The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guest: Manny Marotta | 2/28/22

Episode Date: February 28, 2022

Glenn, Stu, and Pat discuss the steps we need to take to fight Russia. Freelance journalist Manny Marotta joins to share his story of escaping Ukraine on foot when Russia began invading. Glenn ponders whether Americans would respond as bravely as Ukrainians in the event of an invasion as he discusses the importance of freedom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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enlarge our clientele to the world entire. Trouvee to puttees like on-onautre on.com Hey, welcome to the podcast. Today we just have an honest conversation about what the hell is going on.

I mean, Friday we left and we're like, yeah, that thing overseas, you know, Ukraine or whatever. You know, Russia's really wants it, and so we should do something about it. And today, we're facing DefCon 2. DefCon 2. Defcon 1 is nuclear missiles have been launched or nuclear war is imminent.

I don't know. Did things get pretty dicey quickly? We talk about on today's podcast. You're listening to the best of the glen. We have Pat Gray joining us along with my executive producer, Stu Bergier. We're just talking about what's happening in the Ukraine and what are we some supposed to do about it. It's a hard question.

Because the only thing we could do, really, to help them actually help them remain free and independent is to send troops. And we could send supplies. Yeah, and we are. We are sending supplies. But that's not going to stop the Russian invasion. I mean, it might delay it for a while, but it's not going to stop it. They'd need, I think they'd need American forces to fight off Russia.

They're just, you know, they're one-tenth the size of the Russian army. So are there any Americans who want troops on the ground in Ukraine? I don't think so. Not very many. I've heard many people arguing for that, though. Have you? No, it's just, but it's, it's kind of just, it's nebulous what everybody is. I mean, what do you want to do?

Here's the thing we should demand that our government does. Shut down the Russian imports and the Iranian imports of oil. Yeah. The one thing he has. done. He hasn't touched their oil. Neither is Europe. I know. And you know what would solve that is if he wouldn't have shut down all of our oil and gas. He shut down all of our oil and gas. So now we can't say to Europe, don't worry, we got you covered.

We can't do it. It'll take us eight months at least to get back everything, get back up online. And you know what Joe Biden did this weekend besides going to Delaware? What kind of ice cream did he have? I don't. I'm not sure. It looked like chocolate from the picture I saw. Yeah. Wow.

Chips? Chocolate chips? Any in the... Was it chocolate chocolate chip? I don't know. I don't know. Any marshmallow in there? I don't know.

Oh, I hope we find out for the media this week. So once again, we have shut down more oil processing plants. We halted new drilling over the weekend. Good. That was a good move. What the hell is that? So the first thing that we should do, we're not doing any. We're not doing anything until you start opening things up.

All this bogus pain that the Americans are going to feel at the gas pump is not due to Russia. It is all due to Joe Biden. Period. Well, no, it's also due to Russia. If it wasn't for Russia, it would also, it would be worse, right? You know, we could, if they're selling more oil to our allies in Europe, they're selling more oil. oil than they did two weeks ago. Right, but without the invasion, we wouldn't need the extra supply, right?

Russia is still irresponsible for large chunks of this. However, if you prepared for uncertainty by, you know, having a supply of the basic fuels you need and able to export those fuels to help the global market, we'd certainly be in a much better position. Everything that Biden has done has made this worse. So that is a huge part of this. I think, though, you get to this point where what do you want to do? Do you want to extend the massive, the most amount of pain possible to the Russian economy to stop them here?

Is that our goal? Is that essentially what we want to do? Like, with these sanctions so far, I would like to do everything. Here's what I, here's as president of the United States, if I were president, here's what I would be saying. First of all, open up all of the spickets here. 100%. First thing. We should be doing that anyway.

Yeah. Open them up. They're not going to do that. Today, the new IPCC report came out saying climate change was worse than ever. It's already happening. Shut up. There's no chance of them embracing that philosophy. Got it.

