The Ben Shapiro Show - The Left Says Dissent Is No Longer Patriotic…On Ukraine | Ep. 1453

00:00:00.000 Members of the left say maybe we should arrest people who say things they don't like about Ukraine.

00:00:05.000 And as the Russia-Ukraine war grinds on, China seeks to take advantage.

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00:00:23.000 So, here is the thing.

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00:01:29.000 All righty, so you may have noticed a poll.

00:01:32.000 It 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.

00:01:41.000 So we are not talking about would you join up for the military if, for example, the United States were attacked in a major city.

00:01:47.000 We are not talking about would you go overseas to fight for your country.

00:01:49.000 We're talking about the Russians are in your town.

00:01:51.000 Do you pick up a gun and fight them or do you flee?

00:01:54.000 That is the question.

00:01:55.000 It was posed by Quinnipiac, and what it found is that most American adults would stand their ground and fight for freedom.

00:02:01.000 However, there was a significant partisan breakdown.

00:02:04.000 Republicans said that they would stay and fight the way that the Ukrainians are now, by a margin of 68% to 25%. 0.95

00:02:09.000 68% to 25%.

00:02:12.000 Independents said the same by a margin of 57% to 36%.

00:02:16.000 Democrats, a majority of them said they would flee.

00:02:20.000 Only 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.

00:02:31.000 The 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.

00:02:43.000 I'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.

00:02:59.000 in your wiring with regard to American patriotism.

00:03:02.000 Now, I've been as pro-Ukraine on this program as anybody on the right.

00:03:07.000 I'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.

00:03:31.000 With 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.

00:03:42.000 And 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.

00:03:51.000 Now, I would imagine This has something to do with the Trump-Russia hangover of 2016 to 2020.

00:03:58.000 Because remember, it was Barack Obama who was making overtures to Vladimir Putin in 2012.

00:04:02.000 It was Hillary Clinton who was handing him a reset button in 2009 that didn't actually say reset, it said overcharge.

00:04:08.000 You'll remember all of this.

00:04:09.000 That from 2008 until about 2016, Russia was a possible friend.

00:04:13.000 We handed them control of Syria. 0.99

00:04:15.000 We did nothing when they invaded Crimea.

00:04:17.000 We did nothing when they invaded the Donbass region.

00:04:20.000 All of that was just considered de rigueur while a Democrat was in office.

00:04:23.000 Then Donald Trump entered office.

00:04:25.000 And 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.

00:04:32.000 The evidence for this is extraordinarily scanty.

00:04:35.000 The real reason that Hillary Clinton did not win the election of 2016 is because she was a history epoch-making terrible candidate. 0.99

00:04:43.000 In fact, the greatest path to political success in the United States is to run against Hillary Clinton in any sort of election.

00:04:49.000 If 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.

00:04:56.000 You 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.

00:05:08.000 And 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.

00:05:18.000 It 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.

00:05:29.000 So it must have been the Russians. 0.91

00:05:30.000 It must have been the Russkies.

00:05:31.000 And 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?

00:05:40.000 All of this kind of stuff.

00:05:42.000 The reset button, that guy was suddenly persona non grata.

00:05:45.000 The guy who in 2012, Barack Obama said we should not confront because that would be the foreign policy of the 1980s.

00:05:51.000 and the 1980s called and wanted its foreign policy back.

00:05:53.000 Suddenly, 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.

00:06:00.000 And so they have a bit of that Putin hangover.

00:06:01.000 Now, some of us have been saying that Vladimir Putin is one of the worst people on earth for like 20 years.

00:06:06.000 I've been writing professionally since I was about 17 years old.

00:06:09.000 One of the first columns that I wrote in 2002 was about how Vladimir Putin was a threat to the global order.

00:06:14.000 So some of us have been on the Vladimir Putin is a bad guy bandwagon for a very, very long time.

00:06:18.000 So first of all, welcome to the party, pal.

00:06:19.000 But 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.

00:06:35.000 The 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.

00:06:46.000 Now 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.

00:07:02.000 America was directly involved in the Iraq war.

