The Charlie Kirk Show - War with Russia, What is it Good For?
Aired: 2022-02-02
Duration: 34:34


=== Biden's Afghan Withdrawal Failures (09:57) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, leaked documents reveal Biden's Afghan failures and we are on the story about why we should not go to war with Russia.
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[00:00:12]  Shouldn't take that much deep thinking, but unfortunately it does.
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[00:01:32]  Joe Biden has now said he is sending 3,000 troops to the Ukrainian region or Eastern Europe to try and defray Vladimir Putin.
[00:01:44]  Leaked documents reveal Biden's Afghan failures from Jonathan Swan from Axios.com.
[00:01:50]  Hours before the Taliban seized control of Kabul on August 15, 2021, senior Biden administration officials were still discussing and assigning basic actions involved in mass civilian evacuation.
[00:02:03]  So I'm going to connect what's happening in Eastern Europe right now with the Afghanistan debacle.
[00:02:09]  Outsiders were frustrated and suspicious.
[00:02:11]  The administration was having plenty of meetings, but was stuck in bureaucratic inertia and lacked urgency until the last minute.
[00:02:19]  While the world word immediately peppers the internal documents, it's clear officials were still scrambling to finalize their plans.
[00:02:27]  Now, first of all, we only have these information because someone is leaking on Biden.
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[00:02:42]  The National Security Council, someone is leaking these internal documents.
[00:02:48]  We have all of them right here.
[00:02:50]  And basically, it shows that the Biden regime had no idea what they were doing when it came to trying to withdraw from Afghanistan.
[00:02:58]  We knew that, obviously, with the 13 dead Marines and the Taliban taking over the country at rapid pace.
[00:03:05]  For example, they just decided they needed to notify local Afghan staff to, quote, to begin to register their interest in the relocation to the United States.
[00:03:14]  And they were still determining which countries could serve as transit points for evacuees.
[00:03:21]  So someone in the Department of Defense wants to try to set the record straight when it comes to the Biden bureaucratic nonsense that led to this.
[00:03:30]  So we knew Afghanistan was a disaster.
[00:03:32]  We knew this administration could not even pull a simple withdrawal from a country successfully while lying about it and giving us, at the time, a line of nonsense saying, oh, no, no, we got it all figured out.
[00:03:46]  Don't worry about it.
[00:03:48]  Nothing to see here.
[00:03:51]  So if this administration can't get American citizens out of Afghanistan, why on earth should we believe that they could fight Vladimir Putin?
[00:04:02]  If this administration gets too mucked up with bureaucratic inertia, to use Axios' word, with trying to keep the goatherder child predators that call themselves Taliban leaders that are stuck in the 12th century, why do we think that we can stare down Russia?
[00:04:23]  That's just one of many reasons why you should be infuriated by the new news that Biden is really, he's really upset about the eastern border of Ukraine.
[00:04:35]  So for those of you keeping score at home, how many troops has Biden deployed to the southern border?
[00:04:42]  Now, I will be probably visiting the southern border next week.
[00:04:44]  I don't even know if Connor knows this or not, or Andrew, but we're working on that, some very exciting things.
[00:04:49]  It's wide open.
[00:04:50]  It's an inner country highway for cartels, drug traffickers, gun smugglers.
[00:04:57]  I would love to see 3,000 troops sent to the southern border.
[00:05:02]  But instead, Biden is saying in new press release, he's sending 3,000 more troops to Eastern Europe from thehill.com.
[00:05:12]  Pentagon deploying 3,000 troops to allies in Europe amid tensions with Russia.
[00:05:19]  You see, the Washington, D.C. machine is realizing the domestic COVID war is ending.
[00:05:28]  Omicron might be the variant to end all variants.
[00:05:32]  Early treatments are widespread.
[00:05:35]  Fauci's approval rating is at record low.
[00:05:38]  And the Pentagon is deploying and repositioning over 3,000 troops to bolster Eastern European allies.
