44:39 out of the Golden Triangle was much more important than the tens of thousands of military people that were going to die for them to get their opium. Because they walked right in to this loaded cannon and they didn't give a shit about a single American that died there. Because they knew going in that they were walking into a buzzsaw. That they had zero chance of winning. We had...
45:09 No reason to be there except for opium harvesting. We had no vested interest in that country because they were not communist. They were nationalist. And we were supporting the biggest drug addict, drug dealer, nationalist in the entire world in Chiang Kai-shek. So again, we had zero reason to be there. And the only thing that we were going to do was commit.
45:37 lives of military personnel to the graveyard in order to harvest opium. And I can't say that often enough or loud enough, because everything that I'm telling you was known to the State Department, it was known to the CIA, it was known to the White House, and it was known to the senior leadership of the military, and they still did it. Okay, so as a result,
46:08 And we're back in 1957. People like the police chiefs of local areas were being knocked off by these nationalists because the police chiefs and all of these people basically worked for the French. And so they were doing some surgical hits in the South to dislodge the people from the French.
46:35 So by knocking off these French, I'm just going to call them stooges, that were enabling the French to occupy primarily the South at this point, they were trying to separate the people in the rural areas from the control of the French. And they did it from what I can tell, knowing with my Gladio hat on now, what that all looks like.
47:03 in a way that was very similar to the stay-behind-unit concept that had been adopted by the West, which is, again, another irony. So it was at this point in the late 1950s that the PSYOPs began in the local newspapers ran by the West, in which they began calling the Viet Minh
47:33 Number one, they started calling them insurgents. And number two, they started calling them Viet Cong, which is the shortened version for Vietnamese communist. So those are the two psyops that happened in the late 1950s. As they became more effective in dislodging the French, they began another version of their psyops. Okay, so under international...
48:04 pressure to rein in the violence, the North Vietnamese government continually stressed that Southern insurgents were acting independently from the North. And by mid-1959, the North was providing support for the Viet Minh in the South. And the revolutionary movement in the South
48:33 became more formalized by the creation of what was called the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam. And just so that you know, they had a National Front of Liberation for the entire country that was ignored after World War II. Westerners came to know it as the National Liberation Front. Shortly,
49:03 After his formation, they came up with a, let's see, they came up with another version of basically that 10-point program we've already went over, which was to kick out the imperialists, blah, blah, blah. And there were people flocking to them both in the North and the South as an umbrella group.
49:35 By 1961, the National Liberation Front internal organization had evolved into a structure and major decisions were being made by a thing called a Presidium, which was basically like a Politburo, and implemented by an element called the Secretariat. On the ground, they developed...
50:04 a government structure in the 20 regions of the country. So they begin basically acting as a unified country throughout the entire Vietnam area. And these cadres were made up both of governmental aspects and military aspects.
50:32 And were gaining a lot of traction and popular support because as they ramped up their activities, the French clamped down on theirs. And so it was just pushing more and more people over to the National Liberation Front movement. And that really started panicking them. They began calling the military part of it the Liberation Army.
51:03 and the Western people there kept referring to it as the Viet Cong. Its members were given extensive political and historical training, including sessions about what had happened at the Geneva Convention and the fact that America and the French had double standards and called out the Dem regime.
51:32 And again, they did this to themselves. A lot of these people have now come back from France into Vietnam, realizing that shit's kicking off here. And so all of these people, a huge amount of these people, not all of them, had lived in France, basically a slave labor in the industry. They knew how they lived. They knew the freedom that they had there.
52:02 And so they're going throughout the 20 different districts in Vietnam as an entire country explaining to local people how double-crossed they were, number one, because of the Geneva Convention, number two, or the end of World War II, number two, the fact that they have the completely different standards. And let me just remind you what we learned yesterday. You remember that in the resettlement of...
52:34 after the post-World War II Vietnam, the northern sector was given to Chiang Kai-shek as quote-unquote China for the administration to kick the Japanese out and basically reconstitute a Vietnamese government. So they're very familiar with who Chiang Kai-shek is.
53:02 They understand that he's a right arm of the U.S. government, that he is being propped up as a quote-unquote nationalist hypocrisy front in China in opposition to Mao, but the nationalist movement in Vietnam is being squashed because France wants to back in. So they understand all of this, and they're going through the entire country talking to people and teaching them.
53:31 about the double standards that are being thrust upon them. Again, very, very important. Thousands of South Vietnamese feel marginalized and dispossessed because of the corruption and the brutality of the Dem regime that is being propped up by the West. And they enlist to fight with the National Liberation Front. Those unable to fight, to include the women and children,
54:00 They are given other things. And I just explained to you, like in the digging of the tunnels, they were given roles in order to support the war effort, whether it was providing food, providing like a hiding place for people that are on the run, whatever. Buddhist monks, former members of religious sects, were also joining the National Liberation Front. So they're losing the propaganda war inside the country.
54:30 The National Liberation Front is setting up bombing, sabotage of Dems regime. They're launching attacks and they're destroying the property of the French that they are using to conduct the suppression of the people in the South. And they basically, by the early 1960s, have evolved into a fairly efficient.
54:59 insurgency effort into the South. And some people could argue technically that it was counterinsurgency because the actual insurgency was by foreigners, but whatever. You get the point. By October 1961, they were up to 150 bombings each month, which was crazy compared to even the month before where only half that amount occurred.
55:28 So again, they're making operational progress against the West occupiers. And before we get into too much more of that, that's kind of the history part of that that I want you guys to understand. Also, one last term that you have to be familiar with when you're trying to read history about the Vietnam War is the use of the word Charlie.
55:57 Viet Cong is VC, and that basically is Victor Charlie, like for VC in military terminology. So to shorten that, oftentimes the slang version of Viet Cong was called Charlie.
56:22 So when you hear that used in descriptions or in videos, understand that they're talking about Viet Cong when they refer to the Vietnamese as Charlies. Just another one of those things that's critically important to understand the history that you're reading. Okay, I wanted to give you just a little bit of...
56:54 Information about the guy, Le Duan, who was kind of like the military leader. Because he, let's see, during the 1940s and 50s, he basically, as I stated earlier, was kind of Ho Chi Minh's guy in the South.
57:26 He's the one that did all of the traveling around and laid the groundwork for the National Liberation Front. He periodically returned to Hanoi. He was given important positions in the Politburo. He was very vocal about the Geneva Accords, arguing that Vietnam should not be divided.
57:56 in the aftermath between Chiang Kai-shek in the north and the UK in the south as far as like an occupation force to get the Japanese out and basically recreate it because they had already saw what happened in Korea and they did not want that. And this guy had the foresight to know that if they did that in Vietnam, they'd end up the same way Korea was. And that, of course, is exactly what happened.
