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00:01:36.000Well, the situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate.
00:01:39.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Russian forces moved by air and land to attack Kiev on Friday, while the capital's defenders dug into positions along its forested edge and prepared to blow up the bridges.
00:01:49.000At an airfield, Russian troops who had taken the facility following an airborne assault linked with Russian armored troops had poured in from Belarus, Ukrainian soldiers on the front line said.
00:01:58.000With Ukrainian artillery and armor dispersed nearby, troops, including recently enrolled volunteers in civilian dress, raced for the Russian onslaught from the north and west after Kiev came under renewed bombardment earlier in the day and President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed not to surrender.
00:02:12.000Defenders were gearing up for urban combat, gunfire erupted in several Kiev neighborhoods, and what Ukrainian officials said were clashes with Russian infiltrators.
00:02:19.000Ukrainian artillery and tanks were moving through the city.
00:02:22.000The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has been asking citizens of Ukraine to make Molotov cocktails on Twitter.
00:02:27.000They've now been calling on Europeans with any military training to come and help them and pour into Ukraine in an attempt to repel the Russians.
00:02:35.000Zelensky said on Friday that 137 people had already been killed.
00:02:39.000Other officials put the toll in the hundreds as well.
00:02:41.000Kiev was hit by a series of Russian airstrikes that shook the city center through the morning after Putin ordered an all-out assault on Ukraine aimed at toppling the government of Zelensky and ending Ukraine's alignment with the West altogether.
00:02:52.000A residential high-rise went up in flames after being hit.
00:02:55.000Russia has not gone in full-scale with troops at this point because they're attempting to establish air superiority before they allegedly attempt to bring in about 10,000 paratroopers.
00:03:03.000Thousands of residents of Kiev spent the night in underground subway stations that had been converted into bomb shelters overnight.
00:03:09.000Zelensky, wearing a military sweatshirt, said on Friday this morning, We are defending our country all alone.
00:03:14.000The most powerful nations of the world are just watching from afar.
00:03:17.000Only solidarity and decisiveness by Ukrainians will be able to preserve our freedom and our state.
00:03:21.000He also added that he was Russia's principal target as Moscow seeks to bring down Ukraine's democratically elected government.
00:03:27.000He said the enemy has marked me as enemy Number one, they want to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state.
00:03:32.000And this, of course, aligns with a lot of what we're hearing from intelligence sources that say that the goal here is to decapitate the Zelensky administration and then put in place a Putin puppet regime in Ukraine, the same way that they have in places like Donetsk and Luhansk.
00:03:47.000Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday Moscow recognizes Zelensky as Ukraine's president, but was yet to assess a suggestion from Kiev it might be willing to begin talks with Russia over Ukraine adopting neutral status as a country.
00:03:57.000So that is one of the offers that Zelensky is now putting on the table.
00:04:02.000He suggested that he would declare Ukraine to be non-aligned, saying, we will formally never attempt to join NATO, which is what Putin had originally said he wanted.
00:04:11.000But now that the troops are on the ground, I think it's highly unlikely that Putin acquiesces to any of these calls for negotiation.
00:04:18.000Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Zelensky of lying and said the Ukrainian president had missed his opportunity when Putin previously suggested a non-aligned status.
00:04:26.000Lavrov is no longer interested in anything short of Zelensky's head on a platter, or at least seeing him locked up in a Moscow labor camp, according to Jazz Shaw, writing for Hot Air.
00:04:35.000Putin has gone in too far at this point to simply pull out without any sort of change in the top level of the administration in Ukraine.
00:04:45.000Zelensky said they wanted to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state.
00:04:48.000He said his family was the number two target.
00:04:50.000He said, my family is not traitors, but citizens of Ukraine.
00:04:52.000I have no right to say where they are now.
00:04:54.000He said that enemy sabotage groups had infiltrated the city, according to the Washington Post, and that NATO and Europe had left Ukraine alone to defend itself against the Russian onslaught.
00:05:03.000The most dramatic footage of the day came from a place called Snake Island, which is just off the coast of Ukraine, of course.
00:05:11.000And apparently, there was an audio exchange as Russian warships approached Snake Island, also known as Zmini Island.
00:05:18.000A Russian officer says, this is a military warship.
00:05:58.000That's Ukraine's far west and near NATO's eastern flank.
