January 11, 2022 • 29 mins
RUSH: We’re gonna get to the Ukraine business, it’s gonna be the focus here. That happens to be the soap opera story. Actually, it’s not the soap opera story. This is Putin running rings around us. There’s no question what’s going on here. Vladimir Putin’s reassembling the Soviet Union. And this is something — I’ve got the sound bite — I predicted this back in 2008. And all the smart money in Washington, inside the Beltway — we’ve got these sound bites, too — they’re shocked that Putin is trying to reassemble the Soviet Union. They can’t believe it.
Even Lurch — this guy, John Kerry, is shocked that Putin is actually conducting a ground war. Listen to this. Grab number 17. Let’s just get this out of the way ’cause I think it’s hilarious and it is indicative of how just outclassed we are. We’re clueless. This generation of leaders is literally clueless about our enemies. Remember something you were taught early on in this program. The purpose of any military is to kill people and break things. It’s not to advance anybody’s social agenda. It’s not a laboratory for the left’s social ideas or playgrounds. It is to kill people and break things, and the second rule is that the aggressor in any conflict sets the rules. And if they violate an existing rule book, then so be it. The aggressor sets the rules, and right now, Putin is setting the rules.
I went back and did some research. In 1979 when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, ’79, ’80, they did it at Christmastime, when we were all distracted. Putin goes into Ukraine, after, by the way, colonizing Georgia. They got Georgia back now. Remember Shalikashvili and South Ossetia? Well, they got Georgia back and they’re marching now. And when did Putin do it? He sent the troops in during the Olympics that he hosted, that NBC televised and the world was watching. And then after that he continued this buildup last night during the Oscars. That is strategy. What it means to me is, in just that regard, if Putin actually made strategic decisions based on the American people being distracted it tells me that Putin believes that American public opinion still matters, in terms of impacting American leadership.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're gonna get to the Ukraine business gonna be the
(00:02):
focus here. That happens to be but soap operas. Actually
it's not the soap opera story. This is Putin running
rings around us. And there's no question what's going on
here is Vladimir Putin's reassembling the soap Union. And this
is something I've got the sound bite. I predicted this
back in two thousand eight, and all the smart money
(00:25):
in Washington, inside the Beltway, we've got these sound bites too.
They're shocked that Putin is trying to reassemble this over union.
I can't believe it. Even Lurch, this guy, John Kerry
is shocked that Putin is actually conducting a ground war.
Listen to the carry can I think we've got this
(00:46):
on a sound bite to listen. Yeah, grab number number seventeen.
Let's just get this out of the way because it's
it's I think it's hilarious, and it is indicative of
how just outclassed we are, or are are not. We're clueless.
This generation of leaders is literally clueless about our enemies.
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Remember something you were taught early on in this program.
The purpose of any military is to kill people and
break things. It's not to advance anybody's social agenda. It's
not a laboratory for the left social ideas or playgrounds.
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It is to kill people and break things. And the
second rule is that the aggressor in any conflict sets
the rules, and if they violate an existing rule book,
then so be it. The aggressor sets the rules. And
right now Putin is setting the rules. You know, I
(01:53):
looked at it. I went back and did some research.
In nineteen seventy nine, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan see eight.
They did it at Christmas time, when we were all distracted.
Putin goes into Ukraine after, by the way, colonizing Georgia.
They got Georgia back. Now remember shall Beli and South Ossa. Well,
(02:16):
they've got Georgia back and they're marching now. And when
did Puttin do it? He sent the troops in during
the Olympics that he hosted, that NBC televised and the
world was watching. And then after that he sent he
continued this build up last night during the Oscars. That
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is strategy, when what it means to me is in
just that regard, if Putin actually made strategic decisions based
on the American people being distracted. It tells me that
Putin believes that American public opinion still matters in terms
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of impacting American leadership. And I don't. This is this
is no small thing, folks. Now, Putin could be very
wrong about the degree to which the American public impacts
the regime, for example, in its own strategy, but he's
nevertheless is cognizant of it, just like any politician would be.
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In fact, Putin, ready for this, postponed the telecast of
the Olympics in his countries. What the Oscars? What did
I say, the Olympics? Yeah, the Oscar. He postponed the
Oscar telecast last night. He didn't want his own population distracted.
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He wanted his own population knowing full well what he
was doing, and they wanted them celebrating him. They didn't.
They weren't distracted. We were. And so now there's breaking
new today. Russia has reportedly set a surrendered deadline for
Ukrainian forces if if they don't get out of there
by the If they if they don't get out of
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the Crimea by tomorrow, Russia is going to run in
there and take it and kick their butts. Now, interestingly,
do you remember, and I'm sorry to be all over
the ballpark here, but this is a stream of consciousness thing. Folks.
