The Charlie Kirk Show - January 24, 2022


War With Russia is Coming—Here's Why That's a Terrible Idea

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In this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk sits down with former Vice President Joe Biden to discuss the Ukraine crisis, the NFL, and much, much more! Click here for the full episode.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, war with Russia would be a really bad idea.
00:00:04.000 Seems obvious, but unfortunately, Joe Biden seems like he is getting closer and closer to move American troops to the eastern border of Ukraine.
00:00:12.000 Why?
00:00:13.000 We explore that and so much more.
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00:00:51.000 Here we go.
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00:01:36.000 What is America's biggest problem that we are facing?
00:01:40.000 There's quite a few.
00:01:41.000 It's hard to rank them.
00:01:43.000 We've got problems on the southern border.
00:01:44.000 We have overdose deaths over 100,000.
00:01:47.000 There are people mysteriously dying between ages 18 and 64.
00:01:51.000 Medical tyranny is the new norm of doing medicine in America.
00:01:56.000 Over a million abortions every single year.
00:01:58.000 Our inner cities are a joke.
00:02:00.000 They're a travesty.
00:02:00.000 They're a third world disaster.
00:02:03.000 What is the biggest problem facing America?
00:02:05.000 Now, if you went around to a normal American city like Kansas City, and yes, I will talk about Kansas City and one of the most extraordinary football games I think ever played.
00:02:15.000 I still got hate mail, even though I did the NFL picks on Friday.
00:02:18.000 I didn't even get the games right.
00:02:19.000 I got one out of four right.
00:02:22.000 Right?
00:02:23.000 Yeah, one out of four.
00:02:24.000 Now, in my defense, every game ended on either a walk-off field goal or walk-off touchdown.
00:02:30.000 I don't like the NFL. 0.99
00:02:32.000 I think they're a bunch of scum rats that run the NFL, Roger Goodell and the BLM. 0.99
00:02:37.000 But boy, am I glad that I watched the beauty of football this last weekend. 0.98
00:02:40.000 But if you went to Kansas City, besides their greatest concern being Joe Burrow, what do you think would be the greatest concern for an average citizen of Kansas City?
00:02:51.000 Maybe opioids?
00:02:52.000 Maybe inflation?
00:02:54.000 Gas prices?
00:02:56.000 The deterioration of American schools?
00:02:58.000 The lack of representation that they feel in their constitutional government.
00:03:04.000 What do you think would be their argument for, or what do you think would be their concern for the greatest case, the greatest issues facing America?
00:03:15.000 Do you think it would be a border dispute in Ukraine?
00:03:19.000 Do you think that people in Oklahoma, Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire, wherever, do you think that they're waiting up at night and they say, yeah, you know, it's okay that things cost 25% more.
00:03:33.000 Gas prices are through the roof.
00:03:35.000 I have to go into debt just to be able to feed my family.
00:03:39.000 But what really bothers me is the fact that Russia might want to try and reclaim some of the territory they think is theirs in a border dispute 5,000 miles away.
00:03:53.000 I'd say this is probably a 99-1 issue.
00:03:56.000 99% of Americans couldn't care less.
00:03:59.000 And you have the 1% of people that do care, they happen to make all the decisions.
00:04:04.000 And they're involved in appropriating the resources to try to make you care.
00:04:10.000 Now, we're no fans of Russia here on the show, obviously.
00:04:14.000 Russia has been antagonistic towards America.
00:04:17.000 Russia has a different form of government.
00:04:20.000 They are not a constitutional republic.
00:04:23.000 I do think some of the criticisms, though, of Russia on American cable television is hilarious and laughable.
00:04:30.000 Where you have some people that go on TV, they say, we hate Russia because they don't have fair and free elections.
00:04:35.000 Yeah, we wouldn't know anything about that.
00:04:38.000 We hate Russia because they go after opposing viewpoints.
00:04:43.000 Yeah, no experience with that.
00:04:46.000 We hate Russia because they close off their borders.
00:04:52.000 Huh, that actually sounds okay.
