Episode
Another Oil Market Peace Scam?
- Podcast
- Truth Jihad Radio
- Published
- May 10, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 4594
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/truth-jihad-radio-4243549/episodes/another-oil-market-peace-scam/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/truth-jihad-radio-4243549/another-oil-market-peace-scam.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Rumble link Bitchute link False Flag Weekly News link On October 26, 1972, Henry Kissinger momentously announced: “Peace is at hand.” According to Kissinger, North Vietnam and their Vietcong allies were about to see the light, lay down their weapons, and come to terms with the US and its South Vietnamese vassal. Kissinger’s announcement made screaming front page headlines. It electrified the country, coming as it did seven years after US involvement in Vietnam had become a quagmire, and five years after American public opinion had turned decisively against the war. The American people were sick of the war, and Kissinger’s bombshell promised not just peace, but “peace with honor.” Kissinger stunned the world with his peace announcement just twelve days before his boss, President Richard Nixon, sought re-election against antiwar challenger George McGovern. Though McGovern’s campaign had been hobbled not only by its own mistakes, but also by a long list of “dirty tricks” by pro-Nixon covert operations, Nixon’s campaign still faced the problem of the election potentially becoming a referendum on the war, which conceivably could allow McGovern to snatch victory from the jaws of looming defeat. McGovern’s last-ditch hope was dashed by Kissinger’s “peace is at hand” bombshell. The media ate it up, and most Americans bought into Kissinger’s claim that the war was effectively over. Nixon won reelection in a landslide. Less than two months after Kissinger’s peace proclamation, the Nixon administration launched the Christmas carpet bombing of North Vietnam, dropping 20,000 tons of ordnance and killing thousands of civilians. Peace, least of all “with honor,” was apparently not quite at hand. In January 1973, Kissinger referenced his “peace is at hand” remark of a few months earli…