U.S. Declares Putin a ‘War Criminal’ 😳

In an official statement, the US have just declared Putin and Russia a war criminal. Now, of course, Russia, Putin have not been convicted, tried of war crimes. However, the US have now come out officially to state that they believe Putin and Russia are committing war crimes. I think this is huge. I think we should all take this very seriously. I think we should be concerned and worried, and I've got some important things to share with you. So US Secretary of State Antony Blinken actually issued a statement. Now, about a week ago, Biden was asked, but it wasn't in an official statement, um, and he said that he believed that Putin could be a war criminal. But less than a week later, the US Secretary of State has issued an official statement blasting Russia of, and let me quote, deliberately targeting civilians as well as other atrocities. And Blinken also cited numerous credible reports of indiscriminate attacks targeting Ukrainian civilians. So this is real, this is going on. Let me know what your thoughts are on this. Now, for example, a maternity hospital and a drama theater were attacked. The drama theater had the Russian word 'children' written on the top, which is obviously visible from the sky, yet that was clearly ignored. Blinken said that the— Blinken is the US Secretary of State— said the, um, the US is committed to pursuing accountability using every tool available, including criminal prosecutions. Now, I hope that the tools that are available are not tanks, are not bombs. I, I really do believe that any intervention from Biden, NATO, the US could lead to World War III. In fact, Biden said it. Biden tweeted publicly and he said that any intervention from NATO, America, in terms of military intervention 'Is World War III.' Quote, 'Is World War III.' And whilst that for me was a scary moment, in some ways I thought it was good because you could say that that's a line in the sand, uh, and, and there's some accountability there that there wouldn't be any intervention from NATO because Biden had tweeted it publicly. Now there's a few things I want to share that I think are really important here. I've been commenting most days on what's going on in Russia and Ukraine, trying to maybe give us as positive an outlook as we can on it, but take it really seriously. Someone has just said to me on the live, calm down. I don't think these are moments to calm down. You know, when we are in prosperity, we can all meditate, and when it could all be calm and soft, and you can all have a 3-day work week, and you know, we can all hug and dance and skip. But we had Brexit, then we had COVID, now we've got Putin. And, you know, we are as close to World War III as we've probably ever been. This is not the time to be calm. This is the time to stand up, to speak out, to do what you can, to hold the dictators and the totalitarian regimes to account, to use your social media for good, to make peace, not war, to share love. And not hate, to stand up for our freedom of speech and property rights, to disagree with persecution, to not persecute people when they disagree with us. These are not the times to become, I'm sorry, I don't agree with that. Hit the share button if you would also agree. You know, if World War III happens, we ain't gonna meditate that away. We can't do our visualization and our incantations. And look, I'm a pretty optimistic kind of guy. I'm not a doom monger. I don't usually get sucked into propaganda. But look at this: 977 people, um, have died in the Russia-Ukraine war, apparently. Now, some are citing, you know, many thousands. Um, oh no, no, no, no, no, let me restate that again. Forgive me, 977 civilians Thousands of people dead. It could be 10,000, but nearly 1,000 civilians, innocent people, including 81 children. 81 children. This is not the time to be calm. Um, let me give you a quote here. Russia's forces have destroyed apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, critical infrastructure, civilian vehicles, shopping centers, ambulances, leaving thousands of innocent civilians killed or wounded, including 81 children. So I believe we must, must push back. We the people must push back. We the people put our governments, our prime ministers, and our presidents, and some of these totalitarian regimes and governments and dictators— we the people put them back into power. We the people must hold them accountable, but we must hold them accountable by promoting peace, I believe, and not war, sharing love and not hate. We must be able to disagree without persecuting each other. And, you know, many people said to me before Brexit and COVID and, um, you know, now potentially World War III, they said, you know, Rob, you, you should, um, take the responsibility of having a good social media following very seriously, and you should use your social media for good. And this is what I'm trying to do, and you can do the same. Please hit the share button. I used to think we can't do anything. Biden's not watching. Putin's not watching Rob's Facebook Lives every day. He's not watching Rob on social media. Boris Johnson and the government, they, they're not going to do anything. They're not going to listen. I used to think that, but that's not a reason to shut up, to sit down. Instead, we should stand up and speak out. And many of my videos have been getting hundreds of thousands or millions of views talking about what's going on in the world, hopefully with a balanced view, trying to do balanced research. I realize there's a lot of propaganda out there. I realize there's a