Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Thanks to a fierce Ukrainian resistance,
Speaker 1: Russia has been frustrated by its inability to capture any
Speaker 1: major cities so far, which is why more and more
Speaker 1: they've decided to just bomb those cities from the sky,
Speaker 1: apartment complexes, hospitals. Basically, the less threatening the building, the
Speaker 1: more Russia wants to vomit, and that has led to
Speaker 1: a fierce debate in the West over how to respond.
Speaker 1: Should NATO send Ukraine fighter jets should NATO enforce a
Speaker 1: no fly zone over Ukraine. So far, the answers to
Speaker 1: both of those have been no, over fears that doing
Speaker 1: either would spark a direct conflict between NATO and Russia.
Speaker 1: But over the weekend it was Russia edging everyone closer
Speaker 1: to direct conflict, a word that many fear could spill
Speaker 1: into other countries. Has taken a dangerous turn, with Russia
Speaker 1: firing on a Ukrainian military base close to the Polish
Speaker 1: border and the NATO alliance. The sky turned red, witnesses
Speaker 1: say when roughly thirty Russian missiles struck the Yavoi training
Speaker 1: base in western Ukraine, leaving this smoldering crater, thirty five
Speaker 1: people dead and an escalation of the war. Now only
Speaker 1: a few miles from Poland's a key NATO ally, the
Speaker 1: base was routinely used by US and NATO trainers over
Speaker 1: the years. The attack came a day after Moscow warned
Speaker 1: it would try to destroy foreign shipments of weapons to Ukraine,
Speaker 1: calling them quote legitimate targets. Yeah, believe it or not.
Speaker 1: For the first time, Russia bombed a military base very
Speaker 1: close to Poland's border, just fifteen miles away, which definitely
Speaker 1: seems like a warning. I mean, fifteen miles is basically nothing.
Speaker 1: According to my friend who can stop telling me that
Speaker 1: he's training for a marathon, I get it, you run far.
Speaker 1: In fact, fifteen miles is basically as close you can
Speaker 1: get to bombing Poland without actually hitting it, which means
Speaker 1: this missile strike was basically Russia going, oh, I wish
Speaker 1: a NATO would. And on top of that, Russia is
Speaker 1: also warning that it's not gonna just let the West
Speaker 1: keep sending weapons into Ukraine. It's going to start attacking
Speaker 1: those shipments, which is scary, but I mean, of course
Speaker 1: they want to stop those shipments from coming in. You know,
Speaker 1: nature is sending Ukraine. It's most sophisticated weapons. Meanwhile, Russia
Speaker 1: is fighting with the equivalent of a flip phone. So
Speaker 1: if you're a ups guy who gets a package that
Speaker 1: looks like this, you might want to watch yourself. Now.
Speaker 1: Both of these developments are concerning because, like I said,
Speaker 1: nobody wants World War three. We don't want to start
Speaker 1: for any reason. I mean, America hasn't even defeated all
Speaker 1: the Nazis from the Lost World War, and like my
Speaker 1: mom always says, you can't have more until you finish
Speaker 1: what's on your plates. But while everyone is trying to
Speaker 1: keep the war from spilling into the rest of Europe,
Speaker 1: as it turns out, it might already be spilling into China.
Speaker 1: We're learning this morning that Russia has asked China for
Speaker 1: military support and other aid for this invasion. That is
Speaker 1: really concerning for the West and could be a real
Speaker 1: blow to these Ukrainian forces if indeed this happens. U
Speaker 1: S officials tell us it's true, and the White House
Speaker 1: National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is traveling to Rome today
Speaker 1: to meet with Chinese officials, and he says he will
Speaker 1: warn them not to help Vladimir Putin. We are communicating
Speaker 1: directly privately to Beijing. We will not allow that to
Speaker 1: go forward and allow there to be a lifeline to
Speaker 1: Russia from these economic sanctions from any country anywhere in
Speaker 1: the world. Okay, look, I can see why America doesn't
Speaker 1: want Russia seaming up with China. You know that would
Speaker 1: be an unstoppable power couple benefit, but with nukes. But
Speaker 1: getting tough on Russia as one thing, how does America
Speaker 1: plan to turn the screws on China? Hey, you better
Speaker 1: do what we say. We won't let you show us
Speaker 1: literally everything we need to survive anymore, because we haven't
Speaker 1: made anything ourselves in thirty years. Ship. I bet America
Speaker 1: with sacrifice three or four states just to keep getting
Speaker 1: new iPhones. And whether China decides to help Russia or not,
Speaker 1: you've got to admit this is embarrassing for Russia. I mean,
Speaker 1: think about it. They're not even what three weeks into
Speaker 1: this war and they're already like, China, can you help
Speaker 1: as we ran out of washed stuff. It's like when
Speaker 1: you were a kid at the arcade and you used
Speaker 1: up all your tokens trying to beat the first level
Speaker 1: of a video game. Then you just gotta walk around
Speaker 1: begging other people for their tokens, and then when that fails,
Speaker 1: spend the rest of the party finger banging all the machines,
Speaker 1: hoping someone left the token behind. You remember those days.
