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00:00:00.000 hey welcome to the podcast today we just have an honest conversation about what the hell is going

00:00:03.680 on i mean friday we left and we're like yeah that thing overseas you know ukraine or whatever

00:00:09.140 you know russia's really wants it and so they're well we should do something about it and today 0.95

00:00:14.860 we're we're facing defcon 2 defcon 2 defcon 1 is uh nuclear missiles have been launched or nuclear

00:00:23.940 war is imminent i don't know did things get pretty dicey quickly we talk about on today's podcast

00:00:31.700 you're listening to the best of the blend back program

00:00:42.720 we have pat gray joining us uh along with my executive producer stu bergeer

00:00:51.880 we're just talking about what's happening in the ukraine and what are we supposed to do about it

00:00:57.860 it's a hard question because the only thing we could do really to help them actually help them

00:01:04.540 remain free and independent is to send troops and we could send supplies yeah and we are we are

00:01:11.900 sending supplies but that's not going to stop the russian invasion i mean it might delay it for a

00:01:17.140 while but it's not going to stop it they'd need i think they'd need american forces to fight off

00:01:22.040 russia they're just you know they're one tenth the size of the russian army so is are there any

00:01:29.260 americans who want troops on the ground in ukraine i don't think so not very many heard many people

00:01:34.780 arguing for that though have you no it's just but it's it's kind of just it's nebulous what everybody

00:01:41.680 is i mean what do you want to do here's the thing we should demand that our government does

00:01:46.860 shut down the russian imports and the iranian imports of oil yeah the one thing he has not done

00:01:57.180 he hasn't touched their oil neither is europe i know and you know what would solve that is if he

00:02:04.220 wouldn't have shut down all of our oil and gas he shut down all of our oil and gas so now we can't

00:02:11.020 say to europe don't worry we got you covered we can't do it it'll take us eight months at least

00:02:17.180 to get back everything get back up online and you know what joe biden did this weekend

00:02:21.440 besides going to delaware uh what kind of ice cream did he have i don't i'm not sure it looked

00:02:28.660 like chocolate from the picture i saw yeah it's really good chips chocolate chips any in there was

00:02:33.600 a chocolate chocolate chip i don't know marshmallow in there i don't know i hope we find out for the

00:02:37.780 media this week so so once again we have uh shut down more oil processing uh plants we halted new

00:02:48.900 drilling oh wow over the weekend good that was a good move another good hell is that so the first

00:02:54.820 thing that we should do we're not doing anything until you start opening things up and all this

00:03:01.480 bogus pain that the americans are going to feel at the gas pump is not due to russia it is all due to 0.73

00:03:09.300 joe biden no period well no it's also due to russia if it wasn't for if it wasn't for russia it would

00:03:16.220 also it would be worse right um uh you know we could we if if they're selling more oil to our allies in 0.59

00:03:24.400 europe they're selling more oil uh than they did two weeks ago right but without the invasion we

00:03:31.040 wouldn't need the extra supply right the invade russia is still irresponsible for large chunks of 0.99

00:03:37.640 this however if you prepared for uncertainty by you know having a supply of of the basic fuels you need

00:03:47.680 uh and able to export those fuels to help the global market we'd certainly be in a much better

00:03:53.200 position everything that biden has done has made this worse uh so that is a huge part of this

00:03:58.540 i think though you you get to this point where what do you want to do do you want to do you want to

00:04:04.940 extend the massive the the most amount of pain possible to the russian economy to stop them here 0.55

00:04:12.700 is that our goal is is that essentially what we want to do like with these sanctions so i would like

00:04:18.700 to do everything some here's what i here's as president of the united states if i were president

00:04:22.920 here's what i would be saying first of all open up all of the spigots here 100 first thing should

00:04:29.100 be doing that anyway yeah open them up um and i'm not going to do that today the new ipcc report came

00:04:34.680 out saying climate change was worse than ever it's already happening shut up so there's no chance of

00:04:40.420 them embracing that philosophy got it i'm saying if i were president here's what i would do first thing

00:04:45.480 open them up uh the second thing i would do is i would be on the air all the time like reagan used to

00:04:54.220 speaking right directly to the ukrainian people and i would be saying ukrainian people

00:05:00.700 you you are being seen by the entire world we're watching you we're praying for you we're standing with

00:05:10.660 you and we are sending as much aid as we can that means that we will help you with with uh systems

00:05:19.080 and bullets but it is also we are standing ready with the red cross to help you so your families

00:05:28.540 aren't just slaughtered and left to die we are with you continue to to rise up that would make a huge

