Vladimir Putin has no room to compromise. He is going to do whatever it takes to get his way, even if it means destabilizing the entire world. Glenn explains why this is a bad idea, and why we should be worried about it.
00:03:26.200Today is one of those days where we're going to try to figure out what's going on together.
00:03:31.980Some things really bother me, don't seem right.
00:03:35.340Let me just start with what happened at 5.50 a.m. Thursday morning, Russia time.
00:03:44.000Putin was wearing the same suit and the same red tie that he wore on Monday as he took to the airwaves and warned President Biden and NATO not to intervene in Ukraine.
00:03:59.320He said his plans, interesting choice of words, were to denazify Ukraine.
00:04:07.280He continued to stick to his factually inaccurate version of Ukraine's history, saying essentially that Ukraine was always part of Russia.
00:04:17.500His attempts here in the last few days to rewrite history at his convenience seemed to me to be something that we talked about on yesterday's program, a very calculated plan in his own home country of working towards capital T traditionalism.
00:04:42.460If we have time, we'll get into that again today.
00:04:45.080If you don't know what it is, listen to yesterday's podcast.
00:05:15.440President Biden responded to Putin's attack last night, saying the prayers of the entire world are with the people of Ukraine as they suffer an unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces.
00:05:30.940There is this is real trouble and there's some things that just don't make sense.
00:05:36.820I'm going to give you just a couple of more pieces of the news, and then we're going to start talking to some experts today on what they think this this means.
00:07:20.080We know just if you paid attention to any of our specials on Ukraine with the Biden people and his son and everybody else that was in Ukraine.
00:07:30.000We have under the under the guiding hand of Barack Obama, we have meddled in Ukraine and just it's it's horrible, horrible corruption.
00:07:43.680What we have been involved in in Ukraine.
00:07:48.360We shouldn't have been there in the first place.
00:07:50.840We should mind our own business on that.
00:08:39.520It's censorship plans regarding Russia's invasion into Ukraine.
00:08:43.040The organization said it needed to be sensitive on the matter because it would need Russia's support when we wrestle with America to solve the Taiwan issue once and for all.
00:08:57.480I do not believe that that was a mistake and nobody's going to be disappeared on that little mistake.
00:10:00.500And when someone starts acting emotionally, like Putin has been doing over the past year plus, you learn to kind of put that away and say,
00:10:08.720okay, well, he's obviously after something else, which I still think there's something else involved, just like you said.
00:10:14.620So when the Biden administration was kind of saying, you know, now this is happening, full-scale invasion, all that, I didn't believe it was happening.
00:11:52.700It looks as if they will probably go further than just eastern Ukraine.
00:11:56.640The question now is how far they will go and how far tensions will rise, especially with NATO gathering troops all along the border of Ukraine.
00:12:04.560Okay, so it looks as though he was using conventional warfare to cut off the troops as they were kind of gathered at the borders of the two districts that President Putin said he was going to take.
00:12:25.720They went behind those lines and kind of cut them off so they can't fall back to defend Kiev, correct?
00:12:35.180Yes, that's correct, because they know that Ukraine's strategy here is they know they're going to get overwhelmed.
00:12:41.360So their strategy is their mainline forces in the east guarding those two territories, as you said.
00:12:46.120Their strategy is to do a tactical retreat back into the urban areas within Ukraine.
00:12:51.540Then it turns into both a hybrid guerrilla warfare and heavy urban warfare in the large Ukrainian cities.
00:13:01.540That is very, very dangerous for the Russian military as well as civilians, which Russia does not want to kill too many Ukrainian civilians,
00:13:09.520because that is going to be very, very unpopular in mainland Russia.
00:13:14.080But Ukraine's strategy here, as I said, is to get into the cities and turn this into an urban conflict and draw it out for as long as possible.
00:13:22.140Russia wants to stop that, and that explains why they dropped in behind the troops there.
00:13:26.440Can they take the whole country just by air and cutting it all off?
00:13:33.020They absolutely can take the whole country in the short term.
00:13:37.000It depends on how effective their air assets are, and that's what we're seeing right now.
00:17:32.740I mean, I think the the Nazi stuff, the religious stuff, that's all that's that's Dugan kind of language.
00:17:41.440Yeah, and and that and it's a very, very powerful weapon for Russians, because they're they're very much willing to suffer and to, you know, to to basically take it on the chin if they have to.
