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A Blueprint to Handle Putin’s Invasion into Ukraine | Rudy Giuliani | March 2nd 2022 | Ep 217
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Hello, this is Rudy Giuliani with another episode of Rudy's Common Sense.
This episode is going to focus on after the disastrous handling of the whole Ukraine situation by the Biden administration, in which the United States was embarrassed by the conduct of a president For five or six weeks, virtually groveling to the dictator of Russia, repeating endlessly, we will not use our military, we will not use our military.
Then backing that up by taking our military out of Ukraine.
Military members who were helping to train Ukrainian forces were taken out.
And then, of course, the Peace Resistance, The President actually announced that any Americans that were left behind in Ukraine, our military would not go back and get them.
I guess this is to re-emphasize the Biden doctrine, which is everyone will be left behind, as opposed to leave no one behind.
Probably the most un-American thing I've ever heard, a reiteration of one of the most embarrassing moments in American history, and a complete betrayal of the president of the great principle that we don't leave people behind.
But in any event, in order to placate Putin, who obviously frightens him like a little rabbit, he actually volunteered, we will not send the American military back for any Americans!
Well, I mean, I truly believe that Putin played this out over a four or five-week period for several reasons that tell us a lot about Putin and tell us a lot about how we can try to salvage this.
One, it tells us that Putin does not want a military intervention.
He knew from the very beginning, from Biden's attitude and handling of Afghanistan, that the man was a consummate coward.
And that he would not, in any event, commit American troops because of the way he handled Afghanistan.
He also knew that he would make ridiculous errors if given enough time to do it.
In Afghanistan, he took the troops out before the civilians, which could be one of the most insane decisions ever made by a political or military leader.
It's impossible to figure out why you would do that unless you would like to see the civilians
get killed, and of course some of them did, and some of the military did.
So he knew he had an incompetent, dangerous, from the point of view of America, leader
operating who would make his own mistakes, and he sure did over a five-week period.
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Welcome back. And a great deal of the invasion is of cities, not military targets.
This wasn't tactical bombing of military targets.
This was straight out invasion of Kiev and Kharkov.
I must say, before I go any further, that I'm very proud of the people of Kharkov.
I worked in Kharkov, what is it now, six years ago.
With the mayor who stood up to the Russians last time and kicked them out, lost his legs as a result of it, and then finally his life just a year or so ago.
But it turned Kharkiv from a pro-Russian city to a pro-Ukrainian city.
People there are so proud.
Once again, once again, the militia of Kharkiv has so far, and let's pray to God it continues, Remained a free city by fighting off the Russians.
Remember, most of Kharkov is Russian.
It was pro-Russian until 2014.
Putin made them pro-Ukrainian.
Those are some of the collateral benefits we get from this if we know how to extract them.
So, what I am going to do is lay out a package, not necessarily the Package that I would utilize or recommend to a real president, an American president, but one that I think maybe is within the capability of this extremely left-wing, either consciously or unconsciously, anti-American administration, but not wanting to look like the complete fools that they look like right now.
First thing, pretty simple, right?
I would stop buying oil from Russia.
And then we should reopen the Keystone Pipeline, which probably was the first of our fatal Biden errors, which indicates that he doesn't put America first.
He doesn't put America anywhere.
So here's what has happened to us.
We are now buying Right now, 595,000 barrels of oil a day from Russia.
Way back in 2020, when we had a real president, even with the pandemic, which increased our purchases from Russia, it was only 76,000 barrels of oil per day.
And even before the difficulties that have come about, under Biden, he tripled the purchases from Russia.
So he gave Russia a lot more money and took that money away from American workers.
That gap was about 830,000.
He took away 830,000 barrels.
American workers lost their jobs.
America lost that income.
He took away 130,000 barrels.
American workers lost their jobs.
America lost that income.
He gave Russia 76,000 barrels.
Now Russia, we're buying right now, with Russia committing these acts of terrorism, really,
we're buying 595,000 barrels of oil per day from them.
That's a fortune!
