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August 18, 2025 • 14 mins
Kenny Webster interviews Power the Future's Daniel Turner.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, if you enjoy the Walton Johnson Show like we do,
then you might also enjoy the Pursuit of Happiness show
in the afternoon with oh Kinney Webster there.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
And as a matter of fact, I think, do we
have a clip? Can we play a clip.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
On? Every year on Vladimir Putin's birthday, they sing this
song to him. It's called the Sacred War. It's an
old Soviet War anthem. I think they sing it to
all the children in Russia on their birthdays. Today, The
New York Post reports Trump and Zelensky well. Trump claims
Zelensky could bring the nation's war with Russia to a
halt almost immediately if he was willing to make two

(00:38):
major concessions. So it sounds like what he's sharing here
is basically what Putin told him.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
In the meeting.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Trump called for Ukraine to drop its bid to join NATO,
and I think we all knew that was going to happen.
And he also said there was no getting back crimea
signaling to the nation to accept Russia's annexation twenty fourteen
annexation of the region during the Obama administration. If any
Democrats are mad about that, I got to ask you,
why didn't you do anything about it when Obama or

(01:05):
Biden was in charge. That's that's two things, right, So
Ukraine Russia gets to keep CRIMEA and Ukraine doesn't get
to join NATO. I got to tell you personally, I
don't really have a problem with that. We all know
why this war started. This war started because Biden wanted
it to start. Sorry, but that's what happened. We know

(01:28):
what happened. There was a war going on in Afghanistan,
and your average American Republican or Democrat was exhausted with it.
But the military industrial complex keeps the checks flying too.
Joe Biden's big donors. So without a never ending war,
how are they gonna make money? The answer was pretty simple.
While your sympathy for a war in the Mid East

(01:49):
or whatever we consider Afghanistan to be was dwindling at
that point, a war in Europe, oh Man, white people,
wars in Europe, That's just what the doctor ordered. So
they did away with Afghanistan. We all know how poorly
that went. And then Biden had to find a way
to get Russia to invade Ukraine. Taking the sanctions off

(02:09):
the nord Stream pipeline was the perfect way to do it,
because it gave them the monetary influence, aka the money
they needed to fund a never ending war. And that's
exactly what happened. And here we are, guys. This war
has been going on almost as long as World War Two.
Can you believe it? Yeah, it's been a few years
since it started. I know one person who could probably
believe it because he has watched this as closely as

(02:32):
I have, Daniel Turner from Power The Future is Here.
And I would assume Daniel, my explanation of this has
a lot to do with the energy industry, because I
think it played a role in all of it. Russia is,
after all, a petro state. Do you think I'm exaggerating?
Do you think I mis explained it? What are your
thoughts on that? Obviously you're welcome to disagree.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
No, I think you nailed it. I think allowing Russia
to have unfettered oil and gas access to the world's
mode mats made them incredibly rich. And Putin's always made
no bones about the fact that he wanted the Soviet
block back and Ukraine is the first step, but they

(03:11):
are to basically have Belarus, right, there's kind of a
puppet regime there, but then he'll go to Georgia next
and he'll keep expanding. There's no doubt. I mean, it
doesn't surprise anybody. Heck, his Foreign Minister Lavrov, on Friday
of last week arrived in Alaska wearing a CCCP jersey.

(03:32):
I mean, for those of us who are old enough
to remember when the Soviet Union was around every Olympics,
we would see their CCCP acronym rather than USSR because
that's what it is in the Slavic alphabet. You know this,
seventy year old men don't wear sweatshirts as a general rule,
or they shouldn't, and seventy year old diplomats don't normally

(03:53):
come off of an airplane wearing a sweatshirt. And yet
here's the Russian Foreign minister clearly sending a message to
the world, you know, tongue in chic, but you know
he knew exactly what he was doing. So yeah, giving
Russia oil petro dollar dominance in the region made them rich,
and rich countries that are not good like Russia go

(04:15):
to war. It's pretty logical. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
I remember back in twenty thirteen these protests started up
in Ukraine.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
It was obviously the second.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Term of Barack Obama on the heels of him telling
us that we had to stop worrying about Russia.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Russia wasn't important.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Remember he mocked Mitt Romney for it, take your policy,
foreign policy back to the nineteen eighties. And then as
quickly as they told us that, suddenly we were all
pretty worried about Russia again, because Ukraine was, after all,
at the time, like you just used that term, a
puppet government of Russia. There was a person in charge
of Ukraine at the time it was very sympathetic to
Putin and the Russian oligarchy. And then suspiciously, in twenty

