Speaker 1: Team Buck. Welcome to the Freedom Hut Monday, March seventh
Speaker 1: edition of the program. Should ain't no fly zone be instituted?
Speaker 1: That is the big question. I say a resounding no,
Speaker 1: But there are people who believe that is the answer
Speaker 1: going forward to deal with Russian aggression in Ukraine. I'll
Speaker 1: break down for you why. I think that's deeply problematic. Plus,
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Speaker 1: what's going on with the Ukraine situation? Well, here's one
Speaker 1: version of its. Senator Marco Rubio on the no fly zone.
Speaker 1: What a no fly zone become a catchphrase. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure a lot of people fully understand what that means.
Speaker 1: That means flying a wax twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 1: That means the willingness to shoot down and engage Russian
Speaker 1: airplanes in the sky. That means, frankly, you can't put
Speaker 1: those planes up there unless you're willing to knock out
Speaker 1: the anti aircraft systems that the Russians have deployed, and
Speaker 1: not just in Ukraine, but in Russia and also in Belarus.
Speaker 1: So basically a no fly zone. If people understood what
Speaker 1: it means, it means world War three. It means starting
Speaker 1: World War three. So here's how the argument is going.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm seeing people I knew this would happen.
Speaker 1: This is the nature of warfare. The Russians are tightening
Speaker 1: the vice around the Ukrainian people. Civilian casualties are mountings,
Speaker 1: cities are being turned to rubble. This is awful. Warfare
Speaker 1: is a horror show. And as people see this more,
Speaker 1: there's an emotional impulse that we must do more, we
Speaker 1: must do something. And I've been warning from the beginning
Speaker 1: this will happen. This was inevitable, and we have to
Speaker 1: take a step back and think through exactly what's going
Speaker 1: on and what the response should be. Marko Rubio just
Speaker 1: that it could lead to World War three. Now that's
Speaker 1: a scary thought. Isn't it. I'm seeing people, and even
Speaker 1: if you want to believe that that's overstated, I'm seeing
Speaker 1: people say, let's just put let's just declare no fly zone.
Speaker 1: What are the Russians really going to do? We want
Speaker 1: to do this brinksmanship thing with Putin. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: seeing increasingly said, including by conservatives. And let me say this,
Speaker 1: Ukraine is a whole lot more important to Putin and
Speaker 1: the Russian Federation military than it is to the United States.
Speaker 1: You will go much further over Ukraine then we will.
Speaker 1: And so you have to think about this in that context.
Speaker 1: If we say Russian planes fly, they die, we shoot
Speaker 1: them out of the sky. You know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: They're gonna fly those Russian planes and fly strikes. They're
Speaker 1: gonna say, okay, let's see you do it, shoot down
Speaker 1: some of our planes. And then at that point we're
Speaker 1: gonna what shoot down Russian planes? Okay, you say, fine,
Speaker 1: what are they gonna do? Well, we shoot down a
Speaker 1: few Russian MiGs, a few Russian Sequoi fighters, whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be. We shoot them down. You know what
Speaker 1: happens next, Well, the Russians decide to do two things
Speaker 1: one dramatically expand the military forces they have deployed in
Speaker 1: and around Ukraine. And two they're gonna shoot down American planes.
Speaker 1: There's no way that that Vladimir Putin is gonna get
Speaker 1: planes shot down and say well, we're not going to
Speaker 1: shoot back an American planes. So okay. So now now
Speaker 1: we're in a high war with Russia, at least in
Speaker 1: the skies over Ukraine, and I understand we think, well,
Speaker 1: we're we're so much bigger, better, and we're gonna just
Speaker 1: kick their butts. This is the sentiment. I'm just telling
Speaker 1: you the sentiment that I'm seeing expressed online for people
Speaker 1: that's okay who has a longer distance to go US
Speaker 1: or the ukrates say, old buck, we'll use NATO bases.
