Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1665 Scott Adams： Ukraine Fights Back and Biden's Supreme Court Pick

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00:00:47.140 Ah, yeah.

00:00:50.360 Well, my favorite story of the day,

00:00:55.020 and a day with not so much good news happening,

00:00:57.880 is do you remember the Canadian lady who was a protester in the truck convoy,

00:01:03.520 and she was trampled by horses?

00:01:06.140 Well, I guess she's okay,

00:01:08.300 and she has a Twitter account called Trampled Lady, 0.94

00:01:11.380 or candy, parentheses, Trampled Lady. 1.00

00:01:16.440 And she tweeted today that after getting trampled by horses by Trudeau,

00:01:22.040 I decided I would be moving to Florida with my family.

00:01:26.400 Now, I wish I had a nickel

00:01:28.200 for every time somebody who had been trampled by Trudeau's horses moves to Florida.

00:01:34.340 I don't know, it's some kind of a trend.

00:01:36.340 You get trampled by Trudeau's horses, and you're like,

00:01:38.920 Florida, I'm out of here.

00:01:40.320 So I'll look for more of that,

00:01:43.240 because I expect Trudeau's horses will be doing some more trampling.

00:01:47.080 Well, here's the big story that's not Ukraine.

00:01:50.040 We'll get to Ukraine in a minute.

00:01:51.300 But Biden's nominating, it looks like.

00:01:54.500 Not looks like. He is nominating.

00:01:58.200 Ketanji...

00:01:58.800 I'll have to hear how her name is actually pronounced

00:02:01.960 before I know I'm doing it right.

00:02:03.640 But I think it's Ketanji Brown Jackson,

00:02:07.620 reputed to be a highly qualified human being

00:02:12.960 who, in any normal world,

00:02:16.380 would probably just glide right onto the Supreme Court.

00:02:19.440 But we live in a contentious system,

00:02:21.980 and so the Republicans will fight it to the death or something.

00:02:25.260 Do you know what they should do?

00:02:27.380 What's the smartest thing for Republicans to do?

00:02:30.080 Well, they should ask all the tough questions

00:02:33.320 that they're supposed to ask,

00:02:35.380 because some of those will become clips,

00:02:38.440 and they can use it for political reasons.

00:02:41.420 So they'll probably do questioning

00:02:42.800 that tries to invite some kind of an embarrassing

00:02:45.300 or compromising answer

00:02:47.460 to make Biden look bad, if nothing else.

00:02:49.980 But once they've done their questions,

00:02:54.080 anything short of unanimous approval

00:02:56.040 is going to look stupid. 0.66

00:02:58.620 Am I wrong?

00:02:59.900 Because I think everybody believes

00:03:04.180 that there shouldn't be any trouble

00:03:05.400 with the actual candidate.

00:03:08.700 Now, we could be surprised,

00:03:10.800 but assuming there are no surprises,

00:03:12.720 no surprises whatsoever,

00:03:14.740 aren't we going to be in a situation

00:03:16.480 where the Republicans are just going to look like racists

00:03:18.740 if they vote against her?

00:03:19.660 All it does is return the same balance

00:03:23.160 to the court that was there before.

00:03:25.940 Same number of liberals,

00:03:27.140 same number of conservatives.

00:03:28.680 And if she's not the one who gets

00:03:30.300 on the Supreme Court,

00:03:32.980 it's going to be somebody with similar views.

00:03:35.920 Because you can't keep the Supreme Court

00:03:37.440 unoccupied or a seat open forever.

00:03:40.500 And I don't think we're that close

00:03:42.060 to getting the next president.

00:03:43.180 So this is one of those cases

00:03:45.300 where we can see if the Republicans

00:03:47.660 are working on reflex or strategy.

00:03:53.320 This will be like the clearest example

00:03:55.580 I think you'll ever see.

00:03:58.060 If it's reflex,

00:03:59.380 they'll do everything they can

00:04:00.520 to stop the nomination for no good reason.

00:04:03.400 It won't be good for Republicans.

00:04:05.280 It won't be good for the country.

00:04:07.240 It won't be good for Democrats.

00:04:08.600 It won't be good for the candidates.

00:04:10.040 It won't be good for anybody.

00:04:11.080 So will Republicans do something

00:04:13.760 that is unambiguously bad for everybody?

00:04:17.480 I think they will.

00:04:19.840 I think they will.

00:04:21.600 I actually think that Republicans

00:04:23.340 will be so fucking stupid

00:04:24.880 that they fight this tooth and nail to the end.

00:04:28.160 What do you think?

00:04:29.600 I think I've lost all faith in everybody.

00:04:34.740 Just everybody.

00:04:36.920 Maybe not Elon Musk.

00:04:39.100 Elon Musk, he's still cool.

00:04:41.080 Right?

00:04:42.080 But everybody else,

00:04:43.700 just everybody else,

00:04:45.480 is useless at this point.

00:04:47.780 So,

00:04:49.220 by the way,

00:04:50.300 do you disagree with my analysis of this?

00:04:53.500 That fighting it tooth and nail

00:04:55.040 would be the dumbest fucking thing

00:04:56.800 anybody ever did?

00:04:58.800 Am I wrong?

00:05:01.440 I'm not seeing agreement or disagreement.

00:05:03.900 Okay, I see some agreements.

00:05:05.360 This is about the simplest political question

00:05:09.680 of all time.

00:05:12.420 Now, of course,

00:05:13.080 I'm making a big assumption here

00:05:14.500 that she's gone through some vetting before

00:05:17.340 and that there are no surprises.

00:05:20.540 I think that's reasonably fair.

00:05:22.760 But if there are no surprises,

00:05:24.960 the Republican strategy is crystal clear.

00:05:27.960 Because what do they want for their next nominee?

00:05:30.160 They want their next nominee to go through

00:05:33.140 because they know they're going to be in power

00:05:35.280 in a few years.

00:05:36.540 Do you think they want to not get their nominees through?

00:05:39.660 No, they want that.

00:05:41.040 So I think that the smart thing

00:05:42.340 is to give balance back to the court,

00:05:44.100 same balance they had.

00:05:45.560 They still have the majority.

00:05:47.940 Set a precedent that says

00:05:49.980 if there are no big problems,

00:05:51.120 you're going to vote yes.

00:05:53.560 Do your job,

00:05:54.860 which is vetting, of course.

00:05:56.980 And then next time

00:05:58.100 the Republicans want to pick somebody,

00:06:00.900 say, look,

00:06:01.780 when you had your candidate,

00:06:03.680 when you had your candidate,

00:06:05.460 we gave you 100% support.

00:06:07.560 We're looking for the same.

00:06:09.280 Now, that doesn't mean they'll get the same.

00:06:11.220 But I think it could help,

00:06:12.600 and there's no gain whatsoever

00:06:13.960 for fighting the nomination,

00:06:15.740 unless we have some surprises.

00:06:16.960 All right, Rasmussen is asking the American public

00:06:20.760 about Biden's handling

00:06:22.560 of the Russian aggression toward Ukraine.

00:06:26.300 49% of Americans who answered the poll

00:06:29.480 said he's doing a poor job.

00:06:32.980 And 53% said defending America's borders

00:06:35.580 is more important than defending Ukraine.

00:06:39.100 So normally when war breaks out,

00:06:42.240 it's good for the leader.

00:06:43.420 You know, even if it's an unpopular war,

00:06:46.900 at least the first week or so,

00:06:49.140 the leader usually gets some support

00:06:50.740 but it's not exactly our war, is it?

00:06:53.820 It looks like a war that we, 0.76

00:06:56.640 if I'm being honest,

00:06:58.860 I think the United States caused this war. 0.95

00:07:02.820 Does anybody else think that?

00:07:05.740 I think the U.S. caused this war. 0.94

00:07:10.500 I'm seeing some yeses.

00:07:12.680 Now, you know,

00:07:14.080 one argument against what I just said

00:07:16.160 is that it requires everything to be true

00:07:19.900 in order to get where you are now.

00:07:22.620 So the U.S.'s actions are just, you know,

00:07:24.780 part of the variables.

00:07:26.060 Everybody else would have to do exactly

00:07:27.500 what they were doing to get where we are.

00:07:29.960 So it's not like you could change one variable

00:07:32.080 and know what would happen.

00:07:33.620 You don't.

00:07:34.160 Anything could happen if you change one variable.

00:07:37.240 It could go the same direction.

00:07:38.340 It could go a different one.

00:07:39.540 But at the moment,

00:07:41.120 it looks like the United States created a situation

00:07:44.660 in which we said we would, you know,

00:07:48.620 guide and protect Ukraine

00:07:50.020 and instead we turned it into a threat.

00:07:53.920 Didn't we?

00:07:54.520 Did you see the video of Adam Schiff

00:07:58.060 in 2020, I think,

00:08:02.000 saying that we wanted to support Ukraine

00:08:04.400 so we don't have to fight Russia here?

00:08:06.820 We'll fight Russia there 1.00

00:08:08.160 so we don't have to fight them here?

00:08:10.280 That sounds like an offensive mood, doesn't it?

00:08:13.400 That sounds like an offensive mood.

00:08:15.460 So we've got a member of Congress

00:08:16.980 who said in public

00:08:18.280 that we have offensive intentions about Russia

00:08:21.620 and that we would fight them in Ukraine.

00:08:26.100 We actually said we're fighting Russia. 0.58

00:08:29.320 Like one of our politicians said that in public.

00:08:32.280 Oh, yeah, we're fighting Russia over there

00:08:34.080 so we don't have to fight them here.

00:08:36.780 How does that sound in Russia?

00:08:39.340 Sounds like an offensive move.

00:08:41.700 Do you think that putting a NATO cap on Ukraine

00:08:46.940 is a defensive move or an offensive move

00:08:49.440 in the comments?

00:08:50.140 Is that a defensive or offensive move

00:08:53.520 to bring Ukraine into...

00:08:58.100 I see it as offensive.

00:09:00.440 I see it as offensive.

00:09:02.520 Now, I'm not on Russia's side. 0.86

00:09:06.220 Do you believe that, first of all?

