The Dan Bongino Show - The Bongino Brief: Dan Speaks From The Heart On The Ukraine War

Episode Date: March 8, 2025

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Let the experts at Birch Gold help you secure your future today with gold. Text Dan to 989898. Message and data rates apply. Dan Bongino. Welcome to the Bongino Brief. I'm Dan Bongino. You are obligated, if you say Trump's plan sucks, to present some of your own. Here's what he was talking about, by the way. AP, Ukraine, Zelensky says end of war with Russia is very, very far away. about by the way, AP, Ukraine, Zelensky says end of war Russia is very, very far away. Okay. I mean, that's the best you have. Your economy's being hollowed out.

You don't have anything else. Again, here's Donald Trump, President Trump again. He wants to see it end. He just doesn't want to see people dying anymore. I get it like All right, this is But he has a plan. He's presented a plan. No, he hasn't. Yes, he has He has said we will develop economic rare earth mineral resources in areas of Ukraine. This will be in areas of Ukraine. This will be likely an implied, if not direct, security guarantee because of our economic interests. And you came in Friday and blew it up. What's your alternative? Again, I thought the left was the party of peace. Am I crazy? Those songs not happened? Did we not engage in sing-alongs in the 60s and 70s if you are of that age?

Smoke in the peace pipe on college campuses? What happened? You got a guy who wants peace and now you hate him? Here, check this out. With all of that being said, I want one thing to happen. I want all of those young people to stop being killed. They're being killed by the thousands. Every single week, last week 2,700 were killed. 2,700 young, in this case just about, all young boys from Ukraine and from Russia.

And that's not young people from the United States, but it's on a human basis. I want to see it stop. The money is one thing, but the death. And they're losing thousands of soldiers a week. And that's not including the people that get killed every time a town goes down or a missile goes into a town. And I want to see it stop. More in a minute, but first, you don't go out and buy a life jacket when the boat's already sinking, and you don't buy gold when the economy's already collapsed. Clearly others are heeding this advice as gold hit all-time highs the first part of 2025.

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who've never even met the guy and just automatically think he, you know, have all these nasty words to say about him. If you don't think this has deeply impacted him, the carnage over in Ukraine, he keeps mentioning this, how a generation of young Ukrainians are going to be wiped out. and I'll tell you right now What's on his mind? I'll share something. I know is a is what is one of these things like a brainworm when he can't get it out of his

Is he understands fully that? hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainians will be wiped out and in the end listen please listen this is really important wait stop everybody pause you ready listen to me you want to get in Donald Trump's head and what's animating him these young men and women will be killed dead they will never take another breath of oxygen. They will never see their kids grow up. They will never invent the world's next supercomputer or cancer drug or anything. And you know what concerns Donald Trump even more than that? It'll all happen and later on after 10 years more of war

Not a single thing will have changed from today. I Want you to think about what I just told you You think Donald Trump is a shallow guy. He hasn't thought this through. He's just some guy that Magically won the presidency multiple times and transformed an entire political party. You think he's just some guy that magically won the presidency multiple times and transformed an entire political party. You think he's just crazy? I want you to listen to what I just told you. And you ask him in the media. I'm giving, write this down. I'm giving you a little hint. That is what motivates this man. He is deathly afraid that an entire generation of young, healthy fathers, sons, brothers,

soccer coaches, police officers serving in their military are going to be dead, wiped out and in 10 years not a single damn thing will change. I'm just asking you if you hate this man, President Trump. I'm just asking you. You're allowed to hate him. It's a constitutional republic. And you're allowed to say what you want. His plan sucks.

But out of a sense of morality and decency, I'm asking you as a human being, what the hell is your plan? A full-scale Ukrainian invasion into Russia? What if they're all wiped out and Ukraine loses its entire eastern territory? What was this for? Folks, the United States, the most powerful military on earth, the most powerful military in the history of this rock we call earth. There are times we have realized that sometimes the better part of valor is to say at this point this thing may be winnable, but at what cost? Nobody wins every single baseball game, basketball game, debating match, and no country on earth is going to win every single skirmish they get involved in militarily.

