The Charlie Kirk Show - Republicans Race Toward Nuclear War

00:00:00.000 Hey 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. 0.97

00:00:08.000 What does success look like in Ukraine? 0.96

00:00:10.000 What are we willing to spend to get it done, money-wise, human-wise?

00:00:14.000 We willing to lose 2 million people?

00:00:16.000 Tell me what success looks like.

00:00:18.000 I'm curious, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:00:20.000 What is the cost we are willing to endure?

00:00:23.000 It's very disturbing what's happening, and I'm sick of Republicans authorizing this.

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00:01:48.000 We know the Democrat Party does what the regime asks.

00:01:51.000 The Democrat Party has become an instrument of the CIA, the FBI, the woke Department of Defense.

00:02:00.000 The question I want to ask today is, why is the Republican Party putting up with this?

00:02:04.000 Why 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?

00:02:19.000 We had several politicians here on this program, Senator Rick Scott, Senator Kramer.

00:02:23.000 And 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.

00:02:28.000 But I'll be honest, when I ask them about these topics, the lack of depth on the issue is extraordinary.

00:02:37.000 For example, Senator Kramer came on this program.

00:02:39.000 Again, nice man.

00:02:40.000 We had a nice disagreement on this.

00:02:42.000 And he said there is really no limit to the amount of money that we will send to Ukraine.

00:02:46.000 This is complete and total madness.

00:02:50.000 Why 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?

00:03:14.000 Now, some of you in our audience email us freedom at charliekirk.com and you say, Charlie, we need to support Ukraine no matter what.

00:03:20.000 Ukraine is the best thing ever.

00:03:22.000 You might have your own opinions on Ukraine.

00:03:25.000 I certainly don't think they're the best country ever.

00:03:27.000 But let me ask a series of very simple questions.

00:03:31.000 What does success look like?

00:03:35.000 I keep on going back to this.

00:03:37.000 What does success in Ukraine look like?

00:03:41.000 And 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.

00:03:49.000 They always kind of go back to these abstractions.

00:03:52.000 Well, success is defending Ukrainian sovereignty.

00:03:56.000 Oh, really?

00:03:56.000 What latitude and longitude?

00:03:57.000 What 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?

00:04:06.000 No, we want the entire country back.

00:04:07.000 Well, who drew the lines of Ukraine?

00:04:09.000 Where did it come from?

00:04:10.000 Wasn't Russia, as we know it, founded in Ukraine?

00:04:14.000 How many people in Ukraine actually want to be part of Russia and vice versa?

00:04:17.000 Shouldn't we allow an election to solve that?

00:04:21.000 So what does success look like? 0.96

00:04:23.000 And the second one, which is why you know you're dealing with foolish infants in Washington, D.C. and both political parties.

00:04:30.000 And by the way, I do not want to have to do this segment 35 days out from midterm election. 0.86

00:04:35.000 I wish 35 days out from midterm election, I could say, everybody, get behind Republicans.

00:04:39.000 Everything is wonderful.

00:04:40.000 But I would be doing an act of dishonesty to you if I was not talking about how Republicans have been complicit.

00:04:46.000 Republicans 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.

00:05:01.000 I wish we could have a big Republican rallying cry.

00:05:04.000 Republicans stand against the proxy war in Ukraine.

00:05:07.000 Instead, it's Republicans that have enabled this.

00:05:09.000 It is Republicans that have supported this.

00:05:12.000 And by the way, let me say this.

00:05:15.000 Where we are headed to in Ukraine, I know this is going to be a big statement.

00:05:18.000 People will disagree, is potentially more consequential than the midterm elections.

00:05:24.000 The midterm elections are very important.

00:05:26.000 They're incredibly important.

00:05:27.000 But 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.

00:05:36.000 It'll just be a little blip.

00:05:40.000 It's a moot point if you have nuclear war.

00:05:42.000 And you might say, oh, Charlie, we're not going to go to nuclear war.

00:05:44.000 I'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.

00:05:53.000 And so let me just ask any Republican out there, you guys can email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:05:58.000 Any Republican out there, a leader, you name it.

