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00:02:13.000He is a well-respected author and columnist and an expert on international relations, as we are going to kind of just give an update on what's happening in Ukraine.
00:02:20.000We haven't even mentioned Ukraine for a couple weeks and nobody better than Lee Smith to help us unpack it.
00:02:26.000Lee, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:02:29.000Charlie, thank you very much for inviting me back.
00:02:32.000It's great to speak with you and thanks for asking me to speak about this important topic.
00:02:37.000Look, I mean, what I've written, what I've explained in the past is a lot of the noise that we've seen coming out of the war.
00:02:45.000I mean, these are two countries at war, Russia and Ukraine.
00:02:48.000So we can expect for there to be all sorts of propaganda and information warfare.
00:02:54.000What's peculiar about this, what's peculiar about this conflict is the amount of propaganda that's coming out of the United States, in particular that's coming out of Washington regarding this war.
00:03:08.000And as I've argued since the beginning of this conflict, what this indicates is information warfare is attached to real genuine operations.
00:03:20.000The information warfare that's being waged against the American people regarding the conflict in Russia and Ukraine is attached to genuine operations targeting the American public.
00:03:32.000In particular, your great audience may have seen yesterday a letter signed by former intelligence chiefs, including James Clapper, Michael Morell, Leon Panetta.
00:03:45.000And what they are asking for, what they are warning is that the disinformation coming out of Russia means that the intelligence community needs more control over big tech.
00:03:59.000And if you break up big tech, if you go after Google, if you go after Apple, if you go after large big tech corporations, you're going to be making American national security vulnerable.
00:04:13.000And they've been so helpful so far, these big tech corporations to us here running national security.
00:04:21.000What I'm getting at is that Vladimir Putin's invasion of Russia has served as cover. for the national security establishment to escalate its war against the American Republic.
00:06:25.000And there's been a lot of chatter about this.
00:06:27.000Do you think that the Russian military very well might have been overrated, overestimated?
00:06:33.000Just from a peer analysis, have you as an international affairs expert been underwhelmed by their ability to take land or have you actually been impressed?
00:06:44.000Because there's a lot of intrigue amongst the American people of, did we just get a window into how Russia really isn't as strong as they say they are or are they holding back?
00:06:54.000Well, look, I mean, the nature of the conflict has changed.
00:06:58.000And no, I don't think, again, talking about the way that this is described through Washington, right?
00:07:05.000You look at the papers, you look at the New York Times this morning, and they're talking again about Vladimir being crazy, Vladimir Putin being isolated, right?
00:07:15.000Vladimir Putin right now is supported by the People's Republic of China, right?
00:07:21.000This is the new bloc rising in East, that we're seeing rising in Eastern Europe with China, Russia, as well as Iran.
00:07:28.000Here's something else about this new bloc rising.
00:07:31.000And what I talk about, information being choked off by our own national security establishment, right?
00:07:36.000Joe Biden, the Biden administration is imposing sanctions on Vladimir Putin, Ukraine-related sanctions.
00:07:45.000At the same time, Vladimir Putin's foreign diplomats are negotiating with the Iranians on behalf of the Joe Biden White House to legalize Iran's nuclear weapons program.
00:08:02.000What that will do is it will flood Vladimir Putin's war chest with at least $10 billion, more than enough to offset the sanctions that Biden has imposed on Putin and his regime, right?
00:08:20.000The information that is coming out is not giving us a correct assessment of what's going on.
00:08:26.000So the idea that Vladimir Putin is crazy or the idea that Vladimir Putin is isolated is 100% nonsense.
00:08:33.000In fact, he's been legitimized by the Biden administration, which is using him and his diplomats to negotiate with Iran, right?
00:08:45.000So the idea that somehow Russian forces are much weaker than we had thought, I don't see right now any evidence that that's the case, unless people expected that this was going to happen, that he was going to overrun the entire country within a matter of weeks, and that in spite of all the support, in spite of all the ammunition, in spite of all the arms that Zelensky is getting from Western powers, somehow Putin would nonetheless be able to overrun Ukraine in a matter of, if not hours, in a matter of days.
00:09:15.000So no, I don't see any evidence right now that we've underestimated, underestimated the Russian military or Vladimir Putin's strategic thinking regarding what he wants in Ukraine.
00:09:29.000Yeah, so there's a, yeah, but do you think Russia is holding back in any way, shape, or form here?
00:09:35.000I mean, because you would imagine that, or did they think they'd be able to take over Ukraine quicker?