00:07:04.000 There were American troops in harm's way.

00:07:06.000 America was directly involved in the Afghanistan war.

00:07:08.000 There were American troops in harm's way.

00:07:10.000 And the same people who were undercutting American efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan are now saying, how dare you?

00:07:15.000 How dare you say things that undercut our efforts in Ukraine with regard to Russia?

00:07:21.000 Now again, I'm not in favor of a lot of the people saying what they are saying right now on the right.

00:07:27.000 I disagree with Tucker Carlson about Russia and Ukraine.

00:07:29.000 I disagree with Candace Owens about Russia and Ukraine.

00:07:31.000 I disagree with a lot of the people I work with about Russia and Ukraine.

00:07:34.000 This does not make them traitors.

00:07:36.000 The left has now expanded the definition of traitor to encompass people who don't like what they say about Ukraine.

00:07:42.000 And they've narrowed the definition of traitor to exclude people who overtly hate the United States.

00:07:47.000 If you overtly hate the United States, you might actually just be a good American patriot.

00:07:52.000 But if you're not militant enough on Ukraine, this makes you a traitor. 0.90

00:07:55.000 So 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.

00:08:06.000 And I don't know where she shops, but I don't know why she wears a sweatshirt that says nope. 0.99

00:08:10.000 In any case, Whoopi Goldberg and Anna Navarro, two of the great intellects of our time, combined brainpower could power an extraordinarily small kazoo.

00:08:21.000 So, 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.

00:08:31.000 Because they're parroting Russian propaganda.

00:08:34.000 When Democrats parrot Russian propaganda, like, for years, including during the Cold War.

00:08:39.000 By the way, this is just patriotism.

00:08:42.000 I 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.

00:08:54.000 And this is, he's a great patriot, Lion of the Senate and all that.

00:08:56.000 Anyway, here's Anna Navarro and Whoopi Goldberg, two of the great luminaries of our time.

00:09:01.000 How do you not call out something that is repeating false Russian propaganda that has been brought down?

00:09:08.000 They used to arrest people for doing stuff like this.

00:09:11.000 If 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.

00:09:21.000 They used to actually investigate stuff like this and I guess now, you know, there seems to be no bars.

00:09:30.000 Oh, 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.

00:09:38.000 Claire McCaskill, former senator from Missouri, she's on the same bandwagon.

00:09:41.000 She says that Tucker Carlson is now close to treason.

00:09:44.000 So I'm old enough to remember when Donald Trump sang casually that people were guilty of treason.

00:09:50.000 This is cause for great consternation and uproar and stomachache.

00:09:54.000 And 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.

00:10:03.000 In any case, here's Claire McCaskill. 1.00

00:10:05.000 I think he also needs to warn America about allowing Putin to use them for his propaganda.

00:10:14.000 And I particularly hope he mentions the false flag about biological weapons in Ukraine.

00:10:21.000 So 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?

00:10:49.000 Okay, 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.

00:10:58.000 So 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. 0.86

00:11:13.000 It was a dumb column because I was a kid. 0.99

00:11:16.000 These people are full-grown adults, and they are saying very, very stupid things. 0.99

00:11:19.000 And this has apparently become sort of a talking point on the left, is that dissent... Again, I'm amazed by this. 0.99

00:11:24.000 Dissent is unpatriotic when you're talking about a war with no direct American involvement.

00:11:29.000 Dissent is super patriotic when you're talking about wars where America is directly involved.

00:11:34.000 The 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.

00:11:44.000 The 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.

00:11:53.000 Keith Olbermann is very... Keith Olbermann is always very upset.

00:11:58.000 So he tweeted out, they are Russian assets and there is a war.

00:12:01.000 There is a case for detaining them militarily.

00:12:04.000 Yes, throw them in Gitmo.

00:12:06.000 Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard should be thrown in Gitmo.

00:12:10.000 Trials are a sign of good faith and patience on the part of democracy.

00:12:14.000 So I'd like to see him bring a criminal charge against Tulsi Gabbard and Tucker Carlson.

00:12:17.000 We'll see how that goes in court.

