The Charlie Kirk Show - Putin Makes His Move: Everything You Need to Know

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00:01:39.000 Looks like Vladimir Putin has decided to, let's say, annex or, let's say, peacekeep in a certain region of Ukraine.

00:01:49.000 Now, this is being called an invasion.

00:01:54.000 It's a lot more complicated than that for a variety of different reasons.

00:01:57.000 These parts of Ukraine are very pro-Russian parts of Ukraine.

00:02:01.000 In fact, they overwhelmingly voted back in 2013 and 2014 to be part of Russia.

00:02:07.000 They speak Russian.

00:02:08.000 They are more Russian than they are Ukrainian.

00:02:12.000 This is Lungansk and also Donetsk. 0.54

00:02:16.000 That shows how awful my Russian is. 1.00

00:02:20.000 And so the question is, is it an annexation? 0.58

00:02:22.000 Is it a peacekeeping operation?

00:02:24.000 Is it an invasion?

00:02:25.000 And if it's any of those things, who cares?

00:02:28.000 This is a family dispute between two countries, one rather strong and one very corrupt and weak, that they're going to have to figure out for themselves.

00:02:40.000 But American politicians have been in Europe.

00:02:44.000 In fact, there's a list of Republican senators, Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Mitt Romney, and Senator Inhoff, who found that this was more important to go to Munich for some security conference to try to hold Vladimir Putin in check than actually be in the United States Senate in a must-fund, must-pass bill that could have very well defunded the vaccine mandates.

00:03:12.000 And so that really kind of goes to my first point, which is in life, when we have scarcity of resources, scarcity of time, you have to make priorities.

00:03:23.000 Mature people know this.

00:03:25.000 Mature people know you must make decisions based on what matters more and where are you going to dedicate things of value. 0.82

00:03:36.000 Now, the issue is that we see across the board, we have leaders that act as if we can saber-rattle in Ukraine while also facing our own issues.

00:03:48.000 We can't even face our own issues.

00:03:49.000 We can't even defend our own border.

00:03:51.000 Million people cross the southern border every single year, and somehow we're really worried that Vladimir Putin is crossing a border in Ukraine while our own territorial integrity is violated.

00:04:04.000 But let me ask a question: for those of you that have lost your jobs, that have been kicked out of the military for not getting a vaccine that does not work and might harm you.

00:04:13.000 Do you care more about senators being in Munich trying to send a signal to Vladimir Putin or senators being in Washington, D.C. to do their job?

00:04:22.000 That is a great and clear-cut example of exactly why we should not get involved in Ukraine.

00:04:27.000 And it invalidates the argument.

00:04:30.000 In fact, it cancels it, deletes the entire argument.

00:04:32.000 And these people are like, well, we could do both.

00:04:34.000 No, actually, you can't.

00:04:35.000 You can't do both.

00:04:36.000 Now, what am I talking about here?

00:04:37.000 Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham, and Jim Inhoff from Oklahoma made a decision to go to Europe last week.

00:04:47.000 When they went to Europe, they were not allowed to be in person at the United States Senate.

00:04:52.000 The United States Senate had to pass a bill, and in the bill was a measure, an amendment, to defund vaccine mandates from the federal government.

00:05:05.000 Because of the short time period, because of the crunch associated with it, we very well could have passed this, and Democrats didn't show up.

00:05:14.000 So if Republicans just would have showed up and they would have put America first, not Ukraine first, we could have defunded vaccine mandates from the federal government, could have done it.

00:05:22.000 Then that's a great example of how your elected leaders in Utah, Oklahoma, and South Carolina cared much more about some weird border dispute in a kind of inner family argument going back to 600 years than actually our own citizens and our own sovereignty.

00:05:41.000 And I have an open invitation to any lawmaker that can come on this program. 1.00

00:05:45.000 I won't interrupt you.

00:05:46.000 You guys can make your argument and then I'll respond.

00:05:48.000 How does this intervention impact the United States?

00:05:52.000 Vladimir Putin is not firebombing Paris.

00:05:55.000 He is not invading Helsinki.

