35 Burst results for "Vladimir Putin"
AP News Radio
Head of Russian private army Wagner says his forces are handing control of Bakhmut to Moscow
"The head of the Russian private military contractor, Wagner has claimed that his forces have started pulling out of bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and handing over control to the Russian military, the announcement by yevgeny prigozhin, the owner of the private military company, comes days after he said Wagner troops had captured the ruined city, the millionaire owner, with longtime links to Russian president Vladimir Putin, said in a video published on telegram that the handover would be completed by June 1st. We are handing over military positions, ammunition, everything including dry Russian to the Russian military. Nevertheless, a day earlier Ukrainian general staff said that heavy fighting was continuing inside the eastern city after a 9 month battle that killed tens of thousands of people, I am Karen Chammas
AP News Radio
Zelenskyy denies Ukrainian city of Bakhmut occupied by Russian forces
"Ukraine's president has denied that Russian forces are occupying the eastern Ukrainian city of bakhmut. The claim by Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky has cast doubt on Moscow's insistence that the Ukrainian city had fallen. On Russian state TV, the anchor announced that president Vladimir Putin had congratulated the Wagner private army in helping to liberate at your mosque, which is Soviet, however, Ukrainian military officials also said their soldiers were still engaging Russian forces in fierce battles in and around bahn, the 8 month battle for bakhmut has been the longest and probably most bloody of the conflict in Ukraine. I am Karen Thomas
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Left in Denial: China Planning Invasion of Taiwan
"I had a dinner lunch last week with three smart people. One of whom is a foreign national two of them are Democrats. All three of whom agreed that China wasn't going to attack Taiwan. They would prefer to absorb it by osmosis and take many years and they'll just buy the island like they did Hong Kong. And I thought to myself, boy, oh boy, the left doesn't want to deal with the reality of the chai comes. How do you get through to people like this that we could wake up any morning and see an invasion? Well, let me start by paraphrasing what Churchill said at Westminster college in Fulton, Missouri, which is to say there's no doubt that the Soviet Union does not want war. They want the fruits of war and an unimpeded expansion of their power and ideological objectives. The same is true of Xi Jinping. No doubt he would prefer to absorb Taiwan via political warfare rather than actual warfare. Yet he repeatedly is telling us that he's prepared to use force if necessary to achieve his life's ambition. And what these people need to do is pay attention to what Xi Jinping says when he talks not to the Davos crowd, but when he talks to his own party membership. And on that point, he has been crystal clear that he is prepared to use force if necessary, particularly when, as I believe, will happen, he realizes that if achieving that objective, that objective of reunification of Taiwan with the mainland, can not be achieved via political warfare because the DPP is going to win the election in Taiwan in January of 2024. So if you crane has taught us anything, it is that we should listen to dictators when they tell us in plain language what they intend to do. And if we ignore that because we graphed our own western sensibilities on to Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping and we do mirror imaging, we do so at our own peril.
