Sen. Marco Rubio is in the Middle East this morning, ahead of critical negotiations with Russian officials about ending the Ukraine conflict, and Ukraine s President Vladimir Zelensky says he hasn t been invited to the first round of talks.
00:05:48.100We 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,
00:05:59.980a secure train, a night train with, by the way, full Secret Service accompaniment, as well as Ukrainian military that were with us, soldiers.
00:06:08.580And we'll show you footage here in just a minute of all of this.
00:06:12.580Obviously, it made mainstream headlines.
00:06:14.980The international media not too happy that old Poso was allowed on the trip.
00:06:57.620It's actually in Crimea for those paying attention.
00:07:00.060So 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.
00:07:11.140And, 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.
00:07:20.020Maybe 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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00:09:04.980Now, folks, as we know, there is breaking news, and there's been a bunch of breaking news since even this trip took place.
00:09:11.820So I want to put you in the mindset of this.
00:09:14.240Now, at this point, J.D. Vance hasn't given his speech in Munich yet.
00:09:17.620We've yet to hear that President Trump is conducting these one-on-one phone calls with Vladimir Putin.
00:09:23.060I'll explain what happens to that in a minute here.
00:09:25.500And, 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.
00:10:00.680But I want to take you back to the night train to Odessa.
00:10:04.920And I want to show you what it was like that night.
00:10:08.540And actually, I believe the first clip we have is the morning as we arrived in Kiev.
00:10:14.320Now, 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.
00:11:01.000Smoke coming up from the chimneys as we pass by the villages and settlements outside of Kiev.
00:11:05.580Later today, Secretary Besant will be meeting with President Zelensky, presenting that new deal to him from President Trump in person, by the way.
00:11:21.780Not going to Munich, not going to Vienna or Brussels, one of those places.
00:11:28.180Now, 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.
00:11:39.900So that's where we're going to go today.
00:11:43.220The house is now starting to get a bit larger.
00:11:46.000We go closer and closer into Kiev proper.
00:11:48.320So, as you can see, those were settlements going from outside the outskirts of Kiev, getting in there.
00:11:57.260A little bit warmer than I had expected.
00:11:59.140They 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.
00:12:07.920I didn't really see much of that, and in fact, was able to walk around outside without a huge, thick winter jacket.
00:12:13.700So, of course, we'll have to thank the Lord for that while we were there.
00:12:18.180I'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.
00:12:25.440Here 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.
00:12:38.240He said he wants to intertwine the economies, continue material support for Ukraine from the United States side.
00:12:46.060That's a signal both to the Ukrainian leadership and the Russian leadership that America does intend to support a fully independent Ukraine.
00:12:55.700Sort of an interesting anecdote, but that actual street that I'm walking on right there, I remember taking a few photos of it.
00:13:06.200And that's the very same street that Tanya Tay and myself walked on on a visit to Kiev about eight years ago.
00:13:15.240And now that was the summertime, that was not wintertime, but we were traveling.
00:13:19.360We had a bit of a long layover, and we were actually able to walk down that very same street.
00:13:23.880I showed her the photo, and I asked her if she remembered it, and she said exactly what I remember.
00:13:29.420So we were there with Secretary Besant.
00:13:32.200You can see some of the security detail behind me in the photo.
00:13:36.060But you can also see life going on as routine in Kiev.
00:13:42.420You 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.
00:13:52.160They don't, in Ukraine, the Ukrainians don't want to capitulate.
00:13:56.040They want to see an end to the war that will put them in the best standpoint.
00:14:01.060Now, what Secretary Besant went over with was a copy of this draft mineral deal.
00:14:05.480And the mineral deal was something that, of course, that we saw Zelensky talk about.
00:14:11.240It's about these rare earth elements that exist on the territory of Ukraine.
00:14:16.180Would 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?
00:14:29.160Well, that's exactly what Secretary Besant went over there to find out.
00:14:33.920We'll tell you a little bit more about what happened after the break.
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00:15:20.040Jack Posobiec back from Ukraine on this peace delegation with Secretary Besant.
00:15:28.200Now, listen up, because I'm about to put out something to you that'll change the way you start your day.
00:15:34.040And let me tell you something, folks, real quick.
00:15:35.860If you were going to be going on a delegation overseas, cutting through time zones, then going to a security conference in Munich, you're cutting through jet lag,
00:15:45.900you're not sleeping well because you're on a Soviet-era railroad for 20 hours.
00:16:07.020Every bag of blackout coffee is roasted with purpose, packed with bold flavor, and fueled by the kind of values that built the United States.
00:16:14.600It's grit, determination, and a refusal to back down.
00:23:46.920The American people don't want any more war.
00:23:49.920The American people don't want to see other countries put ahead of them.
