BIBI NETANYAHU IN COURT, NATO SPENDING INCREASE, PEACE IN AFRICA | Ep 352

Summary
In this episode, Clayton Cuteri explores significant global events, including the Israel-Hamas conflict, NATO's defense spending commitments, and the Rwanda-Congo peace deal. He delves into the implications of these events on international relations and the humanitarian crises they create, while also reflecting on the need for strong leadership to address these complex issues.

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00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Israel-Hamas Conflict and Civilian Casualties
06:05 - Netanyahu's Legal Troubles and Political Landscape
12:58 - NATO Summit and Defense Spending Commitments
16:49 - Rwanda-Congo Peace Deal and Historical Context

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Transcript

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exploring spiritual journeys to find answers in uncertainty. What is up conscious monkeys. Welcome back to an episode of traveling to consciousness. As always, I'm your host, Klingitary. And in today's podcast, we are talking about the last week in review. We're going to talk about some global events that happen. I'm going to give you my input on them, my opinion, and figure out if this is the world heading in the right direction or the wrong direction. So without further delay in today's podcast, we are going to be disgusting, disgusting, discussing, disgusting. Is that a Freudian slip? We're going to be discussing the Israel Hamas war, the Gaza ceasefire efforts. We're going to talk about how there's a potential truce in the tariff war that Trump created with China. We're going to also talk about the NATO summit, some defense spending commitments that occurred because obviously we don't spend enough money going to the military industrial complex as it is. So, well, we'll talk about that in a second. We also have a little bit of an escalation in Russia, Ukraine war. And then there's also a Rwanda Congo peace deal that was made. And we'll talk a little bit about the history of that. I took some notes so we can make sure we get all the names, dates, all of it correct, because there was some learning that I needed to do about that region and what was going on. Um, and a few other things occurred that I honestly didn't seem as being too important, but without further delay, let's talk about those things. So The very first one that we should talk about because we talk about it quite often is what's happening with Israel and Hamas. So I think one of the big, the two big things that I saw come out was number one, Israel claims that they killed the Hamas leader who was allegedly responsible for the October 7th terrorist attack. Now it's quite unfortunate that it took us well over 50,000 civilian deaths, women and children to get here, which I have found to be a very fascinating thing because if you saw what happened in Iran with their targeted precision drone strikes on some of the leaders of Iran, they were able to execute them where they basically just flew a drone into a very small uh room or apartment building and only killed people that were in that room. And I just First of all, I'm not condoning that by any stretch of the imagination. I don't think we should be killing people in the first place. But if you take a step back and look at what's been happening in Gaza, the absolute devastation and leveling of the entire area, it really begs the question and makes you think, is this their goal? Is the goal completely to completely wipe out that area, completely level it, destroy it, and then fund America to come in and rebuild it going to the the people of like State Street, Vanguard, um Black Rock, these names who can come in and just like buy the land for nothing because there's nothing there to quote Donald Trump. And so the US then would just take it and then develop it and then essentially give it to Israel, our quote unquote greatest ally. And, uh you know, I just, find it a very, um A very sick plan. And I think that this all was planned because the people in charge are very smart. They're very intelligent individuals. And I don't think we can say that this is all just reaction based because I know a lot of us think that way because of our education system, right? Our education system has taught us and ingrained in us just to react to external stimuli. And we have not been taught or taught or trained even in thinking further down the road. This is why chess is such a great game to learn because it forces you to think multiple moves ahead. And you have to realize that these people who get to positions of power, who are presidents, who are dictators, they think multiple moves ahead. Maybe some of them get lucky and they're doing reactionary stuff, but I would argue 99.9 % of them, the ones who are at the top of the top, you get there by thinking ahead. You make deals by thinking ahead. This podcast, I have a great podcast because I think ahead. I plan it out. I take notes. I read off those notes. I use those as a pathway to get where I'm trying to go to give you guys the best experience possible. And once you realize that the position people in power, whether it's the figureheads, whether there's the deep state, who's pulling the strings, whoever's actually making these decisions thinks multiple moves ahead. This isn't just a reactionary thing. So when you take that into consideration, it really, really begs the question. They have finally killed the person, quote unquote, responsible and allegedly. So will they stop now? Did they get the blood that they were looking for? Have they killed enough civilians? You know, because even if it was the 2000 number, which there is a legitimate argument about, The question is, is did they get enough people to justify and to retaliate for what was done to them? I mean, I think it's an abomination what's happened there. I think it's war crimes. mean, the ICC, the ICJ, they all agree that it's war crimes. You know, I think it's going to take a strong leader within a powerful country, America, to hold them accountable. And I also find it very fascinating because Benjamin Netanyahu is currently undergoing trials for different items. can't remember exactly what it is. Maybe I should look that up for you guys. But even Donald Trump said, oh, we have a great, great leader in Israel, a great president, a great person who's taking care of his people, who's a war war hero and all of this, all of this stuff. And he tweeted that or he put it on true social, whichever one. And I don't even know what he knows because all he did was say that he is a great, great leader, a great war person, great military with Iran. He