00:09:10.200 I'm not sure if anybody believes anything at this point.

00:09:13.320 But do you believe I'm not on Russia's side?

00:09:15.920 I hope you do.

00:09:16.860 But even though, to me,

00:09:21.620 it looks like America caused this problem.

00:09:25.280 I also think that Trump wouldn't have caused it.

00:09:28.300 I don't think he would have.

00:09:29.900 Because I think Trump can read the room better.

00:09:34.320 Right?

00:09:34.540 I'm not saying Trump is perfect

00:09:35.840 and Biden's all bad.

00:09:37.820 I don't do that game.

00:09:38.900 I'm just saying that Trump can read a room

00:09:41.580 like nobody can read a room.

00:09:43.360 Like, he can really read a room.

00:09:45.340 And I feel like he would have figured out

00:09:47.140 some way past this

00:09:50.180 because it's a psychological problem.

00:09:53.120 It's not a physical problem.

00:09:55.520 It's a physical problem

00:09:56.840 if the psychological part spills over into it,

00:09:59.540 which it usually does.

00:10:00.540 But if you solve it psychologically,

00:10:02.800 you don't get the physical part.

00:10:06.100 And I don't think Biden has those capabilities.

00:10:08.740 I think Trump did.

00:10:10.460 I think Trump had the ability

00:10:11.800 to just shake the box

00:10:14.100 until the box lined up the way he wanted.

00:10:17.800 So it's not like he would just do, like,

00:10:19.860 a strategy that's different.

00:10:21.480 I'm not saying that.

00:10:22.920 I'm saying that whatever Trump did

00:10:24.280 wouldn't look anything like this.

00:10:26.180 It would just be different.

00:10:28.260 He would say different things.

00:10:29.700 He would push different buttons.

00:10:31.480 What would we get?

00:10:33.300 I don't know.

00:10:34.240 I think he'd shake the box

00:10:35.400 and see what happened.

00:10:37.020 And if we liked it, we'd keep it.

00:10:38.940 And if he didn't like it,

00:10:40.140 he'd shake it again.

00:10:41.380 I think he'd just keep shaking it

00:10:42.700 until he got a situation he liked.

00:10:44.940 And that's just not a capability

00:10:46.620 that Biden has.

00:10:47.780 Biden has the,

00:10:49.260 we're the adults in the room.

00:10:50.620 So the way we've always treated things

00:10:53.420 is the way we'll continue treating them.

00:10:55.740 Be nice and predictable

00:10:56.880 so they know exactly what you're going to do.

00:11:00.020 Trump would have been unpredictable as hell.

00:11:04.480 Unpredictable as hell.

00:11:06.380 You wouldn't even know

00:11:07.460 what side he was on after a while.

00:11:09.880 You don't think that would help?

00:11:11.780 Of course it would help.

00:11:13.460 Of course it would help.

00:11:14.760 You don't think Trump could get a message

00:11:16.760 land in the,

00:11:19.740 that would land on the public

00:11:21.260 of Russia?

00:11:23.340 Yeah, he could.

00:11:24.580 Can Biden?

00:11:25.880 Can Biden create a narrative

00:11:27.540 that actually takes hold

00:11:29.460 in the people of Russia?

00:11:32.160 Maybe, but

00:11:33.040 he's not good at it.

00:11:35.540 Who's good at that?

00:11:37.820 Trump.

00:11:38.880 Trump is good at that.

00:11:40.860 Yeah.

00:11:41.080 He wouldn't have to get all of Russia 0.99

00:11:42.440 to believe him,

00:11:43.040 but if he got 25% of them,

00:11:44.660 that's a pretty big problem for Putin.

00:11:48.320 All right.

00:11:49.400 Now, of course,

00:11:50.080 it's always unfair to say,

00:11:51.660 you know,

00:11:51.920 the other person

00:11:52.680 would have done it better.

00:11:53.620 It's sort of the grass

00:11:54.380 is always greener

00:11:55.280 sort of thing.

00:11:56.220 So you should be aware

00:11:57.200 that there's a bit of an illusion

00:11:58.500 that follows all of this.

00:12:00.540 We don't know

00:12:01.320 that Trump would have done

00:12:02.380 a better job.

00:12:03.640 We don't know that.

00:12:05.040 It's just that his personality

00:12:06.360 appears more fit for the task.

00:12:09.280 That's all you can say for sure.

00:12:13.200 All right.

00:12:13.720 Here's the thing

00:12:14.480 that is making me wonder

00:12:16.860 how much our own fake news

00:12:18.800 is faking us on this story.

00:12:22.420 Let me do a fact check with you.

00:12:25.520 Fact check for those 0.96

00:12:26.660 who've been watching the news.

00:12:28.440 Is Ukraine infiltrated

00:12:31.460 or does it have too many neo-Nazis

00:12:34.600 in the government

00:12:35.420 and military itself?

00:12:37.520 Yes or no?

00:12:39.000 Is that a real charge

00:12:40.480 that the number of neo-Nazis,

00:12:42.660 actual neo-Nazis

00:12:43.860 in the Ukrainian military

00:12:46.020 and in the Ukrainian government?

00:12:50.120 True or false?

00:12:53.660 All right.

00:12:54.180 Most of you are saying no.

00:12:56.220 Oh, a few yeses.

00:12:57.560 Now, those of you

00:12:58.780 who are saying no,

00:12:59.480 where did you get

00:13:00.040 that information?

00:13:01.800 What is the source

00:13:02.840 of your information

00:13:03.680 that the Ukrainian government

00:13:05.660 and military

00:13:07.140 are not filled with,

00:13:12.320 but let's say,

00:13:13.220 let's say does not have

00:13:14.600 a significant amount

00:13:15.700 of neo-Nazis in it?

00:13:17.480 Where did you learn that?

00:13:19.360 Did you learn that

00:13:20.260 from Western press?

00:13:22.680 You did, right?

00:13:24.220 So if you believe

00:13:25.540 that there is not,

00:13:26.900 not,

00:13:28.660 an important neo-Nazi problem

00:13:30.480 with Ukraine,

00:13:31.220 you got that

00:13:32.820 from your own press.

00:13:35.620 Are they credible?

00:13:38.100 Not really.

00:13:39.960 Not on war stuff,

00:13:41.040 especially.

00:13:41.980 Anything about war,

00:13:43.080 there's no press

00:13:43.720 that's credible.

00:13:44.820 Basically nobody.

00:13:46.560 But we all believed it,

00:13:47.680 didn't we?

00:13:48.740 I believed it.

00:13:51.080 I would say

00:13:51.820 that it's just

00:13:52.300 one of those things

00:13:52.980 that didn't rise

00:13:53.840 to the level

00:13:54.520 of questioning it.

00:13:55.560 But here's

00:13:59.840 the counterpoint.

00:14:01.640 I got this

00:14:02.440 from Brian Berletic

00:14:04.680 on Twitter,

00:14:06.000 and I don't know

00:14:06.680 what his background is.

00:14:08.420 And let me say

00:14:09.100 something very clearly.

00:14:11.140 I don't know

00:14:11.680 who this individual is,

00:14:12.820 Brian Berletic,

00:14:14.160 but he promotes

00:14:16.280 an argument

00:14:16.820 or a point of view

00:14:18.120 that I think

00:14:18.820 you should see.

00:14:20.360 Now when I tell you this,

00:14:22.460 you might think

00:14:23.200 that I'm a Russian spy.

00:14:25.560 You might also think

00:14:27.480 that poor Brian Berletic,

00:14:30.000 who did not ask

00:14:30.960 for me to talk about him,

00:14:32.440 you might think

00:14:33.040 he's also

00:14:33.700 a Russian operative.

00:14:36.020 Just because of the way

00:14:37.020 the argument's going to go.

00:14:38.620 Okay?

00:14:39.060 Now I'm not going to claim

00:14:40.040 any of that is true.

00:14:41.140 Certainly not about me.

00:14:42.920 But I don't know

00:14:43.420 anything about Brian,

00:14:44.160 so I'm not going to

00:14:44.660 accuse him of anything.

00:14:45.840 I would just want to

00:14:46.960 acknowledge

00:14:47.640 that it's going to

00:14:49.140 look like propaganda

00:14:50.000 when I tell you

00:14:51.060 what he said.

00:14:51.680 Okay?

00:14:52.680 So he's using

00:14:53.620 only sources

00:14:54.340 from the West.

00:14:55.560 He's using

00:14:56.440 the United Nations

00:14:59.360 as a source,

00:15:00.520 Reuters,

00:15:01.420 you know,

00:15:01.620 basic standard news sources.

00:15:03.640 And he says

00:15:04.260 the following,

00:15:07.360 that Russia 0.72

00:15:07.840 didn't start a war

00:15:08.840 in Ukraine.

00:15:09.620 Again,

00:15:09.980 this is the part

00:15:11.140 that sounds like propaganda.

00:15:12.420 You can use

00:15:12.880 your own opinion.

00:15:14.600 He said,

00:15:15.400 the war has been

00:15:16.020 going on for eight years,

00:15:17.880 spearheaded

00:15:18.360 by literal Nazis,

00:15:20.320 killing 14,000,

00:15:22.220 including 3,000 civilians.

00:15:23.780 In other words,

00:15:25.340 that the Ukrainian military

00:15:26.840 has neo-Nazis in it,

00:15:28.940 or actual Nazis,

00:15:30.340 and they have killed

00:15:31.600 14,000 people,

00:15:33.120 including a lot of civilians,

00:15:35.000 in the,

00:15:35.960 I guess,

00:15:36.840 the so-called

00:15:37.400 independent zones,

00:15:40.060 the Donbass region,

00:15:41.160 I guess,

00:15:41.460 mostly.

00:15:42.480 Now,

00:15:43.540 is this true or false?

00:15:46.120 Is it true or false

00:15:47.640 that the Ukrainian military,

00:15:49.900 forget about the Nazi part

00:15:51.260 for a moment,

00:15:51.780 we'll get back to that.

00:15:53.100 But is it true

00:15:53.600 that the Ukrainian military

00:15:54.660 killed 14,000 people

00:15:56.700 in the Donbass area?