00:05:37.020 huge difference it did in poland remember with the collapse of the cold war uh with reagan sending

00:05:42.880 those messages directly into poland that made a huge difference we don't have a zelensky or a beck

00:05:48.840 though to make those speeches we have a guy who fumbles through every sentence and is lucky to get

00:05:53.440 through his ice cream so that he we have no ability to do that which is a huge problem i'm not criticizing

00:05:58.940 your approach there i'm saying it would be great if we had that ability we do not we do not okay um

00:06:04.860 the the the next thing you disagree with that uh no no um but we're not even trying no we're not

00:06:10.960 even trying um the the next thing uh that i would do is i would be trying to encourage anybody that is

00:06:22.780 in a position to take the position in russia uh i'd be just encouraging them or and it might be just

00:06:32.020 through squeezing their financial accounts go kill that guy go kill that guy you know um uh what's

00:06:40.480 his name um marco rubio uh said over the weekend i wish i could tell you more but all i can tell you is

00:06:48.260 the old putin wouldn't act like this there's something different about this putin and what

00:06:53.500 he's referring to is this idea that that putin may have a brain tumor you don't know that's what

00:07:00.340 you're you're not saying that for him you're saying that's the speculation that's the speculation

00:07:04.320 okay so um we if that's true we should be out with that we should be saying that the guy

00:07:15.280 we know through intel has a brain tumor that in itself would help destabilize russia russia the

00:07:24.480 ruble is about to collapse down it's the worst day again today yeah uh since i guess 1998 they

00:07:32.100 had a real collapse of the ruble it's worse than that today okay so wow it's it's about to collapse

00:07:37.800 the the russian people are already on the street saying no war you release information that is

00:07:46.460 credible that he has a brain tumor and there's a brain tumor uh rumor intelligence whatever

00:07:54.420 it is is that is that saying the tumor is affecting his decision making or decision he's seeing the

00:08:00.240 end of his life and trying to make a move before it's too late decision making okay although i think

00:08:04.300 it could be both could be both so what what else i mean so do you do the swift uh situations cut

00:08:12.980 them off from international banking do you uh yes yes do you launch a no fly zone over every out of

00:08:20.420 your mind are you out of your mind so you let russian uh you know i i don't put american planes

00:08:28.820 up there against a nuclear power that is already said they're they're engaged with nukes that they

00:08:36.540 are ready to use their nukes they're at defcon 2 as well we're gonna put our guys to police that so

00:08:43.180 then our guys are shooting down russian planes that's world war three immediately what about travel

00:08:49.840 you do you well is it maverick and goose do we have our best out there we only have iceman

00:08:56.280 really yeah okay no he's pretty good though yeah he's pretty good but he's not he's no man

00:09:00.600 he didn't make it through the whole movie yeah i think goose died he couldn't even eject properly

00:09:05.080 goose died yeah couldn't even eject out of a plane properly without banging his head on the ceiling

00:09:09.300 moron sorry rest in peace do you guys do you guys do a fly zone well no i wouldn't i don't think

00:09:19.740 we're doing any of that right like the question is are you letting uh you know our aircraft

00:09:25.260 prevented from flying over russia i'm talking about not even military aircraft i'm talking about

00:09:32.000 aircraft containing with all sorts of supplies and cargo and important things like these things are

00:09:37.760 are going all over the globe all the time they're all avoiding ukraine right now

00:09:42.300 if i were if i were a pilot exactly and we've seen your pilot today we are definitely not flying

00:09:48.720 over ukraine we've seen a a a tendency over the years for russia to just have some incidents with

00:09:56.400 aircraft crossing over there exactly right yeah so they we've already europe is already shutting down

00:10:03.060 we're not letting any russian flights go anywhere near us they're shutting those things down eventually

00:10:08.580 you get to a point where no one can fly anywhere and we have all sorts of problems with the supply

00:10:13.500 chain which i might remind you we already have significant issues with uh so that's another

00:10:18.480 thing on top of all of this to consider you know that that's the problem with the the gas and oil

00:10:24.560 stuff too now i i tend i tend to be on the side of make this as difficult as possible and quickly and

00:10:30.780 quickly and hope that it's enough for internally russia to rise up and say get this guy out of here

00:10:36.280 because it's it's not if this goes poorly in ukraine it is not without it's not uh out of the realm of

00:10:43.600 real possibilities that they will just get sick of this and uh one of these oligarchs or or just the

00:10:49.800 people throw these guys out and throw them out of the russian people are not for this now not that he

