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00:01:29.000All righty, so you may have noticed a poll.
00:01:32.000It came out not all that long ago, maybe about a week ago, about how many people of various political parties would actually abandon their country if the United States were directly attacked.
00:01:41.000So we are not talking about would you join up for the military if, for example, the United States were attacked in a major city.
00:01:47.000We are not talking about would you go overseas to fight for your country.
00:01:49.000We're talking about the Russians are in your town.
00:01:51.000Do you pick up a gun and fight them or do you flee?
00:02:12.000Independents said the same by a margin of 57% to 36%.
00:02:16.000Democrats, a majority of them said they would flee.
00:02:20.000Only 40% of Democrats said that they would stay and fight for their country in response to a question about what they would do in the same positions as Ukrainians are right now compared to 52% who said that they would flee.
00:02:31.000The reason that I mention this is because I'm seeing an awful lot of dissent is unpatriotic from the same people who are cheering Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem and are fine with people burning the American flag.
00:02:43.000I'm seeing a lot of America is bad and racist and evil and was founded in 1619 crew saying that if you say things they don't like about Ukraine, this means that you are a traitor to America, which is weird because it seems like if you are standing up more for the Ukrainian flag than the American flag, you have a screw up.
00:02:59.000in your wiring with regard to American patriotism.
00:03:02.000Now, I've been as pro-Ukraine on this program as anybody on the right.
00:03:07.000I've said from the very top that I thought that the United States had done a poor job of deterring Russia from invading Ukraine in the first place, that the United States had done a sin to Ukraine in offering them the prospect of EU and NATO membership and then drawing it away and put them in the worst possible position, and that if you're going to back Ukraine, you actually have to ship in the military materiel necessary to allow Ukraine To at least fight to a standstill or to win the war outright.
00:03:31.000With that said, for people who are suddenly Ukrainian patriots, for people who are suddenly Ukraine, not on the basis of American interest, but on the basis of something else, you have to wonder what exactly is driving this.
00:03:42.000And the reason this comes up today is because there is now a concerted effort on the left to label anybody who says things that they don't like about Ukraine and Russia as a traitor to the country.
00:03:51.000Now, I would imagine This has something to do with the Trump-Russia hangover of 2016 to 2020.
00:03:58.000Because remember, it was Barack Obama who was making overtures to Vladimir Putin in 2012.
00:04:02.000It was Hillary Clinton who was handing him a reset button in 2009 that didn't actually say reset, it said overcharge.
00:04:25.000And the bizarre theory that they put together is that the only reason Donald Trump had been elected is because of Russian interference in the election.
00:04:32.000The evidence for this is extraordinarily scanty.
00:04:35.000The real reason that Hillary Clinton did not win the election of 2016 is because she was a history epoch-making terrible candidate.
00:04:43.000In fact, the greatest path to political success in the United States is to run against Hillary Clinton in any sort of election.
00:04:49.000If you run against her in a Democratic primary in 2008, you beat her even if you're an obscure one-term senator from Illinois and you become President of the United States.
00:04:56.000You can be a backbencher your entire life in the Senate, a useless Democrat-Socialist backbencher from Vermont, and you will become a nationally known figure responsible for the entire direction of your party if you run against Hillary Clinton in a primary in 2016.
00:05:08.000And if you run against her in a general election in 2016, you can be a real estate reality TV guy, and you can become president of the United States by running against Hillary Clinton.
00:05:18.000It was not a giant mystery how Hillary Clinton lost in 2016, but the left put together this theory, and the theory was it couldn't have been Hillary Clinton, because after all, Democrats were never fated to lose another election.
00:05:31.000And this meant that Vladimir Putin, the person who five seconds before they've been pledging flexibility to and offering control over Syria and offering flexibility, right?
00:05:42.000The reset button, that guy was suddenly persona non grata.
00:05:45.000The guy who in 2012, Barack Obama said we should not confront because that would be the foreign policy of the 1980s.
00:05:51.000and the 1980s called and wanted its foreign policy back.
00:05:53.000Suddenly, Vladimir Putin was the worst person on earth because of course, Vladimir Putin was connected with Donald Trump, who is the actual worst person on earth.
00:06:00.000And so they have a bit of that Putin hangover.
00:06:01.000Now, some of us have been saying that Vladimir Putin is one of the worst people on earth for like 20 years.
00:06:06.000I've been writing professionally since I was about 17 years old.