Speaker 1: We'll have NATO allies. Is okay. Well, now you're going
Speaker 1: to bring what you're going to bring Poland and other
Speaker 1: states into this directly. You're gonna be flying air strikes
Speaker 1: from their soil. You think that Putin is against firing
Speaker 1: missiles at those air bases, He certainly has the capability
Speaker 1: to do it. Why wouldn't he do it? The planes
Speaker 1: that are flying from those now you see, okay, so
Speaker 1: we So we sit there, we're saying, we're just flying
Speaker 1: a no fly zone. Putin all of a sudden attacks
Speaker 1: the air basis, because otherwise, I mean, we're not what
Speaker 1: are we gonna do. We're gonna be flying a no
Speaker 1: fly zone with bombers out of Colorado or something. No,
Speaker 1: this is not Afghanistan. We're gonna have to be. A
Speaker 1: no fly zone is essentially a misnomer. You gotta fly
Speaker 1: a lot in a no fly zone. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: your own planes flying the skies. This is what we
Speaker 1: did over a rock. This is you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: patrol those skies. All those Russians will keep flying strikes.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna be able to track and track and
Speaker 1: shut them down fast enough. So we're talking about dog
Speaker 1: fights with fourth generation fighters Russian fighters in the skies
Speaker 1: over Ukraine. We're talking about going up against the Russians
Speaker 1: three hundred, S four hundred and I think, and S
Speaker 1: five hundred. Various iterations of the Russian surface to air
Speaker 1: missile defense system, the SAMs that they have, which can
Speaker 1: shoot in the S five in the case, the S
Speaker 1: five hundred, I believe, can shoot hundreds of miles between
Speaker 1: two and three hundred miles. They can target planes drones,
Speaker 1: so they're gonna deploy those. This is not gonna be easy, folks.
Speaker 1: We think of no fly zone as our pilots are,
Speaker 1: you know, playing playing video games on their phone while
Speaker 1: they're flying over a rock. That's not how it's going
Speaker 1: to be. It's gonna be an active aerial combat zone.
Speaker 1: And this is the best case. This is assuming Putin
Speaker 1: doesn't dramatically escalate beyond that. Notice, I'm not even going
Speaker 1: to nuclear war. I might even going I'm saying this,
Speaker 1: So now we get dragged deeper into this. And remember
Speaker 1: Putin at that point, if he loses too badly in Ukraine,
Speaker 1: he probably loses his premiership, he loses his dictatorship. So
Speaker 1: what is he not willing to do in order to
Speaker 1: maintain his grip. You have to remember that as well.
Speaker 1: You know, on the one hand, a week ago people
Speaker 1: are saying Putin is crazy. Now they're saying, oh, Putin
Speaker 1: would never do anything rash in response to us, Well,
Speaker 1: which is it now? I've never thought that Putin was crazy.
Speaker 1: I think he's a cold, calculating menace. But they were
Speaker 1: saying the same people that were telling us all, oh,
Speaker 1: because they're driven by emotion and hysteria. That's the point.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what are we gonna do. We're gonna
Speaker 1: do something. But hold on a second. What is really mean?
Speaker 1: So on the one head, just looking at the military
Speaker 1: realities of US, a no fly zone is not a
Speaker 1: simple thing, a simple thing to do, and you're engaging
Speaker 1: in military brinksmanship with a country that has over a
Speaker 1: thousand nukes. Now you could say they'd never use them. Okay,
Speaker 1: we use them twice. I mean, it's not impossible, folks,
Speaker 1: I know, we start to get into thinking of oh never, Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe the thinking for Putin is low, low yield tactical
Speaker 1: nuke on you know, a NATO on a NATO base
Speaker 1: and then okay, the conflict you guys stop, you back off,
Speaker 1: or else we fire the ICBMs. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that would happen. I'm also to tell you
Speaker 1: nobody knows the people that have been speaking to you
Speaker 1: with certainty on this, whether it's the Ukrainians or kicking
Speaker 1: the Russians asses or oh my god, ukrate is gonna
Speaker 1: fall in days, and they go back and forth. They
Speaker 1: simply don't know everything that we are seeing and being
Speaker 1: told out of that country is coming through one filter
Speaker 1: or another, and people have enormous incentives to create a
Speaker 1: certain perception of this one way or the other. So
Speaker 1: I'm urging for caution. We have learned a lesson over
Speaker 1: twenty years here of US military intervention abroad. We've learned
Speaker 1: painful lessons. I want us to apply them in the
Speaker 1: current moment. I want us to remember what we thought
Speaker 1: we knew, that we didn't know, and what we forgot
Speaker 1: that we should have known. Now we had to learn
Speaker 1: it again. I don't want us to learn it yet again.