00:06:02.000 If you're a congressperson or a senator, you are welcome on this program at any time.

00:06:05.000 Adam 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?

00:06:15.000 And here's the other question.

00:06:16.000 To what cost?

00:06:18.000 What 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?

00:06:29.000 Well, if you say success is regime change, oh, really?

00:06:33.000 Success is regime change?

00:06:36.000 So success is basically, we're only going to stop when we remove Vladimir Putin.

00:06:40.000 Okay, 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? 0.59

00:06:53.000 The third question that not a single Republican politician can answer.

00:06:57.000 And 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.

00:07:07.000 Either these Republicans are being blackmailed, they're being propagandized, or they're not that smart at all.

00:07:13.000 I'm not going to put up with it and you shouldn't either.

00:07:16.000 Because I ask them, I say, very simple question.

00:07:19.000 How is this in America's best interest? 0.98

00:07:22.000 Oh, well, you know, Vladimir Putin is the worst person ever. 0.67

00:07:25.000 And okay, I don't like Vladimir Putin. 0.78

00:07:29.000 I've said some pretty harsh things about Vladimir Putin.

00:07:31.000 In fact, so harsh some people in the audience think I'm too harsh towards Vladimir Putin.

00:07:35.000 I don't like him.

00:07:35.000 I don't care.

00:07:36.000 I don't like when strong countries invade weaker countries.

00:07:39.000 Irrelevant.

00:07:41.000 Why is that in America's best interest? 0.84

00:07:43.000 You turn over a rock in the eastern part of the world and you have some sort of authoritarian corrupt despot. 0.62

00:07:48.000 Hey, Zelensky is one too. 0.89

00:07:49.000 As bad as Putin?

00:07:50.000 We'll never know.

00:07:52.000 That's not the point.

00:07:53.000 The point is, how is that in America's best interest when we are crumbling domestically?

00:07:59.000 We now say we're going to send $70 billion to escalate the conflict.

00:08:04.000 Is it the industrial war machine in Washington, D.C.?

00:08:07.000 Maybe.

00:08:08.000 And 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?

00:08:20.000 Now, their answer is this contorted thing.

00:08:23.000 Well, they say, well, China will take over Taiwan if they don't see that we are serious about defending Ukraine.

00:08:30.000 That's two totally different things.

00:08:32.000 In 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. 0.57

00:08:47.000 The Democrat Party no longer has a single anti-war voice, not a single anti-war voice.

00:08:53.000 There's a couple in the Republican Party.

00:08:55.000 And by the way, when I mean anti-war, I'm not a dove. 0.98

00:08:58.000 I'm fine with killing terrorists and taking names. 0.99

00:09:01.000 I'm fine with dropping the mother of all bombs, taking out Qassam Soleimani. 1.00

00:09:05.000 We're not a bunch of doves over here.

00:09:09.000 But we're not dealing with something in Ukraine that is in America's interest.

00:09:14.000 You're dealing against one of the world's great powers, Russia, and they want Ukraine. 0.60

00:09:20.000 So we have a question.

00:09:22.000 We have an opportunity in front of us.

00:09:24.000 Better phrased, we have something that must need answering.

00:09:27.000 What is America's response to that?

00:09:29.000 And 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.

00:09:40.000 What 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.

00:09:57.000 The people in Washington, D.C. are clamoring for a war, and the media is all right there for it.

00:10:05.000 And the stakes have never been so high.

00:10:09.000 This makes Iraq look like child's play. 1.00

00:10:12.000 6,000 nuclear weapons.

00:10:14.000 And you put them further and further into a corner.

00:10:16.000 Where do you think this is actually going to end?

00:10:21.000 I want your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:10:24.000 I am so disappointed by these Republicans.

00:10:27.000 Again, I wish we could do the rally and cry, and we're going to do some of the rallying cry the next 35 days, vote red, vote Republican.

00:10:34.000 But I refuse to lie to all of you.

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00:11:47.000 I want to be very clear.

00:11:49.000 Can 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. 0.51

00:12:12.000 Churchill understood the need and the significance of Russia.

00:12:16.000 It was Churchill who brokered Stalin to come together with FDR and America against the Nazis.