00:16:01.040 Now,

00:16:01.640 did they have

00:16:02.860 a good reason?

00:16:04.740 In other words,

00:16:05.420 if the Donbass,

00:16:06.720 if the Donbass area

00:16:08.920 was in fact,

00:16:10.500 let's say,

00:16:12.660 occupied by enemy troops,

00:16:15.380 doesn't the country

00:16:16.420 have a legitimate,

00:16:17.900 you know,

00:16:19.140 war there?

00:16:19.680 So I'm not sure

00:16:21.080 there's anything wrong

00:16:22.080 with fighting

00:16:23.060 to capture back

00:16:25.020 territory that was

00:16:25.940 captured from you,

00:16:27.700 but, you know,

00:16:28.340 Brian puts it in a way

00:16:29.300 that sounds like,

00:16:30.080 it sounds like

00:16:30.840 an offensive

00:16:31.560 instead of a defensive thing.

00:16:35.160 And then he gives

00:16:36.140 his sources,

00:16:36.740 BBC,

00:16:37.440 United Nations,

00:16:38.280 NBC,

00:16:38.940 et cetera.

00:16:40.280 So,

00:16:41.120 and,

00:16:41.560 here is something

00:16:43.420 that blew

00:16:44.200 my frickin' mind.

00:16:45.380 We're used to

00:16:47.680 fake news

00:16:48.860 and CNN

00:16:49.940 and other outlets,

00:16:51.640 so you know

00:16:52.100 what it looks like,

00:16:53.060 but when you watch it,

00:16:54.560 you don't always know

00:16:55.580 how fake it is.

00:16:56.860 Sometimes you need

00:16:57.520 some context

00:16:58.220 to know how fake it is.

00:17:00.020 But,

00:17:01.000 I was pointed

00:17:02.140 to the RT,

00:17:03.860 Russia Today,

00:17:04.780 RT,

00:17:06.000 website,

00:17:07.080 or actually

00:17:07.420 the YouTube feed.

00:17:09.080 And if you watch

00:17:11.360 10 minutes

00:17:12.220 of RT,

00:17:13.440 which is

00:17:13.980 a propaganda organ

00:17:15.820 from Putin,

00:17:18.400 which,

00:17:18.800 by the way,

00:17:20.380 can I,

00:17:21.000 let me pause

00:17:21.900 to give you

00:17:22.400 a full disclosure.

00:17:24.200 I have appeared

00:17:25.100 on RT.

00:17:26.840 So,

00:17:27.200 RT has interviewed me

00:17:28.420 and included my content.

00:17:30.720 Now,

00:17:31.060 at the time,

00:17:32.040 we were not

00:17:32.940 having this kind

00:17:33.980 of problem

00:17:34.360 with Russia,

00:17:35.460 and this was early

00:17:36.680 in,

00:17:37.920 I don't know,

00:17:38.360 if I had to guess

00:17:39.020 the year,

00:17:39.460 it might have been

00:17:39.780 2016,

00:17:41.280 something like that.

00:17:42.880 2016,

00:17:43.460 I'm guessing.

00:17:44.280 Now,

00:17:44.540 at the time,

00:17:44.980 I knew it was called

00:17:45.720 Russia Today,

00:17:47.140 so I wasn't really

00:17:48.360 surprised

00:17:49.800 that they would have

00:17:51.940 a propaganda element

00:17:54.100 to them.

00:17:54.920 But at the time,

00:17:55.800 I didn't have any trouble

00:17:56.620 with Russia.

00:17:58.520 And I thought,

00:17:59.100 oh,

00:17:59.360 it's just more publicity.

00:18:01.360 It doesn't matter

00:18:01.780 where it comes.

00:18:02.440 Right?

00:18:03.160 So I was just,

00:18:04.100 you know,

00:18:04.780 I was just doing

00:18:05.420 anybody who asked

00:18:07.060 at the time,

00:18:07.700 because I thought,

00:18:08.360 I thought what I had

00:18:09.020 to say was worth

00:18:09.740 saying,

00:18:10.200 so I didn't care

00:18:11.200 who asked me

00:18:12.000 to say it.

00:18:13.260 Now,

00:18:13.600 subsequently,

00:18:15.240 once it became

00:18:16.000 more obvious

00:18:17.200 what RT was up to,

00:18:19.340 they've also asked

00:18:20.180 me for content

00:18:20.840 since then,

00:18:22.200 and I've turned

00:18:23.000 them down.

00:18:24.480 So I want to give

00:18:25.480 you,

00:18:25.760 that's my context,

00:18:27.560 that I have appeared

00:18:28.360 on there,

00:18:29.580 completely aware

00:18:31.320 of what the situation

00:18:32.420 was,

00:18:33.040 and what the risks

00:18:33.860 and rewards were.

00:18:35.100 But at the moment,

00:18:35.880 I wouldn't take

00:18:36.360 that chance.

00:18:36.940 So I would never

00:18:38.800 appear on RT again.

00:18:41.840 Everybody okay

00:18:42.500 with that decision?

00:18:44.140 That makes sense,

00:18:45.000 right?

00:18:46.160 Now,

00:18:46.720 I'm not sure I regret

00:18:47.960 having done it

00:18:48.720 the first time,

00:18:49.600 because it worked

00:18:50.320 for me,

00:18:50.820 it worked for them,

00:18:51.700 and I got my message

00:18:52.980 out,

00:18:53.280 it didn't matter.

00:18:54.340 But I definitely

00:18:55.040 wouldn't do it now.

00:18:56.360 I mean,

00:18:56.740 I wouldn't give them

00:18:57.380 any attention

00:18:57.900 whatsoever.

00:18:59.520 By the way,

00:19:00.240 the only place

00:19:00.760 you're going to see

00:19:01.300 RT.com right now

00:19:02.820 is on YouTube,

00:19:04.760 because I tried

00:19:07.500 to look at their

00:19:08.080 website last night,

00:19:09.220 and it was in trouble.

00:19:12.520 So apparently,

00:19:13.520 Anonymous,

00:19:14.720 the Anonymous

00:19:15.400 hacker group

00:19:16.180 that is international

00:19:17.540 and don't know

00:19:18.640 too much about them,

00:19:19.840 have targeted Russia 0.56

00:19:20.980 and Russian-related

00:19:22.880 websites,

00:19:23.580 including RT.

00:19:25.220 So a number

00:19:26.020 of websites

00:19:26.480 in Russia

00:19:26.900 are down,

00:19:27.440 and I don't know

00:19:30.140 how long Anonymous

00:19:31.060 is going to keep

00:19:31.800 at them,

00:19:32.580 but that's worth

00:19:34.100 watching.

00:19:35.180 The thing I don't

00:19:35.940 know is,

00:19:36.460 does Anonymous

00:19:36.940 have the good tools?

00:19:39.420 Like,

00:19:39.880 how close

00:19:41.080 to a government

00:19:41.820 hack

00:19:42.360 could Anonymous

00:19:44.860 get?

00:19:45.420 Because I think

00:19:46.200 there's a big

00:19:47.600 difference,

00:19:48.060 right,

00:19:48.900 between the best

00:19:49.900 amateur hack

00:19:51.300 and the best

00:19:52.780 military hack.

00:19:54.400 There's no

00:19:55.000 correlation there.

00:19:55.960 There are like

00:19:56.700 worlds of

00:19:57.360 difference apart.

00:19:58.460 So I don't know

00:19:59.140 how much difference

00:19:59.760 they can make.

00:20:00.440 It's probably

00:20:00.860 just denial

00:20:01.500 of service

00:20:02.040 attacks,

00:20:02.580 that sort of

00:20:02.960 thing.

00:20:05.640 I doubt

00:20:06.240 they can take

00:20:06.740 equipment offline.

00:20:09.000 In other words,

00:20:09.520 I doubt Anonymous

00:20:10.400 could crash

00:20:11.200 their grid.

00:20:13.020 What I would

00:20:13.380 imagine,

00:20:14.500 oh,

00:20:14.720 RT is up again?

00:20:16.900 Let's see.

00:20:18.420 This will be

00:20:18.980 interesting.

00:20:19.740 All right,

00:20:20.060 let me test

00:20:20.980 it right here.

00:20:24.340 RT.

00:20:26.140 You're probably

00:20:26.800 doing this

00:20:27.260 right as I'm

00:20:27.900 doing it.

00:20:28.220 You already

00:20:28.580 are printing

00:20:29.480 the answer

00:20:29.900 in your

00:20:30.180 comments.

00:20:36.320 Nope.

00:20:38.240 Is RT up

00:20:39.520 where you are?

00:20:41.760 Because I'm

00:20:42.360 getting a blank

00:20:42.880 page.

00:20:47.320 Oh,

00:20:47.740 you're on it

00:20:48.100 now,

00:20:48.380 really?

00:20:48.860 Is it just

00:20:49.400 RT.com?

00:20:50.540 It's RT.com,

00:20:53.820 right?

00:20:55.280 So apparently

00:20:56.000 it's offline

00:20:56.960 in certain

00:20:57.400 places.

00:20:59.560 Let me

00:21:00.200 refresh,

00:21:01.320 see if it

00:21:01.920 changes.

00:21:02.840 Yeah,

00:21:03.040 no,

00:21:03.340 the refresh

00:21:04.300 didn't work.

00:21:06.360 It's up in

00:21:07.100 Florida.

00:21:08.760 I'll be darned.

00:21:12.220 All right,

00:21:12.740 so some can

00:21:13.380 reach it and

00:21:13.800 some can't.

00:21:14.420 So what does

00:21:14.880 that mean?

00:21:15.240 Does that mean

00:21:15.640 denial of

00:21:16.200 service?

00:21:16.540 your ISP

00:21:19.200 blocked it.

00:21:20.060 That's what it

00:21:20.520 looks like.

00:21:21.060 It doesn't

00:21:21.580 look like a

00:21:22.220 denial of

00:21:22.700 service.

00:21:23.060 It looks

00:21:23.300 blocked.

00:21:25.540 It looks

00:21:26.200 blocked.

