Episode 5147: An American Tet Offensive; Remembering Robert Duvall

Summary

Podcast Summary: Bannon’s War Room – Episode 5147

Title: An American Tet Offensive; Remembering Robert Duvall
Date: February 17, 2026
Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Guests: Sam Faddis, Taj Gill, George Papadopoulos, Mike Lindell

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Overview

This episode of Bannon’s War Room centers on two main themes:

1. The "American Tet Offensive": A discussion on the perceived scale, organization, and ideological drive of current left-wing activist movements, which Bannon and his guests compare to the Viet Cong’s Tet Offensive as a turning point that shifted the trajectory of conflict in the Vietnam War.
2. Remembering Robert Duvall: Reflections on the late actor’s influence, accompanied by memorable scenes from his roles.
   Further, the episode touches on global de-dollarization, American involvement in Ukraine, and topics of political strategy and business resilience.

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Key Discussion Points

1. The "American Tet Offensive" and Marxist Revolutionary Movements

(Timestamps: 00:36–13:51)

a. Comparison to Vietnam’s Tet Offensive

• Bannon lays out the analogy, asserting that the US is facing a large-scale, coordinated, and well-funded revolutionary movement, comparable in surprise and impact to the Tet Offensive.
  • "This is a Tet offensive. People remember in Vietnam, the Tet offensive caught us totally by surprise … It was an inflection point to put the Communists on the path to victory." (02:28)

b. Left-Wing Activism Characterized as Revolutionary

• Sam Faddis expands on the analogy:
  • Asserts the leftist movement’s goal is “literally destroying the Republic … the existing political, economic and social order.”
  • Cites funding from hostile foreign governments and "leftist billionaires" fueling the infrastructure.
  • Claims arresting individuals is insufficient; the movement’s roots must be targeted.
  • "We’ve got a massive, ongoing communist revolutionary movement in the country. Very well funded, Communist Chinese chip in, the Cubans chip in, all kinds of bad actors chip in." (05:19)
  • “We’re busy arresting individual persons in the street in Minneapolis for assaulting an ICE agent … and doing nothing to tear this thing out by the roots, which ought to be our number one priority.” (06:04)

c. "The Issue is Never the Issue..."

• David Horowitz’s adage, as explained by Bannon and Faddis:
  • "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." (06:16–06:50)
  • Faddis: “Anything you are screaming about and using as a cause is just a lever … it's just a point at which you can divide society. It's a means to the end.” (06:52)
  • Attributing growing power to organizations like Democratic Socialists of America, claiming imminent takeover of the Democratic Party.

d. Media, Deep State, and Chaos

• Bannon and Faddis discuss the role of media and "deep state":
  • "One of their purposes is to create chaos, and from chaos comes anarchy." (08:27)
  • Faddis: "The solution … is to tear out by the roots the organizations … setting the country on fire." (09:23)

e. Ideological Indoctrination in Education

• Bannon compares activist youth to China’s "Red Guard," blaming decades of leftist indoctrination at universities and its trickle-down effect on all levels of US education.
  • "They've used the schools, the private schools, the top schools in the country ... to be basically a madrasa for revolution." (10:41)
  • Faddis: "The entire structure, the whole educational structure of the United States, is now infected with that ideology." (11:33)
  • National Education Association’s president cited as aligning with the Marxist Sunrise Movement, allegedly mobilizing educators for revolutionary causes. (11:56–13:01)

f. Practical Call to Action & Resources

• Faddis promotes his work at And Magazine (13:37)
• Bannon: "This is a full on Marxist jihadist movement … It must be maniacally focused and we must take action or we're going to be overwhelmed." (13:53)

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2. Cultural Tribute: Remembering Robert Duvall

(Timestamps: 16:22–27:46)

a. Memorable Moments/Dialogue

• The hosts and guests read/act out celebrated lines from Duvall's film career, including Lonesome Dove, The Godfather, Network, and Apocalypse Now.
  • "I love the smell of napalm in the morning.... The whole hill smells like victory." – Robert Duvall as Kilgore in Apocalypse Now (23:38)
• Warm reminiscences and laughter as they reflect on Duvall’s impact.

b. Announcement of His Passing

• Bannon: "Robert Duvall, dead at 95 years old. We're going to take a short commercial break." (27:49)

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3. Ukraine, Global Geopolitics, and De-dollarization

(Timestamps: 29:51–43:07)

a. Ukraine & American Military Appetite

• Taj Gill, sharing military and contractor experience:
  • "I think that the appetite is low to zero for doing this for 20 years, Steve, especially with Ukraine ... We want the money here. We want the money for our Children for our communities..." (32:13)
  • Cites corruption in Ukraine, criticizes funding.

b. The Move Away from the Dollar (De-dollarization)

• George Papadopoulos, fresh from a visit to Moscow:
  • Argues the real war is over the dollar’s role as reserve currency, citing US sanctions as the trigger for BRICS expansion and Russia–China alignment.
  • "The acceleration towards the de dollarization and the attack on the US dollar has really been instigated by these sanctions … it created the so called BRICS movement..." (35:38)
  • Suggests Russia seeks a return to US economic partnership for mutual benefit, and that resolving the Ukraine crisis is essential to protect the dollar's future.