I'm saying if I were president, here's what I would do. First thing, open them up. The second thing I would do is I would be on the air all the time, like Reagan used to, to speaking right directly to the Ukrainian people. And I would be saying, Ukrainian people, you are being seen by the entire world. We're watching you. We're praying for you. We're standing with you.

And we are sending as much aid as we can. That means that we will help you with systems and bullets. But it is also we are standing ready. with the Red Cross to help you so your families aren't just slaughtered and left to die. We are with you. Continue to rise up. That would make a huge, huge difference. It did in Poland.

Remember, with the collapse of the Cold War, with Reagan sending those messages directly into Poland. That made a huge difference. We don't have a Zelensky or a Beck, though, to make those speeches. We have a guy who fumbles through every sentence and is lucky to get through his ice So we have no ability to do that, which is a huge problem. I'm not criticizing your approach there. I'm saying it would be great if we had that ability. We do not.

We do not. Okay. The next thing. Do you disagree with that? No, no. But we're not even trying. No. We're not even trying.

The next thing that I would do is I would be trying to encourage anybody that is in a position to take the position in Russia. I'd be just encouraging them, and it might be just through squeezing their financial accounts, go kill that guy. Go kill that guy. You know, what's his name? Marco Rubio said over the weekend, I wish I could tell you more, but all I can tell you is the old Putin wouldn't act like this. There's something different about this Putin. And what he's referring to is this idea that that Putin may have a brain tumor. You don't know. That's what you're not saying that for him.

You're saying that's the speculation. That's the speculation. Okay. So if that's true, we should be out with that. We should be saying that. The guy we know through Intel has a brain tumor. That in itself would help destabilize. Russia. Russia, the ruble

is about to collapse. It's the worst day again today. Yeah. Since I guess in 1998 they had a real collapse of the ruble, it's worse than that today. Okay, so it's about to collapse. The Russian people are already

on the street saying no war. You release information that is credible that he has a brain tumor. And there's a brain tumor rumor intelligence, whatever it is? Is that saying the tumor is affecting his decision making? Or is he seeing the end of his life and trying to make a move before it's too late?

Decision making. Although I think it could be both. Could be both. So what else? I mean, so do you do the Swift situations cut them off from international banking? Do you launch a yes. Do you launch a no-fly zone over every way?

Out of your mind? Are you out of your mind? So you let Russian air, you know. I don't put American planes up there against a nuclear power that is already said. They're engaged with nukes, that they are ready to use their nukes. They're at DefCon 2 as well. We're going to put our guys to police that. So then our guys are shooting down Russian planes.

That's World War III immediately. What about travel? Do you? Do you? Well, is it Maverick and Goose? Do we have our best out there? We only have Ice Man. Really?

Yeah. Okay, no. He's pretty good, though. Yeah. He's pretty good, but he's no maverick. Goose didn't even make it through the whole movie. Yeah. I think Guest died.

He couldn't even inject properly. Goose died. Couldn't even eject out of a plane properly about banging his head on the ceiling. Moron. Sorry, rest of peace. Do you guys? Too soon. Do you guys do a way too soon?

Well, no. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I don't think we're doing any of that. right? The question is, are you letting aircraft prevented from flying over Russia? I'm talking about not even military aircraft. I'm talking about

aircraft containing with all sorts of supplies and cargo and important things. Like these things are going all over the globe all the time. They're all avoiding Ukraine right now. If I were a pilot. Exactly. And we've seen Russia. Hi, I'm Glenn. Your pilot today. We are definitely not flying over Ukraine.

we've seen a tendency over the years for Russia to just have some incidents with aircraft crossing over there. Exactly right. So we've already, Europe is already shutting down. We're not letting any Russian flights go anywhere near us. They're shutting those things down. Eventually you get to a point where no one can fly anywhere and we have all sorts of problems with the supply chain, which I might remind you we already have significant issues with. So that's another thing on top.

