00:00:00.000One of the big pieces of breaking news, this was Friday evening, is President Trump put out an announcement that he had made a deal with the Russians to deliver diesel fuel to the American marketplace.
00:00:09.000He said, I've just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the American and global marketplace, another half million tons during the month of November, and one million tons immediately thereafter.
00:00:23.000Additionally, based on the condition of their diesel refineries, Russia will then deliver within a short period of time, three million tons of diesel fuel between our total control of the Strait of Hormuz And this great announcement on Russian energy, diesel prices for Americans, and indeed the world will be coming down in record numbers and fast.
00:00:36.000Lower prices for Americans, especially our great farmers, ranchers, and truckers, is my greatest priority.
00:00:41.000This is a very big and important announcement.
00:00:42.000Additionally, it must be understood Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.
00:00:45.000Thank you for your attention to this matter.0.54
00:00:47.000So, obviously, the president wants to keep the kibosh on Iranian oil, which, of course, I agree with, and I think is not only the correct move, but the morally righteous move.
00:00:55.000However, what he is trying to do by manipulating oil markets by paying the Russians is a terrible move.0.63
00:01:05.000I think the administration has not done a wonderful job of explaining what that sacrifice will look like, how long it will last, what the American people are being asked to do.
00:01:12.000And it's been a shortcoming of the PR efforts on behalf of the Iran war.
00:01:17.000I think it's also been a shortcoming on the part of the Biden administration when it came to the sacrifices Americans would have to make for the Ukraine war.
00:01:25.000Russia is a nefarious power that is literally acting not only against our interests, they've been giving targeting information allegedly to the Iranians to hit American targets and allies in the Middle East.0.80
00:01:37.000Russia and Iran have been working hand in glove together.0.73
00:01:39.000It's Iranian Shahed drones that are being used in Ukraine.0.70
00:01:46.000They are deeply committed to fighting Western interests.0.66
00:01:50.000And one of my hopes, I even expressed it last week at the University of Texas at Austin before this happened, was that the administration had been moving in a more pro Ukraine direction, given the fact that Russia has been utterly intransigent throughout this entire war.0.60
00:02:02.000There have been a bunch of off ramps, Russia has taken none of them.0.96
00:02:07.000Russia is firmly committed to the idea that the West will eventually collapse and they will just be able to grind down the Ukrainians into dust.0.77
00:02:12.000Paying the Russians in the middle of a war where the Russians are targeting Ukrainian civilian areas while they are looking with hungry eyes at Eastern Europe, including the Baltics and Poland, this is a large scale mistake.0.73
00:02:27.000Now, the president is putting heavy pressure on Vladimir Zelensky before the election not to hit Russian refineries because apparently that is hitting global oil supplies.
00:02:54.000Apparently, 36 million barrels of oil, which is what will be freed over the course of the next few months, is about eight hours of global oil supply.
00:03:01.000There probably will not be a meaningful drop in the price of diesel.
00:03:05.000But Trump smacking Zelensky because Zelensky is hitting the actual energy resources that fund the Russian war machine, this is wrong.
00:03:11.000Zelensky should be hitting those refineries.
00:03:17.000But he could have settled it many times, and he chose not to.
00:03:21.000We said, You can do whatever you want to Russia, don't hit the refineries, because that's a world problem that's caused.0.65
00:03:27.000And he wants to make problems for the world.
00:03:30.000He wants to make problems for our farmers, our ranchers, with diesel fuel, because Russia supplies a large portion of the diesel fuel throughout the world.
00:03:40.000And we told him, Do whatever you want, but don't hit.
00:03:43.000The diesel fuel, because there's a big problem, big shortage.
00:04:36.000And it is important that it become reality.1.00
00:04:37.000Unfortunately, Ukrainian skies have been infested with Russian shaheds all day today.0.99
00:04:41.000Again, those are Iranian made drones.0.99
00:04:43.000There have been glide bomb strikes and strikes on our energy infrastructure, too.0.98
00:04:46.000A power plant in Kharkiv was attacked this evening.
00:04:49.000Overall, this past week alone, the Russians have carried out more than 200 strikes on our electricity generation and transmission facilities in Ukraine and another 17 strikes this week targeted gas and oil facilities.
00:04:59.000They've killed more than 150 of our people.
00:05:01.000More than 700 people have been wounded.
00:05:02.000Ukraine has proposed many de-escalatory steps.
00:05:04.000Putin has had one answer to all of them, Niet.
