GERMANY
[VO] Germany. Thousands of demonstrators demand to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine.
AUSTRIA
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
[VO] Sanctions against Russia
have drastically reduced living standards for Austrians,
and they have taken to the streets of Vienna.
CZECH REPUBLIC
SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
[VO] Czech citizens are demanding the government resign,
that the country withdraw from NATO and the European Union,
and begin negotiations on cheap Russian gas supplies.
ITALY
[VO] And this is a protest by Italian bakers.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 [Protester] We are forced to raise the price of bread to the point that soon
there will no longer be bread on the table
[Protester] Bread will become a luxury item
UNITED KINGDOM
[VO] The British are being forced to give up the most basic things.
OCTOBER 2, 2022
[VO] Due to anti-Russian sanctions, Europe is literally plunging into darkness.
[VO] It's freezing.
[VO] But what does the US have to do with it?
DONALD TRUMP 45th US PRESIDENT NOVEMBER 15, 2022
[Trump] I will ensure that Joe Biden
does not receive a four more years
[Trump] In order to make America great and glorious again,
I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.
[VO] On November 15, 2022,
Donald Trump announced he would run for the American presidency in 2024.
[Trump] We must conduct a top to bottom overhaul
to clean out the festering rot and corruption of Washington, D.C.
[VO] But why is Donald Trump convinced the US won’t survive another Joe Biden presidency?
[VO] And what deep force is Trump once again talking about?
RED ALERT ANNA CHAPMAN | THE ROAD OF DECEPTION
[Anna] Today, Russophobia has reached an apex,
but do Americans really believe it is Russia
that's caused the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression?
[Anna] Is Donald Trump to blame?
[Anna] And who is the 45th US president, really?
[Anna] His country's salvation or destroyer?
[Anna] We'll answer all these questions
with the help of ordinary Americans
[John] This is me when...
[John] This is me when I was in the Marines coming down on the rope...
[John] This is me as a cop.
[VO] Meet John Dugan.
[VO] After serving in the US Marine Corps,
he joined the police force in Florida.
[John] There was a group of cops, they run around,
brutally beating the black and hispanic community
[John Dougan, Police Officer, USA, 2002-2009]
[Man] Get your hands of me!
[John] And I brought this information to the Internal Affairs,
and they ignored it.
[John] And so, I leaked it to the newspaper.
[John] So, they retaliated against me.
[John] I left the police work in 2009 and I started my website.
[John] Well, during this period from 2009 to 2016,
I’d been under constant investigation by the police.
[John] FBI, the sheriff, all these.
[John] Even the Homeland Security, I heard.
[John] Trying to find some reason that they could
to throw me in jail and take my website down.
[VO] And this is Mark Sleboda, an international security specialist
who previously served in the US Navy.
[VO] In 2002, he decided to leave his home country for good and take Russian citizenship.
[Mark Sleboda, Political Scientist] Technically, I have dual citizenship,
because you actually have to pay thousands of dollars
to get rid of American citizenship.
[Mark] And I'm certainly not going to give thousands of dollars to that government
that is waging war against my family in East Ukraine.
[VO] Daniel Kovalik is a human and labour rights lawyer.
[VO] He wrote a book called, 'The Plot to Scapegoat Russia:
How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Russia.'
[Daniel Kovalik, International Human Rights Professor, University of Pittsburgh]
[Daniel] How I grew up thinking Russia was our enemy, 'cause that’s what I was taught.
[Daniel] And then I– You know, as I got older, I realized that that was not true.
[Anna] Paul Craig Roberts is a Republican
[Anna] He was Assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan administration
[Anna] In 2013, he criticised the Colour Revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine,
branding them CIA operations
[Anna] Afterwards, The Wall Street Journal and Business Week
stopped publishing the economist's op-eds,
and Paul himself was added to a list of 200 alleged Putin agents
[Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in Ronald Reagan's Administration, USA, 1981-1982]
[Paul] I said, “Oh my goodness, now that my cover has been blown,
and it’s known I’m a Russian spy,
I hope Putin will rescue me and give me a passport,
so I can escape America before I’m captured.”
[John] I also started a group of websites
where whistleblowers could post anonymously
about corruption happening in their departments
without worrying about getting targeted by their departments.
[John] And there were a lot of them.
[John] Lots of them. Yeah. My website...
[John] I mean if it weren’t for my website…
[John] Well, it’s responsible for the arrest of, you know, dozens of police officers.
[John] In fact, there is a whole city council in California that resigned,
indicted on federal charges for corruption
because of whistleblowers that would come out of my website.
