Should America Come First?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number Dan in UW Hampshire. Thanks for holding
Dan and welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yes, Jeff, Yeah, I getta agree with the lady before.
I mean on some of those.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Points she made.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
I mean, it's not America.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
First.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I mean, you gotta look at this stuff. You had
the Secretary Estate James Baker promised in nineteen ninety they
wouldn't be moved, they wouldn't move eastwards one inch. And
you had the West Western German foreign Minister Handsch Dietrich Densire.

(00:42):
He repeated assurances as well. It's it's unbelievable. And the
biggest problem here with President Trump has is his biggest
problem is dealing with the EU, the UN, the EU, NATO,
and and the puppet is the last kid. He's it's

(01:02):
a puppet. He's not making any decisions. It's the globalist
control in this guy. Okay, It's as simple as that.
People gonna look at realize that besides all the billions
of dollars we've been giving them of taxpayer American taxpayer money,
his biggest moneymaker is the six trafficking, foul trafficking, killing

(01:27):
of babies for organs okay, and kids for pedophalia, women
for sex slaves, well over sixty thousand babies, kids and women,
chills missing Ukrainian kids and women missing in Ukraine. That's
what's going on is the Ukraine is a sussesspool for

(01:49):
the for the globalis, U and you and NATO, and
that's who fighting. Putin is fighting Putin in Russia of
fighting as well. The German Nazis is on battalion Neo
Nazi soldiers. And on top of it, the dirty, corrupt
NATO secretariust Mark Root, who's a tool for the Globalets,

(02:12):
along with the German chancellors who you mentioned earlier, vetrich Merge,
they're all in bombs.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Well, Dan, look look you're you're, you're, you're clicking on
all cylinders. And to me, this is the question you
have to ask yourself. George Sorows is for this deal.
Hillary Clinton is for this deal. I mean, just you

(02:39):
know that alone. Lindsey Graham is for this deal. I mean,
I could go on and on. Bill Gates is for
this deal. The European Union is for this deal. Car
Starmer a woke left wing globalist. Macron a left wing
globe I could run, I could just go on and

(03:02):
on is for this deal. So if the most powerful
globalists on the planet are for this deal, a I'm
looking at this, I'm like, and why why would we
want anything to do with it? And the reason why
they're for this deal, it's not because they want to

(03:23):
end the war in Ukraine. Quite the contrary. What they
want is they want the West to get involved in
the war in Ukraine. And the way they're dragooning everyone
is to say, fine, you guys, from this point forward
will be responsible for Ukraine's military and Ukraine's borders and
Ukraine's security. Now, I'm telling you you can take this

(03:46):
to the bank. Putin does not want to restart a war.
His military is exhausted, his economy is in shambles. The
Russian people, Russian soldiers in particular, have paid a tremendous price.
They're going to need a generation to recover and heal
from this war. But I'll tell you who wants to

(04:08):
blow it up as quickly as possible. It's Zelenski. Zelenski
now has what he always wanted. He now has the
West committed to defending his regime and his borders and
his country and all they need is one false flag. Literally,
that's what it is now after the deal is signed, okay,

(04:32):
and we're all on the hook now to defend Ukraine's borders.
All he needs is one false flag and he can
take the fight to Russia. And the Russians cannot defeat
the combined might of the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy,
Finland effectively natal Light. They can't, which means either they'll

(04:54):
have to accept that they lose completely lose all of
that territory, which I'm telling you they won't, or they're
going to have to resort to nuclear war. So the
question everybody has to remember is this the what's in
it for the globalists? Why why all of a sudden

(05:17):
now are they all wanting to nominate Trump for the
Nobel Peace Prize. Why because they suddenly liked the guy,
because they've suddenly all done a one tot eighty and
had a miacopa, a Road to Damascus conversion. No, because
now they figure, fine, we rope the United States in.

