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US issues dire warning to Americans in Ukraine as fears over war with Russia grow on world stage as BIDEN DOES NOTHING! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Well, many of you have been reaching out because you've
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  Speaker 1: have been sick and unfortunately got hit with a double whamming,
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  Speaker 1: have been you know what you would expect, not feeling great.
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  Speaker 1: if I do sound a little fatigued over the next
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  Speaker 1: several days. That's why. Uh. And if I do sound
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  Speaker 1: you to know why. Uh. The fatigue issue of this
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to say that at the beginning. For
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  Speaker 1: many of you that have been reaching out on social media,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for checking on us. Uh. And uh, yeah
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  Speaker 1: it's uh. I'm just glad that so far it has
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  Speaker 1: not been unbearable or that I've had to go to
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  Speaker 1: the hospital or anything like that. So again, thoughts and
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  Speaker 1: prayers from all you guys that have been sending those wishes.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, and just want to let you know about that.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, we have got a lot to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: and there is a real possibility of a war breaking
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  Speaker 1: out between the United States our allies in Russia. It
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  Speaker 1: has not been talked about very much, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit frustrating when you see just how close we
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  Speaker 1: could be. Because of the incompetence, I would argue of
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  Speaker 1: this administration. This became a major topic of conversation over
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  Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours, because satellite imagery and Intel
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  Speaker 1: is showing that Russia seems to be very much moving
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  Speaker 1: towards invading Ukraine. This after the President screwed up this
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  Speaker 1: issue by saying, you know, a minor incursion into Russia
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  Speaker 1: maybe wouldn't be that bad, but don't make it major,
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  Speaker 1: and then the White House had to step that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: walk that back, and then the President had to come
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  Speaker 1: out read a statement because he can't put together coherent
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  Speaker 1: sentences on anything, much less foreign policy. Because when he
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  Speaker 1: did it as press conferences one year press conference, it
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  Speaker 1: was a total disaster. If you were Ukraine and you
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  Speaker 1: were watching that, literally you had the President of United
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  Speaker 1: States Americas say it was okay to invade just a
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  Speaker 1: little bit into Ukraine. The White House was in damage
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  Speaker 1: control for days on end, and there were some that
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  Speaker 1: were taking political shots to the White House for this.
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  Speaker 1: I want to make this clear. I have said this,
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  Speaker 1: and I said this consistently since Bill Clinton was president.
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  Speaker 1: I never want the President of the United States of
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  Speaker 1: America to be failing when it comes to national security
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  Speaker 1: issues and foreign policy issues that deal with national security.
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  Speaker 1: I am rooting for Joe Biden to keep US and
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  Speaker 1: our allies safe, because when there are screw ups, Americans
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  Speaker 1: die and innocent people die. I was rooting for Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden to be successful in getting US out of Afghanistan
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  Speaker 1: in a appropriate manner. I was rooting for him to
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  Speaker 1: right his wrongs and correct his mistakes early on. It's
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  Speaker 1: easy to pile on, but when you're piling on on
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  Speaker 1: an issue like that, it's very different than a domestic
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  Speaker 1: policy issue. When people are rooting for the failure of
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  Speaker 1: an individual, and that means when they fail that people die.
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  Speaker 1: You got to think about their motives. You have to
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  Speaker 1: think about their mindset. I never root for a president
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  Speaker 1: to screw up on national security issues, whether it's Obama
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  Speaker 1: or Biden or Jimmy Carter. I remember the first real
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  Speaker 1: foreign policy issue that I really knew something about, and
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  Speaker 1: that was studying what happened in Iran with the Iran
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  Speaker 1: hostage crisis. And there were people even during that time
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  Speaker 1: that we're playing politics with it, looking forward to the
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  Speaker 1: screw up of Jimmy Carter and knowing that it would
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  Speaker 1: make him very weak going into an election against the
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  Speaker 1: Republican candiate, which happened to be at that point Ronald
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  Speaker 1: Reagan after the primary. I would never wish that on anybody,
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  Speaker 1: because there's are real human beings that were being held hostage.