lot of fake news. I realize I can only really see what I'm being shown by media because, you know, mainstream media are the, are the greater outlets out there. And are they balanced? Who knows? What's real information and what's misinformation? I realize I'm not out in Ukraine. I'm not, you know, standing next to Putin whispering in his ear, or Biden, or Boris Johnson. And that is one of the flaws of media and social media, is the lack of balanced perspective. It's the lack of factual and accurate information. It's the, you know, the fact-checking used as a weapon, the misinformation used as a weapon, the cancel culture, the deplatforming, all used as a weapon by mainstream media. But if we don't push back on all of that— like, I commented every day when Joe Rogan was getting hounded by mainstream media and they were trying to cancel him and trying to deplatform him because he's got an independent voice, because he is decentralized, because mainstream media can't control him. And in a way, if you think about it, Joe Rogan getting canceled has no impact on me whatsoever. If you think about it, a war between Russia and Ukraine, as someone in the UK, has no impact on me whatsoever. But it does. This is the thing. It does. And we must do something about it. And we must push back on mainstream media. And we must stand for freedom of speech and the decentralization of media and control and power. And push against dictators and totalitarian regimes. War is not the answer. Canceling is not the answer. Deplatforming is not the answer. Smashing up taxes is not the answer. Hating on anyone just because they disagree with us is not the answer. And if you agree with me, I would ask you and request that you share this. I believe the answer is we must push back and hold our governments and our leaders to account. So many days I've been ranting about we've got to get taxes down, we've got to get support and subsidies up, we've got to support small businesses and entrepreneurs and not turn our back on them. We've got to support employers. By the way, I'm going to do more content on this because P&O, European Ferries, P&O Ferries got lambasted by the media because they let go of 800 people on a Zoom. But they told the government before, and that was circulated within the government. So it happened, and the government were shared the information, they were notified, they could have intervened, they could have helped, they did nothing. And then some people in government then lambasted P&O for doing it instead of supporting all the people that got laid off. They should have supported the people who got laid off. They should have supported P&O, you know, an important institution in this country, an important, uh, company, corporation. But they didn't. So they don't— they blame the corporations for the mass layoffs instead of helping and taking responsibility. They're not reducing taxes, and they should be. Rishi just did his summer budget announcement but really didn't do much at all. And I'll be doing a video on that soon, by the way, so make sure you're following me wherever you are. Make sure you're following me. There's a lot of lip service, but there's not a lot of action. Taxes must come down. Our freedom of speech must be upheld. We must push against dictators and totalitarian regimes. We need to focus more on peace, not war, on love, not hate. We must be able to disagree with each other and debate and discuss without persecution, without canceling, without banning, without deplatforming. And we can't go in and kill people just because we want their land or we disagree with their culture. And we all must do more, and we all can do more. So you can do more by, one, sharing your thoughts and your opinions on my social media. I will not delete, ban, or silence anyone on my posts as long as you're not bullying, abusing, or doing anything illegal. Other than that, you can say what you want, even if you disagree with me. I think you creating content or you discussing, you know, the issues at play in the world right now and you sharing this content on your social media, that's the way you can do your bit. Stand up, speak out. I think it's really important. We are as close to World War III as we've ever been, make no mistake about it. And it affects us all, make no mistake about it. And I just used to think, I'm Rob Moore, I'm an entrepreneur, stay in my lane. You know, none of my followers want to hear me talking about these worldviews. Rob Moore, the entrepreneur, stay in my lane. But I can't do that anymore because it's not very easy to start a business if the city in which you're trading gets bombed. It's not very easy to help and inspire people to start and scale their business and make more money and get better financial education if if we're all at war, or if you're canceled on every platform so you can't speak out. So this is why I'm kind of interrupting my own usual content, because we have bigger worldviews at play. Now, some people say, oh, Rob, you know, stop scaremongering. World War III won't happen. Well, they said that Putin wouldn't invade Ukraine. It wouldn't be so stupid. No one saw COVID coming. A lot of people said Brexit wouldn't happen. This is hubris and complacency to say these things won't happen. I believe, yes, you should hope for the best, but you should plan for the worst. I do believe you should look at upside, but you should protect downside. And this is really important. Okay, so yeah, 5p reduction in fuel. Wow. Um, a slight reduction in income tax thresholds. Or National Insurance tax thresholds. Wow, they'll