BREAKING: Merchant of Death Warns Russia Is Preparing for a Devastating Attack on Western Europe

**Tucker Carlson** (0:04)
Mr. Bout, thank you very much for doing this. Americans have been distracted, I think, I certainly have been distracted by what's happening in Iran.
But there has been a very significant escalation in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and really Russia and the West. Can you describe how that conflict has changed recently?

**Viktor Bout** (0:26)
Well, there is several points. Let's start from the situation that this conflict is not conflict between Ukraine and Russia. This conflict basically between Russia and entire coalition of willing. It's NATO, United States plus other vassals, I would say, with the Western world who is just blindly complies. So they, from get-go, supply to Ukraine all kinds of the armaments. Initially, it was javelins and lamps, anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles. Then it went to the Patriots, then it went to the tanks, Abrams, Leopards, then it went to the F-16. And every time Ukrainians and their handlers, especially in London, especially in the F-16, thinking this would be a game changer, doesn't work. Ukraine really losing grounds, maybe not as fast as we want, but the front line progressing. Every week there is several villages, small towns have been liberated by Russian army.
Of course, since last year, the decision was to remove all the military production from Ukraine to Europe, which was done efficiently. Just more than months ago, Russian Ministry of Defense published a list of all these factories who in fact in Europe producing armaments for the Ukrainian army. So think of this. They are the logistics, their industries are now in Europe. So Europe is not a natural part, and we hear from their leadership, they're more openly declaring that they are in full support of the Ukraine, and they want this war against Russia till the last Ukrainians.
So this is a very much war-mongering approach. We're going to lead. So they moved this production there, and about two months ago, there is a mass quantity of drones start coming to Ukrainian troops. They receive the capacity to launch simultaneously up to 500, 600 drones long range, which is the range over 1,500 kilometers, let's say about 1,000 miles.
So they're trying to heat our refineries, they're trying to heat some civilian buildings.
Definitely, if it has any strategic, you know, I would say value or results, no, yes, there is a reducing production in refinery for a couple of days, then basically refinery back up and running. And then they change completely to the terror attacks. We know that, for instance, this was a terror attack when they perfectly knew that in the Lugansk region, there was a college where the students, over a hundred of them, been in the dormitory. And the drones came, attacked, and as a result, 21 students were killed. Then it was not the end of the story. There was no excuse. They said there was a soldier. Well, the journalist went and showed the proof that there was a student, and there is none of military presence there, even close. After this, there was an attack on several buses.
They start using these drones in a border region to attack civilians, any courage going, because of these new, what they call, Martian drones with the AI vision who take the same decision, which target to attack. So they just, you know, not even operator, it goes and it's choose any target, any moving car, any moving, even the kit of the bike. And they're just hitting this kid on the bike. So it's a purely terrorist approach, you know, they're trying to, you know, if they can't win on the battlefield, they're trying to see this court and panic within the Russian population. But guess what? Let's only make Russian population more resolute and there is more and more demand from our president and from our, you know, top military commanders. Hey, you need really to finish this, you know, we have enough arsenal of the, you know, proper, I would say, weapons, which would definitely bring this war quickly to the end, even not resorting to the nuclear ones.

**Tucker Carlson** (5:12)
Which European countries are manufacturing these drones, these armaments, being used against civilians in Russia?

**Viktor Bout** (5:19)
Well, there is, well, first of all, there is many factories, which is in Poland, there is in Germany, in France, in Italy, in Denmark, in Turkey, there is a presence of them, I would say Spain, Belgium, Dutch, of course, British, where the huge manufacturers who are contributing to their so-called cruise missile program Flamingo, which is in fact British one, you know. And all this is officially announced, hey, we are producing this, Ukraine will get capacity to heat deep inside Russia.
Well, this is again pushing us towards to very close to the conflict where finally we would be, have no other choice but to start heating logistic centers in Poland, in the Romania, within the Germany, within all these countries, because they are part of the conflict. They are accordingly all the international law. We have a full right to attack those because they are manufacturing armament and they declaring that these are factories belonging to Ukraine. Think of this, if we now, you know, put analogy with Israel, did Israel will tolerate if there is a Hamas or Hezbollah would have a factory in Jordan, in Turkey, who manufacturing this Katyusha rocket was teaching Israel? Hell no, they're going to immediately, you know, attack them. That this is a difference. So sometimes, on the West, they thinking that restraint on our leadership is a weakness. But look on what's going on in the world. We're really now very close to the all-out World War III in the most hottest stage, and when would be no breaks to stop it. And honestly, as you said, you've been too busy with Iran and rightly freely so, because think of this, if this conflict in Iran will not stop and protract, what kind of the economical damage it's already caused, because we're talking about that even, I mean, yes, it's clear that the most visible is a oil, which is not flowing through the Hormuz trade, but as important, this is a fertilizer, which was cut out of the production there. And Iranians have been very big producers of some kind of fertilizer worldwide. So it's already affecting, including Americans farmers. And now, according to the forecast of the United Nations, there would be a shortage of the food and eventually hunger, first of all, in Africa. And we're also talking about all kinds of different chemical precursors necessary for the technological supply chain in China, which goes through all over the world. So this will affect entire humanity.