[VO] In the US, John Dugan used his website to expose the brutality of American police officers.
[VO] Now, he regularly travels to Ukraine and Donbass,
reporting honestly about people caught up in the war.
DONETSK, 2022
[John] Welcome to Donetsk.
[John] John Mark Dugan, live in Azovstal.
[John] It doesn’t even begin to convey
exactly how much destruction there is here.
[VO] John Dugan met this grief-stricken woman in Mariupol.
[Woman] My daughter, my little Karina, died! My baby died...
MARIUPOL, 2022
[Woman] She's buried beneath my windows, just like a dog, a little innocent child
[VO] This Ukrainian woman is telling John about what the UAF,
and those who help them kill Donbass civilians,
are doing to their fellow citizens.
GENICHESK, 2022
[Woman] I have a brother in Donetsk
[Woman] I am very sorry that he's lived under shelling for 8 years
[Woman] And no one took any notice! Only Russia helped, Europe didn't
[Woman] The Americans planted their foot here, and that was it
[Paul] It’s been completely obvious to the entire world
by the statements of the United States government officials themselves
that Maidan was a plot by the United States
to overthrow the Ukrainian government
and to install a government hostile to Russia.
KIEV, UKRAINE, 2014
[Paul] Victoria Nuland, the Assistant Secretary of State,
announced at a public meeting that was videotaped and widely shown,
that the United States government had spent five billion dollars preparing the coup in Ukraine.
[Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, USA, 2013-2017] Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991,
the United States has supported Ukrainians as they built democratic skills and institutions,
as they promote civic participation and good governance,
all of which are preconditions for Ukraine to achieve its European aspirations.
[Nuland] We’ve invested over five billion dollars to assist Ukraine in these and other goals.
[Malek Dudakov, Political Scientist, Americanist] The US has never been a democracy in a pure sense
[Malek] It's always been more of an elitist state
[Aleksandr Domrin, Professor, Faculty of Law, Higher School of Economics] Of course, there is the right to free speech and expression
[Aleksandr] And then, there is the funding of that very right
[Aleksandr] And for some reason, 90-95% of America's corporate media,
just like Hollywood, by the way,
is funded by Democrats
[John] There is also documentation that’s been released
within the past several years about hundreds of journalists on the CIA payroll.
[Journalist] We do have some new video just sent to CNN
that shows immense damage to the theatre of Mariupol
that was being used as a bomb shelter for civilians.
[Journalist] This was struck by a Russian air strike last Wednesday.
[Journalist] City officials now report 300 people to have died in that attack
[Paul] ...but the first thing that they told me when I entered the congressional staff
was that the Washington Post is a CIA asset and always has been.
[Malek] There's the AP...
the Daily Beast...
and other media outlets that are clearly linked
[Malek] You can see they receive the same instructions and broadcast them
[Aleksandr] People no longer call CNN the 'Cable News Network',
but the 'Clinton News Network'
[Aleksandr] What is this?
[Aleksandr] The view of the American people?
[Aleksandr] Or is it the view...
of some small group
that wants everyone to think like them?
HOW MOSCOW GRABS UKRAINIAN KIDS AND MAKES THEM RUSSIANS
PUTIN’S WINTER OF INHUMANITY TAKES UKRAINE WAR AND US AID TO A NEW LEVEL
WRITERS: RUSSIAN ATTACKS SEEK 'ERASURE' OF UKRAINIAN CULTURE
[Anna] So, there is no democracy?
[John] And if you look at what’s happening now, right?
[John] The federal government. I mean, pretty much the media companies nowadays
are Facebook, Twitter, things like this.
[John] The US government has a back door into all of these companies.
[John] And this just has been exposed within the last few months.
[John] That they have so much access.
[John] And they can demand who’s censored, what posts are removed.
[John] They can control the flow of information
to steer people the way they want them to go.
[John] Very scary stuff. George Orwell.
[Aleksandr] An interesting symbiosis results
[Aleksandr] So, Michael Hayden, who was head of the National Security Agency...
'No Such Agency', the NSA until 2005
[Aleksandr] But since 2017, he's been a commentator for CNN
[Presenter] General Hayden, is this nefarious or is this naivety?
[Aleksandr] Interesting, isn't it? A symbiosis
[Anna] Oops [Aleksandr] Oops
[Aleksandr] Or look at Michael Morell, who worked for the CIA
[Aleksandr] He was CIA deputy director until 2013,
and then he suddenly resurfaced during Hillary Clinton's campaign,
when he wrote in the New York Times that:
first of all, he supports Hillary Clinton, second of all, Trump is incompetent,
and, thirdly, Trump presents a threat to national security
[Anna] What's the nature of Zuckerberg's relationship
with the intelligence community?
