MAR 01 2022 - UKRAINE INVASION DAY 5 UPDATE
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, a Florida governor refuses to send National Guard troops to Washington for the State of the Union, a pro-Putin group is found funding green groups, and a rioter commits suicide while awaiting sentencing.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily, powered by Turning Point USA.
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Today's top headlines, Ukraine invasion. We're going to give you a day five update on what's going on
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in Russia, what's going on in Ukraine, and whether or not NATO will be getting involved. Next,
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a flashback. Russian President Putin was found funding green groups to discredit natural gas
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fracking. Interesting. Hmm. Number three, a January 6 rioter has committed suicide while awaiting
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sentencing. We're going to talk about this. And then finally, Governor DeSantis will not,
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I repeat, not be sending the Florida National Guard troops to D.C. for the State of the Union tonight.
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Well, the president has been very clear that he is not intending to send U.S. troops to fight a war
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with Russia. And I think what's important to note here is that is essentially what this would be a step
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toward, because a no-fly zone would require implementation. It would require deploying U.S.
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military to enforce, which would be a direct conflict, potentially a direct conflict and
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potentially a war with Russia, which is something we are not planning to be a part of.
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All right. We are now on day five of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And of course, Human Events
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Daily does not support war. Let me be very clear about that. We don't want war. We've never supported
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war. And this war was started by Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin, Russia's generals, Russia's oligarchs.
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They are the ones guilty of starting this specific conflict, period, full stop. But that being said,
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as I've said before, we're not going to lie about how we got here. What's the situation on the ground
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as it is? Just moments before we went to tape today, we started to see initial missile strikes
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on command and control, on broadcasting, on TV antennas in the city itself, the capital city
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of Kiev. We're also seeing the encirclement of Kiev in multiple groups, tranches of Russian forces
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that have driven across the line from the north, from Belarus and from Ukraine. Now, keep in mind,
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these are Russian troops on Belarusian territory, not Belarusian troops yet. Though we are also hearing
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reports that Belarus is moving to militarize its border. What does that mean? Time will tell.
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Lukashenko is, of course, a pro-Russian autocrat, the leader of Belarus. Many people have referred to
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him as Europe's last dictator. We will remain very closely keeping an eye on him to see what happens.
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But when it comes to this situation, Kharkiv in the northeast has been essentially encircled by Russia
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in the area of Donbass, this area that supposedly started all this, which was used to destabilize
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the entire situation. We're seeing those forces push out. And in the south, probably most successfully
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by the Russian advance at this point, we've seen that land bridge be almost nearly connected
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between the southern advancing Russian forces out of Crimea, as well as Russian forces pushing out
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and Russia-backed separatists on the city of Mariupol, right in between this area between where Crimea
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and the Donbass would meet, really, on the port city of Mariupol. We're also hearing President
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Zelensky, the Ukrainian side, right, has called for Europe and NATO to impose a no-fly zone on Ukraine.
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We're also hearing reports of Ukrainian legislatures calling for NATO jets to be sent from Slovakia,
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from Poland, from Bulgaria, from other countries to aid in the fight. However, however, that would be a
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massive escalation of the situation, massive escalation, and would be an actual NATO commitment
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to an act of war on Russia. That would start, very clear, a shooting war with Russia that is not in
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America's national interest. No American president, no American president in the modern era, whether
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Republican or Democrat, has ever supported getting into a shooting war with Russia, period. Not during
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Syria, not during any of this stuff. You know, JFK, going all the way back to the Cuban Missile
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Crisis, it's said that he's read, he read a book called The Guns of August during that time. What was
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The Guns of August about? It was about those initial steps in the, in the weeks, the very few weeks of
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August 1914, the beginning of World War I, the steps that were taken by those leaders, by the Tsar, by the
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Kaiser, by the King of England, that led to that war beginning. And it said that he read that book and he
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realized that the leaders thought they were making the right call, but they were wrapped up in their
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emotions and they were wrapped up in their own self-righteousness and self-belief, that if they
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escalated things quickly, that they would be in for a short war and they would come home with a quick
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victory. Yet that didn't happen. And they were bogged down in the quagmire and the trench warfare
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and the absolute disgusting brutality that was World War I. And JFK read that, President Kennedy,
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he read that book about it and said, we cannot allow this to happen again. And we certainly cannot
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allow this to happen if the ravages of nuclear war are on the table. And make no mistake, they were on
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the table then, and they're on the table now in 2022. And so I pray that our leaders and that the
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people of the free nations pay attention to President Kennedy's wisdom during those 13 days, those fateful 13
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days. And understand the lesson of that book, The Guns of August. Do not allow our leaders to escalate this
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into a much wider war that could have continental consequences.
