Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - THE ART OF THE PEACE DEAL： The Ukraine Peace Deal and the Historic 2nd Night Train to Kiev

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00:00:50.140 Marco Rubio is in the Middle East this morning ahead of critical negotiations with Russian officials about ending the war in Ukraine.

00:00:57.680 Zelensky says he hasn't been invited to the first round of talks.

00:01:01.900 Have you been given any assurances that Ukraine will have an equal seat at the negotiating table?

00:01:10.100 So I will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine.

00:01:16.420 There is no any leader in the world who can really make a deal with Putin without us about us.

00:01:22.580 Russia's foreign minister says there is, quote, no role for Europeans in any peace talks.

00:01:27.840 But Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is heading to Saudi Arabia anyway.

00:01:31.960 French President Emmanuel Macron will host European leaders for an emergency summit on the Ukraine war.

00:01:38.920 The hastily arranged meeting comes after U.S. officials suggested Europe would have no role in any talks on ending the conflict.

00:01:46.280 Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.

00:01:52.540 We are here live back in Washington, D.C.

00:01:56.520 Today is February 17, 2025.

00:01:58.820 And, O. Domini, happy President's Day.

00:02:01.940 Well, as you know, this past week I was out from the show.

00:02:07.800 I want to say a huge thank you to Michelle Backus and Kevin Posobiec,

00:02:12.200 who covered down here on Human Events Daily while I was on the territory of Europe.

00:02:19.180 Traveled along with Secretary Besant, the Secretary of the Treasury, to Kiev, Ukraine.

00:02:26.100 We're meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky right there in the presidential complex.

00:02:33.920 Also met with the Ukrainian Prime Minister, as well as the Ministry of Finance and the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.

00:02:44.960 Now, publicly, of course, mainstream media had saw that I was originally invited by Secretary Hegseth to accompany him on the NATO summit.

00:02:55.360 However, due to security logistics, I wasn't able to make it to the summit because I was in Kiev.

00:03:01.940 You've got to take a long train in and out, nine hours in, nine hours out.

00:03:07.920 But just a sincere and heartfelt thank you to both Secretaries Besant and Hegseth for the invitations.

00:03:17.600 This was an honor, but more so it was a responsibility.

00:03:23.800 Human Events Daily was brought in by the Trump administration and the Trump White House in an act of radical transparency.

00:03:31.400 into these meetings.

00:03:33.160 Imagine it.

00:03:34.380 In World War II, a Tehran or Yalta bringing in independent media and independent voices.

00:03:41.160 And through the power of Social Media X and this podcast right here, Human Events Daily,

00:03:46.380 the only podcast that was invited to take part in these meetings,

00:03:51.140 to actually be there in the room when this kicked off.

00:03:54.840 That shows the absolute willingness of this White House to show what's going on behind closed doors

00:04:03.520 and to put you, the listener, right in a front row seat to history.

00:04:10.940 And so, it was my role to document this, to tell you what was happening in real time,

00:04:17.380 and we're going to show this here.

00:04:20.160 I was recording footage the entire time whenever I was able to do so and when I was allowed to do so

00:04:27.000 because of security concerns.

00:04:29.440 So, we're going to show you that footage here for the first time on this program, Human Events Daily,

00:04:36.180 that I haven't shown yet.

00:04:37.460 Footage from the train, footage from inside Kiev, footage from inside Ukraine.

00:04:42.780 And yes, folks, there was a missile strike the day that Secretary Besant and I arrived in Kiev.

00:04:49.820 This is a real war.

00:04:52.100 There are real people being killed.

00:04:54.080 They're a real state higher than ever.

00:04:58.440 Nuclear war was on the table until November 5th.

00:05:02.580 And Human Events Daily will be here every single day, every step of the way,

00:05:08.940 bringing you the truth in real time.

00:05:11.300 Stay tuned. We'll be right back.

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00:05:27.220 All right, Jack Posobiec, we are back here.

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00:05:41.060 Folks, just got back from Ukraine.

00:05:43.840 Boy, are my arms tired.

00:05:46.480 Look, this was an incredible trip.

