00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, we are being governed by a platoon of fools getting us closer and closer to a war with Russia.
00:00:08.000What does success look like in Ukraine?
00:00:10.000What are we willing to spend to get it done, money-wise, human-wise?
00:00:18.000I'm curious, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:20.000What is the cost we are willing to endure?
00:00:23.000It's very disturbing what's happening, and I'm sick of Republicans authorizing this.
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00:01:48.000We know the Democrat Party does what the regime asks.
00:01:51.000The Democrat Party has become an instrument of the CIA, the FBI, the woke Department of Defense.
00:02:00.000The question I want to ask today is, why is the Republican Party putting up with this?
00:02:04.000Why is the Republican Party authorizing more money to be sent to Ukraine and allowing the reckless escalation of a conflict halfway around the world that very well could result in nuclear war?
00:02:19.000We had several politicians here on this program, Senator Rick Scott, Senator Kramer.
00:02:23.000And every time I ask them about Ukraine, and I have a lot of respect for both those men, I think they're men of integrity.
00:02:28.000But I'll be honest, when I ask them about these topics, the lack of depth on the issue is extraordinary.
00:02:37.000For example, Senator Kramer came on this program.
00:02:50.000Why is the Republican Party trusting in Mark Milley and Lloyd Austin and Tony Blinken and Brennan, the same people that have messed up Afghanistan and messed up every single foreign policy blunder of the last couple of years of Jake Sullivan stumbling into the best case scenario, another Afghanistan, the worst case scenario, all-out nuclear war?
00:03:14.000Now, some of you in our audience email us freedom at charliekirk.com and you say, Charlie, we need to support Ukraine no matter what.
00:03:37.000What does success in Ukraine look like?
00:03:41.000And if you're able to articulate success, which by the way, when I talk to these politicians in public and in private, they're never able to say it.
00:03:49.000They always kind of go back to these abstractions.
00:03:52.000Well, success is defending Ukrainian sovereignty.
00:03:57.000What about the parts of Ukraine that actually want to be under Russian control, that speak Russian, that are ethnically Russian in the eastern part of Ukraine?
00:04:40.000But I would be doing an act of dishonesty to you if I was not talking about how Republicans have been complicit.
00:04:46.000Republicans have kept their head down, authorized $80 billion into this non-stop moneyhole of Ukraine that are only getting us closer towards a potential irreversible conflict.
00:05:01.000I wish we could have a big Republican rallying cry.
00:05:04.000Republicans stand against the proxy war in Ukraine.
00:05:07.000Instead, it's Republicans that have enabled this.
00:05:09.000It is Republicans that have supported this.
00:05:27.000But if we do not get some adults in the room, some people that think clearly about this Russian-Ukrainian war, then the midterm elections will just pale in comparison.
00:05:40.000It's a moot point if you have nuclear war.
00:05:42.000And you might say, oh, Charlie, we're not going to go to nuclear war.
00:05:44.000I'm going to walk you through how our own leaders are running television advertisements warning about what happens if nuclear war hits New York City.
00:05:53.000And so let me just ask any Republican out there, you guys can email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:05:58.000Any Republican out there, a leader, you name it.
00:06:02.000If you're a congressperson or a senator, you are welcome on this program at any time.
00:06:05.000Adam Kinzinger, any warmonger, you guys can come on this program and I will ask you a series of questions and you guys can talk uninterrupted, uninterrupted, what does success look like?
00:06:18.000What is the cost you are willing to endure to get whatever success that you have to tell me is whatever you success you tell me is desirable?
00:06:29.000Well, if you say success is regime change, oh, really?
00:06:36.000So success is basically, we're only going to stop when we remove Vladimir Putin.
00:06:40.000Okay, are you willing to lose 2 million American lives for a full-out ground invasion of Russia of a country that has 6,000 nuclear weapons and for what?
00:06:53.000The third question that not a single Republican politician can answer.
00:06:57.000And I am so fed up with this because I've waited patiently and I text these people and I email these people and I talk to them and it's so clear that they're controlled by something.
00:07:07.000Either these Republicans are being blackmailed, they're being propagandized, or they're not that smart at all.
00:07:13.000I'm not going to put up with it and you shouldn't either.
