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Aug. 14, 2025 - Rudy Giuliani
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The Rudy Giuliani Show: Thursday, August 14, 2025
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Good evening.
This is Rudy Giuliani, and this is the Rudy Giuliani show.
And we tonight are, of course, rather anxiously awaiting tomorrow's summit meeting, the first one of President Trump in his second term meeting with Vladimir Putin at a very critical time,
which, and I think he's absolutely right, within the first five to 10 minutes of the meeting, he'll be able to tell whether or not there'll be a ceasefire, which is all that he's seeking right now or not.
And that will tell a lot about whether there are any future meetings, how much further it goes, how long it takes, and then what action he takes afterwards.
I don't know that we're going to know that until the meeting is over, unless he does a Ronald Reagan and walks out of the meeting, which worked really well for President Reagan, didn't it?
Looked like a terrible defeat at the time, and it turned out to be probably one of his best and greatest victories.
It was a key part of liberating Eastern Europe.
It changed the dynamic completely between the two of them.
There are any number of things on the agenda between them with regard to Ukraine and then with regard to the rest of the world.
And it is really the Russian strategy to try to put those other things on the table.
That's the reason they wanted a singular meeting, Trump and just Putin, because in reality, the Russians argue that there are much more important things for them to discuss in Ukraine.
It's just a small matter.
Well, that's unless you're a Ukrainian or a European, and your worry is that not only, well, first of all, your worry is for all the people that they killed and civilians they killed.
How about the 19,500 children that Russia is holding?
And as I pointed out last night, I hope this is at the top of the agenda along with the ceasefire.
I want the world to know that.
The world has a, even though they oppose Putin's taking of Ukraine, they really have no sense of how evil communism is.
And Putin's kidnapping of 19,500 children in order to feed a human trafficking, child trafficking system is perverted, gross, evil, and horrible, but not out of character for Putin, for Xi Jinming, for the Ayatollah, or for people that are evil desperates.
Now you're looking at some of the children that were taken.
The reality is, here, if you want to take another, here's another group of children, Ted, that you can show them.
This is a group of children that are at a school in, I think, near Kharkiv, if not in Kharkiv, which is bombed every day.
And this is an underground school.
This was built especially since the war so that these children have a chance to live.
And I guess being underground also, it prevents their being taken.
But this is the group of people that the Russians are preying on.
The Russian army is something totally different than what you're used to.
And we're going to talk about that a little bit later with reference to the Ukrainian army as well.
But the idea of taking children, raping women, that goes along with what the Russian army is used to.
That's the way they conduct themselves.
It is not like most Western armies, including the United States.
So tomorrow's meeting is, as far as President Trump is concerned, a singular one-issue meeting.
Ceasefire, no ceasefire.
Are you serious, Vladimir, about stopping killing people and stealing children, or aren't you?
And I do hope the president very, very forcefully puts the issue of the 19,500 children on the table as well.
Because I think before you can seriously sit down and talk about any kind of peace with him, he's got to stop the killing.
He's got to give back the children.
And the disproportionate amount of killing that he does is of civilians, particularly lately.
The Ukrainians have concentrated more on the military.
Well, of course, they haven't had a chance to really hit Russia very often, but their casualties, the casualties they've inflicted on Russia in the Russian military is maybe three to four times the casualties they've had with their military.
But then if you look at their casualties, civilian casualties, they're at least equal to the military casualties, which means that Putin is concentrating on civilians, which is kind of conducting the war pretty much like the terrorist that he actually is.
So again, the ceasefire is the aim of Trump.
And if he, one of the columns or directly asked, and a lot of the rest kind of raised today, what would be a victory for Trump?
Well, a victory for Trump would be a victory for peace.
I think the victory is easily defined as a ceasefire.
In fact, it's a very good argument to be made that if you get the ceasefire, don't try to negotiate an all-encompassing peace.
That would require recognition of and in essence, legalizing some of, if not all of, Putin's illegal acquisition Of territory that doesn't belong to him by invasion.
This is the biggest invasion in Europe since Hitler.
And since Hitler took, you know, started eating up all of Europe.
And you could end this with a ceasefire, and the ceasefire could go on for 40 years.