c. How to End the Ukraine Conflict: Dividing Ukraine

• Papadopoulos proposes a de facto divide between west and east Ukraine, aligning with the region's ethnic and political realities.
  • "The eastern portion of Ukraine is predominantly ethnically Russian … that is the only solution." (41:25)
  • Compares to Cyprus, Korea.
  • Urges immediate peace: "If this war continues, Steve, Ukraine will no longer be a sovereign country." (42:30)

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4. Political Strategy, Business Resilience, and Calls to Action

(Timestamps: 45:15–53:02)

a. Bannon’s Reflections on Prioritization

• Urges conservative movement to focus, not spread itself thin.
• Emphasizes "concentration" on major stakes—economy, security.

b. Mike Lindell: Personal and Business Updates

• Outlines campaign for Minnesota governor, pledging bans on sharia law, stricter protester laws.
• Frames Minnesota as "the tip of the spear for everything that's going on."
• Attributes MyPillow’s resilience to faith and the War Room audience.
• Offers product promotions, underscoring “Made in the USA.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Sam Faddis (on revolution):
  “It is about literally destroying the Republic … very well funded, Communist Chinese chip in, the Cubans chip in, all kinds of bad actors chip in.” (05:18)

• David Horowitz adage, via Bannon:
  “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” (06:16)

• Bannon (on education):
  “They've used these schools … to be basically a madrasa for revolution ... they are the Red Guard.” (10:41)

• Papadopoulos (from Moscow):
  “The real war is … the attempt to de-dollarize the global economy … the attack on the US dollar has really been instigated by these sanctions.” (35:38)

• Papadopoulos (on Ukraine solution):
  “There has to be a de facto divide between west and East Ukraine which takes the realities on the ground into account.” (41:25)

• Robert Duvall, remembered (from Apocalypse Now):
  “I love the smell of napalm in the morning. … The whole hill smells like victory.” (23:38)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:36 – Bannon introduces Sam Faddis and the "American Tet Offensive" thesis
• 03:38 – Faddis elaborates on revolutionary threat
• 06:16 – Discussion of Horowitz’s "the issue is never the issue"
• 08:27 – Media, chaos, and objectives of leftist movements
• 11:18 – Role of education and teacher unions
• 13:37 – Faddis gives resources for further reading
• 16:22–27:46 – Robert Duvall tribute
• 32:12 – Taj Gill on military appetite for Ukraine
• 35:38 – George Papadopoulos reports from Moscow, de-dollarization
• 41:25 – Papadopoulos on dividing Ukraine as a solution
• 49:22 – Mike Lindell on first steps as potential MN governor and business perseverance

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Tone & Language

• Language retains the direct, urgent, sometimes confrontational style characteristic of Bannon and his guests.
• Frequent comparisons to historical events and revolutionary rhetoric.
• Blend of alarm, cultural nostalgia, and motivational calls to action.

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Conclusion

This episode underscores Bannon and his guests’ belief in a pressing, organized ideological threat within the US, drawing analogies to revolutionary moments from history and tying domestic developments to global shifts in power, currency, and conflict. It is interspersed with cultural homage and advocacy for active, multi-front engagement—both in the political and consumer spheres.

Transcript

[Sam]

Sam.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

As I read, but let's not miss the fact that we have a coordinated, well funded and I think insurgencies of terrorist organizations, however you want to call it, literally trying to prevent legal laws from being endorsed in the United States, enforced in the United States. That's Customs and Border head Rodney Scott testifying before Congress. I continue on in this piece. The man speaks the truth. The mainstream media continues to push the narrative and that all we are seeing are peaceful protests. Most conservative commentators remain content to ridicule participants in the ongoing anti ICE actions around the country and dismiss them with derogatory comments and sarcasm. No one, it seems, wants to take the time to step back and appreciate the magnitude of what we are facing. There is a growing Marxist revolutionary movement in this country. Its goal is not to reform is the destruction of the existing political and economic and social order. It operates coast to coast. It is well funded. Many of the organizations when they have ties to hostile foreign governments like Cuba and communist China. Leftist billionaires, dark money NGOs pump vast quantities of cash into an infrastructure designed to collapse the republic and replace it with an expressly Marxist totalitarian state. This movement is emboldened. It regards the withdrawal of ice from Minneapolis as a victory. Has now set its sights on mayday actions nationwide. That too will be the end of nothing. The battle will continue intensify until the goal is achieved. That article is from an American Tet Offensive. It is by the great Sam Fatis. Let me bring in Sam Fantas now. Thank you for the music guys. We can bring that down. Thank you very much Sam. Thank you for the music also. Sam Faddis, I am shocked. Your amazing piece on and magazine about an American Tet offensive. What has shocked me is that so many people I know that are quite sophisticated when they read it, they can't believe it. They can't connect the dots. They don't think it's this serious. They think it's we've got these Democrats and these are peaceful protesters. And yes, there's some bad elements of antifa and some of this got out of control. But we, we tried our best and we took out a couple thousand bad hombres and picked up some kids and so in Tom Holman told us over the weekend it's successful and we're gonna try to do it in other cities. You were the first person I think to lay it out and say you're not seeing what's happening here. This is a Tet offensive. People remember in Vietnam, the Tet offensive caught us totally by surprise. It was not totally successful, but it was an inflection point to put the Communists on the path to victory. What did you mean by that? What do you mean that this was what happened in Minneapolis? What's happening around the country is an American Tet Offensive. And what do you mean by this is a Marxist revolutionary movement that we're up against?