AP News Radio
Putin tells Red Square parade 'real war' unleashed on Russia
"Russian president Vladimir Putin has addressed his country's victory day parade on Moscow's red square, claiming that a real war has been unleashed against Russia, a reference to the war in Ukraine. Putin says today the civilization is once again at a decisive turning point, a real war has been unleashed against our motherland, but we have rebuffed international terrorism, and will protect residents of the Donbass, and we will ensure our security. Putin welcomed soldiers fighting in Ukraine, who were present at the parade. I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
Russia's Wagner boss threatens Bakhmut pullout in Ukraine
"Russia's Wagner boss threatens a back mut pull out in Ukraine. The owner of the Wagner group has vowed to pull his troops out of the protracted battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of back next week, accusing Russia's military command of starving his forces of ammunition and causing them heavy losses. Yevgeny prigozhin, a notorious millionaire with longtime links to Russian president Vladimir Putin, claims his forces had planned to capture back mud by May 9, but he says he hasn't received enough artillery ammunition supplies from the Russian military since Monday known for his cluster, the vanden bos has previously made unverifiable claims and made threats he hasn't carried out. I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
Zelenskyy wants Putin trial, Russia accuses US on drones
"Russia is accusing the U.S. of being involved in a purported drone attack yesterday on the Kremlin. Moscow alleges it was a bid to assassinate Vladimir Putin, whose spokesman says, decisions on terror attacks are not made in Kyiv, but rather in Washington. Dmitri peskov says Ukraine then does what it's told to do. He offered no evidence of U.S. involvement, and at The White House. We're still trying to gather information about what happened and we just don't have conclusive evidence one way or the other. Though National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says one thing is for certain. The United States was not involved in this incident in any way contrary to mister peskov's lies. That's what they are just lies. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
AP News Radio
Ukraine's Zelenskyy expected to visit Int'l Criminal Court
"Ukraine's president has made a surprise visit to The Hague in the Netherlands, the home of the International Criminal Court, which is issued an arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky's visit to The Hague came a day after he denied Ukrainian responsibility for what the Kremlin are calling an assassination attempt on president Putin, ICC staff crowded at the windows to get a glimpse of zelensky's arrival and raised a Ukrainian flag next to its own flag outside the building. Meanwhile, Ukraine's air force said Russian forces attacked several regions around Ukraine, including the southern city of Odessa, and the capital Kyiv, with Iranian made drones. I'm Karen Chammas
AP News Radio
Russia: Ukraine tries to attack the Kremlin with drones
"Russia says Ukraine has tried it to attack Moscow's center of government. Russian authorities have accused Ukraine of attempting to hit the Kremlin with two drones overnight, the Kremlin has decried the alleged attack attempt as a terrorist act, saying Russian military and security forces disabled the drones before they could strike the Kremlin adds that a president of Vladimir Putin was safe and has continued to work with his schedule unchanged in a statement carried by a state news agency, the Kremlin said Russia retains the right to respond when and where it sees fit. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
AP News Radio
Russian court fines war critic who asked for prison instead
"A Russian court has convicted a woman in Siberia for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine on social media, her punishment was a hefty fine, despite her plea for a prison sentence instead. Marina novikova, a 65 year old lawyer, was found guilty of spreading false information about the Russian army, denouncing Russia's military was made a criminal offense after president Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine more than 14 months ago. Novikov's posts on the messaging app telegram decried the invasion and criticized the Russian governments. The court in novikov's hometown of seversk imposed a fine of over $12,000, even though prosecutors and novikova herself begged the court to send her to prison instead. I'm Karen Chammas
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Triggernometry's Francis Foster on Rampant Conspiracy Theories
"Been having fascinating conversations offline in the last couple of days. About conspiracy theories. And you were saying some very interesting things, Francis. Help me out here, share a little summary of what we were discussing in terms of why we have this rampant conspiracy theory proclivity on both left and right. So whether it's the bio labs or Putin's a savior of Christianity, there seems to be a dearth of critical thought on left and right. Why a why are people so incapable of asking good questions and just instead they glom on to some spurious crazy ideas? Well, number one is this is particularly true in the UK. We don't teach critical thinking skills in the UK. We don't teach critical thinking skills to children. It's something that we consider unimportant, particularly in the UK when it comes to educating children. We teach to test. So it's very much spoon feeding. You spoon to teach somebody to pass the test. Exactly. So you spoon feed information to kids. You make sure that they cram as much as possible. They go into the test. They regurgitate said opinions, they get an a stole, be or whatever it is. The school looks great. The kid then moves on happy as Larry, and you go, well, what's the problem with that? Well, there's a very real problem with that because you're not teaching children to investigate. You're not teaching children to criticize and most importantly, you're not teaching children to think for themselves. That child will become an adult. And when that child becomes an adult, those that is going to be a very real problem because when they get information that is false or biased, they don't have the skills to investigate it for themselves and come to their own mind. And then there's the second part of it, which is, in the world of social media, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, we're all becoming far more narcissistic, because social media is all about yourself.