The Charlie Kirk Show - Putin Makes His Move: Everything You Need to Know
Aired: 2022-02-22
Duration: 35:05


=== Vaccine Mandates vs Ukraine (14:19) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, did Putin just invade Ukraine?
[00:00:05]  Well, that is the topic of all the conversation in the activist press, and it's a very important conversation to have.
[00:00:12]  Should we care?
[00:00:13]  Should it be a priority?
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[00:01:39]  Looks like Vladimir Putin has decided to, let's say, annex or, let's say, peacekeep in a certain region of Ukraine.
[00:01:49]  Now, this is being called an invasion.
[00:01:54]  It's a lot more complicated than that for a variety of different reasons.
[00:01:57]  These parts of Ukraine are very pro-Russian parts of Ukraine.
[00:02:01]  In fact, they overwhelmingly voted back in 2013 and 2014 to be part of Russia.
[00:02:07]  They speak Russian.
[00:02:08]  They are more Russian than they are Ukrainian.
[00:02:12]  This is Lungansk and also Donetsk.
[00:02:16]  That shows how awful my Russian is.
[00:02:20]  And so the question is, is it an annexation?
[00:02:22]  Is it a peacekeeping operation?
[00:02:24]  Is it an invasion?
[00:02:25]  And if it's any of those things, who cares?
[00:02:28]  This is a family dispute between two countries, one rather strong and one very corrupt and weak, that they're going to have to figure out for themselves.
[00:02:40]  But American politicians have been in Europe.
[00:02:44]  In fact, there's a list of Republican senators, Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Mitt Romney, and Senator Inhoff, who found that this was more important to go to Munich for some security conference to try to hold Vladimir Putin in check than actually be in the United States Senate in a must-fund, must-pass bill that could have very well defunded the vaccine mandates.
[00:03:12]  And so that really kind of goes to my first point, which is in life, when we have scarcity of resources, scarcity of time, you have to make priorities.
[00:03:23]  Mature people know this.
[00:03:25]  Mature people know you must make decisions based on what matters more and where are you going to dedicate things of value.
[00:03:36]  Now, the issue is that we see across the board, we have leaders that act as if we can saber-rattle in Ukraine while also facing our own issues.
[00:03:48]  We can't even face our own issues.
[00:03:49]  We can't even defend our own border.
[00:03:51]  Million people cross the southern border every single year, and somehow we're really worried that Vladimir Putin is crossing a border in Ukraine while our own territorial integrity is violated.
[00:04:04]  But let me ask a question: for those of you that have lost your jobs, that have been kicked out of the military for not getting a vaccine that does not work and might harm you.
[00:04:13]  Do you care more about senators being in Munich trying to send a signal to Vladimir Putin or senators being in Washington, D.C. to do their job?
[00:04:22]  That is a great and clear-cut example of exactly why we should not get involved in Ukraine.
[00:04:27]  And it invalidates the argument.
[00:04:30]  In fact, it cancels it, deletes the entire argument.
[00:04:32]  And these people are like, well, we could do both.
[00:04:34]  No, actually, you can't.
[00:04:35]  You can't do both.
[00:04:36]  Now, what am I talking about here?
[00:04:37]  Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham, and Jim Inhoff from Oklahoma made a decision to go to Europe last week.
[00:04:47]  When they went to Europe, they were not allowed to be in person at the United States Senate.
[00:04:52]  The United States Senate had to pass a bill, and in the bill was a measure, an amendment, to defund vaccine mandates from the federal government.
[00:05:05]  Because of the short time period, because of the crunch associated with it, we very well could have passed this, and Democrats didn't show up.
[00:05:14]  So if Republicans just would have showed up and they would have put America first, not Ukraine first, we could have defunded vaccine mandates from the federal government, could have done it.
[00:05:22]  Then that's a great example of how your elected leaders in Utah, Oklahoma, and South Carolina cared much more about some weird border dispute in a kind of inner family argument going back to 600 years than actually our own citizens and our own sovereignty.
[00:05:41]  And I have an open invitation to any lawmaker that can come on this program.
[00:05:45]  I won't interrupt you.
[00:05:46]  You guys can make your argument and then I'll respond.
[00:05:48]  How does this intervention impact the United States?
