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Speaker 1: the Freedom Hunt. Wednesday, March sixteenth edition of the program.
Speaker 1: Zelenski addressed both Houses of Congress this morning via video teleconference.
Speaker 1: Will discuss what he wants, what the likely outcome of
Speaker 1: this will be plus oil prices, inflation still a huge
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Speaker 1: States Congress this morning, and he's sang, first off, he
Speaker 1: wants us to close the sky, and by that he
Speaker 1: means a no fly zone. And if we won't do that,
Speaker 1: he says, give us more anti aircraft, like the S
Speaker 1: three hundred system that's actually a Russian system, give us
Speaker 1: more anti aircraft, give us perhaps the switchblade drones that
Speaker 1: some of you might be familiar with from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: Use and help us with all the tools that you
Speaker 1: can possibly muster so that we can defeat this Russian aggression.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the basics of what he was saying
Speaker 1: this morning. He also invoked nine to eleven and Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 1: I'll just tell you at the end of the speech
Speaker 1: he spoke in English, and I thought that was and
Speaker 1: that's why he saved it till the end. But I
Speaker 1: wish he had spoken in English the whole time, because
Speaker 1: speaking through a translator was just not as powerful. Theater.
Speaker 1: They also had a video showing the atrocities going on
Speaker 1: right now in Ukraine. This is meant to be understand
Speaker 1: this emotionally compelling sucks that we make a decision based
Speaker 1: upon the emotion of the moment we as a country,
Speaker 1: and we've been giving Ukraine munitions. We can give them more.
Speaker 1: I think there is an interesting debate on whether or
Speaker 1: not giving Ukraine MiGs is a good idea and would
Speaker 1: even change very much. But we have to draw a
Speaker 1: line at getting into a war ourselves with Russia. And
Speaker 1: this is a country that just invaded a neighbor that
Speaker 1: is very similar, that was thought of as a brother
Speaker 1: or sister country for a very long time by the Russians,
Speaker 1: and they are leveling its cities and firing missiles at hospitals. So,
Speaker 1: given what the Russian military has been willing to do
Speaker 1: up to this point, on what basis would we say,
Speaker 1: it's just too much to even think that they would
Speaker 1: use a tactical nuclear weapon. For example, it's too much
Speaker 1: to even think that they would escalate dramatically by attacking
Speaker 1: planes in Ukrainian airspace with either their own sor US
Speaker 1: to air missiles the S three hundred, four hundred AS
Speaker 1: five hundred SAM systems that Russia developed and has plenty
Speaker 1: of capability with or with their own planes. Now, I
Speaker 1: would ask you, let's say we do have a Russian
Speaker 1: or rather a Ukrainian no flies on. Let's say we
Speaker 1: were to do this, I would want to know, does
Speaker 1: that mean that they engage targets on the ground. What
Speaker 1: happens when Russian ground targets fire at our no fly
Speaker 1: zone at the planes that we would have in the sky,
Speaker 1: do we engage then Russian targets in the ground, and
Speaker 1: the rules of engagement would have to be yes, you
Speaker 1: have to allow people, you have to allow your own
Speaker 1: forces self defense. So now you're talking about engaging ground targets. Well,
Speaker 1: then once you've done that, how are you not at war?
Speaker 1: Once you're firing missiles at targets on the ground, never
Speaker 1: mind targets in the sky. Aren't you at war with
Speaker 1: that country? Aren't you a belligerent a combatant. This is
Speaker 1: what I think people that are advocating for a no
Speaker 1: fly zone either haven't thought through or certainly haven't thought
Speaker 1: through enough. We do not we do not want to
Speaker 1: get into a war here for a country that, as
Speaker 1: many have pointed out, is not America and is not
Speaker 1: American key national security interest. We have a defense department.
Speaker 1: We do not have a make war on behalf of
Speaker 1: anyone anywhere around the world who has been attacked department.
