November 3, 2025 • 29 mins
Former combat veteran and international businessman Stephen Eugene Kuhn joins David Rutherford to deliver one of the most unfiltered analyses of the Ukraine war yet.
From the EU’s deep corruption to the hidden financial ties fueling endless war, Kuhn exposes why Ukraine is losing, how Europe is running out of time, and what it will take to stop a full-scale World War III.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is the war in Ukraine actually lost?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Today on the David Rutherford Show, I welcome international businessman
and former combat veteran Stephen Kuhn.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Stephen Man, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
For coming on the reason why I absolutely wanted to
get you on is I watched one of your videos
recently that you posted about Ukraine, and it was so
poignant and so direct as to what the actual ground
scenario is going on of anything I've been hearing other
than Scott rid Or recently. But I just I really
(00:43):
appreciate you coming on. I'm really looking forward to your insights.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Hey, my pleasure, and the more we can get the
message out, the better.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Awesome important all right, current status of Ukraine from your perspective,
who's winning, who's not? Where do they stand militaristically, financial
and other key aspects of the relationships that are driving this.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Well, you know I have I have in my intel's
from from both sides, so I sort of have a
nice mix of it all. And there are there's conflicting
reports on just about everything you can talk about. But
what I do know is that the European Union is
will not give up until this war is being fought.
Like they will not give up there. They're they're betting
everything that they have on this war and they're losing it, right,
(01:28):
They're they're absolutely losing, and Ukraine's losing. They're losing more.
I don't know what the what the ratio is, but
they're losing something like three to four to one soldiers.
There's all kinds of there's a big propaganda push against
Russia right now. The gas lines that you know everyways broke,
the recruiting old old troopers and things like that. But
my guys, my EXSF, my ex Special Forces guys, PEZ
(01:49):
not guys or whatever. They're like, nah, it's not true. Uh,
you know, Russia is very in a very strong position
and they could they can milk this war for the
next three to five years, no problem at all.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Right, yeah, and so this is what they're telling me. So,
you know, and that means does Putin want to end
this war and then like sort of cut the borders
and you know, late laid down the law or does
he want to basically suck the EU dry and teach
them a lesson. That's where we're at right now in
my opinion, because the EU will not you know, on
one hand, they say we want peace, we want peace,
(02:20):
and then they say, okay, let's do it. Well, no,
we're not going to talk to Russians. Well, how can
you have peace without the diplomacy? It just doesn't work.
And then people say, why isn't the EU and invited
to these peace songs. It's because they have no legitimacy,
they have no credibility. Most of the leaders Macrone, Fund
the Lion, and all of these puppets, they literally have
done nothing of substance in their entire life, and the
(02:41):
ones who have, they're wanted in their own countries, like
funded Lion is you know, has criminal charges in Germany,
and I forget the other guy's name from Portugal, the
president he's also has charges against him in Portugal. So
they send them to the EU and say do what
we say and you won't go to jail. And so
they lie to you. They know their lion, you know
their lying. The public knows lying, and everybody treats like
it's real. It's an absolute farce and it's a joke.
(03:04):
And Russia knows it. Lavrov definitely knows it, and I've
seen messages from him where he's pretty much at the
point where It's like, look, we can't trust anybody anymore.
Even Trump keeps flip flopping. He says something in public,
and he says something different in private, and he goes
back to public and says something different again. And they said,
we're going to What did he say? He said, we're
going with the Supreme Leader's decision and this war hour
(03:24):
a way.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That was his words, specifically his words from Lavrov directly.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Wow. Now you know.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Just recently, Putin was interviewed for five hours and asked
just about answered every single question that the media asked him,
almost to a point where it seemed like he was
almost like Trump in his desire to just speak his
mind in real time. What do you why do you
(03:53):
think that the europe the people of the European Union,
the people of the Calk says, why do you think
they continue to listen to the propaganda that the EU
is putting out.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
You know, it's hard to say, because they're not.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
They're not.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I don't know anyone that's listening. Very few people are listening.
The only ones that are listening. Is the same thing
in the states that the ones that have to hang
on to the to their structure of the entire life
that they've built around these lines, and they you know,
they believe, you know, the Democrats are the liberals, or
we stand for peace and all this kind of stuff.
But every action they take and every word they speak
is the contrary. And you know, cognitive dissonance, you've heard
(04:33):
of that before. But the people don't want this, The
people don't want to work. There's people online now there's
a big German push that people go online and they say,
I denounce my government, I do not support this war
and they will not do it in my name in
case they do it anyway, I want this for record,
especially Germans, for obvious reasons, right alutely. And then you
have like the secret VW board meeting they had with
(04:53):
the shareholders where they said, look, this is our worst
year we've had in a long time, but next year
we're going all the way up because we're went over
into war production. So they're already planning this. Industry, big
industry in Germany is already planning this, and it's a
it's a scary thing because they're planning it in order
to ship everything to the Balkans and Baltics and the
Slavic states in order to have the battle there, and
(05:16):
that includes of course Hungary, which is one of the
last you know, sort of conservative strongholds in Central Europe,
central eastern Europe. And so it's a it's a it's
a it's a it's a quagmire right now. But the
people they don't want it. I don't know anybody who
wants it. I don't know if you know, but you
know one of the co founders what became the a
f D in Germany, Oh, well, the three of us, yeah, myself,
Beatrix Funch Stores and s Fen Flinch Stores, and Beatrix
(05:38):
is a vice chair right now. They were just in
the White House two weeks ago with Jada Vance and
with Jim Jim Jordan, and you know, they had had
a bunch of a bunch of meetings about this.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So the question I have what happened to those uh
uh eighth the individual politicians that were that died right
before the elections. I mean, I try to search for
any type of story I could, and I didn't find anything.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
What's going on with that?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Well, the strange thing about that is I reached out
to my intel guys. There was no wires from no embassy,
from no intel nothing. It's the strangest thing I've ever
seen when it comes to intel, because I've seen a
lot of strange things.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But I'm sure you have to yes for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
But there was seven out of fourteen, so fourteen politicians
died within a two week period. Seven of those were
from the AfD. One of them was regional. All the
other ones were just citywide or even county wide, so
very very low level, no impact, no nothing. I looked,
tried hard, and the AFT leadership that I was speaking
you said, it isn't what it looks like, don't worry
(06:41):
about it. Just that answer right there showed me that
it probably is something else. I couldn't find any information
on it, even the people that I know that aren't official,
the official people, I couldn't find anything on it. What
it seems to me is, let's do something here at
a low level. It's sure the reaction is and then
see what happens later. And if you look at you
know what they're doing in the Balkans and the Slavic
states where they're just annulling you know, elections are in
(07:03):
Poland where they sold half the election. People are accepting
everything these days because the information flow is so quick.