of all of this to consider. You know, that's the problem with the gas and oil stuff too. Now, I tend to be on the side of make this as difficult as possible and quickly. Quickly and hope that it's enough for internally Russia to rise up and say, get this guy

out of here. Because it's not, if this goes poorly in Ukraine, it is not without, it's not out of the realm of real possibilities that they will just get sick of this. And one of these oligarchs or just, or just

the people throw these guys out and throw them out of office. The Russian people are not for this. Now, not that he cares about the Russian people. He doesn't care at all. He doesn't care at all. However, if the oligarchs and everybody sees that the, the population is going unstable and it is also hurting them, yeah, they probably put a bullet in his head. Let's stop this. Okay. You're making our business for what? What are you doing? Yeah. For what? That's another part of this. No one knows. knows what he's after. You know, I mean, yes, he's saying stuff like he's after the collapse of the West. I really do.

You don't think this is about him putting the band back together. This is, I just want Ukraine and territory. It's ours. We should have it. I think he'd like to put the band back together. But he, if he can do, remember, how did, how did Reagan collapse the Soviet Empire? Part one was with the big lie about Star Wars, the Star Wars defense system. And he made them spend themselves into oblivion.

To oblivion. Okay. What would this do to the West? What is what is just Swift doing to the West? We're having to print billions, if not trillions of dollars more. Okay, we're already having an inflation problem. We have to now print billions, if not trillions of dollars more to bail out all of the Western banks that have any kind of loans with Russia. So that's not going to help our economic situation. If we do go to war, are we financially in the situation where we could afford an out-and-out war? We would collapse pretty quickly. Now, they would say, well, so will Russia.

But if Putin is as crazy as it seems he is, hell-bent on something we don't understand that it makes logical sense to him, that logic may be, yeah, but I'm the one remembered for taking. down the West. And then all of this will be, will be easy to grab. Because all we have to do is appeal to their nationalism and their energy needs. And we got that. I mean, I'm probably wrong. I'm probably wrong.

I think the issue here is it's so hard to explain. There doesn't, none of this seems reliable. Like, you know, watching this stuff this weekend, I started thinking, is it possible we're just getting sort of this pro-Ukrainian side of this. Right. Where not as far as like who's right or wrong. I mean, that's clear. But the side of maybe Russia isn't struggling as much as we're being told.

You are so pro-Pooten. I am not. I mean, I hope that's not it. But it's one of the, it doesn't make any sense that Russia would, would be doing the things that they're doing. So I wonder, are we getting the true story? Now that being said. Unless he wants that Black Sea port so badly that he's willing to thumb his nose at the entire world.

No, but it's more than that. He's not even fighting. He's fighting like Joe Biden. He is. I would expect this. If Ronald Reagan or Donald Trump were going into war, it would not be fought like this. Would you agree? We would let him have it and take it as quickly as we could.

We'd use all of our resources. you don't want to be you know you want to take the breath away from the Ukrainians well they're not doing that they're fighting like Joe Biden would fight it now maybe that's because Putin does have a brain tumor or it's crazy or whatever I don't know but if he's not why is he fighting this way why is he why I don't know it just doesn't feel right well we've talked a lot of times though And maybe it's just as simple as this is how wars are fought now. Because, you know, the elites got together 80 years ago and decided. All those rules, I think, are out the window right now.

I do. I think we're headed to a new world order. But I'd like to hear your opinion, 8887-27-B-E-C-K. Can you explain this? What's going on? 8-8-7-27-B-E-C-K. Coming up in a couple of minutes, we're going to be talking. talking to a freelance journalist who just escaped Ukraine on foot and one of one of the brave

parliamentary ministers from Ukraine that is still in Ukraine. We're going to be talking to them in about a half hour from now. So where do we go from here, do you think? Was anyone concerned about the the DefCon 2 thing? Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, the Russians basically came out and said, hey, we're on full alert for our nuclear weapons. Putin said that. Yeah, and he's threatened everybody that it would,

if anybody intervenes here, that you're going to get the worst experience you've had in your history or something to that effect, alluding to the fact that, you know, you're going to get a nuclear launch against you. Now, we didn't respond with that same standard, right? No. We didn't go to that level.