Speaker 1: But as Puffin looks for the help on the battlefield,
Speaker 1: the fallout is also continuing to mount inside his own borders.
Speaker 1: Seemingly every day Russia becomes more and more isolated from
Speaker 1: the rest of the world. They can't fly anywhere, they
Speaker 1: can't order anything off of Amazon, they can't even use Airbnb,
Speaker 1: which means now they have to film themselves going to
Speaker 1: the bathroom. And every day the Russian people become more
Speaker 1: cut off from the truth about the war. All the
Speaker 1: independent media has been shut down, so the only thing
Speaker 1: that they have now is state TV. Although today an
Speaker 1: anti war message managed to slip on the air. Provocative
Speaker 1: and courageous move from an anti war protester in Russia.
Speaker 1: Watched her bold and brave act during a primetime broadcast
Speaker 1: on Russian state TV this evening to stop sign reads
Speaker 1: and Russian quote no war, stop the war. Do not
Speaker 1: believe propaganda. They tell you lies here unquote the last
Speaker 1: line of the sign right quote Russians against war unquote.
Speaker 1: The program appeared to quickly cut away to video. At
Speaker 1: this hour, it's unclear what happened to this woman after
Speaker 1: her onset protest. Russia, of course, does not allow freedom
Speaker 1: of speech. Wow, that is either an incredibly brave protester
Speaker 1: or a very horrible Q card person. No for real though,
Speaker 1: for real, that was actually an employee at that state
Speaker 1: TV channel, which is brave. It's one of the bravest
Speaker 1: things I've ever seen. Although knowing Russia's propaganda machine is
Speaker 1: probably gonna find a way to like twist this whole thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll be like you saw the side no war, there's
Speaker 1: no war, everything is normal, but this protest aside. It's
Speaker 1: almost impossible for Russians to get information from the outside
Speaker 1: world now, even on the Internet. There's no Facebook, there's
Speaker 1: no twitstide in Russia, and now there's no cat photos.
Speaker 1: Instagram has gone dark in Russia. The country shut down
Speaker 1: the social media platform at midnight. Russian regulators gave people
Speaker 1: forty eight hours to save all their photos and videos
Speaker 1: before the service ended. So there's all these influencers in
Speaker 1: Russia with like twenty three millions something followers that are
Speaker 1: like sobbing and very upset that they're losing all their followers.
Speaker 1: Reality TV star Oliga Buzabad posted this video of her
Speaker 1: crying and saying, it feels like a big part of
Speaker 1: my heart and my life is being taken away from me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If you thought being a Ukrainian refugee was bad, imagine
Speaker 1: being forced to pick up your whole life on Instagram
Speaker 1: and move it over to cameo. That's tragic, I mean
Speaker 1: for real, though, Instagram shutting down in Russia does really
Speaker 1: affect people's lives because Instagram is used in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways. You know. Yes, it makes influences money, yes,
Speaker 1: but it also gives small businesses the opportunity to promote themselves.
Speaker 1: It lets people share important life updates with each other,
Speaker 1: you know it, let's creepy dudes tell women who are
Speaker 1: clearly porn bots that their ass is flames. It does
Speaker 1: a lot of things. One of the strangest things to
Speaker 1: try and wrap your head around I find, especially in America,
Speaker 1: is when a story stops only applying to the um,
Speaker 1: not the industry that it's in, but sort of like
Speaker 1: the sector that it's in, and when it's when it
Speaker 1: starts affecting everybody or speaking to everybody. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean by that is, there are some stories that
Speaker 1: are purely like entertainment. It's tabloid, it is, it is
Speaker 1: what it is. There's some stories that are only sports,
Speaker 1: there are some stories that are only in the world
Speaker 1: of five. But then there are some stories that I
Speaker 1: feel transcend everything and then speak to larger conversations. And
Speaker 1: I honestly think that the Kim Kardashian Kanye wears Pete
Speaker 1: Davidson's situation is turning into that. You know, it started
Speaker 1: very much in the land of tabloid, but I feel
Speaker 1: it's creeping and has crept into a world that more
Speaker 1: people should pay attention to. But not for the reason
Speaker 1: that you may think. You know, for those who don't,
Speaker 1: For those who don't know, Kim Kardashian was married to
Speaker 1: Kanye West. If you don't know that, I really envy
Speaker 1: your life. I want to know how you roll and
Speaker 1: how you avoid all these things. But they were married,
Speaker 1: they got divorced, and over time Kanye has become more
Speaker 1: and more belligerent in how he tries to get Kim back.
Speaker 1: Like when it started, it was, it was you know,
Speaker 1: some would say romantic, Oh, I want you back, and
Speaker 1: you know, here are roses and this is my dream
Speaker 1: and and some people like, Okay, it makes sense. You're
Speaker 1: trying to win somebody back. We understand that. But over
Speaker 1: time it's become more and more belligerent. And one of
Speaker 1: the most extreme examples was Kanye West putting out a
Speaker 1: music video. Were in the music video, he like, it's
Speaker 1: acclaimation music video. I should say he chops off Pete
Speaker 1: Davidson's head, and I mean, we will understand the stuff.