[Malek] US intelligence agencies send all sorts of requests to Facebook,
and Facebook must comply
[Malek] Google received grants from the NSA in the '80s and early '90s,
when the NSA gave grants for developing the digital sphere
to young scientists, entrepreneurs, and specialists
[Malek] Social networks may not be fully controlled by intelligence services,
but they're closely linked,
and intelligence services mostly get what they want from them
[Anna] 1979: Journalist Deborah Davis published a book called:
'Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and Her Washington Post Empire'
[Anna] Who's Katharine Graham?
[Anna] Head of the Washington Post for over 20 years
[Anna] In her book, Deborah claims that, in the 1950s,
the CIA launched Operation Mockingbird
[Anna] Its purpose was to directly influence the media
to shape public opinion in the United States
[Anna] The operation was spearheaded by CIA operative Cord Meyer
[Anna] Its strategy was devised by CIA director Allen Dulles
[Anna] Davis says foreign journalists
were also eventually enlisted for the operation
[Anna] Can you tell us how the intelligence agencies
took control of the US media space?
[Vladimir Vasilyev, Chief Researcher, Institute for US and Canada Studies, RAS] A witch-hunt began
[Vladimir] They began to look for public servants,
especially those in the State Department,
who advocated, shall we say,
closer rapprochement with the USSR
[Paul] So it was easy for the CIA to develop their relationships with journalists.
[Paul] Now, these relationships grew with time.
[Paul] The CIA discovered they could use them
to completely misrepresent situations that people could see the truth of.
[Paul] That the CIA very quickly got the media to say
any questioning of the official narrative is a conspiracy theory.
[Vasily Koltashov, Economist, Head, New Society Institute] There are many secret services: 10 - 17
[Vasily] They also serve as bureaucratic apparatus
[Vasily] Nazi Germany's security services worked the same way:
there were many of them
[Vasily] They overlapped and kept an eye on each other
[Anna] I want to ask you:
[Anna] Do you think Trump will be prevented from becoming president in 2024?
[Anna] What will be done to prevent it?
[Malek] There are at least 3 big probes against Trump now:
[Malek] 2 are the US Justice Department's
[Malek] The 1st concerns the protests outside the Capitol on January 6,
which the DOJ is investigating as an 'insurrection' against US democracy
[Malek] They want to charge Trump for inciting it
WASHINGTON, D.C., JANUARY 6, 2021
[Bennie G. Thompson, Congressman (D-MS), US House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman]
[Bennie] The violence was no accident.
[Bennie] It represented Trump’s last stand,
most desperate chance to halt the transfer of power.
[Bennie] Now, you may hear those words and think,
“This is just another political attack on Donald Trump
by people who don’t like him.”
[Bennie] That’s not the case.
[Aleksandr] One case concerns secret archival documents
that Trump allegedly took,
which is why they searched his Florida house in August
when he wasn't home
[Aleksandr] But there's another case against Trump and his son, Eric,
that New York's Attorney General initiated a few months ago
[Malek] They're accused of fiddling with their reports,
overrating the value of their real estate for banks
[Paul] Of course, they found no evidence..
[Paul] there was a lot of fake false evidence
[Paul] And therefore, the whole thing is just a
political drama for the media to cast more dirt on Trump…
[Aleksandr] Now, they're doing everything to ensure
that he never returns to the White House
[Aleksandr] All this fear, horror, and panic come from this prospect,
so we see these criminal cases against him
[Presenter1] Hey, everyone! I’m Terry Moran. We’re coming on the air
because we have breaking news right now of jury of Manhattan
has found the Trump Organization
guilty of tax fraud and several charges.
[Presenter 2] The two Trump Organization entities were accused of being involved in a 15-year tax fraud schemes
where they gave their executives, certain executives
off-the-books compensation: that was corporate apartments
that were rent-free, that was company cars,
[Presenter 2] Well, Victor, that’s right. The jury just returned the verdict guilty
on all counts against both Trump corporations.
[Anna] Is America a free country, or is it like a police state?
[John] Is this a joke?
[Anna] No, it's a true question
[John] America is probably the biggest police state of any country in the world.
[John] So, if more surveillance on citizens,
the most laws to arrest people.
[John] And, for every 100 people there’s a person in prison in the US.
[John] And you can be arrested for anything.
[John] I mean literally anything.