Look at North Korea.
And then that would never require you to get into the dividing up of land or any of the other things that will become enormously difficult and hard to figure out.
And give Ukraine then, then without any restrictions, do whatever the United States, Ukraine, and NATO believe is necessary for security for Ukraine.
Basically, the way the issues divide is: Russia, Russia wants all of the land that they've taken, plus the maybe 10% more that they claim within three of the four provinces where they haven't taken all of the land.
So they want the land that they've taken by invasion, illegal invasion, and they want the land that they that would complete a complete acquisition of the oblast or the province.
The second one, they haven't emphasized as much.
And the second one, I think, is pretty obviously a negotiating position.
That's going to be hard.
What's going to be harder is Russia wants no security guarantees for Ukraine.
In fact, they want Ukraine to lower their security, which is pretty obviously so that they can re-invade them at will.
And of course, that's going to become something that actually you cannot negotiate on.
I actually believe that there shouldn't be a commitment from us that they will not join NATO.
I don't think Russia has any right to determine who joins NATO and who doesn't join NATO.
Damn, the whole thing exists in order to protect us against Russia.
Why are we letting them determine who can come into NATO and who can't come into NATO?
And certainly it should involve the presence of European troops with a real commitment by the United States to supply arms and to be ready, willing, and able to join that should Russia start to get aggressive again.
Well, we have with us, I believe, right, Ted?
We have with us from the White House, Kara Kastranova, who the president's still there.
He doesn't leave until tomorrow morning.
And it was a pretty busy day today.
So, what happened, Carrie?
You got a great question.
We saw that.
We were cheering for you.
Oh, thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Thank you.
I was here all day at the White House.
It was a very busy day, obviously, for the president and for everybody in the press.
You saw the earlier press conference that the president did in the Oval Office.
I actually got to be in there, which was exciting and got two questions.
The first question had to do with Social Security.
As you know, today, the president was signing, and I have my notes here, a proclamation in the Oval Office recognizing the 90th anniversary of Social Security, which was originally enacted in 1935 on this day.
And he committed to always defending Social Security and praised his administration's efforts in making the program stronger and more resilient.
So after he signed the proclamation, he took questions.
And I was the second person to get a question, which was: how frustrating it is that Democrats like Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders continue to fear-monger the elderly.
And I experienced this, Mr. Mayor, with my own family, a lot of Democrats who are literally living in terror because the mainstream media keeps lying to them and telling them that the president is going to take away social security.
So this is a common fear that the elderly have, which is obviously baseless.
So please take a listen to my question that I asked the president today and hear his response.
Please.
It makes it totally secure and powerful for the people that are on it and need it.
And we're very proud of the job he's done.
One of the best.
Carol Cashanova from Lindsay TV, how are you today, sir?
Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren continue to peddle the line the claim that you're trying to cut social security despite repeated promises to protect it.
Why do you think they keep pushing this in for misinformation and literally terrorizing the elderly in America that sadly keep watching very misleading mainstream media?
I love your question.
I should have called you almost first, but I love these questions also.
But it's such a good question.
It's so vicious what they do.
Elizabeth Warren said she was an Indian.
We call her Pocahontas.
She's a liar.
She lied her whole career.
Based on the fact that she was an Indian, she was able to get into certain colleges, get certain jobs, get into certain universities to work there.
She's a liar and a mean person.
She's a nutjob.
I watched her the other night.
She's all hopped up endorsing a communist in New York City.
And she was all excited and jumping up and down.
She's got to take a drug test.
She really does.
She's got to take a drug test.
There's no way somebody can act that way and be normal.
What she's done to our financial institutions, she destroys people.
Do you know that you had a lot of great banks in the Midwest and banks that loaned to farmers and others and they went out of business?
She put them out of business, stone-cold, mean.
Banks that were open 150 years, family banks that supplied the farmers and manufacturers and others.
And she put them out of business.
She's a mean, horrible human being.
Bernie Sanders is Bernie Sanders.
I don't mind him so much.
He's just a liberal guy, very liberal guy.
He's a wacky guy.
He's still sharp.
I gotta tell you, you know, he's 86 or 87 or something.