00:10:55.340 cares about the russian people he doesn't care at all he doesn't care at all however if the oligarchs

00:11:00.200 and everybody sees that the the population is going unstable and it is also hurting them

00:11:06.720 yeah they probably put a bullet in his head let's stop this okay you're you're making our business

00:11:14.800 for what what are you doing yeah for what that's another part of this no one knows what he's after

00:11:20.640 you know i mean yes he's saying stuff like he's after the collapse of the west i really do it's you

00:11:25.420 don't think this is about him putting the band back together this is i just want ukraine territory

00:11:28.840 it's ours we should have it i think he'd like to put the band back together but he if he can do

00:11:34.400 remember how did how did reagan collapse the soviet empire uh part one was with the the big lie about

00:11:43.320 star wars the star wars defense system and he made them spend themselves into oblivion to oblivion

00:11:49.680 okay what would this do to the west what is what is just swift doing to the west we're having to print

00:11:58.680 billions if not trillions of dollars more okay we're already having an inflation problem we have

00:12:05.660 to now print billions if not trillions of dollars more to bail out all of the western banks that have

00:12:12.180 any kind of loans with russia so that's not going to help our economic situation if we do go to war

00:12:20.860 are we financially in the situation where we could afford an out and out war we would collapse pretty

00:12:28.820 quickly now they would say well so will russia but if putin is as crazy as it seems he is

00:12:38.060 hell-bent on something we don't understand that it makes logical sense to him

00:12:43.680 it that logic may be yeah but i'm the one remembered for taking down the west

00:12:50.820 and then all of this will be will be easy to grab because all we have to do is appeal to their

00:13:00.340 nationalism and their energy needs and we got that i mean i i'm probably wrong i'm probably wrong

00:13:10.040 i think the issue here is it's so hard to explain there there doesn't none of this seems reliable like i

00:13:15.700 you know watching this stuff this weekend i started thinking is it possible we're just getting

00:13:20.020 sort of this pro-ukrainian side of this right where not not not as far as like who's right or wrong

00:13:27.320 i mean that's clear but the side of maybe russia isn't struggling as much as as we're being told

00:13:35.260 and you are so pro-putin i'm not i mean i hope that's not it but i would it's it's one of the

00:13:40.860 it doesn't make any sense that russia would would be doing the things that they're doing so i wonder are

00:13:46.620 we getting the true story now that being said unless he wants that black sea port so badly yeah that he's

00:13:53.220 he's willing to thumb his nose at the entire world no but it's it's more than that he's not even

00:13:58.340 fighting he's fighting like joe biden he is yeah i would expect this if ronald reagan or donald trump

00:14:06.520 were going into war it would not be fought like this would you agree we would let them have it and

00:14:13.860 take it as quickly as we could we'd use all of our resources you don't want to be you know you want

00:14:20.900 to take the breath away from the ukrainians well they're not doing that they're fighting like joe

00:14:27.000 biden would fight it now maybe that's because putin does have a brain tumor or it's crazy or whatever i

00:14:32.340 don't know but if he's not why is he fighting this way why is he why i don't know it just doesn't feel

00:14:43.900 right oh we've talked a lot of times though uh and maybe it's just as simple as this is how wars are

00:14:49.240 fought now and because you know the elites got together 80 years ago and decided all those rules

00:14:57.700 i think are out the window right now i do i think we're headed to a new world order but let's i'd like

00:15:04.660 to hear your opinion 888-727-BECK can you explain this what's going on 888-727-BECK coming up in a

00:15:15.300 couple of minutes we're going to be talking to a freelance journalist who just escaped ukraine on

00:15:21.140 foot and one of uh one of the brave parliamentary ministers from ukraine that is still in ukraine

00:15:32.100 we're going to be talking to them in about a half hour from now so uh

00:15:40.280 where do we go from here do you think was anyone concerned about the

00:15:49.880 uh the defcon 2 thing oh yeah well i mean the russians basically came out and said hey we're

00:15:58.240 we're on full alert for our nuclear weapons putin said that yeah and he's threatened everybody that

00:16:03.460 it would if anybody intervenes here that you're going to get the worst experience you've had in

00:16:10.040 your history or something to that effect alluding to the fact that you know you're going to get a

00:16:15.320 nuclear launch against you and we didn't respond with that same standard right now we we didn't

00:16:20.940 go go to that level and you know of course the press is like look at the restraint from joe biden

00:16:26.060 look at this amazing restraint all right they can spit it can't they amazing restraint to to not say

