The Ben Shapiro Show - Joe Biden Is Still Leading From Behind | Ep. 1442

00:00:00.000 Vladimir Putin surrounds Kiev and puts his nuclear forces on high alert as Europe moves to isolate him and Joe Biden's approval ratings dump down into the high 30s.

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00:01:37.000 I hope you had a wonderful weekend because it's going to be a very busy week.

00:01:39.000 Tomorrow night is Joe Biden's first official State of the Union address.

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00:02:41.000 Okay, so the latest in Ukraine is that the Russian advance on Kiev has continued.

00:02:48.000 They have not taken the city yet, which is an amazing accomplishment for the Ukrainian military, which is wildly outgunned by the Russian military.

00:02:55.000 The Ukrainian military budget versus the Russian military budget.

00:02:58.000 It's just the size differential is astonishing.

00:03:01.000 It's just not close.

00:03:03.000 The simple fact is that Ukraine has the power to fight a guerrilla war, but I don't think anybody thought they were going to go toe-to-toe with the Russians at this point.

00:03:10.000 Ukraine has about $6 billion in their defense budget, but that is one-tenth of Russia's defense budget, according to the latest data from Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

00:03:19.000 Yet somehow, Ukraine is still holding off the Russians from taking its major cities, which is a major, major accomplishment at this point. 0.99

00:03:25.000 Now, Russia is activating apparently One third more of its force, which has been located mostly in Belarus.

00:03:30.000 Belarus is talking about sending in its own troops because Belarus is basically a proxy state for Moscow at this point.

00:03:36.000 But the simple fact that the Ukrainian government has lasted this long must put a scare into Vladimir Putin in a very, very serious way and lead to a lot of pride among Ukrainian citizens who've basically been going this alone.

00:03:49.000 There have been heavy economic sanctions that have been placed on the Russian government, as we'll get to in just a minute.

00:03:53.000 Only in the last 24 to 48 hours has there been real materiel shipped into Ukraine from the European Union.

00:04:00.000 But it's looking as though if Vladimir Putin can't clean this thing up inside of the next week, this turns into a prolonged guerrilla war at the very, very least for him.

00:04:09.000 Vladimir Zelensky doing an incredible job leading the Ukrainian people.

00:04:12.000 He refused to flee the country.

00:04:14.000 And he's got a couple of iconic moments that are going to go down in history already.

00:04:18.000 That video of him saying, send ammunition.

00:04:20.000 I don't need an exit.

00:04:21.000 I need ammunition.

00:04:22.000 That's the kind of stuff that nation building myths are made from.

00:04:26.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Russian and Ukrainian officials were meeting For the first talks since Moscow began its invasion four days ago as Ukraine's defenders held on to the capital in Kiev and pushed back Russian troops in urban combat in their second largest city, Kharkiv.

00:04:39.000 In a sign of growing tensions with the West over Ukraine, Vladimir Putin also ordered the country's nuclear deterrence forces to be put on alert.

00:04:45.000 And this is freaking people out.

00:04:46.000 He doesn't mean to nuke anybody at this point.

00:04:48.000 What he is doing is sort of signaling that if things go badly or if there is too many, if there's too much intervention by the outside world, then maybe, just maybe he'll start firing up The nuclear missiles.

00:04:58.000 Now that is highly unlikely because that of course would be suicidal for him but it has a lot of people on edge.

00:05:03.000 You never want to be in a situation where you are one button push away from nuclear war obviously.

00:05:07.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, a delegation led by Ukraine's defense minister began those ceasefire talks on Monday with Russian officials at the Ukrainian border with Belarus, as Ukrainian forces repelled a series of Russian attacks on the capital and Russian troops shelled a residential neighborhood in the eastern city of Kharkiv, as the talks on the fifth day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine come after Russia's forces have struggled to make headway in most of the country and failed so far to take any of Ukraine's major cities as they faced fierce resistance.

00:05:32.000 Russia was pouring large reinforcement convoys across the border on Monday in what could be preparation for a new push on Kiev and an attempt to besiege it.

00:05:38.000 They withdrew a bunch of their tanks and military munitions from around Kiev late last night.

00:05:46.000 And the impression by military experts is that this was preparing the way for a heavy bombing campaign.

00:05:51.000 Now, at the very beginning of this war, there was a baseline assumption that the Russians would take out the Ukrainian Air Force.

00:05:55.000 They still have not taken out the Ukrainian Air Force.

00:05:57.000 Not only that, the EU is now shipping New jets into Ukraine as we speak.

00:06:02.000 So this war is actually heating up for the Russians.

00:06:04.000 It is not being tamped down nearly as fast as they thought it would be.

00:06:07.000 An indication that Moscow may be shifting to a more destructive approach of targeting civilian areas.

00:06:11.000 A northern neighborhood of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, came under shelling by multiple rocket launchers on Monday.

00:06:19.000 According to witnesses and video footage from the area, this is the Wall Street Journal reporting, the extent of civilian casualties was not immediately known.

00:06:25.000 There were fatalities.

00:06:27.000 The chances of a ceasefire being agreed to on Monday are extremely unlikely, given the fact that Putin has already gone in this far.

00:06:34.000 As additional Russian forces enter Ukraine, Kiev continued to bolster its own military by mobilizing 100,000 new troops and arming its units with sophisticated new weaponry flowing in from the West.

00:06:43.000 Authorities in Kiev, which was under curfew starting on Saturday afternoon, while Ukrainian forces engaged in firefights in several neighborhoods with Russian infiltrator units wearing civilian clothes or Ukrainian uniforms, allowed residents to move around on Monday morning.

00:06:54.000 The metro is still working inside of Kiev at this point.

00:06:57.000 Meanwhile, the Russian markets are completely shut down.

00:06:59.000 They had to shut down their stock market because the ruble dumped about 30% and they have runs on banks in Russia.

00:07:05.000 Because of the cutoff from the international banking system that has finally, finally materialized, not with much help from the United States, by the way.

00:07:11.000 Outside one supermarket on the western side of Kiev, according to the Journal, the waiting time to enter was roughly two hours, even though many of the neighborhood's residents have fled the city for the relative safety of western Ukraine.