He's still sharp.
You compare that to Joe Biden.
It's, you know, sort of what happened.
So I don't mind Bernie Sanders.
With him, you know what you're getting.
You're getting a guy.
He's a nasty guy.
So that went on, Mr. Mayor, for about three more minutes, and it was rather entertaining, to say the least.
And then I went on to ask the president a question, which I knew you'd appreciate how crime statistics are being obviously cooked here in D.C. Explosive reports have come out that the police actually are cooking the books when it comes to crime to fit a political agenda, which is obviously putting people's lives in danger.
So that's what I asked the president second.
I actually got to ask two questions today, so please take a listen to my second question to President Trump in the Oval Office.
Concerning reports about crime statistics, police are manipulating crime data to downplay crime in D.C. Will the administration release its own crime statistics to counter their misinformation?
And will those individuals who are intentionally misrepresenting crime data and fudging the books, like you said, be penalized for endangering the public?
They are under investigation right now.
They are giving us phony crime stats, just like they gave other stats in the financial world, but they're phony crime stats.
And Washington, D.C. is at its worst point, and it will soon be at its best point.
You're going to have a very safe, you're going to have a crime-free city.
I mean, I say that.
You're going to have virtually a crime-free city.
And these are strong men, but the criminals are strong men and women, but they're strong men.
And these are people that don't play games.
We're not playing games.
These are criminals we're dealing with.
And they treated people.
They took one of the people that worked for us the other day.
You saw the beating, the penalty, 10 against one.
And they pounded the hell out of him.
He's lucky to be alive.
He's barely almost killed.
And we're not going to have that happen.
So there you have it.
That was a really good question because I think they've been playing around with those numbers.
It doesn't make any sense to anybody in Washington, D.C. who's frightened to go out.
That crime is all the way down.
Right.
And the president said they're being investigated.
So, I mean, I don't know your thoughts, Mr. Mayor.
I know that obviously you're an expert on this.
Can they be prosecuted if they are indeed cooking the books when it comes to crime?
And take, you know, it has to be putting people's lives in danger in some way.
Well, if they're actually cooking the books, it would also interfere with their ability to reduce crime.
Because crime statistics are the best thing that you have to determine where to put your Police.
And if they're wrong and they're inaccurate, you're putting your police in the wrong place.
You don't have a good basis on which to have a strategy to fight to fight crime.
Now, tomorrow he's going off.
What time is he leaving tomorrow morning in order to 3:30 summit, right?
It is.
So he's leaving at 6:30 a.m.
He's scheduled to leave the White House, I believe, at 6:30 a.m.
Very early.
And from what I understand, you know, luckily the president has Air Force One.
They say it's like a house sort of in the sky.
I'm sure he's been on Air Force One.
I have not yet.
I hope to be.
But, you know, he will be able to rest at least on the plane.
There's a bed, a bedroom for the president, obviously.
And, you know, so it's sort of like having a flying hotel almost because I was a little concerned that he's leaving at 6:30.
He never sleeps, obviously.
Then he's meeting right away with Putin and then coming right back, right back to Washington, D.C., shortly after the same day.
So this is a president obviously doing a lot.
Joe Biden would never have been able to do this ever.
And you know that this is true.
So the president is leaving and coming back the same day and meeting with Putin all in one day.
It's absolutely crazy.
It's, I think, a 10-hour flight, Mr. Mayor.
Jumping across time zones, as you know.
The only time, I think he met with Putin about four days before Putin invaded Ukraine.
So Putin took a good look at him and said, okay, I don't have much of a problem here with this demented old man.
And then invaded Ukraine.
Well, Cara, congratulations.
It was really great seeing you there.
You asked very, very good questions.
Thank you again for all that you contribute.
It's terrific.
God bless you.
Thank you for all that you contribute.
And I look forward to seeing you again soon, Mr. Mayor.
Have a great night and a wonderful show.
Thank you.
Thank you, Rudy.
Be careful in Washington.
So we're going to take a short break and we'll be right back.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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Well, this is Rudy Giuliani, and we're back with the Rudy Giuliani show.