And under normal circumstances, Keystone could have supplied 830,000 minimum.
Minimum!
230,000 minimum.
Minimum!
That's 233,000 barrels of oil we're left with.
And we don't have to buy from Russia.
We could sell that or send it to the countries that are afflicted by Russia.
Now, I went back over some numbers and Keystone is capable of more than 830,000.
A year or two before that it was up to 940,000.
30,000. The year or two before that it was up to 940,000.
This, the closing of the Keystone Pipeline was a direct shot to the heart of America
by a president who doesn't give a damn about America, and it was a direct infusion of massive amounts of money to
a country that would like to see us It's destroyed!
Thank you.
What's wrong with him and what's wrong with his political party?
I don't know.
You tell me.
Then, just to add insult to injury, shortly thereafter, he approved the Nordstrom pipeline, rejected and blocked by a real president, Trump, rejected by a good deal of his party and a good deal of Europe, because it would make Russia even more oil-rich, and worse than that, it would make Russia much more able to extort Particularly Germany.
Instead of maximizing Keystone and selling our oil to Germany, which would have made a profit for Americans, he expanded the profit for Russians.
That's been the history of Biden's trade deals.
That's been the history of the Democrat trade deals.
Why do you vote for them until they stop that and look out for the best interests of America rather than double-crossing us?
Think about it.
But if we want to change the dynamic, just a little pen.
Three things.
Stop buying off from Russia right now.
I do not see how you can get a complete boycott on Russia if you're a hypocrite.
This isn't like the mask mandate and the mask mandate where you tell everybody else to wear a mask and you don't.
This is a little more serious and these people are not Americans and you haven't brainwashed them as much and they're not as subjected to the corrupt American media.
They're gonna see the hypocrisy.
You want us to hurt our economy and not buy from Russia, and you are buying hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil a day from Russia, which you could be producing yourself.
Make the sanctions airtight.
In order to do that, you have to stop buying oil from Russia.
Cut off doing business with Russia.
Admit Ukraine to the EU.
To the European Union.
Now, let's really step it up.
You see this picture?
First look at the headline.
Kids.
Kids.
Victims of Putin's terrorists.
Correct word, New York Post.
Terrorists.
They're killing kids!
Let's prosecute them as a war criminal.
Gosh, we prosecuted a lot of people as war criminals in Eastern Europe, didn't we?
I don't know.
They did the same thing.
They were killing men, women, and children indiscriminately.
You want to look at the pictures?
Let's see if you have the guts to prosecute them as a war criminal.
You know there's opposition to them in Russia.
You know, they're protesting in all the major cities of Russia.
I'm not saying it's the majority, but I'm saying it's a group of people that you could give a tremendous amount of morale to the way Ronald Reagan knew how to do by designating him a war criminal.
It has the benefit of being true.
Gee, that might be tough for you guys to handle, huh?
True.
Last time the Democrats dealt with True.
Hmm.
Suspend Russia from the United Nations.
You say there's nothing in the Charter that says you can do that.
Nothing in the Charter that says you can't do it.
Do it!
Do it!
Let them veto it!
Then have the sergeant-at-arms pick them up and throw them out, like I threw Arafat out of the UN celebration.
Throw them out!
Say, we don't want to sit with terrorists.
We don't want to sit with a country that kills children.
You want wasn't meant for countries to kill children?
Throw them out.
You can put a condition on it.
Throw them out until they get the heck out of Ukraine and leave Ukraine alone.
And allow the people of Ukraine to live free.
Unlike the people of Russia.
Just because they've dominated the poor people of Russia and enslaved them, basically, they have no right to do the same thing to the people of Ukraine.
On his historical analysis of the same people, that's about as good as 1619.
Yeah, this is a great suggestion.
Here's one from Mark Moore.
And it does say, and this is to the credit now of the Biden administration, United States Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield stated on CNN said, everything is on the table as we move forward.
When she was asked whether she would support a tribunal in The Hague, She was asked that on CNN's State of the Union.
Now, it's a bit vague and squishy.
Would support a tribunal in The Hague.