58:24 And so he was very much, very animately opposed to that having happened. So he was also much more militant than Ho Chi Minh. He described the actions in Vietnam as a war of reunification because everybody here, except for the Americans and the Dem government that was set up by the Americans,
58:55 wanted a unified country. They did not want a divided country. And after the death of Ho Chi Minh in 1969, Lee became the undisputed head of the government in the North. And he also was the one that pursued the Vietnam War until they were victorious in 1975. So he led the last six years.
59:23 of the winning effort from their perspective um and he eventually died in 1986 but there's he's very well thought of in vietnam you see him recognized not nearly as much as ho chi minh but he is recognized especially throughout the south like we were in um
59:44 Saigon and several of the smaller cities. And when you travel through there, it's not unusual. And what's very interesting about this is the countryside, you see in the middle of rice paddies, what you and I would call lean-to, like what you would imagine a metal roof, like open on one side and closed on three sides, kind of like a lean-to off of a barn.
1:00:13 Um, and the people live in them. Um, they have dirt floors and you drive by, we were on a bus, like a big, um, van and, um, you see these little, um, they have metal roofs. Um, a lot of them have metal siding on them and, um, they have like a 30 foot antenna on the outside of them and a colored TV hanging on the wall.
1:00:42 On the inside. And the one side is open. During the day, they leave it open. They have like these kind of heavy drapery things that they close in the evening. But you're driving by. It's like having a colored television and this big-ass antenna in the lean-to of your barn. Because that's what it looks like. And there will be several of them connected along the road frontage with you driving down.
1:01:10 Um, so like I said, we went to several rural schools and we took school supplies to them. Um, and just seeing that alongside the road, um, you're kind of looking at yourself going, holy moly. And again, this was in 2003. Um, but most of the people there, um, very happy, very, um, uh, um, just very pleasant people.
1:01:37 They do still have, like in Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon area, as well as Hanoi, they do have a lot of corruption still. Most of the industry, by the time we got there, had been converted over to civilian use. For example, we toured what used to be a combat boot factory for their military.
1:02:05 met the retired four-star general that now is showing up to work every day in a civilian suit. And they make women's shoes. They make women's shoes that you see sold for $300 in America. We got them for $12. So very interesting. I did not know there was me and my roommate were the only two girls on our, there was like 15 or 16 of us in my,
1:02:35 um group that went over there to southeast asia and um she knew what the names of all of the shoes would eventually be because she recognized the styles i'm not a shoe person um had no clue i did buy some for my sisters um but anyway lots of fun um very interesting um and um
1:02:59 So Vietnam, for the most part, was one of the more pleasant aspects of our trip. We will, when we move to Cambodia and Laos, get into some of the more gross parts of the trip. But that's going to do us for today. And that kind of rounds out the basic knowledge. And then what we're going to start on Monday is kind of an operational overview of our involvement. We'll go through a little bit more of the French.
1:03:28 window post-World War II up until they got their butts kicked. And then we're going to go from there and the ramping up and the presence of the OSS slash CIA, which got us into it, and then the actual full-scale U.S. military portion of it. And that'll probably take us through Wednesday to be able to present that entire picture. Part of that
1:03:56 will be the creation and the fielding of the Phoenix program as well. So anyway, that's where we're at. Bridget, are you still with us? Yes, ma'am. Okay. All right. Carrie, what you got? I disagree with you, Colonel. You are the biggest shoe person I know of. You have alligator boots.
1:04:32 Okay. I don't consider boots, my cowboy boots, point well taken, Carrie. I do stand corrected. I don't consider my cowboy boots like women's shoes. For me, my cowboy boots are like a thing in and of themselves. And I do have about 20 pairs of them. And I do have...
1:04:57 Quite a few of the exotics. You're absolutely right. I do stand corrected. But none of those are made in Vietnam. So you're definitely right. I love my boots. All right. Who else do we have? Jeff, go ahead. Yes, ma'am, Colonel. I just first and foremost wanted to thank you and all the veterans.
1:05:33 that have fought because the Vietnam War plays a very special place in my heart. And I was thinking about you the other day that being around all the aircraft mechanics that you served with and being a person that understands that the aircraft mechanic says the F word or knows the definition of the F word probably more than anybody on the planet Earth.
1:06:02 and you had said it the other day, and I just thought about all the mechanics I worked with. But I did kind of glance at a scene in the movie, and I know it's probably inaccurate all the way, but it was a movie, Out for Justice, and they flew in, and the CIA was interrogating a gentleman, and they were fixing to shoot him with the truth serum. It was CIA.
1:06:31 It involved narcotics. And the Gladio operation with Chiang Kai-shek, I think, was displayed in another scene, whereas Frank Lucas was flying pure grade heroin out of Vietnam on C-130s and basically destroyed the East Coast with heroin.
1:07:00 And, you know, the Vietnam veterans are my favorite because they were treated the worst. This really is a terrible feeling I get because, excuse me, Colonel, those were the most important or the best this country had to offer. During the draft, these men and these women went over to a country and fought.
1:07:32 fought a tough, terrible war and fighting over hills that they would let the enemy take back months later. It was just very discouraging to hear the Hamburger Hill Battle and the Colonel Mel Gibson played him. And we were soldiers. Colonel, does somebody know?
1:08:05 I don't know who you're talking about. I don't watch movies. I know. Yeah, it was the original story of the first heavy conflict in the Vietnam War. And it was a great story. And it's just a lot of different. Let me say something about a point that you brought up. Another aspect of the Vietnam War that made it uniquely different than any other war we fought.
1:08:36 And I want you to understand how malicious this was and how on purpose it was. If you go back to World War II, even actually different aspects of the Korean War, in most war efforts, we had the militia units in states which turned into the Guard, and we had some aspect of a reserve capability.
1:09:06 over the course of our country's history. And in every war, we utilized and called up those units before you then began taking people off the streets and training them up to fly or go shoot or whatever. And there's a reason why you do that. And it's the same reason why you have to have a declaration of war by Congress in order to commit forces in a foreign war.
1:09:37 And that is because every aspect of your country, the war effort has to hurt everybody equally in order for the country to allow itself to be committed to a war. And all of those steps in a mobilization to go to war is very important because if you allow
1:10:08 The underprivileged in a country, like in the old days, the serfdoms, if they were the only people that were fighting the war, the country is going to go to war more often because it never hurts the elite. The Vietnam War, by design, through every aspect of war fighting and our Constitution, out the window. Instead of...
1:10:36 mobilizing Guard and Reserve units, which they refused on purpose to do. Because what happens, and we saw that on 9-11, when you mobilize an entire Guard unit out of a city or an entire Reserve unit out of a county, the cops are all gone. The firefighters are all gone. The medical hospital staff is all gone when the mobilized unit.
