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00:00:00.000After two weeks of humiliating screw-ups, Joe Biden tries a reset by flying to Ukraine, China threatens intervention in the Ukraine war, and Roald Dahl's children's books are now being rewritten for woke purposes.
00:00:11.000Well, Joe Biden has had a rough couple of weeks.
00:00:20.000The last couple of weeks have seen a giant train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, that resulted in a giant mushroom cloud of apparently toxic gases being released into the air and poisoning some of the waters and all the rest of this.
00:00:31.000And FEMA has been denying help over there, suggesting it is outside their remit under Joe Biden's auspices.
00:00:37.000Joe Biden has not visited East Palestine, Ohio.
00:00:40.000Joe Biden allowed a Chinese spy balloon to fly across the entirety of the continental United States for a full week.
00:00:46.000And then we shot it down off the waters of South Carolina.
00:00:49.000And then he started randomly authorizing the Air Force to shoot down Mylar Valentine's Day balloons from Party City with $400,000 sidewinder missiles in an apparent attempt to look tough to the rest of the world.
00:01:01.000After again, having allowed a giant three bus size Chinese spy balloon to fly across the entire continental United States has been a rough couple of weeks for President Biden, and that followed what he thought was going to be a triumphal moment at the State of the Union address in which he took on the Republicans.
00:01:16.000The problem for Joe Biden, of course, is that Joe Biden's approval rating has been absolutely stagnant for the past couple of years.
00:01:21.000And the thing that people forget about Joe Biden's approval rating is that what made it go down in the first place was his weakness in Afghanistan.
00:01:27.000If you look at the at the history of Joe Biden's job approval rating, His job approval rating was at about 50%, 51% for a long period of time to begin his presidency.
00:01:38.000And then it really dipped and went negative right around the time that he decided that he was going to ignominiously pull out of Afghanistan with no plan whatsoever, hand the country over to 8th century Islamic barbarians, and then allow a bunch of American soldiers to get killed and a bunch of Afghan translators get stuck behind, a bunch of Americans get stuck behind.
00:01:57.000So foreign policy weakness does have dramatic ramifications for Joe Biden.
00:02:28.000We're going to start seeing his real-life campaign pump into full gear starting March, April, May.
00:02:33.000And so he has to do something to reset.
00:02:35.000So the way he decided that he was going to reset is by heading over to Ukraine over the weekend.
00:02:39.000It was a secret Ukraine trip, and it was promoted by all the usual media sources as a groundbreaking, unbelievably brave thing for the president of the United States to do.
00:02:49.000Never mind the fact that we've had a multiplicity of American senators and congresspeople who have already gone over to Ukraine.
00:02:53.000Never mind the fact that Boris Johnson went over to Ukraine when he was prime minister of the UK.
00:02:58.000Never mind the fact that you've had pretty much every Western leader except for Joe Biden go over to Ukraine Over the course of the past year since the war began in Ukraine, Joe Biden finally went over to Ukraine and the media reacted with their usual combination of sycophantic drooling and massaging his unmentionables.
00:03:14.000It was, you know, exactly what Joe Biden had bargained for.
00:03:17.000Now, is it going to have any real impact on Joe Biden's presidency?
00:03:20.000My guess is absolutely not, because nothing actually changed except for Joe Biden posturing.
00:03:28.000Apparently, it was a trip months in the works, according to Politico, but President Joe Biden and a small cadre of administration officials made the decision final in a meeting on Friday.
00:03:36.000Setting into motion a complex plan with substantial risks for Biden's safety, political standing, and international relations.
00:03:40.000Well, there is no risk to his political standing because, again, what's going to happen?
00:03:44.000People are going to get mad at him for going to Ukraine?
00:03:47.000Some more significant risk for international relations, as we'll discuss in just a minute, because international relations is very delicate, especially in a hot war zone.
00:03:57.000The administration is trying to trot out this lie that this was months in the making and it was already pre-planned and political blows it out of the water.
00:04:03.000Friday is when he decided he's going to Ukraine.
00:04:22.000Well, the answer is bad political news cycle.
00:04:25.000A bad political news cycle is what drove Joe Biden to go to Ukraine so he could completely reset the political table while not visiting, say, the American southern border or not visiting East Palestine, Ohio.
00:04:47.000The truth is that just on a monetary level, the Ukraine war has been, in American foreign policy terms, a bargain.
00:04:53.000We spend, literally over the course of decades, trillions and trillions of trillions of dollars on national defense.
00:05:00.000And that money is sunk into weaponry that we don't end up using if we are successful in deterring everybody else from doing this sort of stuff.
00:05:07.000We have sent 20 billion dollars, which is a lot of money, over to Ukraine and we have crippled the Russian military.
00:05:29.000He stepped into Ukraine thinking that he was going to be able to take Kiev.
00:05:32.000And the original going wisdom, you'll recall, is that he was going to be able to take Ukraine, no problem, just ingest it.
00:05:37.000And as it turns out, it is not just a question of pure numerical superiority when it comes to war anymore.
00:05:42.000Now it is a measure of technical sophistication.
00:05:45.000NATO armaments are way, way more sophisticated than whatever Russia has.
00:05:49.000Russia is using like World War II ordnance in some cases.
00:05:51.000Meanwhile, Ukraine is armed with all of the systems that NATO can provide it.
00:05:57.000Sophisticated microchip systems that Russia just does not have the availability of.
00:06:01.000And that means that in technical terms, Ukraine is far superior to the Russian military, which has been shown by the apparently 150,000 dead Russian soldiers over the course of the last year.
00:06:14.000So the Ukraine war has effectively single handedly taken Russia's fighting force as a global threat off the table.
