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Maybe it is just me.

Probably is.

Maybe it's just me, but something feels very wrong

with

this whole Ukrainian war thing.

It feels wrong in the media.

It feels wrong online.

It feels wrong with Russia.

It's just something isn't right.

What is it we're missing?

This is not a program for you today if you just want to live in a black and white world.

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anybody who says we shouldn't go in and support Ukraine with troops and bombs and fly our planes in there just loves Vladimir Putin, probably a spy, probably working for Vladimir Putin.

Or the opposite.

This is not the show for you.

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All right, I want to go just first, let's go through the facts on all of the things that have happened.

And then I want to, over the next couple of hours, pull this apart and look at this one piece at a time because it doesn't feel right to me.

So let's just go over the facts first.

Let's start February 26th, which was Saturday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has told both nations that if they join NATO, there will be military-political repercussions.

The Biden administration also said that they believe that Russia plans to threaten to kill the families of Ukrainian soldiers if they don't surrender.

Also, NATO Secretary General

Jans Sultenberg says that the alliance sending thousands of commanders to nations in Eastern Europe near Ukraine, it will be beefing up arms support and continuing to send weapons and air defenses to Ukraine and reinforcing defenses on allied territory, territory of NATO.

Russian state news

has announced that Russia is

deploying 12,000 Chechens to Ukraine.

The Chechens are

brutal, brutal killers.

Probably the most brutal on the earth.

Saturday, Britain's Ministry of Defense put out new intelligence update on the Russian-Ukraine war.

They say Russian forces have continued their advance on Kyiv with the bulk of their forces and are now 30 miles away from the city.

Ukraine's Ministry of Interior has asked all people in the country to turn off the geolocation on their cell phones as Russians are beginning to track gatherings of people.

As locations may possibly be tracked even with geolocation GPS turned off, it is best to completely remove the battery on your cell phone if possible to ensure your location cannot be tracked.

Ukrainian President Zelensky seemed to hint that Turkey had closed its strait.

leading many reports that

they have done this, but reports by Reuters say Turkey has not yet decided to close the straits.

I believe that happened later.

Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmitrio

Kulba has responded to apparent propaganda that Ukraine has plans to launch a dirty bomb into Russian territory.

Then YouTube blocked the Russian state news, Russia Today, as well as other Russian channels from receiving money from advertisements.

French President Emmanuel Macron said he has asked Lushenko, the president of Bolaris, to demand that Russian troops leave the country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia's nuclear deterrent forces on alert in response to Western sanctions and rising tensions.

This was yesterday.

Former U.S.

defense intelligence analysts said that Putin is escalating the conflict into the nuclear domain in order to de-escalate, that is, topple Kiev's regime quickly due to the fact that his forces aren't getting the job done.

Russia's war on Ukraine failed to provide Russia a quick and decisive victory after four days of fighting.

Russia reportedly pulled their ally, Belarus.

Is that how you say it?

Belarus?

Belarus.

Belarus, sorry.

Belarus, in on the conflict, according to the Ukrainian news.

Yada, yada, the embassy in Moscow for the United States has put out an announcement telling all U.S.

nationals to leave Russia, quote, immediately.

Lindsey Graham stated that he believes Russia may be ready to level a Ukrainian city with a nuke and kill thousands of civilians to break their will and break our will.

He's a moron.

The British Defense Ministry has put out an intelligence update that says Russia's ground forces remain 30 miles north.

Now, this is 24 hours later.

They're still 30 miles from Kiev.

Let's see.

Fighting is heavy.

British Prime Minister say to the United Kingdom we send 40 million more pounds in aid to Ukraine for medical supplies and assistance to the country.

Now today,

the exchange rate for the Russian ruble is now at a record high at about 117 to 125 ruble for every $1.

The central bank has also lifted the borrowing rate

9.5%

interest rate to 20%.

This is in Russia.

We are at now

European U.S.

DEF CON 2.

There are two

DEF CON settings, one in the United States theater here at home, and one in Europe.

The one at home is at DEF CON 3.

DEF CON 2, the last time America had a DEF CON 2 setting, was for the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

DEF CON 2 is the highest

preparedness level.

DEF CON 1 means nuclear war is imminent or already happening.

This puts our ground forces and all of our forces in a be ready to engage the enemy within six hours.

DEF CON 3 is be ready to deploy in 15 minutes.

2 means six hours to engage the enemy.

So we are gearing for war in Europe.

Now

something doesn't feel right.

So

Europe decided to impose the SWIFT sanctions.

Now the SWIFT sanctions, a little piece was kind of left out by everybody last week that's kind of important.

Everyone, including me, was calling for the SWIFT sanction.

Seems pretty easy.

Cut off their banks.

We're still not cutting off their oil supply.

That should be done before anything else.

We are still buying Russian oil and gas and so is Europe.

Even though that is true, gasoline is now $8

a gallon in London.

$8

a gallon.

Joe Biden said last week that he was going to do everything he could to make sure he eases the pain at the gas pump.

And he's reached out to Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia has said no to us.

He's reached out.

He's close to a deal with Iran.

But he closed yet another avenue for oil here in the United States this weekend.

Fact number one that doesn't make sense.

If you have something and you are really, truly trying to help America and help the little guy with gas prices,

the last thing you do is open up the strategic oil reserve.

The first thing you do is open up all of the pathways to pump more oil and refine more gas.

The last thing you do is buy oil from Iran and Russia if they are your enemy.

If you think that it's worthy of DEF CON 2,

then you should probably make sure, since we don't have solar panel jets yet,

that you have the fuel in country to be able to fight a war.

So fuel makes no sense.

The next thing that doesn't make sense, the SWIFT sanctions.

First, we didn't do them.

And the first thing you do after you cut their oil, which we still haven't done, is cut their banking system and you hurt them at the bank level.

Now, that sounds great.

However, I learned something new as soon as they did it.

Then experts decide to say, oh, by the way, here's what happens when we do that.

Shouldn't we have known that last week?

Shouldn't some of these experts have been out last week and say, here's why we're not cutting swift here's why we're not cutting them out of swift swift by the way is the international banking system so you can transfer large sums of money between banks okay you can't as a country do business if you can't communicate between banks so they're out so what does that mean well russia apparently has billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars in debt with banks all over the world.

If they can't pay those loans, what happens?

That hurts the banks on our side.

So the banks have a shortage.

The banks become unstable after the Russian banks do,

but the banks become unstable here.

And I don't understand.

I honestly, I'm trying,

I've reached out to people who know these things.

I still can't understand it yet, but I will hopefully by tomorrow and be able to explain it to you in a much better way.

But they're also having to deal in U.S.

dollars, and that's how they pay their loans, which makes a shortage of dollars for these banks in the West.

Which means the solution is for our Federal Reserve to print

more U.S.

dollars.

And we're talking about trillions of dollars.

Hmm.

Now, how how does that help us at home?

So our gas is going up

and our dollar is being deflated even more.

Okay, that doesn't really make sense.

Here's another thing that doesn't make sense.

Somebody help me out.

I believe they're E4s.

Look that up, Stu.

I believe they're E4s, and they may be different now, but back in the 80s, we had E4s.

And the first thing we would do when we would go into a country is we'd knock out its power and its communications.

You don't want people being able to, you know, the troops to be able to communicate with command.

You knock out command and control communication, okay?

You also knock out the electricity.

It causes confusion and chaos.

That way no one has any information.

The Russian internet, I'm sorry, the Ukrainian internet is

Russian companies.

Now, why wouldn't these Russian companies be told by Vladimir Putin, please don't let anybody communicate and organize online?

Don't let anyone

start putting out propaganda of how well they're doing.

For God's sake, shut the internet off before you get Zelenko looking like a world hero.

Zelensky, yeah.

Or Zelensky.

Looking like a world hero.

If I'm Putin,

I'm probably throwing those people out of windows, I don't know, by Saturday.

Why?

Why didn't they go in with the jammers?

Are the E-4s the jammers?

E-4 is a mobile command and control post.

In a plane.

Yes.

Right?