[00:05:52]  Vladimir Putin is not firebombing Paris.
[00:05:55]  He is not invading Helsinki.
[00:05:59]  This part of Ukraine that he has decided to advance into is a highly disputed, century-old line dispute between people that have crossed relatives, crossed histories, and that's somehow our concern.
[00:06:18]  And so you're going to hear a lot of people throughout the next couple days say, well, you know, it's America's role to put Putin in check.
[00:06:26]  It's America's role to have our obligation to our allies.
[00:06:28]  Wait a second.
[00:06:29]  What obligation do we have?
[00:06:30]  The Minsk Agreement exactly?
[00:06:32]  Well, we're going to dive into that and how flawed that was from the first part.
[00:06:36]  And Vladimir Putin gave a speech yesterday.
[00:06:38]  And again, I'm no fan of Vladimir Putin.
[00:06:40]  I mean, last week I spent a whole segment talking about how that figure skater who illegally doped is an awful representation of anyone who cares about ethics or what is virtuous.
[00:06:52]  I think Vladimir Putin's a thug.
[00:06:54]  I think he's a KGB agent.
[00:06:56]  Okay.
[00:06:57]  I also think he could be really useful in a fight against China.
[00:06:59]  I wouldn't want to make an enemy out of him unnecessarily.
[00:07:01]  Seems that our security apparatus does.
[00:07:04]  But Vladimir Putin gave a speech yesterday and said that Ukraine is basically a fake country.
[00:07:10]  I think that goes too far.
[00:07:11]  I don't think that's totally right.
[00:07:12]  But it is true to say that Ukraine is a fixture.
[00:07:15]  It's a creation of the post-Romanov 1917 Russian Revolution Vladimir Lenin regime, where some of these lines in some of these countries, as they were drawn post-Soviet fall in mid-1990s, are very flawed.
[00:07:31]  It was a pressure cooker waiting to explode.
[00:07:36]  And what's really bizarre to me is you have Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham, and Jim Inhoff leave America because obviously defunding vaccine mandates is not as important as going to Munich and saber-rattling Vladimir Putin.
[00:07:50]  So if you wonder why people are going to keep on losing their jobs federal government-wise and military-wise from vaccine mandates, all you have to do is like, oh, now I get it, because they had to make a choice.
[00:08:03]  And this goes to the core point of why I have been against intervention with Putin and Ukraine since the very beginning, is when you have multiple crises looming at home, you must order them.
[00:08:17]  And when you order something, you must know what the ultimate good is, and then you must say, I'll get to that later.
[00:08:24]  Instead, we've done the opposite.
[00:08:26]  In Western society and in America, we've decided to prioritize things that have no relevancy at all whatsoever, such as can men get pregnant or not, being like the most important conversation ever.
[00:08:37]  The answer is no, next question.
[00:08:40]  And we have completely turned it upside down where the really big stuff, the civilization defining issues like open borders, fentanyl overdoses, suicide, alcoholism, drug addiction, families being torn apart, these things get cast aside.
[00:08:56]  But don't worry, your leaders are out playing, let's say, a video game type posture in the Eastern part of Europe.
[00:09:06]  How does this intervention impact the United States?
[00:09:09]  It doesn't.
[00:09:10]  It's a family dispute between two very corrupt countries.
[00:09:15]  But your leaders won't be telling you that.
[00:09:16]  I'm going to play what our leaders are saying.
[00:09:18]  And then also I'm going to get into how Joe Biden actually created this set of circumstances.
[00:09:25]  Look, there's so much political pressure out there from the left and the woke mob, and it's from the Democrat Party.
[00:09:31]  Our society has ultimately been controlled by canceled cultural elites.
[00:09:35]  Look, we talk openly on this program about what you need to do.
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[00:10:44]  We've been told for a while by Republican leaders, yeah, we can walk and chew gum, right?
[00:10:48]  Like we can hold Vladimir Putin in check and we can govern ourselves, but we can't even govern ourselves, obviously.
[00:10:54]  We have so many problems in this country, mounting crises, inflation, prices going through the roof, our educational system is collapsing in front of our eyes.
[00:11:05]  And this story of, and I missed one actually, Richard Burr from North Carolina, shows exactly why.
