In this episode, we discuss the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia in Ukraine and how we need to get a peace deal in order to end it. We also talk about how we can make peace with both sides of the conflict and what we should do about it.
00:00:09.000At this point, and this is considering where we are now, if other nations, namely, you know, us financially helping them, had not gotten involved, Ukraine would already be Russia.
00:00:20.000They would have no say in it whatsoever, ever, ever.
00:00:24.000And at this point, they still really don't have all that much leverage.
00:01:07.000It's that if we don't force them to do something, then we have to sanction them into doing something by maybe doing secondary sanctions and maybe addressing Indiaia and China at a certain point, which could economically impact us and also potentially start a war.
00:01:42.000But the only reason there's a fight at all is because of the money and weapons that you've gotten from the West, namely the United States primarily.
00:01:49.000Europe has done some good work kicking in.
00:01:50.000But here's the thing to is Ukraine, like you're basically saying., okay, if you don't get this done now, you're going to try your hand at a war of attrition with the Russians.
00:02:17.000Like all the mediocre have their calling cards.
00:02:20.000And for Russia, it's war of attrition.
00:02:22.000It's throw more bodies, see what happens.
00:02:25.000And if you want to do that, that's one where if I were a betting man and I were to bet, you know, this is like a life and death death situation.
00:03:10.000In order for there to be an end to the war, there are things Russia wants that it cannot get, and there are things Ukraine wants that it won't get.
00:03:16.000Both sides are going to have to give up something in order to get to the table, in order to make this happen.
00:03:37.000So some of the demands from Russia, like Ukraine withdraw from the Donbass region, that they freeze the lines of control in two other regions, that they allow the Russian Orthodox Church to operate in Ukraine, make Russia, Russian the official language.
00:03:50.000Some of these are very unlikely to take place.
00:05:10.000Well, the problem was I was going to admonish you for saying the official language when it was an official language, and that was the closest claim button to that.
00:05:54.000That Zelenskyy is specifically bringing leaders from the EU to make sure that Trump doesn't bully him in his moisture wicking t-shirt again.
00:06:04.000You know, there is concern from the Europeans that President Zelenskyy is going to be bullied into signing something away.
00:06:12.000That's why you're using European leaders coming as backup tomorrow.
00:06:16.000And here's the truth, pretty much in real time from frustrated, exhausted Rubio.
00:07:05.000I was gonna I don't know if Zelenskyy's fighting back so much anymore, but he certainly has the garb for it.
00:07:10.000Well, but it's also He's ready to go, dude.
00:07:13.000It's not bullying when you go, Hey, by the way, since we are your benefactor, I mean, we're funding your little excursion here and we understand and we're, you know, on your side, maybe it's time to stop with all the fighting and we'll just, we'll guarantee.
00:07:25.000You remember that NATO thing you wanted?
00:07:27.000We will act as though, you know, NATO is us anyway.
00:07:30.000So this is basically the same thing, just without the title.
00:07:33.000So Russia can go back and, Hey, they're never going to join NATO.
00:07:56.000If I try to think of a parallel historically, there really isn't one as far as this kind of grandstanding, certainly to this bold of a degree.
00:08:07.000When you have no abilities yourself, it would be like if, let's say, the United States actually was a evil empire.
00:08:13.000And I've always had proof positive that it's not that Canada is allowed to exist.
00:09:28.000Do we have time to do this Crockett sex offender thing?
00:09:34.000I mean, there's always time to make fun of Crockett, but we can take some chat and stuff and keep an eye on what's going on right now with there's just arrivals i don't think they're actually going to get any substance that we're going to hear about until all right well i feel like we did a lot of chat last week so let's get to the latest installment no i do but i i just don't know if people get mad and like it's they think it's lazy no they don't but let's do crockett crockett is a racist The only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys.
00:10:06.000It's even worse when a woman says that because not just the race thing because like you mediocre white boy like any again anywhere else throughout human history You would just be beataten up.
00:10:17.000Yes, that's true, and made a concubine.
00:10:20.000I'm not saying that makes it right, but this is like women being so bold, like, man, fuck.