(05:39):
Once they're roped in, Yeah, we'll give it six months,
a year, two years, whatever, well, even wait till Trump
leaves power. So that's three and a half years, that's okay,
and then we launch a false flag or whatever, you
can restart hostilities, and this time the West is obligated

(06:01):
to fight on behalf of Ukraine, and that's what they've wanted,
and that will crush Russia or it will force the
nuclear war, which for them is the same thing because
they'll destroy that region and then the globalists can come
in and scoop it up. So that's why to me,
I'm like, look, fine, if the Europeans want to do this,

(06:24):
that's their business. What I'm praying, what I'm hoping is
that I know Trump's people are listening to the show.
I know there are some people behind the scenes. Jd Vance,
I know for a fact, is fighting tooth and nail,
saying no security guarantees and no military troops, US troops
on the ground. So what he's saying is, we'll coordinate

(06:48):
with the Europeans, will sell them the weapons, will give
them all the firepower they need. But they do the
security guarantees, they have the troops, they do the military basis,
not us. Otherwise we lose our freedom of maneuverability. We

(07:09):
are our hands are now tied, we are locked in
to defend Ukraine. Now, just don't take my word for it.
Look back at the last thousand years of Ukraine's history
with Russia. Okay, let let me put it to you
this way and tell me if you agree or disagree

(07:30):
giving Ukraine an open ended security guarantee and committing US
troops to defend Ukraine in perpetuity. Now we don't know
if that's exactly what Trump has agreed to. We're gonna
find out within the next couple of days. It is
what Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Finland have agreed to.

(07:55):
Trump did say he agreed to security guarantees, and he's
still on defense. About US forces, there is a huge
debate now raging in the administration. Rubio wants US troops
in Ukraine, so does witkof Vance is fighting very hard
to nix that idea. But let's just just take the
worst case scenario, US troops in Ukraine and we guarantee

(08:19):
their borders and their security. Heay, along with the European leaders.
It would be akin to you guaranteeing the home, the property,
the property lines of your neighbor. Now you would say, look, Jeff,
if my neighbor is attacked. Sure, I'd love to help,

(08:41):
of course, I'd love to help. But if I give
a blanket guarantee that I will defend my neighbor. In
other words, an attack on my neighbor's home or an
attack on his property is an attack on me, and
I am obligated to defend my neighbor. You would say no, Well,

(09:02):
why would you say no? Well, I don't know right,
you'd say, did he provoke the fight? Is he asking
me to fight his battle for him? Did he do
something to cause it? Maybe he's in the wrong. Why
am I put into a straight jacket? Or I lose
all of my independence, my freedom, my autonomy, my maneuverability,

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the choice of whether it's in my interest or not
in my interest, or it's the right thing to do
or not the right thing to do, to go and
support and defend my neighbor. That's what George Washington said
literally in his farewell address. He said to the United States,

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we have it all. This republic will not fail. But
you have to understand one thing. No permanent alliances. It
is death to the United States. And he warned us,
he said, we're going to become so rich, so big,
so powerful, and so wealthy that the European powers are

(10:12):
going to want us to get involved in their wars
to save their rear, end to save their bacon, to
advance their interests, in his words, their petty quarrels, their
petty squabbles. He said, stay out, We have it all,

(10:33):
Just stay out. Now. We have violated that again and again,
but now to me, we're really violating it if this
comes to pass. Now, do I want the fighting in
the dying to end? Of course? Do I want to

(10:53):
see Ukraine at peace? Of course? Do I want to
see the civilians stop being shelled and kill and murdered.
And as Trump really passionately, almost poetically, the way he
talks about it, seeing Ukrainian boys and Ukrainian men fighting men,
Russian boys, Russian men, I mean, this is almost like

(11:14):
the end of civilization, really Slavic civilization. The slaughter five six,
seven thousand every single week. It is senseless. So, of
course I understand you wouldn't. You're not a human being
if you don't want to end this war. Of course,
I understand. Trump's heart is clearly in the right place,

(11:39):
and there are many things we can do short of
giving up our independence, and putting our troops at risk
to end the war. But if the price is security
guarantees and our troops in Ukraine, I'm sorry for me.
The price is too high, and I go back to

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my neighbor. I love my neighbor. I want to see
my neighbor prosper I would expect my neighbor to defend me.
God forbid if somebody broke into my home and wanted
to murder me and my family, as I would try
to defend them. But I'm not crazy to give that
person a blanket security guarantee. I don't know. He may

(12:20):
be in the wrong, he may have provoked it, he
may have incited it. I have to know the reason why.
I'm not just gonna willy nilly blindly commit to someone
for a thousand years or whatever my family think about it.
This is a permanent commitment. This is like, you know,
my children will be responsible, my grandchildren they're great grand

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you know, my great grandchildren, on and on and on.
Do we really want that? Have we thought this thing through? Now?
Let me ask all of you, because this is now
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(13:04):
it's a great question who will blow up the piece
deal first? Putin or Zelenski in other words, say they
sign a piece deal okay, as a triladle or meeting.
Everybody signs on the dotted line. Now the war ends.