00:04:54.000 Now, the parts we do hate Russia for is that Russia tends to be anti-American in their approach in a lot of different ways.
00:05:01.000 They try to poke America at every turn. 0.84
00:05:05.000 Exactly, that's another one.
00:05:06.000 They suppress journalists.
00:05:08.000 Right?
00:05:09.000 Yeah, we would never do that.
00:05:10.000 It's not like James O'Keeffe had his apartment raided as an opposing journalist to the regime.
00:05:18.000 Or, you know, they say, oh, yeah, they went after Alexei Navalani.
00:05:21.000 That's his name, right?
00:05:22.000 Navalani.
00:05:23.000 They go after opposing political opponents.
00:05:26.000 Yeah, it's not like the Democrats aren't currently trying to target the guy playing golf at Mar-a-Lago right now, who might be the opposing leader.
00:05:37.000 And look, I'm not defending the Russian government.
00:05:40.000 I just said I'm not a fan.
00:05:41.000 They're an enemy of the United States.
00:05:42.000 But I think some context sometimes is necessary before you get on your outrage carousel.
00:05:49.000 It's not like they try to put Roger Stone and General Flynn in prison for their whole life or Paul Manafort or whatever.
00:05:55.000 So Russia is no friend of the United States.
00:05:57.000 They could be a momentary and temporary strategic advantage for the United States to try to go up against China, which is the true threat. 0.98
00:06:05.000 Russia wants Ukraine.
00:06:06.000 They want Ukraine for many different reasons.
00:06:08.000 And they don't want all of Ukraine. 0.79
00:06:09.000 This is important to recognize.
00:06:11.000 The border of Ukraine, by some people that really know their Russian history, was drawn erroneously.
00:06:19.000 It was drawn in a way where, kind of arbitrarily, if you look at a map of Ukraine and you divide it by actual ethnic and cultural and linguistic heritage, the eastern part of Ukraine is a dominant Russian-speaking culture, is a dominant Russian historical connection, where the western part is much more Ukrainian, Romanian,
00:06:47.000 Slovakian, Hungarian, Belarusian, and Polish.
00:06:53.000 Now, it's easy if you are some kind of neoconservative national policy analyst in Washington, D.C., to look at the border of Ukraine and ask, act as if it's some sort of game of risk.
00:07:05.000 Like, oh, yeah, we're going to appropriate troops and we're going to prevent Putin from coming in.
00:07:11.000 First of all, this is how immature our foreign policy leaders are.
00:07:17.000 First, we need to take a step back and say, what does success look like?
00:07:21.000 You would do that if you were opening a car wash, if you were trying to start a baseball team, start a family.
00:07:30.000 You start with the question: what does success look like?
00:07:33.000 And can any apparatchik in Washington, D.C., in either political party, you're welcome to come on our show, by the way, tell me what does success look like in Ukraine right now?
00:07:43.000 Here's what they'll say: they'll say it's deterrence.
00:07:47.000 We're going to deter Vladimir Putin from not getting into Ukraine.
00:07:51.000 Okay.
00:07:53.000 Shouldn't success be building a coalition against China?
00:07:58.000 Wouldn't that be more important than deterring Vladimir Putin from trying to get a part of eastern Ukraine that he obviously wants?
00:08:07.000 Now, the consensus amongst the foreign policy intelligence in the West is that we should tell Vladimir Putin whether or not he can go into Ukraine and whether or not he should be able to colonize that country.
00:08:21.000 Some would say reunify, some would say colonize.
00:08:23.000 I don't like it.
00:08:24.000 I'm not saying we have to support it, obviously.
00:08:26.000 We can condemn it, kind of like Russia always does everything in the United Nations Security Council. 0.95
00:08:32.000 Instead, we could take a maybe a hundred-year viewpoint, and myself at 28 years old could say, huh, 40 years from now, do I think that Russian-Ukrainian border disputes is going to be the bigger threat to worldwide global hegemony?
00:08:49.000 Or the 1.3 billion-person nation that launched the virus either intentionally or unintentionally has lied about it, covered it up, smeared any sort of dissidents, building one of the largest militaries in the world, and also owns the American ruling class. 0.52
00:09:06.000 Outside of petro reserves, what is the Russian competitive advantage?