Okay, yeah.

So

they can jam everything and make sure our communications are up, I believe.

Anyway, doesn't matter.

What matters is we shut countries down when we go in.

It's the first thing we do.

Why didn't he do that?

Why are we still seeing all of these stirring pictures?

It doesn't work to his advantage.

It only strengthens the Ukrainians and strengthens the world's resolve against Putin.

Am I right?

We were told there was going to be all the cyber attacks and all these things leading up to it, which he can shut that down immediately.

Wasn't there something that Elon Musk and his satellites are providing some internet, but that's still...

Yesterday, there was some problems with their internet, some problems with one of their internet providers, as I understand it.

And so they needed some backup.

So Elon Musk sent his technology over over to them, which doesn't require internet.

It's all on satellite.

It's great technology, yada, yada, yada.

And I'm glad he did it.

But he should have been asked to do that on day one, not over the weekend.

Again, more things that don't add up.

And I don't know what they add up to,

but

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Okay, a couple of other things that don't make sense to me.

First of all, Zelenko was not known mainly to the world, not known to people like, you know, my wife, who doesn't pay attention to all of this stuff.

To the point that people keep calling him Zelenko on national radio.

I know.

That's one of the craziest parts.

Sorry.

Zelensky.

Zelensky.

Sorry.

There's just too many of Russian downs.

Yeah, I know.

There is a Zelenko.

It's not Zelensky.

Sorry.

So Zelensky's not known to the average person a week ago.

The only thing people, they may have known him from some of the Trump back and forth, and maybe that he was a comedian or an actor that played the president on

TV, I believe, and then was elected president.

Okay, so he's not known.

Now

he's known as a hero.

In fact, he's known by the average American now and is kind of in the position, if you kill him,

it's almost like killing the Archduke Ferdinand.

Remember what happened

with the Archduke Ferdinand?

Something else doesn't make sense.

Why are all the anti-war left people

all of a sudden so pro-war?

Have you noticed that?

All the people who won't defend our borders are demanding that we defend the borders of Ukraine.

All the people who are against the Second Amendment are all saying, hey, look how great this is.

They're handing guns to all of their citizens.

All those who said the truckers should all go to jail are now saying these anti-war people in Russia, they shouldn't be prosecuted.

We should go help them.

What's happened here?

What exactly is happening?

More in a minute.

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I was in CPAC this weekend.

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This

is the Glenn Beck program.

This is

the program that will come out and say Putin is a bloodthirsty killer and should not have the support of any American.

He is a bloodthirsty killer, period.

He is a blight on his people and the people on earth.

However,

Ukraine also has its problems of corruption, and much of that is centered with the Biden administration and former Obama administration and Hillary Clinton.

So they're not clean either.

We can also say the Ukrainian people

want their freedom and do not want to be Russian.

And we should do everything we can as individuals to help them.

Should we go to war?

Let's hold off on that.

Let's be very careful.

We're at DEF CON 2.

This is the first time the United States has been at DEF CON 2

since 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Let's slow down here just a minute.

We're bringing Pat Gray in from Pat Gray Unleashed.

Hello, Pat.

Hello, Glenn.

I don't think we're going to have to do much more because

the International Federation of Soccer has taken care of this for us.

You see the sanctions they imposed on the Russians?

I did.

I did.

Oh, my God.

You did.

Yeah.

On Sunday, they said that Russia can no longer be known in soccer circles as Russia.

They must now be called the Football Union of Russia.

No.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's another one.

I don't know if you got this one, but this is the real body blow.

The World Judo Body, I just heard this, has suspended

Putin as its honorary president.

No.

This thing's over.

Yeah, this thing's over.

He was a big judo, you know, whatever.

Look, I want the war to end like everybody else, but that's going too far.

I know, never know.

Now it's humiliating.

There are the Geneva Conventions.

Thank you.

Speaking of weird things, I wish I could share more, writes Rubio.

I wish I could share more, but for now, I can say it's pretty obvious to many that something is off with Putin.

He has always been a killer, but his problem now is different and significant.

It would be a mistake to assume this Putin would react the same way he would have five years ago.

Apparently, he is referencing a

fairly well-known idea that has been circulating the circles of Intel for the last few years that Putin has been diagnosed with a severe brain tumor, and they think that this may be affecting his judgment.

Wow.

Send him

countries without borders would be a...

Can we just take a look?

Because maybe we could help you out here.

So in the United States, we've got a president with dementia.

And in Russia, we've got potentially

the leader of that country with a brain tumor that's affecting his judgment.

And that's not good.

Yeah.

That's not good.

You know what the problem is on both of those?

Is

when those leaders have damn near absolute power.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

When they can just sign things into a decree and we just do them.

That's why a constitutional republic is so important.

What are the chances that all of this happening

weakens Russia to the extent that his enemies at home decide to remove him from power?

That's what we're trying to do.

We're trying to do that.

That's what the sanctions would be for.

That would be great.

That would be great if somebody took him out.

Except, could we wait just a second?

Well, we know it's going to be somebody worse.

Of course.

Linux is going to replace him.

Of course.

That's a problem.

Although there might be some validity to that because they have run into a situation I don't think they expected.

They're taking

more severe losses than I think they thought.

Yeah, why?

They were going to

4,300 troops already?

Why?

4,300 Russian troops are dead.

He's a bloodthirsty killer.

He doesn't care.

Why is this happening?

I mean, if Biden were doing it, okay, I get it.

He's a moron.

Everybody who's running our Pentagon, they brought us, you know, Afghanistan.

Putin doesn't do that.

Why would

the elite let communications remain, electricity remain?

Why wouldn't he roll in now?

Just the number of troops, too.

I mean, like, they made this big deal of 190,000 troops, which is a lot.

But I mean, Ukraine has 250 to 270,000.

That doesn't even include the citizens that are just going and picking up guns right now.

So to try to invade an entire country, Russia has a million troops plus another 2 million reserve troops, and they sent in 190,000 for this giant country.

It's just a weird approach.

They don't seem to be.

Now, look, they're doing all sorts of terrible things, but this does not seem like the full force of the Russian military right now.

So I don't know what they're doing.

I had that thought of maybe they're trying to signal a, we're going to take over the entire nation so that when they fall back to these re these couple of regions, everyone's like, oh, thank God they only took those two regions, which is what they were going for in the first place.

I don't know.

Maybe that's it.

I don't know.

I can't come up with a lot of rational explanations for that.

You know, when you say, you know what, we're going to put our nukes on ready alert.

That's a problem.

That's like a real problem.

Belarus coming in.

It's another thing.

Belarus is announced.

They're sending their troops in.

They're now on Russia's side.

We knew they were on Russia's side.

Chechnya, too.

Yeah, Chechnya.

So now

you have another nation state state and Chechnya involved

what does that do to the neighbors there there are the neighbors Poland Hungary are they just gonna sit there and go yeah we're gonna let those guys go in and take Ukraine I mean when it was one against one maybe but now the other countries that are in Europe are starting to fight for and with the Russians well Belarus was always there though I mean I know but the only reason the guy's in power is because of Russia.

I know.

So, I mean, but it is, it's significant.

They're almost Soviet satellite kind of people.

Yeah, I know, but still,

it is different than just one-on-one.

Is anyone going to join?

I just, there is a growing chorus of people because we're seeing the heroics of

the people in Ukraine.

We're seeing the heroics.

Let me ask you this.

Let's say

Russia was going to

let's say all the blue states decided to declare war on all of the red states.

Are they going to shut down?

Do you think Google's going to shut down our ability to be on Facebook and share our videos?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Of course they would.

Of course they would.

Of course they would.

We're not even at war and they're shutting down our ability to share our videos.

I know.

I know.

So of course they're going to do that.

Why is the Russian

oligarchy allowing these videos to be posted and shared?

They're on

networks that are owned by Russians.

So what's the suspicion there?

What is the...

I don't know.

Just there are too many things

that everybody who wants change in the world.

stand to gain.

Everybody in this.

Can you name one way the American people can win in this?

The American people, not the government, the American people.

