Zelensky Drops a Peace Plan on Putin's Face: Will the U.S. Buy in? | EYES ON GEOPOLITICS

In this episode, the hosts discuss the ongoing geopolitical tensions surrounding Ukraine, focusing on Zelensky's peace plan and its implications for NATO and Russia. They explore the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, the situation in Nigeria, and the potential for U. S. military involvement. The conversation also touches on Iran's nuclear ambitions and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, concluding with reflections on the future of U. S. diplomacy in Africa and the chaotic state of global geopolitics. Wild Alaskan Company⬇️ https://wildalaskan.com/HOUSE Get $35 off your first order! Support the show on Patreon:⬇️ https://www.patreon.com/TheTeamHouse Subscribe to our new newsletter!!!! https://teamhousepodcast.kit.com/join New merch, patches, and stickers! ⬇️ https://theteamhouse-shop.fourthwall.com Check out Mick's new podcast here:⬇️ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/pub-and-porch-applied-stoicism/id1836955475 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1k3QPmkAMwnGJxMLDwUSSd?si=n6piIu8XRcag1Z0K43A3bQ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCd0Hq6QFk8CoTu5j-VU0Ong Find Mick Mulroy here: Fogbow ⬇️ https://fogbow.com/ Lobo Institute ⬇️ https://www.loboinstitute.org/ Twitter ⬇️ https://x.com/mickmulroy?s=21&t=-Ze3F_Ix2vlJ18KFvORTCA LinkedIn ⬇️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-patrick-mulroy-31198b52/ Bluesky ⬇️ https://bsky.app/profile/mickmulroy.bsky.social Mick’s publications ⬇️ https://www.loboinstitute.org/publications/publications-of-michael-mick-patrick-mulroy/ Find Andy Milburn here: Twitter ⬇️ https://twitter.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_login=%2Fandymilburn8 LinkedIn ⬇️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewmilburn2023 Substack ⬇️ https://amilburn.substack.com/ Andy’s book ⬇️ https://www.amazon.com/When-Tempest-Gathers-Mogadishu-Operations Bluesky ⬇️ https://bsky.app/profile/andy-milburn.bsky.social Find Jason Lyons here: LinkedIn ⬇️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-lyons-666873316?u Bluesky ⬇️ https://bsky.app/profile/bgsilverback73.bsky.social "Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio" 00:00 Start 03:04 Zelensky's Peace Plan and Its Implications 05:59 Security Guarantees and NATO's Role 08:57 Consequences of Russia's Actions and NATO Expansion 11:53 The Humanitarian Crisis in Ukraine 14:53 The Situation in Nigeria and U. S. Military Involvement 18:01 Iran's Nuclear Ambitions and Regional Stability 21:01 Gaza's Humanitarian Crisis and International Response 24:00 The Future of U. S. Diplomacy in Africa 26:56 Conclusion and Reflections on Global Geopolitics Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss.

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• 1:01Speaker 01

  Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Eyes on Geopolitics. I'm here with Jason Lyons and Mick Mulroy. I hope everybody had a good Christmas, a good holiday, and we won't see you until the next year, so Happy New Year coming up. A lot going on as usual. Last week, I think it was the 23rd or 24th, Vladimir Zelensky put out his 20-point plan. And now Zelensky's meeting with President Trump today in Mar-a-Lago. It might have just started while we're recording this, so there should be some updates on what goes on. I mean, we'll see what, if anything, happens. A lot happening with Ukraine. I mean, we've seen it too more and more over the last few days.

• 1:44Speaker 01

  A lot of drones hitting civilian targets, apartment buildings, infrastructure. 500,000 people in Ukraine, in Kyiv, don't have power. And it's, you know, winter time in Ukraine. It can't be that comfortable. What's going on? What are we looking at? I do have the Zelensky peace plan brought up here. If you guys wanted to compare it to the bullshit 28-point plan that Russia came up with. Mick, where are you at with this?

• 2:14Speaker 04

  So, and I just got off of ABC talking about it, hence the garb.

• 2:20Speaker 04

  There's a potential for this to be substantial. To start on a positive note, and I think we should go, and I have in front of me too, the the the the plan that's that currently exists. But if the US and Ukraine and Europe can agree to this plan, and it is, it does preserve Ukrainian sovereignty. It does get them real security guarantees. And it is a concession, like they concede portions of the Donbass that Russia currently doesn't occupy, doesn't concede it to Russia, but essentially makes it a demilitarized zone. So it's nobodies, right? There's nobody in it under this plan. So it is a major concession. I think that has to go through a referendum.

• 3:04Speaker 04

  But if the US is supportive of this, and if they're not, I don't know why anybody's wasting their time anymore to be. But if they're, if they are, I would hope that the US and Europe then become the major advocates for this plan with Russia. In other words, this is now our plan.

• 3:25Speaker 04

  You need to enter into a 60 or 90 day ceasefire to go into negotiations based on this framework, which we've all agreed to. And it it gives stuff to Russia, which they don't deserve, you know, the portion of Ukraine that they've taken by force unlawfully. It doesn't necessarily make it part of Russia, but they obviously occupy it. So they have, it concedes and it doesn't militarily attempt in the future to take it back. So it is a substantial concession on both sides. And it's something that Russia should accept.

• 4:01Speaker 04

  Because it's in their own interest. They're losing, how many, they've lost over a million casualties in this conflict so far, which is unheard of. Could you, I mean, think about, you know, 50 plus thousand dead from the US and Vietnam and how significant that was. And there are over a million casualties already. So, and then if they don't accept it, there has to be consequences. Compliments don't work with Putin, he'll take them all day. They'll they'll not change his mind at all. A criticism won't change his mind at all. It's only the consequences. So that means Europe and the United States say, we're going to impose secondary sanctions. We're gonna unfreeze or at least

• 4:43Speaker 04

  use the frozen Russian assets to loan Ukraine the equivalent of what we have frozen. So they can and so they can, you know, buy weapon systems and we need to sell them all the advanced weapon systems with no caveats. So you can shoot whatever you want other than, you know, civilian targets because although Russia does that, that's against the law of armed conflict. But everything else is fair game, right? And so if you if you expand the range of Ukrainian weapon system, you will really impact the logistical hubs, the air bases and more energy infrastructure that they can hit.