And, you know, of course, the press is like, look at the restraint from Joe Biden. Look at this amazing restraint. All right. They can't spit it, can't they? Amazing restraint to not say back, oh, yeah, well, our nukes are bigger than yours. That's basically what that's insanity. Right. We don't not want to get into a nuclear war.

Let's avoid that. Yeah. I'm throwing it out there, but let's avoid it if we can. That would be great. And I think that's, I mean, he loves. launches one nuke, even if it was like a bunker buster nuke, you know, that we've talked about using in the past that go deep in the earth, they don't have the fallout and radiation, et cetera, et cetera. Even if it was that, the world would go crazy. He immediately loses if he

does that. And why would he do that when just, what, three years ago, he said the next war is not going to be fought with nukes, it's going to be fought with ones and zeros. Maybe he really has changed and there's something to these rumors of him becoming much more erratic. I don't know. Also, he could just be saying things, right? He hasn't, he hasn't done this. But we saw last time, everyone was like, well, I don't, you know, in Ukraine was like, ah, he's not going to come across this border.

And there he is. So, you know, I mean, as you always say, Glenn, when people, when crazy people say crazy things, you should take them at their word. And DefCon too is taking him at his word. DefCon 2 means that our troops are at their highest level in Europe. They have to be ready to engage the enemy within six hours. I am surrounded by a new family of people who have their life back because of relief factor. I'm one of them.

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Putin. So we're trying to get our phones back online. we'll have him on as soon as we possibly can. You know, the one thing I think it is important to think of is that I think there's a lot of Democrats and leftists, a lot of people who just could, that have Trump derangement syndrome, that see the Ukrainians as a substitute for them. And Putin is Trump. So I think they see themselves because how else could you be for the Ukrainian people and this fight against the power, you know, or just across the border? And yet you'd be for, you know, throwing people in from January 6th and not have them even see a trial yet. How is it your for Justin Trudeau silencing people and saying that a peaceful protest?

How can you be for the protesters in Ukraine? And it doesn't make sense unless you see the Ukrainian people as yourself and you're a Democrat or a lefty and you see them fighting against their Donald Trump. I mean, I guess they'd argue that they think their side is just in these matters, right? Their side is right on January 6th. Their side is right on Canada. Their side is right on the battle between Ukraine and Russia. Boogieman there is their version of Putin, Donald Trump. That would, I mean, because I'm against Putin.

Oh, yeah. And I'm for the Ukrainian people. And how is it that we're being told we're somehow or another for Putin? We're not. We're clearly not. No. What's going on? Let's go to Mani.

The phones are working now. Mani Marota, he is a freelance journalist. He actually flew from Pittsburgh to Ukraine. Ukraine to cover the lead-up to the war with Russia, and he got caught up in it. He is now in Poland after a very long walk. Hello, Manny. How are you? I'm doing well. Thank you for having me on the show. You bet. I'm glad that you're out safe.

Can you tell us what it was like over there when the alarms first started going off, and you knew, oh, man, we're in trouble. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, up until the invasion, nobody knew that anything was wrong. And then suddenly, on the morning of the invasion, we woke up to the sound of air raid sirens. And it turned out that cities all over the country were being bombed. And our city could have been next. I was in Lviv, which was a western Ukrainian city. We went outside and we heard people speaking on loudspeakers saying, find shelter, help the elderly, stockpile water. It was rather scary.

