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Why are so many neocons empowered to change this narrative and pretend like the world began in 2022? Joining us to talk about it is Colonel Rob Manis. He's a 32-year combat veteran and host of the Rob Manis show. Thank you, sir, for joining us. You don't look happy. Welcome in, Colonel.
So, Colonel, over the past 24 hours, we've seen—if you want to try to spot a neocon, it's very easy—over the past 24 hours they've shown their stripes; they've shown their spots. It's very, very easy to see them. You see people like Nikki Haley jumping out, Lindsey Graham saying we need to fund and arm Ukraine as much as we can right now. "We love you, Mr. President," however, we need to let Ukraine win with as much money and weapons as we can. And then you have people like Senator Holly of Missouri saying, "Absolutely not. I will not support any more funding of this corrupt government in Ukraine." So this is pretty amazing. What do you think is going to happen with the war funding now in Ukraine as it dries up?
Well, let me just add one piece to that, too. Senator Tom Cotton is trying to stop Elber Col, who's up for USD Under Secretary of Defense for Policy—the number three guy in the Pentagon—who is a staunch "America First" policy guy. He wrote the strategy in the first Trump administration and is adamantly opposed to more dollars going to Ukraine. So Tom Cotton's in on it, too, and it's very easy to spot them these days. Unfortunately, though, you know, it goes well back before even 2014. You can go back to 2008 when the United States government, run operations run by people like Victoria Nuland—I'm sure you're aware of her name—came in and conducted really what I think is the first color revolution and started messing around in Ukraine at the beginning of the Obama administration, the first Obama administration. And then, as things heated up and they got into this civil war—which was going on long before Crimea happened—in 2014, for a couple of years we were calling this out because you've heard the term "the Azov Battalion," that's the Nazi battalions. We, those of us that are opposed to the endless war policy, were running for US Senate in 2014 over in Louisiana, my first political race, and ending the endless war policy was one of my top three planks and it was wildly popular. So we were calling this out—that the American government, led by Victoria Nuland and backed up by money from USAID—that's another term that everybody's heard about recently—and the CIA was mucking around in Ukraine and changing the government out. They did it twice. And then, all of a sudden, in 2022, Putin invades and it's all his fault. Come on, man. The reality is the United States provoked this. We had 12 CIA installations on the border with Russia in Ukraine. That's not a provocation? Oh, my goodness. We used USAID to propagandize the population of Ukraine to get them to come out and protest and support the Nazis that were the essence of those protests coming up against Zelensky. That's why he flipped from a peace candidate to a war candidate, and he refuses to back off of it. Obviously, he insulted the President of the United States today—yesterday—and the President of the United States is doing what Donald Trump does: he's crushing him, and he's going to continue to do that while he's in peace talks with the Russians and Vladimir Putin directly to try to end this killing.
Now, one of the things I have been enjoying is that Trump has given a lot of us license to say what we've been saying all along: that Zelensky is not a good dude. He's actually a narcissist dictator. He does not care that his people are dying. I can say a lot of bad things about Zelensky, and now it's okay to do that. One of the things I've been wondering, though, is Zelensky is the reason for one of Trump's impeachments, and Trump supposedly held up aid, military aid to Ukraine. Well, that aid quite obviously was going to continue the civil war on Ukraine's own people. So Trump must have known this during his first term. Why did he wait so long to say this, do you think?
Well, I think it's because he was trying to figure out how do I get in and actually resolve this, and it's a complicated situation. But the reason why Zelensky is acting the way he is is because of the Nazis. You were right in your intro to this that those Nazis are very powerful in that area of Ukraine, the southwest portion of it. That's where the German Nazis were operating and committing Holocaust all the way back in the World War II days, and those people have the same ideology. They're the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those very same Nazis. They're working the same process, and I believe Zelensky is under threat for one, but I also believe that he has swallowed the propaganda of the West and NATO and the United States and really believes that he can win this war and take all of his territory back. And the combination of those two things—the threat that he's under plus this propagandism that the United States really is primarily responsible for—has changed his views to where he does something stupid. He goes back publicly at the one guy that's in the presidency that you don't go back at because he's going to crush you. He's going to crush you, and he's got a track record of winning on that kind of platform almost 100% of the time. Well, 100% of the time, really. I mean, come on, Colonel.
Colonel, I know you got to go in a minute. Just final question here, which is I'm just stunned by this. I'm really stunned that Trump has come out and said this. He's called out who started this war. He's called out the corruption, the money-laundering operation, and the fact that he's a dictator. Trump doesn't seem like he's ever one to walk statements back, and I'm just—do you think he's going to walk any of this back under pressure from all these neocons? No, you won't. You won't see him walk this one back because he's right. We know he's right. We've been talking about it. I mean, you guys have been talking about it. I've been talking about it. Everybody that I work with on the National Security side—I've had Elber Col on my show three times, I think, or two—himself. I've had Colonel John Mills, US Army retired, who is an expert in the information operations world that was also a senior DOD leader, and we all agree that this war was started—at the genesis of it—the United States came in with color revolutions, flipped the government, turned it against Russia, started talking about NATO membership, and got Zelensky to talk about NATO membership. And then we expanded into Finland and Sweden, and the Russians said that's enough. It's our vital national interest. And unfortunately, Barack Obama was right: the Ukraine eastern border is not the vital national interest of the United States, and the President of the United States now is going to act on that and protect our interest and get us out of this and stop this war.
So much for your time. Yeah, thank you, man. This is great. I love your commentary on this. Thank you for being a voice of truth in this sea of misinformation and neocon madness that's happened over the past 48 hours. I hope people share this interview all over the place. For all those people getting on Twitter saying that Zelensky is not a dictator, I hope people pay attention to that, Colonel. Great to see you. Thank you so much for jumping in. Thank you, Clayton. I appreciate y'all.