00:06:21.000We'll talk about what that means for America and what that means for American foreign policy in a second.
00:06:24.000Then we'll get to Joe Biden's actual trip.
00:06:26.000But one thing that's clear is that the administration has not been clear about what America's goals are in Ukraine.
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00:07:39.000The goal of American foreign policy in Ukraine was really several fold.
00:07:44.000One is cripple the Russian military so it couldn't perform more aggressive attacks on its borders because they have pushed into places like Kazakhstan, threatening oil supply.
00:07:59.000So Vladimir Putin has been a very aggressive leader in terms of foreign policy and in terms of utilization of the military.
00:08:05.000Crippling the Russian military, so that was no longer an issue, is actually a big win for the United States on the cheap in the sense that we've spent not a single American life on this.
00:08:13.000So just in terms of why we are there, that is one good reason.
00:08:26.000Purpose number two is demonstrating to the rest of the world that you can't just randomly cross other countries' borders and try to take their capitals.
00:08:31.000It was to serve as a warning to China.
00:08:34.000If Russia had been able to just ingest Ukraine, the next move is China goes directly after Taiwan.
00:08:38.000And so if surrendering in Afghanistan to, again, a bunch of 8th century barbarians was the impetus for Vladimir Putin looking at the United States and saying, this is a weak horse and I'm going to go after it.
00:08:49.000Well, now Vladimir Putin has learned that when NATO is activated against him, Even a country like Ukraine can hold off Russia.
00:08:57.000So China may be looking at that and say, OK, maybe it's not worth the bargain for us to try to go after Taiwan.
00:09:12.000So one of the things that happened, if you look at the history of the United States and our sort of international relations and global involvement, What you see is that the United States in the post-World War II era basically guaranteed global growth.
00:09:24.000Every place that was not directly controlled or indirectly controlled by the Soviet Union for that entire order.
00:09:28.000And then in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, expanded our role in creating global order to essentially the entire Earth.
00:09:36.000That does not mean that we are imperialists.
00:09:38.000We allowed other countries to run their countries very much as they wanted to in the post-Cold War era, with the proviso that they had to be open to trade, and also we were going to help ensure the freedom of trade on the high seas, which is one of the reasons why you see these very diffuse supply chains.
00:09:53.000The reason that when you get an iPhone, it is now produced in about a dozen different places and not produced in one place.
00:09:59.000And thus, it is much, much cheaper and much more cost effective.
00:10:02.000And you have better technology every year.
00:10:03.000The reason for that is because America guarantees the safety of the high seas.
00:10:07.000America has the world's most powerful deepwater Navy by a factor of about 10 to 1.
00:10:10.000Like to the rest of the world, 10 to 1.
00:10:13.000The United States is an unbelievably powerful economy.
00:10:17.000And that is a matter, as Peter Zeihan, the geopolitical expert from Harvard talks about, we have this incredible strength in terms of our domestic markets and in terms of our domestic geography.
00:10:27.000And we have Canada to our north, we have Mexico to our south, and we have two oceans to our east and west, which means that we are safe from pretty much everything.
00:10:34.000And that means that we have the capacity to actually ensure, if we want to, a global trade system that allows for diffuse supply chains, which does in fact benefit America.
00:10:43.000Because America is still the world's safest bet in terms of finances, which is why we have not gotten crushed economically over the course of the last couple of years, the way a lot of other countries have.
00:10:51.000Also, the United States is not in a state of full-scale demographic collapse, the same way that Europe is right now, the same way that much of Asia is.
00:10:58.000China is in a state of full-scale demographic collapse.
00:11:01.000The United States right now, if you had to put money on any country on Earth to retain its power, just geopolitically speaking, the United States would be the bet.
00:11:09.000But that only applies so long as the United States is able to maintain this tenuous world order.
00:11:17.000The world turns into a bunch of regional blocks.
00:11:19.000The United States may still be the most powerful player among those regional blocks, but our lifestyles are going to change an awful lot.
00:11:26.000Just to give you an example, during COVID, basically all the supply chains broke down.
00:11:30.000The diffuse network of supply lines broke down.
00:11:37.000And the result was you couldn't get basic stuff that you needed on a daily basis.
00:11:41.000All the things you'd become used to, advancements in technology, being able to get things cheaply and easily to your front door, things that made your life easier and better, that all broke down.
00:11:49.000If the world system breaks down and turns into a bunch of regional blocks, essentially, and the United States retreats from the world, you're going to see a lot more of that.
00:11:57.000That is what the future is actually going to look a lot more like, and not like the steady progress in terms of technology and in terms of availability that you've seen over the course of the last couple of decades.
00:12:05.000When people talk about the evils of globalization, there are costs to literally every policy.
00:12:09.000There is no policy that has ever been implemented on planet Earth that does not have costs and benefits, but the cost to de-globalization To the breakup of any sort of global trade system.
00:12:18.000I'm not talking here about the World Trade Organization or the International Monetary Fund.
00:12:23.000I'm talking about the United States guaranteeing the freedom of the high seat.
00:12:27.000United States making sure that you can get the stuff that you need.
00:12:30.000United States making sure, for example, that China can't shut down the South China Sea or making sure that the Iranians can't shut down The Straits of Tehran or anything like that.
00:12:41.000When you have the United States guaranteeing all of that, it makes your life better.
00:12:44.000We don't see that in foreign policy terms because, again, it's very indirect.
00:12:47.000These are costs that are sort of silently undergone by the United States in order to preserve world order.
00:12:52.000In repelling Russia from Ukraine, we have essentially reinforced that we are not retreating from the world.
00:12:58.000We are not making room for Russia to create its own sphere of influence again or China to create its own sphere of influence again.
