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January 14, 2025 • 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
A twenty nine at fifty five KCD talk station. Love
this time of the week because it's when we do
the Daniel Davis Deep Dive with our friend, retired Lieutenant
Colonel Daniel Davis, talking about well, of course war Russian
Ukraine the subject matter again today. Welcome back, my friend.
It's always a pleasure having you on my show.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's always a pleasure to be here, Brian, thanks for
having me back.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Happy to do it looks like you got a change
of venue there. I have a video conference call going
on with Daniel Davis. Every week we do this and
you have a different environment now we do.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
We're kind of upgrading our studio here a little bit.
There'll be some changes even probably next week too. All right, Well,
so just trying to make you better for the viewer.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Fantastic.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
I'll encourage my listeners to get your podcast Deep Dive
or Daniel Davis Deep Dive. You can find it wherever
you get your podcasts. Well, Daniel, what is going on
in Ukraine right now? I see NATO is chimed in
talking about maybe peace talks. We gotten to the point
where they're gonna be talking peace. Some North Korean soldiers

(01:01):
or troops got captured by the Ukrainians the other day,
and I still can't figure out the whole idea about
North Korea being involved, except, as you've noted before, because
they're there to get some genuine fighting experience, which I
suppose is something people need to have if they're going
to plan on getting into a war with South Korea.
But where are we at this stage of the game.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Listen, I'm more optimistic now that this thing can come
to an end that I've been in quite a long time,
and that's based on comments by both the Russian side
as recently as earlier today, as well as some of
the official statements from some of the incoming Trump administration officials,
because I think everybody is zeroed in on that this
war has to come to an end. Lavrov this morning

(01:46):
actually said the Foreign Minister for Russia said that he
was encouraged by some of the comments coming from the
Trump team that they're eager to talk to him on
an official basis after the twentieth of January, and they
said they're encouraged by the fact that the Trump team
is talking about realities on the ground, which is the
term that the Russian side has been used and said
that without a common understanding of what the reality is,

(02:08):
that it's impossible to make a deal. And it looks
like they're starting to coalesce around that. Trump, for his part,
has said he just wants the war and the killing
to come to a stop. And applaud him for that,
because I think that's exactly what we need. That's got
to be your first focus. Then you can worry about
the details after that. But listen, I just got to
make sure everybody understands the deal is not going to

(02:30):
be good from the Ukraine side, but it's going to
probably be the best it can be attained here because
if a deal isn't resolved and found, then Russia will
simply keep fighting until they went on the battlefield and
more Ukrainians.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Will die, right, And that seems to be the most
likely scenario absinte deal.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
But is it possible?

Speaker 1 (02:48):
And I'm just throwing this out that a deal and
you're optimistic more so than ever you have been for
a while. Anyway, the new Trump administration and the idea
that it would foster and encourage a deal is because
it's going to have far less of an appetite to
continue funding billions of dollars to arm the Ukrainians.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Well, that's a huge part.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Of it, without question, that's something that many I mean,
you know, Vice President elect Advance said in an April
of twenty twenty four op ed in The New York Times,
he said, look that the numbers just don't add up.
He said, this doesn't make any sense to continue shoveling
billions and billions of dollars into an empty hole that
can't succeed and banned. Was he ever proven right because

(03:30):
he was talking about at the time, this sixty one
billion dollars that the administration, current administration said was going
to change the course of the war. And it's really
ironic when you look at the tracking how much territory
the Russians gained through that year once that money became
available at starting with June, the amount of territory lost
every month rose after that, meaning it got worse. So

(03:52):
Trump is very focused on just I mean, he's a
businessman at heart, right, So he's you know, pros and
cons the profit and lost balance sheet, and he sees
this is not good, this is not helpful. And then
you add in the human cost to that, and it
doesn't make any sense at all to keep going down
a path that can't win, and instead he's like, we
need to get this thing off the table. Cut cut

(04:13):
the losses, not just of our losses, but the Ukrainian
physical losses as soon as possible, so that rebuilding and
recovery can start. That's so important for the Ukraine side,
it really is, and it's important for you know, the
globe as well. I mean, we kind of look the
fact that Ukraine was previously described as you know, the
bread basket of the whole region. It fed and provided