00:09:11.000 They have a fine military, they also have a declining population.
00:09:16.000 So, Russia is seeing the signal from Biden.
00:09:18.000 They're seeing the signal from the West.
00:09:21.000 And how is Biden responding?
00:09:23.000 Instead of Biden back channeling with Putin, trying to come to some sort of agreement, some sort of temporary partnership against China, here's where Biden is going: Biden weighs deploying thousands of troops to Eastern Europe and the Baltics.
00:09:38.000 President Biden is considering deploying warships and aircraft to NATO allies in what would be a major shift in restrained stance on Ukraine.
00:09:49.000 So, basically, let's get ourselves more involved in the region.
00:09:52.000 We just got out of Afghanistan, which was a total catastrophe. 1.00
00:09:55.000 We invaded Iraq, which had zero geopolitical advantage for America at all. 0.84
00:10:03.000 The Iraq War was a total disaster, thousands of lives lost.
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00:10:22.000 The Iraq War was a disaster, every single part of it. 1.00
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00:11:48.000 Wag the dog.
00:11:51.000 You probably heard that expression before.
00:11:54.000 There is a movie in 1997, Wag the Dog.
00:11:58.000 It's actually a pretty good movie.
00:12:00.000 Basically, it means that if there might be a military action, a superfluous military action, in order to distract from some sort of domestic scandal.
00:12:12.000 So, Wag the Dog actually came all the way back from a play called Our American Cousin in 1858.
00:12:19.000 But Wag the Dog is a phrase that is used in kind of journalist circles or communication circles when you see things that are not going well domestically, where you try to create some sort of international distraction.
00:12:38.000 Barack Obama did this several times.
00:12:40.000 He did this in Libya.
00:12:41.000 He did this in Syria.
00:12:44.000 George W. Bush did this.
00:12:46.000 Every president does this in every party, by the way.
00:12:49.000 Where things are not going well domestically.
00:12:51.000 Here's what Americans want.
00:12:52.000 They want strength.
00:12:53.000 They want war.
00:12:55.000 Here's the problem, though.
00:12:57.000 Getting in some sort of kinetic war with Russia is not like fighting the Sunnis. 0.87
00:13:03.000 It's not like fighting some sort of Shia militia.
00:13:07.000 It's not like fighting some proxy war of sand and death in Iraq. 0.98
00:13:10.000 These are cold-blooded killers.
00:13:14.000 These are people that have won wars before, actually.
00:13:18.000 The Russians have, in their history, and in just recent generational memory, some pretty decisive victories.
00:13:25.000 And yes, they have the Soviet Union that fell, which was a good thing. 1.00
00:13:30.000 The Russia of today is a far, let's say, weaker and slightly, slightly more Western version of the Soviet Union.
00:13:42.000 So Vladimir Putin is trying out.
00:13:46.000 How far can I push the West with this?
00:13:48.000 Well, NATO, which is supposed to protect us, is now going to get us into a war.
00:13:54.000 I want you to think about that.
00:13:55.000 Here's the great irony of NATO: NATO is supposed to be a deterrence.
00:14:01.000 And the member states of NATO, it got way too big, by the way.
00:14:04.000 NATO never should have been this big.
00:14:07.000 Because the whole idea of NATO should have been member countries that were contributing, not were just joining so that we could do the work for them.
00:14:15.000 Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States.
00:14:34.000 NATO partner countries, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia, Finland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Georgia, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Malta, the Republic of Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
00:14:54.000 They literally list Russia as a NATO partner country on the NATO website.
00:15:02.000 I don't think that's exactly right.
00:15:04.000 Look, NATO was formed as a way to try to deter the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
00:15:10.000 Now it's doing the exact opposite.
00:15:12.000 As NATO has gone east, all of a sudden we're right up against Russia's border.
00:15:18.000 Now, there is this fear that Russia is going to take all over Europe.
00:15:23.000 I think that's an unrealistic fear.
00:15:26.000 I think Putin knows a lot better than that, obviously.