Do you remember in one of our early skirmishes with
Saddam Hussein? And by the way, not a little sidebar,
(04:35):
George H. W. Bush always pronounced it Sadam because in
that language, sadom means dirty shoeshiner. You know those people
have a think about shoes. You throw shoes at so much,
a profound insult. It's actually pronounced Saddam Hussein, but he
pronounced it Saddam because that means dirty, irrelevant law slime,
(05:00):
ball shoeshiner. Over there, just a little sidebar. But remember
you're one of our earliest skirmishes with Saddam Hussein. Remember
what Governor Mario Cuomo suggested, Come on, snard Lee, You
remember this. Cuomo said, come on, let's just give him
(05:24):
a few islands. Just give him a few islands, Let
him have what he wants, and we can avoid war. Well,
I have it right here in the Politico, Ladies and gentlemen,
the same thing the editorial board of the Washington No. No,
(05:45):
it's a political story. The political story is suggesting let
putin have Crimea. Well, yeah, among other things, but just
let him have Crimea. Let him have it, don't oppose him,
don't send carry over there to let Putin have it.
Doesn't matter. Putin is gonna go in by tomorrow and
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take Crimea anyway, it needs a warm water port. But
more importantly, there's another aspect to this that I don't
know that you may have considered, and that is with
the uptick in fracking taking place in America, that means
that there is vast new production of oil all and
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all wells and fossil fuels. Now what does that mean
to Putin, Well, that's competition. Putin needs Ukraine because there's
something like seven or eight Russian natural gas pipelines go
through there on the way to selling the stuff to
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Western Europe. So in all of this, there's so many
elements here. There's economics, there's money, and there is always that.
And then there is the KGB, which never went away
and it's now coming back to life and a reassembling
of the Soviet Union. We also have the chi Coms
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and the Japanese on the verge of a massive military
conflict as well. I mean it is folks, things are
blowing up like nutcases over there. And we just do
not have the personnel in the State Department, or in
the Department of Defense, or in the White House to
adequately deal with this because we don't have people that
really think any of this matters. All that matters to
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people like Obama is fixing what he thinks is wrong
with this country when it comes to social justice and
racial discrimination and illegal immigration and amnesty and healthcare and
all that. That's all that matters. It's fixing what's wrong
with this country. Now here is grab somebody number seven.
This is lurch He was on with Phanopolis yesterday. Stepanopolis
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said the Senator Carrie Well, Secretary of State, it's a laugher, Stepanopolis.
We we got these reports now Russian forces surrounding Ukrainian
military basis in the CRIMEA. Ukraine's Prime minister says, we're
on the brink of a disaster. Is he right? What
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has already happened is a brazen act of aggression, in
violation of international law and violation of the UN Charter,
in violation of the Helsinki Final Act, in violation of
the Ukraine Russia Basing Agreement. Russia has engaged in uh
a military act of aggression against another country, and it
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has huge risks. George, it's a nineteenth century act in
the twenty first century. Yeah. And then when he went
over to face the nation, he used much which one
did you watch face the nation? Or? Oh? Is it was?
He on there too? Well, when he went over to
face the nation, he said, you just don't in the
twenty one century behave in nineteenth century fashion by invading
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another country on a completely trumped up pretext. A large
Putin just did. So he's there. So while Putin is
invading using nineteenth century tactics, John Kerry is on American
television saying you don't do that. And he's citing all
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of these agreements, the u N Charter, International Law, the
hell Sinky Final Act. You know what all that stuff
is worth th those people? You know what? Puttin things
in that he doesn't care. These are old Soviet communists.
Putin has been salivating over reassembling the Soviet Union, and
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we've got this is if it weren't so serious, it
would be laughably pathetic, because, as I remind you, in
any conflict, I don't care if it's a bully on
the schoolyard. I don't care if it's a National Football League,
Major League Baseball, or anywhere. The aggressor sets the rules,
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and whatever the aggressor does are the rules, and you
throw the rule book out. But we're sitting there as
they were offended. Why he can't do this way is
violating the Health Sinkie Final Act. Why he's in violation
of the Ukraine Russia Basing Agreement. Yeah, big whoop. So
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he's out there condemning, that's really big. That's what we
always were. We condemn and we deplore, and then we
start shouting at the United Nations. He is an incredible
active aggression and carry brandish the threat of economic sanctions.
You don't just in the twenty one century behave in
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nineteenth century fashion by invading another country on a completely
trumped up pretexts well as Secretary Putin just did. Reminiscent
by the way of Ginger's goun with whom Carry apparently
is intimately familiar. Jinger's con this is reminiscent of Germany, Neville, Chamberlain,
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you name it, reminiscent of the Soviet Union in the
twentieth century, reminiscent of world history. You can look it
up in the Undeniable Truths of Life written by me.