do virtually nothing. VAT should come down, income tax should come down, corp tax should come down. There should be sponsorship and subsidy and support for employees to stay in work, like they could have helped with P&O Ferries. There should be support for businesses to start and businesses to scale and businesses to hire. But I can't see any. I cannot see any. So let me know what you think in the comments. Thanks for tuning in. I want to share— leave a couple of quotes, um, with you. Number 1 is: fear screams loudest when it's dying. A billionaire told me this. Fear screams loudest when it's dying. Mainstream media is dying, and that's why there's all this propaganda and fear and misinformation and fake news. That's why they're scared of people like Joe Rogan. And I'm not saying BBC News are scared of me, but my videos now get millions of views, but primetime TV on BBC doesn't get millions of views. So mainstream media is scared, it's dying, it's holding on to its last breath, and we must fight against it trying to cancel us and deplatform us and control us. Fear screams loudest when it's dying. I believe Trudeau, when Canada gave themselves access to season 3's bank accounts based on the fact that you were somehow involved in a trucking protest, to me that's a violation of your human rights. And we should push against totalitarian regimes like that. That's verging on dictatorship in my opinion. That is a violation of your rights. And when there is war and, you know, Ukraine is invaded and now the US saying they believe that Russia are creating committing war crimes. This is a violation of your human rights. Fear screams loudest when it's dying, and dictators are usually driven by fear because they don't have what they want and they don't feel significant enough. The next thing is, I remember a billionaire said to me, when you back a rat into a corner, make sure you give it a hole to exit through. When you back a rat into a corner, make sure you give it a hole to exit through. The world just needs to give Putin something that he will want so he can, um, move out of war. Look, I'm no political expert, I'm no war expert, but let's be honest, is Putin— we've got to give him a way to save face, a way to get something that he wants. Because when you back a rat into a corner, you need to give it a hole to exit through. And then finally, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything. I am risking my accounts getting cancelled and deplatformed for what I think is reasonably accurate information and fairly fair points. But mainstream media might not like it if it's against mainstream media. But I believe if we don't risk anything, we risk everything. So quick summary. Now someone has said about where'd you get, you know, revenue from. I think that the UK and the US governments only understand revenue one way, and that is increase taxes. Whereas I believe a better way is to increase economy, increase GDP. How do you increase economy and GDP? You support startup businesses, scale-up businesses, you support entrepreneurs and corporations, and you allow them to employ and to grow and to trade, and you give them incentives and tax breaks to reinvest, to build, and to produce and to manufacture. And they will produce way more income, pushing the entire economy up, instead of increasing the taxes, which pushes production down. That's my thoughts. Rishi, Boris, and anyone else, I'll debate you on social media about it. Um, anyway, I'm going to do separate videos on that. Quick summary then of what I'm just talking about here: US has declared that Putin is a war criminal, and the US Secretary of State issued a statement blasting Russia for deliberately targeting civilians as well as other atrocities. I mean, this is less than a week after Joe Biden, the President of the US, um, in passing called Vladimir possibly a war criminal, but now it's an official statement from the US. Um, the US Secretary of State cited numerous credible reports of indiscriminate attacks targeting Ukrainian civilians— a maternity hospital, a drama theater, which was marked 'Children on Top' in large letters. Um, the US is committed to pursuing accountability using every tool available including criminal prosecutions. I certainly don't hope— I hope that they do not use the tools of war and military intervention because then we are World War III. Biden even said it on a tweet, military intervention is World War III. Apparently there are 977 civilians killed. It's probably more. It could be tens of thousands of people in total killed in this war, including 81 children and 1,594 injured. This is wrong. We should be more evolved. We're devolving. Why is this happening? Russia's forces have destroyed apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, critical infrastructure, civilian vehicles, shopping centers, ambulances, leaving thousands of innocent people killed or wounded. We must do our bit. We must push back. We must stand up. We must speak out. We must make peace, not war. Share love, not hate. Disagree without persecution. Stop cancel culture. Maintain freedom of speech. Maintain freedom of property rights. Use our social media influence for good. And you can do that by hitting the share button right now. And remember this: if you don't risk anything, you risk everything. Thanks for following my work. Thanks for speaking up. Thanks for standing out. Let me know what you think, what's going on in the world in the comments, and what the solutions are. We the people put people in power. We the people must hold the people in power accountable.