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May 25, 2022 - Doug Collins Podcast
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Georgia GOP Congressman Doug Collins.
How is it?
The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life.
I could not believe my ears.
In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule.
It has been said today, where is bravery?
I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found.
It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered, and this majority say, be damned with anything else.
We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do.
Why?
Because we won an election.
I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun.
Hey everybody, it's Doug Collins.
Glad to have you back on the podcast.
Today's going to be a great episode.
We're just going to...
I've been saving up some things.
We've been going through some interviews.
We've been talking to a lot of folks about, you know, different things that have really been interesting.
And as we go, as this week has progressed, you know, selection, I know that we've been in primary after primary, primary Tuesdays have been dominated for primaries.
Our podcast from just the other day with Chip Lake talked about the in-depth of, you know, how campaigns work and what primaries...
You know, what people are going through when it comes to candidates and also campaign operatives on the days leading up to a primary.
And we've seen a lot of different things happen.
As you look across the country, you've seen President Trump's endorsement, as we've talked about, still being very powerful.
If you look at Ohio, you look at the Senate race there taking You know, J.D. Vance and moving him from, you know, really the endorsement itself moved him from fourth place with no hope to first place by 10 points and also the help of Peter Thiel with, you know, about $15 million didn't hurt in that as we look at it.
But again, it does show that the primary, especially in what we'll call a muddled field, can be...
Influenced a great deal by Donald Trump's endorsement in her Republican primary.
Then we move to Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania was McCormick and Oz going at it.
Then Barnett, Kathy Barnett, comes in a late run.
It was not, if not for the Trump endorsement of Dr. Oz, he was falling.
The McCormick negative ads were working on him, bringing his number down, raising McCormick's up a little bit.
And again, the Trump endorsement solidified Oz's position.
It raised him up some, but also kept the fall any further from happening.
It blunted the McCormick attacks.
And then in the end, for those who were McCormick or anybody but Oz fans, Kathy Barnett became the choice, and the race is still, even as we speak now, going into a recount with Oz and McCormick.
Again, holding a lead, but holding a lead going on the late night, then that was flipped later in the evening by Oz, and it's now basically a thousand difference in those two, and so we'll see a recount come there.
I've rarely seen a recount over a thousand, fifteen hundred actually turn a vote, so it looks like Dr. Oz is probably going to be the nominee.
I say all that in talking about where we're at, because today is just going to be sort of a, we're just going to go through some headlines, some things that have been on my mind, call it the cleaning up a little bit, or the gathering some thoughts that I wanted to just bring out.
Let's talk about, let's give you some news.
Maybe you've been focusing on elections, maybe you've been focusing on Just getting to work, paying gas prices, everything else is going on.
These are some areas that I want to talk about because many times things get put in headlines and then get forgotten.
They get put into headlines of talking about whether it be gas prices, whether it be the, you know, we got now baby formula crisis, whether it be the discussions from last year on voting and voter integrity, and it gets lost in the process.
So I've got a few stories today that I want to touch on.
That actually highlight where we are as to where we've come from.
So the first one I'm going to start off with is last year in the state of Georgia, after the November 2020 elections and then into the runoff of January 5th, 2021, the attention in the world a lot turned a lot of states when it came to voter integrity.
Of course, with all the discussions from what happened in the presidential election, Georgia took on head on.
They were the front and center of many of the problems that we saw developing out of A changing in voter laws that were not bedded through legislatures, that were new to the 2020 process.
Many of us believe should not have actually been authorized, but they were.
And that's how we got the 2020 election.
And you've seen this come up and come up and come up and come up consistently.
Georgia took that on head on and they did several things to strengthen the voter integrity, strengthen the election process here.
There's still now one thing that was interesting is they made drop boxes Put them in the code now so they're actually available, but they have to be inside an early voting place and they can only be accessed during regular early voting hours.
So there's no more of this dropping off ballots whenever you feel like it.
This is the whole, you know, essence of Dinesh D'Souza's 2000 mules and we saw the problems that developed there.
So they're now inside.
They also, you know, strengthened verification.
They expanded some actual, some early voting days, although they were accused of not doing that.
You know, they took away what was already basically in law, but just codified even more that you can't give out food and water and things like that to people in the line.
It doesn't mean that food and water can't be made available to the folks.
It just says if you are there and what was happening in Georgia was is partisan individuals were giving out these to people in this food and drink and other things in the line where campaigning is not allowed.