1:11:04 has med techs in it and that hurts the local community and the local community is going to stand up and go hey this is bullshit i'm not losing my police department for you to go over there and um protect opium the entire country would have come fucking unglued if they would have conducted this as per regulations and our constitution
1:11:34 No one would have stood up to that, stood up for that, or tolerated that. And instead, knowing this, knowing that it was a bullshit false flag that started it, knowing that it was a bullshit war to begin with, and it had nothing to do with communism and everything to do with protecting opium, they decided to skip over every aspect of our Constitution and the mobilization and go immediately to a draft.
1:12:04 And why did they do that? They did that because no one is going to miss the onesies and twosies coming out of Lakeland, Florida, onesies and twosies coming out of Plant City, the onesies and twosies coming out of Orlando. And they could mask that throughout the entire country, taking one or two people out of every community instead of mobilizing entire units where they would then suffer the hurt of those people being gone.
1:12:33 And they maliciously did this on purpose. And then when those people didn't come back in large sections of our community, that void was equally distributed and not felt the same way than when half of a infantry unit doesn't return to a town and then the town goes marching to Washington, D.C. and asks them, what the fuck are you doing? That's the reason why they did it that way.
1:13:04 Everything about the Vietnam War was bullshit. Stellar, go ahead. So like, I mean, I knew about like the Vietnam War. I had no idea about all these different things, had no idea that that war was different than even like the Korean. Well, you know, the Korean War or, you know, like World War Two and the respects that, you know, they didn't do like what you were just saying. Like when I was a kid, like how my mom and dad described it.
1:13:34 And I never really paid much attention to these different wars in the past, just knew what they were about, but never really went diving deep like how you're doing. Holy crap. I would have gone nuts if I would have. But with that being said, like the bad guy that they always talked about, like my mom talked about or my dad, was always communism, communism, communism. You know, France left there.
1:13:57 And so America had to take over because of the communists and trying to protect, you know, how they said with Korea as well. So that was the propaganda. But in actuality, the communism is what they were. Yes, these fucking people. They're they're really more fascist. But yes, if there's a boogeyman, it was not the people wanting their country back. It wasn't the people that wanted to open schools. It wasn't the people that wanted the freedom.
1:14:26 It wasn't the people that wanted foreign corporations out of their country. Those people and that agenda cannot be classically designated as communist in nature. It just can't. Or we're a communist country here. It's either they're not communist or we're communist. And you can go either way. I don't care, but we're going to be consistent here. If we're not communist, they weren't communist. OK, so then what? OK, because.
1:14:55 So is communism where like all the corporations are all owned by the country? Is that what it is? What is communism? Maybe I need to have maybe that. Hold on a second. Yeah. At the very end, you got it. Communism, by classical definition, is the government's owning of literally everything in the country. They own the business enterprise. They own the land. They own everything. And then they provide.
1:15:24 a minimum livable wage. That's why the entire leftist agenda here is communist in nature by trying to give people a salary. They give you your monthly allotment of food, of money, and then you can go to government-owned stores and buy what you want from your minimum salary. You don't get...
1:15:54 Paid more money if you produce more, you get paid the same as the guy next to you. And if you don't produce what they say is the minimum amount to be produced, you get beat or you get your hands cut off like France used to do or Portugal or Belgium or any of them people. So that's literally communism where they own everything and you are a cog in the wheel.
1:16:21 and basically allowed to perform for the Politburo. So fascism is basically what Mussolini did. And fascism, and Spain was, Portugal was, and that's basically what they set up throughout all of South America when they did these coups. Fascism allows private ownership of businesses.
1:16:48 So that you can have the ITT, you can have the crypto AG, you can have Michelin, you can have Texaco or any of these oil industries. And they, the elite that own these businesses, basically, whether they pick the dictator or they allow you to participate in a fake election where you think you're doing it, they will have a dictator either way.
1:17:15 There have been some fascists, and I would argue that's what we are right now because we're not electing our leader. They're being elected for us by a system, and we've got these oligarchs that own these multinational corporations pretending to be free enterprise when, in fact, through political donations, they buy the politicians and install them.
1:17:41 So I would argue that we are a fascist government right now. There's nothing free and fair about our elections. There's nothing free and fair about the competition. We have a select group of oligarchs that operate and control, via the international syndicate, the operation of our government. They're all bought and paid for. That's what Mussolini set up in Italy.
1:18:06 As we went back in the beginning of this, where we said that they set up a communist thing in Russia, they set up the socialist experiment in Germany and set up the fascist experiment in Italy. Obviously, of those three choices, fascism is the one that they gravitated to the most because it was the fascist.
1:18:33 um that basically won the day and that's what they've been installing all over the world afterwards so go ahead so with the communists like these fascists and stuff is like sounds like a step that goes into the full-blown communists where there's you know where the government or state owned for everything because i do remember you know my friends in russia was telling me how it was like in the soviet union
1:18:57 So in some respects, yeah, we're kind of like that now because like unions are that way because it's not based, you know, like their raises aren't based on performances, based on, you know, like tenure or whatever they have, like at least the airlines did.
1:19:09 And stuff like that. So in some respects, we are probably farther along than what we like I ever thought we were then as far as on that communist trail. And then why would I don't think we're no, no, no, stellar. I don't think we're on a communist track at all. We're on a fascist track. Our government is not going to ever own the means of production. They're not going to own the airlines. They're not going to own the steel mills. That is because the international syndicates never going to give it up.
1:19:36 They would kill everybody in the government before they give up their lifestyle. So the fascist allows the private ownership of a corporate elitist group of people. And that's why I say when you go into these countries, like in the aftermath of killing Allende in Chile, what you saw.
1:20:00 was Pinochet as the dictator. He got installed. He wasn't elected. He was installed. And who picked him? The international syndicate picked him. And the international syndicate was made up of PepsiCo, ITT, and the Freeport mining company that was stealing all of their copper. So those corporate entities are not owned by the state. So it is not communist.
1:20:24 Those corporate entities and those corporate elitists came to Washington, D.C., paid the CIA to set up a paramilitary operation to murder Allende and install their picked guy, which was Pinochet. Now, Pinochet is going to act like he's in charge, but he is a puppet for ITT, Freeport and PepsiCo because they paid to have him installed. And when he starts acting up, they'll get rid of him, too.
1:20:54 That's fascism. That's what they just did to Joe Biden. You have these elitist that decide who's going to be sitting where in the government. They're never going to give up their empires, their billion dollar empires. As a matter of fact, in some cases, you could argue they're.
1:21:15 agreement with the government is, in the case of Ford and Carnegie and Rockefeller, their whole agreement, and Zuckerberg's another example of that, the modern day version of it, their agreement with the government is, I will be in charge of this corporation hereditarily through the years, and I'm going to set up this foundation, and I'm going to allow you to
1:21:42 have a say in the board memberships of the international syndicate of who sits on my board. We're going to interbreed at the board level. And I'm going to run the Carnegie Steel Mills and I'm going to set up this foundation. I'm going to put $2 billion of my honeypot here in this foundation. And I'm going to use that foundation to fund all of your National Endowment for Democracy, USAID, and all of the WWF and UNESCO and all that other bullshit.