00:12:23.000 Russia right now could be a trading partner, could be an ally.

00:12:27.000 This entire war in Ukraine could have been prevented.

00:12:29.000 If it wasn't for Lindsey Graham saying, we're going to play offense against the Kremlin, all eyes should have been on Beijing.

00:12:35.000 We could have used Russia as an energy partner, understanding that they are thugs, but guess what? 0.77

00:12:40.000 I'm going to say something very controversial here.

00:12:43.000 Vladimir Putin is a lot more, let's just say, he's a better person than Joseph Stalin.

00:12:48.000 Vladimir Putin is not a good person, but he's a lot better than Joseph Stalin. 0.64

00:12:52.000 A lot better.

00:12:53.000 And we were allied with Joseph Stalin to go defeat an even greater evil in the National Socialist Workers' Party. 0.58

00:13:01.000 That's called life.

00:13:03.000 Sometimes you have to ally with people that are not the best.

00:13:06.000 Russia is strong.

00:13:08.000 They're big.

00:13:08.000 They're powerful.

00:13:10.000 They obviously have some weaknesses.

00:13:11.000 Yet the apparatchiks in Washington, D.C. are clamoring nonstop for a war with Russia.

00:13:18.000 And here's what really bothers me.

00:13:20.000 On 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.

00:13:30.000 And 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.

00:13:38.000 So which is it?

00:13:39.000 Do you like the deep state or do you not like the deep state?

00:13:43.000 Who do you think is the one that's actually trying to get us into a war with Russia?

00:13:46.000 The 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.

00:13:57.000 They 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.

00:14:09.000 Now, Russia pales in comparison to American strength economically, culturally, militarily, but they're still a big and strong and proud country.

00:14:18.000 And if anyone would dare, just open a history book, explain to me how it works when you declare war on Russia. 0.64

00:14:26.000 How does that one work?

00:14:27.000 When was the last time regime change was successfully able to be implemented in Russia?

00:14:33.000 You think you're Vladimir Lenin?

00:14:36.000 That's the only example I have in the last hundred years.

00:14:39.000 And just from a purely constitutional standpoint, you might say, Charlie, I think we have to go to all-out war with Russia. 0.86

00:14:45.000 It's the most important thing in the world. 0.97

00:14:46.000 That's a very foolish thing to believe. 0.91

00:14:48.000 Then fine, do it the right way. 0.98

00:14:50.000 Go through Congress.

00:14:52.000 Has Congress passed a declaration of war?

00:14:56.000 Has Congress debated this?

00:14:58.000 Have we had a chance to have hearings?

00:15:02.000 No, instead, it's all done unilaterally, and Congress is doing this funding of $70 billion more than the GDP of North Dakota.

00:15:12.000 And 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.

00:15:24.000 I 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.

00:15:41.000 Now, the reason why we've led with this is just in the last 24 hours, there is an incredible bubbling up of the madness.

00:15:50.000 And, you know, someone emailed me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:15:53.000 They say, Charlie, you know, we have to stop bashing Republicans.

00:15:57.000 I wish I could do that today.

00:16:00.000 I wish I could say Republicans have become at least the war skeptic party.

00:16:05.000 I wish it could be Republicans.

00:16:06.000 Okay, 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.

00:16:14.000 No, they are accelerating this conflict.

00:16:18.000 And 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.

00:16:28.000 Republicans are standing up against Putin.

00:16:31.000 Yeah, okay, I got that.

00:16:32.000 How is this in America's best interest?

00:16:33.000 What does success look like?

00:16:35.000 To what cost are you willing to bring us towards to achieve that kind of success?

00:16:39.000 How long are you willing to put us into this quagmire?

00:16:41.000 How does this allow us to help defeat and destroy the Chinese? 1.00

00:16:45.000 These are questions that adults would ask.

00:16:48.000 The war games end today.

00:16:51.000 And 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.

00:17:00.000 I don't think you want to put the guy with 6,000 nuclear warheads on his heels.

00:17:04.000 No, no, no.

00:17:05.000 An adult nation, a nation that would be governed by someone like Churchill or Churchill-esque people in the Republican Party would say, time out.