Speaker 1: And I understand that right now this can sound this
Speaker 1: can sound harsh, but I would also remind everybody that
Speaker 1: from the very beginning, the very beginning, some of us,
Speaker 1: myself included, have been warning that this is going to
Speaker 1: be much more difficult. Sure, we want to stay out
Speaker 1: of a war Everyone wants stay out of a war
Speaker 1: until the bombs start falling on civilians and the hospitals
Speaker 1: are collapsing and the children are turned into refugees or
Speaker 1: orphans or worse. Everybody wants to stay at a war
Speaker 1: until that happens. It's when you see the horrors of
Speaker 1: war and you see that it is, in fact the
Speaker 1: most hellish thing that human beings can endure, that all
Speaker 1: of a sudden you are driven by motion to make
Speaker 1: very different decisions. And I would hope that we can
Speaker 1: avoid doing that, because if you think what we're seeing
Speaker 1: right now in Ukraine is bad, imagine if this turned
Speaker 1: into a broader conflagration involving Russia, perhaps even bringing in Iranian.
Speaker 1: Iranian military action on their behalf of the Middle least
Speaker 1: to make things more destabilized, just like the world on fire.
Speaker 1: The Syrians are already saying they're going to send soldiers
Speaker 1: into Ukraine on behalf of Russia. They've already offered to
Speaker 1: do this. Whether that's actually going on or not, I
Speaker 1: want to look into. But imagine what it starts to
Speaker 1: look like when we have Russian military feeling like they
Speaker 1: are now cornered. Because I know that That's not how
Speaker 1: we would view it, but that's how they would view it.
Speaker 1: It's their home territory, it's not ours. Now they're cornered
Speaker 1: by United States military and its NATO allies. What will
Speaker 1: they what would putin be willing to do? Then? Now,
Speaker 1: in the background of all this as well, let's understand
Speaker 1: that there's already negotiations occurring here. The Kremlin has said,
Speaker 1: I know this is coming from the Kremlin, but this
Speaker 1: is being reported by Western news sources that a neutral
Speaker 1: Ukraine along the lines of Sweden or Austria is being
Speaker 1: discussed at talks to end the fighting in Ukraine. Kremlin
Speaker 1: spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, this is an option that's being
Speaker 1: discussed now, can be considered as a compromise, and neutrality
Speaker 1: is taking center stage at the talks. Moscow and Kiev
Speaker 1: were close to agreeing the wording on neutrality. Rather, the
Speaker 1: two sides have held several rounds of negotiations aimed at
Speaker 1: finding common ground and bringing a halt to hostilities. So
Speaker 1: there's already discussion here. This is not jihadis who are
Speaker 1: looking to just murder absolutely everybody in a country because
Speaker 1: they hate them. In their way of life. This is
Speaker 1: a vicious power play by Vladimir Putin, who viewed this
Speaker 1: as in the national security and strategic interests of the
Speaker 1: Russian Federation. We can argue without all day, but that's
Speaker 1: how he sees it, and there's something that he wants here. Now.
Speaker 1: If what he wants is a guarantee of Ukrainian neutrality,
Speaker 1: isn't that a price that we should be willing to
Speaker 1: encourage the parties involved here to settle on so that
Speaker 1: the fighting actually stops. If it could stop the violence tomorrow,
Speaker 1: would a guarantee of Ukrainian neutrality be worth it? I
Speaker 1: would think the answer is yes. I know that right now,
Speaker 1: that doesn't appeal to the emotions of folks who want
Speaker 1: a glorious Ukrainian resistance victory. We all like to side
Speaker 1: with the underdog. We all like to side with the
Speaker 1: person who is being bullied, and there's no question that
Speaker 1: Ukraine is the party here that's being bullied and much
Speaker 1: worse than that. But don't we want this to end
Speaker 1: as quickly as possible? Right We're not talking about Ukrainians
Speaker 1: according to the negotiations we've seen, They're not being marched
Speaker 1: off to camp somewhere This isn't This isn't a campaign
Speaker 1: intended to ethnically cleanse Ukraine of all Ukrainians. There are
Speaker 1: times when fighting until the absolute, very bitter end to
Speaker 1: the last man, the last person who can draw breath
Speaker 1: and raise a rifle, should take up arms and continue
Speaker 1: to take up arms, arms against an aggressor. I'll think
Speaker 1: of World War two. I think of other instances throughout history.