[00:05:44]  The first such movement as the U.S. looks to bolster NATO's capabilities in the region amid growing tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
[00:05:53]  Now, we're supposed to believe that Vladimir Putin might invade Ukraine at any time.
[00:05:58]  I'm not so convinced of that, actually.
[00:06:01]  What, are the Olympics just a couple hours away?
[00:06:03]  Is that right?
[00:06:04]  The Winter Olympics are coming right around the corner.
[00:06:06]  I do not think that Vladimir Putin is going to invade Ukraine, especially during an international spectacle like the Olympics.
[00:06:16]  I think instead, though, Vladimir Putin wants to test whether or not Western forces are willing to sacrifice a country that is not yet in NATO.
[00:06:28]  They consider Ukraine to be a NATO ally.
[00:06:31]  Now, do I think Russia and Ukraine are moral equivalents?
[00:06:35]  No.
[00:06:35]  Do I think Ukraine is a corrupt country?
[00:06:37]  One of the most corrupt countries on the planet?
[00:06:39]  It just is.
[00:06:40]  Their government's corrupt.
[00:06:42]  Their system is corrupt.
[00:06:45]  And why American troops need to be sent 5,000 miles away to go defend the sovereignty of another nation while our own country is under attack and being invaded?
[00:06:54]  Now, the line that many people in Washington, D.C. are using is, oh, no, those are two separate issues.
[00:06:59]  Are they?
[00:07:01]  It's called priorities.
[00:07:04]  And we're lectured all the time on priorities from you guys.
[00:07:06]  Oh, we can't get to that.
[00:07:08]  That's not as important.
[00:07:10]  Politico had an article yesterday that was so stunning.
[00:07:16]  GOP to Tucker Carlson were the decision makers on Ukraine, not you.
[00:07:23]  John Cornyn from Texas, who I actually know is a nice guy, says, quote, he's obviously not in a position of being responsible for those decisions, and we are.
[00:07:34]  So let me just give some advice to John Cornyn and the other Republican senators who decided to go to Politico of all places to attack Tucker Carlson.
[00:07:42]  It's not about Tucker Carlson, by the way.
[00:07:43]  It's about the voters and the people that watch Tucker Carlson.
[00:07:46]  You realize it's super unpopular what you Republican senators are doing right now.
[00:07:50]  Like extremely unpopular.
[00:07:52]  People can't fill up a tank of gas.
[00:07:54]  Our nation is in total low morale.
[00:07:57]  Our president is unpopular.
[00:07:58]  No one believes in him.
[00:07:59]  We can't withdraw from Afghanistan.
[00:08:02]  Our own border is being invaded.
[00:08:03]  We have double-digit inflation, 107,000, 100-plus,000 fentanyl overdose deaths, most suicidal, alcohol-addicted, tech-addicted generation in history.
[00:08:13]  And the priority of Republican senators is whether or not some arbitrary line drawn in like the beginning stages of Siberia is being enforced.
[00:08:23]  Yeah, that's called a priority problem.
[00:08:28]  Fox News Primetime hosts, according to Politico and others on the far right.
[00:08:31]  Oh, yeah, they call Tucker Carlson far right, sure, have excused and even rationalized Russia's aggression towards Ukraine.
[00:08:37]  First of all, there is no aggression towards Ukraine.
[00:08:40]  Do not be gaslit by these neocons.
[00:08:43]  Vladimir Putin putting troops on the border is not yet aggression against Ukraine.
[00:08:48]  Again, I'm no fan of Putin.
[00:08:49]  Just get your facts right.
[00:08:52]  And downplayed its relevance to U.S. national security policy.
[00:08:55]  Yeah, obviously.
[00:08:56]  And while GOP senators are shrugging off his name and shame campaign, Carlson's views are permeating the Republican base.
[00:09:03]  No, no, no, it's the other way around.
[00:09:06]  The Republican base is permeating Tucker's show.
[00:09:10]  You see how they write this?