Speaker 1: I want us to actually remember what happened in the past.
Speaker 1: And that's why I have concerns here. People are talking
Speaker 1: about a no flies of it's not that symbol. And
Speaker 1: also how many Russian How many Russian planes do you
Speaker 1: think they'll let get shot out of the sky before
Speaker 1: they decide? All right, well, now we're just now, we're
Speaker 1: just going to pummel Keith. Putin could actually really flatten
Speaker 1: these cities in a matter of days, perhaps hours, if
Speaker 1: I'm not even talking about nukes. If he chose to
Speaker 1: do so, he could turn keev into rubble. There's nothing
Speaker 1: right now that we'd be able to do about it.
Speaker 1: And you say, oh, no, fly Zo, And I'm talking
Speaker 1: about firing missile and artillery barrages. If he decided to
Speaker 1: go in discriminate, he could level one of these cities entirely.
Speaker 1: It would look like Dresden in the Second World War
Speaker 1: or Tokyo during the fire bombing. He could do that.
Speaker 1: You don't think, oh, he won't do that when we're
Speaker 1: shutting Russian planes out of this. Why is that because
Speaker 1: he's such a humanitarian. Think it through and it becomes
Speaker 1: a whole lot more complicated. I understand right now we
Speaker 1: are in a particularly anxious and emotional people in America.
Speaker 1: Not you and me, but a lot of people here.
Speaker 1: They've been through two years of the pandemic in the masking.
Speaker 1: Everyone's a little bit on edge, and that's going away.
Speaker 1: And I think there's a need now they have a
Speaker 1: kind of host pandemic syndrome for all we have to
Speaker 1: we have to move as part of the herd, or
Speaker 1: else catastrophe will happen. Just we take a step back,
Speaker 1: we think about this and we try to apply reason, judgment,
Speaker 1: and knowledge to it instead of just whatever feels like
Speaker 1: the thing. We should do in the moment. And also,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you there was a UFC fighter. This
Speaker 1: guy went viral over the weekend for explaining a very
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Speaker 1: So here is UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell here on why
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to go fight in Ukraine. Just why
Speaker 1: don't he get your thoughts on the whole Russia and
Speaker 1: Ukraine's situation. Here's my first shots. I'm not going nowhere
Speaker 1: to fight, none of these wars for these politicians. I'm
Speaker 1: staying at home. And when the war comes Arkansas, I
Speaker 1: will dig my boots in the ground and I will
Speaker 1: die for everything I love. And I will not retreat.
Speaker 1: If this country's invaded and everybody's saying, well, we gotta evacuate,
Speaker 1: we gotta leave, I will not. I will dig my
Speaker 1: boots into Arkansas soil, and I will fight for the
Speaker 1: people that I love, for the land that I love,
Speaker 1: in the way of life that I love. But I'm
Speaker 1: not going overseas to fight. I don't know what's going on,
Speaker 1: to be honest, brother, I really don't. There's so much stuff,
Speaker 1: and I don't think nobody knows what's going on. Fully,
Speaker 1: I think he was speaking for millions and millions of
Speaker 1: Americans there because it really resented with me. I've said before,
Speaker 1: I've I said to Clay on the Clay and Buck Show.