One of the twenty four or five undeniable rules of
life is ours is a world governed by the aggressive
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use of force. It always has been and it always
will be. And no matter how you analyze that. If
you if you want to look at the current conflict
between the Republican Party the Democratic Party A who's setting
the rules? Democrats they're the aggressors, right, wouldn't you also
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say that politics here is the aggressive use of force
the Democrats use, not military in this case, but they're
using They are pushing and pushing. And what are we
doing letting them have what they want? I either CRIMEA,
hoping they'll go away. So now in the politico there
is going let putin have the CRIMEA, that it will
be happy with that and this will all be over.
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So Obama yucks it up whatever he's doing. Growing lines
carries out there expressing shock and dismays. In the twenty
one century, somebody would actually invade with ground forces, asked
essensely the world to disqualify that. I mean, it is
just pathetic, folks, It really is dangerous. Ye. At the
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same time we have grab somebody eighteen Stefanopolis, after after
the Lurch talked about how he just doesn't dig this,
this nineteenth century tactic in the century. By the way,
you notice also that Putin does this just days after
we happily announce our intention to downsize our boots on
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the ground military to World War two levels. Why because
this kind of stuff isn't gonna happen anymore. The Obama
regime is going to propose in their in their the
budget coming up, that we get the military back down
boots on the ground, ground force commitment capability world War
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two levels, just days after we announced it. Here goes Putin,
and why are we doing it? Well, because this kind
of stuff isn't gonna happen anymore, not with lasers and
outer space drones and the n s A and all
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of our abilities that we have to sneak and listen
and spy on people, these these conventional infantry wars, that
is not gonna happen anymore. So we we don't need
to have that kind of military force. We need more
food stamps, so we need more unemployment compensation extensions. We
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don't we don't need that kind so Shortly thereafter there
goes Blad And let's not forget Obama telling Dmitri medviet
It just tell Putin they hang in there, be tough
when it comes to us getting rid of our nukes,
because I'll have more flexibility after we win. Noah, stop
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doing missile defense. We're gonna tear that down. We're gonna
we're going to reduce our nuclear warhead stockpile, just to
oh the world that we're good guys, nice people, and
so for then that we don't intend anybody harm and
admitting in the process that we have been the problem
on along. The United States is the destabilizing agents. What
Obama believes the U S and its military has always been.
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That's what the left beliefs with the Democratic Party if
today believe the US is the destabilizing age of the world.
So we got to show the world we no longer
want to destabilize. So hey, Brian, do you want to
cry me to take it? Stephanopolis and carry continue to talk,
and I just want to listen because I just want
to hear what other inanities come out of Lurch's mouth
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of any indication at all the President Putin is taking
heat of what President Obama is saying. Well, they just
had the conversation yesterday and the President invited him to
engage with the government. The most important thing to remember
here is this is not or should not be East
West Russia, United States, Russia versus Europe. This is about
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the people of Ukraine. We ought to be able to
work this out through the diplomatic process. If Russia chooses
not to, there will be serious repercussions. Yeah, like what sanctions.
You want to know how tough we're getting on this.
They're breaking news here from Reuter's. Ready for this, breaking
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news from the Obama White House. The United States will
no longer We're not gonna do it. We're not going
to send a presidential delegation to the upcoming para Olympic
Games in Sochi to protest the Ukraine situation. So the
gloves are off, folks, No presidential delegation to the Paralympic
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Games and such. Well, JN did you hear that? What
was it? The White House put out a photo of
Obama talking on the phone with lad and Obama's sleeves
were rolled up, and that was that was done to
make it look like Obama was really working hard, me
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really taking it seriously. Sleeves rolled up while on the
phone with Puttin. Putin probably had his shirt off practicing
tai Chi. Well, he was talking to Obama. Here's more, Lurch.
Try this, folks. We can squeeze this in. This is
is the reset? Is David Gregory meet the press? Is
the reset with Russia? Dead Well? I don't know what
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you mean by the reset, the reset relations? I know,
but long ago we entered into a different phase with Russia.
I don't think this is a moment to be proclaiming
one thing or the other. You know what that was about.
You know, Hillary went over there when she became secretary
to stay with this giant plastic red reset button, reset
relations with the with the Russians and cares. I don't
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know what do you mean reset? No, No, that was
long ago. We've been at a different phase now. Carrie
totally called no clue what he was answering. I need
to ask you all of your question. I I really
it's an important point. Putin. Let me let me review
this as I went back, and I don't know why,
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just that something struck me when Brasnev, Leon and Brasenev
the eyebrows guy. Those of you low information, he was
an old Soviet boss seventies. He's uh, he's the guy
that ran rings around Jimmy Carter. Anyway, Bras when they
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invaded Afghanistan in which didn't end well, but that's another story.
When they invaded, they did it at Christmas, thinking that
nobody'd be paying attention and that nobody would care even
if they did. All of a sudden pay attention. It's Christmas.