[00:09:12]  They say, oh, yeah, Tucker is this like Pied Piper and this puppet master and all these simpletons and flyover country are now really fired up.
[00:09:19]  No, no, no, it's the other way around.
[00:09:21]  Tucker actually knows what they believe and he's articulating it in a way that is concise and clear.
[00:09:29]  In a way that could undermine Republicans' efforts to emphasize cross-party unity.
[00:09:32]  Oh, you hear that?
[00:09:33]  We need the Uniparty, Politico says.
[00:09:35]  We need the one-party rule as they seek to deter a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
[00:09:40]  What about the Nicaraguan invasion of our country?
[00:09:45]  When Republican senators take the oath of office, are they taking the oath of office for the Ukrainian Constitution?
[00:09:52]  Or is it all enemies, foreign and domestic, such as the El Salvadorians that have been invading our country the last couple of years?

=== Discharging Unvaccinated Service Members (02:03) ===

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[00:10:57]  So if you wanted to fight a war with Russia, which would be really dumb, you'd probably want as many people in the military as possible.
[00:11:04]  You'd also probably want morale to be high.
[00:11:08]  Breaking the last couple hours, U.S. Army begins discharging soldiers who refuse COVID-19 vaccine.
[00:11:15]  U.S. soldiers who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine will be immediately discharged, the U.S. Army said on Wednesday, saying the move was critical to maintain combat readiness.
[00:11:26]  Oh, so to maintain combat readiness, we need to discharge the people that have been in our military for years, some for a couple decades, because they're not inoculated against the virus, even though the vaccine is showing to be leaky, ineffective, and at times detrimental to people's health.
[00:11:47]  The discharge order is the latest from a U.S. military branch removing unvaccinated service members amid the pandemic.
[00:11:55]  The Pentagon made the vaccine mandatory for all service members in August 2021.

=== Escalating Toward War With Russia (15:40) ===

[00:12:00]  We are not a serious country.
[00:12:03]  But don't worry, Republican senators are on the case of trying to go to war with Russia.
[00:12:08]  So where are the Republican senators that are threatening to shut down the government over the fact that our veterans and our active service members are being forced to get a vaccine against their will?
[00:12:24]  Why are Republican senators going along with this?
[00:12:27]  Oh, they're too busy talking to Politico, trashing Tucker Carlson.
[00:12:32]  Now, this is not about Tucker Carlson.
[00:12:33]  Let me be very clear.
[00:12:34]  Tucker Carlson has the most successful cable news show.
[00:12:38]  If you want to go to see who has the most successful shows on the planet, goes Joe Rogan, then Tucker Carlson.
[00:12:43]  It's really that simple of as far as means of information.
[00:12:46]  That's the state of play right now.
[00:12:48]  So instead, Republican senators are talking to Politico trying to badmouth Tucker.
[00:12:54]  And it's not about Tucker.
[00:12:55]  It's about the people that watch Tucker that agree with him, which are tens of millions of Americans every single week.
[00:13:04]  Republican senators are unmoved by Tucker Carlson's relentless warpath against support for Ukraine.
[00:13:11]  Mike Rounds, whoever this guy is from South Dakota, says, are individuals up here who are decision makers?
[00:13:18]  I don't hear any disagreement about the position Russia is in.
[00:13:23]  Russia is the aggressor.
[00:13:24]  Ukraine has every right as a sovereign nation to have their borders respected.
[00:13:29]  You literally can't write this.
[00:13:32]  They have a right to protect their borders.
[00:13:34]  Oh, really?
[00:13:34]  Do we, Senator Mike Rounds from America?
[00:13:38]  I didn't know South Dakota is like some sort of Eastern province of Ukraine.
[00:13:43]  It's unbelievable.
[00:13:44]  Ukraine has every right as a sovereign nation to have their borders respected.
[00:13:52]  It's a mockery.
[00:13:54]  They hate you so much, they are taunting you.