They get you on the next thing. It's distraction, distraction, distraction,
and your distraction number three and two distractions ago, they
just killed somebody and you already forgot about it. So
it's so fast moving right now. But the only reason
they're moving this fast is because they're panicing because they're
(07:24):
losing control because Trump, believe it or not, is dismantling
the world order and it starts with the UK. I
don't know if you know about all that, but you
know there's all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
They control it.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
So yeah, yeah, now they're moving really quick like this,
and they're doing whatever they can do to make it work,
and they will. You know, they have meetings every week
with zilian Ski and the EU and they're shaking hands
and patent backs and everything. It's all just showing they're
not getting anything done. They're just pledging more and more money,
which they don't have. That's Germany's Germany.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
That's the fascination because you I know you do and
you've done have been very successful in international business, in
particular over in Europe.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Can you give us a.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Breakdown of the EU and those different countries where they're
at versus Russia. Where are they still buying Russian fuel?
Like economically, are they prepared to go to war in
the future. It doesn't seem like they are.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
They're not because they are still buying Russian fuel. They're
buying it directly from Russia. And if they're not buying
it directly from Russia in order to you know, skirt
the sanctions, it goes Tozikstan and they do what they
call a mix, right, a blend, and they'll take one
percent Kazak oil and put it in a barrel of
ninety nine percent Russian oil and call it Kazakh oil.
(08:36):
And they've they've been doing that since the war starting.
And I'm in that trade, oil and gas trade, so
we know what we know that's what they're doing, and
that's that's an open secret. So they're spending billions of
dollars a month on Russian energy and they're they're they're, they're,
you know, of course, for Trump, this is the perfect
opportunity to tell them, you know, American energy, right, So
that's that's where he's leveraging this at. But still it's
(08:57):
it's not enough. They need this Russian energy, and so
they're behold they're basically financing their own enemy when they're
buying the fuels. Well, think about it, they're sending him money.
He's putting money into weapons of shooting back at him.
It's it's crazy and that just shows you right there,
what kind of game this is. This is not about
winning sovereignty of Ukraine. It's not about you know, the
Ukrainian liberty. The people are suffering are the Ukrainians. My wife,
(09:20):
you know, her parents, their house is gone. You know,
we're here with us now in ty. We brought him
out it, We brought them out of Ukraine, brought him here.
Her apartments there, windows are blown out, doors are blown out,
but her apartment's still there. Who knows if it'll ever
be in places she's in Kharkief from Harkiev. The Ukrainian
are suffering, and no one's doing.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Anything about it.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Everybody talks about oh yeah, you know, and you know
is fly by Ukraine. You don't know jack about what's
going on over there. When you say that, because the
Ukrainians are like, yeah, they do something. If you care
about us, then do something. But you're not doing anything.
You're basically bolstering a puppet, a guy who's an actor,
and all of the all of the European Union leadership,
I don't want to say the Europeans, but the European
Union leadership from the line and her dwarfs that are
(10:01):
out there trying to, you know, drive us into war
no matter what. And there's a plan in place, there's
a paper, there's a draft, everything's in place by twenty
twenty nine to go full out war with Russia, and
now they're trying to speed it up.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
You know, I watched the video that you posted with
your wife, and I was incredibly.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Moved by that.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
You know, I mean when you hear somebody from the region,
you know, really kind of say, hey, this is not
what we want, we want peace. Ukrainians want peace, and
then you begin to realize the sheer you know, control
that the like you said, the European Union in NATO
in terms of mark Root, you know, and their control
(10:42):
over Zelenski as a puppet is staggering. You also posted
a video about Victor Orbon and I definitely want to
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Speaker 2 (12:26):
Okay, Stephen, you posted this video about Victor Orbun and
said that you had lived there. Can you describe the
importance of hungry and preventing full scale war in the Balkans?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Well, to put it bluntly, it's history. If you look
at Hungary, it used to be the Hungarian Austrian Empire, right,
and then if you look at Serbia, they were split up, you,
Slavia was split up. All of these Balkans, the Slavics
and the Baltic states, they were all split up and
gutted and raped from Western powers. And they didn't forget that.
And Orbon specifically started out as a student and protesting
and he became then prime minister, you know, and then
(13:00):
he was unseated for a couple of years and he came back.
He's been there since twenty ten and he's a very
strong Stauns conservative. Yeah, there's corruption in his in his government,
just like everywhere else. You know, they built like, like
I don't know, like eighteen football stadiums or you know,
soccer stadiums in one year because it was like a
like a tax thing or something. But you know, people
like to look at the things that are bad. But
(13:22):
this is what I see when I go to Hungary
and we go every two weeks or every two months,
because we still got a place there. I'm going to
go there. It's homogeneous, there's no crime, there's no immigrant
gangs on the streets that are running after people. Now
if I go to Berlin, a whole different story. I'm
going to Berlin, I'm like this the whole time. If
I had a wap in my hand, will be on
it all the time. That's Berlin, right, Or if you
(13:44):
go to Brussels, if you go to Holland, UK especially
right right right now, it's a bad place to be.
And the East is like the central Eastern Europe, Hungary
and those guys and partially Slovakia, right it's fighting against
Poland half. You know, they got a globalist in their half.
Half global they're they're fighting it. And Maloney, I still look,
(14:05):
the cards are still out on me for for the
Prime minister. Videaly. We're just in Italy two weeks ago
and did a video there and ended up on the
front page of the newspaper because we did it with
an activist down there. She's playing both sides, it seems
like to me. She's very strong talker, but she seems
to playing both sides. But in the end, this war
that will be fought will be fought if it's fought,
and let's pray that it doesn't. It will be fought
(14:26):
in the Balkans, the Slavic and the Baltic states because
they are what the EU leadership calls expendables, and it's
just a shame because they are. They haven't been what's
the word shoyanized. I don't know what the word is,
but they don't have the dei and all that.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Kind of.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Right. Yeah, yeah, so they they're still the men are
still men, and there's some hard ass my other truckers too.
I'll tell you. They don't take any ship from anybody,
and so they're they're standing strong.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I'm praying for them, and I'm doing video specifically for
them to show them that the support is behind them.