Thefghannis Dan who cares? Is this Soviets? But not long
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after people did care and Putin then uses the Olympics
and the Oscars as a distraction not of Obama and
carry but of the American people. Now, that tells me
that that Putin still thinks, or at least is taking
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into consideration that public opinion still impacts American leadership. And
I think if you're an old KGB boss, that would
be a very what that would constitute your formative thinking
If your KGB boss seventies and eighties, in the height
of the Cold War, UM public opinion was always anti
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Soviet and that that public opinion elected Ronald Reagan, who
brought about the end of Soviet communism in the Berlin
So somebody like Putin would be because of formative experiences
when he was rising the power, very much aware of
the power of American public opinion. So he times his
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invasion of Ukraine to correspond with the Olympics, and he
took another big step last night yesterday, while everybody here
is focused on the Oscars and the Academy Awards. The
Russian invasion of Afghanistan was also in response to a
pro Russian public government having been toppled. Now, I don't
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know that American public opinion is anywhere near as powerful
in impacting American leadership. Fact, American public opinion is opposed
to every Obama policy, and yet every Obama policy is
being implemented and his grow wing despite American public opinion.
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You and I probably are of the belief that American
public opinion when it comes to anything to do with
foreign policy is asleep. What do you think the odds
are that, I don't know half or more of the
people that watch the Olympics last night don't care about
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what's going on in Ukraine anyway, and especially in terms
of how it might affect them or the United States.
How many Americans do you really think care. How many
Americans do you think have any consideration for what this
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means for us? And let me go further, how many Americans?
Because I can assure you that back in the seventies
and eighties, the American public was at fever pitch. The
American public was highly tuned in to Soviet sponsored communism.
You know, all through the eighties went on and um
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in Nicoagua and the Country of Revolution and the Bolden Amendment,
and it was vicious. And the American public was on
board with Reagan throughout much of this, other than when
you know, when the Iran contray thing hit later in
his second term. But my point is the American public
was much concerned. They were very informed, and they had
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definite awareness of what Soviet expansionism meant, and they knew
that it wasn't good. They knew it had to be stopped.
They supported it every time a president wanted it to
be stopped, including in Vietnam. At the outset now contrasted
to today, I want, I'm just asking because the open
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that I did in the previous half hour of this program,
I wonder how many people heard it who um might
not have been looking at this in any way. Not
not you, folks. When I say people are hurted, I've
always exclude you from the low information crowd. But I
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always know that people listen to this program. We're not fans.
People listen to this program who don't like me. People
listen to this program who don't like me and want
reasons every day to keep disliking me. And it's those
people I'm talking I mean, how many of those people?
How many people in general think this is no big deal?
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Come on, and and and how many Americans really are
not aware that we have almost total incompetence at the
highest levels of our art and policy establishment. Now within
the regime, there might be some bright people a d O.
D might be some bright people State Department. I'm talking
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about Obama regime personnel and leaders. And I the answer
to the question scares me. Do you realize, folks, how
absolutely literally idiotic it is for the American Secretary of
State to start whining about they can't do that, you
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can't you can't fight at twenty one century war in
the nineteenth century tactic, you can't do that, you can't violet.
Do you understand the absolute childish naivete that must exist
for that worldview. And this is our secretary of State,
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and and this one is no better than the previous one.
Mrs She was totally unqualified for that job. And Carrie
is totally unqualified. He's got the gig because he wanted it.
It's payback time. And he's always fashioned himself as somebody
who ought to run the State Department because he can
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speak French. He thinks he's a man in the world.
He's clueless. All of these people are clueless. They have
I don't think I don't think they're willing to even
admit to themselves that what Putin is really trying to
do is reconstitute the Soviet Union. How many of these
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people are living in their delusional fantasy world that Obama
is still the messiah of two thousand eight, loved, adored
and respected by the people of the world and world
leaders who used to be our enemies. When he's when
he's dangerous, reckless cowboy Republicans were in office, these are scary,
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scary times. And one of these days Putin is going
to figure out that American public opinion does not have
the same impact today that it had back in the
seventies and eighties, he's going to figure out if he
doesn't already know that. American public opinion has been dumbed
down and refocused, and America is now focused on should
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we be penalizing fifteen yards or kick him out of
the game for using me in word? In the NFL,
the American people are focused on can gay couples buy
a cake from a non gay baker or not? I mean,
at some point genuine in fact, you've probably have heard
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this by now. Sarah Palin back in two thousand and
eight predicted and warned that Russia was going to take Ukraine.