[00:14:00]  Joni Ernst, who is a nice person.
[00:14:05]  Senator Jim Risch, who I've met a couple times, who's also a nice person, continues to saber-rattle against Russia.
[00:14:14]  Marco Rubio said Tucker Carlson is wrong, said the U.S. interest, not just in Europe, but around the world, is not having countries decide.
[00:14:25]  But that belongs to us.
[00:14:26]  We're going to go ahead and take it.
[00:14:30]  Joni Ernst says, I get great intel briefings, and we have trusted advisors that provide many points of view.
[00:14:36]  And I would say I'm pretty well educated on the subject.
[00:14:41]  Oh, you mean the same experts that got us into a lockdown strategy that basically destroyed an entire generation?
[00:14:47]  That same sort of class of experts?
[00:14:52]  Tom Malinowski says, at least some of the Republican Party's base is very confused about what's happening between Russia and Ukraine.
[00:15:00]  Actually, we're not confused.
[00:15:01]  We care about our own country.
[00:15:02]  We don't care about other countries nearly as much, nor should we.
[00:15:06]  And at least, at worst, putting pressure on Republican elected officials to, in effect, take Russia's side.
[00:15:12]  Never has anyone said to take Russia's side.
[00:15:16]  You know the only side that Tucker and this show and Steve Bannon's show and Donald Trump and the tens of millions Americans, you know what side they want to take?
[00:15:24]  America's side.
[00:15:25]  That's all.
[00:15:26]  We want our own country to be put first for once.
[00:15:32]  Senator John Cornyn, a member of the bipartisan group crafting legislation to sanction Moscow and support Kiev, dismissed Carlson's criticisms and said the crisis goes beyond just Ukraine.
[00:15:42]  Of course, obviously it's like a world war.
[00:15:44]  They would love that.
[00:15:45]  He's obviously not in a position of being responsible for those decisions.
[00:15:48]  And we are.
[00:15:49]  Putin is not the only one watching us in Ukraine.
[00:15:52]  Chinese is watching us.
[00:15:53]  Yeah, obviously.
[00:15:55]  So you've just basically pushed Putin into the arms of Xi Jinping.
[00:15:59]  That's pretty stupid.
[00:16:03]  Our allies around the world are watching us, like the French.
[00:16:05]  Yeah, they're going to come to our defense and doubting our credibility, our reliability.
[00:16:15]  Our country's falling apart, our borders wide open.
[00:16:18]  But don't worry.
[00:16:19]  The senator from South Dakota is saying that border sovereignty is important.
[00:16:23]  Don't you understand that?
[00:16:24]  But Ukraine's.
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[00:17:24]  Okay, so if we go to war with Russia, that would be really dumb.
[00:17:29]  But it seems that DC is eager to do that.
[00:17:32]  And then they say, oh, no, no, we don't want war with Russia.
[00:17:34]  We're just sending 3,000 troops there.
[00:17:35]  Really, you're sending troops, and you don't think that might result in war with Russia?
[00:17:40]  Study a little bit about the escalation leading into the Vietnam War.
[00:17:43]  How about the escalation that led into the Iraq war?
[00:17:45]  Starts with troops, saber-rattling, and the next thing you know, a kinetic war can be deployed.
[00:17:53]  But we're dismissing soldiers who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine, citing an army order.
[00:18:01]  I want to finish this story here.
[00:18:05]  I don't think anyone's really thought through what a war with a major power like Russia would be.
[00:18:12]  So someone sent us a good email.
[00:18:14]  I will say he was thoughtful.
[00:18:16]  And I appreciate the, it's not criticism, but the pushback.
[00:18:20]  Charlie, is the Russian invasion of Crimea okay with you?
[00:18:24]  Charlie, if our borders were secure, then would you be okay with us to assist Ukraine?
[00:18:28]  Charlie, if Russia's buildup of troops is okay and not an issue right now, then is China's buildup of troops okay with Taiwan as well?