00:06:09.000One of the first columns that I wrote in 2002 was about how Vladimir Putin was a threat to the global order.
00:06:14.000So some of us have been on the Vladimir Putin is a bad guy bandwagon for a very, very long time.
00:06:18.000So first of all, welcome to the party, pal.
00:06:19.000But second of all, I've noticed that your very strong stance in favor of Ukraine, so strong that you now believe that dissent ought to be prosecuted, is coming in the wake of you guys suggesting that America is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad place.
00:06:35.000The same people who spent years declaring that George W. Bush was a war criminal, responsible for invading Iraq for no reason other than his own pride or to seize oil, and who said dissent was patriotic, super patriotic.
00:06:46.000Now it turns out that if you are not a person who is the most militant of the militant, if you're not the most anti-Putin of the anti-Putin, Then this means that you have undercut America, which is weird because, again, America is not actually directly involved in this war.
00:07:02.000America was directly involved in the Iraq war.
00:07:04.000There were American troops in harm's way.
00:07:06.000America was directly involved in the Afghanistan war.
00:07:08.000There were American troops in harm's way.
00:07:10.000And the same people who were undercutting American efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan are now saying, how dare you?
00:07:15.000How dare you say things that undercut our efforts in Ukraine with regard to Russia?
00:07:21.000Now again, I'm not in favor of a lot of the people saying what they are saying right now on the right.
00:07:27.000I disagree with Tucker Carlson about Russia and Ukraine.
00:07:29.000I disagree with Candace Owens about Russia and Ukraine.
00:07:31.000I disagree with a lot of the people I work with about Russia and Ukraine.
00:07:36.000The left has now expanded the definition of traitor to encompass people who don't like what they say about Ukraine.
00:07:42.000And they've narrowed the definition of traitor to exclude people who overtly hate the United States.
00:07:47.000If you overtly hate the United States, you might actually just be a good American patriot.
00:07:52.000But if you're not militant enough on Ukraine, this makes you a traitor.
00:07:55.000So yesterday on The View, Whoopi Goldberg, that great intellectual, who's back from her two-week vacation, which she earned by essentially suggesting that Jews were white people killed by other white people during the Holocaust.
00:08:06.000And I don't know where she shops, but I don't know why she wears a sweatshirt that says nope.
00:08:10.000In any case, Whoopi Goldberg and Anna Navarro, two of the great intellects of our time, combined brainpower could power an extraordinarily small kazoo.
00:08:21.000So, Whoopi Goldberg and Nana Navarro are now saying that Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and Tulsi Gabbard, all of these people, maybe they should be arrested.
00:08:42.000I will note that Ted Kennedy actively was talking with members of the Soviet Politburo in the 1980s in an attempt to revive his flagging political fortunes and ripping on Ronald Reagan at the same time.
00:08:54.000And this is, he's a great patriot, Lion of the Senate and all that.
00:08:56.000Anyway, here's Anna Navarro and Whoopi Goldberg, two of the great luminaries of our time.
00:09:01.000How do you not call out something that is repeating false Russian propaganda that has been brought down?
00:09:08.000They used to arrest people for doing stuff like this.
00:09:11.000If they thought you were colluding with a Russian agent, if they thought you were putting out information or taking information and handing over to Russia.
00:09:21.000They used to actually investigate stuff like this and I guess now, you know, there seems to be no bars.
00:09:30.000Oh, so now we're going to sick the DOJ on people and investigate people for saying things that we don't like about Russia and Ukraine.
00:09:38.000Claire McCaskill, former senator from Missouri, she's on the same bandwagon.
00:09:41.000She says that Tucker Carlson is now close to treason.
00:09:44.000So I'm old enough to remember when Donald Trump sang casually that people were guilty of treason.
00:09:50.000This is cause for great consternation and uproar and stomachache.
00:09:54.000And now you have people on national TV saying that Tucker Carlson might be a traitor, which again is a legal term of art that usually ends with a death penalty under the Constitution.
00:10:05.000I think he also needs to warn America about allowing Putin to use them for his propaganda.
00:10:14.000And I particularly hope he mentions the false flag about biological weapons in Ukraine.
00:10:21.000So that all the Republicans hear that Tucker Carlson and others are really, really close to treason in terms of what they're saying and parroting what Is Putin's dream that he could have American media spreading his propaganda in the middle of his murderous assault on innocent children and civilians in Ukraine?