1:22:12 So that's the play money for this syndicate to go out and do their dirty deeds because the way they use those foundations is to overthrow the government so the Carnegie Steel Mill can be in more foreign countries. And that is really the purpose of these NGOs. These NGOs are play money for them to go conquer other countries. That's the whole purpose of them. And to buy elections.
1:22:40 Because they don't pay taxes on any of the money that are there. So they are those people that are in those positions whose families are like, you know, 15 generations from the time of the Revolutionary War, like in the case of the Roosevelt's and the Delano's and all of them. They're never given up their empires. They're not going to be required to because they have set up a.
1:23:06 that allows them to be the king and queens while pretending to be business owners. And they run everything. They buy whoever they want to be in the office at any other time. And that's the reason why they had the biggest problem with Donald Trump. They didn't buy him. He got there by mistake. He got there because of us. We actually rose up and elected somebody they didn't approve of. And that's where you saw these hyenas.
1:23:36 come out to feast on a carcass that they hoped to get rid of because they didn't pick him. And that's why they're losing their marbles right now because they're afraid he's going to get back in and he's not their pick. Can I say that was probably the most beautiful? And thank you. That was beautiful. Thank you. Thank you.
1:24:11 James, go ahead. Yeah, so unfortunately my dad can't be here today. I did immediately open that space with him, and I read through the documents for about 40 minutes, and then I started getting to the list of McAvee SOG members and stuff, and my dad was like, all right, maybe we should cut it off. So still trying to figure out what to and what not to share, how to share, but it's a lot. So I just wanted to let you know that we're still going through it, and it's...
1:24:41 Like we're talking like social security numbers for Mac visa, like, et cetera, et cetera. So I'm just trying to figure out how to have a OPSEC about all this stuff. Yeah, definitely don't want to share social security numbers, even if they're dead. Yeah, they're already there was a massive cyber attack to the nation. They already have everyone's social security number, supposedly. I know, but you don't want to share them. Yeah, exactly. I don't want to be responsible. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Carrie, go ahead.
1:25:11 Yeah, I just wanted to add on to how communism is really different. They allot land, both China and Russia did this, allotted land to people. So you're given a piece of land. Whether you're a farmer or not, they don't care. If you have no skill set in that, whatever.
1:25:40 And people have to make a quota. I remember in China, you have to make a quota of a certain amount of food. And that's why they had a huge famine. And so many people died because some people would make the quota and hoard everything. So they would make beyond the quota. Like, if you just think about it, like,
1:26:07 Not every piece of land is the same. Marx was such a fucker. I mean, just such a fucker. Any real anarchist hates Marx because he attached to the state and the bureaucracy of the state. Just think about our bureaucracy. Do you like our bureaucracy, Colonel?
1:26:38 Hold on a second. Let me correct you for just a second. You're more referring to socialism when they give you the plot of land. That's more socialist. And I know that, again, I'm stickler for the words. Communism, you're not giving shit. The state owns everything. You are allowed to work on the state's farms. And you are demanded.
1:27:04 You are told what your vocation is going to be. You are told where you're going to be, when you're going to be there, blah, blah, blah. And there are quotas set for you. You don't own anything. In socialism, that's more of kind of the Marxist viewpoint. And there's no Marxism in China doesn't even exist. It is a and when it first started out, it was a pure, more a pure form.
1:27:34 of socialism that then crafted its way towards communism and has now backed off to more of fascism because they allow for private ownership like evergreen that big monstrous thing that just collapsed was privately owned but they still don't control who gets appointed
1:28:04 Because they don't really have elections. And it isn't the enterprise, what we refer to as the syndicate. They don't pick who the leader is going to be. That is strictly within the CCP communist structure and outside of the private entity. So they have a very hybrid thing going on in China right now where they were trying to transition, as Vietnam did.
1:28:32 eventually to the private ownership of things that had been ran by the government in the past. Vietnam has done an excellent job of that transition. It's been very rough for them, but they have continued to do that, as China is, but they've not really given up much of their communist political structure. So anyway, there's a difference between that.
1:29:02 plotting out of land and then demanding quotas and stuff like that. And that is very much the socialist utopia kind of thing that they found, like in Jamestown, in our original founding, flopped. Because that's basically what they tried in Jamestown and everybody starved. It just doesn't work. Because for all the reasons you said, Carrie, because not everybody...
1:29:32 Works the same ethic. Not everybody had, not all land is the same. It just does not work. But there is a distinct difference between socialism, communism, and fascism. And so I just wanted everybody, because terminology is so important to our understanding of history.
1:29:57 Allowing us to be able to go back and actually look at the here's the criteria of what makes you a communist. Ho Chi Minh was not a communist, at least at this particular time in what all that we have discovered that he's advocating. He absolutely was not a communist. He wasn't even a socialist. He wanted people to be able to thrive within Vietnam and he wanted Vietnamese to.
1:30:27 own the businesses within Vietnam. And that is not, that's a very nationalistic viewpoint, but it is not, it doesn't make you a socialist and it doesn't make you a communist. And it certainly does not make you a fascist. So that's why, you know, if nothing else, we're going to know a few things. We're going to know what those terms are. We're going to know what our history is and we're going to learn our geography when we're done.
1:30:57 Colonel, maybe we need a glossary of terms because like you can look that stuff up on Google and, you know, you don't know what you're going to get. Well, I, I think that because you guys, we have, we've went over these terms as we have explored these different countries. And I think as we learn,
1:31:26 All of these other aspects that that comes with. I'm just telling you the clinical definition of the things you guys can decide for yourself. You're free to research on your own. But part of the formal education in business degrees and especially in the military, you learn.
1:31:52 the clinical definition of those terms because they dictate how the military apparatus works within a country. And that's why I find it really, really interesting that we are taught how to classify a socialist country, a Marxist country, a fascist country.
1:32:14 or a republic or a democracy, because each one of those, your military, which is what we studied primarily in my master's degree, they are authorized for use of force by a completely different process. So like in a democracy or a republic, it is supposed to be only responsive to the people, and it has to be in the people's best interest to go to war.
1:32:44 And as a result of that, that's a very different dynamic when you're calculating the probabilities of going to war with a country than it is if you're dealing in a country that's fascist. Then you're looking more at the business leaders because the business leaders are the ones that decide what the president's going to do because he's captured to them. And then again, if you're dealing with a communist country.
1:33:10 You're going to look at the person who's in charge of the Communist Party because that person has all the decision-making capability at all, period. They control everything, the means of production, everything. So that's your primary audience when you're assessing the threat of whether or not you're likely to go to war with that entity. So all of those things matter a lot.