[00:18:34]  So we must look at everything through a prism of trying to deter and defeat the Chinese.
[00:18:40]  Am I okay with Russia's invasion of Crimea?
[00:18:43]  No.
[00:18:44]  Would there be a scenario that dialogue with Putin and us, the Americans, could be beneficial and could be mutually positive?
[00:18:54]  Absolutely.
[00:18:55]  We did it with Joseph Stalin.
[00:18:57]  There's plenty of things Vladimir Putin wants that we could provide in exchange for a non-aggression pact, like don't invade Ukraine, don't go after Crimea.
[00:19:08]  But we're going to need your help in a variety of different ways to restrain the Chinese.
[00:19:13]  That's what a partnership would be.
[00:19:15]  Instead of doing the opposite, instead we're trying to fight this bizarre two-front war as we ourselves as a nation are crumbling within.
[00:19:24]  And the great Angelo Cotevilla, may he rest in peace.
[00:19:29]  He passed away this last summer.
[00:19:31]  He wrote time and time again that a nation should not go to war if the nation is not in vast majority of it, in popularity of it, willing to see it through, and also if there are not other pressing domestic issues at hand.
[00:19:52]  An international war can divert resources, energy, morale, and especially after, let's pretend we go to war, okay?
[00:20:01]  Let's pretend it's a great idea, which it isn't.
[00:20:04]  Do you have faith that this administration would actually make the strategic decisions necessary to protect our troops?
[00:20:12]  Let's just make that argument for a second.
[00:20:14]  Okay, let's pretend all these Republican senators are right.
[00:20:17]  Maybe they know something I don't.
[00:20:19]  And maybe Russia is actually a bigger threat than China.
[00:20:21]  Maybe Russia has a billion people we don't know about.
[00:20:24]  And maybe Russia is super wealthy that we don't know about.
[00:20:26]  And maybe Russia, I don't know, maybe all this stuff that apparently Joni Earns gets all these briefings and she's super smart.
[00:20:32]  Maybe there's all this stuff we don't know about.
[00:20:34]  Okay, fine.
[00:20:35]  I mean, I'm not a senator.
[00:20:37]  I'm not an idiot, but I'm not a senator.
[00:20:38]  Okay.
[00:20:39]  Then, do you trust this administration actually to go to war?
[00:20:43]  That's a totally different argument, by the way, but it's a good one.
[00:20:46]  Do you trust this administration to bring your son, your daughter, your neighbor, your fellow countrymen into Siberia?
[00:20:55]  Here's just another kind of word to the wise: stay out of Russia in the winter.
[00:20:58]  I mean, this is not exactly like breaking news.
[00:21:03]  You know, when you take a Hillsdale online course by Victor Davis Hansen, basically like across the textbook is like stay out of Russia in winter.
[00:21:10]  It's like one of the major takeaways, that amongst other things.
[00:21:14]  But would you trust this administration, according to Axios, they can't even get diplomats out of Kabul from goat herders and child predators that are coming from the Kandahar Valley?
[00:21:30]  We're supposed to believe that they're going to be able to make the decisions necessary to properly defend our own troops or at least not just defend their life, but make the decisions towards victory.
[00:21:43]  I don't think so.
[00:21:44]  I have zero confidence in that.
[00:21:45]  That's a separate argument, by the way.
[00:21:48]  But it's a good one.
[00:21:51]  The senators continue to write in the article, they say Representative Michael McCall, who is a congressman, says that Ukraine should have a right to self-determination if they want to join NATO.
[00:22:09]  Now, what that means, if Ukraine joins NATO, according to Article 6, I think in NATO, Article 5 or Article 6, it's an attack on one, it's an attack on all.
[00:22:19]  Do you really think that the cappuccino-sipping Italians and the wine-drinking French and the drug-using Dutch are going to drop all of their pleasure activities and go to arms against Russia because of a border dispute for Ukraine?