However much help that's going to give, I don't know,
but the only thing that I see that we can
do is keep calling this out and more and more German. Specifically,
it's important for Germany because a lot of people don't
understand it Germany. When Germany falls, the EU falls. Germany
is the anchor of the EU economically and as far
(15:15):
as the powerhouse goes also optically and psychologically. France isn't
as big as they as they think they are.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
So they're in serious problems. Anyways.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I don't think I don't think Marcone is going to
be able to hold that government much longer at all.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I mean they're right on the present. Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
So there was a great interview that I watched with
Scott Ritter, former military guy with Mario no Fall and
talks about the Russian territory as and there the tactics
of that JEORDI, could you pop up that map for me?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
All right?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
And when I look at this map, I see all
of the area that was in that vote. I think
it was the vote was in fifteen or sixteen after
the Mayden Revolution. Right off, battalion started attacking those regions
and then you know, I think Putin was just like,
(16:06):
all right, let's tell everybody what it is. This is
Russian speaking, this is our country. It's been our countries
and is you know his interview with Tucker since fifteen
twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Or whatever he says.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And that's the way the Russians think about the world
and centuries, right. And when I look at that I
see them fully entrenched. They have, what I've heard in
some regions five defensive lines already established up along that line.
And I don't ever see those lines retracting.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I haven't for the last year and a half.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
There were a couple of forays into some of those
northern regions. They pushed back a little bit, but then
quickly were overrun afterwards, when you look at that map
based on not only your understanding of you know, I mean,
you were Bronze Star winner in combat, so you understand tactics,
you understand what do you see when you look at
that map as it is right today?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I think I think the number one most consistent strategy
that Putin's been done this whole world, the number one
of the most important thing he's done is restraint. He
could have rolled over them like nobody's business. But remember, well,
let me ask you this. In the red zone there,
why is there no sort of resistance? Why is there
no revolution? Why is there no Ukrainians doing you know,
(17:21):
sort of attacks. Why is that because most of them
are Russian speaking. They want peace and they're okay with it,
right And like my wife, you know, she grew up
speaking Russian, she's Ukrainian, but she's you grew up speaking
Russi because she's Markoff and they speak Russian there, spoke
rushing there until they changed the law, and so you
can't do anymore. Anybody who couldn't speak Russian or couldn't
speak Ukrainian lost her job. Zelensky didn't even speak Russian.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Right now, that's the funniest one story.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Speak Kreenian. And so you know, remember that those people
that are there, if they want to peace and they're
okay with it. Otherwise there'd be out, you know, there'd
be bombings and there'll be attacks and all kinds of stuff,
and there's not. There's peace on the on the you know,
on the Eastern Front, if you will. And so when
I see that, I see Pootin and saying, look, I'm
holding off here, I'm restraining myself. I could go further,
(18:05):
let's just end this and let's keep it right here.
But I'm not backing down. I'm keeping this border, like
I said I would, and the NATO, you're not coming closer.
If this is the border, then this is the border,
and that's the way. That's that's the way I see it.
I don't see Ukraine making any forward movement now if
they bring tomahawks and there much. They haven't yet, And
as far as I know, the budget isn't there until
January February anyway, So we have a we have a
(18:25):
lull time between now and January. Everyone's going to freak
out in January. You watch, because they'll be the expenditures
are going to start exploding because the budgets are free, right,
And I'll be like, oh, it's just normal spending. It's
normal spending in January. It happens every year here in January, March,
first quarter, It'll happen all the time. So just watch
out for those fake puffs. And then of course you
have so you have a trajectory. Now the people of
(18:48):
the world, especially Europe are getting sick of this, so
they're gonna starting to wake up. Then you have the
trajectory of the war coming, and the war's going to
come through false flag. Right. I know a guy in
the UK who's on one of the islands. I won't
mention it off the coast, and there's an old American
ship there just sort of like you know, set on
the sun on the rocks, and it's wired right now,
(19:10):
he said. And the trick is to say, oh, Russian
submarine blew it up, right. So they want to draw
UK and they want to draw the European Union. And
obviously they can't take a submarine into the into Central Europe.
It's impossible. But you know, so they're trying to find
a way the false flag is to death. And so far,
thank goodness, there's been enough resistance where all of the
false flag and there's been like four or five of them,
(19:31):
they've been blown off like oh no, no, no, that's
not really. We know that's not real. And then they
just hit, you know, the two refineries in three insluckis.
So you know, it's it's they're trying everything they can
to stay look at you know, Russia's bad. Now, when
I'm talking this way, I get accused to being a
Russia Russia fobe all the time. I don't give a shit,
(19:52):
tell you truth. But here's here's the thing. If I'm
telling you something and it's in black and white next
to me, and I'm reading it to you, and it
just happens to be pro Russia or anti Europe or
the other way around. That doesn't mean that I'm taking size.
That just means this is what I see and this
is what I'm reporting, right. But to get that through
people's heads sometimes is really ridifud. I'm sure you've experienced yourself.
When you start talking about this stuff to get it
(20:13):
through people's heads, they don't even listen anymore. They shut down.
And that's one of the biggest problems we have is
no one listens anymore. They have a narrative that they believe.
They believe it with their life, and they have to
support feed and feed their bias and support it so
that they have something to believe in. And I just
on my platform, I just offer another way to look
at things. That's what I try to do, and so
(20:35):
it's really important to me. Look my wife, and first
of all, people make a joke about it. If my
in law has lived with me, i'd want the word
to be over to you know that's not the case.
But yeah, it was funny when someone said that. But
they're suffering here, you know, we got them covered, you know,
we got them. We have a place in a car
and all that kind of stuff. But they have nothing.
(20:56):
They don't speak the language, and a job. They can't work.
They're both retired now and they have no way of
living their life. They want to go back, they want
to go home. They're even thinking about going home now
and I'm like, can't get nowhere to go? Yeah, but
we want to go home. They just want to go home. Wow,
that's the sentiment of most Ukrainians. And here's the worst
part of it all is in Ukraine, a lot of
(21:18):
Ukrainians they just want peace, but they believe the narrative
because there's only that narrative that Russia is bad and
losing and we're going to take over and we're going
to win. That's the only narrative that's in the Ukraine
right now. You can't there's no foreign press getting in there.
So it's also caused a big rift in families because,
for instance, my wife has ants and stuff in Russia.
