TUCKER CARLSON: You are going to get a scorching struggle with Russia and China, whether or not you need it or not

Nicely, it seems to be like you are going to get a scorching struggle with Russia and China, whether or not you need one or not. Yesterday morning, an American reaper drone went down over the Black Sea. We nonetheless have no idea precisely what occurred. We’re not going to mislead you. We do not know, and we do not anticipate finding out anytime quickly, if ever. 

The Biden administration says it is aware of. It says the unmanned drone was harassed and broken by two Russian fighter jets over worldwide waters. So, that is all we have now; we’re going to should take their phrase for it. Everyone else appears to be. 

Lindsey Graham did not ask many penetrating questions. No, he moved instantly, seized the chance to demand that the Pentagon assault the Russian air power. Right here he’s. 

SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: Nicely, we should always maintain them accountable and say that for those who ever get close to one other U.S. asset flying in worldwide waters, your airplane can be shot down. What would Ronald Reagan do proper now? He would begin capturing Russian planes down in the event that they have been threatening our property.  

What would Ronald Reagan do? Oh, good query, Senator Graham. Ronald Reagan’s two time period presidency was notable for the truth that he didn’t declare struggle on the Russian air power, and subsequently america didn’t go to struggle with Russia and tens of millions of lives have been saved because of this. That is not a small factor. Put one within the Reagan win column there, one other president they informed you was a crazed warmonger who really saved us out of struggle however gained the Chilly Warfare anyway. And the way did Reagan do this? Nicely, easy. He saved the American economic system sturdy. 

Do you keep in mind? That looks like a very long time in the past. It is just about the other of the method being pushed proper now by Lindsey Graham and his pals within the Warfare Get together. Their plan is to disregard our borders in america, however to defend Ukraine. They’re even funding the Ukrainian pension system, not kidding, as our personal American banks collapse. 

What would Ronald Reagan do? He’d in all probability vomit if he noticed it. We’re glad Ronald Reagan shouldn’t be right here to look at Lindsey Graham invoke his title to justify anti-American stupidity. What about Lindsey Graham’s plans, the plans of virtually each Republican senator within the U.S. Senate and all of the Democrats? How would they assist america? Nicely, they by no means reply that query as a result of they could not be much less . 

So, again within the fashionable period the place the remainder of us stay, you have to surprise what precisely is occurring right here. Lindsey Graham was telling us we have now to assault the Russian air power. Why now? Nicely, let’s have a look at. On Monday, there was a serious growth within the 2024 presidential race. We noticed on an inventory of questions for the possible Republican candidates and we requested them the place they stood on the struggle in Ukraine and we absolutely anticipated that almost all of them would agree with Lindsey Graham and just about each officeholder in Washington, D.C. However no, that is not what occurred. In actual fact, the other occurred. 

NIKKI HALEY DINGS DESANTIS AND TRUMP ON US AID TO UKRAINE AS 2024 GOP PRESIDENTIAL SWEEPSTAKES GET UNDERWAY 

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he offers his annual state of the nation deal with in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. (Sergei Karpukhin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Picture through AP)

Nearly with out exception, each Republican presidential hopeful from Donald Trump lengthy on the document to Ron DeSantis to Greg Abbott, Kristi Noem, Vivek Ramaswamy and others, has turned towards the concept of a scorching struggle with Russia. In actual fact, Ron DeSantis described what is occurring in Ukraine as a “territorial dispute” that’s not even within the prime 5 essential nationwide safety issues of america. Hardly anyone imagined that Ron DeSantis thought that, however he does, and he is on the document saying so.

What does that imply? Nicely, it implies that the Republican presidential nominee, nearly, irrespective of who it’s, will oppose an open-ended dedication to fund the struggle in Ukraine with a purpose to struggle Russia eternally. Now their place is, the truth is, absolutely in step with the overwhelming majority of conservative voters, those who select the Republican nominee. However these voters have been totally disenfranchized for the previous 12 months as Lindsay Graham and The Atlantic Journal within the ghost of Ronald Reagan have been permitted to talk for them in unhealthy religion. However it’s not simply conservative voters who don’t need struggle with Russia. It is nearly all of all voters and now there are folks operating for workplace, the truth is, essentially the most highly effective workplace who agree with voters as in a democracy.  

So, for the struggle celebration in Washington, it is a flat-out catastrophe. Oh, the folks don’t need it. We simply spent two years lecturing you about democracy, however the bulk of the inhabitants and the folks they’re about to run towards Joe Biden, oppose it. How will you defend democracy and push a struggle that the inhabitants does not need? You possibly can’t, in order that they’re panicking, and the response is absolutely attention-grabbing. 

As an alternative of responding with arguments or causes of convincing Individuals that struggle with Russia will profit them indirectly, they’re simply pushing forward for that struggle with Russia. They do not care about Ukraine in any respect. Ukraine means nothing to them. If it did, they need to halt the struggle as a result of apparently greater than 100,000 Ukrainians have already died, however they do not care. They’re holding the struggle going. That is how a lot they care about Ukraine.  