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In 2011, in November 2011, I actually sat next to Vladimir Putin at a conference in which he made
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precisely that point. It was the first time that he had actually done so to a group of American
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journalists and experts who were brought to something called the Valdai discussion club.
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So we started in 2011, making it very clear that he saw American fracking as a great threat to
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Russian interests. We were all struck by how much he stressed this issue. And it's since 2011,
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and since that particular juncture that Putin has made a big deal of this.
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So that was Fiona Hill. Fiona Hill is no Trump supporter. She's no conservative,
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right? She's someone that's on this neocon, neoliberal spectrum. She comes from the Brookings
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Institute, which is not exactly known as a bastion of conservatism, right? She also, by the way,
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is the guy who introduced Igor Dinchenko, who was one of the sources of the Steele dossier,
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to none other than Christopher Steele himself. But listen to what she's admitting there. And that's back
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from 2019, from the first impeachment of President Trump, which was, by the way, all about a phone
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call with who? Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine. Isn't it interesting, by the way,
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can we just take a step back and say, why is it that all of a sudden, our government and our country
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was talking and so focused, so laser focused, on these events that were taking place thousands of
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miles away? Why did that phone call lead our regime and our national security agencies,
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like a whistleblower, like Vindman, like so many others, and balloon up into an actual impeachment?
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Only the third impeachment that we've ever had as a country, as a nation, as a history in the United
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States, was all over a phone call to Zelenskyy that they didn't like. The powers that be didn't like
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this phone call. They didn't like what was said on this call. Kind of interesting, isn't it? Kind of
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interesting when you had one person saying, I want to investigate Burisma. I want to investigate Hunter
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Biden. I want to know why all of this money was coming out of Ukraine and flowing into the Biden
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family's pockets. Just a thought. Just a thought. But go back to the actual content of what Fiona Hill
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admitted there. She said that Vladimir Putin viewed U.S. fracking technology and the new technology that
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was coming out of the U.S. as far back as 2007, as 2011, as a direct threat to Russian interests. And of
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course, he's completely right. It is a threat to Russian interests. Why? Because if fracking technology
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comes online and as it's come online here in the United States, and it's been used to exploit where?
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The Permian Basin, the Shale, the Marcellus Shale find in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and in New York,
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where of course it's been found, but not actually exploited because of environmental laws,
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as well as other deposits offshore or up in Alaska, other areas, right? These are places where the U.S. then
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would be able to come online, bring natural gas online, and then sell that to the world. And what
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happened from 2016 or really 2017 on through 2021, the United States for a brief moment in time
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became energy independent, not only independent, but energy dominant. The United States even became a net
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exporter of oil and natural gas under the Trump administration. How were they able to do this?
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By increasing domestic supply. It really just comes down to supply and demand. There's a law
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of supply and demand. And Putin understands this because he says, look, I want Russia to be the only
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source of oil and natural gas for the European energy market. We want to be the ones that keep
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those homes in Germany and everywhere else warm during winter. And what did Russia do? What did Russia
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do in order to try to fight the United States? Well, according to Daily Signal, all the way back in 2017,
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lawmakers cite evidence that Russia had been colluding, bankrolling U.S. green groups to do what?
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To block fracking technology. So you've heard of this massive green movement, the huge anti-fracking
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movement that exists in the United States. Well, funny enough, there's actually been evidence that
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who was pulling the strings on this and who was bankrolling these guys was none other than Russia.
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Of course it was. Why? Because it's detrimental to their interests. They don't want fracking. They
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don't want the U.S. to be able to get into the LNG market. They want, or they wanted, you know,
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we'll see if this comes back online. They wanted Nord Stream 2. They wanted to be the only place,
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the only place that Europe would be able to get its energy from, its fossil fuels, because renewables
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haven't been able to come online. And thanks to people like Greta Thunberg, they've also gone away
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from nuclear. You saw Germany shutting down their nuclear program. But just in the past week or so,
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Germany has seemingly, seemingly flipped on all this. Now, I want to caution everybody on it. The
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same way I cautioned and I've been cautioning people, be very careful about spreading propaganda.