00:16:34.760 back oh yeah well our nukes are bigger than yours that's basically what that's insanity right we do not

00:16:40.300 want to get into a nuclear war that's let's avoid that yeah i'm throwing it out there but let's avoid

00:16:45.700 it if we can that would be great i and i think that's i mean he launches one nuke even if it was

00:16:51.880 like a bunker buster nuke you know that we've talked about using in the past they go deep in

00:16:56.760 the earth they don't have the fallout and radiation etc etc even if it was that the world would go crazy

00:17:02.840 he immediately loses if he does that and why would he do that when just what three years ago he said

00:17:10.320 the next war is not going to be fought with nukes it's going to be fought with ones and zeros 1.00

00:17:14.920 maybe he really has changed and there's something to these rumors of him becoming much more erratic

00:17:20.560 um i don't know and also he could just be saying things right he hasn't he hasn't done this but we

00:17:26.740 saw uh last time uh everyone was like well i don't you know in ukraine was like ah he's not going to

00:17:32.120 come across this border and there he is so yeah you know i mean as you always say glenn when people

00:17:38.180 and crazy people say crazy things you should take them at their word and defcon 2 is taking him

00:17:43.720 at his word defcon 2 means that our troops are at their highest level in in europe they have to be

00:17:52.680 ready to engage the enemy within six hours i am surrounded by a new family of people who have

00:17:59.860 their life back because of relief factor i'm one of them i was uh in pained and got to the point to

00:18:08.200 where i just i couldn't do it anymore i did anybody else feel like you know i just i can't get up

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00:18:50.160 this is the best of the glenn beck program

00:18:56.040 this is the glenn beck program we're glad you're here thank you so much for listening um we have

00:19:06.640 manny morota uh on he is he's gonna we're having problems with our phone system our software systems

00:19:13.440 have gone down putin um but so we're trying to get our phones back online um we'll have him on as

00:19:21.500 soon as we possibly can um you know the one thing i think it is important to think of is that i think

00:19:28.380 there's a lot of democrats and leftists a lot of people who just could that have trump derangement

00:19:35.860 syndrome um that see the ukrainians as a substitute for them and putin is trump

00:19:46.500 so i think they they see themselves because how else could you be for the ukrainian people

00:19:55.240 and this fight against the power um you know or is to cross the border and yet you'd be for

00:20:02.120 you know throwing people in from january 6th and not have them even see a trial yet how is it

00:20:10.320 you're for justin trudeau silencing people and saying that a peaceful protest how can you be for the

00:20:16.700 protesters in ukraine and it doesn't make sense unless you see the ukrainian people as yourself

00:20:25.260 and you're a democrat or a uh a lefty and you see them fighting against their

00:20:33.840 donald trump i mean i guess they'd argue that they think their side is just in these matters

00:20:41.440 right their side is right on january 6th their side is right on canada their side is right on the

00:20:47.160 battle between the big boogeyman there is their version of putin donald trump that would i mean

00:20:53.660 because i'm against putin oh yeah and i'm for the ukrainian people and and how is it that we're

00:20:59.320 being told we're somehow or another for putin we're not we're clearly not now what's going on uh let's go

00:21:06.820 to uh manny the phones are working now manny mirota he is a freelance journalist uh he actually flew

00:21:14.800 from pittsburgh uh to uh ukraine to cover the lead up to the war with russia and he got caught up

00:21:23.580 in it he is now in poland after a very long walk hello manny how are you i'm doing well thank you

00:21:32.200 for having me on the show you you bet um glad that you're out safe um can you tell us what it was

00:21:39.620 was like over there when the alarms first started going off and you knew oh man we're in trouble

00:21:45.960 oh yeah absolutely i mean up until the invasion nobody knew that anything was wrong and then

00:21:52.660 suddenly on the morning of the invasion we woke up uh to the sound of air raid sirens and it turned

00:21:58.660 out that cities all over the country were being bombed and our city could have been next uh i was

00:22:03.140 in lviv which was a western ukrainian city we went outside and we heard people speaking on loudspeakers

00:22:07.960 saying uh find shelter help the elderly stockpile water it was uh it was rather scary i mean the whole

00:22:15.300 country began at once to panic and it was one day literally one day nothing's really happening

00:22:21.980 to oh my gosh here it is oh yeah yeah for the longest time the ukrainians um denied that anything

00:22:30.900 was happening because they wanted to preserve i mean they wanted to preserve their sovereignty they

00:22:34.840 want to preserve their country and so uh they said putin won't invade and we all believed him and uh we