[Anna] So, we've learned that
[Anna] WaPo, the AP, Daily Beast, CNN and many other media outlets
did everything in their power to discredit Donald Trump
[Anna] And the Meta Platforms, formerly Facebook,
blocked Donald Trump's accounts
just before the 2020 presidential election
[Anna] Let me remind you that, at the time,
[Anna] Trump was President of the United States
[John] The investigation into Ukraine, for instance.
[John] Donald Trump wanted to get to the bottom of where certain money was going in Ukraine.
[John] Well, that would’ve led directly to the democrats,
and that would’ve been a big problem for the democrats
[Marjorie] I would like to announce that I’ve introduced a privilege resolution.
[Marjorie] And what this will do is, it will
hold our government accountable
for all of the funding for Ukraine.
[Marjorie] Congress has appropriated 54 billion dollars to aid the Ukrainian conflict.
[Marjorie] Joe Biden has requested another 38 billion dollars.
[Anna] And so they worked and they impeached Donald Trump with a sham of a trial.
WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 13, 2021
[Dmitry] The apotheosis was, of course, the administrative sabotage
of any decisions made by Donald Trump
[Anna] Attacked from all sides,
Trump and his supporters tried to strike back
and initiated an investigation into Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son
[Anna] So, in November 2022, Republican Congressman James Comer
stated that the Biden family does business in 50 countries
[James Comer, Congressman (R-KY), US House of Representatives] Biden family business model:
they don’t manufacture anything,
they don’t own any equipment,
they are not licensed to sell anything.
[James] Their business model is influence peddling.
[Vladimir Blokhin, Professor, RUDN University] It's known that the Chinese company Sinopec
was sold about 900,000 barrels of oil from the US strategic reserve
[Blokhin] Moreover, it's known that
one big American company received the profit
[Blokhin] Obviously, the scale of these deals indicates the involvement
of current US political circles,
in particular Biden and his entourage
[Blokhin] Journalists discovered that Hunter Biden,
as founder of the private foundation, earned huge profits
[Blokhin] Hunter's name is closely connected with Burisma,
a notorious company that did business in Ukraine
in violation of US laws
[Blokhin] Hunter Biden only became a successful businessman
thanks to his father's help
[Blokhin] The 'Biden' name itself is a profit factor
[Anna] It's very curious to observe and compare
how Biden's son acts with complete impunity
[Aleksandr] Ukraine's Prosecutor General began to unravel this corruption scandal
[Aleksandr] Hunter Biden is a young man...
who was the head of Burisma's legal department
and was paid $50,000 a month just because of his surname
[Malek] Trump's children haven't been accused as much,
but if any of Trump's children did even 10% of what Hunter Biden has,
they'd surely be in prison
[Malek] Hunter could do this because he's like a political star
[James] And the President’s participation in enriching his family is,
in a word, abuse in a highest order.
[James] And the 118th Congress’ Committee
will evaluate the status of Joe Biden for relationship of his family’s foreign partners
and whether he is a president who is compromised.
[Aleksandr] Why is the US media silent?
[Aleksandr] Who owns the American media?
[Presenter] Russia's invasion into Ukraine has divided the world.
[Presenter] The United States and its allies in the West
have tried to project a united front against Russian aggression,
...Russian missile fired from somewhere off of Ukraine
went into Ukraine's airspace, but then veered into Eastern Poland and actually hit a target...
not a target, but a site in Eastern Poland, killing two people. This is...
...with Russia's Foreign Ministry tonight,
warning that American commercial satellites
could be a target because of America's aid for Ukraine.
It is a direct threat from Russia to the United States...
[Paul] We had some years ago
a book by a German editor of the largest newspaper in Germany
UDO ULFKOTTE, EDITOR, FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG, GERMAN NEWSPAPER, 1986-2003 [Paul] who confessed that he together with every important journalist in Europe
were on the CIA’s payroll.
[Paul] He said they hand us the stories and we publish them.
[Paul] So, the ability of the CIA to control explanations
both in the United States and in Europe
has grown tremendously
over the last seventy years,
seventy-two years since 1950.
[Anna] Do you remember cases
when the Americans interfered in EU politics when they had no right to?
[Malek] The US has been trying to influence European politics since World War II
[Malek] NATO was created for that
[Malek] But the most famous recent example
is the phone tapping of various European politicians,
including Angela Merkel from the late 2000s to the early 2010s,
which Edward Snowden's revelations exposed in 2013
[John] In 2015, I had somebody contact me and say…
[John] It was the captain that used to leak information to me.
[John] He said, “John, you’ve got to be careful. These guys are going to have you killed.”
[John] And I was like, “Who?”