• 5:22Speaker 04

  So I would say going into this positively and then we could go down the and talk about some of them. If we can get to an agreement that becomes the unified US, European and obviously Ukraine position, then we need to take up the mantle to be the leader and and basically impose it on Russia. And if they don't take it, here comes here comes the consequences. My my opinion.

• 5:51Speaker 05

  Yeah, I know we're gonna go down the list, but the fifth one. The security guarantees that mirror mirror Article Five. With that states that the US, NATO and European countries will provide Ukraine with those security guarantees. I think that's a pretty important thing too, because it's a in your face, you know, it's telling Russia upfront, we're not screwing around this. You know, we we threatened it, we're threatening it. But now it's a guarantee that, yeah, maybe they're not going to join NATO, but we're still gonna come to their aid if necessary. I think that's pretty important.

• 6:33Speaker 04

  It is. And if you have a Article Five type, which mean we will come to the aid, including. Europe and the United States, it's basically NATO.

• 6:42Speaker 01

  Mm hmm.

• 6:42Speaker 04

  Right?

• 6:43Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 6:43Speaker 04

  I mean, if you're looking for the security benefits of joining NATO, it's that everybody fights on you. It's, it's, it's, you know, tack one, you tack all. So if they can come up with an arrangement that's ironclad, I don't like the one they had when they gave up the nukes in the nineties, it's ironclad. Um, that's good. And it allows them almost immediate concession into the European Union.

• 7:05Speaker 04

  Right? So if you have both of those, I think, I think, you know, it's most important, what they think, but I think they would be in a very good position. Because if you look at the way the original plan started, which seems like it was either written by Russia or written for Russia, everything was about getting Ukraine to a point where it'd be easy to re-invade.

• 7:24Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 7:24Speaker 04

  Cut their military in half.

• 7:26Speaker 01

  Yeah, it was capped at six hundred thousand.

• 7:29Speaker 04

  Right.

• 7:29Speaker 01

  And it's one they say eight hundred thousand maintaining peacetime.

• 7:32Speaker 04

  Yeah. And it also said that Europe couldn't deploy forces to Ukraine and it couldn't join NATO. And it was all about, because in the, if you just keep, keep the sentence going, it's because we want to re-invade once we've rebuilt our military force. Right? So and nobody can trust their word at all. So it's not even trust but verisimile. It is make it ironclad. So yeah, they're going to concede and their, and their proof is going to be they stop, you know, fighting. But Ukraine needs to maintain, and it's not all about size, right? It's not about size of the, the military. It's about the capability of the military, the advancement of technology. Ukraine needs to

• 8:14Speaker 04

  definitely keep going on that front and all of Europe does. If they, if they need any other um, evidence, I don't know what it would be than a Russia that is invading European countries. So this, this is, I think, a very positive step. There's a lot of other stuff that I'd highlight. Uh, one is the eight hundred billion dollar reconstruction humanitarian fund. Uh, I think that likely would majority come from the frozen Russian assets and whatever's not, whatever's left over, Russia should pay.

• 8:48Speaker 01

  Yeah. Also not compared to the old plan, the twenty eight point Russia US plan or whatever the leaked plan was a hundred billion of frozen Russian assets funds invested in US-led rebuild with US taking fifty percent of the profits.

• 9:02Speaker 01

  remainder into a US Russian investment vehicle, Europe's frozen funds released like no. And I'm, we're from the US and that's the dumbest shit up we've ever heard.

• 9:11Speaker 04

  Yeah, we shouldn't be, I mean, I am all about looking for US economic interests and foreign policy. It's part of what we do, but we're trying to end a war and it looks like we're trying to basically capitalize on it. You know what I mean? Yes, I'm sure the US companies should get favored, you know, companies based on our support. But so, so is Europe, right? When it comes to reconstruction, we don't need to have it in agreement that we're going to get served. I mean, that's, that's like profiteering on this whole thing. So, um, yeah. But most importantly is 800 billion for the reconstruction.

• 9:47Speaker 04

  And I'm sure regardless of whether that parts in the agreement, the, plenty of US companies will be involved in that as well as European companies.

• 9:57Speaker 01

  Also, the other big difference that Zelensky, his plan is, is the talk about like NATO expansion, like NATO will not expand further. Forced constitutional non-NATO language and the US Russia reintegration package being a front and center. So those are like, I, I mean, which makes sense, like who the fu, why the fuck would this have anything to do with whether NATO expands or not? NATO expanded because Russia started this war, like literally two big countries that hate fucking Russia, join NATO.

• 10:29Speaker 04

  Right. And maybe if, maybe if they refuse the initial offer after this, every other country that wants to join NATO should join NATO.

• 10:38Speaker 04

  I mean, there's got to be consequences, right? He's already had consequences. So, you know, I heard some, what was on with somebody who was saying this was not a strategic mistake from Russia to do this. Well, they said it was about not, non-expansion to NATO and you just said it, they fin on this week and join NATO because he invaded Ukraine. So it's already been a strategic failure. Those two countries managed not to join NATO for the entirety of the Cold War. And they're very significant milit, or significant militarily, as far as like you wouldn't want to add them to your enemies list and then go to war with them. Right, very advanced weapon systems and they know how to use it and you know, God help somebody who invades Finland. Those people are preparing for that, all of them, like granny, all the way down.

• 11:20Speaker 01

  I mean, they've been preparing for a Russian invasion forever. It's happened before, right?

• 11:25Speaker 04

  So it's part of their culture, right?

• 11:29Speaker 04

  It'd be like invading Montana, right?