[Sam Faddis]

Well, I think you just put your finger on it, Steve, when you said, look, people trivialize this. And by people, I mean the people on our side. Right? Yeah, there's some crazy people with green hair out in the street and they're screaming or they're assaulting individual officers. But, okay, this is all. It doesn't really threaten the Republic as such. And it's all sort of disjointed and it's annoying, but generally inconsequential. And that is by orders of magnitude missing the point. I mean, that's why I use the analogy of the Tet Offensive. We were sitting there in 1968 talking about declaring victory. We're winning the war. And the ground catches fire under our feet all over the country. I mean, in the Tet Offensive, all of a sudden we turned around. The US Embassy in the heart of Saigon was under siege. We missed it completely. And that is exactly what's happening now. You have massive organizations. That song you just played by the Communist Party of the usa, I didn't make that up and pull that off their website. Every time you see one of these big demonstrations or actions in a city, you will see these guys marching by the hundreds and thousands with banners and signs. You got guys like Neville Roy Singham, but there's a dozen, two dozen of them, billionaires working with hostile foreign powers, pumping hundreds of millions of dollars probably into this effort. And it is not about ice. It's not about Palestine. I mean, it's not about any one of those specific issues in and of itself. It is about literally destroying the Republic Democratic Socialists of America, which would be Zoran Mamdani's party, also AOCs, etc. They just had a seminar called Abolishing the Family. Their express purpose is to do away with the building block of society. So we've got a massive, ongoing communist revolutionary movement in the country. Very well funded, Communist Chinese chip in, the Cubans chip in, all kinds of bad actors chip in. And we're busy arresting individual persons in the street in Minneapolis for assaulting an ICE agent, which obviously we should, and doing nothing to tear this thing out by the roots, which ought to be our number one priority. Cutting off the funding and the organizers and conspirators ought to all be in custody.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

David Horowitz, who, along with Trevor Loudon, I think, are two of the individuals. David Horowitz has passed away. But the great David Horowitz, who used to be, I think, a Marxist as a young man, support the Black Panthers that transitioned and became a hardcore conservative in some way, I was honored to know for a number of years. In fact, he was in a movie that I made with Andrew Breitbart about this very topic. He's the one that taught me this phrase, and I would like you to describe it, what it means to the audience. He said, steve, the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution. What do they mean by that?

[Sam Faddis]

Yeah, so the goal is revolution, which means, as I said in the article, destroying completely the existing political, economic and social order. I add social because, as I said, these guys want to do away with the family union. So anything you are screaming about and using as a cause is just a lever, is just a, you know, it's just a point at which you can divide society. It's a means to the end. The point here is not to stop ice, deportations or any other cause of the weak. Those are just tools to use. And the goal is absolutely as breathtaking as it probably is for most Americans to destroy everything politically, economically, and socially. And here's the scary part. These guys are way down the road. The dsa, Democratic Socialists of America is an expressly communist organization dedicated to that proposition. Well, their guy is the mayor of New York City now, and they have substantial representation in Congress, and they're getting ready to take over the entire Democratic Party. That's not a joke or an exaggeration. They stand on the verge of doing that. These guys are way down the road, and we're still sitting here pretending like it's not happening. Like, back to Tet, you know, we'll turn around tomorrow. Everything will be on fire around you when you will be scratching your head saying, where did this come from? Well, it's right in front of you, man. Just wake up.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

We started the morning show with over an hour just on Colorado. The voting systems, Georgia, the fights we have down there. One of their purposes is to create chaos, and from chaos comes anarchy. And then they want the government to overreact, and then they take it and they play with their media partners to ratchet it up. Why do we seem to that there are very few people at a senior level that actually understands that this is organized with the deep state to Take down the United States of America. They must take down the United States of America to destroy Judeo Christian civilization and the Christian west, sir?

[Sam Faddis]

Well, I mean, there's the $60,000 question, but I think basically, on some level, we just don't want to face the enormity of it. I mean, back to my analogy about Minneapolis. Okay. If somebody's assaulting an ICE agent in the street in Minneapolis, should they be arrested? Obviously. Is that the solution to this problem? No, that's not the solution to this problem. The solution to the problem is to tear out by the roots the organizations, the revolutionary organizations on our soil that are doing this, that are setting the country on fire. And absolutely, they want chaos. They also lied. Let's just keep that in mind. When the Bolsheviks took over, over in 1917, before they staged the coup, when they got themselves elected, they ran on a platform of peace, land and bread. Didn't say anything about show trials and firing squads and killing millions of people in famine. They told you whatever you needed to hear in that moment. The goal remains the same. The goal is to destroy the republic.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

And they were pretty obvious. We're not going to give land to any of the serfs or any of the peasants. Yeah, they're very well organized. And two things, number one, I'm going to talk about DSA in the organization. But also, you see these young people, they've used the schools. This was all the controlled opposition. The Republican Party never took serious education. We'd play on the margins of it.

