EM BURLINGAME: again I'm not saying it's a nuke I'm not saying that that's not what but what I'm trying to say is that there was something else on that ship other than oil it could have been as simple as, it could have been an Azov group of leaders who are coming here to the US or moving somewhere else to lead some jihadis or somebody else

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— Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch) (@TFL1728) December 13, 2025

Blaine, retired One-Star General for the United States.  You were second in command for NATO at one point.  Also in charge of logistics for under General Petraeus at some point. 

And EM [Burlingame], you are a former Green Beret, a fabulous writer, and historian.  

Let's start with the Venezuelan oil tanker that was taken by US Security Forces.  On the one side I was just scrolling through X, and it was "Homeland Security and the FBI because it's got sanctioned oil from Iran."  And other reports said that "it's on its way to Cuba and Cuba is now going to suffer."

All noise.

There was something else on that ship it wasn't oil and it probably wasn't drugs.

1:25. Might have been human beings.  

1:26.  Might have been human beings or, even more, it might have been weapons and explosives and fighters.

1:32.  Yeah or somebody's missing trigger or something of a radiological . . .

1:35.  Or, exactly.

1:37.  Right, so people have this misapprobation that we give all . . . I know that most of the world thinks that we care only about oil.  We have more oil than we can use. That's the great excuse but we don't need anybody else's in the world's oil.  So if we do something that, you know, touches on oil, it isn't about oil.  

2:00. Let me broaden it out a little bit.  When I get on American news shows, the shift on this boat everybody seems to think that what we're doing is just trying to stem the tide of drugs into the United States.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  The war against the cartels has many tentacles and elements to it.  Drugs is a part of it, it's a very, very justifiable part of it for us to go after those things.  However, there is a much bigger prize out there and that prize is not even in the region it's not even in Venezuela.  That prize sits in Dubai, Qatar, Brunei, Italy the UK.  It's all the world's most powerful who make so much money off of the illicit everything that these people, the cartels, enable.  So what the United States is doing with this campaign is, yeah, we are taking out some of your supply chains.. that's just the attention getting step.  You've got an oil tanker that's owned by 50 shell companies leading up to some Ukrainian oligarch.  Even if it was just oil in there that was shady and enables laundering, that would be enough.  I'm going exactly with EM.  Something else was on that ship that caught our attention.  The other part of it is, if we hit it, which we did, but we took it, we didn't hit it.  We didn't blow it up.  What that means is we know exactly whose rice bowl we just kicked over by taking it.  So we know all the way through.  If you go through the financial forensics and the guys repelled off into the ship.  

4:18.  It's one small little tanker.  It's not going to change anything.  We can sanction the funding on the other side.  We can sanction the sender.  We can sanction the ship owner.  By sanction, I mean we can punish, we can hurt.  Anything that has to do with the seller, the transporter, the insurer of the transporter, and the delivery, the receiver on the other side, and probably two streams up from there.  We have all kinds of tools to punish those people for doing some kind of a resource transaction, natural resource transaction, that we don't like we don't take ships for that.  It's too dangerous too risky and it raises too many issues about piracy on the seas.  Too many PR issues.  So if we take a ship it's because there's something else on that ship.

I want to go back to something Blaine said.  I was in the CIF. I was a counter proliferation guy.  Commanders In-Extremist Force, or it went to CRF, Crisis Response Force, but Commanders In-Extremist Force, we're Delta Force Seal Team 6 light, or the JAG team.  We work with a group called DTRA, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, that's public information.  What does DTRA do along with the Russians and the Chinese and others?  We monitor radiological smallest little piece of radiological materials all over the world-- equipment, hardware, component pieces, all of that stuff is monitored and tracked as closely as possibly can be done.  If you're going to force World War 3 and nothing else is working, what is the final step that you're going to go to?

You're going to go nuclear you're going to do a dirty nuke or you're going to do a nuke in some Western city, town, or community and you're going to use Azov Ukrainians, who are fluent Russian speakers, to put in . . . we're going to . . . where you're going to find a passport at the burn down World Trade Center kind of trick.  And you're going to do a dirty nuke or a nuke and you're going to make it look like the Russians did it.

So what do you think Chinese the Russians Iranians Persian and US intelligence the good factions the US intelligence are single-minded focused against right now?  And oh, by the way, the asovs and the British and by the way unfortunately the Americans at the time try this twice already in the Ukraine.