• 11:32Speaker 01

  Like, good luck.

• 11:34Speaker 04

  Bad idea, just for anybody who thinks that's a good idea to invade Montana.

• 11:39Speaker 04

  But the point being is, there's gotta be immediate consequences to Putin. Or he'll go to any summit and walk down red carpets and that, he's cool with that. It, it takes him out of the prior status of the world and puts him into some kind of, you know, other status where he's, he's significant. Uh, he's not that significant, to be frank. Russia's not that significant of a country. If it wasn't actually attacking other countries, you would be talking about it.

• 12:06Speaker 01

  I mean, listen, it's got the economy the size of Italy, right? With like 80 million more people than Italy or 60 million more people than Italy, like a significant amount more population. So let's stop acting like it's not a gas station with nukes, you know, because it's literally what it is.

• 12:24Speaker 04

  Interesting enough, I was on another thing where we're talking about the Crimean war, the 1850s. And Russia went into Crimea to defend the Christian Orthodox.

• 12:35Speaker 04

  Which I'm, I'm all about, and I know we're gonna talk about Nigeria today, I'm all about protecting minority groups. But it's all, it's all a show, like they could care less about, just like they could care less about the Russian speaking people and Crimea. It's just a hook. It's a hook they've been using for hundreds of years to basically take territory by force.

• 12:53Speaker 01

  Also make you call that, right? Like it's been a strategic failure. I mean, we were, you know, we've been told that. This invasion would have lasted five days a week, right? And like the Ukrainian government would have fell and they would have put in a guy who was more pro Russia and stuff like that. It's it's pushing four years later and that has not happened and Russia has a million casualties. They are losing strategic weapons like fighters and things like and bombers at a pretty alarming rate. Their oil infrastructure is getting smoked too. They can't do much to stop it. I mean, if that's like a big bad superpower, I don't know what it is. And the fact is, we know they're not going to use nuclear weapons unless Putin himself is if there's like

• 13:36Speaker 01

  an army at the gates of the Kremlin, like maybe then he'll use nukes.

• 13:40Speaker 04

  It's suicidal. It's suicidal.

• 13:42Speaker 01

  That's the thing, yeah.

• 13:43Speaker 04

  It's it's like having a gun to your opponent's head that no matter who pulls the trigger first, the other one's going off.

• 13:49Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 13:49Speaker 04

  You know what I mean? Like it's going off and it's going off for everybody. If you look at just the models for a limited exchange between nuclear, and we talked about this before.

• 13:59Speaker 01

  Like Pakistan, India.

• 14:01Speaker 04

  Like it affects everywhere. South America, Africa. Can you imagine an actual conflict where multiple nuclear weapons were used? Between Europe and Russia or the United States in that? It's catastrophic. It's like it, the the amount of food production drop is is, you know, it's almost extinction. I mean, I'm not a scientist. I'm just looking at the ones.

• 14:26Speaker 01

  A million people will starve. Yeah.

• 14:27Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's tens of millions, millions, right? And if it was a major, you know, a major nuclear conflict, it'd be billions. Let's face it, not just dead from the actual impact, but dead from the consequences. And there's a lot of very esteemed think tanks in universities who have these models out there in case anybody's, you know, want to look at.

• 14:57Speaker 01

  Um, there's also another big one that seems to be a will probably be a sticking point. Uh, the 28 point plan for Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is 28 point plan sets a 50 50 Russia Ukraine power split. Um, the 20 point plan that Zelensky brought up, uh, leaves the governance unresolved, but it's a, it's a 50 50 US Ukraine split and US has floated a tri-party. Yeah.

• 15:23Speaker 04

  On the militarized part?

• 15:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power, like what goes on in Zaporizhzhia.

• 15:31Speaker 04

  I mean, it's essentially a power plant. They're generate energy. So maybe they, UN could take it over, you know, just as long as somebody competent, right? We don't need any Chernobyls. Um, and it keeps the power going to the people who need it. And like you said, they need it because I mean, there's 500,000 Ukrainians because of the recent strikes that are now out of power and it's, it's cold.

• 15:54Speaker 01

  Right. And what's interesting is like going back to the point like Russia's just indiscriminately hitting civilian targets, uh, and, and infrastructure targets like they, they drones have hit the fucking, uh, that shell thing that they have for Chernobyl that they put in like, I think 15 or 15 years ago, that was supposed to last for like a good, you know, a century and they hit it with fucking drones and they put holes in it. It's like, I what like who, we're dealing with fucking lunatics that don't give a shit. So like even this 20 point plan, like there's major concessions, like even the cap on the military, peace time military, like you should have, you tell us you, you don't dictate

• 16:37Speaker 01

  terms in terms of our military at all. Like, don't even go near that, right? Like there's, so Frank, like honestly, reading through this, you know, Zelensky's being pretty fucking reasonable, right? Cause you know, his people are dying. He wants this shit to end. Um, and he's not scared of an election either. Cause in here too, it says election is possible. Yeah.

• 16:59Speaker 04

  That's, that's going to backfire big time on Russia for saying that. I mean, a guy who hasn't been elected for how many decades, right? Talking about, and then Zelensky's with the whole world watching, he's going to probably get reelected in, you know.

• 17:14Speaker 04

  With a major win. And then all that's going to be done, which maybe it's good, it's good. Right under their constitution, they don't have to have an election. While they're or they won't have an election while they're under attack.

• 17:29Speaker 01

  But Zelensky also floated doing a referendum for that too, like where they change it. Also, there's a question to be asked and ways to figure like logistics to figure out. The occupied territories, those are Ukrainians. Do they vote in it or do they not?

• 17:42Speaker 04

  Right.

• 17:43Speaker 01

  Like what happens there, right?

• 17:45Speaker 04

  That's a big issue because even if they say they get this into place where they don't say that the Russian occupied areas Ukraine. But like you said.

• 17:53Speaker 01

  It's like a free economic zone or something.