00:05:48.100 We had an incredible opportunity, the invitation from Secretary Besant to accompany his delegation as one of only two press that were able to actually be there on this train,

00:05:59.980 a secure train, a night train with, by the way, full Secret Service accompaniment, as well as Ukrainian military that were with us, soldiers.

00:06:08.580 And we'll show you footage here in just a minute of all of this.

00:06:12.580 Obviously, it made mainstream headlines.

00:06:14.980 The international media not too happy that old Poso was allowed on the trip.

00:06:20.540 But here's the thing.

00:06:21.820 I wasn't there to represent myself.

00:06:24.140 I was there to represent my audience and also the eyes of anyone on social media who wanted to see what was really going on on the ground.

00:06:34.640 President Trump and his White House told us that we would have radical transparency.

00:06:39.800 And that's exactly what they're delivering on.

00:06:42.900 Imagine if we had had social media on the ground in Yalta.

00:06:46.980 Imagine if they had been there for the big three conference between Stalin and FDR and Churchill right there in Yalta.

00:06:55.140 By the way, Yalta is also in Ukraine.

00:06:57.620 It's actually in Crimea for those paying attention.

00:07:00.060 So the idea that we have had these massive peace talks on the territory of Ukraine, yeah, that's exactly where World War II's conference, peace conference was ended.

00:07:11.140 And, oh, by the way, you can learn a whole lot more about that if you understand that all of Eastern Europe was essentially given to Stalin.

00:07:19.200 Who knows?

00:07:20.020 Maybe that wouldn't have happened at Yalta if you had had people there telling you what was going on in real time.

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00:09:04.980 Now, folks, as we know, there is breaking news, and there's been a bunch of breaking news since even this trip took place.

00:09:11.820 So I want to put you in the mindset of this.

00:09:14.240 Now, at this point, J.D. Vance hasn't given his speech in Munich yet.

00:09:17.620 We've yet to hear that President Trump is conducting these one-on-one phone calls with Vladimir Putin.

00:09:23.060 I'll explain what happens to that in a minute here.

00:09:25.500 And, of course, we know tomorrow Secretary Rubio, along with Steve Witkoff, who's been a direct envoy with Russia, as well as Mike Waltz, the national security advisor, are going to be in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for a meeting directly with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of Russia.

00:09:43.780 What does this mean?

00:09:44.760 Direct talks.

00:09:45.760 Now, Zelensky is also flying to Saudi Arabia, yet we're told that Zelensky didn't have an invitation to the summit.

00:09:53.020 But now, the Ukrainian side is saying, oh, well, this was merely a coincidence that he's going to be there on the same day.

00:09:58.900 We'll see how that plays out.

00:10:00.680 But I want to take you back to the night train to Odessa.

00:10:04.920 And I want to show you what it was like that night.

00:10:08.540 And actually, I believe the first clip we have is the morning as we arrived in Kiev.

00:10:14.320 Now, at this point, I'd just like to say that as I was recording this, I had yet to know that there would be airstrikes taking place in Kiev that very day.

00:10:25.600 So let's play that first.

00:10:26.840 SOT 1, the night train to Kiev.

00:10:28.980 We were here, Human Events Daily, just about three months into the outbreak of the Ukraine-Russia war.

00:10:38.020 And now we're here again, three years later.

00:10:45.940 You're here at the start.

00:10:47.840 Hopefully, you'll hear what should be the end.

00:10:54.660 You'll see the frost on the ground.

00:10:57.960 Some snow, not too much.

00:11:01.000 Smoke coming up from the chimneys as we pass by the villages and settlements outside of Kiev.

00:11:05.580 Later today, Secretary Besant will be meeting with President Zelensky, presenting that new deal to him from President Trump in person, by the way.

00:11:21.780 Not going to Munich, not going to Vienna or Brussels, one of those places.

00:11:28.180 Now, we've come all the way here to Kiev, to the center of things, to the heart of the matter, to directly get down to business.

00:11:39.900 So that's where we're going to go today.

00:11:43.220 The house is now starting to get a bit larger.

00:11:46.000 We go closer and closer into Kiev proper.