Almost everyone in Ukraine has Russian relatives. At least in
(21:41):
the East, almost all of them are Russian relatives. That's
a lot of rift as well a lot of problems
with families that don't talk to each other anymore. It's
a big mess. They want peace, They just want to
live again, and unfortunately the Ukraine that they knew will
never exist again.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Now, yeah, for sure that those are harsh realities that
I think all these conflicts except are are are determining
in your mind if if obviously I I agree with you,
I think this is a full effort to try and
generate a hot war in this area, for sure, because
I think they believe that if if, if, if they
(22:17):
can somehow engage Russia UH and pull Russia away from
an alliance with with China, UH, that that that somehow
brings the hegemony back to the globalists that exists within
the European Union.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
And everyone talks about, you know, all the rare minerals
and the oil and again all this kind of stuff,
but in the end, it's all about the powers. The
biggest powers in the world can never work together. Only
two at a time, that's right, right, you two at
a time. So and that's you know, the British Crown
drilled in the wedge between everybody all the.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Time, all the time, yep, And they push it on the.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Blue and White guys you know from Israel. Oh it's
Israeli's this Israelis. They're always pushing on the Israelis when
in fact, one one step above them, you have the
British Crown and the British crounded all the people involved
in that. And it's it's just it's it's terrible. It's
it's it's absolutely horrible because every single day we have
no we have no recourse. All we can do is
talk about it right now, right and elect elections of
(23:13):
people running for election. You forget about it. We need
citizen leaders in every country. We need citizen leaders that
step up like they did in Iceland. I don't know
if you if you know about that where they just
walked in and said, you guys are done, we're taking over.
No one gets paid. You got to work your normal job,
run your company, and then you run the run the
you know, the government on the side. You know, it's
like totally you know, that's how I did it. So
(23:34):
we need citizen leadership. The world needs citizen leadership. And
with Victor Obon in Hungary, yes, you know, some people
say is corrupt. I consulted their government when it when
Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice went there to try to
unseat him with oodles and noodles of money from the
Sorels Foundation, the Open found Open Society and WRBON just
kicked him out. He kicked out the Free University, that
(23:56):
sort of the European University, the Foundation, all of his
NGO's kicked them all out, just like he kicked him
on Santo out. He kicked them out of the get
out of the country. He a lot of people were
mad at him because what he did is he nationalized
private insurance, private pensions like four roll one k's. Everybody
went up in arms. What he did with that money
is he paid off the IMF and kicked them out.
(24:17):
That's why he can do what he does. He's not
beholding right.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
That seems very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
That seems to always be the key that these a
lot of these countries, they get into bed with the IMF,
They get these huge loans going for all infrastructure or
whether their their pension funds are tied to some international
asset management company, whatever it might be, right, they control,
you know, because they give up their proxy voting shares.
What my what I see though, is every time I
(24:43):
see a man on the street interview with about young
people from these areas, and they ask, will you go
fight in Ukraine? I don't ever see I don't see people,
you know, the Irish saying yeah, I'm going, the English Chane, definitely,
the Germans, there's no way they're going, right, you know
after I mean, you know, and and then all those
(25:05):
other countries.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
It's a joke.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
So who does the European Union think they're gonna get
to fight this war?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
You're looking at them. You were there there, right, you
were there.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I just wanted to hear you say it, but man,
I just wanted you to say it.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Yeah, right, and it's it's there there. You know. I
hope Trump shows restrained as well, because we cannot do this.
We cannot do this, We can't, you know. And here's
the thing is that without without soldiers, without people, there's
no emotional connection to war, There's no heroes, there's no
stories and stuff like that. So it'll be it'll be
sort of a technocratic war and it won't mean anything
to anybody, which is almost worse because the no one
(25:42):
pays attention to it.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So it's it's it's such a crazy timer and not
only because of the war, but also because of the
changes that we're seeing with AI and all this kind
of stuff where we could almost fight a war and
with no people at all.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
It's close.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
It's robots, AI, drones, all that stuff, you know. So
it's a it's a it's a scary place to be.
And right here, I mean in Turkey, we live on
the mad literally one hundred feet from here. As a
Mediterranean every day fighter jets you know, I love it,
but you know, this is a vacation place where people
come to the vacaved the fifth most visited city on the planet,
(26:17):
right and there's another's fighter jets flying over here, and
there's no there's a specific reason for that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
So yeah, and it's changing, man, it's changing.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
And then Americas, bless our soul, we're still so far
away from all this that it's you know, we have
enough stuff going on home as ourselves that unfortunately it
goes you know, falls under the rug too often. And
it's just for me. It's almost like an like a dude.
I always felt like, I'm sure you did too. As
a military man. And then after I got out, I've
(26:45):
been away from the States for you know, on and
off for thirty seven years.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
And I always feel like I'm an ambassador, so I
have to act right, you know, do do business right,
high integrity, speak clearly, always be the ambassador for America
as a civilian as as as as a contractor, as
a business guy. And I've been invited on Turkish TV.
I've been you know, spoken to you on the streets
and hey, wow, you know what's it really like? Thank
you so much on those kind of things. And if
everyone did that and we would just quick bitching at
(27:10):
each other and complaining and left and right front and center,
man this place where this would be ended real quick,
because you know, we are so many more than they are,
so many.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
More, so many more. Well, Steve, and I can't thank
you enough for your time. Where can people follow you,
pay attention to what you're doing and then also tell
us about your business and then the book that you
wrote to please sure?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
So you can find me almost on any channel, Stephen
Eugene kon k u h N, whether it's Instagram, TikTok,
although TikTok's got me. I used to do, you know,
two videos a week over a million views. Now it's
like I'm lucky if I get five thousand, they've really
dial it down. Instagram, TikTok x, I don't know what
it is. Stephen Coon, Stephen something or other, you'll find
me and then linked Lincoln as well, Steve and Eugene.
(28:01):
My business we have, you know, a few businesses. My
wife has a few businesses, but the core businesses we
raise capital through a growth advisory for you know, different
different projects, whether it's green you know, solar energy, hydrogen,
we do some lifestyle brands in the States and things
like that. We've done my partner and I've done two
point seventy one billion this year so far. Wow. And
(28:22):
we're quite successful at that. Well, quite successful that because
we have urgency, and that's just everything's about urgency. And
right now people are saying, oh, it's hard to get money.
It's the easiest time to get money that I've ever
had in my entire life because people want to secure
the apt and the capital with assets in cases of crash.
So right now it's a better time, the best time
in many to get the money. And then if anybody
wants pick up my book, Unleash, You're Humble Alpha. This
(28:42):
book is it's a step by step guide and building
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in your abilities to deploy your genius in any given situation,
where you become unstoppable. And it's it's not a joke either.
It's actually in about ten universities in America as a
curriculum right now. Harvard and Stanford are looking at it
as well. I didn't write it for that, it just
came out that way. Well, so it's a it's a
(29:04):
pleasure to be on I really, I really appreciate it, David.
I was surprised that you wrote me, and I'm glad
you did.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, well, thank you very much. Your insights are phenomenal.