00:12:18.000 Meanwhile, you have Malcolm Nance, the great mind over at MSNBC.

00:12:25.000 A person who once suggested that literally tens of thousands of people had invaded the Capitol building.

00:12:31.000 I'm Bill Maher with me.

00:12:32.000 He's a genius of world-shattering, cataclysmic proportions.

00:12:37.000 Here he was on MSNBC suggesting that Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard are actually Russian collaborators.

00:12:41.000 Now, does he have any evidence to back this proposition?

00:12:43.000 He does not, but it's okay.

00:12:45.000 But I have to clarify one thing, Joy. 1.00

00:12:48.000 These people are not useful idiots. 1.00

00:12:51.000 They are beyond useful idiots. 1.00

00:12:53.000 Useful idiots don't know as a term of art in the intelligence world. 1.00

00:12:58.000 They don't really know what they're doing. 1.00

00:12:59.000 They're just stupid. 1.00

00:13:01.000 These people are almost Collaborators, to a certain extent. 1.00

00:13:06.000 They do know what they're doing.

00:13:08.000 I would call them an asset, especially Tucker Carlson. 1.00

00:13:11.000 And Tulsi Gabbard, she's just a moron. 1.00

00:13:14.000 But for these people to come up there, we are now seeing a term that I never thought I'd see in my life. 1.00

00:13:21.000 Fifth columnist.

00:13:22.000 People who are deliberately working to undermine the American structure.

00:13:30.000 Okay, my goodness.

00:13:31.000 On 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.

00:13:37.000 Somebody who really believes in the institutional truths of the United States, Joy Reid and Malcolm Nance.

00:13:41.000 These people are just, they are great defenders of the American institutions, these folks.

00:13:46.000 And the same people who for four years declared that Donald Trump was a Putin asset, and then undermined the election of 2016.

00:13:55.000 All 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.

00:14:03.000 All 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.

00:14:09.000 Now again, I don't agree with Tulsi Gabbard.

00:14:10.000 I don't agree with Tucker Carlson.

00:14:12.000 But 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.

00:14:21.000 Amazing how this works.

00:14:22.000 The least patriotic among us have suddenly become the most patriotic with regard to Ukraine.

00:14:27.000 It's an amazing shift in time.

00:14:28.000 And so I take their word with a grain of salt.

00:14:31.000 I really do.

00:14:32.000 So obviously there's been a lot of talk about biolabs in Ukraine.

00:14:35.000 Well, we'll get to what's really going on over there in just one second.

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00:15:58.000 Now this brings us to a controversy that broke out between Tulsi Gabbard and Mitt Romney the other day.

00:16:03.000 So Tulsi Gabbard, again, I am not a Tulsi Gabbard fan.

00:16:05.000 I 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.

00:16:11.000 They'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. 0.94

00:16:16.000 Tulsi Gabbard has not been on my friends list for a while since she visited Bashar Assad and made nice with him.

00:16:24.000 The other day she put out a video talking about biolabs in Ukraine.

00:16:29.000 Now, let's be clear.

00:16:30.000 A lot of what's happening right now is people who are getting very hot and bothered about the talk about biolabs in Ukraine.

00:16:34.000 So here is what is not in Ukraine.

00:16:36.000 American-backed biolabs that are deliberately developing bioweapons. 1.00

00:16:40.000 That is the Russian accusation.

00:16:41.000 The Russian accusation is that the United States is funding the deliberate creation of bioweapons for use against Russians.

00:16:47.000 That's the propaganda being put out by the Kremlin.

00:16:50.000 What 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.

00:16:59.000 They're designed in order to create antidotes for various biological and chemical agents.

00:17:05.000 That's what those biolabs are there for, but there are in fact biolabs.

00:17:10.000 According to PolitiFact, I usually don't trust them, but this is well substantiated.

00:17:15.000 The Cooperative Threat Reduction Program began after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 to reduce the threat of existing weapons of mass destruction.

00:17:21.000 It is known as the Nunn-Lugar Program, which of course is a bipartisan program.

00:17:25.000 Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar were on separate sides of the aisle.