00:06:01.000A senior Ukrainian defense official said Russian forces were near the town of Borzal, some 20 miles to Kiev's northwest.
00:06:07.000Biden administration officials told lawmakers late Thursday they feared the capital would soon fall with Russian mechanized forces that had crossed over from Belarus on its outskirts.
00:06:15.000Ukrainian President Zelensky said Thursday he remained in Kiev, though enemy sabotage groups were already in the capital.
00:06:21.000So, things are extraordinarily grim in Ukraine.
00:06:25.000It looks as though Russia is just days, if not hours, from taking Kiev outright and then presumably killing all of its opponents or sending them to labor camps and putting in place a regime more friendly to its own ambitions.
00:06:38.000One of the things that has happened here?
00:06:40.000is that Vladimir Putin has shattered a couple of generations worth of really, really bad foreign policy thing.
00:06:45.000It turns out that some of the dumbest people on earth are the people who make foreign policy for the State Department.
00:06:51.000And this has been true for quite a while.
00:06:52.000The State Department is filled with quizzling idiots.
00:06:54.000And it's always been filled with quizzling idiots.
00:06:56.000And it's not a shock to learn that the State Department really doesn't know what it's doing very often.
00:07:01.000Remember that during the Trump administration in the Middle East, the State Department kept suggesting that if, for example, the U.S.
00:07:06.000Embassy in Israel was moved to Jerusalem, that would spark all-out war in the Middle East and that peace could never be achieved.
00:07:11.000John Kerry, former Secretary of State, said that peace could never be achieved with Arab nations without some sort of concessions to the Palestinians.
00:07:17.000Of course, that was the groupthink at the State Department talking, and it was completely wrong.
00:07:21.000And there are a number of premises that have been held by idiots at the State Department, or elites at the State Department, that are just incredibly wrong, and Putin proved a bunch of them wrong over the course of the last week.
00:07:31.000Number one, the idea that economic sanctions deter major military powers from doing anything is wrong, and it has been wrong for a very, very long time.
00:07:39.000In fact, there's a good new book out titled The Economic Weapon by a professor at Yale University, Nicholas Mulder.
00:07:47.000And that book is about a history of economic warfare and the use of economic sanctions to try and deter major forces from engaging in warfare.
00:08:08.000Over and over again, we have tried economic sanctions on major powers.
00:08:11.000And the real fact of the matter is that economic sanctions on major powers are ineffective.
00:08:16.000Because those major powers usually are able to avoid those economic sanctions by finding other people to ally with them or align with them.
00:08:25.000If there are big financial or commercial loopholes, then it makes it nearly impossible for sanctions to have any long-term impact.
00:08:32.000And again, alliances allow you to skirt all of that, which is exactly what Russia has known.
00:08:38.000So economic sanctions were bound to be a failure here, particularly the sort of economic sanctions that we were laying for Russia, as we'll talk about in just one moment.
00:08:45.000But that's not the only idiotic foreign policy idea that was shattered by Vladimir Putin's aggression.
00:08:50.000Another idiotic foreign policy idea is that just because you're a second-rate economic power, that means that you are not going to be aggressive.
00:08:59.000In fact, it turns out that countries that are second-rate economic powers have routinely been extraordinarily aggressive on their borders.
00:09:04.000The reason being, when you are weak internally, this means that you tend to be more aggressive externally in order to lock down your own population and give them some sort of common purpose.
00:09:14.000So everyone was suggesting that because Russia has a very weak economy, again, Russia's total national GDP is approximately the size of the GDP of the state of Florida.
00:09:24.000Just because of that, the idea was, well, Russia presumably would stop being quite as aggressive.
00:09:31.000And yet that was the going wisdom in a lot of foreign policy circles.
00:09:35.000Other going wisdom in foreign policy circles, promoted by the likes of always-wrong Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, is that if countries had McDonald's, they wouldn't fight each other.
00:09:43.000That trade ties would somehow, this is the converse of the economic sanctions argument, that trade ties would somehow prevent war from breaking out.
00:09:50.000That wasn't even true with World War I. The late 19th century, early 20th century was considered a period, a high watermark of global economic integration.
00:09:59.000And it ended in disaster with World War I.
00:10:02.000So it's always foolish the notion that if you have countries that have allowed some semblance of capitalism to invade, that this would somehow bring countries closer together.
