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Another Failure for Biden. Putin is Laughing | Rudy Giuliani | February 23rd, 2022 | Ep 215
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Welcome to Rudy's Common Sense.
The invasion that occurred yesterday, this is the day I'm talking, in Ukraine was an invasion.
If you can't call it an invasion, you should resign as president because you can't defend us.
He couldn't call it an invasion for 24 hours because he's sucking up, excuse the Inelegant language.
He's sucking up to the Russians in very much the same way he sucks up to the Chinese.
Now, I understand why he sucks up to the Chinese.
They've paid him multiple millions and millions and millions of dollars, disgracefully.
As far as I can tell, the Russians only gave him $3.5 million.
Not enough for a total suck-up.
But he's doing it.
It is my contention, which I am about to explain to you, That there would be no invasion of Ukraine if Biden were not the president.
That this is a Biden-caused, opportunistic invasion by an evil, dangerous, brilliant tactician.
So let's go back.
And let's go back to a weakness that's not just Biden's.
This is an American weakness.
We don't pay attention.
Most of our major conflicts and attacks and problems have come because we don't read and we don't pay attention.
Let me just give you a brief outline of that.
Marx and Engels outlined communism to us and told us what they were going to do.
It was repeated by Lenin, Trotsky, to some extent Stalin, in great detail by Mao, Z right now is repeating it at congresses and lectures.
They laid out an actual program for how to take over countries like America and we are a long way along that program if you bother to read it.
The separate things that we see are not separate.
They're separate to you if you haven't read The deterioration of our schools, part of the communist plan.
The removal of God from the public square, part of the communist plan.
The attack on parents, that Terry McAuliffe, parents have no Rights, education, and how about Hannah the Phony Historian of 1619 with the completely garbage history that the New York Times put out?
So we ignore all that.
They laid out what they were going to do.
The Communists did.
Mein Kampf.
Hitler did.
It was outlined in great detail what Hitler was going to do.
When we then rejoined, you know, and the war was over, instead of taking Churchill's advice and double-crossing Stalin, a failing Roosevelt and an inexperienced Truman listened to the communist-leaning people around him and gave Russia much more than they should have given Russia.
I don't care what we owed them.
We had to think about the safety and security of the world.
Double-cross them!
They were weak, they didn't have an atomic bomb, they had lost millions of their citizens, and they were at our mercy.
And they were godless communists.
And if you had read their writings, they told you they wanted to take you over, and you redeveloped them.
Because you thought you could change them.
And then you did the same dumb thing with the Chinese.
Until recently, you thought China was the peaceful rising sun.
When China has been writing, if you read it, that they want to be the dominant country in the world.
They want to dominate Russia.
They want to certainly dominate the U.S.
They got a date for it.
They've had it for a long time.
It's coming up, 2049, and they seem to be ahead of schedule.
You ever hear this from Democrats?
I don't know what's wrong with them.
I don't know if they're just—because of the liberal, unrealistic policies, they go along in some fantasy world.
They feel they're smarter by hating the United States and criticizing it.
Or maybe they are communists, some of them.
I don't know.
The reason for this is Putin told us what he was going to do.
He didn't surprise us.
It's not a surprise attack.
He told us.
Oh gosh, many, many times.
I can go back 12 years reading the things he said.
When I first became aware of Ukraine, it was before the Orange Revolution.
It was in 2004.
I went to the Ukraine on a visit.
I was given a document by Secretary of State Colin Powell, a briefing document, not particularly classified.
I'm not even sure it was classified.
But it contained an analysis of how can you save Ukraine.
This is in 2004.
And there was a little sentence in it that I underlined.
And I think I still have it.
I kept it for historic purposes.
And it said, the only man who can save Ukraine, the only man who can save Ukraine is Viktor Yushchenko.
I want you to get the name right.
We're going to put it up.
Viktor Yushchenko.
These names are very important because they get very close and I confuse them sometimes.
I'm sorry.
And Viktor Yushchenko was outlined to me to be a basically European-educated financier, an economist of some degree of scholarship and standing.