00:11:23.000He's like all the worst qualities of white people that black activists make fun of, but then he also gets to claim he's oppressed as a black guy.
00:11:30.000I just don't know how he still is a thing.
00:12:49.000in total numbers, but here's why, kind of like, you know, they just, for example, they say that violent crime is lower in DC because they stop registering certain violent crimes.
00:12:57.000They just no longer considered a violent crime.
00:12:59.000Well, in Texas, they're actually really pretty strict on this.
00:13:03.000They have broader definitions as to what constitutes a sex offense.
00:13:06.000They have lifetime registration for most sex offences, unlike California, where there is no automatic removal in Texas, for example, after a certain amount of time.
00:13:15.000Like in California, there's an automatic removal.
00:13:17.000You were a sex offender, but we think you're probably not anymore.
00:13:48.000It's one of the top three largest states if we're talking about a total number.
00:13:52.000And of the three states, New York, California, Texas, I would imagine it's the one that's red because they're a lot more strict on sex crimes, right?
00:13:58.000Yeah, I imagine the one that requires you to continue being registered for your whole life.
00:14:08.000This is just and this is always what they do right there.
00:14:10.000They always try and weaponize sexuality despite being super tolerant.
00:14:13.000And when they say it's a confession, do you mean like saying that conservatives, Republicans are a threat to democracy, do away with the First Amendment, have a ministry of disinformation and don't even have a primary but have a coronation for someone who nobody voted for who couldn't win their own state and place dead last in their previous primary?
00:14:29.000Do you mean like that saying a threat to democracy?
00:14:31.000Do you mean like saying, hey, Donald Trump is a stooge of Russian again, a threat to democracy while you guys fabricate a made up story to antagonize a superpower like Russia that kind of nudges them into war?
00:14:44.000Do you mean like a fascist government who's going to come and put all of you in concentration camps while the Republican Party and Conservative Movement is very, very adamant about the Second Amendment and people being able to protect themselves while you disarm them and go house to house if you had your way to take away their guns.
00:17:28.000I don't want to just I don't want to see Al Sharpton front and center.
00:17:31.000I want to see the people who whisked him to the public eye front and center.
00:17:35.000Like the people who clearly saw him as a useful stooge.
00:17:38.000Because you know there were people in positions of authority, money, influence who sat down with the they had a meeting with Al Sharpton and said, like, this guy's perfect.
00:22:54.000And at first it was like a cowboy cult.
00:22:55.000Because they were like, Everyone here, everyone here, I'm going to dress up like, so they're going to the town center in cowboy hats with handkerchiefs and people are like, What are you doing?
00:23:04.000So then they became like an alien cult.
00:23:06.000And then they became Native Americans and then it was like the Moors and the African Nuabian and the guy had a pyramid and he was banging chicks in there and it was like I think he killed people.
00:23:15.000He was just he was basically a rapist and you can see pictures of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson showing up like, Yes, we support this cowboy alien Nuabian cult.
00:24:05.000The guy who led it was like a guy who kinda looked like Tupac and he would be in there playing Nintendo 64 and then in his banging sex slaves.
00:24:11.000Hold on, in his like cardboard pyramid?
00:24:28.000And they had a bunch of different iterations.
00:24:30.000Like it was a cowboy cult, it was an Islam cult, then it was a cowboy cult, then it was an alien cult, then it was a Native American slash more cult.
00:24:37.000You just have to figure out what works.
00:26:23.000And now, by the way, he should be getting more sleep, just to be clear, but the fact that he's able to do it when, you know, duty calls is, you know, something I'm happy to have.
00:27:38.000I do think that deporting illegal aliens and changing the I think in combination I've talked about this.
00:27:47.000So deporting any illegal aliens, okay, and making sure there's voter ID changes what we consider swing states dramatically.
00:27:55.000For example, Arizona is not, Georgia is not up for grabs, probably, I mean, North Carolina hasn't really been all that much, and even some places in the Midwest, when you're talking about only tens of thousands of votes, yeah, I think it changes that quite a bit, and I certainly think it changes districts as far as seats and representation.
