Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met on the tarmac of an Alaska Air Force Base. The optics were perfect, the timing was perfect, and the whole thing was perfectly choreographed. It was a show of power and strength that showed how strong the United States military is.
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00:02:52.000By the way, if you're on podcast and you don't see the optics of this, the optics is a B-2 stealth bomber flanked by F-35s flying right over Vladimir Putin's head.
00:03:00.000And Donald Trump kind of collapsed as soon as they come because he knew it was perfect.
00:03:03.000And Putin knew what was happening in real time.
00:05:42.000So Putin flies all the way across Russia in what can only be described as kind of a beta move by Vladimir Putin.
00:05:48.000He flies to the United States of America, to a U.S. Air Force base.
00:05:52.000He has B-2 bombers fly overhead, flanked by F-35s, to go meet with a foreign president in a war that is not currently an enemy combatant of, technically, even though we're supplying weaponry.
00:06:03.000Because Vladimir Putin knows that Trump holds the Trump card.
00:06:45.000So Putin, what Putin fears most is that Donald Trump could release the strategic petroleum reserve in America and bring oil down to 30 bucks a barrel.
00:06:53.000Oil goes down to $30 a barrel, and all of a sudden you're not allowed to buy oil if you're India.
00:07:02.000And Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin knows that Donald Trump means business because low oil is a core campaign promise of the MAGA agenda.
00:07:10.000So low oil, low oil not paying a lot at the pump is directly tied into why Vladimir Putin flew all the way across the entire Asian continent to go to Alaska in a beta move.
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00:07:24.000The cost of Biden's war on oil and gas, nearly $100 billion a year in lost output.
00:07:29.000So Vladimir Putin, he fears more deaths on the battlefield, sort of.
00:07:33.000Seems to really not care about human life very much.
00:07:36.000But he definitely is afraid of Donald Trump bringing down the price of oil.
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00:09:15.000Not in the meeting, but who else was in the delegation?
00:09:18.000Scott Bessett and Howard Lutnick, Department of Treasury and Commerce.
00:09:22.000Why would the head of the Department of Treasury and Commerce fly all the way to Alaska?
00:09:27.000Because that was Trump not so subtly telling, hey, I'll hit you from the sky, I'll hit you in the tariffs, I'll hit you in the marketplaces, I will weaken you and bring you to the knees.
00:09:46.000I'd like to remind you that in 2022, during the last contact with the previous administration, I tried to convince my previous American colleague that the situation should not be brought to the point of no return when it would come to hostilities.
00:10:08.000And I said it quite directly back then.
00:10:13.000Today, when President Trump is saying that if he was the president back then, there will be no war and I'm quite sure that it would indeed be so.
00:10:24.000I think that overall, me and President Trump have built a very good, business-like, and trustworthy contact.
00:10:35.000And I have every reason to believe that moving down this path, we can come and the sooner the better to the end of the conflict in Ukraine.
00:12:26.000They're going to have to agree with what Marco and Steve and some of the great people from the Trump administration who've come here, Scott and John Radcliffe, thank you very much.
00:12:39.000But we have some of our really great leaders.
00:14:10.000But we have a very good chance of getting there.
00:14:12.000We didn't get there, but we have a very good chance of getting there.
00:14:15.000I would like to thank President Putin and his entire team, whose faces, who I know in many cases, otherwise, other than that, whose faces I get to see all the time in the newspapers.
00:14:27.000You're almost as famous as the boss, but especially this one right over here.
00:14:34.000But we had some good meetings over the years, right?
00:14:36.000Good, productive meetings over the years, and we hope to have that in the future.
00:14:40.000But let's do the most productive one right now.
00:14:42.000We're going to stop really five, six, seven thousand, thousands of people a week from being killed.
00:14:48.000And President Putin wants to see that as much as I do.
00:14:51.000So again, Mr. President, I'd like to thank you very much.
00:14:55.000And we'll speak to you very soon and probably see you again very soon.
00:15:40.000Understand, our entire foreign policy was polluted and corrupted by the fake Russia-Russia hoax.
00:15:46.000This war likely would not have happened if it was not for the fake Russia-Russia-Russia hoax.
00:15:51.000And also, the fact that President Donald Trump was spied on, lied about, and then was impeached all around the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax, it all kind of comes full circle.
