The Charlie Kirk Show - Is Putin Facing a Legitimacy Crisis in Russia?

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00:01:29.000 With us right now is someone who can make hopefully some sense of what's going on here.

00:01:33.000 He's been following the Russia-Ukrainian conflict with some great wisdom.

00:01:38.000 He's a former Treasury official, high-ranking Treasury official in the Trump administration.

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00:01:51.000 It's Adam Korzynewski.

00:01:53.000 Adam, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:01:55.000 Thank you for having me.

00:01:57.000 Adam, what is really going on in Russia and Ukraine that the Western media is either missing or misreporting?

00:02:07.000 So there's a lot of confusion as to what's going on on the ground right now.

00:02:12.000 You know, there's a lot of questions of is the Ukrainian defense effective?

00:02:15.000 Is Russia not taking a lot of land?

00:02:18.000 Are the Russians effective? 1.00

00:02:20.000 And it's a little bit of everything right now.

00:02:22.000 Russia is taking ground.

00:02:24.000 Ukrainian defense is very strong.

00:02:26.000 However, things do still look bleak for the Ukrainians.

00:02:30.000 So I guess let me ask you just some very simple questions.

00:02:33.000 How is it that the Russians allegedly have the most sophisticated missile technology on the planet and Ukrainians still have access to the air? 1.00

00:02:44.000 Why is it that Ukrainian power is still on?

00:02:46.000 These are very simple questions that, you know, I'm not as, you know, I guess qualified to be able to answer, but they're just simple.

00:02:52.000 Why is this the case?

00:02:53.000 Does it seem like Russia is not giving everything they have towards this?

00:02:57.000 So I don't believe that Russia is not giving everything it has.

00:03:00.000 I think they're trying to stagger out supplies.

00:03:03.000 So recently Russia declared that they believe that they have air supremacy, and this is kind of forced the European Union to start talking about sending aircraft, selling aircraft to the Ukrainian government.

00:03:16.000 But, you know, what it suggests is that there's a industrial capacity limitation to the Russian military.

00:03:23.000 Russia's ability to produce missiles is greatly diminished since the Soviet Union era.

00:03:29.000 And this has kind of been the proof that's been proven with us that Russia has been kind of limited in its desire to launch its short-range ballistic missiles at things like airports and more relying on air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles.

00:03:42.000 But even with the surface-to-air missiles, they've not been effectively deployed.

00:03:48.000 And it really shows a definitive weakening of the Russian military since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

00:03:55.000 So that is your perspective then, that Russia is not as strong as they believe it is?

00:04:00.000 Because there's some debate amongst that, right?

00:04:01.000 There's some people on the right that say, no, no, no, there's a deeper plan here and Russia is actually super strong.

00:04:06.000 And I sympathize with that argument, by the way.

00:04:10.000 And so the internet is on, the lights are on.

00:04:12.000 So for example, if Russia wanted to win the propaganda war, why are they allowing the internet to still be on in a country they're invading?

00:04:19.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:04:21.000 So there's a number of things going on here.

00:04:23.000 One is that they're looking to capture significant territory in Ukraine, right?

00:04:28.000 So they're trying to not destroy civilian infrastructure as much as possible.

00:04:32.000 So there's kind of asymmetry here.

00:04:35.000 And one of the key infrastructures that exists in the modern era is the internet.

00:04:40.000 So they're trying to not limit the ability to access certain information like by the civilian population, even though there is local blackouts because of artillery bombardment and things just getting accidentally cut.

00:04:54.000 But, you know, the Russians have settled into this thinking more so that they're not going to solve, they're not going to solve for knocking out the Ukrainian government in a few days, right?

00:05:05.000 We're more than 100 hours, I believe, since the launch of the campaign, and we're settling into a much more traditional war.

00:05:13.000 So Ukraine is about the size of France-ish.

00:05:16.000 Iraq was about the size of France-ish.

00:05:18.000 The 2003 Iraq invasion lasted about six weeks.

00:05:22.000 The Battle of France in 1940 lasted about six weeks.

00:05:27.000 And so it's going to be a much longer slog.

00:05:29.000 And Russia has to be deliberate about not overexpending munitions, especially even though they have a total equipment advantage over Russia or over Ukraine.

00:05:40.000 They still have to make sure that things last until the end of the conflict.