How do we win in this?

Even if we don't go to fight, how do we win?

I mean,

the best case scenario is maybe Ukraine kicks their ass and he goes home and gets removed from power and it stabilizes the region.

I mean, long term, maybe there's a win there.

Maybe.

But in the meantime, how do we lose?

Oh, I mean, our supply chain is destroyed, right?

Right.

Our financial system and our economy is in for real trouble.

Real trouble.

Gas and oil, real trouble.

Okay, so I can find a million ways the American people lose.

I can't find anything other than, you know, rainbows and unicorns on how we win, you know, us as people, okay, here in America.

And yet, every single group

that has asked for change

and want are leading us into a new glorious empire from Russia and

what's his name?

The prophet over there that has been saying, you know, we need a new world order led by Russia.

He's getting everything he wants.

He's getting chaos, everything that he wants.

You have Russia still getting all of the oil and gas sales, including more

than usual.

Okay.

You have the Europeans who are all for the Great Reset, who are all for clamping down on people that they're now accusing, like us, of being pro-Putin.

They can clamp down on us.

If we're at war and we're saying, wait a minute,

we're not going to, if they're closing down Russia, they've already been closing us down.

It just seems as though nothing is coordinated.

I'm not suggesting that.

What I am suggesting is what I said at the end of, you know, what I said was coming years ago, that the anarchists, the communists

would all work together

to overthrow the West and America.

Now we are at this weakened stage.

Is Russia trying to get us into a war because it would collapse us?

Now, it's going to collapse him too, but if you're best buddies with China, notice China is sitting this one out.

China's a big winner.

And you're best buddies with China, maybe he thinks, I'll get the number two spot.

I'll get Europe.

Because China will prop me up in the end and bring me back and we'll have the glorious Russian Empire funded and sponsored by China.

Everyone that has an agenda to change, fundamentally transform the United States of America wins in every scenario I can come up with.

And I can't come up with one where the American people and freedom win.

That should cause us pause

because everybody is drawing sides right now.

And soon, if not already, what I'm saying to you now will be interpreted by many as being pro-Putin.

I'm not.

I think Putin is a bloodthirsty killer.

If we could put a bullet in his head today, it would be a very good thing.

But before we...

Before we all express to each other, we're at DEF CON 2, let's remember DEF CON 2 hasn't happened in the United States since 1962, and we were on the world of blowing each other up

this has gotten very serious for the entire world quickly maybe some adults

should have a conversation openly

and those adults are not in government those adults are you

We need to discuss this and calmly and rationally think this through.

Does that make sense to you, Pat?

Stu?

Yeah.

Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know how we win if we don't do anything either.

So I know.

And who always wins in that?

The left always has a lose-lose situation and a win-win for them.

Always.

Always.

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I was at CPAC over the weekend.

You can find that speech.

I don't know if we've posted it yet,

but also

Tulsi Gabbard spoke right after me, and she was fantastic.

Fantastic.

I mean, I was sitting backstage with a bunch of people, and they're all like, I can't believe this is coming out of the mouth of a Democrat.

I mean, she is right.

She is right on almost everything she said in that speech.

In fact, everything she said in that speech, as far as I remember it,

is notable.

I think she has an 8%

conservative voting record.

Yeah.

Eight.

But she's talking about principles.

She's just on

the same step with a lot of people on these issues.

We are beyond

talking about tax policies.

And we have to talk about principles.

The same thing with this Putin thing.

You know, I mean, maybe it's just me that doesn't feel this is right, but everybody seems to be scrambling for a position of send in troops.

I don't know.

Who's saying that?

I send in troops.

Are you hearing that from a lot of people?

I am hearing the people that didn't, that work against the Second Amendment cheering for guns.

I'm hearing.

I've heard that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm just hearing the beginnings coupled with

all of these very great things coming out of the Ukraine.

That works to soften the American heart towards war, believe it or not.

Because we see these people day after day, and I don't know about you, but I look at them and I'm like, man,

I want to do something.

I want to help them.

You want to help them.

I want to help them.

But do you want to send in American troops?

Because

I don't.

No, I don't.

And short of that, they're going to get overrun eventually.

I mean, it might take more time than Putin imagined, but he will take that country.

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We're just talking about what's happening in the Ukraine and what are we supposed to do about it?

It's a hard question because the only thing we could do really to help them actually help them remain free and independent is to send troops.

And we could send supplies.

Yeah, and we are.

We are sending supplies, but that's not going to stop the Russian invasion.

I mean, it might delay it for a while, but it's not going to stop it.

I think they'd need American forces to fight off Russia.

They're just, you know, they're one-tenth the size of the Russian army.

So

are there any Americans who want troops on the ground in Ukraine?

I don't think so.

Not very many.

I haven't heard many people arguing for that, though.

Have you?

No, it's just, but it's kind of just,

it's nebulous what everybody is.

I mean, what do you want to do?

Here's the thing we should demand that our government does.

Shut down the Russian imports and the Iranian imports of oil.

Yeah, the one thing he has not done,

he hasn't touched their oil.

Neither is Europe.

I know.

And you know what would solve that?

Is if he wouldn't have shut down all of our oil and gas.

He shut down all of our oil and gas.

So now we can't say to Europe, don't worry, we got you covered.

We can't do it.

It'll take us eight months at least to get back everything, get back up online.

And you know what Joe Biden did this weekend?

Besides going to Delaware,

what kind of ice cream did he have?

I don't.

I'm not sure.

It looked like chocolate for real.

I saw, yeah.

It was really good.

Chips, chocolate chips?

Was it chocolate chip?

I don't know.

Any marshmallow in there?

I don't know.

Oh, I hope we find out for the media this week.

So once again, we have

shut down more oil processing plants.

We halted new drilling

over the weekend.

Good.

That was a good move.

Another good move.

What the hell is that?

So the first thing that we should do, we're not doing anything until you start opening things up.

All of this bogus pain that the Americans are going to feel at the gas pump is not due to Russia.

It is all due to Joe Biden.

No.

Period.

Well, no, it's also due to Russia.

If it wasn't for Russia,

it would be worse.

Right.

You know, we could, we, if, if.

They're selling more oil to our allies in Europe.

They're selling more oil

than they did two weeks ago.

Right.

But without the invasion, we wouldn't need the extra supply, right?

Russia is still responsible for large chunks of this.

However, if you prepared for uncertainty by, you know, having a supply of the basic fuels you need

and able to export those fuels to help the global market, we'd certainly be in a much better position.

Everything that Biden has done has made this worse.

So that is a huge part of this.

I think, though, you get to this point where

what do you want to do?

Do you want to extend

the most amount of pain possible to the Russian economy to stop them here?

Is that our goal?

Is that essentially what we want to do?

Like with these sanctions so far.

I would like to do everything.

Here's as president of the United States, if I were president, here's what I would be saying.

First of all, all, open up all of the spigots here.

100%.

First thing.

We should be doing that anyway.

Yeah.

Open them up.

They're not going to do that.

Today, the new IPCC report came out saying climate change was worse than ever.

It's already happening.

Shut up.

There's no chance of them embracing that philosophy.

Got it.

I'm saying, if I were president, here's what I would do.

First thing, open them up.

The second thing I would do is I would be on the air all the time, like Reagan used to, speaking right directly to the Ukrainian people and I would be saying Ukrainian people

you you are

being seen by the entire world we're watching you we're praying for you we're standing with you and we are sending as much aid as we can that means that we will help you with with systems and bullets but it is also we are standing ready with the Red Cross to help you so your families aren't just slaughtered and left to die.

We are with you.

Continue to rise up.

That would make a huge, huge difference.

It did in Poland, remember, with the collapse of the Cold War with Reagan sending those messages directly into Poland.

That made a huge difference.

We don't have a Zelensky or a Beck, though, to make those speeches.

We have a guy who fumbles through every sentence and is lucky to get through his ice cream.

So

we have no ability to do that, which is a huge problem.

I'm not criticizing your approach there.

I'm saying it would be great if we had that ability.

We do not.

We do not.

Okay.