00:13:03.000So all of these things are great and wonderful and good things, I think, overall.
00:13:08.000And all of the talk about how we're being enmeshed in an endless war over there, just in terms of cost, that is not true.
00:13:14.000Now, does that mean that we should not have an eye on where the money goes?
00:13:16.000Of course we should have an eye on where the money goes.
00:13:18.000I mean, this is a point that pretty much every Republican politician is making right now.
00:13:20.000You can't just give a bag of cash to the Ukrainians and hope that it gets to the right place.
00:13:24.000We should, of course, keep an eye on where the money goes.
00:13:26.000But the notion that we would be better off, for example, if Russia just ingested Ukraine is wrong.
00:13:32.000Now, with all of that said, Joe Biden has achieved virtually all of these goals.
00:13:37.000And the question now is, what is he doing?
00:13:39.000The question is, why is he upping the ante?
00:13:42.000What is the goal of upping the ante at this point?
00:13:46.000Is he doing it for domestic political constituencies or is he doing it for the greater good of the world?
00:13:51.000I think the answer is going to be the former and not the latter.
00:13:54.000Largely because I don't think that you can trust the people in power, which, by the way, is one reason why.
00:13:58.000If you have a business and you paid too much money to the federal government over the course of the last several years, you probably should try to get that back via innovation refunds.
00:14:05.000If your business has five or more employees and managed to survive COVID, you could be eligible to receive a payroll tax rebate of up to 26 grand per employee.
00:15:10.000Containing Russia, deterring the breaking of other people's borders and ensuring a world order that actually benefits the American manufacturer because a lot of the manufacturing facilities from abroad are now being located in the United States to shorten the supply chains.
00:15:24.000It benefits American jobs, American economics, American power.
00:15:29.000That does not answer the question as to why Joe Biden flew over to Ukraine right now.
00:15:33.000The answer is that he flew over to Ukraine right now again for domestic political purposes.
00:15:38.000And that's the only reason to do it, really.
00:15:42.000Because we're doing all of these things, and we're doing them quite quietly.
00:15:44.000See, the general rule of American foreign policy is that you're supposed to speak softly and carry a big stick.
00:15:49.000Speaking softly generally means you provide the support that is necessary.
00:15:53.000And especially in this particular dicey situation, where everybody knows what the off-ramp is going to be, which is going to be Russia retaining some of the territory in Luhansk, Donetsk, and Crimea.
00:16:02.000Everyone knows this is going to be the end goal.
00:16:03.000The question is, how do you get to that end goal with the minimum loss of life at this point?
00:16:08.000Again, because America has already achieved all of the goals previously stated.
00:16:12.000America has already crippled the Russian military to an unprecedented effect.
00:16:17.000The United States has already reinforced the notion that we are not going to sit idly by when sovereign nations violate the borders of other sovereign nations.
00:16:25.000And the United States has suggested that we are not retreating from the world in the way that many people thought we were going to retreat from the world.
00:16:29.000By the way, even under Trump, we didn't retreat from the world.
00:16:31.000This great lie that America went isolationist under Trump, it is a lie.
00:16:34.000The United States was very active in foreign policy under the Trump administration.
00:16:37.000It was just smart in that we didn't get ourselves embroiled in actual shooting wars with other people.
00:16:42.000First president in my lifetime not to do that was President Trump.
00:16:46.000Okay, but the question of what exactly is happening here is pretty obvious, and it's obvious in what the White House is saying.
00:16:52.000So White House comms director Kate Benningfield told reporters, quote, it was risky.
00:16:55.000It should leave no doubt in anyone's mind.
00:16:57.000Joe Biden is a leader who takes commitment seriously, but this was a risk he wanted to take.
00:17:28.000As far as the risky notion, again, this is an attempt to prop up Joe Biden as a non weakling in the aftermath of the Chinese balloon fiasco.
00:17:38.000So Joe Biden goes to Kiev and he says, America stands with you and the world stands with you.
00:17:41.000And there's another element here, which is that Joe Biden is now attempting, believe it or not, to polarize American support around Ukraine.
00:17:48.000So there are a lot of members of the right who are becoming very uneasy with the length that this war is going on, because the longer it goes on, they fear the greater a shot that Vladimir Putin uses a nuclear weapon or something unexpected happens.
00:17:57.000And again, those are those are thoroughly decent concerns in many arenas.
00:18:03.000But what Joe Biden is looking at is he's looking at the polls.
00:18:06.000And what the polls show right now is that the Ukraine war is becoming more and more partisan.
00:18:11.000According to an AP NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, 48% of Americans say they favor the United States providing weapons to Ukraine.
00:18:55.000So there is, in fact, a partisan gap and Biden is attempting to essentially drive a wedge here.
00:19:01.000That is why he is doing this, because he could have just continued to operate on the bipartisan consensus of sending enough money to Ukraine to allow them to repel the Russians.
00:19:08.000And instead, he's deciding to blow this thing up on the global stage.
00:19:46.000But it is true that Joe Biden is attempting to exploit this by essentially ratcheting up tensions around Ukraine, I assume for domestic political purposes.
00:19:54.000So Joe Biden says support will come for as long as it takes.
00:21:12.000But that does not answer the question as to why Biden is ratcheting things up right now when theoretically we should be looking to pursue some sort of end to this thing.
00:21:21.000Vladimir Zelensky, he said that Joe Biden's visit is a strong signal.
00:21:25.000So he's going to take advantage of this.
00:21:26.000I mean, his defense secretary literally said over the weekend that he wanted to see Ukrainian tanks in Red Square in Moscow, which I don't know about ratcheting up tensions, but that seems like not a great comment.