And to just support the point that was made both by the president and Cara, we just took a look at the current up-to-date murder rates in New York and in the city that supposedly has reduced crime.
Now, the one crime that is very, very hard to fudge, you can do it, but it's harder.
And it's the one that I always used when I was trying to measure crime in New York when there was a certain amount of screwing around in New York also, is the murder number.
Hard to hide the bodies.
And you get yourself in an awful lot of trouble if you do that.
Hiding thefts and personal crimes and volume crimes, that's a lot easier.
And that figures into the overall crime rate pretty significantly.
And in reality, it has more of an impact on people.
Even with the very heavy crime rate in Washington, D.C., it's only 100 or so people a year, a little over 100 per year, is going to be affected by it.
So how many murders in D.C. up until July 31st of this year, the year the mayor is saying, and all the Democrats are saying, and Chuck E. Cheese, the trade at Schumer, is saying, that Washington is real safe.
Well, there were 101 murders in D.C. And in New York City, which is supposed to be a which is supposed to be a dangerous city, right?
There are 168 murders.
However, that's unbelievable.
So the murder rate is at least eight times higher in the District of Columbia than in New York City.
Probably, if I do the arithmetic correctly, it's more like nine or ten times higher.
Well, yeah, we did the arithmetic.
New York has 8.5 million people.
D.C. has 700,000 people.
14.4 murders per 1,000 in D.C., two murders per 100,000 residents in New York City.
That's seven times.
That's rough, that's seven times.
Seven times greater chance of being killed when you walk the streets of Washington, D.C., than New York, currently.
And that was roughly the same as last year.
So I don't know, Mayor.
I guess you reduce the crimes that just suspiciously are much easier to fudge than murder, unless you move some of the bodies into Baltimore or something or over into Virginia.
That's a lot of murders for a little city like Washington, D.C. of 700,000.
If that were New York, the number would have, if New York had the same murder rate that you had, New York would have, oh gosh, almost 1,000 murders already this year.
Pretty close to 1,000 murders this year.
But instead, they have 168.
And people in New York are nervous.
They're nervous about that.
So I don't know.
I don't know why you also flip-flopped.
You originally said, Mayor Bowser, that you're going to work with the government because it seems to me if I had a city that had, make sure I have it right here, seven times the murder rate of New York, I would be anxious to get all the help that I could get.
But you don't want to reduce crime?
You don't really need help when you have seven times the murder rate of New York City.
Even if you think you brought the other crimes down, people come to the District of Columbia from all over the world.
And I bet they don't know there's a seven times greater chance they'll be killed in D.C. than in New York.
I have no idea what motivates Democrats.
I really don't.
Certainly saving lives and taking care of people doesn't.
And it's really tragic because, Mayor, the vast majority of those victims that you see there are black.
I'm going to just extrapolate that there are about seven to seven and a half out of 10 are black, maybe more.
So you're just sitting by watching black people get killed and not doing much about it when in a little city of 700,000, you got seven times the murders of the biggest city in the country.
Whoa.
Well, Trump has made it clear that if Putin refuses to end the war or go into a ceasefire, there will be very severe consequences.
He was very careful not to say what they will be, which I'm sure was a very, very discreet thing to do.
You don't want to go into a meeting acting like a big bully.
And you want to give this guy every chance and hope that if he agrees to a ceasefire, as far as I'm concerned, you created, I mean, there's an argument that that's the best thing that could happen, at least for a while, rather than trying to make a permanent the division of territory.
Even if we do a division of territory, And I don't see how we can do it with less than about 50-50.
Then it should just be an acknowledgement that we're going to divide the territory this way.
No military action is going to be taken to change it.
But I would not give it legal recognition.
I would just leave it.
Well, this is this ceasefire division, the armistice division, which is basically where we have North Korea and South Korea.
So, or Taiwan or places like that.
I would not concede that this is Russian territory.
The exception might be Crimea.
I think that may have been conceded already or not, but that is fruitless to really fight over.
But other than Crimea, so what we're talking about, so that's a little hard to see on the map that you have there, Ted.
Or for me, I'm used to my own, you know, I'm used to my own map here.
Let's see if this is the right one.
Yeah, this is the one I'd like to take a look at because it shows you the history.
