The Charlie Kirk Show - February 14, 2023


Trains are Derailing in Ohio and Pete Buttigieg Doesn’t Care


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Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk talks about a train derailment that's polluting the air in an area of the country that Democrats have little to no concern about, and why it's happening in a place that's usually a Democratic stronghold.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today at Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:01.000 What is going on in Ohio and what does it mean for you?
00:00:05.000 It's wokeism and identity politics against white people gone in the worst possible direction.
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00:01:08.000 There is a massive issue happening in eastern Ohio.
00:01:13.000 Is it a modern-day Chernobyl?
00:01:15.000 Maybe.
00:01:16.000 There's a train derailment.
00:01:18.000 Deadly chemicals are flowing into the air uninterrupted.
00:01:23.000 We mentioned yesterday that the type of chemicals that are going into the air, it would be against the Geneva Convention on Chemical Weapons after World War I for this to be deployed on a citizenry.
00:01:34.000 Yet the leaders are saying repeatedly, it's perfectly safe.
00:01:36.000 It's perfectly fine.
00:01:38.000 Go back to school.
00:01:39.000 Go back there.
00:01:40.000 If Joe Biden actually believed that, if Pete Boot Edge Edge actually believed that, I would love both of them to go for a couple hours, go get a sandwich without a mask on, and show us how safe it actually is.
00:01:56.000 Will a single member of the Biden cabinet visit Ohio and breathe in the air themselves?
00:02:06.000 Do they actually believe that this air is safe to breathe?
00:02:10.000 Now it's fascinating to me.
00:02:12.000 Typically, these stories are covered by the left and the media.
00:02:21.000 The BP oil spill, the Flint water crisis.
00:02:26.000 Typically, when there is a mismanagement by politicians and people's air is polluted or their water is infected, it is a non-stop media push and narrative campaign.
00:02:44.000 Why is this different?
00:02:45.000 Why is this only getting a couple mentions?
00:02:48.000 Meanwhile, citizens are being told to return home.
00:02:51.000 Everything is just fine.
00:02:54.000 We know that everything is just not as far from fine, but there's a deeper reason that this is happening.
00:03:01.000 You see, this train derailment that is now emitting incredibly deadly chemicals to the air is happening in a region of the country that Democrats have very little to no concern about.
00:03:17.000 You see, if you know anything about Ohio, Ohio is a great place.
00:03:22.000 I've visited there many times.
00:03:25.000 And this is happening in East Palestine.
00:03:29.000 They might pronounce it differently.
00:03:31.000 Ohio.
00:03:31.000 It's right near a place I know very well where a friend of mine who was one of the biggest supporters of Turning Point USA was from Hubbard, Ohio.
00:03:38.000 I actually visited there for his funeral, Tom Patrick.
00:03:42.000 This area, right near Youngstown, Ohio, Palestine, Ohio.
00:03:47.000 Thank you.
00:03:48.000 East Palestine, Ohio, got it.
00:03:52.000 This area is right near or in, we could fact check it, Mohonig County.
00:03:58.000 This traditionally was one of the Democrat strongholds in the great state of Ohio.
00:04:04.000 Republicans did not hold any sort of political power until a certain candidate came along and changed everything.
00:04:16.000 Neoliberalism destroyed eastern Ohio.
00:04:20.000 When you drive through eastern Ohio, right near Youngstown, and you drive through New Springfield, and you drive through New Middleton, and you drive through Hubbard, and you drive through these cities, they are museums.
00:04:38.000 Every single one of these small towns is filled with great patriots, and they have a couple things in common.
00:04:45.000 They have a bar.
00:04:48.000 They have a post office.
00:04:51.000 They have a dollar store.
00:04:53.000 They have fast food restaurants.
00:04:56.000 And they have a drugstore.
00:04:59.000 Now, of course, there are some small businesses that have managed to survive.
00:05:03.000 But largely, this infrastructure, this robust, middle-class, muscular class town has been forgotten because people like Mitt Romney, working for Bain Capital, came in and said to the people that assembled the refrigerators, your dry cleaners, not your dry cleaners, your laundry machines,
00:05:32.000 the people that actually did the tough work that built America, people like Mitt Romney came in and said, we're going to send those jobs to China in a relocation strategy.
