Companies/institution
NATO
2016-12-13, 1 mention2018-05-30, 1 mention2022-02-14, 1 mention2022-02-27, 1 mention2022-03-06, 1 mention2022-03-13, 1 mention2022-10-16, 3 mentions2022-10-23, 2 mentions2023-03-11, 1 mention2023-05-02, 2 mentions2023-06-18, 1 mention2023-09-09, 1 mention2023-12-01, 1 mention2024-05-25, 1 mention2024-06-22, 1 mention2024-07-06, 1 mention2024-07-13, 6 mentions2024-09-07, 1 mention2024-10-26, 1 mention2024-11-23, 1 mention2024-12-21, 1 mention2025-02-27, 1 mention2025-06-07, 1 mention2025-07-22, 1 mention2025-08-30, 1 mention2025-09-27, 1 mention2025-12-06, 1 mention2026-01-24, 1 mention2026-04-11, 1 mention2026-04-25, 1 mention
Tim’s take
His standing argument is that NATO's expansion toward Russia's border set up the invasion, and he repeats this from the earliest coverage through the later episodes: Ukraine joining NATO puts weapons on Moscow's doorstep, and Russia's paranoia about encirclement is historically grounded even if Putin himself is "not a good guy" 11:30 5:00 3:03 27:16 38:55. He frames the war as effectively NATO fighting Russia by proxy through Ukrainian weapons, rather than a clean fight for democracy 42:10 17:29 40:10.
He treats US support for Ukraine as cynical rather than principled, predicting NATO would eventually tell Ukraine it's too corrupt to join after using it as a battleground 1:09:15 8:14. He also turns NATO into a punchline about American foreign policy backfiring, joking that expanding it just pushed Russia, China, North Korea and Iran into their own alliance instead 59:02 42:10.
Every Reference (39)
"they're not gonna come through. I'm surrounded by fucking liberals. NATO, NATO protects them, and Canada gets to sit on top of this country"
NATO Protects Canada, and the Air Canada Flight Cancellation Nightmare — We Are The News+53s into the segment"precisely people try and convince you it's all the West's fault and NATO wants to invade Russia and chop Russia apart and such, which I"
"NATO of course being this uh group of countries uh that uh the North Atlantic Trade Organization right yes yes and what they basically do is well you know it's a Trade Organization an economic uh political military Alliance"
Nuclear War Over a Non-Binary Figure Skating Team — #287 - Drug Recognition Expert | The Tim Dillon Show+163s into the segment"nato um kind of the post-cold war architecture of how the world is going to run these um you know trade alliances military alliances um expanding nato into the region"
Explaining the Invasion: NATO, Regime Change, and Russia's Reaction — #289 - Live From Ukraine | The Tim Dillon Show+8s into the segment"self-interest after being goated into the war by the expansion of NATO there's something to that for sure certainly and the other side"
Ukraine War Overload and Putin's Motives — #290 - Let's Take A Beat | The Tim Dillon Show+80s into the segment"here whether you think it was justified by uh the expansion of nato uh with slavoshi had a good point he's like this this this whole"
The White House Briefs TikTok Stars on the War — #291 - Dear Vladimir | The Tim Dillon Show+36s into the segment"them from from whatever you wanted to say whether it's joining NATO or whatever you know they he's basically going in there and saying"
Russia, Ukraine, and the Path to Nuclear War — Donbas | The Tim Dillon Show #319+138s into the segment"a step would mean a guaranteed escalation to World War III yet NATO no no NATO for them like it's this shouldn't even be on the table"
Nuking Over Donbas and Giving Putin What He Wants — Donbas | The Tim Dillon Show #319+172s into the segment"and going yeah we're you know we were wrong we actually welcome NATO we welcome the Ukraine and listen remember when this started people"
"give him those regions that he wants and [ __ ] know NATO yeah that's what you need to get like you know a good Hollywood lawyer in there"
Russian Viagra Rape Propaganda and War Atrocities on Both Sides — Dahmer | The Tim Dillon Show #320 (ft. Yannis Pappas)+51s into the segment"if it wasn't for NATO it would have happened already right if uh if it wasn't for NATO Ukraine and Georgia would be leveled already"