00:05:44.000 So if this is going to go on for six weeks, let's kind of shift to an area that you're also an expert in, which is the economic part of it.

00:05:52.000 The United States is slapping on sanctions.

00:05:54.000 Interest rates have skyrocketed.

00:05:57.000 You were an official in the U.S. Treasury Department under Trump.

00:06:00.000 How serious are the economic costs on Russia, and how will that impact what's actually happening on the front lines in Ukraine?

00:06:07.000 So just in perspective, two of the Russian oligarchs, so Russia is a state that's controlled by oligarchs.

00:06:15.000 You know, these are very wealthy, very corrupt, usually billionaires that kind of have an excessive say in politics at the national level in Russia.

00:06:25.000 Two of the oligarchs have already started clamoring for some sort of peace settlement because it's going to so severely diminish the industries that they're responsible for.

00:06:34.000 I believe there's some sort of energy product and another oligarch who controls aluminum.

00:06:40.000 And so, you know, you're already starting to see domestic pushes in the people who matter in terms of Russian decision-making asking for some sort of peace settlement.

00:06:50.000 And this is the thing, too, is this is going to be part, this is going to start causing a legitimacy crisis for Vladimir Putin.

00:06:56.000 Putin's on his last tour, basically, as president.

00:07:01.000 You know, he's onto the older side.

00:07:04.000 And, you know, there's questions of what, well, what's Russia doing with all, especially with these military blunders that they're going on.

00:07:11.000 Right.

00:07:12.000 And I think that, you know, at least I'm super confused by this whole thing because it's basically intentionally damaging and destroying his entire economy.

00:07:19.000 Is there something to the argument that there's a new kind of this Russia-China, let's say, backstop, right?

00:07:26.000 That this is like Putin's playing a different game than we are, that he knows he has Xi Jinping in his back pocket.

00:07:33.000 Do you find that there's credibility to that?

00:07:36.000 No, so it's a little bit more nuanced than that.

00:07:40.000 So Russia does not want to be a vassal state of China, right?

00:07:44.000 They have to play this game where they're relatively hostile to the Western powers, the United States, United Kingdom.

00:07:51.000 But they also are very keenly aware that China is the most, is a growing power and a growing threat to its own sovereignty in the long term. 0.97

00:08:00.000 And so this backstop of Xi Jinping is a Faustian deal, right?

00:08:06.000 Like it's literally, they're potentially going to become a proxy state of China if they're not careful. 0.82

00:08:13.000 And so, you know, this is why the United States has made so many diplomatic efforts prior to the initiation of the conflict to resolve this prior, because we don't want Russia and China becoming too close to each other. 0.57

00:08:26.000 And so right now, Russia is pinned in this position where they're going to have to make a decision as to where they're going to take this conflict and the stance that they have towards the West.

00:08:36.000 And it might end up for ruin for them and as well as their national sovereignty.

00:08:42.000 And so therefore, Putin's basically, he's acting as if he's on his own island.

00:08:47.000 So you understand the economics of this pretty well.

00:08:50.000 This seems like there's bank runs.

00:08:51.000 I mean, could there be a Russian economic collapse?

00:08:54.000 Is that in the cards?

00:08:57.000 It's possible.

00:08:58.000 So, you know, the Biden administration has not used the ultimate Trump card pun intended, which you brought up earlier in the show, which is the fuel, oil, right?

00:09:08.000 So one of the reasons why the Soviet Union collapse was basically a game of energy wars that the United States played from about 1979 to about basically 1986, which is, you know, we dropped domestic consumption of fuel and we also convinced other countries just to pump more oil.

00:09:29.000 You know, Russia is an extractive petro state.

00:09:32.000 Its industry is greatly diminished in such a way that we would be astonished even comparing it to what's happened to our industrial Midwest.

00:09:44.000 And, you know, they basically rely on selling products over, selling, exporting commodities overseas.

00:09:51.000 And if they can't do that, that can collapse the government.

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00:11:18.000 Adam, is it a good idea to take Russia off Swift?

00:11:23.000 It's a, well, in order to give it the most pain possible, possibly short term, but long term, you know, that creates the entire incentive for Russia to become tighter with China. 0.63

00:11:36.000 And the United States really does not want one of the world's leadest producers of commodities being attached to and supporting the largest consumer in the world.