• 17:54Speaker 04

  There's Ukrainians living in it.

• 17:55Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 17:56Speaker 04

  So what happens to those people? Are they represented by the government in Kiev? Do they have access to the government and the services? Or are they just stuck? In this perpetual, they're Ukrainians under the rule of Russians. It's rough, but I mean, this is a rough, this is a tough call, but you said. Zelensky is making concessions here. We need to recognize that. Uh, and then, and then if he agrees to it. This needs to be a plan that the US, I think the US, uh, but if not the US, you the Europeans, uh, takes on as their own.

• 18:34Speaker 01

  Yeah, we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens with this meeting with Zelensky and Trump. Um, I don't know what time they're meeting. Um, I really hope it's not all public because like we don't need another fucking. Sideshow kind of circus bullshit like figure it out behind closed doors. If you have something that you can agree on. Come out and fucking agree on it like stop wasting our times just because like you want to get some face time on TV.

• 18:59Speaker 01

  You know, and, and I don't care like if like we're not totally bending over for Russia. Like I don't give a shit if Trump comes out and like does the. The victory lap and he stopped nine wars and all that bullshit like he says, like, I don't give a shit like as long as.

• 19:15Speaker 01

  This turns, this ends up in a ceasefire that Russia didn't eat everyone's lunch because the US let Russia eat everyone's lunch. Russia has no position in this. Their, their army is trash. They know it. We know it. It's real simple. Like we're basically, we're helping these guys, or Europe's helping these guys more now with two hands tied behind our backs essentially. Like if we were allowed to open up or get our stuff in there earlier, attack them, you know, take your pick, or even F16s from other NATO countries, it probably would have looked a lot worse for Russia.

• 19:52Speaker 04

  Mm-hmm. And it still can.

• 19:55Speaker 01

  Right.

• 19:56Speaker 04

  We just unleash everything that we allow them to buy and there's no range restrictions.

• 20:04Speaker 04

  I must, I mean, you think about all the wars we always talk about, there's always some like either self-imposed or imposed restriction on the good guy's side. Can I look at Afghanistan? The whole time, oh, you can't go into Pakistan. Why not? They're Pakistan. If the, if the government of Pakistan can't, can't do anything about it, then it's not Pakistan. That's, that was my take the whole time, right? Either they have control of it or it's not theirs.

• 20:26Speaker 01

  How does that play in the meetings, Mick?

• 20:30Speaker 04

  Well, it went over well with my folks.

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• 24:14Speaker 01

  Yeah, I mean, I would love to deep dive into the whole Pakistan, Afghanistan, uh, the war on terror. Because it really, and I'm just a layman that looked at it from the outside. I've been lucky enough to know a lot of you guys now and have told me different things. It really seemed like you guys were hamstrung so much in terms of that, like Hakani and the, you know, Taliban and Al Qaeda all had a fucking safe haven. Yeah, there was some drone strikes, but at the same time, you can't really do much. With just drone strikes to flush this out. So like they could just pop back over to Pakistan and everything's fine.

• 24:49Speaker 04

  Yeah, and my point now is there's only restrictions on Ukraine. You can't use weapons that fire beyond this, this range. And of course, what does Russia put a majority of their uh, infrastructure beyond that range?

• 25:04Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 25:05Speaker 04

  Right? So it's, it's an artificial uh, restriction that needs to be lifted immediately on everything. You can't, except, you know, you can't violate the law of armed conflict.

• 25:18Speaker 04

  But Russia does every day.

• 25:19Speaker 01

  Yeah, but it does seem like even what Ukraine does when they hit inside of Russia, whether it's oil refineries or military bases with jets. They're keeping it to like non civilian. I mean, I guess an oil refinery civilian or whatever, but it's, it affects their war economy. But I'm not, I don't think they're looking for like mass casualty, civilian casualty things to have.

• 25:41Speaker 04

  They shouldn't be, right? But they can, if they had the tomahawk, the most advanced tomahawk uh, and the means to launch them. They'd be hitting a lot more of the Russian infrastructure. So that's it.

• 25:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, so we'll keep an eye out on what happens. If there are any big updates, maybe we'll come on later this week and talk about it. Moving on, I mean Mick mentioned like, you know, what Russia did to try and come and help Orthodox Christians in Crimea in the 1800s. It does, I mean, we're looking at what happened in Nigeria on Christmas Day. We bombed a couple of ISIS affiliated

• 26:23Speaker 01

  terror groups. And a month before that, we also were talking about how like, we're gonna start bombing things because like, we need to protect Christians. And I'm Christian, okay, and I like protecting people, but I don't know where our government gets off in terms of telling us who they choose to protect based on their religion. Gotta be honest.

• 26:45Speaker 04

  Well, there probably is. Well, I would start with this. ISIS is a problem throughout the continent of Africa, and it's becoming more of a problem because of the significant reduction in foreign assistance by not only the United States, but Europe. So if you look at Mozambique, there's a resurgence in ISM, ISIS of Mozambique, because of a major cut in US aid funding, because US aid was cut. And in Nigeria and in the Sahel, Islamic State of the Sahel Province is increasing. Our diplomatic presence is also being reduced. We talked about, at least internally, and everybody has,

• 27:27Speaker 04

  the reduction of the African diplomatic mission to include the ambassador to Nigeria, who was already confirmed and on, he's on route or already out there, is now being recalled. So a lot of the increase in ISIS activity is a result of our decisions on foreign policy. And as you just said,

• 27:51Speaker 04

  Dee, when it comes to attacking our attack in Taliban in Pakistan, there's only so much you could do with airstrikes. They're an effective tool, but you're you're very limited. And this seems to be, so this seems to be limited. It was in the Sakoto Province, which isn't the province that has the most problems, which perplexed several CT analysts.