00:21:27.140 Yeah,

00:21:27.340 it's up on

00:21:27.720 YouTube because

00:21:28.460 and why?

00:21:30.440 Wait a minute.

00:21:36.340 Wait a minute.

00:21:38.000 Are you

00:21:38.360 fucking kidding

00:21:39.200 me?

00:21:41.200 YouTube?

00:21:42.280 YouTube is

00:21:43.140 running Russian

00:21:43.820 propaganda during

00:21:44.780 the war?

00:21:45.140 Are you

00:21:46.620 fucking kidding

00:21:47.360 me?

00:21:50.700 Oh,

00:21:51.120 you think it's

00:21:51.540 only the

00:21:51.860 iPhone that's

00:21:52.600 the problem?

00:21:53.300 Maybe.

00:21:55.060 I mean,

00:21:55.400 I'm on Wi-Fi.

00:21:56.340 How should that

00:21:56.780 make a difference?

00:21:59.580 Wow.

00:22:01.980 I think you'd

00:22:02.800 have to say that

00:22:03.500 YouTube is

00:22:04.480 supporting Russia

00:22:05.520 in the war,

00:22:06.140 wouldn't you?

00:22:07.860 Isn't the

00:22:08.440 number one thing

00:22:09.160 that YouTube

00:22:09.640 does is get

00:22:10.540 rid of content

00:22:11.240 that's

00:22:12.580 inappropriate?

00:22:14.040 What is more

00:22:14.800 inappropriate than

00:22:15.820 war propaganda

00:22:17.080 during a war

00:22:17.960 from the

00:22:19.840 other side?

00:22:23.220 YouTube,

00:22:23.980 you've got a

00:22:24.380 lot of

00:22:24.620 explaining.

00:22:25.640 Do you know

00:22:26.000 who got

00:22:26.300 demonetized a

00:22:27.340 few times this

00:22:27.960 week?

00:22:29.340 Or last few

00:22:30.400 weeks?

00:22:31.100 I did.

00:22:32.280 I did.

00:22:33.760 YouTube is

00:22:34.620 censoring me?

00:22:35.240 Are they not

00:22:36.780 doing any

00:22:37.300 censoring of

00:22:38.160 war propaganda

00:22:39.400 from Russia?

00:22:39.960 like, I hope

00:22:42.800 I'm wrong

00:22:43.260 about that,

00:22:44.760 but,

00:22:45.760 hey, YouTube,

00:22:46.680 if you censors

00:22:48.140 are watching me

00:22:48.920 right now,

00:22:49.660 and I know

00:22:50.120 that they have

00:22:50.580 to do manual

00:22:51.420 reviews almost

00:22:52.180 every time,

00:22:53.460 but what the

00:22:55.460 hell is going

00:22:55.980 on?

00:22:57.040 I think you

00:22:57.600 need an

00:22:57.940 explanation for

00:22:58.700 the public.

00:22:59.040 I think the

00:23:00.300 public would

00:23:00.820 like to know

00:23:01.480 why my content

00:23:03.340 is often

00:23:03.960 demonetized

00:23:04.780 without any

00:23:05.680 reason that I

00:23:06.280 can see,

00:23:06.700 at the same

00:23:08.340 time that

00:23:08.860 RT is just

00:23:10.420 up and running

00:23:10.980 with their

00:23:11.400 feed?

00:23:12.640 Seriously?

00:23:13.880 And that's

00:23:14.580 okay with you.

00:23:16.380 YouTube's okay

00:23:17.100 with that.

00:23:18.060 Google is okay

00:23:18.880 with that.

00:23:20.540 I think we

00:23:21.620 need an

00:23:21.960 explanation.

00:23:23.580 Don't you?

00:23:25.100 Don't you

00:23:25.740 think somebody

00:23:26.440 needs to ask

00:23:27.140 YouTube what

00:23:27.760 the fuck is

00:23:28.520 going on?

00:23:29.940 What the

00:23:30.620 fuck is going

00:23:31.400 on?

00:23:32.480 Seriously?

00:23:33.980 And that's

00:23:34.280 mind-boggling.

00:23:35.760 Just mind-boggling.

00:23:36.700 Well, you

00:23:38.880 think this

00:23:39.320 war in

00:23:39.800 Ukraine is

00:23:40.300 bad, but

00:23:40.880 it's way

00:23:41.300 worse than

00:23:41.740 you think.

00:23:42.620 Joy Behar

00:23:43.580 is concerned

00:23:45.140 about the

00:23:46.220 effects it

00:23:46.680 will have on

00:23:47.340 her vacation

00:23:48.940 to Italy that

00:23:49.720 she's planning

00:23:50.200 this summer.

00:23:51.620 And she's

00:23:51.960 been trying to

00:23:52.900 get there for

00:23:53.420 four years,

00:23:54.180 damn it, and

00:23:54.720 the pandemic

00:23:55.600 slowed her

00:23:56.160 down, and

00:23:56.740 now, in

00:23:58.920 somber tones

00:23:59.780 appropriate to

00:24:00.920 the situation,

00:24:01.720 she complains

00:24:02.440 that her

00:24:03.500 vacation to

00:24:04.160 Italy might

00:24:05.640 be postponed.

00:24:06.700 It might

00:24:07.840 be postponed.

00:24:10.020 So, if we

00:24:10.960 could have a

00:24:11.380 moment of

00:24:11.800 silence for

00:24:12.460 Joe Behar's

00:24:14.360 vacation.

00:24:15.960 Moment of

00:24:16.420 silence, please.

00:24:17.820 Okay, that's

00:24:18.320 enough.

00:24:20.840 All right, here's

00:24:21.580 something else that

00:24:22.240 the fake news

00:24:22.900 caused.

00:24:24.780 War in 0.61

00:24:25.380 Ukraine.

00:24:27.180 War in 0.61

00:24:27.760 Ukraine.

00:24:30.440 Have you

00:24:31.100 wondered why

00:24:31.680 Putin can get

00:24:32.520 away with saying

00:24:33.280 ridiculous bullshit

00:24:34.380 shit about why

00:24:35.180 he's going into

00:24:35.800 Ukraine?

00:24:37.060 Have you

00:24:37.660 wondered why

00:24:38.120 he can say

00:24:38.520 such ridiculous

00:24:39.420 things that

00:24:40.700 are so

00:24:41.040 obviously untrue,

00:24:42.720 and apparently

00:24:43.200 half of his

00:24:43.800 country believes

00:24:44.460 it?

00:24:46.140 Like, half of

00:24:47.040 the country

00:24:47.340 believes it.

00:24:48.940 Now, why is

00:24:49.800 that?

00:24:51.060 Could it be

00:24:51.860 because there

00:24:52.420 are no sources

00:24:53.120 of legitimate

00:24:53.840 news?

00:24:55.640 Yes, it

00:24:56.320 could be that.

00:24:57.600 Because even

00:24:58.320 Russia has access 0.91

00:24:59.140 to the Internet.

00:25:00.620 You know, there's

00:25:00.980 some things censored,

00:25:01.920 et cetera, but

00:25:02.920 they can get to

00:25:03.560 CNN.com, can

00:25:06.100 they not?

00:25:07.400 Can somebody do a

00:25:08.120 fact check?

00:25:09.240 If you live in

00:25:09.900 Russia, you can

00:25:11.220 get to CNN.com.

00:25:14.460 Is that true, by

00:25:15.560 the way?

00:25:16.220 It is true, right?

00:25:18.420 So, if you can

00:25:19.540 get to Western

00:25:20.600 news sources,

00:25:22.420 why don't those

00:25:23.880 Western news

00:25:24.820 sources reprogram

00:25:25.980 the Russian public

00:25:26.920 into a more

00:25:29.100 accurate view of

00:25:29.940 the world?

00:25:31.460 Well, maybe it's

00:25:32.900 because when they

00:25:33.500 watch CNN, they

00:25:34.360 can tell it's

00:25:34.900 fake news.

00:25:36.480 Because it is.

00:25:38.480 Maybe there are

00:25:40.140 no sources of

00:25:41.000 reliable news.

00:25:42.520 So, when the

00:25:43.420 Russian public

00:25:44.140 sees RT, they

00:25:46.160 don't see it as

00:25:46.860 any different than

00:25:47.680 anything else.

00:25:48.880 Because everything's

00:25:49.780 propaganda.

00:25:51.500 That's a pretty

00:25:52.220 bad place to be.

00:25:54.080 Wouldn't it be a

00:25:54.700 better world if

00:25:56.060 there were at

00:25:56.520 least one place

00:25:57.360 you could see

00:25:57.840 both sides, and

00:25:59.160 the Russian public

00:25:59.820 could say, you

00:26:00.260 know, I don't

00:26:01.240 believe RT, I

00:26:02.680 also don't

00:26:03.140 believe CNN.

00:26:04.560 Can I just go

00:26:05.660 look somewhere and

00:26:07.160 find out what's

00:26:07.800 true?

00:26:09.580 I think that the

00:26:11.140 fake news industry

00:26:12.100 in the United

00:26:12.640 States, the fact

00:26:14.380 that it lost all

00:26:15.160 credibility, is a

00:26:17.840 much bigger problem

00:26:18.780 than we imagine.

00:26:20.280 It's not just about

00:26:21.340 who believes

00:26:21.940 bullshit and votes

00:26:22.860 wrong.

00:26:23.600 It's about starting

00:26:24.700 wars.

00:26:26.740 I would argue that

00:26:27.900 this is a war of

00:26:28.860 disinformation.

00:26:30.640 Meaning that the

00:26:31.620 soldiers fighting it

00:26:32.540 don't know why

00:26:33.060 they're fighting it.

00:26:34.880 Maybe Putin knows,

00:26:36.260 but he's not saying

00:26:36.920 it directly.

00:26:38.720 So, if you could

00:26:40.660 fix disinformation,

00:26:42.900 you could probably

00:26:43.720 take a big bite out

00:26:44.920 of any future wars

00:26:45.980 because they depend

00:26:46.820 on disinformation.

00:26:48.260 The entire thing

00:26:49.080 depends on that.

00:26:51.300 All right.