This simply codified it to say, look, you can't do this and whatever can be made available as long as you're 150 feet away from the line.
You can't just get into the line.
That was what was happening.
Again, all this seems common sense until the liberal media gets a hold of it and then the corporate world gets a hold of it.
And everybody's running last spring, if you remember, from all the events of the election, January 6th, everything else they just wanted to To run as far away as they could, and the woke media was just all over this story.
They were claiming even the President of the United States, Vice President and others, called the Georgia Law Jim Crow 2.0.
Now, one, to me, it should be very offensive to African-Americans in particular and others who had to actually live through Jim Crow laws in which the discrimination was real, the torment on those communities were real in many parts of this country in the South.
And to bring that and to envision that back up into a bill that, number one, did not restrict people from voting, did not take away access from voting from anyone, actually strengthened the integrity of the vote of the citizen who should be there, but also provided more days to vote, was actually strengthened the integrity of the vote of the citizen who should be there, but also provided more days to vote, was just simply
And it actually was being agged on by other Democrat politicians, number one of which Stacey Abrams, Raphael Warnock, both who are on the ballot this year.
I bring all of this up to talk about this one issue for the start of this show today.
It's because when this was first discussed, it was discussed as it's going to be terrible in Georgia.
Your voter suppression, voter attack, you name it, we were accused of everything.
Now, when the corporate world got into it, we lost the Major League Baseball's All-Star Series.
Now, I will say for those of us here in Georgia, we'll take the World Series title over the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
Just saying from a Braves fan.
But it did cost Georgia over $100 million.
It cost actual small business owners over $100 million in the Cobb County Atlanta area because the woke mob of the cultural elites decided that they would not read the Georgia bill.
They would not read what actually happened in that bill.
They would not compare it to states like Delaware who have a far more restrictive early voting procedure and voting procedure than the state of Georgia.
But that didn't matter.
It didn't fit the The narrative.
As we talk about here on the Doug Collins Podcast, let's fit the narrative.
The narrative was, we're going to show Georgia is against people voting.
They're backwards.
They're Jim Crow.
Anything they wanted to do.
And the media picked up on it.
When the media picked up on it, guess who else picked up on it?
Corporate America.
So Stacey Abrams, Raphael Warnock, and all these other politicians who were calling for reprisals, basically, if you would, and highlighting how terrible they thought this law was.
Then you started having corporations get behind it, which then pressured Major League Baseball to remove the All-Star game.
What was amazing to me is they took it from one of the most culturally diverse cities in the country in which minority businesses and others which would be very much affected by the All-Star Game in restaurants, t-shirt sales, everything around it, took it from that city and moved it to one of the least culturally diverse cities in the country in Denver, Colorado.
Again, just didn't make sense.
And even when you compared the reasons that they did it for.
Now you have Stacey Abrams, you have Raphael Warnock all running, asking for votes, and claiming that they had nothing to do with that loss of money and jobs and everything that went along with it.
And then you get the voting season in Georgia.
And for the last four weeks here in the state of Georgia, we have been going through our election process.
And what has been amazing, and I want to just remind you here, remember this was Joe Biden, this was Kamala Harris, this was many of the Democratic Party who, and others in the mainstream media, corporate world, everybody saying Georgia's laws were terrible, they were going to keep people from voting, Everything would go wrong.
In other words, when we got to election season this year, it would all just be catastrophe.
Well something happened on the way to the voting booth.
And that is, people found out that all these stories were not true.
I bring this up because the mainstream media is just beginning to pick up on the fact that the early voting in the state of Georgia is as high as it's ever been.
More than 2020. More than 2018. And we're not talking by small amounts.
We're talking double.
And so for all of this, you know, just rants and raves and hyperbole of Jim Crow 2.0 and this is going to be terrible and nobody wants to go vote and you're suppressing minority votes and you're keeping minorities out of it.
No, none of that happened.
But you're not seeing the mainstream media to run to this story.
You're not seeing the mainstream media take the act that the voter integrity base in Georgia was strengthened during this.
No, they didn't take that act.
They're not coming back to replace it.
Why?
Because they don't want that narrative out there.
They want the narrative that Republicans, in general, are against voting.
They're against people having a right to vote.
And that's just simply not true.