00:05:45.000 Donald Trump came along in 2016 and changed the game.
00:05:48.000 He said, this is not right.
00:05:49.000 We're going to apply tariffs.
00:05:51.000 We're going to make America great again.
00:05:52.000 And for forgotten America that actually built the country, this was a welcome message. 0.64
00:06:01.000 Mahona County, that used to be the most Democrat county, flipped and it made Democrats angry.
00:06:07.000 White working class voters, being the most loyal Democrat constituent outside of black voters, became the base of the Republican Party.
00:06:18.000 Ohio is no longer a battleground state.
00:06:21.000 Donald Trump won it by eight points or 10 points in 2020.
00:06:25.000 Probably, I think he won it by four or five points in 2016.
00:06:31.000 And so Democrats are seeing this train derailment.
00:06:34.000 And Pete Butadjej is doing press conferences about how rail workers are too white.
00:06:41.000 No exaggeration.
00:06:42.000 That was his comment the other day.
00:06:45.000 Pete Buttajej is talking about how rail workers are the wrong skin color.
00:06:51.000 Meanwhile, weapon-grade chemicals are going into the air, but they're going into the air of a constituency that Democrats don't care for.
00:07:03.000 I want you to watch this piece of tape and listen to it.
00:07:06.000 This is the great Jesse Waters speaking to Nathan Velez, a resident of where this explosion has happened.
00:07:14.000 I want you to look at him.
00:07:15.000 Look at how he talks.
00:07:16.000 He kind of embodies the archetype of what Hillary Clinton called the deplorables, or Peter Strzok-Strook-Smirk called the smelly Walmart people.
00:07:28.000 These people are not useful to the Democrats, and it's showing play cut 33.
00:07:36.000 As far as the smell, that's definitely present.
00:07:39.000 I came today where we are right now at my shop.
00:07:42.000 This is the first time I've been here in a week, and I was here five minutes, and I had a head.
00:07:47.000 I have a headache right now, and you can smell it.
00:07:50.000 Anyone who comes here who hasn't been here can smell it.
00:07:52.000 Your cameraman smelled it.
00:07:54.000 And then my house is just across the track.
00:07:56.000 Tracks are right behind me on the other side of that wall.
00:07:59.000 There's a crick, then the then the train.
00:08:01.000 And my house is on the other side of that, and it smells too. 0.98
00:08:04.000 And you can't spend a lot of time here without feeling like crap. 0.87
00:08:07.000 And my question is: why if it's okay, if it's safe, and all these people say it's safe, if it's so safe and okay, then why does it hurt? 0.97
00:08:17.000 Why does it hurt?
00:08:18.000 Not a single member of the Biden regime would dare to go to this portion of Ohio and breathe in the air because they know it's dangerous.
00:08:28.000 They know that it is actively poisoning the citizens of eastern Ohio.
00:08:36.000 So why is it that they kind of shrug their shoulders and they say, ah, yeah, okay, whatever.
00:08:42.000 It's very simple. 0.92
00:08:42.000 It's because the war on white people continues. 0.92
00:08:46.000 Why would you care for the white working class voters in eastern Ohio?
00:08:51.000 You haven't cared about them in other reasons or other portions.
00:08:54.000 And I will prove it to you.
00:08:56.000 If this train derailment happened in downtown Atlanta in the densely populated black neighborhoods, this would be the number one news story.
00:09:08.000 It would be Flintwater Crisis 2.0.
00:09:10.000 There would be clamoring and activism and talks for reparations. 0.69
00:09:16.000 And Buddha Judge, meanwhile, is out there saying, listen, while this derailment is happening, while the act of poisoning is happening, he's saying, look, the problem is that workers are too white. 0.76
00:09:30.000 Play cut 42.
00:09:33.000 We have heard way too many stories from generations past of infrastructure where you got a neighborhood, often a neighborhood of color that finally sees the project come to them, but everyone in the hard hats on that project looking like, you know, doing the good paying jobs, don't look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood.
00:09:50.000 You can build community wealth that will help close wealth gaps in this country if we can tear down those barriers.
00:09:58.000 But that happens at the delivery level.
00:10:02.000 So Buddha Judge is out talking about how workers are too white.