00:17:57.220If that means that their country, you know, will eventually reign supreme.
00:18:00.520It's interesting if you go and take a if you take a tour of the Kremlin and Red Square in Russia, which I've done a couple of times, you'll be very surprised to see that in a Soviet, you know, the former Soviet Union, the capital in the Red Square, probably like 80 percent churches.
00:18:19.420They weren't religious during the Soviet Union, but historically during the Russian Empire, they were very religious.
00:18:25.140This orthodoxy is very, very pivotal to Russian nationalism.
00:18:28.500And even the Soviets would turn that up when they needed to.
00:18:32.060But that's exactly what Putin has done in the vein of Alexander Dugan, especially in that speech that he gave, you know, last week.
00:18:39.840That was very, very telling to a lot of us that have been looking at this, people like you and me, Glenn, that, OK, now we know exactly what he's doing.
00:18:49.100He's turning up that dial of nationalism to justify doing, you know, what he's doing and possibly even more, which is scary.
00:18:57.320OK, would you would you agree with me?
00:19:00.080And I'd like you to explore this a bit.
00:19:04.040There is no real obvious win for Putin.
00:20:42.500But their election interference, I think, was a direct response to Hillary Clinton and what they did to his election.
00:20:46.920I think that a lot of what we're doing now, I think, was a direct response to how the Obama administration and all his foreign policy elite handled 2014 Ukrainian revolution.
00:20:58.300I think he responds to these people, you know, directly in kind.
00:21:01.680That's also a reason why he was willing, I think, to back off of this when Trump was there, because he knew that that was not how they operated.
00:21:07.880And they weren't the ones directly responsible for what happened.
00:21:10.340And I also think that it's ridiculous that NATO wouldn't respond, wouldn't say, hey, look, we're not going to admit Ukraine into NATO.
00:22:07.300I'm going to give you another perspective when we come back because I just don't think – I mean, I agreed with he's trying to break up NATO, but not anymore.
00:22:19.700This is costing him too high of a price at home.
00:26:01.080Does that fit the pattern of the fourth political theory at all?
00:26:06.320Well, it's Putin's way of framing himself as, you know, not being on those extremes, on those political extremes.
00:26:13.620In the eastern part of the country, when Russia moved in, when we had the breakaway region, when we had the chaos in 2014,
00:26:21.680you did get this kind of vacuum, this political power vacuum, and there were a few battalions of extremists
00:26:30.500identifying as Nazis or National Socialists or white nationalists or something.
00:26:35.580Very few of them, but they did exist, and they were typically, most of them, fighting on the side of Ukraine.
00:26:44.100Against Russia, which they saw as an imperialist force.
00:26:47.700It's the sort of thing, though, that for quite some time, Russia, which has been the expansionist authoritarian force in that region,
00:26:56.160has used as a justification, a sort of rhetorical justification.
00:26:59.980And it's important, of course, to Russian contemporary identity to recall the fact that it was one of the partners that defeated Hitler in World War II,
00:27:08.880and therefore it's an anti-fascist cause in the world.
00:27:12.880And that's being instrumentalized here, but it's, I mean, Zelensky's Jewish, isn't he?
00:48:10.900If you know they're going to put sanctions on you, a normal person would say, well, we're not going to be able to handle that.
00:48:17.160But, you know, and I know, Bill, something that most people don't know, I think it was four or five years ago, Putin met with the Western press and said, World War Three is already here.
00:48:32.260And it will be fought with ones and zeros.
00:48:34.440If he is indeed looking for a new world order, this allows him to fight back and cripple financial markets, cripple, do what we're doing to him, but fight with ones and zeros.
00:48:48.440Okay, but it's a different situation, Beck.
00:48:52.000Yes, he's going to hurt and has hurt worldwide financial markets.
00:48:56.260And the Dow is down about 700 points, 800 points today, and oil is up over $100 a barrel.
00:49:06.780So the only thing you can do with an irrational leader, and one of the reasons I made the mistake in my analysis that said Putin wouldn't bring military invasion to Ukraine was that when I talked to Trump, Trump thought he was rational.
00:49:22.520Trump thought that there were lines that Putin wouldn't cross because he didn't cross them with Trump.
00:49:28.340Okay, now we know that Putin is not rational.
00:49:33.420So when you have a dangerous person with power in that area, and Saddam Hussein was one, Adolf Hitler was one, Joseph Stalin was one, and history is littered with them.