00:11:48.320 So, as you can see, those were settlements going from outside the outskirts of Kiev, getting in there.

00:11:57.260 A little bit warmer than I had expected.

00:11:59.140 They said that it was a bit of a winter thaw, because normally you'd think in February that those lands would be covered with ice and snow.

00:12:07.920 I didn't really see much of that, and in fact, was able to walk around outside without a huge, thick winter jacket.

00:12:13.700 So, of course, we'll have to thank the Lord for that while we were there.

00:12:18.180 I've got another shot that I want to play for you, myself, actually, on the street after that initial meeting with the Ukrainian prime minister.

00:12:25.440 Here in Kiev, just had Secretary Besant meet with the prime minister of Ukraine, discussed the economic deal that he's looking to put forward for Ukraine and the United States.

00:12:38.240 He said he wants to intertwine the economies, continue material support for Ukraine from the United States side.

00:12:46.060 That's a signal both to the Ukrainian leadership and the Russian leadership that America does intend to support a fully independent Ukraine.

00:12:55.700 Sort of an interesting anecdote, but that actual street that I'm walking on right there, I remember taking a few photos of it.

00:13:06.200 And that's the very same street that Tanya Tay and myself walked on on a visit to Kiev about eight years ago.

00:13:15.240 And now that was the summertime, that was not wintertime, but we were traveling.

00:13:19.360 We had a bit of a long layover, and we were actually able to walk down that very same street.

00:13:23.880 I showed her the photo, and I asked her if she remembered it, and she said exactly what I remember.

00:13:29.420 So we were there with Secretary Besant.

00:13:32.200 You can see some of the security detail behind me in the photo.

00:13:36.060 But you can also see life going on as routine in Kiev.

00:13:40.580 You can see the pattern of life.

00:13:42.420 You can see the fact that people are dug in, that people want to see a potential end to this war, but they want to see it done so in the right way.

00:13:52.160 They don't, in Ukraine, the Ukrainians don't want to capitulate.

00:13:56.040 They want to see an end to the war that will put them in the best standpoint.

00:14:01.060 Now, what Secretary Besant went over with was a copy of this draft mineral deal.

00:14:05.480 And the mineral deal was something that, of course, that we saw Zelensky talk about.

00:14:09.540 We saw President Trump talk about it.

00:14:11.240 It's about these rare earth elements that exist on the territory of Ukraine.

00:14:16.180 Would the United States be able to recoup these loans, these guarantees to Ukraine, these billions and billions of dollars to Ukraine by getting this deal signed over on?

00:14:29.160 Well, that's exactly what Secretary Besant went over there to find out.

00:14:33.920 We'll tell you a little bit more about what happened after the break.

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00:15:20.040 Jack Posobiec back from Ukraine on this peace delegation with Secretary Besant.

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00:16:57.740 So folks, obviously, we're there in Ukraine.

00:17:01.960 At this point, we're going through our various meetings.

00:17:04.500 We're in the security area.

00:17:06.280 We get to the Ukrainian presidential palace, and I believe we do have some footage.

00:17:12.360 I know it's not one of the clips, guys, but I think we have some footage of me walking around

00:17:15.600 outside there, and then some shots of just in the room with the prime minister, because

00:17:21.920 what I want to explain is that we couldn't actually film inside for security purposes.

00:17:28.700 Now, of course, people have seen the published images and videos of Secretary of Treasury

00:17:33.580 Besant, as well as Vladimir Zelensky.

00:17:36.040 But when you go into those offices, look, he's got secure information in there, sensitive

00:17:40.300 information.

00:17:40.900 Remember, they're running a war.

00:17:42.420 They're running a war from inside these offices. 0.67

00:17:45.100 So guess what that means?

00:17:46.560 No cell phones.

00:17:47.460 So for about three hours, your humble host, Poso here, was without his cell phone, without

00:17:53.540 access to social media, what can I do?

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00:18:00.680 So we were there with President Zelensky, with Secretary of the Treasury, Besson.

00:18:06.240 I'm standing pretty much right next to the camera when this conversation took place.