You you're very wise guy, and uh you're you're you're humble,
and you're gracious about how you spread your wisdom and
so uh hopefully my audience will follow you and and
and continue to pay attention and and keep up the
motivational stuff too. By the way, I love when smart
men give motivational advice.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
To thank you so much saying me, I can't help it,
and I'm sure you're the same.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Absolutely, God bless you.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Take care, take care,
Is the war in Ukraine actually lost?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Today on the David Rutherford Show, I welcome international businessman
and former combat veteran Stephen Kuhn.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Stephen Man, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
For coming on the reason why I absolutely wanted to
get you on is I watched one of your videos
recently that you posted about Ukraine, and it was so
poignant and so direct as to what the actual ground
scenario is going on of anything I've been hearing other
than Scott rid Or recently. But I just I really
(00:43):
appreciate you coming on. I'm really looking forward to your insights.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Hey, my pleasure, and the more we can get the
message out, the better.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Awesome important all right, current status of Ukraine from your perspective,
who's winning, who's not? Where do they stand militaristically, financial
and other key aspects of the relationships that are driving this.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Well, you know I have I have in my intel's
from from both sides, so I sort of have a
nice mix of it all. And there are there's conflicting
reports on just about everything you can talk about. But
what I do know is that the European Union is
will not give up until this war is being fought.
Like they will not give up there. They're they're betting
everything that they have on this war and they're losing it, right,
(01:28):
They're they're absolutely losing, and Ukraine's losing. They're losing more.
I don't know what the what the ratio is, but
they're losing something like three to four to one soldiers.
There's all kinds of there's a big propaganda push against
Russia right now. The gas lines that you know everyways broke,
the recruiting old old troopers and things like that. But
my guys, my EXSF, my ex Special Forces guys, PEZ
(01:49):
not guys or whatever. They're like, nah, it's not true. Uh,
you know, Russia is very in a very strong position
and they could they can milk this war for the
next three to five years, no problem at all.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Right, yeah, and so this is what they're telling me. So,
you know, and that means does Putin want to end
this war and then like sort of cut the borders
and you know, late laid down the law or does
he want to basically suck the EU dry and teach
them a lesson. That's where we're at right now in
my opinion, because the EU will not you know, on
one hand, they say we want peace, we want peace,
(02:20):
and then they say, okay, let's do it. Well, no,
we're not going to talk to Russians. Well, how can
you have peace without the diplomacy? It just doesn't work.
And then people say, why isn't the EU and invited
to these peace songs. It's because they have no legitimacy,
they have no credibility. Most of the leaders Macrone, Fund
the Lion, and all of these puppets, they literally have
done nothing of substance in their entire life, and the
(02:41):
ones who have, they're wanted in their own countries, like
funded Lion is you know, has criminal charges in Germany,
and I forget the other guy's name from Portugal, the
president he's also has charges against him in Portugal. So
they send them to the EU and say do what
we say and you won't go to jail. And so
they lie to you. They know their lion, you know
their lying. The public knows lying, and everybody treats like
it's real. It's an absolute farce and it's a joke.
(03:04):
And Russia knows it. Lavrov definitely knows it, and I've
seen messages from him where he's pretty much at the
point where It's like, look, we can't trust anybody anymore.
Even Trump keeps flip flopping. He says something in public,
and he says something different in private, and he goes
back to public and says something different again. And they said,
we're going to What did he say? He said, we're
going with the Supreme Leader's decision and this war hour
(03:24):
a way.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That was his words, specifically his words from Lavrov directly.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Wow. Now you know.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Just recently, Putin was interviewed for five hours and asked
just about answered every single question that the media asked him,
almost to a point where it seemed like he was
almost like Trump in his desire to just speak his
mind in real time. What do you why do you
(03:53):
think that the europe the people of the European Union,
the people of the Calk says, why do you think
they continue to listen to the propaganda that the EU
is putting out.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
You know, it's hard to say, because they're not.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
They're not.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I don't know anyone that's listening. Very few people are listening.
The only ones that are listening. Is the same thing
in the states that the ones that have to hang
on to the to their structure of the entire life
that they've built around these lines, and they you know,
they believe, you know, the Democrats are the liberals, or
we stand for peace and all this kind of stuff.
But every action they take and every word they speak
is the contrary. And you know, cognitive dissonance, you've heard
(04:33):
of that before. But the people don't want this, The
people don't want to work. There's people online now there's
a big German push that people go online and they say,
I denounce my government, I do not support this war
and they will not do it in my name in
case they do it anyway, I want this for record,
especially Germans, for obvious reasons, right alutely. And then you
have like the secret VW board meeting they had with
(04:53):
the shareholders where they said, look, this is our worst
year we've had in a long time, but next year
we're going all the way up because we're went over
into war production. So they're already planning this. Industry, big
industry in Germany is already planning this, and it's a
it's a scary thing because they're planning it in order
to ship everything to the Balkans and Baltics and the
Slavic states in order to have the battle there, and
(05:16):
that includes of course Hungary, which is one of the
last you know, sort of conservative strongholds in Central Europe,
central eastern Europe. And so it's a it's a it's
a it's a it's a quagmire right now. But the
people they don't want it. I don't know anybody who
wants it. I don't know if you know, but you
know one of the co founders what became the a
f D in Germany, Oh, well, the three of us, yeah, myself,
Beatrix Funch Stores and s Fen Flinch Stores, and Beatrix
(05:38):
is a vice chair right now. They were just in
the White House two weeks ago with Jada Vance and
with Jim Jim Jordan, and you know, they had had
a bunch of a bunch of meetings about this.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So the question I have what happened to those uh
uh eighth the individual politicians that were that died right
before the elections. I mean, I try to search for
any type of story I could, and I didn't find anything.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
What's going on with that?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Well, the strange thing about that is I reached out
to my intel guys. There was no wires from no embassy,
from no intel nothing. It's the strangest thing I've ever
seen when it comes to intel, because I've seen a
lot of strange things.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But I'm sure you have to yes for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
But there was seven out of fourteen, so fourteen politicians
died within a two week period. Seven of those were
from the AfD. One of them was regional. All the
other ones were just citywide or even county wide, so
very very low level, no impact, no nothing. I looked,
tried hard, and the AFT leadership that I was speaking
you said, it isn't what it looks like, don't worry
(06:41):
about it. Just that answer right there showed me that
it probably is something else. I couldn't find any information
on it, even the people that I know that aren't official,
the official people, I couldn't find anything on it. What
it seems to me is, let's do something here at
a low level. It's sure the reaction is and then
see what happens later. And if you look at you
know what they're doing in the Balkans and the Slavic
states where they're just annulling you know, elections are in
(07:03):
Poland where they sold half the election. People are accepting
everything these days because the information flow is so quick.