00:10:49.000Okay, so the way that this works is, if you are not in favor of the war that I like and the way that I conduct the war that I like, This means you are a traitor.
00:10:58.000So one of the worst columns I ever wrote, and since we're talking about columns I wrote in 2002-2003, one of the worst columns I ever wrote, I talked about how maybe George W. Bush should consider reviving the Sedition Act because there were a bunch of Democrats who were basically saying in the early days of the Iraq War that it was a giant failure and it looked like they were rooting openly for failure.
00:11:13.000It was a dumb column because I was a kid.
00:11:16.000These people are full-grown adults, and they are saying very, very stupid things.
00:11:19.000And this has apparently become sort of a talking point on the left, is that dissent... Again, I'm amazed by this.
00:11:24.000Dissent is unpatriotic when you're talking about a war with no direct American involvement.
00:11:29.000Dissent is super patriotic when you're talking about wars where America is directly involved.
00:11:34.000The same people, again, who are perfectly happy with people stomping on the flag, and they say that the height of patriotism is dissent, and kneeling for the... I can't get over it.
00:11:44.000The same people who in polls will say they will run, they will flee the country rather than defend the country, are saying that you are a traitor if you don't like what we are doing with Ukraine right now.
00:11:53.000Keith Olbermann is very... Keith Olbermann is always very upset.
00:11:58.000So he tweeted out, they are Russian assets and there is a war.
00:12:01.000There is a case for detaining them militarily.
00:13:31.000On Joy Reid's show, people who are deliberately working to undermine, if there's somebody who stands up for the American structure, it's definitely Joy Reid.
00:13:37.000Somebody who really believes in the institutional truths of the United States, Joy Reid and Malcolm Nance.
00:13:41.000These people are just, they are great defenders of the American institutions, these folks.
00:13:46.000And the same people who for four years declared that Donald Trump was a Putin asset, and then undermined the election of 2016.
00:13:55.000All the people who are happy to see the key institutions of American life wiped away because America is a truly awful, terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, racist place.
00:14:03.000All those same people are like, you are just, you're threatening the United States if you don't back Joe Biden's play with regard to Ukraine.
00:14:09.000Now again, I don't agree with Tulsi Gabbard.
00:14:12.000But I'm amazed by the number of people on the left who are suddenly in the rah-rah bandwagon, round up the people who disagree with us camp.
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00:15:58.000Now this brings us to a controversy that broke out between Tulsi Gabbard and Mitt Romney the other day.
00:16:03.000So Tulsi Gabbard, again, I am not a Tulsi Gabbard fan.
00:16:05.000I know there are a lot of folks on the right who are fans of Tulsi Gabbard because she's a quasi-isolationist and because she said mean things to Kamala Harris.
00:16:11.000They'll neglect the fact that the mean things she said to Kamala Harris were all about how we should let more criminals out of prison.
00:16:16.000Tulsi Gabbard has not been on my friends list for a while since she visited Bashar Assad and made nice with him.
00:16:24.000The other day she put out a video talking about biolabs in Ukraine.
00:16:41.000The Russian accusation is that the United States is funding the deliberate creation of bioweapons for use against Russians.
00:16:47.000That's the propaganda being put out by the Kremlin.
00:16:50.000What is not propaganda is that there are, in fact, Biological research facilities in Ukraine funded by the United States and they are designed in order to get rid of things like anthrax.
00:16:59.000They're designed in order to create antidotes for various biological and chemical agents.
00:17:05.000That's what those biolabs are there for, but there are in fact biolabs.
00:17:10.000According to PolitiFact, I usually don't trust them, but this is well substantiated.
00:17:15.000The Cooperative Threat Reduction Program began after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 to reduce the threat of existing weapons of mass destruction.
00:17:21.000It is known as the Nunn-Lugar Program, which of course is a bipartisan program.
00:17:25.000Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar were on separate sides of the aisle.
00:17:29.000It's housed within the Department of Defense's Defense Threat Reduction Agency, according to the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
00:17:36.000These biolabs have been talked about during the Trump administration.
00:17:41.000Embassy in Ukraine at the time tweeted out that this was not developing nuclear weapons.
00:17:44.000Instead, the Biological Threat Reduction Program works with partner countries to counter the threat of outbreaks, intentional, accidental, or natural, of the world's most dangerous infectious diseases.
