Tucker: We are at war with Russia

good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight yesterday morning joe biden's secretary of state a man called tony blinken went on to the sunday show over at cbs news to announce a new policy toward russia going forward lincoln explained the bide administration will use poland as a cutout to send fighter jets to the government of ukraine those jets will be used to fight the russian military blinken announced this in a calm even tone that suggested this was conventional procedure business as usual nothing to worry about just on their weekend the state department but in fact it's not typical it's a very big step it could turn out to be a pivot point in history and for that reason we want to show you the entire exchange here it is if for instance the polish government a nato member wants to send fighter jets does that get a green light from the us are you afraid that that will escalate tension no that that that gets a green light in fact we're talking uh with our polish friends right now about what we might be able to do to backfill their needs if in fact they choose to provide these fighter jets to to the ukrainians uh what could we do how can we help to make sure that they get something to backfill the planes that they're handing over to to the ukrainians are you afraid that will escalate tension asks the script reader because even a cbs news anchor knows that sending fighter jets to a war usually does that no replies tony blink and that gets a green light it's a remarkable exchange what are we watching here apart from a conversation between two incredibly shallow people who have limited contact with reality what we're watching is the beginning of a war between the united states and russia if that sounds jarring what else would you call it now you may support everything that tony blinken just said maybe you do support it but let's not lie about what's happening let's be as honest and clear-eyed as we can be especially now because it matters the bi-administration just inserted itself with force into the middle of a hot war between two foreign powers that means the united states is now an active participant in a war we are at war with russia whether or not that war has been officially declared whether or not congress has authorized that war all of that is irrelevant that war is happening right now as we watch why is no one in washington saying anything about this because they support it they always have almost five years ago way back in 2017 congressman eric swalwell of california came on this show for another russia gate debate one of many he came to let us know how vladimir putin had gotten donald trump elected president it was all as stupid as you remember it until the end of the interview when swallow said something odd and interesting swallow explained that because putin had installed donald trump secretly in the white house the united states should now quote do everything we can to expand nato's role in other words we should let ukraine join nato that's odd why would he say that why would a policy so seemingly obscure nato ukraine what why would that be a priority for some forgettable congressman from the east bay well simple because getting ukraine to join nato was the key to inciting war with russia we didn't get it at the time now it's obvious vladimir putin just invaded ukraine because he didn't want ukraine to join nato putin certainly had other motives as well people always do have multiple motives but that's the main reason russia invaded the russians don't want american missiles on their border they don't want a hostile government next door now that's true whether you're allowed to say it in public right now or not it has been true for a long time a lot has been written about this over many years by serious people no one who knows anything and is honest will tell you putin invaded ukraine simply because he is evil putin may be evil he certainly seems to be but he also has strategic motives in doing that whether or not you agree with those motives that's irrelevant those are the facts so with those facts in mind the bid administration's behavior in the days before the ukraine invasion tells you a lot about what motivated them with russian troops massed by the thousands on the ukrainian border joe biden sent kamala harris the least capable diplomat in washington to explain america's policy to european heads of state at a public press event at the munich security conference kamala harris encouraged ukraine to become a member of nato quote i appreciate and admire president zielenski's desire to join nato message up yours vladimir putin go ahead and invade ukraine and of course vladimir putin did that just days later so the invasion was no surprise to the biden administration they knew that would happen that was the point of the exercise we watched all this happen we missed it how honestly because it was insane and therefore very hard to take seriously why in the world would the united states intentionally seek war with russia how could we possibly benefit from that war we still don't know the answer to that question but it is obvious that permanent washington has been fixated on war with russia for a very long time a couple of years ago you may remember we'd forgotten they impeached a sitting president why for threatening to withhold military aid to president zielenski of ukraine failing to back a proxy war in ukraine was the one thing donald trump was not allowed to do as president again they impeached him for it and no one said much about it even in his own party because of course they supported war with russia too maybe even more than the democrats did as far back as 2016 lindsey graham of south carolina hysterical little lindsey graham was jumping around acting out his war fantasies in front of foreign soldiers in ukraine if we saw this tape at the time we don't remember