• 28:13Speaker 04

  And it does seem to be related, I would say politically, I'm all about protecting minority groups from terrorist organizations, including Christians, of course. But it seems to be more about an advocacy from one side of the political spectrum who wanted to do something essentially to look like they're helping. But this is the despotic terrorist organization that kills Muslims and Christians. And the best way to do it is holistically, which means on the ground, say, serious diplomatic intelligence and security cooperation with the government to actually defend these populations

• 28:55Speaker 04

  and defeat ISIS, or at least do as much as we can to limit their impact. But these strikes, I'm not against them necessarily, but I think everybody views them mostly as symbolic, unless it becomes a campaign that has more than just an air component.

• 29:10Speaker 05

  Yeah. Number one, the Nigerian government has come out emphatically multiple times and said, it's not just Christians that ISIS is killing, they're killing everyone. So I agree that it was politically motivated just to use, you know, the group Christians for this. And number two, my fear is that, I mean, the president came out earlier and said, you know, use the term troops on the ground, basically troops on the ground, and he said guns a blazing thing. But now, in the, I'm thinking of the minds of the Nigerian people, you start to hear the word, or think of the word occupied, you know, you think of Libya, you think of

• 29:54Speaker 05

  Afghanistan and Iraq. And do you want to turn the very people you claim to be protecting against you because now you've plopped troops on the ground with no clear, no clear end game, who are gonna, you know, might end up in an Afghanistan situation? You know, that's how you get a populist to turn on you. So I don't know that they are thinking that far ahead with just the words that they're throwing.

• 30:20Speaker 01

  Yeah, I'm not an expert, but it sounds like Nigeria could use a little UW and some fucking special forces in there by with and through stuff.

• 30:27Speaker 04

  Limited.

• 30:28Speaker 01

  Find, right, find the guys that are against ISIS and help them, support them in to beating them back. Um, quick question. So this night, the Nigerian ambassador that was confirmed, he was confirmed this term?

• 30:43Speaker 04

  I think so.

• 30:45Speaker 01

  And he's being recalled?

• 30:47Speaker 04

  Yes, there's thirty, thirty, uh, recalls of ambassadors or DCMs or chargers.

• 30:54Speaker 01

  So explain to me how that fucking makes sense.

• 30:57Speaker 04

  More than thirty, I think. I don't know. He was, uh, confirmed. I mean, most career ambassadors, or at least a large portion of them, or most ambassadors are career ambassadors. So people who grew up as, uh, foreign service officers and, um, came up through the ranks and were consular officers or political officers.

• 31:14Speaker 01

  These are real deal career diplomats. These aren't like the guys who, uh, donated to an inaugural fund or whatever, who go to like Paris or go to UK or like cush jobs, basically.

• 31:26Speaker 04

  Right. So there's always been a combination of political and career, but I think most, most fulfilled by career.

• 31:33Speaker 01

  Mm hmm.

• 31:33Speaker 04

  Uh, certainly in areas.

• 31:35Speaker 01

  Like Africa and like tough spots are gonna have real deal diplomats there.

• 31:40Speaker 04

  Right. And that's a skill they learn over their whole career, just like one would learn in the military or something. It's very professional. They're not there to push for any kind of political party in the United States. They're there to push for the interests of the United States, which, you know, should be universal. So I don't know anything about the person. I'm sure, I'm certain he was perfectly capable of doing this, and I don't think he was, or any of the other ambassadors for that reason were recalled for their something they did, they did. I think it's a political issue. So, but it's if you.

• 32:12Speaker 05

  Sorry.

• 32:13Speaker 04

  Go ahead. No, go ahead.

• 32:14Speaker 05

  No, his name is Richard Mills, Jr., um, and he was, he's presented his credentials, diplomatic credentials in July 2024, and his role will end in January 2026. So.

• 32:29Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 32:31Speaker 04

  And the other question is, is he gonna be replaced? Cause I mean, the thought is that this isn't like, I'm gonna replace it with people that I want. It's just, it is in line with the national security strategy, which basically leaves, you know, the continent of Africa as almost like not even a footnote. And now we're seeing the consequences, right? And who's gonna move in? China? Russia? All these other countries that we used to call our adversaries are gonna take big advantages of a reduction in diplomatic presence on the continent, a very important continent.

• 33:10Speaker 01

  I mean, Nigeria is a massive country and the way like, uh, you know,

• 33:15Speaker 04

  Biggest oil producer in Africa.

• 33:16Speaker 01

  And projections are showing they're gonna have one of the biggest populations in the world in like the next, it's already massive, but in the next 50 years, they're gonna be a real deal player in Africa. So like, pulling out is, I don't understand what the fuck is going on. Really, like, what are they thinking? What's the plan? Is there a strategy or isn't there? The, like, I was like, ah, we'll drop off, you know, a dozen tomahawks over there that hits nothing on Christmas Day to like, make it made for fucking social media. But in terms of actual real deal, like stopping ISIS or, you know, at least stemming ISIS's growth, we're not doing shit.

• 33:57Speaker 04

  And the US has to lead in that effort. Generally, when we pull out, our partners pull out. Because the logistical infrastructure to keep these going, I suppose another country could do it, but they don't. Or it's, they, very few other countries can do it. So, uh, we need to be there for it to really be a collective international effort. And I know it costs money, I get that.

• 34:20Speaker 04

  Do you want to be engaged around the world, which is in our own economic advantage, right? It isn't all benevolence.

• 34:28Speaker 04

  It's it's to develop new economic opportunities for the United States. It's to prevent an attack on the United States. I mean, how many times did people across the political spectrum say, we're going to fight over there so we don't have to fight here? It's a pretty simple concept. Everybody used to agree with that.

• 34:44Speaker 01

  Yeah, also, like, I'm not even like saying for us to send over like an entire fucking special forces group or some like some massive footprint. But just to have our Ps and Qs kind of like on the ground, understanding what's what the what the temperature is on the ground and stuff like that, like actual ground truth and like creating those relationships with. Whether it's a for foreign internal, you know, defense or just straight up do using militias, like whatever we need to do to make sure that ISIS doesn't get too gully, we should do. But I mean, this just sounds like the complete opposite. I have a question about Nigeria, because you know, like France and UK have, you know, ties to Africa, they've been in Africa for you for decades.