Speaker 1: He's like, I wish this guy was dead, is what
Speaker 1: Kanye saying. Now, Kanye, you know what I mean. To
Speaker 1: be fair, Kanye says, no, this is just art. I
Speaker 1: don't actually want to hurt him. This is just art.
Speaker 1: Don't judge my art. But here's here's the thing. First
Speaker 1: of all, just like from a reperspective, I was sad
Speaker 1: that now like rappers like claimation and rap beefs are
Speaker 1: a weird combination. I'm not gonna It's pretty hard, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, to be gangster with claymation because you have
Speaker 1: to do like one frame at a time. You know,
Speaker 1: I do understand that art can be therapy. I honestly
Speaker 1: do understand that, right but I also understand that therapy
Speaker 1: can be therapy, do you know what I mean? And
Speaker 1: what's weird about the situation is Kanye West has told
Speaker 1: us that he struggles with his mental health. So I
Speaker 1: get it, you you want to have artist therapy. But
Speaker 1: here's what's weird that Kanye doesn't understan it is like
Speaker 1: what we're seeing is it's it's it makes you uncomfortable, man,
Speaker 1: Because here's the thing. Eminem was eminent from the beginning.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna kill my ex wife, I'm gonna but it
Speaker 1: was his stick and we knew it was his stick.
Speaker 1: He wasn't that person. With Kanye. We don't know how
Speaker 1: to feel, We don't know how to worry. And I
Speaker 1: think Kanye doesn't seem to understand that. He goes leave
Speaker 1: me to create my art. Yeah, but Kanye, you told
Speaker 1: us you have problems. Now when we worry about that,
Speaker 1: you say we shouldn't worry because it's not problems or
Speaker 1: it is problems, which is it? It puts society in
Speaker 1: a precarious position. And the reason I say that is
Speaker 1: because of his harassment of Kim, which I know is
Speaker 1: crazy to say, because there's a lot of people go
Speaker 1: like Kim Kardashian. She loves publicity, she loves celebrity, she
Speaker 1: loves all of this. She does the Kardashian This is
Speaker 1: her life, this is her thing. Yeah, and I get it,
Speaker 1: But there's also an element of a woman saying to
Speaker 1: her ex, hey, please leave me alone. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Please leave me alone. And so, like this
Speaker 1: story keeps on escalating. You've got Kanye West who's harassing
Speaker 1: Kim Kardashian, and then you've got Pete Davidson who's now
Speaker 1: embroiled in the whole thing. And the story escalated to
Speaker 1: a new level when now Pete Davidson leaked texts that
Speaker 1: he sent back and forth with Kanye. He sends a
Speaker 1: selfie to to Kanye West, and Kanye said where are you?
Speaker 1: And he said, I'm in your wife's bed. Funny right,
Speaker 1: And we also don't because I mean, we don't know
Speaker 1: what the person is doing. We we know what we
Speaker 1: he's implying. But because of the pandemic, in your bed
Speaker 1: could mean anything, Like my bed used to be a
Speaker 1: place for sleep and sex. Now it's also like my
Speaker 1: living room slash meeting area, So in your bed could
Speaker 1: mean anything. But we get what Pete was going with, Right,
Speaker 1: we'll get what Pete was going with, going I'm in
Speaker 1: bed with your wife. Then after that there's a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of texts. Ray says, Hey, listen, Kanye, let's talk
Speaker 1: as men. Let me help you with your mental health.
Speaker 1: I've also got mental health issues. It was actually that
Speaker 1: part of the message was really beautiful. But I'm sorry
Speaker 1: guys to start a message with I'm in bed with
Speaker 1: your wife and then go like, let me help you
Speaker 1: with your mental health. Yeah, now you've added to the
Speaker 1: mental health of the person that you're trying to help
Speaker 1: them with. Do you get what I'm saying. It's a
Speaker 1: little bit crazy. It's a little bit like roasting somebody
Speaker 1: while you're giving them CPR. And now this thing, it's
Speaker 1: it's spun into a story that seems fully tabloid, but
Speaker 1: I think I think deserves a little more awareness from
Speaker 1: the general public. It's it's because it touches on something
Speaker 1: that is more sensitive and more serious than people would
Speaker 1: like to admit. I know everyone thinks that's a big
Speaker 1: marketing stunt. Oh, look at the coincidence Kim is launching
Speaker 1: a new show. Except two things can be true. Kim
Speaker 1: like's publicity, Kim is also being harassed. Those things can
Speaker 1: be happening at the same time. Because I'll be honest
Speaker 1: with you what I see from the situation. I see
Speaker 1: a woman who wants to live her life without being
Speaker 1: harassed by an ex boyfriend or an ex husband, or
Speaker 1: an ex anything. You may not feel sorry for Kim,
Speaker 1: you know, because she's rich and famous, because of the
Speaker 1: way she dresses, because she appropriates black culture, because she
Speaker 1: tells women they're lazy, because she broke the Internet and
Speaker 1: then didn't put it back together. Whatever you hate or whatever.