00:11:46.000 Yeah, so it seems like we're moving in that direction.

00:11:50.000 Was that a reckless response by the West or is it prudent?

00:11:55.000 I think it's prudent because it's not, and this is not a perfect answer, right?

00:12:00.000 This is, we didn't really have a lot of strong solutions.

00:12:03.000 There's very few limited sanctions opportunities on the table because there needs to be enough real felt impact in the elite of Russia to really kind of compel Vladimir Putin to come to the table in a more substantial way.

00:12:19.000 You know, the West was willing to negotiate up to 11th hour, but there never seemed to be a really good faith effort by the Russians.

00:12:27.000 And I think it's because they didn't really believe that we actually do it.

00:12:30.000 And unfortunately, with the game of brakesmanship is that you have to be willing to do something if you're going to say it.

00:12:38.000 And that's why it's unfortunate that we had to cut off Russia, even though they probably deserved it. 1.00

00:12:45.000 So that kind of leads to the final point I want to ask you is talk a little bit about how corrupt Ukraine is and why we need to be hesitant to over involve ourselves in this particular conflict. 0.85

00:12:57.000 So I don't remember the statistic, what ranking in world corruption they are, but Ukraine has previously held one of the most corrupt regime countries in Europe in the past, in the very recent past.

00:13:11.000 It's improved recently, but this is one of the strong reasons why European Union membership hasn't really happened.

00:13:19.000 NATO membership hasn't happened.

00:13:22.000 And this is part of the reason why we've seen so much graft that comes out of that country.

00:13:28.000 There's a number of people who are on Department of Justice sanctions lists who are Ukrainian oligarchs.

00:13:36.000 Their government functions in a very similar way to Russia's, except for they don't have the massive security apparatus of the Russian security forces that also act as a kind of a block to some of the mafia style behavior that does happen in Russia, right?

00:13:51.000 Like Putin is a consensus candidate.

00:13:54.000 Zelensky, you know, the question is, you know, who does he end up siding with in the long term?

00:13:59.000 And he seems to be siding with the people over the oligarchs.

00:14:01.000 Now the oligarchs of Ukraine have abandoned the country.

00:14:05.000 So they've left the country.

00:14:06.000 So Zelensky's Zelensky's a former actor.

00:14:10.000 How much of this are we seeing, do you think, is legitimate?

00:14:13.000 I don't want to say anything that's illegitimate, but is there an information work going on, isn't there?

00:14:18.000 Absolutely.

00:14:19.000 The information warfare is probably the most substantial one we've ever seen.

00:14:24.000 So there's, and this is the game, right?

00:14:26.000 Whoever controls the perception of reality often dictates what reality is going to be, right?

00:14:31.000 And so the Ukrainian forces need to be getting out that they're being effective because they need the financial support and the material support from the West that they're doing so.

00:14:40.000 And they need to be able to psych out Russians who do have access to local news, even though they're technically supposed to be blacked out from that as they push forward. 0.88

00:14:52.000 Russia surprisingly has done a really bad job of putting the information warfare out there.

00:14:58.000 I thought Russia was going to dominate it when in reality, it seems the Ukrainians are far and ahead above and beyond anything the Russians could muster. 1.00

00:15:06.000 And this is a very different conflict as a result of this.

00:15:10.000 Like you get to hear real-time updates of how many casualties the Russians take in a given push.

00:15:16.000 Why are the Russians not engaging in that kind of propaganda warfare?

00:15:20.000 I would have expected that from them.

00:15:21.000 It seems like they're just getting run over in that regard.

00:15:25.000 So, you know, part of it, there's probably some sort of effort to blockade Russian accounts from putting too much out there.

00:15:33.000 But, you know, I think what the Ukrainians have done well and the Western powers have done well is that they've basically prepared the world liberal order, whatever you'd like to call it, for this conflict.

00:15:47.000 And there's a lot of eyes on it.

00:15:49.000 And there's just way more people in the Western world who have basically constant access to putting information out there.

00:15:56.000 And all the Ukrainians have to do is make it available for Westerners to consume and it'll be propagated. 0.99

00:16:03.000 You know, and also, too, here, the thing is that Ukrainians do have a heroic story here.

00:16:08.000 You know, they're largely funding off modern Russian equipment with a lot of equipment that was designed in the 1960s, even though it's been upgraded recently.