[00:22:38]  That's what it would mean if Ukraine joined NATO.
[00:22:41]  And that's what this whole exercise is about, just so we're clear.
[00:22:44]  Vladimir Putin is mobilizing troops to the border because he wants to see whether or not Ukraine will actually be something that we are willing to draw a line over.
[00:22:55]  That's what this is all about.
[00:22:58]  Putin would back down in a second if Trump was president.
[00:23:01]  Make no mistake.
[00:23:04]  President Trump would pick up the phone and say, cut it out.
[00:23:07]  I need your help against the Chinese.
[00:23:09]  Okay?
[00:23:10]  How about this?
[00:23:10]  And here's like a deal that Trump would cut.
[00:23:12]  It would be like a minute, one minute.
[00:23:14]  Listen, you could keep on having that weird Hitler look-alike guy in Syria, Bashar al-Assad.
[00:23:22]  I'll pretend that we don't care about that for a couple of years.
[00:23:24]  You get your pipeline.
[00:23:26]  You stay out of Ukraine.
[00:23:28]  So I don't have to worry about this.
[00:23:30]  But also, I need 50 million barrels of oil.
[00:23:33]  And this Nord Stream 2 with Germany think, guess what?
[00:23:35]  That's not going to work.
[00:23:36]  They're going to buy American oil.
[00:23:37]  It's called doing deals.
[00:23:41]  Biden, instead, can't even get troops out of Kabul.
[00:23:48]  Representative Michael Walsh, a former Green Beret, attributed much of the public wrangling and confusion of the United States on Ukraine.
[00:23:57]  He wants to send U.S. troops to Ukraine to engage in combat with Russian forces.
[00:24:04]  He said there would be consequences for the United States and the West if Ukraine is left to defend itself.
[00:24:10]  How about this?
[00:24:10]  How about the Germans and the Belgians and the Italians and the Spanish and the Portuguese?
[00:24:18]  Why don't they have a shot at this one?
[00:24:20]  They're closer.
[00:24:21]  It's obviously a bigger threat.
[00:24:24]  Why don't they go enlist their own army and do that?
[00:24:26]  Like, just come on, have a go at it.
[00:24:28]  We've got our own problems right now.
[00:24:30]  You guys got a lot of people.
[00:24:31]  You seem awfully eager to do this.
[00:24:33]  Come on, Emmanuel Macron, super alpha male.
[00:24:36]  Come on, show us your willingness to fight, my friend.
[00:24:40]  How about Angela Merkel?
[00:24:41]  I could see her on top of a tank leading people into battle.
[00:24:46]  Michael Waltz says, if we don't support them, that sends a very clear message on top of Afghanistan and the debacle that was the withdrawal.
[00:24:53]  I agree that, that the United States is no longer supporting its allies around the world.
[00:24:57]  You know, it's really interesting.
[00:24:58]  What was the last time our allies supported us?
[00:25:02]  What was the last time our allies came to our aid when we needed it?
[00:25:06]  You might say, oh, Charlie, they do it all the time.
[00:25:08]  Really?
[00:25:09]  The Germans come to our aid all the time?
[00:25:13]  Show me some examples of that.
[00:25:16]  I have nothing against the German people.
[00:25:17]  It's not exactly like the German government was any fan of Trump.
[00:25:24]  When Trump was president, Mexico came to our aid when it came to securing the border.
[00:25:29]  The border seems completely wide open right now.
[00:25:32]  Now, some people say, well, Charlie, we need to be the world's policemen.
[00:25:36]  That's a separate argument.
[00:25:38]  They say, you know, we have troops in Japan and Germany and Korea.
[00:25:43]  Well, first of all, we do a fair amount of commerce with those countries.
[00:25:46]  Those are very rich and developed countries.
[00:25:49]  Some people would have to say we have to keep shipping lanes open.
[00:25:52]  But let's take one issue at a time.
[00:25:53]  The issue at hand is a further redeployment of troops and an escalation of aggression in a far-out distant land so far away while we have mounting national crises.