00:18:10.760 What you're looking at now on the screen was Secretary Besson and Zelensky immediately after

00:18:15.820 the meeting, when Zelensky said that he would not be signing the mineral deal with Besson

00:18:21.900 that day, but instead would review and get back to it with J.D. Vance in Munich the next

00:18:27.100 day.

00:18:27.640 So we've got a clip from the train on the way back to Poland here that I want to play for

00:18:33.500 you now.

00:18:33.780 What Zelensky didn't know was that during that same time frame, President Trump was holding

00:18:40.300 another conversation, a conversation directly with President Vladimir Putin.

00:18:45.820 Trump said in a post that went up almost coordinated to the very minute when we walked out of

00:18:54.640 Zelensky's presidential offices.

00:18:56.940 He essentially was saying that the United States and Russia are going to look to work

00:19:03.900 together on all partnerships, all cooperation, working together, not just to end the Ukraine

00:19:12.040 war, but also looking to potentially open the door towards renormalization of ties economically

00:19:19.400 and otherwise between Russia and the West.

00:19:22.720 So rather than stay on the escalatory spiral of NATO and Russia going back and forth, try

00:19:30.500 to find a way off of that.

00:19:32.540 And President Trump said that he and Putin had a long conversation with Putin, emphasized

00:19:37.520 the need for common sense, a refrain of President Trump's from during the campaign.

00:19:42.360 And also very significantly, President Trump said that he agreed to host Putin in the United

00:19:50.620 States, as well as he himself, President Trump traveled to Russia.

00:19:57.120 This is something that a few years ago would have been unthinkable.

00:20:01.440 So what you're seeing there, I've gotten back on the train, night train back to Poland, out

00:20:06.100 of Kiev.

00:20:07.100 Some of my initial thoughts at hearing that the United States of America, through President

00:20:11.680 Trump, newly elected president, is now holding one-on-one direct talk to Vladimir Putin to

00:20:18.440 end the Ukraine war.

00:20:20.880 President Trump following through on his promise there to do so as quickly as possible.

00:20:25.680 We'll be right back, Human Events Daily.

00:20:43.920 And Jack, where's Jack?

00:20:46.920 Where's Jack?

00:20:48.920 Where is he?

00:20:49.920 Jack, I want to see you.

00:20:53.920 Great job, Jack.

00:20:55.920 Thank you.

00:20:56.920 What a job you do.

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00:20:58.920 We're always talking about the fake news and the bad.

00:21:00.920 But we have guys, and these are the guys who should be getting politicians.

00:21:05.920 All right, Jack Posobiec back here, live, Human Events Daily.

00:21:11.860 By the way, so here's what's amazing, folks, and I want to also say thank you to the Charlie

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00:21:20.920 So the deal that I've been talking about here for the past week now is currently the lead

00:21:31.260 on Drudge Report.

00:21:31.920 I'm going to ask the team to get that up real quick here for us.

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00:23:31.920 Folks, so we're going to get that Drudge Report post up in a second here.

00:23:36.920 I want to talk about the way that they're covering this deal.

00:23:38.920 I want to play the final clip that we have here from the night train to Kyiv.

00:23:44.920 Human Events Daily.

00:23:46.920 The American people don't want any more war.

00:23:49.920 The American people don't want to see other countries put ahead of them.

00:23:53.920 The American people don't want to see these massive outflows of money from the United States to these endless wars.

00:24:01.920 And so if there's some economic viability project, this is, of course, what President Trump's plan was, talking about the minerals, other resources, a deal that could be done between the U.S. and Ukraine.

00:24:14.920 That's something that perhaps the American people can get behind.

00:24:18.920 But this idea of continuing to find an endless war is simply not in the cards.

00:24:23.920 And so Zelensky going and acting like this thing can go on indefinitely, I think it gravely underestimates the mood of where the American people currently are.

00:24:34.920 I think it gravely underestimates his own leverage as he sits there in Kyiv.

00:24:39.920 Now, President Trump has said he wants to end the war.

00:24:42.920 This is something that President Trump has always said, that the Russian state isn't some Middle Eastern country.

00:24:47.920 This isn't Iraq. This isn't Afghanistan. This isn't Libya. This isn't North Korea.