Now again, we can say it till we're blue in the face, but when you have a sitting president who gets up and says that Georgia's law is Jim Crow 2.0, that it's about voter suppression, voter intimidation, and everything else that he could read off the cue card, because I don't think he ever, in fact, probably know he never read the bill.
He only sat there and parroted the talking points of the MSNBC left and everybody else who said, oh, this is terrible.
Again, going back to this idea that Georgia has been in turmoil because, frankly, of Stacey Abrams and her Fair Fight Georgia and others Who have consistently tried to weaken the voter integrity in the state of Georgia.
Don't fall for the line that they're just trying to register people to vote.
No, they're not.
What they're trying to do is break down our voter integrity laws, which the state of Georgia has not done.
And now it's showing up.
It's showing up in the fact that we've had more voters go to the poll in this primary than at any other time in any other early voting that we've had in the state of Georgia.
And I'm going to attach one more thing before we move on to what I call the news that you won't hear.
And that is that well over a decade ago, George implemented, we implemented voter ID. And there was a big turmoil about, oh, you can't have voter ID. You know, the elderly will be affected.
African-American population be affected.
The Hispanic and the Asian population know, oh, you can't do this.
What about people who don't have IDs?
At the time, I was wondering, how do these people cast checks?
How do these people get money?
How do they do other things?
Again, somewhere they've got an ID or that they can find a way to prove who they are.
That was over a decade and a half ago.
Let me just tell you what has happened since then.
What has happened since then is this.
Is that for all of those people who said this was going to be a problem in suppressing the votes.
Now we just discussed that we're at our highest early vote turnout that we ever had.
But I'm going to tell you an even deeper question.
Statistic that you need to hear.
And that is, for those very same people who said that we should not do voter ID because it's offensive or it'll suppress votes, whatever, here's the fact.
Since 2014, African-American male, African-American female, Hispanic male, Hispanic female have all risen double digits in participation.
Double digits in participation.
Since the voter ID laws became official in Georgia.
Now, I'm not sure what the argument from the left was.
I know what it is now, and I haven't confronted Stacey Abrams about this in a congressional hearing.
And she had to acknowledge that this was true.
So the problem we have here is you have a media who wants to take a narrative.
They have a mindset of Republicans are bad.
Republicans don't want people to vote.
Republicans don't like people...
That don't look like them or act like them, which is totally false.
I'm sitting here as a conservative Republican who'll tell you, I want everybody to vote.
And it's my job, if I want you to vote like I do, to convince you that there's the reason why.
Too many of, I will say this from my side, conservative side, there are too many conservatives who just believe that people ought to go vote if we just tell them how bad the other side is.
I disagree with that.
I think you need to point out how bad it is, but you need to tell them what the alternative is and tell them why conservative values actually matter and why conservative values should earn their vote.
Have we lost it in this country that elections are about talking about ideas, debating ideas, and then convincing people to vote for you?
Are we lost in that?
According to the mainstream media, we as Republicans don't want you to vote anyway.
Which is a lie.
Mainstream media doesn't want to be held accountable and they don't want to be held accountable to retract what they're saying.
I've seen one article in the last few days of mainstream media, if you would, that has acknowledged that the voting turnout in Georgia is very high, although not really wanting to relay it back to the voter integrity issues in the bill that was passed SB 202 last year in the state of Georgia.
So again, These are the kind of things that I save up, I watch them develop, and I bring them to you on this podcast because I want you to see, here was the headline, Georgia passes voter suppression law.
Here's the reality.
Georgia turnout in early voting is the highest it's ever been.
Again, mainstream media, welcome to call me.
Whatever you want to do, go to the DougCollinsPodcast.com, link on it, send me an email.
Say, hey, we were wrong.
They're not going to do that.
But if you're out there and you want to comment about this, go to the DougCollinsPodcast.com, go to the email link, and send me your comments.
I would love to hear it.
Maybe you give me an idea for a future headline that was, that turned out to be a headline that's not.
Let's continue to that conversation because I think that's important that we don't leave stories.
I've said this before.
The American populace attention span is dropped.
This has scientifically been proven.
A scientific study out just the other day that said, based on the testing and others, that a few, about 10, I think it was 10, 15 years ago, the average attention span of a American was 12 seconds has now dropped to 8 seconds.
I mean, again, how much little can we pay attention to things?
It's just being proven over and over.
But the mainstream media preys on it.
They don't want you to remember.
They don't want you to think about it.
They just want you to see the headlines and then react to it.
And that's exactly what has been happening now.