Speaker 1: This is not that. There are negotiations underway right now
Speaker 1: to end this thing, and afterwards, if we were together,
Speaker 1: then we gonna have a whole conversation about, Okay, how
Speaker 1: do we get to this place, how do we stop
Speaker 1: this from happening again? What do we do so that
Speaker 1: Ukraine is powerful enough that it could defend itself from
Speaker 1: future aggression. All that could happen right now. The buildings
Speaker 1: are being hit with missiles right now, Civilians are losing
Speaker 1: their lives trying to go get bread or milk at
Speaker 1: the store. So I want that to end as quickly
Speaker 1: as possible. I think we all want that to end
Speaker 1: as fast as possible. This is not about glorious narratives
Speaker 1: of resistance. This is not a movie. So there's already
Speaker 1: there's already engagement between the war parties to try to
Speaker 1: bring this to a conclusion, and we should do everything
Speaker 1: we can to help get it there. Sure, it is
Speaker 1: raising the cost of Russia's invasion more likely to make
Speaker 1: them go to the negotiating table. Yeah, we want Russia
Speaker 1: to change its calculation so that ending the fighting is
Speaker 1: what they decide to do. Escalation is the worst option
Speaker 1: because that then encourages Russia to continue and make worse
Speaker 1: the fighting. These are the kinds of calculations that we
Speaker 1: have to make as outsiders to this who are increasingly
Speaker 1: being told we have to go all in and do
Speaker 1: more and more. I mean, how far do you think
Speaker 1: it is really from a no fly zone to the
Speaker 1: US flying air strikes on behalf of Ukrainian defenders and
Speaker 1: at that point we're clearly belligerents in Russia would view
Speaker 1: us as in a state of war. It's not far.
Speaker 1: That's why people have to be very careful about this.
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Speaker 1: they're not. Here is the former Federal Reserve Vice chairman
Speaker 1: saying that there's a pretty tough situation emerging. You're economically
Speaker 1: where you could see stagflation start to emerge. The fan
Speaker 1: is walking on a tight boat where indeed conversations around
Speaker 1: stagflation are starting to emerge. You put your finger on
Speaker 1: the downside risk, which is dramatic movement oil prices, China
Speaker 1: again doing a lockdown, which is, you know, one of
Speaker 1: the injuns of growth that remains in the world. And
Speaker 1: so there are some people who are saying, if the
Speaker 1: fifth not careful, it could hike too much and and
Speaker 1: invertly throw the US into our session. You see, math
Speaker 1: is ultimately the problem here. You put more currency into
Speaker 1: circulation and you create inflation. And now they're saying, well,
Speaker 1: if we raise the interest rate, that will help with
Speaker 1: the issue of inflation, but that also could perhaps trigger
Speaker 1: higher unemployment and a recession. What is stagflation for everybody
Speaker 1: out there, just so we're all on the same page.
Speaker 1: A situation in which the inflation rate is high, the
Speaker 1: economic growth rate slows, and unemployment remains high. So you
Speaker 1: get high unemployment, slow economic growth, and high inflation, a
Speaker 1: lot of people without jobs, not a lot of growth
Speaker 1: out there, and the dollars that you have are worth less.
Speaker 1: That's a bad situation economically. That's that's something that as
Speaker 1: you see it play out, you can understand how that
Speaker 1: would be a lot of misery. And it's it's astonishing
Speaker 1: that the Democrat Party, I mean, at this stage, we
Speaker 1: should be unleashing the energy sector. We should be saying,
Speaker 1: go crazy with those fossil fuels right now, get it
Speaker 1: out there, bring down the cost of everything, export more,
Speaker 1: give some real rocket fuel to the global economy, but
Speaker 1: to the US economy most importantly, by putting US fuel
Speaker 1: out there as much and as fast as we possibly can.
Speaker 1: But to see, the Democrat Party is unfortunately in thrall
Speaker 1: to and dominated by left wing climate change green energy lunatics,
Speaker 1: and as a result of that, they're unwilling to do
Speaker 1: the very straightforward things, the very basic things that could
Speaker 1: be done to help with oil production, to help with
Speaker 1: getting more fossil fuels out there. And there's obviously a
Speaker 1: huge national security implications to this. I mean, here's Senator
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz. For economic and national security reasons. We want
Speaker 1: to just go take the dial to eleven on fossil
Speaker 1: fuel production domestically right now, and right now, Biden's emissaries
Speaker 1: are in Venezuela begging Maduro to sell US oil and
Speaker 1: are in Vienna trying to beg the Aetolin irand to
Speaker 1: sell US oil. They want every enemy of America to
Speaker 1: get rich, to make billions to use to kill Americans.