I mean, the whole country began at once to panic. And it was one day, literally one day, nothing's really happening to, oh my gosh, here it is. Oh, yeah. Yeah. For the longest time, the Ukrainians denied that anything was happening because they wanted to preserve, I mean, they wanted to preserve their sovereignty. They wanted to preserve their country. And so they said Putin won't invade. And we all believed him. And we all believed Ukraine. And it really seemed like Putin would not invade. And then this really came up. upon us suddenly. It really suddenly, Russian army was in Ukraine. Bombings were happening and of course now thousands of people have died in this war with Russia. So,

tell us, I mean, because we're seeing social media and we're seeing unbelievable heroism on the part of the Ukrainian people and the president of Ukraine, it seems like they're not willing to go anywhere. Is that the truth of what's happening? Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, from what I saw

from the Ukrainian people, they will defend their sovereignty until the very end. Ukraine is a relatively newly independent country in 1992. They've freed themselves from the Soviet Union. And now they are trying to defend themselves in the greatest possible sense. It's only been 30 years since they've become newly independent. And now Ukraine is trying to establish its own identity in Europe. and trying to keep itself free from, you know, the reins of Russia, coming back to retake it. And so the Ukrainian people are going to defend every street, every home, every alley, every inch of Ukrainian soil they can. And they are enthusiastic about it like you've never seen. Because they remember what life is like under Russia.

I mean, I can't believe that Putin thinks that they would remember things, that they would forget things like the Holodomor quickly. Right. You know what I mean? You tend to have a long memory on stuff like that. Absolutely. And the Holodomor is part of the national memory of Ukraine, and they mourn it all the time and everywhere. There are monuments to it in nearly every major city.

And, of course, life under the rest of the Soviet times was terrible for the African Ukrainian. There were repressions. You couldn't practice free speech. You had to stay in line with the party. You couldn't have established the Ukrainian identity. You had to be a part of a Russian identity. And so Ukrainians are worried about that happening again. I spoke to several Ukrainians who lived under the Soviet Union, older Ukrainians,

and they were just terrified that it would be something like that again, that Russia would have. So when you're walking out, you had about 50 miles, right? That's 70 kilometers. It was like, I believe the exact amount was 43 miles and 74 kilometers. was the exact number. But yeah, a very long walk. And it wasn't just me. It was thousands of Ukrainians, oftentimes elderly, oftentimes children.

And they're the ones who are the true heroes of the story that the walking out of Ukraine, this huge distance. And what did you, what was your conversation like? Perians? Yeah. On that walk. What did you learn? With a wide variety of Ukrainians, I spoke with children.

I spoke with young men. I spoke with old women. and I spoke with a variety of people, and they all had, they were all, first of all unified by their fear of being taken over at Russia, and that's why everyone was walking out. But everybody was, of course, committed to protecting Ukraine as well. And their plan was to reform on the other side of the border and to fight for Ukraine eventually. And so the children, of course, were afraid. The children didn't know why they were leaving. The children didn't know why they were forced out of their beds by this invasion, why they had the march.

out into the cold why they had to go without food and water because these people didn't have food and water for the entire walk. And so the elderly people, as I mentioned to you before, they remembered Soviet times. They were mentioning that this could happen again, and that's why they were trying to avoid that. And so, of course, the young men who would have to go fight very soon into the walk, they were conscripted into the army. And an emigration of people united by fear and a hatred of Russian domination.

When you got to Poland, you're in Poland now, are you not? I'm in Poland. I'm speaking here from Krakow Poland right now. Wow. When you got to Poland, what did that feel like? What did the refugees go through? It was just an incredible sense of liberation among the refugees to be in a country that, of course, was not being invaded, but also a country that was still sort of living under the specter of Russian domination. And now we're in Poland, which is a free country, a country that has its own long history of repression by Russia. And there's a sort of solidarity between the Poles and the Ukrainians,

and the Poles have been very receptive to the Ukrainian refugees because of this brotherhood that they have, because of their shared path of repression by Russia. And so the Poles are taking the Ukrainians in in private homes, in hotels, in kest houses, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are staying and the polls are welcoming them well. And it's just this great send out and done until the war is over, of course. Tell me about two tweets that you made. One, you said, we made friends with a 24-year-old named Max, who was pulled out of the caravan as he talked with us.