[00:26:06]  Several of them happening simultaneously.
[00:26:12]  New York Times, U.S. troops to be deployed to NATO allies in Eastern Europe.
[00:26:20]  This is not going to end well.
[00:26:22]  They are going to ensure a robust defense of NATO allies.
[00:26:26]  First 1,000 soldiers that are currently based in Germany will reposition to Romania in the coming days.
[00:26:34]  Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grushko sharply criticized the new transfer of U.S. troops to Europe by the Biden administration as a destructive move.
[00:26:46]  And if you're wondering what that sound is in your ear, that's Vladimir Putin having a conference call with Xi Jinping as they are now forming the new Axis.
[00:27:00]  It's important that we send a strong signal to Mr. Putin and the world that NATO matters.
[00:27:05]  Sounds like Black Lives Matter.
[00:27:07]  That democracy matters.
[00:27:09]  We're making it clear that we're going to be prepared to defend our NATO allies if it comes to that.
[00:27:14]  Ukraine's not NATO.
[00:27:16]  It's not.
[00:27:16]  You could wish it is.
[00:27:17]  You could hope it is.
[00:27:20]  Look, there's a more provocative take.
[00:27:22]  I'm not going to get into this.
[00:27:23]  We have some amazing Ukrainian friends that would disagree at this.
[00:27:27]  But Ukraine is a complicated country.
[00:27:31]  A lot of Ukraine is Russian by language and ethnicity.
[00:27:36]  A lot of people disagree with this.
[00:27:37]  I'm not going to get too deep into it.

=== Deep State Treatment Of Hunter (06:53) ===

[00:27:41]  But it's a complicated mess.
[00:27:43]  It is.
[00:27:49]  The drums of war are beating loudly in Washington.
[00:27:53]  The American people don't want it.
[00:27:55]  We're getting emails like you wouldn't believe, people that do not want escalated conflict in Eastern Europe.
[00:28:04]  And that's the other thing, is that do not deploy troops if you are not willing to see it all the way through.
[00:28:09]  If you are not willing to see hundreds of thousands of people die of our own citizens, don't play the game.
[00:28:20]  Beijing, as the United States moves to exert maximal pressure on Russia over fears of a Ukrainian invasion, President Vladimir Putin in Russia has found relief from his most powerful partner on the global stage, China.
[00:28:31]  And that's when the New York Times.
[00:28:33]  Congratulations, American foreign policy experts.
[00:28:36]  Congratulations, Republican senators.
[00:28:38]  You have created an international mega superpower.
[00:28:42]  China doesn't have energy, but with a friend like Russia, they do.
[00:28:45]  Russia doesn't have people, but with China, they do.
[00:28:48]  They have some people, but they're one-third our size.
[00:28:51]  You combine the landmass of Russia and China together?
[00:28:53]  Yeah, you got a real problem.
[00:28:54]  Oh, don't worry.
[00:28:55]  No, Don't worry, everybody.
[00:28:57]  We got the Dutch.
[00:28:59]  It's fine.
[00:28:59]  Love them.
[00:29:00]  Not exactly an army that I would fear.
[00:29:03]  So why is Biden doing this?
[00:29:05]  Well, war can give you attention, relevancy.
[00:29:09]  Wag the dog, as we have called it many times.
[00:29:12]  It's not our phrase, but it is a movie that kind of goes through these sorts of themes.
[00:29:19]  There's something happening with Biden and how he is being treated by the deep state and also by the power centers in the country.
[00:29:29]  So if you look at who has power in the country outside of government, outside of Fauci, outside of the CIA and the FBI, there are two institutions that really steer the zeitgeist in the country more than any other.
[00:29:42]  And that would be the New York Times and Harvard.
[00:29:45]  One academic, pseudo-academic, and one media.
[00:29:48]  The New York Times is regime media.
[00:29:51]  They do not question the narrative.