It shows you the history of the land they're going to be talking about.
And I think you can see it pretty well.
The darkest red is the land that Putin took in 2014 when he invaded in 2014.
That would be Luhansk and the tip of Donetsk.
That was very, and then of course, Crimea.
Now, the reality was Crimea was the big prize at that point.
And he, although his desire, I believe you can divide Putin's goals in Ukraine as follows.
His maximum goal is the entire country, which he believes is part of Russia.
It isn't.
And just because he believes it doesn't make it legal, all right.
But he, and this is almost a thousand-year dispute between Russians and Ukrainians.
But so he believes that's part of Russia.
He wants the whole thing back.
And so, and if he can't get the whole thing back, then what he wants is a land bridge to Crimea and Crimea.
So he got that.
In the first war, he got Crimea, which is his minimum goal, but important.
That was their former submarine base.
That is a Russian ethnic population.
At the time that it was taken, they probably can make a good argument that this population wanted Russia.
That is not true, by the way, of that whole big other from Luhansk through Donetsk and Maropol and down to Kherson.
Every time, even though they used to vote for the Ukrainian pro-Russian candidate as opposed to the Ukrainian pro-Western candidate, pretty strongly in that area, they don't want to be, even before he invaded, every time they were polled, they want to remain a separate country.
Now it's off the charts.
So you look at Kharkiv up there in the north.
Kharkiv is the city I know the best and I talk about it all the time.
Kharkiv was probably aside from Crimea in 2013, Kharkiv was probably the most pro-Russian city in Ukraine, meaning every time there was an election, they'd vote for the pro-Russian Ukrainian candidate.
Putin, when he invaded in 2014, attacked Kharkiv, which the mayor found to be an absolute outrage because he probably could have Negotiated for it.
Well, they turned against Russia.
They fought them off.
They're very proud of the fact that their militia defeated the Russians and kept them out.
And you know that Russia has probably used more resources to try to take Kharkiv than anything.
Now, why would they want Kharkiv?
It's not in that golden area of land bridge, although I think they'd like to have their land bridge look something like this.
Or, you know, they're trying to get Sumi up here.
Maybe something like this.
Hold it.
We'll get it.
Maybe something like that.
All this here.
They'd like all that.
Well, they didn't get that.
Kharkiv fought them off.
There's a lot of Kharkiv is destroyed right now.
I've talked to people there recently.
But I mean, he's given up.
Notice he didn't take another shot at Kharkiv.
He's right now.
What he's trying to add to is down here.
He's trying to take over these areas down here.
That's the extra area that he wants right here.
And he wants that for nothing.
He didn't capture it.
He wants that as part of the negotiations.
That's on the table half the time when they put out their demands.
That's pretty obviously a negotiating position.
I don't even think I'd spend any time on that.
And I sure as hell wouldn't give anything away for it.
But that's the reality of where we stand right now.
So they should not be discussing that tomorrow.
I don't think they will.
I think even if they get to the point of ceasefire, that's going to be something that he's going to want to bring Ukraine into because they're eventually going to have to make a tough decision.
Do they give away some of their sovereign territory or not in order to get peace?
And I don't like the idea of giving Russia anything because it just rewards them for having violated international law.
But if we're talking about in order to end this, giving them half of what they acquired and half of the mineral-rich areas, and we get the other half of the mineral-rich areas, then that's a deal I think eventually can be made.
Let's see, though.
Let's get past tomorrow first.
And let's not forget that there are.
I don't want you to forget this number.
Do not forget this number.
There it is.
Put it up there, Ted.
That's the number of children, at least, that are being held and that were kidnapped by Putin.
There are people who believe that that number may be as high as 100,000.
That's a number they can document.
I think it's actually 19,558, if we want to be exact.
You give those kids back, Putin.
If not, we should starve you out of office.
Gorbachev once wrote that Ronald Reagan spent them into oblivion.
I think we should bend you into being overthrown if you don't give those kids back.
That's its importance to ceasefire.
Europe has, in the conversation and the meeting they had yesterday, at least this is a readout from it.
Here are the five things that Europe thinks are important, that we don't vary at all at this point from the current lines and don't negotiate lines.
