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00:00:00in our grocery stores and supermarkets etc. uh, put America
00:00:03first. well, again, that goes back to Americans feel like
00:00:07Israel is being put before America. and then
00:00:11finally, number four, change our relationship to Israel, well that's all about
00:00:14Israel. so when you really look at all four
00:00:16of these points, they all really point indirectly to Israel,
00:00:20which
00:00:21of makes people in the maga movement feel like, you sold us
00:00:24mg, you gave us mi
00:00:26GA. america first, means
00:00:30America first, and that doesn't mean caltowing or putting the
00:00:34needs, priorities or interests of any foreign
00:00:37government ahead
00:00:39of the United States of America, and the perception has
00:00:43been for years, that unfortunately BB
00:00:46Netanyahu helped coers the United States
00:00:50in into a foreign war that was not in the U.S.
00:00:54interest, did not uh implicate US national security interest
00:00:58and now has affected the domestic. economy and our sanding in the world, and
00:01:02this just done by recent polling shows that it's really
00:01:05affected
00:01:06in a negative fashion the US-Israel relationship, how
00:01:09Americans view Israel, how they view Netanyahu, and I
00:01:13would argue it affected
00:01:15of the recent election in Israel where looks like Netanyahu
00:01:19is on the way out, so this is something that we just have to look
00:01:22at, the
00:01:23the the democrats ran on what should have been the
00:01:27GOP's America first agenda. they simply
00:01:31used that playbook to their own uh good and that's why
00:01:35they won. they weren't running anything extremists like
00:01:39transgenderism or some of this cultural marxist nonsense and
00:01:43a wokism that they did the first time around, they were talking about cost of
00:01:46living, data centers, the the rise of AI and the
00:01:50dangers of AI, stopping foreign financing of wars,
00:01:54giving money abroad. what does that sound like, rick? that sounds like the president ice
00:01:58supported in 2016. billions of americans in in
00:02:012024, it doesn't sound like some sort of marxist
00:02:04revolution, yeah, it really is about promises made,
00:02:08promises kept, in this case it's promises made,
00:02:11promises not kept, and you know one of those places,
00:02:15we we talked a little bit about Iran, and Iran has just been a disaster, uh, there's
00:02:19no question, but the other disaster in many ways, and this
00:02:22is not so much Mr. Trump's fault, I think Mr. Trump has had the right
00:02:26idea here, but again, it's not about the idea, man, it's about...
00:02:30execution,
00:02:31you know, i played football my whole life, i played high school and college football, we used
00:02:35to have great practices all week long, and then we'd go
00:02:38of out on the field and get our asses kicked, well then it's a great thing to
00:02:42practice, it's a great thing to draw your xes and o's and we've got a
00:02:46great plan, who was
00:02:47it, george Foreman who said, everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the
00:02:51mouth, well in Iran has punched us in the mouth,
00:02:55and I hate to say it, so has the Russian military, we
00:02:59have spent four 500 billion dollars of your tax money and my tax
00:03:03money, america's tax money
00:03:04in a place called Ukraine that most Americans couldn't even find a
00:03:07map, and for what, and
00:03:11a why
00:03:12in a country that doesn't even elect its own president because he
00:03:15cancelled the election, something we would never do,
00:03:18and again, George, you know this, cuz you've kind of
00:03:23in suffered the slings and arrows of this thing, in many
00:03:26ways, this thing is not a problem that began in...
00:03:302022 when this war started,
00:03:34this is a problem that began a long time ago, and the mistake
00:03:38was the Washington's and Europe's for not
00:03:42recognizing that they should leave Ukraine alone and stop
00:03:45trying to force Ukraine into NATO, here's
00:03:49a really smart guy, I think you think he's a smart guy, John Mierscheimer, I think he's
00:03:53one
00:03:53of the smartest guys when it comes to this particular topic, talking about
00:03:57just that, that buffer zone that used to sep
00:04:01Europe and Russia, which was
00:04:03violated by Washington and
00:04:07Europeans.
00:04:25I went to Poland about three or four different times
00:04:28in and I told the... "the last thing you want
00:04:32to do is expand NATO into Ukraine
00:04:36buse it's going to be like a hornet's dest and it's going to cause
00:04:40unending trouble for Poland. I said, you have the
00:04:44ideal situation now and that you have buffer
00:04:47zone, Ukraine between Poland and Russia,
00:04:51and what you should
00:04:52do is everything you possibly can to maintain that buffer
00:04:56zone, and if you poke the bear and..."