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  Speaker 1: I had the pleasure of getting to know off the
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  Speaker 1: record one of the hostages that was held in Iran
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  Speaker 1: when I was living in washing in DC back in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and four or five, six seven. One of
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  Speaker 1: those individuals I got to meet, We became friends, and
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  Speaker 1: to hear their stories of that amount of time that
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  Speaker 1: those then they were held for longer than a year.
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  Speaker 1: If you go back and you look at that story
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  Speaker 1: that crisis and seeing how long that took. It was
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  Speaker 1: from November of seventy nine until January of eighty one
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  Speaker 1: until they were freed. Now, I was born after the
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  Speaker 1: irand Housas crisis ended, but it was the first foreign
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  Speaker 1: policy issue I remember studying, and the individual the diplomat
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  Speaker 1: that was held hostage after the Iranians took control of
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  Speaker 1: our US embassy in Tehran and seize those hostages and
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  Speaker 1: the way they were treated. What you realize is when
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about these issues, whether it's Ukraine or this issue,
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  Speaker 1: is that there are real human beings involved. When I
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  Speaker 1: see what happened in Afghanistan. I warned you that this
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  Speaker 1: was going to embolden anybody in the world that wants
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  Speaker 1: to do something that they know they traditionally can't get
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  Speaker 1: away with to do it. It was going to embolden them.
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  Speaker 1: It was very clear that there were going to be
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  Speaker 1: consequences after what we did in Afghanistan with their exit.
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  Speaker 1: Not only did American troops die in Afghanistan with the
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  Speaker 1: disastrous pull out of Afghanistan, but other leaders in the
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  Speaker 1: world witnessed something that I think most of them thought
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  Speaker 1: they would never ever see, which is actual American citizens
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  Speaker 1: begging to get onto a tarmac where the American military
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  Speaker 1: was and US not going to get them. They witnessed
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  Speaker 1: us leaving Americans behind. They witnessed us leaving our allies behind.
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  Speaker 1: They witnessed us leaving interpreters behind and people behind to
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  Speaker 1: be killed and to be beheaded, and to be tortured,
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  Speaker 1: to be raped, to be beaten, to be held hostage
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  Speaker 1: in a country where they helped us. And world leaders
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  Speaker 1: immediately that point said, Aha, opportunity didn't take long, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, it took several months for Russia to seize
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  Speaker 1: on that opportunity. Actually it took days. They started getting
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  Speaker 1: things ready for an incursion. Then they started putting soldiers
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  Speaker 1: on the border, Then they started putting weaponry on the border.
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  Speaker 1: And all the time, every time they did something, every
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  Speaker 1: time they moved a little bit further and pushed the envelope,
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  Speaker 1: we did nothing. So now we find ourselves at a
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  Speaker 1: new point, a point where it looks like Russia can
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  Speaker 1: do whatever they want to do and we will not
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  Speaker 1: stop them. You know, Russia, they understand weakness, They understand
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  Speaker 1: opportunity in weakness. If there's anything that you can see
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  Speaker 1: through history with Russia, it is they are opportunists. Don't
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  Speaker 1: hate Russia for a minute. Take the hatred or anger
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  Speaker 1: away just for a moment and look at Russia as
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  Speaker 1: a country, Russia as a country that has always been
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  Speaker 1: a country of opportunity. They seize on other people's misfortunes,
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  Speaker 1: They seize on other people's weaknesses. That is what they
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  Speaker 1: have done. That's what they have done as long as
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  Speaker 1: they've been a nation. As a communist country, they don't
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  Speaker 1: care if people suffer. They have never cared if people suffer,
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  Speaker 1: including their own people. They were even known from blocking
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  Speaker 1: people from going into certain parts of Russia to see
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  Speaker 1: how the people in Russia were living when things got
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  Speaker 1: really bad in the sixties and se sventies and eighties
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  Speaker 1: and nineties, even before that. But they would only allow
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  Speaker 1: people to see what they wanted them to see. They