00:07:22.000 The city was calm, no looting, no violence.

00:07:23.000 Regular troops and volunteers with yellow armbands manned checkpoints at key intersections.

00:07:27.000 Key authorities warned that any looters would be shot on sight.

00:07:30.000 In some areas, signs of intense fighting were visible, with broken glass, a car with a bullet hole in its windshield, fragments of shells, and grenades.

00:07:37.000 If you take a look at the map, what you see is that the Russian ground troops have penetrated Parts of the North, they've done more serious penetration in the South.

00:07:47.000 And so the border of Ukraine seems to be shrinking gradually, although not nearly as extensively as people thought it would be this far into the war.

00:07:56.000 Zelensky said on Monday, on the fifth day of the full scale Russian invasion against the people of Ukraine, we are standing firm.

00:08:01.000 Every crime the occupiers commit against us brings us closer and closer to each other.

00:08:04.000 Russia never imagined it would face such solidarity.

00:08:07.000 Yuval Noah Harari, who usually writes on sort of anthropology, has a good piece over at The Guardian pointing out that if Putin's goal here was to prove that the Ukrainians were not actually a people of its own and that they actually were Russian, he has done precisely the opposite.

00:08:20.000 The Ukrainian people have united like never before.

00:08:22.000 They're proving in the face of overwhelming firepower that they are not going to buckle in the face of Vladimir Putin's threats.

00:08:29.000 Putin refused to take a call from Zelensky on the eve of Thursday's invasion, which he said seeks to oust the Ukrainian government and, quote unquote, demilitarize the country.

00:08:37.000 Russia sent a delegation to the southern Belarusian city of Gomel on Sunday.

00:08:40.000 Zelensky initially said he refused to meet in a country that had become a launchpad for Russia's attacks, but he did speak by phone to the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko later on Sunday.

00:08:49.000 Lukashenko has said he might mobilize troops in support of Vladimir Putin.

00:08:53.000 And apparently he then agreed to have some envoys head on over to the Ukrainian-Belarusian border.

00:08:57.000 He wasn't going to go himself, frankly, because he's afraid that he was going to be assassinated.

00:09:01.000 There is talk already that the Russians have been sending in kill squads into the middle of Kiev in an attempt to find Zelensky and just kill him outright.

00:09:09.000 So that is the state of play on the ground.

00:09:11.000 The mayor of Kiev put out a tweet last night suggesting that the entire city had basically been cut off and surrounded.

00:09:16.000 No one could escape.

00:09:17.000 He said that we can't actually evacuate civilians at this point.

00:09:21.000 He said we can't do that because all ways are blocked.

00:09:23.000 Right now we are encircled.

00:09:25.000 According to the Daily Mail, more than 400 Russian mercenaries have been flown in from Africa to assassinate Zelensky.

00:09:31.000 A private militia known as the Wagner Group allegedly has orders from Putin to take out Zelensky and 23 other government figures to allow Moscow to take over its eastern neighbor.

00:09:39.000 According to the Times, the U.K.

00:09:41.000 Times, the army for hire run by oligarchy Evgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of Putin, was flown in five weeks ago and is now being offered a huge sum for the mission.

00:09:50.000 The highly trained operatives are said to be waiting for a green light from the Kremlin to pounce.

00:09:52.000 Their hit list also includes Ukraine's prime minister, the entire cabinet, mayor of Kiev Vitaly Klitschko, and his brother Vladimir, both boxing champions who become iconic figures on the front lines of the capital.

00:10:04.000 So that is the current state of play over there.

00:10:06.000 Meanwhile, the Europeans are actually getting involved much more than the United States is, by the way.

00:10:12.000 As we will get to in just a moment, Joe Biden is trying to claim credit for quote-unquote mobilizing the world.

00:10:16.000 The reality is that he didn't do much of anything.

00:10:19.000 Vladimir Putin mobilized the European Union in the same way that Barack Obama created peace in the Middle East by siding with Iran and then forcing Israel and the Arab countries to come to some sort of agreement that their security meant more than their disagreements about the Palestinian issue.

00:10:33.000 In the same way, the EU for years would not do anything to defend itself, and now Vladimir Putin in one fell swoop has caused the EU to suddenly decide that it is in fact an entity worth preserving and defending against Russian predation.

00:10:45.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the European Union for the first time will now finance the purchase and delivery of weapons in a show of support for Ukraine against the Russian invasion, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

00:10:55.000 The EU will also extend to Belarus sanctions similar to those that imposed on Russia.

00:10:59.000 They're banning the entry of Russian planes into EU airspace.

00:11:02.000 They're banning from the 27 country block Russian state-owned media outlets Russia Today and Sputnik, as well as their subsidiaries.

00:11:09.000 Ms.

00:11:09.000 von der Leyen said the EU's decision to finance arms purchases was a watershed moment.

00:11:14.000 The EU traces its roots to the post-World War II peace efforts and began as an economic alliance.

00:11:19.000 So the EU is now effectively rearming.

00:11:21.000 They are saying that we are not going to take this sitting down, nor are we going to hold ourselves subject to the predation of the Russian government.

00:11:29.000 The European Union has also, you remember that time that Donald Trump said that NATO should increase, all the NATO countries should increase their amount of spending, percentage of their GDP on defense?

00:11:39.000 And everybody got very angry at him for saying all of this?

00:11:42.000 Well all it took was Vladimir Putin invading Ukraine for that to happen.

00:11:44.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Germany is now going to boost its own military spending above 2% of GDP.

00:11:49.000 And create a strategic natural gas reserve.

00:11:51.000 They're actually taking this seriously.

00:11:52.000 So after decades of shutting down their own ability to power their economy via carbon-based fuels, they've decided that they're going to re-up on that.

00:12:00.000 They're going to stop with all of this, let's spend billions and billions of dollars on green tech and make ourselves more dependent on Russian natural gas and oil.

00:12:07.000 Instead, they're going to create their own strategic natural gas reserve and essentially rearm.

00:12:12.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the measures, all of which had long been resisted by successive governments and will now be reflected in this year's budget, underline how profoundly Russia's attack on Ukraine is upending European politics after almost eight decades of nearly uninterrupted peace on the continent.

