Tucker Carlson: This is insane

good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight happy anniversary this week marks the seven month anniversary the beginning of the war in Ukraine something's still going on and isn't talked about quite as much anymore so the day that War Began which was February 24th two things were very obvious the first was that there was no way the Ukrainian Army would be able to win a decisive military victory over Russia and the reason was simple Russia is too big Ukraine is too small the Russian military is many times the size of the Ukrainian military plus of course it has nuclear weapons Russia itself is the largest country on planet Earth it's got a relatively huge economy for the region and it's got 145 million people who live there Ukraine has a population of about 40 million it's the poorest country in Europe it's got an average annual income that is much lower than Albania's so just by looking at the most basic Wikipedia level numbers it was clear right away that if Ukraine wanted to remain a sovereign country and of course all of us wanted that for Ukraine Ukraine was gonna have to reach some kind of negotiated settlement with Russia pitched battles were not going to do it now that's not a moral judgment you can root for the Ukrainian military all you want but it's still a fact and there's no getting around it the second thing that was immediately evident about this war was how unusually destructive it was and was going to be it wasn't just Ukraine that was getting pummeled though it certainly was it was the entire Western economy including our economy Russian Energy Fuels Europe a recession in Germany was certain to lead to a recession here and in the months since it has a bad one the longer this war goes on inevitably the poorer everyone is going to be with the exception probably of Vladimir Putin so we are breaking things that are very hard to rebuild again this was very obvious the first day of the war you weren't allowed to say it at the time anyone who did was denounced as a Russian spy but it was still clearly true and the ukrainians certainly understood it back in April according to an account in foreign policy Magazine negotiators from the governments of Russia and Ukraine met secretly and quote appeared to have tentatively agreed on the outlines of a negotiated interim settlement to end the war the terms of the deal were simple Russia would withdraw its troops from Ukraine Ukraine would promise not to join NATO so each side would get the thing that it wants most simple and effective and it might have worked but the by-demonistration adamantly opposed this settlement Biden's advisors didn't just want the Russians to leave Ukraine that's what they told us they wanted on television but no Biden's advisors wanted a total regime change war against Russia apparently to avenge the election of Donald Trump which they believed Putin was responsible for and they were willing to fight to the last Ukrainian to get it so on April 9th of this year the White House dispatched its hapless cutout then British prime minister Boris Johnson to Kiev according to Ukrainian news media Johnson communicated two messages to the zielinski government quote the first is that Putin is a war criminal he should be pressured not negotiated with and the second is that even if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin the West is not in other words who cares what the ukrainians want America and the UK demand total war with Russia regime change war with Russia and of course the ukrainians caught in the middle had no choice but to concede so days later the peace negotiations fell apart this was virtually unreported at the time but it was the turning point in the war in Ukraine this was the moment where the gold changed from restoring Ukraine to what it was before the invasion and that seems reasonable to everyone in the west to something very different to a were designed to topple Vladimir Putin just like we toppled Saddam Hussein and then hoping for the best afterward that is clearly insane and dangerous but that's where we are and from that point on everything changed and that is how we got to where we are today which is the closest we have ever been to nuclear conflict in history this week president zielinski of Ukraine gave an interview to the left-wing newspaper the guardian and in it he casually called for the United States to Nuke Vladimir Putin quote the other nuclear States need to say very firmly that as soon as Russia even thinks of carrying out nuclear strikes on foreign territory in this case the territory of Ukraine there will be swift retaliatory nuclear strikes to destroy the nuclear launch sites in Russia parsed that and we're quoting as soon as Russia even thinks of carrying out nuclear strikes meaning before Russia actually launches missiles the U.S needs to launch nuclear weapons against Russia in other words we need to launch nuclear weapons now why now and how do we know that's what zielinski meant because zelenski was responding to this warning from the Russian government on Wednesday watch I want to remind you that our country also has various means of Destruction and for separate components and more modern than those of NATO countries and when the territorial Integrity of our country is threatened to protect Russia and our people we will certainly use all means at our disposal it's not a bluff it's not a bluff says Putin who we are told is insane so we probably should take it seriously he is after all running a country with the largest nuclear Arsenal on the planet and he's talking about using nuclear weapons if the West continues to threaten Russia's territorial integrity it's a conditional warning and of course threatening Russia's territorial integrity was never part of the deal right