I had time to get his number before conscription. And he left with a grin of utter disbelief. I'll never forget that face. And the next one was, a woman screamed for the army to spare her husband from conscription. A soldier slapped her. her and took her husband. Things seem really desperate. Tell me about this. Yes. Well, first I'll tell you about Max. So during the long walk, obviously, as I mentioned, I spoke to many Ukrainians, and one of them was this 24-year-old, as I mentioned, 24-year-old named Max. Maxine was his name.

And we walked together for quite a long time. We learned about each other. He's pretty much my age. So we had a lot to relate to with each other, even though we grew up on opposite sides of the Atlantic. And so we sort of made friends. And then towards the end of the walk in the last 10 kilometers, an army, a Ukrainian army officer came along that all men aged 18 to 60, step out of this caravan right now. You're going to be conscripted into the army. And at first maxed in a belief he'd have to go. And then the man yelled at him specifically. and he just looked at me with this truck, this grin of, as I mentioned, disbelief.

And he stepped out of line for the rest of the walk, of course. But by the way, he did get back in touch with me. So I've been in contact with him since then, and he is safe, and he's in Western Ukraine right now, and he is not currently fighting the Russians. So to hear from him. The second story, though, is the second story is a lot sadder. As you mentioned, it's this brutal account.

of a man being... What happened in that occasion is, as I mentioned to you, Zelensky ordered that all men aged 18 to 60 to the Ukrainian army. Mothers to be taken away from their children, husbands to be taken away from their wives, brothers from sisters and sons from mothers. And one of these couples, I won't forget, and it's the one that's mentioned in the tweet, the husband and the wife, they began arguing with the soldier,

I don't want to go, I can't go, I have to protect my wife, because these men were often caregivers for their children. family. They had to protect their families as they crossed the border. And so this man was just trying to protect his family. With the soldier, she was on her knees at one point, and she was standing up, and she was crying. And he was pretty not empathetic about it. And he hit her, and he was seen it. And it was not isolated either. This happened a hundred times in just the time that I was there, and I'm sure it's happened 1,000 more times. It's crazy. So is your feeling that most are going because they want to defend their country, but there are a few that are like, I got to protect my family,

or are most of the Ukrainians serving because they have to? I mean, they're caught between Iraq and a hard place here. They want to protect their families, of course, and their family's safety is their top priority, but then also they love their country deeply and they want to serve their country as well. And so some men have taken the choice where they prioritize the solidarity of their country, over the sovereignty of the country, may I say, over the temporary safety, their temporary being alive. So they prioritize the sovereignty of the country. And then there's this other group who wants to keep their family safe.

And these are two very different groups. And they both have noble intentions. And they're just caught in this tragic situation. The Best of the Glenn Beck program. The lyrics of the Ukrainian national anthem, but I found myself looking them up this weekend. The original line from a poet in 2003 is, Ukraine has not yet died, neither her glory nor her freedom. And they've changed that just a little bit. Ukraine is not yet dead, nor its glory and freedom.

Luck will still smile on us, brother, Ukrainians. Our enemies will die as dew does in the sunshine, and we too, brothers, we'll live happily in our land. We'll not spare either our souls or our bodies to get freedom, and we will prove that we are brothers, brothers of Kozak Kin. That's pretty awesome. Where ours is asking us, hey, does that flag still wave? It talks about the past.