The next thing.

Do you disagree with that?

No.

No.

But we're not even trying.

No, we're not even trying.

The next thing that I would do is I would be

trying to encourage anybody that is in a position to take the position in Russia.

I'd be just encouraging them, and it might be just through squeezing their financial accounts,

go kill that guy.

Go kill that guy.

You know,

what's his name?

Marco Rubio said over the weekend, I wish I could tell you more,

but all I can tell you is the old Putin wouldn't act like this.

There's something different about this Putin.

And what he's referring to is this idea that Putin may have a brain tumor.

You don't know that's what you're not saying that for him.

You're saying that's the speculation.

I'm referring to.

Okay.

So

if that's true, we should be out with that.

We should be saying that.

The guy we know through Intel has a brain tumor.

That in itself would help destabilize Russia.

Russia, the ruble, is about to collapse.

It's the worst day again today.

Yeah.

Since, I guess, 1998, they had a real collapse of the ruble.

It's worse than that today.

Okay, so

it's about to collapse.

The Russian people are already on the streets saying no war.

You release information that is credible, that he has a brain tumor.

And there's a brain tumor

rumor intelligence, whatever it is.

Is that saying the tumor is affecting his decision-making or

is he seeing the end of his life and trying to make a move before it's too decision-making?

Although I think it could be both.

Could be both.

Could be both.

So what else?

I mean, so do you do the Swift

situations, cut them off from international banking?

Do you launch a, yes, do you launch a no-fly zone over everybody out of your mind?

Are you out of your mind?

So you let Russian,

you know,

I don't put American planes up there against a nuclear power that has already said

they're engaged with nukes, that they are ready to use their nukes.

They're at DEF CON too as well.

We're going to put our guys to police that so then our guys are shooting down Russian planes.

That's World War III immediately.

What about travel?

Do you?

Well,

is it Maverick and Goose?

Do we have our best out there?

We only have Iceman.

Really?

Yeah.

Okay, no.

He's pretty good, though.

He's pretty good.

He's no Maverick.

He's going to make it through the whole movie.

I think Goose died.

He couldn't even inject properly.

Goose died.

Couldn't even inject out of a plane properly without banging his head on the ceiling.

Moron.

Sorry, rest in peace.

Do you guys

do a no-fly zone?

No.

I wouldn't.

I don't think we're doing any of that, right?

Like, the question is, are you letting,

you know, are aircraft prevented from flying over Russia?

I'm talking about not even military aircraft.

I'm talking about aircraft containing with all sorts of supplies and cargo and important things.

Like these things are going all over the globe all the time.

They're all avoiding Ukraine right now.

If I were a pilot.

Exactly.

And we've seen that.

Your pilot today, we are definitely not flying over Ukraine.

We've seen

a tendency over the years for Russia to just have some incidents with aircraft crossing over there.

Exactly right.

Yeah.

So

we've already, Europe is already shutting down.

We're not letting any Russian flights go anywhere near us.

They're shutting those things down.

Eventually, you get to a point where no one can fly anywhere, and we have all sorts of problems with the supply chain, which I might remind you, we already have significant issues with.

So that's another thing on top of all of this to consider.

You know, that's the problem with the gas and oil stuff, too.

Now,

I tend to be on the side of make this as difficult as possible and

quickly and hope that it's enough for internally Russia to rise up and say, get this guy out of here.

Because it's not, if this goes poorly in Ukraine, it is not without, it's not

out of the realm of real possibilities that they will just get sick of this and

these oligarchs or just the people throw these guys out of throw them out of the world.

The Russian people are not for this.

Now, not that he cares about the Russians.

No, he doesn't care at all.

He doesn't care at all.

However, if the oligarchs and everybody sees that the population is going unstable and it is also hurting them,

yeah, they probably put a bullet in his head.

Let's stop this.

Okay.

You're making our business

for what?

What are you doing?

Yeah, for what?

That's another part of this.

No one knows what he's after.

You know, I mean, yes, he's saying stuff like that.

He's after the collapse of the West.

I really do.

You don't think this is about him putting the band back together?

This is, I just want Ukraine.

It's ours.

We should have it.

I think he'd like to put the band back together, but he, if he can do, remember,

how did Reagan collapse the Soviet Empire?

Part one was with the big lie about Star Wars, the Star Wars defense system, and he made them spend themselves into oblivion.

Into oblivion.

Okay.

What would this do to the West?

What is just Swift doing to the West?

We're having to print billions, if not trillions, of dollars more.

Okay, we're already having an inflation problem.

We have to now print billions, if not trillions, of dollars more to bail out all of the Western banks that have any kind of loans with Russia.

So that's not going to help our economic situation.

If we do go to war,

are we financially in the situation where we could afford an out-and-out war?

We would collapse pretty quickly.

Now,

they would say, well, so will Russia.

But if Putin is as crazy as it seems he is, hell-bent on something we don't understand, that it makes logical sense to him,

that logic may be, yeah, but I'm the one remembered for taking down the West.

And then all of this

will be easy to grab

because all we have to do is appeal to their nationalism and their energy needs.

And we got that.

I mean,

I'm probably wrong.

I'm probably wrong.

I think the issue here is it's so hard to explain.

None of this seems reliable.

Like, you know, watching this stuff this weekend, I started thinking, is it possible we're just getting

sort of this pro-Ukrainian side of this?

Right.

Where not not as far as like who's right or wrong.

I mean, that's clear.

But the side of maybe Russia isn't struggling as much as

we're being told.

You are so pro-Putin.

I am not.

I mean, I hope that's not it.

But

it's one of the it doesn't make any sense that Russia would be doing the things that they're doing.

So I wonder, are we getting the true story?

Now, that being said.

I mean, unless he wants that Black Sea port so badly that he's willing to thumb his nose at the entire world.

No, but it's more than that.

He's not even fighting.

He's fighting like Joe Biden.

He is.

I would expect this.

If Ronald Reagan or Donald Trump were going into war, it would not be fought like this.

Would you agree?

We would let them have it and take it as quickly as we could.

We'd use all of our resources.

You don't want to be, you know, you want to take the breath away from the Ukrainians.

Well, they're not doing that.

They're fighting like Joe Biden would fight it.

Now, maybe that's because Putin does have a brain tumor or is crazy or whatever.

I don't know.

But if he's not, why is he fighting this way?

Why is he, why,

I don't know.

It just doesn't feel right.

Oh, we've talked a lot of times, though.

And maybe it's just as simple as this is how wars are fought now.

And because,

you know, the elites got together 80 years ago and decided.

All those rules, I think, are out the window.

I think so.

I do.

I think we're headed to a new world order.

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So

where do we go from here, do you think?

Was anyone concerned about the

DEF CON 2 thing?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Well, I mean, the Russians basically came out and said, hey, we're on full alert for our nuclear weapons.

Putin said that.

Yeah, and he's threatened everybody that it would ⁇ if anybody intervenes here, that you're going to get the worst experience you've had in your history or something to that effect, alluding to the fact that

you're going to get a nuclear launch against you.

And we didn't respond with that same standard, right?

No.

We didn't go to that level.

And, you know, of course, the press is like, look at the restraint from Joe Biden.

Look at this amazing restraint.

They can spit it, can't they?

Amazing restraint to not say back, oh, yeah, well, our nukes are bigger than yours.

That's basically what that's insanity.

Right.

We do not want to get into a nuclear war.

That should be.

Let's avoid that.

Yeah.

I'm throwing it out there, but let's avoid it if we can.

That would be great.

And I think that's, I mean, he launches one nuke.

Even if it was like a bunker buster nuke, you know, that we've talked about using in the past, that go deep in the earth.

They don't have the fallout and radiation, et cetera, et cetera.

Even if it was that, the world would go crazy.

He immediately loses if he does that.

And why would he do that when just, what, three years ago, he said the next war is not going to be fought with nukes.

It's going to be fought with ones and zeros.

Maybe he really has changed and there's something to these rumors of him becoming much more erratic.

I don't know.

And also, he could just be saying things, right?

He hasn't.