She was laughed at, she was mocked and made fun
of because of core. That was the narrative, Sarah. And
she never said she was an expert Sovietlian because she
could see it from her backyard. Tina Faye said that
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in a comedy sketch. Palin never said it, yet it
was attributed to her. Romney, I'll never remember this in
a presidential debate like it was yesterday. It was a
sit down and probably a second debate. Romney is warning
of the Soviets of Russia as our number one geopolitical
and and Obama is sitting there and mocking him and
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laughing at him and making fun of him, like he
can't believe what he just heard. And everybody knows it's
al Qaida, Obama's Obama's is not. And look at what's
happening here. All the people who have been insulted is
dumb and stupid and idiotic and don't know what they're
talking about. It being born out. There were people leave
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myself out of this. There were people eight years ago
warning that Putin existed to rebuild the Soviet Union. The
Washington establishment hamden hard and huffed and puffed and laughed,
said nothing could be fur from the truth. The best
and the brightest had no clue. And we now face
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these are these are troubling now by the way Russia
and the chi Coms are aligning. They have discovered geo
political interests that meld together, and one of those geo
political interests is opposition to us. Then you've got the
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chi Coms in the Japanese on the verge of a
major conflict. I don't think anybody, I think too many
people are aware of that. H so it it. These
are these are heavyweight times, and we've got a lot
of people dazed and confused, and just in addition to
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dazed and confused, entirely misinformed, it happened to be our
leaders at the moment
We're gonna get to the Ukraine business gonna be the
(00:02):
focus here. That happens to be but soap operas. Actually
it's not the soap opera story. This is Putin running
rings around us. And there's no question what's going on
here is Vladimir Putin's reassembling the soap Union. And this
is something I've got the sound bite. I predicted this
back in two thousand eight, and all the smart money
(00:25):
in Washington, inside the Beltway, we've got these sound bites too.
They're shocked that Putin is trying to reassemble this over union.
I can't believe it. Even Lurch, this guy, John Kerry
is shocked that Putin is actually conducting a ground war.
Listen to the carry can I think we've got this
(00:46):
on a sound bite to listen. Yeah, grab number number seventeen.
Let's just get this out of the way because it's
it's I think it's hilarious, and it is indicative of
how just outclassed we are, or are are not. We're clueless.
This generation of leaders is literally clueless about our enemies.
(01:10):
Remember something you were taught early on in this program.
The purpose of any military is to kill people and
break things. It's not to advance anybody's social agenda. It's
not a laboratory for the left social ideas or playgrounds.
(01:31):
It is to kill people and break things. And the
second rule is that the aggressor in any conflict sets
the rules, and if they violate an existing rule book,
then so be it. The aggressor sets the rules. And
right now Putin is setting the rules. You know, I
(01:53):
looked at it. I went back and did some research.
In nineteen seventy nine, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan see eight.
They did it at Christmas time, when we were all distracted.
Putin goes into Ukraine after, by the way, colonizing Georgia.
They got Georgia back. Now remember shall Beli and South Ossa. Well,
(02:16):
they've got Georgia back and they're marching now. And when
did Puttin do it? He sent the troops in during
the Olympics that he hosted, that NBC televised and the
world was watching. And then after that he sent he
continued this build up last night during the Oscars. That
(02:39):
is strategy, when what it means to me is in
just that regard, if Putin actually made strategic decisions based
on the American people being distracted. It tells me that
Putin believes that American public opinion still matters in terms
(03:02):
of impacting American leadership. And I don't. This is this
is no small thing, folks. Now, Putin could be very
wrong about the degree to which the American public impacts
the regime, for example, in its own strategy, but he's
nevertheless is cognizant of it, just like any politician would be.
(03:26):
In fact, Putin, ready for this, postponed the telecast of
the Olympics in his countries. What the Oscars? What did
I say, the Olympics? Yeah, the Oscar. He postponed the
Oscar telecast last night. He didn't want his own population distracted.
(03:49):
He wanted his own population knowing full well what he
was doing, and they wanted them celebrating him. They didn't.
They weren't distracted. We were. And so now there's breaking
new today. Russia has reportedly set a surrendered deadline for
Ukrainian forces if if they don't get out of there
by the If they if they don't get out of
(04:10):
the Crimea by tomorrow, Russia is going to run in
there and take it and kick their butts. Now, interestingly,
do you remember, and I'm sorry to be all over
the ballpark here, but this is a stream of consciousness thing. Folks.
Do you remember in one of our early skirmishes with
Saddam Hussein? And by the way, not a little sidebar,
(04:35):
George H. W. Bush always pronounced it Sadam because in
that language, sadom means dirty shoeshiner. You know those people
have a think about shoes. You throw shoes at so much,
a profound insult. It's actually pronounced Saddam Hussein, but he
pronounced it Saddam because that means dirty, irrelevant law slime,
(05:00):
ball shoeshiner. Over there, just a little sidebar. But remember
you're one of our earliest skirmishes with Saddam Hussein. Remember
what Governor Mario Cuomo suggested, Come on, snard Lee, You
remember this. Cuomo said, come on, let's just give him
(05:24):
a few islands. Just give him a few islands, Let
him have what he wants, and we can avoid war. Well,
I have it right here in the Politico, Ladies and gentlemen,
the same thing the editorial board of the Washington No. No,
(05:45):
it's a political story. The political story is suggesting let
putin have Crimea. Well, yeah, among other things, but just
let him have Crimea. Let him have it, don't oppose him,
don't send carry over there to let Putin have it.
