Donald Trump just gave one of the most impactful press conferences in American history, and it's not even close to being the last press conference Joe Biden has given in 4 years. I m here for it! Today's episode features: - Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" - Mark Zuckerberg's decision to kill fact checking in the Middle East - Donald Trump's plan to take over Greenland - and much, much more!
00:00:00.000Okay, folks, on today's show, we have a lot to get to because Donald Trump just gave one of the greatest press conferences in American history.
00:00:05.000He talked more in this press conference than Joe Biden has for four years, and he actually said coherent words, which I know we're not used to it.
00:00:12.000So I feel kind of spoiled, to be honest.
00:00:15.000We'll get to Mark Zuckerberg and all the fallout from his announcement that he's killing the idiotic fact-checking programs that have been used as censorious tools.
00:00:23.000Look, it's a Middle East policy from the Biden administration.
00:00:25.000Let's start with this press conference because, man, oh, man.
00:01:10.000And we're going to be announcing at a future date pretty soon we're going to change because we do most of the work there and it's ours.
00:01:21.000We're going to be changing sort of the opposite of Biden where he's closing everything up, essentially getting rid of...
00:01:27.00050 to 60 trillion dollars worth of assets.
00:01:30.000We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory.
00:04:26.000I know you weren't expecting a history of Greenland, but you're going to get a potted history of America-Greenland relations because actually, quite seriously, we should purchase Greenland.
00:04:35.000Here's President Trump on this matter.
00:05:15.000And if Denmark wants to get to a conclusion, but nobody knows if they even have any right title or interest, the people are going to probably vote for independence or to come into the United States.
00:06:09.000So back in 1775, to give you the potted history of Greenland, Denmark and Norway declared Greenland a colony.
00:06:16.000Greenland was then formally transferred from Norway to Denmark by a treaty of 1814. Denmark started trying to colonize the island in the 1880s.
00:06:26.000A huge chunk before the 1880s was actually discovered by, wait for it, Americans.
00:06:31.000It was American Charles Francis Hall, who was the first to see Northwest Greenland during the Polaris Expedition, which was 1871 to 1873. And another explorer named Robert Peary actually claimed much of the North.
00:06:43.000The only reason that Denmark has any claim whatsoever to Greenland as far as the United States is concerned is because when the United States was interested in purchasing the Danish West Indies during World War I, Denmark required the country to recognize its claim over the whole island of Greenland at the time.
00:07:00.000Piri, the explorer who discovered much of it and claimed much of it, opposed the U.S. giving up the claim because he said, hey, the Monroe Doctrine says no European interference in the Western Hemisphere.
00:07:09.000Instead, he suggested correctly that we should have purchased the island outright.
00:07:13.000And then, as it turns out, by the way, we basically had to do it anyway in terms of defending the island because, as you will recall, if you remember your world history, by the early 1940s, Denmark had been conquered by, wait for it, the Nazis.
00:07:25.000And so once that happened, the United States basically had to defend Greenland As its own principality.
00:07:32.000Because it was the only known significant source of a material called cryolite.
00:07:40.000And because Germany was attempting to use the North Atlantic as a base during the war, during World War II, the United States actually did apply the Monroe Doctrine on European colonies in the North Atlantic Ocean.
00:07:52.000By 1946, the Joint Chiefs of Staff had listed Greenland and Iceland as essential international locations for American bases.
00:07:59.000In fact, when NATO was in its heyday, Greenland was seen as more important to both American and Canadian defense than some of the Western European countries.
00:08:08.000Because again, if you take a look at a map, when you get up to the very, very north of Canada, which is the North American continent, it starts to get pretty close to territory that is controlled by Russia.
00:08:21.000In 1951, Greenland and the United States signed a treaty that gave the United States exclusive jurisdiction.
00:08:54.000It will now be known as the anti-European mode to prevent the Europeans from coming over here and bringing their terrible economic and social ideas.
00:09:00.000In any case, President Trump has made clear that he does not want the Panama Canal to be controlled by the Chinese.
00:09:07.000People are making fun of this sort of stuff, but actually it's a real concern.
00:09:10.000Yeah, he's half joking when he's making fun of Justin Trudeau and talking about making Canada the 51st state and all of that sort of stuff.
00:09:16.000But the Greenland thing is actually a fairly serious proposal.
00:09:18.000And when it comes to the Panama Canal, there really is a serious problem with the Panama Canal.
00:09:23.000The Panama Canal was built with American labor.