00:12:24.000 Olaf Scholz said, we have to ask ourselves, what capacities does Putin's Russia have?

00:12:28.000 Which capacities do we need to counter his threats?

00:12:31.000 It's clear we need to invest a lot more in the security of our country to defend our freedom and our democracy.

00:12:35.000 Putin wants to establish a Russian empire.

00:12:37.000 The question is whether we can summon the strength to set boundaries to warmongers like Putin.

00:12:42.000 For decades, Germany had managed to reconcile rising welfare expenditure with budget surpluses by constraining investment in defense and other areas hollowing out its armed forces.

00:12:50.000 Also, the country has resisted diversifying its energy resources, relying instead on plentiful Russian gas supplied through the controversial Nord Stream undersea pipeline running between the two countries.

00:13:00.000 Germany has more than half of its gas coming from Russia.

00:13:02.000 Scholz said he would immediately invest the equivalent of 100 billion euros in weaponry.

00:13:07.000 Starting now, he said, Germany's military spending would exceed the NATO organization's spending target of 2% of GDP. He also said the government would create strategic gas reserves and finance the building of two liquefied natural gas import terminals on the country's northern coast.

00:13:21.000 So finally, the Europeans are actually getting serious about what it is they are doing at this point.

00:13:27.000 Ukraine, for its part, is saying, we would like to join the EU formally.

00:13:31.000 So all of the things that Vladimir Putin was seeking to prevent here, namely Ukraine joining the EU formally, he has now essentially forced the hand, which by the way, means that he is going to have to go through full scale with the invasion.

00:13:42.000 There's not going to be a peace agreement here short of Zelensky essentially surrendering himself to Putin, which he's not going to do.

00:13:49.000 According to CNN, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked the European Union on Monday to urgently admit Ukraine to the bloc.

00:13:55.000 He said in his latest video message, we appeal to the European Union to urgently admit Ukraine using a new procedure.

00:14:00.000 We are grateful to partners for standing with us.

00:14:02.000 Our goal is to be with all Europeans and to be equal to them.

00:14:05.000 I'm sure we deserve it.

00:14:05.000 I'm sure it is possible.

00:14:07.000 Apparently, he spoke on Sunday with the presidents of Portugal, Lithuania, France and Poland, as well as the prime ministers of Belgium, Spain and the United Kingdom.

00:14:14.000 Already coming up, Russia, its economy is really teetering right now.

00:14:18.000 The Russian ruble is in serious, serious trouble.

00:14:20.000 We'll bring you more on that in just one moment.

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00:15:23.000 Meanwhile, the Russian ruble is just dying on the vine here.

00:15:28.000 According to CNN, Russia's currency crashed to a record low against the U.S.

00:15:32.000 dollar Monday as the country's financial system reeled from crushing sanctions imposed by Western countries in response to the invasion of Ukraine.

00:15:38.000 The ruble lost more than 30 percent of its value, trading at 109 to the dollar after plummeting as much as 40 percent.

00:15:45.000 The start of trading on the Russian stock market was actually canceled.

00:15:47.000 The latest barrage of sanctions came on Saturday when the United States, EU, UK and Canada said they would expel some Russian banks from SWIFT, a global financial messaging service, and paralyze the assets of Russia's central bank.

00:15:58.000 The United States had been Wildly hesitant to do that.

00:16:01.000 And apparently now they're going to go forward with this after being forced into it by the Europeans. 0.96

00:16:06.000 President Vladimir Putin's government has spent the last eight years prepping Russia for tough sanctions.

00:16:10.000 They built up a war chest of $630 billion in foreign currency reserves.

00:16:14.000 But his fortress economy is now under unprecedented assault.

00:16:16.000 At least some of that financial firepower is now frozen.

00:16:20.000 According to von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission, we will also ban the transactions of Russia's central bank and freeze all of its assets to prevent it from financing Putin's war.

00:16:29.000 The collapse in the currency prompted the Russian Central Bank to implement emergency measures on Monday, including a huge hike in interest rates to 20% from 9.5% because basically they're trying to discourage people from taking loans.

00:16:39.000 They're saying, we need the cash.

00:16:40.000 There's not much that we can lend out at this point.

00:16:45.000 So again, there are negotiations today.

00:16:47.000 Those negotiations are highly unlikely to result in anything productive.

00:16:51.000 More than half a million refugees have now fled Ukraine, four neighboring countries at this point.

00:16:56.000 So this war is not going as easily, certainly, as Russia thought it was going to be going.

00:17:01.000 And the EU is finally mobilizing in the way that it should.

00:17:04.000 They've also shut down, by the way, all flights into the EU from Russia at this point.

00:17:10.000 As I mentioned, the EU, UK, Canada, and the United States have planned to cut some of the Russian banks from SWIFT, which is a major move.

00:17:15.000 They did this with Iran a few years ago under President Trump.

00:17:18.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S.

00:17:19.000 European Union, Canada, and the U.K.

00:17:21.000 announced new sanctions against Russia, saying they planned to cut some Russian banks off the SWIFT financial network and would take actions to prevent Russia's central bank deploying that $600 billion in reserves to help Russia's economy.

00:17:32.000 The joint statements from all of these governments sent a powerful signal of how the West could flex its collective muscle after debating how to respond to Russian aggression.

00:17:39.000 And this is a significant step up in efforts by Western capitals to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to seek a diplomatic off-ramp to the crisis.

00:17:50.000 So expect inflation supply chains to be attenuated.

00:17:55.000 Once again, expect prices to go up.

00:17:56.000 There will be sacrifice that has to be undergone by Europeans and, yes, Americans economically in order to fend off Russia here and in order to support Ukraine.

00:18:05.000 And President Biden should be asking the American people.

00:18:08.000 He should be transparent about this.

00:18:11.000 One of the things that's kind of amazing about this is the spectacle of watching as the United States, the White House, they're not sure whether they want to be seen as leading this or whether they want to be seen as leading from behind.

00:18:23.000 So on the one hand, Joe Biden wants to take credit for this.