A very, very honorable and honest man, written down as very exceptional for the Ukraine.
And he was married to an American from Chicago.
The other, his opponent in the presidential election was Viktor Yanukovych.
Who was considered to be, without going into grit, a puppet of Putin.
And a massive crook.
And the election took place, and it was contended that it was rigged.
A stolen election?
It was rigged in favor of Yanukovych.
A new election took place, and on December 26, 2004, Myself and my Ukrainian friends, of which there are some very, very good ones, going back to the writing of the Constitution in Ukraine, were exceedingly happy because Mr. Yushchenko won 52-45.
Now, this wasn't without having to survive an attempt to kill him with poison that didn't kill him, but it really did massive damage.
His face had become pockmarked, his gait had become slowed, thinking seemed more tentative.
He wasn't quite the same man, but he was still the guy who wanted a free Ukraine and resented what Russia had done to them for centuries.
And that was called the Orange Revolution.
And it was opposed bitterly by Belarus and, of course, by Putin.
And from the time it happened, Putin was intent on reversing it and began writing that way,
if you paid attention to him.
Yushchenko did not live up to the big aspirations for him.
Maybe no one could have.
My opinion?
Putin didn't kill him.
Putin attempted to kill him.
But he killed him.
He killed his spirit.
I've met men like this before.
Men I work with against the terrorists, particularly against the mafia.
Men who were very strong.
They could do anything.
And then I'd meet them several years later and they were, I'm not going to say they were broken, they didn't have the same confidence they had before.
When I met Victor after the attack, And I think it was after he had become president, but shortly after, and he was still in very bad shape in terms of his face.
And I felt like I was talking to a different man, a broken man, a man who was tentative now, a man who was worried now.
Not that same bold confidence that, oh, I saw in Ronald Reagan when I worked for him, or Donald Trump, or I might say in my son, who's running for governor.
I know these men are going to change things.
And when I first met Victor, he might have been right near the top of that group.
But that damn Putin got to him.
I'm going to give you a trick of investigation.
If it's poison, number one suspect Russians.
If it's baseball bats, it's probably Italian kids.
That used to be a joke in the U.S.
Attorney's Office.
Don't get upset.
I mean, it's just a joke.
But that's the way us prosecutors and FBI agents and guys who did this for a living, if it's poison, it's gotta be the Russians.
I'm talking about organized crime now.
Baseball bat battalions, it used to be the weapon of first choice for Italian would-be mobsters.
So, re-election now, Yadashenko wins.
Yereshenko puts together now the seeds of the corrupt government that still hasn't been taken apart, even though Zelensky is trying.
There's no doubt, I've got no time to go through all this.
I know it in tremendous detail because of my investigation to clear Trump, because of the allegations, the Russian allegations were really lodged in Ukraine, and I'm the one who found it.
Unfortunately, I'm the one who exposed Biden.
Unfortunately for me, fortunately for the country and the world.
So, Yeltsin defeats a Already defeated Yushchenko.
Yedushchenko is the Russian guy, let's put it that way.
Yushchenko is the Western guy who wants to make NATO part, wants to be part of NATO, wants to be part of the EU, wants Ukraine to be European, seeing that as a much greater future with a whole plentitude of rights than what he sees now as an increasingly Dictatorial Russia under a Putin that is moving from a democratically elected official—remember, Hitler was democratically elected, Stalin was democratically elected—to a potentate, a dictator, and then maybe even a homicidal dictator.
But he's out!
Yedyshenko comes in.
Yedyshenko builds a government.
Yedyshenko's government is, you will find out one day, Overwhelmed with corruption, with a fair amount of American involvement in the corruption, and a disproportionate amount of it involving, just happened to be, Democrats, who got a foothold there, became kind of a cash cow for them.
Then, all of a sudden, In order to keep control, Yeltsin promised that he would try to do some of the things Yeltsin would do, maybe join the EU, maybe talk to NATO.
Russia pounded down on him.
Russia pounded down on him and he broke it off.
No!
No EU!
No NATO!