[Sam Faddis]

Yes, right.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

But they've used these schools, the private schools, the top schools in the country. They've used the public schools to be basically a madrasa for revolution. And that's why the kids, you see, and you see them coming out of, taking these, going to the streets with the teachers with the pink hair sanded. It's like you're watching the movie the Village of the Damned. Right. Or the Children of the Damned. You don't recognize these kids, but they are the Red Guard. Just like the Red Guard drove the struggle sessions back in Communist. The Chinese Communist party during the 60s. You're seeing it now, sir.

[Sam Faddis]

Yeah. Well, I think the Red Guard analogy is dead on. And also, let's keep in mind, I mean, I always say the injection point of all this ideology was the colleges and universities. Okay? But not. It didn't start last week, it didn't start last year. This started decades ago. So it's not just that if your kid goes to Harvard now, he's going to be fed communist ideology. It's where are all the kids who went through Harvard 20 and 30 years ago and were indoctrinated. Well, those are all your teachers, those are all your school administrators. The entire structure, the whole educational structure of the United States is now infected with that ideology. And look, the president of the nea, the National Educational association, the teachers union, biggest union in the country, I think she went on with the Sunrise movement, which is a Marxist movement focused on the schools.

[George Papadopoulos]

What?

[Sam Faddis]

On a webinar back a few weeks ago now, she said expressly on the webinar, she was pledging the use of every one of the members of her union to the Sunrise movement, which is dedicated to overthrowing capitalism. It's an expressly Marxist organization. She said straight up, wasn't shy about it wasn't a secret message. She was on a webinar with thousands of people on it saying, every one of the teachers and administrators that belongs to my union is at your disposal. Within days thereafter, all these alleged spontaneous school actions began all across the country. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to connect those dots. Her entire teachers union working for this.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Movement, when they get to Harvard, they've already had. They've gone to the best schools in the country, the best private schools, by and large. They're already totally indoctrinated. Their parents don't even recognize them. How radical they are. DSA, by the way. This is why Senate District 9. There are a lot of reasons that happened. Cold weather, lack of turnout. Some of Trump's strongest supporters didn't know it was gonna be on Saturday, but DSA was very organized. Sam, we gotta bounce. Where do people go to get this and where they go on social media, because this is a conversation. That is the conversation that we have to drive.

[Sam Faddis]

Easiest place to find me is at and magazine on substacks. That's amdmagazine.substack.com but I'm on X, I'm on Getter, I'm on everything. But and magazine site at Substack will get you there.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Thank you, brother.

[Sam Faddis]

Thank you.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

And you're seeing the culture right now. This is Bruce Springsteen, the song that went to number one before it was replaced by our own Natasha Owens who had a countersong to it. This is a full on. They're coming at every aspect of this. This is a full on Marxist jihadist movement. Look at New York City. It's full on and our attention scattered. It must be maniacally focused and we must take action or we're going to be overwhelmed. That's what they hope. We're going to take a short commercial break. One of the greatest actors in the history of this country passed away today at 95 years old. We'll talk about that next in the War room.

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[Sam]

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[Sam Faddis]

Oh, yeah?

[Sam]

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[Stephen K. Bannon]

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[Sam]

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[Stephen K. Bannon]

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[Sam]

That'll be a dollar. Now. Besides, the whiskey, I think will require a little respect. I'm Captain Augustus McCrae. This is Captain Mudro F. Kahl. Now, if you care to turn around, you can see how we look. When we was younger and the people around here wanted to make U.S. senators. Now, the thing we didn't put up with then was dawdling service. And as you can see, we still don't put up with it.

[George Papadopoulos]

Get out.

[Mike Lindell]

Get out.

[Sam]

Watch me there. Oh, doing. Now then, if I could have a fresh Glass, please.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

You just broke my nose, you old son of powder.

[Sam]

Well, here to the sunny slopes. Long ago. Hey, listen to this. The Turk, he wants to talk.

[Sam Faddis]

You.

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[Sam]

Imagine a nerve on his.

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[Sam]

Craps out last night. He wants a meeting today. What he said? What did he say?

[Stephen K. Bannon]

He wants us to send Michael to hear the proposition.

[Sam]

And the promise is that the deal is so good that we can't refuse. Hey, what about Bruno Tatari?

[Stephen K. Bannon]

He's part of the deal.

[Sam]

Bruno cancels out what they did to my father. Sonny, we ought to hear what they had to say. No, no, no. No more. Not this time, Consulari. No more meetings, no more discussions, no more Salazo tricks. You're giving one message. I want Solazo now.

[Mike Lindell]

It's all our war.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

We go to the.

[Sam]

Some of the other families won't sit stillazzo. Father would want to hear this. This is business, not personal. They shot my father. Even the shooting of your father was business, not personal, Sonny. Well, then business will have to suffer.

[Mike Lindell]

All right.

[Sam]

Hey, listen, do me a favor, Tom. No more advice on how to patch things up.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Just help me win, please.

[Sam]

All right. I found out about this Captain McCluskey who broke Mike's jaw. Robert. Now, he's definitely on Chalazo's payroll and for big money. See, Kluski has agreed to be the Turk's bodyguard. What you have to understand, Sonny, is that while Sollozzo is being guarded like this, he is invulnerable. And nobody has ever gunned down a New York police captain. Never. It would be disastrous. All the five families would come after you, Sonny. The Corleone family would be outcasts. Even the old man's political protection would run for cover. So do me a favor. Take this into consideration. Freeze. You're under arrest.