00:07:16.000Because I ask them, I say, very simple question.
00:07:19.000How is this in America's best interest?
00:07:22.000Oh, well, you know, Vladimir Putin is the worst person ever.
00:07:25.000And okay, I don't like Vladimir Putin.
00:07:29.000I've said some pretty harsh things about Vladimir Putin.
00:07:31.000In fact, so harsh some people in the audience think I'm too harsh towards Vladimir Putin.
00:08:08.000And then the fourth question that I would love to have any Republican come on this program and explain to me, again, uninterrupted, how does this make us stronger and more likely to counter the Chinese Communist Party?
00:08:20.000Now, their answer is this contorted thing.
00:08:23.000Well, they say, well, China will take over Taiwan if they don't see that we are serious about defending Ukraine.
00:08:32.000In fact, China is probably more likely to go after Taiwan long term if they can entangle us in another Afghanistan in a family dispute between thugs 5,000 miles away from the homeland.
00:08:47.000The Democrat Party no longer has a single anti-war voice, not a single anti-war voice.
00:08:53.000There's a couple in the Republican Party.
00:08:55.000And by the way, when I mean anti-war, I'm not a dove.
00:08:58.000I'm fine with killing terrorists and taking names.
00:09:01.000I'm fine with dropping the mother of all bombs, taking out Qassam Soleimani.
00:09:29.000And if we had leadership in the Republican Party, if we had an actual president, which we don't, we would immediately put ourselves in the middle and broker peace talks.
00:09:40.000What parts of Ukraine actually want to be part of Russia, allow self-determination to reign and consent to the governed, come up with appropriate borders, and don't turn this into a quagmire that could weaken the American homeland.
00:09:57.000The people in Washington, D.C. are clamoring for a war, and the media is all right there for it.
00:10:05.000And the stakes have never been so high.
00:10:09.000This makes Iraq look like child's play.
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00:11:49.000Can be very tough on terror and tough on China and tough on our enemies while also thinking and believing that a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is madness, that it is not in America's best interest, that in fact, we should be using Russia as a temporary ally in the fight against the Chinese Communist Party.
00:12:12.000Churchill understood the need and the significance of Russia.
00:12:16.000It was Churchill who brokered Stalin to come together with FDR and America against the Nazis.
00:12:23.000Russia right now could be a trading partner, could be an ally.
00:12:27.000This entire war in Ukraine could have been prevented.
00:12:29.000If it wasn't for Lindsey Graham saying, we're going to play offense against the Kremlin, all eyes should have been on Beijing.
00:12:35.000We could have used Russia as an energy partner, understanding that they are thugs, but guess what?
00:12:40.000I'm going to say something very controversial here.
00:12:43.000Vladimir Putin is a lot more, let's just say, he's a better person than Joseph Stalin.
00:12:48.000Vladimir Putin is not a good person, but he's a lot better than Joseph Stalin.
00:13:20.000On this program, we have members of Congress that will come on and they will speak endlessly about the deep state and holding the deep state accountable.
00:13:30.000And then moments later, they will go to the House floor and go vote to give the deep state $70 billion to go launch a proxy war against Russia.
00:13:39.000Do you like the deep state or do you not like the deep state?
00:13:43.000Who do you think is the one that's actually trying to get us into a war with Russia?
00:13:46.000The very same people that spy on Trump and raid Mar-a-Lago, the very same people that spy on moms and dads that showing up at school board meetings are the same creatures that then want a proxy war with Russia.
00:13:57.000They lack intelligence, they lack wisdom, but boy, do they have a lot of them and vigor towards trying to get us into some sort of conflict with one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
00:14:09.000Now, Russia pales in comparison to American strength economically, culturally, militarily, but they're still a big and strong and proud country.
00:14:18.000And if anyone would dare, just open a history book, explain to me how it works when you declare war on Russia.
00:14:58.000Have we had a chance to have hearings?
00:15:02.000No, instead, it's all done unilaterally, and Congress is doing this funding of $70 billion more than the GDP of North Dakota.
00:15:12.000And I hope all of you out there that are listening to this, that might be struggling to pay your bills, that might be struggling to pay for your kids' medicine, that might be laid off at work.