They get you on the next thing. It's distraction, distraction, distraction,
and your distraction number three and two distractions ago, they
just killed somebody and you already forgot about it. So
it's so fast moving right now. But the only reason
they're moving this fast is because they're panicing because they're
(07:24):
losing control because Trump, believe it or not, is dismantling
the world order and it starts with the UK. I
don't know if you know about all that, but you
know there's all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
They control it.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
So yeah, yeah, now they're moving really quick like this,
and they're doing whatever they can do to make it work,
and they will. You know, they have meetings every week
with zilian Ski and the EU and they're shaking hands
and patent backs and everything. It's all just showing they're
not getting anything done. They're just pledging more and more money,
which they don't have. That's Germany's Germany.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
That's the fascination because you I know you do and
you've done have been very successful in international business, in
particular over in Europe.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Can you give us a.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Breakdown of the EU and those different countries where they're
at versus Russia. Where are they still buying Russian fuel?
Like economically, are they prepared to go to war in
the future. It doesn't seem like they are.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
They're not because they are still buying Russian fuel. They're
buying it directly from Russia. And if they're not buying
it directly from Russia in order to you know, skirt
the sanctions, it goes Tozikstan and they do what they
call a mix, right, a blend, and they'll take one
percent Kazak oil and put it in a barrel of
ninety nine percent Russian oil and call it Kazakh oil.
(08:36):
And they've they've been doing that since the war starting.
And I'm in that trade, oil and gas trade, so
we know what we know that's what they're doing, and
that's that's an open secret. So they're spending billions of
dollars a month on Russian energy and they're they're they're, they're,
you know, of course, for Trump, this is the perfect
opportunity to tell them, you know, American energy, right, So
that's that's where he's leveraging this at. But still it's
(08:57):
it's not enough. They need this Russian energy, and so
they're behold they're basically financing their own enemy when they're
buying the fuels. Well, think about it, they're sending him money.
He's putting money into weapons of shooting back at him.
It's it's crazy and that just shows you right there,
what kind of game this is. This is not about
winning sovereignty of Ukraine. It's not about you know, the
Ukrainian liberty. The people are suffering are the Ukrainians. My wife,
(09:20):
you know, her parents, their house is gone. You know,
we're here with us now in ty. We brought him
out it, We brought them out of Ukraine, brought him here.
Her apartments there, windows are blown out, doors are blown out,
but her apartment's still there. Who knows if it'll ever
be in places she's in Kharkief from Harkiev. The Ukrainian
are suffering, and no one's doing.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Anything about it.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Everybody talks about oh yeah, you know, and you know
is fly by Ukraine. You don't know jack about what's
going on over there. When you say that, because the
Ukrainians are like, yeah, they do something. If you care
about us, then do something. But you're not doing anything.
You're basically bolstering a puppet, a guy who's an actor,
and all of the all of the European Union leadership,
I don't want to say the Europeans, but the European
Union leadership from the line and her dwarfs that are
(10:01):
out there trying to, you know, drive us into war
no matter what. And there's a plan in place, there's
a paper, there's a draft, everything's in place by twenty
twenty nine to go full out war with Russia, and
now they're trying to speed it up.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
You know, I watched the video that you posted with
your wife, and I was incredibly.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Moved by that.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
You know, I mean when you hear somebody from the region,
you know, really kind of say, hey, this is not
what we want, we want peace. Ukrainians want peace, and
then you begin to realize the sheer you know, control
that the like you said, the European Union in NATO
in terms of mark Root, you know, and their control
(10:42):
over Zelenski as a puppet is staggering. You also posted
a video about Victor Orbon and I definitely want to
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Okay, Stephen, you posted this video about Victor Orbun and
said that you had lived there. Can you describe the
importance of hungry and preventing full scale war in the Balkans?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Well, to put it bluntly, it's history. If you look
at Hungary, it used to be the Hungarian Austrian Empire, right,
and then if you look at Serbia, they were split up, you,
Slavia was split up. All of these Balkans, the Slavics
and the Baltic states, they were all split up and
gutted and raped from Western powers. And they didn't forget that.
And Orbon specifically started out as a student and protesting
and he became then prime minister, you know, and then
(13:00):
he was unseated for a couple of years and he came back.
He's been there since twenty ten and he's a very
strong Stauns conservative. Yeah, there's corruption in his in his government,
just like everywhere else. You know, they built like, like
I don't know, like eighteen football stadiums or you know,
soccer stadiums in one year because it was like a
like a tax thing or something. But you know, people
like to look at the things that are bad. But
(13:22):
this is what I see when I go to Hungary
and we go every two weeks or every two months,
because we still got a place there. I'm going to
go there. It's homogeneous, there's no crime, there's no immigrant
gangs on the streets that are running after people. Now
if I go to Berlin, a whole different story. I'm
going to Berlin, I'm like this the whole time. If
I had a wap in my hand, will be on
it all the time. That's Berlin, right, Or if you
(13:44):
go to Brussels, if you go to Holland, UK especially
right right right now, it's a bad place to be.
And the East is like the central Eastern Europe, Hungary
and those guys and partially Slovakia, right it's fighting against
Poland half. You know, they got a globalist in their half.
Half global they're they're fighting it. And Maloney, I still look,
(14:05):
the cards are still out on me for for the
Prime minister. Videaly. We're just in Italy two weeks ago
and did a video there and ended up on the
front page of the newspaper because we did it with
an activist down there. She's playing both sides, it seems
like to me. She's very strong talker, but she seems
to playing both sides. But in the end, this war
that will be fought will be fought if it's fought,
and let's pray that it doesn't. It will be fought
(14:26):
in the Balkans, the Slavic and the Baltic states because
they are what the EU leadership calls expendables, and it's
just a shame because they are. They haven't been what's
the word shoyanized. I don't know what the word is,
but they don't have the dei and all that.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Kind of.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Right. Yeah, yeah, so they they're still the men are
still men, and there's some hard ass my other truckers too.
I'll tell you. They don't take any ship from anybody,
and so they're they're standing strong.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I'm praying for them, and I'm doing video specifically for
them to show them that the support is behind them.