Speaker 1: But but what she's going through is terrifying to watch,
Speaker 1: and it shines a spotlight on what so many women
Speaker 1: go through when they choose to leave. You know, people
Speaker 1: always say that phrase too women. They go like, why
Speaker 1: didn't you leave? Oh, why didn't you leave? Why didn't
Speaker 1: you leave? Yeah, because a lot of women women realize
Speaker 1: when they do leave, the guy will get even crazier.
Speaker 1: And when I say crazy, I don't mean mental health crazy,
Speaker 1: Like it's you You understand what I mean. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. The point is that Kim Kardashian and
Speaker 1: countless other women, they find themselves in a terrible position,
Speaker 1: you know, because asking Kinye to stop clearly isn't helping.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, he hasn't broken any laws,
Speaker 1: you know, So can she get him arrested? No, I
Speaker 1: don't think so, which she even want to. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, she spends half her time helping black people
Speaker 1: come of jail, so now she can't be throwing Kanye
Speaker 1: West in. It's a bit of a paradox. But still
Speaker 1: she's being harassed. And I get it. Society like, ha ha,
Speaker 1: you deserve it. This is funny. This is that, and
Speaker 1: I get it also from Kanye side, and like the
Speaker 1: parts of Kanye this, this parts I understand. I understand
Speaker 1: Kanye saying I don't want my daughter on TikTok. I
Speaker 1: get I agree with that part of what he's saying.
Speaker 1: I'm not involved in other people's relationships though, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's a separate issue. What we're seeing, though,
Speaker 1: is one of the most powerful, one of the richest
Speaker 1: women in the world, unable to get her ex to
Speaker 1: stop texting her, to stop chasing after her, to stop
Speaker 1: harassing or just think about that for a moment. Think
Speaker 1: about how powerful Kim Karashtion is and she can't get
Speaker 1: that to happen. I grew up my whole life in
Speaker 1: an abusive household, right, most of mine, let's say, from
Speaker 1: the age of nine to whatever, sixteen. One of the
Speaker 1: things I found most interesting was how often people told
Speaker 1: my mom that she was overreacting. What I found interesting
Speaker 1: was how many times people told my mom to calm down,
Speaker 1: people told my family to come to everyone, you know,
Speaker 1: and everyone had different reasons. Oh. I remember once we
Speaker 1: went to the police station and they said to my mom, Oh,
Speaker 1: but did you talk back? Is that why you're here?
Speaker 1: You know? You know? Oh, but but what did you
Speaker 1: say to it? It's all these questions, all these questions.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing this as a child, by the way,
Speaker 1: you see this as a child, you know, and you
Speaker 1: see a world where women are questioned for what is
Speaker 1: happening to them, as opposed to people questioning what is
Speaker 1: happening to them. And for years people said this ship, ah, no,
Speaker 1: this are you know this? This, this happens, This happened,
Speaker 1: that happens. There's everyone, police, some family, stranger, whatever it was,
Speaker 1: whatever it was, And I'll never forget. One day I
Speaker 1: got a call from my brother saying, hey, mom has
Speaker 1: just been shot in the head, she's in the hospital now,
Speaker 1: she's just been shot. And I'm not saying it to
Speaker 1: make it about me. I'm just saying, maybe that's why
Speaker 1: I look at the story differently. To be honest with you,
Speaker 1: is I go it seems like nothing. And again I'm
Speaker 1: not saying Kanye will, please, I'm saying he will, not
Speaker 1: saying that. But you see it in all these stories
Speaker 1: where people say we saw it but we didn't. So
Speaker 1: we whether it's the people around him, whether it's the
Speaker 1: people in their lives, whether it's us as society condoning
Speaker 1: or not condoning. And I know it's nuanced. I know
Speaker 1: I'm not saying kind of is just a bad guy, please,
Speaker 1: but just as society, and we have to ask usselves questions,
Speaker 1: do we wish to stand by and watch a car
Speaker 1: crash when we thought we saw it coming, or do
Speaker 1: we at least want to say, hey, slow down, let's
Speaker 1: put let's all put our hazards on because there's a
Speaker 1: storm right now and some ship might go down. Let's
Speaker 1: just let's just put our hands if it doesn't happen, Hey,
Speaker 1: the worst thing we did was we all had our
Speaker 1: hazards on, like idiots. I'm I'll be fine to say
Speaker 1: I was an idiot, nothing happened. I'd rather be in
Speaker 1: that situation than to be in one way. I say, man,
Speaker 1: I wish we didn't think the whole thing wasn't worth
Speaker 1: looking at. And all I'm saying about the story is,
Speaker 1: if Kim cannot escape this, Kim Kardash and if she
Speaker 1: cannot escape this in what chance to normal women have?