And then we had what is known as the Euromaidan demonstrations, clashes in Kiev Square.
And they were so severe that he was forced to flee, and his whole crooked government forced to flee, one of those being the patron of the Biden family, Mykola Zashevsky, who was one of the biggest of Yereshchenko's crooks, because he ran all the mining operations, and the crooked guy gave himself his own company, which he had hidden in Cyprus, Hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars in mining contracts while he was in office, wandered bare minimum $5 billion and ran away.
One of the pro-Russian Yedyshenko crooks that then ends up hiring Hunter Biden and Joe Biden fixes the case that allows him to keep his company, which he has to this day.
Because of Joe Biden and the bribe that was paid to him.
This is the kind of corruption that goes on there.
But all of a sudden now, the pro-Russians are out, the pro-Americans are in, the pro-Democrats are in.
Poroshenko is very, very close to Biden.
Poroshenko is very, very close to Obama.
Poroshenko indeed campaigned for Biden in 2016 and did a lot more than that.
But Poroshenko has $800,000 in the bank.
So America promises to fund him.
And who does Obama put in charge?
His appointment?
Joe Biden.
The man who's never succeeded ever in anything he's ever done.
Bad, bad mistake for Ukraine, because as the years go by, he fails in each one of his objectives.
Objective one?
Get Russia out.
Well, since they never approved a weapon, For Ukraine to use while the Russians were pounding the living daylights out of them and killing them and they had no effective weapons and Obama and Biden didn't want to give it to them.
It was once described to me by a very patriotic Ukrainian that basically Obama and Biden gave us a pea shooter and they gave us a medieval shield and they said, go beat the Russians.
And we got our heads kicked in.
And Russia basically took over Crimea and Russia took over a part of Ukraine called the Separatist Territories.
I'm showing you right now a map of Europe.
You'll see in the middle, pretty much the middle of that map, which is an interesting place to be, Ukraine.
It used to have the nickname the breadbasket of Russia or the breadbasket of Europe.
It is an extremely valuable territory.
It is wonderful for agriculture and it has per capita Pretty close to, you know, the most minerals and other natural resources, that little piece of territory.
That little piece of territory may pretty much come close to equaling the rest of that big Moscow and Russia you see, which is really just the European part of Russia.
So, let's zero in for a moment now on Russia.
Russia has a population of 140 million people.
That's half our population.
We have states that have better economies than Russia.
Ha ha, but it has one thing.
States don't have nuclear weapons as well as the most sophisticated way beyond the hydrogen bomb.
That's how they get to fight over their weight.
You know, they swing beyond their weight for two reasons.
Most important, being a nuclear power.
The second most important, having an enormously crafty, ingenious leader, who if you underestimate him, you make a big mistake.
Now, if you underestimate him for being evil, you make a big mistake.
If you underestimate him for being cunning, you make a big mistake.
If you underestimate his intellect, you make a big mistake.
So take him seriously!
Read what he writes!
I just want you to note the countries that border Russia.
Because these are the countries that are next in jeopardy.
Maybe in this order.
Belarus, which is already gone.
Estonia, which has more of a Russian proclivity than any other of these states.
Then the other Baltic states, Latvia and Lithuania, that have developed, if they didn't have it before, a real anger, a bitterness, a fear of Russia to the extent where Lithuania is taking on China, Red China.
It's stronger than we are.
I have a Lithuanian daughter-in-law who's an American citizen.
I'm so proud of the Lithuanians.
I mean, they've got more courage than Biden.
So they're not giving up easy.
Poland, you know.
For Russia to take Poland, I mean, there'd have to be no more Poland.
That happened once, it won't happen again.
And then the rest of it, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, they've all lived under this.
They know what this is.
is. As we go further west in Europe, we start to get the cowards, the appeasers, the peaceniks,
the silly people, the druggies, the jet-setters, the macrones.
.
Right there.
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Albania.
I'll fight on their side.
I wouldn't mind them as allies.
Russia knows that.
I don't think Russia moves there.
But Russia has more moves in mind, which we're going to get to in one minute, but we're going to take a short break.
