In this episode of the Poscast, we have a special guest on the show today. He's a retired Marine Corps Admiral who served with the 7th US base in the High Arctic and is now the Defense Minister of the United States of America's newest base in Greenland.
00:15:39.680Do you have a meeting with Vladimir Putin's schedule?
00:15:42.040I won't comment on that, but we had a great success yesterday.
00:15:46.700We have a full ceasefire when it, if it kicks in, but we have to see it's up to Russia now.
00:15:53.620But we've had a good relationship with both parties, actually, and we'll see.
00:15:58.640We'll be knowing people are going to Russia right now as we speak, and hopefully we can get a ceasefire from Russia.
00:16:05.420If NATO expansion is recognized, at least by Donald Trump, as one of the root causes, then the presence of the troops from NATO countries under any flag, in any capacity, on Ukrainian soil is the same threat.
00:16:28.400The second is we agree with the proposals for the ceasefire, but our position is based on the assumption that the ceasefire would lead to a long-term peace.
00:16:45.000All right, there's a lot going on here.
00:16:48.540So we've got live breaking from the White House and then breaking from Moscow as well.
00:16:54.860We're going to bring in the Salem Radio Network here in just a couple of seconds, but I want people to understand that here on the program, we are understanding that peace is on the table.
00:17:35.640We're live now on Real America's Voice.
00:17:37.540We've got the Salem Radio Network in with third hour of the Charlie Kirk audience.
00:17:42.000I want to go bring in, and live from the White House, we've got Amanda Head from Real America's Voice.
00:17:47.120Amanda, you were just in there with Secretary General Root as well as President Trump.
00:17:54.040Vladimir Putin also expected to meet with Whitcoff, the special envoy to Moscow, just within a few minutes.
00:18:03.620Talk to me about the importance of the stakes of the meeting that was held today and the importance of this ceasefire that is pending.
00:18:10.460Yeah, you know, President Trump has tasked both Whitcoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio with some big responsibilities.
00:18:19.740I mean, you imagine the cost of having to go overseas and carry on a conversation that has, as you just pointed out, such huge implications.
00:18:27.060And it seems that the negotiations have gone well and that, you know, I always think of President's comments about Putin in a particular way.
00:18:36.900And there might not be people who understand this because they're not from Alabama.
00:18:39.840But, Jack, you know I went to Auburn, and I'm a huge Auburn fan.
00:18:43.040And when I talk about Nick Saban and I talk about how, you know, what a legend he was at Alabama, what a skilled tactician of a football coach he was,
00:18:51.400it's not because I like the guy, but I'm not stupid, and I could admit that he has strengths.
00:18:57.020That is how it is when President Trump talks about Vladimir Putin.
00:19:00.640It would be very, very stupid to underestimate Vladimir Putin and to not point out how strategic he is.
00:19:06.740And with regards to that strategy, you know, this is something that a few weeks ago I observed in the Oval Office when President Trump had that meeting with Zelensky.
00:19:16.300Zelensky, you know, for whatever you want to call it, an episode, an outburst, whatever, it actually made Vladimir Putin look like the reasonable one here.
00:19:26.120So I anticipate that this is going to go in a smooth direction.
00:19:30.320You know, history has taught us, Jack, during President Trump's first term and now, that when peace is on the table, President Trump is the one who typically gets it done.
00:19:42.020Amanda, thank you so much for being there, for covering this, for being the voice of the people, and to Real America's Voice also for supporting you to be able to put you right there in the White House.
00:19:53.240President Trump breaking the fourth wall and bringing all of the American people in.
00:20:03.660Okay, so folks, we have to understand, this is high-stakes negotiations.
00:20:09.820President Trump meeting with Secretary General Root of NATO, also on the same day that he is sending Witkoff over to Moscow, Witkoff to sit down with Putin also.
00:20:22.180But Putin isn't alone, because what has he done?