00:05:59.000 This part of Ukraine that he has decided to advance into is a highly disputed, century-old line dispute between people that have crossed relatives, crossed histories, and that's somehow our concern.

00:06:18.000 And so you're going to hear a lot of people throughout the next couple days say, well, you know, it's America's role to put Putin in check.

00:06:26.000 It's America's role to have our obligation to our allies.

00:06:28.000 Wait a second.

00:06:29.000 What obligation do we have?

00:06:30.000 The Minsk Agreement exactly?

00:06:32.000 Well, we're going to dive into that and how flawed that was from the first part.

00:06:36.000 And Vladimir Putin gave a speech yesterday.

00:06:38.000 And again, I'm no fan of Vladimir Putin.

00:06:40.000 I mean, last week I spent a whole segment talking about how that figure skater who illegally doped is an awful representation of anyone who cares about ethics or what is virtuous. 0.96

00:06:52.000 I think Vladimir Putin's a thug. 0.77

00:06:54.000 I think he's a KGB agent. 0.98

00:06:56.000 Okay.

00:06:57.000 I also think he could be really useful in a fight against China.

00:06:59.000 I wouldn't want to make an enemy out of him unnecessarily.

00:07:01.000 Seems that our security apparatus does.

00:07:04.000 But Vladimir Putin gave a speech yesterday and said that Ukraine is basically a fake country.

00:07:10.000 I think that goes too far.

00:07:11.000 I don't think that's totally right.

00:07:12.000 But it is true to say that Ukraine is a fixture.

00:07:15.000 It's a creation of the post-Romanov 1917 Russian Revolution Vladimir Lenin regime, where some of these lines in some of these countries, as they were drawn post-Soviet fall in mid-1990s, are very flawed.

00:07:31.000 It was a pressure cooker waiting to explode.

00:07:36.000 And what's really bizarre to me is you have Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham, and Jim Inhoff leave America because obviously defunding vaccine mandates is not as important as going to Munich and saber-rattling Vladimir Putin.

00:07:50.000 So if you wonder why people are going to keep on losing their jobs federal government-wise and military-wise from vaccine mandates, all you have to do is like, oh, now I get it, because they had to make a choice.

00:08:03.000 And this goes to the core point of why I have been against intervention with Putin and Ukraine since the very beginning, is when you have multiple crises looming at home, you must order them.

00:08:17.000 And when you order something, you must know what the ultimate good is, and then you must say, I'll get to that later.

00:08:24.000 Instead, we've done the opposite.

00:08:26.000 In Western society and in America, we've decided to prioritize things that have no relevancy at all whatsoever, such as can men get pregnant or not, being like the most important conversation ever.

00:08:37.000 The answer is no, next question.

00:08:40.000 And we have completely turned it upside down where the really big stuff, the civilization defining issues like open borders, fentanyl overdoses, suicide, alcoholism, drug addiction, families being torn apart, these things get cast aside.

00:08:56.000 But don't worry, your leaders are out playing, let's say, a video game type posture in the Eastern part of Europe.

00:09:06.000 How does this intervention impact the United States?

00:09:09.000 It doesn't.

00:09:10.000 It's a family dispute between two very corrupt countries.

00:09:15.000 But your leaders won't be telling you that.

00:09:16.000 I'm going to play what our leaders are saying.

00:09:18.000 And then also I'm going to get into how Joe Biden actually created this set of circumstances.

00:09:25.000 Look, there's so much political pressure out there from the left and the woke mob, and it's from the Democrat Party.

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00:10:44.000 We've been told for a while by Republican leaders, yeah, we can walk and chew gum, right?

00:10:48.000 Like we can hold Vladimir Putin in check and we can govern ourselves, but we can't even govern ourselves, obviously.

00:10:54.000 We have so many problems in this country, mounting crises, inflation, prices going through the roof, our educational system is collapsing in front of our eyes.

00:11:05.000 And this story of, and I missed one actually, Richard Burr from North Carolina, shows exactly why.

00:11:13.000 You must choose.

00:11:15.000 Do you care more about the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine or priorities facing your voters?

00:11:21.000 Well, Representative Chip Roy said this.

00:11:25.000 He said, missing Republicans kept vaccine mandates alive.