He hasn't done this.

But we saw last time, everyone was like, well, I don't, you know, in Ukraine, it was like, ah, he's not going to come across this border, and there he is.

So, yeah, you know, I mean, as you always say, Glenn, when people, when crazy people say crazy things, you should take them at their word.

And DEF CON 2 is taking him at his word.

DEF CON 2 means that our troops are at their highest level in Europe.

They have to be ready to engage the enemy within six hours.

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You know, the one thing I think it is important to think of is that I think there's a lot of Democrats and leftists, a lot of people who just could, that have Trump derangement syndrome,

that see the Ukrainians as a substitute for them,

and Putin is Trump.

So I think they see themselves, because how else could you be for the Ukrainian people and this fight against the power, you know, or just across the border, and yet you'd be for,

you know, throwing people in from January 6th and not have them even see a trial yet?

How is it you're for Justin Trudeau silencing people and saying that a peaceful protest, how can you be for the protesters in Ukraine?

And it doesn't make sense unless you see the Ukrainian people as

yourself and you're a Democrat or a lefty

and you see them fighting against their

Donald Trump.

I mean, I guess they'd argue that they think

their side is just in these matters, right?

Their side is right on January 6th.

Their side is right on Canada.

Their side is right on the battle between Ukraine.

And the big boogeyman there is their version of Putin, Donald Trump.

That would, I mean, because I'm against Putin and I'm for the Ukrainian people.

And how is it that we're being told we're somehow or another for Putin?

We're not.

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Manny Mirota, he is a freelance journalist.

He actually flew from Pittsburgh

to Ukraine.

to cover the lead up to the war with Russia, and he got caught up in it.

He is now in Poland after a very long walk.

Hello, Manny.

How are you?

I'm doing well.

Thank you for having me on the show.

You bet.

Glad that you're out safe.

Can you tell us what it

was like over there when the alarms first started going off and you knew, oh man, we're in trouble?

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

I mean, up until the invasion, nobody knew that anything was wrong.

And then suddenly, on the morning of the invasion, we woke up to the sound of air raid sirens sirens.

And it turned out that cities all over the country were being bombed.

And our city could have been next.

I was in Lviv, which was a western Ukrainian city.

We went outside and we heard people speaking on loudspeakers saying,

find shelter, help the elderly, stockpile water.

It was rather scary.

I mean, the whole country began at once to panic.

And it was one day, literally one day, nothing's really happening.

to, oh my gosh, here it is.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

For the longest time, the Ukrainians denied that anything was happening because they wanted to preserve, I mean, they wanted to preserve their sovereignty, they wanted to preserve their country.

And so they said, Putin won't invade.

And we all believed him.

And we all believed in Ukraine.

And it really seemed like Putin would not invade.

And then this really came upon us suddenly.

It really suddenly...

The Russian army was in Ukraine, bombings were happening, and of course, now thousands of people have died in this war with Ukraine, war with Russia.

So tell us, I mean, because we're seeing social media and we're seeing unbelievable heroism

on the part of the Ukrainian people and the president of Ukraine.

It seems like they're not willing to go anywhere.

Is that the truth?

of what's happening?

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

I mean, from what I saw from the Ukrainian people, they will defend their sovereignty until the very end.

Ukraine is a relatively newly independent country.

In 1992, they freed themselves from the Soviet Union.

And now they are trying to defend themselves in the greatest possible sense.

It's only been 30 years since they've become newly independent.

And now Ukraine is trying to establish its own identity in Europe and trying to keep itself free from the reins of Russia coming back to retake it.

And so the Ukrainian people are going to defend every street, every home, every alley, every inch of Ukrainian soil they can, and they are enthusiastic about it like you've never seen.

Because they remember what life is like under Russia.

I mean, I can't believe that Putin thinks that they would remember things, that they would forget things like the Holodomor quickly.

Right.

You know what I mean?

You tend to have a long memory on stuff like that.

Absolutely.

And the Holodomor is part of the national memory of Ukraine, and they mourn it all the time and everywhere.

There are monuments to it in nearly every major city.

And of course, life under the rest of the Soviet times was terrible for the average Ukrainian.

There were oppressions.

You couldn't practice free speech.

You had to stay in line with the party.

You couldn't establish a Ukrainian identity.

You had to be a part of a Russian identity.

And so Ukrainians are worried about that happening again.

I spoke to several Ukrainians who had lived under the Soviet Union, older Ukrainians, and they were just terrified that it would be something like that again, that Russia would exert power over Ukraine once again.

So when you're walking out, you had about 50 miles, right?

That's 70 kilometers?

Yeah.

Thereabouts.

It was like, I believe the exact amount was 43 miles and 74 kilometers was

the exact number.

But yeah, a very long walk.

And it wasn't just me, it was thousands of Ukrainians, oftentimes elderly, oftentimes children.

And they're the ones who are the true heroes of the story, the vulnerable members of society who are walking out of Ukraine this huge distance.

And what did what did you, what was your conversation like?

My conversation with the Ukrainians?

Yeah, on that walk.

What did you learn?

Well, I spoke with a wide variety of Ukrainians.

I spoke with children.

I spoke with young men.

I spoke with old women.

I spoke with a variety of people.

And they all had,

they were all, first of all, they were all unified by their fear of being taken over by Russia, and that's why everyone was walking out.

But everybody was, of course, committed to protecting Ukraine as well.

And their plan was to reform on the other side of the border and to fight for Ukraine eventually.

And so the children, of course, were afraid.

The children didn't know why they were leaving.

The children didn't know why they were forced out of their beds by this invasion, why they had to march out into the cold, why they had to go without food and water, because these people didn't have food and water for the entire walk.

And it was just this long and grueling trek.

And so the elderly people, as I mentioned to you before, they remembered Soviet times.

They were mentioning that this could happen again, and that's why they were trying to avoid that.

And so

they were among, of course, the young men who would have to go fight.

Very soon into the walk, they were conscripted into the army.

And it was...

It was just this wide conglomeration of people united by a fear and a hatred of Russian domination.

When you got to Poland, you're in Poland now, are you not?

I'm in Poland.

I'm speaking to you from Kraków, Poland, right now.

Wow.

When you got to Poland, what did that feel like?

What did the refugees go through?

It was just an incredible sense of liberation among the refugees to be in a country that, of course, was not being invaded, but also a country

that was still sort of living under the specter of Russian domination.

And now we're in Poland, which is a free country, a country that has its own long history of repression by Russia.

And there's a sort of solidarity between the Poles and the Ukrainians.

And the Poles have been very receptive to the Ukrainian refugees because of this brotherhood that they have, because of their shared past of repression by Russia.

And so the Poles are taking the Ukrainians in

in private homes, in hotels, in guest houses.

Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are staying, and the Poles are welcoming them well.

And it's just this great sense of relief.

But the job isn't done until the war is over, of course.

Tell me about two tweets that you made.

One, you said, we made friends with a 24-year-old named Max, who was pulled out of the caravan as he talked with us.

I had time to get his number before conscription, and he left with a grin of utter disbelief.

I'll never forget that face.

And the next one was, a woman screamed for the army to spare her husband from conscription.

A soldier slapped her and took her husband.

Things seem really desperate.

Tell me about this.

Yes.

Well, first I'll tell you about Max.

So during the long walk, obviously, as I mentioned, I spoke to many Ukrainians, and one of them was this 24-year-old,

as I mentioned, 24-year-old named Max.

Maxim was his name.

And we walked together for quite a long time.

We learned about each other.

He's pretty much my age, so we had a lot to relate to with each other, even though we grew up on opposite sides of the Atlantic.

And so we sort of made friends.

And then towards the end of the walk, in the last 10 kilometers,

an army, a Ukrainian army officer came along and said, all men aged 18 to 60, step out of this caravan right now.

You're going to be conscripted into the army.

And at first, Max didn't believe he'd have to go.

And then the man yelled at him specifically, and he just looked at me with this shrug, this grin of, as I mentioned, disbelief, and he stepped out of line.

And

I didn't see him for the rest of the walk, of course.