00:15:31.000 But wouldn't it be long past time for some of these other European countries to start to defend themselves?
00:15:36.000 We pay all the money for their defense budgets.
00:15:40.000 Now, the neoconservative project in Washington, D.C. says we must send troops there immediately.
00:15:44.000 And that's exactly what Joe Biden is contemplating doing.
00:15:48.000 In a meeting on Saturday at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, senior Pentagon officials presented Biden with several options that would shift American military assets much closer to Putin's doorstep.
00:16:00.000 Where's John Bolton?
00:16:01.000 John Bolton is just missing out here.
00:16:04.000 The administration officials said the options including sending 1,000 to 5,000 troops to Eastern Europe, countries with the potential to increase that number tenfold if things deteriorate.
00:16:14.000 You see that tenfold?
00:16:15.000 We could be sending 50,000 troops to Eastern Europe to go find, to go fight a kinetic war in a country that most people can't recognize 5,000 miles away.
00:16:25.000 The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly about internal deliberations.
00:16:33.000 Continues by saying, Biden says, we're actually going to increase troop presence in Poland, in Romania, et cetera, if in fact he moves.
00:16:41.000 They are part of NATO.
00:16:43.000 Wag the dog means that someone has things not going well domestically and they want something internationally to try and boost their declining poll numbers.
00:16:54.000 The problem is that this is not wagging the dog with Mohammed Gaddafi or with Bashar al-Assad in Syria or in Iraq.
00:17:02.000 This is trying to wag the dog against one of the strongest militaries on the planet.
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00:18:11.000 Reuters, NATO strengthens East European flank, while Russia accuses West of hysteria.
00:18:18.000 NATO sending reinforcements to Eastern Europe.
00:18:20.000 Kremlin says West, not Russia, is escalating tensions.
00:18:26.000 Welcoming a series of deployments announced by alliance members, NATO alliance members in recent days, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told NATO that they would continue to take all necessary measures to protect and defend all allies, including by reinforcing the Eastern part of the alliance.
00:18:45.000 Continues by saying, Biden weighs deploying thousands of troops to Eastern Europe and Baltics.
00:18:53.000 Meanwhile, the United States says that they are going to be evacuating American citizens from Kiev.
00:19:04.000 Now, it's really important to realize this.
00:19:07.000 Every president violates this.
00:19:09.000 President Trump got close to it, but I think he was actually right within the constitutional authority.
00:19:18.000 If we're going to go to war with Russia, why don't we have a vote in Congress?
00:19:23.000 Well, the War Powers Resolution Act of 1973, also known as the War Powers Act, is a congressional resolution designed to limit the U.S. President's ability to initiate or escalate military actions abroad as part of our system of governmental checks and balances.
00:19:40.000 The law aims to check the executive branch's power when committing U.S. military forces to an armed conflict.
00:19:48.000 You see, we have separation of powers in our country.
00:19:51.000 We have checks and balances.
00:19:54.000 It's part of the constitutional design.
00:19:57.000 Now, the Constitution divides war powers between two branches.
00:20:01.000 The Founding Fathers knew this.
00:20:02.000 I think it's Federalist 30-something, you could look it up.
00:20:05.000 Where they said, in order to declare war, it should take at least two branches to send us into war.
00:20:11.000 Now, we now call it the Department of Defense.
00:20:14.000 We used to call it the Department of War.
00:20:17.000 I think it's a much more accurate depiction.
00:20:24.000 The Constitution divides war powers between Congress and the President.
00:20:28.000 Only Congress can declare war and appropriate military funding.
00:20:33.000 Yet the President is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.
00:20:36.000 Now, despite that, we have been involved in many different skirmishes because under the War Powers Act, it gives you a 30- to 60-day window for you to be able to strike quickly and then go to Congress for funding.
00:20:51.000 Now, since the War Powers Resolution Act of 1973, sitting presidents have submitted over 132 reports to Congress.
00:20:59.000 These include the airlift and evacuation operations carried out in Cambodia in 1975, committing forces to Beirut, Lebanon in 1983, Persian Gulf War of 1991.