00:21:57.000I really appreciate that President Biden, American society, being from the very beginning of this tragedy, from the very beginning of this full-scale war, from the first day it's been together with us.
00:22:14.000Okay, so in a second we're going to get to the actual rationale for why Biden is doing this, because it's pretty obvious from the optics of the situation why he is doing that.
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00:24:06.000The air raid sirens didn't actually go off in Jerusalem, but you were checking your phone consistently for where are the rocket attacks falling.
00:24:12.000People tend to have a tendency when a giant noise goes off that says you should get to shelter, people tend to at least look in the air.
00:24:18.000In this clip, nobody looks in the air.
00:24:19.000There's a reason for that, as we'll explain in just a moment.
00:24:20.000Here was Joe Biden with Vladimir Zelensky yesterday walking through Kiev.
00:24:23.000And Well, there's only a couple of problems with that clip.
00:24:49.000One again, nobody looks in the air while the air raid sirens are going off.
00:24:53.000The second is that a CNN reporter then went on the air and he's like, oh yeah, by the way, um, we haven't heard an air raid siren in Kiev for like five weeks.
00:25:00.000Literally the only moment I've heard an air raid siren for the last five weeks has been when Joe Biden walked outside with Vladimir Zelensky, which sort of suggests that what they really wanted was a photo op of big, brave Joe Biden, dark aviator glasses, dark Brandon, walking around Kiev with the air raid sirens going off like he's Winston Churchill in the rubble of London or something.
00:25:16.000Here is a reporter from CNN pointing out the oddity of this.
00:25:20.000I've been here for the past five days.
00:25:24.000I have not heard any air sirens until about half an hour ago, right when President Biden was in the center of Kiev, as Clarissa was just mentioning.
00:26:16.000Because the national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said on national television over the weekend that the administration called the Russians and told them Joe Biden was coming.
00:26:24.000Because they didn't want the Russians accidentally shooting the President of the United States out of the air or hitting him with a stray missile.
00:27:16.000Because you told the Russians that you were doing it.
00:27:18.000And the Russians don't actually want to get into a direct shooting war with the United States after shooting down a plane with the President of the United States on it.
00:27:24.000And they also don't want American jets flying over Moscow after they hit the president with a stray missile or something.
00:27:30.000So for all of the talk of risky, risky, McRiskey, no, actually, actually not so much.
00:27:34.000Again, this didn't stop the media from doing what they do.
00:27:37.000And because you have to understand this is an inside outside game for the Democratic administration.
00:27:40.000Any Democratic administration essentially has its Praetorian guard who are the media who will just Gosh, endlessly about whatever a Democrat does, no matter what.
00:27:49.000Donald Trump makes peace in the Middle East and they're like, oh, whatever, man.
00:27:53.000Joe Biden flies to Ukraine after telling the Russians he is coming, stays there for a short period of time and then leaves.
00:27:58.000Like, my God, it's like Winston Churchill.
00:28:00.000Oh, he's like George Washington and Abe Lincoln and Winston Churchill and God wrapped into one, one old crazy ball.
00:28:15.000Someone like Mike Deaver from the Reagan administration, who was the master image maker, the guy who put Ronald Reagan at Normandy, for wherever he is in the great beyond, was tipping his hat to the image makers who had those shots of Joe Biden with Zelensky in Kiev, air raid sirens blaring.
00:28:34.000Those are the stuff of image makers and the dream of politics, right?
00:28:40.000not just do this thing, but look the way he did, especially when so many people say, he's too old, he's too weak, he's too frail, he's past it.
00:28:48.000The swagger of this trip, not just the execution of the secrecy, but the swagger of it on display on the streets of Keeve.
00:29:25.000It's worth, I mean, mentioning Churchill, because Zelensky has been called the Churchill of our generation, and Biden going there today, I think it's going to be a moment for the history books.
00:29:37.000It's like when John F. Kennedy went to Berlin in 1961 and gave a speech at the height of the Cold War.
00:29:46.000It's the rally point for NATO and the Western allies.
00:29:50.000And I think Biden did something really heroic.
00:29:56.000It's so heroic, so heroic that he actually went to a place that he'd warned everybody that he was going about a year after everybody else went.
00:30:29.000When that Air Force One flew over the border into Ukraine, everybody knows it was just that airplane from the United States in that airspace.
00:30:56.000But again, the goal here was domestic political constituencies.
00:30:59.000I'm going to say it over and over because it happens to be the case.
00:31:01.000Joe Biden right now is running really weak.
00:31:03.000There are a bunch of brand new polls out showing Ron DeSantis versus Joe Biden among independents, not among Republicans and Democrats, among independents.
00:31:10.000According to Quinnipiac, DeSantis versus Biden, direct head-to-head among independents, DeSantis is up nine.
00:31:17.000So yeah, Joe Biden's gotta do something to recapitulate his presidency here.
00:31:31.000He's gotta do something to reset this thing.
00:31:33.000So he's hitting a reset button on his own presidency by going on over to Ukraine now.
00:31:36.000The problem is that this actually has some pretty signal ramifications for actual foreign policy.
00:31:40.000And right now, providing the kind of support Ukraine needs in order to repel Russia and push them back hard, I get it.
00:31:46.000As I've discussed on the program before, essentially what you have between Russia and Ukraine is a prisoner's dilemma in which both sides have an interest in continuation of the war unless there's an actual on-the-ground change in the circumstance.
00:31:56.000Unless Russia has a serious chance of losing, nothing changes.
00:31:59.000Unless Ukraine has a serious chance of losing, nothing changes.
00:32:04.000Traveling over there to do this very loudly, I don't see how that's going to allow Putin a way out.