00:17:54.000Okay, so Tulsi Gabbard talked about this, and what she said is, we do have these biolabs, and the biolabs do have dangerous agents inside them, not because the United States is weaponizing these agents, but because they have to research them to come up with antidotes, and if those biolabs are hit by, say, Russian shelling, then that's going to be a threat.
00:18:11.000So what she actually said here is one of the least controversial things that Tulsi Gabbard has ever said.
00:18:17.000These labs need to be shut down immediately, and the pathogens that they hold need to be destroyed.
00:18:24.000Instead of trying to cover this up, the Biden-Harris administration needs to work with Russia, Ukraine, NATO, the UN to immediately implement a ceasefire for all military action in the vicinity of these labs until they're secured and these pathogens are destroyed.
00:18:42.000Okay, that does not seem wildly controversial to me.
00:18:44.000Even if you just believe they're working, for example, with anthrax in order to counter anthrax, the notion that you have to leave these in a war zone seems rather foolish, considering the Russians are currently shelling, like, nuclear facilities.
00:18:56.000Well, this drove Mitt Romney to get involved, and he tweeted, Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda.
00:19:01.000Her treasonous lies may well cost lives.
00:19:04.000Again, I'm not sure on the basis of what I just saw from Tulsi Gabbard, what exactly is the treasonous lie there.
00:19:09.000This prompted Tulsi Gabbard to respond to Mitt Romney directly.
00:19:15.000Senator Romney, you've called me a treasonous liar simply for stating the fact that there are over 25 U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine which, if breached, would release and spread deadly pathogens across the United States and the world, and therefore they must be secured so that we can prevent any new pandemics from occurring.
00:19:36.000Now, bizarrely, you claim that securing these labs, or even calling for securing these labs, is treasonous and will lead to a loss of life, when the exact opposite is obviously true.
00:19:47.000The spread of pathogens is what will cause the loss of life, not the prevention of such a spread.
00:19:55.000So, Senator Romney, please provide evidence that what I've said is not true and treasonous.
00:20:02.000And if you cannot, you should do the honorable thing.
00:20:12.000But, you know, as far as Romney going over the top on that, again, in her original statement, I don't really see where the propaganda is, per se.
00:20:20.000If you say the United States is working to develop bioweapons for use against Ukraine's enemies, that's propaganda.
00:20:25.000If you say that there are biolabs that research this stuff and they are in harm's way, that's not propaganda.
00:20:30.000So distinguishing between those two things is worthwhile.
00:20:33.000But again, I'm sort of just flabbergasted by the folks, particularly on the left, who spend all day long talking about how terrible the United States is, suddenly talking about how wonderful Ukraine is, and if you say anything bad about Ukraine, then this means that you are not appropriately patriotic.
00:20:47.000Speaking of the latest news from Ukraine, The leaders of Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovenia are traveling on Tuesday to Kiev, Ukraine's capital, which is currently under fire, on a European Union mission to show support for Ukraine as Russia's invasion intensifies.
00:20:59.000Czech Prime Minister Petar Fiala said in a tweet, the aim of the visit is to express the European Union's unequivocal support for Ukraine.
00:21:06.000and its freedom and independence. Presumably this is also designed to dissuade the Russians from attacking Kiev while these guys are there because if you kill them then you possibly draw NATO into a war. He will be joined by Slovenian Prime Minister Janis Janša, Polish Prime Minister Matuš Moriecki and Jaroslav Kaczynski who is the Polish Deputy Prime Minister for Security and is also the Conservative ruling party leader. Russia of course has been edging closer to central Kiev.
00:21:29.000They've had a series of strikes hitting residential neighborhoods in Kiev.
00:21:34.000The situation in Kiev continues to grow more grave.
00:21:37.000At the same time, Vladimir Zelensky is predicting outright victory against Russian forces, which is what he has to do.
00:21:43.000I mean, even if you're just bargaining for a negotiating position here, you have to basically say to the Russians, we're never caving.
00:23:16.000866-721-3300. That's 866-721-3300. So obviously we are hearing different stories from both sides.
00:23:26.000On a pure military level, Russia is slowly grinding closer to the takeover of Kiev, but it is very slowly and the gears are turning very finely.
00:23:35.000According to the Wall Street Journal, diplomatic efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine showed no signs of progress on Monday as fighting for the capital intensified, with Russian missiles destroying an aircraft factory and an apartment building in Kiev and a television tower in the western city of Rivne.