00:09:41.000I mean, look, we've heard from lots of people, you know, from solid analysts that, you know, Putin is trying to limit civilian casualties.
00:09:51.000Nonetheless, I think that there are reports coming out, many of them legitimate, that, of course, civilians are paying a heavy price, but this is war.
00:10:39.000Leading their push to limit disinformation.
00:10:42.000What that means is they're censoring information for fear it's Russian disinformation.
00:10:47.000For Americans, this is the story of our war.
00:10:51.000It's how our national security establishment and political officials are withholding information from us for us a free people to be able to make our own judgments and our own assessments of what's happening and how this may or may not touch on American interest and how they are using this as a platform to limit our ability to communicate with one another.
00:11:16.000That's the central story of the Ukraine war for Americans.
00:11:20.000And the evidence of that is how cloudy the entire thing is, why you can't get straight reports from the New York Times, from CNN, from NBC.
00:11:30.000So Lee, will you agree with me that this is more murky than it is clear?
00:11:35.000And I know that you're saying that the government, our government's involved, I totally agree.
00:11:38.000But even outside of it, if you read the foreign press, it's hard to really get an idea of what's happening on the ground, like who's quote unquote winning.
00:12:27.000I'm sure you saw that a couple of Russian tennis players will not be allowed to play at Wimbledon this year, right?
00:12:34.000So everyone who is a Russian national has to bear the burden, unless, of course, they denounce Vladimir Putin, which is preposterous, especially given the number of family members that all of the musicians or ballet dancers or athletes will have back home, regardless of how they actually feel about Vladimir Putin.
00:12:56.000So there are a number of different currents that are intersecting in this war in Ukraine.
00:13:02.000And that's one of the reasons why this is so very difficult to understand.
00:13:07.000And the Europeans are doing the same thing as the United States.
00:13:12.000Remember, let's go back to Russia game, right?
00:13:15.000And the flow of information we had on Russia.
00:13:18.000And then we go back to Don, the first impeachment of Donald Trump and the information we had on Ukraine.
00:13:23.000These are political interests that are intersecting and they are polluting the information ecosystem.
00:13:30.000And this is what we're seeing all around the world.
00:13:32.000And the United Kingdom has an even worse problem with Russia, right?
00:13:37.000The amount of Russian money that comes into London and all of the foreign money that basically props up London and the number of Russian oligarchs that use Russia, or rather, that use London to fight each other.
00:13:49.000So what do we think the information ecosystem is going to be like coming out of the British press?
00:13:54.000It's going to be even worse than the way it looks in the United States.
00:13:58.000But of course, remember, the foundation is that this is war, right?
00:14:03.000And in war, both sides are going to be using information warfare and they're going to be trying to shape a number of different realities.
00:14:10.000The first reality they need to shape is the home front, right?
00:14:16.000They have to keep up morale and they're looking to target the morale of the other side, right?
00:14:21.000So these are important goals in information warfare.
00:14:25.000And that's what we're seeing play out right now.
00:14:28.000What should be the role of the United States?
00:14:30.000The role of the United States is the role of American policymakers and the role of the press should be try to explain as clearly as possible what is happening, right?
00:15:03.000And if there is an American interest at stake, but we're not seeing anything like that.
00:15:08.000Again, what we're seeing is American policymakers, American press, American political activists are using the war in Ukraine to further strengthen their control over America's information ecosystem.
00:15:26.000And again, that's the story of America's, what America's story is of the war in Ukraine.
00:15:52.000330 days on the road I spent last year.
00:15:55.000But if you're not careful, the stress can start to take a toll on your body, raising your blood pressure, making it harder to sleep, draining you of vital energy, and making you more irritable.
00:16:03.000That's why I recommend you supplement with magnesium daily.
00:16:06.000About 75% of people are magnesium deficient.
00:16:09.000That number might be higher among business owners and C-level professionals.
00:16:13.000That's because stress depletes magnesium levels.
00:16:15.000This can trigger a various cycle of rising stress and severe magnesium deficiency.
00:16:20.000This deficiency can lead to higher levels of anxiety, irritability, trouble sleeping, and low energy.
00:16:25.000It can even contribute to foot and leg cramps while you sleep.
00:16:28.000Now, you might be wondering, does magnesium really affect all these things?
00:16:32.000In fact, magnesium is involved in more than 300 chemical processes inside your body.
00:16:37.000So a lot of different things can start to go wrong if you're deficient.
00:16:39.000The good news is you can experience a number of positive health benefits just by getting enough magnesium, including better sleep, more energy, healthy blood pressure, less irritability, a calmer mood, stronger bones, reduced muscle cramping, and even a few migraines.