In these headlines.
So, for all of you who are wondering about Georgia and wondering about the elections down here and wondering about what's been going on in these Jim Crow 2.0 laws, Well, the truth of the matter is, Joe Biden was lying.
The Democrats were lying.
The mainstream media was lying.
In fact, we knew that all along.
We talked about it all along.
But now it's just, you know, proven out in reality.
The interesting thing is that I'm waiting for this to happen.
It'll never happen.
But I'm waiting for those editorials from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and go on NBC and CBS and ABC and MSNBC and CNN and all these others who disparaged the state of Georgia over a voter integrity bill that actually strengthened voter integrity, actually added more days of early voting, actually made it in many ways easier to vote, and then let's see them retract it.
I got an idea.
It ain't gonna happen.
All right.
Next thing on the agenda.
Headlines that were.
Reality that they don't report.
This is becoming one that is growing, and I think it has very severe consequences for our country.
This is the absolute demise of democratic foreign policy.
Biden in particular, but it also started back in Obama.
I'm going to go back just for a brief minute here to the Obama administration.
I want to lay out a few incidences that I believe have started this trend.
When you look at it, The trend of getting out without a plan or moving forward with a foreign policy, especially an armed or a militaristic foreign policy, has been something that Democrat administrations have talked about for a long time, but they have been failing miserably.
And let's go back and take a little history.
Remember, headlines that were, reality that became.
Headlines were, Obama gets us out of a riot.
Well, I mean, I'm not saying we should not have found a way to disengage ourselves from Iraq.
That was what the intention was.
But the question was, is how do you do it?
Well, when Obama pulled out of Iraq, he just bent lock, stock, and barrel, pulled it all out.
No real plan.
No real after-effect plan.
Nothing.
And guess what happened?
ISIL came up.
And then the Levant, the Daesh, it was...
It grew up almost to encompass all of northern Iraq and then spilled into Syria.
Syria already then touched off in the middle of a civil war with the Assad and those who were against Assad.
You had this muddled picture in which ISIL was now there fighting not only us, but Assad.
I mean, it was just back and forth.
And the first part, I think, is the one that's the least reported, is frankly how bad the withdrawal was out of Iraq by President Obama.
Now, the mainstream media is not going to go back and talk about this, but let's just put it in perspective.
You've got to understand, when we get to the ones of Ukraine and Afghanistan, you've got to understand this history coming forward.
The next big interesting red line, which I believe diminished us in world standing, which I think laid the groundwork for future more aggressive operations by, let's say, Russia and others, is the famous Obama red line.
Now, remember the Obama red line was in Syria that if Assad used chemical weapons against his own people, that was a red line and there would be consequences.
Well...
In 12, they used chemical weapons.
In 13, they used chemical weapons.
By the fall of 2013, the red line that was presented by President Obama was nothing more than a mirage.
President Obama turned from saying, oh, the red line, then now I want congressional approval.
And why did that happen?
Because the Obama administration began to do foreign policy by consensus.
They began to do foreign policy by polling data.
They began to do foreign policy because we don't know what we're getting into.
So instead of enforcing a calculated strike, however they wanted to clarify, a pushback on Assad for using chemical weapons on his own people, they then chose to begin to try to negotiate with Congress, except for one thing.
Congress wasn't having it.
I was in Congress at the time.
I went to the White House at the time.
The Democrats were not happy about it.
They were still unhappy about the wars, the Afghanistan war we were still in, the Iraq war that they had just pulled us out of.
You had Republicans who had, frankly, no use for the Obama administration and were not willing to step in, although many felt that something needed to be done in a very strategic, very precise way against Assad for using chemical weapons in that way, was not going to happen.
So it's interesting that Obama administration, who could not find the wherewithal to do something on their own, decided to then go lobby Congress.
And then when the lobby effort of Congress failed, they found and tried to blame Congress and others saying, well, we can't get consensus.
We're not going to do anything.
And so they just waited it out.
A couple of stories about that, and it fits well into what we're seeing in the Afghanistan and Ukraine situation.
You had the blusterous talk of the Obama administration saying, we're the world's defenders, you're not going to do this as humanitarian, you cross this red line, you know, problems.
There were others of us, even Republicans like myself, who believed that President Obama had every right under his authorities to make a concerted small strike or a relatively precise strike into Syria during that time.
And we said that.
