00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, Jack Pasobic joins us to unpack what's happening with Ukraine and Russia.
00:00:05.000But first, we talk about legitimate inflation happening in the country, why the regime wants inflation, and the viral clip that you probably heard from Peter Ducey and Joe Biden going back and forth of him calling him something he shouldn't have called him.
00:00:18.000But the thing that everyone missed from that encounter and that exchange.
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00:02:00.000Biden's approval rating hits a new low in the latest Harvard Harris poll as the White House faces crises on multiple fronts.
00:02:07.000Biden's approval rating fell to 39% in the poll, which was released exclusively to The Hill.
00:02:15.000So if you've been watching some of these kind of half-in, half-out Biden press conferences, definitely doesn't instill confidence in our current leadership, that's for sure.
00:02:26.000I try to make a habit not to watch it for a variety of reasons.
00:02:30.000You don't really learn much, and it's also really depressing, honestly.
00:02:33.000It's just our country deserves so much better than this and kind of the completely clueless and doubling down.
00:02:42.000Like, no, everything is super successful and everything is wonderful.
00:02:46.000And if you look at the preconditions of what happened in Mao's China and in Castro's Cuba or in Mugabe's Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, or in Stalin's Russia, you almost always find that the destruction of the middle class is a necessary prerequisite to economic restructuring.
00:03:15.000Aristotle was probably the most prolific and articulate writer when it came to the moral need for a middle class.
00:03:24.000Middle class has always been America's competitive edge.
00:03:28.000Not our tech billionaires, not our oil oligarchs, but the people earning $40,000, $50,000, $60,000, $70,000 a year that were able to work hard and see their lives improve every single year.
00:03:39.000The American middle class has always been the envy of the world.
00:03:44.000It's been also very difficult to replicate for a variety of different reasons.
00:03:48.000The American middle class was created not because of a set of public policy proposals.
00:03:54.000The Constitution obviously helped, but also it was the people.
00:03:59.000A middle class is strengthened when the people are moral, virtuous, and in pursuit of things that matter.
00:04:10.000They try to stave off going into debt.
00:04:12.000Now, many of these trends have been reversed in the last 20 years, which is precisely why we have seen the erosion of the American middle class.
00:04:20.000The American middle class was not helped by the deindustrialization or the Mitt Romney kind of Deloitte, let's say, consultant class coming into Rapid City, South Dakota, and sending the manufacturing plant to Wuhan or to Saigon or wherever they sent it.
00:04:38.000Now, if you were to try and come up with a program of how do we crush the American middle class, what economic policies do we want to put forward to suffocate the plumber, the carpenter, the welder, the teacher, the police officer, the firefighter, the entrepreneur, and the small business owner?
00:04:57.000Well, one of the ways to do that is obviously inflation.
00:05:00.000Inflation, as we've talked about many times, is a tax.
00:05:06.000This last year, we have seen the greatest tax increase on working Americans in modern history.
00:05:13.000Now, if Republicans were smart, which I actually think they will catch on to this because a lot of their corporate donors actually are worried about inflation.
00:05:22.000So I'm actually somewhat optimistic that this story of inflation is actually going to get told.
00:05:28.000Unlike other cultural issues where corporations couldn't care less, I actually think inflation hurts the bottom line.
00:05:34.000And so I think that story is actually going to be told.
00:05:36.000Where you see double-digit increases in the cost of living in almost every single metropolitan, major metropolitan area in the country, that is a tax on normal people.
00:05:55.000Well, if you want to create a caste system, if you want to create almost a gilded era America where you have 65 to 70% of America on permanent government programs and 5% to 10% of the country running the country, and the middle class is kind of this floating, unspecified object of 20% of Americans, that would be a great way to destroy the Republican Party.
00:06:21.000In fact, I think that's part of the goal.
00:06:25.000Inflation, you could call it the debasing of the currency, the weakening of the domestic dollar.
00:06:33.000We've gone through in great detail on this program.
00:06:36.000And if you're at all interested, we're going to keep on covering inflation from new and interesting ways.
00:06:40.000But to try and keep with the theme of not repeating ourselves, because I can't stand when shows do that, just go back into the archives and listen to our episodes on inflation.
00:06:49.000We've gone into great detail of what it means economically, where it comes from.
00:06:54.000Home prices soared 18.8% in one month.
00:07:00.000So I'm going to have a different take on this than most.
00:07:04.000Not different, but just kind of an unexpected one.
00:07:08.000Overheated home prices continue to show signs of cooling off a bit.
00:07:53.000You have not seen the warnings of socialism.