00:09:53.000It's relatively narrow, particularly at the entrance and exit.
00:09:56.000And so it'd be very easy for those companies, these Chinese companies, to shut off the entrances and exits to the Panama Canal.
00:10:04.000And 40% of all American container traffic goes through the Panama Canal.
00:10:09.000That's a lot of American commerce that's moving through the Panama Canal.
00:10:12.000That's the reason we built it in the first place.
00:10:15.000Which would mean that if the United States were ever to get into a conflict with China, pretty much all shipping would stop dead because China would try to take control of the Taiwan Strait.
00:10:23.000They would try to take control of the Strait of Malacca, which is sort of the tip of the South China Sea.
00:10:28.000That would shut off another shipping route.
00:10:30.000And if they could shut off shipping in the Western Hemisphere, they could absolutely cripple the American economy.
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00:12:55.000Almost certainly there are Chinese operatives and military personnel in civilian garb there.
00:12:59.000The Panama Canal is a choke point that Beijing seeks to control and undoubtedly close off in the moments before the next global war.
00:13:06.000For instance, C.K. Hutchison Holdings, through its stake in Panama Ports Company, The Panama Maritime Authority renewed Hutchinson's 25-year concession to the two ports in June of 2021. Now, Hutchinson is supposedly a private company in Hong Kong, but as you'll recall, the Chinese took over Hong Kong, which means that every company that is being operated from Hong Kong is under the thumb of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:13:36.000In times of war, those facilities would be controlled by the People's Liberation Army.
00:13:41.000General Laura Richardson, who is the head of the U.S. Southern Command in July 2022, said in Aspen, quote, I was just in Panama about a month ago, flying along the Panama Canal, looking at all the state-owned enterprises from the PRC on each side of the Panama Canal.
00:13:53.000They look like civilian companies or state-owned enterprises that could be used for dual use and could be quickly changed over to a military capability.
00:14:01.000R. Evan Ellis, professor of Latin American Studies at the U.S. Army War College, said, quote, there are numerous ways a knowledgeable actor liked the PRC, its companies and agents, Could temporarily shut down the canal.
00:14:11.000The risk does not come so much from the physical control of ports on both sides of the canal, but the knowledge and access that comes from China's significant commercial and other activities across Panama.
00:14:20.000That gives China bases from which to act.
00:14:23.000Also, China is embedded into the zone's infrastructure, including telecom systems that were supplied by, wait for it, Huawei, which is the Chinese official telecom association that basically embeds all sorts of intelligence apparatus inside the internet.
00:14:37.000Surveillance cameras and other equipment has been provided by Hikvision, which again is a Chinese company.
00:14:43.000There's another bridge over the canal and China's building that one as well.
00:14:47.000So, serious problems in the Panama Canal.
00:14:49.000Here's President Trump talking about the Panama Canal.
00:14:53.000The Panama Canal was built for our military.
00:15:44.000One of the biggest things that stood out to me from that press conference, from CNN, Moments when Trump got out there before he even started taking questions is the level of anger.
00:15:58.000It's his legal issues overall, but it's the sentencing that he is facing on Friday that so far is still Judge Mershon has denied efforts to delay it.
00:16:06.000His attorneys are still working to do so.
00:16:08.000And two, it's this report by Jack Smith that we are told is imminent and is going to come out.
00:16:13.000It is remarkable somebody who is two weeks.
00:16:16.000From resuming the presidency of the United States, who, whether you voted for him or not, whether you like him or not, just engineered a remarkable historical political comeback is so whiny and so full of grievances.
00:16:27.000Now, that is Donald Trump's trademark.
00:16:29.000That has been his trademark since he came down that escalator.
00:16:31.000He uses grievance to keep his people together, to keep his base together, and to keep his team loyal.
00:16:52.000No, we must never talk about the Gulf of America.
00:16:55.000That's bad, because you see, America's bad.
00:16:57.000And the more things we name after America, the worse it is.
00:16:59.000Quote, the Gulf of Mexico has been named the Gulf of Mexico since before the United States of America was named the United States of America, says Philip Bump.
00:17:06.000Since, that is, before there was a United States of America.
00:17:08.000You can see that name used on old maps, like the one produced in France in 1717. George Washington wasn't born until more than a decade after that map was made.
00:17:16.000And yet in a few months, the Gulf might carry a new name, at least in the eyes of a U.S. officialdom, the Gulf of America.
00:17:22.000This isn't a reorienting of geography, akin to when Trump, during his first term in office, drew a black line on a map of the southeastern United States.