What we did not agree with is how we would infiltrate more troops, more activity than we currently had there, and raise the level of escalation without Congress actually saying, "Hey, this is okay.
We're giving the blessing as the Congress is supposed to do.
Now we tactically did that with funding, but again, never had the debate on the floor of the House or the Senate.
When that failed, President Obama would try to bring people of the different parties from Capitol Hill to the White House to talk about it.
I remember being called.
I was a freshman during this time.
We got called to the White House, a group of about 15 of us, and we thought, okay, this is going to be the president's hard sell on wanting to help him with Ukraine.
We get in there and we hear briefings from senior officials, including the Chief of Staff, Dennis McDonough.
We heard their reasoning, saying, oh, we need your help.
This has got to be done.
We made this red line, and we're asking for your support if this was brought forward on the floor.
Will you help us?
Now, just a little bit of maybe geography for you.
We were meeting in the Roosevelt Room.
The Roosevelt Room just sits just a little bit off of the Oval Office area.
In fact, it's probably all of about 15-20 steps at most from the Oval Office and the Resolute Desk to the Roosevelt Room.
Now, when we get there, if you were to read and go back and you can look this up, go back to the time frame in which...
Obama was making this pitch.
It was all over the papers.
This was what they wanted.
They needed congressional approval.
You would think it would be important enough for President Obama to have walked those several steps into that Roosevelt Room and said, hey, I'm busy right now, but I knew y'all were here, wanted to see if you could get us help.
Here's why I think this is important.
He didn't have to stay.
He didn't have to stay for five minutes.
He didn't have to stay for 10 minutes.
He could have just said, hey, here's what I'm doing.
Please listen to my chief.
We need your help.
And this is important to me.
This is important for national security.
Whatever he wanted to say.
And you know what happened?
Crickets.
Nothing.
This event was just brought back to me as I was doing some other issues in my Air Force time.
But this event was brought back to me, and it just reminded me that when you, as a politician, make a red line, and in the instance of the way Obama did, that you're going to have to follow through on it.
At least in some way.
Otherwise, there is going to be a loss of standing, not only within your own constituency here in the United States, your constituency on Capitol Hill, but also the world standing.
I lay this out there to simply say there began to be, from that moment on, a move in which the consensus was going to be the discussion and The end in action was going to take place.
I believe after that, Russia, who, you know, and again, there's a lot of reasons here.
This is not an episode of the Syria, although I could probably do one at some point, and I may do.
You know, the Russians were involved.
You didn't know really, you know, who would help if, you know, hitting Assad, would it help ISIL? Would it help, you know, Russia?
There was just a lot of confusion about what was going on on the ground.
Also, the fact that our rules of engagement for our own troops was one of the problems that existed there, which actually was fixed when Donald Trump became president.
And when you started actually taking out these terror cells, ISIL began to diminish and go away.
All of that taken into account, I simply say that the non-action by the Obama administration, I think, led to what you're seeing now.
Why?
Because Joe Biden was a part of that administration.
So let's fast forward into last year.
Joe Biden coming into office A lot of frustration with the election, a lot of frustration with what was going on and the Democrats with fresh majorities in the Senate, the presidency and the continued majority in the House were anxious to do something.
They wanted to make a statement and Joe Biden determined that Afghanistan was going to be a statement.
Obama got out of Iraq.
Well, he was going to get out of Afghanistan and blame Donald Trump, who said he wanted to get out of Afghanistan to say, nope, I was the one that actually did it.
And then he made the very political move of saying we will be out by September 11th of last year, 2021, which, by the way, corresponded to the 20th anniversary of September 11th, 2001 and the attack on our soil.
No one saw a plan.
No one really saw what was going on.
In fact, there was a lot of concern.
The Taliban was making inroads back into Afghanistan.
Our minimal troops that were there were able to hold the civility together with no loss of life.
I believe it was in the previous 18 months before August of 2021 when we lost 13 of our troops.
This is where the problem is.
The discussion that began and the media trumpeted it as Biden getting us out of Afghanistan gave no attention to the discussions that were internal and the discussions that did not happen when they discovered that and was told that this is not a good move.
The Afghanistan's You know, that we had been training, the equipment that we laid had been there, were going to disappear.
Why?
Because the Afghanistan Army and Afghanistan Nation was not able to keep it together.
The Taliban was kept at bay simply because us and some other coalition countries were still there in minimal numbers, not conducting combat operations.
But instead, we had to get out.
Why?