00:10:16.000Now, everybody has known for decades that the UN is a completely useless institution.
00:10:21.000It was formed in the aftermath of World War II.
00:10:22.000There are countries that are on the Security Council that just should not be on the Security Council.
00:10:27.000The fact that the United States and the USSR were both on the Security Council immediately meant that the UN was going to be a useless and feckless organization.
00:10:34.000Today, you have Russia and China sitting on the Security Council.
00:10:37.000That means nothing is ever going to get done there.
00:10:40.000The idea of having a league of nations with nations that despise you and want to destroy you is completely stupid.
00:10:45.000The UN is not just stupid, it is counterproductive.
00:10:48.000It has been corrupt and venal, and the General Assembly has been largely evil for nearly all of its entire existence.
00:10:55.000So when you see our politicians jet-setting over to the UN in order to inform the nations of the world in highfalutin, high-blown speech that history will rebuke people like Vladimir Putin, yeah, the UN is a useless organization, we should level the building and salt the ground.
00:11:15.000Other ideas on foreign policy that have been proved wrong by Vladimir Putin here.
00:11:19.000And again, this doesn't mean that Vladimir Putin is right or good.
00:11:24.000He's been a thug dictator for a very, very long time.
00:11:26.000He is right now, I believe, the longest-serving world leader on planet Earth.
00:11:31.000But other ideas that he has shattered here, because it turns out that a hard-headed, brute military force shatters a lot of illusions, are that non-treaty promises by major nations are useful and trustworthy.
00:11:48.000So if you're Taiwan, why would you believe any non-treaty promises by the West?
00:11:53.000Wouldn't you immediately be seeking to proliferate nuclear weapons?
00:11:56.000If you are a non-aligned country, or if you're a country that just does not have formal treaty obligations from the West, why would you not seek your own nuclear deterrent right now and build up your military right now?
00:12:05.000We're about to watch a nuclear arms race like we frankly have not seen in world history.
00:12:11.000Because if you are a nation that is threatened by China or threatened by Russia, are you going to trust that the same West that turned over Hong Kong to the Chinese and turned over Afghanistan to the Taliban and turned over Ukraine to the Russians and watches as they fight alone, are you going to trust them?
00:12:25.000Again, that's not an argument for us intervening to put troops in Ukraine.
00:12:27.000It's an argument for why Ukraine never should have given up its nuclear weapons and why if the West truly wanted to integrate Ukraine, it should have actually made treaty obligations to Ukraine because that would have prevented Vladimir Putin from coming face to face with Kiev.
00:12:41.000Finally, the notion that international law exists at all has been disproved by Vladimir Putin, who has proved once again that international law, in the words of novelist Leon Uris, international law is something invoked by the evil to the detriment of the good.
00:12:57.000It's generally used by people who are bad in order to stop good people from fighting back.
00:13:01.000When good people invoke international law, the bad people don't give any craps at all.
00:13:05.000And that is the story of Vladimir Putin.
00:13:08.000So all of those ideas have now been shattered.
00:13:10.000And yet we live in a world of illusion.
00:13:13.000And that world of illusion, pretty words, Spoken badly by the President of the United States, make all of this go away.
00:13:19.000If we just say pretty things, if we Barack Obama this thing, then maybe the world will become a better place.
00:13:25.000And the hard power that Russia is now using to great effect in Ukraine, to shell-shock all of the NATO nations on its borders, and to take over a fully-fledged democracy in Ukraine that is basically on the border being a first world country.
00:13:40.000The takeover of Ukraine, which is a war at the heart of Eastern Europe, That should have disillusioned a lot of these people, but it's not going to.
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00:15:06.000So we had the spectacle of Joe Biden wandering out or being directed out toward a podium yesterday.
00:15:11.000Again, late to his own press conference because this is what he does.
00:15:14.000And he wandered out late to the podium where he proceeded to explain that history would be the final rebuke for Vladimir Putin.
00:15:21.000So while he's talking about how history would be the final rebuke for Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Putin is like, yeah, I'm over here taking Kiev.
00:15:28.000So you talk all you want about history.
00:15:31.000Meanwhile, you know, I'm I'm just going to go do what I what I please.
00:15:35.000It turns out that history is not an actual force in the world.
00:15:37.000History is just you writing stuff about stuff that happened in the past.