[00:11:13]  You must choose.
[00:11:15]  Do you care more about the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine or priorities facing your voters?
[00:11:21]  Well, Representative Chip Roy said this.
[00:11:25]  He said, missing Republicans kept vaccine mandates alive.
[00:11:30]  Romney, Inhoff, Burr, and Graham, no excuses.
[00:11:33]  They should all be shamed.
[00:11:34]  Now, every Senate Republican should be held accountable for voting to fund this government.
[00:11:39]  Watch, count the votes, then act.
[00:11:41]  Hashtag defund vaccine mandates.
[00:11:44]  And this was a specific loophole that Schumer put forward because they needed to get the votes.
[00:11:51]  So I'm reading here from Breitbart.com.
[00:11:53]  Four Senate Republicans failed to show up to an amendment that would have voted to defund Joe Biden's remaining vaccine mandates, thus ensuring its failure.
[00:12:03]  However, and this was Senator Mike Lee's amendment to the continuing resolution.
[00:12:08]  God bless Mike Lee for this.
[00:12:09]  He's terrific.
[00:12:11]  which would defund Biden's remaining vaccine mandates.
[00:12:14]  The measure failed 4647 with Mitt Romney, Jen Inhoff, Lindsey Graham, and Richard Burr failing to show up, depriving Senate Republicans a potential majority to pass the amendment to the continuing resolution.
[00:12:28]  Chuck Schumer sent the vote threshold to a majority, and it remains possible that he could have set the threshold to 60 if Republicans had enough votes to pass.
[00:12:36]  However, Democrats broke and voted to defund Biden's private employer mandate the last time they voted on vaccine mandates.
[00:12:45]  You have to choose, and they chose Ukraine.
[00:12:49]  Now, I'm not going to get into the speculation of the psychology of a late 70, early 80-something aging male who's done really nothing relevant or meaningful in his life of why he likes to play war games in a distant 5,000-mile away country while his own voters are suffering under drug addiction and all these.
[00:13:08]  I don't really quite get it.
[00:13:09]  It's kind of really weird and creepy, to be perfectly honest, why they like playing action-figure war games with real lives in villages they can't even pronounce, in lands they can't even find on a map.
[00:13:19]  It's like, yeah, we're going to go defend Ukraine.
[00:13:22]  It's like playing Halo.
[00:13:23]  It's like, yeah, calm down.
[00:13:25]  Like, how about you actually serve your own constituents like defunding vaccine mandates?
[00:13:30]  Bill Hemmer, who's terrific from FoxNews.com, walks through the map of where Russian troops are, where the fighting will start if they move past the demarcation line.
[00:13:40]  Let's play cut eight.
[00:13:42]  Well, really, for the past eight years, going back to 2014, this has been the demarcation line here in this southeastern part of Ukraine.
[00:13:49]  Who's been on one side?
[00:13:50]  Who's on the other?
[00:13:52]  The Ukrainian army has amassed over here since 2014.
[00:13:56]  The Russian separatists have controlled this area here on the map.
[00:13:59]  Well, overnight, you have the tanks and the trucks on behalf of the Russian army and Vladimir Putin move into these two areas.
[00:14:07]  Does Putin and his army stop at this line of contact or does he go further?
[00:14:12]  And if he goes further, that's where the war will be engaged on behalf of the Ukrainian army battling the Russian army.

=== Energy Reserves and Empire (15:12) ===

[00:14:19]  We have been so propagandized to care about this.
[00:14:23]  Now, let me be very clear.
[00:14:25]  If our border was secure, our budget was balanced, inflation was under control, if we didn't have a drug overdose epidemic, if we didn't have a war on early treatments, if we didn't have children wearing masks in California,
[00:14:40]  if we didn't have small businesses crumbling over rising prices, if we didn't have our neighbors to the north becoming a fascist third world dictatorship, if we didn't have the American family falling apart or a suicide and drug addiction crisis with young people, then I would be open-minded to potentially posturing a little bit more.
[00:15:01]  But even then, I don't think it's the right role.
[00:15:03]  But if you don't even have the fundamentals right and you invert the entire paradigm, then it really begs the question, who are our leaders representing?