00:17:11.000 Let's go broker some peace. 1.00

00:17:13.000 Instead, we're run by corrupt fools. 1.00

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00:18:14.000 The 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. 0.58

00:18:25.000 And it seems to be re-emerging recently.

00:18:27.000 It went down.

00:18:28.000 It was up and it went down.

00:18:29.000 Now it's back up.

00:18:30.000 I want to play some sound here.

00:18:32.000 These people are just so gullible, including Republicans.

00:18:35.000 What a disappointment some of these Republicans are.

00:18:37.000 And it just saddens me.

00:18:39.000 We're 35 days out from a midterm election.

00:18:41.000 All Republicans had to do was take a moderate position, which is, I don't think it's a good idea for us to send money.

00:18:46.000 No, no, no.

00:18:47.000 How about this position?

00:18:48.000 This is a great position.

00:18:49.000 Why aren't we brokering peace?

00:18:51.000 That could be a great talking point.

00:18:52.000 In fact, I think that could turn into a political advantage for Republicans.

00:18:58.000 All Republicans had to do on the campaign trails, why aren't we trying to broker peace?

00:19:02.000 Why aren't we trying to use American strength to broker a ceasefire instead of let's go send more money to Ukraine?

00:19:08.000 Where's that money going?

00:19:09.000 Where are those arms going?

00:19:10.000 Are we getting closer to the success you can't tell me and you can't define?

00:19:14.000 How does that make America stronger?

00:19:16.000 Is that going to make us into another foreign entangled conflict? 0.81

00:19:19.000 Why is it that Eastern Ukraine speaks Russian and wants to be part of Russia?

00:19:23.000 Why are we trying to insert ourselves when they want to be part of Russia?

00:19:26.000 Well, we know what's better for them.

00:19:28.000 Actually, we don't.

00:19:30.000 Every time we try to impose our values on these countries via Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, or Syria, it doesn't end well.

00:19:38.000 Do I think Western values are the best?

00:19:39.000 Of course, I think Western values are the best.

00:19:42.000 All people are created equal, but not all cultures are created equal.

00:19:45.000 That's not the point.

00:19:46.000 The point is, if they don't want them, don't force feed them.

00:19:50.000 We're not imperialists.

00:19:51.000 It doesn't work.

00:19:53.000 The 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.

00:20:02.000 Cut 44, Zelensky speaking at the Oscars, he's become the darling of the regime left. 0.69

00:20:10.000 He says, peace with Putin is not an option.

00:20:13.000 You understand how irresponsible this is? 0.95

00:20:16.000 If 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.

00:20:28.000 America could end this war in an afternoon.

00:20:30.000 In one afternoon, we could fly over there and broker a peace deal.

00:20:34.000 Donald Trump would have this thing over with over a McDonald's Big Mac. 0.79

00:20:40.000 Play Cut 44.

00:20:43.000 Ukraine was and remains the leader of negotiation efforts.

00:20:47.000 It is our country that always proposed to Russia to agree on coexistence on equal, honest, dignified, and fair conditions.

00:20:55.000 Clearly, with this Russian president, it is impossible.

00:20:59.000 He does not know what dignity and honesty are.

00:21:02.000 Therefore, we are ready for a dialogue with Russia, but with another president of Russia.

00:21:08.000 Oh, so the stated position of Zelensky is regime change.

00:21:14.000 What good is America's strength economically or culturally or militarily if we are afraid to try to broker peace deals?

00:21:21.000 That has always been the moderate position.

00:21:23.000 Why are we not having active conversations every single week?

00:21:28.000 If Putin is being reckless or irresponsible in those talks, then you can publicize it.

00:21:33.000 If Zelensky is being unreasonable, then you could publicize it.

00:21:36.000 We could be hosting non-stop peace negotiations in Minsk right now.

00:21:42.000 But instead, we have the failed punk rocker Tony Blinken, who's implying that the bombing of Nord Stream 2 is a great opportunity.

00:21:50.000 Joe 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.

00:21:59.000 So the position of Zelensky, of which why is he calling the shots, by the way?

00:22:05.000 Zelensky is a DC puppet.