00:17:29.000 It's housed within the Department of Defense's Defense Threat Reduction Agency, according to the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.

00:17:36.000 These biolabs have been talked about during the Trump administration.

00:17:40.000 The U.S.

00:17:41.000 Embassy in Ukraine at the time tweeted out that this was not developing nuclear weapons.

00:17:44.000 Instead, 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.

00:17:54.000 Okay, 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.

00:18:11.000 So what she actually said here is one of the least controversial things that Tulsi Gabbard has ever said.

00:18:15.000 Here's Tulsi Gabbard the other day.

00:18:17.000 These labs need to be shut down immediately, and the pathogens that they hold need to be destroyed.

00:18:24.000 Instead 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.

00:18:42.000 Okay, that does not seem wildly controversial to me.

00:18:44.000 Even 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.

00:18:56.000 Well, this drove Mitt Romney to get involved, and he tweeted, Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda.

00:19:01.000 Her treasonous lies may well cost lives. 0.89

00:19:04.000 Again, I'm not sure on the basis of what I just saw from Tulsi Gabbard, what exactly is the treasonous lie there.

00:19:09.000 This prompted Tulsi Gabbard to respond to Mitt Romney directly.

00:19:13.000 Here's what she had to say.

00:19:15.000 Senator 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.

00:19:36.000 Now, 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.

00:19:47.000 The spread of pathogens is what will cause the loss of life, not the prevention of such a spread.

00:19:55.000 So, Senator Romney, please provide evidence that what I've said is not true and treasonous.

00:20:02.000 And if you cannot, you should do the honorable thing.

00:20:05.000 Apologize.

00:20:06.000 Resign from the U.S.

00:20:07.000 Senate.

00:20:10.000 Okay, well, he's not resigning from the U.S.

00:20:11.000 Senate.

00:20:12.000 But, 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.

00:20:20.000 If you say the United States is working to develop bioweapons for use against Ukraine's enemies, that's propaganda.

00:20:25.000 If you say that there are biolabs that research this stuff and they are in harm's way, that's not propaganda.

00:20:29.000 That just seems true.

00:20:30.000 So distinguishing between those two things is worthwhile.

00:20:33.000 But 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.

00:20:47.000 Speaking 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.

00:20:59.000 Czech Prime Minister Petar Fiala said in a tweet, the aim of the visit is to express the European Union's unequivocal support for Ukraine.

00:21:06.000 and 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.

00:21:29.000 They've had a series of strikes hitting residential neighborhoods in Kiev.

00:21:34.000 The situation in Kiev continues to grow more grave.

00:21:37.000 At the same time, Vladimir Zelensky is predicting outright victory against Russian forces, which is what he has to do.

00:21:43.000 I mean, even if you're just bargaining for a negotiating position here, you have to basically say to the Russians, we're never caving.

00:21:48.000 You ought to come to the table.

00:21:49.000 Let's figure something out here.

00:21:51.000 In an address early on Tuesday, Zelensky predicted victory over Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces in Ukraine.

00:21:56.000 He offered Russian troops a chance to survive by surrendering.

00:21:58.000 He said the 19th day of our resistance is over.

00:22:01.000 Historical war, another difficult day, which is still approaching our victory, approaching peace for Ukraine.

00:22:06.000 He noted the enemy is confused and did not expect stiff resistance.

00:22:09.000 He said their soldiers know this.

00:22:10.000 Their officers are aware of this.

00:22:11.000 They flee the battlefield.

00:22:12.000 They abandon equipment.

00:22:14.000 Zelensky is saying that Ukraine is winning the war, but of course he has to say that. 0.99

00:22:18.000 But here's the reality.

00:22:19.000 Right now, everything is uncertain in the financial world particularly.

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00:23:26.000 On 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.

00:23:35.000 According 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.

00:23:47.000 A steady thud of artillery fire echoed through downtown Kiev on Monday while Ukrainian negotiators met with their Russian counterparts by video.

00:23:53.000 Russian 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.

00:24:02.000 Podolyak had said the negotiators would focus on achieving a ceasefire, the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops, and security guarantees for the country.