00:16:18.000 And it's really remarkable what's going on there.

00:16:21.000 And that remarkable story needs to be told and that's being told.

00:16:25.000 Great.

00:16:25.000 Adam, thank you so much for joining us.

00:16:27.000 Really appreciate it.

00:16:28.000 Adam Korzynewski.

00:16:29.000 Talk to you soon.

00:16:29.000 Thank you.

00:16:30.000 Thank you.

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00:17:37.000 Okay, let's get to some more sound here.

00:17:40.000 You kind of look at the front page of the New York Times.

00:17:43.000 It says, as war rages, Ukraine agrees to talk with Russians without preconditions.

00:17:48.000 So it seems as if the peace negotiations completely and totally fell apart.

00:17:54.000 Right afterwards, Kiev gets steadily and heavily bombed.

00:17:58.000 Let's get to this tape here.

00:18:02.000 I want to go to cut 16.

00:18:05.000 Hillary Clinton says, we want to make sure that within our own country, we're calling out people giving aid and comfort to Putin and siding with autocrats against the global cause of democracy.

00:18:14.000 So we have been accused, and other people on the right have been accused of being pro-Putin puppets. 0.91

00:18:20.000 This is ridiculous. 0.86

00:18:22.000 I've never been a fan of Putin at all. 0.95

00:18:24.000 Saying that you want to use them as a use Russia as a temporary strategic advantage against Xi Jinping's China is not the same as being a Russian puppet.

00:18:37.000 Actually, Hillary Clinton, you're the only one whose foundation actually took money from Russian oligarchs.

00:18:43.000 I've never been to Russia.

00:18:44.000 I don't know any Russians.

00:18:46.000 I want peace.

00:18:47.000 I don't want war.

00:18:48.000 And I definitely don't like what Putin is doing right now.

00:18:51.000 Play cut 16.

00:18:53.000 We have to also make sure that within our own country, we are calling out those people who are giving aid and comfort to Vladimir Putin, who are talking about what a genius he is, what a smart move it is, who are unfortunately being broadcast by Russian media, not only inside Russia, but in Europe to demonstrate the division within our own country.

00:19:21.000 Right.

00:19:21.000 So leave it to Hillary Clinton to lecture us about the division in our own country.

00:19:27.000 Now, the entire left is built around trying to categorize conservatives as fascists or Putin sympathizers.

00:19:38.000 And I mean, I spent a lot of time in the conservative movement.

00:19:41.000 I was at CPAC.

00:19:43.000 I could tell you right now that the conservative movement is not full of Putin apologists or sympathizers.

00:19:50.000 Now, I did say at my CPAC address, and I will say this again, that our southern border and our sovereignty, the invasion of our country, does matter more than what is happening in Ukraine and with Russia. 0.83

00:20:03.000 That to allow your own country to have perpetual porous borders while the territorial integrity alarms you so much that you're going to put sanctions on other countries, that doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:20:17.000 And now, some people say, well, it's not an invasion on the southern border.

00:20:20.000 You should go to Yuma like I did.

00:20:22.000 You would see cartel leaders orchestrating and pushing forward the illegal migrants themselves almost with military precision, the invasion of our country.

00:20:40.000 And so Mitt Romney said something very similar, where he said that he is at a loss for words with how some people just seem to continue to push the Kremlin line. 0.82

00:20:56.000 He says, quote, anti-American Republicans are still shilling for Putin and his lapdog. 1.00

00:21:02.000 Romney says, I've got morons on my team. 1.00

00:21:06.000 Romney blasts fellow Republican members for supporting Putin. 1.00

00:21:11.000 He says it's almost treasonous, punishable by death, Mitt Romney says.

00:21:18.000 Here is the thing, he said, quote, it's unthinkable to me.

00:21:21.000 It's almost treasonous.

00:21:22.000 And it makes me ill to see some of these people do that.

00:21:26.000 Senator Romney reacts to pro-Putin sentiments coming from GOP members and some media outlets.

00:21:35.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden was asked about, hey, are you worried about nuclear war?

00:21:39.000 You know, something that could exterminate the entire human race.

00:21:45.000 Play cut 19.

00:21:47.000 Mr. President, is Ukraine winning the war?

00:21:51.000 President, nuclear.