00:22:41.460 all believed ukraine and it uh it really seemed like putin would not invade and then this really

00:22:46.660 came upon us suddenly um it really suddenly uh russian army was in uh ukraine bombings were happening

00:22:53.320 and of course uh now thousands of people have died in this war with ukraine uh war with russia

00:22:58.840 so tell us i mean because we're seeing uh social media and we're seeing unbelievable uh heroism uh on the

00:23:10.620 part of the ukrainian people and the president of ukraine um it seems like they're not willing to go

00:23:17.180 anywhere is is that the truth of what's happening absolutely absolutely i mean from what i saw from the

00:23:25.820 ukrainian people they will defend their sovereignty until the very end um ukraine is a relatively newly

00:23:31.960 independent country 1992 they've uh freed themselves from the soviet union and now they are trying to

00:23:38.320 defend themselves in the greatest possible sense it's only been 30 years since they've become newly

00:23:42.460 independent and now ukraine is trying to establish its own uh identity in europe and trying to keep

00:23:48.640 itself free from you know the reins of russia uh coming back to retake it and so uh the ukrainian

00:23:55.060 people are going to defend every street every home every alley uh every inch of ukrainian soil they 0.51

00:24:01.000 can and they are enthusiastic about it uh like you've never seen because they remember what life

00:24:07.820 is like under russia i mean i i can't believe that putin thinks that they would remember things that

00:24:13.460 they would forget things like the holodomor quickly right you know what i mean you tend to have a long

00:24:20.340 memory on stuff like that absolutely and the whole uh the holodomor is part of the national memory of

00:24:27.300 ukraine and they mourn it all the time and everywhere there are monuments to it in nearly every major city

00:24:32.280 and of course life under the rest of the soviet times was terrible for the ukrainian uh there were

00:24:38.360 repression uh there were oppressions you couldn't uh practice free speech um you had to stay in line

00:24:44.520 with the party you couldn't establish the ukrainian identity you had to to be a part of the russian

00:24:49.040 identity and so ukrainians are worried about that happening again i spoke to several ukrainians

00:24:53.520 who lived under the soviet union uh older ukrainians and they were just terrified that it would be

00:24:59.180 something like that again that russia would exert power over ukraine once again so when you're walking

00:25:04.840 out you had about 50 miles right that's 70 kilometers yeah thereabouts uh it was like i believe the exact

00:25:13.040 amount was uh 43 miles and 74 kilometers uh was the exact was the exact number but yeah a very long

00:25:20.020 walk and it wasn't just me it was thousands of ukrainians oftentimes elderly oftentimes children

00:25:25.180 uh and they're the ones who are the true heroes of the story that the vulnerable members of society

00:25:30.480 were walking out of ukraine this huge distance and what did what did you what was your conversation like

00:25:38.040 my conversation with the ukrainians yeah on that walk what did you learn yeah well i spoke with a

00:25:46.240 wide variety of ukrainians i spoke with children i spoke with uh young men i spoke with old women i

00:25:51.480 spoke with a variety of people and they all had uh they were all first of all they were all unified by

00:25:56.600 their fear of being taken over by russia and that's why everyone was walking out but everybody was of

00:26:01.640 course uh committed to protecting ukraine as well uh and their plan was to to reform on the

00:26:08.020 other side of the border and uh to fight for ukraine eventually um and so the children of course were

00:26:14.500 afraid the children didn't know why they were leaving the children didn't know why they were

00:26:18.300 forced out of their beds by this invasion why they had to march out into the cold why they had to go

00:26:22.920 without food and water because these people didn't have food and water for the entire walk um and it was

00:26:28.900 just this long and grueling trek and so the elderly people as i mentioned to you before they remembered

00:26:33.780 soviet times they were mentioning that this could happen again and that's why they were trying to

00:26:39.180 to avoid that um and so they were they were among of course the young men who would have to go fight

00:26:46.080 uh very soon into the walk they were they were conscripted into the army and uh it was it was just

00:26:52.580 this wide conglomeration of people united by a fear and a hatred of russian domination

00:26:57.600 when you got to poland you're in poland now are you not i'm in poland i'm speaking from krakow poland

00:27:05.260 right now uh wow uh when you got to poland what did that feel like what did the refugees go through

00:27:13.380 it was just an incredible sense of liberation among the refugees to be in a country that of course was

00:27:21.120 not being invaded but also a country uh that was still sort of living under the specter of russian

00:27:27.420 domination and now we're in poland which is a free country a country that has its own long history of