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  Speaker 1: would track you, they would make sure you couldn't see
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  Speaker 1: certain areas of the countries of their country. I should say,
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  Speaker 1: and what Russia understands is they need Ukraine. You go
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  Speaker 1: back to Crimea and it was an opportunity. You look
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  Speaker 1: at Crimea and this war that broke out really wasn't
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  Speaker 1: much of a war because we didn't help stop Russia
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  Speaker 1: from annexing, as they called it, Crimea. Why did Crimea
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  Speaker 1: get annex in twenty fourteen, same reason, because you had
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  Speaker 1: a weak president. You go back to February. In March
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  Speaker 1: of twenty and fourteen, Russia invaded Ukraine. They invaded knowing
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't take the whole country without consequences, but they
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  Speaker 1: knew they could take part an important part of Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: When they went in and claimed they were annexing the
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  Speaker 1: Crimea peninsula. Why did they take it because it was
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  Speaker 1: extremely important for shipping. This peninsula was very important to
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  Speaker 1: them from a domestic product and shipping standpoint, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: stop them. The president of Russia at the time, same
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  Speaker 1: guy that's still now in charge, the dictator of Vladimir Putin,
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  Speaker 1: the KGB, guy who should be trusted by no one
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  Speaker 1: in the world, convened an all night meeting with security
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  Speaker 1: chiefs to discuss the extraction of the deposed Ukrainian president.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the meeting, Putin remarked that we
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  Speaker 1: must start working on returning, as he put it, Crimea
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  Speaker 1: to the uk Ukraine or excuse me, to Russia. Putin
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  Speaker 1: wanted it. On February the twenty third, pro Russian demonstrations
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  Speaker 1: were held in Crimea city, all orchestrated as propaganda by Russia.
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  Speaker 1: They acted like people in Crimea wanted Russia to annex them,
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  Speaker 1: so it wouldn't look like they were actually invading or
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  Speaker 1: taking every They were just listening to the people. This
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  Speaker 1: was all propaganda so that they could justify their actions
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  Speaker 1: to the world, and we all knew this. They had
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  Speaker 1: these demonstrations on the twenty third. On February the twenty seventh,
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  Speaker 1: masked Russian troops without insignia, meaning they acted like they
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  Speaker 1: weren't a part of the Russian government, the Russian military,
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  Speaker 1: and they were took over the Supreme Council, the Parliament
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  Speaker 1: of Crimea. They captured strategic sites across which led to
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  Speaker 1: the installation of the pro Russian government in Crimea, the
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  Speaker 1: conducting of the Crimean status referendum. They called it to
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  Speaker 1: make it look like this is all totally above board,
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  Speaker 1: totally happening, and many of the media, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: did not tell the real story at the time of
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  Speaker 1: what was really happening. This was all PRBs and we
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  Speaker 1: knew it, but we didn't stop them. So they had
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  Speaker 1: this Crimean status referendum. Then they had the declaration that
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  Speaker 1: the people in Crimea were declaring independence on March sixteenth
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  Speaker 1: of twenty fourteen, and again we did nothing. We knew
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  Speaker 1: that this was total crap. We knew that this was
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  Speaker 1: an invasion. We knew that the Russian troops without insignia
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  Speaker 1: were Russian troops. We could see them coming across the border.
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  Speaker 1: We knew that this was a hostile takeover a part
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  Speaker 1: of Ukraine, and we did nothing. Joe Biden at the
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  Speaker 1: time was the vice president, Barack Obama was the president.
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  Speaker 1: Barack Obama was a we don't want to be a
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  Speaker 1: war guy, right, And what they realized was they could
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  Speaker 1: pull this off in the world really wasn't going to respond. Then,
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  Speaker 1: as the Supreme Council Parliament of Crimea was formed, they
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  Speaker 1: captured these strategic sites. They installed a pro Russian guide
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  Speaker 1: to be in charge of the government in Crimea. They
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  Speaker 1: had the Crimean status referendum, checking all the boxes anti
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  Speaker 1: declaration of Crimea's independence. On March the sixteenth, Russian formally
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  Speaker 1: incorporated crime into as two Russian federal subjects, the Republic
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  Speaker 1: of Crimea and the Federal City. On March the eighteenth.