you remember this it's why you wore Ukrainian lapel pin or put a Ukrainian flag in front of your house Ukraine was invaded the point was to kick the Russians out that seems reasonable by any standard of fairness and decency but that's not with divide Administration is pushing for they're pushing for toppling the government of Russia and once again hoping that everything will be fine after that someone better will somehow take over he's bad let's kill him heard that story before so in response to what Putin just said Ukraine's government called for an immediate nuclear attack on Russia an attack that would without question result in the immediate destruction of New York Washington D.C Los Angeles the deaths of tens of millions of Americans that's what he just said sane people do not talk this way ever if there was a moment for the bite Administration to shut this whole thing down and force a negotiated peace which they could do in an instant that moment is right now before huge numbers of people die but that's not what the Bible Administration is doing they're moving in the other direction high speed and doing all they can to bring the West to the brink of Destruction at the U.N yesterday Joe Biden accused Russia not Ukraine of making overt nuclear threats watch this war is about extinguishing Ukraine's right to exist as a state plain and simple and Ukraine's right to exist as a people whoever you are wherever you live whatever you believe that should not that should make your blood run cold President Putin has made overt nuclear threats against Europe and a reckless disregard for the responsibilities of the non-proliferation regime we will stand in solidarity with Ukraine we will stand the solidarity against Russia's aggression period okay Putin is bad fine agreed but Putin is making nuclear threats whatever the reason he is making them the fact he is making them and the ukrainians of course are also making explicit nuclear threats is enough for any responsible person to say now we stop especially if that person is the leader of the United States the country which is funding this war and that could end this war tonight by calling Ukraine to the table Russian troops leave Ukraine promises not to join NATO everything is as it was in January of this year and everything's fine we don't have to worry about New York getting nuked but that's not what they want so Joe Biden didn't say a word about America's responsibility here again we are funding this war we could end it they're choosing not to he didn't say a word about that at the United Nations of course because they want war and neither the Secretary of State Tony blinken watch the President Putin picked this week as most of the world gathers at the United Nations to add fuel to the fire that he started shows his utter consent for the U.N Charter for the general assembly and for this Council the very International order that we have gathered here to uphold is being shredded before our eyes we cannot we will not allow President Putin to get away with it council member should send a clear message that these Reckless nuclear threats must stop immediately okay so Tony blink the secretary's secretary of state is a buffoon a failed rock musician reading some paper posturing like a Cable News segment how Putin is bad yet great got it but sitting behind him in the shot you just saw is someone who is not a buffoon at all and that would be Tori Newland one of the people responsible for the disaster in Iraq now in a functioning country anyone who had a hand in the 20-year tragedy of Iraq in which America's Prestige was Gravely degraded in which thousands of Americans died in which we got much poorer For No Good Reason anyone who was involved in that including the lie that got us into it would be disqualified from participating in American foreign policy forever but Tori Newlin just ascended ascended ascended until she brings us to the brink of nuclear war with Russia so Tony blanken is telling the United Nations and the rest of us that it's okay for Ukraine to threaten nuclear war on behalf of the United States and the rest of the world looks on when their jaws open including China of of places China's foreign Ministry spokesperson yesterday watch parties to achieve a ceasefire and stop the war through dialogue and negotiation and to find a solution that takes into account the legitimate security concerns of all parties as soon as possible we also have the International Community will create the conditions and space for this we call in all parties to achieve a ceasefire like the one they nearly had in April before the bite Administration blew it up because they want regime change in Russia now that's coming from China which has a human rights record that you know makes Russians seem like Sweden and of course China's benefited almost as much from this war as Putin has in Raytheon and wakid has but even the Chinese are not crazy enough to want nuclear Armageddon in the end all they want to do is do business and dominate through business they don't want their customers to blow themselves up and they understand they're coming Incredibly Close only Tony blinken and lunatics like Tori Newlin really want that and they are fully behind Ukraine's president as he declares that his goal is not ending the war and getting his country back which is a fine and admirable goal that most Americans support no his goal is toppling Vladimir Putin and turning Russia into another failed State oh good plan here he is a crime has been committed against Ukraine and we demand just punishment the crime was committed against our state borders the crime was committed again their values that make you and me a community of the United Nations and Ukraine demands punishment for trying to steal our territory this is the first item of