00:27:33.060 repression by russia um and there's a sort of solidarity between the poles and the ukrainians

00:27:38.520 and the poles have been very receptive to the ukrainian refugees uh because of this brotherhood

00:27:43.180 that they have uh because of their shared path of repression by uh russia and so the poles are taking

00:27:49.020 the ukrainians in uh in private homes in hotels in guest houses uh tens of thousands hundreds of

00:27:57.140 thousands of ukrainians are staying and the poles are welcoming them well and it's just this great

00:28:02.180 sense of relief but the job isn't done until the war is over of course tell me about two two tweets

00:28:07.720 that you made one uh you said we made friends with a 24 year old named max who was pulled out of the

00:28:13.620 caravan as he talked with us i had time to get his number before conscription and he left with a grin

00:28:19.060 of utter disbelief i'll never forget that face and the next one was a woman screamed for the army to 0.69

00:28:25.260 spare her husband from conscription a soldier slapped her and took her husband things seem really

00:28:30.920 desperate tell me about this yes well first i'll tell you about max um so during the long walk

00:28:37.940 obviously as i mentioned i spoke to many ukrainians and one of them was this uh 24 year old uh as i

00:28:45.060 mentioned 24 year old named max uh maxim was his name um and we walked together for quite a long time

00:28:52.820 uh we learned about each other he's pretty much my age so uh we had a lot to relate to with each other

00:28:58.460 even though we grew up on you know opposite sides of the atlantic um and so we sort of made friends

00:29:03.980 and then uh towards the end of the walk in the last 10 kilometers uh an army a ukrainian army officer

00:29:11.760 came along and said all men aged 18 to 60 step out of this caravan right now you're going to be

00:29:17.360 conscripted to the army and at first max the nipple you could have to go 0.60

00:29:20.600 and then the man yelled at him specifically and he just looked at me with this this truck this grin

00:29:27.180 of uh as i mentioned disbelief and he stepped out of line and uh i didn't see him for uh the rest of

00:29:35.720 the walk of course uh but by the way he did get back in touch with me um so i've been in contact with

00:29:41.020 him since then and he is uh safe and he's in western ukraine right now and he is not currently fighting

00:29:47.140 the russians so uh i'm glad to hear from him the second story though is uh the second story is a lot

00:29:53.740 sadder um as you mentioned it's this brutal account of uh of a man being taken away from his wife

00:30:00.900 um what happened in that occasion is as i mentioned to you uh zelinski ordered that all men aged 18 to 60

00:30:08.060 had to be conscripted to the to the ukrainian army and so um this caused a lot of uh fathers to be

00:30:15.640 taken away from their children husbands to be taken away from their wives brothers from sisters

00:30:20.040 and sons from mothers and one of these couples i won't forget and it's the one that's mentioned in

00:30:26.020 the tweet uh the husband and the wife they began arguing with the soldier i don't want to go i can't

00:30:30.840 go i have to protect my wife because these these men were often caregivers for their families they had

00:30:35.820 to protect their families as they crossed the border and so this man was just trying to protect his

00:30:40.000 family and the wife was pleading with the soldier she was uh on her knees at one point and she was

00:30:45.880 standing up and she was crying and um he was pretty not empathetic about it and he uh he hit her

00:30:53.100 and he uh they took the husband away and it was it was just this tragic scene and it was not

00:31:01.200 isolated either this happened a hundred times in just the time that i was there and i'm sure it's

00:31:06.940 happened one thousand more times so is your feeling that most are going because they want to defend

00:31:14.300 their country but there are a few that that are like i i got to protect my family or are most of the

00:31:21.140 ukrainians serving because they have to i mean they're caught between a rock and a hard place here

00:31:27.940 uh they want um to protect their families of course and their families safety is their top priority but

00:31:35.100 then also they love their country deeply and they want to serve their country as well and so some men

00:31:39.520 have taken the choice where they prioritize the solidarity of their country over the um the

00:31:45.960 sovereignty of the country may say uh over uh the temporary um their their temporary safety their

00:31:53.140 temporary uh being alive so they prioritize the sovereignty of the country and then there's this

00:31:58.000 other group who who wants to keep their family safe right and these are two very different groups

00:32:02.880 and they both have noble uh intentions yeah and they're just caught in this tragic situation

00:32:08.640 the best of the glenbeck program

00:32:14.640 i don't know if you have read the lyrics of the ukrainian national anthem

00:32:31.120 but i found myself looking them up this weekend they come the original line from a poet in 2003