1:33:37 But what I find very interesting about all of this is because we are taught the clinical definitions of that, our military knows everything that I just told you. And yet the SOBs in our military and in the CIA go right behind having taught those formal definitions of it and create these dumbass terms like Viet Cong when they know that it's actually Viet Minh.
1:34:01 which means they're nationalists versus communists, as a propaganda campaign to psyops us. And when I say us, I don't mean just the American people. I meant the U.S. military, too, because the entire time that I'm going through 30 years of military training and education, I was told that those people were communists. Those people are no more communists than I am. So those are the things that we're fixing.
1:34:29 as a result of this study. Shannon, what you got? Hey, Colonel. I just want to add some clarity to that as well. Being a U.S. patriot with a military family, living in communist Toronto, and I'm being facetious about it. It's actually in Canada, we actually have a socio-democratic government.
1:34:52 So as a dual citizen, I've studied it greatly. I know more about it probably than a lot of Canadians do because you know how it is when they're becoming Americans. They end up knowing more about American history than typically the everyday American. We in Canada, it's a socialistic democratic system. And they will typically say up here, because I work for the Canadian government, they typically will say up here, the everyday Canadian, especially in wokeism Toronto, they'll say,
1:35:21 Democratic. No, no, no, no, no. Socialistic first before democratic. So just to give some clarity, I'm glad you made the distinction between fascism, communism and socialism. So whenever you're given land or like we have this health care system, right, that they take literally half, if not more than half my paycheck to pay into this health care system. Right.
1:35:48 So it is definitely socialistic first than democratic. Most of the times in my study of Operation Gladio is what they will shy away from is the term of fascism. They don't want you to know what fascism is. They will say communism as a boogeyman before they will say anything with being a fascist. So that's just my only comment. So I just want to just add some clarity that I'm living a socialistic.
1:36:15 environment before they call it social democratic. So that's all. So thank you. Sure. And I will tell you from a, again, a clinical definition, what we in the military would call what you just described, because it's how they describe the Scandinavian countries, is you live in a democracy with a high level of socialism. And that social net that your taxes go to provide for the people is
1:36:42 a government version of socialism under the umbrella of democracy. So you have the underpinnings of a democracy, but that large social net, and let me tell you why that's important, and I'm glad you brought that up, because what you find most often in those, from a threat perspective, that's all I'm talking about, from a threat perspective,
1:37:08 That's almost one of the worst kinds because they're very complacent about everything. There is such a large safety net that is provided by the government that people lose their individualism, their vigilance, and their standing guard because everything is handed to them.
1:37:38 They've basically placated an entire country under a large social safety net. And it's a way of, and I don't even mean like physically disarming them. It is a way of disarming the entire population and allowing a large amount of control under the guise of you still living in a democracy, which allows you to sit back and do nothing.
1:38:08 And that's almost the most evil one of these. At least if you're in a fascist dictatorship, you know where the head of the snake is. And there's always, always, always a insurgent, counterinsurgent.
1:38:27 effort going on to get rid of the dictator. No one is resting on their laurels. Everybody is trying to expel that disease cancer called a dictator. The most evil one of those is almost what you just described, which is the appearance of a democracy, but with a large socialist underpinning.
1:38:55 that placates the population into thinking that everything's going to be handed to them. So thank you, Shannon, for bringing that up. That is a very important aspect because when you're looking at potential enemies, you never want to deal with those people. You almost never are able to energize them to fight on your behalf if they're one of your quote-unquote co-
1:39:25 allies because they just don't have the same sense of urgency about anything. Yeah. And on the other hand, it's why Canada and the Scandinavian countries make great UN peacekeepers.
1:39:43 Because they just want to go make everybody else happy. That's kind of what they think they're doing is providing that social net to other people, not understanding that those other people can't even eat. So, yeah, thank you. Jeff, go ahead. Yes, ma'am. I wanted to thank you for bringing that up to add on to the Chiang Kai-shek CIA operation and the actual people that the young vets are the ones that are punished.
1:40:14 which reminds me of why President, or excuse me, Kamala Harris is a complete failure towards all of our veterans, considering in the last 20 years we've lost $7 trillion and a lot of good troopers, millions of people in the Middle East. And for us to have to embarrass ourselves by giving, you know,
1:40:43 $70 million a week in cash to the Taliban in Kabul is absurd and proves that this government does not work for us. Thank you, Colonel. Sure. Anybody else got anything for us? Any questions? I can bring something up if I can go off topic for a minute. Sure.
1:41:14 Well, Donald Trump came to Las Vegas today for a quick stop. There were several hundred people that were parked a lot or that were outside in the street. The Secret Service was very strong presence along with Metro. They did have like.
1:41:32 I don't want to say a tarp, but, you know, like those convention tent type of things. So when he came in, they had him go behind the restaurant and then around to the front. Nobody could see him because the security was a lot higher. And, you know, like normally you could see him going from this car to the.
1:41:52 Like inside places, there was nothing. I mean, he drove into this tent type of a thing. They closed it all up. And then you could see where it went into the restaurant and stuff. So that was kind of, I mean, it made me feel good. And there were two ambulances. And there were at least, I don't know, I've got like at least three or four. I videotaped as the entourage came through. There was quite a lot of vehicles with them. A bunch of...
1:42:20 Boulder City as well as Metro, police officers on motorcycles. They had the roads all closed. They didn't let anyone get into the street. And they had, like, the barricades up so that, like, even the entrance into the parking lot, probably about 10 or at least 10 feet on each side that you couldn't even get near to where the, like, where the car would drive through or the cars. But there were two ambulance behind. Normally, I just see one.
1:42:50 That's very interesting. So they seem to have picked up their game a little bit. Is that your assessment? Oh, yeah. Because when he comes here, I'm usually around somewhere or if I'm too late to go in. But at least then I walk around and I chit-chat with the Secret Service people and stuff. And they didn't have as many as they had today. I mean, I was very surprised at the amount of Secret Service that were there. And then we had marshals here.
1:43:19 We had marshals here. So I was talking to the marshal guy and I'm like, do we have a constitutional sheriff here in this county? I was asking all those kinds of questions. So there's stuff going on, guys. Interesting. Bridget, did you have anything else? No, I'm just I am so glad. I'm so glad for today's space. I'm so glad that the people have asked questions that they did. And because a lot of these.
1:43:53 Because we are so deep into Gladio, and it is difficult because we've been brainwashed to believe, you know, it's the Russia bad, you know, Russia bad, Russia bad. And all of these different labels that they put on these different governments that, to be honest, my head has always been spinning. I just know bad government, good government. And I never could necessarily outline the label.
1:44:26 And I'm so thankful that you did such a beautiful job at lining them out. Thank you. You're welcome. Yeah, I wanted to thank you for that, too, because all this time I just thought that there were just different phases to get into the full-blown communism. And, you know, I saw that the full-blown communism, say, like in Russia, you know, because they owned everything. They owned the airlines, everything.
