CGR WEDNESDAY 080923 Pastor Greg Clare Lopez Rick Manning

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I am Patriot Mobile. That was a shooting gallery up there. I could hear the tremble in his voice. She suffered a very severe being. The video is pretty graphic.

Justice for us seems almost impossible. It's not fun to watch somebody die, and they knew she was in mortal peril. They have not asked the hard questions. Why was the Capitol intentionally unsecure that day? The FBI had information about security concerns before January 6th. They're out for blood, and they're getting it. They appear to be winning. Were the actions of the Capitol Police out of line? Were there violations in use of force?

Now I describe it as an inside job. I'm ready to do whatever God calls me. There's an old Chinese saying my ancestors learned before the Communist Party took over our country. The family is the essential unit of human society, and that you must have honor and defend your family. But it's not always easy to do.

When the regime gives the order, you have to kill. My heart was pounding. I felt my body bouncing and twisting on the floor. They put numbers on our shoulders, then separated us into rows of even and odd numbers.

I was number nine. My brother, he's still in prison, and my sister, she was sent to a labor camp without a trial. But there's one piece of evidence they haven't been able to destroy yet.

I left everything behind. If I can't expose what they did to us, then all of our suffering would be for nothing. Welcome to Chosen Generation with your host, Pastor Greg Young. But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people that you should shoe forth the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light which in time past were not a people but are now the people of God, which had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy. And now, Chosen Generation, where no topic is off limits and everything is filtered through biblical glasses.

And now, here's your host, Pastor Greg. We were talking, and he started laughing. He said, Aaron, what do you think women's liberation was about? And I said, I had pretty conventional thinking about it at that point.

I said, I think it's about women having the right to work, getting equal pay with men, just like they won the right to vote. And he started to laugh. I said, you're an idiot.

And I said, why am I an idiot? He said, let me tell you what that was about. We the Rockefellers funded that. We funded Women's Lib, you know.

And we're the ones who got all over the newspapers and television, the Rockefeller Foundation. He says, and you want to know why? He says, there were two primary reasons. And they were, one reason was we couldn't tax half the population before Women's Lib. And the second reason was now we get the kids in school at an early age. We can indoctrinate the kids how to think. It breaks up their family.

The kids start to look at the state as the family, as the school, as the officials, as their family, not as the parents teaching them. And so those are the two primary reasons for Women's Lib, which I thought up to that point was a noble thing. You know, when I saw their intentions behind it, where they were coming from, when they created it, the thought of it, I saw the evil behind what I thought was a noble adventure. Aaron, did you know that Gloria Steinem, in one of her own books, now admits the CIA funded Ms. Magazine? No, I had no idea about that. No, I never heard that. Yeah, we're going to- The CIA funded Ms. Magazine? Funded Ms. Magazine with the stated goal of taxing women and breaking up the family. No kidding.

I never heard that. Well, Nick told me. I mean, I know it, but not because I know the CIA was involved in it. Well, she, Gloria Steinem was proud of it. Oh, the CIA wanted to help me help women.

No kidding. So they funded it, yeah. And of course, it's divide and conquer.

Right, of course. And what they do is they focus in, obviously, on real problems. Women were getting shafted in many ways, but the elite wasn't planning to help them. They were planning to really shaft them and take men away from them. Look at what they did with black families. You only had about 10% of legitimacy 50 years ago in black communities, and now it's over 90%. And look at welfare.

You were going to give me some money, but you can't have a man in the house. Right. You're going to have to go further to degrade the family, totally destroyed, and now illegitimacy is over 50% in the general population.

Right. Well, see, the whole thing is these people control the money, so they make all the rules, you understand? And they put whatever rules they want into effect. And the truth is America has really become a socialist, communist country, and everybody says it's a capitalist country. It's not a capitalist country. How can it be capitalistic when you have a central bank?

That's the first. It can't be, you know, the money. It's a planned economy. It's a planned economy.

It's a phony. If they want to create prosperity, they just print dollars. They just make dollars or put digits into the economy. And then you have prosperity. You don't have real prosperity.

You don't have real manufacturing. You just have money being injected in that's an infusion of credit. Which only makes the government go into more debt. Into more debt.

But the point I'm trying to make is that by creating this Federal Reserve System, the government now became dependent on these private banks for money. And they started taxing us, you see. And so now what happens is that in 35, I believe it was, Social Security started. And they gave Social Security cards that said not to be used for identification. The Social Security number right on the card.