00:07:56.000I mean, if you grew up in the Ukraine or if you grew up in the Soviet Union or if you grew up in Cuba or you grew up, you have seen socialism.
00:08:02.000What I mean is that Americans born here, you have no idea.
00:08:07.000How is a recent college graduate supposed to buy a home in Phoenix right now with a 32.2% annual increase?
00:08:16.000That's going to create the conditions for a legitimate and scary and pernicious economic movement.
00:08:25.000Bernie Sanders has been trial ballooning this for quite some time.
00:08:29.000Most conservative Republicans, especially older Republicans, get Bernie Sanders all wrong.
00:08:36.000They think young people just like Bernie Sanders, because they want free stuff.
00:08:46.000Instead, young people feel as if they were lied to and there was a scam that happened and that there was an injustice and Bernie will make it right.
00:08:56.000Now, it's interesting that the left uses the word equity.
00:10:21.000We've talked about how young people that are priced out of having families, getting married, having children, and getting a mortgage make perfect Democrats.
00:10:30.000They are trying to interrupt the conservatizing events.
00:10:57.000The middle class is the firewall against authoritarianism.
00:11:01.000When the middle class is strong and vibrant and prosperous, it becomes a lot harder to dominate and to control people.
00:11:08.000So many of you have probably seen this clip and you've seen the fallout from it.
00:11:11.000You saw almost every single conservative commentator give their two cents about it, and I think rightfully so.
00:11:19.000But I'll be honest, and Connor has been looking at the horizon.
00:11:22.000I think everyone's missing the point of this tape.
00:11:25.000I think everyone's missing the whole issue, the real gaffe, the real problem with what Joe Biden said here is not the fact that he called Peter Doocy something he shouldn't say.
00:13:24.000I think Joe Biden said something that he believes.
00:13:31.000I think Joe Biden, in an off-the-cuff, unscripted moment, just told the country in his back and forth, his little duel, his little rivalry with Peter Doocy, I like inflation.
00:17:20.000And of course, you know, I'm sure if you ask him now, he'll say that he was probably being sarcastic or something like that.
00:17:26.000Also, by the way, to add on to your comment, that sketch with Christopher Walken, it's, yeah, I've got a FIVA and the only cure is more Calvin.
00:18:15.000They're doing great because they purchased up all the assets and their assets, the wealth holding class, the ownership class, is now getting richer and richer as they're just looking at their portfolios and creed.
00:18:41.000And it's totally true that if you run Golden Sachs, you run BlackRock, or if you run the Larry Fink operation, more money's great.
00:18:49.000It only inflates the values, value artificially of your own assets and also destroys the potential upward mobility of middle-class Americans and potential competitors and entrepreneurs.
00:19:03.000So, Jack, I want to get now into the Ukraine-Russian thing.
00:19:09.000I also don't understand why we automatically have to be supporting the super corrupt country of Ukraine that has basically purchased every possible member of the American ruling class, especially on the Democrat side and some on the Republican side.
00:19:24.000Is Biden trying to get us into a war over a border?
00:19:27.000And why is it that we're mobilizing potentially tens of thousands of troops to the Ukrainian border and we can't mobilize troops to our own border?
00:19:36.000Well, remember, of course, Charlie, this is part of the family business for Joe Biden.
00:19:40.000He got his own son, got 50,000 reasons a month to care about the borders of Ukraine.
00:19:47.000Joe Biden, who of course is on video telling us about how he worked to set up the government, you know, at one point in Ukraine, you know, I want Poroshenko in there.
00:20:01.000This in many ways, Ukraine was unfinished business from the Obama-Biden presidency that lasted until 2016 out of 2016.
00:20:11.000And Biden, where did he make his final foreign visit?
00:20:15.000as vice president just days before Trump's inauguration was none other than Kiev from meeting with Petro Poroshenko again.
00:20:22.000Because remember, the plan was that Hillary Clinton was going to become the next president, and then the full integration of NATO and the EU and the Western system was supposed to take place.
00:20:32.000Obviously, that was put on hold for four years.
00:20:37.000And of course, to the people in Russia, look, they understand that NATO is explicitly an anti-Russian military alliance, right?
00:20:45.000When, you know, when Bismarck and the Germans sent over the Zimmermann telegram to Mexico, right?
00:20:50.000Obviously, we viewed that as a threat.
00:20:52.000And this is seen as one of the reasons that the United States got into World War I, because we didn't like the idea of our adversaries forming military alliances on our border.
00:21:02.000And you got to understand that Putin looks at it the exact same way.