00:05:01takes Ukraine, the bear is going to be right next door to you, and that is not going to be
00:05:05good, but we were not interested, the
00:05:08poles were not
00:05:10of interested, the Baltic states were not. interested and the
00:05:13Americans are certainly not interested, we wanted to march NATO right up to their
00:05:17doorstep, so my argument would be they should have been interested in the buffer
00:05:21zone, sort of getting in line with your points, but we
00:05:25weren't. as matter of fact, Biden went just the
00:05:28opposite, and so did NATO,
00:05:31essentially, can we put up map of this? I want our people at home
00:05:35to see this, I think this is important, right? what he's talking about is buffer
00:05:39zone, right? here, here's Ukraine a map,
00:05:42and I'm going to... show you,
00:05:43I don't know if you can see this, but I'm basically just something you know,
00:05:46obviously uh, there's Ukraine, there's the European Union,
00:05:50there's Russia, perfect buffer zone, and uh,
00:05:54the Mr. Putin at the time said, we're fine with Ukraine being
00:05:58a sovereign, neutral country, NATO said to
00:06:02Ukraine, no, you have to choose us or them,
00:06:06you have to choose us or them, and that's where it all
00:06:09started, that's what John Mimer is saying. George, to
00:06:13you, well, Ukraine has become a
00:06:16massive liability to US foreign policy
00:06:20interests and national security interests, including on the
00:06:24European continent, where I currently am in Rome, has
00:06:28felt the full brunt of what failed policies towards
00:06:31the Ukraine Russia conflict look like in real life. Inflation
00:06:35is absolutely out of this world here in Europe,
00:06:39gas prices are higher than ever, food costs are high. people can barely
00:06:43afford rent electricity is up because they decided to cut
00:06:47off Russian energy to its largest uh market which was a
00:06:51European Union and the European citizens are facing the
00:06:54full brunt of those failed policies and regarding the
00:06:58situation in terms of buffer zone, the United States would never
00:07:02allow either Russia, China or any other foreign
00:07:05country from permitting these ballistic
00:07:09missiles, nuclear weapons or emboldening... uh
00:07:13rogue groups with iridentist claims on Texas, New Mexico,
00:07:17California, that's what the Trump doctrine has been all about, it's
00:07:21actually about removing potential threats from
00:07:23the western hemisphere and keeping the United States isolated from
00:07:27any potential foreign threats, the Russian president, the Russian
00:07:31state viewed the situation in Ukraine very similarly the way that
00:07:35Taiwan and China view that relationship, the
00:07:39Europeans failed, Biden failed and the Trump administration. is
00:07:42attempting to resolve this very system, difficult
00:07:46conflict, and I believe they finally will rick, yeah, well, if not, it's going to be
00:07:50resolved on the ground, because I got to tell you, the reports that I'm getting is there's not much left of
00:07:54Ukraine pretty soon, I think the Russians finally decided, you no, we've been trying to
00:07:58fight the war on the front, not asymmetrically, but they started hitting
00:08:02our civilian and uh infrastructure as well as our
00:08:05energy infrastructure, they started hitting apartments with drones and the
00:08:09Russians have said, okay, two can play at that game, and "I think uh, I
00:08:13think the Ukrainians have overreached in this situation, and I think their own
00:08:17people are feeling it. As matter of fact, I that reminds
00:08:21me, George, I just filed uh, report
00:08:24yesterday, I was a golf course playing golf, and suddenly I saw one of
00:08:28my colleagues sent me this report about this
00:08:31situation with this 14-year-old boy who was found a
00:08:35detention center that nobody even knew about, it's like the secret place
00:08:39where they keep soldiers or people who don't want to go." the front line.
00:08:43did this report, it's already got 3, 400 thousand people who've been
00:08:47watching it and commenting on it. i want to play this for you cuz i think it speaks
00:08:51to the problems in Ukraine right now. take a
00:08:54listen. you see that right there? you see that? that's
00:08:57a 14-year-old boy. what the hell is a
00:09:0114-year-old boy doing locked inside of
00:09:05basement? people are describing it as a
00:09:08torture chamber. the uh Ukrainians are saying:
00:09:12that uh he was part of a group of some 40
00:09:16individuals, all men who were being
00:09:20detained uh, apparently as they, but look
00:09:23at this kid, I mean he's 14 years
00:09:26old, how, how, what, what
00:09:30possible explanation could there be for
00:09:34detaining housing of a 14-year-old
00:09:37boy for a month in a
00:09:41basement? 'look at his eyes, I mean,
00:09:45he's been held captive, he's a
00:09:48child, he's
00:09:50a kid. Yeah, the reaction of this has been
00:09:53crazy on the internet, that that thing went viral, but the
00:09:57question is, who am I? I'm Rick Sanchez, some guy with a
00:10:01TV show a correspondent. Why do I have to say this? Where's
00:10:05NATO, where's the EU? Where are people in the west saying, we're not gonna,
00:10:08we're not going to continue to send money to these people if they're doing stuff like this.'