00:10:09.000 For the last couple of years, I have been warning about this crusade against white people and people shrug their shoulders, say, Oh, Charlie, why does that matter?
00:10:17.000 I could tell you why it matters.
00:10:19.000 When there's a crisis now and the leaders hate working class whites, they're not going to scramble to save your life.
00:10:26.000 They'll lie to you and tell you to go back home while you're poisoned.
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00:13:10.000 This is a concerning new update for residents living in the East Palestine area.
00:13:14.000 This morning, we are learning that more chemicals, not just minyl chloride, were on the Norfolk train that derailed over a week ago in Ohio.
00:13:23.000 New this morning, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter to Norfolk Southern stating these three other chemicals were also aboard in some of those rail cars that caught fire.
00:13:33.000 We spoke to a hazardous material specialist who says that some of these chemicals are carcinogen.
00:13:38.000 And this video here, News Nation acquired of dead fish in cloudy water.
00:13:42.000 Residents say they've also seen sick animals and their homes in town are still covered in debris.
00:13:49.000 You know, it's interesting for a government that tends to make everything an emergency.
00:13:54.000 COVID is an emergency.
00:13:56.000 Ukraine is an emergency. 0.96
00:13:58.000 They can't seem to scramble into a posture of urgency when working-class white people start to breathe carcinogens and potentially deadly toxins. 0.98
00:14:08.000 That they won't be bothered with.
00:14:10.000 They love emergencies for emergency use authorization, for mRNA.
00:14:16.000 Let me make sure I'm precise in my language here.
00:14:20.000 If we are understanding this Ohio situation correctly, this train derailment and the toxins that are being put into the air is likely more dangerous than the Chinese coronavirus to the citizens of eastern Ohio.
00:14:40.000 What you're seeing, though, is what those of us that have been very focused on the culture war, I put that in quotes because the media loves to attack us and pastors love to attack me for saying, Charlie, you're wasting your time on the culture war.
00:14:56.000 Wasting your time.
00:14:57.000 You see, when I say that we need to win the culture war or that there are dangerous and poisonous and toxic, no pun intended, ideas that are spreading, this example is a tragically perfect one.
00:15:15.000 Let me give you two reasons why.
00:15:18.000 When you start to build an entire cultural narrative about hating white people and you make it normal and acceptable to hate white people and whiteness in general, which was platformed by Coca-Cola to major universities to professors to Nicole Hanna-Jones, then don't be surprised when those ideas all of a sudden manifest in the inaction of your government.
00:15:46.000 Let me say this again. 0.95
00:15:48.000 If there was a train derailment in downtown San Francisco, people would scramble with urgency because all of these LGBTQ gay people might be breathing in carcinogens. 1.00
00:16:03.000 If there was a train derailment full of chemicals in downtown Atlanta or in the south side of Chicago or in Philadelphia, there would be mass mobilization efforts to try to help those people because they'd say, well, this is just another example of racism.
00:16:20.000 But it is the deplorable folks, the ones that look like the way I do, that somehow just kind of get glossed over.
00:16:28.000 That's number one.
00:16:28.000 Number two, we have a transportation secretary who says yesterday in his comments, look, what we need is to have people that are less white working on construction deals, which is essentially what he said.
00:16:41.000 Why is Budigej in his position?
00:16:43.000 We've made this argument before.
00:16:45.000 It's worth repeating. 0.99
00:16:46.000 You have an incompetent, ideologically driven automaton who basically is chat GPT as a transportation secretary, who also happens to be gay. 0.98
00:17:01.000 And that's the reason he's in the position that he's in. 0.97
00:17:05.000 Pete Buttigej was not chosen because of his intellect, because of his experience, because of his wisdom, because of his virtue, because of his prudence.
00:17:15.000 Pete Buttigej was chosen because of his personal lifestyle choices.
00:17:24.000 And we receive a lot of emails here, freedomatcharliekirk.com.
00:17:31.000 And we get a lot of hate emails.