00:32:09.000In fact, it's going to drive him to become louder because he needs some face-saving piece of credible withdrawal that is allowed to him here.
00:32:19.000Yesterday, Vladimir Putin made a big speech.
00:32:22.000In which he declared that Moscow was suspending its participation in the new START treaty, the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States, sharply upping the ante amid tensions with Russia over the fighting in Ukraine.
00:32:31.000He was speaking in his State of the State address, and he said that Russia should stand ready to resume nuclear weapons tests if the United States does so.
00:32:56.000But I'll tell you what is significantly less of a symbolic move is a move by China.
00:32:59.000Because China is now apparently openly considering the possibility of giving lethal aid to Moscow, getting indirectly involved in the war by funding Moscow the same way that the United States and NATO have been funding Ukraine.
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00:35:34.000You'll notice that virtually every Explanation of why the United States ought to be funding Ukraine that I have given is utterly disconnected from this particular narrative.
00:35:43.000The reason being, there are a lot of places around the world where we actually do not want democracy to rule.
00:35:49.000You know, it's uncomfortable for people to think about this, but if democracy were to rule in Saudi Arabia, ISIS would probably be in charge.
00:35:56.000If democracy were to rule in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood would be in charge.
00:36:00.000There are lots of places around the world where actually what you don't want is democracy.
00:36:05.000What you actually want is an American ally in place to develop toward the protection of rights.
00:36:10.000One of the things that Americans have traditionally understood is that democracy is a good, it is not the only good.
00:36:16.000What is good for Americans is the long-scale development of property rights around the world.
00:36:21.000The long-scale development of freedoms around the world.
00:36:24.000And then, once that has been inculcated in a population, a population accepts all those things, then they can vote, obviously.
00:36:30.000But only if people understand what they are able to vote on and what they are not able to vote on in the first place.
00:36:35.000Because there are certain rights that are sacrosanct, certain things that are sacrosanct.
00:36:38.000And if you don't have that, what you end up with is tyranny of the people.
00:36:42.000Which is something that our founding fathers greatly opposed.
00:36:44.000The reason that I say that is because one of the critiques and it is a correct critique of Joe Biden in Ukraine.
00:36:49.000has come from authoritarian countries who are saying, well, you seem like you're okay with authoritarianism among your allies, and you're using Ukraine's freedom, democracy.
00:36:58.000You're using that as sort of a prop to attack Russia.
00:37:03.000Now, those interests align with a long-term goal of democracy promotion or freedom promotion abroad and free trade abroad and capitalism abroad, right?
00:37:14.000That the means for the now may not match the ends for the later.
00:37:19.000However, when Joe Biden does this sort of this highfalutin rhetoric, the goal, of course, is not to get more people on board.
00:37:24.000The goal is domestic political constituencies.
00:37:26.000The goal is maybe some of his allies in Europe, but it is not to, in fact, deescalate in places like China.
00:37:32.000So China apparently is now considering lethal aid to Moscow because what China is looking at is, OK, fine, if the United States is really going to keep upping the ante in Ukraine to the point Where our ally is not just crippled in its ability to move abroad, which, by the way, does not actually harm China all that much, right?
00:37:47.000If Russia's military is no longer able to, for example, defend its eastern border, That's actually not bad for China.
00:37:53.000Remember, China and Russia share a border, and historically speaking, that border has been quite contentious.
00:37:58.000And so theoretically, China could just take advantage of that.
00:38:01.000Already, China has taken advantage of Russia's weakness in order to turn Russia into basically an oil proxy state for itself.
00:38:06.000But if Russia were to be so internally weakened that it might take a chess piece off the board for the Chinese, that's a real problem for the Chinese.
00:38:14.000So now they're talking openly about considering lethal aid to Moscow.
00:38:16.000This is something the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, was saying yesterday.
00:38:20.000There is open source reporting that Chinese companies are providing surveillance equipment to that mercenary group, the Wagner group, fighting in Ukraine.
00:38:32.000consider this to be providing military support to Russia?
00:38:36.000The very first conversations that President Biden and President Xi had about Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, just a couple of weeks into the war, President Biden shared with President Xi our deep concern about the possibility China would provide lethal support to Russia in this effort.
00:38:57.000Okay, so that actually is a problem, right?
00:38:59.000We don't actually want China getting indirectly involved.
00:39:01.000We want to deter them from doing exactly that.
00:39:04.000Vice President Kamala Harris, the greatest and wisest, most immortal of all beings, she says that she's very troubled that Beijing has deepened its relationship with Moscow, which is funny because she was informed of it about 30 seconds before she went on stage, as per our usual arrangement.
00:39:18.000We are also troubled that Beijing has deepened its relationship with Moscow since the war began.
00:39:29.000Looking ahead, any steps by China to provide lethal support to Russia would only reward aggression, continue the killing, and further undermine a rules-based order.
00:39:50.000Okay, by rules-based order, see, this is one of the big problems.
00:39:52.000Whenever we say a rules-based international order, we should recognize foreign policy is not a place of rules.
00:40:13.000That is not on any, I mean, it may be morally wrong because we don't like China's regime.
00:40:17.000We don't like Russia's regime, but it is not wrong on a logical level to suggest that if you have outside funding for one side, outside funding for the other side is not verboten because clearly it is not.
00:40:26.000The real question is going to be how we get to the aims that we wish to get to.
00:40:31.000That's the thing that we really should be worried about right now.
00:40:33.000And de-escalation would be the way to do this, which is why visits like Joe Biden's, I'm not sure that they are, like they're not useful particularly.
00:40:39.000It's the same thing as when Nancy Pelosi flew into Taiwan.
00:40:42.000Listen, I'm a big supporter of the American Navy protecting Taiwan from Chinese invasion.