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  Speaker 1: All this preplant none of this was organic. Following the
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  Speaker 1: annexation Ruska, Russia escalated their military presence on the peninsula
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  Speaker 1: and leveraged the nuclear threats to solidify the new status
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  Speaker 1: quo on the ground. They did all of this and
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  Speaker 1: we didn't stop them. Ukraine and many other countries condemned
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  Speaker 1: the annexation, but really didn't do much more. It was
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  Speaker 1: considered to be a violation of international law, but we
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  Speaker 1: didn't do anything to stop them. Russia signed agreement safeguarding
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  Speaker 1: the territorial integrity of Ukraine saying we're not doing anything else.
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  Speaker 1: We were just here because they wanted us here. We
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  Speaker 1: were only in Crimea because they asked us to come.
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  Speaker 1: They were having these protests. They were begging us to
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  Speaker 1: come back, so we did again. The world did nothing.
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  Speaker 1: They agreed to everything. They agreed to ninety one Accords
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  Speaker 1: that established the Commonwealth of Independent States, the nineteen seventy
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  Speaker 1: five Helsinki Accords, in nineteen ninety four, Budapest Memorandum on
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  Speaker 1: Security Assurances, in the nineteen ninety seven Treaty of Friendship,
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  Speaker 1: Cooperation and Partnership between Russia and the Russian Federation in Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: And everything's fine, Just don't worry about it. What did
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  Speaker 1: they do? They slapped him on the risk. I'm referring
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  Speaker 1: to America and the rest of the world. It was
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  Speaker 1: a joke. Members of the then G eight suspended Russia
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  Speaker 1: from the group. They didn't care. They introduced the first
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  Speaker 1: round of sanctions against country. Didn't matter. The UN General
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  Speaker 1: Assembly also rejected the referendum and annexation, adopting a resolution
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  Speaker 1: affirming the territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders.
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  Speaker 1: The UN resolution also underscored they said at the time
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  Speaker 1: the referendum having no validity cannot form the basis of
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  Speaker 1: any alternation of status of Crimea, and called upon all
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  Speaker 1: states and international organizations not to recognize or to imply
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  Speaker 1: the recognition of Russia's annexation. Did it matter now because
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  Speaker 1: it happened and they were now in charge. Fast forward
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  Speaker 1: to twenty sixteen, the UN General Assembly reaffirmed non recognition
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  Speaker 1: of the annexation and condemnation they called the temporary occupation
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  Speaker 1: of part of the territory of Ukraine. They called the
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  Speaker 1: autonom Republic of Crimea in the city there. The Russian government,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, also quote oppose the annexation label, with
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  Speaker 1: Putin defending the referendum as complying with the principles of
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  Speaker 1: self determination of the people of Crimea. Again, we did nothing.
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  Speaker 1: So you fast forward to Afghanistan. You fast forward to
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  Speaker 1: what's happened now in Afghanistan, and Vladimir Putin's goes, wow,
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  Speaker 1: I see an opportunity. I really want Crimea. More than
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  Speaker 1: just Crimea, I want Ukraine. Now, you've got to understand
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  Speaker 1: that Russia genuinely believes Okay, you need to understand this.
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  Speaker 1: Russia genuinely believes that Ukraine is theirs for the taking.