Because it's a political thing.
First year of your presidency, you're going to make a statement.
We're going to get out by September 11th, 2021. 20 years in, we're the ones that got us out.
And in July of August of last year, we saw the absolute debacle that was the Afghanistan withdrawal, which I believe is the beginning of the just complete abandonment This is an abysmal polling of Biden administration that we have seen that has now landed them in the mid to high 30s at best in standing.
Why?
Because they embarrassed America.
Why?
Because they embarrassed us on the world stage.
They embarrassed us with sending our troops and we lost troops in a mission that even military people were saying this does not make sense.
The calculated risk that the Taliban would come back, you know, the information was just wrong.
We started seeing it immediately.
We should have stopped and we didn't.
So what happened?
By the time we could get our...
Personnel out there.
And by the time we packed C-17s with refugees, some of which had never been vetted, some of which bumped those that had helped us off.
I mean, we left those that we promised to help there.
Afghans who helped us, we promised that we would take them, but when we left, we left them there.
It was a total retreat.
The Taliban took over.
The Taliban, in fact, was in control as we were leaving.
Now, many of us at that point in time said, you know, the headline was, oh, we're getting out of this 20-year war and Biden did it and everything.
And then he had just completely botched the outcome here.
And at the time, many of us were talking about this fact that we believed that this was going, I mean, the Taliban had already taken over.
We already started seeing them, you know, enforcing and going after those who were against them and going after those who had fought against them.
We saw it as early as August of last year while we were finishing getting out.
And the story in the media was, well, the Taliban had changed.
This is a different grouping of Taliban.
You saw these headlines and stories that they had pledged to be, I hate to use it, but it's sort of the way the kinder, gentler Taliban.
It should have been the kinder, gentler terrorists, because that's what the Taliban are.
They're just criminal terrorists.
And now they were in control of a country.
The Biden administration did not even have a plan, and think about it early on, to get the equipment out that they could get out during this time, or disable the equipment that was going to be falling into the hands of the Taliban.
And it did.
And we abandoned Balad Air Base.
Again, total disaster.
But what did the press talk about?
The press talked about the fact that Joe Biden was getting us out of these wars.
And then they began to say, something ain't right.
And for the first time, the press began to actually question what was happening when they saw the absolute debacle of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Now, I do want to bring up something that just came out in the media here recently.
And that is that most of us said that by doing what we did in Afghanistan, we have simply allowed the Taliban to go back to pre-2001 levels, except this time they're better armed.
Well, that is becoming true.
It took them a little while to do it, but here's the things that we've already started seeing.
News females who are on TV have to have their face covered.
They also put out about a month ago that women were now to have their full face covered, the burka style outfit, if they went out of the house.
And that was only if they had to and had to be back accompanied by a male of their own family.
And if this was broken, the dress code was broken, the males were going to be subject to increasing punishment.
We talked about the advantage of the women and the girls who are actually being able to be educated, who are actually being in free society.
Guess what?
Now they've already implemented again that girls cannot get an education past sixth grade.
This is what's happened in Afghanistan.
This was what happens when you make a political statement without the proper understanding of the situation you're dealing with.
And now there's been a lot of covering up in the past few months with the generals at the Pentagon saying, oh, we told them this was going to happen.
This was not a good idea.
And then saying, well, no, we thought it would take a lot longer for the Taliban.
The problem is, at the end of the day, you had no strategy, no dealing for dealing with what the Taliban were going to do.
And now we see the results.
Now, I bring all of this up to then bring us into Ukraine.
Now, the world is horrified at what's going on in Ukraine.
Putin's advancement in the Ukraine, you know, and his discussions that, you know, This was to keep a buffer between him and NATO. All of this has been going on for a number of years.
Russia had never made any doubts, but then they've taken the unprecedented wrong move to actually go in and take over land, similarly to the way they did in Crimea, and now they have landed themselves in well over a two-month The Biden response...
Beforehand was sort of a hands-off.
In fact, at one point, remember Joe Biden was saying, well, you know, we're not sure if we'll respond to a minor aggression.
Well, what was a minor aggression?
That was sort of like giving Putin a green light and say, oh, okay, I can take a half of the country.
I just can't take the whole country.
And then it is sort of downplayed even their own intelligence reports that were telling them, look, you know, you don't put this many people, troops on the border, which Russia was doing, and it not end up in an invasion.
Well, guess what?
That intelligence was right.