However much help that's going to give, I don't know,
but the only thing that I see that we can
do is keep calling this out and more and more German. Specifically,
it's important for Germany because a lot of people don't
understand it Germany. When Germany falls, the EU falls. Germany
is the anchor of the EU economically and as far
(15:15):
as the powerhouse goes also optically and psychologically. France isn't
as big as they as they think they are.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
So they're in serious problems. Anyways.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I don't think I don't think Marcone is going to
be able to hold that government much longer at all.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I mean they're right on the present. Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
So there was a great interview that I watched with
Scott Ritter, former military guy with Mario no Fall and
talks about the Russian territory as and there the tactics
of that JEORDI, could you pop up that map for me?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
All right?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
And when I look at this map, I see all
of the area that was in that vote. I think
it was the vote was in fifteen or sixteen after
the Mayden Revolution. Right off, battalion started attacking those regions
and then you know, I think Putin was just like,
(16:06):
all right, let's tell everybody what it is. This is
Russian speaking, this is our country. It's been our countries
and is you know his interview with Tucker since fifteen
twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Or whatever he says.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And that's the way the Russians think about the world
and centuries, right. And when I look at that I
see them fully entrenched. They have, what I've heard in
some regions five defensive lines already established up along that line.
And I don't ever see those lines retracting.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I haven't for the last year and a half.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
There were a couple of forays into some of those
northern regions. They pushed back a little bit, but then
quickly were overrun afterwards, when you look at that map
based on not only your understanding of you know, I mean,
you were Bronze Star winner in combat, so you understand tactics,
you understand what do you see when you look at
that map as it is right today?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I think I think the number one most consistent strategy
that Putin's been done this whole world, the number one
of the most important thing he's done is restraint. He
could have rolled over them like nobody's business. But remember, well,
let me ask you this. In the red zone there,
why is there no sort of resistance? Why is there
no revolution? Why is there no Ukrainians doing you know,
(17:21):
sort of attacks. Why is that because most of them
are Russian speaking. They want peace and they're okay with it,
right And like my wife, you know, she grew up
speaking Russian, she's Ukrainian, but she's you grew up speaking
Russi because she's Markoff and they speak Russian there, spoke
rushing there until they changed the law, and so you
can't do anymore. Anybody who couldn't speak Russian or couldn't
speak Ukrainian lost her job. Zelensky didn't even speak Russian.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Right now, that's the funniest one story.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Speak Kreenian. And so you know, remember that those people
that are there, if they want to peace and they're
okay with it. Otherwise there'd be out, you know, there'd
be bombings and there'll be attacks and all kinds of stuff,
and there's not. There's peace on the on the you know,
on the Eastern Front, if you will. And so when
I see that, I see Pootin and saying, look, I'm
holding off here, I'm restraining myself. I could go further,
(18:05):
let's just end this and let's keep it right here.
But I'm not backing down. I'm keeping this border, like
I said I would, and the NATO, you're not coming closer.
If this is the border, then this is the border,
and that's the way. That's that's the way I see it.
I don't see Ukraine making any forward movement now if
they bring tomahawks and there much. They haven't yet, And
as far as I know, the budget isn't there until
January February anyway, So we have a we have a
(18:25):
lull time between now and January. Everyone's going to freak
out in January. You watch, because they'll be the expenditures
are going to start exploding because the budgets are free, right,
And I'll be like, oh, it's just normal spending. It's
normal spending in January. It happens every year here in January, March,
first quarter, It'll happen all the time. So just watch
out for those fake puffs. And then of course you
have so you have a trajectory. Now the people of
(18:48):
the world, especially Europe are getting sick of this, so
they're gonna starting to wake up. Then you have the
trajectory of the war coming, and the war's going to
come through false flag. Right. I know a guy in
the UK who's on one of the islands. I won't
mention it off the coast, and there's an old American
ship there just sort of like you know, set on
the sun on the rocks, and it's wired right now,
(19:10):
he said. And the trick is to say, oh, Russian
submarine blew it up, right. So they want to draw
UK and they want to draw the European Union. And
obviously they can't take a submarine into the into Central Europe.
It's impossible. But you know, so they're trying to find
a way the false flag is to death. And so far,
thank goodness, there's been enough resistance where all of the
false flag and there's been like four or five of them,
(19:31):
they've been blown off like oh no, no, no, that's
not really. We know that's not real. And then they
just hit, you know, the two refineries in three insluckis.
So you know, it's it's they're trying everything they can
to stay look at you know, Russia's bad. Now, when
I'm talking this way, I get accused to being a
Russia Russia fobe all the time. I don't give a shit,
(19:52):
tell you truth. But here's here's the thing. If I'm
telling you something and it's in black and white next
to me, and I'm reading it to you, and it
just happens to be pro Russia or anti Europe or
the other way around. That doesn't mean that I'm taking size.
That just means this is what I see and this
is what I'm reporting, right. But to get that through
people's heads sometimes is really ridifud. I'm sure you've experienced yourself.
When you start talking about this stuff to get it
(20:13):
through people's heads, they don't even listen anymore. They shut down.
And that's one of the biggest problems we have is
no one listens anymore. They have a narrative that they believe.
They believe it with their life, and they have to
support feed and feed their bias and support it so
that they have something to believe in. And I just
on my platform, I just offer another way to look
at things. That's what I try to do, and so
(20:35):
it's really important to me. Look my wife, and first
of all, people make a joke about it. If my
in law has lived with me, i'd want the word
to be over to you know that's not the case.
But yeah, it was funny when someone said that. But
they're suffering here, you know, we got them covered, you know,
we got them. We have a place in a car
and all that kind of stuff. But they have nothing.
(20:56):
They don't speak the language, and a job. They can't work.
They're both retired now and they have no way of
living their life. They want to go back, they want
to go home. They're even thinking about going home now
and I'm like, can't get nowhere to go? Yeah, but
we want to go home. They just want to go home. Wow,
that's the sentiment of most Ukrainians. And here's the worst
part of it all is in Ukraine, a lot of
(21:18):
Ukrainians they just want peace, but they believe the narrative
because there's only that narrative that Russia is bad and
losing and we're going to take over and we're going
to win. That's the only narrative that's in the Ukraine
right now. You can't there's no foreign press getting in there.
So it's also caused a big rift in families because,
for instance, my wife has ants and stuff in Russia.
Almost everyone in Ukraine has Russian relatives. At least in
(21:41):
the East, almost all of them are Russian relatives. That's
a lot of rift as well a lot of problems
with families that don't talk to each other anymore. It's
a big mess. They want peace, They just want to
live again, and unfortunately the Ukraine that they knew will
never exist again.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Now, yeah, for sure that those are harsh realities that
I think all these conflicts except are are are determining
in your mind if if obviously I I agree with you,
I think this is a full effort to try and
generate a hot war in this area, for sure, because
I think they believe that if if, if, if they
(22:17):
can somehow engage Russia UH and pull Russia away from
an alliance with with China, UH, that that that somehow
brings the hegemony back to the globalists that exists within
the European Union.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
And everyone talks about, you know, all the rare minerals
and the oil and again all this kind of stuff,
but in the end, it's all about the powers. The
biggest powers in the world can never work together. Only
two at a time, that's right, right, you two at
a time. So and that's you know, the British Crown
drilled in the wedge between everybody all the.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Time, all the time, yep, And they push it on the.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Blue and White guys you know from Israel. Oh it's
Israeli's this Israelis. They're always pushing on the Israelis when
in fact, one one step above them, you have the
British Crown and the British crounded all the people involved
in that. And it's it's just it's it's terrible. It's
it's it's absolutely horrible because every single day we have
no we have no recourse. All we can do is
talk about it right now, right and elect elections of
(23:13):
people running for election. You forget about it. We need
citizen leaders in every country. We need citizen leaders that
step up like they did in Iceland. I don't know
if you if you know about that where they just
walked in and said, you guys are done, we're taking over.