00:23:53.920The American people don't want to see these massive outflows of money from the United States to these endless wars.
00:24:01.920And 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.
00:24:14.920That's something that perhaps the American people can get behind.
00:24:18.920But this idea of continuing to find an endless war is simply not in the cards.
00:24:23.920And 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.
00:24:34.920I think it gravely underestimates his own leverage as he sits there in Kyiv.
00:24:39.920Now, President Trump has said he wants to end the war.
00:24:42.920This is something that President Trump has always said, that the Russian state isn't some Middle Eastern country.
00:24:47.920This isn't Iraq. This isn't Afghanistan. This isn't Libya. This isn't North Korea.
00:24:51.920This isn't some country that can just be pushed around because they're so small.
00:24:54.920They are, in fact, a leading nuclear power and the leading nuclear power in the world.
00:24:59.920A 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.
00:25:07.920So here we go. That was Secretary Besant and what they were telling us on that side of the trip.
00:25:14.920Now, 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.
00:25:23.920And of course, raced to the phone there minutes after President Trump's truth post to get a call in to the White House.
00:25:30.920Let's look at the Drudge Report right now in real time. And what do we see? USA plan to stranglehold Ukraine. Stranglehold.
00:25:39.920And let's see. This is up from the Telegraph. Now, this is the UK's version of events.
00:25:46.920So 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.
00:25:59.920You 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.
00:26:10.920Well, hold on a second. Hold on a second. Germany's first world war reparations.
00:26:16.920This was a situation where the United States was funding the war effort in Ukraine. Almost $200 billion have gone to Ukraine.
00:26:28.920So 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.
00:26:37.920This isn't about reparations. Why would Ukraine and Zelensky be paying reparations to the United States? It makes no sense.
00:26:44.920The globalist narrative from Drudge Report has no sense on its face. It's completely backwards.
00:26:50.920This 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?
00:27:04.920The Soviet Union, even before Pearl Harbor ever started. But of course, we're not allowed to ask those kind of questions.
00:27:11.920Again, what was really going on in those negotiations at the end of World War II?
00:27:17.920I'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.
00:27:27.920So 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.
00:27:34.920They want it out of there. This is terrible. They don't want it all.
00:27:37.920Donald 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.
00:27:44.920It covers everything from ports and infrastructure to oil and gas and the larger resource base of the country.
00:27:49.920The 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.
00:27:59.920It implies a burden of reparations that cannot be possibly achieved. The document has caused consternation and panic in Kyiv.
00:28:06.920The telegraph has obtained a draft of the decisional contract. Let's see.
00:28:10.920Now, 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.
00:28:22.920Now, what does that mean? That means hostile parties. What's that about? That's about keeping China out.
00:28:28.920That's about setting it up so that China isn't involved.
00:28:31.920And 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.
00:28:39.920I'm trying very hard to just accurately depict what the deal was and what the deal is not.
00:28:45.920Honestly, I'm not even sure if this is in the United States interest.
00:28:49.920Certainly getting rare earth interminerals, getting this stuff from Ukraine is in the U.S. interest.
00:30:09.920When 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.
00:30:31.920But 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.
00:30:38.920And that's what President Trump is coming in and saying.
00:30:40.920That's what President Trump is saying for this.
00:30:44.920Because if there isn't a direct benefit for the American people, then why would the U.S. be directly involved?
00:31:11.920In 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.
00:31:26.920In 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.
00:32:08.920But 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.
00:32:33.920And 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.
00:32:46.920I 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.
00:32:56.920So it isn't just that the U.S. would get it.
00:32:58.920It would be that the U.S. would be sharing it with Ukraine.
00:33:04.920This 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.
00:35:37.920Your tax dollars are paying for it, including the politicians that are involved, including whatever side deals are involved.
00:35:45.920We 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.
00:35:57.920And it was just the two of us on the train.
00:35:59.920And no, we did not have a security delegation that time.
00:36:02.920We didn't have Secret Service with the long rifles.
00:36:05.920We didn't have these other guys coming around the military with the rocket propelled grenades.
00:39:26.920If anyone gets in our way, then they will understand the full might and full fury of the true American military.
00:39:39.920Under Secretary Pegseth that is transforming this soft, bloated organization into a true war fighting capable and lethal organization once more.
00:39:54.920That's part of making America great again.
00:39:56.920Because if you have a strong military, you will have a strong country.
00:40:00.920And if you have a prosperous country, that is the strongest country of all.
00:40:07.920Sincerely honored to be part of this trip, to be a part of history.
00:40:12.920Thank you to everyone for being here, for helping this.
00:40:14.920Again, to the Charlie Kirk audience for tuning in our three.
00:40:17.920Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.