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Welcome back to this analysis of Putin's aims and our unwillingness to,
meaning Biden's unwillingness and the Democrats unwillingness to ever read
what our enemies want to do to us and take it seriously.
We could include, by the way, the Ayatollah in that.
I mean, somehow Biden's in love with Iran, and they just love to kill their own.
He seems to love countries where they like to kill their own people.
Iran and China.
What's wrong with the man?
What's wrong with the party?
What's wrong with it is that you vote for it?
Okay.
Now, I just want you to take a look now at Ukraine itself.
It's a small country compared to Russia, both in terms of size.
You saw how gigantic Russia is.
I mean, it's half of Europe, right?
But a lot of useless... Believe me, I've flown over Russia for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours.
All I saw was ice and a little igloo.
Ice, a little igloo.
Ice, a little igloo.
I think I was hypnotized.
But in any event, there's a lot of useless Russia.
When you get to the Urals, which is right in the middle there, you do have tremendous steel-producing areas.
And you do have great natural resources, but not a particularly efficient country, unlike Ukraine, which is different.
So look at Ukraine's population compared to Russia, though.
Ukraine, you can see, is small—not tiny, but small—compared to Russia.
It's a population of about 46 million, 45,414,596 to be exact, as compared to the 141 million
in Russia.
So this isn't a fair fight, right?
Plus, Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons to Russia with a non-aggression promise.
Why am I laughing?
Because you laugh at a Russian promise.
In July of 2021, at a time in which Putin had pretty much figured the fecklessness of our president out, he writes a, I would say, a seminal work.
Short and sweet and quite clearly, here's what it says.
Read the whole thing.
It's short.
I'm going to summarize it for you in about three sentences.
Ukraine and Russia have always been the same.
Going back to before 1000 A.D.
They became solidified when Christianity came to what's called Kiev-Rus, or Rus-Kiev, depending on the side of the line you're on.
But it is in geographical Ukraine, where Saint Vladimir converted them to Christianity.
They would say Orthodox Christianity, distinct from Roman Catholic Christianity.
He then rewrites history and basically makes it that from the very beginning it was Russia was Ukraine, Ukraine was Russia, and it's their enemies who divided them.
Despite the fact that there are many incidents completely ignored here of Russians, I would call them atrocities against the Ukrainian people.
It's a different country.
It developed differently.
And it immediately found affinities with the more democratically developing states, the ones I showed you.
Poland, which had been entirely Roman Catholic, very much influenced by Poland.
At one time, part of a Confederate government was Poland, very much influenced by Slovakia and Hungary.
Again, Roman Catholic, moving toward, not democracies, but human rights, and understanding human rights, and Romania had influence on it.
Lithuania, Latvia, I'm sorry, the union, there was one between Poland and Belarus, but the stronger one was between Belarus and Lithuania.
That had real promise of joining the two countries, and also possibly Latvia, with Estonia being the... And the reason is Estonia has the biggest ethnic Russian population.
At the end, Ukraine gets broken down this way.
The eastern part of Ukraine, which is the minority part, has a strong Russian ethnic base, meaning some relative born in Russia.
The western part of Ukraine, which is the slight majority, has a very, very strong European ethnic base.
Many of the people married to Poles, Slovaks, Romanians, Americans.
So there's where you are when these revolutions take place.
That's how the good beat the bad in the original 2004 election.
That's where it becomes 52-48 in favor of the pro-Western government as opposed to the pro-Russian government.
But think, 48% is still a big part of a country.
Correct?
So here, Putin basically says, always, always Russian.
He is not limiting himself to the territories we're talking about right now.
He's talking about the entire country of Ukraine.
And he's saying that really, Russia won't be whole until they're reunited.
I'm sure Mike Pompeo takes this as seriously or more seriously than I do.
Anybody in that administration, when they saw this, this is a declaration of, hey guys, this is where I'm going.
What does our challenged president do?
Well, a challenged president does everything you possibly could do to cause a war in Ukraine.
Ah, yes, you say, oh, Rudy, you're a big Trump guy.