00:15:24.000I hope you know that your representatives in D.C. are spending way more time focusing on Zelensky than whether or not your goods, your services, your groceries that you have to pay for are affordable.
00:15:41.000Now, the reason why we've led with this is just in the last 24 hours, there is an incredible bubbling up of the madness.
00:15:50.000And, you know, someone emailed me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:15:53.000They say, Charlie, you know, we have to stop bashing Republicans.
00:16:06.000Okay, they might have sent some money to Ukraine at the beginning, similar to kind of locking down in March or April 2020, and then they wake up and realize this is a problem.
00:16:14.000No, they are accelerating this conflict.
00:16:18.000And not a single one of them will come on opposition media, which is us, because amazingly, the New York Times is the ones that actually give the Republicans good articles.
00:16:28.000Republicans are standing up against Putin.
00:16:51.000And if there is another Republican that dares to go on TV and say, yes, you know, Vladimir Putin is on his heels, he's got a much bigger and wealthier country than Ukraine.
00:17:00.000I don't think you want to put the guy with 6,000 nuclear warheads on his heels.
00:17:05.000An adult nation, a nation that would be governed by someone like Churchill or Churchill-esque people in the Republican Party would say, time out.
00:18:07.000That is preparewithkirk.com, preparewithkirk.com.
00:18:14.000The pathological obsession with trying to support the Ukrainian regime via Zelensky is very similar to wear a mask, get a vax, BLM, post your black square.
00:18:25.000And it seems to be re-emerging recently.
00:19:53.000The only way you could be a successful imperialist is: well, you got to be willing to do some things that I wouldn't support and you wouldn't support.
00:20:02.000Cut 44, Zelensky speaking at the Oscars, he's become the darling of the regime left.
00:20:10.000He says, peace with Putin is not an option.
00:20:13.000You understand how irresponsible this is?
00:20:16.000If we had adults, if we had people that actually thought critically about this that were not on payroll of Raytheon Northrop Grumman or Lockheed Martin or the deep state, they'd say, this guy's insane.
00:20:28.000America could end this war in an afternoon.
00:20:30.000In one afternoon, we could fly over there and broker a peace deal.
00:20:34.000Donald Trump would have this thing over with over a McDonald's Big Mac.
00:20:43.000Ukraine was and remains the leader of negotiation efforts.
00:20:47.000It is our country that always proposed to Russia to agree on coexistence on equal, honest, dignified, and fair conditions.
00:20:55.000Clearly, with this Russian president, it is impossible.
00:20:59.000He does not know what dignity and honesty are.
00:21:02.000Therefore, we are ready for a dialogue with Russia, but with another president of Russia.
00:21:08.000Oh, so the stated position of Zelensky is regime change.
00:21:14.000What good is America's strength economically or culturally or militarily if we are afraid to try to broker peace deals?
00:21:21.000That has always been the moderate position.
00:21:23.000Why are we not having active conversations every single week?
00:21:28.000If Putin is being reckless or irresponsible in those talks, then you can publicize it.
00:21:33.000If Zelensky is being unreasonable, then you could publicize it.
00:21:36.000We could be hosting non-stop peace negotiations in Minsk right now.
00:21:42.000But instead, we have the failed punk rocker Tony Blinken, who's implying that the bombing of Nord Stream 2 is a great opportunity.
00:21:50.000Joe Biden threatens quietly, not so quiet, not so quietly, but in his own weird way many months ago that he's going to bomb Nord Street II.
00:21:59.000So the position of Zelensky, of which why is he calling the shots, by the way?
00:22:22.000We've had moral clarity on that issue since the beginning.
00:22:24.000That's not actually the question in front of us.
00:22:27.000The question in front of us is what to do now.
00:22:31.000Let's go to Cut 32, retired general and former Pentagon official tells CNN the United States should consider launching a nuclear strike on Russia.
00:22:41.000CNN has learned that the U.S. is developing contingency plans for possible Russian escalation in its war in Ukraine, including the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons.
00:22:52.000I wonder, can you describe what such contingency plans might involve?
00:22:57.000My personal view is I think we ought to be deliberately vague on what we are prepared to do.