Doesn't matter. Putin is gonna go in by tomorrow and
(06:05):
take Crimea anyway, it needs a warm water port. But
more importantly, there's another aspect to this that I don't
know that you may have considered, and that is with
the uptick in fracking taking place in America, that means
that there is vast new production of oil all and
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all wells and fossil fuels. Now what does that mean
to Putin, Well, that's competition. Putin needs Ukraine because there's
something like seven or eight Russian natural gas pipelines go
through there on the way to selling the stuff to
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Western Europe. So in all of this, there's so many
elements here. There's economics, there's money, and there is always that.
And then there is the KGB, which never went away
and it's now coming back to life and a reassembling
of the Soviet Union. We also have the chi Coms
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and the Japanese on the verge of a massive military
conflict as well. I mean it is folks, things are
blowing up like nutcases over there. And we just do
not have the personnel in the State Department, or in
the Department of Defense, or in the White House to
adequately deal with this because we don't have people that
really think any of this matters. All that matters to
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people like Obama is fixing what he thinks is wrong
with this country when it comes to social justice and
racial discrimination and illegal immigration and amnesty and healthcare and
all that. That's all that matters. It's fixing what's wrong
with this country. Now here is grab somebody number seven.
This is lurch He was on with Phanopolis yesterday. Stepanopolis
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said the Senator Carrie Well, Secretary of State, it's a laugher, Stepanopolis.
We we got these reports now Russian forces surrounding Ukrainian
military basis in the CRIMEA. Ukraine's Prime minister says, we're
on the brink of a disaster. Is he right? What
(08:24):
has already happened is a brazen act of aggression, in
violation of international law and violation of the UN Charter,
in violation of the Helsinki Final Act, in violation of
the Ukraine Russia Basing Agreement. Russia has engaged in uh
a military act of aggression against another country, and it
(08:47):
has huge risks. George, it's a nineteenth century act in
the twenty first century. Yeah. And then when he went
over to face the nation, he used much which one
did you watch face the nation? Or? Oh? Is it was?
He on there too? Well, when he went over to
face the nation, he said, you just don't in the
twenty one century behave in nineteenth century fashion by invading
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another country on a completely trumped up pretext. A large
Putin just did. So he's there. So while Putin is
invading using nineteenth century tactics, John Kerry is on American
television saying you don't do that. And he's citing all
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of these agreements, the u N Charter, International Law, the
hell Sinky Final Act. You know what all that stuff
is worth th those people? You know what? Puttin things
in that he doesn't care. These are old Soviet communists.
Putin has been salivating over reassembling the Soviet Union, and
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we've got this is if it weren't so serious, it
would be laughably pathetic, because, as I remind you, in
any conflict, I don't care if it's a bully on
the schoolyard. I don't care if it's a National Football League,
Major League Baseball, or anywhere. The aggressor sets the rules,
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and whatever the aggressor does are the rules, and you
throw the rule book out. But we're sitting there as
they were offended. Why he can't do this way is
violating the Health Sinkie Final Act. Why he's in violation
of the Ukraine Russia Basing Agreement. Yeah, big whoop. So
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he's out there condemning, that's really big. That's what we
always were. We condemn and we deplore, and then we
start shouting at the United Nations. He is an incredible
active aggression and carry brandish the threat of economic sanctions.
You don't just in the twenty one century behave in
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nineteenth century fashion by invading another country on a completely
trumped up pretexts well as Secretary Putin just did. Reminiscent
by the way of Ginger's goun with whom Carry apparently
is intimately familiar. Jinger's con this is reminiscent of Germany, Neville, Chamberlain,
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you name it, reminiscent of the Soviet Union in the
twentieth century, reminiscent of world history. You can look it
up in the Undeniable Truths of Life written by me.
One of the twenty four or five undeniable rules of
life is ours is a world governed by the aggressive
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use of force. It always has been and it always
will be. And no matter how you analyze that. If
you if you want to look at the current conflict
between the Republican Party the Democratic Party A who's setting
the rules? Democrats they're the aggressors, right, wouldn't you also
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say that politics here is the aggressive use of force
the Democrats use, not military in this case, but they're
using They are pushing and pushing. And what are we
doing letting them have what they want? I either CRIMEA,
hoping they'll go away. So now in the politico there
is going let putin have the CRIMEA, that it will
be happy with that and this will all be over.