[John] And he told me the name of the guy,
an investigator by the name of Kenneth Mark Louis.
[VO] Dugan changed his voice to female
using a piece of computer software
and called the investigator working the case.
[VO] The latter didn’t suspect the romantic conversations
were being recorded, and let it slip.
[John] So on the recordings this detective even said
that they were going to have me put in jail
with a violent criminal to have me killed.
[John] Well, I mean…
[John] Yeah. So just… just a lot of documents that I got over the years.
[John] I usually had posted my audio files.
[John] So, for instance this one. Let's see
[John] He’s talking about me.
Internet. Internet terrorism.
[John] What the FBI did is, they claimed it was hacking.
[John] And they raided my home,
them and the Sheriff's office,
and the State Attorney’s office,
45 agents raided my home to get evidence of hacking.
[John] Because nothing was ever hacked.
[John] But what they did have is they did have the proof that I made those 19 recordings,
which would subject me to 95 years in prison.
[Voice] He worked for us for a short period of time at the Sheriff's Office...
[Voice] And he was let go.
[Voice] He caused us to get sued…
[John] Yeah, my Jessica was great.
[John] A bit before the raid
I had a whistleblower out of Washington, DC, who is now dead.
[John] He was killed in a supposed robbery,
shot in the back But nothing had been taken from him.
[John] Very strange robbery So I knew I had to leave.
[John] my first thing is, well, I need to get out of the US.
[John] And I started... I went down to the Keys, and I rented a boat, I was gonna go to Cuba.
STRASBOURG, FRANCE NOVEMBER 23, 2022
[Roberta Metsola, President, European Parliament] We move on the resolution on recognizing the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism.
[Roberta] Broadly adopted. Congratulations!
[Mark Sleboda, Political Scientist]
[Mark] My wife is Crimean. My mother-in-law lives in Simferopol.
[Mark] And we have family in the Donbass, in Donetsk,
Kharkov, Odessa — all over East Ukraine.
[Mark] They have never accepted the US-backed putsch regime
that seized power there and has ruled since
and waged war to subjugate the East of the country
to their seizure of power in Kyiv.
[Anna] Despite everything, big politics has not destroyed mixed marriages,
and the love that lives in them is still solid
[Anna] Thank God, there are still educated people
who aren't afraid to get to the truth and remain true to their principles
[Anna] Even when they're shamed and told: 'Supporting Russia is a dead end,'
they keep investigating and continue to search for the truth
[Anna] Our heroes do what they think is right
[Mark] The promise that Biden made back in December, in January
that there will be no 'boots on the ground' in Ukraine,
and it's not on the table, it's not in the cards...
is completely reversed, and that's being done incrementally...
[Anthony Blinken, United States Secretary of State] A ‘drawdown’ as we call it.
[Blinken] And that brings our total commitment in security assistance to Ukraine
KIEV, UKRAINE, SEPTEMBER 8, 2022 [Blinken] since February to 13.5 billion dollars.
[Lloyd Austin, United States Secretary of Defense] So, our support for Ukraine’s self-defense
is an investment in our own security,
and prosperity as well.
[Austin] We will stand by Ukraine as it fights to defend itself
[Anna] Americans deploy the entire machine of the Deep State:
mass media, intelligence agencies, endless amounts of money,
some fake criminal cases, threats, and so on...
[Aleksandr] They have allocated about $400 million to American specialists
to investigate 'crimes' of the Russian Federation
[Aleksandr] Now, around $350 million is being spent...
on American specialists and experts to train the Ukrainians
[Daniel] Well, one thing we know is that the CIA has been training
people in eastern Ukraine to kill Russians.
[Daniel] That's a direct quote from some of the people being trained.
[Daniel] And their goal has nothing to do with helping Ukrainians.
[Daniel] It's fighting Russia.
[Mark Milley, US Army General, 20th Chairman, United States Joint Chiefs of Staff] We, and other countries, are building a platoon at the time
in order to certify the Ukrainians.
[Fighter] No panic! No panic!
[Fighter] Go! Go! Go!
[Fighter] Yeah, I see him! There he goes!
[Fighter] I see a Russian run from his fighting position his little hole.
[Fighter] And he ran to his next fighting position.
[Fighter] I think I hit him. I hope I did.
[Paul] They got... they dethroned Trump for trying to
improve the situation with the Russians.
[Paul] And no one is going to be allowed.
[Paul] That’s not in the interests of the CIA.
FOREIGN LEGION IN UKRAINE, 2022
[Nebenzya] I won't name all the aggressive acts the US has committed in its history,
UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING, FEBRUARY 26, 2022 but you're in no position to lecture us!