00:40:48.000I think Taiwan being invaded by the Chinese would be a disaster for the world for a wide variety of reasons that we've discussed before on the program.
00:40:54.000However, Escalatory moves, for no apparent reason, I just don't understand.
00:41:01.000Nancy Pelosi flying to Taiwan when it didn't actually change American foreign policy in any real way.
00:41:07.000Same sort of thing as Joe Biden flying into Ukraine.
00:41:10.000According to the Wall Street Journal, some foreign policy strategists in Beijing have raised the question of whether China should consider providing military support to Russia for defensive purposes.
00:41:18.000A scenario, they say, could significantly increase the cost of conflict.
00:41:20.000That, in turn, could give China some leverage in proposing options to end the conflict.
00:41:24.000But such a move would also stir up greater resentment against President Xi Jinping's leadership in the West.
00:41:28.000It couldn't be determined whether the idea is gaining traction in the top leadership.
00:41:32.000China's foreign ministry hit back at the U.S.
00:41:34.000allegation, saying, quote, It's the U.S.
00:41:35.000side, not the Chinese side, that's providing an endless flow of weapons.
00:41:44.000So, I mean, again, that is not totally wrong.
00:41:47.000So the question is, do you want China to actually involve itself this way?
00:41:50.000Part of the problem here is that we don't have actual transparency.
00:41:53.000We have no clue what sort of negotiations, if any, are taking place between the United States, Russia, China over any of this, like what a solution actually looks like.
00:42:01.000All we see is the posturing on the world stage.
00:42:04.000If all we see is the posturing and there actually is nothing going on behind the scenes, which is kind of what I suspect, Then you are sleepwalking your way into a deeper and broader conflict.
00:42:13.000And that is the real problem over here, which is why, again, optics, speaking loudly and carrying a medium-sized stick is not as good as carrying a big stick and speaking very, very softly.
00:42:23.000And meanwhile, Ron DeSantis, he's obviously gearing up, I think, for a presidential run.
00:42:28.000Come June, July, he's probably going to declare, but right now he's sort of in his pre-presidential mode.
00:42:32.000He said over the weekend that we shouldn't forget, while the media is declaring that Joe Biden is just the strongest, most wonderful, most powerful man ever, Well, while the media is looking at Joe Biden like a piece of Arnold Schwarzenegger bodybuilding from 1982, that it was Joe Biden's weakness in Afghanistan that led to this invasion in the first place.
00:42:51.000Here is Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida.
00:42:53.000First things first, on the president's unannounced visit, is this a good move?
00:42:56.000Well, you know, Brian, I'm reminded of when he was vice president, Obama and Biden opposed providing lethal aid to Ukraine during those years.
00:43:05.000And then I'm also reminded that I don't think any of this would have happened, but for the weakness that the president showed during his first year in office, culminating, of course, in the disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan.
00:43:17.000So I think while he's over there, I think I and many Americans are thinking to ourselves, OK, he's very concerned about those borders halfway around the world.
00:43:26.000He's not done anything to secure our own border here at home.
00:43:31.000Obviously that's a populist point that's going to reach a lot of ears.
00:43:33.000DeSantis also said that Biden should not be giving a blank check to Ukraine, which again is a principle everybody should agree with.
00:43:38.000There shouldn't be such a thing as blank checks generally in American policy.
00:43:40.000I think a lot of Americans are asking, you know, how much more money?
00:43:49.000Well, they have effectively a blank check policy with no clear strategic objective identified.
00:43:55.000And these things can escalate, and I don't think it's in our interest to be getting into proxy war with China, getting involved over things like the borderlands or over Crimea.
00:44:07.000So I think it would behoove them to identify what is the strategic objective that they're trying to achieve.
00:44:14.000But just saying it's an open-ended blank check, that is not acceptable.
00:44:20.000Obviously, he is exactly right about this, and this is why the posturing by Joe Biden, I think, is actually, in many ways, not useful.
00:44:45.000Apparently, Puffin Books is now rewriting, I'm not kidding you, rewriting Roald Dahl's children's books.
00:44:52.000Apparently, the Telegraph, a British newspaper, reported that hundreds of words, including descriptions of characters' appearances, races, and genders, had now been changed or removed in at least 10 of the author's 19 children's books.
00:45:03.000A review of the author's works began in 2020, according to the New York Times, before Netflix acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company, which manages the author's copyrights and trademarks.
00:45:12.000According to Rick Bahari, a company spokesperson, when publishing new print runs of books written years ago, it's not unusual to review the language used alongside updating other details, including a book's cover and page layout.
00:45:21.000Our guiding principle throughout has been to maintain the storylines, characters, and the irreverence and sharp-edged spirit of the original text.
00:45:27.000Apparently, the changes reported by The Telegraph includes, characters are no longer described as fat.
00:45:34.000Because apparently, that's offensive to people, is if you describe certain characters as fat.
00:45:41.000And also, references to mothers and fathers have been removed, and now changed to parents or family, because Matilda apparently had two dads.
00:45:51.000Apparently, Bahari said the estate had partnered with Inclusive Minds, an organization that champions diversity and accessibility in children's literature.
00:45:58.000The woke censorship regime is here, and it is ugly.
00:46:13.000And now they're rewriting his stuff to make it less offensive.
00:46:17.000The group said that it helped provide valuable input when it comes to reviewing language that can be damaging and perpetuate harmful stereotypes.
00:46:26.000The changes are ridiculous, by the way.
00:46:29.000And if we are going to do this routine, you're literally going to just have to wipe out pretty much all literature up till the last five seconds.
00:46:36.000Because we have jumped into a brave new world when it comes to our gender and racial politics, in which we are apparently not allowed to say that men are different from women.