(13:26):
Who do you think will blow it up first? Putin
in other words, the Russians will try to reinvade Ukraine
and keep going. Or Zelenski and his regime trying to
get territory back. Yeah, or who will be the reason
why it's not signed in the first place if it's

(13:47):
not signed? A Putin b Zelenski. Personally, I'm a bee.
I don't trust Zelensky as far as I can throw them.
I think this guy wants this war to go as
much as long as it can, and the second he'll
get a chance to refight the war, he'll refight it,
especially now that he has America, Britain, France, Germany and

(14:12):
Italy behind him. I mean, this is his chance to
fight Russia forever and this time win. But that's me.
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(15:00):
Thanks for holding Jack, and welcome.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
Good morning to you. Jeff. Hi Jack, Hey, I have
a couple of questions. I'm going to ask you a
personal question. As you say, you don't have to answer
if you don't want me, if you don't want to.
Number one, the second, we sent money and weapons into ukraining.

(15:24):
We were involved in this war. So all these people
saying we shouldn't get involved, we're not. We are involved.
Number Two. Trump, at the back of his head, he knows,
unless I got my history wrong from the tenth grade,
there's a thing called the War Powers Act, which means

(15:45):
you have to go to Congress to get approval to
go to war. Trump knows that he's got that in
the back of his head. He's not a stupid man.
And Third, I'm going to ask you a personal question.
Let's make you president for a day. What would you
do to stop this war?

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Oh, what would I do? I would I wouldn't. I
would say, guys, go at it. That's what I would do.
Someone has to win, someone has to lose. I wouldn't
get involved at all. I'm being brutally honest with you. No,
at this point, if Ukrainians want to fight, Look what
I would do is I would have come in my

(16:26):
first day as president and said to Vladimir Putin do
you want to make a deal? As Zelenski? Do you
want to make a deal. I'm not offering you anything.
No one's offering you anything. Do you want to end
the fighting? I'm willing to be a mediator. You don't
want to end the fighting? Keep going, fight until one
side wins and the other side loses. That's to me

(16:50):
how you end the war, because ultimately, Jack, it's none
of our business. Six one seven two six six sixty
eight sixty eight is the number. Okay, this is a
really good text. You can text the cooner man seven
zero four seven zero seven zero four seven zero. This
is from six one seven Jeff. This may seem off topic,

(17:15):
but it actually is the kernel of the America first
discussion that you're having in my view, and it dovetails
into your reference to the one hundred plus US military
bases that we have spread out across the world. I
am a seventy something baby boomer. I remember in my

(17:38):
childhood all of my friends, with blue collar dads and
stay at home moms, had modest homes of their own,
a car, and vacation on the cape every summer. What happened.

(17:59):
Two six figure salaries can't support that anymore. By the way,
that is very true. I tell you what happened. The wealth,
the value of our labor has been extracted and spread
around the world, with the globalists of every stripe taking

(18:22):
their cut. That's what happened. And this deal in Ukraine
typifies that. Excellent. I agree again, What does this have
to do with benefiting main Street? What does this have
to do with defending our borders, protecting our troops, rebuilding

(18:48):
our military? I mean, I understand that Trump god Zelensky
to agree to buy one hundred billion dollar contract, one
hundred billion dollars worth of US made weapons and equipment,
and the Europeans are going to front him the money,
Zolenski the money, But our military is depleted. I mean,

(19:10):
I appreciate that Trump's drumming up business. Please don't get
me wrong, But what I'm saying is, instead of arming
the whole world, we've got to make sure that our
military is armed to the teeth, that we're ready, God forbid,
if we need to have a war with China or
some big power adversary, that we have the capability to

(19:31):
fight it and to win it. So again, I look
at this and I'm like, what's in it for the
United States? I know what's in it for Russia. I
know what's in it for Zelenski. I know what's even
in it for the Europeans. But what's in it for US?