00:05:07.000We do hope you'll finally say something to America, Ukraine, and the entire world that will lead to a real and dignified peace.
00:05:14.000The armed forces of Ukraine have received all the appropriate orders.
00:05:17.000We are awaiting clear details of the dialogue between America and Russia, and we expect Putin to follow through on what President Trump said.
00:05:22.000Of course, Putin is not going to follow through on any of that.
00:05:26.000In the lead up to the 2022 election, You might remember that Joe Biden emptied the strategic petroleum reserve and then went and begged the Saudis.
00:05:32.000He had ripped on the Saudis for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the Muslim Brotherhood Associated pseudo journalist.
00:05:39.000They've been ripping on the Saudis for years.
00:05:40.000And then in 2022, midterms are coming, and he goes and he begs the Saudis to increase the oil supply.
00:05:45.000So, an American president's taking foreign policy actions based on trying to lower the oil prices before the midterms, not a rarity.
00:05:53.000However, funding the Russian war machine in order to lower prices marginally for a couple of weeks, that is not going to do it, and it is bad policy.
00:06:01.000Meanwhile, The Saudis are doing a terrible job of defending themselves.0.86
00:06:06.000Gotta say, they're doing a truly horrible job of defending themselves.0.99
00:06:09.000Okay, I've told you about this forever.
00:06:29.000That's a full year to sleep on the mattress in your own home and make sure it's actually right for you.
00:06:33.000Every Helix also ships free in the U.S. Includes a limited lifetime warranty and the happy with Helix guarantee for those seamless returns and exchanges.
00:06:40.000Again, that's a 365 night sleep trial, an entire year, not four months.
00:06:45.000So that's a long time to figure out whether you like it or not, like a long time.
00:06:48.000That's how confident they are in their own product.
00:07:10.000So, yesterday, 12 people were killed, including one American, and hundreds were injured at a Saudi airport in Houthi strikes.
00:07:20.000These were the deadliest attacks in Saudi Arabia in more than a decade.
00:07:23.000Major General Turki Al Malki, a spokesman for the Saudi led coalition in Yemen, said the attack, which killed and injured civilian passengers and airport workers, amounted to a war crime by the Houthi militia and that coalition forces would respond.
00:07:35.000Among the dead were an American, four Saudis, a Palestinian, and residents from Bangladesh, Egypt, Jordan, Syria.
00:07:40.000And Sudan, according to the Kingdom's Civil Aviation Authority.
00:07:43.000The Houthis have been firing willy nilly into Saudi.
00:07:45.000Remember, we have funded the Saudis to the tune of billions of dollars.
00:07:48.000We have like air bases there that are basically there just for their preservation.
00:07:52.000We have sold them hundreds of billions of dollars in weaponry, and they have been signally inept in fighting the Houthis.0.51
00:07:59.000Joe Biden tried to stop them from fighting the Houthis, which was insane.
00:08:02.000And then Trump basically said, you can do what you want.0.95
00:08:05.000And then MBS, Mohammed bin Salman, the head of Saudi Arabia, got in a fight with the other force in the region, the UAE, which is run by MBZ.0.84
00:08:17.000And they got in a fight with each other.
00:08:19.000There was some conflict over who should be in Yemen, who should not be in Yemen.
00:08:24.000They want to be pro-America, but they also want to make nice with the Iranians.0.92
00:08:28.000And the Iranians sent weakness in the Saudis.0.87
00:08:29.000So now the Saudis are lobbying America to get involved in Yemen.
00:08:33.000At this point, I should note, have you seen any of the isolationists who scream at Israel every single day and say that Israel, quote unquote, manipulates America into war, saying one single solitary word about the fact that the Saudis are openly begging the United States to get involved in Yemen?
00:08:52.000Now the Saudis, again, have played their hand in singularly inept fashion.0.83
00:08:56.000They formed the so-called Mecca Defense coalition with the Pakistanis and the Turks.0.73
00:09:02.000It is not working particularly well, as it turns out, because the Pakistanis are not good at this and the Turks are unwilling to project their power.
00:09:10.000Here is CCTV footage from inside the Riyadh airport of the Houthi strikes.0.76
00:09:21.000The Saudis, by the way, have been begging the Israelis for intelligence and resources as well.
00:09:26.000So, as always, the West should make its support of particular regimes conditional on the willingness of those regimes to move in a pro Western direction.
00:09:37.000If they do not, then we should leave them to their own devices.
00:09:41.000That should be the way that this works.
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