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He couldn't tell the Soviet doctors because he didn't have any faith in them, and also they were all KGB.

Like many Soviet citizens, he had a sort of almost mystical belief in Western medicine.

He believed that the West could cure his problem, get his life back on track, and he would then defect to the West with his wife.

The problem with this theory was that it was wrong.

Ben, I mean, I imagine that stress is a kind of a key part of the erectile dysfunction problems, and becoming a, be- betraying the Soviet Union, knowing that you are now an agent of Western forces, that is gonna be quite stressful.

I mean, that is not gonna, in the very short term, is not going to cure the dysfunction.

I, I would have, I, that's my diagnosis.

I mean, a lot of the sources for this book come from Iran.

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One of the remarkable things about the post nine eleven world was that we were simultaneously told two things from the highest levels of government across the West.

The first was, and there was much value in this, not to generalize or essentialize Muslims, not to say that the hijackers, for instance, had any connection with Muslims in general.

But at the same time as we were told that no Muslim should be held responsible for an act of terror carried out in the name of Islam, we were told that everybody else is collectively responsible for any ill ever done by anyone in the West, and I reject this.

I think you could play one of those programs, but not both simultaneously, or not both simultaneously without some of us putting up our hands and calling BS.

I deeply object to this, the idea that a generation should be taught every imaginable ill that has ever occurred in the American or Western past as being something for which they today must atone.

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It's three PM on Friday, September eleventh in Israel as Israelis prepare for Rosh Hashanah.

And there is, no way that Russia can not respond.

And it is responding, I believe, through a kind of hybrid warfare going after production facilities and other nodes in Western Europe, and also sending signals, which clearly this was, no one was heard.

But basically, Russia is saying, if you're going to wage existential war to bring us down, if you're going to say that, then then we're going to strike back.

Listen to one of the members of our House of Representatives, a guy with the incredibly resonant name, Don Bacon.

He was thrown in prison by the fascists because they viewed him as dangerous, because he was.

And so there he writes notes, notes, notes, notes about what he feels is a change that's needed in Marxist, not ideology, but the approach to Western society.

Because he said, look, the proletariat's not rising up and overthrowing the government.

They're fighting for the society.

They believe in the society.

So how do we do this now? And he came up with the answer, which has been used in every Western society, including ours.

What did he say? He argued that advanced Western countries, the ruling class uses something much more powerful.

He called it cultural hegemony.

We need reparations for the people of the world whose lands were stolen by settler colonialism.

We need reparations by the millions of people, Africans who were kidnapped and enslaved in the Western Hemisphere in particular.

We need reparations from colonialism anywhere in the world.

And sort of the sudden, everybody got diverted.

Yeah, I think I'm a bit younger than both of you, so I have a different perspective of this time.

I was in the last year of my high school when 9-11 happened.

And I guess for me, like, of course, we were all swallowed into the sort of insanely violent sort of psyop that unfolded for like several years around it, around sort of staging American victimhood, staging Western victimhood at the hands of Islam.

the debating around Islam, the big Islam questions.

A couple of weeks ago, I caught up with John Pollamy of Actionable Intelligence Alert.

Last time we spoke, John and I talked about the parallels between today's West and the last days of the Soviet Union, the essence of hypernormality.

In this episode, we pick that thread back up.

An establishment fighting to preserve itself, a US military exposed by asymmetric warfare in Iran, and a world splintering into separate geopolitical and geoeconomic blocs.

What happened here recently with the fact that our whole military has been exposed as a paper tiger.

We don't have the ability to sit in with the Saudis or the Emirates or how are they thinking about this? And how does Erdogan think about this? So there's a lot of plates in the air.

I don't know if the proper word would be because it's not a bifurcation, but trifurcation of the United States and the Western Hemisphere, China and Asia, probably overall, and then Eurasia, Russia.

And I think Europe eventually is going to have to Understand that the United States is not going to stand behind them.

Yeah, well, I agree with that.

It is another symptom of the collapse of Western society.

Personally, I like Western society, and I'm a Western chauvinist, actually, and I want the West to prevail.

People like Mark and other people want the West to fail, which, by the way, I actually do sympathize with Mark for those reasons, because he wants to make money off the collapse of the West.

So his cryptocurrency portfolio will go up.

I guess if you want to put it into a small time frame window and just look at that.

But I think all of the problems over there are directly

the result of Western imperialist policies.

And that is the fact that the Ansar al-Rahuti's have taken over 1500 square kilometers in an extremely short period of time of Yemen.

So they now control almost the entirety of Western Yemen.

They can control, shoot, fire at ships in the Bab al-Mandab Strait from the ground, basically RPG.

They have everything they need.

And in Yemen, Saudi Arabia has done to Yemen what Israel has done to Lebanon, weakened their government, split it up, made it so that they cannot defend themselves.

And so when we talk about what's going on there, we're talking about – the reason that people are excited is because somebody is finally doing something about the genocide.

This is – they did not do this for Iran like Western media tells you.

The Houthis are Yemeni.

And of course, they accepted that and set it up.

Now, why I'm mentioning that to say that this arranged marriage thing that people are so offensive about in the West sometimes is still part of Western culture.

It's just that a lot of the same things that we do in Islam have been dropped over the last 50 years.

that were also part of Western culture.

I like what some of the people online they've done.

They've shown pictures of white Europeans in England and Ireland and Scotland, full hijab, Christians.