Speaker 1: You know, if China invades America, if the Chinese are
Speaker 1: landing amphibious craft in Long Island, you know, whatever skills
Speaker 1: I used to have or rusty, I'd still be out
Speaker 1: there with an M four and doing my best to
Speaker 1: defend the country that I love and the people that
Speaker 1: I love, no question about it. But Ukraine, No, no,
Speaker 1: it's not my fight. It's not my country, it's not
Speaker 1: my people. For those who want to go there and fight,
Speaker 1: the doors have been kicked wide open. And let's also
Speaker 1: understand that there are there are plenty of ways people
Speaker 1: can go there and fight. Do you believe so strongly
Speaker 1: in that cause you can go there and fight against
Speaker 1: the Russians. I would obviously not advise anybody to do that.
Speaker 1: I can just tell you, knowing a bit about the
Speaker 1: Russian military and the Soviet military practices of the last
Speaker 1: thirty or forty years, you really don't want to be
Speaker 1: an American foreign fighter caught by the Russians in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you that would be And obviously you
Speaker 1: could die just by being hit with artillery or being shot,
Speaker 1: but if they were to capture you, I think that
Speaker 1: would be even worse. So I'm just saying this is
Speaker 1: a moment where we all ask ourselves what are we
Speaker 1: willing to fight and die for? And if I'm not
Speaker 1: willing to send someone else in my stead, well, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: If I'm not willing to fight, why should I send
Speaker 1: someone else in my stead? I'm forty years old. I
Speaker 1: could still go out there and get it done, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to do that, So I would I
Speaker 1: want someone else to go and fight when I'm not
Speaker 1: willing to go and fight. I was willing to go
Speaker 1: up and do my part in Iraq and Afghanistan civilian analysts,
Speaker 1: but armed would have been a combatant that had captured
Speaker 1: me would not have been good. So I wouldn't do
Speaker 1: that here. And by the way, I think one of
Speaker 1: the lessons we learned in Iraq as well, let's not
Speaker 1: invade countries unless we are damn sure that we have
Speaker 1: a very good reason for it. Afghanistan is different. I
Speaker 1: think that was mishandled, but the initial invasion of Afghanistan
Speaker 1: or the strike back at Afghanistan was absolutely necessary. You
Speaker 1: can't allow people to have terror training camps that are
Speaker 1: plotting strikes against you and not have consequences for it. I
Speaker 1: I mean, so that was quite clear. Ron Paul voted
Speaker 1: for that war. Just to give you a sense. I mean,
Speaker 1: so there are war there are just wars. There are
Speaker 1: wars you need to fight. And I think that Bryce
Speaker 1: Mitchell of the UFC was speaking too exactly. That Ukrainian
Speaker 1: people they're right to fight back against Russian aggression and
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that they are able to defeat the Russians
Speaker 1: and that this ends quickly and that there's an absolute
Speaker 1: bare minimum loss of life. But once you start talking
Speaker 1: about no fly zones, once you have a discussion about
Speaker 1: the US shooting Russian planes out of the sky, now
Speaker 1: this is my problem, this is our problem. Right away.
Speaker 1: We have to hold the line here. People are going
Speaker 1: to get very emotional. There's going to be a huge
Speaker 1: refugee flow out of you already is, but a bigger
Speaker 1: refugee flow out of Ukraine. You're going to see terrible
Speaker 1: things because that's the nature of warfare. But this talk
Speaker 1: about assassinating Poutin or a no fly zone river. This
Speaker 1: is not an action movie. This stuff has very real consequences,
Speaker 1: and ultimately you have to decide are you in favor
Speaker 1: of what is best for the American people in American interests.
Speaker 1: If I were the commander in chief and I had
Speaker 1: sent fighter planes to go patrol the skies of Ukraine,
Speaker 1: and then I had to sit down and look in
Speaker 1: the eyes of the family of the fall, and when
Speaker 1: a Russian S four hundred shoots one of our planes
Speaker 1: out of the sky, it's guaranteed to happen. By the way,
Speaker 1: if we have no fly zone. What I looked in
Speaker 1: the eyes and say, this was absolutely necessary. Your your
Speaker 1: son or your daughter had to die in a fireball
Speaker 1: over over you know, fifteen hundred feet over the over
Speaker 1: the ground in Keith or Mariupol or wherever. No. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to do that. I wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to do that. And so that's how that's how I
Speaker 1: see it. And I know that there's some of you
Speaker 1: who are going to disagree with me. I've already heard
Speaker 1: from some who say, look, this is terrible, it's it's
Speaker 1: a genocide. I don't think that that's an accurate term.