[John] There's no bigger state-sponsor of terrorism than America.
[John] Every single terrorist organization
that became prominent in the world
is directly due to American actions and influence and funding.
[John] I can’t think of any that’s not.
[John] I mean, look at them – ISIS, Hezbollah… All of them.
[John] From South America to…
you know, Asia and Africa.,
Just… America has done more damage to the world than any other country
[Trump] And now we have a war between Russia and Ukraine
with potentially hundreds of thousands of people dying
that would never ever, ever, in a million years, have happened if I were President.
[Paul] The security agencies, the FBI, the NSA,
the FBI are on the Democrat side,
we've seen that since the appearance of Trump in 2016.
[Paul] I mean, what was Russia Gate about?
[Paul] It was those agencies operating against Trump.
[Paul] What was the first impeachment about of Trump?
[Paul] The same thing.
[Paul] The second impeachment, the same thing.
[Paul] What is the so-called January insurrection?
[Paul] The same thing. It's the same agencies operating against Trump.
WASHINGTON D.C., JANUARY 6, 2021
[Protester] March on Congress! Directly after Trump’s speech!
[Protester] To protect the Constitution of the United States against enemies — foreign and domestic!
[Paul] It's correct to say,
it's not so much they’re on that Democrat side,
yet they are against Trump because
he has threatened to take away their enemy.
[Paul] That is the basis for their power
and their existence and their budget.
[Anna] When Trump took office, he immediately dismissed
the Treasury's Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence,
Sigal Mandelker,
and John Smith, Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control,
as well as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
[Anna] We also know he wanted to get rid of CIA Director Gina Haspel,
Secretary of Defence Mark Esper, and FBI Director Christopher Wray,
who still holds this position
[Vasily Koltashov, Economist, Head, New Society Institute] Trump started by purging the security services
[Vasily] To carry out his policies, he needed to cut off all the dragons' heads
[Vasily] For Trump to wield real, unfettered power,
[Vasily] it wasn't enough to immobilise the special services
[Vasily] He had very limited success in this
[Vladimir Vasilyev, Chief Researcher, Institute for US and Canada Studies, RAS] What did Trump say?
'My main goal, if I become president,
will be to drain the Washington swamp
[Vladimir] We should no longer be controlled by the Deep State'
[VO] In Miami, Dugan noticed he was being followed and realised the FBI wouldn’t let him escape to Cuba.
[VO] He came up with a new plan, on the go.
[John] This is me and my wig!
[John] Yeah [Anna] This is Jessica
[John] This is when I was sneaking out of the country
driving north towards New York
[John] So I gave them the slip in Miami and went to my lawyers.
[John] I sent my kids a letter.
[John] Then I went to my mom’s house,
got a blond wig, some blue glasses...
[John] Yeah. Yeah, I pretended to be Jessica, yeah.
[John] Well, you know. LGBT, what can I say?
[John] ...changed my appearance, left out a different entrance.
[John] And I went to New York. Rented a small plane
[Anna] Who are the US secret services and media
protecting with taxpayer money?
[Anna] Who is the main beneficiary in this story?
[Daniel] America at one point was the manufacturing center
of the world and was proud of that.
[Daniel] But at some point, the wealthy decided:
“Why don’t I just make money on money?”
[Daniel] We’re turning into a giant casino where we don’t make anything.
[Daniel] All money is.. it’s just… all fake.
[Daniel] So it’s not a real economy.
[Daniel] There’s no way this is sustainable.
[Daniel] This will not last.
[Daniel] This is going to fall apart.
[Anna] Who holds the real power in America?
[Vasily] US power belongs to financial capital
[Vasily] The American stock market has lost over $50 trillion during Biden's term
[Vasily] With instruments like the Federal Reserve System,
this capital could dominate everything else, especially since 2008
[Vasily] The real production sector was subjugated and subdued,
and consequently destroyed
[VO] The term 'banksters' appeared in the 20th century.
[VO] Journalists started using it to describe the bankers who legally controlled the US Federal Reserve System,
and made money out of thin air.
[Paul] This term refers to the three large New York banks
and maybe the two large California banks,
so that’s five American banks.
[Paul] It refers to probably two of the large British banks,
to Deutsche Bank in Germany,
to Credit Suisse in Switzerland,
and that’s about it.
[Paul] These are the banks that are “too big to fail,”
the banks that the United States Federal Reserve is always available to bail out.