Didn't have, like, the kind of enthusiasm that a America First or someone who really loved our country would have for something like this, which would be damn right I would.
But it's better than nothing.
I mean, this is about as good as you're going to get out of a squishy, wishy administration.
Zelensky put it a little stronger.
Russia must be held accountable for manipulating the notion of genocide to justify aggression.
That'd be the way to say it.
Oh, and by the way, I've had experience with people around Zelensky and questions about Zelensky, and they were very, very strong, you know, when he was running and running for re-election.
I always had a pretty good view of him.
And I was reassured by the people around him that he had the best interests of his country at heart and that he would not become like Poroshenko, who seemed like a Zelensky when he first came in.
That's the prior president.
Seemed like he'd be honest because he was already a millionaire.
He was the chocolate king of Ukraine.
And the issue was, oh my goodness, he'd never be corrupt because he had all the money in the world.
And then all of a sudden, within three years, he became the biggest crook in Ukraine.
He won a part of everybody's deal.
That's why he lost 70-30 to a comedian.
Well, I'm going to say something about Poroshenko that deserves to be said and remembered historically.
It may be that he took bribes and sold his country out and somehow got this desire to be richer than he was and the richest oligarch among a bunch of organized crime oligarchs.
But on Saturday, he was out in the street with an AK-47 with 300 older men who he said could still shoot, and he basically made a Churchillian statement similar to Zelensky, his opponent, which was, yeah, they want this place, they gotta come and kill us.
We're gonna try to kill them first.
Wow.
That's what I call a man.
Don't let me tell you what I call other people.
That's what we need.
That's called leadership.
Oh, leadership from George Washington on his horse to Abraham Lincoln walking up to the battlefield.
MacArthur giving morale to his troops that were getting slaughtered by going to the front of the lines and making himself a target.
To Zelensky.
Oh my God, couldn't we use a president like that?
With what we have.
But he's doing everything that he can to try to rip America of leadership.
And within the context of what he's capable of doing, Biden, you can do these things.
You can do these things.
They're not that hard.
I'm not going to ask you to do anything really hard.
I think you're incapable of it, but you can do these things.
I got several teenagers that could do this.
Stop buying oil from Russia.
Reopen the Keystone Pipeline.
Do it all on the same day.
You're good at writing.
Remember?
At the beginning when you used to just sign, you didn't know what you were signing.
You don't have to look at these things.
Just tell them to prepare it and just sign it like you used to do.
Stop buying oil from Russia.
Reopen the Keystone Pipeline.
Cancel the Nordstrom Pipeline.
Make sanctions airtight, like cut Russia off.
Admit Ukraine to the EU.
Man, they'll go nuts!
Wow!
Woo!
Designate Russia a terrorist state?
Prosecute Putin as a war criminal?
Imagine this all the same day!
Didn't even think you were a leader!
Suspend Russia from the UN.
Go get a vote on it.
Okay, we lose.
Let's get a vote on it.
Let's see who's willing to vote for the child killer.
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Let's continue with our analysis.
Ben, how about we re-educate people on Ukraine?
I did mention that somewhat.
The re-education means... I hear a lot that we shouldn't help Ukraine because nobody knows where it is and it's a corrupt country.
Well, first of all, if you don't know where it is, you're damn ignorant.
Because it happens to be one of the more critical countries in Europe, if you ever read European... There's such a thing, by the way, to you 1619 people, called European history.
It has a lot to do with where we are in the world now and understanding it.
I'd suggest maybe reading it.
Ukraine was the breadbasket of Europe.
Ukraine on two occasions saved Russia during the Napoleonic Wars and the Nazi invasion.
Russia really wants Ukraine.
Of all those territories that he would like to get back so he could have his great big empire, the number one is the breadbasket of Europe.
Because it turns out that the breadbasket of Europe is also one of the most mineral-rich, energy-rich parts of Europe.
You know, those fossil fuels that we're not going to use so that we can commit suicide, but they will use.
Possibly, per capita, possibly, more than Russia.