00:11:30.000 Romney, Inhoff, Burr, and Graham, no excuses.

00:11:33.000 They should all be shamed.

00:11:34.000 Now, every Senate Republican should be held accountable for voting to fund this government.

00:11:39.000 Watch, count the votes, then act.

00:11:41.000 Hashtag defund vaccine mandates.

00:11:44.000 And this was a specific loophole that Schumer put forward because they needed to get the votes.

00:11:51.000 So I'm reading here from Breitbart.com.

00:11:53.000 Four Senate Republicans failed to show up to an amendment that would have voted to defund Joe Biden's remaining vaccine mandates, thus ensuring its failure.

00:12:03.000 However, and this was Senator Mike Lee's amendment to the continuing resolution.

00:12:08.000 God bless Mike Lee for this.

00:12:09.000 He's terrific.

00:12:11.000 which would defund Biden's remaining vaccine mandates.

00:12:14.000 The measure failed 4647 with Mitt Romney, Jen Inhoff, Lindsey Graham, and Richard Burr failing to show up, depriving Senate Republicans a potential majority to pass the amendment to the continuing resolution.

00:12:28.000 Chuck Schumer sent the vote threshold to a majority, and it remains possible that he could have set the threshold to 60 if Republicans had enough votes to pass.

00:12:36.000 However, Democrats broke and voted to defund Biden's private employer mandate the last time they voted on vaccine mandates.

00:12:45.000 You have to choose, and they chose Ukraine.

00:12:49.000 Now, I'm not going to get into the speculation of the psychology of a late 70, early 80-something aging male who's done really nothing relevant or meaningful in his life of why he likes to play war games in a distant 5,000-mile away country while his own voters are suffering under drug addiction and all these.

00:13:08.000 I don't really quite get it.

00:13:09.000 It's kind of really weird and creepy, to be perfectly honest, why they like playing action-figure war games with real lives in villages they can't even pronounce, in lands they can't even find on a map.

00:13:19.000 It's like, yeah, we're going to go defend Ukraine.

00:13:22.000 It's like playing Halo.

00:13:23.000 It's like, yeah, calm down.

00:13:25.000 Like, how about you actually serve your own constituents like defunding vaccine mandates?

00:13:30.000 Bill Hemmer, who's terrific from FoxNews.com, walks through the map of where Russian troops are, where the fighting will start if they move past the demarcation line.

00:13:40.000 Let's play cut eight. 0.54

00:13:42.000 Well, really, for the past eight years, going back to 2014, this has been the demarcation line here in this southeastern part of Ukraine.

00:13:49.000 Who's been on one side?

00:13:50.000 Who's on the other?

00:13:52.000 The Ukrainian army has amassed over here since 2014.

00:13:56.000 The Russian separatists have controlled this area here on the map.

00:13:59.000 Well, overnight, you have the tanks and the trucks on behalf of the Russian army and Vladimir Putin move into these two areas.

00:14:07.000 Does Putin and his army stop at this line of contact or does he go further?

00:14:12.000 And if he goes further, that's where the war will be engaged on behalf of the Ukrainian army battling the Russian army.

00:14:19.000 We have been so propagandized to care about this.

00:14:23.000 Now, let me be very clear.

00:14:25.000 If our border was secure, our budget was balanced, inflation was under control, if we didn't have a drug overdose epidemic, if we didn't have a war on early treatments, if we didn't have children wearing masks in California,

00:14:40.000 if we didn't have small businesses crumbling over rising prices, if we didn't have our neighbors to the north becoming a fascist third world dictatorship, if we didn't have the American family falling apart or a suicide and drug addiction crisis with young people, then I would be open-minded to potentially posturing a little bit more.

00:15:01.000 But even then, I don't think it's the right role.

00:15:03.000 But if you don't even have the fundamentals right and you invert the entire paradigm, then it really begs the question, who are our leaders representing?

00:15:12.000 It surely isn't their voters.

00:15:14.000 I can't imagine the good people of North Dakota really care about Kiev more than whether or not the oil and gas industry is actually going to be able to survive, which is a perfect segue.