00:17:29.000It is instead part of a much less innocuous pattern, one that has Trump extending his America First mantra to suggest that this nation has dominion over territory it doesn't currently control.
00:17:52.000If America were to buy Greenland, that would also be a wonderful thing.
00:17:55.000If America were to either convince Panama to better control the Panama Canal, to take it out of Chinese hands, or to give it over to American control, that would be a very good thing.
00:18:05.000If Canada were to get rid of Justin Trudeau and elect Pierre Poliev, Then I suppose all the threats of invasion go away.
00:18:28.000But if a country like Greenland is willing to allow itself, and Denmark is willing to allow it, to be used as a thoroughfare by the Russians and the Chinese, what exactly are we supposed to do?
00:19:34.000So on foreign policy, he was asked about What he is going to do if the hostages are not freed by Hamas by the time he takes office in just 13 days.
00:19:42.000And here was President Trump's answer.
00:19:45.000All hell must be paid if they don't release the hostages.
00:20:51.000There's nothing else that is going to make them release the hostages other than dire threats and action and allowing Israel to do exactly what it needs to do in the Gaza Strip.
00:21:03.000About the possibility of a preemptive strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities if they were to ramp up their nuclear production.
00:21:08.000And Trump gave the correct answer on this one, too.
00:21:10.000Again, he gave more answers in this one press conference than Joe Biden has given in four years and said more intelligent things in this press conference than Joe Biden has ever said his entire career because Joe Biden was, is, and will be a dullard.
00:21:23.000And here is President Trump explaining that if Iran were to attempt a nuclear weapon, he's not going to tell you what he would do because he's the president.
00:21:31.000And he's not going to tell some dumb reporter what he's going to do because it's a stupid question.
00:22:02.000And speaking of other good things, President Trump also had some words about Joe Biden's attempts to shut down drilling for oil off pretty much all of America's eastern seaborne on his way out.
00:22:11.000And Trump says, look, in America, we like to produce energy.
00:22:14.000American energy independence has made us less dependent on some of the worst places in the world.
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00:25:28.000Among other things the Trump administration will be doing, Tom Homan, who again, straight out of Central Casting, he's going to be in charge of making sure that the border is closed and that illegal immigrants are deported.
00:26:19.000What you saw with President Trump is what you're going to get with President Trump.
00:26:23.000And the American people, by the polling data, like it.
00:26:25.000President Trump's approval ratings are in positive territory for probably the first time in his entire political career.
00:26:31.000Meanwhile, the House passed a bill on Tuesday that would target undocumented immigrants charged with nonviolent crimes for deportation, according to the New York Times, an opening salvo from a Republican majority that has vowed to deliver on President-elect Donald J. Trump's promised crackdown at the border.
00:26:46.000The measure, by the way, drew unanimous Republican support and also 48 Democrats.
00:26:51.000This measure was named after Lakin Riley, the 22-year-old nursing student who was killed last year in Georgia by an illegal immigrant who had crossed into the United States and was arrested and charged with shoplifting but was not detained.
00:27:01.000The idea being, if you come here and you commit a nonviolent offense, you still shouldn't be here.
00:27:12.000More than two-thirds of Democrats voted against this demonstrates where the Democratic Party is, and they are totally disconnected from the American people.
00:27:19.000The American people are not interested in illegal immigrant shoplifters remaining in the country.
00:27:27.000In the Senate, by the way, John Fetterman is joining as a co-sponsor because Fetterman is the only Democrat who has his head screwed on straight, and that was after I had a stroke.
00:27:35.000Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the number three Republican, said, quote, This bill is more than just a piece of legislation.
00:27:39.000It's a return to common sense American values.
00:27:42.000Under President Trump's leadership, there will be a lot more where that came from.
00:27:45.000And again, bipartisan vote, 264 to 159, is because the Democrats have run themselves right off the reservation.
00:27:52.000The Democrats are so far away from the common sense center that Donald Trump has claimed all of it.
00:27:57.000Now, meanwhile, I want to point out that President Trump is going to be quite pragmatic in how he approaches all of these issues.
00:28:18.000The American people have always wanted to have it both ways.
00:28:20.000On the one hand, they don't like the national debt.
00:28:22.000On the other hand, they don't like cuts to any of the programs that they like.
00:28:25.000So if you ask them if the government spends too much, they'll tell you yes.
00:28:29.000And if you ask them what they'd want to cut, the answer is like around the edges.