00:24:51.920 This isn't some country that can just be pushed around because they're so small.

00:24:54.920 They are, in fact, a leading nuclear power and the leading nuclear power in the world.

00:24:59.920 A country where it makes sense that he, President Trump has said this again and again, it makes sense for the United States and Russia to get along.

00:25:07.920 So here we go. That was Secretary Besant and what they were telling us on that side of the trip.

00:25:14.920 Now, I want to tell you, and of course, as we learned about that, that's also when we found out that Zelensky, President Zelensky would not be signing President Trump's deal.

00:25:23.920 And of course, raced to the phone there minutes after President Trump's truth post to get a call in to the White House.

00:25:30.920 Let's look at the Drudge Report right now in real time. And what do we see? USA plan to stranglehold Ukraine. Stranglehold.

00:25:39.920 And let's see. This is up from the Telegraph. Now, this is the UK's version of events.

00:25:46.920 So this is the globalist version. And by the way, folks, this shows you the importance of having something like Human Events Daily, independent media there on the ground, actually able to show you what went down in this deal.

00:25:59.920 You heard my version of it. Now let's hear the globalist spin. Panic in Kiev as U.S. president demands higher share of GDP than Germany's first world war reparations.

00:26:10.920 Well, hold on a second. Hold on a second. Germany's first world war reparations.

00:26:16.920 This was a situation where the United States was funding the war effort in Ukraine. Almost $200 billion have gone to Ukraine.

00:26:28.920 So what President Trump and Secretary Besson are looking at is a way to get a return on the investment, on a way to recoup the losses.

00:26:37.920 This isn't about reparations. Why would Ukraine and Zelensky be paying reparations to the United States? It makes no sense.

00:26:44.920 The globalist narrative from Drudge Report has no sense on its face. It's completely backwards.

00:26:50.920 This is about recouping losses. Which, by the way, if you want to get really interesting, why didn't the U.S. get any money back for the Lend-Lease program for the billions and billions of dollars that FDR gave to who?

00:27:04.920 The Soviet Union, even before Pearl Harbor ever started. But of course, we're not allowed to ask those kind of questions.

00:27:11.920 Again, what was really going on in those negotiations at the end of World War II?

00:27:17.920 I'm not sure. But I do know that if there's negotiations going on vis-a-vis World War III, that human events is going to be there and I'm going to be in the room.

00:27:27.920 So what do we see here with the telegraph? The telegraph said, and this is how you know the globalists hate this plan, all right? The globalists hate this thing.

00:27:34.920 They want it out of there. This is terrible. They don't want it all.

00:27:37.920 Donald Trump's plan for a 500 billion U.S. dollar payback from Ukraine goes far beyond U.S. control over the country's critical minerals.

00:27:44.920 It covers everything from ports and infrastructure to oil and gas and the larger resource base of the country.

00:27:49.920 The terms of the contract that landed at Zelensky's office a week ago amount to the U.S. economic colonization of Ukraine in legal perpetuity.

00:27:59.920 It implies a burden of reparations that cannot be possibly achieved. The document has caused consternation and panic in Kyiv.

00:28:06.920 The telegraph has obtained a draft of the decisional contract. Let's see.

00:28:10.920 Now, listen to this line, though. It states the U.S. and Ukraine should form a joint investment fund to ensure that hostile parties to the conflict do not benefit from the reconstruction of Ukraine.

00:28:22.920 Now, what does that mean? That means hostile parties. What's that about? That's about keeping China out. 0.99

00:28:28.920 That's about setting it up so that China isn't involved.

00:28:31.920 And by the way, I'm not even say I'm not even going to sit here right now and say whether or not I'm for this deal or against this deal, because that's not what I'm trying to do right now.

00:28:39.920 I'm trying very hard to just accurately depict what the deal was and what the deal is not.

00:28:45.920 Honestly, I'm not even sure if this is in the United States interest.

00:28:49.920 Certainly getting rare earth interminerals, getting this stuff from Ukraine is in the U.S. interest. 0.98

00:28:54.920 Is it really worth it? I'm not sure.