00:46:50.000And we're also not allowed to point out anything remotely offensive to anyone, or even to read historically stuff that is actually offensive and then say, yeah, that's what people thought at the time, that was a bad thing.
00:47:02.000The fact that they have actively changed the verbiage here is insane, and some of the changes are incredibly stupid.
00:47:09.000I mean, I'm looking them up right now.
00:47:12.000Some of the changes that have been made, they took out fat, ugly, and crazy.
00:47:18.000You're not allowed to say fat or ugly or crazy.
00:47:21.000These are all words that we still use today, by the way.
00:47:24.000Apparently, you are no longer allowed to call Augustus Gloop from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory enormously fat.
00:47:31.000You just call him enormous, which doesn't change it at all.
00:47:34.000The entire premise of Augustus Gloop as a character is that he is a greedy little kid who becomes fat because he won't stop eating the candy.
00:47:40.000I don't know how they're going to go back and remake the Gene Wilde or Willy Wonka film.
00:47:44.000All I can tell you is I'm going to keep playing the Oompa Loompa song for my kids.
00:48:28.000Also, Ann Sponge from James and the Giant Peach is no longer the fat one.
00:48:31.000Also, Mrs. Twit of the Twits is beastly rather than ugly.
00:48:34.000And you're not allowed to say that somebody is mad or crazy.
00:48:37.000The craziest change, by the way, so they said that the Cloud Men from James and the Giant Peach are now Cloud People?
00:48:42.000Honestly, I think that the craziest change actually here, the Roald Dahl change that's the craziest, is that they change a list of books that Matilda is reading at the library.
00:48:51.000To ban Rudyard Kipling but keep Ernest Hemingway in.
00:48:55.000Which is weird because Ernest Hemingway was a super giant terrible sexist and kind of a bad person.
00:49:01.000Rudyard Kipling has now been replaced.
00:49:03.000Joseph Conrad, who wrote Lord Jim, who wrote a bunch of classics in the genre, he's also been replaced with Jane Austen.
00:49:14.000Rudyard Kipling was replaced with John Steinbeck.
00:49:27.000And this is why people have been saying you should not buy digital copies of things.
00:49:30.000You should buy actual hard copies of things because once the digital copies are there, they can just change them at a moment's notice.
00:49:35.000You're seeing this, by the way, in terms of chat GPT and AI.
00:49:38.000All the limitations that are placed there are insane.
00:49:40.000Over the weekend, for example, AI Chat GPT revealed that if you try to rank Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson in terms of controversy from 0 to 10, they rank alongside Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin.
00:49:51.000This is how Chat GPT's presets are made.
00:49:57.000The perversion of kids' brains that are going to be created by simply barring them from seeing material that we don't want them to see in the name of wokeness is totally crazy.
00:50:05.000Now, speaking of nastiness and meanness, I have to say it is kind of fun when the left comes for one of their own.
00:50:11.000So this finally happened to Don Lemon.
00:50:13.000So you will notice that the attacks on Nikki Haley have been ramping up from the left because the left actually wants Donald Trump to be the nominee.
00:50:20.000When Donald Trump is in the news, the ratings are up.
00:50:22.000When Donald Trump is out of the news, the ratings are down.
00:50:24.000Not only that, the Democrats obviously think that Donald Trump is an easier candidate to run against than some of the others, so they are attacking with alacrity anybody who's not named Donald Trump who's in the race.
00:50:31.000Right now, there's only one person not named Donald Trump who's in the race, and that person is Nikki Haley.
00:50:35.000So over the weekend, Nikki Haley, she was, again, making the point that you don't have to be 80 years old in order to run for president, which, again, is a pretty good point.
00:50:42.000I think that we are all tired of the octogenarians running the show.
00:50:44.000Here was Nikki Haley over the weekend.
00:50:47.000You know, America first, America should be powerful.
00:50:48.000Those are things that any GOP candidate is going to say, so why you?
00:52:01.000Gen Z and millennials make up about a third of the country, but we're nowhere near a third of the government and think we need a government that needs to look like the country.
00:52:08.000It's time for a new generation of Republican leadership.
00:52:12.000The Washington establishment has failed us over and over and over again.
00:52:18.000It's time for a new generation of leadership.
00:53:00.000I mean, you wrote a book about growing up brown in America.
00:53:03.000Will you be cheering on fellow brown American, fellow child of South Asian immigrants, Nikki Haley, and what she stands for?
00:53:10.000To quote Zora Neale Hurston, not all skinfolk are kinfolk.
00:53:14.000Nikki Haley instead is the Dinesh D'Souza of Candace Owens.
00:53:17.000She's the Alpha Karen with brown skin.
00:53:20.000And for white supremacists and racists, she's the perfect Manchurian candidate.
00:53:24.000And instead of applauding her, I am just disgusted by people like Nikki Haley who know better, whose parents were the beneficiaries, as Asha said, of the 1965 Immigration Nationality Act, which passed thanks to those original BLM protesters and the Civil Rights Act.
00:54:15.000She says that Nikki Haley is a token, of course.
00:54:18.000The executive director of the AAPI Victory Alliance told NBC, I think people can see through her much better now than ever before, so she can try to talk about her immigrant background.
00:54:32.000I mean, and if so, why won't that work for her?
00:54:36.000Well, I mean, I can't speak on behalf of the Indian American community because I'm not part of that, but I can see where the comparisons would be to where oftentimes Republicans will try to use immigrants or minorities as tokens to try to deflect away from policies and positions that are actually exclusive of those communities.
00:54:56.000And Nikki Haley is no different than a lot of the rest of them.