(04:56):
thirteen and twenty fourteen, this large wave of of giant
protests known as the Euromaiden Protests, the Revolution of Dignity,
took place in Ukraine, and it had all of the
I mean, it looked to me like it was a
CIA coup. It looked to me like it was, but
you know, we don't know that. It seemed a lot
like behind the scenes, we were behind it. And guess

(05:17):
what happened. We took the Putin sympathetic leader out of
power and replaced him with somebody that was very sympathetic
to Western business interest. What an odd coincidence that we
went from one of those things, not Chinese business interests,
not African, but no American, British, Germany, NATO business interest
interestingly enough, and then came the attack on Crimea, and

(05:39):
then came all the other things that they blamed Donald
Trump for. I gotta tell you, the more we learn
about this, much like the twenty sixteen election conspiracies that
the Democrats tried to weave, the more we learn about it,
Daniel Turner, the more it seems like they were behind it.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, And the more it seems like there is that
permanent state of warfare because it is incredibly lucrative. It's
why Eisenhower wrote about it in his famous last Letter
where he coined that phrase the military industrial complex. And
you know, I'm not a huge fan of his comedy,
nor of his movies, nor of his political views, but

(06:17):
that podcaster Russell Brandt, it's kind of where he started
taking a red pill, was on that exact issue. But
during COVID, and he said, if you have industries that
are going to become incredibly lucrative when this crisis happens, well,
the surprise They're always going to see a crisis because
that's their bread and butter. And we see it in military,

(06:39):
we see it in COVID world. I clearly see it
in the climate world. Right. As soon as there stops
being a climate crisis, the green groups all have to
go away. So there's definitely a lot of truth in that.
If this is your industry, and it is your bread
and butter, and it's also your passion, right, we have
to remember that a lot of these folks, it's not
just the business decision. They love war the way the

(07:02):
climate groups love punishing poor people and sub Saharan Africa
with slavery. Like they love this and so they will
perpetuate it forever because it's just part of their DNA.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, I think you're absolutely correct about that.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
And to them, I mean, this is as important as
the petro chemical industry.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
All right, So what happens next? Do you want to
make any predictions?

Speaker 1 (07:24):
I mean, it sounds a lot like Trump already told
us what Putin wanted by pointing out I mean, I
don't know if he showed us his hand of cards.
Everybody's making it sound like the meeting with Putin on
Friday was a complete catastrophe, but I don't know if
it was. I think we all have to wait until
this meeting with Zelenski and the European Union ends before
we can decide that, right.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, And I'm curious to see all the European leaders
who are coming over to the White House today their position, right,
it's their continent. They don't like the fact that there's
this heavy handed American and President Trump who's now calling
the shots. Joe Biden was a wonderful partner for them
because he didn't do anything. He just wrote checks every
time they asked him to. So I'm sure the Europeans

(08:06):
aren't thrilled that Trump is heavily involved. But that's too bad.
That's part of being the world's largest superpower. I this
is not an issue that interests me, and I know
that sounds awful, and you can show me pictures and
you can talk about human rights and democracy and all
of that. I have, you know, a very simple answer

(08:26):
that I give people. I was just arguing with a
friend online earlier this morning, and I said about, you know,
two weeks ago, President Trump announced that the end of
the thirty five year war between Armenia and Isebrejahan, and
both presidents sat down with him at the White House
and they shook hands and they ended a thirty five
year war, and all the world said, huh, like what war?