00:26:51.880 What do you think of

00:26:55.800 temporary sanctions on

00:26:57.280 stuff as a way to

00:26:58.540 stop a war?

00:27:02.040 It doesn't really

00:27:02.900 work, does it?

00:27:04.240 Because everybody

00:27:05.000 thinks, well, it's

00:27:05.620 temporary.

00:27:06.980 I can keep Ukraine 1.00

00:27:08.340 forever, but the

00:27:09.360 sanctions will be

00:27:10.040 temporary.

00:27:11.840 If I just told you

00:27:13.200 that, doesn't it

00:27:14.240 look like a good

00:27:14.880 investment for Russia

00:27:16.220 to conquer Ukraine?

00:27:17.560 If the only thing

00:27:19.000 you knew was that

00:27:21.000 the sanctions,

00:27:22.160 whatever they are,

00:27:23.080 are probably

00:27:23.680 temporary, but the

00:27:25.500 ownership of Ukraine

00:27:26.460 is probably closer

00:27:27.620 to permanent, that

00:27:29.720 looks like a good

00:27:30.340 deal.

00:27:31.340 So, why do we

00:27:32.340 create a situation

00:27:33.660 that makes it look

00:27:34.240 like a good deal

00:27:35.080 to conquer your

00:27:36.400 neighbor?

00:27:37.480 Maybe we should

00:27:38.320 create a situation

00:27:39.180 where it doesn't

00:27:40.140 look like a good

00:27:40.840 deal anymore.

00:27:41.400 Now, I floated

00:27:44.140 the idea that

00:27:46.140 maybe some of the

00:27:47.080 sanctions should be

00:27:47.820 permanent, like as

00:27:49.960 in forever, as in

00:27:51.920 never fucking change.

00:27:54.060 Now, one of the

00:27:54.460 questions somebody

00:27:55.100 asked me was, but

00:27:56.260 Scott, what about

00:27:57.760 if Putin leaves

00:27:58.900 office and if you

00:28:00.660 could imagine he's

00:28:01.500 replaced by somebody

00:28:02.800 who's not a problem,

00:28:03.700 we don't have a

00:28:04.220 problem with him,

00:28:05.900 then would you drop

00:28:06.860 the permanent

00:28:07.380 sanctions?

00:28:08.380 To which I say,

00:28:09.380 no, do you know

00:28:10.000 what permanent means?

00:28:11.740 Permanent means you

00:28:12.500 don't drop them

00:28:13.100 ever.

00:28:14.780 Now, the financial

00:28:15.860 ones, of course,

00:28:16.620 will get dropped

00:28:17.200 eventually.

00:28:18.520 That would make

00:28:19.060 sense.

00:28:20.680 You know, propaganda

00:28:21.820 could get dropped.

00:28:22.880 You know, there's

00:28:23.200 lots of things that

00:28:23.840 could get dropped

00:28:24.520 eventually, if the

00:28:26.400 government became

00:28:27.220 more friendly to the

00:28:28.100 United States, et

00:28:28.880 cetera, or to the

00:28:29.460 West.

00:28:30.640 But here's one.

00:28:32.020 I think you have to

00:28:32.740 give them one

00:28:33.340 permanent stain.

00:28:35.720 Take Germany as 0.90

00:28:37.100 an example.

00:28:39.240 Did Germany 0.61

00:28:39.940 bulldoze the

00:28:41.080 concentration camps

00:28:42.140 from World War

00:28:42.940 II?

00:28:44.100 They did not.

00:28:45.860 They did not.

00:28:46.540 And wisely, I

00:28:47.340 think.

00:28:48.440 Instead, they kept

00:28:49.640 the concentration

00:28:50.440 camps because they

00:28:51.460 never want to

00:28:52.060 forget.

00:28:54.040 And Germany,

00:28:56.420 rather than

00:28:57.080 running from its

00:28:57.860 history, has

00:28:59.140 simply embraced

00:29:00.140 the shame and

00:29:01.260 said, that's who

00:29:01.840 we are now.

00:29:03.000 That's who we are.

00:29:03.800 We just have to

00:29:04.340 deal with that.

00:29:05.420 That's who we are

00:29:06.140 now.

00:29:06.420 Meaning the brand

00:29:07.680 of the country.

00:29:09.720 And I feel as

00:29:10.720 though we should

00:29:12.140 consider, we, the

00:29:13.260 rest of the world,

00:29:15.320 banning international

00:29:16.620 sports from Russia

00:29:18.220 forever.

00:29:20.420 Because international

00:29:21.520 sports doesn't change

00:29:23.340 your finances or your

00:29:24.340 access to energy or

00:29:25.560 your, you know,

00:29:27.120 national security.

00:29:28.640 Those things have to

00:29:29.860 be flexible because

00:29:30.760 people are going to

00:29:31.360 do what makes sense

00:29:32.180 always.

00:29:32.600 But if you tell the

00:29:34.460 population of a

00:29:35.420 country that you

00:29:37.880 will be banned from

00:29:38.740 international sports

00:29:39.820 forever, that

00:29:42.420 actually is something

00:29:43.200 that will touch them

00:29:43.960 on a regular basis.

00:29:45.700 Because I'm pretty

00:29:46.460 sure soccer is

00:29:47.200 popular.

00:29:47.740 I'm pretty sure,

00:29:48.600 you know, sporting

00:29:49.780 and being part of the

00:29:51.060 sporting world is

00:29:51.900 important.

00:29:54.220 But if it were me,

00:29:55.340 I would say, and

00:29:56.480 of course there's no

00:29:57.080 way to do this because

00:29:58.000 all the sporting

00:29:59.020 groups are independent

00:30:00.160 people.

00:30:00.960 But I would say

00:30:02.420 there will never be

00:30:03.940 another international

00:30:04.820 game in Russia, nor

00:30:07.580 will you ever be

00:30:08.260 invited to any.

00:30:09.520 Not the Olympics, not

00:30:10.900 anything.

00:30:11.620 You're just out of

00:30:12.260 sports forever.

00:30:14.160 Now, you might say

00:30:15.500 to yourself, but

00:30:16.580 Scott, how much does

00:30:17.940 Putin care about

00:30:18.760 that?

00:30:19.740 That's not going to

00:30:20.420 change anything.

00:30:21.620 To which I say, it's

00:30:22.840 about the next one.

00:30:25.160 I agree that it

00:30:26.240 wouldn't change

00:30:26.700 anything on this

00:30:27.360 war.

00:30:27.780 You're right.

00:30:29.180 But it's about the

00:30:29.860 next one.

00:30:30.960 I think you have

00:30:31.620 to set a standard

00:30:33.640 that some things

00:30:34.520 are permanent, and

00:30:35.820 that those things

00:30:36.440 should be things

00:30:36.980 that affect the

00:30:37.660 public, but not

00:30:38.540 in a life-or-death

00:30:39.600 way.

00:30:41.780 Let me ask you

00:30:42.560 this.

00:30:44.460 Suppose you're just

00:30:45.200 an American sitting

00:30:46.000 at home watching

00:30:46.580 the Ukraine situation.

00:30:48.660 How much do you

00:30:49.440 care about it?

00:30:51.720 It's different,

00:30:52.520 right?

00:30:52.760 People care,

00:30:53.580 people don't care.

00:30:54.160 But suppose you

00:30:56.400 found out that

00:30:57.140 supporting the war

00:30:58.540 in Ukraine would 0.62

00:30:59.800 mean you could

00:31:00.820 never watch

00:31:01.280 professional sports

00:31:02.260 in America again.

00:31:04.600 How much do you

00:31:05.500 care now?

00:31:06.720 Well, you might

00:31:07.360 not care about

00:31:07.940 Ukraine at all,

00:31:08.940 or the war at

00:31:09.880 all.

00:31:10.700 But how many

00:31:11.440 people build their

00:31:12.320 lives around

00:31:12.920 watching sports?

00:31:14.960 A lot.

00:31:16.280 It would actually

00:31:17.200 really, really

00:31:18.140 affect people.

00:31:20.240 Now, it wouldn't

00:31:20.920 affect me, because

00:31:21.640 I don't watch

00:31:22.320 sports, but it

00:31:23.440 would really affect

00:31:24.220 a lot of people

00:31:24.920 who it's their

00:31:25.980 only entertainment

00:31:26.700 and it's free.

00:31:28.160 If you take

00:31:28.860 away their

00:31:29.280 only free

00:31:29.900 entertainment,

00:31:30.560 the thing they

00:31:30.960 care about and

00:31:31.600 look forward to,

00:31:32.620 it's a big deal.

00:31:34.220 It's a big deal.

00:31:35.380 It's just not

00:31:35.860 life or death.

00:31:37.300 So I think you

00:31:38.180 could find some

00:31:38.820 things which are

00:31:39.560 big deals that

00:31:41.360 you could say,

00:31:41.880 you know, this

00:31:42.540 one's just

00:31:42.900 permanent.

00:31:44.340 This one's just

00:31:45.200 permanent.

00:31:45.900 There's nothing

00:31:46.240 you can do

00:31:46.660 about it.

00:31:50.060 That might get

00:31:50.820 their public

00:31:51.500 involved, but if

00:31:53.580 not, who cares?

00:31:54.920 Who cares in

00:31:57.920 the sense that

00:31:58.540 it's about the

00:32:00.540 next public?

00:32:01.340 It's not really

00:32:01.860 about this public.

00:32:03.480 All right, so

00:32:04.160 Ukraine officials

00:32:06.680 have told the

00:32:07.400 public to make

00:32:08.100 Molotov cocktails

00:32:09.100 and get ready for

00:32:10.360 the Russian

00:32:11.080 incursion into

00:32:12.100 Kiev.

00:32:14.120 So it looks

00:32:15.420 like it's going

00:32:16.000 to be a trap

00:32:16.940 and burn 0.95

00:32:17.400 strategy.