00:28:10.000Winning deep blue cities, no, I mean, you know, Portland isn't deep blue because of illegal immigigration.
00:28:18.000You can maybe argue a place like Los Angeles, the numbers might surprise you if you completely get rid of illegal aliens, certainly from the census.
00:29:09.000Would it help if you knew that he led the group that just rode the subways and protected people from rampant black crime and they were That's pretty cool, but I wouldn't vote for him.
00:30:51.000I mean, the only way is if he ends up getting some kind of decisive victory, like he'd be seen as a hero and, you know, but people have a short memory for heroes.
00:31:30.000But now he doesn't, by the way, he doesn't have fifty million stocked away every month to an AAE account as Rep Anna was Anna Luna Paulina posted.
00:31:38.000She posted a screenshot of an article that doesn't even exist.
00:32:09.000the Muslim countries, then it's certainly a tool that they would use because if you actually again read up on Sri Lanka and how they're supposed to spread their religion, yeah, of course that would be something that they would use.
00:32:22.000Like a lot of the things that's a part of it.
00:32:24.000I think in like 2007, 2008, I was talking about this with the church that we went to when I led the ministry school part of it.
00:32:31.000We did a class and part of it was their thing was like, okay, well, we can't, we don't have the economic or military power to go and take out these countries, but we can just immigrate to those countries and have birth rates that are much, much, much higher and they'll be majority Muslim nations before you know it.
00:32:44.000Well, and they said Germany by 2050 at the the time, I think that they were warning might be a predominantly German or Islamic nation.
00:32:50.000I don't know if that's still holding true or not, but still that Poland's doing it right.
00:32:54.000Well, let me ask you this, because here's the thing.
00:32:56.000These people come from largely in historically very barbaric countries.
00:33:06.000If you, let's say you had some people who were invading your house or invading your property, and they had the tools of a SWAT team, right?
00:33:17.000They were coming with MP5s and they had night vision.
00:33:28.000You would use the tools at your disposal, right?
00:33:29.000You'd probably try and set some traps.
00:33:31.000You're not going to out shoot that you don't have any guns.
00:33:34.000So you would use every tool that you have at your barbaric disposal.
00:33:38.000So these people look at Western nations.
00:33:41.000They look at us and they look at us as civilized nations and they see that a part of that is compassion and empathy and they have to use the tools that they have at their disposal and they're largely barbarians.
00:33:51.000And a big tool of that is not the political, we think political process.
00:33:54.000They think, get in, have a bunch of kids.
00:33:59.000That's their guerrilla warfare culturally.
00:34:23.000But the United States is a little different.
00:34:25.000And that's why the Democrats want to change it.
00:34:26.000In Europe, they, you know, their whole idea of multiculturalism and it not being a melting pot, but a mosaic where, you know, you're not here.
00:34:35.000You're supposed to be American first when you come here.
00:34:39.000And so that's why these people get special treatment and they have language laws.
00:34:43.000When people point to peaceful Muslims, they almost always point to the United States where our constitutional laws and the rights that you all enjoy sort of preclude mass groups of Muslims from gaining that type of political foothold.
00:35:26.000You should have known that that was I think that might have been added later, Rich, because I went to the site and it wasn't there on Saturday or Sunday.
00:35:32.000Really quickly, I did see something at the bottom of that screen that I haven't seen anywhere else.
00:35:35.000I don't know if that's old or not, but it says Hamas agreed to a 60-day ceasefire.
00:35:39.000Is that a new breaking thing or is this good old Sputnik throwing out more propaganda?
00:36:19.000With billions of dollars in funding over the last twenty years that we chose to build a subway system that's bigger than the London Underground.
00:36:40.000But for people saying this, people on the other side, the Dave Smiths of the World are saying that this needs to stop, these are war crimes without, you know, providing the context that there are still hostages that were taken.
00:36:54.000The humanitarian aid crisis could stop today if Egypt opened up a single gate.
00:36:58.000Just let's start with, hey, hey, if they give up all the hostages and then Israel, you know, completely just goes, you know, laughs it in their face and just keeps killing them all.