PENCE PUSHES BACK AGAINST DESANTIS COMMENT THAT UKRAINE WAR WITH RUSSIA IS ‘TERRITORIAL DISPUTE’ 

They’re pushing us to struggle and by the way in which, capturing down Russian jets that do not hearth on us first is an act of struggle. It is the definition of an act of struggle and, after all, Lindsey Graham, steeped in all issues navy, is aware of that completely nicely. We requested Lindsey Graham to come back on the present as we have now so many occasions earlier than, to elucidate why ought to we begin World Warfare III? He, after all, declined, as he has so many occasions earlier than, however he does not want our assist. The remainder of the media in all places is foursquare behind him, as all the time. Here is Jeb Bush’s former press secretary. 

NICOLLE WALLACE: A former Mueller investigator mentioned to me, I take into consideration 18 months in the past now, that the subsequent Russian election interference will not run afoul of any legal guidelines. They’re that good. They will simply get their alerts from which candidates, who in questions requested by Tucker Carlson, there are not any accidents right here, and answered by Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump, it is abundantly clear who Russia can be desirous about aiding.  

So, for those who disagree with these kids, you might be committing election interference on behalf of Vladimir Putin. How low may political rhetoric go? Is it even doable to go decrease? Nicely, that appears to be the needle proper there. You understand the moron within the seat nod saying, “Sure, that is precisely proper. It is election interference, too.” As a candidate, take a place that is in keeping with what nearly all of voters need. Wow, dystopian. And for those who reply these questions in ways in which Jeb Bush’s former press secretary does not like, you are a disloyal American. Here is extra from MSNBC. 

JOY REID: DeSantis desires to appease Putin, calling the brutal invasion of Ukraine nothing greater than a territorial dispute. It is the most recent signal that the celebration of DeSantis, Trump and Tucker is severely out of contact with the views of most Individuals. 

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Ron DeSantis, who’s parroting Vladimir Putin and Kremlin speaking factors by calling Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a “territorial dispute.” 

LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: Trump and DeSantis popping out with anti Ukraine positions, pro-Russia positions, in impact. 

DAVID PLOUFFE: The 2 Republican front-runners principally need to run away from Zelenskyy in Ukraine and into Putin’s arms.  

STUART STEVENS: The anti-woke man, Ron DeSantis, his splendid is Putin’s Russia, the place there are not any homosexual folks, the place there are not any ladies in energy, the place, you recognize, they’re all Christians. That is how he desires to see the world.  

GOP SENATOR ‘P—ED OFF’ BY RUSSIA FORCING DOWN US DRONE: ‘WE CANNOT ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN’ 

You simply wind up on this world the place you get ethical lectures from former political consultants like Stuart Stevens. Not well-situated for ethical lectures, as a result of you do not need the Third World Warfare as a result of you will have kids or grandchildren, as a result of your individual nation is in serious trouble, your economic system is falling aside, so you are not all-in on a World Warfare III towards Russia and China and also you get an ethical lecture from these folks. It is like getting an ethical lecture from the banks.

However what’s attention-grabbing is there’s really loads of information to cowl right here, information that the opposite information organizations are fully ignoring. They’re principally simply handmaidens to energy. At this level, they are not even pretending, however for those who’re paying any consideration in any respect, for those who thought for even a second, “I am a journalist, I ought to cowl the information,” you would possibly discover that we’re getting, to charitably put it, combined messages from folks in energy. For instance, right here is Mark Milley immediately explaining that Ukraine is armed to the enamel with American weaponry. 

GEN, MARK MILLEY: Two weeks in the past, america launched one other safety help package deal, which included excessive margin ammunition, artillery, automobile upkeep and automobiles. Ukrainian troopers put on the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag, however the colours of fifty different nations that met immediately stand beside Ukraine to assist the ideas of the rules-based worldwide order.  

Look how afraid that man seems to be. Virtually need to play the tape once more! Return and have a look at that on the Web. That man is afraid. What’s he afraid of? It would be attention-grabbing to know. However what he simply informed us is we have despatched an enormous quantity of fabric to Ukraine: artillery, ammunition, $100 billion. So that will recommend that the Ukrainian navy has loads of equiment, they’re well-armed. Oh, however no, at the exact same time that Mark Milley is telling us that, the Pentagon simply yesterday knowledgeable us that truly Ukraine is operating out of munitions.  

REPORTER: There’s studies on the market from the battlefield that the Ukrainians are operating out of munitions. They’re having shortages. Is {that a} concern for the Pentagon and what is the Pentagon doing to alleviate that drawback?  

BRIG. GEN. PAT RYDER: Yeah, in order we have been doing for the reason that starting of this marketing campaign, we’re persevering with to do every part that we are able to to make sure that we’re assembly Ukraine’s wants, whether or not it is ammunition, whether or not it is air protection, armor. You understand, you have heard us speak extensively about that. Tomorrow’s dialogue, after all, will likely be one other alternative to carry the worldwide group collectively, to give attention to Ukraine’s most pressing wants to incorporate ammunition. 