00:28:33.000So Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who is at root a fiscal conservative, he is saying the true thing out loud.
00:28:39.000Which is that the GOP is not going to cut benefits or restructure any of the major entitlement programs.
00:28:44.000Which, again, was not only highly likely with a very slim majority, it was a guaranteed certainty.
00:28:48.000So, I'm putting that on the map right now.
00:28:50.000Because one of the things that's going to happen is when this whole thing is wrapped up into one big beautiful bill, as Johnson and Trump have said.
00:29:00.000When all this stuff gets wrapped up together in one big bill and spending is not decreased, understand.
00:29:06.000There was never any real taste in Congress or unfortunately, it is unfortunate by the way, or with the American people in serious steep cuts in the spending.
00:29:16.000And you can either yell at the reality or you can deal with the fact that that is the reality and work to convince your neighbors that everybody needs to rethink this whole giant spending thing.
00:29:27.000The Republican Party is not going to cut benefits, okay?
00:29:31.000We've made that very clear over and over and over, and that's the commitment of the White House and the commitment of this Republican conference.
00:29:36.000We do know, however, at the same time, there are many, many areas of fraud, waste, and abuse.
00:29:44.000They have too many divisions and employees and all the rest, and there will be a very deliberate auditing of all of that in various aspects as we go through the process.
00:29:52.000Now, there will be a big battle among Republicans over the debt limit, and let's be real.
00:29:56.000Raising the debt limit is generally a useful tool in clawing back some of the spending.
00:30:27.000They are so frustrated with Mark Zuckerberg.
00:30:29.000Wildly frustrated with Mark Zuckerberg.
00:30:31.000As we discussed at length on yesterday's show, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook have now completely rewritten the censorship rules on their social media network, which is a good thing.
00:30:40.000To be completely frank, they actually structured pretty much all of their censorship rules to shut down the Daily Wire specifically because we were the number one news publisher on their platform.
00:30:50.000And this gave no end of heartburn to the legacy media as well as to the Biden White House.
00:30:54.000And Facebook fell for it, and Facebook fell to the pressure, and now Facebook is reversing all of that.
00:31:00.000One of their new policy executives, Joel Kaplan, explained some of these changes that are being made to the censorship policies on Fox News yesterday.
00:31:12.000I know you said it's a change, but did you feel restricted over the last four years?
00:31:16.000And this is the first time you have, it's in your business interest to express this quest for freedom?
00:31:22.000Well, there's no question that there's an opportunity here with a new president taking office, as I said, who really believes in free expression.
00:31:30.000And that's just going to give us the space to get back to those values that Mark has talked about for a long time.
00:31:36.000Mark gave a big speech six years ago at Georgetown about free expression, about these values.
00:31:41.000Unfortunately, you know, there's been a lot of political and societal pressure here and around the world that have pushed away from those values.
00:31:49.000We've got a real opportunity to reset, get back to them.
00:32:27.000And by the way, if that's true, I would hope that it's not.
00:32:31.000I would hope that when Zuckerberg says that he has changed his mind back to what it was in 2019, that he would like this to be the rule all the way out, I hope that's true.
00:32:41.000Regardless, there's no question that Trump's election is what got this done over at Meta.
00:32:45.000Now, the media are fighting mad about this.
00:32:47.000I mean, they are losing their ever-loving minds over this, which leads to one of the great headlines I've seen.
00:33:50.000The Democrats cudgeled social media into paying their friends at the fact-checking organizations to fact-check on behalf of Democrats, to help out Democrats, and to hurt Republicans.
00:33:59.000And now the gravy train is going away and these people are going to have to get real jobs where they, you know, earn a living doing useful things as opposed to being leeches on the ass of society.
00:34:12.000These are the patronage friends of Democrats given top-level jobs outside social media companies in order to police speech.
00:34:21.000That's what these fact-checkers were, and they are mad as hell.
00:34:24.000Neil Brown, president of the Poynter Institute, a global nonprofit that runs PolitiFacts, said, quote, I don't believe we were doing anything in any form with bias.
00:34:31.000There's a mountain of what could be checked, and we were grabbing what we could.
00:34:42.000So when you fact-checked the same statement by Trump and Biden, but for Trump it was false and for Biden it was true, no problem whatsoever.
00:34:51.000When you treated every Joe Biden lie as a slip of the tongue and every Donald Trump generality as an overt lie, no, no, that was unbiased, totally unbiased.