But by the way, he did get back in touch with me.

So I've been in contact with him since then, and he is safe, and he's in western Ukraine right now, and he is not currently fighting the Russians.

So I'm glad to hear from him.

The second story, though, is the second story is a lot sadder.

As you mentioned, it's this brutal account of

a man being taken away from his wife.

What happened in that occasion is, as I mentioned to you, Zelensky ordered that all men aged 18 to 60 had to be conscripted into the Ukrainian army.

And so

this caused a lot of

fathers to be taken away from their children, husbands to be taken away from their wives, brothers from sisters, and sons from mothers.

And one of these couples, I won't forget, and it's the one that's mentioned in the tweet, the husband and the wife, they began arguing with the soldier.

I don't want to go, I can't go, I have to protect my wife, because these men were often caregivers for their families.

They had to protect their families as they crossed the border.

And so, this man was just trying to protect his family.

And the wife was pleading with the soldier.

She was on her knees at one point, and she was standing up, and she was crying.

And

he was pretty not empathetic about it.

And he hit her,

and

they took the husband away.

And

it was just this tragic scene.

And it was not isolated either.

This happened a hundred times in just the time that I was there.

And I'm sure it's happened 1,000 more times.

It's crazy.

So is your feeling that most are going because they want to defend their country, but there are a few that are like, I got to protect my family?

Or are most of the Ukrainians serving because they have to?

I mean, they're caught between a rock and a hard place here.

They

want

to protect their families, of course, and their families' safety is their top priority, but then also they love their country deeply and they want to serve their country as well.

And so some men have taken the choice where they prioritize the solidarity of their country over the

sovereignty of their country, may I say, over

their temporary safety, their temporary being alive.

So they prioritize the sovereignty of their country.

And And then there's this other group who wants to keep their family safe.

And these are two very different groups, and they both have noble intentions.

And they're just caught in this tragic situation, you know.

So, Manny, what's up for men in Ukraine?

I've only got about 30 seconds for an answer here, but

with what you've seen, I've always believed if you send in a foreign troop and you have people that are defending their land, their family, their

country,

you're most most likely going to lose unless it's overwhelming force.

With what you've seen,

who are you betting on?

The Russians or the Ukrainians?

Manny?

Is he there?

We lost him.

Putin.

It would be pretty surprising if he said the Russians, though.

Yeah, really.

Yeah, but I mean, to have somebody

that was there and could see it, it would be surprising to hear that, but I think you'd be able to hear

the evidence, right?

Yeah, what was emotionally and what was.

I thought this was a really underplayed and offensive moment from Joe Biden before this was happening.

Remember, they kept saying over and over again, they're coming in tomorrow.

They're coming in tomorrow.

And he was making all those warnings.

And at one point, he said, look, if the Russians want to come in here and take it, they're going to take it.

And I just remember thinking, like, yeah, we all know the different size of the military and the capabilities, and there's a lot to that.

But you can't just

tell a country that they're going to lose,

especially one that hates the Russians, have been occupied, and refuse to go back.

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Okay, the next name of the guest is C.

V.

Lato Slav Urush.

That sounds good, doesn't it?

Yeah, it's going to roll right off my tongue when I introduce that.

It didn't sound mechanical the way you just did that.

No, it sounded really natural.

Sevya Toslav Urush.

Huh?

A little better?

A little better?

I'll screw it up as soon as they're on the phone.

Of course.

Member of the Ukrainian parliament, youngest serving member of the Ukrainian parliament,

now

still in service and in country.

We're going to

talk to him about what he has seen and what is really going on with Russia and the Ukrainian parliament.

Who is it?

Siva Toslav Urush?

Siva Tatsola.

Right, yes.

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The front line of the invasion of Kyiv,

the capital of Ukraine, Russians are moving into it now.

There are also negotiations happening.

We don't know if President Zelensky is in these meetings himself on the border of Belarus.

Belarus has said they're coming coming in on the side of Russia.

We are looking at a very dangerous situation.

We are currently trying to make connections to the youngest ever member of the Ukrainian parliament who is still there in Ukraine.

The parliament is still kind of up and running

and he's going to tell us what's really going on in Kyiv right now and hopefully he will have some other information he can share with us.

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If you just joined the show, you please go back and

listen because

I think it's important that we have these conversations as adults on what's really going on.

It doesn't feel right to me.

Stu has been...

talking off-air this morning, and I don't think I've ever heard you

like this before.

You are the optimist to my pessimist.

Many times, yes.

And this one really has you concerned.

Well, I think you're sort of downplaying the really bad possibilities here.

You know,

because I think there's a tendency, I think, understandably to say, okay, this is way over there.

It's some battle between Russians and Ukrainians.

And why are we involved in it at all?

We, of course, have have come, I think, a long way

when it comes to

hang on just a second.

We'll pick this conversation up.

We have the youngest member of the Ukrainian parliament.

I apologize in advance for butchering your name,

Sevyatoslav Urush.

Welcome.

Welcome to you, Mr.

Beck.

You've done a perfect job of pronouncing that very Slavic name.

Ah, well, great to hear that.

So, first of all, I want you to know that no matter what the American government is doing or saying, the American people are with you.

We have been praying for you.

We've been watching the heroics

online over the weekend, and we are with you.

That is most appreciated.

Our job right now is to show the world the reality that Mr.

Putin is waging a full-scale war, see, unlike any war since the Second World War, since the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany,

this is the reality that he's trying to destroy our country.

And we will do everything by everybody to keep that from happening.

Our job here is simple, to keep our nation free and independent.

And Mr.

Putin wants to destroy the biggest state in Europe for the sake of his own imperialistic ambitions.

What is the

spirit of the people like?

Do you have any idea

on the civilians, the number of civilians that are fighting and have joined the fight?

We basically need everybody we can get for this fight.

The reality is that we are allowing anybody who wants to join a means to do so, means to fight.

And basically for the last couple of days, I was helping lots of veterans, lots of people with battle experience to receive those means and to try and join that fight down Kiev and in Kiev, because this is now I'm in the capital right now and this is the siege of that capital.

So we've heard report that special forces are inside Kyiv and they're trying to confuse the defenses inside the city.

Is that true?

Are there Russian troops?

Very much so.

Very much so.

Very much so.

Basically, there have been various arbiters that

were captured in the center, basically very close to presidential office.

And the point here is that they are trying to sneak in various different ways.

We also found people who were essentially put here before the invasion, you know, renting apartments and such, so they can spring sleep agents to spring into action afterwards.

But the point is, again, Russia's trying to basically destroy us, starting from the capital itself.

So the point for us is very simply to not let that happen every way we can.

So that's why we are including everybody, informing everybody to be vigilant for the Russians.

I I mean, they were actually in the capital for quite a bit in the northern part of Kiev, and there were heavy fighting there where basically we distributed arms as widely as we could to try and destroy those forces that enter the town.

Any report?

The negotiations are going on right now.

Is Zelensky in the meetings himself, and have you had any word on how they're going?

We are looking at that very closely, and the points that we see basically want to.

He wants the same thing, destroying our sovereignty, our right to choose our own future, the right to choose our destiny, and destroying our defenses entirely, as well as relinquishing some of the parts of Ukraine soil he's already occupied.

That's what happened either way, and the way we are pushing it at the moment provides us a very confident understanding that if this continues, we'll show to him and to everybody else that Ukraine is not a pushover, that we shall fight till the very end.

So, is there any acceptable negotiation other than he backs out?

That is not just our position, that position of the whole world right now.

We are very clearly and very poorly saying that it is unacceptable that attacking nations and destroying nations in this century after the lessons we should have received in the Second World War, in the First World War, and all the other instruction conflicts that society has seen, as our nation has seen,

this should not be the only point this should not be allowed.

And again, we on the world demand of them

to

stop.

The sanctions, I mean, we're just at a loss here in America with our own administration.

The sanctions have,

well, let me just get your opinion on them.

Are they helping?

Are they having no immediate f effect?

You know, what are you what should the United States be doing or the West?

Russia has broken every single rule that exists in the international community, every single one.