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Because in the past, you know, I want to institute something that I call the 24-hour media rule when
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it comes to Ukraine. Wait 24 hours after you hear something from Ukraine before you actually
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internalize it or you accept it. Because we've seen so many of these stories just be shot down
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within 24 hours. You know, these people are alive. Oh, no, they're dead. You know, this thing was
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blown up. Actually, it wasn't blown up. This thing was happening. No, it actually was this one. No,
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stop. Just stop. And Germany, same idea. Are they really going to leave Nord Stream 2 off,
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Well, with everything going on in the world today, we just did get done CPAC. We had a little bit of
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a flight issue on the way back. So we ended up having to drive with the whole family back up from
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Florida. Not so fun. But what was nice was that we had the MyPillows with us, with the Bible stories,
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the little kids, right? So they were able to have those the whole way back. We actually got to see
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Mike Lindell very quickly at CPAC. And we got to see him and have time for him to meet with the kids.
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So we got to meet Jack Jack. He got to meet AJ. And we told him about the Bible pillows. They said
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now. By the way, Mike Lindell at CPAC at one point, when President Trump was speaking,
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actually gave him a shout out. Mike Lindell stood up, got a standing ovation from the entire room.
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I went and pinned that video so everybody can see it. Just a great feel good moment
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for a guy who's a great American and a great patriot. And since we are talking about things
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that are happening here at home, we have to remember that while the world and while the
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vast reaches of the globalist American empire are what brought us up to the doorstep of Russia,
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we have to remember what's going on here in the United States. We have to remember what's going
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on in our national capitals and even here in the West. So all last week, we weren't talking about
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this. We were talking about what's going on up in Ottawa. We saw a massive crackdown on truckers,
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people who went out an actual worker uprising. And what did Trudeau do? Well, Trudeau went,
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cracked down on them, took away their bank accounts, went after people's bank accounts
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just for donating to support the truckers. This is the kind of authoritarianism that's been going
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on in the West. And yet we're supposed to turn around and act like, oh, well, those authoritarians
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in the East are bad. They're, they're the ones you have to worry about. Don't worry about what we're
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doing when we're the authoritarians here at home. How does that make any sense? Of course it doesn't
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make any sense. It's ridiculous and it's disgusting, but that's what happens when you cede the moral high
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ground. You become authoritarian and then they will turn around and throw it back in your face.
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That's exactly what's been doing, exactly what's been happening. Now here in the United States as well,
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we just got word that a 37 year old man, a protester from January 6th, Matthew Perna has
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committed suicide while awaiting sentencing for January 6th. That his own government,
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his own system of justice pushed him so hard and so far that he committed suicide, killed himself.
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And they say, when you kill yourself, you're not just killing yourself, you're killing the whole world.
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Do you feel like you've gotten to that point of despair? And studies have shown them.
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And if you look at military suicide, you look at 22 a day for after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,
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these wars of adventurism that we undertook and then coming home and giving these people
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oxy cotton, getting them hooked on opioids, making it deaths of despair.
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That's how we treat our own people. We actually have a video of Mr. Perna that I'd like to play for
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you. So he can explain in his own words, what's going on for about four or five years now. I've
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really had a passion about learning about how the body works, you know, about discovering different
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alternatives, you know, products, technologies, remedies that people can incorporate into their
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lives just to help them. You know, so much so many family out there suffering from so many different
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conditions. And it kind of it breaks my heart. And my family was kind of directly touched by it.
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So that kind of really spurned in me a passion to, you know, just kind of participate in the shift
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where people are looking for, for safer, more, you know, alternative, more effective and more
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affordable options. So I do. It's always going to be a passion of mine. My day job, I do work as a
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financial advisor for a terrific company. So this is kind of like what I do during the day,
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quote unquote. But the holistic stuff, the health stuff is always kind of a passion.
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It wasn't violent. Door was open, went in with a bunch of other people
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and was facing 20 years, was facing 20 years for that.
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If that were anybody else, it would be a fine. These people were on the left. This was some,
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you know, climate justice group, BLM group. They'd get a fine,
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community service, probation, that type of thing. But no, these guys get 20 years
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for walking around their own Capitol building without permission.