Speaker 1: And the one people they don't want to actually sell
Speaker 1: oil and gas are Americans that produce American jobs. It
Speaker 1: is literally, if you sat down and said, every enemy
Speaker 1: of America, let's help them, let's benefit them, every friend
Speaker 1: of America, let's alienate them, let's undercut them, let's hurt them. Sean,
Speaker 1: you would not devise a different foreign policy than the
Speaker 1: one Biden and Kamala put in place. There's a reason
Speaker 1: for this, we know what it is. They are dominated
Speaker 1: ideologically by the environmentalist, lunatic green New Deal left. They
Speaker 1: will freak out because they're religious believers in climate change.
Speaker 1: In the Democrat Party. It doesn't matter that there's a
Speaker 1: war going on that we would have a stronger hand
Speaker 1: in helping bring to a close if we were in
Speaker 1: a better energy position. It doesn't matter to them that
Speaker 1: a lot of people are going to have less money
Speaker 1: to buy food at the grocery store because of inflation
Speaker 1: or their money is worth less. It doesn't matter to
Speaker 1: them that people are going to suffer, that unemployment might
Speaker 1: get higher, that stagflation could be on the horizon, that
Speaker 1: a recession could be on the horizon. They think they're
Speaker 1: saving the planet worth saving the planet, don't you see?
Speaker 1: I mean, I take private jets, but you pours, you
Speaker 1: have to walk. That's the problem. You want to know
Speaker 1: what the issue is with American energy sector, that's the problem.
Speaker 1: That and just the general hyper regulatory madness of the
Speaker 1: authoritarian left would do this because we say so, We
Speaker 1: want control this, because we say so, which right, which
Speaker 1: adds cost tremendous costs through all kinds of regulation, not
Speaker 1: just on the energy sector that you end up paying
Speaker 1: as a consumer, And there's no benefit to it other
Speaker 1: than the Libs get to feel good about themselves. I
Speaker 1: feel good about myself, and this is what it is.
Speaker 1: They're the emotion party, the whiney cry baby, don't think
Speaker 1: it through party. But if it feels good to them
Speaker 1: at the moment at the time, if they get to
Speaker 1: be a part of the shouting herd we're the good people,
Speaker 1: then they'll do it. Then they go for it, then
Speaker 1: nothing else really matters to them. Mitt Romney, I am
Speaker 1: embarrassed that I voted for this guy in twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was the lesser evil, but still not good.
Speaker 1: Mitt Romney voted against ending the mask mandate on planes
Speaker 1: eight Democrats. Eight Democrats went along with it. Mit Romney
Speaker 1: votes against it. He is appalling. We will talk about
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Speaker 1: well at least. The Senate votes to repeal mask mandates
Speaker 1: thanks to Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky on public transportation,
Speaker 1: and the final vote was fifty seven to forty eight
Speaker 1: Democrats went in favor of it. Mitt Romney is such
Speaker 1: a clown, such a jackass he votes against this. Why
Speaker 1: he's really that much of a little virtue signaling clown,
Speaker 1: Yes he is. He was also out there, Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: marching for BOLM because I'm Mitt Romney and I really
Speaker 1: care about the plight of minorities in America's inner cities.
Speaker 1: Nobody believed that, but he thought it made him look good,
Speaker 1: so that's what mattered to him. Look, they've extended the
Speaker 1: federal mask mandate through April eighteenth, which is lunacy. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is indefensibly stupid. Everyone's living their lives without masks
Speaker 1: on now everywhere else unless they're crazy and they're suffering
Speaker 1: from a mass hysteria. But on planes you have to
Speaker 1: mask up. Why it makes no sense. But you see,
Speaker 1: for so many of them, this was always about how
Speaker 1: it makes them feel. How does it make them feel
Speaker 1: when the casts vote? Romney says, Oh, but it's not
Speaker 1: the Senate job. We listen to health experts. Wrong. Wrong.
Speaker 1: The health experts work for the executive branch in an
Speaker 1: advisory role. It is the job of Congress on an
Speaker 1: issue like interstate travel in planes. It is the job
Speaker 1: of Congress to vote on this and to determine whether
Speaker 1: or not this should be done. And yes, it is
Speaker 1: more ronic to make people mask up on planes, but
Speaker 1: at least it is a congressional thing. It's not a
Speaker 1: federal executive agency. The bureaucrats aren't supposed to do this.
Speaker 1: Mitt Romney is a coward, a coward if you're wondering
Speaker 1: where to think about it. That's it for today, team,
Speaker 1: I'll be back with you tomorrow. Shield tie