00:23:47.000A steady thud of artillery fire echoed through downtown Kiev on Monday while Ukrainian negotiators met with their Russian counterparts by video.
00:23:53.000Russian and Ukrainian negotiators had sounded positive notes before Monday's talks, but Mikhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Zelensky, said on Monday afternoon the meeting had paused and would resume on Tuesday.
00:24:02.000Podolyak had said the negotiators would focus on achieving a ceasefire, the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops, and security guarantees for the country.
00:24:09.000A technical pause has been taken in the negotiations until tomorrow, Podolyak wrote on Twitter.
00:24:16.000So, the West is in fact ramping up some of its involvement in terms of trying to deter the threat of Russia going into a NATO country or accidentally hitting a NATO country.
00:24:27.000According to the UK Sun, NATO has now amassed 30,000 troops and 50 warships near Russia's border for military exercises.
00:24:33.000The drill, named Cold Response, has kicked off today in Norway amid escalating tensions between Russia and the West over the invasion of Ukraine.
00:24:39.000So, bullied into reality, it looks like NATO is starting to threaten Putin in the way that they probably should have if they'd wish to deter his invasion of Ukraine in the first place.
00:24:47.000The exercise includes 30,000 troops from more than 25 countries from Europe and North America, 200 aircraft, 50 vessels.
00:24:53.000The largest NATO exercise, which is held just a few miles from the Russian border, was planned long before Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, but its significance has now been heightened.
00:25:01.000Norwegian Defense Minister Aud Roger Inuksen said this exercise is extremely important for the security of Norway and its allies will practice an allied reinforcement of Norway.
00:25:10.000It's not being held because of the Russian authorities attack on Ukraine, but given the backdrop, there is in fact heightened significance.
00:25:17.000Meanwhile, the parliament of the NATO country Estonia called for an immediate establishment of no-fly zone.
00:25:21.000That's not going to happen, but you're starting to see the nervous countries in NATO, the ones that actually border Russia, saying maybe you need to get more deeply involved in Ukraine because otherwise we don't trust you to do the right thing by us.
00:25:31.000Estonia is the first NATO Member nations who have a body formally call for the implementation of a no-fly zone amid Russia's ongoing invasion, according to Fox News.
00:25:39.000The Parliament of Estonia expresses its support to the defenders and people of the state of Ukraine in their fight against the Russian Federation that has launched a criminal war, calls on showing absolute support to Ukraine in its war for maintaining its freedom, sovereignty and territorial integrity, said the Estonian Parliament.
00:25:53.000So now again, they're not going to get the West to commit to something like that, but you can see that everybody is becoming very nervous right now and for good reason.
00:26:01.000Now, all of this is setting the stage for some pretty significant international consequences.
00:26:07.000There is serious talk right now about real supply chain shortages thanks to the war in Ukraine setting the stage for a massive food crisis.
00:26:15.000This is according to the Globe and Mail.
00:26:16.000They say this could be the worst food crisis in decades.
00:26:20.000And that is because, of course, Ukraine is part of the breadbasket of the world.
00:26:24.000The United Nations is saying that a potential food crisis could be on the way.
00:26:28.000This is the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
00:26:31.000Maximo Torero, the chief economist at the FAO, said that food prices were already high before Russia invaded Ukraine, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and inflation.
00:26:38.000He said the additional strain of war could tip the global food system into disaster.
00:26:42.000He said we were already having problems with food prices.
00:26:44.000What countries are doing now is exacerbating that.
00:26:46.000The war is putting us in a situation where we could easily fall into food crisis.
00:26:50.000Wheat prices hit record highs in recent days, but they've fallen back a little bit.
00:26:54.000Overall, food prices have been rising since the second half of 2020, according to the UN.
00:26:58.000They reached an all-time high in February after wheat and barley prices rose by nearly a third, rapeseed and sunflower oil by more than 60% during 2021.
00:27:08.000The price of urea, a key nitrogen fertilizer, has more than tripled in the past year on rising energy prices as well.
00:27:14.000Poor countries are bearing the brunt of that price increase.
00:27:17.000Many of those poorest countries were already facing struggles financially.
00:27:20.000Some were facing debt crises amid the pandemic, according to the UK Guardian.
00:27:24.000And by the way, those supply chain crises are likely to become significantly worse.
00:27:28.000Right now, China is entering into new COVID lockdowns.