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Didn't attack any officers, anything like that. And they wanted to give him 20 years.
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You people better wake up. This is what's going on in your own Capitol. This is what's going on in your
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own country while they try to distract you with the events thousands of miles away.
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We are a law and order state in the state of Florida.
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We reject weak on crime policies. We reject Soros funded prosecutors. And we have said
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after the 2020 summer riots, we called up the National Guard here immediately. We had law enforcement.
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We said we are not letting Florida cities burn down. And we didn't. But we've also since then signed the
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strongest anti-rioting legislation in the country.
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Which says we will not let local governments defund the men and women of law enforcement and put their
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citizens at risk. And if you riot in the state of Florida, if you loot, if you are engaged in mob
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violence, this is not going to be like Portland where they arrest you, take your mug shot, slap you on
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the wrist and put you right back on the street to do it again. No, in Florida, you're not getting a slap on
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the wrist. You are getting the inside of a jail cell.
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Well, good on you, Governor DeSantis. We're now getting word that Governor DeSantis was recently requested
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by the Biden administration to send Florida National Guard for what? For tonight's State of the Union
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address here in Washington, D.C. Now, you might be asking yourselves, why exactly would the Florida
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National Guard, which has a mandate to defend Florida and help with humanitarian disasters,
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of course, the hurricanes that hit Florida, etc., etc., why would they need to be augmenting
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as a force all the way up in Washington, D.C. for the State of the Union? Well, we know there's
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a trucker convoy coming in. I don't think it's a good idea, by the way, to send a convoy into
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Washington, D.C. right now for various reasons. But have there been any reports of actual, you know,
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threats to the State of the Union or anything like that? Going around here right now on Capitol Hill,
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we can see there's National Guard over all the streets leading up to the Capitol. There's police all over
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the place. They've been out for days preparing, you know, understanding what's going on in the area,
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getting a sense of the of the rhythms, you know, the sort of the life blood of that situation,
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the pattern of life of those areas. But Ron DeSantis, Governor DeSantis, has said no.
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He has rejected the Biden administration's call for Florida National Guard to be sent to Washington,
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D.C. for this State of the Union address. And I applaud this. I simply applaud this. Remember,
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the Biden regime took power with a military occupation of Washington, D.C. that lasted for
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months. They had barricades all around D.C. They had military checkpoints if you wanted to get into
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your own nation's capital. Now, fortunately, here we are a year later. We've had the march for life.
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You had the march against the mandates and they were both completely peaceful. So we're starting to see
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more of these populist marches finally start to take place again. And this convoy potentially might
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come to Washington, D.C. for this. And I pray to God that if they do so choose, even though I don't
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think it's a good idea, I pray to God that everything is peaceful and everything is OK,
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because I look at that thing and I say this is ripe for infiltration. This is right for agitation.
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You get bad actors in there and they could be doing all sorts of nefarious activities to make that convoy
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turn into something that nobody ever intended. But at the same time, you've got people in there who want
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to make a point about this government. They want to make a point about the federal mandates and they
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want to make a point about vaccine mandates. I understand that. And I also and I also understand the First
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Amendment right to peacefully assemble 100 percent. Get all of it. Support all of it. That being said,
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as a tactician and a strategist, I'm simply pointing out that this tactic was already used in Ottawa. It
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was already used in Canada and it's already been revealed. So you better believe that they've got a
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plan, a counter plan waiting for you. That is all the time we have for Human Events Daily. Our first
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episode back in the saddle here in Washington, D.C., following a very successful CPAC. But keep in
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mind, even though we did have a good time at CPAC, got to speak. The speech is out there. You guys can
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go watch it from high noon on Saturday. It was the opening act for President Trump. But remember,
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there is a war on. We applaud the Ukrainian people who are fighting for their freedom, who are fighting
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for their homes. But at the same time, we have to be very careful about escalating this war any further.
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What do we do? We pray for peace. And I'm going to ask you to do your homework. Share this out with
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one of your Normie friends. Leave us a five-star review. But at the same time, go and read this
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book. I mentioned it earlier, The Guns of August. That's what President Kennedy read during the Cuban
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Missile Crisis. Look up a summary if you don't have time. It's fine. It's okay. It's okay. Go look up
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The Guns of August. Do not escalate this war further. Ladies and gentlemen, as always,