00:21:10.000 Challenges to the resolution include Ronald Reagan's deployment of troops to El Salvador in 1981, the continued bombing of Kosovo during Bill Clinton's administration in 1999, and military action initiated against Libya by Barack Obama in 2011.
00:21:27.000 The War Powers Resolution has been controversial since its inception.
00:21:31.000 Is it Federalist 41 Madison War Powers?
00:21:34.000 I wasn't that far off.
00:21:35.000 I knew it was in that kind of neighborhood.
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00:21:41.000 The War Powers Resolution has allegedly been controversial, but it really isn't.
00:21:46.000 The War Powers Resolution is supposed to tell a president that you are not Napoleon.
00:21:53.000 Now, war is a big deal.
00:21:54.000 We know that.
00:21:56.000 We are somewhat desensitized to war because many of our listeners, if you're 15 years old, you grew up in a nation at war internationally.
00:22:07.000 War is comprehensive. 0.67
00:22:09.000 It is brutal.
00:22:10.000 It is nasty.
00:22:12.000 And the problem is that war, as we know it, does not impact the home front like it used to.
00:22:19.000 We can, quote unquote, go to war, and it's 5,000 miles away.
00:22:22.000 It's like watching a TV show, it's like cheering for your favorite Netflix series.
00:22:28.000 That's how they have basically commercialized war.
00:22:33.000 We don't have war bonds anymore, draft rationing.
00:22:37.000 A lot of that is because we went to a fiat currency.
00:22:41.000 We got off a gold standard so we could just finance any sort of international adventure whenever we want.
00:22:48.000 The great Angelo Cotavia, who passed away unexpectedly this last summer, famously used to write, and he had a great book called The Ruling Class.
00:22:58.000 You guys hear that expression.
00:22:59.000 We use it a lot.
00:23:00.000 He came up with it.
00:23:02.000 He was probably one of the clearest foreign policy thinkers in the last 50 years.
00:23:08.000 And he had a belief that a nation should not go to war if you have widespread and serious domestic issues.
00:23:21.000 Let's see, do we have widespread and serious domestic issues?
00:23:26.000 We can't agree on whether or not a five-year-old should be vaccinated.
00:23:31.000 You think we can agree on whether or not we should send troops to go regulate the eastern border of Ukraine?
00:23:40.000 And you might say, Charlie, that's a red herring.
00:23:41.000 Those two things have nothing to do with each other.
00:23:43.000 They actually do.
00:23:45.000 Because if you think we can't agree on very simple domestic governance issues, how are we going to agree on troop allocation?
00:23:52.000 And by the way, is national morale high or is it low?
00:23:57.000 These are very simple questions that leaders should be asking.
00:24:01.000 So let's pretend that my whole argument that America has no role right now in actually regulating the eastern border, let's say that doesn't win over most Americans, which I think it does.
00:24:11.000 But let's pretend that the people in D.C. are convinced that it's their role to go play border cop, not of the American southern border, who cares about the Arizona, Texas, or New Mexico border, California border, no, about the Ukrainian border, because they're big into sovereignty, right?
00:24:26.000 Well, then, how about this argument?
00:24:29.000 The argument is that the morale of the country is so low right now, doing big things 5,000 miles away against countries that know how to fight is a really bad idea.
00:24:41.000 Cut 12, when asked, not a single participant in the Face the Nations focus group believed America is in a better place.
00:24:50.000 National morale is at an all-time low.
00:24:55.000 A wise country would say, huh, that's probably the worst time to go to war.
00:24:59.000 Play Cut 12.
00:25:00.000 During the course of the pandemic, we've been listening to Americans through Zoom to get their thoughts on COVID, the economy, and how the government is handling it all.
00:25:09.000 On Friday, we checked back in with six of them.
00:25:12.000 Who feels like we are in a better place now than we were a year ago?
00:25:18.000 Show of hands.
00:25:21.000 No one believes we're in a better spot now.
00:25:24.000 Every participant in the Face the Nation panel via Zoom, don't worry, says, nope, we're not.
00:25:31.000 So we're in a worse place now than we were a year ago.
