Washington This Week examines Russian aggression in Europe, with a speaker warning of "ethnic missiles" deployed in Belarus and demanding unified sanctions against Moscow’s oil and arms supply chains—criticizing China, Taiwan, and U.S. allies for enabling the threat while Europe hesitates. Meanwhile, live from Minneapolis, Police Chief Brian O’Hara reports the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old white male by masked federal agents amid protests, clashing with Governor Tim Walz’s call for state-led accountability; activists denounce militarized overreach, framing it as a betrayal of democratic trust. The episode underscores how global crises and domestic unrest reveal stark divides in leadership, strategy, and public faith. [Automatically generated summary]
Because if Europe is not seen as a global force, if its actions don't scare bad actors, then Europe will always be reacting, catching up with new dangers and attacks.
We all see that the forces trying to destroy Europe do not face a single day.
They operate freely, even operate inside Europe.
Every victor who lives off European money while trying to sell out European interests deserves a smack upside the head.
And if he feels comfortable in Moscow, it doesn't mean we should let European capitals become little Moscows.
We must remember what separates Russia from all of us.
The most fundamental line of conflict between Russia and Ukraine and all of Europe is this.
Russia fights to devalue people, to make sure that when dictators want to destroy someone, they can.
But wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to just cut Russia off from the components it needs for missiles production or even destroy the factories making them?
Last year, most of the time was spent talking about long-range weapons for Ukraine.
And everybody said that the solution was designed within range.
And here in Europe, we are advised not to mention tomahawks, not to mention tomahawks to the Americans, not to spoil the mood.
And we are told not to bring up Taurus missiles.
When the subject is Turkey, diplomats say don't offend Greece.
When it's Greece, they say be careful with Turkey.
In Europe, there are endless internal arguments and things left unsaid that stop Europe from uniting and speaking honestly enough to find real solutions.
And too often, Europeans turn against each other leaders, parties, movements, and communities instead of standing together to stop Russia, which brings the same destruction to everyone.
Instead of becoming a truly global power, Europe remains a beautiful but fragmented kaleidoscope of small and middle powers.
Instead of taking the lead in defending freedom worldwide, especially when America's focus shifts elsewhere, Europe looks lost trying to convince the US President to change.
And he says he loves Europe, but he will not listen to this kind of Europe.
One of the biggest problems in today's Europe, though it's not often talked about in the mindset, some European leaders are from Europe, but not always for Europe.
And Europe still feels more like a geography, history, a tradition, not a real political force, not a great power.
But many say we must stand strong, and they always want someone else to tell them how long they need to stand strong, preferably until the next election.
But that's not how great power works, to my mind.
Leaders say we must defend European interests, but I hope someone else will do it for them.
And speaking of values, they often mean valueless.
They are all like we need we need something to replace the old world order with.
But where is the line of leaders who are ready to act?
Act now on land, in the air, at the sea, to build a new global order.
Dear friends, we should not degrade ourselves to secondary roles, not when we have a chance to be a great power together.
We should not accept that Europe is just a salad of small and middle powers seasoned with enemies of Europe when, united, we are truly invincible.
And Europe can and must be a global force.
Not one that reacts late, but one that defines the future.
That would help everyone from the Middle East to every other region in the world.
That would help Europe itself, because the challenges we face now are challenges to the European way of life, where people matter, where nations matter.
Europe can help build a better world.
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Europe must build a better world and a world without war, of course.
The documents aimed at ending this war are nearly nearly ready and that really matters.
Ukraine is working with full honesty and determination and that brings results and Russia must become ready to finish this war, to stop this aggression, Russian aggression, Russian war against us.
So the pressure must be strong enough and the support for Ukraine must grow even stronger.
Our previous meetings with President of the United States brought us here defense missiles and thanks Europeans, they helped also.
And today we also spoke about protecting the skies, which means protecting lives, of course.
And I hope America will continue to stand with us.
And what is now the most difficult part for Ukraine?
We know it's an attack on your whole energy system and electricity.
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Let's go, let's go.
Come on, let's go.
Okay.
Let's go.
Watch the watch.
Keep going.
Okay.
I'm behind you guys.
behind you.
Oh, there he is.
There he is.
You said a concussive grenade?
That's not the right term.
Helping Hands00:10:15
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Basically, it's designed to make a really, really nice space.
Yeah, it is.
can you get a water?
I'm helping it.
I'll help you feel better, honey.
Be brave!
The ones in front of being brave!
Let's be brave!
Come on!
Water here!
Here we go, here we go, okay I'm going to turn over to Chief to provide an update and some of the details based on the limited amount of information that we have thus far this morning, and then I will try to comment myself.
Minneapolis Shooting Incident00:13:17
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Chief my name is Brian O'Hara, B-R-I-A-N, O Apostle H-A-R-A, and the Africa Police Chief.
Approximately 9:03 a.m. this morning, Minneapolis police received the report of a shooting involving federal law enforcement in the area of East 26th Street and Nicholas Avenue on the south side of the city.
Officers arrived and found an adult male with multiple gunshot wounds when they arrived.
Life-saving aid was being rendered, and he was transported by ambulance to Hennepin County Medical Center, where he was later pronounced deceased.
Based on the information that we have, which is very limited, this is a 37-year-old white male who is a Minneapolis resident, and we believe he is an American citizen.
We have not been told any official reports of what has led up to the shooting, but we have seen the video that is circulating on social media.
Our demand today is for those federal agencies that are operating in our city to do so with the same discipline, humanity, and integrity that effective law enforcement in this country demands.
We urge everyone to remain peaceful.
We recognize that there is a lot of anger and a lot of questions around what has happened, but we need people to remain peaceful.
In the area, we have an unlawful assembly at this time.
Minneapolis police have given multiple warnings for the crowd to disperse.
We are asking for people to avoid the area and to leave if you are there.
We have requested mutual aid from the Minnesota State Patrol and from all our local and county regional partners.
We ask everyone to remain calm and to please do not destroy our own city.
I just saw a video of more than six masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death.
How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?
How many more lives need to be lost before this administration realizes that a political and partisan narrative is not as important as American values?
How many times must local and national leaders plead with you, Donald Trump, to end this operation and recognize that this is not creating safety in our city?
As you'll hear from Director Sayre in just a second, we have seen these kinds of operations in other places in other countries, but not here in America.
Not in a way where a great American city is being invaded by its own federal government.
I'm done being told that our community members are responsible for the vitriol in our streets.
I'm done being told that our local elected officials are solely responsible for turning down the temperature.
Just yesterday, we saw 15,000 people peacefully protesting in the streets, speaking out, standing up for their neighbors.