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00:02:52.000Just a couple minutes ago Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, addressed Congress.
00:02:58.000This is the number one news story right now, really in the world, where Zelensky, who was under siege from the aggression of Vladimir Putin, addressed Congress.
00:03:07.000Now we're going to go through his speech, we're going to play some tape from it, and But it was an objectively phenomenal performance.
00:03:15.000It's almost as if Zelensky was an actor or something in a previous life.
00:03:19.000Whoever wrote his speech, they knew exactly how to weave in the emotion of American history, the diction and the syntax of how to try to motivate a response.
00:03:41.000And also the argument we've continued to make here, which is do you trust our leaders to be able to do highly complicated tasks when the stakes are so high?
00:03:52.000Now, some of what Zelensky said in his speech when he was speaking to Congress was obviously wrapped in hyperbole.
00:03:59.000However, I'm going to give Zelensky a little bit of a hall pass here.
00:04:05.000I have said before that he's awfully corrupt and has done many things in the past that I disagree with and was probably implemented in an undemocratic way and silences his political opponents.
00:04:17.000However, I'm going to give him a pass because when your country is under siege and you engage in some hyperbole, who wouldn't do that in a situation like that?
00:04:27.000Zelensky says, look, this is a terror that Europe has not seen for 80 years.
00:04:32.000He says, is it too much to ask for to create a no-fly zone over Ukraine to save people?
00:04:38.000Now, we have not focused a lot on the no-fly zone question.
00:04:42.000Creation of a no-fly zone is an act of war.
00:04:44.000Basically, it would be policed by the greatest Air Force the planet has ever seen, the United States Air Force, and the consequences would be that we will shoot down any Russian jet if it dares fly over Ukraine.
00:04:56.000If that were to happen, well, then we might be stumbling towards something I don't think any American wants to happen.
00:05:02.000Now, let me say this: that looking at this speech and watching it, I can understand the impulse to want to get engaged and involved.
00:05:10.000However, we must not only make decisions with our emotion, but we also must make them rationally and empirically and game them out.
00:05:18.000We went into great detail, and I encourage you guys to check out the podcast on how, because of what's happening in Ukraine, that is actually unraveling the petrodollar and the United States as the world reserve currency.
00:05:29.000You see, a mature foreign policy understands how one thing can lead to the other.
00:05:34.000We would call it a kind of domino theory, but that's been used, unfortunately, 80 years ago.
00:05:43.000This is a terror that Europe has not seen, has not seen for 80 years, and we are asking for a reply, for an answer to this terror from the whole world.
00:05:55.000Is this a lot to ask for to create a no-fly zone over Ukraine to save people?
00:07:10.000However, what Zelensky is trying to do, and this is something that is very effective in messaging to Americans, is basically playing into the desire that Americans have to be the leader of the world.
00:10:33.000Could not disagree more that getting involved in a messy and murky situation in Ukraine against a nuclear armed power, just as we finally have been able to get out of all of this COVID tyranny and now we're going to turn the page and get full-fledged into potential kinetic war with the Russians in the mud season of winter in Ukraine.
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00:12:03.000Zelensky addressed the Congress of the United States.
00:12:07.000Zelensky obviously was engaging in emotional arguments to try to get people to help him out.
00:12:16.000You can't blame him for that when your country is under attack.
00:12:19.000The question is, how do you receive it?
00:12:21.000And it seems as if Congress received it enthusiastically.
00:12:24.000Many members of Congress are now ready, willing, and able to give Zelensky whatever he wants.
00:12:28.000Now, I guess all Donald Trump had to do to get the southern border wall built, I guess, was do a Zoom call to Congress and ask for it and could have got a standing ovation.
00:12:39.000It's just very interesting to me, isn't it?
00:12:41.000How the Uniparty in Washington, D.C. is enthusiastic to stand with applause with a foreign president, which very well might be the right thing, all the while never actually prioritizing so many of our own domestic problems, so many of them that they completely and totally ignore.
00:12:58.000Obviously, the one that we talk about is our porous invasion of the southern border, our drug addiction issue, the sprawling urban crime problem.