00:25:34.000 Everyone knows it, including, I think that was a bipartisan panel, is what I was told.
00:25:40.000 And somehow now we want to go marshal troops to Ukraine.
00:25:50.000 If you have a loved one in the military, they might be deployed to the eastern border of Ukraine to go fight for something that has zero strategic political interest of America.
00:26:02.000 Don't let the neoconservatives in Washington, D.C. tell you otherwise.
00:26:05.000 Oh, it's very strategically important.
00:26:07.000 Why?
00:26:07.000 Because Ukraine pays your bills.
00:26:10.000 Why?
00:26:11.000 Because Hunter Biden sat on a corrupt Ukrainian energy company, Burisma.
00:26:15.000 And by the way, Connor, in the next segment, let's build out just kind of how corrupt this whole thing is about how we forget that Biden and his family made tons of money off of the Ukrainian government.
00:26:32.000 How is that not mentioned at all?
00:26:39.000 And let's go to cut, let's get cut 25. 0.98
00:26:44.000 This is the more dangerous thing.
00:26:47.000 So it's bad enough that our leaders want to get involved in this.
00:26:50.000 It's even worse because we have a leader that is now trying to compensate for bad poll numbers, low IQ, and deteriorating mental ability.
00:26:58.000 I don't say that lightly.
00:26:59.000 I feel bad for people that lose their mental acuity as they get older.
00:27:02.000 They just shouldn't be president.
00:27:06.000 Chuck Todd says, well, Biden is no longer seen as a competent and effective leader.
00:27:10.000 He's no longer seen as a good commander-in-chief.
00:27:12.000 Here's the danger in this.
00:27:14.000 The danger is Joe Biden sees this segment.
00:27:18.000 You know why?
00:27:20.000 He'll say, I'll show him 50,000 troops to Ukraine.
00:27:23.000 How weak do you think I am?
00:27:26.000 That's not out of the ballpark with these people.
00:27:29.000 Play cut 25.
00:27:31.000 President Biden's news conference on Wednesday was designed to kick off a second-year reset of his presidency.
00:27:38.000 Cap recapture his political identity, if you will.
00:27:40.000 But our new NBC news poll suggests Mr. Biden does need a reset because he's lost his identity a bit.
00:27:46.000 He's no longer seen as competent and effective.
00:27:49.000 No longer seen as a good commander-in-chief, or perhaps most damaging, as easygoing and likable.
00:27:54.000 In fact, just 5% of adults say Mr. Biden has performed better than expected as president.
00:28:00.000 And those 5% are trial lawyers, lobbyists, and I don't know who else would.
00:28:06.000 Oh, pharmaceutical executives.
00:28:08.000 That's right.
00:28:11.000 I am not exaggerating.
00:28:14.000 If we do not get the war powers resolution back into focus and Congress do their job, Biden might stumble us into a kinetic conflict with Russia.
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00:29:37.000 So the talking point in DC is that it's because of Biden's weakness that Vladimir Putin is trying to invade Ukraine.
00:29:49.000 Now, this is not totally wrong.
00:29:51.000 Joni Ernst is a nice person.
00:29:52.000 She's a senator from Iowa.
00:29:54.000 She's always been very good to us, spoke at all of our turning point events.
00:29:57.000 I think this is a pre-scripted kind of national security talking point.
00:30:04.000 And so I'm going to go cut six, then cut 19, and I'm going to tell you kind of where I think this could go terribly wrong.
00:30:14.000 Play cut six.
00:30:16.000 I think we have many options for deterrence when it comes to Russia, but we need to impose those now.
00:30:23.000 President Putin only understands strength and power.
00:30:27.000 They see a very weak administration, and President Putin sees every opportunity to do what he wants to do in Ukraine with very little pushback from the United States.
00:30:39.000 So that's not totally wrong.
00:30:41.000 I think it's a little bit short-sighted just to try to say that we need to focus strictly and solely on this idea that Putin only channels with strength or only respects strength.
00:31:00.000 It's probably true.
00:31:03.000 But where's the opportunity?