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Konstantin Kisin Corrects the Record on the War in Ukraine
"The other things that you have established a kind of side career on of late sadly because of the events of the last 14 months, a Constantine is helping people understand what's going on in Russia and in Ukraine. Because you were born in the Soviet Union, correct? I was. And you're married to someone from Ukraine. And my mom is Ukrainian. And you have family in the Ukraine. And in Russia. Any Russia. So you become a commentator on these issues. And one of the most useful things you do is, which is like rule number one, you read the statements in Russian that are coming out of for example the Kremlin. You tell people, they might be spent to the left, they might be spent to the right, but this is exactly this is what Putin said, let's listen to that. What is perhaps give us a couple of things that are least well understood about the 14 months that we've witnessed, whether it's the reality in Kyiv, whether it's who Vladimir Putin is, what are the most incorrect conventional wisdoms that you have been trying to correct as a person from Russia with family in the Ukraine? Well, I think one of the things that I've been concerned about is the people in the west don't seem to understand that cultures are different. And so they look at what Russia is doing and they imagine themselves in that position and they think, well, this is what would make me invade a neighboring country. And so they have to make up things like Putin was provoked, Ukrainians and Nazis and all this stuff to make themselves understand what's actually happening because they can't conceive of an imperialist expansionist country like Russia. And a guy who's been in power, by the way, so as you know, since 19 99, so he sees himself as a successor to pizza the great, the man who built Russia as an empire. Not a Democrat. Surprisingly so. And so the people, the thing that people, I think, don't understand, is that it's quite possible for people in other parts of the world to think, you know, it is to my personal benefit to my glory. It is in my interest to do this. To
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Triggernometry's Konstantin Kisin Decribes the Moment He Went Viral
"Launched a trigonometry and then there was a moment where with your bloody mindedness constantin, you made big news nationally. What was that triggering moment that got attention to you in the podcast? Well, what happened was shortly after we started the show, I was invited to do a comedy gig at a college, a small college in London, and they said that in order to perform. By the way, they asked me to raise money for charity. And they sent me a contract saying, we have a zero tolerance policy on racism, sexism, classism, ageism, ableism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, xenophobia islamophobia, anti religion. No, this is no skit. It became a skit pretty much. But these are the things they listed. Anti atheism, and it also said that all jokes must be respectful and kind. This was in writing. This is in writing. And you can't perform a comedy act unless you acquiesce. Unless you sign this. What did you do? And I just turned it down. I tweeted about it to what was about a thousand people at the time. And I think people were so shocked by what happened that it went super viral, and it went viral on the day in the our country when the prime minister of the leader of the country was nearly removed from office by her own party. That would be the equivalent of the Democrats impeaching nearly impeaching Joe Biden right now, and the second biggest story on CNN and Fox. About a comedian. Is this some media comedian no one's ever heard of from some tiny little college not doing the gig. So it showed us at the time that massive numbers of people now are concerned about what they can and can't say in the public space. And I
AP News Radio
Putin rallies his troops with 2nd Ukraine visit in 2 months
"The Kremlin says Russian president Vladimir Putin has visited headquarters of the Russian troops fighting in Ukraine. A video released by the Kremlin shows Putin visiting the command post for Russian forces in the southern Persian region and receiving reports from the top brass there. He then moved by helicopter to the Russian National Guard in the Luhansk region to hear further information about the situation. Russia took the cursor and Luhansk regions into its fold along with donets and zap region in September in a move that was rejected by most of the world as illegal annexation. This is Putin's second trip to the areas that Russia occupies in Ukraine in as many months. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
AP News Radio
Red Cross confirms contact with Russia about Ukrainian kids