(19:52):
Six one seven two, six, six sixty eight sixty eight agree, disagree? Okay?
And one more and again, best audience in the business.
I know I say it all the time, but it's true. Okay,
here it is. This is from sorry six oh three, Jeff.
Here is a point that hasn't been brought up. If

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there if a vote were held tomorrow, would the people
who live in eastern Ukraine, in this don Bass region,
would they overwhelmingly vote to become part of Russia or
would they vote to remain a part of Ukraine. Let's
not forget that since the Obama Soros funded q Ukraine

(20:41):
forces were routinely shelling and murdering the ethnically Russian people
of this region, the don Bass by the thousands. I
wonder what they would choose. What say you, oh, I
think this is not even a matter for debate. The
majority would definitely vote to join Russia, not Ukraine itself.

(21:04):
I'm talking about the Donbass region. There's no question. Historically
it was part of the Russian Empire, much of that area.
They're ethnically Russian, they're all Russian speaking. They orient themselves
towards Moscow, towards Russian culture, Russian civilization. They want no

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part of Ukraine. They certainly want no part of the West.
Now for the rest of Ukraine, that's a different story,
no question. But that's the fundamental division, the chasm within Russia, sorry,
within Ukraine itself. But no, there's no question. If you
were to hold an honest, free, fair referendum, you know,

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a ballot question in eastern Ukraine and say would you
rather join Mother Russia or would you rather stay in Ukraine,
they would join Mother Russia. I don't think it even
be close. So that's another problem. I have with Zelenski.
He claims to have a mandate to speak for Ukrainians.
He doesn't. He hasn't held elections in over five years.

(22:14):
He refuses to hold new elections under the guise of, well,
it's a war, and because it's a war, we don't
you know, we can't hold an election. So in fact,
here Trump confronted Zelensky on that very point and actually
was teasing Zelenski, kind of trolling Zelenski. But my point is,

(22:36):
before I even get to that, there's no question he
has no mandate to represent Ukraine, and he certainly has
no mandate to represent the ethnic Russians and the Russian
speakers in eastern Ukraine. There's no question about it. That's

(22:56):
why to me, one of the key preconditions for any
of this is let let elections be held in Ukraine.
Ask the Ukrainian people themselves, because their recent polls show
seventy percent of Ukrainians want a negotiated settlement. They don't

(23:18):
want the war to continue. They're exhausted, they're tired, they
don't want to fight anymore. They don't want to send
more of their men and women to fight and die
in the Russian meat grinder, and they're willing to give
up territory if it means peace. Now quickly listen now
to Trump, because he's saying, Look, his point is, well,

(23:40):
if you can use the excuse of a war to
never hold an election, well what if I start a war,
Does that mean I don't have to step down in
twenty twenty eight? Does that mean I can just say no,
we're suspending the elections in twenty twenty eight, and you
know we'll hold elections maybe in twenty thirty two, so
I can stay in power for another four years after

(24:01):
my term ends. All I gotta do is fight a
war or start a war. Roll cut ten a mic.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
Legal elections.

Speaker 5 (24:13):
So you say during it, during the war, you can't
have elections.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
So let me just say three and a half years
from now.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
So you mean if we happen to be in a
war with somebody, no more elections. So that's good.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
I wonder what forget?

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Look at Zelenski laughing, You'll like this idea, miss Schreister.
You see how I get that on elections and your
dumb media here in US, they just pay it what
I say. I just say, yeah, I make myself dictator.
How I don't hold elections. Why because we have war.

(24:53):
So as long as we have war, I stay in
power forever. And I steal, Donald, and I steal and
I steal. Donald. You know I have more billions than you. Yes,
I have more money. No, I'm talking US dollars, not
rubles dollars. I have more money than you. Donald. You

(25:15):
is legitimate, as you say in America. Me is all
stealing and stealing and more stealing. But now I'm richer
than you. Donald, you have six billion. I have eight billion,
Thank you, Donald, and thank you American taxpayer six one seven.
And they're gonna give them hundreds of billions more, okay,

(25:37):
if you can believe it. And that's their idea of
quote unquote peace Bruce in Woburn. Thanks for holding Bruce,
and welcome Bruce. What are you making this, my friend.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
I've been waiting a long time to say this, Jeff.
We have no no reason to be anywhere but right here.
Screw Yulenski. Russia's gonna do what he's going to do.
I trust nobody but a president in chief. And I
don't listen to the media. I don't listen to all

(26:23):
this rhetoric and all this bull crap. He's hitler, he's this,
He's that We've saved the world jet our country, World
War one, World War two, Korea, We've been there. Our
guys have.