1:44:49 And that was an epic fail. So that's why I was like, why are they going to try and have us do that? And I can't believe that the elitists would allow that it goes into the government itself. I know that they can make money on the other stuff, just like the communists did or the Russian communists or the USSR, Soviets did, excuse me. So with that.
1:45:09 So I just always thought it was like one step above each one. Didn't realize that, you know, it's a true, like the complete, the separation of each one. So thank you for that definition and separation. Sure. And one does not necessarily lead to the other. What has been interesting to watch from my perspective is having watched communism go full bore communism where they own literally everything.
1:45:39 There is no private enterprise. And the Politburo becomes basically the mafia as far as the inheritable positions within the government. If the dad runs the KGB, the son's going to join the KGB. You know what I mean? So you still have a lot of the same dynamics that you have in some of the other isms, but it's just all within the government structure.
1:46:09 what you saw take place, as you pointed out, that failed. And they transitioned into what, and it was a rough transition because you are swamped with that ingrained mafioso kind of mentality of the government having a chokehold on everything. And so what...
1:46:38 happened in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union is you had a concentrated effort by the West to rush in and buy up the scraps penny on the dollar. And that was the whole Safra was the banker behind it. And you had the hermitage with the Broward guy and Magnitsky, all of that corrupt.
1:47:07 That was literally the Western vultures going in to pick up the scraps of communism. And out of the trash heap of communism, you had a guy by the name of Putin rise up. And not only did he kick the vultures out, but was able to resurrect in as close as you're probably ever going to get to a democracy in.
1:47:36 Russia, given the fact that they still like their strongman kind of power structure, but they have private enterprise there and they have the Christian church there completely recognized. You are free to participate in whatever your religious activities are. There are none that are barred. And so.
1:48:05 It's been very interesting to watch that whole dynamic, especially when you compare it to China, who's kind of stopped. Number one, they didn't fail. And then they stopped short of a full transition that Russia made, but still recognize now private ownership of business. And so they've almost morphed into a fascist kind of, however, very still strong.
1:48:35 government control. And so we're seeing over the course of the last 50 years, a graying of many of those hard and fast rules of the different categories or buckets of the isms, which I find completely fascinating having grown up with.
1:49:01 Lock, stock and barrel. This one fits here. This one fits here. You know, it's like that's a square peg. That's a round peg. And now we're seeing some of the shades of gray of how. And unfortunately, we've went in the last hundred years the exact opposite. We went from a full fledged republic to a fascist government. Lock, stock and barrel. And I don't I'll argue that every day.
1:49:27 all day long with anybody because you cannot call what we have today a republic, number one. And I would argue we're not even a democracy. Exactly. So, yeah. So I just find all of that extremely interesting. My seventh grade teacher said exactly what you said.
1:49:48 When I was in seventh grade, they had us set up like we were part of the UN. So each of the students were a different country, and I was France. And sometime around then, or maybe a little earlier, so this would have been probably in the late 70s, early 80s or whatever, I got assigned France. And so I had to learn all about the government and stuff, so like the history of the government of France. And it was just going into the full-blown, quote-unquote, socialism.
1:50:15 You know, they were talking about that. And my world history teacher said, you know, we started off free and all that other stuff. He goes, in your lifetime, he goes, you will see communism fall and you will see what comes out of that as being more free than what we are. And even though, you know, this is back when I was probably 12 years old or whatever, 11, 12.
1:50:40 He predicted that and he was just, you know, we're like, what do you mean? And, you know, and we were arguing and, you know, the class was, you know, like, no, we're free and because back then the Cold War was still going strong and stuff. So, you know, when he was saying that and he's like, yeah, every time that there's a law passed, your freedoms are taken away. So think about that for your safety. So I guess I had it because it was already awake back then. But that was one of his things. Every time that there's a policy or.
1:51:06 A law made in actuality, it was removal of our freedoms. And I look at how things are like, you know, like we supposedly all these different countries have these different types and forms of governments. And I still look at everything, you know, you've got the Vatican and how Rome was ran and it just formed, you know, it morphed into the Vatican and they still have these different, you know, war things. But the governments have, I mean, it's like we're still in feudalism, even though we're not.
1:51:34 But we are because a lot of these people in stock, you know, that are like directors or things like that for CEOs and stuff like that of these corporations, they're all.
1:51:43 bloodline and related families and, and governments are that way too. So even though we have this sense of, you know, like look at our presidents, every president we've had has, has had lineages through, you know, the monarchy and stuff. So that I just look at that, you know, the marriages that they put together like Aberdeen and Soros's son or whatever, you know, it just still seems like they're still playing that power play. You marry out of duty or you get together with people for duty for the power because, you know,
1:52:10 Does that make sense for the kingdoms? No. Yeah. I mean, that was one of my revelations when I was reading Antony Sutton's book. And he said that the FDR was related to every prior president except for two. I'm like, what the hell? And they all have relations back to King George. There's all ties to them that goes back to that. Even Obama. Yeah. Very interesting. Cousin Nick, go ahead.
1:52:42 A wonderful good afternoon. Can you hear me now? Yes, ma'am. Stupid phone. Dad, I miss you. It's time to play with the nuts. I was playing with my nuts. One of the things... You might want to explain that, cousin. No, I like the way it sounded. I'm fine with that. So...
1:53:13 Somebody had mentioned, you know, Putin getting in and Marxism, communism, socialism, etc., etc. Putin is actually an accident as well. The United States, as much as they tried to keep Yeltsin in there because he was, they said he was a drunk. And Russia denies that, but that could just be national pride.
1:53:40 No, he was a drunk. I am friends with someone who went on the inaugural flight with Putin around the world. He was a drunk, not Putin. Was he? Yes, big time drunk, always drunk. That's fine because, you know, national pride, they're not saying that publicly. But he did just kind of hand over the keys to Putin and the United States was not expecting that. So he's as much of an accident to Russia as Donald Trump is to the United States.
1:54:10 And as long as we're talking about different forms of government, stop using democracy. Stop. That is gaslighting. We are not a damn democracy. We are a constitutional republic. Not once in our constitution or our Bill of Rights does the word democracy show up anywhere. All right. This whole we're a democracy, we're a democracy. Guess what? We're not. We're a constitutional republic. And like the boss said.
1:54:39 Words matter. All right. And all this, oh, being a democracy crap. That's all gaslighting. They've done that on purpose. The hell we are. We're a constitutional republic, people. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. Not the democracy, the republic.
1:55:03 And I'm going to just be people stupid if they keep calling us a democracy, because that's their words. That's the Democrat Party. That's their word. That's why they chose Democrat. And you know what? I've had enough. Right. We are not a democracy, people. And if all these people want to call it a democracy, that's fine. Hit the road. You know, bunch of sheep. I'm done with the word democracy.
