Podbit · The Tucker Carlson Show
The US Deep State would lose 40% of its budget if Russia and China stopped being enemies. That financial reality means peace is not in the cards — the surveillance-industrial complex depends on permanent conflict to survive.
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Tucker asks why Trump, after a decade of promising no regime-change war with Iran, launched one in February. Dotcom's answer is blunt: Trump is a pathological liar, everything he said was calculated to win power, and none of it should have been believed [1] — Kim Dotcom "Kim Dotcom calls Donald Trump the biggest liar in the world and believes his narcissism and character flaws make a nuclear war under his pr…" 30:55 . He then describes Trump's likely motive — a narcissistic desire for a legacy greater than the presidency — and identifies nuclear war as the catastrophic exit he fears Trump may seek, at 80 years old with nothing left to prove. But Dotcom also offers a structural analysis that goes beyond Trump: the Deep State cannot make peace because it cannot afford to [2] — Kim Dotcom "The US Deep State would lose 40% of its budget if Russia and China stopped being enemies. That financial reality means peace is not in the …" 33:00 . Russia and China sustain 40% of its surveillance and intelligence budget. Remove the enemy and the institutional apparatus collapses. On Europe, Dotcom is equally stark: the continent's only path to survival is to make peace with Russia and cut its ties to Washington. Remaining a US vassal state is a death sentence.
Kim Dotcom calls Donald Trump the biggest liar in the world and believes his narcissism and character flaws make a nuclear war under his presidency highly likely. At 80, Trump is looking for an exit — and nuclear war may be it.
Dotcom argues the US Deep State would lose 40% of its budget if Russia and China were no longer treated as enemies, giving it a financial incentive to perpetuate conflict.
Europe's future as a sovereign civilization depends entirely on making peace with Russia and cutting its dependency on the United States. As long as Washington treats Europe as a vassal state, the continent has no chance of surviving the coming upheaval.
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