Speaker 1: Even as Putin continues to push into Ukraine and kill civilians,
Speaker 1: the world is uniting to fight back. Today, the International
Speaker 1: Court of Justice in the Hague ordered Russia to halt
Speaker 1: its invasion of Ukraine, So you know that should get
Speaker 1: results quickly. And here in the US, the Senates is
Speaker 1: advancing a bill that would give ordinary people a reward
Speaker 1: for snitching on oligarchs and helping to identify their assets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you snitch, you find an oligoque, and you get money,
Speaker 1: which is really interesting, and it's probably gonna mark the
Speaker 1: first time that people are gonna call the cops, like, hey,
Speaker 1: I just saw a very suspicious yacht sailing by. And look,
Speaker 1: some of my best friends have yachts, but there's something
Speaker 1: fishy about this one. Yeah, I'm in danger. Also yesterday,
Speaker 1: the White House announced that President Biden himself will travel
Speaker 1: to Europe next week for a series of diplomatic meetings
Speaker 1: with other natural leaders, and in respon wants to that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump Jr. Remember him. He tweeted that his dad
Speaker 1: should go instead, saying quotes, if you want to get
Speaker 1: something done right, send Trump, which I actually agree with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if your goal is to confuse the hell out of
Speaker 1: everyone in Europe, sent Trump. That will definitely stop the war.
Speaker 1: Russia is stealing Ukraine's land, just like Black lives matter. Still,
Speaker 1: the voting machines and the toilets, they don't flush you anymore.
Speaker 1: They don't flush. And that's why we gotta band windmills,
Speaker 1: gotta get rid of well of them now. Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: is not happy about any of this. In fact, today
Speaker 1: he gave a speech in which he complained that the
Speaker 1: West is trying to cancel Russia, which is pretty rich
Speaker 1: coming from this dude. A man is over here as
Speaker 1: the only person in history who has ever sent an
Speaker 1: army to kill a comedian, And guys, can we agree?
Speaker 1: Can we agree that the term cancel has lost all meaning? Right?
Speaker 1: Because first canceling meant that people were getting mad at
Speaker 1: you for what you said online. Now you're being canceled
Speaker 1: if people don't want you to invade other countries. I
Speaker 1: feel like we're a few months away from archaeologists being
Speaker 1: like and then sixty six million years ago, a giant
Speaker 1: asteroid hit the Earth and canceled all the dinosaurs hashtag walk.
Speaker 1: But the big news today is about Ukrainian President Vladimia
Speaker 1: Zelenski and his speech to the United States. Yeah. Appearing
Speaker 1: live via satellite in Congress's home theater, Zelenski pleaded with
Speaker 1: the US to send more weapons and enforce a no
Speaker 1: fly zone over Ukraine, and based on his references to
Speaker 1: American history, it was clear that Zelenski knew his audience.
Speaker 1: I remember your National Memorial in Rushmore, the faces of
Speaker 1: your prominent presidents, those who laid the foundation of the
Speaker 1: United States of America as it is today. Remember Pearl Harbor,
Speaker 1: terrible morning of December ninet one, when your sky was
Speaker 1: lack from the planes attacking you. Remember September the eleven,
Speaker 1: a terrible day our country experience the same every day.
Speaker 1: I have a dream, these words unknown to each of you.
Speaker 1: Today I can say I have a need. I need
Speaker 1: to protect our sky. I need your decision, your health,
Speaker 1: which means exactly the same, the same you feel when
Speaker 1: you hear the words I have a dream. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Zelenski brought out all of America's major moments. I have
Speaker 1: a dream, nine eleven, Mount Rushmore. You know he was
Speaker 1: on Wikipedia last night planning this out. Okay, Pearl Harbor, Boston, Tea, Porty.
Speaker 1: Should I mention how Hoggan sucks tape? Maybe? And by
Speaker 1: the way, props to him. I mean he knows way
Speaker 1: more about America then most U. S. Senators know about
Speaker 1: his country. Like, can you imagine how they would sound
Speaker 1: if they had to give an inspiring speech using Ukrainian history.
Speaker 1: People of Ukraine, remember the vision of your founder, I
Speaker 1: want to say, Daniel Ukraine. I'm also impressed that Zelenski
Speaker 1: was able to dodge so many landmines in his research,
Speaker 1: because you realize this could have gone very wrong. And
Speaker 1: now to nine eleven, which, as we all know from YouTube,
Speaker 1: was inside job. I see you Bush No for real,
Speaker 1: it was a really impressive speech. Although you know these
Speaker 1: days people on Twitter will complain about literally anything, So
Speaker 1: of course, there was one economist who tweeted, I understand
Speaker 1: times are hard, but doesn't the president of Ukraine owner suit. Damn,
Speaker 1: what a weird criticism. That's the kind of guy who
Speaker 1: would see Jesus come back and be like, really, sandals
Speaker 1: my guy. But anyway, most people were impressed by the speech,
Speaker 1: especially the powerful ending when Zelensky switched to English and
Speaker 1: addressed President by directly. Today the Ukrainian people are defending
Speaker 1: not only Ukraine, we are fighting for the values of
Speaker 1: Europe and the world. And at the leader of my niche,
Speaker 1: I'm addressing the President Biden. You are the leader of
Speaker 1: the niche of the Abbregation. I wish you to be
Speaker 1: the leader of the world. Being the leader of the
Speaker 1: world means to be the leader of this Thank you,
Speaker 1: blab o crane. That was inspiring. I'm pretty sure that
Speaker 1: was the first time in history people applauded a zoom call.
Speaker 1: It's also impressive that Zelenski was able to deliver that
Speaker 1: message in his non native tongue. In act, when you
Speaker 1: think about it, his English is better than the past
Speaker 1: two US presidents. And also how a raised it. How
Speaker 1: raised it to see everyone in Congress or stand and
Speaker 1: applaud for the same thing. Right, you never see that.