00:15:28.000 One of the reasons why Vladimir Putin is able to do this in the first place, one of the reasons why he feels emboldened, is because of a set of energy policies that Joe Biden put forward.

00:15:41.000 Cheap oil is a deterrent from tyrannical third world dictators from invading other countries. 0.95

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00:17:02.000 Why does Putin feel so empowered?

00:17:05.000 The entire Western world is putting sanctions right now on Russia as they call this an invasion.

00:17:10.000 Very well, might be.

00:17:13.000 I'm not the person to determine whether or not this is an invasion or an annexation.

00:17:16.000 It feels as if Putin is going into places that want him.

00:17:19.000 They have voted overwhelmingly to be part of it.

00:17:21.000 It's a family dispute that we shouldn't get in the midst of, that's for certain.

00:17:25.000 But why does Putin feel as if now's the perfect time?

00:17:30.000 Well, he definitely waited for the Olympics to be over for all the cheaters on his team that weren't even on the Russian Federation team.

00:17:37.000 It was the Russian Olympic Committee to be over with.

00:17:40.000 He didn't want the spectacle in the midst of the Olympics.

00:17:43.000 He did annex Crimea after the Olympics in 2006 or 2010.

00:17:51.000 He has a tendency to do this right after the Olympics or make big moves after that.

00:17:56.000 Actually, Georgia was after the Olympics.

00:17:58.000 We'll get those dates figured out.

00:18:00.000 But why does Putin feel so, let's say, compelled at this particular moment to move?

00:18:08.000 Why even get close to this?

00:18:12.000 So, in a time when the entire planet is locked down due to the Chinese coronavirus, finally, the world is reopening, there's one number in particular that Vladimir Putin is looking at that his entire economy is organized behind, and that is the petrodollar.

00:18:32.000 Vladimir Putin and Russia has designed their entire economy around the price of oil.

00:18:38.000 Now, you might remember back in January of 2020, about two years ago, there was that famous meeting that happened in Vienna between Russia and Saudi Arabia.

00:18:50.000 This is when Trump was still president.

00:18:52.000 And President Trump had a belief that the lower the price of oil, the better for the consumer.

00:18:58.000 Now, President Trump was so far in that direction, American producers were even getting upset.

00:19:04.000 It was like $25 or $30 a barrel oil.

00:19:07.000 And it was a pro-fracking policy, pro-energy exploration policy.

00:19:13.000 And because of this, oil went to dramatically low levels.

00:19:18.000 The price of gas fell to historic levels.

00:19:22.000 And Vladimir Putin and Russia were poorer than ever.

00:19:26.000 If you wanted to break the back of Russia, if you wanted Russia to be weak, then you would want cheap oil.

00:19:34.000 Now, if you want Russia to be strong again, then you'd want a high price of oil.

00:19:38.000 Well, from day one of taking office, Joe Biden has done everything he possibly can to destroy America's energy supremacy.

00:19:50.000 We had energy superiority and energy supremacy under Donald Trump, from liquid and natural gas fracking to new areas of development.

00:20:01.000 We were expanding leases for the first time since the development of oil and natural gas.

00:20:08.000 not the development, but the exploration of it, we were able to have a set of policies that made us an energy exporter, not an energy importer.

00:20:22.000 First time we've seen anything even close to that.

00:20:25.000 Now, the significance of that, because I grew up saying, you know, hearing from the left, we have to have our own energy so then we won't go invade other countries.

00:20:32.000 Okay, well, we have that now, like Iraq or Afghanistan or whatever, because we need it for the oil, even though we really didn't take much of that oil anyway.

00:20:41.000 We play the role of an empire.

00:20:43.000 We're not even good at doing that.

00:20:45.000 And so we have all of these things in front of us.

00:20:49.000 Donald Trump allowed us to be energy independent.

00:20:53.000 Joe Biden intentionally restricted that by preventing the Keystone XL pipeline, by preventing new oil leases in the Permian Basin.

00:21:01.000 I was in Midland, Texas last week.

00:21:04.000 The price of oil is higher than ever.

00:21:06.000 There aren't a lot of new leases being approved, but those people that have leases, they're doing better than ever.