00:18:26.000 He wants to say that he's been the one who's making all of this happen.

00:18:29.000 On the other hand, he pretty clearly is not the one making all this happen.

00:18:33.000 So at the same time that the Germans, who have been, again, investing billions and billions, tons of money, into their green energy infrastructure that's been utterly insufficient, and under the table has been powered by Russian natural gas and oil, They're cutting off Russian natural gas and oil, and they're starting to develop their own oil reserves.

00:18:50.000 In the United States, we have not even cut off Russia's energy sector at this point.

00:18:53.000 Representative Brad Sherman from California, he said, yeah, we're really not going to cut off their oil and natural gas because we need it.

00:18:59.000 But here's the thing, we don't.

00:19:00.000 We were energy independent until Joe Biden took office.

00:19:03.000 We're taking in hundreds of thousands of Russian barrels of oil a day.

00:19:06.000 There's no reason for that.

00:19:07.000 I mean, the first move that Joe Biden made when he came into office was he shut down the Keystone XL pipeline.

00:19:11.000 And the second move he made was greenlighting Nord Stream 2 between Russia and Germany.

00:19:14.000 So what exactly?

00:19:16.000 Like, why?

00:19:16.000 Why is it that the Europeans are taking a harsher stance on this when the United States has much more in terms of oil resources than the Europeans do?

00:19:23.000 Here's Brad Sherman.

00:19:25.000 These sanctions are actually rather modest compared to what we did to Iran back in 2014.

00:19:31.000 We have not used the SWIFT system to cut them out of international banking.

00:19:36.000 And the reason we did it is because both the United States, but particularly Europe, want to keep buying Russian oil and natural gas, and want to keep paying for it, and of course need a banking system to pay for it.

00:19:52.000 That's Democrat Brad Sherman.

00:19:52.000 He's correct about this.

00:19:54.000 According to the Wall Street Journal today, the European Union said it had agreed with all these countries to eject some of Russia's banks from the global financial system.

00:20:02.000 But, but, they're only cutting off some of those banks.

00:20:05.000 Why not all the banks?

00:20:06.000 The reason they're only cutting off some of the banks is because they don't want to cut off Russia's energy sector.

00:20:10.000 That continues through non-sanctioned banks.

00:20:12.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Russia is one of the world's top oil and natural gas producers.

00:20:16.000 Energy exports represent half of the country's foreign sales.

00:20:19.000 The country Now embroiled in a bitter war in Ukraine provides around 40% of all of Europe's natural gas, about 50% of all of Germany's natural gas.

00:20:26.000 The commodity heats the continent, fuels many of its power plants, is a critical input for a range of industrial processes.

00:20:31.000 Russia's crude production is a major factor in the global oil marketplace.

00:20:35.000 Policymakers are tailoring their pressure campaign to protect their energy supply, prevent a surge in oil prices, and minimize the damage to their own economies.

00:20:42.000 Justine Walker, head of sanctions and risk at the Associate of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist said, you can't get away from the fact that Europe still has a dependency on Russia.

00:20:52.000 So the continuing dependence on Russian oil means that all the sanctions that are being undertaken, they're damaging the Russian economy, but they are not the mother of all bombs here.

00:21:01.000 A senior Biden official said on Saturday officials were carefully selecting which Russian banks to eject from the SWIFT network to minimize disruption of energy markets.

00:21:09.000 The official said, we know where most of the energy flows occur, through which banks they occur, and if we take that approach, we can simply choose the institutions where most of the energy flows do not occur.

00:21:18.000 And meanwhile, the attempt by the United States to split off China from Russia is utterly unavailing.

00:21:26.000 So all of the economic sanctions that we're placing on Russia, they're going to be to little avail if China continues to funnel money to Russia.

00:21:33.000 And they have a mutual interest in doing so.

00:21:34.000 First of all, China gets a lot of oil from Russia and so they want to remain on warm terms with Russia.

00:21:39.000 And second of all, Russia needs China's help in the international marketplace because people have not cut off China at the knees as of yet.

00:21:45.000 Meanwhile, China is happy to see Russia invade Ukraine as a predicate to China invading Taiwan.

00:21:50.000 There was a story that came out late last week that the Biden administration had spent months attempting to get China to split off from Russia and in fact had shown them confidential intelligence, which China then promptly turned around and handed directly to the Russians.

00:22:03.000 According to the New York Times, They visited a hockey rink in Beijing and the panda enclosure at the Moscow Zoo.

00:22:09.000 They shared blinis layered with caviar in Russia and reciprocally the popular variant in China, Jianbing.

00:22:14.000 They have shared birthday cakes and exchanged toasts with shots of vodka while demurring that neither would dare go overboard with the stuff.

00:22:18.000 For more than a decade, Xi Jinping of China and Vladimir Putin of Russia have forged a respectful, perhaps even warm relationship, reflecting the deepening ties between two world powers that share common cause against American military and economic might.

00:22:31.000 The invasion of Ukraine could upend all that or forge in diplomatic isolation an alliance that reshapes the world order in the 21st century.

00:22:40.000 So Xi is sort of in a balancing act right now.

00:22:43.000 He doesn't want to completely cut off the West because he makes a lot of money from the West.

00:22:47.000 But he didn't do anything to ward off the invasion.

00:22:49.000 He didn't try to tell Putin not to do it.

00:22:52.000 China is waiting, in other words. 0.86

00:22:55.000 China is not likely to tell Russia to call it off.

00:22:58.000 It's pretty clear that Russia waited until the end of the Chinese Olympics in order to launch its invasion. 0.70

00:23:05.000 Finally, the White House is publicly calling on China to get involved.

00:23:08.000 White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, she said, this is not a time to stand on the sidelines.

00:23:12.000 It's time to be vocal and condemn the actions of Putin and Russia.

00:23:14.000 But China is very unlikely to do that at this point beyond some sort of pitter patter.

00:23:20.000 So that is an unlikely thing to happen.

00:23:23.000 So we have to ask ourselves at this point, what do we get wrong?

00:23:27.000 Because it seems like a lot of the foreign policy truisms of the last half century, they're just wrong.