00:17:33.000 And one person who emails us constantly and hates our show, this is interesting though, it's a real person, says, quote, need a lot of swear words. 0.99
00:17:43.000 It's about time you white guys get to breathe in chemicals like the blacks living in red-lined areas. 1.00
00:17:48.000 Now it's time for revenge, Crimea River, and all this other stuff. 0.97
00:17:53.000 Now, I'm sure that's not held by every single Democrat, but it's certainly illuminating. 0.99
00:17:59.000 We have a couple emails that are saying that, saying it's about time that white people experience the toxins and the poison that black people have experienced. 0.93
00:18:07.000 What example he's talking about, I'm not exactly sure. 0.98
00:18:13.000 Douglas Murray talked about this in his book, War on the West. 0.85
00:18:19.000 But our government, our institutions, and our colleges, it is in vogue to hate the white man.
00:18:31.000 And that's why the working class whites of eastern Ohio are now being told to fend for themselves.
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00:19:40.000 Okay, let's talk about Ukraine.
00:19:42.000 Right now, there's a series of meetings happening, really brokered by NATO.
00:19:47.000 NATO is holding a meeting right now to discuss the alliance's strategy in the midst of the Ukraine war.
00:19:53.000 One of the themes of this meeting is that thanks to the war in Ukraine, our own readiness is now rapidly falling.
00:20:00.000 Ukraine is firing 10,000 artillery shells a day, and we're supplying almost all of them.
00:20:06.000 Our stockpiles are now currently running low.
00:20:08.000 It will take years to refill them.
00:20:10.000 So we spend a trillion dollars a year on our own military.
00:20:13.000 We are now sending $100 billion to Ukraine, which is two North Dakotas, the entire GDP of North Dakota.
00:20:21.000 And why are we doing this?
00:20:22.000 Is anybody in our government trying to negotiate peace, trying to get to a place of a settlement?
00:20:26.000 Are we trying to de-escalate the tensions?
00:20:29.000 And despite that, signs are showing that the war is about to go in a very bad direction.
00:20:39.000 So let me tell you what's about to happen.
00:20:41.000 The one-year anniversary of Putin immorally invading Ukraine, and we've been very clear on the moral terms here, a strong country should not invade a weak country just because they want it, is coming up.
00:20:53.000 That one-year anniversary is coming up.
00:20:55.000 There is a window in time when the harsh winter will moderately thaw before the mud season kicks in.
00:21:06.000 Putin is likely going to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops.
00:21:12.000 Remember, last fall, Putin very quietly announced the mobilization of 300,000 fresh troops for the Russian military.
00:21:21.000 But he hasn't yet moved them to the front lines.
00:21:23.000 And so for the past couple months, these troops have been undergoing preparation and training, and it seems like they're about to be sent into battle.
00:21:34.000 This pains me to say, but tens of thousands and probably over 100,000 people are needlessly about to die because of the American government's lack of interest to try to broker a peace settlement.
00:21:51.000 A bloodbath awaits us.
00:21:54.000 Now, Vladimir Putin is about to really push the envelope.
00:21:58.000 He's about to go as hard as one can possibly go.
00:22:04.000 And a lot of the restraint that we may or may not have seen, you talk to defenders of Ukraine, they say Russia's been bombing hospitals.
00:22:12.000 You talk to people in the middle, they say that's overexaggerated.
00:22:14.000 I don't know.
00:22:15.000 But I do know this.
00:22:16.000 Russia did show restraint after we likely bombed their pipeline to not retaliate against us.
00:22:21.000 But Putin is running low on patients and is certainly seeing a window of opportunity.
00:22:31.000 This window is going to present itself in late February to mid-March.
00:22:37.000 The international community is going to portray him as the worst war criminal ever.
00:22:42.000 And a lot of people are going to die.
00:22:44.000 Our government could stop this.
00:22:47.000 It's laughed to say it.
00:22:48.000 If Joe Biden, right, yeah, if Joe Biden would do this.
00:22:51.000 If anybody in the American government would fly to Minsk and facilitate a meeting between Putin and Zelensky to say the eastern part of Ukraine can go to Russia and we're going to stop a bloodbath.
00:23:03.000 A bloodbath is imminent.
00:23:04.000 You heard it here on this program.
00:23:06.000 I hate to say it, but our prediction is likely going to be right.
00:23:09.000 And no one in the media has the courage to say it out loud, that this is about to be a slaughter.
00:23:16.000 Russia is aiming to hit the same window that they did last year.