(04:35):
you know, food for multiple countries, not just Ukrainians. And
of course maybe it would go a long way to
solve the ongoing and self inflicted wound that is the
energy problem their experience in the European Union. And Brian,
let me just point out something on that point there.
It's really important and hardly anybody thinks about this. They
will later in the future, but right now they it's

(04:56):
not on the radar. If the Biden administration had taken
the advice of then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff Martin Millie in November twenty twenty two, it said
because of the successes that the Ukraine had had then
that that was the perfect time to negotiate from a
position of strength. Then the Russians were at their weakest.
They would never be weaker than they were at that time.
He said, they could have gotten a good deal, but

(05:18):
the Biden administration and Zelenski said no, we're going to
keep fighting. As a result of that, they did the
twenty twenty three offensive, which literally destroyed that bread basket
and now it's sowed with millions of minds that are
going to take probably decades to undo, and it's going
to be a long time before that bread basket starts
producing them to the level it did.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
And you know that is so heartbreaking. Those land mines
and anti personnel minds. I just it seems to be
some sort of Geneva Convention violation when it comes to
those things. And I mean, hell, they're still blowing up
in Vietnam from the conflict, right, So what do you
And we've talked about this before, and I think my
listeners are well aware the Russians have controlled the Crimea

(05:58):
region formerly part of Ukraine but filled largely with Russian
and Russian supporting, Russian leaning, Russian aligning population, so they're
not unhappy necessarily be under Russian control, assuming and I
think the way our discussion is going here, we're talking

(06:18):
about Ukraine having to give up more land as a
mechanism to resolve the conflict. Are there areas like Crimea
that we would be talking about or they would be
negotiating with where the people would be more inclined and
more desirous of living under a Russian rule than the
Ukrainian rule or.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, the demographics are really important in terms of where
these lines are and what the Russians are even seeking,
because they are only seeking areas where it's predominantly ethnic
Russians or Russian leaning people in the Ukraine side, But
the crime In side, if I'm not mistaken, it was
somewhere around ninety five percent Russians are ethnic Russians going back,

(06:56):
so that one was like the easiest one. The other
ones they're talking about now, you know, Zaparija, Kirson, Luhans, Donetsk,
those are a majority of ethnic Russians, but not to
the extent as before. So whatever these lines get drawn,
there will be more percentage of people on the Ukraine
side that don't want to live under Russian control. And
that's going to be a part of the negotiations too,

(07:17):
because they've got to be able to migrate over to
the West if they don't want to live there, and
then those that do want to live there will remain.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well as the ones that remain.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
And I keep thinking along the lines of, well, you know,
if the if the Chinese Communist Party came in and
took over my neighborhood, I might be inclined to, you know,
wage my own individual guerrilla war or independent war against
those forces, because I don't believe in that philosophy. I
don't want to be controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.

(07:46):
Do you do you see any of that sort of
militarization of the remaining Ukrainians if the Russians do take
over other areas.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah, I have no doubts that there are those already
actively planning on doing that sort of thing and whatever
ends up in the Russian side, because I think that
they have the exactly the mentality you're talking about, that
they just will never be satisfied living under those conditions
and they'll just do whatever they can just to you know,
inflict a pain and a cost on the Russians as

(08:17):
far as they can see. I mean, there's no end
date on that. It can go a long time. And
you may recall that before the invasion, the initial invasion
in February twenty two, there was a lot of talk that, hey,
the Ukraine side can't win a conventional war against Russia,
so they're already planning with CIA help. Back then, by
the way, it was publicly reported that they're trying to

(08:38):
help them foment and start these you know, these kinds
of gorilla activities inside there that got shelved when they thought, oh,
wait a minute, we actually did good on the battlefield.
I doubt very seriously that there will be any doubt
that a lot of people on that side. Whether the
CIA is involved this time, I don't know, because now
Trump's in charge, but there will be many, and certainly