"The international committee of the Red Cross has said it has been in contact with a Russian official suspected of war crimes, the contact comes as the organization attempts to bring back Ukrainian children who were deported to Russia. The communication between the ICRC and Russia's children's rights commissioner Maria lova belova is the first high level exchange on the topic of child deportation, the International Criminal Court increased pressure in Russia by issuing an arrest warrant for live over beloved and Russian president Vladimir Putin, accusing them of abducting children from Ukraine, an AP investigation revealed the Volvo beloved involvement in the abductions, and found an open effort to put Ukrainian children up for adoption in Russia. Claims all 700,000 children brought to Russia were done so with parents relatives or legal guardians, except for 2000 from orphanages in the eastern Donbass. I'm Karen Chammas
AP News Radio
China's Xi calls for Ukraine peace talks to resume
"China's leader has called for peace talks over Ukraine after France's president urged him to bring Russia to its senses. At a joint news briefing in Beijing, China's Xi Jinping said resume peace talks as soon as possible in accordance with the purposes and principles of the UN charter taken to account the legitimate security concerns of all parties. She, however, gave France's president Emmanuel Macron, no assurances that he would use his close diplomatic relationship with Russia's president Vladimir Putin as leverage to push for peace, Beijing sees Moscow as a strategic partner in the face of U.S. domination in global affairs, whilst China's government has tried to remain neutral, it has given Putin diplomatic support and repeated Russian and has repeated Russian justifications for the February 2022 attack. I'm Karen Chammas
AP News Radio
Macron in China urges 'shared responsibility for peace'
"French president Emmanuel Macron says he wants to engage China towards a shared responsibility for peace in Ukraine when he meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week. French officials say, Macron plans to urge Xi in talks on Thursday to use Beijing's influence with Russian president Vladimir Putin, but he doesn't expect a big shift in the Chinese position Macron is accompanied by European Commission president Ursula von der leyen. In a show of European unity. She and Putin declare their governments had a no limits friendship before Moscow's February 2022 attack on Ukraine, while Macron wants to try to build and somehow engage China toward a shared responsibility for peace and stability on international issues, including Ukraine. I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
Antiwar officer from Putin’s elite security team defects
"On October 14, engineer Cara kulov escaped from Russia, he'd switched off his phone to shut out the crescendo of urgent enraged messages. Say goodbye to his life in Russia and try to calm his fast beating heart. This was no ordinary Russian defector. Being an officer in president Vladimir Putin's secretive elite personal security service. I consider this man Putin a walker more, although I do not participate specifically in these military activities. I do not consider it possible for me to carry out his criminal orders or even to be in his service. A senior researcher at the dossier center recounts details of his escape. He escaped from Kazakhstan while being on assignment. So the president is nearby and he's like picking up and taking his chance to escape. He was in Istanbul and we arrange a security flat security location and met him in person. It was amazing to see a very young, very modest guy. Raises critical questions about how deep the Russian public's acceptance of the war runs and how Putin's opponents in the west and beyond might leverage any silent opposition. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Sebastian Talks to Investigative Journalist and Author Lee Smith
"Portions of the following program may contain pre recorded material. The deep state is not a theory, it's fact and you know it as of this morning. Why? President Trump has been talking about it for nigh on 6 years and now they're trying to take him down yet again. Who better to discuss it? The man who literally wrote the book, the plot against the president, turned into an amazing documentary and the permanent coup. My friend and investigative reporter and author par excellence, Lee Smith. Welcome back to America first. Sab great to be with you, as always. Lee, we usually jump straight into the meat of the matter. We have the luxury of a little bit of extra time today because this is one of our deep dives one on one. I got to know you, I don't know. Centuries ago, when I was doing national security, you were doing national security. Your original book that I knew you from was the strong horse power politics and the clash of cultures or Arab power dynamics in the Middle East. For those who aren't familiar with your prior work before you got into this analysis of domestic politics and the deep state, tell us a little bit about Lee Smith and your trajectory, how you moved from international affairs to what you're covering today. Well, this is, I mean, actually it was covering the Middle East. Covering Iran and Syria. In particular, in particular, that showed me what was going on in 2016. First of all, I was covering the Syrian conflict, very, very closely. And the reality was, is that Barack Obama officials were coordinating with Russia, with Vladimir Putin in Syria. I'm in Russia's Russia came in there and partnership with the Islamic Republic of Iran. And Hezbollah and the Obama administration was supportive of this. So when starting in the summer of 2016, we started to see stories about how Trump was close to Russia. And many of these leaks, many of these many of these statements were sourced to unnamed officials, who was it turned out were precise the same officials who were boasting about the Obama administration's coordination with Russia and Syria. It seemed absolutely ridiculous to me. And I knew there was something going on at that