even quoted in an Iran and it's like, dude, he started that war. You know, he proactively attacked them, unprovoked, attacked them. And the way I see it is that it's not going, it has to be the United States because the United States is really the only true I mean, have you, you have the UK, you have France, you have a few other, you know, NATO countries that support Israel. But, you know, the United States really is the one who leads that charge. And if the United States were to say, yeah, we need to issue the warrants for Bibi Netanyahu's arrest, it would be issued. And that's why you see this posturing by Trump. So I just pulled it up. ah Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. He's on trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three separate cases. Three separate cases. And these stem are stemming from investigations that started in December of 2016. And the trial actually began in May of 2020, which is crazy because we also saw before October 7th has happened, protests occurring in Israel, which nobody seems to know about or we've lost interest in for some reason. I don't know why. Maybe the October 7th was a good distraction to tell the country of Israel that they were now at war and that martial law needed to be imposed. And so you could then no longer get elections or take elections in order for them to ah decide if he should be the rightful leader of that country. Maybe that was a part of it. I don't know. I'm just throwing questions out there. And the point that I bring up with all of this is that after that occurred, we no longer were talking about that. The people don't want him leading their country, which I think is very important to point out. And then we have these three cases, apparently. So the first one's the gifts affair. So his charges are fraud and breach of trust. And the allegations, of course, is that Netanyahu and his wife are accused of accepting lavish gifts. including cigars, champagne, jewelry and other luxury items valued at about 700,000 shekels, which is around 210,000 to $300,000. Very lofty from the Israeli Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan and Australian billionaire James Packer between 2007 and 2016. In return, Netanyahu allegedly provided political favors. such as pressuring the Israeli finance minister to extend a tax exemption for expatriate Israelis and which benefited Milchen and assisting Milchen with securing a US visa. Isn't that crazy that by bribing the prime minister, he could get a U.S. visa? What does that tell you about the United States government? So prosecutors claim that Netanyahu exploited his position for personal gain. Surprise, surprise. Not putting the people in first. Violating conflict of interest laws. then Milshin and Packer face no charges and his wife is not a defendant. So that's one case. The next one, another fraud and breach of trust charge. Netanyahu is accused of negotiating a quid pro quo deal with Ernan Moses, a publisher of Yedith Harantho. I apologize for my Yiddish or not being great. My Hebrew, whichever it is. One of Israel's largest newspapers between 2008 and 2014, the alleged deal involved Netanyahu promoting legislation to limit the circulation of Israel. a rival newspaper and an exchange for a more favorable coverage from them. So basically we have uh also recorded conversations between Netanyahu and Moses are the very central in the case. So he's bribing these pre quote pro quid pro quo to get favorable media exposure, which tells you he's not a I don't I do not believe that the Israeli people truly want him in power anymore. And I want to really hammer that home because I think that people get have been brainwashed by the media that if you're anti Israel, then it means you're anti Jew. People have been brainwashed to think that if you're against the Israeli government, that you hate all Jews. And I think right here, this fact, this these these charges coming out that he's being bribe or he has bribed these newspapers to give him favorable coverage. And yet. He still had riots against him of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people, tens of thousands, at least who knows the actual number, but at least tens of thousands of people protesting against him before October 7th shows to me that the Israeli citizens don't even want him as their leader anymore. And they're very against him, at least at mass scale. It seems that way. It would appear that way from all the information I've gathered. So I think to me. It just re-ingrains to me that he's not the true leader. He's not the rightful leader of Israel at this time. And furthermore, he's created war crimes, done war crimes, and clearly it seems like he's had bribery and fraud cases against him. And even this third case, it also says that it's a bribery and fraud and breach of trust. And it says that Netanyahu, as minister of communications, is accused of granting regulatory favors worth about 1.8 billion shekels, which is about $500 million. to Bezek Telecom Israel controlled by this other guy in exchange for positive coverage of Netanyahu and his family on Elavitch's news website, WALL-E. Prosecutors allege Netanyahu acted in a conflict of interest to benefit Elavitch's business interests. And this is apparently the most serious case as it includes a bribery charge where Elavitch and his wife Iris are also charged and deny the allegations. So what you see here is this pattern, in my opinion. what just happened? All right, so we're back. The energy did not want me talking about that, I guess. I decided to cut my internet fun. So what else we have on the docket today is we have the NATO summit and defense spending commitments. So there was a NATO summit in the Netherlands on June 25th and leaders committed to increasing their defense spending to 5 % of their GDP, which initially was 2 % for NATO countries. which is a significant policy win for the Trump administration. the Trump administration, Trump saying that he wanted NATO allies to pay their fair share. And basically what he's saying, and this follows the US pressure on allies to bolster their contributions amid global security challenges. So the way that NATO is set up is that it is imposed essentially that all the leaders spend, you know, 2 % What it originally was was two percent. You have to spend two percent on your military of your GDP, your gross to messed up product product. You have to spend that amount on your military every year. Now, also, there are constituents or constituents, there are constraints. There are also constraints in the NATO contract of like what grade of military equipment you can spend it on. And ironically enough, the only people who produce that