00:28:56.920 But obviously, I would like to see something for the American people.

00:28:59.920 The idea, though, is we don't want World War three happening.

00:29:03.920 That is the price.

00:29:05.920 That is the cost that we're getting here.

00:29:08.920 The value is that we don't have nuclear annihilation.

00:29:11.920 But hostile parties to the conflict do not benefit from the reconstruction of Ukraine.

00:29:16.920 That is all about keeping China out. 1.00

00:29:19.920 So no China. 0.95

00:29:21.920 Don't want China at all. 0.98

00:29:23.920 Don't want any of this getting in because we know China wants to get in. 0.93

00:29:28.920 No, China wants to get in there with the backfill. 1.00

00:29:30.920 And by the way, if Ukraine brings China in, if Zelensky brings China in, then what a slap in the face that would be to the United States.

00:29:37.920 After the United States paid again $200 billion humanitarian aid, the war effort and even financing for the Ukrainian government.

00:29:46.920 And as a matter of fact, the Ukrainian pension system, even the Ukrainian pension system was on this at one point.

00:29:55.920 That's what we need to get into folks.

00:29:57.920 That's what we need to explain.

00:29:59.920 That's what we need to get into for everyone.

00:30:02.920 And so for them saying it's reparations.

00:30:04.920 No, it's not reparation.

00:30:05.920 It's not reparation.

00:30:07.920 Okay.

00:30:08.920 There's no reparations at all.

00:30:09.920 When we're looking at, when we're looking at this piece, joint venture, U.S., Ukraine, if there's going to be a further agreement, if there's going to be a further relationship, if there's going to be a further.

00:30:31.920 But look, if you want this relationship to continue between the U.S. and Ukraine, there's got to be some benefit to the American people.

00:30:38.920 And that's what President Trump is coming in and saying.

00:30:40.920 That's what President Trump is saying for this.

00:30:44.920 Because if there isn't a direct benefit for the American people, then why would the U.S. be directly involved?

00:30:51.920 It's not our business.

00:30:53.920 It just isn't.

00:30:54.920 It's a feud that's been going on for, in some cases, hundreds of years, in some cases, certainly for the last 30 years.

00:31:02.920 Ukrainians, the Russians, this is all going back to the fall of the Soviet Union. 0.60

00:31:08.920 Where do the borders lie?

00:31:10.920 Where does it all go?

00:31:11.920 In fact, my family, the Posobiec family, is from a very small village that's very close to where the current border between Ukraine and Poland is.

00:31:20.920 That's the current border.

00:31:21.920 It didn't used to be the border.

00:31:22.920 It didn't used to be a border town, but it is now.

00:31:24.920 It's actually not far from.

00:31:26.920 In fact, because of the security concerns for the trip over, I wasn't even able to inform my Polish cousins that I was going to be in town, even though at one point I was about 35 minutes away from the village.

00:31:40.920 It is what it is, folks.

00:31:41.920 What can I say?

00:31:42.920 Sorry, guys.

00:31:43.920 I'll let you know next time.

00:31:44.920 But when it really comes down to it, when it really comes down to it, this is about an understanding of cutting through all of the BS.

00:31:54.920 The leaders of Europe, guess what?

00:31:56.920 You didn't pay for this thing.

00:31:57.920 You didn't put up for this thing.

00:31:59.920 And that's why President Trump is cutting you out.

00:32:02.920 You're not in the room.

00:32:03.920 What are you going to do about it?

00:32:05.920 Trudeau.

00:32:06.920 Macron.

00:32:07.920 Trudeau's Canada, obviously.

00:32:08.920 But the point is, these guys who want to bark about this, who want to complain about this, Olaf Scholz, Donald Tusk, who's over in the liberal globalist Polish minister.

00:32:20.920 No.

00:32:21.920 No.

00:32:22.920 This is about peace.

00:32:23.920 And this is about the United States getting a peace for themselves.

00:32:27.920 That's a little play on words.

00:32:29.920 You get peace and we get a peace.

00:32:31.920 That's what we're doing here.