00:27:31.000According to the New York Times, several of China's largest factory cities have ordered a lockdown, halting production of Toyota cars and Apple iPhones.
00:27:37.000Theaters, cinemas, many restaurants have closed in Shanghai.
00:27:40.000The northeastern province of Jilin on Monday banned its 24 million residents from leaving the province or traveling between cities.
00:27:46.000China is grappling with its largest surge of COVID-19 infections since COVID first emerged more than two years ago in central China.
00:27:52.000Sustained outbreaks in two-thirds of the country's provinces are proving the toughest test yet of China's zero-tolerance coronavirus policy.
00:27:59.000It turns out that COVID hits everybody, as some of us have been saying for a long time.
00:28:02.000It'll hit you sooner or it'll hit you later, but it's going to hit you no matter what.
00:28:06.000Chinese officials are now implementing some of the most stringent methods.
00:28:10.000That's in large part because China can't afford to lift the restrictions.
00:28:13.000The government has been concerned about comparatively lower rates of vaccination among China's older adults.
00:28:17.000The country doesn't have a lot of ICU beds compared to its population.
00:28:21.000In China's vast rural areas, hospitals and medical facilities are often basic.
00:28:25.000A major outbreak could quickly overwhelm hospitals.
00:28:27.000So what this means is probably serious more supply chain problems.
00:28:32.000Premier Li Keqiang said in an annual policy speech last week, the goal of China's pandemic policies was to protect people's life and health, keep up the normal running of work and life, and ensure the security of industrial and supply chains.
00:28:43.000But it looks as though there are going to be more supply chain shortages.
00:28:48.000We have inflation, and then we have more COVID restrictions in China, which breaks the supply chain even more.
00:28:53.000And then we have the war, Russia and Ukraine, which is breaking supply chains even more.
00:28:58.000All of this Is a disaster for the entire globe on an economic level.
00:29:02.000It's a particular disaster for the Biden administration, which is relying on a healthy economy in order to push them forward into the second half of Joe Biden's term.
00:29:12.000Meanwhile, China is really triangulating here.
00:29:14.000So China is trying to play both sides against the middle.
00:29:16.000China is going to the United States saying, listen, we can we can broker with Russia.
00:29:50.000According to the New York Times, China sees at least one winner emerging from the Ukraine war, China.
00:29:55.000Stephen Lee Myers and Chris Buckley reporting, the war in Ukraine is far from over, but a consensus is forming in Chinese policy circles that one country stands to emerge victorious from the turmoil, China. After a confused initial response to Russia's invasion, China has laid the building blocks of a strategy to shield itself from the worst economic and diplomatic consequences it could face and to benefit from geopolitical shifts once the smoke clears. China's leader, Xi Jinping, has avoided criticizing Putin, but he's also tried to distance China from the carnage.
00:30:21.000His government has denounced the international sanctions imposed on Russia, but has also hinted that Chinese companies may comply with them to protect China's economic interests in the West.
00:30:29.000Xi reached out to European leaders last week with vague offers of assistance in negotiating a settlement, even as other Chinese officials amplified Russian disinformation campaigns meant to discredit the United States and NATO.
00:30:39.000On Monday, the United States deployed Jake Sullivan, to meet with a top Chinese official in Rome.
00:30:47.000Apparently, Sullivan warned that the United States had, quote, deep concerns about Beijing's growing alignment with Russia.
00:30:53.000Well, I'm sure that we do have deep concerns.
00:30:55.000What exactly are you going to do about it, Biden administration?
00:30:58.000In the end, China's leadership has calculated it must try to rise above what it considers a struggle between two tired powers and be seen as a pillar of stability in an increasingly turbulent world.
00:31:08.000And again, if you are a country that is now stuck between the United States and China, is there a reason that you wouldn't triangulate?
00:31:13.000You said the Saudis are meeting with the Chinese.
00:31:15.000They're refusing Joe Biden's phone calls and they're meeting with the Chinese.
00:31:17.000The reason for that is because Joe Biden is negotiating with the Iranians and the Russians.
00:31:22.000So if you're Saudi, why wouldn't you triangulate with the Chinese right now?
00:31:27.000This means as long as we don't commit terminal strategic blunders, China's modernization will not be cut short.
00:31:31.000On the contrary, China will have an even greater ability and will play a more important role in building a new international order, said Zheng Yongnian, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
00:31:41.000Shenzhen, who has advised senior officials, wrote after the invasion in a widely circulated article.