00:49:49.320Nobody, and history has shown that, and the United States and Europe in a combination can break the Russian economy, which would lead to a coup against Putin.
00:50:34.600But Bill, I'm telling you, if we would have just said the Ayatollah Khomeini is irrational and a crazy man and left it at that, or Osama bin Laden, we wouldn't understand who we're dealing with.
00:50:51.240It seems irrational to us, but that's because we don't view it from their point of view.
00:52:05.980So there is this weird thing going on, Bill, where people are saying, you know, either we've got to go in and put boots on the ground and go to war, or they're saying we love we love Putin.
00:52:21.720And, you know, we caused a lot of these problems, which some of that is true, but not this.
00:52:27.240You know, I think we need to recognize that Putin is a very bad guy.
00:52:31.760This is a very bad thing, violation of international law, and we need to be part of the solution.
00:52:38.400But that doesn't mean go to war with Russia.
00:58:30.000Bill O'Reilly, I wish that you would be a little more clear on your feelings.
00:58:35.280Will, I want to talk to you about, I've never heard a president, at the point it was two days ago, say, and this is going to cost the American people money.
00:59:36.040So what the doctors did is they looked at inflammation and said, okay, we have this tool, this tool, this tool, this tool, four different ingredients that all attack inflammation a different way.
00:59:47.420Why don't we put all of them in one to see if that covers people?
00:59:52.060Well, I've never taken ibuprofen and seen any result.
00:59:56.600I take Relief Factor and I'm out of pain.
00:59:59.620It's a three-week quick start you can check out for yourself right now.
01:00:03.26070% of the people who try it go on to order more.
01:00:21.200So, Bill, I want to ask you, first of all, have you ever heard, except in like World War II, a president say that these things are going to cost the American people?
01:00:45.220I mean, financially, I've not heard that from any other president, and what he was talking about was gas prices and everything else, and it is going to cost us.
01:01:28.120We're destroying our fossil fuel industry here, and they're doing that?
01:01:34.300I mean, this is the kind of stupidity that's driven by the corrupt media, Hollywood, all of the places where you hear it, that's just incomprehensible.
01:01:51.200I want a clean planet, but you don't destroy the infrastructure of your energy delivery system when people need to get to work and heat their homes, because of some blank in theory.
01:02:01.700Okay, while the other side of the world is polluting the hell out of the planet.
01:07:25.920The information we're given is often intentionally obligatory, certainly from Russia's perspective.
01:07:32.340So we're kind of shooting off the hip and people want to understand how should I look at this.
01:07:37.340And anything you and I say is going to be a little bit, it should be taken with a grain of salt, just like anything we see in the media, generally speaking.
01:07:45.760But especially when it comes to a war situation, where it's enormously advantageous for both sides to kind of keep their cards close to their chest.
01:07:55.840I would disagree with you a slight bit.
01:07:58.900I don't think Putin is a totalitarian.
01:08:11.040You could be a dictator without being a totalitarian.
01:08:13.220He's not literally a Stalinist or a Hitler figure.
01:08:18.380I agree with you completely that when you're talking about missiles hitting cities, our concern should be with civilians and making sure they're kept safe.
01:08:29.640I mean, I think it's fair to say, Glenn, this is the kind of thing that you and I and pretty much everyone listening to this couldn't really expect to see in our lifetimes.
01:08:40.720This is something, you know, war in Europe and this level is something that was regarded as relegated to history books.
01:08:48.600So I think we're all a bit like, what do we do now?
01:08:53.820But thankfully, we have the strong, firm hand of Joe Biden in the White House.
01:09:51.520Ukraine is, you know, obviously much more liberalized.
01:09:54.700But the point you made earlier in the introduction, the level of animosity from Ukrainians to Russians,
01:10:03.120and to Russia specifically, I don't want to say Russians, excuse me, is really, really high.
01:10:07.620To the point where if you speak Russian or that is kind of a bit of a faux pas, because there's such a memory of decades of oppression.
01:10:19.140But on the other hand, eastern Ukraine does have more affinity toward Russia than western Ukraine, which has historically more aligned with Europe.
01:10:28.300I mean, it's the reason why we say Kiev instead of Kiev, which we've always said, because Kiev is the way the Russians have pronounced it, if I'm not mistaken, right?