00:24:09.000 A technical pause has been taken in the negotiations until tomorrow, Podolyak wrote on Twitter.

00:24:13.000 Negotiations continue.

00:24:16.000 So, 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.

00:24:27.000 According to the UK Sun, NATO has now amassed 30,000 troops and 50 warships near Russia's border for military exercises.

00:24:33.000 The drill, named Cold Response, has kicked off today in Norway amid escalating tensions between Russia and the West over the invasion of Ukraine.

00:24:39.000 So, 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.

00:24:47.000 The exercise includes 30,000 troops from more than 25 countries from Europe and North America, 200 aircraft, 50 vessels.

00:24:53.000 The 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.

00:25:01.000 Norwegian 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.

00:25:10.000 It's not being held because of the Russian authorities attack on Ukraine, but given the backdrop, there is in fact heightened significance.

00:25:17.000 Meanwhile, the parliament of the NATO country Estonia called for an immediate establishment of no-fly zone.

00:25:21.000 That'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.

00:25:31.000 Estonia 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.

00:25:39.000 The 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.

00:25:53.000 So 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.

00:26:01.000 Now, all of this is setting the stage for some pretty significant international consequences.

00:26:07.000 There is serious talk right now about real supply chain shortages thanks to the war in Ukraine setting the stage for a massive food crisis.

00:26:15.000 This is according to the Globe and Mail.

00:26:16.000 They say this could be the worst food crisis in decades.

00:26:20.000 And that is because, of course, Ukraine is part of the breadbasket of the world.

00:26:24.000 The United Nations is saying that a potential food crisis could be on the way.

00:26:28.000 This is the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

00:26:31.000 Maximo 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.

00:26:38.000 He said the additional strain of war could tip the global food system into disaster.

00:26:42.000 He said we were already having problems with food prices.

00:26:44.000 What countries are doing now is exacerbating that.

00:26:46.000 The war is putting us in a situation where we could easily fall into food crisis.

00:26:50.000 Wheat prices hit record highs in recent days, but they've fallen back a little bit.

00:26:54.000 Overall, food prices have been rising since the second half of 2020, according to the UN.

00:26:58.000 They 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.

00:27:08.000 The price of urea, a key nitrogen fertilizer, has more than tripled in the past year on rising energy prices as well.

00:27:14.000 Poor countries are bearing the brunt of that price increase.

00:27:17.000 Many of those poorest countries were already facing struggles financially.

00:27:20.000 Some were facing debt crises amid the pandemic, according to the UK Guardian.

00:27:24.000 And by the way, those supply chain crises are likely to become significantly worse.

00:27:28.000 Right now, China is entering into new COVID lockdowns.

00:27:31.000 According to the New York Times, several of China's largest factory cities have ordered a lockdown, halting production of Toyota cars and Apple iPhones.

00:27:37.000 Theaters, cinemas, many restaurants have closed in Shanghai.

00:27:40.000 The northeastern province of Jilin on Monday banned its 24 million residents from leaving the province or traveling between cities.

00:27:46.000 China is grappling with its largest surge of COVID-19 infections since COVID first emerged more than two years ago in central China.

00:27:52.000 Sustained outbreaks in two-thirds of the country's provinces are proving the toughest test yet of China's zero-tolerance coronavirus policy.

00:27:58.000 Well, there's a reason for this.

00:27:59.000 It turns out that COVID hits everybody, as some of us have been saying for a long time.

00:28:02.000 It'll hit you sooner or it'll hit you later, but it's going to hit you no matter what.

00:28:06.000 Chinese officials are now implementing some of the most stringent methods.

00:28:10.000 That's in large part because China can't afford to lift the restrictions.

00:28:13.000 The government has been concerned about comparatively lower rates of vaccination among China's older adults.

00:28:17.000 The country doesn't have a lot of ICU beds compared to its population.

00:28:21.000 In China's vast rural areas, hospitals and medical facilities are often basic.

00:28:25.000 A major outbreak could quickly overwhelm hospitals.