1:55:30 I'm done with the word misinformation, disinformation, trans, rumors. I am done with all this crap that they've decided to like inject into society. And every time you turn around, they're changing definitions. Bullshit. We're a constitutional republic. Be proud of that. And you know what, guys? The reason why we weren't a democracy, why our founding fathers, anywhere between the age of 18 and 30, were smarter. They knew.
1:56:00 democracies fail. That's why they didn't choose to be a democracy. They chose to be a constitutional republic. And on that note, I'm going to kick the can down the road. And I thank you very much for the discussion today. It was wonderful to listen to because I was dealing with the idiots. So it was kind of entertaining.
1:56:20 Okay, then you're going to have to go into Kinky Twins' stuff. They did a poll. They started about a day and a half ago or a day ago, and he was all proud. So you've got to do that one because you're going to crack up. This morning, there was a 78 spread that Trump was ahead. He was all excited because it was his echo chamber. And then now it's 84% Trump on Kinky Twins' poll that they did.
1:56:45 The other thing is, do you guys have Challenger schools in your area? Because there was a commercial that they used to have on the radio all the time, I want to say about 10 years ago. And Challenger is like a private school here in Las Vegas. And I think that they have stuff all over the country. Well, anyway, they used to have a commercial. And when you were talking about that, that commercial came in my head. They were saying how smart the kids were that go to this Challenger private schools.
1:57:14 You know, when they're like three, four years old, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. Well, there is a child that was like five years old and they were in the commercial. They said, what form of government do we have? And the child said, we have a constitutional republic. I guess someone else answered as a democracy. And then this kid said, no, we are a constitutional republic. And he explained why it was. And that was one of the commercials like 10 or 12 years ago. Just thought I'd bring that up. Awesome. Yay. Yeah. See, and that's the way it should be.
1:57:44 You know, and I just every time, you know, every time these goddamn Democrats start talking about, oh, and, you know, we're here for democracy. We're here for democracy. The first thing that goes through my mind is the hell you are. You know, not once are they there for the Constitution. Not once are they there for the republic. Not once. They're all there for democracy and everybody's equal. Well, you know what? Life sucks. Not everyone's equal. Period.
1:58:13 You get out of it what you put into it. And that's what a constitutional republic is. It's not everybody equal. Right. Because life's not fair sometimes. You know, that doesn't mean we're going to kick you when you're down. Right. I missed you. I love you. We love you. All right. We got one minute. What you got? You know, I it's good to see you, cousin. We love you.
1:58:44 It reminded me of the drinking with Ulysses S. Grant after half a million Americans died during the Civil War. He became an alcoholic majorly. I don't fault him for that. The second point was for Vladimir Putin on the drinking. Yes, maybe so. But Vladimir Putin is a very smart man. As on Tucker Carlson, his history of Russia was.
1:59:14 way profound. And of course, he could have assassinated President Reagan in 1980 as he was standing 10 feet from him. I wonder what his orders were at that time. And finally, lastly, and leastly, I'm sorry, President or Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has no excuse to be a drunk.
1:59:42 during these important times as vice president or any position that she's in. If you vote Democrat, it's un-American and you don't love this country. That's it. And thank you, Colonel. I appreciate everything you do for us. We love you. Thank you. And Jeff, I was confirming with Colonel Towner about Yeltsin. I don't know anything about Putin, but Yeltsin. I knew someone who worked in the government back then.
2:00:12 Yeah, Yeltsin was the drinker, not Putin. Right. So was Clinton because I remember the press conference after he was out with Boris Yeltsin and his nose was so red he looked like Rudolph. Hilarious. That may have been cocaine, but anyway, that's a whole other subject. Okay. It was cocaine. You're right, Colonel. Correct. I don't know that.
2:00:36 I don't know how you know that. I'm just saying there are options here. I saw Bill Clinton's brother on undercover because Barry Seale used to fly into Mena, Arkansas. I don't know what he was doing because we weren't there. That's the only point I was making. We want to keep it factual. His brother was on tape. I saw the tape of his brother on undercover tape as well. It's still hearsay. It's hearsay. It doesn't hold up in a court of law. It's hearsay. Anyway. All right. So.
2:01:06 We will be back on Monday. And I probably, over the weekend, I don't know if I'll just pre-record them or if I'll do them live. I did have a request to go over a couple of terminology things, which I will do sometime this weekend, just as an overview.
2:01:30 on a couple of subjects because we've gotten so many new people in recently. Oh, and by the way, guys, you guys are so freaking awesome. All of your reposting of our spaces and reposting of my threads. Do you know who followed us today? Jeff Carlson. And I mean, he has a super huge account.
2:01:57 The more you guys repost our information, the more people are going to see it. So pat yourself on the back. Who's Jeff Carlson? I was going to ask him, who is he? He's a guy that has a super huge account. I don't know who he is either. All right. Well, I'm just telling you. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yay. Thank you.
2:02:23 Pat yourself on the back. You guys are doing an awesome job. You've got the Operation Gladio hashtag. It pre-populates every time now because you guys have done such an awesome job of sharing all of this information. And every single day, we add more people.
2:02:51 Just have a great weekend. Pat yourself on the back. Go out, have a drink tonight if that's your thing. But thank you very much for your effort in sharing this because you could definitely be doing something else. And I appreciate you being here every day. I appreciate the sharing of the word so that we can educate more people. Thank you and God bless every one of you. And I'll be back here on Monday.
2:03:19 But in the meantime, I will do a couple of things this weekend. So take care. Have a nice weekend. And we thank you for all the content to share the truth. So we're thanking you, Colonel Tanner, because if it wasn't for you, your army here or your little Air Force people wouldn't have much to be retweeting and reposting. So thank you, Cousin It. Thank you, Colonel Tanner. Thank you, Bridget. I'm still waiting for the booze. I got to be honest, speaking of drinking.
2:03:49 Message me your address, and I will be sending you the booze. I will have it Instacarted to you. Colonel, there's a lot of people that are listening to this podcast right now, and there's some people that are pretty high up there, just to let you know. Okay. All right, guys. Have a nice weekend.