00:21:55.000 You're always voting for us to do the weapons.

00:21:58.000 Mr. President, are you worried about nuclear war?

00:22:05.000 He's just walking and keeping his head down and ignoring the questions totally and completely with no mention whatsoever.

00:22:16.000 All of this is surrounding the idea of energy, that which fuels a civilization, everything that we're seeing right now happen and unfold in Ukraine and in Russia.

00:22:29.000 You see, when you have a authoritarian country, you're not really able to have free markets.

00:22:35.000 You're not able to have entrepreneurs because entrepreneurship requires private property rights.

00:22:42.000 Entrepreneurship requires the ability for people to be able to take risks, to be able to adjudicate differences in court.

00:22:51.000 Freedom and private property are directly tied together.

00:22:55.000 Well, as we can see very clearly in Russia, they do not have much freedom.

00:22:58.000 They're arresting people for going to protests.

00:23:01.000 Therefore, when you do not have freedom, you have to finance your country in some way, shape, or form.

00:23:08.000 And the way that Russia finances their country is through oil.

00:23:15.000 It doesn't take a lot of dissent or doesn't take a lot of creativity to just extract oil.

00:23:20.000 I shouldn't say it that bluntly, but meaning that the economy is not that diversified.

00:23:26.000 It doesn't take freedom to do that.

00:23:27.000 Saudi Arabia is able to do that.

00:23:30.000 The Russian Central Bank has now said in a statement that the Moscow Stock Exchange will remain closed for trading Tuesday.

00:23:36.000 Now, there are elements of a market economy in Russia.

00:23:39.000 They have some Western companies.

00:23:41.000 They aren't North Korea, but they are more and more and increasingly so an authoritarian, let's say, anti-freedom government.

00:23:53.000 And they're okay with it.

00:23:55.000 They are going to finance their country simply and solely through the extraction of oil.

00:24:00.000 Now, that is their Achilles heel.

00:24:02.000 And it just so happens the Achilles heel of Russia actually is a sorely needed advantage that we have in our country today. 0.93

00:24:11.000 Now, what could be very confusing to people is how does Russia and China play into the Great Reset, play into the World Economic Forum.

00:24:24.000 But I, by no means whatsoever, am defending what Russia is doing. 0.93

00:24:28.000 Instead, I am going to argue that the World Economic Forum and Russia and China, despite them hating each other, are both adversaries to a free society.

00:24:41.000 They just have different visions on how to get there.

00:24:44.000 They both want to be in control, but they certainly don't want to share that control.

00:24:49.000 The World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, George Soros, borderless society is now eventually going to come in a collision course with the Russian Federation, Chinese Communist Party alliance that wants ethno-state nationalism to govern the world.

00:25:06.000 This is why Ukraine is kind of the new launching off point for that.

00:25:09.000 Russia wants a closed-off, wants a much more Eastern view of the world, ethno-nationalist. 0.70

00:25:16.000 And the State Department, run out of Washington, D.C., wants more of a borderless type society.

00:25:22.000 Now, Russia, in many ways, feels threatened by the World Economic Forum and NATO.

00:25:29.000 I'm not defending the invasion, but it's worth exploring how does the Great Reset, a topic we've talked about quite often here in this program, how does it tie into this?

00:25:40.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

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00:26:42.000 What if there were two villains on the world stage and they both want power, but they want it in a very different way?

00:26:49.000 So on team one, you have the World Economic Forum run by Klaus Schwab, people like George Soros, business tycoons, Hollywood celebrities, many people together that work and operate to try and destroy borders, to try to create a one-world government.

00:27:08.000 They believe Western values will be completely and totally obsolete.

00:27:14.000 They believe that the currency that we know, the currency model we know, will be destroyed and will be crushed.

00:27:21.000 It's team one.

00:27:22.000 We know a lot about them.

00:27:23.000 We've talked about the Great Reset.

00:27:25.000 We've talked about the World Economic Forum.

00:27:27.000 But an opponent to that, who also wants their own form of power and domination, is also a villain in this game.

00:27:35.000 Vladimir Putin and Xi Ji Ping.

00:27:38.000 They're at direct odds with the World Economic Forum.

00:27:40.000 They're at direct odds with NATO, who is posting pictures with LGBTQ flags, as if that's going to somehow intimidate or endear more support for them.