And for that, Russia needs to be pushed out of every single forum that exists around the world.

And the United States, as a leading nation of the world, should be the champion in that, should be should be nation pushing for for that.

And we would certainly appreciate that

role.

The U.S.

is doing its bit.

We are certainly putting those javelins.

We will see it to good use, but we need so much more.

There is never a point when something is enough as far as fighting one of the biggest nations,

one of the biggest nations, the biggest armies in the world, and the biggest nation in the world.

So the point here is that nothing is enough.

Everything is welcome.

And as much as we can provide, all that we put to good use, I'm seeing already in Kiev.

Germany has

now joined the nations supplying weapons and ammunition.

Finally.

Yeah, finally.

Belarus joining, I mean, we know that they were with the Russians from the get-go, but now they're joining.

Are you

at all hearing anything from other NATO allies that may join your fight?

We are seeing a lot of peop countries wake up.

The fights will be making a question with Ukraine's experience.

We finally open eyes to Ukrainian reality to many countries which were doubtful

before.

And basically we are receiving new minutes by minutes of different countries making decisions, sanctioning Russia, as well as providing weapons to Ukraine, support to Ukraine, that show very clearly that basically Russia has its day's number as far as global support, as far as global understanding and global connections.

It appears as though

Putin has either another agenda that none of us really know, or he miscalculated, or he's crazy.

Any thoughts on that?

I'm saying none of those options.

I think Mr.

Putin is very clear, throughout his clear, that he does not want Ukraine to be a sovereign state, to be an independent state, and to be a state at all.

And the reality is that he is just putting his policy into effect now.

He understands there is no future for

democratic process for his point of view.

And that's why, as far as Ukraine is concerned, he is putting it all now on

this war.

And he was hoping to take us over in a matter of days.

It's very obvious now that's not happening.

It's very obvious that everyone is mobilizing.

I've just seen a video of people walking out in front of Russian troops with nothing, with just Ukrainian flags and screaming at them that their hometown is Ukraine and the babushkas throwing potatoes at those soldiers.

The point here is that again all of Ukraine now is mobilized for one simple goal to keep our nation independent, to keep our nation free because again We have fought long and hard for many centuries for that chance.

And now when we have it, we are not going to just give it up.

I have done many episodes of my television show on Ukraine and the Ukrainian people and what you have endured.

Just the Holodomor is

an abomination.

And

I am so glad to see you stand up against Russia and not go down.

They wish you

no good, no good.

Can you tell me the Ukrainian battle damage assessment, if you've seen that, the Russian losses.

Uh how uh how is that going?

Obviously it's very hard to estimate with all the information coming in and you don't know what is fake news and what is what is acc accurate data.

But it's uh very obvious that the Russian losses are in their thousands now.

We have tried to count the destroyed machinery.

We are counting more than hundred hundreds of APCs, we are counting hundreds of tanks, uh we have uh destroyed many of their planes.

Basically, it's very hard to estimate.

The numbers I have seen are putting those facts

to be obvious that the Russian army is being slammed in Ukraine time and time and time again.

And what is keeping your people going?

I mean,

the typical thought would be that you are going to lose at one point.

What is it that you're hearing or hearing others say that is keeping you together and keeping you pushing forward?

It is our country.

We are nowhere to go.

We have...

I was born in independent Ukraine and I wanted to die in independent Ukraine.

I'm basically here with my generation.

I am completely unwilling to accept, even entertain the notion of Russian incorporation on Ukraine.

The fact of the matter is that for us, there is no choice here.

This is our land.

Russia wants to destroy us, take over, and we will fight against them with everything we've got, like those babushkas waving Ukrainian flags.

And we will get our country.

We will push the Russians out.

And we are doing that every single day, even in the Battle of Kiev.

I expect everything right now.

I again wish you the best.

Please pass on to all those that you see, that the American people, our hearts are with you.

We are seeing remarkable things come from from you and your fellow citizens and our hearts and our prayers are with you and

we

we at least I do sincerely hope that the rest of the world gives you whatever you need to be able to hold on to your freedom God bless you

God feeling nations your word means your world to us thank you very much for the support for your prayers, for all the messages you keep sending to me and all of my countrymen.

It means the world, the fact that the world is caring, listening, and joining in.

God bless you.

Thank you very much.

The youngest member of the Ukrainian parliament,

C.

Vy

Toslav Urush, which I'm glad he hung up the phone before I butchered his name that time.

You can follow him at S-V-I-A-T-O-S-L-A-V-U-A.

That's on Twitter.

You can follow him again.

These guys, I think,

are really remarkable heroes to stand where they are when they could get out.

To have the Ukrainian president say, I don't need a ride.

I need bullets.

I thought that was,

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I felt a little like I do with

Tanya's.

I felt a little like I do

when I used to speak to Tanya's Uncle Leo.

I'd get about every fourth word.

And then a lot of times you're just like, uh-huh.

So I'm not sure I caught everything that he said.

You got the vibe, though.

Yeah, I got the vibe.

I got the vibe.

Wouldn't we...

I'd like to think that we'd be the same way if we were being invaded by a more powerful outside enemy.

It's our country.

Where are we going?

This is it.

Oh, I think, I mean, I think if Putin were going to take on the United States, they would have to nuke Texas.

They would never come into Texas.

And I think they wouldn't come into a lot of the Western cities and Western states.

You know,

there are a lot of Americans in the red states, especially that are just not going to give it up.

No, no, thank you.

I'm not sure about, you know, New York City.

They might be like,

yet, but then again,

you know, but I think Americans,

if it's a foreign power, they would be against it.

If it is

a twist in our own government, I think they accept it.

There's going to be a lot of bad outcomes from this battle.

However, can we have one good one?

Which is, can we finally, finally not hear anymore?

What is your gun going to do against the military if they come to town?

Isn't that crazy?

Can we finally retire that nonsense?

I mean, the first thing the Taliban did was take all of the guns away from the people.

The first thing the Ukrainians did were give all guns to every person in Ukraine.

It makes a difference.

It makes a huge difference.

They keep trying to give you this idea that, well, picture yourself.

You're in your driveway, tank pulls up.

You've got your handgun.

What are you going to do?

Well, yeah, in that scenario,

but that's not reality.

Reality is these guys have to get out of the tank.

They're coming door to door.

It's impossible to overrun a country that's well-armed like the United States.

It's all, I mean, basically impossible.

If the people decide to fight, it will go on, it will cost so much,

increasing the cost of what they're trying to do.

You know, we got in trouble

with George Washington, with the British, because they were like, you're not lining up in a line in fancy red jackets so we can see you and shoot you.

We were behind the trees.

We learned that from the Native Americans.

Yep.

And they called us terrorists.

Well, that's the way all war is fought right now.

We lost the shiny red suits with a target on the chest.

Instead, we fight, you know, guerrilla warfare.

And that is the one thing that the Ukrainians are doing.

They're fighting unconventionally, and if they have to go in, the Russians have to go in door to door, it is a long, protracted, high-death count kind of thing for any invading army if your people are well armed.

Gee, it's almost like the Second Amendment makes sense all of a sudden, beef.

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I don't know if you have read the lyrics of the Ukrainian national anthem, but I found myself looking them up this weekend.

They come, the original line from a poet in 2003 is, Ukraine has not yet died, neither her glory nor her freedom.

And they've changed that just a little bit.

Ukraine is not yet dead, nor its glory and freedom.

Luck will still smile on us, brother Ukrainians.

Our enemies will die as dew does in the sunshine, and we too, brothers, will live happily in our land

we'll not spare either our souls or our bodies to get freedom and we will prove that we are brothers brothers of Kozak kin

that's pretty awesome

where ours is asking us hey does that flag still wave

it talks about the past theirs talks about the future.

And it starts with, hey, we're not dead yet.

That's pretty amazing.

I don't think I want to go up against a nation where they're singing their anthem and they're like, hey, we're not dead yet.

And we're not going to give up our souls or our bodies for this thing called freedom.

I think they probably mean it.

They know the price to be paid.

