On today’s Sanchez Effect,
Rick asks why Trump has been driving up tensions across the Middle
East. Could it be because of Israel’s influence? Rick thinks all the
evidence points in that direction.
The second major topic is
corruption in Ukraine. Today, he discusses the issue with the ideal
guest: Vasily Prozorov, who was a high-ranking officer in the Ukrainian
security services before the 2014 Maidan coup. He says that since then,
corruption has become one of the pillars of the nation’s political
system, but it’s not just about Ukraine, according to Prozorov. European
and US officials have made great efforts to corrupt the nation, so they
can enrich themselves at the people’s expense. The former Ukrainian
colonel says that this corruption has even had global consequences, with
Ukrainian weapons ending up in the hands of Middle Eastern terrorists
and Latin American cartels.