seeing it back in 2016 ukraine seemed like a far away place we should have paid more attention here it is your fight is our fight 2017 will be the year of offense all of us will go back to washington and we will push the case against russia it is time for them to pay a heavier price your fight is our fight that's a very strange thing for an american lawmaker to say to a foreign military why would the ukrainian government's fight in 2016 possibly be our fight on what grounds is it our fight what does that even mean we don't know and yet now it is demonstrably true ukraine's fight is our fight ukraine's war is our war it's here but most americans did not see that coming yet permanent washington certainly did permanent washington understood that the second vladimir putin's forces rolled across the border into ukraine we would inevitably be on a course toward war with russia they knew here's the president of the august council on foreign relations on the day of the invasion we need now a necessity to his war of choice and there's got to be to raise the economic costs at home to raise the military costs on the ground i hate to be so blunt but he you know the most vulnerable thing that that putin's vulnerable to is dead russian soldiers so we have to make sure ukraine has the means to to resist dead russian soldiers at the time that seemed a little bellicose right out of the gate it just happened maybe there's some way to de-escalate this the invasion's terrible but isn't america's role as steward of the west to make things better wouldn't a prompt russian withdrawal from ukraine be the wisest course for everyone including and especially the ukrainians on whose behalf we claim to speak but whose country would be leveled by a protracted war you would think so but that's not what anyone in washington wanted they wanted a war and now they have one so where's this going that's the question for the rest of us who had no role in making these decisions well it's worrisome you should keep in mind that the us government is currently run by the same people who plan the afghanistan withdrawal the ones who tank the u.s dollar the people who run baltimore the ones who tried to send crack pipes to junkies these are people with a long history of destroying things and no history at all of building anything so a lot could go wrong they tell us that vladimir putin is unbalanced we'll take that at face value we know that putin has thousands of nuclear weapons putin has said that if he is pushed he will use nuclear weapons could be wise to believe him harry kazianis does believe him kazianis is a foreign policy analyst in washington like a lot of people in his business he regularly participates in government-sponsored war games these are designed to map out what would happen if various countries fell into conflict with one another a couple of years ago not long ago at all cazianos participated in a war game predicated on a war with russia he wrote about this the other day in the federalist quote in the course of what we call the nato-russia war of 2019 we estimated one billion people died one billion and if we aren't careful what happened in a simulation could happen if a nato russia war erupts over ukraine that war is just erupted the fact that no one in charge seems to worry about where this could go should concern you quite a bit but nuclear war is not the only risk the economic consequences of this were already profound they're history changing actually and if you don't believe it check out commodity prices they're out of control wheat is up nearly 60 percent over last year that's the highest price ever recorded for wheat not good news if you plan to eat and it won't get better russia is one of the largest fertilizer producers in the world so for example a ton of urea fertilizer that cost american farmers 265 dollars per ton last january now goes for 846 dollars this year and thanks to sanctions that number will get much higher no one who farms has ever seen anything like this you probably don't farm but you do buy groceries it'll be obvious to you soon in fact thanks to biden's foreign policy everything you buy is shooting up in price and shockingly fast gasoline is now higher than it's ever been in the history of gasoline in los angeles it is selling for seven dollars and 29 cents a gallon so if you make under a hundred grand a year and most people in this country do that qualifies as a crisis for you but for the people in charge it's not high enough they'd like to make it worse their latest idea that a lot of people seem to be buying is that we have a moral obligation somehow to stop buying russian oil it's tainted okay what would happen if we did that well needless to say oil prices would jump likely to over 150 a barrel even higher prices for you but then if that boycott spread and moral boycotts tend to and europe joined it buckle your belt we talked to someone in the energy business this morning energy traders to get a little perspective on this he said a total boycott of russian energy would cause quote an absolute global disaster that means recession depression uncontrollable inflation and the rest economic devastation to us and our allies and at that point in fact we're already there we'd be forced to make up the difference by getting more oil from other countries because we need the energy batteries aren't going to supply it so what would those countries be well let's see they would be pretty clear saudi arabia iran venezuela to repeat in order to wage a moral boycott we become more dependent on saudi arabia governed by sharia law iran a rogue state and maduro's venezuela because this is a moral statement we're making this is a moral victory so feel good about it as you go bankrupt that's the short-term picture the long-term picture of war with russia is even scarier than that thanks to biden's policies russia and china now form a