LUONGO: never forget that Europe was okay with the idea of fighting a war in Russia as long as we paid for it and we ultimately fought it.

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Here is the interview.

7:00  Netanyahu was against it because this was a means by which Europe would get access to cheap Iranian energy.  Go back and remember that it was Total, the French state energy company that signed the first major exploration deal with Iran after the JCPOA, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [i.e., the Iran Nuclear Deal, signed in 2015], was signed.  When you put all of that together, Varadkar maps to Davos in Europe.  Davos maps to backing Palestine, backs Palestinians against the Israelis, Netanyahu's purge of the Palestinians, whether or not Netanyahu is justified in . . . that's beyond my purview here.

8:17  Now the Biden administration has a very interesting problem, a conundrum because many issues map directly to Davos.  And on other things, it's also a nest of traditional Neoconservatives, the whole National Security Council and State Department have been staffed with the worst Clintonista Neocons--Jake Sullivan, Anthony Blinken, formerly Victoria Nuland, yada, yada, yada.  So what's going on here?  The Neocons were put in charge by Davos to run the war in Ukraine to pressure Russia.  It was their project.  They're the ones who built it.  They're the ones who built Ukraine, but never forget that Europe was okay with the idea of fighting a war in Russia as long as we paid for it and we ultimately fought it.  But the minute it became too big a cost for them, they were no longer interested in it; or, more appropriately, the minute we were no longer willing to bankrupt ourselves and commit ritualistic f*cking suicide as a country, meaning the United States, they lost their minds.  So firing Victoria Nuland from the State Department set a lot of dominoes in motion because all of a sudden Europe is left with a war they picked against Russia, they're committed to it, and the United States is like, "You know what? No."  And then the second front opens up with Israel and Palestinians in October 2023, and Davos is running that game as well, and Netanyahu is saying, "No."  So now the Biden Administration is trying to slow everyone's role in the Middle East to do what Davos wants them to do, i.e., get a ceasefire, and everybody is lined up across the board on this front because it looks bad.  It just flat-out looks bad.  Now Europe looks like the ones aggressing in Ukraine, pushing things forward; the Americans are backing away.  And they've got the Americans basically talking out both sides of their mouths in the Middle East, and now it's an untenable situation, an untenable sh*tshow for everybody, politically and reputationally around the world.  I don't know.  I'm laying aside a whole bunch of other issues, but I think Leo Varadkar stood there and said I wasn't going to bow to Joe Biden over support for Palestine, but he was on his way out the door anyway because he had already lost the confidence of his coalition.  I think that's probably as close as a good take on this as I can come up with.