00:37:13.000So until that changes, I'm like, yeah, that's where i'm at i don't love everything israel's doing you know sure i think there's better ways to go about it and you know i'm not uh you know i'm not an expert in the field but i would say if they gave up the hostages and then israel continued yeah then i'd be then i'd be the yeah you know netanyahu needs to go like i i'd be the guy that no listen listen absolutely uh hamas has to be it's it's over it's it's over it will never ever if i if
00:37:43.000if i was Netanyahu or anybody in that government right now, I understand.
00:37:58.000You guys get to release the hostages and everything just goes away and we go back to our country and then you guys can just rebuild and start sending rockets over.
00:38:15.000How many Israeli citizens have to die over the next 10 years while Hamas rebuilds and is firing some rockets and doing some stuff how many are we comfortable with on that side right i'm not i'm not they won't do it they won't eliminate hamas i said it it will never happen the reason no they here's here's how it will happen.
00:38:49.000There's no way those two people can get to each other anymore.
00:38:52.000I'm certainly not opposed to it at all as long as they're hostages.
00:38:55.000In other words, let them do as, no, they don't need our money and they don't need our aid and they shouldn't determine international policy.
00:39:04.000Whatever it takes to not only get the hostages back, but to inflict punishment, pain., wounding, maiming on anyone involved in the kidnapping, the taking of and still withholding of hostages.
00:39:36.000What about we disperse them into wonderful neighborhoods?
00:39:38.000We give them tons of money to set up their community.
00:39:41.000money that we would have sent over to gaza and the money that israel was sending into gaza through aiding hamas or anybody else how about we send that with people like a voucher they get to go to one of these other countries around there and set up shop and if you don't like it egypt how about we just take your stuff and segment a group out for a place out for them to live because we don't really care what you have to say anymore you have some pyramids and that's about it that's over yeah it's done this whole like appeasing people and oh my gosh this is what led to
00:40:10.000where we are today yeah somebody gets to win it's force doctrine i'm sorry the greater force is israel also think take us us for that to be the case and i get it and i do have some grievances with israel as a nation of frustration lots of yeah lots of them but think of the cruelty of what if assuming you believe all the numbers coming out of Hamas and coming out of Palestine.
00:40:30.000The cruelty of the people in charge, Hamas, to allow their people to starve and still not give back innocent hostages.
00:40:42.000You're watching your own children die when you could at least by giving up hostages who you kidnapped from a music festival and likely raped.
00:40:51.000Who knows if they're alive or dead at this point, but isn't that, like, you were elected, you've been tasked with taking care of your people, and you've decided that keeping these hostages is more important.
00:41:03.000So I don't know why the blame only goes once and not on the people who willingly took innocent hostages.
00:41:09.000Until that changes, I don't really have a whole lot to say on it and it's going to continue and I get it.
00:41:33.000And this is why this conflict has been going on for a long time because both sides do have legitimate grievances.
00:41:40.000And it seems like you'll have a side where Israel can do no right and then you'll have a side where Israel can do no wrong and it kind of just depends on where you start the timeline.
00:41:50.000You want to go back thousands of years?
00:41:52.000Okay, well then we have another problem.
00:41:53.000If you want to go back to pre-World War II, okay, those are people who are going to likely side with Palestine.
00:41:59.000You want to go back to post-World War II and the international agreement, those are people who are likely going to side with Israel.
00:42:04.000Or you might have people who see that and say that it was a scam and they had no right to do it.
00:42:07.000It really comes down to the timeline and whose land you think it is.
00:42:10.000And that's why at the center of this, people don't like to admit this, but as far as they are concerned, meaning those on the side of Israel and those on the side of Palestine and Hamas, it is a religious war.
00:42:22.000Like we can say that, hey, you can sort support one of these nations because you believe it's a bastion of democracy, or you can support one of these places because of human rights.
00:42:30.000But the war that they're fighting is based on, or their premise, timeline and view of the end of the world, view of the Holy Land.
00:42:40.000That is a big part of why they're fighting this war.