That we make it clear that they're going to have to be Security guarantees, and we make it clear that Ukraine has to participate.
The United States should make it clear that we're going to participate in the security.
And of course, there should be a ceasefire.
That's essentially the five things that the European leaders meeting with Zelensky yesterday conveyed to the president.
And he described it as a very, very good conversation.
I don't have any reason to believe he doesn't agree with that.
And I'm going to add the 19,500 children.
There is an article I commend to you in the New York Post about the Ukrainian army and the difference between why they were so successful at the beginning of the war and why they are having trouble right now.
And a lot of it is that as they moved into more long-term regular army, and they're basically very much like the Soviet or Russian army.
They were trained.
A lot of them were trained by Russians and Soviets.
And it's a top-down army.
It has very little ingenuity.
It has very little acting on its own.
There is very little care about the lives of the soldiers.
They'll waste them unlike any American.
I mean, American generals for time immemorial are very concerned about how many men are they going to lose and how many, what's the numbers, what's the number of casualties.
Even if they have a victory, if they have tremendous casualties, they're very affected by that.
And they try to win with the least amount of lives lost.
Whereas the Russians don't really give a damn.
You can look at the numbers that they've lost in this war.
Now, it's hard to get, it's hard to get actual numbers, right?
It's hard to get the actual numbers.
So I'm going to go from outside organizations that the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
They say Ukrainian forces have suffered 400,000 casualties and 100,000 dead.
I think that's military, not civilians.
I think.
Yes.
They call it Ukrainian forces.
So I think we're talking about the military.
Meanwhile, the Russians are approaching 1 million total casualties and 250,000 of them dead.
So that's quite a bit more.
But of course, Russia is almost four times bigger than Ukraine.
So we have a situation similar to New York and Washington, D.C. You could say, you could say that per capita, that's a bigger hit on Ukraine than it is on Russia.
And on both sides, there are very few volunteers nowadays.
The Soviets are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
That's why they had to go to North Korea.
Thank you.
And as we pointed out yesterday, they're using the contra whatever, the contract soldiers to a very large extent on the front lines.
They pay them what would be considered for them huge amounts of money to die.
And they lose them as if they're just pawns.
Bless you.
And unfortunately, a lot of the Ukrainian command, the older command, is like that.
Here's the good news.
They realize that and they're making a transition to their younger officers who weren't trained under the Soviet system and have more of a sense that they can't fight the same way as the Russians because the Russians outnumber them.
So they have to be like an army in their home territory usually Is.
They got to be smarter.
Their knowledge of the population and the territory has to at least count two to one over the other side.
Mayor.
They have to be enormously strategic and cunning.
And like the American revolutionaries, a large reason for our winning is they were fighting on our territory.
It's tough to defeat a country that's of any decent size if it has a halfway decent army in their own land.
And even the acquisitions they've made now are rather small and can be reversed.
Did some of the older Ukrainian soldiers, did they fight with the Soviet in the Soviet army pre-1980?
They were too old to have fought with them, but a lot of them, a lot of them were, a lot of them were trained during the Soviet era, like the senior officers.
Like from the 80s.
And those people have trained like the first generation of new officers.
So you don't get into the, until you get to the younger people, you don't get to someone.
And it's not as if they're doing it on purpose.
This is what they were taught.
It's like, I mean, being a soldier, you learn rules and you learn a way to fight, and you end up with a certain ethic or not.
And the Russians are well known for wasting human life.
And they're also well known for being barbarians.
They rape and they pillage and they're animals.
Some of the soldiers, not just the communists at the top.
Now, in the Second World War, of course, one of the reasons it took them so long to get to Berlin is they had to do an awful lot of raping and stealing in order to get even with the Germans.
Except they were doing it in Eastern Europe, not in Germany.
They arrived in Germany rather late.
So damn late they never should have gotten East Berlin, but that's another story.
Had that happened, we might not even be here today talking about this craziness.
You should know in Lithuania, which is another one of my favorite countries, because my daughter-in-law comes from Lithuania.
Lithuania has become really a hero country.
They're being economically really, really hit hard by China because they stand up to China more than anyone.