Theirs talks about the future. And it starts with, hey, we're not dead yet. That's pretty amazing. I don't think I want to go up against a nation where they're singing. their anthem and they're like, hey, we're not dead yet and we're not going to give up our souls or our bodies for this thing called freedom. I think they probably mean it. They know the price to be paid. They know how precious freedom really is. I'm not sure we do, but they certainly do. They know how many people in their own country have paid the price, have been

silenced by force. You know, at the beginning of the program today, I said that I wasn't sure that I understood what was happening in Ukraine and Russia. Something doesn't feel right to me. But I do understand one thing that is happening in the Ukraine. And I think it's happening all around the world. It's clear to me that the flame of freedom is now burning brighter than ever. The flicker of freedom always lives inside each human heart.

It was put there by God. He fanned the spark of freedom in the hearts of the pilgrims. They first stepped off the Mayflower. It was William Bradford said, Thus, out of small beginnings, greater things have been produced as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled. hath shown unto many.

That candlelight that always is so delicate and so close to being blown out was burning when the rebels tossed the tea into the harbor. It was raging as the founder signed the Declaration of Independence and forged across the Delaware,

broken and battered. It was burning when brother rose against brother to free slaves. it was alive in the horrors of the trenches of the First World War. It was alive as we stormed the beaches of Normandy. It ignited a march against tyranny and fire hoses in the streets of Birmingham. It gave courage to young women like Rosa Parks. It was there when a lone man stood against the,

tanks in Tiananmen Square. It was there again this weekend, as a lone man stood against the tanks in Ukraine. When truckers opposed tyranny in Canada, it was there and it is a blaze today in the hearts of Ukrainians. We see it as they gather their weapons and stand. We hear it as they sing their national anthem while cleaning the glass in their living room window that had been blown out by a bomb. We admire it as young Ukrainian men flee, not away from their country, but back to it in the form of safety of their homes abroad. We feel it as thousands of Germans gather in support of Ukraine under the Brandenburg Gate as Russians are sent to prison because they participated in a revolt against their own leader's aggression. is that not that flame of freedom bright? The fight against evil is ongoing.

It has existed ever since man has been given agency. But the thing that evil does not know is that it never wins in the end. Doesn't matter who wears the mask of darkness, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Putin, Soros, Klaus Schwab, Biden, Talib Whoever tries to grab your security Whoever tries to grab your freedom Trudeau

We need to just remember one line That we've heard a thousand times And say it out loud The more you tighten your grip The more star systems Will slip through your fingers You have to say it with a bad English accent There was a candle that was lit on this land

And this candle, no matter who rules over it, that candle will not be extinguished. There are too many of us. And too many of us around the world, we're seeing them in Hong Kong. We failed and we did nothing. We're seeing them in Ukraine. Personally, when I saw the tank roll over that car and that guy lived, I thought these guys are being protected. These guys might have some divine providence going their way. There is nothing more valuable than the gift of individual freedom.

Nothing. Nothing. Not safety. Not food. Not a guarantee for whatever it is you want. Freedom is the ultimate gift. It's divine and it comes to every man and everyone. no matter where they were born. That's what we fight for. And that's what we fight against.

This weekend I spoke at CPAC. And somehow or another, I was labeled as a pro-Putin guy. I don't understand that, seeing that I have said multiple times, Putin is an evil, cold-blooded killer, and his death is something to celebrate. Don't get involved emotionally in these things. This is way too important. I know it's tough because you see what's happening on social media. You see what's happening, but don't get swept up in the parade. I don't know what the right thing to do is other than all we can do without committing ourselves to war,

but I would require, if I'm going to commit myself, if I'm going to commit that I will do all that I can do, the government should stop telling me how much pain is coming my way while canceling oil drilling this weekend here in America, while buying oil from Iraq, I'm sorry, from Iran, while buying oil from Russia, at a greater clip than we bought it two weeks ago. It's in what people do, not what they say. And right now, the only people that I see doing anything are inspirational. And they are the people, as always, the people who are just like you, just like your neighbors, that actually believe in something.

those people in Ukraine who didn't have a gun last week, but now have a gun, and will fight as hard as they possibly can, so their children have a chance at making their own choices and further their own life the way they choose, not the way the state chooses.