00:32:41.280 is ukraine has not yet died neither her glory nor her freedom and they've changed that just a little bit

00:32:51.220 ukraine is not yet dead nor its glory and freedom luck will still smile on us brother ukraine

00:33:01.100 our enemies our enemies our enemies will die as dew does in the sunshine and we too brothers

00:33:08.300 we'll live happily in our land we'll not spare uh either our souls or our bodies to get freedom

00:33:18.660 and we will prove that we are brothers brothers of kozak kin

00:33:25.380 that's pretty awesome where ours is asking us hey does that flag still wave

00:33:35.040 it talks about the past theirs talks about the future and it starts with hey we're not dead yet

00:33:42.480 that's pretty amazing

00:33:45.420 i don't think i want to go up against a nation where they're singing their anthem and they're like

00:33:53.740 hey we're not dead yet and we're not going to give up our souls or our bodies for this thing called freedom

00:33:59.220 i think they probably mean it they know the price to be paid they know how precious freedom really is

00:34:10.220 i'm not sure we do but they certainly do

00:34:14.220 they know how many people in their own country have paid the price have been silenced by force

00:34:24.420 you know at the beginning of the program today i said that i wasn't sure that i understood what was

00:34:32.240 happening in ukraine and russia something doesn't feel right to me

00:34:38.180 but i do understand one thing that is happening in the ukraine

00:34:44.220 and i think it's happening all around the world

00:34:47.780 it's clear to me that the flame of freedom is now burning brighter

00:34:53.860 than ever

00:34:55.760 the flicker of freedom always lives inside each human heart

00:35:01.880 it was put there by god

00:35:04.260 he fanned the spark of freedom

00:35:07.020 in the hearts of the pilgrims

00:35:10.560 they first stepped off the mayflower

00:35:12.780 it was william bradford said

00:35:15.640 thus out of small beginnings greater things

00:35:19.100 have been produced

00:35:20.800 as one small candle may light a thousand

00:35:24.240 so the light here kindled

00:35:27.180 hath shown unto many

00:35:29.200 that candle light that always

00:35:34.300 is so delicate and so close to being blown out

00:35:39.960 it was burning when the rebels tossed the tea into the harbor

00:35:45.740 it was raging

00:35:47.500 as the founders signed the declaration of independence

00:35:50.340 and forged across the delaware

00:35:52.340 broken and battered

00:35:53.740 it was burning

00:35:55.380 when brother rose against brother to free slaves

00:35:59.040 it was alive

00:36:01.540 in the horrors of the trenches of the first world war

00:36:05.960 it was alive as we stormed the beaches of normandy

00:36:11.680 it ignited a march against tyranny

00:36:15.700 and fire hoses in the streets of birmingham

00:36:19.100 it gave courage to young women like rosa parks

00:36:24.640 it was there when a lone man stood against the tanks in tianaman square