00:23:03.000It could be the soft side of it, which is doubling down on sanctions, doubling down on export controls, ranging all the way to a nuclear response of our own and everything in between.
00:23:16.000Yeah, doubling down on a nuclear response of our own.
00:23:18.000This guy should be excommunicated from decent and polite society.
00:23:23.000How do you think that one's going to work out?
00:23:25.000With a country that has one-eighth of the landmass on planet Earth and 6,000 nuclear weapons, we're going to talk about a nuclear response.
00:24:03.000There's a lot of bad people in the world, a lot.
00:24:07.000And one of the defining, let's say, beliefs of a prudent foreign policy is not to go about around the world searching for monsters to destroy, as John Quincy Adams would say, and say it should always come back to the mothership, always come back to the homeland.
00:24:42.000This is hard-hitting journalism where he keeps on showing her pictures of Americans with bumper stickers and flags in support of Ukraine.
00:24:50.000Now, I have found almost a one-to-one correlation of people that have the Ukrainian flag and people that happen to be very, very pro masking vaccines and BLM bumper stickers.
00:25:03.000I think part of the regime's strategy is they capitalize on the lack of meaning that modernity has created.
00:25:12.000I think they basically fill this massive chasm and void with these purpose movements.
00:25:20.000BLM, got to honor St. George Floyd, put a mask on, lock down, mask and vax, and now the latest one, we need to go be partners with Zelensky.
00:28:53.000If you were outside after the blast, get clean immediately.
00:28:58.000Remove and bag all outer clothing to keep radioactive dust or ash away from your body.
00:29:04.000Yeah, if there's a nuclear attack, go inside.
00:29:06.000Yeah, I don't think that's really going to matter.
00:29:08.000I want you to know this is not, this is not a joke.
00:29:11.000This is a real public service announcement that is running in New York City, a real advertisement.
00:29:18.000And by the way, I love when she said at the beginning, don't ask me how or why this happened.
00:29:22.000I could tell you how or why this happened.
00:29:25.000This happened because the 2020 election was so interfered with thanks to Mark Zuckerberg and ballot mules that Donald Trump would never have allowed this to happen.
00:29:34.000Number two, Joe Biden has been excitedly clamoring us closer to a nuclear war.
00:29:52.000But it's not strong to stumble into a proxy war against a nuclear-armed nation that could be very helpful in crushing the Chinese Communist Party.
00:29:59.000Why are we even in Ukraine with this proxy conflict?
00:30:02.000How is this in America's best interest?
00:30:07.000Let's get to another piece of sound here.
00:30:09.000Glenn Greenwald on Tucker Carlson, the consensus in Washington is that we are closer to the use of nuclear weapons than any other time since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
00:30:17.000Who in the Republican Party is trying to bring us closer to peace?
00:30:27.000You know, if we had some Republican that was able to represent the United States of America, obviously the legislative branch is not tasked with doing this.
00:30:36.000So the executive branch would have to do this.
00:30:38.000It would be a little bit of a violation of separation of powers.
00:30:40.000But just thinking out loud, why can't a delegation, instead of going to Kyiv to take photo ops with Zelensky, who's a very questionable moral actor, why can't we go to Minsk and demand both parties come to the table and try to see where is a ceasefire at all possible?
00:30:57.000That's what a strong country would do.
00:31:03.000The consensus in Washington is that we are closer to the use of nuclear weapons than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis 60 years ago.
00:31:12.000There is a very real threat of a nuclear exchange or even a direct confrontation with Russia and the United States.
00:31:20.000Over who governs and rules, not even Ukraine, but the Donbass, the eastern region in Ukraine, where a majority of people actually identify as ethnic Russians and want to be part of Russia.
00:34:02.000They said, wow, Elon Musk is in the pocket of Vladimir Putin.
00:34:07.000Yeah, that wouldn't make a lot of sense.
00:34:09.000Something tells me Vladimir Putin is not a huge fan of electric vehicles.
00:34:14.000Something tells me that Vladimir Putin is not exactly clamoring about Tesla.
00:34:20.000David Sachs on Twitter says the fact that Elon Musk could be attacked as pro-Russian merely for suggesting a possible peace deal, even though he gave Starlink to the Ukrainian war effort, shows how warped and intolerant the public conversation has become.