[00:15:12]  It surely isn't their voters.
[00:15:14]  I can't imagine the good people of North Dakota really care about Kiev more than whether or not the oil and gas industry is actually going to be able to survive, which is a perfect segue.
[00:15:28]  One of the reasons why Vladimir Putin is able to do this in the first place, one of the reasons why he feels emboldened, is because of a set of energy policies that Joe Biden put forward.
[00:15:41]  Cheap oil is a deterrent from tyrannical third world dictators from invading other countries.
[00:15:49]  Could it be that Greta Thunberg and Leonardo DiCaprio actually might be to blame for what Vladimir Putin is doing?
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[00:17:02]  Why does Putin feel so empowered?
[00:17:05]  The entire Western world is putting sanctions right now on Russia as they call this an invasion.
[00:17:10]  Very well, might be.
[00:17:13]  I'm not the person to determine whether or not this is an invasion or an annexation.
[00:17:16]  It feels as if Putin is going into places that want him.
[00:17:19]  They have voted overwhelmingly to be part of it.
[00:17:21]  It's a family dispute that we shouldn't get in the midst of, that's for certain.
[00:17:25]  But why does Putin feel as if now's the perfect time?
[00:17:30]  Well, he definitely waited for the Olympics to be over for all the cheaters on his team that weren't even on the Russian Federation team.
[00:17:37]  It was the Russian Olympic Committee to be over with.
[00:17:40]  He didn't want the spectacle in the midst of the Olympics.
[00:17:43]  He did annex Crimea after the Olympics in 2006 or 2010.
[00:17:51]  He has a tendency to do this right after the Olympics or make big moves after that.
[00:17:56]  Actually, Georgia was after the Olympics.
[00:17:58]  We'll get those dates figured out.
[00:18:00]  But why does Putin feel so, let's say, compelled at this particular moment to move?
[00:18:08]  Why even get close to this?
[00:18:12]  So, in a time when the entire planet is locked down due to the Chinese coronavirus, finally, the world is reopening, there's one number in particular that Vladimir Putin is looking at that his entire economy is organized behind, and that is the petrodollar.
[00:18:32]  Vladimir Putin and Russia has designed their entire economy around the price of oil.
[00:18:38]  Now, you might remember back in January of 2020, about two years ago, there was that famous meeting that happened in Vienna between Russia and Saudi Arabia.
[00:18:50]  This is when Trump was still president.
[00:18:52]  And President Trump had a belief that the lower the price of oil, the better for the consumer.
[00:18:58]  Now, President Trump was so far in that direction, American producers were even getting upset.
[00:19:04]  It was like $25 or $30 a barrel oil.
[00:19:07]  And it was a pro-fracking policy, pro-energy exploration policy.
[00:19:13]  And because of this, oil went to dramatically low levels.
[00:19:18]  The price of gas fell to historic levels.
[00:19:22]  And Vladimir Putin and Russia were poorer than ever.
[00:19:26]  If you wanted to break the back of Russia, if you wanted Russia to be weak, then you would want cheap oil.
[00:19:34]  Now, if you want Russia to be strong again, then you'd want a high price of oil.
[00:19:38]  Well, from day one of taking office, Joe Biden has done everything he possibly can to destroy America's energy supremacy.
[00:19:50]  We had energy superiority and energy supremacy under Donald Trump, from liquid and natural gas fracking to new areas of development.
[00:20:01]  We were expanding leases for the first time since the development of oil and natural gas.
[00:20:08]  not the development, but the exploration of it, we were able to have a set of policies that made us an energy exporter, not an energy importer.
[00:20:22]  First time we've seen anything even close to that.
[00:20:25]  Now, the significance of that, because I grew up saying, you know, hearing from the left, we have to have our own energy so then we won't go invade other countries.
[00:20:32]  Okay, well, we have that now, like Iraq or Afghanistan or whatever, because we need it for the oil, even though we really didn't take much of that oil anyway.
[00:20:41]  We play the role of an empire.
[00:20:43]  We're not even good at doing that.
[00:20:45]  And so we have all of these things in front of us.
[00:20:49]  Donald Trump allowed us to be energy independent.