00:23:32.000 What if it's possible that the ancient wisdom of foreign policy is still right?

00:23:36.000 Because human nature doesn't change.

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00:24:50.000 Hey, so what does all this mean?

00:24:51.000 I mean, one of the big things that this means is that for all of the pretensions of people in the West to the idea that we had basically fought in World War II, the war to end all wars, and that all of international politics had now shifted.

00:25:05.000 And then the aftermath of the Cold War, there was a dramatic shift in politics and that the wars of the past were over.

00:25:10.000 There wouldn't be no more major border wars.

00:25:12.000 Why would people fight over land?

00:25:13.000 After all, we're an international community with a huge global marketplace.

00:25:17.000 The belief that there wouldn't be resource wars anymore, because after all, we're going to go on green energy, we're going to develop new sources of energy.

00:25:23.000 All of those old questions about things like who has access to the oil, all of that would be a thing of the past.

00:25:29.000 None of that was true.

00:25:30.000 It turns out the old ways of politics remain, because all politics are are an extension of human nature, and human nature does not change.

00:25:37.000 So it turns out you weren't going to get aggressive countries like Putin on their own borders.

00:25:41.000 And we could ignore it, we could pretend it wasn't happening in Georgia, wasn't happening in Crimea, wasn't happening in Kazakhstan, wasn't happening in Belarus where the Russians were effectively setting up puppet states.

00:25:50.000 We could pretend all that wasn't happening because after all we were in a new modern era.

00:25:54.000 But Vladimir Putin wasn't in that era.

00:25:55.000 We could pretend that oil wars were never going to happen again because after all we were moving toward something approaching green energy.

00:26:04.000 And we could cut our nose off to spite our face.

00:26:05.000 We could continue to pump up those dreams while at the same time consuming Russian oil.

00:26:11.000 And then it turns out that those resources are still very necessary.

00:26:14.000 It turns out there are new types of resources that are going to lead to war.

00:26:17.000 Things like semiconductors.

00:26:19.000 The next wars, as Neil Ferguson has suggested, could be fought over semiconductors.

00:26:23.000 That is just a resource.

00:26:24.000 Resource wars could happen in the very near future.

00:26:28.000 Because again, human nature is human nature.

00:26:31.000 And so when people ask what Vladimir Putin is doing, you have to understand that Vladimir Putin isn't doing anything different than Peter the Great did.

00:26:35.000 Or that Catherine the Great did.

00:26:37.000 All that he's doing is expanding the borders of the Russian Empire.

00:26:39.000 And he is seeing the world in a slightly different way.

00:26:42.000 The way that Vladimir Putin is seeing the world is not as an international new world global order.

00:26:46.000 He is seeing the world as spheres of influence in the same way that all of the politicians of the late 18th century saw the world.

00:26:55.000 It was all spheres of influence and balance of power and Which countries?

00:26:59.000 Can I move inside either our formal borders or informal borders?

00:27:03.000 We're going to be our friends and we're going to help punish our enemies.

00:27:07.000 The interrelated world where we all got to trade with one another, that lasted, what, 30 years?

00:27:15.000 And it's been over for a little while.

00:27:17.000 And it's taken a little while for people to notice this.

00:27:19.000 The great dream after the fall of the Soviet Union is that now everyone would be integrated.

00:27:24.000 We were past all of the wars.

00:27:25.000 We were at the end of history.

00:27:26.000 The clash of civilizations was effectively over.

00:27:29.000 And it turns out the clash of civilizations is never over because as long as there are different cultures and different civilizations, there will be clashes between those civilizations and cultures.

00:27:36.000 And so you will have people like Vladimir Putin who wants to set up effectively an autarky A self-sufficient area that isn't reliant on trade with the West, where you don't have to import the West's values in order to run your economy.

00:27:51.000 Now, listen, it's a very bad thing.

00:27:54.000 We should have interrelated economies.

00:27:57.000 It's made everything cheaper.

00:27:58.000 It's made the world much richer.

00:27:59.000 It's made your life better.

00:28:00.000 It's made my life better.

00:28:01.000 It's made the lives of literally billions of people the world over better.

00:28:03.000 It's lengthened lifespan all over the planet.

00:28:06.000 The power of economics is not to be sniffed at.

00:28:08.000 And global supply chains are a really good thing.

00:28:10.000 Interrelations in trade are, generally speaking, a really good thing.

00:28:13.000 But again, the reality is that different cultures prize different things differently.

00:28:18.000 And that means that if they can use those tools in order to enrich themselves and then clamp down on their surrounding states in order to maximize their own cultural power, they will do so.

00:28:27.000 And that is what China is doing.

00:28:28.000 And that is what Russia is doing. 0.58

00:28:31.000 Vladimir Putin may be approaching the end of his life, right?

00:28:33.000 There are rumors about Vladimir Putin's health.

00:28:35.000 And so his ambitions are historic Russian ambition.

00:28:39.000 He wants to be Vladimir the Great.

00:28:40.000 He wants to be just like Peter the Great.

00:28:42.000 He wants to expand the borders of the Russian Empire.

00:28:43.000 And if that means that he's going to have to take an economic hit in order to do so, he'll take an economic hit in order to do so.

00:28:49.000 And for the Chinese, they feel the same way, which is why they are casting their eyes on Taiwan right now.

00:28:55.000 What has happened in the last week or so is that all of the prettiness of foreign policy thought since the end of the Cold War has been blown up.

00:29:03.000 I talked about this a little bit last week, all the various myths.

00:29:05.000 The myth of an international order led by the United Nations, which is always a joke.

00:29:09.000 The myth that economic sanctions were going to dissuade states from taking aggressive military action.

00:29:14.000 The myth that you could make soft guarantees to countries and that if they didn't have the ability to defend themselves, they could still rely on you to fill in the gaps.

00:29:22.000 None of that was true.

00:29:23.000 And so what you are likely to see is a massive rearmament movement across the world right now.

00:29:29.000 Because there are only two alternatives.

00:29:31.000 The alternative is either American power or everybody protecting themselves the way they see fit in order to preserve their own nationhood status.