• 35:28Speaker 01

  Is does France have a big presence in Nigeria as far as you guys know, or does the UK?

• 35:35Speaker 04

  I don't think so. I don't know.

• 35:38Speaker 01

  Other countries in Africa, okay.

• 35:41Speaker 04

  And France has pulled out a lot of their historical tied countries. You know, a lot of baggage there.

• 35:48Speaker 04

  But eh, you know, in, you know, all things considered, the irregular warfare apparatus of the United States is very cost effective compared to conventional, right? You don't want to have to send in a division of Marines in a, you know, the eighty second or honor first. You want to have advisors, combat advisors, specially trained from, you know, SOCOM and special activities in the agency that can go in there, train a force, they can be more lethal than their opponents. And have all of the advantages of intelligence collection the United States has, operational planning, logistical support. That is a much more cost effective way for stemming.

• 36:32Speaker 04

  The spread of a terrorist organization than deployment of large scale US conventional forces, who will win, no doubt, but they will take casualties and they're not going to stay. Right? They're not going to stay. I don't know how many times I've gone to places where somewhere in the conversation with the locals.

• 36:50Speaker 04

  As a reason not to fully cooperate with us is them looking at me going, look at you. You're not gonna stay here.

• 36:58Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 36:58Speaker 04

  They're referring to what way I look, right? And you know, it's like, um, probably right, right? You know, the Jolly Green Giants are probably gonna go home. And that's just, that's it. But if we have a long-term enduring plan that's cost-effective enough to be in our interest, we can help local governance, both form a government we want to work with, develop their own security to beat back these groups, which are takeover, and become an economic partner with the United States in the long run.

• 37:32Speaker 01

  So that would be better than sending over a new like squadron of battleships?

• 37:38Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah. Golden, yeah, excuse me. Yeah.

• 37:41Speaker 04

  Golden fleet.

• 37:42Speaker 01

  I have that there too, which is absolute bullshit. I wish Andy Milburn was on here because he would rail against this. Because he's right. They would be just huge targets, huge 15 billion dollar targets waiting to get sunk.

• 37:58Speaker 01

  All right. Right now, what I got left is, uh, there was a report that the, uh, Supreme Leader of Iran gave the okay to start developing or seeking out a nuclear weapon. We talked about this in our group chat. Uh, I didn't really react great to it. I'm like, obviously, they've said that they would do this if they got bombed, which they got bombed. Uh, you know, and there was a time when there was an agreement in place where no, uh, uranium was being enriched past a certain number. Uh, that's when the actual diplomacy was working. Well, I guess that didn't make sense for

• 38:38Speaker 01

  some folks in the US government and everyone and all, everybody in the Israeli government. Um, so what are we looking at now in terms of that, Mick?

• 38:50Speaker 04

  Uh, so, I mean, to start with, I had a few people tell me that they don't believe the.

• 38:55Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 38:59Speaker 04

  We'll see. I don't know how that would come out so significantly without.

• 39:04Speaker 04

  But anyway, it's 40% you don't need that to fill in news. So they're already way above it, which indicates they're trying to get to a nuclear weapon. So let's be, let's be fair with that. I mean, it needs to be like in the lower single digits to do a lot of the medical stuff.

• 39:18Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 39:19Speaker 04

  So if they do, if they do get, try to go to 90%, that's the first uh oh. Second oh oh is having a capacity to weaponize it to, you know, the triggering mechanism, all that. Don't think they have it. They could buy it, right? Eventually buy something like North Korea. I don't think Russia or China would sell it to them. North Korea might. And then, of course, it's delivering it. And if you want to deliver on a ballistic missile, it needs to be compacted or miniaturized. So they have one missile that can go 2,000 kilometers and carry two tons. So as long as you can get it to that, um, there you go. Then you got to, then Israel for sure has a serious problem or anybody within that range.

• 40:01Speaker 01

  Let me ask you this. If the reporting is bullshit, is this Israel trying to seed, uh, you know, some psyops, for lack of a better term, into like our media?

• 40:12Speaker 04

  I don't know. I don't know. But the, the issue is this could come, uh, together. So you have this report out that if, if true, I mean, I, I was a supporter of our strikes against the nuclear facilities. The US and Israel might have to readdress whether we're gonna start the, uh, conflict again, at least as far as depleting their nuclear capabilities. But Netanyahu is gonna be talking to President Trump tomorrow. President Trump's gonna be talking about entering the second phase of Gaza ceasefire. There's a big issue on Hamas disarmament.

• 40:48Speaker 04

  These issues might do this, right? So they say, okay, well, we're really not keen on, you know, withdrawing any further until Hamas is disarmed. But if we were to do that, we'd really like your support in mitigating the Iran nuclear threat. So these, I'm not saying this is gonna happen, but it's quite plausible because they're talking about all these issues, of course. And it might be that they're using, you know, continue on with Gaza peace plan as a way to get pressure on the United States. Uh, to do something again, which you've already proved will do. We've already done it. Right? So if it's real, and I'm not saying it's real, just because one person told me it wasn't. And this person's super smart and I think had reason to say that.

• 41:30Speaker 04

  But I'm sure other people tell me, no, they are. I mean, why, why wouldn't they go for a nuclear weapon? Why, why do it halfway?

• 41:36Speaker 01

  Sure, sure.

• 41:37Speaker 04

  Which is like the, it's like antagonistic, but you don't actually have the ability to use it.

• 41:41Speaker 01

  Right. Yeah, yeah.

• 41:42Speaker 04

  It doesn't make any sense. So I'm open to seeing it's both true or not true, or maybe it's gonna be true. Uh, but I think this tomorrow in Mar-a-Lago, these things are gonna be discussed in earnest.