00:28:27.000 So what this means is probably serious more supply chain problems.

00:28:32.000 Premier 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.

00:28:43.000 But it looks as though there are going to be more supply chain shortages.

00:28:46.000 So we have basically a triple punch.

00:28:48.000 We have inflation, and then we have more COVID restrictions in China, which breaks the supply chain even more.

00:28:53.000 And then we have the war, Russia and Ukraine, which is breaking supply chains even more.

00:28:58.000 All of this Is a disaster for the entire globe on an economic level.

00:29:02.000 It'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.

00:29:12.000 Meanwhile, China is really triangulating here.

00:29:14.000 So China is trying to play both sides against the middle.

00:29:16.000 China is going to the United States saying, listen, we can we can broker with Russia.

00:29:20.000 We can broker with Iran.

00:29:21.000 Just trust us.

00:29:21.000 It'll be fine.

00:29:22.000 And then they're going to Russia and they're saying, why don't you just sell us some of your assets on the cheap?

00:29:26.000 You know, after all, you need the money and we would like your assets.

00:29:28.000 We will buy your assets on the cheap.

00:29:30.000 So China's perspective on this war is that the longer it goes on, the better it is for China.

00:29:35.000 And the United States has been thus far unwilling to really put heavy pressure on China in any serious way.

00:29:42.000 And they say a lot of strong words and then they don't do anything.

00:29:44.000 And China knows this.

00:29:45.000 So China's perfectly willing to watch this war go on.

00:29:47.000 They're also willing to broker some sort of compromise.

00:29:49.000 China sort of wins either way.

00:29:50.000 According to the New York Times, China sees at least one winner emerging from the Ukraine war, China.

00:29:55.000 Stephen 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.

00:30:21.000 His 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.

00:30:29.000 Xi 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.

00:30:39.000 On Monday, the United States deployed Jake Sullivan, to meet with a top Chinese official in Rome.

00:30:47.000 Apparently, Sullivan warned that the United States had, quote, deep concerns about Beijing's growing alignment with Russia.

00:30:53.000 Well, I'm sure that we do have deep concerns.

00:30:55.000 What exactly are you going to do about it, Biden administration?

00:30:58.000 In 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.

00:31:08.000 And 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?

00:31:13.000 You said the Saudis are meeting with the Chinese.

00:31:15.000 They're refusing Joe Biden's phone calls and they're meeting with the Chinese.

00:31:17.000 The reason for that is because Joe Biden is negotiating with the Iranians and the Russians.

00:31:22.000 So if you're Saudi, why wouldn't you triangulate with the Chinese right now? 0.60

00:31:27.000 This means as long as we don't commit terminal strategic blunders, China's modernization will not be cut short.

00:31:31.000 On 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.

00:31:41.000 Shenzhen, who has advised senior officials, wrote after the invasion in a widely circulated article.

00:31:48.000 At 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.

00:31:56.000 In 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.

00:32:05.000 According 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.

00:32:13.000 In the long run, Russia is going to be the pariah. 0.98

00:32:14.000 Russia will have no one to turn to but China.

00:32:18.000 So this is the game that China is playing. 0.98

00:32:21.000 And so far, the American game has been to talk to them sternly and write them angry messages.

00:32:28.000 Now, the United States just went to China and they said, listen, we know that the Russians are requesting your help.

00:32:34.000 Well, so what?

00:32:35.000 China knows that, too.

00:32:36.000 Like, telling China a thing that they already know is not going to change the math here.

00:32:39.000 According to CNN, the U.S.

00:32:40.000 has information suggesting that China has expressed some openness to providing Russia with requested military and financial assistance as part of its war on Ukraine.

00:32:48.000 It's not yet clear whether China intends to provide Russia with that assistance, U.S.

00:32:51.000 officials 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.

00:33:02.000 The series of events underscored the growing concern among American officials at the budding partnership between Moscow and Beijing.

00:33:09.000 While 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.

00:33:25.000 Apparently Russia has requested pre-packaged non-perishable military food kits known in the U.S.

00:33:30.000 as MREs.

