Why do you think support for the war in Ukraine support for Ukraine's side in the war against Russia, support for a war against Russia in the West is kind of the the bottom-line issue for the people who run the US government and for the American media. Why. .
. I guess you could argue about it but there isn't an argument about it in the United States there's a position in anyone who doesn't hold it is attacked and punished. Why?
Why is that so important? Well the first thing I think we should all do is I think we should all give Putin credit for curing Covid right because when his invasion happened Covid went away. Think about it it's almost to the day so we have to give him some credit at least for doing that.
He may be the bad guy of the world but at least he cured Covid for everybody nearly instantly. Fair. Thank you, thank you President Putin.
Um yeah I up until this point never really commented too heavily on politics. But I understand very well I like to believe what's happening with Ukraine and Russia and what I will say to the people who are watching this at home is that if you are naive enough to believe that there are good guys and bad guys in wars and it's as simple as good and bad and that the bad guys are crazy and the good guys want freedom then. you need to do a little bit more investigation into what's really happening.
And when you look at the vested interest of any country or any person. . .
Can I just ask you to pause and just comment that's the truest thing what you just said. And anyone who doesn't understand that should shut the [ __ ] up and I mean it having seen war. Anyone who's telling you that it's Churchill versus Hitler is an idiot.
Completely, well I'll give an example. When my father was still alive, my father, excuse me, yeah, no it's true. Well when my father was still alive, my father died at six or seven years ago.
I was a lot younger. The war at Afghanistan was going on. He died six or seven years ago, how old was he?
56. Oh gosh. Yeah, he died, but the war in Afghanistan was going on and I remember asking my dad saying why do the Taliban even fight and resist the American war machine they don't stand a chance like why are these terrorists even fighting against the American War Machine?
And my dad said they're fighting for their way of life. They want their wife and they want their children and they want their society and their language and they don't want Pride flags and they don't want American [ __ ] and they don't want to be told what to do and they're fighting to be a culture and be a people which is independent in and of itself, like they're not the bad guys you think there are. They're people who are like why are you here what do you want we don't agree with that that's against our holy book.
[ __ ] off. Right, so even there's no such thing as good and bad in any war and. .
. Who was your father? My father was a chess master.
He worked for the CIA when he was he was a linguist for the CIA and then he was. . .
American? American. He was discharged and uh for a story I won't tell but um he was a chess master and he.
. . It's very interesting, I encourage people to look at his Twitter.
He still has Twitter @TateTerrific and everything he was talking about 11 years ago is so important now. 11 years ago no one cared about we had the Donbas in 2014. Yes people cared a bit but he was literally he predicted the future.
You want to see how chess players can see the future read his Twitter. Everything from LGBTQ, why they need your kids because they can't have their own to the war that's coming and how Europe's going to have an energy crisis to the letter it's all on his Twitter it's amazing to read it's like he could tell the future ten years ago no one talked about any of this stuff. Did he live in the U.
S? Yeah he lived in America. Yeah it's crazy but he was telling me about a lot of this stuff even when I was a lot younger and as we said there's no good guys and bad guys but when do you have a vested interest in something I think that people are relatively simple you're talking about why the American American government has such a vested interest in this war.
Which is not good for America. Which is not good for America. So is it well we can say it's for money or we can say it's for power what else would it be for?
What is it really for, freedom and democracy? Well I think that's already been destroyed by Zelensky hasn't it. So what is it for if it's not for money and power?
And then you say well who's the money and the power going to? These are logical conversations, this is a very logical thought process. You know wouldn't it be interesting to say okay, I woke up, I'm an American, I would never kill myself.
I woke up, I'm an American, why does America care? Well I guess it's for money or power there's no other reason. Okay, well America wants to be a rich powerful country, that's fine.
Is the money and power going to America or is it going to a select few individuals? Are those select individuals interested in me in my life? Do they care about benefiting me?
Do I need to support the power grab of these select few individuals? Is that going to be a smart move for me to make for me to have the best possible human experience? This is a very logical thought process.
We don't seem to think anymore. They believe that there's a good guy and there's a bad guy and one guy. .
one team's completely good and one team's completely bad. One team's crazy. They often use the word crazy because to be completely bad you have to be crazy right?
So, you're crazy. He's crazy, just for no reason. Reasonless.