Speaker 1: I mean obviously almost everyone, almost everyone, because I don't
Speaker 1: know if you noticed that one congressman who I guess
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that everyone else was doing a standing ovation.
Speaker 1: My man, we're on the brink of nuclear conflict. You
Speaker 1: can fill out your bracket later. Now, it doesn't look
Speaker 1: like America is going to support and no flies on
Speaker 1: over Ukraine anytime soon, because again, a direct confrontation between
Speaker 1: American jets and Russian jets that could end up spiraling
Speaker 1: into World War three. And that's a sequel that nobody
Speaker 1: wants except for maybe the History Channel. And you think
Speaker 1: they want to be talking about aliens and ship they
Speaker 1: hated as much as you do. But America's government has
Speaker 1: been ratcheting up and support in other ways. Today Biden
Speaker 1: announced that America would be sending another eight hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars worth of military aid to Ukraine. And aside from
Speaker 1: the American governments, the American people have also taken it
Speaker 1: upon themselves to step up and help Ukraine. And I'm
Speaker 1: not just talking about the usual ways, by the way,
Speaker 1: like donating money and putting a Ukrainian flag in the
Speaker 1: Twitter handle. And don't get me wrong. The flag emoji
Speaker 1: is making a huge difference, but people are also finding
Speaker 1: more creative ways to help out. Inspired by these images
Speaker 1: of Ukrainians displaced by the invasion of their country, Americans
Speaker 1: are finding inventive ways to help, turning pain into purpose.
Speaker 1: Sasha Schmurkowski created an Amazon wish list of items needed
Speaker 1: in Ukraine. The response overwhelming, one truck after another dropping
Speaker 1: off donated goods. Forty thousand and counting people are booking
Speaker 1: airbnbs in Ukraine with no plans of staying there. The initiative,
Speaker 1: which gained popularity on social media, is a way to
Speaker 1: get money to Ukrainians impacted by the war. More than
Speaker 1: sixty one tho nights were booked in just forty eight hours,
Speaker 1: raising almost two million dollars for hosts in Ukraine to
Speaker 1: Harvard University of students are doing their path to help
Speaker 1: Ukrainian with fugees find homes around the world. They have
Speaker 1: launched this website, Ukraine take shelter dot com. It's designed
Speaker 1: to help refugees find hosts with spare rooms, condos and dormitories. Wow, people,
Speaker 1: that is heartwarming. Huh. These two students helping thousands of
Speaker 1: Ukrainian refugees find places to stay. That's amazing. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean we should keep in mind not that the
Speaker 1: website was built by Harvard students in their dorm room,
Speaker 1: so a few years from now it will probably lead
Speaker 1: to an attempted coupe. But for now, it's all good times.
Speaker 1: And I also love that people are renting Airbnb's in
Speaker 1: Ukraine but not staying there. They're just doing it to
Speaker 1: send money to Ukrainians who I need. That's one of
Speaker 1: the coolest initiatives I've ever seen. Although I hope everyone
Speaker 1: understands that this is just a donation, okay, because you
Speaker 1: know there's gonna be one guy who actually shows up
Speaker 1: just being like really disappointed. WiFi was spotty and sound
Speaker 1: of missiles exploding kept me up all night. Two stars
Speaker 1: and it turned up. Americans are just helping refugees and
Speaker 1: ordinary civilians. No, they're also directly contributing to the war efforts.
Speaker 1: A company in the Wisconsin is donating a million of
Speaker 1: rounds of ammunition to Ukrainian forces. The companies close ties
Speaker 1: with the US military makes workers confident to the ammunition
Speaker 1: will get to where it is needed. At most. A
Speaker 1: growing number of police agencies across the US are jumping
Speaker 1: in to support Ukrainians with combat supplies. This box full
Speaker 1: of gear used to be for law enforcement in Colorado.
Speaker 1: Soon it will be sent to protect people a world away.
Speaker 1: The Citcanati Police Department is pitching in to help Ukraine
Speaker 1: defend itself against Russia. It is sending nine and fifty
Speaker 1: ballistic helmets to people fighting to defend their country. When
Speaker 1: New York County executives organizing a collection drive for guns,
Speaker 1: asking gun owners to donate their weapons for the cause,
Speaker 1: we could get a million guns to the people of
Speaker 1: the Ukraine. The Ukrainian people want to protect themselves, so
Speaker 1: let's give them the resces that. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: America's police forces are sending their military great hardware to
Speaker 1: help Ukrainians fight a war in Russia. That's dope. And
Speaker 1: if you're asking, wait, why do our police have things
Speaker 1: that you can use in the war, You're not asking
Speaker 1: the right questions. The question you should be asking is
Speaker 1: at what point does America realize it has too many guns?