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Claims made here

United States targeted_for_regime_change Viet Minh host_asserted ▶ 8:19
“namely via the CIA, has went in and couped a government. I could cut and paste this as their demands. And yet in every single one of those cases, our government called them communist and went in and k…”
United States funded Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 10:10
“As in other Asian countries, Vietnamese nationalism was largely a product of the early 20th century, you know, because they actually believed our rhetoric. And at the time this is going on, and this i…”
United States funded Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 11:46
“And we're not going to let them hide anymore. So now let me just go one step further because I have to make this point. Chiang Kai-shek, while he said he wanted those 10 things, when he was kicked out…”
Paul Helliwell spied_on Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 13:19
“Chiang Kai-shek did when he was in southern China, when he was in Burma, and when he was in Taiwan. That is exactly what has happened. As a matter of fact, and I've said this, and I'm going to say it …”
Paul Helliwell exposed Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 13:49
“his right hand communicating with the United States in the OSS and eventually the CIA. It was Paul Helliwell that picked up the phone and told Alan Dulles, oh my God, you're not ever going to believe …”
Chiang Kai-shek financed_via Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 14:16
“Keep the entire thing secret off books and no one will even know we're doing it. So Chiang Kai-shek gave them the business model, not that they wouldn't have come up with it themselves, but he actuall…”
Ho Chi Minh founded Viet Minh host_asserted ▶ 15:21
“were accustomed to simply accepting their lot and basically not questioning a political order. And Ho Chi Minh realized that that's what had got them into their colonialist occupation and wanted to ch…”
Ho Chi Minh appointed Ho Gok Lam host_asserted ▶ 27:05
“That's pretty much right on. Viet Minh's first chairman was a name, a guy by the name of Ho Gok Lam, L-A-M. And he wasn't a communist. He was 100%. He not went to all of these different places, nothin…”
Ho Chi Minh member_of Viet Minh host_asserted ▶ 27:33
“Which is really interesting if we were to believe all the things that was written about Ho Chi Minh, why wouldn't he actually step into the leadership immediately? He didn't because it wasn't about hi…”
Lu Duan member_of Viet Minh host_asserted ▶ 31:30
“D-U-A-N. And again, keep in mind, I'm putting caveat or quotation marks on the communist part of it. A native of the southern provinces, Lee Duane, was active in these groups in the Mekong Delta regio…”
Lu Duan carried_out_attack Ngo Dinh Diem host_asserted ▶ 32:30
“This senior military guy, Le Duan, developed a plan that was called Road to the South. In it, he called for an uprising and gather support to overthrow the propped up leader from the South that the We…”
Lu Duan carried_out_attack France host_asserted ▶ 33:20
“building educational places and ensuring that equality was occurring and that type of thing. So he's working on, and he was working with some of the smaller businesses to try to get them to limit the …”
Viet Minh carried_out_attack France host_asserted ▶ 41:20
“from the opposite side to draw attention. And then they'd all run up with their dirt and pretend like they're carrying, you know, your rice out and blah, blah, blah. But over a nine month period of ti…”
United States funded Golden Triangle host_asserted ▶ 44:39
“out of the Golden Triangle was much more important than the tens of thousands of military people that were going to die for them to get their opium. Because they walked right in to this loaded cannon …”
United States funded Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 45:09
“No reason to be there except for opium harvesting. We had no vested interest in that country because they were not communist. They were nationalist. And we were supporting the biggest drug addict, dru…”
FNLA member_of Secretariat host_asserted ▶ 49:35
“By 1961, the National Liberation Front internal organization had evolved into a structure and major decisions were being made by a thing called a Presidium, which was basically like a Politburo, and i…”
FNLA member_of Presidium host_asserted ▶ 49:35
“By 1961, the National Liberation Front internal organization had evolved into a structure and major decisions were being made by a thing called a Presidium, which was basically like a Politburo, and i…”
FNLA member_of Kosovo Liberation Army host_asserted ▶ 50:32
“And were gaining a lot of traction and popular support because as they ramped up their activities, the French clamped down on theirs. And so it was just pushing more and more people over to the Nation…”
Chiang Kai-shek appointed China host_asserted ▶ 52:34
“after the post-World War II Vietnam, the northern sector was given to Chiang Kai-shek as quote-unquote China for the administration to kick the Japanese out and basically reconstitute a Vietnamese gov…”
United States funded Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 53:02
“They understand that he's a right arm of the U.S. government, that he is being propped up as a quote-unquote nationalist hypocrisy front in China in opposition to Mao, but the nationalist movement in …”
Lu Duan succeeded Ho Chi Minh host_asserted ▶ 58:55
“wanted a unified country. They did not want a divided country. And after the death of Ho Chi Minh in 1969, Lee became the undisputed head of the government in the North. And he also was the one that p…”
Lu Duan headed Vietnam War host_asserted ▶ 58:55
“wanted a unified country. They did not want a divided country. And after the death of Ho Chi Minh in 1969, Lee became the undisputed head of the government in the North. And he also was the one that p…”
United States carried_out_attack Vietnam War host_asserted ▶ 1:03:28
“window post-World War II up until they got their butts kicked. And then we're going to go from there and the ramping up and the presence of the OSS slash CIA, which got us into it, and then the actual…”
Frank Lucas trafficked United States caller_asserted ▶ 1:06:31
“It involved narcotics. And the Gladio operation with Chiang Kai-shek, I think, was displayed in another scene, whereas Frank Lucas was flying pure grade heroin out of Vietnam on C-130s and basically d…”
Benito Mussolini headed Italy documented ▶ 1:16:21
“and basically allowed to perform for the Politburo. So fascism is basically what Mussolini did. And fascism, and Spain was, Portugal was, and that's basically what they set up throughout all of South …”
Augusto Pinochet front_for Freeport-McMoRan host_asserted ▶ 1:20:24
“Those corporate entities and those corporate elitists came to Washington, D.C., paid the CIA to set up a paramilitary operation to murder Allende and install their picked guy, which was Pinochet. Now,…”
Augusto Pinochet front_for PepsiCo host_asserted ▶ 1:20:24
“Those corporate entities and those corporate elitists came to Washington, D.C., paid the CIA to set up a paramilitary operation to murder Allende and install their picked guy, which was Pinochet. Now,…”
Ho Chi Minh member_of Viet Minh host_asserted ▶ 1:29:57
“Allowing us to be able to go back and actually look at the here's the criteria of what makes you a communist. Ho Chi Minh was not a communist, at least at this particular time in what all that we have…”
Vladimir Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin host_asserted ▶ 1:53:40
“No, he was a drunk. I am friends with someone who went on the inaugural flight with Putin around the world. He was a drunk, not Putin. Was he? Yes, big time drunk, always drunk. That's fine because, y…”
Boris Yeltsin appointed Vladimir Putin host_asserted ▶ 1:53:40
“No, he was a drunk. I am friends with someone who went on the inaugural flight with Putin around the world. He was a drunk, not Putin. Was he? Yes, big time drunk, always drunk. That's fine because, y…”
Vladimir Putin attempted_assassination_of Ronald Reagan speculative ▶ 1:59:14
“way profound. And of course, he could have assassinated President Reagan in 1980 as he was standing 10 feet from him. I wonder what his orders were at that time. And finally, lastly, and leastly, I'm …”
Barry Seal trafficked Arkansas speculative ▶ 2:00:36
“I don't know how you know that. I'm just saying there are options here. I saw Bill Clinton's brother on undercover because Barry Seale used to fly into Mena, Arkansas. I don't know what he was doing b…”