You're just making that up.
OK, let me do what you know I like to do.
But just give me a minute to set it up.
So let's take a short break and I'll be right back.
I'm going to show you in conclusion.
Then I want your responses to this.
I'm going to show you how Biden caused the invasion of Ukraine and it would not have happened, I'll make it clear, under Trump or a lot of other people.
We'll be right back.
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Welcome back to our analysis of how Biden caused the invasion of Ukraine that would not have happened under an America First president, whether it's Trump or any one of a number of people that I know who understand the danger of Russia and read.
Here's how it starts, right?
So Biden comes into office.
They got an unpredictable president in Trump.
Read Nixon, read Churchill, read Reagan, and you'll see the value of an unpredictable president.
You might, if you are in business and you negotiate a lot, see the value of being somewhat unpredictable in negotiations.
Which Trump knew how to do naturally.
Reagan knew how to do it brilliantly.
Biden, man, would you want to play poker with that man?
So, first thing is Biden comes into office, they got a book on Biden, you know, as long as, whoop, up to there, right?
He's been there forever.
I mean, I don't think Putin can remember a day that Biden wasn't slumping around.
So they have a history of Biden.
They have an intelligence estimate of Biden.
What do you think that is?
You want the conclusion of it?
Tumidity?
Mistakes.
The mistakes?
They don't even have to.
Gates gives it to them.
His fellow cabinet member at the end of the Obama administration writes a book and the book says, Biden has never been right on a matter of foreign policy.
You don't think Russia has that?
And you don't think Russia agrees with it?
And you don't think Russia knows why?
I know why.
If I know why, Russia knows why better, because they know more about them than I do.
And I probably know more about them than most Americans, because I have the damn computer.
And I know them for 35 years.
I know how dumb he is.
Now, history of mistakes.
I don't know.
Take one or two.
Let's take one or two recent ones that would really hit you, right?
Like, Objecting to killing Ben Laden.
Well, that moves you into timidity, too, right?
Who in their right mind would object to killing Ben Laden?
I don't want to go over it, please.
I don't like talking about September 11.
If I have to tell you why Ben Laden should have been killed, you probably should turn this off.
You're not going to get it.
But then he objects to the killing of Soleimani.
Soleimani was Iran's major assassin.
I don't mean, I mean hundreds of thousands of people.
Thousands of American men.
Thousands of American families go to graves because of Soleimani.
He liked killing Americans and Jews.
He used to say it.
And he was a force multiplier.
Do you know what a force multiplier is?
A force multiplier is—many people believe if they had killed Hitler in 1935, there never would have been a Nazi Germany.
Because in some unique way, he was the only guy that could have pulled it together.
I don't know if that's true or not, but there are some people that are, for good and bad, magnificent leaders.
Magnificent leaders for good, magnificent leaders for bad.
People who can accomplish things that other people can't.
And in different moments in history, we get good ones and bad ones.
I think we'd surely say Hitler was one of the bad ones, but he was a...
We do this sometimes.
Evil man, but an enormously talented man.
The damn house painter commanded the biggest army in the world at one time, and he was persuasive?
So, timidity In the face of a Hitler, timidity in the face of a Mao, timidity in the face of the Ayatollah, timidity in the face of Putin is a disaster.
It's now mentality, how much can I get away with?
That's where it starts when Biden comes into office.
Why do you think they work so hard to get him elected?
Come on.
You don't think they wanted him and not Trump?
Okay, timidity and mistakes.
He immediately underscores it, for no reason and without negotiating for anything.
He negotiates what we call negotiates against himself, and he gives them the Nord Stream pipeline that Trump had been withholding, because it would give them complete control over Germany.
It would make them even more the energy kings of Europe.
And it would allow them to do even more energy blackmail than they had been doing in destroying and trying to destroy all those countries that I showed you on the map.
If we want to put it up again, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine.
This pipeline escapes Ukraine and it gets it right into Germany.
This becomes like a direct German access to Russian energy, which they need desperately.
We had objected to it quite effectively.