Zelensky the Fame Whore and the Path to World War Three — Dahmer | The Tim Dillon Show #320 (ft. Yannis Pappas)+76s into the segment"And what they're doing is now when you arm the Ukraine with all NATO weapons. Russia is essentially fighting NATO. You might Putin I"
Nuclear War With Russia and Ukraine Proxy War — Springtime in Texas | The Tim Dillon Show #337+93s into the segment"what we are now doing is we're now essentially fighting a proxy war if if NATO is it's NATO Weaponry uh that the ukrainians are fight it gets very murky as to whether Russia and NATO are fighting a war"
Nuclear War Risk and the Neocon Turn of the Democratic Party — Bonus Episode: Tim Talks To Gen Z+273s into the segment"the doors of Poland if we didn't give them well we all we with NATO expanding are encircling Russia with missiles and if we were if"
"would say it's a little thorny okay when the United States and NATO acts as a [ __ ] imperialist aggressor all over the world and is"
NATO Encirclement and the Real History of the Ukraine War — How To Help | The Tim Dillon Show #350+31s into the segment"but all the Russian leaderships had said since 1992. if you move NATO to the east you're going to provoke a violent response we you know"
The Real History of the Ukraine War and Minsk Accords — Bobby & Cheryl | The Tim Dillon Show #360+117s into the segment"encroaching on Russia uh with you know potentially admitting Ukraine into NATO and putting you know potentially missiles there and sponsoring"
American Public Opinion Shifting Toward Ceasefire — Bonus Episode: Abby Martin+166s into the segment"know we're we're [ __ ] we want to be a NATO we're gonna be in NATO and Kamala Harris is like you're gonna be in NATO and now we have"
Russia Winning the Ukraine War — Kevin Spacey's Soup & AI Saints | The Tim Dillon Show #393+6s into the segment"it's almost like this thing we have NATO by ramping this thing up we've gotten the guys over there to start like doing their own thing"
Putin and Kim Jong-un's Joyride in a Russian Limo — Rodent Men & Justin Timberlake | The Tim Dillon Show #396+117s into the segment"we're putting them in NATO it's why Putin went in Putin doesn't want us NATO Weapons Systems pointing at Moscow in the Ukraine literally what just happened"
Ukraine Gets Thrown Off the Boat Next — Joe Biden & Something Different | The Tim Dillon Show #398+57s into the segment"the man he is relying on and the administration he's relying on for money is introducing him as President Putin at the NATO Summit"
Biden Introduces Zelensky as 'President Putin' — Biden's Mumbles & Dance Moms | The Tim Dillon Show #399+167s into the segment"like you know it's all it's all you know about NATO and Russia and NATO we got to stay in well NATO is what keeps everybody safe when you"
Zelensky the Comedian and the CIA's 'Sloppy' Installation — Biden's Mumbles & Dance Moms | The Tim Dillon Show #399+172s into the segment"iced te uh you know like for them it's just a weapon sale and what NATO is primarily for them is a weapons uh sales catalog it's catalog"
NATO as a Weapons Catalog (L.L. Bean Bit) — Biden's Mumbles & Dance Moms | The Tim Dillon Show #399+12s into the segment"good to see my Bros I [ __ ] love you Poland what up it's [ __ ] NATO it's a it's a weapons Manu it's a it's a a ring of weapons manufacturers"
Fake Gaza Footage and the 500-Pound Bomb Math — Biden's Mumbles & Dance Moms | The Tim Dillon Show #399+123s into the segment"can I be a NATO we're gonna get to a point where individuals can be a nit people are going to get so rich not me but others will get so rich they are in NATO"
Mukbang for Gaza, Jamie Dimon Joining NATO, and Biden's Gun Rant — Biden's Mumbles & Dance Moms | The Tim Dillon Show #399+307s into the segment"there's people right now in this country when they walk out of their house all they see is like zombies like coming at them and they have to shut their door people talking about NATO"
America as a Bloated Corpse With No Elite Leadership — Biden's Mumbles & Dance Moms | The Tim Dillon Show #399+379s into the segment"kind of provoking this by talking about admitting Ukraine into NATO. And that's not an opinion that I that I have and no one else has."