00:16:28.000Okay, that is a load of bloviating bull crap right there.
00:16:31.000That is a load of bloviating bull crap.
00:16:32.000So his argument is that Russia will be weaker and the rest of the world stronger after Vladimir Putin takes Ukraine with no serious Western response.
00:16:40.000He's gonna have to explain the math on that one.
00:16:42.000Also, when he says things like liberty cannot be extinguished, yeah, it absolutely can.
00:16:47.000There might be the liberty beating in the breast of every human heart, the desire for it, but those require institutions.
00:16:54.000Those require governments that actually guarantee liberty.
00:16:57.000It turns out that the vast majority of human history, liberty has not been the way that people live, particularly in this area of the world.
00:17:05.000I mean, we just got done with a 20th century where nearly the entirety of Eastern Europe was dominated by a fascist communist force.
00:17:14.000And we are supposed to believe that liberty is inevitably, well, not for these people, it's not.
00:17:20.000These people are now subjected to absolute tyranny.
00:17:22.000Did the liberty beating in the heart of Afghan citizens save them from the predations of the Taliban?
00:17:27.000Did the liberty beating in the heart of people living in Hong Kong save them from the predations of the Chinese?
00:17:32.000Pretty words are no substitute for actual real politique.
00:17:36.000Pretty words are not a substitute for an effective approach to a dictator with aggressive intent and a real willingness to take risks on behalf of reestablishment of a Peter the Great Russian Empire.
00:17:52.000It's absurd to watch this old man doddering around talking about how liberty is inevitably going to win.
00:17:57.000Really, is it inevitably going to win?
00:17:59.000Because I've noticed that there's nothing inevitable about history.
00:18:01.000That's one of the things that I've noticed.
00:18:05.000A lot of people die on the way to liberty, as it turns out.
00:18:09.000And a lot of people who are living in liberty end up back in tyranny.
00:18:15.000And if you disarm nations in the face of Russian aggression with the promise that sometime in the future you might help them out.
00:18:21.000Those sort of empty words, not only do they mean nothing, they are insulting.
00:18:25.000They're insulting in the face of what people in Ukraine are currently experiencing.
00:18:29.000If you're living in Ukraine, again, an incipient democracy, and you're living in relative levels of freedom, and here come the Russian troops down the street, and you hear the President of the United States, who, as we will discuss, is about to posit a series of feckless actions that will accomplish virtually nothing, saying, don't worry, liberty is going to win.
00:18:47.000All that does is make a mockery of liberty.
00:18:50.000The reality throughout human history is that if you are going to have liberty prevail, that requires actual hard-headed decision-making in pursuit of that liberty.
00:19:00.000Not a bunch of gussied-up words written by a bad two-years-out-of-law-school speechwriter from Wellesley.
00:20:27.000He is saying that you should pay a higher price at the pump today so that he can pursue a bunch of actions that he himself openly admits will accomplish nothing like what he says he wants to accomplish.
00:20:52.000If you predict a bad thing is going to happen and then you don't prep for that bad thing to happen and then the bad thing happens and you didn't prep for it, this makes you an idiot.
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00:22:32.000See, this is the difference between Afghanistan and Ukraine.
00:22:34.000So in Afghanistan, they did not unfold as Joe Biden predicted.
00:22:38.000Joe Biden thought that the Afghan regime was going to hold in the face of the Taliban, at least temporarily, to give him time enough to get out of Afghanistan, saving face.
00:22:56.000Then he went out there and he kept lying that things were going just as they suggested.
00:23:00.000As American service people were being bombed to smithereens, and as we were droning innocent Afghan families on our way out and handing the place over to the Taliban, as 9 million people are on the brink of starvation.
00:23:08.000All of that was according to plan, according to Joe Biden.
00:23:56.000Vladimir Putin has been planning this for months, as we've been saying all along.
00:24:00.000He rejected every good faith effort the United States and our allies and partners made to address our mutual security concerns through dialogue to avoid needless conflict and avert human suffering.
00:24:13.000For weeks, for weeks, we have been warning that this would happen.
00:24:18.000And now, it's unfolding largely as we predicted.
00:24:24.000Okay, so yeah, you predicted it, and then you didn't do anything.
00:24:36.000The Senate Republicans were ready to get rid of Nord Stream 2 before this happened, as a preemptive measure, saying to the Russians, if you do this, it's going to get even worse than this.