• 41:55Speaker 01

  Um, yeah. And just to hit on what's going on in Gaza, uh, aid is still being restricted. I think they did bomb a Christian church too. Palestinian Christians got hit. Which let's protect some Christians there, maybe. I don't know. Uh, if that's such a big, big deal for our government and our defense department.

• 42:16Speaker 01

  What's happening and you know, Israel's violated the ceasefire over 400 times. So like, maybe that should be a bullet point they talk about in the, uh, discussions tomorrow, at least brought up maybe. Um.

• 42:28Speaker 01

  That's my two cents on that. I mean, frankly, I'd like to see, and the winter right now in Gaza is hitting some refugee camps pretty hard. Uh, there's videos out there of like flooding happening. There was a lot of rain and flooding, like wiping away an entire, you know, refugee camp. Let's just get people, let's basics, you know, some shelters, some medicine, some food and water. Uh, and let kids stop dying or being completely malnourished. And also creating more and more extremists against Israel. Cause I know if I was living in Gaza right now, I would not be a big fan of this Israeli government whatsoever.

• 43:04Speaker 04

  It is bad. I mean, if people haven't been to that part of the Middle East in the winter. You think, oh, it's Middle East, it ain't cold. It's cold. It's cold and then it rains a lot. And that's like the worst for folks spend a lot of time outside. Like, it's almost better just to be colder and just be snow.

• 43:20Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 43:20Speaker 04

  It is better than to be that almost frozen rain.

• 43:25Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 43:26Speaker 04

  Right? Where you just get saturated and you're wet and you're that that is that is what it's like in Gaza right now. And they're, uh, they are still in, they they've taken away the, uh, the famine designation, UN. Uh, which is good. It's good because there has been aid coming in, uh, but it's not enough. And quite frankly, I hope to your point, D, is not only we're talking about going to the second phase, we're catching up to everything was supposed to happen in the first phase. Right. Which is 600 trucks a day that go in to feed people. Um, and when this international stabilization force is deployed, one of the things they're supposed to do is protect the distribution. Which hopefully means Hamas isn't getting it.

• 44:08Speaker 04

  Which has been the complaint about providing humanitarian assistance because they they claim Hamas has taken a lot of it. I don't know if that's true, but.

• 44:15Speaker 01

  Is that why the 600 trucks aren't hitting there? Or is that why? Because they're getting stolen or because they're not getting let in?

• 44:22Speaker 04

  I think it's because they're not getting let in.

• 44:23Speaker 01

  Okay, so, uh, who's got that, uh? Who makes that decision, right? Like?

• 44:30Speaker 04

  It's easily at least. Yeah, we have that coordination center now, but I'm sure the Americans aren't. Aren't restricting it. That would make no sense. I mean, it was our, it was our, uh, agreement that said 600 trucks a day. So it needs to be worked out. I, you know where I stand on, uh, restricting food to civilians as a means of warfare. Happens everywhere, um, but it's shouldn't.

• 44:56Speaker 01

  Yeah, and, uh, man. Man, oh, man. I don't know if we see that eventual two-state solution with this current government, gonna be completely honest, or this current Israeli government, because just the other day, too, the Defense Minister said they're de facto in and seeking the West Bank. It's like, you're just trying to let everybody and let everybody who lives there fucking hate you. And, you know, there has been a myriad of Israeli NGOs and organizations that have continued to call what's going on in Gaza genocide, even as recently as last week. So if anyone wants to pull the anti-Semitic card, there's an Israeli organizations,

• 45:39Speaker 01

  are they anti-Semitic, or are they just telling the truth? I understand trying to clip Hamas by any means necessary, but maybe pull back a couple of those means, because killing civilians over and over again, and violating a ceasefire 400 times since it's been enacted, to me, shows somebody who's not our side, that's not willing to actually see this through. That's just my opinion.

• 46:09Speaker 04

  There's gonna be a lot of pressure put on Prime Minister Netanyahu tomorrow to see it through and to keep going. And the best chance for Palestinian, any semblance of a Palestinian state, is this plan right now. So if Hamas, they don't care about it. So I don't even know what I'm saying. If they pretended to care about the Palestinian people, they would realize that them putting down their arms is way better off for the Palestinian people, way better off. Right? So.

• 46:43Speaker 01

  I mean, listen, if Israel really gives a shit about like what happens in Gaza, in terms of it being a Palestinian-led area, wouldn't they be trying to do the buy with and through shit, like find the non-Hamas people and help them, arm them, support them to overthrow or take out Hamas? Like, you can't just bomb, it's already rubble. Like, what else are you gonna do? What else are you gonna do? This has clearly not worked.

• 47:16Speaker 04

  It's worked to the, I mean militarily to the point of Hamas has been degraded substantially.

• 47:22Speaker 01

  Sure. Okay. Yeah.

• 47:23Speaker 04

  They have to, but um, I mean, look at Hezbollah has been too.

• 47:27Speaker 01

  Yeah. I mean, they keep clapping. They keep shooting stuff over there in Syria.

• 47:31Speaker 04

  Another issue they're going to discuss tomorrow.

• 47:33Speaker 01

  Honestly, I wish.

• 47:33Speaker 04

  Syria is going to be very interesting because we seem to be

• 47:38Speaker 04

  at odds when it comes to our policies in Syria, the US and Israel, that is. Israel views them as jihadist, doesn't trust them at all.

• 47:47Speaker 04

  There might even be an open conflict with Israel and Turkey and Syria, which would be horrible.

• 47:51Speaker 01

  Well, I mean, over the last few months since Ashara took power, Israel has been decimating whatever is left in terms of infrastructure of the Syrian military, right? So they've been doing that. Yeah.

• 48:06Speaker 01

  And yet Turkey and Israel are not exactly sending each other Christmas cards. Not that they would, I guess, Muslim and Jewish, but.

• 48:12Speaker 04

  Israel just aligned with Cyprus and Greece.