00:29:38.000 It means Taiwan attempting to smuggle in or develop a nuclear weapon. 0.88

00:29:42.000 It means multiple countries now attempting to build up their militaries.

00:29:47.000 So maybe you think that's a good thing.

00:29:49.000 Maybe you think that that's good.

00:29:50.000 Then America doesn't have to do it. 0.79

00:29:51.000 The only problem is that puts a lot of countries outside the American purview.

00:29:56.000 It turns out that America's sphere of influence being very large, America being a global hegemon, has led to tremendous peace and prosperity for Americans living at home.

00:30:04.000 If you have a much more dangerous world where people are more likely to fight one another, and that's likely to impact you, not just at the supermarket, But in your job, in your supply lines, in what you pay for, in what you consume, well, that means that America's interests are more difficult to secure.

00:30:22.000 A non-American-led world is a more dangerous world for Americans and for American allies. 0.99

00:30:26.000 Because when everybody goes their own way, it's the Tower of Babel. 0.89

00:30:31.000 Everything becomes a lot more chaotic.

00:30:33.000 And that's the world before U.S.

00:30:35.000 dominance.

00:30:36.000 And that will be the world after U.S. 0.67

00:30:37.000 dominance.

00:30:38.000 So all this talk about America sort of withdrawing within our borders, why can't we leave everybody alone?

00:30:42.000 We can.

00:30:43.000 We can.

00:30:44.000 But it will come home.

00:30:45.000 There will be problems that affect Americans in a very deep and profound way.

00:30:50.000 For sure.

00:30:52.000 Meanwhile, by the way, the White House is attempting to determine whether or not they should take credit, sort of, for where things are at this point.

00:30:59.000 On the one hand, they want to take credit because look how we've mobilized the world.

00:31:02.000 On the other hand, they didn't mobilize the world.

00:31:05.000 So Politico is basically, in advance of Joe Biden's State of the Union address, they're running out interference for Joe Biden.

00:31:14.000 They have a piece in the Politico playbook today talking about the magic of Joe Biden.

00:31:19.000 If foreign policy crises have a way of reshuffling the priorities of a president, Joe Biden's standoff with Putin happened to come along just when Biden had lost some urgency in confronting his three big domestic threats.

00:31:29.000 The pandemic is becoming endemic, there's not much Biden can do about inflation, and the key senator standing in the way of Biden's domestic agenda remains immovable.

00:31:36.000 While the war in Ukraine is just five days old, administration officials and Biden allies are starting to grapple with the ways in which Biden's presidency may be fundamentally altered.

00:31:44.000 What Biden world is eager to talk about, according to Politico.

00:31:47.000 Biden is an Atlanticist who likes to brag about how he stayed in touch with European leaders while out of office from 2017 to 2021.

00:31:54.000 He's a creature of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Munich Security Conference.

00:31:57.000 He came up in politics immersed in the debates of the Cold War, which are now newly relevant.

00:32:03.000 Yeah, I mean, he also was on the wrong side of every issue that entire time. 1.00

00:32:07.000 Joe Biden has been an idiot for his entire career on foreign policy. 1.00

00:32:10.000 Domestic policy, too, but on foreign policy, just a disaster area. 1.00

00:32:13.000 When Joe Biden said recently that the United States will defend every inch of NATO territory with the full force of American power, he could have been lifting the line from one of his 1988 presidential campaign speeches.

00:32:22.000 Biden in this view is uniquely suited for the new role that has been thrust upon him, which in the words of Senator Chris Coons, Democrat of Delaware, is to, quote, rally the West in the face of Russian aggression.

00:32:31.000 It was Biden and his team's patience and close consultation with European allies that has led to the extraordinary unity now on display.

00:32:37.000 Biden's patience waiting to impose sanctions until after the invasion, even in the face of intense criticism, has been vindicated because Putin would have pointed to preemptive sanctions as a provocation and a reason to invade.

00:32:48.000 Oh, as opposed to him pointing to other provocations as a reason to invade.

00:32:52.000 So wait, just to get this straight, Biden team is now claiming we are right not to issue preemptive sanctions because then Putin would have invaded.

00:32:59.000 I noticed something that happened over the course of last week, which is that Putin invaded.

00:33:03.000 So it's hard to say I did the right thing, because if I hadn't done that thing, Putin would have invaded when Putin has, you know, boots on the ground surrounding Kiev.

00:33:12.000 One Biden official noted their team learned from the experience of withdrawing troops from Afghanistan when Europeans were outraged by the lack of coordination.

00:33:19.000 Chris Coons said, can you imagine a former president complimenting Osama Bin Laden the day after 9-11?

00:33:22.000 That's what Trump is doing with Putin.

00:33:24.000 That's not what Trump is doing with Putin, by the way.

00:33:27.000 Trump was saying that Putin has been clever.

00:33:29.000 He has on a raw level been clever.

00:33:31.000 That does not mean that he thinks that Vladimir Putin is a wonderful person doing non-evil things.

00:33:36.000 There's a lot of pride right now among Democrats in how Biden has handled the crisis so far.

00:33:41.000 Okay, now there is only one problem with this, which is that Joe Biden has not handled the crisis so far.

00:33:47.000 The same day this piece comes out from Politico, there's a piece in the Washington Post talking about all the new sanctions, and here's what it says.

00:33:54.000 The actions culminated on Saturday when the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union announced it would bar several major Russian banks from the global financial messaging system known as SWIFT, crack down on Russian oligarchs, and prevent the Russian Central Bank from bailing out the domestic economy.

00:34:08.000 The unprecedented moves led Russians to crowd ATMs into desperate bids to withdraw cash and sparked a furious response from Putin, who called them illegitimate and ordered his nuclear forces to a higher state of alert.

00:34:18.000 Here's the key.

00:34:19.000 Surprised by the unusually rapid European decision, the White House scrambled over the weekend to catch up in drafting its own related measures, according to one American and one European official.

00:34:30.000 We're not going to fight with bullets.

00:34:31.000 We're going to choke them financially, said Mark Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex.

00:34:37.000 So, just pointing out here, that one sentence.

00:34:40.000 Surprised by the unusually rapid European decision, Europe is taking the lead here.