00:22:07.000 He's an oligarch.

00:22:08.000 And by the way, talk to any person who has lived under Zelensky, not exactly fans of him. 0.95

00:22:14.000 Very corrupt.

00:22:15.000 He is a CIA plant that runs the nation of Ukraine. 0.61

00:22:19.000 Does that mean that Putin was in the right to invade Ukraine?

00:22:22.000 Of course not.

00:22:22.000 We've had moral clarity on that issue since the beginning.

00:22:24.000 That's not actually the question in front of us.

00:22:27.000 The question in front of us is what to do now.

00:22:31.000 Let's go to Cut 32, retired general and former Pentagon official tells CNN the United States should consider launching a nuclear strike on Russia.

00:22:39.000 Play Cut 32.

00:22:41.000 CNN 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.

00:22:52.000 I wonder, can you describe what such contingency plans might involve?

00:22:57.000 My personal view is I think we ought to be deliberately vague on what we are prepared to do.

00:23:03.000 It 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.

00:23:16.000 Yeah, doubling down on a nuclear response of our own.

00:23:18.000 This guy should be excommunicated from decent and polite society.

00:23:23.000 How do you think that one's going to work out?

00:23:25.000 With 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.

00:23:32.000 Can you game that one out for me?

00:23:34.000 Does that end with our kids and grandkids living in a peaceful America?

00:23:40.000 And again, anybody out in the audience, you could tell me, what national security threat does Russia pose to America?

00:23:48.000 Anybody?

00:23:51.000 Are they thug actors?

00:23:54.000 Yeah, I think so. 0.53

00:23:55.000 Are they deceitful from their government?

00:23:59.000 Sure.

00:24:00.000 Should they have invaded Ukraine? 0.87

00:24:02.000 Absolutely not.

00:24:03.000 There's a lot of bad people in the world, a lot.

00:24:07.000 And 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.

00:24:26.000 How does this benefit us?

00:24:28.000 How is that in our best interest?

00:24:29.000 How does that help America?

00:24:32.000 And if you're going to do this, then go through the right process.

00:24:36.000 Scott Pelly sat down with Zelensky's wife.

00:24:40.000 This is so, this is so hard to watch.

00:24:42.000 This is hard-hitting journalism where he keeps on showing her pictures of Americans with bumper stickers and flags in support of Ukraine.

00:24:50.000 Now, 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.

00:25:03.000 I think part of the regime's strategy is they capitalize on the lack of meaning that modernity has created.

00:25:12.000 I think they basically fill this massive chasm and void with these purpose movements.

00:25:19.000 America's racist.

00:25:20.000 BLM, 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.

00:25:31.000 Okay.

00:25:32.000 How's that in our interest?

00:25:34.000 Is that America's role?

00:25:36.000 Where in the U.S. Constitution does it say that we have to go out of our way to go support a foreign corrupt country in Europe?

00:25:44.000 Anybody?

00:25:45.000 Play Cut 46.

00:25:47.000 Are you stronger than you thought you were?

00:25:54.000 Everyone has become stronger.

00:25:56.000 I'm not unique.

00:25:57.000 Madam First Lady, may I show you some photographs from the United States?

00:26:01.000 With pleasure.

00:26:02.000 This is a picture I took on Fifth Avenue in New York.

00:26:08.000 This is a bumper sticker where I buy my groceries.

00:26:15.000 I took this picture on the east side of Manhattan.

00:26:20.000 What do you say to the American people?

00:26:23.000 Are you stronger than you think you were?

00:26:25.000 It's very similar to when they first sat down with Barack Obama.

00:26:28.000 How does it feel to be president?

00:26:32.000 How are you feeling?

00:26:34.000 How are you supposed to answer that question?

00:26:36.000 Are you stronger than you think you were?

00:26:37.000 Actually, no, I'm weaker.

00:26:39.000 And send us more money.

00:26:41.000 Or when they sit down with Joe Biden, what's your favorite ice cream flavor? 1.00

00:26:44.000 We are being governed by platoons of fools. 0.99

00:26:48.000 And it's one thing to kind of joke about it and to make light of it, but I just want to reinforce this. 0.99

00:26:55.000 Republicans have enabled this and they have funded it all at every single corner.