block against the united states this was the nightmare scenario now it's real just today the chinese foreign minister described vladimir putin as china's quote most important strategic partner so are we going to see a boycott of chinese goods in the united states they're making this war possible oh don't bet on it that would be racist but we should prepare to lose our position as holder of the world's reserve currency that is happening in slow motion it's unmistakable now the biden people seem to have no idea this is going on or maybe they want it to happen joe biden was up there at the state of the union bragging about how he took 30 points off the russian ruble in a single day hooray good for us but once we stop celebrating our win the destruction of the russian economy they deserve it you gotta wonder is there a downside to this could it be a pyrrhic victory let's see these policies have driven russia china india turkey and other countries to accelerate their flight from the u.s dollar now to be clear that's the majority of the global economy this may be the most reckless and destructive thing any american president has ever done to the united states if the war in ukraine ended tomorrow we would live with the consequences of that loss of the us dollars the world's reserve currency for the rest of our lives no one in washington is even acknowledging this is happening they're looking for more moral victories to win and the companies love it the woke companies apple mastercard lots of other american companies are taking victory laps for their role in punishing russia great punish russia we're not against that but you've got to wonder you've just seen a handful of woke corporations crash a country and impoverished its citizens indiscriminately now that country is russia so most of us aren't even thinking about the precedent it sets we're fine with it it's russia who cares but is it possible these same techniques might be used someday against some place or somebody that you care about what if one morning you woke up and they decided that you're vladimir putin and you must be erased could that happen don't think about it you're probably not able to think about it clearly right now even if you tried why because there's a moral panic in progress for the record this is the third moral panic we have had in the united states of america in less than two years you don't want to live in a country in which moral panics break out regularly by the way moral panics diminish the people engage in them and hurt the people who don't they're degrading they're crazy they're the opposite of what you want you want to live in a country where wisdom and restraint and rational behavior and decency determine the outcomes not screaming but we live in a country of moral panics the first one began in may of 2020 with the death of george floyd in minneapolis that changed america completely the second moral panic was kovid you've lived through that so for nearly two years the shouting has not ended hysteria is now the official language of public discourse in the united states that's not good for anyone except those benefiting from it who is benefiting anyone who lies for a living the liars have perfect cover ask yourself how much of what you first heard about blm and then about the coronavirus turned out in the end to be true how many of the first stories were true not many it was almost all lies but you didn't know that at the time because you were busy being yelled at if you dared to point out that actually all lives matter they denounced you as a racist if you expressed concern about vaccine mandates of course they called you an anti-vaxxer sound familiar the pattern never changes hey maybe war with russia is not a good idea for the united states say that out loud sometime it's not an extreme position most americans would agree with you but you will immediately be denounced as a tool of putin what is this it's name-calling as a means of social control the people in charge have decided their primary job is to decide who you should hate in an environment like this everything feels like propaganda and that's because much of it is on thursday we told you that russian forces had bombed a nuclear reactor in ukraine that seemed to be true president zielenski of ukraine had said it repeatedly but it was not true no reactors were hit an unnamed ukrainian official claimed that radiation levels in the area had risen that turned out to be untrue as well in the words of mark nelson as a nuclear energy analyst quote i'm afraid to say this looks like a coordinated effort to induce panic of course it was what we call disinformation and it was designed to get you to support a war against russia now maybe you support a war against russia anyway but you should at least know that you're being lied to and manipulated which you are watch this segment from good morning america the other day ukraine's mother's daughters teachers politicians beauty queens now on the front lines defending their country under siege and there is anastasia lena a former miss grand ukraine photos of her on instagram in fatigues rifle in hand underneath patriotic hashtags miss ukraine with a rifle defending her homeland is there anything more inspiring than that it'd be more inspiring if it was real it wasn't it was fake miss ukraine was not defending her homeland that wasn't a rifle it was an airsoft gun so the whole thing was not a news story though you read it as such it was a propaganda shoot it was meant to deceive you it was meant to make you want war with russia sympathize with one side over the other it works that's why they do it it's why the tech companies have censored so many news sites recently including from russia but not exclusively from russia now we're supposed to think this is a victory over putin or something but a victory for what less information fewer perspectives if getting to the