00:24:45.000And not just that, if you wish to have Nord Stream 2 back, just don't go in, and then we'll talk about reinstating Nord Stream 2.
00:24:50.000And Joe Biden's like, nope, we're not going to do that.
00:25:00.000He's just sending them into the border nations around Russia.
00:25:03.000We already have a lot of troops in that particular area.
00:25:06.000It seems rather unnecessary to add more troops to those areas except to, I suppose, placate some of the NATO nations who now, correctly, are suspecting the fecklessness of the West that has guaranteed its security.
00:25:16.000Here's Joe Biden announcing the troop movements.
00:25:18.000Today, within hours of Russia's unleashing its assault, NATO came together and authorized and activated an activation of response plans.
00:25:28.000This will enable NATO's high readiness forces to deploy and when and where they're needed to protect our NATO allies on the eastern boundaries of Europe.
00:25:39.000And now I'm authorizing additional U.S.
00:25:41.000force capabilities to deploy to Germany as part of NATO's response, including some of the U.S.-based forces that the Department of Defense placed on standby weeks ago.
00:26:04.000If you don't stop Putin now, he will be emboldened.
00:26:06.000Maybe you should have thought of that when you were mocking Mitt Romney for calling Russia a geopolitical threat in 2012.
00:26:10.000Maybe you should have thought of that when Barack Obama was pledging flexibility to Dmitry Medvedev.
00:26:14.000Maybe you should have thought of that when, you know, under your vice presidency, Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea and just took it over.
00:26:22.000And then, fomented insurrection in Donetsk and Luhansk, and created breakaway quote-unquote republics over there.
00:26:29.000Maybe you should have thought of that then.
00:26:30.000Maybe you should have thought of that when you were handing control of Syria over to the Russians.
00:26:33.000Maybe you should have thought of that when you were hanging out as Vice President and helping Russia to broker a deal with the Iran mullah, mullocracy.
00:26:40.000Maybe you should have thought of all those things.
00:26:42.000Or maybe it's a little late now to dissuade Russia from invading Ukraine because they've already done it, you dolt.
00:27:55.000And he's not even asking China to actually help isolate Russia.
00:27:59.000But the sanctions are going to be wildly effective.
00:28:01.000So here is Joe Biden saying that sanctions are going to impair Russia's ability to compete, which is weird because Russia doesn't have any ability to compete.
00:28:08.000I love this sort of misapprehension that if you tell the Russians they're going to be slightly poorer than they already are, that this is going to magically make things better.
00:30:06.000He did ask and he was rebuffed, which means he knew this was going to fail from the start, according to the New York Times today.
00:30:12.000Over three months, senior Biden administration officials held half a dozen urgent meetings with top Chinese officials in which the Americans presented intelligence showing Russian troop buildup around Ukraine and beseeched the Chinese to tell Russia not to invade.
00:30:24.000Each time, the Chinese officials, including the foreign minister and the ambassador, rebuffed the Americans, saying they did not think an invasion was in the works.
00:30:31.000After one diplomatic exchange in December, U.S.
00:30:33.000officials got intelligence showing that Beijing had shared that information directly with Moscow, telling the Russians that the United States was trying to sow discord and that China would not try to impede Russian plans and actions, the officials said.
00:30:45.000The previously unreported talks between American and Chinese officials show how the Biden administration tried to use intelligence findings and diplomacy to persuade a superpower it views as a growing adversary to stop the invasion of Ukraine.
00:30:56.000And how that nation, led by President Xi Jinping, persistently sided with Russia, even as the evidence of Moscow's plans for a military offensive grew over the winter.
00:31:06.000The Chinese embassy did not return a request for comment.
00:31:09.000So in other words, he did ask and he got rebuffed, which means the sanctions are likely not going to work.
00:31:32.000We're not going to cudgel China into line here.
00:31:35.000But right now, by the way, it is important to mention that the DOJ just killed a Trump-era program to ferret out Chinese spying in the United States and prosecute people who are working with the Chinese government on behalf of the Chinese government.
00:31:48.000The DOJ just killed it because they said it was racist.
00:32:45.000Also, Italy has a carve-out from the sanctions so they can ship, I'm not kidding you, luxury goods from the EU to Russia because they need the oligarchs buying Gucci loafers still.