00:20:24.540He's brought over President Lukashenko of Belarus.
00:21:25.300There's a lot of, you know, bloodshed and blame to go around.
00:21:29.800But I think President Trump is navigating this as masterfully as one could hope.
00:21:34.960And I think we are in the precipice of achieving some real peace in Europe in our time, to quote, I guess, Neville Chamberlain.
00:21:43.340But in this case, I think we're actually going to hopefully achieve some tangible peace and bring an end to this conflict so we can work on our domestic revitalization program and work on reshifting the focus towards China, the CCP, and our real geostrategic foes in the East.
00:21:59.380Look, and President Trump has this all lined out.
00:22:16.120I've got a, you know, a live feed up as well.
00:22:18.560So Putin just taking that meeting with Lukashenko of Belarus will soon be meeting.
00:22:24.360We're told within potentially within minutes, potentially within the hour as we're live here with Wyckoff to discuss the opening salvo of these conditions.
00:22:48.260It is completely interconnected between the tariffs, the winding down of a globalist American empire, the winding down of the wars, and setting America on a footing for peace and prosperity for the American worker and the American family first.
00:23:05.300We'll be right back with more human events daily here live on this incredibly historic occasion.
00:24:34.660Can you just run us through the stakes in one minute?
00:24:37.400Well, I mean, the stakes are nuclear war.
00:24:39.480I mean, that's really what, you know, this is all about.
00:24:42.420And thank God we have President Trump in office who understands what the stakes are, who understands what we're up against and what the possibilities are.
00:24:51.080You know, we have so many children, so many, you know, entitled, obnoxious children running things in Europe and who are running things in our country previously.
00:24:58.640And they were pushing the world closer to nuclear Armageddon than it's ever been before since maybe the height of the Cold War.
00:25:07.460We need to embrace real politic, recognizing we're in a multipolar world order and recognizing that this is a conflict that needs to come to an end.
00:25:14.480And we need to put the egos and the pettiness and the whims of some leaders in Europe aside for the sake of world peace.
00:25:25.100And that means peace in Ukraine, peace between Ukraine and Russia, and thus peace on the global stage.
00:26:16.480We're also bringing in Hour 3 of the Charlie Kirk program on the Salem News Network.
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00:26:40.300Is this a health crisis or a power play?
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00:27:35.760Ivor Bennett, who was their Moscow correspondent over there, saying, in his view, Putin doesn't appear to show any signs of compromise.
00:27:44.920I just want to read this from Sky News.
00:27:46.720It says, Vladimir Putin was never going to flat-out reject the U.S. proposal for a ceasefire, but he also wasn't going to fully endorse it.
00:27:54.900If he does agree, if Russia does agree, it will come with strings attached.
00:27:58.720The Kremlin leader didn't specify Moscow's demands, but he did allude to them by saying that the peace deal had to eliminate, quote, the root causes of the conflict.
00:28:09.360It became a frequent refrain of his and shows that Moscow's maximalist position hasn't changed.
00:28:15.660This is, of course, referring to NATO's eastward expansion, which he blames as the catalyst for the war in Ukraine.
00:28:21.020And, of course, by the way, it also, and we have a little bit of a readout here as well, they were talking about, Putin was talking about the fact that there are 1,200 miles of front line currently in the Ukraine war between Russia and Ukraine.
00:28:37.500That's about the distance from New York to Miami, almost the entire east coast.
00:28:42.020And he's also asking questions about who's going to guarantee the ceasefire, who's going to monitor the agreement for violations, what is the authority, is there an international peace, is it censors, how does it work, drones, et cetera.
00:28:55.500And, of course, Vladimir Putin visiting Kursk, the region, just a few hours ago, really just yesterday, wearing fatigues for the first time since the war began, and donning those after a just strong, very strong Russian victory in the Kursk region, mirroring, of course, though on a much smaller scale, the great Battle of Kursk in World War II, which has fought over the very same terrain.