Speaker 1: Because you realize that that guy just said, we can
Speaker 1: get a million guns and we can send them to
Speaker 1: that's when you know your country has too many weapons
Speaker 1: is when another country needs weapons, and everyday people in
Speaker 1: America are like, yeah, we can give them the spare
Speaker 1: glock in the gas room, honey. But I guess this
Speaker 1: is just a beautiful example of how an ecosystem can
Speaker 1: balance itself. You know, one country's problems can be another
Speaker 1: country's solution. America has too many guns and an over
Speaker 1: militarized police force. Send it over to Ukraine. Hell throwing
Speaker 1: some mass shooters to go get him Tyler Hakuna matata.
Speaker 1: But look, whether or not it says something terrifying about
Speaker 1: the States of America, it still a nice gesture for
Speaker 1: Americans to be donating their own weapons and they get
Speaker 1: to Ukraine. Still, for some Americans, sending guns just isn't
Speaker 1: good enough. No, they're also volunteering to be the ones
Speaker 1: shooting them. Ukraine's government has actively recruited foreigners to join
Speaker 1: the fight. Over twenty thousand have reportedly expressed interest, and
Speaker 1: many Americans are showing up daily. Harrison josepha Witz is
Speaker 1: twenty five and was a Chicago police officer. Harrison spent
Speaker 1: five years in the U. S. Army and did a
Speaker 1: tour in Afghanistan. You just quit your job and got
Speaker 1: on a plane. Pretty much why that's the right thing
Speaker 1: to do. Dennis Diaz is a former marine. When he
Speaker 1: watched Russian tanks pulling into southern Ukraine, his gut said
Speaker 1: he had to do something as America's way take on
Speaker 1: the big bullets on right now? Um is the big bullet.
Speaker 1: The resumes range from combat experience to no military raining
Speaker 1: at all. I worked at a place called Talk About.
Speaker 1: It's a fast food restaurant in the US. I did
Speaker 1: saying similar. When I was nineteen, I went to I
Speaker 1: React to join up with the MS. So everything that
Speaker 1: was happening here, I just decided to take that take
Speaker 1: that money I had. The planes are didn't come out here.
Speaker 1: Yeah you heard that right. This guy left his job
Speaker 1: at Taco Bell to go and fight the Russians. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you now, he's got way more balls than me.
Speaker 1: I also think he's got the perfect experience for war.
Speaker 1: If you've worked at a drive through, you've already seen
Speaker 1: the worst of humanity. Those have probably gained a lot
Speaker 1: of hand to hand combat training. Sure have you seen
Speaker 1: what people do at three am? But yes, thousands of
Speaker 1: people around the world, including many Americans, are heading to
Speaker 1: Ukraine to join up with the Ukrainian resistance. And these
Speaker 1: people are heroes, the heroes, no doubts, but I think
Speaker 1: we can also admit it's probably a few of them
Speaker 1: who made this decision partly because of COVID. I don't
Speaker 1: care where it is, I just want to travel again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but seriously, good luck to all these people who are
Speaker 1: risking their own lives to go and defend democracy. And
Speaker 1: don't forget you headed into an act of war zone,
Speaker 1: so please remember the pack of suits. While Russia's military
Speaker 1: hasn't had a lot of success recently in terms of
Speaker 1: capturing Ukrainian territory, that doesn't mean the military hasn't been
Speaker 1: successful at killing Ukrainian civilians. Every day brings new reports
Speaker 1: of a hospital, school, or shelter being hit by a
Speaker 1: Russian airstrike, or entire cities under siege with no access
Speaker 1: to food, water, or medicine. And I honestly don't know
Speaker 1: what the point of it all is like Unless Putin's
Speaker 1: plan is to win over the Ukrainian people with the
Speaker 1: world's largest case of Stockholm syndrome, what is he doing?
Speaker 1: But either way, either way, Ukraine has been saying for
Speaker 1: weeks that Russia is guilty of war crimes, and now
Speaker 1: it looks like the President of the United States agrees,
Speaker 1: not washing thing where President Biden is called Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: a war criminal for the very first time. Here's the
Speaker 1: war form. The White House says President Biden was quote
Speaker 1: speaking from the heart about Vladimir Putin's barbaric actions when
Speaker 1: he made that declaration. The Kremlin responded to that charge
Speaker 1: just moments ago, calling a quote absolutely unacceptable and inexcusable
Speaker 1: in pointing the US bombing of Hyoshima and Dargasaki during
Speaker 1: World War Two. A Seriously, Russia, you're gonna bring up
Speaker 1: something America did in the forties. America's committed plenty of
Speaker 1: war crimes since then. Keep up with the times, y'all,
Speaker 1: come with that old ship. And just because America committed
Speaker 1: war crimes doesn't mean that you have to as well,
Speaker 1: Vladimia Putin. Okay, I mean, what if all your friends
Speaker 1: jumped off a bridge, would you do it too? No, seriously,
Speaker 1: would you. I'm just bring storming ways to end this
Speaker 1: whole thing. I just want to know what you do.
Speaker 1: You know now, despite being on the constant bombardment Ukraine's President,
Speaker 1: vladimir's Lensky, He's made it clear that he has no plans,
Speaker 1: zero nada to ever surrender to Russia. Yeah, practically every
Speaker 1: day he releases a new video reassuring Ukrainians that he
Speaker 1: splint charge. He's still in Kiev, and he's still making
Speaker 1: olive green t shirts the hottest fashion item of two.