Right? And through Social Security, they started deducting money out of your paycheck. That was the first time they could ever take money out of your paycheck. Because people agreed to it because they thought it was going to the retirement fund. And so then when they instituted the income tax again, they started taking money out of your paycheck because Social Security could do it. And then they could do it again. You see what I'm saying?

So now they've even taken control of the tax. All right, folks. So that goes a little bit, I mean, it's good information.

And that's Aaron Russo, by the way, being interviewed by Alex Jones many, many years ago. The purpose of my playing that for you, though, is to, I'm sorry, I was doing, let me catch my breath. I was doing stand ups and sit downs. A, to get my blood flowing and B, because I'm working on doing a little bit of exercising and starting to try and get my legs stronger.

And hopefully one of these days, walk more consistently anyway. But it speaks to, you know, one of the things that was stated in there was the breaking up of the family, and the removing of men from the home. And I've shared this with you before, but it fits with what I want to go over with you out of Second Timothy chapter three. Years and years ago, my wife and I were in a very challenging situation. And that the church where we were at with the church we were at, and so on.

We were living at my mom's had two small children, I'd gotten a job working for Citicorp, not at a wage that allowed us to be able to pay for rent and so on. And again, it goes back to what Aaron Russo said, you know, you've got to get, you want the husband and the wife out of the house working. So that as young as possible, this is one of the other pieces of this, so that as young as possible, you can get the children out of the house and into an institution that's going to indoctrinate them. And for a lot of people, that's some form of public preschool or publicly funded preschool or government funded preschool. So that that preschool is then teaching them things that are contrary to what the parents may actually believe.

But it's all that's being injected into the child's mind. At any rate, we went and applied for some assistance. My wife is Hispanic, she was told, if you will divorce your husband, we'll provide you with housing, we'll provide you with clothing, we'll provide you with food money. In other words, we will completely take care of you and the two kids.

But you have to leave your husband. That's what we were told. This was 1990. Folks, this has been going on for years.

This was all part of Johnson's Great Society. This was all part of the plan. And this is what we've watched. So now, let's bring this forward and let's talk about what Scripture has to say about perilous times. And a lot of folks are thinking about these perilous times right now.

But this is what second Timothy chapter three says, this know also that in the last days, perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of them own selves, covetous, boasters, proud blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection. So let's talk about this. Now, it's talking about men. And in a minute, I'm going to show you something about the women and what they've done.

But this is talking about the men. Now, what brings these attitudes about? Well, we've got to remember, and this is one of the fallacies that's taught, and it was taught a lot in the Catholic Church.

And now it's also in the Protestant churches as well. And it's the idea that, well, you know, man is just generally good. Well, Scripture says otherwise. Scripture says, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Scripture says that the heart of man is wicked, who can know it? The Bible clearly tells us that when sin entered the world, man's heart was changed. And his sin nature, that's what he's born with. So, men shall be lovers of their own selves.

That is because of the influence of sin nature. Now, God's plan was that there be a man and a woman in the house, that there be a husband and a wife in the house. And that the husband and the wife are saved, that they know truth, and that they are then leading the children in that pathway, until they, the children, reach the revelatory age to understand the nature that is in them and what they are battling, so that they can make a choice, a decision, to ask God to change what's on the inside.

And the earlier the better, the sooner the better. Because then that nature doesn't have a chance to take hold, but when you take dad out of the picture and now mom is having to try to make a living, she's having to try to cover all the bases, and she's trying to raise these kids, and especially the boys, because the boys have that strong-willed nature, which they're supposed to have. And they need to be put in check by father. But if father's not there, then there's no one to put them in check.

And so here we go. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, in other words they want, they want what other people have, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, and then without natural affection. Now it is interesting to note that a lot of the studies indicate that sexual abuse creates this. And again, a young boy who is in a home without a dad is vulnerable to predators.

Because mom is not geared to be thinking about that issue. And so that boy becomes very vulnerable to predators. Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. Watch that, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. This goes back to that argument that says, well, you know, I would give my life to the Lord, but look at all the things that I've got to give up. Everything that you're giving up leads to your own demise. Every sin leads to death. Because that's what sin is, is death. And sometimes it takes getting much older, unfortunately, if you're able to, to get to that place. But at the end of the day, sin leads to death. I promise you, you're not exchanging or giving anything up. You're gaining life.