00:32:33.920 And so President Trump understands, by the way, the development of these resources would come in from U.S. firms and the Ukrainian people would also benefit, which I don't see anything on the Telegraph piece about that at all.

00:32:46.920 I don't see anything in the Telegraph piece pointing out that actually the government of Ukraine would also get 50% of the return on investment here.

00:32:56.920 So it isn't just that the U.S. would get it.

00:32:58.920 It would be that the U.S. would be sharing it with Ukraine.

00:33:01.920 That's not reparations.

00:33:02.920 That's not how that works.

00:33:04.920 This all goes back to the idea of President Trump as a businessman looking at the United States as a business and thinking about, look, you guys get peace, but we want a peace too.

00:33:15.920 Be right back.

00:33:16.920 More Human Events Daily, Jack DeKobe.

00:33:17.920 And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.

00:33:32.920 And we're going to turn it around and make sure it's actually quite a good day.

00:33:35.920 Amen.

00:33:36.920 All right, Jack Posobiec.

00:33:40.920 Jack Posobiec.

00:33:41.920 We are here.

00:33:42.920 Human Events Daily.

00:33:43.920 Got a great shot of National Harbor.

00:33:45.920 They are going to be, by the way, at National Harbor starting Wednesday.

00:33:49.920 I got a crazy week.

00:33:50.920 So I'm going to be at Mar-a-Lago tomorrow for General Flynn's event.

00:33:53.920 Then I'm going straight to CPAC at the Gaylord National Harbor in Washington, D.C.

00:34:00.920 So I'll be there Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, probably Saturday and Sunday as well.

00:34:05.920 President Trump is going to be there, I believe.

00:34:08.920 Then we've also got Steve Bannon, the Force Multiplier Academy on Wednesday doing the show from there.

00:34:15.920 Hope to see you there very soon as well because it's going to be an incredible day.

00:34:20.920 Went a little bit viral last year.

00:34:22.920 There was a comment about ending democracy.

00:34:24.920 A little comment that I made that Bill Maher and Joy Reid certainly didn't like.

00:34:30.920 So we made a little news last time.

00:34:32.920 I don't know.

00:34:33.920 What do you think?

00:34:34.920 Should we go for it again?

00:34:35.920 I think we can go even bigger this time around.

00:34:38.920 What do you say?

00:34:39.920 We'll find out on Wednesday.

00:34:41.920 When I'm working long hours, I'm always listening to Human Events with Jack Posobiec.

00:34:47.920 Human Events daily, really just world events daily.

00:34:52.920 It feels like here on the program.

00:34:55.920 I want to thank again the Charlie Kirk audience for being here.

00:34:59.920 Their third hour simulcasted on the Salem News Network.

00:35:03.920 Thanks so much.

00:35:04.920 And look, folks, when it comes down to it, we have to understand that our world is a constant state of flux.

00:35:12.920 We are living on a knife's edge.

00:35:14.920 Nuclear war was on the ballot on November 5th.

00:35:18.920 That's no joke.

00:35:20.920 Missiles are still raining down on Kyiv.

00:35:23.920 In fact, including the day that I was there with Secretary Besson.

00:35:29.920 Real people are dying.

00:35:31.920 Real people are caught up in this mess.

00:35:33.920 This is a real war.

00:35:35.920 And your tax dollars are funding it.

00:35:37.920 Your tax dollars are paying for it, including the politicians that are involved, including whatever side deals are involved.

00:35:45.920 We know that there are issues, which I told you about three years ago, three years ago about the black market for arms that was coming out of Ukraine when we went there the first time with my brother, with Kevin Posobiec.

00:35:57.920 And it was just the two of us on the train.

00:35:59.920 And no, we did not have a security delegation that time.

00:36:02.920 We didn't have Secret Service with the long rifles.

00:36:05.920 We didn't have these other guys coming around the military with the rocket propelled grenades.

00:36:11.920 We didn't have any of this stuff.

00:36:13.920 We had the two of us, a lot of cash, and a couple of microphones and cameras.

00:36:18.920 So look, that's what we do.

00:36:20.920 That's what we do here on Human Events Daily.

00:36:23.920 And again, absolute honor, absolute responsibility.