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So Obama yucks it up whatever he's doing. Growing lines
carries out there expressing shock and dismays. In the twenty
one century, somebody would actually invade with ground forces, asked
essensely the world to disqualify that. I mean, it is
just pathetic, folks, It really is dangerous. Ye. At the
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same time we have grab somebody eighteen Stefanopolis, after after
the Lurch talked about how he just doesn't dig this,
this nineteenth century tactic in the century. By the way,
you notice also that Putin does this just days after
we happily announce our intention to downsize our boots on
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the ground military to World War two levels. Why because
this kind of stuff isn't gonna happen anymore. The Obama
regime is going to propose in their in their the
budget coming up, that we get the military back down
boots on the ground, ground force commitment capability world War
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two levels, just days after we announced it. Here goes Putin,
and why are we doing it? Well, because this kind
of stuff isn't gonna happen anymore, not with lasers and
outer space drones and the n s A and all
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of our abilities that we have to sneak and listen
and spy on people, these these conventional infantry wars, that
is not gonna happen anymore. So we we don't need
to have that kind of military force. We need more
food stamps, so we need more unemployment compensation extensions. We
(14:28):
don't we don't need that kind so Shortly thereafter there
goes Blad And let's not forget Obama telling Dmitri medviet
It just tell Putin they hang in there, be tough
when it comes to us getting rid of our nukes,
because I'll have more flexibility after we win. Noah, stop
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doing missile defense. We're gonna tear that down. We're gonna
we're going to reduce our nuclear warhead stockpile, just to
oh the world that we're good guys, nice people, and
so for then that we don't intend anybody harm and
admitting in the process that we have been the problem
on along. The United States is the destabilizing agents. What
Obama believes the U S and its military has always been.
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That's what the left beliefs with the Democratic Party if
today believe the US is the destabilizing age of the world.
So we got to show the world we no longer
want to destabilize. So hey, Brian, do you want to
cry me to take it? Stephanopolis and carry continue to talk,
and I just want to listen because I just want
to hear what other inanities come out of Lurch's mouth
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of any indication at all the President Putin is taking
heat of what President Obama is saying. Well, they just
had the conversation yesterday and the President invited him to
engage with the government. The most important thing to remember
here is this is not or should not be East
West Russia, United States, Russia versus Europe. This is about
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the people of Ukraine. We ought to be able to
work this out through the diplomatic process. If Russia chooses
not to, there will be serious repercussions. Yeah, like what sanctions.
You want to know how tough we're getting on this.
They're breaking news here from Reuter's. Ready for this, breaking
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news from the Obama White House. The United States will
no longer We're not gonna do it. We're not going
to send a presidential delegation to the upcoming para Olympic
Games in Sochi to protest the Ukraine situation. So the
gloves are off, folks, No presidential delegation to the Paralympic
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Games and such. Well, JN did you hear that? What
was it? The White House put out a photo of
Obama talking on the phone with lad and Obama's sleeves
were rolled up, and that was that was done to
make it look like Obama was really working hard, me
(17:12):
really taking it seriously. Sleeves rolled up while on the
phone with Puttin. Putin probably had his shirt off practicing
tai Chi. Well, he was talking to Obama. Here's more, Lurch.
Try this, folks. We can squeeze this in. This is
is the reset? Is David Gregory meet the press? Is
the reset with Russia? Dead Well? I don't know what
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you mean by the reset, the reset relations? I know,
but long ago we entered into a different phase with Russia.
I don't think this is a moment to be proclaiming
one thing or the other. You know what that was about.
You know, Hillary went over there when she became secretary
to stay with this giant plastic red reset button, reset
relations with the with the Russians and cares. I don't
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know what do you mean reset? No, No, that was
long ago. We've been at a different phase now. Carrie
totally called no clue what he was answering. I need
to ask you all of your question. I I really
it's an important point. Putin. Let me let me review
this as I went back, and I don't know why,
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just that something struck me when Brasnev, Leon and Brasenev
the eyebrows guy. Those of you low information, he was
an old Soviet boss seventies. He's uh, he's the guy
that ran rings around Jimmy Carter. Anyway, Bras when they
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invaded Afghanistan in which didn't end well, but that's another story.
When they invaded, they did it at Christmas, thinking that
nobody'd be paying attention and that nobody would care even
if they did. All of a sudden pay attention. It's Christmas.
Thefghannis Dan who cares? Is this Soviets? But not long
(19:05):
after people did care and Putin then uses the Olympics
and the Oscars as a distraction not of Obama and
carry but of the American people. Now, that tells me
that that Putin still thinks, or at least is taking
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into consideration that public opinion still impacts American leadership. And
I think if you're an old KGB boss, that would
be a very what that would constitute your formative thinking
If your KGB boss seventies and eighties, in the height
of the Cold War, UM public opinion was always anti
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Soviet and that that public opinion elected Ronald Reagan, who
brought about the end of Soviet communism in the Berlin
So somebody like Putin would be because of formative experiences
when he was rising the power, very much aware of
the power of American public opinion. So he times his
(20:15):
invasion of Ukraine to correspond with the Olympics, and he
took another big step last night yesterday, while everybody here
is focused on the Oscars and the Academy Awards. The
Russian invasion of Afghanistan was also in response to a
pro Russian public government having been toppled. Now, I don't
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know that American public opinion is anywhere near as powerful
in impacting American leadership. Fact, American public opinion is opposed
to every Obama policy, and yet every Obama policy is
being implemented and his grow wing despite American public opinion.