grade is the American military contractors. Think Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon. They're the ones spending that money. They have to essentially buy these weapons from those contractors, which is what benefits the American society. American economy. It's one of our biggest. It's not our biggest. We mostly do services. But whenever you talk about goods that are produced by America, military equipment is a huge part of it. And so this is something Trump has campaigned on. I, you know, it's what people wanted was NATO to quote unquote, pay their fair share. But really what is happening is now you've increased the amount of money that is getting put into the military industrial complex. And I mean, I personally think that there are better, far better uses of that money. So by Trump saying that other people have to spend more, it also means that America is going to now have to spend more. on our own military. And we again have so many problems at home, so many issues that this should not be a primary concern for ourselves, especially, but even just for the world as a whole is to is essentially making the military industrial complex even more powerful. And that's what I see whenever I read this headline. You know, so I mean, they're they're leveraging these wars that we see with Russia with Israel all over the world. There's tensions that are increasing with China as well. We've moved a lot of ships to the Pacific Ocean in a defense maneuver against China. So to me, you know, I don't see our leaders taking actions that take us in a direction of peace and prosperity. And so, you know, this is kind of like a consequence of not having strong leaders who want peace, who instead feel that it's better for whatever reason, whether it's their choices or their donors choices to create and continue to create these wars. And so you're seeing what the fallout is of that, which is increase your spending. And, you know, I mean, Trump wanted to do that, whether he wanted to do it or his donors wanted him to do that. It's hard to tell, but he wanted to do that. So, mean, you know, kudos to him for getting that done. I don't really agree with like the way that I don't. don't. It's again, it's a symptom. We're not. It's fixing a symptom. It's kind of like what our medical industry does, right? You're fixing the symptoms. You're not getting into the root cause and healing that. oh So that's kind of my piece on that. And I think the last one that's interesting to talk about is the Rwanda Congo peace deal. So a peace deal was signed between Rwanda and the Dominican Republic of the Congo or of Congo. It's not really of the Congo. It's of Congo with some sources attributing US involvement in brokering agreement. There was a nice little photo op where Marco Rubio, who's the secretary of state, is sitting between two elected officials and they kind of are sitting um there signing it. So I'm sure both of them would agree. uh So now this obviously is not, in my opinion, a priority for America, but it did warrant me investigating what happened in the Congo. And so as just a very brief history to just inform you guys, give you some knowledge. ah Basically, There were a first and second Congo Wars. The first one was 1996 to 97. The second one was 98 to 2003. And there's been ongoing tensions afterwards. And the background of the first one is that there was a 1994 Rwandan genocide where there was an extremist militia that killed about 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. After the Tutsi led Rwandan Patriot Front under Paul something took over control of Wanda over a million Hutu refugees, including the genocidiary militia fled to Eastern Zyra, which is now DRC or the Dominican Republic of Congo settling in refugee camps along the border. So then those Hutu militias who supported that person launched a cross border attack into Rwanda and prompting Rwanda essentially to intervene. know, so basically just mass genocide occurred. 800,000 people is a lot. don't know. That's crazy. And of course this war uh resulted in significant amount of civilian deaths and estimated of tens of thousands to 200,000. uh which and it also failed to neutralize the Hutu militias, which this is, that's just crazy. These numbers I was completely unaware of. um And then I guess that eventually settled down. And then there was a second Congo war, which was 98 to 2003, where the tensions picked back up. um And it became Africa's deadliest conflict often called the African world war, which involved nine countries, Rwanda, Uganda, and Burandi backed back the anti-Kaliba, Kabila rebels while Anagola, Zimbabwe and Nami Mbaya. I'm apologizing guys. I have not heard these words. I've only read them. So please stay with me. uh Back the Kabila government. How did I not know about this? First of all, This is amazing how great our education and our news organization is that there was apparently this massive war in Africa, which some people were calling like the African Civil War and nobody or World War and nobody heard about it in 98 to 2003. I guess we had other priorities. So I guess the DRC has massed mineral wealth. So the fighting was concentrated in Eastern DRC with widespread atrocities, including massacres, sexual violence and displacement. someone was assassinated. Let's see here the outcome. There was an agreement to end the war in 2002 and 2003 and they had had a transitional government. So I guess afterwards there was post post war tensions. I gotta wrap this up. There's post war tensions, hopefully. Hopefully you guys are enjoying this. feel like I'm messing up this podcast. I'm a little flustered. I think after the what was it after the outage, but and this is kind of all new information to me. So that might be why I'm stumbling here a little bit, but hopefully you guys are getting some good knowledge in here. So and of course, from a humanitarian standpoint, over five million people were displaced in Eastern DRC as of 2025 with all of this ongoing violence. There's massive resource exploitation. And of course, as always, weak government involved weak government, no one powerful enough or strong enough or smart enough to actually handle or solve these crises. And I think it's just that's just a symptom of or maybe not even a symptom. Maybe that's the root cause of all the issues that we're seeing in the world today. So, so. I think those are massive issues that we see throughout the entire world at this point. I think that it's really going to take strong leadership for us to fix all these things. uh, yeah, I, that alarm was for me. I got to get moving on my day, but I appreciate you all. love you all. And I will see you all in the sixth dimension.