00:36:28.920 So this is what we are here doing on Human Events Daily every day and what we will continue to do.

00:36:38.920 Because we know what's coming next, folks.

00:36:40.920 Next, in Saudi Arabia, there's going to be the sit down between the foreign ministers.

00:36:46.920 And then coming up after that, President Trump will meet with Vladimir Putin.

00:36:53.920 And Putin, he has said also, by the way, will come to America.

00:36:58.920 So if President Trump is going to Moscow, well, who knows?

00:37:00.920 Maybe Human Events Daily will have to go to Moscow, too.

00:37:04.920 If Putin is coming to Washington, D.C., it will be here to tell you the truth about what goes on.

00:37:10.920 Because I remember, I'll never forget, being at the Putin-Trump Summit in Helsinki in 2018.

00:37:17.920 I remember being there, and we'd brought, Tanya and I had even brought Jack-Jack.

00:37:23.920 And they were out walking around the harbor while I was inside the presidential palace.

00:37:28.920 They had the meeting.

00:37:29.920 It was perfunctory.

00:37:30.920 There was some argument, some disagreement about Nord Stream 2.

00:37:33.920 And then Jim Acosta goes up on CNN and starts screaming about treason, starts screaming about

00:37:40.920 President Trump has sold out the United States for having a conversation with the largest nuclear power in the world.

00:37:48.920 And so the question is, when these negotiations are going on, what role does the mainstream media play?

00:37:54.920 What role does the corporate media play?

00:37:56.920 We know.

00:37:57.920 We know from past experience that the role they play is bad actors.

00:38:01.920 The role they play are the people who are trying to gum up the works of peace.

00:38:06.920 Why?

00:38:07.920 Because there's no money in peace.

00:38:10.920 It's war.

00:38:11.920 War is the racket. 0.78

00:38:14.920 And so the warmongers and those that benefit from it and their corporate sponsors and their corporate money pushers,

00:38:22.920 this is the narrative that they want to spread.

00:38:26.920 The narrative that you must be at war.

00:38:29.920 That we must be at war.

00:38:31.920 Even nuclear war.

00:38:33.920 It doesn't matter.

00:38:34.920 Don't worry about that.

00:38:35.920 We'll win.

00:38:36.920 Maybe even saw this at some points where they were floating these insane ideas like we could survive a limited nuclear strike.

00:38:42.920 Are you kidding me?

00:38:43.920 With the hypersonic glide vehicles that they now have.

00:38:46.920 The ability to cut through radar, cut through early warning systems.

00:38:50.920 This isn't the Cold War anymore with the dew line up in Canada and Greenland, by the way.

00:38:54.920 Of course, we are not going to be free.

00:38:56.920 By the way, by the way, Secretary Hexeth, there's another base that needs to get renamed.

00:39:00.920 It's up there in Greenland.

00:39:01.920 It's called Full Air Base.

00:39:03.920 That needs to be there.

00:39:04.920 Look, ladies and gentlemen, MAGA World Peace will prevail.

00:39:10.920 The promises that were made will be kept.

00:39:14.920 And the warmongers can take a hike.

00:39:17.920 Because this is the peace administration.

00:39:21.920 This is the era of peace.

00:39:24.920 But be warned.

00:39:25.920 Be warned.

00:39:26.920 If anyone gets in our way, then they will understand the full might and full fury of the true American military.

00:39:39.920 Under Secretary Pegseth that is transforming this soft, bloated organization into a true war fighting capable and lethal organization once more.

00:39:54.920 That's part of making America great again.

00:39:56.920 Because if you have a strong military, you will have a strong country.

00:40:00.920 And if you have a prosperous country, that is the strongest country of all.

00:40:07.920 Sincerely honored to be part of this trip, to be a part of history.

00:40:12.920 Thank you to everyone for being here, for helping this.

00:40:14.920 Again, to the Charlie Kirk audience for tuning in our three.

00:40:17.920 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.

00:40:21.920 Thank you very much.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - February 17, 2025

THE ART OF THE PEACE DEAL： The Ukraine Peace Deal and the Historic 2nd Night Train to Kiev

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