00:14:57.000It seems as if the only way we're going to get this over with is to try and defeat the Russians once and for all.
00:15:06.000I'm reading that the Russian army logistics are very poor, very bad.
00:15:10.000They have about another one to two weeks of supplies remaining.
00:15:15.000And so who knows where the kind of situational, let's say, the situational advantage is.
00:15:24.000So Zelensky has an upper hand in one way, that for every mile the Russian army gets further away from Moscow, they have to build supply lines.
00:15:36.000They also will lose troops and they have to resupply those troops.
00:15:40.000It is 10 times as hard to invade a country than it is to defend a country.
00:15:47.000To defend a country, you just basically have to not lose.
00:15:53.000In order to not lose, you can lose almost battle after battle after battle as long as you don't lose the war.
00:16:00.000For the invading country, they can win every single battle, but if they're not able to break the resolve, if they're not able to break the back of the invading country, well, then the war continues.
00:16:14.000This is very similar to the American Revolution.
00:16:17.000But the question is, does a prolonged conflict in Ukraine, one that goes on for another couple months or another couple years, does that help the United States?
00:16:45.000But I find it interesting that if there were to be intervention in Ukraine, it has to be kind of solely on the back of the American foreign policy apparatus or the American military.
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00:17:54.000So I want to kind of build out, reinforce an argument we've made.
00:17:58.000So Congress is enthusiastic about sending weapons and sending military aid.
00:18:04.000However, the stakes are really high, and the chance of failure is much higher than the chance of success.
00:18:12.000And so we all want to avoid a war with Russia, except, of course, the neoconservatives that have wanted to have a war with every major country.
00:18:39.000Now, I would say maybe and maybe only Donald Trump, when he was president and his phenomenal national security team, I'm talking about people like Rick Grinnell and others, maybe they could have pulled this off.
00:18:52.000But our current commander-in-chief, Joe Biden, no way would he be able to pull this off.
00:19:00.000We do not trust Biden to oversee a no-fly zone.
00:19:06.000He couldn't get our own citizens to fly out of Kabul.
00:19:11.000If we can't get our own citizens to fly out of Kabul, why should we be able to pull off a no-fly zone in Ukraine?
00:19:19.000And so, this is the point that I keep on making, and I'm just waiting for other people on television to bring this up, which is: okay, Zelensky, best guy ever.
00:19:28.000We've gone into great detail of Azov Battalion and the money laundering and the corruption and the World Economic Forum ties and all that stuff.
00:19:57.000And so, which I think, of course, is obviously equally as insane to compare Zelensky to Esther and to compare Zelensky to Churchill and Nelson Mandela, but I'm seeing it all.
00:21:32.000You would load up a civilian airliner and in a deceitful and evil way, you would fly it right on the boundary of the no-fly zone and make it indistinguishable from a military aircraft.
00:21:45.000If you were the Russians, you'd pull off a false flag, is what I'm saying.
00:21:47.000Not that the Americans would, but then what if all of a sudden the Americans shut down a civilian airliner?
00:23:01.000Like many of you, I had the occasion to listen to President Zelensky just a few moments ago, and I came away, one, very moved, a very heroic, monumentally courageous man.
00:23:13.000At the same time, I feel fully committed to doing everything in our power to help defend the people of Ukraine against the monstrous actions of Vladimir Putin.
00:23:23.000Cut 671, Kevin McCarthy was asked about implementing a no-fly zone, and Kevin McCarthy said Ukraine should just implement their own no-fly zone.
00:24:47.000So what Kevin is saying there, and I think this deserves a little bit of time to dive into, is that if you actually want to have a successful policy of deterrence, the penalty must be on the front end, not on the back end.
00:24:59.000And so Biden's entire portfolio proposal was like, okay, Putin, if you do this, then I'm going to sanction you on the back end.
00:25:08.000Well, Putin's like, all right, well, I'm going to do it because you're probably going to sanction me anyway.
00:25:12.000Where Donald Trump was like, hey, you dare cross a line?