00:31:48.000At the heart of China's strategy lies the conviction that the United States is weakened from reckless foreign adventures, including from Beijing's perspective, goading Putin into the Ukraine conflict.
00:31:56.000In this view, Russia's invasion has dragged American power and attention toward Europe, making it likely that Biden will try but fail to put more focus on China in the broader Asia-Pacific region.
00:32:05.000According to Yun Sun, the director of the China program at the Simpson Center in Washington, all the difficulties, all the balancing, all the embarrassment we're talking about, those are short term.
00:32:13.000In the long run, Russia is going to be the pariah.
00:32:14.000Russia will have no one to turn to but China.
00:32:18.000So this is the game that China is playing.
00:32:21.000And so far, the American game has been to talk to them sternly and write them angry messages.
00:32:28.000Now, the United States just went to China and they said, listen, we know that the Russians are requesting your help.
00:32:40.000has information suggesting that China has expressed some openness to providing Russia with requested military and financial assistance as part of its war on Ukraine.
00:32:48.000It's not yet clear whether China intends to provide Russia with that assistance, U.S.
00:32:51.000officials say, but during an intense seven-hour meeting in Rome, a top aide to President Biden warned his Chinese counterpart of potential implications and consequences for China should support for Russia be forthcoming.
00:33:02.000The series of events underscored the growing concern among American officials at the budding partnership between Moscow and Beijing.
00:33:09.000While officials have said the Chinese president was alarmed at what has taken place since Russia invaded, there is little to indicate that China is prepared to cut off its support entirely, which leaves open a troubling possibility here that China may help prolong the bloody conflict while also cementing an authoritarian alliance in direct competition with the United States.
00:33:25.000Apparently Russia has requested pre-packaged non-perishable military food kits known in the U.S.
00:33:32.000Apparently that is because the Russians are, according to reports, eating MREs from like 2015.
00:33:38.000Four deployed units have routinely outstripped their supply convoys.
00:33:41.000Open source reports have shown Russian troops breaking into grocery stores in search of food as the invasion has progressed.
00:33:47.000One of the sources says the Chinese Communist Party leadership they're not in total agreement.
00:33:51.000Two officials said that China's desire to avoid economic consequences may limit its appetite to help Russia.
00:33:57.000And apparently some sources you would imagine from the White House are saying that Xi Jinping has been unnerved by how the war in Ukraine has reinvigorated NATO.
00:34:05.000With that said, what exactly are the levers of pressure that we mean to implement with regard to the Chinese?
00:34:44.000Jake Sullivan said, we're watching closely to see the extent to which China actually does provide any form of support, material support or economic support to Russia.
00:35:13.000Price, again, the State Department's spokesperson, he said the United States is watching very closely the extent to which the PRC provides any form of support.
00:35:21.000He said it would be of great concern to us.
00:35:24.000He said we've communicated very clearly to Beijing we won't stand by.
00:35:28.000And he characterized the Chinese response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine as somewhat ambivalent.
00:35:33.000But again, if you're China, why would you believe any of this?
00:35:36.000After all, update, today, in the middle of all of this, according to the Agence France-Presse, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow has now received guarantees from the United States on its ability to trade with Tehran as part of an ongoing talk to salvage the Iran nuclear deal.
00:35:51.000So it turns out that while the United States is saying to Russia, we are not going to, we're not going to cave on anything.
00:35:58.000We are currently saying to them that if you bring us the Iranian deal, then we might cave on you being able to trade with Iran and then get money via that back channel.
00:36:06.000Well, why wouldn't China believe that it can play Russia?
00:36:08.000So if Russia can play broker with Iran to its own benefit, even while in a military conflict with a westernized Ukraine backed by NATO, If the United States is still willing to make concessions just to get Russia to broker that deal, why would China not believe that it can get the United States to make concessions while Russia is engaged in war with NATO?
00:36:27.000So long as China brokers the deal a little bit.
00:36:29.000After all, it's precisely what the Biden administration is doing right now with Russia, while actively engaged in a conflict with Russia.
00:36:37.000According to Lavrov, he said, we received written guarantees.
00:36:39.000They are included in the text of the agreement itself on the resumption of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian nuclear program.
00:36:46.000So if you're trying to dissuade China from siding with Russia here and backing Russia here, you know what's the worst thing you could do?