[Mike Lindell]

Elizabeth.

[Sam]

Elizabeth. Get out of here. Go on. Elizabeth.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Freeze.

[Sam]

Elizabeth. What were you gonna do?

[Stephen K. Bannon]

I don't know. I don't know what I'm gonna do.

[Sam]

Oh, guys like you always say you don't know what you're doing until you do it. I think you know exactly what you were gonna do. You were to kill your wife and child.

[George Papadopoulos]

No.

[Sam]

Yeah. And then, you know, it'd be too late to turn back. It would be real easy to turn the gun around on yourself. Now, let's go meet some nice policemen.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

They're good guys.

[Sam]

Come on, let's go. I'm the bad guy?

[Sam Faddis]

Yeah.

[Sam]

How'd that happen? I did everything they told me to. Did you know I build missiles? Yeah.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

I help to protect America.

[Sam]

You should be rewarded for that. Instead, they give it to the plastic surgeon. You know, they lied to me. Is that what this is about? You're angry because you got lied to? Is that why my chicken dinner's drying out in the oven? Hey, they lie to everybody. They lie to the fish. But that doesn't give you any special right to do what you did today. The only thing that makes you special.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Is that little girl.

[Sam]

Now, let's go. Let's go.

[Sam Faddis]

I trust you're not being too hasty yourself, Colonel.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

This is a great opportunity for you to serve your country.

[Sam]

My country, Mr. Blair? I never thought I lived to see the day that a president of the United States would raise an army to invade his own country. No, Mr. Blair, I cannot lead it. I will not lead it. I'm putting the network news show under programming. Mr. Ruddy has had a mild heart attack and is not taking calls. In his absence, I'm making all network decisions, including one I've been wanting to make a long time. You're fired. I want you out of this building by noon. I'll call the security guards and have you thrown out if you're still here.

[Sam Faddis]

Well, let's say you, Hackett, you want.

[Sam]

Me out of here, you're gonna have.

[Taj Gill]

To drag me out kicking and screaming. And the whole news division kicking and screaming with me.

[Sam]

You think they're gonna quit their jobs for you? Not in this recession, buddy.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

When Ruddy gets back, he'll have your ass.

[Sam]

I got a hit, Schumacher, and Ruddy doesn't count anymore. He was hoping I'd fall on my face with his Beal show, but I didn't. It's a big, fat, big, pitted hit. And I don't have to waffle around with Ruddy anymore. If he wants to take me up before the CCA board, let him. Do you think Ruddy is stupid enough to go to the CCA board and say, I'm taking our one hit show off the air? And comes November 14th, I'm gonna be standing up there at the annual CCA management review meeting. And I'm gonna announce projected earnings for this network for the first time in five years. And believe me, Mr. Jensen is gonna be sitting there rocking back and forth in his little chair, and he's gonna say, that's very good, Frank. Keep it up. So don't have any illusions about who's.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Running this network from now on.

[Sam]

You're fired. I want you out of your office before noon or I'll have you thrown out. We'll have this place cleaned up and ready to jiffy saw. Don't you worry. Give me those shorts. These are from the air cav trusting for me and the boys. I want to see you do your stuff out there. Hey, You smell that? You smell that? Hey, fun, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of night palm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hail bomb for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find find one of them, that one stinking dink body smell. You know, that gasoline smell. The whole hill smells like victory. Someday this war is going to end. Michael. Why are you cutting me out of the action?

[Stephen K. Bannon]

We're gonna be legitimate all the way, Tom.

[Sam]

You're the legal man.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

What's more important than that?

[Sam]

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about Rocco Lampone building a secret regime. And why does Neri report directly to you instead of through me or the Kappa regimes?

[Stephen K. Bannon]

How'd you find that out?

[Sam]

Rocco's men are a little too good for their jobs. I mean, they're getting more money than the job's worth. I told you this wouldn't escape his eye. Mike, why am I out?

[Stephen K. Bannon]

You're not a wartime consigliere, Tom.

[Sam]

Do you know, dad, not one of us has ever beaten you in a single game? Not checkers, not dominoes, not softball. Nothing. Watch it, Ben. He's getting that look.

[Mike Lindell]

Come on. Come on.

[Sam]

Here, Daddy boy. Come all over Colonel. Get out of here before I knock every freckle off your face. That's mean. Wasn't that great? Come on, Jocko. You gotta win by two baskets.

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[Sam]

I changed my mind.

[George Papadopoulos]

Let's go.

[Sam]

Now, you're not going to cheat the boy out of his victory. Come on, be a good sport. Who the hell asked you anything?

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Don't you talk to me like that.

[Sam]

I'll play him. No, you won't.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Now, he beat you, and it was beautiful.

[Sam]

Lillian, you better get in the house before I kick your butt. It was just beautiful. No, I mean it. Come on, let's go.

[Sam Faddis]

Hurry.

[George Papadopoulos]

Come on.