They never really exploited it in a long, long time.
It's also a very well-educated, by the way, population, which has produced a lot of leaders for Russia, including Khrushchev.
Great admirals, real ones and a fictional one, in the hunt for the Red October.
No, he was actually Lithuanian, but very similar.
Very similar idea about how intelligent these people were that were under Russian control because they had to be to survive.
So we re-educate people on the criticality, the importance, the strategic importance of Ukraine.
Just like it's a buffer for Russia, it pushes up against Russia and backs them into a corner.
People say, well, we don't want people in our hemisphere, so we should allow Russia.
That tries to create a moral equivalent between the United States and Russia.
The mere fact that we have countries around us doesn't mean we're going to use them for military purposes.
We're not going to use Mexico or Canada for military purposes.
We're not going to Enslave the people of Mexico and Canada?
How do you compare these things, stupid liberals?
How do you do that?
Russia doesn't want Ukraine so they can be friendly neighbors.
They can be friendly neighbors with Ukraine, a free country.
They want it for the same reason China wants Taiwan, so they can enslave them and take their wealth and take their food And take their mineral wealth and do what they've been trying to do for almost a thousand years to Ukraine, exploit and enslave the people of Eastern Europe.
Ronald Reagan saved those people.
Hey, Biden, don't give him back.
You know where you're going to stand in American history.
Well, you know where you already stand in American history.
Like, it's going to be a hundred years from now.
How do we elect that guy?
particularly when they find out the rest about you and your family that I know.
Help Ukraine just short of intervention.
I know you won't intervene.
I know.
No military.
No military.
We're not gonna have any military.
But do everything else.
Send them AK-47s.
They're getting it from elsewhere.
Send them tanks.
Send them airplanes they can use.
Send them ammunition.
I know when you offered to evacuate Zelensky, he made it clearer than, I don't need to be evacuated.
I need ammunition, Biden.
Send it to them.
That's not intervention.
That's not military intervention.
Sell it to them, like we sold to England during the days before the Second World War.
Lend a lease.
Lend it to them.
They'll pay us later.
Or make them pay for it.
Or give them a lot of money and let them use that money to buy it.
Like we're supposed to be helping them.
Germany is.
Germany's ahead of us.
UK's ahead of us.
Poland's way ahead of us.
The beacon of freedom in the world is not there?
At least for indirect support?
We can't even do that?
Where would we like to go?
Down somewhere?
wait, gee, let China run things and we'll just listen.
When we say we will never intervene, don't ever say that again.
Don't be stupid.
Don't give away options before you know what's going to happen.
Even if you're not going to intervene and you're 100% certain, just make yourself 90% certain.
Is there some way I can get you into a class of mine, Biden, to teach you how to be a leader?
Or how about I could teach you how to be a vaguely intelligent human being?
Why would you give that option away?
Before?
All it does is encourage them to invade.
You could say something like, we'll think about it.
You could say something like, we'll view it under the circumstances.
You could say something like, we don't know what's going to happen in the future.
We don't have to have an ironclad, it's not a law.
Nobody passed a law that we can't intervene.
I know it's unpopular and you're a political coward as well as a coward in general.
What makes great presidents is not just necessarily following the American people, it's leading and educating the American people.
Why, possibly, making a stand here saves us, saves our country, restores our belief in ourselves, our belief in the thing that brings us together.
We're Americans because we believe in freedom.
We're Americans because we believe all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln taught us what it is to be an American.
It's to have shared beliefs and to fight and die for them.
My goodness, the people of Ukraine are teaching us that.
Imagine how inspiring they are to young people.
And just think how disgraceful you are.
And finally, what's that military budget all about?
2% increase for our military?
China wants to overtake us.
Russia is kicking us all over the world, making you look like the biggest idiot that ever governed America.
China is militarily threatening Taiwan.
North Korea is flying missiles into the ocean again.
None of this happened under Trump, by the way.
Trump made the point that Russia only took land under Democrat presidents.
Oh, and Bush, who I guess he considers a Democrat president.