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You and I probably are of the belief that American
public opinion when it comes to anything to do with
foreign policy is asleep. What do you think the odds
are that, I don't know half or more of the
people that watch the Olympics last night don't care about
(21:29):
what's going on in Ukraine anyway, and especially in terms
of how it might affect them or the United States.
How many Americans do you really think care. How many
Americans do you think have any consideration for what this
(21:53):
means for us? And let me go further, how many Americans?
Because I can assure you that back in the seventies
and eighties, the American public was at fever pitch. The
American public was highly tuned in to Soviet sponsored communism.
You know, all through the eighties went on and um
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in Nicoagua and the Country of Revolution and the Bolden Amendment,
and it was vicious. And the American public was on
board with Reagan throughout much of this, other than when
you know, when the Iran contray thing hit later in
his second term. But my point is the American public
was much concerned. They were very informed, and they had
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definite awareness of what Soviet expansionism meant, and they knew
that it wasn't good. They knew it had to be stopped.
They supported it every time a president wanted it to
be stopped, including in Vietnam. At the outset now contrasted
to today, I want, I'm just asking because the open
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that I did in the previous half hour of this program,
I wonder how many people heard it who um might
not have been looking at this in any way. Not
not you, folks. When I say people are hurted, I've
always exclude you from the low information crowd. But I
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always know that people listen to this program. We're not fans.
People listen to this program who don't like me. People
listen to this program who don't like me and want
reasons every day to keep disliking me. And it's those
people I'm talking I mean, how many of those people?
How many people in general think this is no big deal?
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Come on, and and and how many Americans really are
not aware that we have almost total incompetence at the
highest levels of our art and policy establishment. Now within
the regime, there might be some bright people a d O.
D might be some bright people State Department. I'm talking
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about Obama regime personnel and leaders. And I the answer
to the question scares me. Do you realize, folks, how
absolutely literally idiotic it is for the American Secretary of
State to start whining about they can't do that, you
(24:30):
can't you can't fight at twenty one century war in
the nineteenth century tactic, you can't do that, you can't violet.
Do you understand the absolute childish naivete that must exist
for that worldview. And this is our secretary of State,
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and and this one is no better than the previous one.
Mrs She was totally unqualified for that job. And Carrie
is totally unqualified. He's got the gig because he wanted it.
It's payback time. And he's always fashioned himself as somebody
who ought to run the State Department because he can
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speak French. He thinks he's a man in the world.
He's clueless. All of these people are clueless. They have
I don't think I don't think they're willing to even
admit to themselves that what Putin is really trying to
do is reconstitute the Soviet Union. How many of these
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people are living in their delusional fantasy world that Obama
is still the messiah of two thousand eight, loved, adored
and respected by the people of the world and world
leaders who used to be our enemies. When he's when
he's dangerous, reckless cowboy Republicans were in office, these are scary,
(25:57):
scary times. And one of these days Putin is going
to figure out that American public opinion does not have
the same impact today that it had back in the
seventies and eighties, he's going to figure out if he
doesn't already know that. American public opinion has been dumbed
down and refocused, and America is now focused on should
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we be penalizing fifteen yards or kick him out of
the game for using me in word? In the NFL,
the American people are focused on can gay couples buy
a cake from a non gay baker or not? I mean,
at some point genuine in fact, you've probably have heard
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this by now. Sarah Palin back in two thousand and
eight predicted and warned that Russia was going to take Ukraine.
She was laughed at, she was mocked and made fun
of because of core. That was the narrative, Sarah. And
she never said she was an expert Sovietlian because she
could see it from her backyard. Tina Faye said that
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in a comedy sketch. Palin never said it, yet it
was attributed to her. Romney, I'll never remember this in
a presidential debate like it was yesterday. It was a
sit down and probably a second debate. Romney is warning
of the Soviets of Russia as our number one geopolitical
and and Obama is sitting there and mocking him and
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laughing at him and making fun of him, like he
can't believe what he just heard. And everybody knows it's
al Qaida, Obama's Obama's is not. And look at what's
happening here. All the people who have been insulted is
dumb and stupid and idiotic and don't know what they're
talking about. It being born out. There were people leave
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myself out of this. There were people eight years ago
warning that Putin existed to rebuild the Soviet Union. The
Washington establishment hamden hard and huffed and puffed and laughed,
said nothing could be fur from the truth. The best
and the brightest had no clue. And we now face
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these are these are troubling now by the way Russia
and the chi Coms are aligning. They have discovered geo
political interests that meld together, and one of those geo
political interests is opposition to us. Then you've got the
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chi Coms in the Japanese on the verge of a
major conflict. I don't think anybody, I think too many
people are aware of that. H so it it. These
are these are heavyweight times, and we've got a lot
of people dazed and confused, and just in addition to
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dazed and confused, entirely misinformed, it happened to be our
leaders at the moment
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