You're gaining life. But the enemy, of course, has folks deceived. They believe that the pleasures are greater than the love of God.

Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof, and from such turn away. And note again, just want to pull this out real quick, note again, we're talking about the men. And why does Timothy focus on the men? Because as the men go, so goes the culture, so goes the society.

You can take them out of the house, you can try to eliminate their position, you can try to downplay the concept of patriarchy. But as the men go, as wickedness rises up and takes hold of the men in the culture, even if they're out of the home, the boys that grow up and impregnate other women, and then the women have children, and it perpetuates itself and that's been going on now for 60 years, you've got what, five, six generations of this going on now. When you have that going on, as the men become more and more reprobate, the evil nature that they are born with, that they inherited from Adam, as it takes greater hold of the culture and the society, the culture and the society grows more and more wicked, and more and more dark. And that's what we're seeing today. And that's why these issues that I just talked about, are so prevalent in what we see, both in youth, but you've got to look at it, you got to look at the boardrooms, you've got to look all across our culture here.

And Robert Epstein has mymorals.org. And his study clearly indicates that we are either an immoral or an amoral. Those are the two dominant issues that are happening in cultures across the country, across the world today. So now here's the piece that's so critically important that I want to get to as I close out this segment.

Okay. So and by the way, if you haven't seen it, I think Greg Locke's Come Out in Jesus' Name has some very powerful truths to get a hold of, especially in particular to understanding our authority, but also understanding our need to address the issue of demonic oppression, whether you're saved or unsaved, demonic oppression is a major issue and deliverance is absolutely necessary. It's why I'm connected to freedom encounters. It's why we do what we do.

Alright, so here we go. We have this situation now, and then having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Look, Greg talks about it in that film, that he was a Baptist amongst Baptists, a cessationist. No signs, no wonders, no power, no, none of that. Hey, that's not going on today.

Well, that idea, that concept is what created the vacuum and made room. You know, it's interesting if you watch Candace Owen's interview with Andrew Tate, you know, one of the things that he talks about, he says, look, I saw Christians bowing down to all of this, all of this that I'm talking about with you right now. He said, I saw Christians just bowing down and giving into it and placating wickedness and evil and standing for nothing. Standing for nothing.

Why? Well, if you don't believe you have power, if you don't believe you have authority, if you don't believe that you have the power of Christ dwelling in you to overcome the evil in the world, then why would you pick a fight? You're not going to because you don't believe you can win. And so now watch what happens to the women. And this is the men's fault. This is the fault of men right here. Watch this.

Here's what it says. So having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof from such turn away for this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts. You know, we think about our wives, we think about our women and we think about them. I know I do.

My wife is holy and perfect and just unblemished and without any sin and never she could, you know, all of these things. We perceive that. But on the inside, they're struggling with the same things that men struggle with, the same issues, the same lusts, all of those same things are going on. In fact, I've read some studies that indicate that women struggle with pornography even more so than men struggle with pornography.

Shock. You have women now coming out and women are saying, hey, well, I'm going to have, you know, multiple relationships and I'm going to fornicate all over the place. Listen, these sexual drives, the sex drive exists between with men and women. Sin exists as a problem, as a challenge for men and for women. And so now you have scripture that has warned us that because there's not a man standing at the gate defending the home, there's not, there's not a, there's not a man who's standing there saying, no, you will not come in. You will not manipulate my, my wife. You will not manipulate the woman of this house.

You will not get past, I am the gatekeeper and you will not get past me because that doesn't exist. Look what scripture has to say. It says for this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as James and Jambress withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth. Men of corrupt, reprobate minds concerning the faith, but they shall proceed no further for their folly shall be manifest into all men as theirs also was. So there will be a day of reckoning. There will be a day of revealing. There will be a day in which they will be identified and they will, and they will be made to come clean. But in the meantime, look at all the damage that's taking place and it goes back to what Aaron Russel was talking about. And if you think that it was a man-made the feminism and all of this stuff and women's suffrage and all, if you think that that was just some man's idea or even some woman's idea, no.

It was influenced by demonic oppression. I am besieged. I am less than. I must fight for my right. I'm not saying that we don't fight for rights. I'm not saying we don't fight for justice.