00:31:04.000 Well, the opportunity has been missed to try and say, okay, Putin, we're going to work with you to restrict China. 0.72
00:31:11.000 We're going to choke them out.
00:31:13.000 Let's go to cut 22. 0.91
00:31:19.000 Ukraine is an independent, sovereign country that has been attacked by an outside aggressor.
00:31:25.000 And this should be of great concern to every country internationally.
00:31:29.000 Because if Russia can do this to Ukraine, what's to stop other countries from doing this to neighbors? 0.60
00:31:35.000 And so that's Fiona Hill.
00:31:37.000 Remember her?
00:31:37.000 She says, if Russia can do this, Ukraine wants to stop this from other countries doing this to neighbors.
00:31:43.000 So basically, this is the domino theory argument that if Putin doesn't stop going into the border, then forget it.
00:31:50.000 Now, I actually am, I'm not defending Putin invading Ukraine.
00:31:55.000 What I am saying, though, is that this could be solved with a ruling class and a leadership class that's willing to pick up the phone to Vladimir Putin and say, hey, listen, knock it off, man.
00:32:04.000 Okay?
00:32:05.000 If there's some sort of annexation, we'll go to the Ukrainians. 0.98
00:32:08.000 We'll tell them to move their citizens out. 0.99
00:32:09.000 You want an extra hundred miles, whatever.
00:32:11.000 How about this?
00:32:12.000 You are going to give us 100 million barrels of oil in the next 30 days.
00:32:15.000 Gas prices are going down.
00:32:16.000 You even meet or breathe in the presence of Xi Jinping.
00:32:20.000 We're done.
00:32:22.000 And you might say, well, Charlie, that's overly simplistic. 1.00
00:32:25.000 Well, I actually think the people running our country are super corrupt and dumb. 0.99
00:32:29.000 So this is why Trump was able to actually keep this all in balance. 0.99
00:32:33.000 Now, Trump's instincts were so right with this.
00:32:36.000 Now, where was Trump attacked the most?
00:32:38.000 Not with the Russia hoax, not with all that, but Trump was attacked the most by the frenetic media in one city, Helsinki.
00:32:51.000 Remember the Helsinki summit in summer of 2000, I want to say 18?
00:32:57.000 Yeah, 2018?
00:32:58.000 It was the summer of the World Cup.
00:33:00.000 And Putin gave him that soccer ball.
00:33:02.000 The media went wild.
00:33:05.000 Angelo Cotavilla, as I mentioned previously, was the only person to write a favorable piece about it.
00:33:10.000 Angelo Cotavilla said, this is great.
00:33:13.000 Said, he's trying to bring Putin to the table.
00:33:16.000 He's trying to bring Putin to a place of partnership to try and squeeze out the Chinese. 1.00
00:33:22.000 Say what you will about Trump, anything you want about Trump.
00:33:26.000 He had a heterodox approach to trying to solve the war machine.
00:33:31.000 Willing to talk to Kim Jong-un, willing to talk to Vladimir Putin.
00:33:38.000 People knew that Trump would make good on his promises.
00:33:42.000 They didn't want to deal with it.
00:33:45.000 But instead of this whole kind of game of like, yeah, we need to be super strong against Putin and then he won't invade.
00:33:50.000 Yeah, that's probably somewhat true.
00:33:53.000 If there wasn't a 1.3 billion person menace in Asia that might take Taiwan at any time and continue their incursion on all things in the West, going to war is a big deal. 0.99
00:34:13.000 You should go to war for good reasons. 1.00
00:34:16.000 You should go to war as a defensive measure, not an offensive measure.
00:34:22.000 There's only been a couple times where Congress has actually authorized war in our history.
00:34:26.000 I don't think this would be one of them.
00:34:28.000 But we should all be very concerned that Joe Biden might want to use American troops to try and save his plummeting poll numbers and try to make himself relevant.
00:34:40.000 The Washington, D.C. drums of war are louder than ever before.
00:34:44.000 The American people don't want it.
00:34:46.000 Maybe if they listened to their voters, they wouldn't care.
00:34:50.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:34:58.000 God bless.
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