00:21:11.000 Now, this was intentional by Joe Biden.

00:21:13.000 Remember, Joe Biden ran on this.

00:21:16.000 Play cut 19 saying he was going to get rid of fossil fuels.

00:21:20.000 Play cut 19.

00:21:21.000 No more, no new fracking.

00:21:24.000 We are going to get rid of fossil fuels.

00:21:26.000 Well, like, what about, say, stopping fracking and stopping.

00:21:30.000 Would there be any place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking, in a Biden administration?

00:21:37.000 No, we would work it out.

00:21:39.000 We would make sure it's eliminated.

00:21:41.000 And then cut 18, Joe Biden says, I guarantee you, we're going to end fossil fuel.

00:21:46.000 Play cut 18.

00:21:48.000 But kiddo, I want you to just take a look, okay?

00:21:51.000 You don't have to agree, but I want you to look in my eyes.

00:21:55.000 I guarantee you.

00:21:57.000 I guarantee you, we're going to end fossil fuel, and I am not going to cooperate with you, okay?

00:22:03.000 Now, this was that promise was a clear signal of Vladimir Putin that he would be able to get back his treasured eastern parts of Ukraine.

00:22:12.000 It made Russia rich.

00:22:14.000 Why?

00:22:15.000 Well, the less oil and natural gas that you're developing, the less LNG that you're exploring, then all of a sudden the countries that are going to exploit that are going to be richer than ever.

00:22:24.000 But it goes even deeper than that.

00:22:26.000 Play cut 15, Marco Rubio, senator from Florida, says how gas can increase to $110 to $155 a barrel.

00:22:33.000 He's exactly right.

00:22:34.000 Putin now knows that since oil is already high, that if he quote unquote invades Ukraine, oil will spike even further and making Russia even richer.

00:22:44.000 Play Cut 15.

00:22:45.000 This is going to increase oil prices maybe $110, $115 a barrel for some period of time.

00:22:50.000 What?

00:22:51.000 And what?

00:22:52.000 Well, and the reason why it's going to be massive disruption to the global economy.

00:22:55.000 Eventually, OPEC will react, I imagine, and try to make up for it, but not immediately.

00:22:59.000 And again, part of his calculus, no doubt about it, is that the U.S. has pulled back from oil and natural gas exploration.

00:23:06.000 It's made it harder under the Biden administration.

00:23:08.000 We went from being a net exporter for the first time ever, I believe, in 2018, to once again kind of falling back in our production.

00:23:16.000 This is the best point.

00:23:18.000 This is something I can agree with establishment Republicans on.

00:23:22.000 All they want to talk about is Ukraine and Russia.

00:23:23.000 Okay, well, how about one point of agreement that I think we can all have together is that if we put our country's energy production first, this wouldn't be a problem.

00:23:34.000 We all agree with that.

00:23:35.000 Okay.

00:23:35.000 Then why is it that the governors of North Dakota and South Dakota haven't authorized an order to go rebuild the Keystone XL pipeline?

00:23:41.000 I don't care what the federal government has to say.

00:23:43.000 Just do it anyway.

00:23:44.000 Why are we even listening to the EPA, the Employment Prevention Agency?

00:23:48.000 Oh, we're still living under a process where they destroy our entire country.

00:23:54.000 Got it.

00:23:54.000 Okay.

00:23:55.000 We're still living under this kind of belief, like, well, we have to listen to the federal government.

00:23:59.000 Really?

00:23:59.000 They don't listen to the federal government.

00:24:01.000 They do sanctuary cities and policies in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, and L.A. Why doesn't North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas have sanctuary cities for energy independence?

00:24:13.000 You want to really stick it to Vladimir Putin?

00:24:16.000 Don't go send javelin missiles to Ukrainians that don't even know how to use them. 0.99

00:24:22.000 No, no, no.

00:24:23.000 You want to break the back of Vladimir Putin and also benefit your country?

00:24:28.000 Open up the oil and natural gas market.

00:24:31.000 But this is part of the Biden strategy is raise oil prices, and therefore Americans are going to want, in an overwhelming way, we're going to want solar panels on everything, and we're going to want green energy, and everything will be good.