00:27:52.000 The NATO secretary is posting a gay pride flag saying we stand with Ukraine.

00:27:56.000 Like, what does that have to do with anything? 0.99

00:27:59.000 Some people are making fools out of themselves.

00:28:01.000 What's really happening is a fight for LGBTQ rights in Ukraine. 0.96

00:28:06.000 That's a strange way to frame it.

00:28:06.000 Like, really?

00:28:10.000 That's for sure.

00:28:12.000 And in the Russian-Chinese axis of power, they want something very similar to the World Economic Forum.

00:28:22.000 But they don't want a borderless world, and they don't want their currency to be obsolete.

00:28:29.000 They want power.

00:28:30.000 They want global hegemony.

00:28:32.000 Now, the World Economic Forum website, it says here, Klaus Schwab signed this letter.

00:28:37.000 The essence of our organization is belief and respect, dialogue, and collaboration.

00:28:42.000 We therefore deeply condemn the aggression by Russia against Ukraine, the attacks and atrocities.

00:28:47.000 Our full solidarity is with Ukraine and its people.

00:28:51.000 We'll do whatever is possible to help actively support humanitarian and diplomatic efforts.

00:28:56.000 We only hope that in the longer term, reason will prevail and that space for bridge building and reconciliation once more emerges.

00:29:05.000 And so Putin is right up against the World Economic Forum.

00:29:12.000 Now, we're not fans of either, obviously.

00:29:15.000 But the reason why all of a sudden you have the ultra-nationalists like China and Russia going up against Klaus Schwab is they both want global power, but completely different visions of what that looks like in practice.

00:29:31.000 Putin and Xi Jinping are pulling off their own version of the great reset.

00:29:37.000 It's a great reset, for sure.

00:29:39.000 Russia's going to have to reset their currency pretty soon after this.

00:29:43.000 But they want a reset where strong-armed tyrants, not constitutional republics that believe in separation of powers or the consent of the governed or checks and balances rule, not where freedom and liberty is protected and preserved.

00:29:58.000 But both the World Economic Forum and Putin and Xi Jinping hate the U.S. Constitution.

00:30:04.000 Both the World Economic Forum and Putin and Xi Jinping hate Western values.

00:30:12.000 Now, there are some people out there that are saying that, you know, Putin needs to be understood and better seen from his perspective.

00:30:20.000 I don't see that.

00:30:21.000 I've read the literature on that.

00:30:23.000 I'm not convinced at all.

00:30:26.000 But this is the tension, right?

00:30:29.000 So George Soros says the U.S. must do whatever we possibly can to back Ukraine.

00:30:35.000 Why?

00:30:36.000 Why would Soros want to back Ukraine?

00:30:40.000 Because he sees that as a tension point of his fight against authoritarianism, and he wants his version of authoritarianism.

00:30:52.000 Can I put this in kind of clearer terms?

00:30:57.000 It's either Justin Trudeau or Vladimir Putin.

00:31:01.000 That's the tension.

00:31:02.000 Trudeau, who seems like he's a really nice guy and understated, and then he's willing to deploy the shock troops against protesters in his own country.

00:31:12.000 The World Economic Forum great reset crowd are now going to come in a full collision course with the Putins and the Xi Ji Pings. 0.99

00:31:22.000 Why should we get in the way?

00:31:23.000 It's an interesting question, right?

00:31:26.000 They believe in no borders.

00:31:27.000 Putin and Xi Jinping believe in ethno-states.

00:31:30.000 There is a third way.

00:31:30.000 Guess what?

00:31:33.000 It's America.

00:31:34.000 It's a constitutional republic.

00:31:35.000 It's entrepreneurship.

00:31:36.000 It's liberty.

00:31:36.000 It's risk-taking.

00:31:37.000 It's respect for the rule of law.

00:31:40.000 We don't need to live in Soros' dystopia or the Far East's dystopia of authoritarianism and assassinations and murdering your political opponents.

00:31:49.000 The Constitution can be the true great reset.

00:31:52.000 And if two enemies want to fight, don't get in their way.

00:31:57.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:31:58.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com and subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

00:32:03.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:32:04.000 God bless.

00:32:08.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - March 01, 2022

Is Putin Facing a Legitimacy Crisis in Russia?

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