Senator Richard Black: New Cold War Can Go Nuclear
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
4.2 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Virginia State Senator Richard Black explains the real story behind the Syrian War and America’s terrorist proxy army. He also explains the very real danger of nuclear war with Russia fomented by Deep State actors within the US Government.
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About Senator Richard Black
Republican Senator Dick Black represents the newly formed 13th District encompassing both parts of Loudoun and Prince Williams Counties. Formerly, Senator Black represented the 32nd District in Loudoun County, Virginia, for eight years in the House of Delegates.
He enlisted in the Marines in 1963. By age 21, Black became a second lieutenant and was among the Marines’ youngest aircraft carrier-qualified pilots. He flew 269 combat helicopter missions in Vietnam. Black also engaged in bitter ground combat with the 1st Marine Regiment. His radiomen were killed and he was wounded during an attack against enemy positions across the Hoi An River. Black served in small-unit actions where two fellow Marines–PFC Gary Martini and SSgt. Jimmie Howard–won the Medal of Honor. While in office, he was the only member of the Virginia General Assembly who held the Purple Heart Medal for wounds received in battle.
After the war, he served as a flight instructor and later attended engineer school. Black graduated second from engineer officers’ class and was made a Company Commander. He deployed his 240-man unit to Vieques Island, Puerto Rico. There, Captain Black’s Marines rebuilt the island runway. They operated a large rock quarry–drilling, blasting, crushing and trucking aggregate used to pave the airstrip. By then, Captain Black was 25 years old.
Dick left the Marines to attend the University of Florida. There, he was twice elected to the Student Senate. He graduated with honors from the School of Business in 1973 and earned a law degree in 1976. He practiced law in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, before accepting a commission as a Major in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG).
The Judge Advocate General of the Army appointed Dick to head the legal office at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri. While there, he lobbied the Missouri legislature for legislation that curbed drunk driving. As an ex-officio member of the City Council for St. Robert, Missouri, Black led a major crackdown on vice that shut down eight houses of prostitution.
He supervised 40 attorneys at Ft. Lewis, Washington. There, he executed one of the most complex federal land transactions in recent years. He negotiated and developed legislation protecting competing interests of state and federal agencies, environmental groups, ranchers, and the Yakima Indian Nation. His efforts preserved the hunting and fishing rights of the Indian people, and provided for the eventual return of the vast, 63,000-acre tract to them.
In 1994, Colonel Dick Black retired from military service to become a partner in the law firm of Taylor, Horbaly, and Black. In addition to operating a successful law practice, Dick Black was a frequent media guest who appeared over 30 times on CNN and other national networks discussing foreign and military affairs.
Black has been a member of the Law Enforcement Alliance of America, Virginia Society for Human Life, National Federation of Independent Business, Knights of Columbus, Izaak Walton League, NRA, VFW, American Legion, Military Officers Association, and Virginia Right to Life.
He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of Virginia. He has held a Top Secret security clearance. His special interests include chemistry, herpetology, foreign and military affairs, construction engineering . . . and his nine grandchildren!
Colonel Black was elected to the House of Delegates in February 1998. His awards include the Samuel Adams Award for Leadership in Government, the Brent Society Distinguished Service Award for defending life, marriage and family values, the Project Michael Award for protecting unborn children, and the Lamplighter Award for defending human life.
National Right to Work selected him as Virginia’s top legislator for 2003, an honor usually reserved for U.S. Senators and Representatives. In 2006, he received 100% ratings from the National Federation of Independent Businesses, the Fairfax County Taxpayers Alliance, and the Family Foundation. Both the Family Foundation and the Virginia Association of Chiropractors named Delegate Black Northern Virginia Legislator of the Year. He earned an A+ rating from the NRA. His military awards include the Purple Heart Medal, three Legions of Merit, thirteen Air Medals, two Presidential Unit Citations, the Army General Staff Badge, and Naval Aviators’ Wings of Gold.
Senator Black was elected to serve in the Virginia State Senate on November 8, 2011 and proudly serves the citizens of the 13th District.
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| 0:00.0 | On this edition of the Geopolitics and Empire podcast, we speak with Vietnam veteran and Virginia State Senator Richard Black. |
| 0:07.5 | Thank you for joining us, Senator. |
| 0:09.4 | It's very nice to be with you today. |
| 0:12.3 | Let's start specifically on Syria and then work our way towards Russia, because from the global geopolitical perspective, the big idea is America's push to dominate |
| 0:23.6 | Eurasia, which includes Russia and China, in the vein of Halford McKinder's geostrategie. |
| 0:29.6 | Hence, Syria is merely a proxy road stop on that world tour, as I see it. |
| 0:35.6 | In the West, which includes where I am here down in Mexico, |
| 0:40.3 | we are constantly told that President Assad is a mass murderer, that the Syrian war is a civil |
| 0:46.3 | war between the Syrian people and President Assad, and well, ISIS has something to do with it. |
| 0:52.3 | However, I think the world is slowly learning that this |
| 0:54.8 | narrative is not entirely true, especially with the help of officials such as yourself and |
| 0:59.8 | Tulsi Gabbard. You went to Syria last year. Could you tell us the big idea, what precisely |
| 1:06.6 | is happening in Syria? First of all, I have studied the Syrian war since we first went into Libya, even before the |
| 1:16.8 | Syrian war began. |
| 1:19.2 | And my question was, why are we attacking Libya, which is a neutral, non-belligerent state. |
| 1:28.3 | The attack was clearly a violation of the law of land warfare. |
| 1:34.8 | And that led me to the understanding that the purpose in invading Libya was to plunder their large store of modern weapons and ship it across to |
| 1:50.4 | Lebanon and Turkey and then across the border into Syria so that we could overthrow the Syrian |
| 1:58.3 | government. |
| 2:01.6 | And that's something that I'm not sure if you're familiar with, |
| 2:04.6 | Professor Francis Boyle, an international lawyer, he wrote about that. |
| 2:09.6 | And so what's your big vision of this? |
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