00:29:23.540Although, in that case, we had upwards of 2.2 million soldiers, both from the Nazis and the Soviets combined, as well as about 6,000 armored vehicles, 6,000 tanks.
00:29:35.340And so I want to bring Gavin Wax back in here.
00:29:37.720Gavin, President Trump, I think, understands the overall peace picture here and understands that ultimately the biggest players in this are not NATO and Ukraine, the way the media would have us believe, but it really kind of does come down to a proxy fight between the U.S. and Russia.
00:30:00.380I think he understands that this is great power politics, and really the only two state actors that matter are the United States and Russia.
00:30:09.120And I think the Russians recognize that.
00:30:11.220I think the Europeans are obviously upset about that.
00:30:13.800But at the end of the day, they're pretty much vassal states of the United States at this point.
00:30:17.840They don't really have any military capabilities to speak of.
00:30:21.960Their economy is a fraction of what ours is, and they may be trying to recreate a European Grand Army under Macron and trying to revitalize German military industry.
00:30:34.780But this is all far too little, far too late.
00:30:38.120They were never in a position to be dictating the terms of this conflict, certainly not the terms of peace.
00:30:43.580This was always going to be a discussion between the United States and Russia or a man-to-man between President Trump and Putin.
00:30:50.620And that's what we're beginning to see.
00:30:51.900And I think, look, as time goes on, it's becoming clear that this conflict is unwinnable for the Ukrainians and the position of the West and the position the United States needs to be.
00:31:03.200How do we come to the table and get the best possible deal for both Ukraine and the West?
00:31:09.660And I think that's what we're going to have to discuss at the negotiating process.
00:31:12.680There are obviously some red lines that Russia and Putin have drawn, and where they're willing to acquiesce and where they're not is going to be determined through this process.
00:31:22.540But at least we're having this process, which in and of itself is a massive development from the past few years of no communication, no talks, and no sign of peace on the horizon.
00:31:32.680Well, and that's really what it's all about, because this is something where, look, I think a lot of people were saying, oh, you know, Putin's going to agree to the ceasefire, and this is going to, you know, the ball's in his court, and he's going to agree right away.
00:31:45.740But when it really comes down to it, that's not how these types of negotiations usually work.
00:31:50.640Typically, with negotiations like this, at the end of any big conflict, you're going to have the leaders get together.
00:31:57.100You're going to have, of course, a framework that will be agreed to by the envoys.
00:32:02.380So that's Mark Root from the NATO side.
00:32:06.020That's Witkoff going to the Russians to get their information.
00:32:10.980That's Lavrov putting out his process.
00:32:13.280That's also, by the way, the Secretary of State and Walt's meeting with the Ukrainians and their interlocutors there in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
00:32:22.200But this really isn't going to come into effect until we see a meeting between the leaders of the United States, the leaders of Russia, and the leaders of Ukraine.
00:32:33.820Who knows how that's going to look or even where that would take place.
00:32:37.000Now, I think one of the reasons, personally, that they can't use Istanbul anymore is that Erdogan has turfed himself out because he's taken so much of a line with the Ukrainians in terms of this that Putin doesn't necessarily look at him as an impartial player in the conflict.
00:32:51.540He's someone who's been completely on board with NATO, obviously being a NATO member, but also completely on board with the Ukrainian war effort and selling those Bayraktar drones and so many others.
00:33:01.980Of course, he can point to keeping the Dardanelles closed and the Bosphorus, the lines to the Black Sea and keeping with the Montreux Treaty from the early 1900s, World War I era treaty.
00:33:11.620But at the end of the day, he's taken a side in the conflict.
00:33:14.900So that's why they're going down to Saudi Arabia for all of this, because the Saudis, if anything, haven't really taken a side one way or the other.
00:33:23.380So they've got they've got the ability to be neutral ground.