(08:48):
First of all, where's Isja Brajhan and Armenia? They've been
at war for thirty five years. My point is that
there are lots of wars going on in the world
that America doesn't have to be involved in. And the
fact that the says getting a lot of news doesn't
deny the fact that no one seems to care about
the ongoing war in me and Mar that used to
be Burma, the conflict in Sudan and South Sudan, the

(09:11):
conflict in Rwanda, right, the conflict in Thailand and Cambodia,
another resolution that President Trump got to an end. There's
a lot of war happening. Why do we have to
be involved? Ever, if it's helpful to bring peace, wonderful,
But our involvement it's not our continent, it's not our conflict.
I don't think President Putin has a desire to invade

(09:34):
in North America anytime soon. I look at all the
problems we have as a country, and Ukraine does not
rank in high on my list of problems we have
to tackle.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Amen to that.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, If you look at the Council on Foreign Relations
Global Conflict Tracker, they claim they're thirty two ongoing conflicts.
If you look at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law,
they're currently monitoring one hundred and ten armed conflicts. There's
a war that's been going on for years now at
the border of India and China.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
You don't even hear about. You don't hear about that
at all.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
All we hear about is Russia and Ukraine and the
Arab Israeli conflict.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
We're still involved in the Yemen Civil War.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
How many wars do we have to be involved in,
Daniel before people realize that the water in Michigan and
Detroit is still tainted and that the people are still
starving in the streets of Los Angeles, a heroin and
elpioid addiction, and Monroe, Louisiana is still out of control,
and I'm supposed to send my money to Ukraine.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
F that exactly. The only war I want is with
the Sineloa cartels. If America invaded Mexico, I'd be thrilled.
I would support that war wholeheartedly and kill all of
the cartels which funnel Chinese opioids into our country. We
havoc across America, across South America. I would wholeheartedly and

(10:58):
invite the takeover the invasion of Mexico, and quite frankly,
I would I would support just the absolute conquest of Mexico.
We need a lot more ocean front property in our country.
And you know, if Texas can be three times the
size of what it was, they have an awful lot
of oil and gas. So I can be pro war

(11:18):
with American's interests are at heart. Obviously I'm being a
little tongue in cheek here, but I have a quick
solution to the end in the war of Ukraine, also
something I was arguing with my friends this morning online.
But no one wants this quick solution. And what makes
Russia different now than when the Soviet Union was around
and Reagan was battling them is Russia now has an

(11:40):
enormous oligarch class. It's kind of like our Gilded Age,
where a thousand families control everything, and those thousand men
who are all major billionaires and control the industry all
have multiple daughters who are nineteen and twenty, and they
want to be in London, and they want to be
at the Paris Fashion Show, and they want to rip
lines of cocaine in cool cities around the world. And

(12:03):
if every one of them is exported, expelled back to Russia,
the war will end in five minutes because that oligar
class will gather up their forces and they will oust
Putin because they don't want to be in Russia and
their wives want to shop in Beverly Hills and their
sons want to, you know, go a Lamborghini racing in Switzerland.

(12:25):
Export every single one of those families, and we know
exactly who they are. They're studying at Columbia right now,
we know where they are. Every one of those people
and their families have to be sent back to Russia
within twenty four hours, and this war will be over
in five damn minutes. But no one wants to do that,
right because they like their money. Because that's a tough decision,

(12:47):
so we drag it on unnecessarily. But that's that's how
I would end the war.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
By by Friday, you mentioned going after the Sinaloa cartel. Obviously,
the Lostas and the golf cartel, all problematic as well,
and of the idea of using military force in Mexico.
But the word posse comma tatis gets thrown around a lot,
which is obviously.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Harkens back to.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
The founding Father's idea that the military and the police
should never be combined together, which makes some critics of
the Trump administration suggest that would be an unconstitutional move.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Your reaction to that, Daniel Turner.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Well, because this is coming, it's not it's not a
police action because it is coming from international borders. And
if you know, a country was dropping any other sort
of of poison into our niche, we would we would
respond with military force. Right if they were invading us
with bombs, we would respond with force. But they're invading
us with drugs and we do nothing about it. And similarly,

(13:45):
China is invading us with everything from painted bugs that
they're trying to drop into our agriculture and sars and
mers and COVID, so they're using biological warf Mexico was
using a drug warfare. So this is not a police action.
This is a military action. And you know, when we

(14:08):
stop having eighty thousand people a year die of opioid overdoses,
I don't think America is going to be too sad
that we killed a couple of cartel bosses in the process.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
I gotta tell you music to my ears, Daniel Turner, Powerthefuture,
dot Com, my brother come back next week.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
We always appreciate your time.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Anytime, Kenny, thank you for suit of that. Penis radio
coming now, just be This is Kenny Webster's Pursuit of
Happiness on KPRC nine Houston,
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