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00:16:54.000Truth is, most magnesium supplements you find in health stores use the only two cheapest synthetic forms.
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00:17:54.000There's a very real risk that soaring global market prices of food and fertilizer will result in more people going hungry, further exacerbate inflation, and harm government fiscal and external positions.
00:18:17.000You know, we have multiple different things that are happening right now, whether it be on the inflation front, the open border front, our ability to just be able to produce basic food.
00:18:33.000The global finance meeting focuses on war-driven food insecurity.
00:18:39.000Global finance leaders are putting the growing crisis over food insecurity and skyrocketing food prices at Senate stage.
00:18:46.000Members of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meet in Washington and grapple with the brutal effects of Russia's war against Ukraine.
00:18:53.000Now, before Russia ever invaded Ukraine, we were warning about food shortages here on this program.
00:19:00.000We were saying that because of China restricting the importation of yellow phosphorus into America, that food shortages very well might be coming very soon.
00:19:11.000That there will be a fertilizer issue when it comes into our country.
00:19:17.000And we're starting to see that play out right now.
00:19:23.000But it does show that if you are not, and this is one of the reasons why we partner with my Patriot Supply at preparewithkirk.com, if you're not able to feed your family in times of crisis, then you're only going to succumb to the supply chains that are going to be highly disrupted.
00:19:41.000I want to just praise Ron DeSantis further.
00:19:43.000The fact that he is pushing back against Disney is totally and completely remarkable.
00:19:48.000Disney, which receives a $600 million tax benefit from the state of Florida, has now come out and they're obviously opposing what DeSantis is doing.
00:20:01.000This will cost Disney about $200 million a year, where Disney is now going to be punished for their hyper-woke educational agenda towards children.
00:20:17.000Now, the Florida Senate passed this yesterday, a $200 million penalty, but it's not even a penalty.
00:20:26.000Instead, it's a $200 million restoration is really what it is.
00:21:14.000Now, as we look at what's happening in our country right now, I think it's important to take a step back and ask about some of the other trends and how they're all playing together.
00:21:24.000Are we still living under a regime of fear, or is there now a restoration of individual spirit of liberty, of entrepreneurship, and trying to be forward-thinking in a more positive sense?
00:21:40.000I can tell you right now, especially from some of the reactions to the repealing of the mask mandates, that there's a remarkable, there's a huge group of people right now that are ready to push back against what we have seen as the overarching, overbearing, heavy hand of government.
00:22:03.000You have James Carville, though, who's supposed to be a smart person, saying a majority of Republicans are weirdos in the Twilight Zone.
00:22:10.000Democrat strategist James Carville said on MSNBC that, quote, of course, this party, about a third of them, are pulling for Russia, which is just insane.
00:22:19.000Yes, he wants people that will be compliant to his worldview, which is tax cut for the richest people in the world and tax the poor people, which isn't a very smart idea.
00:22:28.000But the problem is that they're a weird political party, says James Carville, who could be mistaken for an extraterrestrial alien.
00:23:43.000Experts say that the defund police movement led to a massive spike in black murders.
00:23:49.000The immediate aftermath of George Floyd, and you can go back to our videos and our podcasting.
00:23:54.000We predicted this entire thing on our program, that there would be a significant and brutal spike in black murders and black-on-black violence, otherwise known as what is the Ferguson effect that Heather McDonald came in our program and talked about.
00:24:09.000We should have Heather McDonald back on our show.
00:24:12.000According to Fox News, in 2019, at least 7,484 black Americans were murdered.
00:24:17.000The number shot up to at least 9,941 in 2020, meaning there was an increase of 2,400 more black people murdered over the previous year.
00:24:27.000The number of black murders was also far higher than white murders in 2020.
00:24:32.000The Federal Bureau of Investigation shows that 7,000 white people were murdered that year, meaning 2,898 more black people were killed compared to whites.
00:24:44.000Between 2010 and 2019, there was an average of 5,594 white murders, which is roughly 16% lower than the 10-year average of black murders.
00:24:54.000During that same time period, an average of 6,927 black Americans were murdered each year, meaning black murders shot up by 43% in 2020 compared to the previous 10-year average.
00:25:06.000The St. Louis police chief, Sam Dotson, coined the increase, the Ferguson effect, in November 2014, and the theory gained widespread attention in 2016, according to the PJ Media.
00:25:16.000After the Manhattan Institute, Heather McDonald wrote the opinion, where the Black Lives Matter narrative about racist homicidal cops is produced, hostility in the streets.