I'm not saying that we don't stand up. But it begins with the transformation and the change of heart. It begins by recognizing that there are no good. Jesus was approached and called a good teacher. And his response is there are none good except my Father in heaven. Folks, it's so important that we understand and we have this mirror of understanding. Paul in writing about himself and where there's a place where boasting is taking place and he's trying to get them to understand and he talks about all the things that he is, born of the tribe of Benjamin and circumcised on the eighth day and all these things and as to the law, you know, perfect and so on and so on and so on. And then he says, I consider it and count it all to be done.

It's all done. It's all garbage. It all means nothing.

Why? Because it has absolutely no value aside from the covering and putting on the righteousness of Christ. Otherwise, it's meaningless because it's tainted and it's filthy rags and it's sin and it's man puffing himself up and trying to be something that he can never be apart from Christ. And Christians, we have got to stand up and stand for truth and stand against this evil that keeps trying to take over here, especially right here in these United States of America, where we are a city upon a hill, where we are a light and where we have to be that Christian influenced culture and understand what I just said.

Read 2 Timothy chapter 3 and begin to have your eyes open to see how this whole issue of family and the destruction of family has played such a significant role and then the absence of the presence of God in our culture. All right, coming up, National Security, Claire Lopez and Rick Manning join me right after this brief break. I'm your host, Pastor Greg. Thanks for tuning in. I'll be back with more coming up right after this.

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I am Patriot Mobile. And welcome back to Children's Generation Radio where no topic is off limits and everything filtered through biblical glasses. And folks, I'm really pleased as always, to have my next guest with me.

She is a national security expert. Rick Manning normally co-hosts this segment. He's had to bow out this week, but I'm just tickled to have Claire with us. Lots for us to discuss. So I welcome Claire Lopez to the program. Claire, glad to have you today. Well thank you, Pastor Greg.

Glad to be with you as always. There were several things that I think and I'm not sure which one of these, you know, you prioritize on here. I mean, one of them, the border thing, I think is a major issue. We keep hearing, as a matter of fact, I'm down in, you know, near South Texas, and down in South Texas, Corpus Christiarian and so forth, we're seeing a number of individuals that are disappearing. You know, grown men, by the way, you know, one of them is a pastor that, that was on his way to an oil field job and, and, and now his family's gravely concerned because they can't, they don't know what happened to him. He's just disappeared.

Wow. Well, I'll, I'll, I do have some news from you, for you, and I'll, I'll tell you. Last week I was down on the Texas-Mexico border in the area of Eagle Pass, which you probably know, listeners may, is to the southwest of San Antonio.

And we spent a couple of days down there. I was with Bishop E. W. Jackson, who is a pastor of a congregation down in the Virginia Beach, Virginia area. Also leads the nationwide organization called STAND. That's an acronym for stand up America national, America's national destiny.

And he also just recently has thrown his hat in the ring as a Republican candidate for the presidency. Yes. Wow.

How about that? We went down with the group last week to Eagle Pass and we were right down on the border, on the river, the Rio Grande. We were on a private rancher's land who, who invited us to, to tour that land with him. We were along the fence line. We saw how illegals had draped clothing, thick cloth over the top of some of that fencing, Department of Public Safety, State of Texas fencing that the rancher agreed to have put up along his land border with the river, through the cloth over the top of the concertina wire, which is razor sharp in order to push it down and enable the illegals to climb over and get in.

So we saw a lot of things. We saw just by chance driving along the road, a group of illegals being processed as they call it by customs and border protection. And then we saw others loading onto a bus at the bridge of Eagle Pass, crossing over into Mexico. Bus waiting on that bridge, bunch of illegals with all of their luggage getting on the bus ready to be dispersed throughout the United States.

So it was a very interesting trip. The one other thing I'll mention real quick, and I'm sure you'll have questions too, is that we had a wonderful guide with us, a retired agent of the CBP, of Customs and Border Protection, Mike Garcia, Mark Garcia. And he told us that just very recently under the Biden administration, you know, the DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, new regulations have gone into effect that allow the illegals to use their NGO, Department of State-provided cell phones, to access an app called CBP1, O-N-E, CBP1. And at that app, they can make an appointment for an asylum hearing inside the United States at some point.