May I tell you, I'm not sure they'll ever admit it, but I saw the articles in the New York Times.
New York Times doesn't lie, does it?
The New York Times says that people in his administration bitterly opposed this this maneuver.
I was going to say stupid maneuver.
They didn't call it stupid, but they wrote an article making it like sound stupid.
And two reasons.
One, it put Russia in a much more commanding position.
I mean, this is like when Hillary gave them nuclear material because she got a lot of bucks for the Clinton Foundation.
Why do Democrats do this?
Be a heck of a book, right?
But this was dumb and our European allies objected to it.
The allies he was supposed to get closer to after Trump apparently offended them because he wanted them to pay.
I think they respected him, by the way.
So he gives them Nord Stream.
Which I misspelled.
I should have put a D there.
But I will before we're finished.
The Nord Stream Pipeline.
I think it's the Nord Stream Pipeline 2 that he actually gives them.
And this really shakes things up.
Shakes things up with our allies.
Shakes things up with Putin.
And now begins the narrative, what's wrong with this guy?
Is he demented?
Is he stupid?
Is he weak?
Is he an appeaser?
Is he pro-communist?
But he's not normal.
You don't do this.
You shouldn't do it at all.
You don't do it and get nothing.
Then, he sees a country going extremely woke.
And he knows, unlike a lot of Americans, that that's part of the communist playbook.
He sees us questioning five and six-year-olds about sex.
They don't do that in Russia, by the way.
He sees us talking about getting rid of fathers and families.
He sees us with a hundred riots, 25 people, 30 people killed, cops, a thousand people in the hospital, a billion dollars worth of damage, and the administration or the Candidates for the administration paying to get the criminals out of jail.
And the key fundraiser, which he must know a lot about, Soros, of the Democrat Party, virtually funding the destruction of America.
And been doing that since who knows when, when he started electing district attorneys in faraway places who would undermine the law and put America in chaos, which is the breeding ground for revolution.
He knows about sorrows.
You want the answers to sorrows, gotta be in Russian and Chinese intelligence.
And boy, they gotta love it.
So he sees the woke revolution, which says to them, a very weak America.
These guys aren't going to go to war.
They're not tough enough.
That's what he believes.
He's not right.
He believes we're not tough enough.
We're not who we used to be.
This changed us.
Finally, the communist infiltration really started to work.
Then, before anything, before even withdrawing from Afghanistan, he gives up the Bagram airbase.
Insane!
And the head of his Joint Chiefs of Staff says it's not strategically important.
It's not strategically important, Miley?
What the hell is wrong with you?
Here's another map.
You've seen it a lot.
It's 400 miles from China.
It's 500 miles from Iran.
China wants to displace us.
has the number one power in the world and they are ferociously building an army, navy and air force with airplanes that can go further than ours.
In that respect we are deficient with regard to our old airplanes that are on aircraft carriers.
They can go They can't go as far into China as the Chinese planes can come over our aircraft carriers.
And we're giving away a land base that had been expanded for military use, even more modern military use.
We're giving it away 400 miles from our number one enemy.
Who would do that but a complete incompetent, a traitor, or somebody that's owned by China?
So maybe Biden isn't owned by China, but Putin looks at the 31 million that the Biden family got from China, and unlike the lying press, he knows it's true.
He's got the documents like I do.
He knows of the $1.5 billion contribution to the Biden crooked family private equity fund that includes the Biden family, the Kerry family, and Whitey Bulger's nephew.
And he says, well, maybe that was enough to buy him.
You know, we only gave him that $3.5 million.
We probably should have given him more.
Maybe they did.
All I can tell you is what I got.
on part of their transactions.
I know China and Russia have more than I do.
I don't think they'll compare notes with me.
But whatever I have, there's more.
However I have, he is the, by far, at least as far as we know, the most crooked man to ever sit in the White House, with the most crooked family with him.
Uh, he is definitely more crooked than I know because I only have about a quarter of what they got.
I don't know how much more.
You only have to guess.
But what I got is enough where it's a disgrace that he's President of the United States.
And it is particularly a disgrace right now when we need a man to defend us.