01:11:15.820It was the same thing that East Germany said for years for their oppression, which is, oh, you know, we're getting rid of all the Nazis, which were kind of, they claimed was historically a specifically West German phenomenon.
01:11:27.140How could that even have been possible?
01:11:28.140So when you're talking, here's the thing with Putin and just with the Russian approach, it's kind of like saying things that are so audacious and ridiculous on its face, like daring you to call their bluff.
01:11:41.140So whatever he's saying, I mean, in any time of war, you only have to roll your eyes and be like, okay, this is nonsensical.
01:11:48.920So, Michael, I know that you and I disagree on the size of government.
01:11:58.140And we both disagree with going into Ukraine, I imagine, and sending military and troops and getting involved in another war, et cetera, et cetera.
01:12:09.500Can you explain, how do you square the circle when it comes to things like Hitler?
01:12:18.580If we would have acted sooner and acted with force before he went into Poland, things might have been different.
01:12:29.360You catch these guys early and don't give them any air to breathe.
01:12:32.960How do you how would you deal with this in your utopian world?
01:12:37.600Well, I don't live in a utopian world.
01:12:40.540You live in a utopian world because in your utopian world, you can go into someone who is duly elected, like Hitler was, and you could overthrow the government.
01:12:48.660And somehow that's not going to have negative consequences.
01:12:50.500So, the non-utopian world I live in recognizes that there are going to be extremely evil people like Hitler.
01:12:59.500And in order to do this, you have to make sure they are not given incentives and mechanisms to increase their power.
01:13:06.780And the only way a Hitler can become a Hitler is with the government.
01:13:11.980Without a government, you're just going to have him be a homeless painter.
01:13:26.240So, there was no good options on the table at the time, especially, and most importantly, and this goes back to the person you and I hate the most in terms of America, Woodrow Wilson.
01:13:36.780If the West hadn't been so exhausted as a result of the Great War, if they hadn't seen an entire generation lost for no reason, there would be far more appetite to take on a Hitler.
01:13:47.340This is one of the reasons Neville Chamberlain, you know, had his appeasement, because he's like, we're not doing this again.
01:13:54.380I can't, whatever the cost is, we're not paying it because we just paid the cost yesterday, effectively.
01:13:59.520So, in your non-utopian world, looking at our utopian world, how does a Michael Malice solve that?
01:14:09.100Do you, if you don't want him to be a dictator, don't let him grow into things, don't give him access to things, do you cut off his access to the West?
01:14:25.600What would you do if you were, go ahead.
01:14:28.280I don't, I am not, this, you're, we're talking, there's a big difference between, you know, a political philosophy and theory, whether, you know, the Founding Fathers' vision of America, my vision of anarchism, or some kind of Bernie Sanders' social democracy.
01:14:45.020I don't know that any of those really matter when it comes to a situation of war that we're fighting today.
01:14:51.840I'm not a military strategist, I don't think I have any particular insight into geopolitics, or we should sanction this region, or let some drought in through the Caspian Sea, or something like that.
01:15:03.660I don't have any good answers for you, Glenn, I'm sorry.
01:15:05.800Oh, that's, that's, I mean, I think that's one of the best answers I have heard from anybody.
01:15:23.920Just quickly, anyone who thinks that there is some kind of magic wand that's going to resolve a situation against, you know, one of the largest countries in the world, who's actually already shooting missiles in the cities, I think they're just being inaccurate.
01:15:36.760Do you think that Vladimir Putin is, Bill O'Reilly and I just had this argument, he thinks he's crazy, he thinks he's always been, always been rational, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but now he's crazy.
01:15:53.360I just don't think we understand what his goals are.
01:15:55.400The whole point, the reason I wrote Dear Reader, my North Korean book, is to demonstrate how evil, rational, and logical their system is in order to further the Kim's family and their control and power.
01:16:07.080There's nothing Putin's doing that is remotely crazy just because it's something evil or we don't understand.
01:30:21.000Find like-minded people because the seasons have changed.
01:30:26.600When you're preparing, think about the community as a whole.
01:30:30.340I have a small town in Idaho that I just love.
01:30:33.500And I moved there because it's a small town.
01:30:36.040And they're all farmers and farmers know that they're going to have to take care of each other.
01:30:41.960And right now, we are doing things as a town like we're building a smoker because we know if there's a shortage of meat and let's say there's a shortage of power and power keeps going in and out, there's going to be a shortage that we won't be able to deal with.