00:25:17.000Not only will I engage with you diplomatically, not only are we going to be energy independent, not only are we going to crater the price of oil to help American consumers and destroy the Russian petro currency, but not only will there be sanctions on the back end, you're not going to like what happens next.
00:25:35.000And just as a little bit of history, Trump provided the Ukrainians with lethal weapons.
00:25:49.000Iran was not able to enrich uranium or try to develop a nuclear weapon.
00:25:54.000And one of the reasons why Russia was not empowered to try to go invade any other countries was that as soon as America became energy independent, that which fuels your entire civilization, it became a lot harder to justify a ground invasion.
00:26:10.000They didn't have the dollars to do it.
00:26:12.000Trump was always on an offensive posture.
00:26:16.000And what's the best way to have an offensive posture?
00:26:18.000When your economy is roaring, when your people are behind you, when you have a strong economy domestically and you put your own house in order, you're able to have an offensive posture.
00:26:30.000One of the great stories is when Donald Trump was having chocolate cake at Mar-a-Lago with Xi Jinping, and he turns to Xi Jping and he says, oh, by the way, I just put airstrikes in Syria because they crossed a red line.
00:26:46.000When the airstrikes happened in Syria, I was super nervous.
00:26:50.000I thought that was going to result in an escalation with Vladimir Putin.
00:26:57.000But Trump knew what he was doing, and Xi Jinping and Putin feared Donald Trump.
00:27:02.000They feared that he was going to be willing to do what was necessary.
00:27:07.000Taking out El Baghdadi via a drone strike, taking out, I'm sorry, taking out Qassam Solomoni, taking out El Baghdadi via a military operation.
00:27:16.000All of these things sent messages, small strategic strikes, and Donald Trump being prudent did everything he possibly could to make us avoid long, prolonged ground wars.
00:27:29.000And this is the other thing that I'm trying to say about this current situation in Ukraine, is that our current military bureaucracy, the people at the top, they know no different other than 20-year conflicts.
00:27:40.000President Trump is like, wait a second, if I could just drop a bomb or do a drone strike or engage in diplomacy or do preemptive sanctions, we can avoid getting into these countries altogether and building bridges and trying to have literacy sites and all this nonsense.
00:27:55.000When you're not captured by ideology or defense contractors, then you're able to make decisions in an unpredictable and nationalistic way, nationalistic in a good way.
00:28:06.000You remember when Donald Trump dropped the Moab, the mother of all bombs?
00:28:27.000And so now my fear, and I have yet to have anyone be able to respond to this, is what's going to prevent an escalation.
00:28:36.000And I do want to say something, though.
00:28:38.000I find a massive, let's say, issue with some of the generational divide behind this.
00:28:46.000I can just tell you this, that almost all of our younger listeners, all of our younger students, all of our younger commentators, all of our younger influencers, all of our younger business owners and moms that listen to our program, they're very much on the side that we've been taking, which is we need to stay out of this.
00:29:14.000Charlie, it's time for Ukraine, for us to go to war against Russia.
00:29:19.000And I don't want to say anything on too shaky ground here, but it does seem the generation that wouldn't be drafted at this current moment is super excited to go get into a war with Russia.
00:29:49.000Since I was eight years old, we had a nonstop perpetual occupation of Afghanistan only to be humiliated by our withdrawal, which was nothing less than a defeat.
00:29:58.000Yeah, I just want to reinforce this generational thing.
00:30:01.000And I'm not saying that anyone's wrong.
00:30:03.000I mean, I obviously have my own opinions here.
00:30:05.000We got an email here from somebody, and they said, Charlie, your position on Ukraine is making me sad.
00:30:12.000You're coming across like a guy whose neighbor's house is on fire.
00:30:15.000The family is inside likely to burn, and you don't want to participate in helping put out the fire because they didn't join the Neighborhood Block Association, or because some reason you don't like the dad.
00:30:37.000Additionally, this is very likely to be another one of those situations where Despot goes from country to country, taking them over, gathering strength as he goes, and later on we look back in shame for what we didn't do.
00:30:47.000We can all find kinds of reasons why we shouldn't help and what could go wrong, but we're allowing a horrible thing to happen.