Speaker 1: It's an aggressive it's a war of expansion and conquest.
Speaker 1: If it was a genocide, Putin would just try to
Speaker 1: kill every person with the military that he could, and
Speaker 1: we would see that. I mean that that also, I
Speaker 1: think could be an escalation from a direct confrontation with
Speaker 1: Putin at least a dramatic escalation of the killing of civilians.
Speaker 1: So we have to think about this with seriousness. And
Speaker 1: that's what brings me to the issue of the gas
Speaker 1: and oil sections and the economy here, because I think
Speaker 1: that really shows there's a lot of tough talk around
Speaker 1: this stuff, but what is a Biden administration. What are
Speaker 1: the warhawks really willing to do? And we're talking about
Speaker 1: no fly zone. I'm willing to pay for gas at
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty, one hundred and fifty, one hundred
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Speaker 1: so here's ABC Jonathan Carl asking the White House about
Speaker 1: the sanctions regime right now. Back to the key issue here,
Speaker 1: which is the question of the of banning the import
Speaker 1: of oil and gas from from Russia. You know it
Speaker 1: is not insignificant. We actually taken more petroleum from Russia
Speaker 1: than we do from Saudi Arabia, so the ban will
Speaker 1: result in and and also obviously affects the world supply
Speaker 1: as well, so you'll see oil go from not one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a barrel two one hundred and fifty, maybe
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars a barrel. But it's extraordinary, George, for
Speaker 1: all of the the sanctions that have been impost and
Speaker 1: they have been unprecedented on Russia, to sanction everything but
Speaker 1: the thing that drives their economy, to sanction everything but
Speaker 1: the thing. I guess he was actually talking to George Stephanopolis. There,
Speaker 1: ABC's Jonathan carl But everything but what drives their economy,
Speaker 1: because that would be really expensive and Democrats. Look, if
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi thought that's sanctioning the Russian economy, even if
Speaker 1: it drove prices up and drove gas prices up across
Speaker 1: the board for everybody in America, if she thought that
Speaker 1: would mean Democrats lose fewer House seats and the Democrats
Speaker 1: would would stay in power. I mean, she'd be calling
Speaker 1: for us to napalm Putin's house. I mean she would
Speaker 1: be the biggest Warhawk imaginable. This is just about power
Speaker 1: for democrats here at home. That's how they're making their decisions.
Speaker 1: They're trying to drive the emotion of the mob and
Speaker 1: trying to maintain their control on power. That's it if
Speaker 1: the core principles involved here. So just remember that while
Speaker 1: they're talking tough about no fly zones and all the
Speaker 1: rest of it. Okay, what exactly are we willing to
Speaker 1: do economically if we sanctioned banks, That's how you'd actually
Speaker 1: do it. If we sanctioned banks that we're doing business
Speaker 1: with the Russian energy sector, all of the world. I mean,
Speaker 1: Putin's economy would basically come to a screeching halt something
Speaker 1: close to it would be a disaster for them. But
Speaker 1: would that also push him into a corner that might
Speaker 1: result in something we couldn't anticipate or expect. These are
Speaker 1: the questions we have. I'll continue to work through all
Speaker 1: of this with you. I know I didn't get into
Speaker 1: COVID stuff today. I will tomorrow. But basically, my friend
Speaker 1: Carol Markowitz was a piece in the New York Post
Speaker 1: about how we have to demand apologies from the people
Speaker 1: who pushed this stuff we have. They actually need to
Speaker 1: be publicly humiliated, Their ideas need to be publicly humiliated, Lockdowns,
Speaker 1: masking all of it, or else it's coming back and
Speaker 1: they get away with it, and I refuse to allow that.
Speaker 1: We'll get into this more tomorrow. Team, Thanks for rolling
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