point. I knew it was what David Samuels described in a famous New York Times Magazine, article as Ben Rhodes and Barack Obama's echo chamber. So I saw something going on with that. But there's something else too that's even more significant. And that is, I started to see around that time how our press are free, our ostensibly free and independent press had started to take on the characteristics of the Arab, the Arab media. In particular that none of this was independent reporting, it was all done in coordination with intelligence services. And that's precisely what we saw in particular with The Washington Post and The New York Times, starting in 2016. It's coverage of Donald Trump. The press became the outward face of the intelligence services, and to see that happen, and our country said, in the United States, the Beacon of the Beacon of freedom, the world's greatest country, and oldest democracy, to see this happen here. It should get everyone not just alarm and alert people, but to get everyone out of their doldrums and get everyone to defend our country to see what to see what's happening and to see what people have in store for it. Unless we protect our country. Unless we defend our liberties. So just to remind those who may have forgotten those years, not too long ago, under Obama, this is the same president who on that notorious that infamous hot Mike moment with Putin's puppet Medvedev lent over didn't know the mics were hot and said to Medvedev, this is incredible. Tell Vladimir, I will have much more flexibility after the election. And met with dev in his central casting thick Russian accent says, yes, yes, I will tell Vladimir. Likewise, it's the same Ben Rhodes in The White House, the only official ever at that level in an administration to be refused even an interim security clearance by the FBI because of his shady background. This is the same Ben Rhodes, who in an article actually said it's so easy to quote unquote exploit the idiots in the press corps in Washington, D.C.. These are the same people Lee. Yep, absolutely. And this is something, of course, that as you and I say this, I've been, of course, we have our friends and allies who understand this, who've heard us say at who've heard others say it. But look, it's telling that there's no way that this will ever penetrate the media, right? And this is the issue that the media is the sword and shield. Not just of the Democratic Party, but most crucially, Barack Obama and not just Barack Obama's legacy, but Barack Obama's initiative, which is to utterly transform the United States of America and to come to the present. What we've seen the last 6 plus years, it's culminating to date in the indictment of Donald Trump. And I think it's really important for us to look at the role that Barack Obama has played in this over the last 6 and a half years. It seems to me this is a crucial piece that's been missing and we talked about at the beginning, the way that I see the prosecution of Trump beginning. It starts July 5th, 2016 when Christopher Steele first turns over some of his phony Trump Russia reports to the FBI. And we know that this was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign for president. So Hillary's taken rightly, she's rightly held accountable for how this country has been poisoned the last 6 plus years. But that unfortunately by focusing too much on Clinton, we forget that all of these spy chiefs who were coordinating with the Clinton campaign who were leaking to the press, these people all worked for Barack Obama. It's inconceivable. As a matter of fact, we know that Obama knew what was going on. We knew we know from a handwritten notes from John Brennan in the summer of 2016. And we know him these White House meetings in early January 2017. Barack Obama knew what was going on. We know that we also know from the text messages between the FBI lovebirds. That's right. That they said at one point, the president wants to be briefed about everything with regards to operation crossfire hurricane in the targeting of Mike Flynn, correct? You're absolutely you're absolutely right. And I'm glad I'm glad you reminded me of that. I was moving so quickly through all of it. But you're absolutely right. And so I think that this is how we need to understand the indictment. And the strain, you know, everyone talks all the time about, oh, but especially Donald Trump's foes. Talk about, oh, he's an exceptionally bad president. He's an exceptionally evil man. And this is why he deserves this is why he deserves everything that's happening to him. This nonsense. Donald Trump is very firmly within the tradition of mainstream American politics, going back to the beginning, whether we're talking about economic nationalism, whether we're talking about a strain of rough and ready populism. This is part of the American mainstream. What is not a part of the American mainstream. And that's arresting other presidents indicting prosecuting other presidents of the United States. That's what's extraordinary here. Donald Trump is a great president. You and I and your great audience agrees on that. But what's extraordinary is not Donald Trump. What's extraordinary is prosecuting a president, a former president, and the FrontRunner for the 2024 nomination. That's what's different to you. Yeah, that's the key element that to use the British term here's the current leader of the opposition, not just the former president, but the individual who is right now, 20 to 30 points in front of the next next possible candidate to be the Republican nominee. We talked to Lee Smith, author extraordinaire, follow him on Twitter at Lee Smith D.C.. He's the author of the fabulous works, the plot against the president, which became a movie made by our friend Amanda milius and the permanent coup how enemies foreign and domestic targeted the American president.