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  Speaker 1: Putin genuinely believes that Russia should be able to take
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  Speaker 1: all of Ukraine or at least whatever the hell they want,
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  Speaker 1: and there's only one country that can stop them. That
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  Speaker 1: country is the United States of America. And what they
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  Speaker 1: realized after Afghanistan is we're not going to stop them.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to go to war with them, more
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  Speaker 1: than likely, and we're certainly not going to do more
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  Speaker 1: than basic sanctions. So now here we are, we're at
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  Speaker 1: a moment where it looks like Russia can do anything
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  Speaker 1: they want to do. So the question is, well, there's
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  Speaker 1: two things here. I mean, let me rephrase this. Number One,
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  Speaker 1: Russia can do whatever they want to do when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to Ukraine. So what happens moving forward? The reality
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  Speaker 1: is America is so far behind protecting Ukraine at this
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  Speaker 1: point it's not even funny. And the people in Ukraine
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  Speaker 1: are at the mercy of whatever Russia decides to do.
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  Speaker 1: So let me tell you about what's actually happening on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. Now. This is what should have been being talked,
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  Speaker 1: We should have been talked about for days on end
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  Speaker 1: in this country in our media. They have not done
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  Speaker 1: their job because they don't want to make Donald or
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  Speaker 1: they don't want to make I should say Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: looked bad. They don't want to highlight the incompetency of
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  Speaker 1: the foreign policy of Joe Biden because his approval rating
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  Speaker 1: is already so bad and people saw just how week
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  Speaker 1: of a leader he was in Afghanistan against the Taliband,
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  Speaker 1: which we had owned for twenty years. We left Americans behind,
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  Speaker 1: We left people that helped Americans survive and save lives,
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  Speaker 1: the translators and others behind, and we just let the
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  Speaker 1: Taliban push us around a Taliband that we could have
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  Speaker 1: taken out with air superiority in drones in two seconds
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  Speaker 1: to send a message, don't screw with us. When we
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  Speaker 1: were at that airport and when they were starting to
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  Speaker 1: surround that airport, we could have stopped it. We could
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  Speaker 1: have fixed it. We could have shown them that you
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  Speaker 1: don't screw with us. But we didn't because we have
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden, an incompetent president, and I think it's very
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  Speaker 1: clear now his mental capacity has declined to the point
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  Speaker 1: where he really doesn't know how to handle any of
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  Speaker 1: these issues, and that worries me, not from a political standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: from a national security standpoint, which is what I go
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  Speaker 1: back to I said earlier, I always root for the
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  Speaker 1: President United It's America to be successful on issues of
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  Speaker 1: national defense and foreign policy when it deals with innocent lives.
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  Speaker 1: I do not want Joe Biden to fail, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: Afghanistan or Russia. But the reality of what's happening right
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  Speaker 1: now is is it Russian ships, tanks, and troops are
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  Speaker 1: on the move to Ukraine. Now there's this idea of
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  Speaker 1: peace talks that have stalled out. Let me explain to
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  Speaker 1: you how this works. There's been negotiations, okay, that have
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  Speaker 1: been underway that America has been you know, involved in
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  Speaker 1: and begging that they'll work. Negotiations have turned to what
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  Speaker 1: they refer to now as a deadlock. Moscow went through
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  Speaker 1: these negotiations knowing they would be unsuccessful, just so they
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  Speaker 1: could keep moving forward where their build up their military
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  Speaker 1: forces for an invasion. At this point, I don't even
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  Speaker 1: think it's an issue of is it going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: It's a question of now when is it going to happen?
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  Speaker 1: And they're playing the people in Ukraine, they're playing the
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  Speaker 1: American government, they're playing any of the allies involved with Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: Russia understands that they can keep extending the deadline with
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  Speaker 1: an act like in good faith. They're trying to have
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  Speaker 1: negotiations and they say they're in a deadlock, and then
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  Speaker 1: they can invade because this is what they want. They
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  Speaker 1: want time to do what they want to do. Now.