truth was the point of the exercise we as american citizens would be able to read whatever we wanted to read that was the rule for centuries in this country it no longer is because truth is no longer the point instead twitter and facebook are proudly censoring any information that might quote undermine trust in the ukrainian government really since when are we required to trust the ukrainian government or any government don't ask by the way over the weekend because everything in america is unintentionally hilarious now the new york times attacked vladimir putin for censorship turns out he engages in censorship tries to control what his people can read lost in the relentless focus on war in ukraine by the way is any perspective about the world or war which is always lacking in dc but never more so than now the fighting in ukraine is terrible of course you're seeing it happen no decent person could fail to be moved by the images but it's not unique it's not the only war in recent memory or even currently in progress right now many thousands died in the 2020 nagorno-karabakh war that was between azerbaijan and armenia ever heard of it it ended less than a year and a half ago no coverage there's been a gruesome war underway in ethiopia for a couple of years now it's again in progress as we speak tens of thousands women have been raped by militiamen many of them intentionally infected with aids can it get worse than that how many people have died in the war in ethiopia we don't really know because no one in our media cares enough to keep track it's just ethiopia we do know that hundreds of thousands of people mostly civilians have died in the war in yemen it's where the bite administration has continued to fund doesn't get a lot of attention it's just yemen who cares all human life is equal all of us are equal in the eyes of god the death of someone in ukraine is exactly equivalent to the death of someone in yemen in its importance period but hardest of all to ignore though our media have pulled it off and ignored it is the civil war that's underway 100 yards from el paso texas right now the mexican drug war that's what we call it's likely killed more than a hundred thousand people in 2019 alone close to ten thousand mexican citizens just disappeared most of them young men more journalists are murdered in mexico every year than in any other country in the world you're seeing pictures on your screen right now with that war they're horrifying we're keeping the bad ones off the screen trust us they're awful but it's not a crisis it's totally normal says the bud administration open the southern border the border we care about is ukraine's now republicans in washington to their eternal shame have no problem with any of this in fact many of them are more for war with russia than joe biden seems to be that is a disgrace it will hurt them in the midterms it will hurt them on some deeper level because it does not serve the interests of this country a war fought on behalf of democracy that ignores the will of the country fighting it at some point so we'll explain exactly what's going on here we're out of time for tonight but it's enough to know republicans are not representing their voters when they move to a position that's way more war-like than joe biden's when they embrace the lunacy that could really hurt this country they're not representing people like bryce mitchell bryce mitchell seems like a republican voter he's a 27 year old mixed martial arts fighter he's a cattle farmer from cabot arkansas the other day someone asked him what he thought about ukraine at a press event here's what he said i just wanted to get your thoughts on the whole russia and ukraine situation you know here's my first thought is i'm not going nowhere to fight none of these wars for these politicians i'm staying at home and when the war comes to arkansas i will dig my boots in the ground and i will die for everything i love and i will not retreat if this country is invaded and everybody's saying well we gotta we gotta evacuate we gotta leave we go i will not i will dig my boots in the arkansas soil and i will fight for the people that i love for the land that i love and the way life that i love but i'm not going overseas to fight i don't know what's going on to be honest brother i really don't there's so much stuff and i don't think nobody knows what's going on fully there's been so much political corruption in that area you got biden and his son making a ton of money off of uh and using our tax dollars to bribe their people that's treasonous in my opinion uh so you got hunter biden and his son using our tax dollars hey if if ukrainian government if you don't do this we're taking your tax dollars he shouldn't be giving our tax dollars to that country anyways we got veterans out here sleeping on the street and you're going to give our freaking tax dollars to these ukrainians and all i'd rather i don't know what's going on over there but i'm not going over there fighting tell us how he's a putin stooge lindsey graham and david frum and ann applebaum liz cheney tell us how he's immoral when the war comes to arkansas he said i will dig my boots into the ground and i will die for everything i love that's the american position fight to the death to defend what you love your people your family your country to defend it that's what we call it the defense department it is not called the department of nation building or the bureau of trans evangelism bryce mitchell may not have good grammar but he understands exactly what's going on here even people who claim to represent him and our country have no idea hey sean hannity here hey click here to subscribe to fox news youtube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else

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Length: 23min 34sec (1414 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 07 2022