They know how precious freedom really is.

I'm not sure we do,

but they certainly do.

They know

how many people in their own country have paid the price, have been silenced by force.

You know, at the beginning of the program today, I said that I wasn't sure that I understood what was happening in Ukraine and Russia.

Something doesn't feel right to me.

But I do understand one thing that is happening in the Ukraine, and I think it's happening all around the world.

It's clear to me that the flame of freedom is now burning brighter

than ever.

The flicker of freedom always lives inside each human heart.

It was put there by God.

He fanned the spark of freedom

in the hearts of the pilgrims.

They first stepped off the Mayflower.

It was William Bradford that said, Thus, out of small beginnings, greater things have been produced, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many.

That candlelight that always

is so delicate and so close to being blown out.

It was burning when the rebels tossed the tea into the harbor.

It was raging as the founder signed the Declaration of Independence and forged across the Delaware, broken and battered.

It was burning when brother rose against brother to free slaves.

It was alive

in the horrors of the trenches of the First World War.

It was alive as we stormed the beaches of Normandy.

It ignited a march against tyranny and fire hoses in the streets of Birmingham.

It gave courage to young women like Rosa Parks.

It was there when a lone man stood against the tanks in Tiananmen Square.

It was there again this weekend, as a lone man stood against the tanks in Ukraine.

When truckers opposed tyranny in Canada,

it was there and it is ablaze today in the hearts of Ukrainians.

We see it as they gather their weapons and stand.

We hear it as they sing their national anthem while cleaning the glass in their living room window that had been blown out by a bomb.

We admire it as young Ukrainian men flee,

not away from their country, but back to it in the form of safety of their homes abroad.

We feel it as thousands of Germans gather in support of Ukraine under the Brandenburg gate.

As Russians are sent to prison

because they participated in a revolt against their own leader's aggression,

is that not that flame of freedom bright?

The fight against evil is ongoing.

It has existed ever since man has been given agency.

But the thing that evil does not know

is that it never wins in the end.

Doesn't matter who wears the mask of darkness, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Putin, Soros, Klaus Schwab,

Biden, Talib.

Whoever tries to grab your security, whoever tries to grab your freedom, Trudeau.

We need to just remember one line that we've heard a thousand times and say it out loud.

The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

You have to say it with a bad English accent.

There was a candle that was lit on this land.

And this candle, no matter who rules over it, that candle will not be extinguished.

There are too many of us, and too many of us around the world.

We're seeing them in Hong Kong.

We failed and we did nothing.

We're seeing them in Ukraine.

Personally, when I saw saw the tank roll over that car

and that guy lived, I thought these guys are being protected.

These guys might have some divine providence going their way.

There is nothing more valuable than the gift of individual freedom.

Nothing.

Nothing.

Not safety.

Not food.

not a guarantee for whatever it is you want.

Freedom is the ultimate gift.

It's divine and it comes to every man and every woman no matter where they were born.

That's what we fight for.

And that's what we fight against.

This weekend I spoke at CPAC.

and somehow or another, I was labeled as a pro-Putin guy.

I don't understand that, seeing that I have said multiple times, Putin is an evil, cold-blooded killer,

and his death is something to celebrate.

Don't get involved emotionally in these things.

This is way too important.

I know it's tough because you see what's happening on social media.

You see what's happening, but don't get swept up in the parade.

I don't know what the right thing to do is other than all we can do without committing ourselves to war.

But I would require, if I'm going to commit myself, if I'm going to commit that I will do all that I can do, the government should stop telling me how much pain is coming my way

while canceling oil drilling this weekend here in America, while buying oil from Iraq, I'm sorry, from Iran, while buying oil from Russia.

at a greater clip than we bought it two weeks ago.

It's in what people do, not what they say.

And right now, the only people that I

see

doing anything

are inspirational.

And they are the people, as always,

the people who are just like you,

just like your neighbors.

that actually believe in something.

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Well, there's a new development.

The President of the European Commission has now said the European Union is closing its airspace to Russian aircraft.

They just held a press conference.

We are shutting down the EU airspace for Russians.

Prohibition on all Russian-owned, Russian-registered, or Russian-controlled aircraft.

These aircraft will no longer be able to land in, take off, or overfly the territory of the EU.

Our airspace will be closed to every Russian plane, and that includes private jets of oligarchs as well.

Holy cow.

Holy cow.

Now, we can't fly over their airspace, I'm sure,

which they have

a lot of airspace.

I don't know if you noticed that, but this could also hurt on the global supply chain and moving things from place to place if you're avoiding all Russian airspace.

If this thing drags on for them and they're feeling the economic catastrophe that they're feeling right now and it goes on for a long time,

there's a good chance that factions inside that country rise up against Putin.

Can you imagine you went to bed Friday and your dollar was

worth what it is today.

And then you get up

today

and it's worth 20 cents.

That's what happened to the ruble today.

It's probably going to get worse.

Yeah.

And they're saying that it may completely collapse.

And like, you know, Russia is not, I don't know, it's not,

I don't know, the Taliban, right?

Like, this is a, this, there, you know, there's Gucci stores littering the streets of Moscow.

Like, there are a lot of people who are used to a really nice Western life living in Russia.

They're used, and they come here all the time, which is a whole other situation.

But like, like a lot of money, a lot of expensive things.

People don't want to be,

especially for this.

They don't see this as like the war, you know, the Cold War even.

They see this as like,

well, why are we doing this exactly?

Imagine if we, our government just said, you know what, we're taking Mexico.

Yeah, we're going for it.

We're going for Mexico, you know?

And all of us in the country would be like, wait, wait, we're what?

Well, Mexico has been a genocide.

Yeah.

That's a genocide of some English-speaking people in Mexico.

And we'd be like, wait, do you have any evidence?

We're sorry, we're already in.

And then we are dealing with an 80% drop in our economy, in our dollar.

No one will do business with us.

We can't go on vacations.

We can't.

I mean, God, Joey Behar wouldn't be able to get to Italy.

Think of all the terrible things that could come from this.

But it would affect so many people.

We certainly wouldn't be like, you know, I just trust Biden on the genocide thing.

I mean, it probably is happening in Mexico.

That is not how we'd react to it.

Now, look, they have control of the media.

It's different.

Especially if, well, don't they here too?

At some level, I mean, we get the information, I think, even though we have a lot of people.

But if they were shutting down people like they're shutting down in Russia, I mean, you're going out.

Those people are so brave.

So brave.

Incredible.

You're going out in Russia, in Moscow

to

protest against Putin?

He's a killer.

I was watching CNN when this was all first happening, and they're in like the somewhat some square in like St.

Petersburg.

Yeah, yeah, and they're just there's protesters out there walking behind the reporter, and they're just taking him and just throwing in the vans.

Right, I saw the same thing, I saw the same thing and it wasn't the reporter.

Yeah, and it was like when he finished, it was like 25 people have been, you know, just picked up in the led since I started talking.

You're like, this is a problem.

Yeah, and then that van pulls away, another van pulls up, they just start loading people in.

I mean, imagine having that courage.

It's, it's good to see that there are those people.

And I, and you have to remember there are those factions, those anti-Putin factions, who have been crushed by Putin's strong-arm tactics.

But if the people,

if they start feeling this sort of pain, those structures around him that have protected Putin at the top of that government can start collapsing pretty quickly.

There's a lot of billionaires over there who want their stuff and they don't think about this the same way Vladimir Putin does.

They're not all former KGB agents.

And that structure around him could wind up collapsing if this can drag on and the pain is real in their economy.

It's possible.

Oh, very possible.

I'm trying to be optimistic here, Phil.

No, the show is no optimism.

It is possible, Stu.

Probably not going to happen.

Probably not going to happen, but very possible.

I would pray like you haven't prayed before.

Pray for your nation.

Pray for the sanity of leaders and those leaders who are not sane that maybe they die soon.

Putin,

if he's clear-headed, holy cow, are we in trouble?

If he's insane, hopefully, he dies soon,

because there is no dealing with a madman.

And I don't think he is.

I think he's got a different goal.

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