00:35:27.000He's not even seeking to bar Russia from SWIFT.
00:35:29.000He's not trying to have Russia thrown out of the UN.
00:35:32.000He's not trying to cut off all diplomatic ties with Russia.
00:35:34.000He's not doing any of the stuff that you would actually do if you wanted to use non-lethal measures of preventing Russia from going further in Ukraine.
00:35:43.000He's not talking about even shipping more deadly weaponry into Ukraine right now.
00:36:18.000Alrighty, coming up, even the media can't shield Joe Biden from his own incompetence.
00:36:21.000At this point, we'll get to that in just one moment.
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00:39:21.000Speaking of which, as we see the conflict unfolding between Russia and Ukraine, it's very clear dictators are not to be trusted.
00:39:26.000And as our country supported Ukraine's move to hand over its nukes in 1994 in exchange for Russia's promise to invade, apparently we cannot be trusted.
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00:40:26.000You're trying to obscure responsibility for four million people dying around the world.
00:40:31.000Okay, Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about.
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00:42:12.000So even members of the media can't shield Biden from his own incompetence here.
00:42:16.000NBC's Pete Alexander says, what exactly are you waiting for?
00:42:19.000Why are these sanctions so Swiss cheese holy?
00:42:21.000Why is it that you have left so many gaps in these sanctions?
00:42:26.000You detailed some severe and swift new sanctions today and said the impact it will have over time, but given the full-scale invasion, given that you're not pursuing disconnecting Russia from what's called SWIFT, the international banking system, or other sanctions at your disposal, respectfully, sir, what more are you waiting for?
00:42:48.000Okay, so the answer that Joe Biden gave was nothing.
00:42:51.000There's nothing that he's waiting for.
00:42:53.000He just is not capable of mobilizing anybody in this way.
00:42:56.000You've got his entire national security apparatus out there talking about what a grand unifier he is.
00:43:27.000But you can do something that is morally evil and very bad and also clearly rational.
00:43:30.000From his point of view, expanding the territory of the Russian Empire to include historic Ukraine, and doing so with a meetable cost, and in the process, basically breaking all bonds between the West and independent nations, that's a cost worth paying for Vladimir Putin.
00:43:52.000Honest to God, I don't know why he wouldn't, given what he knows of the West.
00:43:56.000The Naval Gazing West, which has blown out its debt to the tune of $30 trillion in the United States.
00:44:00.000The United States now has a GDP to debt ratio, or a debt to GDP ratio, rather, of 119%.
00:44:07.000The United States is busily trying to inculcate diversity, equity, and inclusion into armed forces and putting out commercials about transgenderism in the military.
00:44:18.000Why exactly wouldn't Putin make that move?
00:44:20.000What would be the overwhelming force that Putin would be afraid of meeting in Ukraine?
00:44:25.000What would dissuade him from doing that?
00:44:27.000You may think that his ambitions are crazy by your calculus, but that's because you don't understand his ambitions.
00:44:50.000Putin wants to go down in Russian history as a great leader.
00:44:52.000That means expanding the territorial holdings of Russia, which is historically, like in the 18th and 19th centuries, exactly what Russia used to do.
00:45:00.000So why exactly is this somehow irrational?
00:45:56.000Because here's the thing, they're not.
00:45:57.000According to the White House's Dilip Singh, who is one of their deputy national security advisors, he says, oh yeah, don't worry, our sanctions, we're not gonna, we're not, we're actually not gonna target energy.
00:46:06.000Only the largest sector of the Russian economy.
00:46:08.000We're just gonna, we're not gonna touch that.
00:46:09.000Because after all, Joe Biden understands that there's domestic cost.
00:46:13.000So he'll tell you that he wants to impose domestic cost, but then he's afraid of actually imposing the domestic cost with something that might actually achieve something.
00:47:08.000consider cutting off oil and gas purchases from Russia?
00:47:12.000Well, what we're doing, Nora, across the board, is making sure that we inflict maximum pain on Russia for what President Putin has done, while minimizing any of the pain to us.
00:47:23.000We're in full coordination with other countries, both consumers and producers alike, to minimize any impact that this may have on energy prices and on gasoline.
00:47:41.000By the way, not only will we continue buying natural gas and oil from Russia, we will also maintain our restrictions on American energy production.