00:30:52.000Okay, so should we stop every time a horrible thing happens?
00:30:55.000Because there's a civil war happening in Yemen.
00:30:57.000Why don't we get emails about the civil war in Yemen?
00:31:04.000Putin isn't worrying about whether or not his actions will bring on a larger war, but aside from sending a few pieces of armament, we'll sit back and watch him do it.
00:31:11.000I'll become far less proud to be an American.
00:31:48.000We're getting lots of people that want that.
00:31:50.000I'm just saying one thing about the generational divide, and it's real, is that there is a narrative, especially for people that are over the age of 50, and the polling shows it.
00:33:19.00024,000 homicides happening in our inner cities.
00:33:23.000Our educational literacy rates are going down.
00:33:26.000It's the most depressed, suicidal, alcohol, alcohol-addicted, drug-addicted, anxious, and Medicaid generation in history.
00:33:34.000Yet I have to be lectured about our leaders that the American thing to do is to go enforce a no-fly zone 5,000 miles away because something bad is happening.
00:33:48.000Something bad is happening here as well.
00:33:50.000Why are our priorities so upside down?
00:33:52.000Why do we get out of our chair enthusiastically and go buy a Ukrainian flag to go fly outside of our home?
00:33:58.000And yet, the kind of destruction and deterioration of our own citizens just kind of makes, whatever, kind of scoff at it.
00:34:05.000The same Americans, by the way, the same leaders, by the way, who just lectured us the last two years, it's the American thing to go get vaccinated and go stay at home and be locked down.
00:34:13.000Why do we want to ignore our own problems?
00:34:49.000And you guys can listen to all of our podcasts on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast page.
00:34:53.000Here's one that says, Charlie, we are watching the modern-day Hitler, and you're taking a stand that appears to be okay with what's happening, which is not your intent.
00:35:37.000And then can we act, which we absolutely know that the people in charge of our country will probably be unable to do something as complex and consequential as pulling off a military operation all the way in Ukraine.
00:35:48.000And I remain this, and anyone can email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:51.000I remain with this argument, I should say.
00:35:53.000If you don't trust our leaders, if you think the deep state is wicked and evil and corrupt, if you think the deep state that was full of James Comey and all of these criminals and these charlatans are rotten to the core, what gives you the shot of confidence, the boost of affirmation that suddenly these people will be able to do this right?
00:36:13.000Because the downside is pretty significant.
00:36:16.000If you don't trust Mark Milley, why would you make Mark Milley more powerful?
00:36:22.000And that's really what we're talking about here.
00:36:24.000Mark Milley and Lloyd Austin are the big winners in this entire equation.
00:36:28.000So if you don't like that Mark Milley testified in front of Congress saying that white rage is the greatest threat in our military, the greatest threat to national security, if you support Ukrainian intervention, he's your player, whether you like it or not.
00:37:14.000Your characterization of those over 50 as being warmongers and neocons or simply because our desire to defend a sovereign country against evil murdering despot is not only insulting, but erroneous as well.
00:37:34.000He said, quote, if Russian warships or submarines parked off the coast of Florida started lobbying shells around your condo in Florida, killing innocent people, wouldn't you want someone with the power to come and defend you to your aid?
00:37:49.000I'm sure the Ukrainian people want support.
00:37:51.000I'm sure the Yemenese people want support.
00:37:53.000I'm sure the Nigerians in Africa who are being slaughtered want support.
00:37:56.000I'm sure the Iranian people want support.
00:37:58.000There's a lot of corners of the world where we can make arguments for military intervention.
00:38:03.000He says, quote, how dare you compare the invasion of our southern border to the death, destruction, and suffering taking place in an already war-ravaged Ukraine?
00:38:53.000It says in the Bible that you should care about the nation that you are in because your nation is tied to your nation's welfare.
00:39:01.000If we can't even get our own country in order and our own deep state elites are now going to go run some war game in Ukraine, we can't even get $85 billion of our own weapons out of Afghanistan and we're supposed to overly involve ourselves in Ukraine.