MAR 28 2022 - WAR IN UKRAINE - DAY 33 UPDATE
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A ground update on the Ukraine conflict, a new episode of Debate Night, a call for the army to respect the Geneva Conventions, and much more. Plus, the YWLS tickets are selling out fast! All that and more on today's Human Events Daily!
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First up, a ground update in Ukraine. We are entering day 33 of the war. We're also going to
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talk about Joe Biden, the President Biden, and his terrible, horrible, no good weekend in Europe.
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Next, a Zelensky advisor is calling on the army to respect the Geneva Conventions. What's that all
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about? Third, a Hunter Biden biofirm that he invested in partnered with Ukrainian researchers
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on deadly pathogens. This is true. We're going to explain it. And then finally, Professor Sempa,
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really interesting op-ed that came out over the weekend. America's unipolar moment is over.
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So President Biden, over the weekend, gave multiple speeches across Europe. He started in Brussels,
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later went over to Poland. And in his speech in Poland, he said, perhaps one of the most dangerous
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things that we've ever heard a U.S. president say, certainly in times of war, which we are now in,
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right? He decided to interject ourselves into this conflict between Russia and Ukraine. We were there.
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And what did he say? He said that Vladimir Putin, the leader of Russia, cannot be allowed to stay in power.
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Understand the implications of this. Now, I understand. I know the White House, of course, is out there with their
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their spin team, right? Saying that, well, those weren't prepared remarks and you don't need to worry about it.
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And it's just a gaffe. And look, the Kremlin got the message loud and clear. And they know that
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President Biden isn't the only guy actually making decisions. He's certainly not the only guy just
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making decisions inside the White House. But the problem is you just showed your hand. You just tipped
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your entire hand to your adversary. And you've told them in no uncertain terms that this isn't about
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Ukraine. Apparently, the entire thing was always about regime change and using Ukraine and the people
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of Ukraine as a ploy, as a launching pad for regime change in Russia. Congratulations. You just
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validated all of Vladimir Putin's domestic narrative. You just validated everything that he's been saying
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that you wanted. You gave him exactly what he needed to be able to go for it. And by the way,
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those comments are going to empower the worst of the worst war hawks within the Kremlin itself.
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Keep in mind that it's it's you know, they have an organization. They have an establishment just like
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in the United States. They have their peaceniks, and they have their war hawks. Now the war hawks
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are going to take things to the next level, because they're going to say that you made this an
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existential crisis for the Russian government. You just said that you're trying to take the Russian
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government out. Does anybody want to explain to President Biden what happened the last time
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that it was Germans, by the way, it was Germany, the kingdom of Germany, that sent the sealed train,
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right, the sealed train of Russian dissidents back into Russia to try to take out that Russian
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government? Well, that Russian government was called the czar. And that train was full of people
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called Lenin, Trotsky, the Bolsheviks. That was a regime change operation, too. How did that work
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out? This was so bad that even President Macron had to come out and respond. Take a listen.
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I think we should be factual and, first of all, do everything so that the situation doesn't get
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out of control. I wouldn't use those terms, because I continue to speak to President Putin,
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because what do we want collectively? We want to stop the war that Russia launched in Ukraine
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without waging war and without escalation. That has been our objective for only one month,
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and therefore we have made the choice, first of all, not to intervene militarily in the conflict.
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And this is very important, because my duty as a French president to protect the French men and
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women from war on our soil. It's to sanction Russia so it stops. It's to help the Ukrainian men and women
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to resist. It's to welcome the refugees and, through the diplomatic path, obtain, first of all,
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a ceasefire, then the total retreat of the troops. If we want to do that, then we must not be in the
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So let's go through the latest ground update from the French Ministry of Defense.
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Russian forces continue their efforts in Mariupol and in the Donbass region. The general tactical
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situation has changed little over the weekend. On the northern front, Kiev, the capital, is still
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plagued by outlying fighting. Russian maneuvers are installed in position with defenses to the west
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of Kiev. The land is being taken over, but some Ukrainian counterattacks remain disputed. On the eastern
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front, Kharkov, Russian encircment maneuver has been frozen, but peripheral combat is underway.
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Dnepro, that key central city, the Russian advance to this point is fixed. Mariupol, the point of attention
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from strength is fixed on the urban offensive. It's still ongoing in Mariupol. Ukrainian forces are
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surrounding, and the humanitarian situation is getting worse. Down in the south, in Mikolaev,
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shelling and fighting are still intense for control of the outskirts of the city. Also, Ukrainian
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counteroffenses, they're stating, will constrain the Russian advance. So we're seeing a lot of this
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reporting about the Ukrainian counteroffenses, but you're also still seeing Russia being able to
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maintain their territory and hold on to it. Understand that if this does not move to peace
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talks, and Lavrov has talked about holding peace talks now in Belgrade, you are going to see more
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killing, you're going to see more death. We need to deescalate.