00:21:05.000He also remembers, by the way, that a lot of the people surrounding Joe Biden right now are the same ones that launched and what was it, a NATO-led mission into Libya in 2011.
00:21:16.000And it's been reported that Putin watched that video of the killing of Gaddafi something like 10 times the weekend that that came out because he realized you've got a guy who's a member of the United Nations who was brutally murdered in the streets in a UN-backed operation by UN-backed rebels.
00:21:34.000And so Putin looked at that and said, you know what?
00:21:36.000These are the people I'm dealing with.
00:21:38.000I need to be careful and I'm not going to trust them.
00:21:42.000So where do you think this is going to lead, Jack?
00:21:45.000Because, you know, these things happen every couple of years and Trump, you know, he successfully avoided the war machines clamoring with a war with Iran, which would have been bad, but obviously terrible.
00:22:11.000And if Putin, if Putin invades the eastern border of Ukraine to try to reclaim it, what is the United States' response going to be?
00:22:20.000What should the United States' response be?
00:22:22.000Well, so you've got to look at, and it's funny enough, Joe Biden actually kind of said the quiet part out loud.
00:22:27.000It really does depend on whether it's a minor incursion or not, right?
00:22:31.000Because we have to look at this through the lens of what makes sense geopolitically.
00:22:35.000If Putin were to actually move on Kiev, like let's just, you know, throw common sense out of the window.
00:22:40.000If he were to actually move on Kiev, I might actually be a little bit more sympathetic to some of these talking points that's coming up, but that's not realistic.
00:22:47.000Because if he were to do that, he understands how insane, absolutely insane that would be on the world stage.
00:22:53.000He wants access to that warm water port at Crimea, at Sevastopol, and he wants those areas of eastern Ukraine that allow that land access to Crimea and to the Kerch Strait.
00:23:04.000If you look at the map, Russia is largely a landlocked country.
00:23:07.000They have to go through other areas to get to warm water ports, to get their shipping out, to get their navy out, right?
00:23:13.000They've got to go through Denmark and Sweden.
00:23:14.000They've got to go through Iceland and Greenland, UK on the other side, up around the north.
00:23:18.000And of course, it's the dead of winter.
00:23:20.000So in a realistic situation, this all makes sense when if you look at Russia in terms of being a land power that's trying to seek sea access, that's really what's driving this, as well as just the general idea of restoring sort of the old Russian empire czarist kind of designs of Putin.
00:23:36.000Biden, on the other hand, his approval ratings in the tank, Boris Johnson's approval ratings in the tank.
00:23:41.000And by the way, something no one's talking about, Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, also has an approval rating that's completely in the gutter.
00:23:49.000It's actually in the sewer, it's below the gutter.
00:23:50.000And so you've got a situation here where all three of these guys are facing potentially negative political capital.
00:23:57.000So they say, look, we're going to grab hold of the tail of that dog and we are going to wag as hard as we can.
00:24:02.000So instead of coming to some kind of diplomatic agreement, right?
00:24:05.000Why isn't Biden talking about, okay, we're going to sit down, we're going to go to Reykjavik like Reagan did, like Reagan did, right?
00:24:10.000Sit down at Reykjavik, have a diplomatic solution.
00:24:13.000No, there's no diplomatic solution even being talked about.
00:24:30.000Again, being no fans of Russia, I just think I consider Russia to be more of a mosquito and an annoyance and a potential strategic partner in crushing the advance of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:24:41.000It's pretty stupid what we're doing if we actually want Russia to be neutral, if positive, in our pursuit to put China in check.
00:24:51.000Aren't we just throwing Putin in Xi's arms?
00:25:11.000They see Russia over there in the middle between the EU and China and saying, look, why don't we all just work together and cut the annoying United States and the UK with all of their problems, with all of their international world this and world that out of it and say, you know what?
00:25:29.000We're going to have direct diplomacy again.
00:25:32.000We're going to go back to geopolitics.
00:25:33.000We're going to go back to the great game.
00:25:35.000Essentially, what it means is the unipolar world is over, right?
00:25:39.000Multipolar diplomacy has to come back now.
00:25:42.000Regional diplomacy has to come back now.
00:25:44.000Now, if we were smart, we would look at that situation and say, you know what?
00:25:47.000It would be a heck of a lot smarter for us to make Russia a problem for China than to make them friends with China against us.
00:25:55.000Because, you know, obviously we've done this in the past.
00:25:58.000This is exactly what we did in World War I, World War II, where we joined together against a common foe.