6:53.  Let me add something here that might be very helpful because you viciously tried to besmirch and take away the credibility of me and EM in your recalcitrant remarks not two seconds ago about whether or not we were putting spin on the ball and trying to get inside the heads of your listeners and watchers rent free.  There's this beautiful tool online called Marinetraffic.com.  Anybody can look it up.  Dial your viewer over to Venezuela and Caracas I am in the territorial Waters around Venezuela I'm looking at no fewer than five tankers right now squander but so we're not going to squander the resources to just go and wrap up a whole fleet of tankers it's very inefficient, leads to nothing, doesn't get what you want you want.  However, you heard me in our last talk about my model of the Jenga Tower. Remove several blocks out of the illegal illicit Jenga Tower, then it's worth taking.  And if it's got a prize on board like a dirty nuke a nuclear trigger or components or some parts that are bad because we have sniffers I'm not going to get into that and nobody's going to get to ask me about that that we'll find those things.  And so we picked off this one ship out of a fleet of them now the interesting thing for me is when you look at the US Congress you have a lot of people finding TV cameras this morning to talk into to say,

This is an outrage!  How could the president get into piracy!  He's taking away the ships!

Now you're looking at the people's who's rice bowls are being tipped over by this ship taking, because they're not doing is going, 

Wow, yeah, we got to protect America.  I don't know what's going on with the military, but thank goodness they're out there doing a great job.

8:52.  Let's add to that.  You generally don't take a ship at sea due to the difficulty and complexity of that unless you need to take a ship at sea.  Unless you are worried and concerned about a sea-based transition to some other vessel. Otherwise you track it from Air from space you let it arrive you track a monitor maybe you got some boots on the ground generally you have boots on the ground where it's going to arrive and you deal with it that way so that you don't understand you take a ship at Sea it's because you are concerned they're going to transport something from that ship to something else.

9:32.  And at the higher end, it affected somebody, and they talked into a phone to complain about that and now we know who they are.

9:41.  Correct. Correct.  Correct. Or somebody just made a phone call and said, well, this has been interdicted or this has been delayed and now we know where that . . . so generally these kinds of interdictions and again I'm not saying it's a nuke I'm not saying that that's not what but what I'm trying to say is that there was something else on that ship other than oil it could have been as simple as, it could have been an Azov group of leaders who are coming here to the US or moving somewhere else to lead some jihadis or somebody else that they've been training with in Ukraine or Tren de Aragua or you know it's Devil's Legions assets and it could have been could have been some command on that ship Because by the way that is how they like to transport them because it's too easy to track planes . . .  

10:26.  Let me wield an idea so what if you know how Intel cells in these places are all made out I mean by square footage the cubicle Farms the analysts screens all of that stuff so in these Arrangements you've got the Deep State kids who are running things that are black programs off book because they're working for the bad people and then in the same areas you've got legitimate Intel people just doing their Intel work so in this war in this campaign do you think it's even possible that some of the good kids are going over the cubicles of the bad kids finding out what they're up to and then going and ratting their asses out I think that's what's happening here.

11:11.  

TOM LUONGO: it's why he's deporting Tren de Aragua. It's why they're fighting him and saying, "Well . . . these are real people. They've been here for 15 years." Yes, 15 years running drugs and kids and everything else.

@_BitcoinMatrix #247: We're In A Perpetual War

In this episode, I chat with @TFL1728 about the power games behind markets and politics. If you want a hard-hitting map of the current geopolitical and cultural battlefield, this one’s for you

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— Cedric Youngelman ⚡️ (@CedYoungelman) October 13, 2025

They're losing control of the gold market.  They're losing control of the silver.  They've lost control of the silver market.  They've lost control of the gold market.  Now the big question is are they going to . . . the definition of money is changing.  It is becoming digitized or it's becoming tokenized.  I know that sounds risky to Bitcoiners, that sounds like, oh, my God, that's just those are just s*** coins.  I'm like well I got news for you, I understand also that you guys feel that US dollars are s*** coins. Be honest with you I don't disagree with that sentiment.  It is a Perpetual War.  You're always fighting this impulse for people to want to rule over others.  If you read the Constitution carefully, folks.  If you think Trump is a dictator now, you ain't seen with the president can actually do.  Now he knows, and he's executing like he knows.  Are we going to stand up like men and say we want to live free or are we going to . . .

How many Americans do you think are aware of any of this?  