They invaded.
What is concerning me now, and I laid out all of this with Syria, with Afghanistan, and the Obama administration tattling over to the Biden administration, is because now we are developing a situation, not at the point yet, yet, in which the Biden administration has decided that we are going to use boots on the ground, or we are going to send troops, this is just out in the last little bit, To defend the embassy.
So we're going to send a thousand more just to defend the embassy and the rounding areas there.
And that's just come out in the last little bit.
101st Airborne has been activated publicly to go to Germany and to go to Europe in response to this.
So again, moves happening that I don't think are being put together very well by the media and definitely not being talked about by the Pentagon.
But then the next step is that going to Congress and continuing to get money for Ukraine.
Most of it, a lot of it goes to humanitarian aid, refugee assistance, but a lot of it going to direct military assistance to Ukraine.
Now, Ukraine needs the help.
They've done a good job.
They've appealed to the world.
But my question is, is how much is enough and when does it end?
We have given over $60 billion for Ukrainian assistance and military help.
I have just an interesting statistic for you maybe you didn't know.
Did you know that the whole budget for the Russian military is 69 billion?
Okay.
How much is enough?
What's the end game?
I think most Americans do not like what Russia has done and should be punished for what they have done.
But now, besides it being the excuse for everything in the Biden administration, from high gas prices to inflation to everything else, which, by the way, all started many months before Putin invaded Ukraine, this is the situation we find ourselves in.
We find ourselves in is when is the next batch of aid going to be needed from Congress?
How many billions of dollars are we going to continue to spend Where is the international pressure to put Ukraine and Russia at a table to work this thing out?
Where is the international pressure to say that this war has got to stop?
Besides these engagements, there can be more done, and we're just not seeing it.
Again, another tracing the roots of the example into the question of when do we get out.
I don't think there's an end result here.
But I think you do need to realize that these things are not disrelated.
They're just isolated incidents.
And I believe, especially the Biden administration, from their experiences with the Iraq pullout, you can talk about the Libya military situation of taking out, which left a complete disaster that led to Benghazi and others, then into the Syria red line, and then jumping forward into Afghanistan.
You're seeing the pattern that is developing here of engagement without Discussion, political moves without understanding the political ramifications, and that's what we're seeing.
We're seeing this happen time and time again in these administrations, and people wonder why.
Well, today, that's what I wanted to lay out.
I wanted to lay out what the headline said, what the results were.
In one sense, it was the elections in Georgia.
They're terrible.
They're racist.
They're against anybody voting.
Reality, highest voting turnout we've ever seen in the state of Georgia.
Headlines over the past number of years under the Democratic administration.
We're getting out of these long wars.
We're putting our best foreign policy forward.
We're making decisions that strengthen us.
Reality, they're making decisions such as the Syria Red Line.
By not enforcing it, they're empowering Russia, China, Iran, and others.
By the Iranian nuclear deal, which I didn't even go into here.
Again, not saying that Iran is not going to have a nuclear weapon.
Just say it's going to take longer for them to get it, and we're paying them in the process.
And then you come into Afghanistan, the absolute just debacle of a withdrawal in Afghanistan, and then the misread in many ways of the situation in Ukraine, and now back to we're spending money that we don't know when it all ends.
Folks, there's a lot of things going on.
One of the things my goal on this podcast to do is to educate you, show you what was and what is.
Because you're not going to get this in a day-to-day mainstream cycle.
You need to every once in a while take a deep breath, step back and say, hey, how did we get here?
I'm glad you stopped into the Doug Collins podcast today.
There's an example of two things, that the headlines were, and what the headlines reality is.
And we've got to stay diligent in this stuff.
because if the elections go in the way we're hoping from a conservative Republican standpoint, the House is going to flip, the Senate should flip, and then we're going to be into a stalemate going into 2024 in which we have got to say our conservative values matter and here's how they matter.
As I said earlier in this podcast, it is back to time in which we as conservatives go on the offense of saying why our values matter, why we have better ideas, and how they affect people instead of just simply saying Biden bad, Democrats terrible, liberals awful.
Those are not reasons for people who have no interest in politics to get up, go vote, and vote for Republicans who actually will help them have jobs, keep their families safe, have the government out of indoctrination and everything else that they're in.
It's got to be made when Republicans and conservatives actually make their argument that these are why our ideas are better.
We're going to keep doing it here on the Doug Collins Podcast.
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