(08:58):
in Ukraine that will do everything they can to, especially
those on the western side.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
We'll try to support that. I suspect.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
I don't know how big it will be, but it's
hard for me to imagine they would just say, all right,
let's just move on with their lives.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Does the president really have any control over what the
CIA does? I just have to ask that, Daniel, all.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Right, Well, ostensibly he does, he's putting his director in there.
I'd like to think that there is some, but I
can't say that with the full throat at affirmative.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
I had to insert that little joke there, if you
don't mind. A quick pivot over to now resigning FBI
Director Christopher Ray and his comments on sixty Minutes the
other day about China and the threat the Chinese Communist
Party poses, talking about, you know, pre positioning on America's
civilian infrastructure, lying in wait for those networks to be
in a position to wreak havoc and inflict real world

(09:46):
harm at a time and place of their choosing, noting
that they have infiltrated and it's been documented. I've read
multiple articles in Soviet water treatment plans, transportation systems, he said.
We're talking about our energy sector, the electric grid, natural
gas pipeline, as well as targeting of our communications systems
with that most recent virus sault typhoon as I stare

(10:09):
upon and hate to draw a parallel with Los Angeles
and the gross and competence of elected officials out there
and not doing anything they promised to do by way
of fire breaks, and you know, im creve water supplies
and lessening the fire risk. We know this is a problem.
It's well documented. An FBI director raise out there and
telling the world about it. We've goten other reports recently

(10:29):
from the FBI and the DHS warning about you know,
copycat attacks and attacks on our infrastructure. Do you have
any faith that they're actually trying to get ahead of
the problem and doing something to batten down our hatches
and our resources to prevent this from happening or otherwise
getting any virus or hacks or attacks out of our systems.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Well, look, I mean I will just look on the
broadside first. I certainly hope that the incoming Trump administration
will actually do something, but gracious, I mean my first
comment was like, wait a minute, you're telling me that
you on the way out the door know about all
this stuff, and what have you done about it? I mean,
we're not talking about one or two things possibly. I mean,
there was a big laundry list, and so my obvious

(11:10):
question is, why the hell did you not do anything
to resolve this issue?

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Why you've had the power to do so.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
So, if the problem is as big as he says
it is, then there needs to be some hearings to
find out why you didn't do anything about it and
what has been the plan so far. You know, we
don't know obviously from outside here, it's very plausible because
it's logical from the Chinese perspective that if you know
there's possibility, because Biden three times in his administration said yes,

(11:37):
if China takes how one, we will fight China for it.
So then their minds are going, Okay, then we're going
to prepare for war and that could mean domestic you know,
trojan attacks, however you want to characterize them.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
And so it's logical they would do that.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
But it should also be freaking logical that we would
see that potential and be on the extra care to
find and root out those kinds of things.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
And that's where I have a big problem.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
And that's where I do too, and that's why I
drew the parallel with Los Angeles. I mean, they've been
talking about these fires for years and years, there had
been multiple fires, years and years. They had passed billions
and billions of dollars of money in budgets to deal
specifically with the forestry work and cleaning up the mess
and everything out there, only to not do it. So

(12:21):
you know, I'm seeing this is a huge red flag,
and I can only pray to God with very little
hope that they're actually trying to get ahead of it
and and and stop it.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
And then's certainly let's hope that the Trump administration does
two things. Number one, to find out what the true
scope of the threat is, take action to get rid
of it.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
And then also to not.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Follow with the path of the Brieous administration and get
us into a war with China that cannot be won.
And while defending our interest in Rotchet and our freedoms
everywhere else, we don't have to get into a war
with China to remain free.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
I'll just tell you that categorically.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
And I agree with you on that as I read
the headline from Fox News, China directs largest military build
up since nineteen thirties Nazi Germany just put an exclamation
point on it there. Daniel Daniel Daniel Davis Deep Dive
every Tuesday here in the fifty five Carce Morning Show
Again search for them online wherever you get your podcast.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Daniel.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Until next Tuesday, my friend, have a great week. Always
my pleasure. See you next time with a new president.
Take care. Eight forty two. Right now fifty five car
see de talk station. Exclamation point on that too. New
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bit more to talk about. I hope you can stick around.

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