[Sam]

Just touch that ball. You better move, woman. All right. Come on, let's go. Come on. He's beating you. Get out of here.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Kind of like winning, huh, dad?

[Sam]

Get smart with me, Jocko. I'll kick your butt. Now, come on, guard me. You gotta win by two. I'm not gonna guard you, dad. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Mama's, Mama's Boy, I bet you're gonna cry. Come on, Mama's Boy, I see you. Cry. Come on, squirt a few. Come on, cry. Come on, cry. Come on, come on, just a few. Come on, squirt a few. Come on, let me see. Squirt a few. Come on, cry.

[Mike Lindell]

Cry.

[Sam]

One, two, three.

[Taj Gill]

One, two, three.

[Sam]

Cry. Come on. Come on, baby. Come on, little girl, cry. Cry. My favorite daughter. Ben, I swear to God, you're my sweetest little girl. This little girl just whipped your ass good.

[Mike Lindell]

Colonel.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Robert Duvall, dead at 95 years old. We're going to take a short commercial break. I'm going to return, but we will have Taj Gill and George Papadopoulos next in the war room.

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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. Like, like I've said, this situation, the CNBC is calling it that the dollar as a safe haven. That means the prime reserve currency is something that people want to have in, you know, dollar denominated securities is weakening because this highly leveraged bet on artificial intelligence. And we have to address this because that's the business model of the country and that's the business model of our most advanced technology companies and the capital markets. So how do you think this through? We warned about this years ago with Biden about he was going to spend so much money, was going to have a devaluation or Basically drop in purchasing power, kind of the same thing. And that's what skyrocketed gold. That's why these central banks, because of the hedge risk and the geopolitical. Now we've added the geopolitical risk because when President Trump, when the office was stolen from him, you got Biden, you got the war in Ukraine, you got the wars in the Middle east, you got the threats of the Chinese Communist Party. You had Latin America out of control and 25 million illegal aliens come in. Long story short, birchgold.com, promo code Bannon, the end of the dollar empire. Get up to speed on it. We now with a qualifying purchase, you now get a, you now get a, a hard copy available to you. The Patriots edition. It's in hard copy. They're flying off the shelves. They're actually printing more right now. So go there today, talk to Philip Patrick in the team. This is the one that walked through everything that mo we said it's not the price of gold, it's the process pattern recognition at when the goal was what, a thousand, eleven hundred bucks. Now near five thousand. So check it out today. Taj Gill, given your years in the military and then as a contractor, the appetite of American combat. Of course the American soldier Marine special force is going to go where the commander in chief, unlike the Democrats are trying to get involved in this. They'll go where the commander chief tells them to go. But we hear Zelensky over the weekend talk and we got George Papadopoulos coming on from Rome in a moment. You hear this talk of a 20 year security guarantee, European countries like France and the UK putting troops in at the line of contact and an implication they're going to want American troops. I know President Trump will never agree to that. But just your, what do you think the appetite is, the average fighting man and woman about getting involved in Ukraine?

[Taj Gill]

Yeah, I think that the appetite is low to zero for doing this for 20 years, Steve, especially with Ukraine. You know, they've killed American journalists. They're embezzling our money. We've already spent $300 billion, $350 billion in US taxpayer money on Ukraine and got nothing out of it. I don't think we should do it at all. You know, like, like you said, they, the young soldiers. Yeah, they're gung ho. Because when you go in the military, you want to fight. But I think the average American citizen, they want nothing to do with this. People want, people want America to flourish, not Ukraine. We want the money here. We want the money for our Children for our communities, for our cities, for our airports. Not to get pushed over to Ukraine, especially Ukraine. Ukraine is. It's a giant criminal organization. Zelensky and his cabinet are funneling all of this money into their personal bank accounts and getting rich beyond anybody's imagination. That's where all this money goes. So I say no. And I know all my friends who are operators, special operators, do not like this idea of Ukraine. They think it's stupid.

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[Taj Gill]

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[Stephen K. Bannon]

George Papadopoulos. Thank you, sir. George Papadopoulos. Has been kind enough to join us for us. So first of the question people are going to ask is what is an American doing in Moscow? What were you doing there? You spoke at an institute, I thought the mainstream media, the Atlantic Council says we're at war. We're really with Russia. Not Ukraine's at war with Russia, not the west, not the eu, but America is at war with Russia. So tell us why you were there and what did you see when you were there?

[George Papadopoulos]