[00:29:55]  They are by no means trying to engage in heterodox ideas.
[00:30:00]  No, the New York Times will do what they are told.
[00:30:02]  The New York Times will be purveyors and communicators of what the power centers want, what the billionaires want.
[00:30:10]  So in the last 24 hours, you have National Security Council leaking on Biden.
[00:30:16]  We have all the documents here.
[00:30:18]  Last 24 hours, you have rumblings of war with Russia.
[00:30:23]  And then you have this.
[00:30:25]  The New York Times sues State Department for emails related to Hunter Biden, the Romanian embassy, and whether the United States helped push his personal business interests.
[00:30:37]  The lawsuit filed Monday in Manhattan court seeks emails dating 2015 to 2019.
[00:30:45]  The New York Times engaging in this kind of a lawsuit is not a one-off thing.
[00:30:53]  There's a reason for this.
[00:30:56]  Now, the reason could be that they might be doing pretend journalism where actually something doesn't exist.
[00:31:01]  And this could just be going through the exercises of them being like, oh, no, no, we looked into that, even though they should be looking into five other stories.
[00:31:08]  Or the New York Times might be in the beginning stages of trying to send a warning shot to Biden where they're trying to get Biden's attention.
[00:31:19]  In the last couple of days, the IRS has issued a subpoena to J.P. Morgan Chase in connection to bank transactions that involved Hunter Biden and his Chinese business deals.
[00:31:31]  Interestingly, simultaneous when Peter Schweitzer releases that book red-handed, and we had him on our show, the deep state is leaking on Joe Biden, and the New York Times is suing the State Department for Hunter Biden's records and emails.
[00:31:46]  What's going on here?
[00:31:48]  Well, it's becoming more clear that they do not want or believe that Joe Biden will be around for much longer.
[00:31:57]  That they're trying to signal to him, like, hey, pal, your numbers are getting low.
[00:32:01]  There's more than one way to get rid of you here.
[00:32:05]  And the reason could be as simple as bad poll numbers and electability, or it could also be something as Joe Biden being the temporary bridge president, as we've described him, as they want to make sure there's more than one way to keep him in his box.
[00:32:27]  The New York Times has sued the State Department for dragging its feet and handing over emails from the Romanian embassy officials connected to Hunter Biden and his famed former business associate, Tony Bob Yulinsky.
[00:32:39]  The lawsuit filed Monday in Manhattan federal court seeks emails dating 2015 to 2019.
[00:32:44]  The Times alleges that the State Department is failing to address its Freedom of Information Act request in a timely manner.
[00:32:51]  When the Times asked, the State Department said it would get around to the request, and the paper was told an answer by April 15, 2023.
[00:33:00]  Interesting, interestingly specific date, tax day 2023.
[00:33:06]  The Times appears to be looking into whether embassy personnel did any special favors on behalf of business officials, including the president's son and Bob Yelensky.
[00:33:16]  Joe Biden was serving as vice president for the two years the emails cover, 2015 to 2016.
[00:33:25]  Why would the New York Times be doing this?
[00:33:28]  Well, there very well might be a plan in place in real time to remove Biden.
[00:33:37]  And maybe Biden is trying to compensate by trying to drum up some sort of conflict that can keep him in place or to try to resurrect his plummeting poll numbers.
[00:33:46]  All of this is speculation.
[00:33:48]  But it's very interesting, isn't it?
[00:33:49]  And interesting that all within a couple of days, you have subpoenas going after businesses connected to Hunter Biden.
[00:33:55]  You have the New York Times suing the State Department for business deals with Hunter Biden.
[00:33:59]  And you have the National Security Council apparatus, the entire national security apparatus leaking on Joe Biden about his failings with Afghanistan.
[00:34:05]  And Axios writing scoop.
[00:34:07]  Leaked documents reveal Biden's Afghan failures.
[00:34:11]  Someone wants Biden gone.
[00:34:14]  Or a group of people want Biden gone.
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