Russia Allegedly Paying Right-Wing Influencers 10 Million — Russian Influencers & Dying At Work | The Tim Dillon Show #408+92s into the segment"what president Trump has said about NATO is look we're not going to pull out of NATO but NATO needs to be a true Alliance a true partner and not basically just another welfare client of the United States of America"
NATO Freeloaders and Germany's Nonexistent Military — Sen. JD Vance | The Tim Dillon Show #414+6s into the segment"one and that one is not uh based in reality and if he attacked a NATO country it would would would get a NATO response that being said"
North Korean Troops, Escalation, and Wanting to 'Wrap It Up' — Matt Gaetz & The Non-Binary Capitalist | The Tim Dillon Show #418+55s into the segment"energy uh infrastructure that it did and we weren't involved in NATO and we weren't you know no one would care but it's it seems to"
America's Track Record of Foreign Interventions — The Joe Rogan Experience | The Tim Dillon Show #422+265s into the segment"you look at the Eurasian land mass from from Western Europe and NATO to the Middle East Persian Gulf to around the Straits of Mala and"
Zero Interest Rates, the Fed, and Bricks Nations Rebelling Against the Dollar — Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433+49s into the segment"Moscow. This was his red line. It's been said by people that started NATO, it was said by Barack Obama, that it's just not in America's interest"
America's Plan to Get Ukraine Nuked — Musk vs. Trump, Ukrainian Drones, & A Very Special List | The Tim Dillon Show #447+191s into the segment"blow them up next month. Like I said eight months ago when when NATO um Turkey and Israel on record overthrew Assad after 18 years of"
Netanyahu's Endgame: Gaza's Gas Fields and Regional Pipeline Control — Emergency Podcast: The Epstein Cover-Up | The Tim Dillon Show #454+160s into the segment"like you know for example like NATO is a super national organization right um meaning it's there's no one nation that's defining it"
World Economic Forum Statement and Supernational Institutions — Taylor Swift’s Engagement & The Digital Prison | The Tim Dillon Show #459+77s into the segment"how they feel. They have felt that they have been in a war with NATO for a while. an unofficial undeclared war. Now it is looking like"
Comey Indictment and FBI Corruption History — Tylenol ‘Tism, FBI at Jan. 6th, & Meeting The Mossad | The Tim Dillon Show #463+198s into the segment"of weirdly been obsessed with the idea of including Ukraine into NATO and then kind of instigating a little bit and then Russia and again"
Boomers, Boat Explosions, and the Forgotten Ukraine Obsession — Pete Hegseth, War Crimes, & The Breakfast Rush | The Tim Dillon Show #473+84s into the segment"subscription. NATO rebuffed Trump in his uh quest to acquire Greenland. So Trump showed"
Trump's Greenland Deal and ICE as Reality TV — Jared Kushner, Trump Obsession, & Healing Through Hate | The Tim Dillon Show #480+3s into the segment"He used AI to fake his own assassination attempt so he could win the presidency and pull out of NATO SO THAT ISRAEL COULD FIGHT TURKEY."
Closing Bit: Trump Used AI to Fake His Own Assassination — Bombing Beirut, Back To Butler & Melania’s Mission | The Tim Dillon Show #491+52s into the segment"being the sole superpower, um super national organizations like NATO, the European Union, this world was largely a postworld war II"
The Dying Unipolar World and the New Feudal Tech Oligarchy — The Palantir Manifesto & My Manifesto | The Tim Dillon Show #493+50s into the segment