No one gets paid. You got to work your normal job,
run your company, and then you run the run the
you know, the government on the side. You know, it's
like totally you know, that's how I did it. So
(23:34):
we need citizen leadership. The world needs citizen leadership. And
with Victor Obon in Hungary, yes, you know, some people
say is corrupt. I consulted their government when it when
Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice went there to try to
unseat him with oodles and noodles of money from the
Sorels Foundation, the Open found Open Society and WRBON just
kicked him out. He kicked out the Free University, that
(23:56):
sort of the European University, the Foundation, all of his
NGO's kicked them all out, just like he kicked him
on Santo out. He kicked them out of the get
out of the country. He a lot of people were
mad at him because what he did is he nationalized
private insurance, private pensions like four roll one k's. Everybody
went up in arms. What he did with that money
is he paid off the IMF and kicked them out.
(24:17):
That's why he can do what he does. He's not
beholding right.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
That seems very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
That seems to always be the key that these a
lot of these countries, they get into bed with the IMF,
They get these huge loans going for all infrastructure or
whether their their pension funds are tied to some international
asset management company, whatever it might be, right, they control,
you know, because they give up their proxy voting shares.
What my what I see though, is every time I
(24:43):
see a man on the street interview with about young
people from these areas, and they ask, will you go
fight in Ukraine? I don't ever see I don't see people,
you know, the Irish saying yeah, I'm going, the English Chane, definitely,
the Germans, there's no way they're going, right, you know
after I mean, you know, and and then all those
(25:05):
other countries.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
It's a joke.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
So who does the European Union think they're gonna get
to fight this war?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
You're looking at them. You were there there, right, you
were there.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I just wanted to hear you say it, but man,
I just wanted you to say it.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Yeah, right, and it's it's there there. You know. I
hope Trump shows restrained as well, because we cannot do this.
We cannot do this, We can't, you know. And here's
the thing is that without without soldiers, without people, there's
no emotional connection to war, There's no heroes, there's no
stories and stuff like that. So it'll be it'll be
sort of a technocratic war and it won't mean anything
to anybody, which is almost worse because the no one
(25:42):
pays attention to it.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So it's it's it's such a crazy timer and not
only because of the war, but also because of the
changes that we're seeing with AI and all this kind
of stuff where we could almost fight a war and
with no people at all.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
It's close.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
It's robots, AI, drones, all that stuff, you know. So
it's a it's a it's a scary place to be.
And right here, I mean in Turkey, we live on
the mad literally one hundred feet from here. As a
Mediterranean every day fighter jets you know, I love it,
but you know, this is a vacation place where people
come to the vacaved the fifth most visited city on the planet,
(26:17):
right and there's another's fighter jets flying over here, and
there's no there's a specific reason for that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
So yeah, and it's changing, man, it's changing.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
And then Americas, bless our soul, we're still so far
away from all this that it's you know, we have
enough stuff going on home as ourselves that unfortunately it
goes you know, falls under the rug too often. And
it's just for me. It's almost like an like a dude.
I always felt like, I'm sure you did too. As
a military man. And then after I got out, I've
(26:45):
been away from the States for you know, on and
off for thirty seven years.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
And I always feel like I'm an ambassador, so I
have to act right, you know, do do business right,
high integrity, speak clearly, always be the ambassador for America
as a civilian as as as as a contractor, as
a business guy. And I've been invited on Turkish TV.
I've been you know, spoken to you on the streets
and hey, wow, you know what's it really like? Thank
you so much on those kind of things. And if
everyone did that and we would just quick bitching at
(27:10):
each other and complaining and left and right front and center,
man this place where this would be ended real quick,
because you know, we are so many more than they are,
so many.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
More, so many more. Well, Steve, and I can't thank
you enough for your time. Where can people follow you,
pay attention to what you're doing and then also tell
us about your business and then the book that you
wrote to please sure?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
So you can find me almost on any channel, Stephen
Eugene kon k u h N, whether it's Instagram, TikTok,
although TikTok's got me. I used to do, you know,
two videos a week over a million views. Now it's
like I'm lucky if I get five thousand, they've really
dial it down. Instagram, TikTok x, I don't know what
it is. Stephen Coon, Stephen something or other, you'll find
me and then linked Lincoln as well, Steve and Eugene.
(28:01):
My business we have, you know, a few businesses. My
wife has a few businesses, but the core businesses we
raise capital through a growth advisory for you know, different
different projects, whether it's green you know, solar energy, hydrogen,
we do some lifestyle brands in the States and things
like that. We've done my partner and I've done two
point seventy one billion this year so far. Wow. And
(28:22):
we're quite successful at that. Well, quite successful that because
we have urgency, and that's just everything's about urgency. And
right now people are saying, oh, it's hard to get money.
It's the easiest time to get money that I've ever
had in my entire life because people want to secure
the apt and the capital with assets in cases of crash.
So right now it's a better time, the best time
in many to get the money. And then if anybody
wants pick up my book, Unleash, You're Humble Alpha. This
(28:42):
book is it's a step by step guide and building
a foundation where you become one hundred percent of certain
in your abilities to deploy your genius in any given situation,
where you become unstoppable. And it's it's not a joke either.
It's actually in about ten universities in America as a
curriculum right now. Harvard and Stanford are looking at it
as well. I didn't write it for that, it just
came out that way. Well, so it's a it's a
(29:04):
pleasure to be on I really, I really appreciate it, David.
I was surprised that you wrote me, and I'm glad
you did.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, well, thank you very much. Your insights are phenomenal.
You you're very wise guy, and uh you're you're you're humble,
and you're gracious about how you spread your wisdom and
so uh hopefully my audience will follow you and and
and continue to pay attention and and keep up the
motivational stuff too. By the way, I love when smart
men give motivational advice.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
To thank you so much saying me, I can't help it,
and I'm sure you're the same.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Absolutely, God bless you.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Take care, take care,
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