They just have no desire to do any business with anyone that's close to being a communist.
They suffered too much under communism.
And if you ever read The Hunt for the Red October, you'd know why the Admiral was a Lithuanian Soviet and therefore decided to turn over their new submarine to the Americans.
But the Lithuanians are teaching the kids a defense against drones to counter the Russians if the Russians decide to come into Lithuania.
And the good news for that area is that Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which are not always together, Estonia being the most likely to be favorable to Russia, Lithuania being the least likely to be favorable to Russia, Estonia is now leading the coalition against Russia.
So when we say that Putin has won, those who hate Trump like to say that.
I don't know in the big picture if Putin has really won.
He has gotten, well, even, and I don't think he should walk out with that territory that he has.
But even if he were to walk out with that terror, the territory that he has, I think what he's lost is much greater than that.
And I'm not just talking about the 250,000 troops and the million casualties.
What I'm talking about is he had pretty good relationships with Europe.
One of his biggest customers for oil was Germany, gone.
The rest of Italy, gone.
Now, some of the other countries didn't do business with him, but Germany and Italy had pretty good relationships with him.
Those are completely destroyed now.
Estonia?
People in Lithuania were always worried about Estonia having a fondness for Russia.
Boy, you don't have that anymore.
Right in Ukraine, you have Kharkiv that was very favorable to Russia.
Now they're fighting them to the death.
They've united Europe against them.
Europe is tougher on them than we are.
So, we're getting pushed by Europe to be tougher.
That wasn't true before.
It wasn't true at all.
Also, they've got their relationship with China sort of at the breaking point.
I don't know how much more China is going to want to fund of this.
And also, China is now beginning not only to get sanctions because of China, but some of the European countries are sanctioning China because they're supplying so much money to Ukraine.
So China's got to be getting tired of Putin's escapade.
At first, I think China thought Putin was going to walk in and just take Ukraine like that.
It also has to give Xi Jinming a pause about going into Taiwan.
I don't know.
You think Taiwan is more ready for war than Ukraine was?
I do.
I do.
And it's a tougher situation.
You got to do an amphibious landing.
So tomorrow, we'll see.
The other big controversial issue, which shouldn't be, is the DC police takeover.
We just pointed out to you that the lodestone for really figuring out where the heck you are in crime when they don't have a good, competent Comstat system, meaning very accurate numbers, is the murders, because it's hard to hide the bodies.
And the murder rate indicates that things are out of control in DC.
If there's a seven times greater chance of being murdered in DC than in New York, things are out of control, believe me.
It's hard to argue against that.
And what the president is doing is absolutely, absolutely necessary.
It's completely legal, at least for 30 days.
It can be extended if he declares a national emergency.
And I think there's an inclination he might do that.
And I really am very disappointed in the mayor, who the first, when she was first, when she was first presented with this, said that she was going to work with it to try to help the people, you know, anything to help the people.
Her original statement was she wanted to see how to make the most of the additional support.
Now her statement is this is a time where community needs to jump in and we all need to do what we can in our space, in our lane, to protect our city and to protect our autonomy.
No, I think protecting lives is more important than your autonomy, mayor.
Gigi, you have your priorities reversed.
And who the hell twisted your arm on that one?
Which Democrat bum came to you and had you double cross your city?
I can't imagine when you've got seven times the murders in New York, you're turning down help.
Did you turn this down on January 6, too?
Huh?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes.
The answer is yes.
And so did the architect of January 6th, Pelosi, and Hollywood daughter.
Yeah, they were there with a camera crew.
You go from how to make the most of the additional office support to we got to protect our autonomy and throw them out.
Well, you can't.
Title 32 is clear as hell.
Maybe after 30 days, but you can't right now.
So why not work with it and see if you can save some lives?
Gee, you think that's more important than autonomy or the Democrat Party?
Obviously, it isn't because your party is getting people killed, particularly black people all over the country.
Doesn't seem like those lives mean anything to you.
We'll have to see if the president, if the president, if the president goes ahead and extends this rich lowry has described dc as an overregulated and inefficient state-supported economy of social workers they're all on the tit on the big tit the big government tit you
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