00:27:02.000 And very simple question.

00:27:04.000 Why is our government driving us closer to escalation and further from peace?

00:27:10.000 Now, you might say, Charlie, come on, you're just exaggerating.

00:27:13.000 Okay, why is it that New York City is running public service announcements of what to do in case there's a nuclear attack?

00:27:22.000 Why are Republicans not mentioning this?

00:27:24.000 If there is a nuclear war, if there is a conflict, Republicans are to blame for this.

00:27:31.000 And again, you can have very, very anti-Putin sentiments, of which I share them.

00:27:36.000 I don't like Vladimir Putin.

00:27:37.000 I don't think he's a moral or ethical person. 0.99

00:27:39.000 I think he's a thug. 0.56

00:27:40.000 I also think he could be very useful to American foreign policy right now to crush the Chinese Communist Party. 0.87

00:27:47.000 Here's a little bit of a truth that people don't like to hear.

00:27:50.000 Throughout America's history, we've had to build alliances with a lot of shady actors to defeat greater evil all throughout our history.

00:28:01.000 Moral purity is helpful to be able to set an objective standard.

00:28:08.000 But then you must use prudence.

00:28:10.000 You must ask, what is the good I'm trying to achieve?

00:28:14.000 You must use real politic.

00:28:16.000 That's why Churchill was the greatest leader of the 20th century.

00:28:18.000 He juggled all of this and he navigated it beautifully. 1.00

00:28:22.000 These leaders are fools. 0.99

00:28:25.000 Meanwhile, we're running advertisements in New York City saying, hey, in case there's a nuclear warhead, here's what you should do. 1.00

00:28:30.000 Play cut 47.

00:28:31.000 So there's been a nuclear attack.

00:28:33.000 Don't ask me how or why.

00:28:35.000 Just know that the big one has hit, okay?

00:28:38.000 So what do we do?

00:28:40.000 Step one, get inside fast.

00:28:44.000 You, your friends, your family, get inside.

00:28:47.000 Stay inside.

00:28:49.000 Shut all doors and windows.

00:28:51.000 Have a basement?

00:28:52.000 Head there.

00:28:53.000 If you were outside after the blast, get clean immediately.

00:28:58.000 Remove and bag all outer clothing to keep radioactive dust or ash away from your body.

00:29:04.000 Yeah, if there's a nuclear attack, go inside.

00:29:06.000 Yeah, I don't think that's really going to matter.

00:29:08.000 I want you to know this is not, this is not a joke.

00:29:11.000 This is a real public service announcement that is running in New York City, a real advertisement.

00:29:18.000 And by the way, I love when she said at the beginning, don't ask me how or why this happened.

00:29:22.000 I could tell you how or why this happened.

00:29:25.000 This 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.

00:29:34.000 Number two, Joe Biden has been excitedly clamoring us closer to a nuclear war.

00:29:34.000 That's number one.

00:29:40.000 And number three, Republicans allowed this to happen.

00:29:43.000 That's how this happened.

00:29:45.000 You can hate Putin.

00:29:46.000 You could say, Charlie, we must always have strength.

00:29:50.000 Fine.

00:29:52.000 But 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.

00:29:59.000 Why are we even in Ukraine with this proxy conflict?

00:30:02.000 How is this in America's best interest?

00:30:07.000 Let's get to another piece of sound here.

00:30:09.000 Glenn 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.

00:30:17.000 Who in the Republican Party is trying to bring us closer to peace?

00:30:20.000 By the way, peace is very popular.

00:30:22.000 And so I don't want to hear from any Republicans like, well, you know, we're in a midterm election.

00:30:26.000 We have to be very careful.

00:30:27.000 You 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.

00:30:36.000 So the executive branch would have to do this.

00:30:38.000 It would be a little bit of a violation of separation of powers.

00:30:40.000 But 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?

00:30:57.000 That's what a strong country would do.

00:31:00.000 Play cut 50.

00:31:03.000 The 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.

00:31:12.000 There is a very real threat of a nuclear exchange or even a direct confrontation with Russia and the United States.