01:31:03.220So let's go learn how to smoke meat so we can smoke some beef and store some beef if it gets to that point.
01:31:11.800You know, we didn't have a warning in 1929, really.
01:31:15.880It wasn't it was the roaring 20s and then maybe a couple of years into it, a couple of years before 1929, some signs started to appear.
01:31:57.880Because if I if I were Vladimir Putin and we started getting hit financially, I would unleash my team of hackers and I would shut down oil pipelines.
01:32:10.740I would shut down the the access to our banks.
01:32:16.640I would I would disrupt through hacking as much as I can.
01:32:21.160He remember, he said World War Three will be fought with ones and zeros.
01:32:25.360I don't know how prepared we are for that, but he's very prepared for that.
01:32:36.980Make the people as miserable as possible.
01:32:40.140So we could see in very short order banking holidays.
01:32:44.780It would be rational if somebody is attacking our our financial systems, then they got to shut them down for a while and it would cause great instability.
01:32:55.440Do you have enough money just to be able to buy the things that you would need to buy so life is OK during a banking holiday?
01:33:03.640You might want to have more than that.
01:33:07.800Fill your gas tanks and keep them keep extra gas in gas tanks.
01:34:34.760And that's why I say be in these communities, because somebody is going to have something that you need and they're going to have something that you need.
01:34:43.880And you're going to have something that they need.
01:34:54.760This is a very dangerous, dangerous and fragile time for freedom.
01:35:04.740Look how fast Canada called people terrorists and shut them down.
01:35:11.380This is going to happen while we are not paying attention or for some other reasons.
01:35:19.380It is vital that you get involved in your local and state politics.
01:35:26.720You call your state reps and tell them to stop ESG standards from being used in your state.
01:35:36.240It is so important that's the these standards are pretty much what the the Canadian government is doing to the truckers.
01:35:47.300Get your state to pass a law also against a single Fed coin.
01:35:52.580I'm going to give you a story here that I can't believe we missed.
01:35:56.440In June 2021, the Bank of England, that's their Federal Reserve, the Bank of England has called on ministers to decide whether a central bank digital currency should be programmable,
01:36:13.180ultimately giving the issuer control over how it is spent by the recipient.
01:36:19.000Tom Mutton, the director of Bank of England, said during a conference on Monday that programming would become a key feature of any future bank digital currency in which the money could be programmed to release only when something happened.
01:36:37.880It happens to be one of the participants in a transaction.
01:36:41.500It puts a restriction on the use of that money.
01:36:44.100There could be some socially beneficial outcomes from that, preventing activities which are seen to be socially harmful in some way.
01:36:55.340This is what they were talking about two years ago.
01:36:58.080If you don't think that digital currency is coming, you're mistaken.
01:37:03.840It is right around the corner, and it could be something like what could be coming in response to Putin and our cutting him off on the banks.
01:37:20.480He will respond, I believe, in ones and zeros, and then the government will have its new virus.
01:37:27.580It'll be a computer virus, and they'll have to protect us and shut things down.
01:37:33.400Get your kids out of school if you can, but local schools, if you have to have the local school, make sure you know all about it.
01:37:41.320Again, if you're the lone voice, move now.
01:37:45.400If you are joining the truckers here in America, make sure you are not following a leader.
01:37:52.820Make sure you're following God and the peace and actions of Christ.
01:37:58.400Get the Martin Luther King Pledge of Nonviolence and get everyone in that group to sign it.
01:38:04.820If they will not sign it, you may be in the wrong group.
01:38:09.340Between real crazies who want to burn the entire thing down through war or chaos, plants from the left who are Antifa,
01:38:17.860and the fact that media, the Capitol Police, and the FBI actively, in one way or another, want to define us as terrorists,
01:45:36.560Russia claims to have destroyed 74 Ukrainian facilities, 11 air bases.
01:45:43.900We don't know what their ultimate plans are at this point.
01:45:48.580Biden is moving, may move additional U.S. troops further east in Europe.
01:45:54.000It looks like the sanctions, if this is true, Stu, can you read that story that you just told me about the SWIFT banking procedures?
01:46:04.040Yeah, the European Union is saying they are unlikely at this stage to take steps to cut Russia off from the SWIFT global interbank payment system.
01:47:05.460I know we're going to talk about something you're going to introduce on Monday, but I wanted to first pick your brain about Ukraine and what we should be doing and what what do you think this means?