00:33:26.740But when it really all comes to the same by the same deal with, by the way, with pretty much everywhere in Europe, with the exception of like, I don't know, Hungary.
00:33:33.580And so the the idea of moving forward, then, is if we're going to see a piece and Gavin, let's let's let's even pull it back even further.
00:33:40.980Let's pull it back way further, because President Trump and I keep saying this, the tariffs are connected to the foreign policy, the tariffs, NATO, foreign policy, our relationship with Europe.
00:34:35.600They're based off of a two-way street.
00:34:37.920And for far too long, it's been a one-way street with the Europeans saying, gimme, gimme, gimme, and the United States giving, giving, giving, and not really getting much back in return.
00:34:47.120We see that on trade where they have prevented a whole litany of American products from effectively being imported in to the European Union.
00:34:56.560And now, of course, the Europeans are crying bloody murder when President Trump suggests reciprocal tariffs and suggests a reevaluation of our trade relationship with Europe.
00:35:07.260They also cry bloody murder when J.D. Vance, Vice President J.D. Vance, brings up very key failings of these European nations in terms of preserving the civil liberties of their people as it relates to censorship, as it relates to political imprisonment, and a whole litany of other key issues that many Americans have been very disappointed to see develop, whether in the United Kingdom or continental Europe.
00:35:31.020So, again, these relationships are really not based anymore on shared values because the European values have taken a nosedive into the tyrannical, sadly, in recent years.
00:35:42.300And obviously now, as it pertains to the military end of things, President Trump has long been consistent in demanding that the Europeans pay their fair share for their own defense, particularly as it relates to their contractual obligations to NATO.
00:35:55.220They've long tried to circumvent those requirements and have the United States pay for their defense while they could pay for their own welfare states and pay to subsidize industries that compete with the United States, while at the same time not allowing us to export into Europe or export into Europe, rather.
00:36:13.820So all of these things are coming to a head.
00:36:17.020We're seeing a complete geopolitical realignment in action.
00:36:20.400We're seeing President Trump, you know, reevaluate everything on the table.
00:36:25.860Nothing is just going to be the status quo for the sake of being the status quo.
00:36:34.860Otherwise, President Trump will not be able to achieve his massive domestic agenda as it relates to the economy, as it relates to the border, as it relates to cultural and traditional values of rejuvenation of the American Republic.
00:36:47.460We need peace in Europe to do that, and we also need to geopolitically realign towards Asia, towards the Asia Pacific, to China, which is our main geopolitical foe, both economically and militarily.
00:37:02.340We've seen the actions of the CCP domestically far outweigh anything that the Russians have supposedly done or any other state in Europe or elsewhere, for that matter.
00:37:14.860It remains that China, under the CCP, has been our main adversary, buying up tons of land across the United States, strategic farmland.
00:37:22.840I know the Trump administration is looking into that.
00:37:25.300They've flooded our schools and universities with effectively CCP spies and agents, getting American education to then bring back to China or to infiltrate our own institutions in corporate America.
00:37:37.480We've seen Chinese spies operate in the U.S. government, in the U.S. military, recently having been indicted for selling state secrets.
00:37:46.740We've seen some of those Chinese student visa holders engage in espionage near U.S. military bases.
00:37:53.160We've seen the CCP run an underground police station in lower Manhattan to spy on U.S. nationals and Chinese dissent.
00:41:00.320We're waiting for this, Putin already making a statement saying he's interested in the ceasefire,
00:41:05.160but he wants to get more specifics on that.
00:41:09.720Kenny Cody, what is your sense on the stakes of this?
00:41:13.660And guys, let's get that live shot of Moscow up so people can see that this is going to be happening very, very soon here.
00:41:20.640Kenny, what is your sense of the stakes of this and what President Trump specifically campaigned on?
00:41:26.120Well, I didn't know it would be this soon, but this has the opportunity to be the biggest foreign policy accomplishment of the Trump presidency.