• 48:17Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 48:17Speaker 04

  Right?

• 48:19Speaker 01

  Look at me.

• 48:19Speaker 04

  There's a lot. You're the Greek representative for you.

• 48:25Speaker 01

  Yeah. So I could see.

• 48:25Speaker 04

  And there's a lot going on in Somali land like right now with Israel.

• 48:30Speaker 05

  They just recognize them.

• 48:32Speaker 04

  They did. They did. And there's been a big pushback against that in the region. Except for UAE. Yeah. You're seeing all these alliances form.

• 48:45Speaker 04

  The world's getting more chaotic.

• 48:47Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's very confusing to be, you know.

• 48:51Speaker 01

  All right. So we'll keep an eye on it. You guys have anything left you want to, you want to hit on? You don't want to talk about the new fleet of battleships, Mick?

• 48:59Speaker 04

  You know, it'd be great to get like a full on surface warfare officer, Navy can talk about. Like, obviously, I totally understand the issues when it comes to these very large ships that are very vulnerable to modern advanced weapon systems.

• 49:17Speaker 01

  And we can't build them fast enough. Let's see.

• 49:18Speaker 04

  And the Navy was going like in a dispersment model.

• 49:22Speaker 01

  Right.

• 49:22Speaker 04

  Right? And then all of a sudden now we're talking about the opposite. So I, you know, there's people that I've talked to that are really naval experts. And they're like, this is never going to happen. They're just going to talk about it. They're going to wait it out and they're just never going to do it.

• 49:37Speaker 01

  And we can't produce them fast enough. We don't have any, barely any shipbuilding like. Especially compared to China, right?

• 49:44Speaker 04

  Yeah. But even beyond whether it's a good idea, but to talk, somebody to talk about, well, what is, what should we be doing?

• 49:52Speaker 01

  Right.

• 49:53Speaker 04

  You know, uh, that would be really interesting. Think, well, at least I'd.

• 49:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, I could get somebody. We had a submariner on who was a captain of a boat, of a submarine, who's really, uh, focusing now on like China and, uh, their capability and stuff like that. So I'm sure he'd have a, a, a good amount to say, I'm gonna get him on. Um, all right, cool. Guys, Happy New Year to everybody. I want you guys to do us a favor. Go check out Mick's podcast, Pub on the Porch, Applied Stoicism. Those links are in the description. Great pod. Jason's links are in the description as well. Andy's links in everywhere. If you want to find out more about the show and the people that do it, those links are in the description. And if you want to support the show, you can go to patreon.com slash the team house. You get

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  Hi, I'm Jenna Oshkowitz. You might know me from Glee. This is At the Table, the food allergy podcast, a show about food, connection, and what it really looks like to live with food allergies. Each episode, we hear stories from real people like Daniel.

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  Hi, I'm Jenna Oshkowitz. You might know me from Glee. This is At the Table, the food allergy podcast, a show about food, connection, and what it really looks like to live with food allergies. Each episode, we hear stories from real people like Daniel.

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  People would always think I was lactose intolerant, so I just kind of shortened my explanation to I'm deathly allergic in a big way that defined a lot of my childhood.

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  And while there are challenges, there are moments that remind you you're not alone.

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  One of the best guys that I dated, he made a point to memorize all my food allergies.

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  So join us and hear their stories and more, because living with food allergies isn't just about what you can't eat. It's about still having your seat at the table. Brought to you by Genentech and Novartis. Listen to At the Table, the food allergy podcast, on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Follow At the Table and start listening on the free iHeart Radio app today.

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  Hi, I'm Jenna Oshkowitz. You might know me from Glee. This is At the Table, the food allergy podcast, a show about food, connection, and what it really looks like to live with food allergies. Each episode, we hear stories from real people like Daniel.

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  People would always think I was lactose intolerant, so I just kind of shortened my explanation to I'm deathly allergic, in a big way that defined a lot of my childhood.

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  And while there are challenges, there are moments that remind you you're not alone. One of the best guys that I dated, he made a point to memorize all my food allergies. So join us and hear their stories and more, because living with food allergies isn't just about what you can't eat. It's about still having your seat at the table. Brought to you by Genentech and Novartis. Listen to At the Table, the food allergy podcast on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Follow At the Table and start listening on the free iHeart Radio app today.

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  Hi, I'm Jenna Oshkowitz. You might know me from Glee. This is At the Table, the food allergy podcast, a show about food, connection, and what it really looks like to live with food allergies. Each episode, we hear stories from real people like Daniel.

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  People would always think I was lactose intolerant, so I just kind of shortened my explanation to "I'm deathly allergic", in a big way that defined a lot of my childhood.

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  And while there are challenges, there are moments that remind you you're not alone.

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  One of the best guys that I dated, he made a point to memorize all my food allergies.

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  People would always think I was lactose intolerant, so I just kind of shortened my explanation to I'm deathly allergic. In a big way that defined a lot of my childhood.

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  So join us and hear their stories and more. Because living with food allergies isn't just about what you can't eat. It's about still having your seat at the table. Brought to you by Genentech and Novartis. Listen to At the Table, the food allergy podcast, on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Follow At the Table and start listening on the free iHeart Radio app today.

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  Hi, I'm Jenna Oshkowitz. You might know me from Glee. This is At the Table, the food allergy podcast, a show about food, connection, and what it really looks like to live with food allergies. Each episode, we hear stories from real people like Daniel.

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  People would always think I was lactose intolerant, so I just kind of shortened my explanation.

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  I'm deathly allergic. In a big way that defined a lot of my childhood. And while there are challenges, there are moments that remind you you're not alone. One of the best guys that I dated, he made a point to memorize all my food allergies. So join us and hear their stories and more because living with food allergies isn't just about what you can't eat. It's about still having your seat at the table. Brought to you by Genentech and Novartis. Listen to At The Table, the food allergy podcast on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Follow At The Table and start listening on the free iHeart radio app today.

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