Lex Fridman Podcast
"vladimir putin" Discussed on Lex Fridman Podcast
"Do you have a device that you can give to someone like me or anyone hoping to understand something about a human being? Sitting across from them about what it takes to do a good interview. You're doing one. Well, no, but listen, there's a levels to this game. And interviewing somebody like Vladimir Putin also language barrier, sit across from the man, tried to keep an open mind, tried to also ask challenging questions, but not challenging with an agenda, but seeking to understand. And I understand deeply. How do you do that? Seeking the truth. It's very simple, seeking the truth, being a questioner like you are, you want to know what is really going on. I could not get anywhere with Biden or bush or for that matter Obama. They'd be opaque with me. There's no interview possible with the president of the United States because he's got to stand for all the stuff that they stand for, which is imperialism, which is control of the world. How can you defend that? No one's going to come out and say that. They're always going to blame the enemy. They're going to blame Iran. They're going to blame China. So some people may not be possible to break through the opaque. I mean, have you ever seen an interview with the president? Besides being personable, where he actually discussed American policy? Yeah, I mean, not really, but maybe after their president, I could see Obama being able to do such an interview..
Lex Fridman Podcast
"vladimir putin" Discussed on Lex Fridman Podcast
"I see no evidence of it. Why didn't he do something in all these years? Nothing. He did nothing except defend the country in Georgia and in Chechnya. So the imperialist imperative is coming more from the west imperialist. It's the imperialist agenda going back to I'm sorry where we left our discussion off. I mean, I was going to go on with America not only being closed down now, closed down and you say, it's not fear. Well, it is fear. I am scared. Because if you get your Facebook page to spend it or YouTube, Twitter account thrown off. A lot of good people are getting there. Thrown off. You can't say you can't speak out. It affects your business. It goes back to the 1950s when my father's world, when you could not express any sympathy for a Soviet Union without endangering your job without basically being not trusted. You had to be part of the program to get along to go along. Same thing when the United Kingdom for all their talk, this Boris Johnson is an idiot. But all their talk about do you remember their policies with the IRA in Ireland when Ireland was threatening them? They cut off the IRA completely. Jerry Adams, who was a wonderful guy, I met him, was not allowed to even be heard in Britain during certain years. In France, all constantly through the Algerian war, the algerians were not allowed to be heard. The Algerian war for independence divided France greatly, you could not even show paths of glory. World War I film in France for, I don't know, 20 years after it came out. Censorship is a way of life when democracies also feel threatened. They are much more fragile than they pretend to be. A healthy democracy would take all the criticism in the world and shrug it off and say, okay, that's what's good about our country. Well, I'd like to see that in America. It used there are times that it's been like that, but it's so scary now. So it is scary. That's what I was trying to say. It's not un scary to me. In China, I would say to you, yes, it's much scarier to me because there is the Internet wall that they cut off and I got in a problems in China too because I said something in years ago about you have to discover your own history. You have to be honest about Mao. You have to be. You have to go back and let's make a movie about Mao. That upset them. And show his negatives. So China has been much more sensitive than Russia about criticism, much more. And it is a source of problems, but on the other hand, China has a lot of grievances. A lot of going back to the 19th century and the British imperialism of that era and the American imperialism. If you could talk to Vladimir Putin once again. Now, what kind of what kind of things would you talk about here? What kind of questions would you ask?.