00:24:51.000 Now, make no mistake that Greta Thunberg and Leonardo DiCaprio and all these climate change activists, maybe realizing it or not realizing it, were actually playing into the aims and ambitions of Russia.

00:25:03.000 Now, I'm not saying that the green energy movement is funded by Russia.

00:25:08.000 I am not saying that.

00:25:10.000 I'm not saying that the Leonardo DiCaprio movie on Netflix, Don't Look Up, which was very difficult to get through, is somehow financed by a Russian oligarch.

00:25:21.000 I'm definitely not saying that.

00:25:22.000 There's no evidence of that.

00:25:23.000 I'm not saying that AOC's Green New Deal was created by the Kremlin, but the Kremlin is a big fan of AOC's Green New Deal.

00:25:30.000 The more green conversation that we have, the more propaganda that is put forward around destroying American energy independence, just plays right into the Russian superiority supremacy agenda. 0.87

00:25:44.000 And so in a backwards way, think about how interesting this is.

00:25:48.000 If our leaders actually put our country first, we could have broke the back of the Russian Federation without ever having to supply a missile, a troop, or a press release. 0.54

00:26:01.000 Russia was on the ropes under the Trump administration because of abundant, cheap oil.

00:26:09.000 Now, of course, MSNBC is saying, well, most of the fault of this lies in the Trump administration.

00:26:14.000 Of course, they're saying that.

00:26:15.000 Play Cut 11.

00:26:17.000 I think it's also important to remember, going back to something that we talked about earlier, that Putin has made various efforts to undo Western military support for Ukraine, including during the Trump administration.

00:26:31.000 If you remember the argument over Trump's first impeachment.

00:26:37.000 So why didn't Putin do this during the Trump administration?

00:26:40.000 Because he thought Trump was weakening Ukraine, especially on these grounds.

00:26:44.000 So the problem of Ukraine being unfortified goes back several years, and much of the fault lies in the Trump administration.

00:26:52.000 Why didn't Putin do this under Trump? 0.99

00:26:55.000 That's actually a really smart question with an unbelievably stupid answer by what's this person's name? 0.99

00:27:00.000 Anna Applebaum. 1.00

00:27:02.000 It's a good question, really dumb answer. 0.99

00:27:04.000 She answers her own question. 0.99

00:27:05.000 Why?

00:27:05.000 It's because Putin was poor.

00:27:07.000 Why was Putin poor?

00:27:09.000 Because we allowed ourselves to be energy independent.

00:27:12.000 Now, mind you, you know that Joe Biden approved Nord Stream 2, the pipeline from Germany to Russia.

00:27:19.000 If Biden was so afraid of Putin, why did he just help him be flush with cash and resources and lines of energy from Russia into Western nations?

00:27:32.000 If we're supposed to be so afraid of Russia, why would Biden do that?

00:27:36.000 The answer is he's actually not that afraid of Russia.

00:27:38.000 He's not.

00:27:39.000 Vladimir Putin is a substitute for the villain the media needs while Trump is golfing and starting a new social media app and speaking at events.

00:27:48.000 Putin is the perfect villain.

00:27:51.000 Now, what Putin is doing is agitating every single part of the American security apparatus.

00:27:59.000 The whole Washington, D.C. kind of Russia desk.

00:28:04.000 Oh boy, they've been waiting for relevancy for quite some time.

00:28:06.000 Meanwhile, China's taking over the world and they just pulled off an Olympics despite executing a pathogen on the entire planet. 0.99

00:28:15.000 Why is it that Putin did not try to do anything under Trump?

00:28:19.000 Well, also, this is another important point.

00:28:21.000 Trump talked to Putin.

00:28:24.000 Trump was actually engaged in diplomacy.

00:28:30.000 Trump went to Helsinki under massive scrutiny and condemnation from every major leader, including many on the right, to actually have a summit with Vladimir Putin and look at him in the eyes.

00:28:44.000 Was Putin annexed in Ukraine during that time?

00:28:46.000 No, of course not.

00:28:48.000 Putin was poor and we were talking.

00:28:51.000 Remember, we are the speaking beings.