[00:20:53]  Joe Biden intentionally restricted that by preventing the Keystone XL pipeline, by preventing new oil leases in the Permian Basin.
[00:21:01]  I was in Midland, Texas last week.
[00:21:04]  The price of oil is higher than ever.
[00:21:06]  There aren't a lot of new leases being approved, but those people that have leases, they're doing better than ever.
[00:21:11]  Now, this was intentional by Joe Biden.
[00:21:13]  Remember, Joe Biden ran on this.
[00:21:16]  Play cut 19 saying he was going to get rid of fossil fuels.
[00:21:20]  Play cut 19.
[00:21:21]  No more, no new fracking.
[00:21:24]  We are going to get rid of fossil fuels.
[00:21:26]  Well, like, what about, say, stopping fracking and stopping.
[00:21:30]  Would there be any place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking, in a Biden administration?
[00:21:37]  No, we would work it out.
[00:21:39]  We would make sure it's eliminated.
[00:21:41]  And then cut 18, Joe Biden says, I guarantee you, we're going to end fossil fuel.
[00:21:46]  Play cut 18.
[00:21:48]  But kiddo, I want you to just take a look, okay?
[00:21:51]  You don't have to agree, but I want you to look in my eyes.
[00:21:55]  I guarantee you.
[00:21:57]  I guarantee you, we're going to end fossil fuel, and I am not going to cooperate with you, okay?
[00:22:03]  Now, this was that promise was a clear signal of Vladimir Putin that he would be able to get back his treasured eastern parts of Ukraine.
[00:22:12]  It made Russia rich.
[00:22:14]  Why?
[00:22:15]  Well, the less oil and natural gas that you're developing, the less LNG that you're exploring, then all of a sudden the countries that are going to exploit that are going to be richer than ever.
[00:22:24]  But it goes even deeper than that.
[00:22:26]  Play cut 15, Marco Rubio, senator from Florida, says how gas can increase to $110 to $155 a barrel.
[00:22:33]  He's exactly right.
[00:22:34]  Putin now knows that since oil is already high, that if he quote unquote invades Ukraine, oil will spike even further and making Russia even richer.
[00:22:44]  Play Cut 15.
[00:22:45]  This is going to increase oil prices maybe $110, $115 a barrel for some period of time.
[00:22:50]  What?
[00:22:51]  And what?
[00:22:52]  Well, and the reason why it's going to be massive disruption to the global economy.
[00:22:55]  Eventually, OPEC will react, I imagine, and try to make up for it, but not immediately.
[00:22:59]  And again, part of his calculus, no doubt about it, is that the U.S. has pulled back from oil and natural gas exploration.
[00:23:06]  It's made it harder under the Biden administration.
[00:23:08]  We went from being a net exporter for the first time ever, I believe, in 2018, to once again kind of falling back in our production.
[00:23:16]  This is the best point.
[00:23:18]  This is something I can agree with establishment Republicans on.
[00:23:22]  All they want to talk about is Ukraine and Russia.
[00:23:23]  Okay, well, how about one point of agreement that I think we can all have together is that if we put our country's energy production first, this wouldn't be a problem.
[00:23:34]  We all agree with that.
[00:23:35]  Okay.
[00:23:35]  Then why is it that the governors of North Dakota and South Dakota haven't authorized an order to go rebuild the Keystone XL pipeline?
[00:23:41]  I don't care what the federal government has to say.
[00:23:43]  Just do it anyway.
[00:23:44]  Why are we even listening to the EPA, the Employment Prevention Agency?
[00:23:48]  Oh, we're still living under a process where they destroy our entire country.
[00:23:54]  Got it.
[00:23:54]  Okay.
[00:23:55]  We're still living under this kind of belief, like, well, we have to listen to the federal government.
[00:23:59]  Really?
[00:23:59]  They don't listen to the federal government.
[00:24:01]  They do sanctuary cities and policies in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, and L.A. Why doesn't North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas have sanctuary cities for energy independence?
[00:24:13]  You want to really stick it to Vladimir Putin?
[00:24:16]  Don't go send javelin missiles to Ukrainians that don't even know how to use them.
[00:24:22]  No, no, no.
[00:24:23]  You want to break the back of Vladimir Putin and also benefit your country?