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I would like to remind all our military, civilian and defense forces once again that torturing a captive
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is a war crime which is not subject to amnesty under international law and has no statute of
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limitations. I remind everyone that we are a European army of a European country. We behave with
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war prisoners according to the Geneva Convention, whatever personal emotional motives you may have.
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Everything will be Ukraine. Let's believe in the authorities, believe in the armed forces,
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believe in the people of Ukraine. Let us live in ourselves.
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So that's President Zelensky's advisor talking about war crimes, reminding his soldiers to adhere
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to the Geneva Convention. Why is he making this comment? Well, he doesn't state explicitly in the
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video which came out yesterday, but there was another video, a viral video that came out over the weekend
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and really across the world people are talking about this thing. It was trending
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on Twitter for most of the day on Sunday. What was that video? Well, it was about Russian POWs.
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And of course, caveat, caveat, caveat. Remember everything, right? Everything that we say about
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this war, about videos that come out. And I'm going to be fair. I've said this for stuff that comes out
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on the U.S. side, stuff that comes out on the ground, 24 hours, 48 hours, right? So it's been 24 hours
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since this video has come out. And you've heard, number one, the president of Ukraine's advisor
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reminding soldiers to adhere to the Geneva Convention. You've also seen the Ministry of Defense
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in Ukraine put out a statement saying, we think that Russia is making, you know, making deliberately
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false videos, right? Well, what is the video? Well, the video depicts, and again, caveat, caveat,
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caveat, allegedly, allegedly, allegedly, appears to show, right? Have I satisfied the fact checkers out
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there? It appears to show Russians who are POWs, prisoners of war, they've been captured, they're
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bound, and being tortured by the capturing forces, specifically being shot in the knees. So permanently
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disabling them in those knees, clear violation of the law of armed conflict, clear violation of the
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Geneva Convention. And by the way, it's also really bad, not only, obviously, it's completely
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immoral to torture someone who's already been subdued or surrendered, right? Obviously, I think
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we could all understand that. You know, some people were going back and forth on me on Twitter,
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and they were saying, what about if someone breaks into your house and the castle doctrine, etc, etc?
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Yeah, understand the context. If someone breaks into your house, and they're in there as a thief, or,
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you know, home abducted, whatever it is, right? If they surrender, and you tie them up, or, you know,
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you subdue them, right? And then you bound them up, you can't then go and torture them either. That's
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still illegal, right? This is the situation we're talking about. We're not talking about someone where
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there's, remember, we went through all of these types of legal thresholds when we talked about the
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Kyle Rittenhouse case, right? Imminent threat, a threat of the danger of imminence, right? As an
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imminent threat, someone is pointing a gun at you, right? Someone is in your home, they've got a gun,
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they've got a weapon, they're pointing it at you, imminent threat. Someone's near your property holding
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a gun, not an imminent threat, right? That doesn't mean that you can't respond. But we're talking about
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the use of deadly force. When is the use of deadly force authorized? When is the use of deadly force
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justified in your self-defense? This is not self-defense. And I also saw people out there
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saying, well, what, you know, Russia invaded, they started this. So why can't you, you know,
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why can't you just throw that stuff out the window and treat them like they deserve to be treated,
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right? Well, here's the problem with that. And these are the same people, by the way, who will tell
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Americans that they should volunteer to go and fight in Ukraine, that they should volunteer to
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go and fight on the ground. So congratulations. Number one, you've just stated that you don't
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care about the treatment of POWs. Now, say what you will about John McCain, right, former Senator
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McCain. I wasn't a fan of his policies. I think he was neoconservative. He actually played a huge role
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in the Maidan revolution, played a huge role in leading us to where we are today.
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But even he was very clear-eyed for obvious reasons about the treatment of POWs and the torture
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of POWs and why you should not do that. Number one, it's illegal. Number two, it's immoral. And then
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thirdly, what you do to POWs that you capture is going to provoke a response. Remember, you're in an
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active conflict. So it's going to have a direct result and a direct effect on the way that your
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soldiers, your fellow soldiers, your colleagues are treated when they're captured, because they will
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be. This stuff goes back and forth. It's a two-way street. None of these things are happening in a
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vacuum. This is also, by the way, the kind of stuff that is used as propaganda to radicalize
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terrorists. Remember, those videos from Abu Ghraib of the war crimes that were done there
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by U.S. personnel who were eventually convicted, they were used to gin up propaganda for terrorist
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organizations against the United States. So understand there's various reasons why this
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should never be done. And they'll say, well, is the video fake? Is it real? I hope it's fake.