00:47:48.000Here was Jen Psaki yesterday from the White House.
00:47:49.000She was asked if they will relieve restrictions on American energy production in order to, you know, increase our own productive capacity to fight off Russia and not be dependent on them.
00:47:58.000And here's Jen Psaki being like, no, no, we got to listen to Greenpeace and Greta Thunberg.
00:48:02.000I mean, what might happen if Greta Thunberg She got very upset with us.
00:48:05.000If she was upset with us, what would we do?
00:48:14.000If there's an invasion of another country by a big country, there's going to be impacts on the markets, right?
00:48:19.000And we certainly anticipated that, and we anticipate that as it relates to the global oil market as well.
00:48:24.000So that's why the president for weeks now has been engaging with a range of big global suppliers, some in the Middle East, others, to see what we can do to ensure there's supply out there in the market to reduce the impact on the American people.
00:48:56.000John Kerry went on TV in the last two days, and John Kerry literally said that the big problem here is that Ukraine might distract Russia from the real crisis, the climate crisis.
00:49:10.000Here's John Kerry, Easter Island head, talking about how Russia needs to help us with climate change.
00:49:22.000I'm very concerned about Ukraine because of the people of Ukraine and because of the principles that are at risk.
00:49:31.000You know, I think hopefully President Putin would realize that in the northern part of his country they used to live on 66% of a nation that was over frozen land.
00:49:48.000And so I hope President Putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate.
00:49:56.000Well, that's the real important thing.
00:49:58.000That's the really important thing, guys.
00:49:59.000We have to keep Russia on board with climate change.
00:50:02.000And also we have to keep Russia on board so that we can make concessions to Iran, because we have an Iran deal under negotiation whereby we will give a bunch of money to a dictatorship That murders its own people and that threatens Israel with nuclear weapons.
00:50:49.000And so when we deployed her to Munich to talk about the situation in Ukraine, we should have expected nothing less than the stellar success we've become accustomed to.
00:50:56.000From this vice president of the United States, this most able and capable vice president of the United States.
00:51:01.000So here was Kamala Harris touting sanctions.
00:51:03.000Her own boss says are going to do nothing.
00:51:06.000Today, the president outlined the sanctions, which are going to have a direct impact on Russia's economy, both in terms of sanctions and in terms of export controls.
00:51:20.000We'll be immediate on Russia and we will continue as we have from the very beginning to work with our allies and our partners around the world.
00:51:28.000We are unified in our position on this and in our reaction to this unjustified, unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation.
00:51:41.000And meanwhile, a State Department spokesperson said yesterday that these new sanctions were intended to shape the next moves, which is weird because basically Joe Biden said that the last sanctions didn't shape Russia's moves at all.
00:51:51.000So here is Ned Price from the State Department.
00:51:55.000What's the evidence that there is some connection between sanctions that we could impose and that Putin will have his behavior affected in the way that you hope?
00:52:32.000Bold stuff here from the United States and from its allies.
00:52:38.000Obviously, it's been so irrational for Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine because he's having such massive costs imposed on him that are apparently accomplishing absolutely nothing.
00:52:45.000Well, the good news is that we do have America's celebrities to help us out here in this particular crisis.
00:52:49.000And without America's celebrities, what would we do?
00:52:53.000So Joy Behar, from The View, She noted her own disquiet with the situation in Ukraine because she knows the real cost of Russia taking over Ukraine.
00:53:05.000It's gonna mess with her trip to Italy, guys.
00:53:07.000I mean, the heart breaks just a little for Joy Behar.
00:53:12.000We're talking about five million people that are going to be displaced.
00:53:17.000I mean, it's heartbreaking to hear what is going to happen.
00:53:22.000Well, I'm scared of what's going to happen in Western Europe, too.
00:54:41.000Dear President Vladimir Putin, I'm so sorry that I was not your mother.
00:54:48.000If I was your mother, you would have been so loved, held in the arms of joyous light.
00:54:53.000Never would this story's plight, the world, unfurled before our eyes, a pure demise of nations sitting peaceful under a night sky.
00:55:01.000If I was your mother, the world would have been warm, so much laughter and joy, and nothing would harm.
00:55:08.000I can't imagine the stain, the soul-stealing pain that the little boy you must have seen and believed, and the formulation of thought quickly taught that you lived in a cruel, unjust world.