[Dmitry] 'Banksters' are new money - funds
[Dmitry] These are so-called 'venture investors'
[Mikhail Hazin, Economist] The notorious Deep State is made up of officials raised by financiers
within the framework of 'liberal' ideology
[Hazin] If democracy is the power of democrats,
liberalism is the power of financiers and bankers
[Hazin] Clinton and Biden are the most prominent part of the financiers
[Paul] Well, the dominant financial group, of course,
are the United States and UK banks,
and their objective is their hegemony.
[Paul] They basically control the international financial system.
[Paul] Their means of control are the Federal Reserve, Bank of England,
and, of course, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
[Hazin] People are printing money!
[Hazin] They've realised the alchemists' dream - they make gold in a beaker!
[Hazin] And it's their beaker!
[Hazin] Why should they share it with those they don't like?
[Paul] Globalism is not multipolar.
[Paul] Globalism is unipolar.
[Paul] It’s in the hands of American hegemony,
and therefore, the hegemony of American financial and corporate enterprises.
[VO] Dugan knew the police and the FBI were hunting for him.
[VO] He’d be detained at any US airport,
but he found a way out of this apparent impasse.
[John] But for small airplanes –
nobody checks that.
[John] So, I found somebody with a 172, which is a small 4-seat airplane.
[John] So, I knew which coordinates to go to,
and, as soon as we got to that coordinates, I faked a heart attack,
and he made an emergency landing at a small airfield.
[John] As soon as we landed, I threw him 600 bucks, I grabbed my bag, I was like: “Dude, you better get the hell out of here before somebody shows up.”
[John] And I grabbed my bag, and I fled to Toronto.
[John] And then I flew from Toronto to Istanbul, to Moscow.
[Daniel] They used to say that the business of America is business.
[Daniel] Now the business of America is war.
[Aleksandr] After World War II, America was the only power in the world
that had become richer as a result of the war
[Aleksandr] In a similar vein, the war in Ukraine is extremely beneficial
for the US military-industrial complex
[Mark] So that they should run the world
and that anything they do to reach that goals...
[Mark] It’s, you know, this type of excusing away...
Madeleine Albright was... was very blunt
in her speaking of the US as the exceptional nation
and that when the US does something bad
it's for the cause of good.
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[John] We got a Javeline here, protective case.
[John] The idea that America would furnish this types of weapons to terrorists,
Nazi terrorists…
that they designated in 2019 —
[John] Congress designated the fact that they’re terrorists in 2019.
[John] They can justify it anyway you want, but you know the truth.
[VO] Dugan posts the truth on his website,
what he’s seen with his own eyes.
[VO] Due to the position he took he was forced to flee the United States.
[VO] He hasn’t even been able to return to his homeland to say goodbye to his loved ones.
[John] And then Christmas 2018, Christmas Eve actually, my mom died. And I couldn’t go.
[John] I had to say goodbye to her on Facetime.
[John] And my father, he got COVID, had to say goodbye in Facetime.
[John] Couldn’t go to their funerals.
[John] So on that regard it wasn’t easy,
but honestly – I don’t regret moving here.
[John] I feel like I’m home.
[Anna] Do you believe Trump?
[Mark] As a general rule, no.
[Mark] Never. Donald Trump has a very creative relationship with truth.
[Anna] That’s a very handsome way to put this.
[Anna] But we have no other choice, do we?
[Mark] I mean, that's the whole point – there is no choice in American politics.
[Mark] ‘Would you prefer Coke or Pepsi this year?’ I mean, that’s it.
[Mark] When does American foreign policy change? Never.
[Anna] It's very easy to feel anger for Americans
[Anna] We want revenge for all they've made us lose,
and not only Russians feel this way
[Anna] But, the fact of the matter is that US citizens themselves
are in the same position as we
[Anna] The Americans are targeted by disinformation just like we are
[Anna] Only the most educated or those who feed at the public trough
can guess the real state of affairs
[Joe Biden, 46th US President] We’re dealing with global inflation as a result of the pandemic and Putin’s war in Ukraine.
[Biden] We're also handling it better than most other advanced nations in the world.
[Biden] And I'll always put the needs and interests of the American people first.
[Daniel] The government, it really is not accountable to the people.
[Daniel] I mean, how could it be? Right now the US is sending billions of dollars to Ukraine,
while, I just saw yesterday, 50%, half of Americans, now live at or near poverty levels.
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[Marjorie Taylor Greene] The American people, the taxpayers of this country,
deserve to know where their money is going and how it's being spent.
[Marjorie] Of the 54 billion... 44 billion is for 'aid to Ukraine and other affected countries.'
[Marjorie] What other countries?