00:42:44.000And so it really is tough to introduce reason to that sometimes, because people are starting off from such a biased premise there.
00:42:51.000And I think that Christians in this country are guilty of it too.
00:42:54.000You know, when you saw Ted Cruz at Tucker Carlson, and Ted Cruz was rightfully pushed, where I do think that we need to look at this, certainly as a matter of policy, rationally at okay who are the bad actors and who are those acting in good faith it is really hard to here's what I will say you do before you get to that you do need to be able to determine because there are people who legitimately have a problem with Israel and their policy and then there are people who are actually anti Semites and I would say that the anti Semites are a significantly
00:43:24.000smaller portion than those who have a problem with Israel and international policy now if you start having this discussion and someone goes what about the USS Liberty or what about the Levant affair whatever and they start going down the route like that's some someone where no reason that you introduce would make sense.
00:43:43.000Just as surely if you talk to a highly observant Jew and say, okay, yeah, we understand.
00:43:51.000But what about, you know, this going on right now with Israel?
00:43:54.000What about the fact that there are people in Netanyahu's own cabinet who disagree with the way he's going about this?
00:44:00.000What about the fact that the polls have changed because of the approach here and the communication has been really bad?
00:44:05.000And they go, well, no, actually what I want you to do is look at Hamas and look at Palestine.
00:44:10.000That's someone to whom you can't introduce reason either.
00:44:14.000But if you go to someone, I've had these convers people, right, well, what about the like would your would your opinion change or would you grant me that I have two very differing views, almost like BC and AD, pre hostages being released and post, where my opinions would be very different based on that scenario.
00:44:38.000And they said, so if the hostages were all released, you would I go, yeah, then I think that there could absolutely be a conversation.
00:44:44.000And certainly, I think it would be appropriate to have a conversation regarding the severity and the treatment of the civilians.
00:44:50.000Right now, the primary duty of the Israeli government, like it or not, would be to retrieve the hostages, not to look out for the best interests of any citizens of Palestine, let alone any members of Hamas.
00:45:01.000Matter of fact, that would be a betrayal of their own people because they have people whom they need to get back.
00:45:06.000For me, those are two different worlds, pre hostage release and post, and we don't find ourselves there yet.
00:45:13.000But in talking about this with people, it really is one of the toughest to break through.
00:45:18.000And sometimes it's the toughest to break through because of people at the top who are dishonest and who are manipulative.
00:45:23.000And you see this when you see people talking about Israel's war crimes, which I think a case can be made, and some, I understand that, when they talk about the history of Israel.
00:45:30.000And they'll go through all of this and they'll get really granular and they'll bring up stuff that you couldn't possibly know if you you spent a lifetime studying it.
00:45:37.000And some of it's true and some of it's completely fabricated, but they never even address that a huge focal point here is the hostages right now in 2025.
00:45:49.000That's someone who is knowingly being dishonest and manipulating.
00:45:52.000So what I would say is before you get to that point, try and identify the person you're speaking with and if they even accept that reality as a premise.
00:46:01.000If they don't or they dismiss it as irrelevant, I'll tell you and this obviously is not an optimistic answer.
00:46:30.000Would you acknowledge that if they give up the hostages, that maybe then there could be some talks that they go, no, this is what you're like, okay.
00:46:36.000Well, then it doesn't really matter to you.
00:46:37.000You've already set in stone what needs to happen regardless of the circumstance.
00:46:42.000And as I've told you, as far as Russia and Ukraine, that's just not how the world is and that's certainly not how war operates.
00:46:51.000Things change based on circumstances and there are opportunities that weren't available yesterday that may be available tomorrow.
00:46:59.000If none of that changes, you're dogmatic, it's a holy war and hey, I guess go do your thing.
00:47:07.000We don't, we're not going to agree with you, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to reason with you.
00:47:11.000That's a huge, valuable skill both here domestically in the United States and often in dealing with conflict is being able to differentiate.
00:47:22.000Being able to differentiate between the minds that you can change and those that you can't because they're the ones doing the brainwashing.