So, what else does he see?
He sees defense reduction.
He sees America spending more money than ever has before, more money than the Second World War, and increasing the defense budget by half a percent, which, given inflation, is about a 4% decrease in defense.
What did Reagan do when he wanted to kick the living daylights out of the Soviet Union?
He spent more money than we had on defense.
And he scared the living daylights out of them.
And he liberated millions of people without firing a shot.
Because he was America's first tough man.
Human.
And patriotic.
This has always been this defense.
Always been a key barometer for the Russians on how to view an American president.
How tough is he?
They wanted to be even surer.
So, now they got reduction in defense, extreme wokeness, country in turmoil, Bagram Air Force Base, by the way, pretty damn close to Russia too!
Then Afghanistan.
I don't have to describe Afghanistan, do I?
Do I have to describe how he got 13 Americans killed that no other president would have had killed?
They're directly on his conscience, because he did something that I imagine Putin sits there, like any of us, and says, I don't get it.
He takes the troops out before the civilians, and he leaves the civilians in a country that is controlled by five terrorist groups, that even Putin fears.
And then he wonders why the civilians get killed, get trapped.
Then he's got to rush the soldiers back, which is under very dangerous conditions and with a ridiculously botched operation, 13 brave Americans are killed who never, ever had to die.
And their death is on the hands of the president of the United States, 100%.
And his feckless advisors, plus He does one thing that proves to Putin that he's not a worthy adversary in the world of war.
He leaves men behind.
I say shame on him for all the rest of American history that's written by people other than phonies.
One of the most shameful things an American president ever did.
I don't care if he's demented.
I don't care if he's stupid.
There were people around him to stop him.
We're still losing people there.
Because the man has no honor.
And that reflects on the honor of the United States.
And it certainly reflects on the evaluation that tough guys like Putin and Xi make of the US.
This meant...
Patsy!
Thank you.
Now we get to Mr. Putin.
All of a sudden, everything written about here starts to get played out a few months ago.
All around Ukraine, and there you'll see a map of Ukraine itself.
All around Ukraine and basically almost circling it with a heavy emphasis on the area you'll see there called Donbass.
Also, some pretty heavy emphasis in Belarus, which is right north of Kyiv.
And actually, there are Russian troops in Belarus near Poland, which is a heck of a
Is that?
is a heck of a provocation.
The rest of them, the rest of them are located.
The rest of them are located mostly outside of Wuhan's.
Don Boston, Esk, Mariupol.
And he keeps building them up, 40,000, 50,000.
40,000, 50,000, 60,000, 70,000.
We start taking pictures of them.
They look like combat troops as opposed to just whatever other kind of troops you have.
And he keeps saying he's not going to invade.
The Ukrainians say maybe he's not going to invade.
But starting about five weeks ago, in an extraordinarily unusual thing, he announces, if you, if you, if you attack Ukraine, we are going to have a massive response against you, but no military.
Okay.
He said no military.
He just lost all leverage.
What an idiot!
He just lost all leverage.
Now I'm Putin.
I can invade and I got to think about financial sanctions.
That's it.
And then our European appeasers, who do it almost by instinct, Go along with it.
Actually, Macron and a couple of them seem a little uncomfortable.
Maybe not so much about the idea of not invading, but of giving the chip away so quickly.
Like, they're not used to such an idiot negotiating.
I mean, this is like telling the person you're selling your house to, oh, this is the price for the house, but I'll sell it for a lot less.
Lucky, lucky he had all this crooked money for people to buy houses for him.
Otherwise, instead of being a multi-millionaire, he'd be broke.
So, he says, don't worry Russia, no military response.
At least you should say we're going to evaluate what you do, right?
What do you think Trump would have done?
What do you think Reagan would have done?
I know them the best.
I am willing to tell you what they would have done.
First of all, neither one of them would have had a great desire to bring our military in there, but neither one of them would have given away an inch on it.
In fact, they probably would have played a couple of games.
First damn thing I would have done is move about three, four hundred thousand troops to Europe.