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I hope to God it's fake. But we don't know that yet. And we've seen it. We've seen how harrowing it is.
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We've got the presidential advisor saying that you have to adhere to the Geneva Convention.
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So I was with some friends last week. I was visiting friends. And we were talking about this
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issue that's going on about how people are being canceled. People are not able to access their bank
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accounts in some cases, kicked off PayPal, Patreon, all these other different payment processors that
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are out there. And somebody mentioned they'd heard about this new app called Public Square.
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And they said, you know, I've heard this thing called Public Square. And it's this thing where people
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can go and check out which companies actually support, you know, conservatives or they don't have
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COVID mandates or local, you know, sourced food, etc. And I said, look, you know, actually, I know about
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Public Square, use Public Square, it's actually really, really good. And so what it is, Public
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Square is just it's a directory of freedom loving businesses, you can set it up, you can set it to
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your own area. And you can find a bank, you can find a coffee shop, you can find a restaurant anywhere
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you want to go that supports your values. And by the way, if you also have your own company or your own
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business, you want to have it listed there in Public Square, you can do it for free. It's a great app.
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It's super easy to use. And honestly, something for patriots, building the parallel economy will
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require more and more programs like this. So I think it's fantastic that Public Square has taken
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the first step to creating this database that you can plug people directly into. So where do you go
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download it? Apple App Store, Google Play, Public Square, the app is called Public Square, Public SQ.
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has been messing around in Ukraine over there. But you, on the other hand,
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sent your son over there. You're, you're selling access to the president just like he was.
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So you're a damn liar, man. That's not true. And no one has ever said that? No one has heard that?
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You said I set up my son to work in an oil company. You know what you said? Get your words straight,
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Jack. So we all remember that clip from the campaign trail, 2019, 2020. We're told don't
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worry about Hunter Biden. He has nothing to do with all this stuff. Don't worry about that money from
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that Ukrainian gas company. In fact, they didn't, you know, have any actual connections or understanding
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of that industry. And then we got the laptop. So I first got the Hunter Biden laptop in about
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mid-October 2020. And one of the things that I said right away was, we need to get this out of
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the silo. We need to get this out of the silo of, you know, quote, unquote, conservative media,
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right? And what, you know, what I mean, what I want to do. So I said, let's send this to like
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TMZ, Daily Mail, get it to Rogan, you know, get it out of these places where people are considered
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to be, you know, biased sources. And then that might get to the point where we can get it out
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and take it over. Well, here's the problem. They didn't want to look at it. They didn't care.
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So eventually, we got it to the New York Post. And the New York Post and Emma Jo Watson,
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Dippy Editor at the time, wrote it up. But it was censored. And so the problem was,
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because only one outlet had put it out, you could censor that one outlet, and it was done.
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The original plan that I had had was just give it to anybody. Just make it as open as possible.
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And so I would go on air on War Room almost every day during this era, right? And say,
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Jake Tapper, CNN, because you got to personalize. I will give you a copy of this hard drive.
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If I'd be more than happy to. Still am, by the way. Still am. Jake Tapper, if you want a copy of
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this thing, yeah, come on down. We're in the same city, right? It's been 18 months. New York Times at
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this point has come out and confirmed it. Mark Cuban at one point, by the way, responded to me on Twitter
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and was like, oh, I want to see that, but I don't want to see it if Rudy Giuliani had anything to do
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with it. And it's like, bro, we got the hard drive. Do you want to see it or not, right? And he tried to play
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all these games so I get back out of it and eventually didn't get it, right? Didn't take
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a look. But he did respond. I'll give him credit for that. But so we go into the laptop and what
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do we look at? Well, we see these investments and we see these emails and we see the traffic
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between Hunter Biden and others. And so we could have seen this and the American people could have
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seen this in October of 2020. It was actually the biggest October surprise of all time, of all
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history. But because of the way it was handled and because nobody on the left or even the center
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at that time wanted to take a look at this thing, they denied that information from getting to the
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American people. Well, what was one of those emails that they may have seen back in October 2020 when
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they should have, when it should have come out? It was about a firm called Metabiota. Metabiota,
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the heck is that? Well, according to the National Pulse, who wrote this up and broke the story,
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an investment firm backed by President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was a leading financial backer
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of pandemic tracking and response firms that collaborated on identifying and isolating
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deadly pathogens in Ukrainian laboratories, receiving funds from the Obama administration's
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Department of Defense in the process, according to the National Pulse. And you go down,
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they got the emails going all the way back to 2014. Metabiota DD. Is there anyone we can call in DC
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to get a sense of how legit Metabiota is viewed within various government agencies? We want to make
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sure we do our due diligence here, especially as Goldman and now Morgan Stanley will be doing due
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diligence on the fund and Metabiota towards investing in both. Is there anyone we can get
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them to and et cetera, et cetera? You can go through all of this. But here's what it comes down to.