00:32:19.400 And I don't

00:32:19.880 know why this

00:32:20.360 wouldn't work,

00:32:22.040 but if you

00:32:22.640 could imagine

00:32:23.160 that every third

00:32:24.340 window,

00:32:24.920 in Ukraine,

00:32:26.000 had a Molotov

00:32:26.740 cocktail, and

00:32:28.480 it seems to be

00:32:29.880 tall buildings on

00:32:32.100 the sides of

00:32:32.620 these streets,

00:32:34.940 wouldn't they be

00:32:36.060 able to trap,

00:32:37.520 you know, you

00:32:38.020 blow something up

00:32:38.880 in the beginning

00:32:39.420 and the end of

00:32:40.140 the troops coming

00:32:42.160 in, couldn't you

00:32:43.160 trap them there

00:32:43.900 and just throw

00:32:45.540 Molotov cocktails

00:32:46.820 out the window

00:32:47.380 until they're all

00:32:48.040 burned up?

00:32:48.480 Or, what is the

00:32:52.100 defense against

00:32:52.840 it?

00:32:53.800 Is the defense

00:32:54.700 that the military

00:32:56.180 would just like

00:32:56.880 blow up every

00:32:57.960 building?

00:32:59.220 Because they'd

00:32:59.880 have to, right?

00:33:00.600 They'd have to

00:33:01.000 blow up all the

00:33:01.580 buildings, or even

00:33:03.300 just like spray

00:33:04.160 gunfire into them,

00:33:05.660 but I don't know,

00:33:07.180 would that stop the

00:33:07.900 Molotov cocktails?

00:33:09.220 Would they just

00:33:09.880 blow everything up?

00:33:10.660 They'd probably

00:33:12.200 start executing

00:33:13.160 civilians or doing

00:33:14.480 something pretty

00:33:15.180 big.

00:33:17.640 Blow up the

00:33:18.320 pipelines.

00:33:20.180 Now, apparently

00:33:20.760 Ukraine has also

00:33:21.720 asked for private

00:33:23.240 drones to be

00:33:25.020 donated to the

00:33:25.920 cause.

00:33:27.860 So, one thing

00:33:28.660 that's possible,

00:33:31.120 will the city of

00:33:32.340 Kiev have 1.00

00:33:32.800 communication?

00:33:35.300 Because I'm not

00:33:36.420 sure that a

00:33:37.340 Molotov cocktail

00:33:38.480 attack works unless

00:33:40.020 it's coordinated.

00:33:40.660 You know, somebody

00:33:42.800 throwing one once

00:33:43.940 in a while doesn't

00:33:44.740 change anything.

00:33:47.060 But if you

00:33:48.680 trapped the

00:33:50.880 soldiers into a

00:33:51.940 street, you 0.92

00:33:53.200 trapped the

00:33:53.640 beginning and the

00:33:54.220 end, and then you

00:33:55.620 just rained fire on

00:33:56.760 them from above, and

00:33:58.580 you took video of it

00:33:59.560 on your phone, and

00:34:01.120 you made that video

00:34:02.040 available to the

00:34:03.160 Russian public, do 0.91

00:34:05.200 you think the

00:34:05.600 Russian public would

00:34:06.460 like to see their

00:34:08.060 young people incinerated 1.00

00:34:09.420 in a fire?

00:34:09.980 slowly on a

00:34:11.540 Ukraine street.

00:34:13.180 Because that's the

00:34:13.740 video you need.

00:34:15.200 The video you need is

00:34:16.900 of young Russian

00:34:18.560 soldiers on fire and

00:34:20.420 running around and no

00:34:21.560 place to go.

00:34:23.620 You give me that

00:34:24.640 video, and the

00:34:26.380 Russian public will

00:34:27.240 turn on Putin.

00:34:29.260 If you have more

00:34:30.260 than one of them, if

00:34:31.680 you can do that

00:34:32.440 twice, you probably

00:34:35.180 will protect Kiev.

00:34:36.200 Because I don't

00:34:38.200 know that the

00:34:38.660 Russian public could

00:34:40.040 handle watching the

00:34:42.660 slow-motion burn of

00:34:43.780 their young people on

00:34:45.160 the Kiev street.

00:34:46.400 I don't think they

00:34:46.880 could handle it.

00:34:48.820 And I don't think that

00:34:49.740 even Putin could keep

00:34:50.660 that image out of

00:34:51.440 Russia.

00:34:53.940 But we'll see.

00:34:55.640 Now, let me be very

00:34:57.500 clear.

00:34:58.540 I'm not even sure I

00:34:59.820 care who wins.

00:35:00.640 Is that fair?

00:35:05.420 Is it fair to say I

00:35:06.580 don't care who wins?

00:35:07.980 Because so far,

00:35:09.060 Ukraine has been 0.98

00:35:09.780 nothing but a pain in

00:35:11.400 the fucking ass to 0.98

00:35:12.360 America.

00:35:13.020 Am I right?

00:35:14.060 So far, Ukraine has

00:35:15.380 been nothing but a

00:35:16.400 thorn in our side.

00:35:19.000 If Russia owned it, 0.55

00:35:20.480 it would just be sort

00:35:21.580 of the same risk we

00:35:22.580 had with Russia, just

00:35:23.500 more of it, I guess.

00:35:24.980 But not more of it

00:35:26.080 enough in the way that

00:35:26.820 matters.

00:35:27.160 I don't know.

00:35:29.820 Are we worse off if

00:35:30.920 Putin owns Ukraine?

00:35:32.020 I don't know.

00:35:33.280 I have no idea.

00:35:36.460 But I do think it's

00:35:37.760 interesting that Putin

00:35:40.280 and Biden both shut

00:35:41.660 down each other's 0.64

00:35:42.440 banks.

00:35:44.260 You know what I

00:35:44.780 mean?

00:35:45.760 Biden shut down

00:35:47.100 business with a

00:35:48.940 number of the top

00:35:49.580 Russian banks, and

00:35:51.780 Putin is closing

00:35:53.300 Ukraine so that the 0.95

00:35:55.460 Bidens can't use it

00:35:56.340 as their personal

00:35:56.980 bank anymore.

00:35:58.240 They both ended

00:35:58.980 banking for each

00:35:59.740 other.

00:36:01.100 How much do you care

00:36:02.140 about that?

00:36:03.520 I don't.

00:36:04.900 I'm happy that Putin 0.93

00:36:06.180 can't bank as well, and

00:36:07.440 I'm happy that the

00:36:08.320 Bidens don't have that 1.00

00:36:09.140 bank anymore.

00:36:10.440 So, I don't know.

00:36:12.560 Does the United States

00:36:13.360 come out behind?

00:36:14.920 Check the stock

00:36:15.740 market.

00:36:17.360 Let's see.

00:36:18.080 How's the stock

00:36:18.620 market doing?

00:36:19.200 And I'll tell you if

00:36:19.780 the United States is

00:36:20.620 going to come out

00:36:21.400 behind.

00:36:23.600 It's up.

00:36:24.980 It's up.

00:36:25.580 So, Russians are in 0.99

00:36:27.240 Kiev, and the

00:36:28.100 American stock market

00:36:29.060 is up.

00:36:31.700 Now, it was down a

00:36:32.800 lot, so this might be

00:36:34.080 just a fluctuation.

00:36:35.460 So, you can't say

00:36:36.080 anything from this one-day

00:36:37.500 change.

00:36:39.640 But, is Ethereum up or

00:36:42.860 down today?

00:36:45.920 Crypto is up.

00:36:47.020 I saw something about

00:36:49.400 Ethereum as a

00:36:50.580 trending story.

00:36:51.980 How much is Ethereum

00:36:53.000 up?

00:36:53.520 A lot?

00:36:57.800 We'll find out.

00:36:58.860 Anyway, this Molotov

00:36:59.900 cocktail situation is

00:37:02.420 going to, if they need

00:37:04.260 to produce video.

00:37:06.420 It's all about the

00:37:07.340 video.

00:37:08.600 So, if you hear

00:37:09.240 Molotov cocktails, that

00:37:10.520 doesn't mean anything.

00:37:11.840 Molotov cocktails plus

00:37:13.380 trapping them, plus

00:37:16.760 getting phone video.

00:37:19.820 That's the way to

00:37:20.720 make a difference.

00:37:23.280 ETH isn't

00:37:23.780 mooning, if that's

00:37:25.600 what you mean.

00:37:26.120 It's at 2,800.

00:37:27.440 So, it's just up a

00:37:28.180 little bit.

00:37:29.260 Ethereum.

00:37:30.360 All right.

00:37:34.320 So, apparently RT is

00:37:36.260 showing a Tucker Carlson

00:37:37.600 show pretty much

00:37:38.500 pretty much every day.

00:37:43.920 So, that's

00:37:45.500 interesting.

00:37:47.300 The one thing I

00:37:48.280 think you can be

00:37:48.860 happy about in the

00:37:49.680 United States is that

00:37:51.420 you could have

00:37:51.880 somebody in this

00:37:52.620 country who's, you

00:37:53.940 know, that much

00:37:54.840 against war as

00:37:56.800 Tucker is.

00:37:58.100 And Tucker's been

00:37:58.880 pretty consistently

00:37:59.960 against war, so.

00:38:05.820 Somebody's worried

00:38:06.540 about being

00:38:06.940 getting canceled

00:38:07.500 for being a

00:38:08.060 Russian puppet. 0.79

00:38:10.400 I don't think

00:38:11.140 that's a risk.

00:38:12.800 I think you could

00:38:13.680 actually be a

00:38:14.360 Russian puppet and

00:38:15.160 you wouldn't get

00:38:15.560 canceled.

00:38:17.740 But I'm not.

00:38:19.940 All right.

00:38:21.000 One of the things

00:38:21.640 that Tucker mentions,

00:38:22.660 and there isn't

00:38:23.040 enough talk about it,

00:38:23.900 and I think it's

00:38:24.340 because it's

00:38:24.700 complicated, is

00:38:26.360 that the real risk

00:38:27.420 is to the

00:38:28.720 American dollar

00:38:29.580 as the

00:38:31.160 currency of

00:38:32.620 choice.