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  Speaker 1: They are volunteer members of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces, the
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  Speaker 1: country's military reserve. They're training in Kiev right now. Russia
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  Speaker 1: knows they can kill them and take them out whenever
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  Speaker 1: they want to. Russia has sent more than four thousand
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  Speaker 1: has actually sent troops more than four thousand miles to
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine's border and an outsweeping naval drills as Moscow is
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  Speaker 1: expanding its preparations for a attack on Ukraine as negotiations
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  Speaker 1: quote appear at a deadline. Now again, Russia is very
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  Speaker 1: smart in the international communities to start checking boxes. Hey,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: we negotiate, it didn't work. What are they negotiating on
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: is the question that any world power, including America, should
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: be screaming about right now. They're not what they're negotiating,
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  Speaker 1: not to invade another country. That's not really a negotiation,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: is it. You want to know what the media is
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: not telling you about six Russian landing ships capable of
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: carrying main battle tanks, troops and other military vehicles traveled
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: through the Channel and route to the Mediterranean la last week,
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  Speaker 1: and a deployment that could bolster an amphibious landing an
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  Speaker 1: attack on Ukraine's southern coast if Vladimir Putin orders the attack.
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  Speaker 1: When you're sending Russian troops more than four thousand miles
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  Speaker 1: to Ukraine, don't tell me that you're acting into a
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  Speaker 1: good faith in negotiations. And the world should have been
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: showing this in real time, but they're not. There should
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: be international outrage right now, but there's not because no
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: one's talking about this. Ukraine's military intelligence has claimed that
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Russia is hiring mercenaries and supplying its proxy forces in
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: their country. In their country, They're saying that they are
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: already supplying the proxy forces in different regional areas with fuel,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: tanks and self propelled artillery and preparation for a potential
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: upsurge fighting. I'm going to tell you more about that
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: in just a moment. Again, where's the international outrage and
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: where is this news that I'm telling you about right now?
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Why is it that the media is not talking about
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: this in America? Because They know it's going to make
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Joe Biden look bad, and that's no reason not to
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: cover this. Russian large military forces, including short range ballistic missiles,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: elite troop groups, and anti aircraft batteries, have arrived in
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  Speaker 1: Belarus from Russia's Eastern military District. As one top commander
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: put it, it's an extraordinary deployment that Western officials and
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: analysts could say could enable Moscow to threaten Kiev, Ukraine's
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: capital instantly. The new deployments quote have worried US officials,
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  Speaker 1: you think quote What concerns us is the total picture,
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  Speaker 1: said a senior State Department official in a briefing last week.
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  Speaker 1: It is the amassing of more than one hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: troops along Ukraine's border, combined with moving forces into Belarus
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. These numbers are beyond, of course, what
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: we would expect with regard to a normal exercise. The
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: new forces in Belarus, the officials added, to represent an
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: increased capacity for Russia to launch this attack, increased opportunity,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: increased avenues, increase roots that they can take. So what
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: is the President of United States of America, the United
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: States President Joe Biden doing last week? He said that
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  Speaker 1: Putin himself may not know what he plans to do,
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  Speaker 1: but the results are either reckless brinksmanship or preparations for
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: a large scale military operation. I'm going to let you
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: guess which one is probably right. I'm going to guess
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: most of you that have a brain know that this
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: is not reckless brinksmanship by Vladimir Puttin. This is preparations
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: for a large scale military operation. It gradually dawned on
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Puttin that if he stays on the track of stable
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  Speaker 1: and predictable, as Biden indicated, he's the designated loser, said
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Pavel By have a research professor at the Peace Institute,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: at the Brookings Institute. Something needed to be done. He
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: went for the escalation quite sharply. Why because he wants Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: Diplomatic efforts last week were inconclusive. Well, that's on purpose,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: the Russian Foreign minister called talks with US Secretary of
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: State Anthony B. Lincoln quote frankin substitutive, I can't say
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: whether we are on the right track or not on
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the right track. We'll understand that when we receive an
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: American response on paper to all items of our proposal.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Russia said two reporters in Geneva. So let's fast forward
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: now to Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln. This is the