3:07.  . . . simply put, you have to accept the fact that the game that Trump is actually fighting is playing and is much different than the game that everybody thinks he's playing the best way I've described it recently is that we all exist we all kind of everyday we get up and we interface the game the great game yeah who runs the world and all of that and we see it at the ground level we see it at the middle management level right?  We see it at the Hillary Clinton level at the gym Comey level not even at the George Soros level because he is at best upper management Larry Fink at Black Rock also upper management.  But they're not really the actual game. What you have is at least three strata.  You have the lieutenants who are doing stuff on a day-to-day basis you have the upper management who run all the big corporations and supposedly the countries but there is not there's really not that much difference between the countries and the corporations that we're talking about the black rocks and Microsoft Bill Gates Foundations the Ford Foundation the European Union what not and then you have the strata above that the people who nominally I would put under that rubric of Davos but it's that is more pointed than that.  Now it's a king of England the old banking cartels of Europe it's the real bankers and the real movers and shakers of the world who don't have Wikipedia pages.  They have banking relationships with banks you've never heard of.  I hate to be blunt but the whole concept of the high table and the Unseen world of John Wick is probably closer to the truth then we would like to to be comfortable with the reality is that the high tables unseen layer of organized crime assassins drug traffickers human traffickers a traffic flow when we see a kids in a black block running around the streets of Chicago and Portland attacking ICE agents, and the local police department's turning a blind eye to it, and then we get angry about it, and then we say, "Well, see, Donald Trump doesn't have this crime under control."  Well he's the reason that they're doing that s*** like that now is because he is fighting them at that level.  That's why he's blowing boats out of the water off the coast of Venezuela.  It's why he's killing . . . it's why he's deporting Tren de Aragua.  It's why they're fighting him and saying, "Well . . .  these are real people.  They've been here for 15 years."  Yes, 15 years running drugs and kids and everything else.  I'm sorry but that's the reality.  

6:20.  Then when you look at the counter moves that have been happening every time Trump puts pressure on them and one Arena they fight back in another Arena.  And so what we are dealing with literally right now that the Civil War is on it's actually been going on for a while but the Civil War in the United States is happening as we speak everything you're seeing out of the Democrats with the shutdown, with the way they're running the shutdown, it's all tied absolute directly to trying to stop Trump from recapitalizing the middle class through the plan of action that he has to lower regulations Deport all the illegals change the immigration system cut the regulations in half trying and get taxes lowered fire a whole bunch of federal staff get rid of the managerial state and and all that cuts at various levels and attacks all their funding.  When you think about how you beat a big unseen enemy like that you don't send Keanu Reeves in with an unlimited supply of ammunition that's a metaphor the Unstoppable killing machine really is a man of supreme will I'm not talking Donald Trump is John Wick here I'm just saying that John Wick exists as an idea that we're going to have infinite will to do what's necessary to take these people down no matter how much it cost us, no matter how much violence is going to be applied against us that's where we are so we watch Trump and what's he doing?  He's attacking their funding at three very very important levels the first level was USAID and the NGOs that's the public money that he could have direct access to as the Article II Executive of the United States.  The second layer is the more dangerous layer.  That's the one they're fighting him on now, which is the cartels, the organized crime, the private money that, and all the government related money laundering that goes on. Remember the organized crime layer, that upper management or the unseen layer interacts with, they interact with the various organized crime families and organizations around the world.  They're interfacing with directly with all the IC intelligence community of all the major countries in the world. So that link has to be broken and that money has to dry up and you have to attack process so it's a two-pronged assault first it's DNI Gabbard going after various people within the intelligence community, outing them, firing them when necessary, or whatever.  And the other side of it is, of course, sending Tom Holman with ICE and arresting them all, and then watching the response.  Once you view this as a big freaking gang war as a Turf War of Epic Proportions then you realize that this is a war and that and genders anxiety in normal people because they see it as just chaos.  And wars are fought strategically.  That means you're seeing a whole variety of different actions being taken of different types.  If I just saw chaos, Cedric, I wouldn't . . . try to blow a literal smoke up your ass and say it wasn't that if I didn't actually see what I thought.  Like, if I had a plan to take these people out, it would look a lot like what Donald Trump is doing I never really had a plan on it I just kind of like had a vague idea in my head but the more I started watching it play itself out, I'm like, "Oh, that's what he's doing."  And the more I talk to people who have military backgrounds and whatnot who understand this type of action this kind of theory of action and we, I see one part of it in the financial markets, in the information warfare,  we all come to the same conclusion this is what's going on.