00:10:13Rick, if you are an individual or a country that believes in
00:10:17religious freedom, the democratic process and
00:10:21the good the Ukrainian people, you should absolut
00:10:25stop supporting the Zelinsky regime, because what Zelinsky's
00:10:29regime is doing here is they are evicerating the
00:10:33democratic process in Ukraine when which they've
00:10:36suspended elections, the United States held elections during
00:10:40the civil war, there's no excuse for Zelinsky not to
00:10:43hold elections against the will the people, which has been a key theme of
00:10:47our entire conversation, shutting down churches, I'm an
00:10:51orthodox Christian, that's a personal insult to my... and
00:10:55millions of other orthodox christians around the world who believe that their
00:10:59own religion is being attacked in Ukraine, that's something
00:11:03that you that Zelinski is doing, and also the people like this
00:11:0614-year-old boy and countless others, which are
00:11:10being forced into conscription, uh, lost, killed in the
00:11:14battlefield, a war that they do not want to partake
00:11:17in, for what, to expand NATO, something that is not going to
00:11:21happen, to enrich Zelinsky's cronies, to... rich
00:11:25Zelinsky himself, that's something that the world,
00:11:29I believe, has finally come to understand, the Trump
00:11:33administration has certainly understood it, and why I believe that
00:11:36this conflict will only end when Zelinski is out the
00:11:40picture, and hopefully it's sooner rather than later.
00:11:44Yeah, and and I think you used a keyword there, George, when you said
00:11:47undemocratic, I i think that's important. By the way, most countries in the
00:11:51world, you can make an argument in one way or another undemocratic, everybody says they...
00:11:55and in many ways they aren't, but when you could point to very specific things like
00:11:59this incident and the fact that there were, i think
00:12:02something like 200 people who were led to this
00:12:06detention center for lack of different description of it, i have no idea what this
00:12:10is, and and i've this situation, and
00:12:14yeah, it's interesting to note that
00:12:18in this moment make lot of
00:12:22propaganda for make
00:12:26for forgive this image to to the other
00:12:29countries in the European Union that Ukraine is democrat
00:12:33country, there there is the freedom, totally
00:12:36freedom and that Zelensky is democrat leader,
00:12:40but in fact there is very strictly
00:12:44repression and what's happened
00:12:47there yesterday and two days ago with this
00:12:51arrest it's the demonstration of this.
00:12:55Andrea, Ukrainian police claim they've identified 130 people
00:12:59involved in the protest against this torture house in
00:13:03Kieve, some them have already been detained, why are we seeing
00:13:06immediate backlash directed at the protesters instead of those
00:13:10who created and supported the torture facility in the first
00:13:13place? well uh
00:13:16you know the security service of
00:13:20Ukraine make this uh make some steps, first
00:13:24steps the first step was to try to
00:13:27describe this protest, this um
00:13:31episode as a product of Russian
00:13:35propaganda, they try to identify every single
00:13:39person that take part in this assault against
00:13:42this structures, this detention
00:13:45center of azov
00:13:48and try to spread misinformation about it,
00:13:52the second step is to... is try
00:13:56to investigate about some
00:13:59relations of every person
00:14:03with the telegram channels
00:14:06or or the underground circuit in Ukraine against the
00:14:10mobilization and against the peace, because the
00:14:13first statement of security
00:14:16service and asov was that someone in
00:14:20this scroll had um was linked with
00:14:26pro peace channel, they called pro peace has
00:14:30negative things, so in ukraine for
00:14:34for the state service and for the commander of azov
00:14:38and someone in the armed force be
00:14:41supporting
00:14:42the the peace is something negative and this
00:14:46is very very explicate for
00:14:50me about the situation and the
00:14:53political climate that "the people need to uh to
00:14:57leave in this moment. It has been several days since this
00:15:01torture house was exposed, and
00:15:03we we aren't seen any investigation, at least not yet into the site or the people involved,
00:15:07and
00:15:07in fact we're seeing an active push in the west to label this as Russian
00:15:11propaganda. Why do you think that is, and and is this something that Kiev will
00:15:14ultimately be able to sweep under the rug once again?
00:15:18Of course, it's necessary now for the Ukrainian authority to
00:15:22describe this event as ' the
00:15:25result of Russian propaganda or Russian misinformation,
00:15:29because it's very uncomfortable for them to
00:15:33show at the their western partners
00:15:37that... Ukraine existing such structures, I
00:15:40note from from my position, now I'm located
00:15:44in Italy, and here almost nobody
00:15:48take this news
00:15:51and the main