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00:02:37.000Now, do I think that the reflexive response should be to try to declare war on Russia and try to further the bond that Russia has with China?
00:02:51.000The second thing I know after watching like six hours of international television is I have more questions than answers.
00:02:59.000There's something that is not adding up about the coverage of this.
00:03:03.000Now, in war, there are a couple things that are instrumental towards victory.
00:03:09.000Having more people matters a lot, obviously.
00:03:12.000Technology, the will to fight, but of course, winning the information war.
00:03:18.000It's almost as if what we are seeing on television and the information we're consuming in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal is designed to confuse us.
00:03:26.000Now, a lot of you listening and watching right now, I guarantee, are equally as surprised.
00:03:30.000You probably have a lot of questions like, why are the Russians using tanks from the 1970s and 1980s?
00:03:36.000So there's only two explanations for that.
00:03:38.000Either Russia is sending their worst equipment to the front lines, or they're not as strong as they have pretended to be.
00:03:47.000I'm a little suspicious of that, considering how much money Russia has spent on their military, that this would be the best they have to offer.
00:04:13.000Zelensky was part of a Hollywood community in Ukraine.
00:04:18.000And we also know that some of these stories that a lot of people have been publicizing, such as the Ukrainian border patrol on Snake Island and many other stories that we've heard, such as the ghost over Kyiv, are getting debunked and, let's say, getting cross-examined in real time.
00:04:40.000Ukraine is winning the propaganda war.
00:04:44.000In fact, it seems as if Ukraine is more worried about the propaganda war than they are actually about the Kinetic War, which is rallying the world to its defense.
00:04:52.000And so this is something that I just can't quite understand: if Putin really wanted to take over Ukraine, which it seems that he does, why is he not sending his best equipment?
00:05:02.000And why is he allowing Ukraine to win over the hearts and minds of people in the West?
00:07:19.000And so either Putin has totally lost his mind and he's a psychopath, which I'm totally open to that argument, or there's another game at play that we're not seeing here.
00:07:29.000That Putin is playing three-dimensional chess and he has something up his sleeve that we don't see.
00:07:35.000I'm not as sympathetic to that argument, but let's play that out.
00:07:38.000Here's what we do know: that Russia and China have formed a international super alliance.
00:07:45.000That China refuses to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
00:07:51.000And it seems as if the United States intelligence community is perfectly fine with beating the drums of war and trying to solidify the Russian-Chinese alliance.
00:08:02.000And I'm by no means defending what Putin is doing in Ukraine.
00:13:46.000They displaced a democratically elected leader with a color revolution, basically orchestrated by the U.S. State Department.
00:13:52.000And they suppressed opposition media and dissenting ideas.
00:13:55.000And Zelensky was implemented as a result of that.
00:14:01.000No, they're fighting for their country.
00:14:02.000They're fighting for their history, for their people.
00:14:03.000And they also just hate the Russians because of everything that Stalin did to them back in the 1930s and 1940s.
00:14:13.000Now, there is this question of, and since there's so much uncertainty, why is Putin not using his best machinery and weaponry at this moment?
00:14:23.000Well, Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg says Putin is losing and it's incredible to watch.
00:14:27.000This is a new, let's say, narrative that has popped up that Putin is losing this war and he can't tolerate, he can't understand why this is so difficult.
00:16:56.000He sits on the Turning Point USA Advisory Board.
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00:17:05.000You know, when we had presidents in the past, they would not just find themselves at the center point of trying to resolve conflicts, but they understood that in the American standpoint, not intervening does not mean not caring or trying to broker peace.
00:17:26.000So back in 1905, there was a bloody and brutal war similar to the one we're seeing kind of, let's say, develop in Ukraine.
00:18:57.000He was part of the Roughneck Brigade in Cuba.
00:19:01.000So he traveled all the way around the world, sat them in a table together and said, sat them around a table together, said, We're going to figure this out.
00:19:13.000And so then Roosevelt stepped in to the proposal to buy back the northern part of the peninsula from Japanese control.
00:19:20.000The Russians were adamant that they would not pay him any amount of money, which would act as disguised indemnity when the territory ought to be theirs.
00:19:28.000After a long debate, Japan eventually agreed to take only the southern part of the island without any kind of payment.
00:19:36.000Teddy Roosevelt was so effective at developing the off-ramp of what was a brutal conflict, yes, involving Russia and then Japan, he won a Nobel Peace Prize.
00:19:49.000His mediation and personal pressure on the leadership in Moscow and Tokyo to the final agreement led to what was called one of the great accomplishments of peace in the early 1900s.
00:20:05.000Remember, Teddy Roosevelt had the famous expression, speak softly, but carry a big stick.
00:20:11.000And he was willing to do what was necessary to end the war.
00:20:14.000The question is, where is Joe Biden trying to end this war?
00:20:17.000He's putting more sanctions on Russia, which is probably warranted given the escalation of the conflict and Putin recklessly saying he's putting his nuclear forces on high alert, which again goes back to the binary choice.
00:20:32.000Either Putin is bluffing and has some sort of plan here that is, quite honestly, reprehensible, or he's completely lost his mind.
00:20:42.000He's either got some sort of strategy that we're not keyed in on, or he has really totally and mentally slipped.
00:20:50.000And some intelligence reports are showing that Putin is not the same post-COVID.
00:20:56.000Or the third option is that Putin is Xi Jinping's puppet, that this is a proxy war to try to get the West into another conflict while China takes over the world.
00:21:07.000So what does Joe Biden need to do right now?
00:21:11.000Joe Biden should be in Minsk right now, demanding that Zelensky and Putin come to the table, the same way Teddy Roosevelt demanded the Russians and the Japanese come to the table.