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: guy that's been fighting with the Russians, and this is
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: what he had to say today. It's one hundred and
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: twenty seven thousand Russian troops now near the border. How
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: much power, in all honesty does the US really have
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: to stop Russia. We've given Russia two paths. There's a
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: path of diplomacy and dialogue, one that I engaged in
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: with Foreign Minister Lavrov just last week in Geneva. But
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: there's also a path of its renewed aggression and massive
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: consequences that we have been building now for many weeks.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: And it's not just US that's saying it. The g
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: seven world's leading democratic economies have been clear about that,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the European Union has been clear about that, NATO has
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: been clear about that. And as we're doing that, we've
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: provided more defensive assistance, military assistance to Ukraine last year
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: than at any time in the past. Just authorized myself
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: the provision of American original military equipment that's with third
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: countries Estonia, Latvian, Lithuanian to get to Ukraine. And we
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: are in intense, regular, constant communication, consultation with allies and
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: partners to make it very clear that these massive consequences
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: will follow. So basically, at this point down the choice
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: is Vladimir Putin's and the paths are clear. Diplomacy dialogue
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: seeing if we can build collective security in a way
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: that is good for everyone is clearly the preferable path.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: But we're prepared you the way. Again, the part here
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: where it's very hard to even keep a straight face
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: is where he said there's going to be massive consequences.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: None of the consequences that he just referenced are referred
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: to deal with our military being involved, so the consequences
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: are not massive. And Vladimir Putin understands that we're not
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: going to get a coalition together to stop him. He
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: gets to do what he wants to do now afterwards,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: will slap his wrist. That's it. You think Vladimir Putin's
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: concerned over what was just said by Blinkolin, which were
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: stronger words and even than been spoken by the President
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Unite States of America Joe Biden at this point, Now
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: here's the main question. If you think that Vladimir Putin
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: is scared of America right now, You're wrong. Any of
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: you really think that Putin is scared of the words
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: have been said by the Secretary of State Anthony B. Lincoln,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: which were stronger words than were said by Joe Biden
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: at this point. In fact, the last words that have
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: been spoken by Joe Biden was Joe Biden when he
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: was at a event talking about computer chips, and at
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the end of this event about computer chips, the last
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: public words that he has said about Russia. This, This
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: is what President Joe Biden had to say. God bless
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: you all to make God protect our troops. And by
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: the way, the reason we're not going to have any
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: time for questions now is these guys got to get
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: quickly on the plane and go out and do a
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: major announcement in Ohio, and you guys will ask me
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: all about Russia, not about anything having to do with chips.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: You guys will ask me about Russia. Most leaders would
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: be chomping at the bit to answer questions about an
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: invasion of a country that's an ally of ours. Most
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: leaders would be chomping at the bit to answer any
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: questions and warning Russia that they better not think about
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: doing this because there will be hell to pay. So
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: what does hell to pay look like? What it certainly
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean militarily. What it does mean is we're going
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: to put sanctions on them, which Russia doesn't care about. Now,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the left is talking about this issue, but they're talking
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: about this issue from a quote Cold war perspective. They're
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: basically saying, at this point, let Russia do what Russia
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: wants to do and look the other way, and we'll
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: throw some sanctions on them, because you really don't want
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: to get into another war, much less a Cold war
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: with Russia. This is what happens when you have weak leadership.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: And if you think that Russia is the only one
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: that's going to take advantage of this moment, this opportunity
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: while America is weaker than it's been in my entire lifetime,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: you're wrong. China is looking at this too. China is
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: looking at Taiwan the same way that Russia is looking
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: at Ukraine. Countries and terraces in the Middle East are
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: looking at places that they want to screw with or
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: want to take over, or want to attack the same
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: way that Russia's looking at Ukraine. Who's going to stop us?