00:55:02.000OK, so I do love that for the left, you can be as racially offensive as you want, but it's ageism that's the real problem.
00:55:07.000Apparently, Don Lemon has now been forced into DEI training, which is hysterically funny.
00:55:12.000So you'll recall that last week, Don Lemon suggested that Nikki Haley was pastor prime because women in their prime are in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, by which he apparently meant sexual prime, which is something he's an expert on.
00:55:21.000His female sexual prime is gay man Don Lemon.
00:56:00.000It is important to me that CNN balances accountability with fostering a culture in which people can own, learn, and grow from their mistakes.
00:56:07.000The irony of Don Lemon, a gay black man, having to sit through diversity training is almost too rich.
00:56:21.000First thing that I like, the House Republicans have now given access to Tucker Carlson to 44,000 hours, 41,000 hours of capital surveillance footage from the January 6th riot.
00:56:34.000And full transparency would have been a good thing in the first place.
00:56:36.000I am bewildered as to why House Democrats didn't do this.
00:56:38.000If they were so confident about their narrative, that there was no one encouraging the riots, or that the police were not facilitating, or any of this sort of stuff, then why not just release all the footage?
00:56:47.000I'm always very curious when people won't release all the footage in cases like this.
00:56:53.000Maybe they have some reasons they haven't quite expressed as of yet, but releasing it to Tucker, the left, of course, is going nuts, because how dare you give it to Tucker Carlson?
00:57:00.000You guys give it to your favorite people in the media all the time.
00:57:03.000Apparently, according to Axios, Carlson says, if there's ever a question that's in the public's interest to know, it's what actually happened on January 6th.
00:57:10.000By definition, the video will reveal it.
00:57:11.000It's impossible for me to understand why any honest person would be bothered by that.
00:57:33.000So over the weekend, Bernie Sanders has a new book coming out.
00:57:37.000The fact that Bernie Sanders is considered like an actual valuable human in today's political day and age demonstrates how crazy today's politics are.
00:57:45.000He has a book titled, It's Okay To Be Angry About Capitalism.
00:57:49.000It is by Bernie Sanders, as well as John Nichols, who I guess is probably his ghostwriter or something.
00:57:56.000And presumably it is about his lake house.
00:58:00.000According to his Amazon description, a progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like.
00:58:12.000So it'd be Das Kapital from the senator from Vermont who has been a career useless person, like totally useless his entire career.
00:58:18.000So useless he was kicked out of a commune when he was a younger man.
00:58:21.000So useless that he was kind of a deadbeat with regard to his own kids apparently for a while.
00:58:26.000Sanders argues that unfettered capitalism is to blame for an unprecedented level of income and wealth inequality is undermining our democracy and is destroying our planet.
00:58:33.000How can we accept an economic order that allows three billionaires?
00:59:03.000If you just replace everything that Bernie Sanders asks about with the word death, you understand how nonsensical any of his arguments are?
00:59:08.000Because again, he doesn't ever argue for his preventative measures.
00:59:13.000All he does is just critique the status quo, which is the easiest game in the entire world.
00:59:19.000He says the path forward has to be... Okay, so he was asked over the weekend by Margaret Brennan on CBS News about the fact that he is now doing events where the tickets are selling for 95 bucks a pop.
00:59:28.000If you're a good communist, why aren't they free?
01:01:03.000So James O'Keefe has now apparently been thrown out of Project Veritas, which means Project Veritas no longer has, like, any reason for being, from what I understand.
01:01:11.000The rationale for him being thrown out of Project Veritas is absolutely unclear.
01:01:14.000They're claiming that he was mean to employees or something, which is a Strange claim for why you would throw out the face of the organization, the only prominent person who works at your organization, and the lead fundraiser for your organization.
01:01:26.000Project Veritas, of course, James has spent years going undercover.
01:01:29.000I've known James since before the ACORN scandal broke during the Andrew Breitbart days.
01:01:35.000That's going back, you know, 15 years.
01:01:37.000And James has always been somebody who's very controversial, goes about things in his own way.
01:01:42.000He also happens to be responsible for breaking an enormous amount of news over the course of the last 15 years by going undercover and by actually getting people to admit things on tape that they would rather not have admitted on tape, including most recently admissions from high-ranking members of Pfizer that they were engaged in what kind of sounds like gain-of-function research.
01:02:00.000Well now, according to the Washington Post, Project Veritas ...has split with O'Keefe, the group's founder and chairman, following a bitter management dispute that pulled back the curtain of allegations of workplace misconduct and mismanagement of donor money.
01:02:11.000The group's executive director informed some staff on Monday that O'Keefe had issued an ultimatum demanding the board of directors resign as a condition for him to stay.
01:02:18.000And apparently the board of directors said that they then removed him.
01:02:21.000Now, I don't know how he constructed his board.
01:02:22.000Typically, when you construct a board of directors for a 501c3, you put allies on the board.
01:02:26.000So maybe there are other issues we don't know about.
01:02:27.000If there are no other issues we don't know about, if what all that's happening here is that the board doesn't like how James is running the organization, I do not understand the logic here.
01:02:34.000James, effectively speaking, is the public face of the organization.
01:02:39.000Here was James announcing his ouster yesterday.
01:02:43.000The only way to defeat us is if they take our spirit.
01:02:48.000And from the looks of things, many of us remain completely undefeated.
01:03:01.000The mission will perhaps take on a new name.
01:03:04.000And it may be no longer called Veritas, Project Veritas.
01:03:08.000I'll need a bunch of people around me and I'll make sure, I'll make sure you know how to find me.
01:03:19.000And I'll quote the, when you invited me to New York City and did that little stand up, how fitting that from Shakespeare, quote, and this story shall the good man teach his son.