[Marjorie] How are they impacted? Are we talking about Poland?
[Marjorie] Where Ukraine fired missiles, and it accidentally killed two people in Poland?
[Marjorie] Is that what we're talking about?
[VO] On December 8, 2022,
the majority of US House of Representatives members
voted against the Republican bill to audit funds
allocated by the US to the government of Ukraine.
[VO] Members of the Democratic Party feared it would make it difficult to support Kiev.
[Voice] Clerk to report the vote.
[Woman] Mr. Chairman, on that vote there were 26 yea's and 22 no's
[Aleksandr] The 6th audit of the Pentagon and its assets was recently carried out
[Aleksandr] 61% of the Pentagon's assets could not be found
[Aleksandr] Where did they go? Where were they allocated?
[Aleksandr] 61%!
[Aleksandr] After January 3rd, they'll be asking where those billions of dollars went,
and what 'Hunter Bidens' they were spent on
[Vasily] The American government is essentially a complex oligarchy
[Vasily] The power belongs to big financial capital...
and this system is deeply undemocratic
[Mark] Well, Biden is pushing us to World War III.
[Mark] I mean, you have to consider that that is the worst.
[Mark] I mean, we should never be in this position.
[Mark] The US has no business in Ukraine.
[VO] In 2022, the US military budget was almost $800 billion.
[VO] The U.S. House of Representatives has already approved an $858 billion defence budget for 2023,
an absolute world record for army maintenance and new weapon types production.
Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, DynСorp.
Those are the ones that come to mind. I think the big two are Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.
And they openly talk about how they love war. I mean, they openly say that.
[Vladimir Blokhin, Professor, RUDN University] Mark Esper became head of the Pentagon in 2019
[Blokhin] Prior to his appointment, he was Vice President
of aircraft manufacturer Raytheon Technologies
[Blokhin] This shows the connection between business and America's elite
[Blokhin] The US Secretary of Defense is a shareholder in
[Blokhin] Raytheon Technologies, a huge company that produces F-35 aircraft
[Blokhin] There are many such examples
[Blokhin] The revolving door of
top business managers and high-profile government officials
is characteristic of the American business model
[Paul] That is the movement from executives in armaments industries, for example,
into Pentagon offices, into the Secretary of Defense, into security agencies.
[Paul] And then they’re returned to their companies.
[Paul] It’s a way for executives to increase the income performance
of their companies and thereby benefit from the bonuses from higher profits.
[Paul] This revolving door is commonplace in the United States government.
[Paul] It affects every Cabinet office, it affects every industry.
[Daniel] Now his– the new strategic policy of the United States
is we’re willing to use a nuclear weapon first.
[Daniel] That’s never been true. Never.
[Mark] US foreign policy does not change,
it is the policy of the hegemon and whatever,
you know, president may think when he takes office,
he finds himself inevitably following it
because the foreign policy Elite, The Blob, as Ben Rhodes termed it,
– the bureaucracy in the state department and the National Security Agency, they run things.
[John] There is the illusion of democracy.
[John] There is less democracy there than I’ve seen, for example, in Donetsk People’s Republic.
[John] That’s the true democracy. I’m serious.
[John] I’m serious.. America hasn’t been a democracy for over 50 years.
[Daniel] US is a danger to the world as it is.
[Daniel] Cause it has all this economic power that it uses for the military.
[Daniel] It's about my country. That most of what I understood about my own country was not true.
[Daniel] You know, that it wasn’t the land of freedom, and democracy and equality.
[Daniel] You know, that it has very deep problem.
[Paul] ...that the deep state, the CIA
is not going to permit the United States to be at peace with the world.
[Paul] We’ve got to have an enemy, they’re dependent on it.
[Paul] And we’re going to have an enemy, period.
[Malek] America is the most powerful country on Earth,
so its Deep State is trying to control the whole world, not just the US
[John] These are sick and twisted people
that care about nothing but money and power.
[John] It’s not even hate, I think they are indifferent,
they just want money and power and they are indifferent … as long as they can get money and power
[Aleksandr] America no longer belongs to itself
[Aleksandr] America is occupied
[Aleksandr] It's the globalists...
the global financiers...
and the Soros people
that America belongs to now:
the globalists, financiers,
and transnational corporations that have no concept of a home country
[AleksandrThey have no concept of nationality
[Aleksandr] Their 'homeland' is the colour green - the colour of the dollar
[Anna] The choice is always ours: we can endlessly blame each other,
make up lies, and distort the truth,
or treat each other with respect,
remembering we are all just people made from the same human flesh