00:35:04.000Meta's fact-checkers, by the way, have called an emergency meeting, according to Business Insider.
00:35:09.000The International Fact-Checking Network has convened an emergency meeting of its members.
00:35:13.000Following Meta's announcement on Tuesday will end its third-party fact-checking partnerships in the U.S. and replace them with a form of community notes.
00:35:19.000In an interview with Business Insider, the IFCN's director, Angie Holin, confirmed that the meeting scheduled for Wednesday was organized in direct response to Meta's decision.
00:35:27.000We hold these meetings monthly, but we call this one specifically because of today's news.
00:35:31.000The meeting is expected to draw between 80 and 100 attendees from the IFCN's network of fact checkers, which spans 170 organizations worldwide.
00:35:39.000The IFCN has long played a crucial role in Meta's fact checking ecosystem.
00:35:43.000Certification from the IFCN signal to fact checking organization met rigorous editorial and transparency standards.
00:35:49.000By the way, we actually at one point attempted to set up a fact checking organization that would meet the standards for Meta.
00:35:58.000You know how many hoops you had to jump through in order to do this?
00:36:00.000And those hoops were all being set by places like the IFCN. Heads of this organization.
00:36:10.000She put out a statement, quote, This decision will hurt social media users who are looking for accurate, reliable information to make decisions about their everyday lives and interactions with friends and family.
00:36:18.000Fact-checking journalism has never censored or removed posts.
00:36:21.000It's added information and context to controversial claims.
00:36:23.000It's debunked hoax content and conspiracy theories.
00:36:26.000The fact-checkers used by Meta follow a code of principles.
00:36:29.000It's a capital C and a capital P for code of principles.
00:36:31.000So you know they're super principled in their code.
00:36:34.000Because they used capital letters requiring non-partisanship and transparency.
00:36:39.000It's unfortunate this decision comes in the wake of extreme political pressure from a new administration.
00:36:47.000The gaslighting, which is, you guys were only put in place because of pressure from Democrats, because of pressure from the legacy media on Zuckerberg and Mehta.
00:36:54.000That is the only reason you had your jobs in the first place.
00:38:15.000I guess just proving one of Newton's laws of motion that an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion.
00:38:22.000What if the object is technically at rest, but seems like it's in motion?
00:38:26.000That's sort of the story of President Biden.
00:38:28.000Well, I guess this is as his final farewell, he's going to release as many terrorists as humanly possible into the world political sphere.
00:38:36.000On Monday, the Biden administration announced the transfer of 11 Yemeni detainees, including two former bodyguards for Osama bin Laden, to Oman, which has agreed to help resettle them amidst steps to reduce the population at Gitmo.
00:39:06.000In any case, the idea here is that all these people are now going to be released The Defense Department said, quote, The United States appreciates the willingness of the government of Oman and other partners to support ongoing U.S. efforts focused on responsibly reducing the detainee population and ultimately closing Gitmo.
00:39:21.000The 11 detainees were identified as Uthman Abd al-Rahim Mohammed Uthman, Moth Hamza Ahmed al-Alui, Khaled Ahmed Hasim, Suhail Abdul Anem al-Sharabi, This is just an exercise in seeing how many Arabic names I can read.
00:39:36.000Hani Saleh Rashid Abdullah, Talfik Nasir Awad al-Bihani, Omar Mohammed, Ali al-Rahma, Sanad Ali Islam al-Kazimi, Hassan Muhammad, Ali Biv Atash, Sharkawi, Abdu Ali al-Haj, So if I named one of your friends, come on down and collect your winnings.
00:39:53.000In any case, All these people are terrorists.
00:39:55.000We are now going to release them to Oman.
00:39:57.000Certainly, they won't go back to, you know, doing terrorism.
00:40:07.000Biden is also attempting to trade some of the Gitmo prisoners for hostages being held by the Taliban.
00:40:11.000Wait, I thought the Taliban were our friends now.
00:40:14.000After all, this schmuck decided to turn over all of Afghanistan to the Taliban, saying that they had helped us in the transitional process.
00:40:21.000Now, it turns out that they're just as evil as they ever were.
00:40:24.000And they've gone right back to beheading their enemies, and they've gone right back to oppressing women and stuffing them into bags and basements and marrying off children and all the rest.
00:40:33.000The Taliban, the world's best people, so glad we decided to get 13 American service people killed and hand them billions of dollars in military technology.
00:40:40.000The only good news being only China got that military technology because the Taliban have no idea how to use a helicopter.