The backup log is now seven, 10, 12 years long, literally. So they get waved in at the border crossing. They just show this app on their phone to the CBP agents at the border crossing. And so what the Biden administration has done is tried to play a shell game with the numbers by kind of legalizing what is patently illegal. The other thing, I was just starting to look up, that a governor, I believe it was Pritzker in Illinois, has legalized that illegals are now able to become law enforcement agents.

Yes, I saw that. So those who are in the country illegally will be charged with the responsibility of enforcing the law on American citizens. What do you think that does to the flow of illegals into the country? Oh, well, investigative reporters, I think we've talked about them on the show here before, like Michael Yon and Todd Bensman, who've been down as far south as the Darien Gap and on up through Central America, Mexico, on the border extensively have told us that when they interview illegals on their way north and they ask them, you know, why are you coming?

Where have you been? And they'll say, oh, well, we spent the last three, five, six years in Chile, really nice country, Chile. But when we saw that that Joe Biden was going to be president and he was going to open up the border and give us la invitación, they all say that, la invitación, the invitation to come, we decided that we could even make more money if we came to the United States. They're not fleeing oppression. They're not fleeing credible fear of harm or death or persecution of any kind.

They're coming because they think they can make more money here than in a very, very nice country like Chile. You know, I've shared the story with my audience before, but I'll share it with you in this contest because it fits. There was a missionary couple that I know. She had been granted a permanent lifetime green card. She was from a Scandinavian country and they had been doing missions for probably 45 years. They did sound for like Billy Graham's events and things like that.

I mean, big events. And under the Obama administration, her green card that she'd had for 40 years was rescinded. Now, she was given a permanent green card to be here. Her husband is an American, but she had maintained her citizenship in her homeland as well. And so she went in to INS down here in San Antonio and they went forward and she was saying, here's my letter.

Here it says it's supposed to be permanent. I don't understand. She's like in her 70s. Yeah. I mean, it's like, how are you? What's going on here? And they said, well, have a seat over there and we'll take a look at this.

We'll get back to you here in a minute. So a Hispanic woman comes up and sits down next to her and says, you know, if you just tell them that you're here illegally, they'll give you $3200 a month and they'll give you a voucher for housing. That's what I get.

Yeah. This is our taxpayer dollars and it is dispensed by the Department of State. There are waystations like San Vicente, as far south as Panama, United States waystations camps for the illegals to be taken care of, to be given. And that's, and by the way, that's, that's a W A Y waystation.

Yes, that's, that's right. Not, not only because that, that was, that was where I went when I, when I had my first visit to heaven, I went to a waystation in heaven when, when I arrived and then went to the infirmary for, to be worked on. It was a waystation.

I just thought it was kind of an interesting thing. Well, in any case, what is happening is that our taxpayer dollars are being dispersed to the illegals either by direct disbursement from the Department of State at these places along the way or through NGOs, that is non-governmental organizations like Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services, the Methodist, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and many more, which themselves are paid by the State Department to process illegals and bring them into the United States. The NGOs are working directly, we were told down on the border, we were told they are working directly with the cartels to pass off the illegals from the cartels, which bring them to the border, to the NGOs, which take them across the border and on into the United States. And, and the NGOs under, as I understand it under the rules, are responsible for them for, to monitor them for 30 days. And at the end of the 30 days, they cut them loose.

Yes. They have no idea where they go. They, they, they, they, they don't, they're not, they just, they give them, they give them kind of a 30 day window to, to, to breathe and kind of get settled and figure out where they're going to go.

And then at the end of the 30 days, that's it. They're no longer responsible for them, but they keep getting the money. They keep getting the money, but nobody's watching them. We know that over, according to records, over 90% of some of the annual income of these NGOs, like Catholic Charities, comes from the Department of State.

Absolutely. For resettling, you know, refugees and illegals. But you know, that point about after 30 days, they're cut loose, cut loose to the local communities, local city, town, state, which is now responsible for everything for these people, housing, medical, schooling, everything for the rest of their lives.

Including that stipend you were mentioning passed out to that woman at the, at the infirmary, the clinic. And for the cartels, what, what, what a convenient thing, right? Because these, these NGOs, by the way, aren't just at the border. They have, they have offices and facilities throughout the country, and they transfer these individuals to wherever they want to go.