01:47:17.540Well, it's we're in a totally new era now.
01:47:22.460This is an invasion of a Western style democracy by a totalitarian dictator.
01:47:31.920And I agree with you what you just said.
01:47:34.200The swift banking transactions, you we can't do this half measures.
01:47:44.180And so it's I think I think we need to we need to crush their energy economy.
01:47:50.080We need to crush the ruble, their currency.
01:47:54.140They they cannot ever think of doing this again.
01:47:57.460You know, Biden said that he's going to have sanctions on him beyond his wildest expectations or some, you know, hyperbolic statement like that.
01:48:09.200And it reminds me of the full force and power of the United States when we said that in Iraq.
01:48:22.380I mean, it was good, but that's not the full force of the United States.
01:48:25.580I don't I mean, if he doesn't come out with real sanctions today, we have even less credibility than we had earlier.
01:48:37.280Absolutely. If if he doesn't do those banking sanctions, what he's doing is sanctioning what Vladimir Putin has done, because the next step will be disinformation campaigns and saboteurs in Georgia, the Baltics.
01:48:53.820This guy is bent on destroying the West.
01:48:58.300He wants to do to the West what happened to the Soviet Union.
01:49:02.920And he's this this is his next move in a bigger plan.
01:49:07.280I look at what happened in Canada with the truckers and how fast they could move to shut people off.
01:49:15.480And I am, you know, Vladimir Putin said a few years ago that World War Three, which he claimed at the time we were already in the West, just didn't know it.
01:49:25.380He said World War Three will be fought with ones and zeros.
01:49:28.760If we do put sanctions on him today that make his life uncomfortable, you know, I believe we could see financial sectors hit by by hackers.
01:49:39.120Energy sectors, energy sectors hit here in the United States.
01:49:43.480And it makes me very nervous that that would be something our government would say we need to crack down on everything online and take control of it just to protect you.
01:50:41.620China came out last night and there was a leaked report, which leaks don't happen in China.
01:50:49.100But there was a leak report from the media that said the media needs to support Russia because we're going to need Russia's support when we deal with America on Taiwan.
01:51:01.500How concerned are you with the relationship between China and Russia?
01:51:10.200Well, I'm very concerned that this axis is forming between Iran, Russia and China.
01:51:16.840And, you know, as if you look at history and I know you are a lover of history, but if you go back to the end of the 30 years war, we created this sort of world order concept.
01:51:30.260And what began was what I call the polarity cycle, where after a great war, there's exhaustion, there's some kind of treaty and there's multi polarity.
01:51:58.360I've been echoing this for years that we have to be careful.
01:52:01.860And I genuinely believe that's why Biden and his administration don't want to do the swift transactions.
01:52:07.880They think it pushes Russia further into China's arms.
01:52:11.400But I would submit I think they're already there.
01:52:14.160They are strategically cooperating to, you know, basically pin us.
01:52:19.900And so I that's why I think devastating action needs to happen.
01:52:24.120And perhaps as Xi Jinping watches that, he'll take note.
01:52:30.640We have sold our soul to the devil with China.
01:52:34.140And this is something you're going to introduce on on Monday.
01:52:39.260But people don't have any idea how what the influence that we're already getting in television and movies, how China is truly influencing everything.
01:52:55.920Can you talk a little bit about the Screen Act?
01:54:38.160It's why his career is kind of just been lost all of a sudden.
01:54:41.700Yeah, no, they are canceling people who speak out on this.
01:54:47.420There was a actually Beijing born director, producer who came to America, made some great movies.
01:54:55.340But then they found something that she said back eight years ago where she said the Chinese Communist Party is a bunch of liars and there's nothing in China but lies.
01:55:08.060And what we're doing is basically saying if you take American dollars and the State Department and DOD oftentimes support movies being made.
01:55:18.120So if you're you're taking taxpayer dollars, you cannot alter that movie to meet China's demands.
01:55:24.360And if you do, we're taking that money back.
01:55:31.580Why are we why is the guy supporting movies and funding movies to be made?
01:55:38.160Well, if you think about it from the DOD's perspective, if they, for example, loan a helicopter for a military movie, it serves to recruit people into the military.
01:55:50.540So it's it's somewhat of a recruitment budget.
01:55:52.900And then from the State Department standpoint, it's tourism.