00:40:47.000The Biden administration is now negotiating with the Taliban to exchange Americans detained in Afghanistan for at least one high-profile prisoner alleged to be an Osama bin Laden associate, held at Gitmo.
00:40:56.000Why, it's almost as though because the United States keeps trading away terrorists for Americans, people keep taking Americans hostage.
00:42:13.000Well, the good news is Democrats are really at the top of their game right now.
00:42:16.000They've decided that it's very important to give AOC, the venerable AOC, the inimitable AOC, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, she, of the three names and three IQ points, they've decided to give her a plum spot on the steering and policy panel, the Energy and Commerce Committee.
00:42:35.000So they decided to let her skip a few more senior people and instead give her a spot on that Energy and Commerce Committee.
00:42:43.000That committee is responsible for jurisdiction over healthcare, energy, technology, and other policy areas.
00:42:49.000That will be in the spotlight in the new Congress.
00:42:51.000There are a lot of more senior Democrats who are mad because given that this is the Energy and Commerce Committee, the Energy and Commerce Committee, you know, they might want to take a more moderate position than the Biden administration has historically taken on things like the Green New Deal.
00:43:04.000Nope, they decided to hand that over to AOC. So we'll see how that goes for them.
00:43:15.000Meanwhile, with the Trump administration coming in, the end of the war in Ukraine is going to be on the table.
00:43:21.000President Trump has made very clear that he wants to get to the end of the war in Ukraine as fast as humanly possible.
00:43:25.000And everybody knows what the outline of a deal looks like.
00:43:27.000Now, I don't believe that President Trump is going to force Ukraine into a situation where Ukraine will be invaded again in a year or two or three.
00:43:35.000I don't think that would be in President Trump's interest as President of the United States.
00:43:38.000And it's not in his interest for Vladimir Putin to go strolling through Kyiv.
00:43:43.000The most likely scenario here is keep up the military pressure on Russia, sufficient to get Vladimir Putin to come to the table.
00:43:54.000So Vladimir Zelensky did an interview with Lex Friedman over the course of the last 48 hours or so, in which he called out to President Trump for enough continued aid to at least continue the battle.
00:44:05.000I think that President Trump not only has will, he has all these possibilities.
00:44:25.000But one of Lex's big things is sort of this emotional sensitivity where he asks if people can find common ground with their enemies and all the rest.
00:44:33.000And so he asks Vladimir Zelensky if Ukrainians can find it in their heart to forgive Putin.
00:44:45.000The reality is that a compromise is needed in order to reach an agreement.
00:44:48.000So, in your understanding the fact that he is no in jail after all the murders, he is not in jail assuming all the murders, and no one in the world is able to put him in his place, send him to prison, do you think this is a small compromise?
00:45:03.000This is not a small compromise, and to forgive him will...
00:45:46.000He's a very, very bad man, Vladimir Putin.
00:45:48.000He is a brutal, vicious dictator who kills his enemies and runs his country with iron control via a network of oligarchs he pays using monies and resources that actually should be in the hands of the citizens of Russia or not.
00:46:04.000In the crop pay of the current regime in Russia.
00:46:07.000All that said, President Trump is looking for a practical off-ramp here.
00:46:11.000What's amazing here is the Washington Post take.
00:46:12.000So the Washington Post actually put out an editorial.
00:46:14.000And the Washington Post editorial is amazing.
00:46:16.000It says, quote, Ukraine risks losing the war.
00:46:19.000A Trump-imposed bad deal would be worse.
00:46:36.000If you take the deal, then, you know, Trump might get a win, and this war might end.
00:46:40.000Instead, you have to have the war continue, even though there is no hope that Ukraine is going to outright win the war by pushing Russia completely out of the Donbass region or Crimea.
00:46:50.000The war is going to come to an end because it has to come to an end, because there is not an endless supply of men in Ukraine, nor is there an endless supply of desire in Russia for a continued war that ends in stalemate due to Technical inferiority on the battlefield.
00:47:06.000So the most likely scenario here is, once again, a stalemate.
00:47:10.000The lines get drawn pretty closely where they are in place.
00:47:12.000Security guarantees to Ukraine to prevent future invasions by Russia.
00:47:17.000Everyone knows this is the most likely end to the war, and that's why everyone's getting more realistic as President Trump comes closer to the office of the presidency day by day.
00:47:26.000Already coming up, there is yet more good news for Republicans.
00:47:29.000We're going to take a look at a magical map.
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