[00:24:28]  Open up the oil and natural gas market.
[00:24:31]  But this is part of the Biden strategy is raise oil prices, and therefore Americans are going to want, in an overwhelming way, we're going to want solar panels on everything, and we're going to want green energy, and everything will be good.
[00:24:51]  Now, make no mistake that Greta Thunberg and Leonardo DiCaprio and all these climate change activists, maybe realizing it or not realizing it, were actually playing into the aims and ambitions of Russia.
[00:25:03]  Now, I'm not saying that the green energy movement is funded by Russia.
[00:25:08]  I am not saying that.
[00:25:10]  I'm not saying that the Leonardo DiCaprio movie on Netflix, Don't Look Up, which was very difficult to get through, is somehow financed by a Russian oligarch.
[00:25:21]  I'm definitely not saying that.
[00:25:22]  There's no evidence of that.
[00:25:23]  I'm not saying that AOC's Green New Deal was created by the Kremlin, but the Kremlin is a big fan of AOC's Green New Deal.
[00:25:30]  The more green conversation that we have, the more propaganda that is put forward around destroying American energy independence, just plays right into the Russian superiority supremacy agenda.
[00:25:44]  And so in a backwards way, think about how interesting this is.
[00:25:48]  If our leaders actually put our country first, we could have broke the back of the Russian Federation without ever having to supply a missile, a troop, or a press release.
[00:26:01]  Russia was on the ropes under the Trump administration because of abundant, cheap oil.
[00:26:09]  Now, of course, MSNBC is saying, well, most of the fault of this lies in the Trump administration.
[00:26:14]  Of course, they're saying that.
[00:26:15]  Play Cut 11.
[00:26:17]  I think it's also important to remember, going back to something that we talked about earlier, that Putin has made various efforts to undo Western military support for Ukraine, including during the Trump administration.
[00:26:31]  If you remember the argument over Trump's first impeachment.
[00:26:37]  So why didn't Putin do this during the Trump administration?
[00:26:40]  Because he thought Trump was weakening Ukraine, especially on these grounds.
[00:26:44]  So the problem of Ukraine being unfortified goes back several years, and much of the fault lies in the Trump administration.
[00:26:52]  Why didn't Putin do this under Trump?
[00:26:55]  That's actually a really smart question with an unbelievably stupid answer by what's this person's name?
[00:27:00]  Anna Applebaum.
[00:27:02]  It's a good question, really dumb answer.
[00:27:04]  She answers her own question.
[00:27:05]  Why?
[00:27:05]  It's because Putin was poor.
[00:27:07]  Why was Putin poor?
[00:27:09]  Because we allowed ourselves to be energy independent.
[00:27:12]  Now, mind you, you know that Joe Biden approved Nord Stream 2, the pipeline from Germany to Russia.
[00:27:19]  If Biden was so afraid of Putin, why did he just help him be flush with cash and resources and lines of energy from Russia into Western nations?
[00:27:32]  If we're supposed to be so afraid of Russia, why would Biden do that?
[00:27:36]  The answer is he's actually not that afraid of Russia.
[00:27:38]  He's not.
[00:27:39]  Vladimir Putin is a substitute for the villain the media needs while Trump is golfing and starting a new social media app and speaking at events.
[00:27:48]  Putin is the perfect villain.
[00:27:51]  Now, what Putin is doing is agitating every single part of the American security apparatus.
[00:27:59]  The whole Washington, D.C. kind of Russia desk.
[00:28:04]  Oh boy, they've been waiting for relevancy for quite some time.
[00:28:06]  Meanwhile, China's taking over the world and they just pulled off an Olympics despite executing a pathogen on the entire planet.
[00:28:15]  Why is it that Putin did not try to do anything under Trump?
[00:28:19]  Well, also, this is another important point.
[00:28:21]  Trump talked to Putin.
[00:28:24]  Trump was actually engaged in diplomacy.
[00:28:30]  Trump went to Helsinki under massive scrutiny and condemnation from every major leader, including many on the right, to actually have a summit with Vladimir Putin and look at him in the eyes.
[00:28:44]  Was Putin annexed in Ukraine during that time?
[00:28:46]  No, of course not.
[00:28:48]  Putin was poor and we were talking.