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They were looking at this from the financial side. Deadly pathogens, biolabs, Ukraine.
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Hunter Biden care less, right? This guy was clearly in it for the money. He didn't care about the people.
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He didn't care about the work. He didn't care about any of the stuff that was being studied or
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developed. And obviously there's a huge, you know, semantics game being played. But here's the bottom
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line. It was true. It was real. We have the emails and they're all there on the hard drive.
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Assessment of what is going on, in my view, clearly indicates that what the American wants
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is unipolar vault. There are players who would never accept the global village under the American
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sheriff. And China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico. I am sure these countries do not want to be just
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in a position when Uncle Sam orders them something and they say, yes, sir. And of course, Russia is not
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in the category of countries who would be who would be ready to to do so.
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So over the weekend, I read a fascinating op-ed from real, real clear defense from Professor
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Francis Sempa. What was Professor Sempa talking about? This idea that the unipolar moment is over,
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right? And that's what you just heard Foreign Minister Lavrov talking about there as well.
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This essential line, I think it's important for a lot of America's elites and America's ruling
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class to understand this, where they're saying the world is bigger than the United States and
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Europe. And what does he mean by that? What are they talking about? Well, this is what we've been
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hurtling towards for years now. They used to call it the managed decline. During the Obama years,
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they called it the managed decline of the United States. But they weren't just talking about the
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United States. And certainly, it does affect U.S. citizens. What they were talking about is the U.S.
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system abroad. This U.S. system, the U.S. dollar, U.S. trade, these various international organizations,
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all of which are tied directly to the U.S., whether it be the U.N., whether it be NATO, World Bank,
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World Trade Organization, IMF, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. They're all instruments of Western
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influence. And what Krauthammer and others had said, Fukuyama, of course, at the end of the Cold War,
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was saying that, well, the U.S. has a free hand now. The U.S. has the ability to exert influence
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anywhere they want in the world. And it became a unipolar moment. Well, it turns out that that
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moment's over. And because of the rise of China, the remilitarization and restrengthening of Russia
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through their oil resources has led to a situation where, guess what? The United States is no longer the
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world's sole superpower. That great power competition has returned. In fact, it returned
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a long time ago. What does this mean? It means the United States cannot go around dictating the
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behavior of the rest of the world anymore the way that we used to. Also, the U.S. cannot simply go
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around into the spheres of influence into these great powers and then allow them to be exacerbating
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tensions without any blowback. CIA used to call these blowback wars, blowback situations. So what
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is this all about? I highly encourage you guys to go read this op-ed, go read this column. And
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essentially what it gets into is this idea that the same way the United States, remember, World War II
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was won strategically because the U.S. and Britain exacerbated the divisions between Soviet Russia
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and Nazi Germany, flipped the Soviets, got them on the side of the allies, fought back, won. At the
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same time, we won the Cold War by exacerbating the tensions between communist China and communist Russia.
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However, we missed the fact that China and Russia were being driven back together by U.S. policy over the
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last 30 years. And at the same time, they were both on the rise, Russia militarily, China financially.
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Now they've formed an economic bloc and they're talking to the Indians, they're talking to the
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Brazilians, they're talking to the South Africans, and they have the ability now to act outside of the
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United States and our sanctions cannot hit them. Understand, this isn't what we're saying we want the
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world to be. We're saying this is the world as it is now.
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All right, and that's all the time we have today for Human Events Daily. Remember, our promise,
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Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts. What did we talk about today? Well, we talked about President
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Biden and his trip to Poland calling for regime change in Russia. We talked about the Zelensky
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advisor calling on the army to respect the Geneva Convention. We talked about Hunter Biden and his
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interesting biofirm investments. And finally, we got into Professor Sempa's op-ed about the American
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unipolar moment and is it over. But before we go, it's time for today's history break. Today in 1930,
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the city of Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul. Understand, history is full of these
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changes, territorial changes, city changes. It goes on and on and on. Ladies and gentlemen,
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as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.