00:23:20.000 It's very hard to launch an offensive in the dead of winter, but it's almost impossible to do it in early spring because Ukraine just turns into a massive pile of mud. 0.93
00:23:29.000 So there is this five to six week window, which is why Putin called up those hundreds of thousands of troops in the fall.
00:23:35.000 He's been preparing them all winter, and he's going to go after it.
00:23:39.000 So NATO knows this.
00:23:40.000 This is not a major secret.
00:23:42.000 The media is not saying this to try to continue to have the American people on board for support of an effort that is about to turn.
00:23:54.000 And so NATO is, look, in the private meetings, they're probably saying right now about how much more support they need to send there.
00:24:02.000 But look, this is General Milley admitting, remember, Mr. White Rage, that Russia does indeed have the numbers.
00:24:12.000 Play cut 38.
00:24:15.000 They are attacking in the Donbass right now.
00:24:17.000 Their progress is slow.
00:24:18.000 It's a war of attrition.
00:24:19.000 They're taking heavy casualties.
00:24:21.000 Their leadership and morale is not great.
00:24:24.000 And they're struggling mightily.
00:24:25.000 However, they do have numbers.
00:24:28.000 And as you know, President Putin did a call-up of several hundred thousand, and those folks have been arriving on the battlefield.
00:24:36.000 So they do have numbers.
00:24:38.000 And whether or not they're successful in oppressing the fight, that remains to be seen.
00:24:43.000 But that fight has been going on.
00:24:46.000 He's talking like this is our proxy war, because it has become our proxy war.
00:24:54.000 We're heavily involved from armaments to training.
00:24:59.000 And I do not have evidence that we have active military troops on the ground, but you've got to wonder if you can trust the government here.
00:25:11.000 So what I'm trying to say right now is this war is about to get even messier than anything we have seen.
00:25:22.000 What basically we have seen is the beginning stages of what is about to become a deadlier and bloodier war.
00:25:30.000 Russia has about four times the people as Ukraine.
00:25:34.000 They have people to spare.
00:25:35.000 Ukraine does not. 0.89
00:25:37.000 If you know anything about Russian military history, a war of attrition almost always favors the Russians.
00:25:43.000 Just send more human beings.
00:25:45.000 Overwhelm them.
00:25:49.000 Russia loses battle after battle, but they do win wars.
00:25:55.000 Let's go to cut 40, MSNBC saying the Secretary of NATO said Russia is preparing for the next effort.
00:26:04.000 Play cut 40.
00:26:06.000 We already heard from Jan Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of NATO, saying that the Russians are preparing for this next offensive.
00:26:13.000 It may even be starting.
00:26:14.000 They may be in the sort of the shaping operations phase of it.
00:26:17.000 Once that begins, Ukraine needs to hold their defensive lines.
00:26:20.000 They need tanks.
00:26:21.000 So think of it as a tank provides them with protection from incoming fire, but it also allows them to pack a punch to fire back on the Russians during this offensive. 0.71
00:26:32.000 So that's a critical capability.
00:26:35.000 We're about to see a bloodbath in a very scary situation for the West.
00:26:46.000 Cut 41, NATO says Putin is not preparing for peace.
00:26:50.000 He's launching a new offensive.
00:26:52.000 And the training of Russians is not at the same level as Ukrainian forces.
00:26:57.000 Play Cut 41.
00:26:58.000 Almost one year since the invasion, President Putin is not preparing for peace.
00:27:03.000 He's launching new offensives.
00:27:06.000 So we must continue to provide Ukraine with what it needs to win.
00:27:10.000 What Russia lacks in quality, they try to compensate in quantity. 0.96
00:27:17.000 The training doesn't have the same level as the Ukrainian forces, but they have more forces.
00:27:25.000 And the Russians are willing to send in those forces and take a high number of casualties.
00:27:33.000 So this is becoming a rather tragic story because hundreds, tens of thousands of people are going to die in the next couple of weeks.
00:27:42.000 But this involves America and this involves the West.
00:27:45.000 Remember, we are part of NATO.
00:27:48.000 The Secretary General of NATO says, he's got to be careful in his language here, obviously.
00:27:53.000 He says NATO is not part of the conflict, despite the fact that NATO partners supply advanced weapons systems to Ukraine.
00:28:02.000 That's the Secretary General of NATO.