There are times both Democrat and Republican presidents have realized it is time to cut losses at this point because yes we can win it but this is what it's going to take and will it result in anything different than we are now? The examples, there are a lot of them. I wish there weren't, but they are. Stop pretending that it's somehow cowardice or anything else. That's not what this is. It is Realpolitik and a realistic view of the world we live in, not the world you want

to live in because that's the utopia fallacy that doesn't exist. You have to understand if you are a foreign negotiator, the EU, they love photo ops. They had the big class picture we put on the show yesterday. President Zelensky went right over to the EU. They all got together, took this great photo op. Fantastic. I get it. You have to message things. Public relations are a big deal. I fully understand that. However, public relations not backed up by action are simply there it is right there. Thank you are just public relations.

They're not going to change a damn thing. Germany, UK, France, you know, you want you want to continue this war for with Zelensky, but it was the the APR a very long time. Go right ahead. There we go for the end of the war is very, very far away. Go right ahead. Nobody's stopping you. The EU is a very powerful collective economy. There's a lot of money there. President Trump has given you a realistic exit ramp. Here he is talking about how Zelensky needs to be more appreciative to resume negotiations. Notice how he has not taken the minerals deal off the table despite Zelensky's catastrophic diplomatic miscalculation on Friday in the Oval Office.

President Trump, who's supposed to be the crazy man according to his opponents, still has not taken the deal off the table. So how crazy is he? Or is everyone else crazy? Check this out. What do you need to see from President Zelensky to restart these negotiations? Well, I just think he should be more appreciative because this country has stuck with them through thick and thin. We've given them much more than Europe, and Europe should have given more than us, because as you know, that's right there. That's the border. This country really was like the fence on the border.

It was very important to Europe. And I'm not knocking Europe. I'm saying that just they were a lot smarter than Joe Biden because Joe Biden didn't have a clue. He just gave money hand over fist, and they should have been able to equalize with us. In other words, if we gave a dollar, they should have given. Well, we gave $350 billion.

They probably gave $100 billion. But on top of it all, they get their money back because they are doing it in the form of a loan and it's a secured loan. So when I saw that, which I've known about for a little while, I said, it's time for us to be smart. Looking at the chat, Sneaky Gemini says Trump's the only adult in the room. Sneaky, you are correct.

It certainly appears to be the case. We'll take a quick break, but just remember what I told you. If 10 years from now we're doing the Dam Bon Gino show, sitting here staring at a camera and here in the new studio, wherever we're doing it, and we're having this exact conversation, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been wiped out and Russia has more territory. I'm gonna say Justin Can you pull up that show from ten years ago? I? Thought what we were the bloodthirsty warmongers on the right right? That's what you've talked about for years No blood for oil and all that I mean I remember being remember being a secret service agent, seeing all these code pinks on, no

blood for oil. We're giving you an opportunity for no more blood and you want more. I've never seen anything like this. And by the way, the public is just not on your side on this. I'm going to play another CNN poll. You mean the one from yesterday? No, I mean a different one. They're just not on your side on this they want this thing to end quick break

we'll get back to the show yeah yeah hold on a sec hey I'm just guys I and I know I don't I know I know I don't do a lot of foreign policy on the show, I understand that. I speak up. I just haven't dealt with the horror my grandmother dealt with. God rest her soul. Eileen Sadler.

She really, man, she lived a tough life. She lost two husbands early. She lost her my uncle her son in Vietnam when he was supposed to come home. Folks when that changed her man forever. I told you my uncle's name many times, Greg Ambrose. And when he was killed in Vietnam, was shot in the back, my grandmother was never, ever, ever the same ever. This is real. People are dying. These Ukrainian men are children of God, like anyone else.

They may swear allegiance to a different country, but they are human beings. What is your plan, man? You owe it to these people. This isn't a game of Stratego, whatever that game is. This is real. There are gonna be hundreds of thousands of Eileen Sadler's out there who are never gonna be the same

because their kids and grandkids are going to have died. You better give us a damn plan because Trump has one. You do not. So that was a clip from the damn Bongino show. You can watch the full show on Rumble. All you have to do is go to rumble.com slash Bongino where we go live every weekday at 11 a.m. Eastern time. Hope to see you there The damn Bon Gino show if you'd like to hear more subscribe to the damn Bon Gino show wherever you get your podcast