[00:28:51]  Remember, we are the speaking beings.
[00:28:53]  I never understood this whole thing.
[00:28:55]  Well, you can't talk to terrorists.
[00:28:56]  We should talk to everybody.
[00:28:59]  Some terrorists are not worth talking for very long with, like Al-Baghdadi and Qassam Soleimani.
[00:29:05]  But when you're in control of the world's energy reserves and you're a country as powerful and as widespread as Russia, I think speaking is a good idea.
[00:29:13]  So let me get this straight.
[00:29:14]  The more Biden talked to Putin, the more he wanted to invade Ukraine.
[00:29:18]  The more Biden has implemented his energy policy, the wealthier Putin has been.
[00:29:23]  Joe Biden has made America weak.
[00:29:26]  And dare I say he's made Russia rich again.

=== Biological Truths in War (04:15) ===

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[00:30:51]  In a time of crisis, what is the human being's natural way to react?
[00:30:59]  What's the proper way to handle something that has gone wrong when there's many other options in front of you?
[00:31:07]  Well, an analogy that is used quite often, but I want to think deeply about it for a second, is what do they tell you every time you board an airplane?
[00:31:15]  When you board an airplane, they're very explicit that if you're traveling with a child or someone that is dependent on you, that if the oxygen masks come from above, you put your mask on first before you help somebody else.
[00:31:31]  Now, why would that be?
[00:31:32]  Why would they tell you to put your mask on first?
[00:31:34]  Well, because if you pass out while putting the mask on somebody else, then you both will have passed out and you both might die.
[00:31:43]  Now, it's very logical when you think about it.
[00:31:45]  Okay, you take care of yourself first, and then you could take care of other people.
[00:31:51]  When there is something that is a crisis or unraveling, you should always care about yourself.
[00:32:00]  Handle yourself first before you can handle anything else.
[00:32:03]  When things start to fall apart, your circle needs to get smaller, not bigger.
[00:32:08]  It seems as if our leaders are doing the opposite.
[00:32:10]  It seems like the more crisis there is at home, the more they care about completely irrelevant border disputes on the other side of the planet.
[00:32:17]  So there is a hierarchy to action.
[00:32:22]  We know this from studying the classics.
[00:32:24]  We know that some things are more important than others, that there is a hierarchy to the good.
[00:32:30]  Now, when you look at our nation as a whole, we also need to ask ourselves: are we agreeing on the basic things?
[00:32:40]  Military action is never appropriate if a nation cannot overwhelmingly agree on the basic things.
[00:32:50]  Can you agree on metaphysical truths, such as where rights come from?
[00:32:55]  No, we certainly can't agree on that.
[00:32:56]  Can you agree on biological truths, such as what is a man and a woman?
[00:32:59]  Nope, can't agree on that.
[00:33:00]  Can we agree on historical truths, such as where we came from?
[00:33:04]  Were we founded on slavery or freedom?
[00:33:07]  Is America systemically racist or not?
[00:33:09]  Can't agree on any of that.
[00:33:10]  So, when you can't agree on things as simple as is there a higher being, is there a spiritual dimension to existence, or is it just all material?
[00:33:22]  You can't agree on biological truths, such as men and women, and you can't agree on historical truths, then why do we think we can agree on going into a potential war with Vladimir Putin?
[00:33:40]  The answer is: of course, we can't.
[00:33:43]  But for some people, it serves as a nice distraction for the media.

=== Distraction from Systemic Racism (01:17) ===

[00:33:47]  It is much needed.
[00:33:48]  It's a much needed ratings boost for a group of people that are increasingly irrelevant.
[00:33:55]  But for those of us that are here to be able to look at this as it is, we need to be very careful and prudent about how we approach this.
[00:34:05]  Putin is going to keep on trying to reunify what he thinks is the family of Russia or the Soviet Union through Ukraine or the Eastern part.
[00:34:15]  We made Putin rich through the ridiculous energy policies we did here domestically via Joe Biden's promises and executive orders.
[00:34:27]  But as our nation continues to go into turmoil, into a death spiral, I want our senators to put the auction mask on America before caring about Ukraine or some far distant land that I can't pronounce and have difficulty finding on a map.
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