Speaker 5 (26:39):
Been dying and dying and dying up, our people, our parents,
our children have been crying and crying and crying. I'm
sick of this crap. Jeff Usa comes first.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Oh, I agree. Look, Bruce, this is you know. Jack
in Indiana asked me and he said, how would you
end the war between Russia and Ukraine? And my answer is,
it's not our business toan the war. How has this
suddenly become our problem that we have to end the war?
I mean, I blame Biden for inciting it and provoking it,

(27:14):
there's no question. But in the end, Zelenski made the
application to join NATO if he had half a brain
as the leader of Ukraine. I'm telling you right now,
if I was his advisor in Kiev, the capital, I'd say,
are you mad? Well? Biden is telling us not to
worry about the Russians. I don't care what that senile

(27:35):
buffoon says. Are you an idiot? Voladimir? You understand what
Putin is going to do? And any Russian leader. It's
not putin. Any Russian leader would say it is unacceptable
for Ukraine to be in NATO. You know that, So
you're going to risk a potential massive war when, by

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the way, we are militarily unprepared and unable to stop
the Russians should they invade. Are you crazy? No, we
don't enter NATO. We don't need to enter NATO. What
do we need NATO for. Instead, that idiot went ahead
with his plan to join NATO, and now three and

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a half years later we got to bail him out.
I don't think so. Now, Bruce, you know this better
than anybody. We have given Ukraine, just the United States
alone two hundred billion dollars two hundred billion dollars the
Europeans to be fair to the Europeans, they've given about

(28:38):
another one hundred to one hundred and fifty billion. That's
three hundred and fifty billion dollars. Okay, with a b
the Ukrainians should have taken Moscow. Do you know how
much money?

Speaker 5 (28:52):
That is?

Speaker 1 (28:53):
By the way, just said everybody understands because I don't
want to, you know, throw just keep drowing numbers. But
do you know much Russia spends every year on its
military budget. Look it up. Please, don't take my word
for it. Fifty billion, fifty billion with a B fifty.
We gave Ukraine in three years three hundred and fifty

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billion dollars, seven times what the Russians spend annually on
their military budget, and we gave them the best. I'm
not knowing, No, I don't mean to insult the Russians,
but our tanks blow their tanks away, not those rust
buckets that the Russians have. Our Patriot missiles are the

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best in the world. Our drones are the best in
the world. Our equipment is the best in the world.
We gave them the finest military equipment. Plus we sent
advisors our CIA, the Brits, the French, NATO, We sent
our finest advisors to train their military. So the question,

(30:01):
if I'm a Ukrainian, now, this is what I'd be saying.
Hold on the West, led by the United States, gave
us three hundred and fifty billion dollars to fight and
win this war and we're kissing away twenty percent of
our territory and there's no money left. Again, where did

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the weapons go? Where did the money go? Because frankly,
with this kind of money. We should have taken Moscow
in Saint Petersburg. We should be at the gates of
the Kremlin. They should be suing peace with us, saying no,
we'll give you twenty percent of Russia's territory. Please stop,

(30:46):
stop before you take the capital. We don't want, we
don't want to lose Moscow. And I'll tell you where
the money went. It was stolen. That's where the money. Asselenski,
He'll tell you him, his cabal, his cronies. Kickbacks to Biden,
kickbacks to Lindsey Graham, kickbacks to Pelosi, kickbacks to Mitch McConnell,

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all of these politicians here, these greedy politicians who were
lining their pockets. So I understand Jack's point, I do.
My question is, we've already given them three hundred and
fifty billion dollars. How much more do you want? Man,
we got a thirty seven trillion dollar debt. We're giving