Moved around a couple of aircraft carriers.
Tried to figure out what happened to those missiles we used to have pointed at what was then Leningrad that I argued in the Second Circuit, the legality of that allowed the president to do it.
Did you know I did that?
I don't even remember that until now.
And I would have said, you do this and you're going to get the biggest response That ever happened, and I'm not telling you what it's going to be, but you're going to walk right into it.
And as he kept it up week after week, I just said, okay, let me show you the economic part of it and bang the living daylights out of their entire economy.
What the hell was he waiting for?
For five weeks, this guy in the White House is saying they're gonna attack in two or three days.
Don't understand that either.
Don't understand why he's predicting attack.
It'd be like Roosevelt before Pearl Harbor saying, yeah, three days they're gonna attack, and for four weeks they don't.
And finally they do, and he goes, yeah, see, I'm right.
And then what's Roosevelt's response?
A useless, feckless, idiotic sanction.
You know this big sanction?
So we don't have a military response.
We predict attacks.
We break with Zelensky, who doesn't want us to do that.
The president of Ukraine is smart enough to say, please, please don't predict an attack.
Please.
And don't give away the military thing.
Just don't give it away.
Doesn't mean you have to do it, dopey.
Just don't give it away.
I mean, you got to talk to Blinken like he's a dope.
I can't suffer fools that gladly.
Now, he starts predicting an attack.
He breaks with Zelensky.
And then we start in with, why don't you announce the sanctions before they attack?
It might deter the attack.
And Little Red Lion Hood answers, we want to deter them.
If I were there, I mean, I'd have thrown the dictionary, I might have given the dictionary to her.
I'd ask her to look at what the meaning of the word deter means.
Deter means to prevent.
You don't deter after the attack, too late.
It would give the deterrence away, the liar says.
No, no, no.
It would negate the deterrence.
It would contradict the deterrence.
Deterrence comes before you do it.
Now I'm going to tell you why they didn't do it.
Because the sanctions they had in mind are impotent.
They're a freaking joke.
They only affect, now look at the map, that little pink area of Russia.
I think there are five banks there.
Those people can't do business in that little pink area.
Well, this is because originally they didn't even call it an invasion.
Russians move in with the troops.
24 hours.
We're not sure it's an invasion.
Then we decided it's an invasion.
And now we announce our sanctions.
The ones that Biden was saying, these are going to shake the living daylights out of Russia.
We're going to sanction the people in Donetsk and some of the people in Luhansk.
And we're going to sanction five banks.
And this will really shake them up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Did I say that right?
My people told me that.
My people told me I do five banks.
Man, I got it.
Number one, gives away the lie of, you know, they didn't want to give away the deterrence.
This was the deterrence.
And of course, Putin would have laughed at it if he heard it beforehand.
Maybe if he heard it beforehand, he would have gone even further into the disputed territory and taken the rest of it.
I don't know if you see that line around it.
That's the rest of the territory he claims is disputed.
If you read his paper, which I don't expect Biden would, but maybe somebody could read relative portions of it to him and explain it to him.
What's Xi Jinping thinking about?
He's our real enemy.
In the sense of, I'm not saying Putin's not our enemy, but he's our real dangerous enemy.
This is a puny little country.
Okay, it's got nuclear weapons.
Gotta think about it carefully because of that.
But Russia, Russia is a China is a depressed, economically depressed, puny little country, which could be a great country if it didn't have a madman running it.
China is a massive country with endless number of resources, endless numbers of people, endless numbers of problems, not clearly going to be able to overtake us if we don't let them.
But on their way to doing that and becoming much more militarized and much more brutal than Russia.
Chinese have killed more people than the Russians.
The Chinese have not just one directed genocide, about three or four, one of which they're carrying out today.
They have bought off the West.
They own many of our politicians and institutions.
And they're carrying on this genocide Olympics.
And they're going to carry on another one while they're killing people left and right.
Thank you.
And we'll be back in a few days with another of Rudy's Common Sense.
I very much appreciate your considering this because it's so important to the future of the greatest country on Earth.
God bless America.
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