00:34:44.000 This is just Barack Obama leading from behind.

00:34:47.000 That's all this is.

00:34:48.000 And so Joe Biden trying to claim credit for mobilizing the world in support of Ukraine?

00:34:53.000 The Ukrainians were going it alone until the last five minutes. 0.96

00:34:56.000 Joe Biden had been announcing since November, November, that the Russians were going to invade Ukraine.

00:35:02.000 And he proceeded to do nothing of real consequence up until the Russians invaded Ukraine, at which point he put in some half-hearted sanctions that did not include the Russian energy sector.

00:35:11.000 And now Europe is ratcheting it up and Biden is following suit.

00:35:14.000 But that doesn't mean that Joe Biden is the great leader here by any stretch of the imagination.

00:35:18.000 Listen, I wish he would be.

00:35:20.000 I wish he would be.

00:35:22.000 And I'm glad that Europe is levying these sanctions against Russia.

00:35:24.000 I'm glad that Europe is raising its military budget.

00:35:26.000 I'm glad they're doing all of these things.

00:35:28.000 But let's just face the prospect that if American leadership had not been weak in the first place, Vladimir Putin probably doesn't do this.

00:35:33.000 If Joe Biden does not give up Afghanistan to the Taliban, do you think he makes this aggressive move to take Ukraine outright?

00:35:40.000 I think that's quite unlikely.

00:35:42.000 Alrighty, coming up, Joe Biden has the State of the Union coming up, and he has to change the narrative.

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00:38:05.000 All righty, so meanwhile, Joe Biden's approval ratings are in the toilet.

00:38:14.000 He's trying to craft a narrative in advance of the State of the Union address that he has mobilized the world to stand with Ukraine.

00:38:21.000 Well, here's the thing.

00:38:22.000 Ukraine knows this is not true, which is why they have been essentially saying to each other, we are now going this alone.

00:38:28.000 It's only in the last couple of days that the EU has really gotten active right here.

00:38:32.000 And meanwhile, Joe Biden is still not taking the measures that, in a long-term way, would actually make the United States and the West more energy independent of Russia.

00:38:41.000 So, for example, over the weekend, the White House actually said that the drive to enhance oil production was wrong.

00:38:47.000 They said that if we actually changed our rules about enhancing oil production, that would be a mistake.

00:38:52.000 Here was Jen Psaki explaining this. 0.99

00:38:55.000 The Keystone Pipeline was not processing oil through the system.

00:38:59.000 That does not solve any problems.

00:39:00.000 That's a misdiagnosis or maybe a misdiagnosis of what needs to happen.

00:39:05.000 I would also note that on oil leases, what this actually justifies, in President Biden's view, is the fact that we need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, on oil in general, and we need to look at other ways of having energy in our country and others.

00:39:22.000 So, excuse me?

00:39:25.000 You want us to take you seriously, as though you are fighting Russia, and meanwhile, you are saying that if we increase our oil production, that's a misdiagnosis?

00:39:33.000 And that we shouldn't be cracking down on the energy sector?

00:39:37.000 It's an amazing thing.

00:39:37.000 It's amazing.

00:39:39.000 So Germany, which is way more green than the United States, is saying, we're going to ramp up our oil production.

00:39:44.000 And Jen Psaki can't say it.

00:39:45.000 She can't say it.

00:39:46.000 Because always and forever, this is a radical administration enmeshed in progressive idealism without respect to the real world.

00:39:54.000 Which is one reason why this is not going to play.

00:39:55.000 This line is just not going to play.

00:39:57.000 I mean, Nancy Pelosi is trying to cast this as the GOP is equal to Russia. 0.98

00:40:01.000 You guys don't have a narrative here.

00:40:03.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi.

00:40:05.000 As we talked about Ukraine on the trip, we talked about the fact that the invasion, the assault on Ukraine was an assault on democracy.

00:40:15.000 Barbara took the time to talk about assaults on our democracy in our own country. 0.96

00:40:21.000 Putin was engaged in trying to disrupt our own elections.

00:40:24.000 But separate and apart from that, what's going on in our country about The vote and the role that you're playing to fight for passage in the Senate and the rest on voting rights in our country.

00:40:38.000 I mean, they have no narrative here.

00:40:39.000 I'm sorry.

00:40:39.000 This attempt to spin Putin and the 2020 election and the 2016 election and voting.

00:40:45.000 You guys don't have a narrative.

00:40:47.000 You have a president of the United States who's not all with us, and everybody knows it at this point.

00:40:50.000 There's a new Harvard-Harris poll out today.

00:40:52.000 This is the second poll in two days showing Joe Biden in the high 30s.

00:40:56.000 According to that Harvard-Harris poll, Biden's job approval overall is 38%.

00:41:00.000 On the economy, 33%.

00:41:02.000 On immigration, 32%. 0.91

00:41:03.000 On foreign affairs, 33%.

00:41:05.000 On crime, 33%.

00:41:07.000 On inflation, 28%.

00:41:09.000 Those are horrendous numbers.

00:41:12.000 Those numbers are vicious and brutal for Joe Biden.

00:41:15.000 And that's the second poll in two days that has him in the 30s.

00:41:19.000 According to the Washington Post, Biden will deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday to a deeply pessimistic nation, one that largely sees the economy worsening under his watch, disapproves of his leadership on key issues, and prefers that Republicans control Congress after the November elections, according to a Washington Post-ABCnew poll.

00:41:35.000 That poll finds Biden's presidential approval rating at 37%, 55% saying they disapprove.

00:41:41.000 Overall, 44% say they strongly disapprove.

00:41:45.000 61% of independents rate him negatively.

00:41:48.000 Only 77% of Democrats give Biden positive marks.

00:41:51.000 That is a bad number right there.

00:41:54.000 Asked whether they would prefer the next Congress to be in the hands of Republicans acting as a check against Biden or in the Democratic hands to support Biden's priorities, 50% say they'd rather have Republicans in charge.

00:42:03.000 40% for the Democrats.

00:42:04.000 That's a plus 10 for the Republicans.

00:42:07.000 Asked how they would vote today?