our peace formula comprehensive item punishment so a corrupt Eastern European authoritarian leader in a t-shirt is lecturing us about the community of Nations and telling us this is really about the punishment the Ukraine demands it's not about self-defense we're getting their territory back it's about regime change specifically they're demanding a nuclear strike from us how do we get involved in this anyway but almost nobody in Washington is standing back to ask that question they're Full Speed Ahead on this this is insane but they're all for it Adam kinzinger just tweeted this quote by the way any Target within Russia that contributes to the war is fair game by law of armed conflict there's no escalation possible by a country fighting for survival anyone claiming Ukraine is escalating should stop okay anyone saying things that's stupid in public should immediately resign from public office and be silent until wisdom comes please then over in the Senate Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal are in agreement on just that same point they've announced that Russia's a state sponsor of terrorism okay Russia should be declared a state sponsor of terrorism because the events of these past days and weeks have shown the need more powerfully than ever that Russia should be designated a state sponsor of terrorism I think bipartisanship is strong when it comes to supporting Ukraine over Russia I want to thank the administration for doing more we have our differences about the next step but speaker Pelosi's in our camp she has said from her point of view Russia has earned the designation in U.S law of being a state sponsor of terrorism the fact that Lindsey Graham can go on television as he so often does and claim to be conservative and someone who cares about the United States it's beyond so this is part of the Endless posturing about how Russia is bad and sure Russia's bad fine Russia's bad but it's the words as always that matter they're telling you that Russia is now a state sponsor of Terror why are they saying that and you're probably nodding yeah it seems like a bad place for the badly to find but State sponsor of Terror it's important for them to Define Russia very specifically is that why because what do we do with terrorist States we topple their governments we go on the offensive we take the fight to them and that's the position of Washington on a bipartisan level and it's particularly the position of people who believe falsely speaking of election-related conspiracy theories that Vladimir Putin stole the 2016 election and No One Believes that lunacy more fervently than the lady who lost here she is they're getting the weapons they need to defend themselves and they're now on offense and I think we have to keep supporting them helping them they were attacked by an unprovoked uh Act of war and they've held out and they've done better than anybody could have predicted and zelenski has been a true wartime leader I'm so impressed with him absolutely and I think you know the United States should stand with them so if you're one of the millions of good-hearted Republicans who when this broke out in February thought well this is awful you shouldn't invade a sovereign country and of course we agreed with that we should stand with Ukraine you may feel a little fooled at this point because what you're watching is classic mission creep we arrive for one purpose and we extend the stay for an entirely different purpose that you didn't sign up for and that will absolutely hurt the United States long term so when Hillary Clinton says we're going to stand with zelinski as he goes on the offensive that does not mean expelling Russian troops from his country which everyone would agree with that means toppling Vladimir Putin and creating a black hole in the center of Eastern Europe the place where Asia meets Europe in a country with some of the biggest energy reserves on the planet and the largest nuclear Arsenal oh how's that going to work out well let's listen to the Pentagon spokesman they're going on television to explain what we need to do is instead we just need to reverse so we say I'm all in and we haven't done that for example we haven't given the Ukrainian systems like the attackman's missile which can reach all of Crimea it's a 200 mile range 500 pound Warhead 300 300 bombardments to it it really can put the Russians in threat but we haven't done that and I think we should put them in threat until he really believed that we're seriously going after him he's going to continue to make these threats so again anybody who had a hand and say like the last five Wars the diminished American power killed Americans made us poorer hurt the United States long term in very real ways anyone who participated in any of that should probably bow out of the conversation about the latest War for the same reason that you wouldn't say take Financial advice from someone who had gone bankrupt or go to marriage counseling with someone who's been divorced three times because they've demonstrably failed in their area of so-called expertise and that would include virtually everyone you hear talking about this stuff is going to continue making these threats meaning Putin so those apparently the only threats that we object to if Ukraine wants us to launch a preemptive nuclear strike on their behalf that's totally fine this is complete craziness this is a quote strategy that could very easily bring the total Destruction of the West and soon and maybe that's the point subscribe to the Fox News YouTube channel to catch our nightly opens stories that are changing the world and changing your life from Tucker Carlson tonight

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Length: 17min 45sec (1065 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 23 2022