00:41:33.840Him bringing these stakeholders to the table and discussing a ceasefire, discussing peace in the most publicized conflict there is in the world currently,
00:41:43.180involving a world superpower and a country that has garnered and got foreign aid from about every country in the world,
00:42:16.940We are not going to let Zelensky come to our country and bully our vice president and our president.
00:42:21.060We're not going to let him come into the office and keep on begging for money when he's showing no gratitude.
00:42:26.040We're not going to let Putin continue to run over Donald Trump like he did Joe Biden.
00:42:31.320This is a different president with a different foreign policy strategy.
00:42:34.160And this peace through strength, foreign policy ideology, prioritizing anti-interventionism, but also strong arming those world leaders that are intimidated by Donald Trump,
00:42:43.980is exactly why he won the presidency and why he can bring world peace to both Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world.
00:42:50.140This could be the potential to be the most important foreign policy to develop in the history of the two Trump presidents.
00:42:56.040And, Kenny, real quick, I want to come in here with some breaking news because, according to Ukrainian media, we're just getting reports out of this,
00:43:05.100there were a lot of questions about the ceasefire declaration, that joint statement that was put out by the Ukrainian negotiators and the U.S.,
00:43:12.580but we're also getting a back brief, or it looks like Ukrainian media did, according to European Pravda out of Ukraine,
00:43:19.100that their delegation in Saudi Arabia refused to agree to give up NATO membership aspirations as part of their ceasefire conditions.
00:43:32.060And they called it, according to this, a red line for Ukraine that it cannot be removed from the agenda.
00:43:39.880So, Kenny, you know, you've been watching this stuff.
00:43:43.620This is going to be a huge point of contention.
00:43:45.940Of course, that's why President Trump's got the secretary general there in the Oval Office today,
00:43:50.240because he, I'm sure, has already been briefed by Witkoff and Rubio that the Ukrainians refused to drop this NATO aspiration from it.
00:43:59.300And so he's probably going to have to go to NATO now and say, look, if these guys won't give it up, we're going to have to drop the hammer,
00:44:04.900because at the end of the day, it's the United States that's footing the bill for NATO.
00:44:09.400And sure, I'm sure lots of countries want to join NATO, but that ain't exactly how it works, is it, Kenny Cody?
00:44:15.060No, since 2017, Donald Trump has advocated that the United States foots the bill for every European country and every member of NATO.
00:44:23.360Europe has far too long attempted to make the United States pair an unfair share and an unfair amount of effort
00:44:30.580into giving countries like Ukraine foreign aid, weapons, and whatever else they need and catering to them.
00:44:37.920And Democrat politicians and neoconsertive politicians have continued that funding and continued that backing.
00:44:43.260So finally, the United States is going to have to draw a line in the sand and say, look, this is not going to happen.
00:44:49.440We're not going to continue to funnel money into the military industrial complex, funnel money into these foreign countries who want this war to continue.
00:44:56.460Because make no mistake, there is a lot of Europe who wants this war to continue, but the United States is going to have to stand up.
00:45:02.680Rubio and everybody, Witkoff and everybody else are going to have to say, this cannot happen.
00:45:08.180We've got to stop this right now and not let Ukraine be the arbiters of this negotiation.
00:45:13.380And remember, they are the ones, like when Trump said that they don't have the cards, they still do not have the cards.
00:45:18.240They cannot be in charge of this peace negotiation.
00:45:21.480This has to be equal on all grounds, including the United States, considering how much stakes and how many billions of dollars we've sent both of these countries to continue this war.
00:45:29.660Yes, the United States and NATO are huge actors in this.
00:45:33.340And to say that they're not is just completely ridiculous.
00:45:35.620And when the Russians talk about root causes, that's what they're talking about.
00:45:38.780Folks, go follow Kenny Cody, the great new opinion editor on humanevents.com.
00:45:45.080Go and make sure you're following him.