00:31:18.000 And over what?

00:31:20.000 Over 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.

00:31:33.000 That's exactly right.

00:31:34.000 The eastern part of Russia wants to be, is part of, Ukraine wants to be part of Russia.

00:31:38.000 Cut 52, Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia professor, says the media is complicit for racing us closer to war.

00:31:48.000 Play Cut 52.

00:31:49.000 I am very worried that we are on a path of escalation to nuclear war, nothing less than that.

00:31:56.000 And a lot of the world doesn't like this NATO expansion, which they interpret as at the core of this.

00:32:04.000 They want to see compromise between the U.S. and Russia.

00:32:09.000 Most of the world, certainly most of the world counted by population, is on the sidelines.

00:32:14.000 They just view this as a horrible clash between Russia and the United States.

00:32:19.000 They don't view this as we describe it in the media as an unprovoked attack by Russia on Ukraine.

00:32:28.000 That's, you know, anyone in the United States, they'd say, well, what else is it?

00:32:32.000 But that's because the way that our media have been reporting this.

00:32:36.000 That's Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia professor, by the way.

00:32:39.000 He was blasted for having that opinion.

00:32:43.000 Where is the anti-war left?

00:32:45.000 I grew up with very articulate, young, energetic, anti-war activists that are all like now regime puppets.

00:32:52.000 Like, yeah, we need to go send money to Zelensky.

00:32:55.000 You are the same ones that were protesting against the Iraq war.

00:32:59.000 Where are you now?

00:32:59.000 Like, where is Michael Moore?

00:33:03.000 Michael Moore made a whole career out of bashing Bush on weapons of mass destruction and regime change.

00:33:09.000 There was a whole genre of American liberalism that, quite honestly, when they fully deploy, they're very persuasive against foreign war.

00:33:20.000 Where are they now?

00:33:22.000 Then Elon Musk comes out.

00:33:23.000 By the way, it seems as if Elon Musk is going to buy Twitter.

00:33:26.000 That's some breaking news in the last couple moments.

00:33:28.000 He says on Twitter, Ukraine-Russia, peace.

00:33:31.000 Redo elections of annexed regions under UN supervision.

00:33:34.000 Russia leaves if that is the will of the people. 0.61

00:33:36.000 I wouldn't have it under UN supervision, but fine.

00:33:39.000 Crimea, formerly a part of Russia, as it has been since 1783, until Khrushchev's mistake.

00:33:43.000 That's exactly right.

00:33:44.000 Crimea should be Russia's. 0.99

00:33:46.000 Water supply to Crimea assured.

00:33:48.000 Ukraine remains neutral.

00:33:50.000 Elon Musk wisely says this is the highly likely outcome in the end, just a matter of how many die before then.

00:33:56.000 Also worth noting that a possible, albeit unlikely, outcome from the conflict is nuclear war.

00:34:00.000 Elon is exactly right.

00:34:02.000 But people hate it.

00:34:02.000 They said, wow, Elon Musk is in the pocket of Vladimir Putin.

00:34:07.000 Yeah, that wouldn't make a lot of sense.

00:34:09.000 Something tells me Vladimir Putin is not a huge fan of electric vehicles.

00:34:14.000 Something tells me that Vladimir Putin is not exactly clamoring about Tesla.

00:34:20.000 David 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.

00:34:31.000 That's right.

00:34:33.000 It's been completely taken over by regime forces.

00:34:36.000 And I blame Republicans. 0.97

00:34:38.000 Democrats are a waste of time. 0.99

00:34:39.000 They always have been. 0.99

00:34:39.000 Where's the anti-war left? 0.99

00:34:40.000 They're all captured.

00:34:41.000 They're all hypnotized.

00:34:42.000 But Republicans are supposed to be our best hope.

00:34:46.000 And Republicans have been funding, supporting, and backing this enthusiastically.

00:34:54.000 What does success look like?

00:34:55.000 Certainly not this.

00:34:59.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:01.000 Email me your thoughts as always.

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00:35:03.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:35:05.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - October 04, 2022

Republicans Race Toward Nuclear War

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