00:55:26.000Well, if the hot girl from the OC had been Vladimir Putin's mom, all of this could have By the way, I do enjoy the low-key just bagging on Vladimir Putin's mom.
00:55:45.000I mean, the converse of what she's saying is that Vladimir Putin had a terrible mother.
00:55:47.000That's obviously why he is the way he is.
00:55:49.000Must have been that she just beat him with a stick or something.
00:55:52.000It can't be that he is a geopolitically motivated thug dictator wishing to expand Russia's boundaries.
00:55:57.000The real problem is that he has childhood It's that he had social anxiety when he was a kid and his mother didn't hold him and cuddle him enough.
00:56:04.000Now what's funny about this is that basically that is the view of the left.
00:56:07.000The view of the left is that Vladimir Putin is insane or irrational or pathological in some way and that the way that you get through to Vladimir Putin is kindness.
00:56:23.000The world is filled with beautiful people who have different cultures from our own that we will not try to pretend to understand in any way.
00:56:28.000We'll just assume they want the same stuff that we do.
00:56:31.000And because we assume they want the same stuff as we do, if we offer them that stuff, they'll probably do what we want them to do.
00:56:35.000And then when they don't want to do that, then we will assume that it's because they had some sort of brutal childhood trauma and they're pathological.
00:56:42.000I'm not sure there's any more solipsistic culture on planet Earth than the culture of the West at this point.
00:56:47.000We are so obsessed with our own stupidities that not only do we engross ourselves in these stupidities to the exclusion of world events, but then we assume that everybody else is also engrossed in these stupidities.
00:56:59.000By the way, this crosses all political lines.
00:57:02.000You see this on the right, you see this on the left.
00:57:04.000In the United States, there's this weird habit of assuming that because we have a thing going on here, that this means the rest of the world doesn't matter.
00:57:10.000This is the habit of sort of the isolationist right.
00:57:32.000And it turns out that foreign policy does have an impact on your real life, because when shipping lanes get cut off in the South China Sea, all the stuff that you like is no longer available.
00:57:41.000And, by the way, when you have rival civilizations that are rising, this also has an impact on the confidence and future of the country in which you live.
00:57:51.000From the left, you have this view that really what the people of the world want is the transgenderism.
00:57:56.000What they really, really want is a left-wing point of view about democratic socialism expanded to them.
00:58:02.000And so if we just cut them a few checks, if we massage their back, if we hold them in the warm embrace of motherhood, then magically they will come around and they will just be the best people.
00:58:10.000They will be our friends, because at heart, freedom and liberty will win.
00:58:13.000But our style of freedom, our style of liberty, they have the same priorities that we do.
00:58:18.000So on the isolationist right, the idea is they have different priorities than we do.
00:58:21.000Therefore, we shouldn't care about what happens outside our own borders at all.
00:58:24.000And then on the surrender-oriented left, the idea is they have the same priorities that we do.
00:58:33.000And then if they spit in our face, then we will assume that there's something wrong with them.
00:58:36.000But there's not much that we can do about that.
00:58:38.000After all, deep down in the cockles of their heart, they know that we are right and they wish to live the way we do.
00:58:44.000Or, alternatively, all of this is wrong.
00:58:46.000And the world is filled with a lot of people with a lot of different ambitions.
00:58:48.000And you have to look in steely-eyed fashion at what people want and how they intend to achieve those objectives and whether you seek to impede those objectives with actual measures designed to prevent them from achieving those objectives.
00:59:32.000The Biden administration is more focused on all of the things that they say everybody else should be focused on.
00:59:36.000Climate change, racial equality and justice, systemic injustice and systemic racism and income inequality and all the other nonsense causes that they've dedicated their lives to.
00:59:50.000Until precisely the moment that China makes a move on Taiwan, at which point there will again be a lot of naval gazing and some talk about sanctions, but we wouldn't want to sanction China too toughly.
00:59:57.000I mean, after all, since the 1970s, we've basically admitted that Taiwan was a part of China.
01:00:02.000So do we really have a leg to stand on here?
01:00:04.000This pattern will be repeated until the West decides to get lean and mean and hungry again and realize that what motivates it doesn't necessarily motivate everybody else, but that what motivates us is good if we look to the heart of what our civilization ought to be and was.
01:00:17.000But until that point, they're going to take the style in line.