Speaker 1: Although if you were watching Ukrainian news yesterday you might
Speaker 1: have heard a very different message. A video claiming to
Speaker 1: show Ukraine President Vlodimir Zelenski calling for the Ukrainian people
Speaker 1: to surrender to Russia was aired on news station Ukraine.
Speaker 1: It then circulated on social media. In the deep fake
Speaker 1: video of phony President Zelenski tells Ukrainians to put their
Speaker 1: weapons down in their war with Russia, digital forensics experts
Speaker 1: quickly picked it apart, catching a number of visual and
Speaker 1: audio glitches. The official Facebook account for Ukraine's land forces
Speaker 1: posted a warning that more videos like this may be coming. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny is the first time I saw
Speaker 1: a deep fake. The first time, I wondered when it
Speaker 1: would finally be used for something dangerous in the world,
Speaker 1: like something actually meaningful, Because you realize, like some Ukrainians
Speaker 1: could have seen this video and actually surrendered, and the
Speaker 1: only reason they spotted this was because of small discrepancies,
Speaker 1: and also because the fake Zelenski says that Putin had
Speaker 1: a big dick and he's a karate king. I mean
Speaker 1: that sort of gave it away. But you realize why
Speaker 1: deep fakes are so scary, right, It's because they can
Speaker 1: make you think that anyone was doing anything even if
Speaker 1: they weren't. Like for instance, for instance, have you seen
Speaker 1: there's a video of me online where they make it
Speaker 1: look like I was crying at the end of Jurassic World,
Speaker 1: which is ridiculous. Why why would it? Why would I
Speaker 1: cry it just because that one dinosaur with dinosaur like
Speaker 1: like dinosaurs? Why are they killing each other? Why is
Speaker 1: manding each other? See they did it again, and that
Speaker 1: was the point. Is The point is this was a
Speaker 1: bullshit way for Russia to try and win this war. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is why we at The Daily Show decided we're
Speaker 1: getting back at Putin by releasing our own deep fake video.
Speaker 1: It's me, Vladimir Putin. I made the boobo in vid
Speaker 1: the Ukraine and I just pooped my pants. Ha checkmate, Putin.
Speaker 1: Now we don't know for sure who's behind this deep
Speaker 1: fake but it obviously wouldn't be shocking if it was
Speaker 1: the work of the Russian government, since fake news is
Speaker 1: kind of the whole thing right now. In fact, if
Speaker 1: you turn on Russia state media, you'd probably hear that
Speaker 1: Ukraine was the aggressive in this war and that Russia
Speaker 1: had no choice but to defend itself, and also that
Speaker 1: the war is going great. And if a few thousand
Speaker 1: Russian soldiers never come home, it's not because they're dead,
Speaker 1: it's because they're on a permanent vacation. You know how
Speaker 1: it is. And believe it or not, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: the Russian government is being helped in this propaganda effort
Speaker 1: by conservative TV networks in the United States. Yeah, as
Speaker 1: wild as it sounds, channels like Fox News, News Max,
Speaker 1: and O A. N. They've been so friendly to Putin's
Speaker 1: narrative that Russian TV stations have even reportedly been ordered
Speaker 1: to play clips of Tucker Carlson on its broadcasts. And
Speaker 1: that's a smart move by Tucker. You know, you might
Speaker 1: be like, why is he defending the Russians. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a smart move. You don't want to put all your
Speaker 1: eggs in the Trump propaganda baskets. You've gotta diversify, you know,
Speaker 1: I think about all the bad guys you could roll with.
Speaker 1: Kim Jong Oon, Hey, maybe the joker. Are we really
Speaker 1: supposed to believe a batman is keeping our streets safer?
Speaker 1: Why is that? But the point is America's conservative media
Speaker 1: is doing almost as good a job at spreading Russian
Speaker 1: propaganda as Russia itself, which is why we thought now
Speaker 1: is the perfect time for a good old fashioned propagand
Speaker 1: off definition civilian. If bullisht you wasn't a thing until
Speaker 1: nine frame was created by the Russians, it was you
Speaker 1: know they speak Russians, give it then. So yes, we're
Speaker 1: funding secret biowabs in Ukraine pointing moms gas out Nada,
Speaker 1: look what I need saying most just like we would
Speaker 1: not want Russia to come in and start putting their
Speaker 1: tanks and missiles on our borders. Russia says, hey, I
Speaker 1: don't want US and NATO come in and making their
Speaker 1: military outposts on our borders. Within ukraineation of kid rampant
Speaker 1: new Nazism in Ukraine itself, there were Nazis in Ukrainian
Speaker 1: divisions and they still are Ukrainian Nazis. You can find
Speaker 1: pictures of them online holding up the native flag in
Speaker 1: the Swatskagain, remember, remember the Ukraini is incredibly the illegal
Speaker 1: ku in Kiev in February, with the support of the
Speaker 1: United States, where they legitimately elected president of the country,
Speaker 1: was overthrown a country which government only exists because of
Speaker 1: the Obama State Department helped to overthrow the previous regime.
Speaker 1: But the at ME ne to rescue still look Russia
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