Yes, Steve, so I spoke at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Very high profile event, over 500 attendees, many members of the Russian government. There were some foreign speakers there. But the mainstream media tells you that there's a war going on between the United States and Russia. Do you know what the real war is? It's the attempt to de dollarize the global economy that you've been talking about here on your show. And the acceleration towards the de dollarization and the attack on the US dollar has really been instigated by these sanctions that the Biden administration and before that the Obama administration imposed on the Russian economy. And what did that actually do, Steve? It made it ossified the relationship between China and Russia and it created the so called BRICS movement which is an attempt to not only create a new global financial and economic architecture, but also potentially political insecurity which would enmesh the Russian and the Chinese economies and enmesh them politically and militarily, which would not bode well for U.S. or European interests. Now, we've already seen the Russians and other countries try to trade in their own currencies against the US dollar. And this is a direct threat to our economy. Now how do you improve this situation, Steve? This is what the negotiations and the war all about. You also have reports that the Russian government now would like to reenter into the dollar trade economy to stop trading as much in the Chinese currencies and to get closer to the United States and have US companies and capital invest in Russia and vice versa. This is really what the big picture is here, Steve. It's not simply about some territory or some people dying in Ukraine or parts of Crimea or Russia. It's about the future of the global economy, finance and security for the next 75 years. And that's something I really got a chance to learn firsthand in Moscow just a couple days ago.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Okay. This is the whole thing about de dollarization is that when the Biden administration did something we didn't do, the Nazis in World War II, we didn't do it to imperial Japan or the Bolsheviks, we actually not just took their assets, we essentially stole the Russian people's assets because we started either using to loans or they actually wanted to use the cash. And that's when people China and the BRICS nation would go, hang on, the United can weaponize this way. We have no security. That's what we have to. This began kind of the run on the dollar. This is one of the reasons the Biden administration overspending and the economic warfare with the dollar really caused this. Correct. And that's what this announcement last week that Russia, not just in the Geneva talks, the three party talks, but in a broader dialogue they want to have with President Trump and Wyckoff and Kushner is to say, hey look, we, we really want to come back and figure out how we integrate into the American economy, the Western economy. At the same time, the Chinese Communist Party is sitting there going they're spending a trillion dollars to decouple correct.

[George Papadopoulos]

Russia into the Western global security potentially, but more importantly, financial network. It will support the dollar as a global reserve currency which has been under massive attack by not only the Chinese, but of course the rise of brics, which has some of the most populous and largest economies in the Middle east and Southeast Asia as members of. So if you are pro US Dollar and you care about the United States economy and would like to see the decoupling of Russia and China, then that is why you should support these negotiations. It's not simply about cutting China off for Middle Eastern oil or Persian natural gas to slow down their economy. It's about stopping brics. And in order to stop brics and to support our economy, we have to reintegrate Russia into the Western economy and have once again bilateral relations with the United States. Because everything that the Biden administration and before that the Obama administration pursued has led us to this unfortunate situation which is not only costing lives abroad, but potentially the future of the US Economy itself.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

George, I'm going to have you back on because I want to talk about this. Is China going to roll over? Because they've kind of got Russia now as a subsidiary to a large extent. But I got like two minutes and I want to the bitterness. There's reports that it may be 2 million or more Russian casualties dead or wounded. President Trump's talking about how Ukraine's been getting pounded. There's a million and a half, maybe 2 million casualties there. You've had a battlefield that has lost 3 or 4 million people and dead or wounded, the greatest onslaught since the Second World War. How do you put that bitterness aside? What's your recommendation? I know people in Ukraine are very bitter of how they were used into this and where they are now. I know Mersheimers were gonna fight to the last. The west is gonna fight until the last Ukrainian is dead. I know people in Russia, although they're super very patriotic, there's a lot of bitterness there. How does President Trump deal with two countries and have an open scar? What is President Trump as the great peacemaker? What does he have to do to bring this to an end?

[George Papadopoulos]

There has to be a de facto divide between west and East Ukraine which takes the realities on the ground into account. The eastern portion of Ukraine is predominantly ethnically Russian, speaks Russian and is aligned with Russia, as is Crimea. That is why the Russians moved into Crimea during the Obama administration and took it over without a single shot being fired. Now, there are parts of Western Ukraine which do not align with the ethnic Russians. They feel closer to the European Union, to Poland. Some are Catholic. They don't subscribe to the Russian Orthodox Church the way that they do in the East. And that is why I think that is the only solution. And there have been examples all around the world, including on the island of Cyprus, which remains divided today between Turks and Greeks in the north and the south of the island. Of course, you have the North Korea and South Korea situation with its various backers. And I think for peace and capital and relations to pour into Ukraine, that is the solution that I think is in the immediate interests of both parties involved. It will allow both Ukraine and Russia to live side by side as sovereign nations, and it will allow them to be sovereign in their internal and foreign affairs. Because if this war continues, Steve, Ukraine will no longer be a sovereign country. And if Zelenskyy and the west would like to see a sovereign Ukraine, the war has end now.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

George, where do people go to get your content? We'll have you back on top of Russia and China.

[George Papadopoulos]

Really appreciate it, Steve. You could follow me on x@George Papa.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

19 thank you, brother. Appreciate you, President Trump. To end the war in Ukraine, to end the war in Gaza, to end the war between the Persians in the rest of the region. You don't think that deserves a Nobel Prize? Give me a break. What is the Nobel Prize really worth on a man that is trying to bring peace against all odds to the world? Short commercial break Be back in the Worm in just a moment.