00:33:32.000 Apparently that is because the Russians are, according to reports, eating MREs from like 2015.

00:33:38.000 Four deployed units have routinely outstripped their supply convoys.

00:33:41.000 Open source reports have shown Russian troops breaking into grocery stores in search of food as the invasion has progressed.

00:33:47.000 One of the sources says the Chinese Communist Party leadership they're not in total agreement.

00:33:51.000 Two officials said that China's desire to avoid economic consequences may limit its appetite to help Russia.

00:33:57.000 And 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.

00:34:05.000 With that said, what exactly are the levers of pressure that we mean to implement with regard to the Chinese?

00:34:13.000 It's utterly unclear at this point.

00:34:16.000 Again, Sullivan is meeting with the Chinese.

00:34:20.000 According to State Department spokesperson, Ned Price, he said the implications any support would have for China's relationship with U.S.

00:34:26.000 and partners around the world are serious.

00:34:28.000 He said that includes the allies and partners in Europe and the Indo-Pacific.

00:34:33.000 So what exactly is the United States willing to do?

00:34:36.000 That's always the big question.

00:34:37.000 We can say that we're against things, but what are we actually willing to do to stop China at this point? 1.00

00:34:42.000 And that is absolutely unclear.

00:34:44.000 Jake 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.

00:34:50.000 It's a concern of ours.

00:34:51.000 We've communicated to Beijing, we will not stand by and allow any country to compensate Russia for its losses from the economic sanctions.

00:34:58.000 Okay, but what does that mean?

00:35:00.000 What are you willing to do?

00:35:00.000 And have you made clear to the Chinese what you are willing to do?

00:35:04.000 See, the thing is, if you wish to deter somebody, you have to make clear that your threats are credible.

00:35:08.000 So what is the credible threat that we are launching against China?

00:35:12.000 Absolutely unclear.

00:35:13.000 Price, 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.

00:35:21.000 He said it would be of great concern to us.

00:35:24.000 He said we've communicated very clearly to Beijing we won't stand by.

00:35:28.000 And he characterized the Chinese response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine as somewhat ambivalent.

00:35:33.000 But again, if you're China, why would you believe any of this? 1.00

00:35:36.000 After 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.

00:35:51.000 So 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.

00:35:58.000 We 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.

00:36:06.000 Well, why wouldn't China believe that it can play Russia?

00:36:08.000 So 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?

00:36:27.000 So long as China brokers the deal a little bit.

00:36:29.000 After all, it's precisely what the Biden administration is doing right now with Russia, while actively engaged in a conflict with Russia.

00:36:37.000 According to Lavrov, he said, we received written guarantees.

00:36:39.000 They are included in the text of the agreement itself on the resumption of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian nuclear program.

00:36:46.000 So 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?

00:36:51.000 Back Russia in the middle of a war in order to get a deal with the terrorist Iranian regime. 0.84

00:36:56.000 It's absolutely unbelievable that this administration is a bleep show of epic proportions.

00:37:01.000 So when it comes to the United States and what our policy looks like, it is a giant mess.

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00:42:54.000 Okay, so all of this does raise the question, what exactly is the plan here?

00:43:05.000 Is there actually any sort of plan here?

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00:43:12.000 By 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.

00:43:22.000 But we also sent Kamala Harris overseas, and then she came back, and now she spoke during the DNC general session.

00:43:29.000 and 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

00:43:58.000 in defense of the NATO alliance.

00:44:00.000 you In defense of the NATO alliance?

00:44:04.000 What now?

00:44:07.000 Ukraine is not part of NATO.

00:44:08.000 I 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.

00:44:18.000 Just 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.

00:44:24.000 Meanwhile, Jen Psaki over at the White House, she's spinning like a top. 1.00

00:44:28.000 She was asked about the sanctions.

00:44:30.000 And she was asked, so I thought these sanctions were supposed to get Putin to come to the table and make him stop doing what he's doing.

00:44:35.000 And Tchenshaki said, well, no one ever thought they'd be effective.

00:44:37.000 No, you said they would be, actually.

00:44:39.000 You, you the person with the red hair, you said this.