00:21:49.000Mr. Putin, we're going to guarantee that U.S. troops will not go into Ukraine.
00:21:56.000However, if you invade Ukraine again, there will be a heavier cost.
00:22:01.000Now, remember, Trump went a step further and he said, if you invade Ukraine, he said, I will bomb all those beautiful turrets in Moscow, those beautiful golden turrets in Moscow.
00:22:11.000Number two, Biden has to be very careful not to allow the dollar to stop being the international reserve currency.
00:22:19.000Forcing Russia out of the SWIFT system and going into the China-Russia type system to develop their own SWIFT will harm the United States on the world stage more than the Ukrainian situation.
00:22:32.000We need to make sure that the American dollar remains the world reserve currency.
00:22:41.000Number three, worldwide oil prices, the lower they are, benefit our allies and destroy Putin's fragile economy.
00:23:09.000On oil leases, what this actually justifies in President Biden's view is the fact that we need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, on oil in general, and we need to look at other ways of having energy in our country and others.
00:23:23.000One of the interesting things, George, we've seen over the last week or so is that a number of European countries are recognizing they need to reduce their own reliance on Russian oil.
00:23:33.000Oh, we need to reduce our reliance on foreign oil.
00:23:35.000Then why'd you abolish the Keystone XL pipeline?
00:23:38.000Why have you not expanded oil and natural gas development?
00:23:41.000Why do you continue the war on fossil fuels?
00:23:44.000You see, remember, we demonstrated the binary choice.
00:23:47.000You can either have environmental green energy policy or you can have a strong Putin.
00:23:52.000I mean, you have an environmental policy, which makes a strong Putin, or you can have cheap oil and abundant oil, which makes a weak Putin.
00:24:02.000Why are we still importing 600,000 barrels a day from Russia?
00:24:06.000If we really wanted to make Vladimir Putin suffer, if we really, this is what a president should do: fly to Minsk, look Putin in the eye and say, hey, we're buying 600,000 barrels of oil.
00:24:44.000You see, there's a lot of, let's say, progress that could be made outside of what some people on television are saying, we need to drop bombs on Russian targets.
00:24:59.000Strength comes through clear communication and diplomacy.
00:25:04.000Sanctions don't do much while we are propping up the Russian economy by importing 600,000 barrels of their oil every single day.
00:25:14.000Continue by saying that in the meeting that needs to be brokered, the off-ramp, the Teddy Roosevelt moment that won a Nobel Peace Prize, which it seems that our leaders went from Teddy Roosevelt wanting to broker peace to now our leaders want a broker war.
00:25:30.000It's an interesting development, isn't it?
00:25:49.000Cut seven, former Trump advisor Douglas McGregor says we need to stop demonizing Putin, lift all sanctions and stop providing weapons and aid.
00:27:45.000Now, while I think that our military intervention needs to be nothing in regards to the Russian-Ukrainian dispute, that does not mean we cannot put our own interests first while also pursuing an end to the war.
00:28:02.000Our leader, lack thereof, our president, could be developing an off-ramp to peace.
00:28:09.000Instead, it seems like he's doing the exact opposite.
00:28:11.000It seems like we're ratcheting up the need for war.
00:28:17.000Someone says, you know, do you agree with sending arms?
00:28:20.000Have we tried all the off-ramps to peace?
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00:30:13.000I just heard your last guess and I feel like I need to correct some of the things that Colonel Doug McGregor just said because, and I'm not sure 10 minutes is enough time to do so because there were so many distortions in what he just said and talking about the West and NATO vilifying Putin and sounding like an apologist for Putin.
00:30:31.000So those, what he just said was so distorted that I do feel that our audience needs to know the truth.
00:30:38.000Well, I don't know if the clip continues.
00:30:40.000I do want to know the distortions though, because Ukraine's not a democracy.
00:30:43.000It's super corrupt and has been for quite some time.
00:30:46.000So America could be leading, leading in de-escalation.
00:31:03.000World War I was awfully instructive in that, and so was World War II to some regard.
00:31:07.000Why is America not leading in the de-escalation of this?
00:31:10.000And that's not to say we shouldn't do sanctions.
00:31:11.000I think there's a fair argument for that.
00:31:13.000I think that if you invade another sovereign country, sanctions very well might be something that is a proper and appropriate response, especially after Putin lied about invading.
00:33:18.000I don't know what it is with Macron and Putin, but Putin tells Macron Ukraine neutrality and demilitarization is key to ending conflict.
00:33:28.000The question is, can we believe Putin that he will stop the invasion and stop the shelling of Ukraine if they get guarantees that there is no NATO membership?
00:33:54.000But right now, it's a critical time because we know that we not only fight for Ukraine, we fight for this new world order for the democratic countries.
00:34:04.000We knew that we are the shield for the Euro.
00:34:07.000Well, if that's what you're fighting for, you're not going to get my support.
00:34:10.000I feel sorry that your people are dying and the civilians are in the way.
00:34:13.000And I think we should do everything we possibly can to try to broker peace.
00:34:17.000But if what you're fighting for is a new world order, if what you're fighting for is the endorsement of George Soros, which they have received, and the World Economic Forum, which they have received, then I think we should stay neutral on this.
00:34:31.000If that's what they're fighting for, I'm not saying they deserve it.
00:34:34.000I think Putin is wrong and he is reckless in his regard of invading another country and putting civilians' lives in danger.
00:34:40.000But it certainly doesn't endear me to Ukraine the more you're saying you're fighting for the new world order.
00:34:47.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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