00:38:34.180 Because if

00:38:35.160 anything that

00:38:36.420 comes out of

00:38:36.880 this causes

00:38:37.740 China and

00:38:38.620 Russia to say,

00:38:39.440 you know,

00:38:40.180 let's use the

00:38:41.140 Chinese yuan

00:38:42.220 as the, you

00:38:43.760 know, the main

00:38:44.260 currency for

00:38:44.920 buying oil and

00:38:45.720 stuff.

00:38:46.080 And then the

00:38:46.460 Middle East starts 0.96

00:38:47.100 accepting the

00:38:47.800 yuan instead of

00:38:48.460 the dollar.

00:38:49.660 Then the value of

00:38:50.480 the U.S.

00:38:50.860 dollar tanks and

00:38:51.860 our debt crushes

00:38:53.600 us, and we

00:38:54.820 become a third-rate

00:38:57.720 country.

00:38:58.120 And it looks like

00:38:59.720 we're heading in

00:39:00.180 that direction.

00:39:00.660 So I'm not

00:39:02.620 smart enough to

00:39:03.940 know how big of

00:39:04.700 a risk this is.

00:39:06.260 This is a little

00:39:07.080 above my pay

00:39:08.600 grade, and I've

00:39:09.560 got a degree in

00:39:10.120 economics, and

00:39:10.760 still, unless

00:39:11.920 you're neck deep

00:39:13.300 in this stuff,

00:39:13.820 you don't really

00:39:14.580 know what's going

00:39:15.380 on.

00:39:17.400 All right.

00:39:18.520 So I guess that's

00:39:19.720 the scariest part of

00:39:20.580 this thing, at

00:39:21.540 least for the

00:39:21.880 United States.

00:39:22.420 Why did Russia 0.78

00:39:28.800 capture Chernobyl

00:39:30.200 early on in this

00:39:31.440 move?

00:39:32.200 So they captured

00:39:32.860 the, I assume

00:39:34.400 it's a completely

00:39:35.160 decommissioned

00:39:36.660 site.

00:39:37.340 There's nothing

00:39:37.760 happening there

00:39:38.300 now, right?

00:39:39.280 Chernobyl.

00:39:40.540 But one of the

00:39:41.620 things that was

00:39:42.060 reported is that

00:39:42.860 radioactivity is

00:39:43.720 higher in that

00:39:44.680 area, and that

00:39:45.980 might be because

00:39:46.780 the military

00:39:47.760 operations are

00:39:48.580 kicking up some

00:39:49.260 radioactive dust.

00:39:50.280 Are there

00:39:52.720 Russian soldiers

00:39:53.560 who are in the

00:39:54.260 middle of that

00:39:54.780 extra radiation

00:39:55.740 dust, are they

00:39:57.360 all going to

00:39:57.760 die?

00:39:59.800 Or, has Mark

00:40:02.740 Schneider been

00:40:03.320 right all along

00:40:04.280 that we always

00:40:06.000 overestimate the

00:40:07.720 danger of nuclear,

00:40:08.780 and it's fine.

00:40:10.800 Maybe you can

00:40:11.340 just, you know,

00:40:12.420 obviously the

00:40:13.040 Russian army

00:40:13.560 thinks they're

00:40:14.080 safe.

00:40:15.240 Why does the

00:40:15.800 Russian army think

00:40:16.540 it's safe to be

00:40:18.100 there, of all

00:40:18.720 places?

00:40:19.660 I mean, I don't

00:40:20.060 even know what,

00:40:21.100 I can't even

00:40:21.600 imagine what

00:40:22.240 military benefit

00:40:23.160 they get from

00:40:23.720 it, but it

00:40:24.400 must be some.

00:40:27.660 Or they become

00:40:28.460 Russian mutant 0.79

00:40:29.200 soldiers, and

00:40:30.040 they have spider

00:40:31.220 powers, and

00:40:31.800 they're even

00:40:32.140 harder to beat.

00:40:38.700 So, and I

00:40:39.860 also wondered if

00:40:40.800 maybe Russia was

00:40:42.040 capturing Chernobyl

00:40:43.140 to make sure it

00:40:44.840 didn't become a

00:40:45.440 source of dirty

00:40:46.220 bombs.

00:40:47.700 Is that even a

00:40:48.660 thing?

00:40:48.880 Is there

00:40:50.200 anything left

00:40:50.900 at Chernobyl

00:40:51.660 that somebody

00:40:53.560 could have, I

00:40:54.740 don't know,

00:40:54.920 harvested to turn

00:40:55.980 into a dirty

00:40:56.520 bomb?

00:40:58.040 I'm seeing a lot

00:40:58.740 of people say

00:40:59.260 yes, but I

00:41:02.180 don't think I

00:41:02.620 know enough to

00:41:03.300 confirm that

00:41:04.040 that's true.

00:41:05.220 I'm seeing some

00:41:05.760 no's, seeing some

00:41:07.140 yeses.

00:41:07.820 It sounds like

00:41:08.580 the technical,

00:41:10.960 without knowing

00:41:11.820 anything, I would

00:41:12.780 imagine that the

00:41:13.580 technical complexity

00:41:14.980 of that would make

00:41:16.820 it impractical.

00:41:18.560 I don't think you

00:41:19.480 want to let any

00:41:20.060 of that out.

00:41:21.080 You know, in

00:41:21.660 order to get to

00:41:22.400 it, you're

00:41:23.580 probably going to

00:41:24.020 let some of it

00:41:24.580 out.

00:41:25.640 And I don't know

00:41:26.520 that anybody would

00:41:27.100 take that risk.

00:41:29.640 Maybe as a

00:41:30.340 PSYOP?

00:41:32.980 Nuclear waste

00:41:33.720 from the leak

00:41:34.320 could be dispersed

00:41:35.360 if it's bombed.

00:41:36.460 dirty bombs are a

00:41:41.660 great terror

00:41:42.080 weapon, but

00:41:42.580 not great to

00:41:43.340 use them at

00:41:43.740 home.

00:41:44.020 Well, that's a

00:41:44.420 good point.

00:41:44.840 You don't want to

00:41:45.240 use that kind of

00:41:46.000 a terror weapon

00:41:46.600 at home.

00:41:48.120 But does the

00:41:50.200 Ukrainian military

00:41:51.280 shell the

00:41:53.000 Chernobyl to

00:41:54.520 kill the

00:41:55.400 military there?

00:41:58.560 What if they

00:41:59.160 did?

00:42:00.260 Is that even a

00:42:01.040 thing?

00:42:01.620 Or is Chernobyl

00:42:02.440 hardened against

00:42:03.320 attack?

00:42:04.420 Like if you

00:42:04.860 hit it directly

00:42:05.540 with some

00:42:06.840 shells or

00:42:07.400 some missiles,

00:42:08.600 would it leak

00:42:09.380 its contents?

00:42:13.980 Soldiers can

00:42:14.640 wear protective

00:42:15.280 suits.

00:42:15.740 There are not

00:42:16.040 enough protective

00:42:16.780 suits.

00:42:18.300 I don't think

00:42:19.060 they brought

00:42:19.400 enough protective

00:42:20.380 suits for that.

00:42:22.680 It gets

00:42:23.160 boomers to care 0.99

00:42:23.860 about war.

00:42:25.100 Boomers always 1.00

00:42:25.640 care about war.

00:42:29.100 You can't stay

00:42:30.100 in the Chernobyl

00:42:30.660 area for more

00:42:31.260 than six hours?

00:42:32.220 I don't know.

00:42:32.520 We'll find out

00:42:33.180 because I think

00:42:33.820 they will.

00:42:35.540 Watch the

00:42:36.380 mini-series

00:42:36.920 about it?

00:42:37.420 Okay.

00:42:41.280 All right.

00:42:41.840 What do you

00:42:42.120 think of the

00:42:43.760 usefulness of

00:42:44.540 temporary

00:42:44.980 sanctions?

00:42:45.840 You would

00:42:46.200 agree that

00:42:46.600 any temporary

00:42:47.320 sanction looks

00:42:48.040 like it won't

00:42:48.540 work, right?

00:42:49.740 Because if the

00:42:50.340 other side says

00:42:51.220 I'll keep

00:42:51.640 Ukraine forever 0.96

00:42:52.320 but your

00:42:52.840 sanctions are

00:42:53.400 temporary, okay,

00:42:54.120 that's a good

00:42:54.520 deal.

00:42:55.460 But what if

00:42:56.200 any of the

00:42:56.860 sanctions were

00:42:57.440 permanent?

00:42:59.340 According to

00:43:00.060 Jeffrey Miller,

00:43:00.840 he says game

00:43:01.380 theory says that

00:43:02.300 a permanent

00:43:02.960 sanction won't

00:43:04.360 change anybody's

00:43:05.120 behavior because

00:43:06.600 it won't

00:43:06.860 change the

00:43:07.240 sanction, which

00:43:08.800 makes sense.

00:43:10.000 Oh, well, if

00:43:11.140 the sanctions are

00:43:11.820 going to be

00:43:12.060 permanent no

00:43:12.560 matter what, why

00:43:13.180 would I do

00:43:13.560 anything differently

00:43:14.940 than I'm going

00:43:15.420 to do?

00:43:16.180 So I guess that

00:43:17.160 makes sense.

00:43:18.560 But it depends

00:43:20.140 on the sanction.

00:43:21.240 Like I said, if

00:43:22.100 the sanction

00:43:22.580 that's permanent is

00:43:23.460 no international

00:43:24.180 sports ever, that

00:43:28.000 might work.

00:43:29.440 That might work.

00:43:30.320 But at least work

00:43:32.580 a little bit.

00:43:33.860 Nothing's going

00:43:34.500 to change what's

00:43:35.260 happening.

00:43:36.300 All right.

00:43:37.320 Yeah, this

00:43:37.980 SWIFT, you know,

00:43:39.400 I think there was

00:43:40.500 never really an

00:43:41.440 option for turning

00:43:42.600 off Russia's gas

00:43:44.440 because we didn't

00:43:45.300 have a backup

00:43:45.840 plan.

00:43:47.160 There's no backup

00:43:47.880 plan.

00:43:49.020 Right?

00:43:49.180 Russia will sell

00:43:50.080 energy to Europe,

00:43:51.500 especially Germany.