00:28:06.000 It does beg the question: what is the West going to do?
00:28:13.000 What is America going to do when Russia, I'm going to use some chess terminology, starts to mobilize their queen? 0.65
00:28:24.000 What are we willing to lose?
00:28:27.000 Russia is showing how much they're willing to sacrifice to win here.
00:28:31.000 How much are we willing to sacrifice?
00:28:34.000 A country that is much further away from us, of no importance, except maybe some abstract philosophical argument.
00:28:42.000 Are we willing to go all out here if this spirals out of control?
00:28:47.000 What I am trying to warn you about today is, and NATO is agreeing with me, and the troop repositioning of Putin certainly reinforces the argument.
00:28:57.000 And the sources in the government that I've talked to in the Department of Defense and in the intel agencies that have told me, Charlie, this is about to be a bloodbath.
00:29:04.000 You got to tell your audience that this is about to go sour.
00:29:08.000 What is our government going to do if Putin successfully pushes back the line 100 miles, 200 miles west?
00:29:18.000 What are we going to do?
00:29:19.000 The answer is we should immediately intervene and broker a ceasefire.
00:29:26.000 Our government does not want that.
00:29:27.000 That would be bad for profits for Raytheon, Lockheed, Martin, Northrop Grumman.
00:29:31.000 That would be bad for the warmongering politicians.
00:29:35.000 Are we sleepwalking into an irreversible situation that could be best described as the precursor to World War III?
00:29:45.000 We are trying to warn you and the American leadership.
00:29:50.000 This is about to go in a very troubling direction.
00:29:53.000 You have not seen anything yet.
00:29:55.000 Putin is about to put it all on the line with anywhere between 300,000 to 500,000 troops as his opening salvo.
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00:31:22.000 So if our nation, if our government was interested in the best solution for our own country, America, and also for the West, and even, yes, the people of Ukraine who are the real victims here, we would be having active efforts for peace talks in any way, shape, or form, just to keep talking, to try to keep negotiating.
00:31:46.000 And who has been the one facilitating all of this?
00:31:51.000 Look.
00:31:52.000 I'm not a fan of Vladimir Putin, but you must understand him.
00:31:55.000 If you send the metrosexual Emmanuel Macron to try to negotiate peace, Putin's not going to take that seriously.
00:32:05.000 Putin is a very old school.
00:32:07.000 He thinks in the 1400s.
00:32:08.000 That's not a good thing.
00:32:09.000 It's the way he thinks.
00:32:11.000 It's one of the reasons why he respected Trump.
00:32:14.000 Trump being alpha male leader of the West, willing to use force, Putin said, boy, I just, I don't know about this one.
00:32:22.000 Not exactly something I want to deal with.
00:32:25.000 Trump said, I will walk over there.
00:32:27.000 He said, if you walk over the line, I will come and I'll bomb the Kremlin. 0.97
00:32:31.000 And Putin, and the entire time of Trump, Putin thought to himself, is this guy crazy enough to do that?
00:32:43.000 We are heavily involved in this proxy war, and there is some clamoring for a War Powers Act resolution, but technically, this does not require War Powers Act.
00:32:53.000 So maybe we should call it the Proxy War Powers Act resolution.
00:32:57.000 Now, the counterargument is like, well, Charlie, we're not involved in the war because we're supplying weapons.
00:33:03.000 Like, hold on, I think the game has changed a little bit.
00:33:06.000 I spent time with the House Freedom Caucus last weekend with over 20 of them.
00:33:12.000 I talked to them, great American patriots, from Lauren Boebert to Chip Roy to so many of them.
00:33:19.000 And they all agree that the pipeline story changes the game.
00:33:27.000 You see, if we did indeed bomb the pipeline, which I think, of course, we did, at the very minimum we provided intelligence and were aware of it and were helping coordinate it, would we supposed to believe the Greeks did it or like the Italians? 0.68
00:33:40.000 I mean, no one would have, no offense to them.
00:33:42.000 They do not have the sophistication nor the gumption to go bomb a piece of critical infrastructure of the Russian Federation.
00:33:52.000 Edward Snowden, who I have mixed opinions on, says that the entire UFO hysteria is engineered distraction from the Nordstream pipeline bombshell.