So in that 30 days, they can be moved from the southern part of Texas up to Michigan, or Chicago, or New York, or wherever it is they want to go in the country, and have, and have free housing under that 30 days, and then be released into the community. But if they're, if they're under cartel control, they're released into the community to wreak havoc on that community. And now they become an active cartel member.

Well, it's more than that, too. A good number of these people coming across are women, their girls and their children. And each one of them owes a fee to the cartel that got them there.

A passage fee. And what happens is that many of them are sold by the cartels into sex slavery. And I mean the children too. The children are being sold into sex slavery, indentured servitude, forced labor.

Yes. Again, including the children working midnight shifts in meatpacking plants and what have you. And some of the young men, the teenagers, boys, are delivered into the hands of cartels and gangs that are all over our country in every city and town in the USA, to be forced to work for those cartels.

So those gangs, MS-13 among them. Yeah, well, they're, you know, in in Bexar County, George Rodriguez, I had him on the program. And he had pictures of prostitutes right outside of the center where they were quote unquote, processing them where they would stay. The prostitutes directly across the street that lived at the center were prostituting right across the street, pretty much under the protection of the Bexar County Sheriff. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Well, if you, your listeners, would like to, would like to see more about this, go to defendtheborder.org, defendtheborder.org, which is the website where the team, Tom Trento of the United West, Tom Homan, former Trump acting ICE director, and a bunch of us working to post information, news stories, commentary, analysis, and documentary films about the situation on the border. Right at the top of the homepage, you'll see a link to a film produced directed by filmmaker Chris Burgard, called Death County and the River of Broken Dreams.

Have a look at that. defendtheborder.org for more about everything we've just been talking about. Let's shift gears for just a minute.

And we can do it because Rick's not not here today. So we can have a conversation about, but I want to talk a little bit about what's going on over with Ukraine and Russia and that particular situation. Russia's made, you know, some moves with regards to closing certain pathways on the back end, right, some of the ports, they've threatened that they're going to close, they backed out of some of the agreements. Talk to us about some of the impact of some of the things that they're doing.

Right. So just briefly, just a few weeks ago, the Ukrainian army launched its long awaited counter offensive, primarily aimed at Russian forces located in the southern Donbas around the area of southern Donetsk. And they are making grindingly slow progress, but progress nonetheless, most recent reports that they've actually been able to cross the Dnieper River at least at one point. But in the midst of this, the Russians have reneged on a deal, a grain export deal that used southern ports of Ukraine that would be down along the Black Sea. I don't think the Sea of Azov so much, but the Black Sea, places like Odessa to get the Ukrainian grain harvest out and delivered across the world to places that really, really need the grain. In particular, let's say places like North Africa, across the the northern part of Africa, you know, Tunisia and Algeria and Libya, Egypt especially. And then even down along eastern Africa, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea depend heavily on imports of very heavily subsidized grain to feed their population.

Calories for these people largely often consist of bread. Well, a lot of that grain that was imported by those countries and others came from Ukraine, which is a breadbasket of agricultural abundance ordinarily. And there had been a deal in place under which the Russians allowed grain ships, grain cargo ships to depart out of Ukrainian ports there along the Black Sea and to go to their destinations in North Africa or wherever else. The Turks, the Turkish government, Recep Tayyip Erdogan had helped to broker that deal. It fell apart very recently and don't know exactly where that's going to go.

Obviously, there are discussions underway to try to get it reinstated because those who would suffer most are people in underdeveloped and poor countries that depend so heavily on these imports of grain. Another area, and I'm just reading about this, this is coming out of Reuters dated August 6, Ukraine struck and damaged the Chonhar road bridge linking mainland Ukraine to Crimea and a smaller bridge linking the town of Henneshek with the peninsula's northeast coast on Sunday, the Moscow appointed officials in Ukraine's armed forces said. What's the significance of them, you know, strategically doing that if they're trying to take Crimea back?

Right. So Crimea, as folks may know, is a peninsula that dangles off the southern part of Ukraine into the Black Sea. It is not connected by land to Russia proper. There are a couple of ways that Russia connects to Crimea other than waterways through the sea of Azov, through the the Kerch Strait into the Black Sea.