00:44:41.000 I was there like a couple of weeks ago.

00:44:44.000 Is it the view of the White House that Mr. Putin could not be deterred by any set of steps?

00:44:51.000 Or are you willing to concede that perhaps some other set of steps by the president and our allies might have deterred the invasion?

00:44:58.000 You 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.

00:45:12.000 Oh, is that what you said?

00:45:13.000 Because I was pretty sure that you said precisely the opposite.

00:45:16.000 And then she was asked a pretty simple question.

00:45:18.000 So right now, you're providing just enough material support to keep Ukraine from collapsing, but not enough material support for Ukraine to actually win.

00:45:24.000 You 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.

00:45:31.000 So what is your plan?

00:45:32.000 And Psaki's like, I don't have a plan. 1.00

00:45:34.000 There is no plan.

00:45:35.000 The plan is for Putin to stop doing what he's doing.

00:45:37.000 Ask Putin his plan.

00:45:38.000 Well, I mean, we know Putin's plan.

00:45:40.000 Putin's plan is to keep the pressure on until he gets the concessions that he wants.

00:45:43.000 What is your plan here?

00:45:45.000 I'm trying to understand why you are trying your endgame in Ukraine.

00:45:49.000 You are not going there.

00:45:50.000 You are not sending troops there.

00:45:52.000 There will be no flight zone over Ukraine.

00:45:56.000 And 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?

00:46:11.000 What's the endgame?

00:46:13.000 Well, the end game is really a question for President Putin.

00:46:16.000 We have completely crushed his economy.

00:46:19.000 We have provided military assistance, humanitarian assistance to the Ukrainians, enabling them to fight back for far longer than the Russian leadership anticipated.

00:46:30.000 And again, he has to determine what the path forward looks like for him.

00:46:34.000 Thanks, everyone.

00:46:37.000 Bye, catch you later.

00:46:38.000 Yeah, 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.

00:46:43.000 By 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.

00:46:55.000 But the United States would have to backfill the systems and is wary of provoking Russia further.

00:46:59.000 So 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. 0.79

00:47:08.000 Meanwhile, they're just drawing a bunch of red lines they're not going to keep.

00:47:11.000 So 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.

00:47:16.000 But Joe Scarborough over on MSNBC correctly points out the consequences of that.

00:47:20.000 If you say that, that means that what?

00:47:21.000 NATO is going to go in if you use a chemical weapon?

00:47:23.000 What exactly are you talking about here?

00:47:26.000 Does 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?

00:47:50.000 So, that is the consequence.

00:47:53.000 If you keep making threats that you're not willing to actually uphold, this is the problem.

00:47:57.000 Credible threats.

00:47:58.000 The entire foreign policy game is credible threats.

00:48:00.000 This administration has never made a series of long-lasting credible threats.

00:48:05.000 Instead, they've snapped to sometimes.

00:48:07.000 But snapped to reactions?

00:48:09.000 People 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.

00:48:15.000 China is looking.

00:48:16.000 They think we can't make a credible threat.

00:48:17.000 Russia doesn't believe that the West is capable of making a long term credible threat.

00:48:20.000 So what is the credible threat here?

00:48:22.000 You're being dissuaded by Vladimir Putin just saying the words nuclear.

00:48:25.000 He says the word nuclear and you all run for the hills.

00:48:28.000 So what exactly is your plan?

00:48:30.000 Is there a plan here at all?

00:48:31.000 China doesn't think so.

00:48:32.000 Russia doesn't think so, which is probably why in the final negotiation, Putin gets most of what he wants.

00:48:36.000 That is probably where this ends up at the very end of the day.

00:48:40.000 Alrighty.

00:48:41.000 We'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:48:43.000 In the meantime, go check out the Michael Moll's show today.

00:48:45.000 He discusses Rand Paul's attempt to fire Anthony Fauci in the Senate.

00:48:48.000 You can hear more details about that story over on Michael's show that's available right now.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 15, 2022

The Left Says Dissent Is No Longer Patriotic…On Ukraine | Ep. 1453

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