00:16:01.000Comes full circle where he's now standing with Vladimir Putin.
00:16:04.000Now, understand the second component of this, which is that I'll see you in Moscow.
00:16:08.000What was President Trump's instinct there?
00:16:11.000Oh, I'll get a lot of heat with that, but that might sound like a good idea.
00:16:45.000Fine, Vlad, I'll go to Moscow once the war ends, and I'll lift some of these sanctions, and you won't have as many breadlines worrying about in your rural districts.
00:16:52.000Because that would be a big power move for Putin, but don't just throw it.
00:16:56.000I think it's Gorbachev and Reagan right in front of the Kremlin.
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00:18:10.000This is from Jake Tapper, not have a very good day.
00:18:14.000Where's Jake and Caitlin Collins play cut 252?
00:18:17.000And I'm wondering if you think Donald Trump leaves this high-stakes summit where nothing was achieved, angry, and likely to end to bring in more sanctions.
00:18:35.000You know, Jake, the president didn't seem angry when he came out here.
00:18:40.000AIDS were setting expectations low in recent days because they were fearful that they were not actually going to reach a ceasefire while on the ground here in Anchorage.
00:18:48.000And so obviously, though, the president himself made clear what he wanted, and it was that ceasefire.
00:19:43.000And we'll have to reflect on what that means.
00:19:46.000Okay, first of all, Trump did not look tired.
00:19:47.000Second of all, he just flew six hours across the American continent to go meet with Vladimir Putin, and then he has to go fly six hours back.
00:19:53.000So how about let's just sit one out of Donald Trump looked really tired.
00:19:56.000Donald Trump always said this meeting would lead to a more important meeting.
00:20:05.000And yeah, I mean, Caitlin Collins, she should go be an umpire for Major League Baseball because she just called a strike when it was a ball.
00:20:13.000Listen, the other component of this, I want to play a little bit of the Sean Hannity interview, is that President Donald Trump is calling the shots.
00:20:21.000President Donald Trump is framing this in a way that would be good for America.
00:21:24.000Did you ever hear Joe Biden talk about just the human cost of this?
00:21:28.000364,000 people approximately dying a year in this.
00:21:32.000So they all attack Donald Trump's moral character.
00:21:34.000I never heard Kamal Harris or Joe Biden say there's an unnecessary amount of killing fields happening in Ukraine and Russia because they're all just cannon fodder to them.
00:21:42.000To the industrial war project, it's all just cannon fodder for whatever aim or ambition that the great American empire wants to push.
00:21:50.000This is President Donald Trump saying that number one is to save lives.
00:21:53.000And you can call Donald Trump a lot of different names and attack, oh, he's not moral.
00:22:28.000Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, They accelerated the war.
00:22:31.000They had an opportunity to end the war in Istanbul, and they decided not to do it.
00:22:35.000You had Tony Blinken, you had Boris Johnson go in there, led by the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. State Department, and they blew up a ceasefire that would have happened 10 days into the war.
00:22:46.000And now probably 600,000 people are dead and millions of people are displaced.
00:22:50.000So what does Donald Trump have to benefit from this?
00:22:54.000Only thing that Donald Trump has a reward is that he can say, you know what?
00:22:58.000There's a young man that can now start a family right now in Russia because of what I did.
00:23:03.000And that matters because that person is made in the image of God.
00:23:14.000And you're willing to expend political capital.
00:23:16.000All of the conflicts that I mentioned, including this one, this does not impact the United States as much as it does our allies in Europe, the Middle East, when we get involved in the Middle East.
00:24:02.000He's not an isolationist, and you saw his broad display.
00:24:06.000President Trump does not have me doing this.
00:24:08.000He could happily just keep on sending missiles and let people killing themselves, but he does not view the world that way.
00:24:12.000And honestly, we as Americans should not view other human beings that way.
00:24:16.000Trump said going in, if he came out with Putin by his side and talking to the press, that would be progress and a win.
00:24:24.000We're going to keep our eyes very close on this, everybody.
00:24:26.000There's a lot more takeaways and a lot more that we're going to talk about it.
00:24:30.000But Vladimir Putin flew across Asia because Donald Trump commanded force, force towards peace, force and power towards an inevitable conclusion.
00:24:40.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:24:44.000Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.