UK TURNS RUSSOPHOBIA ARGUMENT ON MOSCOW, CLAIMS GREATEST THREAT TO RUSSIAN SOCIETY IS WAR IN UKRAINE 

Leaving apart the actual fact, the useless sure truth, that the US navy in all probability ought to have sufficient of its personal ammunition, now they’re all invoking Ronald Reagan. Bear in mind, peace by way of superior firepower? Weak point invitations aggression? Talking of weak point, the U.S. navy more and more is weak and a part of the explanation, there are a variety of causes, however one among them is we’re sending all these items to Ukraine. So, there’s the navy query that nobody appears to have answered, however there’s additionally an financial query. The place’s all the cash going? 

We spent greater than Russia’s typical annual navy funds in Ukraine, and but the Ukrainian navy is out of ammunition once more? OK, that is likely to be a query for Zelenskyy. The place’s all the cash going? They’re on the cellphone with BlackRock all day. The place’s all the cash going? Individuals are getting very wealthy. You possibly can’t have an audit as a result of in order for you an audit of the place your cash goes into essentially the most corrupt nation in Europe, you are a software of Putin. 

The media, by the way in which, is not mad concerning the truth our cash seems to be disappearing into this sinkhole of corruption known as Ukraine or getting used to shut Christian church buildings. No, they’re mad as a result of the Home speaker, Kevin McCarthy, hasn’t rushed to kiss the ring of Zelenskyy. Watch.  

WOLF BLITZER, CNN: President Vladimir Zelenskyy makes a suggestion to the U.S. Home Speaker that Kevin McCarthy is refusing.  

TIM MILLER, MSNBC: Have a look at Kyiv, for instance. He was invited to Kyiv by Zelenskyy. Every other speaker of the Home would have clearly gone there to point out solidarity with our ally. 

ALEXANDER VINDMAN, MSNBC: That is all fully Kevin McCarthy type of pandering to the acute wing of his celebration. 

LAWRENCE O’DONNELL, MSNBC: What’s your response to Kevin McCarthy refusing President Zelenskyy’s invitation to come back to Ukraine or focus on with him straight support to Ukraine?  

DAVID ROTHKOPF, FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYST: I do not know what sort of single-celled creature Kevin McCarthy is extra like that is an amoeba or it is a paramecium. He’s letting down america.  

SCARBOROUGH, MSNBC: I perceive Kevin McCarthy, once more is taking part in to his isolationist America first, which is definitely not “America first,” it’s really “America final on the world stage.”  

PENTAGON: RUSSIAN JET TAKING DOWN US DRONE PART OF ‘PATTERN’ OF ‘AGGRESSIVE’ PILOT ACTIONS 

President Zelenskyy at a press convention earlier than the struggle began in Kyiv. (Greg Palkot/Fox Information.)

Wow. These individuals are having quite a bit to reply for in some unspecified time in the future, hopefully quickly, however think about how degrading the state of affairs you simply witnessed is. They’re hectoring the speaker of the Home and by the way in which, we’d defend if the roles have been reversed, a Democrat speaker of the Home on these similar grounds as a result of they’re American grounds, not partisan grounds. However right here you will have these folks, these hair hats on tv, scolding the American speaker of the Home as a result of he will not suck as much as a corrupt international chief who’s demanding that you simply ship your kids to a struggle in a rustic you possibly can’t discover on a map.  

Zelenskyy is on tv nearly daily demanding that you simply ship your kids to struggle (Actually?) the place they may die. Now, usually, individuals who demand that you simply put your kids able the place they may die will not be your allies precisely. No, they’re your enemies. Yeah. You will need to kiss his ring as a result of he is a spiritual determine now. Proper.

However as they have been yapping about all of that, they missed another issues that have been happening in america, like, for instance, the collapse of our economic system. The second and third-biggest financial institution failures within the historical past of this nation simply occurred. Now, the venerable Credit score Suisse is down 97% from its all-time excessive. It is buying and selling for about 2 Swiss francs. 

Are you fearful about that? Yeah, you in all probability ought to be. Your leaders aren’t fearful in any respect. The media do not care in any respect. As an alternative, they’re telling you that you are a traitor to your nation if you do not need a Third World Warfare, and so they’re panicked, after all, identical to Milley was panicked in that tape. They’re afraid. 

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Why are they afraid? As a result of they know the general public shouldn’t be on their aspect, however the second we really go to struggle with Russia, they’ll use that as a pretext to crush all dissent. There isn’t any dissent allowed in wartime, and that is what that is actually about along with their private enrichment. It is about altering the home politics of america.  

The second we are able to all say we’re at struggle with Russia, not in impact, however in actuality, in a scorching struggle, which is what they need, that is the second that you simply have been not allowed to precise your opinions. And the penalty is jail throughout struggle. It is occurred quite a bit, and so they need that now. Hopefully on the idea the questionnaires we acquired, different folks will take cost quickly and save us from this lunacy.