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: You know, There's a simple thing in life that I've learned,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: and you can apply it to foreign policy and you
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: can apply it to your own life, and that is
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: this bad guys only understand one thing, and that is
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: this strength. Bad guy commits crime, it takes a good
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: guy to stop the bad guy committing the crime. Bad
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: guy with a gun is only stopped by a good
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: guy with a gun. When you're dealing with people like
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin, there is only one thing they understand, and
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: that is strength, something that Ronald Reagan understood better than
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I would argue anybody. It's the same thing, by the
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: way that Donald Trump understood. You don't let these guys
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: screw with you on any little thing, because they're just
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: testing to see if they can screw with you on
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the big thing. You have an opportunity to take it.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: A terrorist on a tarmac and a rack, and you
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: take that dude out who's been a terrorist for a rand,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: which is what he did. And then people said, oh,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: that's you know, he's gone insane and he's gonna take
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: us into War War three. Remember all that. Remember every
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: time that Donald Trump hit a terrorist, would the left
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: say he's going to take us into war. Now, we
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: actually have a real war on our hands, and what
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: are we doing. We're not taking questions about it because
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: we'd rather talk about computer chips. That is the message
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: that Russia saw from Joe Biden on his last comments
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: publicly about Russia. I'm not gonna take questions from you
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: guys in the media because all you're gonna want to
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: talk about Russia and I wanted to talk about chips.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: How bad is this? Take a listen to this conversation
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: on Fox about it. Minnie is raising concerns that we
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: are in a new Cold War with Russia, and Texas
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Congressman Michael McCall says the Biden administration's weakness is not helping.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Here's what he said. Rather than threatening after an invasion
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: takes place, we ought to be providing de terrance before
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: an invasion takes place. That's my biggest criticism of the administration.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Do you think we are in a new Cold War
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: with Russia? I do. I do because I think Prutin
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: again smells weakness. General Jack Keane is a Fox News
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: senior strategic analyt's chairman at the Institute for the Study
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: of War and former Vice chief of Staff of the Army.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Great to have you, sir. I just want to play
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: for you to set the scene. Here's what the White
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said this weekend. What
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: we have laid out is a very clear message to
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: the Russians that if they do further invade Ukraine there
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: will be severe economic consequences and a price to pay.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: And yes, of course, by the way, Jake Sulivan, Okay,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: who's the main guy talking on behalf of the Biden
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: administration right now, you're hearing his voice. If there is
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: further incursion into Ukraine, there will be consequences. Why are
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: there not consequences right now being in Ukraine for amassing troops,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: for supplying people within Ukraine with a potential war and
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: setting things up and threatening that country. Why are we
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: not immediately responding with sanctions so that they back off
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: the border and they don't even think about doing this?
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: This is how weak the president is, and Jake Sullivan
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: just described it perfectly there. Of course, if it turns
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: out that Russia is pummeling Ukraine with cyber attacks, and
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: if that continues over the period ahead, we will work
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: with our allies on the appropriate response. And then what
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: is the appropriate response is the question I want them
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: to answer, right, seriously, what is the quote appropriate response?
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Tell me I want to know. Explain to me what
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: you believe the appropriate response as to cyber attacks and
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: military build up. Jake Sullivan, you're top guy who's gonna
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: work on national security issues. In other words, you're not
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: going to do anything preemptively. Everything you're gonna do it
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: gonna be doing is after the fact, after they invade,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: after they kill innocent people, after they kill the citizens
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: of Ukraine. They're just trying to protect their borders, who
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: really aren't even military type people. They're volunteer year is
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: trying to defend their homeland. That's when we're going to respond,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: but not on the front end. This is when you
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: have an incapacitated leader, an incompetent leader who is incapacitated,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: and Joe Biden. You get stupid comments like this. Just
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: because the media is not covering this to protect Joe
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Biden doesn't mean that you shouldn't be talking about it
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: with your family and your friends. You have a world
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: power right now that is not being stopped by a
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: world superpower, which is us, and they're going to kill
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of innocent people. All of this audio that
• 36:37
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• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Because the media should be reporting on this, and they're not.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: They're overlooking it on purpose. They're literally turning their backs
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: these people in Ukraine that are about to be slaughtered,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: and they're doing it because a know that Joe Biden's
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: approval rating is so low right now that he can't
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: they can't afford to tell you the truth about what's happening.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: They got to downplay it a little bit. And the
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: fact that we have national security advisors that aren't demanding
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: sanctions now, accountability now for the actions of Russians of
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: the Russians is disgusting. Make sure you download our podcasts,
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