00:42:09.000 49% of registered voters said they would support the Republicans, 42% Democrats.

00:42:13.000 For comparison, ahead of the 28-term midterms, where Democrats scored big gains, Democrats had a 7-point advantage on the same question.

00:42:22.000 Now, the media are trying to spin this into some sort of victory for Joe Biden.

00:42:27.000 They're suggesting that things are likely to change when it comes to Ukraine, that Joe Biden's leadership here is really going to be well respected.

00:42:33.000 But that's not right.

00:42:34.000 Most Americans are not looking at this and thinking Joe Biden is strong.

00:42:36.000 They're thinking that Vladimir Putin thinking Joe Biden is weak is a reflection of all of us.

00:42:41.000 We all think that Joe Biden is pretty weak at this point.

00:42:44.000 George Stephanopoulos pushed Jen Psaki on a poll, came out yesterday saying that Americans think that Biden is really not all there.

00:42:52.000 The President is approaching his State of the Union in a pretty difficult political position right now.

00:42:57.000 37% approval rating.

00:42:59.000 Democrats trailing badly in the midterm polling.

00:43:02.000 A majority in our recent poll out this morning even questioned the President's mental capacity.

00:43:06.000 How is he going to turn that around on Tuesday night?

00:43:08.000 And how much has his State of the Union been changed by this war in Ukraine?

00:43:12.000 And if you look back, when President Obama gave his first State of the Union, it was during the worst financial crisis in a generation.

00:43:19.000 When President Bush gave his first State of the Union, it was shortly after 9-11.

00:43:24.000 Leaders lead during crises.

00:43:25.000 That's exactly what President Biden is doing.

00:43:29.000 Okay, yeah, there's a difference you may have noticed.

00:43:32.000 Joe Biden caused all of these crises.

00:43:34.000 That's the part that Jen Psaki won't talk about. 0.97

00:43:36.000 We've talked about the worst first year in presidential history.

00:43:39.000 If you can go first, like worst first years in presidential history, it's Abraham Lincoln actually had a civil war breakout.

00:43:45.000 That wasn't his fault.

00:43:46.000 That civil war broke out effectively upon him taking office.

00:43:49.000 Worst first years include JFK.

00:43:51.000 Some of that was self-inflicted, but not close to as bad as Joe Biden.

00:43:56.000 You might have to say George W. Bush because 9-11 happens his first year in office again, exogenous event, external event caused not by him.

00:44:04.000 Every problem that Joe Biden is currently suffering from is a problem of Joe Biden's own making and the American people know it.

00:44:10.000 He made these problems happen.

00:44:12.000 Joe Biden Made what is happening right now in Ukraine happen in large part with his pullout from Afghanistan, which he triumphantly announced as a victory, despite the fact that Americans were murdered, that millions of people will starve this winter because of him, that hundreds of thousands of women are now living under sexual predation and tens of thousands will probably be sold into sex slavery.

00:44:33.000 That's because of Joe Biden.

00:44:34.000 Inflation is because of Joe Biden.

00:44:37.000 That 40-year inflation is not just a supply chain problem, it is a supply and demand issue that is created by blowing out the budget and loose monetary policy from the Fed.

00:44:47.000 Every major problem that Joe Biden is currently experiencing, the border crisis, is a Joe Biden problem.

00:44:52.000 It has been exacerbated wildly by Biden's ascension to the office.

00:44:56.000 All of these problems are Joe Biden problems.

00:44:58.000 So when she says he's responding to the crisis, no, Joe Biden is the crisis.

00:45:01.000 And the American people know that.

00:45:03.000 And so this attempt to spin him into a masterful leader, a masterful world, like no one believes this.

00:45:09.000 No, by the way, I do have to mention here the State of the Union address, which is supposed to happen tomorrow.

00:45:15.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:45:17.000 I suggested a while ago that I would not be surprised if there was a mask removal that happened directly before the State of the Union so that Joe Biden could go out there and say he had defeated COVID. 0.52

00:45:26.000 Now, of course, that's really, really silly.

00:45:27.000 Joe Biden did not defeat COVID.

00:45:28.000 Omicron defeated COVID.

00:45:30.000 Omicron defeated COVID by getting everyone who didn't already have natural immunity infected, and many people who already had vax immunity natural immunity.

00:45:37.000 So everybody at this point has either natural or vax immunity.

00:45:40.000 That's because Obamacare has nothing to do with Joe Biden, who's been incompetent all the way throughout COVID.

00:45:45.000 More people have died under his watch with a working vaccine than died under Donald Trump without a working vaccine.

00:45:52.000 So what's happening?

00:45:53.000 The U.S.

00:45:53.000 Capitol attending physician said on Sunday, masks will be optional on Capitol Hill starting the day before Joe Biden is to deliver his State of the Union address.

00:46:00.000 Why?

00:46:00.000 Because Joe Biden didn't want the spectacle of a bunch of people in the audience wearing masks while the rest of the country is already unmasked because we're already done.

00:46:07.000 We've been done in some parts of the country for a year. 0.96

00:46:11.000 Joe Biden didn't want to look ridiculous.

00:46:13.000 And so magically, the science changed just in time for the State of the Union, which of course underscores the fact that it was never about the science for the Democrats in the first place. 0.86

00:46:22.000 They've been cramming down these ridiculous measures on Americans by the millions, by the hundreds of millions, depending on where you live.

00:46:29.000 They've been doing this for no reason other than politics.

00:46:32.000 And Joe Biden just underscored that.

00:46:33.000 So once again, the attempt to draw victory from the jaws of defeat for the Biden administration, good luck with that.

00:46:38.000 No one believes it, nor should they.

00:46:40.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today for an additional hour of content.

00:46:44.000 In the meantime, go check out the Michael Mills Show that's available right now.

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00:47:17.000 Propaganda goes into overdrive during the first major war between civilized nations in many decades.

00:47:22.000 The White House can't point to any Ukraine policies that have worked.

00:47:26.000 And Trump calls Putin smart.

The Ben Shapiro Show - February 28, 2022

Joe Biden Is Still Leading From Behind | Ep. 1442

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