00:34:03.000 He might be right, he might not be right, but he certainly has seen under the hood a lot more than almost everybody else has of what our government is up to in the clandestine activities.
00:34:13.000 And he exposed a lot of it and what short memories we have.
00:34:18.000 So here we are.
00:34:20.000 Putin is about to make his move.
00:34:22.000 And yes, you will have people like Lady Graham and Mark Warner and Sheldon Whitehouse.
00:34:29.000 They're going to be saying we need more weapons and they're going to get really close sometime soon.
00:34:34.000 You see, they're not going to say troops on the ground because I know that's politically unpopular.
00:34:38.000 But no, no, no, no.
00:34:39.000 They're going to do the Kinzinger thing.
00:34:40.000 Kinzinger floated this out last spring, you might remember, and it failed miserably, but they're going to go back to it.
00:34:46.000 Let's just establish a no-fly zone.
00:34:49.000 Remember that?
00:34:50.000 Remember Adam Kinzinger went out and he said, let's just do a no-fly.
00:34:53.000 It's not troops on the ground.
00:34:54.000 We'll just police the airspace.
00:34:56.000 It'll give the Ukrainians a fair shot. 1.00
00:34:59.000 And I guarantee you in the coming weeks, one of these warmongers is going to come out and they're going to say, look, Putin's about to do his offensive.
00:35:06.000 Let's just help even the playing field and let's establish a no-fly zone.
00:35:13.000 For those of you that are emailing us, Charlie, we shouldn't go to war, I do want to ask, I want to ask a provocative question.
00:35:19.000 Are we already at war with the Russian Federation?
00:35:23.000 We've probably bombed their pipeline.
00:35:25.000 We're supplying weapons.
00:35:26.000 We're supplying assistance.
00:35:27.000 We're supplying training.
00:35:30.000 We've put crippling, not really crippling, attempted crippling sanctions and tariffs to try to oust Putin.
00:35:36.000 Guess what?
00:35:37.000 Putin is just as popular, if not more popular, in the Russian homeland than ever before.
00:35:43.000 Someone who I know that was born in Russia, really sweet woman, lives here in Phoenix, family friend.
00:35:49.000 I asked her, hey, your family back in Russia is Putin.
00:35:51.000 She said, oh, he's more popular than ever.
00:35:53.000 Some of the Russians are a little, you know, they're saying, why have we not taken Ukraine yet?
00:35:58.000 They're kind of confused.
00:35:59.000 But Putin is just as popular with mainland Russians.
00:36:08.000 So Putin is about to escalate this, and the West is going to try to make him out as some sort of Hitlerian villain as a way that, as a prerequisite that we need to then establish a no-fly zone, which then, of course, will mean troops.
00:36:22.000 They keep on giving us guarantees.
00:36:24.000 Well, we need to kind of split the middle and we need to do all this sort of stuff.
00:36:27.000 How about peace?
00:36:30.000 And yes, I'm fully aware the only way you get to peace is through strength, obviously.
00:36:37.000 There are so many options that should be on the table here to be able to negotiate a settlement.
00:36:48.000 I'm not hearing a single sentence from the White House or the Pentagon or the Department of Defense on this.
00:36:54.000 Not a single.
00:36:57.000 So here we are.
00:36:59.000 It's coming up.
00:37:01.000 The big offensive is going to happen in the next couple of weeks.
00:37:05.000 NATO is all but saying this out loud.
00:37:08.000 Ukrainian forces are going to be overwhelmed.
00:37:10.000 It doesn't matter how much ammunition or shells we give them.
00:37:16.000 And then everyone's going to then say, the Europeans are going to say, well, America, what shall we do?
00:37:21.000 How about this?
00:37:22.000 Let's get Congress to just vote on an up or down vote.
00:37:25.000 Are we at war with Russia?
00:37:26.000 Just a really simple vote.
00:37:27.000 How about we support Matt Gates' resolution to say that we shouldn't send more Ukrainian war funding?
00:37:40.000 So here we are.
00:37:42.000 And if you are not prepared to send your grandson to be drafted into the U.S. military, I encourage you to start advocating for a peace deal before this thing gets wildly out of control because it might already be there.
00:37:55.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:37:57.000 Email me directly, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:37:59.000 Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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