00:36:30.420 it was there again this weekend

00:36:33.180 as a lone man stood against the tanks in ukraine

00:36:37.340 when truckers opposed tyranny in canada

00:36:42.000 it was there and it is ablaze today

00:36:45.980 in the hearts of ukrainians

00:36:47.720 we see it as they gather their weapons and stand

00:36:52.480 we hear it as they sing their national anthem

00:36:55.420 while cleaning the glass in their living room window

00:36:58.660 that had been blown out by a bomb

00:37:00.300 we admire it as young ukrainian men flee 0.99

00:37:04.840 not away from their country

00:37:08.020 but back to it in the form of safety

00:37:11.420 of their homes abroad

00:37:12.920 we feel it as thousands of germans gather in support

00:37:16.760 of ukraine

00:37:18.320 under the brandenburg gate

00:37:20.420 as russians are sent to prison 1.00

00:37:24.280 because they participated in a revolt

00:37:27.680 against their own leader's aggression

00:37:30.020 is that not

00:37:32.540 that flame of freedom

00:37:35.120 bright

00:37:36.400 the fight against evil is ongoing

00:37:41.320 it has existed ever since man

00:37:45.960 has been given agency

00:37:47.200 but the thing that evil does not know

00:37:51.900 is that it never wins in the end

00:37:55.340 doesn't matter who wears the mask of darkness

00:38:00.460 whoever tries to grab your security

00:38:12.480 whoever tries to grab your freedom

00:38:15.700 trudeau

00:38:16.940 we need to just remember one line

00:38:22.060 that we've heard a thousand times

00:38:23.800 and say it out loud

00:38:24.920 the more you tighten your grip

00:38:27.420 the more star systems will slip through your fingers

00:38:31.140 you have to say it with a bad english accent

00:38:34.260 there was a candle that was lit

00:38:39.340 on this land

00:38:40.280 and this candle no matter

00:38:44.840 who rules over it

00:38:47.280 that candle will not be extinguished

00:38:50.440 there are too many of us

00:38:52.240 and too many of us around the world

00:38:54.720 we're seeing them in hong kong

00:38:57.060 we failed and we did nothing

00:39:01.560 we're seeing them in ukraine

00:39:05.520 personally when i saw the tank

00:39:10.620 roll over that car

00:39:11.960 and that guy lived

00:39:14.440 i thought these guys are being protected

00:39:16.400 these guys might have some divine providence

00:39:20.120 going their way

00:39:21.180 there is nothing more valuable

00:39:29.420 than the gift of individual freedom

00:39:31.940 nothing

00:39:33.440 nothing

00:39:34.980 not safety

00:39:37.060 not food

00:39:38.820 not a guarantee for whatever it is you want

00:39:42.960 freedom

00:39:44.160 is the ultimate gift

00:39:46.660 it's divine

00:39:48.820 and it comes

00:39:49.880 to every man

00:39:51.520 and every woman

00:39:52.440 no matter where they were born

00:39:53.880 that's what we fight for

00:39:59.160 and that's what we fight against

00:40:02.240 this weekend i spoke at cpac

00:40:08.920 and somehow or another

00:40:11.540 i was labeled as a pro-putin guy

00:40:14.920 i don't understand that

00:40:17.760 seeing that

00:40:18.600 i have said multiple times

00:40:20.500 putin is an evil

00:40:22.280 cold-blooded killer

00:40:23.920 and his death

00:40:26.740 is something to celebrate

00:40:28.720 don't get involved emotionally

00:40:34.600 in these things

00:40:36.140 this is way too important

00:40:39.840 i know it's tough

00:40:42.780 because you see what's happening

00:40:44.340 on social media

00:40:45.380 you see what's happening

00:40:47.360 but

00:40:47.580 don't get swept up

00:40:50.080 in the parade

00:40:51.120 i don't know

00:40:53.760 what the right thing

00:40:54.880 to do is

00:40:55.800 other than

00:40:56.580 all we can do

00:40:58.180 without committing

00:40:59.620 ourselves

00:41:00.560 to war

00:41:01.540 but i would require

00:41:06.040 if i'm going to commit

00:41:07.800 myself

00:41:08.600 if i'm going to

00:41:09.840 commit

00:41:10.500 that i will do

00:41:11.800 all that i can do

00:41:12.880 the government

00:41:14.380 should stop telling me

00:41:16.820 how much pain

00:41:17.640 is coming my way

00:41:18.980 while canceling

00:41:21.760 oil drilling

00:41:22.980 this weekend

00:41:23.920 here in america

00:41:24.940 while buying oil

00:41:26.960 from iraq

00:41:28.280 i'm sorry

00:41:28.920 from iran

00:41:29.720 while buying oil

00:41:31.300 from russia

00:41:32.100 at a greater clip

00:41:33.520 than we bought it

00:41:34.260 two weeks ago

00:41:35.140 it's in what people

00:41:39.520 do

00:41:40.580 not what they say

00:41:42.300 and right now

00:41:44.780 the only people

00:41:45.760 that i

00:41:46.520 see doing

00:41:48.960 anything

00:41:49.560 are inspirational

00:41:53.520 and they are the people

00:41:55.540 as always

00:41:57.140 the people

00:41:58.820 who are just like

00:42:00.320 you

00:42:00.820 just like your

00:42:02.900 neighbors

00:42:03.280 that actually

00:42:05.820 believe in

00:42:06.700 something

00:42:07.200 those people

00:42:09.200 in ukraine

00:42:09.960 who didn't

00:42:11.200 have a gun

00:42:11.840 last week

00:42:12.620 but now

00:42:14.060 have a gun

00:42:14.760 and will fight

00:42:17.320 as hard

00:42:18.040 as they possibly

00:42:18.880 can

00:42:19.400 so their

00:42:20.700 children

00:42:21.260 have a chance

00:42:23.600 at making

00:42:24.980 their own

00:42:25.940 choices

00:42:26.600 and further

00:42:28.760 their own

00:42:29.380 life

00:42:29.860 the way

00:42:30.540 they choose

00:42:31.680 not the way

00:42:33.140 the state

00:42:34.000 chooses

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The Glenn Beck Program - February 28, 2022

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