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War room here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. If you tie together what Sam Faddes told us in the first segment and you add it to, you know, we're spreading, we're spreading ourselves too thin. There's got to be a concentration here of prioritization of what happened. Zelensky's over there all weekend talking about a 20 year security guarantee. And in European, they got UK and France putting troops in the line of contact. They're all going to fade. It's going to get dumped on the United States of America. And right now we're not winning this war for these mass deportations. We're just not. Maybe that's fine for now. I happen to think that the base because the economy is turning around. I know they're very concerned about the economy and some of the pulling on the economy. But if you see the reality on the economy of what's been done now, one of the big fears is about the dollar. And I keep saying there's no other way you can look at it. This is a highly leveraged bet on artificial intelligence. And if artificial intelligence even generates the cash flow, if it's not an 8% or 10% return on because they're expecting all these to be four or five baggers. Peter Navarro's piece that we haven't played yet on Maria Bartiromo's the thing that should be done because better Affordability. But also he talks about the huge that's going to be a huge additional capital expenditure, as it should be to the AI companies, these data centers, the water and to make sure it doesn't roll into affordability for American citizens that come on the grid. So this is highly complex. Right now we're hurtling down a path of a highly leveraged bet because not only we have massive debt and we're running huge deficits. You've got all these companies look like they're going to crowd out and borrow a lot of this money. This $800 billion in capital expenditures. This morning. My patriot supply, preparewithbannon.com is actually the site said to go to My Patriot Supply. That's fine as long as you put in Bannon. But preparewithbannon.com they've got the the Mount Rushmore of what they call it because it's got the four legs of the stool for preparedness. The reason My Patriot is so important is that they really founded the industry. They kind of started the sector. They have renowned customer service. If you notice, a lot of the companies we deal with is really customer service is the great because they realize a lot of these, whether it's done with debt or the taxes is totally new areas for people. It's the reason Mike Lindell is going to be here in a second. He's been such a great spokesman because he is the CEO, he's the founder of the company. He knows it's kind of like Taj Gil we had in the previous sector. These are founders that understand it's in their soul. But the customer service is so important. And so that's why I go to preparewithbandon.com you've got the Mount Rushmore where they throw in 800 first. I think it's $1,000 off or $900 off and they throw in $800 of additional gear. So go check it out today. But most Importantly, go to preparewithbandon.com and talk to the customer service reps. Don't be intimidated just because you don't know much about this. There's no reason to be intimidated. Go talk to them right now. Our war Room Texas is going to be tomorrow. Early voting starts in Texas. So we're going to talk about the stakes that are involved for this vote. We're going to play it a little bit. Also last night on War Room and I think on RAV2, we streamed it the debate on the Agriculture Commission. So we'll get to that as kind of a race that had some very interesting aspects to it, but we're really going to talk about the stakes. Mike Lindell, like I said, you have my pillow burned into your soul because you founded this company from a trunk of a car and then later found God and accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior. Now your mission is you're running for governor of the state. What's the first thing you're going to do as governor of the state, sir?

[Mike Lindell]

Well, that's an easy one. Ban sharia law and put. And enforce our protester laws that have to be enforced in Minnesota. And then also we have. They even put a satanic statue in our capitol. And Walt said, well, we've got to be fair. Fair to who? The devil? It just didn't make sense. But these are some easy things that there's so much nonsense that's being done that that's an easy cleanup of common sense issues. And Minnesota is the tip of the spear for everything that's going on. And I'm so glad, Steve, that things are dying down somewhat there. It's not. I've said it to you. You and I had a conversation. You can't say it as weakness. Everybody, by pulling out down to a thousand agents, by doing this, it allows everything to calm down so we can get back to what the focus on the fraud, the biggest crime this country has ever seen other than the 2020 election. We have to focus on the fraud. We've got to put these people in prison that are involved in this, and that includes politicians. Maybe Ilan Omar, maybe. We'll see what happens. Keith Ellison, the mayor of Minneapolis, Tim Waltz. So, and you guys, I fully intend. We're campaigning hard now. You can check out mike lindellgov.com and they said, mike, what are you going to do first when you're governor for these other issues? I'm going to do them all at once. I'm a great multitasker. I'm a businessman like our great real president, Donald Trump, our president. I've never seen a multitasker like him. To get you get everything, one's just as important important as the other. You've got to do it all. And that's what I will do. It's like running a business. They say, well, Mike, look what happened to my pillow. No, look what happened to my pillow. My pillow is still standing. In spite of being the most attacked company in the history of the United States, probably the. Probably the world. We're still standing. And a lot of that is because of all of you. But check it out. Mike Lindellgov.com and Steve, I want to say and this is the point where I can't thank the war room posse enough because we wouldn't be here without my faith in God and also our support as we were canceled by box stores and everything. There's no middleman anymore. It's my employees and you guys at the war room posse. Today's the last day where two sales collided. You get the free shipping this mega sale that we ran along with our mattress and topper sale. You guys, that's 34.98 for these six piece Tulsas. These are wholesale prices that you're getting for and with free shipping right to your front door. And you've got the buy pillows as low as 14.98 for the standard MyPillows. These are dream cheese. These are four flagship products made in the USA my mattress toppers. But if you go to mypillow.com warren there you see it flashing free shipping. Free shipping. Free shipping no matter what you order. There's the made in the USA crosses. You talk about my faith. Those that's a cross just like that I wear every day. And and then you see we've got made in the made in the USA socks. We have over 200 products there, everybody. And you can also go to my store.com use that promo code war room too. Let's not forget the thousands of entrepreneurs but you free shipping on your entire entire order today. 800-873-1062. You will pick up and hear a mom and dad that speaks English or someone that speaks English using promo code war room and you're going to get free shipping today.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Thank you brother. Stick around the second hour of the.

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