00:25:24.000So the more BLM gets taken seriously in their national real estate hedge fund practices, the more dangerous black communities actually become.
00:25:38.000Now, of course, BLM is silent now when they're confronted with data showing a massive 2020 spike in black murder victims.
00:25:46.000Black Lives Matter organization did not respond to Fox News' digital request.
00:25:51.000Now, BLM is under massive scrutiny right now for nonprofit fraud.
00:25:57.000I could tell you, as someone who runs a nonprofit, they are, it's not even a political issue.
00:26:01.000The fact they don't want to fill out 990s and very basic information, like, where's your headquarters?
00:26:06.000They bought a multi-million dollar mansion, BLM did, in Los Angeles, which is supposed to be a black space for creators, a safe space for black creators.
00:26:23.000We've known this for a while, yet white woke liberals, including white woke pastors, which we've called out time and time again, people like Andy Stanley, people like Rick Warren, people like that guy in Dallas, used to be super popular.
00:26:50.000I really don't think they are, but okay, whatever.
00:26:52.000They were all quick to be the white savior liberals for the black community, yet they have now participated in more black people actually being dead.
00:27:03.000We knew this was going to be the case.
00:27:04.000If you actually want to save black people's lives, more police, harsher sentences for criminals, school choice for black kids, and cleaning up the streets of crime and drugs.
00:27:38.000BLM was about getting rich, buying mansions, taking care of their own, having their own very corrupt left-wing infrastructure, try to get out the vote for Joe Biden.
00:27:47.000And the people that pulled it off, Patrice Colors and all these people, they're getting away with it, obviously.
00:30:15.000But I have to say, this guy that wrote this article here, Carter Walker from the Lancaster Online, says here, quote, Nicole Hannah Jones, comma, Charlie Kirk, visiting Lancaster this week to present differing visions of America.
00:30:38.000She is the author and the chairwoman of the dishonest, anti-historical, ahistorical 1619 project.
00:30:47.000The New York Times Pulitzer prize-winning 1619 project, right, of course, sure, which traced economic and political inequality in the current era to the arrival of enslaved Africans in Virginia 400 years ago.
00:31:00.000Now, the 1619 project does not use original source documents.
00:31:03.000The 1619 project has been widely criticized by historians of all different political backgrounds, but still the 1619 project gets taken seriously because in order to frame the revolution that is necessary now, they must try to disconnect people with their past.
00:31:19.000Now, mind you, they said Charlie has made his name as a provocateur, encouraging college students to report, look, whatever.
00:31:45.000Nicole Hanna-Jones believes the American founders were racist because Nicole Hanna-Jones will never debate me about why it is that Thomas Jefferson actually led for the abolition of slavery as governor of Virginia in the 1790s.
00:31:58.000Why is it that Thomas Jefferson actually banned the importation of new slaves as one of his first acts as president, I believe in March of 1807?
00:32:06.000Why is it the first anti-slavery convention ever convened was in 1775, which was chaired by Benjamin Franklin, which was an abolition slavery convention?
00:32:15.000Why is that Virginia, I'm sorry, Vermont abolished slavery in the year 1776, inspired by the Declaration of Independence, 1777, 76, right on the cusp.
00:32:25.000Why is it that nine out of 13 of the colonies of the United States had abolished slavery leading into the Constitutional Convention?
00:32:32.000Nicole Hannah Jones, tell me about the Northwest Ordinance.
00:32:34.000What does Article 6 say of the Northwest Ordinance?
00:32:37.000Why is it that every single colony agreed that the new territory, therefore being a projection of the values shared by the nation, would be free territories?
00:32:45.000If the American nation was a slave nation at the founding, like the dishonest lying hack propagandist Nicole Hannah Jones claims, why is it that every single member of the American Continental Congress, every state, voted that in the new Northwest territories, every single one would be free territories?
00:33:05.000Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, and Minnesota.
00:33:08.000Why is that a Northwest Ordinance demand that people would be free?
00:33:13.000Why is it that John Quincy Adams was such a believer in the abolition of slavery that after his one term as president of the United States, went and re-ran for president of the United States, the son of John Adams, and became a vocal abolitionist and even contested for the liberation of slaves in what is known as the Amistad slavery ship story?
00:33:36.000She won't answer any of those questions.
00:33:38.000She uses secondary source documents that have been invalidated by historians because Nicole Hanna-Jones is necessary for a political revolution today.
00:33:45.000If you can get people to feel ashamed of their past and unclear about where they're from, they'll be more likely to burn what they currently are living through.