00:43:54.060 That's just going

00:43:54.880 to happen.

00:43:55.180 And, yeah, and

00:43:58.400 blocking the SWIFT

00:43:59.240 could damage the

00:43:59.980 U.S. as well,

00:44:01.060 and blah, blah,

00:44:01.600 blah, blah.

00:44:02.000 And probably at

00:44:03.260 least part of the

00:44:03.800 reason that the

00:44:04.620 stock market in

00:44:06.200 the U.S. is going

00:44:06.960 up is that we, I

00:44:10.500 never finished the

00:44:11.180 Nazi story.

00:44:14.000 What part did I

00:44:14.960 not finish?

00:44:22.320 What did I not

00:44:23.260 finish?

00:44:23.600 I guess you

00:44:25.340 don't know.

00:44:26.420 Well, okay, let's

00:44:27.700 see if I can finish

00:44:28.500 it.

00:44:29.320 The point is that

00:44:30.660 Russia says it's 0.91

00:44:32.060 Nazis.

00:44:33.640 Maybe it is, maybe

00:44:34.640 it doesn't.

00:44:35.320 But since we don't

00:44:36.140 trust the news, and

00:44:37.960 we don't trust Russian 1.00

00:44:39.020 propaganda, I don't

00:44:41.900 know, how do you

00:44:42.360 factor that in?

00:44:44.000 Let me give you my

00:44:45.060 bottom line.

00:44:47.620 Because I have

00:44:49.080 literally been called

00:44:49.940 a neo-Nazi for six

00:44:51.220 years, or I guess I've

00:44:53.260 been called a neo-Nazi

00:44:54.460 sympathizer for six

00:44:55.740 years, because I said

00:44:56.780 anything good about

00:44:57.580 Trump once, that's all

00:44:59.040 it takes.

00:45:00.700 What do I think when I

00:45:02.340 see somebody else

00:45:03.100 called a neo-Nazi

00:45:04.120 sympathizer?

00:45:06.920 Right?

00:45:08.120 So this is another

00:45:09.100 cost of the fake news.

00:45:10.580 If the fake news

00:45:11.420 spends six years

00:45:12.340 calling people who

00:45:13.160 are clearly not

00:45:14.160 neo-Nazis, such as 0.51

00:45:17.060 myself, if you spend

00:45:19.380 that much time, that's

00:45:20.780 more social media

00:45:21.520 than the news.

00:45:24.060 But I think the

00:45:26.140 neo-Nazi lost all of

00:45:27.420 its power.

00:45:29.340 I think that in the

00:45:30.400 United States, if you

00:45:31.320 look at some other

00:45:32.000 countries saying that

00:45:32.900 there's some neo-Nazis in

00:45:34.080 the government, that you

00:45:35.320 just yawn.

00:45:37.140 Not because you're not

00:45:38.420 worried about neo-Nazis,

00:45:40.200 but because you don't

00:45:40.960 believe it.

00:45:43.060 Do you believe it?

00:45:44.040 Now I know there's

00:45:46.760 plenty of reporting

00:45:47.640 about actual Nazi

00:45:49.360 sympathizers in

00:45:50.400 Ukraine, but do you

00:45:51.540 believe it?

00:45:53.400 And what percentage?

00:45:55.520 Have you ever heard

00:45:56.100 of percentage?

00:45:57.860 Because do you think

00:45:58.760 there's, is there any

00:45:59.780 reporting that says the

00:46:00.820 number of neo-Nazis in

00:46:02.340 the Ukrainian military

00:46:03.500 list, for example, is

00:46:05.200 greater than the number

00:46:06.200 of neo-Nazis in the

00:46:07.300 U.S. military?

00:46:09.920 You don't know that,

00:46:11.000 do you?

00:46:12.200 You don't know that.

00:46:15.040 I'm hoping we have

00:46:16.480 fewer neo-Nazis in our

00:46:17.880 military, but if it's

00:46:19.340 1%, right, if it's 1%

00:46:23.360 in the Ukraine military,

00:46:24.740 and maybe it is, and

00:46:26.100 it's 1% in our military,

00:46:27.460 why are we even talking

00:46:28.240 about it?

00:46:29.120 Like, that's not the

00:46:29.980 key issue.

00:46:30.540 It's an issue.

00:46:31.660 All right, don't ignore

00:46:32.460 it.

00:46:33.200 But it has nothing to do

00:46:35.200 with why we have a war

00:46:36.140 or anything.

00:46:38.200 So my take on the

00:46:40.040 neo-Nazi thing is that

00:46:41.260 it's effective because it

00:46:42.440 gives Putin some

00:46:43.720 excuse to do what he's

00:46:45.060 doing.

00:46:45.520 I think some of his

00:46:46.420 public will believe it,

00:46:47.460 and that'll be enough

00:46:48.040 to cause confusion.

00:46:51.420 But I don't think it's

00:46:52.260 the real reason.

00:46:53.460 And I think the only

00:46:54.160 reason that he can get

00:46:54.900 away with it is that

00:46:56.420 we're so accustomed to

00:46:58.700 being, calling each

00:46:59.540 other neo-Nazis in the

00:47:00.720 United States, it just

00:47:01.560 lost its meaning.

00:47:03.180 I just don't think it

00:47:03.940 means anything in the

00:47:04.640 United States anymore.

00:47:07.040 Not compared to what it

00:47:07.960 used to.

00:47:08.280 Wake up, they are

00:47:10.860 desperate.

00:47:13.640 Doesn't the military have

00:47:14.840 1% of everything?

00:47:16.060 Yup.

00:47:17.800 Yup.

00:47:18.240 Okay, Oliver Stone has a

00:47:21.020 documentary on the 2014

00:47:22.400 coup in Ukraine.

00:47:24.420 It's called Ukraine on 0.96

00:47:25.440 Fire.

00:47:26.360 It explains the radical

00:47:27.600 right militias like

00:47:28.600 Azov Battalion, they 0.99

00:47:30.160 carried out the coup.

00:47:30.960 Well, the radical right

00:47:33.800 was instrumental in the

00:47:36.720 coup, but they weren't

00:47:38.120 the only ones in the

00:47:38.940 coup, right?

00:47:40.620 Did the Donbass get 0.79

00:47:42.760 controlled by neo-Nazis?

00:47:46.160 Actually, I don't know.

00:47:48.300 Let me ask you that.

00:47:49.240 So before Russia came in, 0.84

00:47:52.200 was the Donbass controlled

00:47:54.200 by neo-Nazis?

00:47:56.280 No, the opposite, right?

00:48:00.960 Yeah, yeah, define

00:48:04.200 neo-Nazis.

00:48:07.720 Ukraine is doing 0.99

00:48:09.340 memes about Russia.

00:48:11.520 Nazis were attacking

00:48:12.560 the Donbass.

00:48:16.360 All right.

00:48:17.960 Well, you know, this

00:48:19.980 whole Nazi thing works 0.86

00:48:21.140 so well for Putin, 0.52

00:48:22.440 because he can just

00:48:23.160 say, I'm getting rid of

00:48:24.200 Nazis, and 50% of the 0.82

00:48:25.720 public will just say,

00:48:26.500 that's fine.

00:48:27.500 I don't need the

00:48:28.300 details.

00:48:28.980 Get rid of Nazis, 0.87

00:48:29.960 that's fine.

00:48:31.900 So, it's looking like

00:48:34.600 Putin will be successful 0.97

00:48:36.060 in taking Ukraine.

00:48:38.620 I think he's, his

00:48:41.580 public opinion will

00:48:42.640 take a hit, of course,

00:48:44.740 but he'll stay in office,

00:48:46.760 looks like it.

00:48:51.000 All right.

00:48:53.960 Good day for a booster

00:48:55.180 sip?

00:48:55.620 I think you're right.

00:48:57.060 Shall we end today's

00:48:58.240 program with the

00:48:59.800 additional sip?

00:49:03.040 Yes, I think we should.

00:49:05.840 Oliver Stone's facts

00:49:07.020 aren't meant to be

00:49:07.800 trusted, somebody says.

00:49:10.140 I would echo that

00:49:11.620 thought.

00:49:13.280 A person making

00:49:14.440 documentary is not a

00:49:15.800 credible source.

00:49:17.660 This has nothing to do

00:49:18.860 with Oliver Stone.

00:49:19.580 In general, person makes

00:49:22.960 documentary, not to be

00:49:24.880 trusted.

00:49:25.900 Don't trust it.

00:49:26.920 And now, the closing

00:49:29.160 simultaneous sip,

00:49:31.340 in which afterwards I

00:49:32.460 will stay with the

00:49:35.140 locals people for a

00:49:36.140 minute and excuse you

00:49:38.140 on YouTube, but it's

00:49:39.700 time for the closing

00:49:40.640 simultaneous sip.

00:49:42.040 Go.

00:49:42.180 Of course my mug is

00:49:47.240 heated.

00:49:48.020 If you don't have a

00:49:49.020 mug heater next to

00:49:50.120 your computer, well,

00:49:52.760 you're not even trying

00:49:53.920 to work hard.

00:49:55.500 You're not even

00:49:56.140 trying.

00:50:00.060 A documentary on the

00:50:01.440 war that apparently just

00:50:02.380 started two days ago.

00:50:03.980 Well, that's not what it

00:50:04.980 is.

00:50:08.520 Just got back from

00:50:09.560 shoveling.

00:50:10.100 Oh, my God.

00:50:13.240 Oh, the Ember mug?

00:50:14.340 Yeah, I have one of

00:50:15.420 those, too.

00:50:18.360 Mug heaters exist.

00:50:19.720 Oh, they do.

00:50:23.960 All right, and that's

00:50:24.840 it for now, and I will

00:50:25.720 talk to you tomorrow,

00:50:27.160 YouTubers. 0.92

00:50:27.440 That's it for now, and I

00:50:29.520 will follow us on our

00:50:30.100 new levers.

00:50:34.620 Thank you,

00:50:39.700 members.

00:50:47.900 Thank god for joining me.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 25, 2022

Episode 1665 Scott Adams： Ukraine Fights Back and Biden's Supreme Court Pick

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