00:26:04.000And even if you look back into the 1980s, talk to, you know, when I lived in China and I would talk to Chinese people, they would say that in the 80s growing up, they were told that Russia was an enemy and that Russia was a threat to them because you had this thing called the Sino-Soviet split back in the 1960s over nuclear weapons, right?
00:26:21.000They were no friends of the Soviet Union.
00:26:23.000They were no friends of Russia in recent memory.
00:26:26.000It would not be hard to get Russia on our side vis-a-vis China.
00:26:30.000But again, we have idiots up there like Tony Blinken, who isn't even qualified to be a Secretary of State.
00:26:36.000He's sitting in the seat of Thomas Jefferson, by the way.
00:26:38.000He's not even qualified to be the front desk clerk at Foggy Bottom.
00:26:42.000Yet for some reason, he's actually sitting in that chair.
00:26:44.000And it drives me nuts every time I see him.
00:26:46.000What should the Republican Party's message be?
00:26:48.000Republican Party is supposed to be the opposition party right now.
00:26:50.000Unfortunately, it looks like a uniparty moment.
00:26:53.000Why is it the Republican Party seems to be pushing for war even more than the current regime?
00:26:58.000Understand to current sitting Republicans: the people of this country do not want war.
00:27:06.000They saw what just happened in Afghanistan under this current national security leadership, and they understand that the emperor is wearing no clothes.
00:27:33.000There's a lot of people out there that will just read for any company if the check clears.
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00:28:45.000Now, the fourth branch of government, which is composed of unelected, unknown, and unchecked bureaucrats, which actually comes from the French term desk workers or desk people, bureaucrats, you have these people that are able to do whatever they want to do with funding that is kind of cryptically submitted to Congress and could do significant damage to the country.
00:29:11.000Now, we talk a lot about Hillsdale College.
00:29:13.000You guys can check it out, charlie4hillsdale.com, CharlieForhillsdale.com.
00:29:16.000And one of the things that Hillsdale talks about is trying to have a constitutional reset or a renaissance of constitutionalism.
00:29:24.000And I actually think that if we properly equip Republican lawmakers and the grassroots, an argument can be made that if we actually would have stayed under a constitutional form of government, that the gain of function research through EcoHealth Alliance and Anthony Fauci never would have happened at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:29:49.000That the IRA, the independent regulatory agencies that exist in an unchecked capacity, potentially none of that nonsense would have happened and potentially COVID itself might not have been created by the funding of our own government.
00:30:04.000Now, we have very little idea of how deep the independent regulatory agencies go.
00:30:11.000It's not just bad enough that they are regulating you and they're spending money on total nonsense.
00:30:17.000But it's becoming more and more clear that the people that run portions of our government are, they're not just craven and disturbed.
00:30:37.000Like, okay, if you're going to do the mad scientist thing, then be good at it.
00:30:41.000Okay, if you're going to like find Kirdas to cancer by testing some sort of orangutan from Sierra Leone, then do it with a little bit of precision.
00:30:52.000So I saw this story and now I'm really worried about it.
00:30:57.000And not worried about it because of the immediate threats.
00:31:00.000I'm worried that we might have like a planet of the ape situation going on in Pennsylvania.
00:31:06.000So there's a huge truck crash in Pennsylvania and it was the CDC.
00:31:13.000Yeah, don't worry, they weren't running guns or trafficking heroin.
00:31:17.000No, they were transporting monkeys, but not just any sort of monkeys.
00:31:28.000The driver of the truck hauling the monkeys identified in a press release from Pennsylvania State Police as Cody Brooks thought that he was transporting cats.
00:31:38.000So he gets in a car crash and this woman comes up to him, Michelle Fallon, and she tries to go up to the carts that he thought were cats and say, hey, kitty, kitty, and it ended up being monkeys.
00:31:56.000Fallon has now developed a cough and something that she resembled pink eye.
00:32:01.000And by Sunday, she was visiting a medical center emergency room where infectious disease doctors were consulted.
00:32:57.000The deeper point is the less obvious one.
00:33:00.000Outside the fact that our government might have released killer apes on the population or the fact that they might be trafficking infectious diseases on interstate highways in orangutans or the potential animal abuse implications.
00:33:13.000The deeper point is this, is that when you don't have a constitutional form of government that works, people do crazy stuff like this.
00:33:21.000This is a byproduct of the death of the American Constitution because some weird mad scientist happens to also be an idiot is like, hey, I got an idea.
00:33:30.000Let's go infect a bunch of gorillas and traffic them across Pennsylvania.