That's one way. And that bridge over the Kerch Strait has been attacked a couple of months ago. I think it might be now damaged, although not completely destroyed. But the other way that Crimea is attached to Russia are land routes over bridges from Crimea northward, north, north, northeast to Ukraine, which that part of Ukraine is now occupied by the invading Russian forces. And from there, the overland ground corridor connected then to to Russia to the east. So what the Ukrainians have been attempting to do is to break that that ground overland corridor from Crimea to Russia, either the bridges and or the land route that runs across the southern part of Ukraine along the Sea of Azov, if they can break that line of Russian defenses, they can cut off resupply of Crimea, and thereby take it back again, is the plan.

So that's that's the geography of the thing. Your sense at this point, we're gonna probably gonna end up closing or out. We've got about four or five minutes left. Your sense of where Ukraine is in this in this battle right now? Are they?

Are they even? Are they are they starting to gain some ground? Where do you see them? Where do you see this sitting say? I don't know. Are we you know, are we six months out?

Where are we right now? The Ukrainians are making, as I said, very slow grinding progress against the dug in Russian forces in the southern part of the occupied territory of Ukraine. If they were to receive if the Ukrainians were to receive more better, bigger quantities of the weaponry and the the ammunition that they need, they could move faster.

That's what needs to happen. But they are making progress. They've already over the last two and a half or almost two and a half years now, since the Russian invasion have taken back at least 50% half of the land, sovereign Ukrainian territory that the Russians had initially seized.

So that progress continues. It could move faster were the Ukrainians to be supplied with more better and more advanced weaponry. They're doing a very good job with air defense. That's that's one area that that is being quite successful, even though the Russians continue to launch missiles, drones at residential apartment buildings, clinics, hospitals, kindergartens, civilian structures purposefully to to terrorize the population. Let me add one quick note here, and that is about the the Wagner forces of Yevgeny, Prigozhin.

Thank you. Prigozhin, I'm sorry, Prigozhin, which have relocated to Belarus, at least some of them have relocated to Belarus. The concern now is that those forces in Belarus could be threatening the eastern borders of NATO itself as Belarus borders on the Baltics, Lithuania specifically, but also Poland and others that are NATO countries. And so that is one of the reasons why the Biden administration has moved an additional 3000 American troops on a rotational basis.

They do this all the time, right? But to bolster our NATO forces in in Eastern Europe there, as the Wagner forces and Prigozhin's people have been, and Medvedev of Russia and others, Lukashenko, I predicted, I predicted Claire about three weeks ago, when all when all of that happened, and then people were talking about coups and all of that. And and Prigozhin, then, you know, just suddenly decided, oh, I'll just I'll just go to Belarus.

It's fine. And Putin didn't have him taken out, which is what normally would happen. I predicted at that point that that was going to be a launching pad for them into the Baltic states that you're talking about, but Poland, and I had Adrian Kabicki, who is the Consul General in New York from Poland on the program, and they're very concerned about a and a about Russia launching from Belarus into Poland.

They're very concerned about it. Yeah, and or the Baltics. The the Sevalky Gap is is a corridor that that separates Lithuania from Poland. And it's kind of a dividing line there in Eastern Europe. And that of course borders right on Belarus too. So yeah, there's concern that that Prigozhin could still be being used.

Yep. By Putin as a cat's paw. Well, and aggression. And you know, we should learn from history, right? You know, when Hitler said, this is what I'm going to do.

And Chamberlain said, nah, he really won't do that. We should learn from history. Putin has said, he wants those states. He wants them back. He wants to expand his empire. He wants Poland back. He wants Eastern Europe back. And, and, and that's his goal. And that's his objective. And the man's been saying this since the 1990s years. Yeah. You know, 30 years he's been saying this. So why why does the world acting as though this is some big surprise and pretending as though it's not going to happen?

It's hard to understand. You know, Sudetenland was never just about the Sudetenland, was it? No, no, it never was.

It never was. Claire, I thank you so much for that. Give us the border website again, if you would, please, please go have a look at defend the border.org defend the border.org our film there, the documentary Death County and the River of Broken Dreams. defend the border.org. And, and, you know, these, these are all I mean, what these are all significant issues.

And unfortunately, we just got the wrong leadership in place that at the end of the day, we have the wrong leaders. Claire, thank you for for coming on the program and talking with us about this. These are such important issues. I greatly appreciate it.

Thank you very much. All right, we're gonna take a break. We'll be back right after this coming up next. More fake news, more censorship. We'll talk about it. Newsbusters MRC's T Rose joins me coming up on the other side.