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them money we don't even have, and now what, it's
not enough. So now I got to give them US troops.
I got to give them blood. Now I got to
secure their borders forever. We've got to give them security
guarantees forever. Because you guys stole and looted all the
money and all the you sold military equipment. I mean,

(31:55):
this is an irrefutable fact. On the black mar our missiles,
our ammunition, our tanks were ending up in the freaking
Congo given to Ukraine, sold on the black market. They
pocket the money and the weapons go to Congo and
other hotspots around the world. That's why Putin now is

(32:20):
going to get twenty percent of Ukraine's territory. Look, I'm
not a violent man, and I'm saying this figuratively. There
should be a trial and he should go to jail
or a legal execution. But I'm telling you, if the
truth comes out in Ukraine, I don't know how the

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Ukrainian people don't hang Zelenski like the way they hung
Mussolini in Italy at the end of the war. You
stole and plundered so much that now you lost twenty
percent of our land and you've us hundreds of thousands

(33:02):
of dead Ukrainians. So you and your fat cat friends
can get rich, and I mean obscenely rich. It wasn't
enough to be multi millionaires, No, you guys got to
be multi billionaires. Datchas yachts, ships, homes in Miami, homes
in Monaco, homes in Switzerland. You gotta have five, six,

(33:27):
seven mansions, you greedy bastards. So no, I don't want
to give him any more of our money. I don't
want to give him any more military aid. I don't.
You should have thought of the consequences when you asked
to join NATO, And I'm not pro putin far from it.
If you beat them on the battlefield, that's up to you.

(33:49):
But how is this our concern?

Speaker 4 (33:52):
Now?

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Look, let me be even more honest with you, like
I'm in the confessional. If we had a completely secure border,
and we had troops all over our southern and northern
border and there's no more fentanyl coming in, no more drugs.
We've got this thing permanently sealed. We've got god knows
tens of thousands of troops helping with mass deportations. We've

(34:16):
cleaned out every single illegal alien, and our streets are
finally safe, and crime is finally down in all of
our big cities. And we're running budget balanced budgets and
even budget surpluses, and inflation is down to zero or
close to zero, and our middle class and working class

(34:37):
is thriving again, and our country is booming again, and
we are truly at peace and prosperity. Okay, maybe we
can help out a little bit here or there. We've
got so many problems to fix at home. And again
I go back to my point that I made an

(34:58):
hour ago, which you know, these leftists are going crazy,
by the way, and these emails to me, they're losing
their minds because they can't deal with my argument. We
have now we are offering security guarantees to over a
hundred countries one hundred one zero zero. We have hundreds

(35:19):
of military bases all over the world. We are the
policemen of the world. But our cities are overrun with illegals.
Our cities are so unsafe that in most major cities
nobody wants to go out after seven o'clock at night.

(35:42):
Our own citizens are being raped and murdered and trafficked,
and they're overdosing Judeah fentanyl by about one hundred thousand
every single year. I mean, our country is turning into
a Third world hellhole in parts large parts of it.

(36:04):
And we're playing superpower. We're playing the Roman Empire in
places around the world that most Americans and not as
an insult, just who the hell, Who the hell cares
where the donbas is. By the way, they're talking about

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two cities now in Denetsk. That's that region. Putin wants
all of it, that's right on the Russian border. I'm
telling you, I've read books on Ukraine, history of Ukraine.
I've done a complete minor field in Russia and Eastern
Europe when I was doing my PhD coursework. I've read

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at least several hundred books on that Russian history and
Eastern European history. Not the brag. I'm just trying to
tell you. And I don't even know these two freaking cities.
I know many cities in Ukraine. I'm telling you. I'm
like what, And they're going on like no, this has
to be this has to be defended at all costs,

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all right, Kramatosk is one of them, and Slavonin is
the other one. I mean, I never even heard about this.
In discussing the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in
World War Two where they invaded through Ukraine, I never
heard of these cities. And they're like, no, this is
we can't give this up, absolutely not. We need bases there.

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We need Americans there, Brits, French, Finnish, Italians, Germans, everybody's
got to be there. I can't even find it on
a map. That's how inconsequential this is. I'm sorry, Bruce,
I'm with you all the way. Man we've got it's

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time to put America and Americans first, period, full stop,