So he pointed out that Russia took Southern Russia, Georgia, under Bush, took Odessa under Obama, and now has taken the separatist territories under Biden, and under Trump, nada.
Think maybe being a little tougher might help us a little bit?
Hmm?
Not being the consummate coward you are?
So how about we have a... I know that this word was big in the Obama... Why don't we have a national conversation about being a little more subtle?
About non-intervention?
Instead of like taking ourselves out of the ballgame before it starts, like...
We'll never use a big bat.
We'll just use a small one.
Or we promise not to hit home runs.
We'll try to beat you.
So this is a program that is hardly radical.
It fits well within things we have done in other situations.
It would not in any way challenge some of the things you've said in the past.
And, most importantly, we've got to do a Reagan-type buildup of our military.
I'd say we set 50% as the goal.
So we have a gap right now between us and China.
It's narrowing.
The gap with the Navy, by the way, may have closed.
Our objective, and you should start it, it may have to go into the next president.
I'm pretty sure it's not going to be you.
But let's start it.
And let's aim for a 50% to 100% gap between us and our closest competitor.
So that we present them with a military that is so big.
That is so powerful.
That is so willing to fight if necessary.
And not, you know, people in your spirit, oh, we're not going to commit to military.
That will be safe.
And we won't see children dying like we saw in the newspapers today because of you.
Because America is unwilling to take on the role that fate, circumstances, reality, and maybe God designed for it.
Because if America doesn't take up that role, there's a vacuum, and we know who is, China.
The world under China is a world of immorality.
It's a world of dictatorship.
It's a world in which all those freedoms are gone.
It's a world that you wouldn't want to live in and I wouldn't want to live in.
There's no one else for America to turn to to play that role.
I guess we wish there was.
But no one has been blessed by God with the land that we have and the resources that we have.
You talk about the resources of Ukraine.
You talk about being the breadbasket of Europe.
America could be the breadbasket of the world.
America might very well have more resources than anyone.
I mean, just in a short period of time when we started fracking, we ended up being like the third or fourth country richest in fossil fuels.
And put the green thing off.
Put it off.
It's not going to kill us.
If it did, Gore said we'd be gone by 2010.
We're still here.
So we're on borrowed time.
Let's make use of it, huh?
Climate change is the greatest threat that we face.
You're looking at the greatest threat that we face.
Not Russia, the one right behind it, China.
The one watching this and saying, boy, this is easier than we thought.
The one that's saying, they're so nervous about dealing with Russia on Ukraine, Because there's no treaty obligation.
There's no treaty obligation with Taiwan.
We're a lot bigger army, and we're an equal navy to the United States.
We're much more formidable than Russia.
Boy, I don't know.
Sounds like they may not really be willing to, when push comes to shove, defend Taiwan, and we just got a couple of years opening with this coward in the White House.
Joe, you've got to change that perception if you want to protect us, or somebody around them has to do it.
So those are the suggestions.
If you'd like to ask me about them, please communicate with me on rudyscommonsense.com.
If you have some more you want to suggest, I'm more than willing to add them, and I'm more than willing and will over the period of time now test the administration's response.
And let me say to the people of Kharkiv and the people of Kyiv who might listen to this, and to all the people of Ukraine, I say those two cities because that's where I have personal friends.
I tell you, you surprised the world.
You surprised the world.
You even surprised Biden.
I mean, you've got a lot more courage than he does.
Right?
In the streets.
Fighting the way you are?
Women armed?
Learning how to use AK-47s?
Reminds me of Churchill in Britain.
You want to take England, Hitler?
Well, you will, after the last one of us is dead.
Want to come and kill all of us?
This is an exercise in freedom, an exercise in what freedom means when it's not guaranteed, when you're not entitled, when you're not enabled, when you just got it because of the great work of Reagan and Thatcher and the Pope.
So, I wish, I pray this is taken seriously.
And I pray for the people of Ukraine.
And I pray for the United States of America.
Greatest country on Earth.
And before irreparable damage is done, please, let's reverse this.
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