00:36:51.000Back Russia in the middle of a war in order to get a deal with the terrorist Iranian regime.
00:36:56.000It's absolutely unbelievable that this administration is a bleep show of epic proportions.
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00:42:54.000Okay, so all of this does raise the question, what exactly is the plan here?
00:43:05.000Is there actually any sort of plan here?
00:43:08.000Well, I mean, if the plan is to deploy Kamala Harris to Europe, I'm not sure how that's a plan.
00:43:12.000By the way, Joe Biden is now talking about going to Europe, because if you need an old, somewhat senile man muttering to you unintelligible words to fix this problem, we have just the candidate for you.
00:43:22.000But we also sent Kamala Harris overseas, and then she came back, and now she spoke during the DNC general session.
00:43:29.000and uh... implied the ukraine is a nato member which is just like she's so good at this guys she's they picked her purely on the basis of her skill and not all because she's an intersectional dream a black woman was vice president of the united states and cannot intelligibly speak three sentences that make sense i will say what i know we all say and i will say over and over again the united states stands firmly with the ukrainian people
00:44:08.000I do love that whenever she doesn't know what to say, she preface it with stuff like, I will say what we have always been saying, which is forever, tomorrow, today, and yesteryear.
00:44:18.000Just as a bunch of words that don't make sense in a sentence, but if she inserts them at the beginning, then it makes it sound like she knows what she's talking about.
00:44:24.000Meanwhile, Jen Psaki over at the White House, she's spinning like a top.
00:44:39.000You, you the person with the red hair, you said this.
00:44:41.000I was there like a couple of weeks ago.
00:44:44.000Is it the view of the White House that Mr. Putin could not be deterred by any set of steps?
00:44:51.000Or are you willing to concede that perhaps some other set of steps by the president and our allies might have deterred the invasion?
00:44:58.000You know, James, I would say that when we put in place the threat of sanctions and the threat of consequences, we never thought that that would be fail-proof or that would be 100% effective.
00:45:13.000Because I was pretty sure that you said precisely the opposite.
00:45:16.000And then she was asked a pretty simple question.
00:45:18.000So right now, you're providing just enough material support to keep Ukraine from collapsing, but not enough material support for Ukraine to actually win.
00:45:24.000You don't seem to have any actual plan for the future here, other than sort of taking whatever apple is hanging lowest on the tree at any given point.
00:45:52.000There will be no flight zone over Ukraine.
00:45:56.000And will it be a fair assessment to say that you are pushing these guys to commit suicide, knowing that Russia has a superpower and eventually will capture the main cities, Kyiv and Kharkiv and all the cities around there?
00:46:13.000Well, the end game is really a question for President Putin.
00:46:16.000We have completely crushed his economy.
00:46:19.000We have provided military assistance, humanitarian assistance to the Ukrainians, enabling them to fight back for far longer than the Russian leadership anticipated.
00:46:30.000And again, he has to determine what the path forward looks like for him.
00:46:38.000Yeah, we don't have a plan and we're doing stuff, but we really do not, we don't have any sort of real plan.
00:46:43.000By the way, lawmakers in Zelensky, this is according to Natasha Bertrand, who is a reporter for CNN, have pressured Biden to help broker the transfer of heavier weaponry to Ukraine, including those MiGs and S-300 missile systems.
00:46:55.000But the United States would have to backfill the systems and is wary of provoking Russia further.
00:46:59.000So they are perfectly willing to put just enough material in so Ukrainians can continue to die in defense of their country, but not enough material in so the Ukrainians can live in defense of their country.
00:47:08.000Meanwhile, they're just drawing a bunch of red lines they're not going to keep.
00:47:11.000So you'll recall that a couple of days ago, Joe Biden said, well, if he uses a chemical weapon, man, the consequences are going to be dire.
00:47:16.000But Joe Scarborough over on MSNBC correctly points out the consequences of that.
00:47:20.000If you say that, that means that what?
00:47:21.000NATO is going to go in if you use a chemical weapon?
00:47:23.000What exactly are you talking about here?
00:47:26.000Does the Biden administration understand that when Americans and Europeans see five-year-old children choked to death by Putin's chemical weapons that we're going to have to go in, do they understand that there is no holding back, that we're going to have to take a far more aggressive approach?
00:48:09.000People who are your enemies tend to believe that you're going to snap away from those reactions just as fast as you snapped to them in the first place.