00:28:53.000 I never understood this whole thing.

00:28:55.000 Well, you can't talk to terrorists.

00:28:56.000 We should talk to everybody.

00:28:59.000 Some terrorists are not worth talking for very long with, like Al-Baghdadi and Qassam Soleimani.

00:29:05.000 But when you're in control of the world's energy reserves and you're a country as powerful and as widespread as Russia, I think speaking is a good idea.

00:29:13.000 So let me get this straight.

00:29:14.000 The more Biden talked to Putin, the more he wanted to invade Ukraine.

00:29:18.000 The more Biden has implemented his energy policy, the wealthier Putin has been.

00:29:23.000 Joe Biden has made America weak.

00:29:26.000 And dare I say he's made Russia rich again.

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00:30:51.000 In a time of crisis, what is the human being's natural way to react?

00:30:59.000 What's the proper way to handle something that has gone wrong when there's many other options in front of you?

00:31:07.000 Well, an analogy that is used quite often, but I want to think deeply about it for a second, is what do they tell you every time you board an airplane?

00:31:15.000 When you board an airplane, they're very explicit that if you're traveling with a child or someone that is dependent on you, that if the oxygen masks come from above, you put your mask on first before you help somebody else.

00:31:31.000 Now, why would that be?

00:31:32.000 Why would they tell you to put your mask on first?

00:31:34.000 Well, because if you pass out while putting the mask on somebody else, then you both will have passed out and you both might die.

00:31:43.000 Now, it's very logical when you think about it.

00:31:45.000 Okay, you take care of yourself first, and then you could take care of other people.

00:31:51.000 When there is something that is a crisis or unraveling, you should always care about yourself.

00:32:00.000 Handle yourself first before you can handle anything else.

00:32:03.000 When things start to fall apart, your circle needs to get smaller, not bigger.

00:32:08.000 It seems as if our leaders are doing the opposite.

00:32:10.000 It seems like the more crisis there is at home, the more they care about completely irrelevant border disputes on the other side of the planet.

00:32:17.000 So there is a hierarchy to action.

00:32:22.000 We know this from studying the classics.

00:32:24.000 We know that some things are more important than others, that there is a hierarchy to the good.

00:32:30.000 Now, when you look at our nation as a whole, we also need to ask ourselves: are we agreeing on the basic things?

00:32:40.000 Military action is never appropriate if a nation cannot overwhelmingly agree on the basic things.

00:32:50.000 Can you agree on metaphysical truths, such as where rights come from?

00:32:55.000 No, we certainly can't agree on that.

00:32:56.000 Can you agree on biological truths, such as what is a man and a woman?

00:32:59.000 Nope, can't agree on that.

00:33:00.000 Can we agree on historical truths, such as where we came from?

00:33:04.000 Were we founded on slavery or freedom?

00:33:07.000 Is America systemically racist or not?

00:33:09.000 Can't agree on any of that.

00:33:10.000 So, when you can't agree on things as simple as is there a higher being, is there a spiritual dimension to existence, or is it just all material?

00:33:22.000 You can't agree on biological truths, such as men and women, and you can't agree on historical truths, then why do we think we can agree on going into a potential war with Vladimir Putin?

00:33:40.000 The answer is: of course, we can't.

00:33:43.000 But for some people, it serves as a nice distraction for the media.

00:33:47.000 It is much needed.

00:33:48.000 It's a much needed ratings boost for a group of people that are increasingly irrelevant.

00:33:55.000 But for those of us that are here to be able to look at this as it is, we need to be very careful and prudent about how we approach this.

00:34:05.000 Putin is going to keep on trying to reunify what he thinks is the family of Russia or the Soviet Union through Ukraine or the Eastern part.

00:34:15.000 We made Putin rich through the ridiculous energy policies we did here domestically via Joe Biden's promises and executive orders.

00:34:27.000 But as our nation continues to go into turmoil, into a death spiral, I want our senators to put the auction mask on America before caring about Ukraine or some far distant land that I can't pronounce and have difficulty finding on a map.

00:34:48.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - February 22, 2022

Putin Makes His Move: Everything You Need to Know

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