Lex Fridman Podcast
"vladimir putin" Discussed on Lex Fridman Podcast
"In the west, and that includes France, too, because I was there recently in England, England is, of course, really vociferous, it's shocking to me how quickly Europe moved in this direction. And that includes Germany. I have German friends who expressed to me their shock over Ukraine. I have Italian friends, same thing in Italy, of course, has been the perhaps the most understanding and compassionate of countries. So it's quite evident that there's a united and this attests to the power of the United States. And of course, you have Finland and Finland, which is generally been reasonable jumping in talking about joining NATO and Sweden too. Generally there's been some more restraint in Europe. That's what surprised me the most. Europe. How quickly they felt into this NATO basket. Which is very dangerous for Europe very dangerous. This goes back to my idea what I was saying earlier about sovereignty. These countries have don't really give me a sense that they have sovereignty over their own countries. They don't feel European nations. Obviously, intuition here is working. I just don't feel that they have freedom to say what they really think and they're scared to say it. When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, I remember with great in a sense satisfaction that at least France, chirac, who I had not really know much about. I stood up and said the United States were not going to join you in this expedition, basically into madness. Schroeder and Germany, same thing. Of course, Putin condemned the invasion and cocoon had been an ally of the United States since 9 11 if you remember correctly. Yes. And had called bush and they were getting along. So even Putin said, I won't go. I don't go into Iraq. This is not the solution. He didn't oppose Afghanistan, but he opposed Iraq. So Serac and Schroeder stood for the old Europe. I remember de Gaulle, Charles De Gaulle, he was independent of the United States. Charles De Gaulle pulled France out of NATO because he saw the dangers of NATO, which is to say, you have to fight an American war. When they say, and they put nuclear weapons on your territory in England and France and Italy and Germany, when they do that, you're hitched to this superpower, and you have no say in what they're going to do. If they declare war and they use your territory, you're going to be involved in a major conflict. I'm talking about sovereignty. Where is that sovereignty? They don't have it. And that has influenced their mindset for years now since 1940 since de Gaulle was a 60s. He actually reversed the whole flow and he was, I think it was Sarkozy, who put France back into NATO. And now it's Macron. I hope because he was talking to Putin would at least have an independent viewpoint that could be helpful here, but so he rolled it up..
Lex Fridman Podcast
"vladimir putin" Discussed on Lex Fridman Podcast
"It was no long a president and Vladimir Putin became president. You did a series of interviews with Vladimir Putin, as you mentioned, over a period of two years from 2015 to 2017. Let me ask the high level question. What was your goal with that conversation? Came out in 2017, I guess I started them in 2014. At that point, there's no nefarious happened. I was working on a movie on Snowden. That happened in 13. Ukraine happened in 14. And one thing after another, by 14, Pope Putin was enemy number again becoming a wanted man on the American list. He was certainly in the top 5, but the animosity towards Putin had been growing since 2007 at Munich. I remember that speech when he made it, it's in my documentary that's a four hour documentary, four different conversations. I mean, we talked to over two years, two and a half years. But I remember that image of him at Munich, making a very important speech about world harmony about the balance necessary in the world. And I remember the sneer, the sneer on John McCain's face, he was in Munich, obviously eyeballing Putin and hating him. And it was so evident that McCain had no belief whatsoever that this he was almost treating him like these are the communists are back. And we know that Putin was not a communist. We know the Putin is very much a market man. And he made it very clear and tried to keep an open climate. A new relationship with Europe, but the United States always certain people in the United States always sell that as a threat, like Putin is trying to take Europe away from us as if we own it. As if we have the right to own it. But Putin was making the point. It's very important about sovereignty. Sovereignty for a country is crucial for this new world to have balance. That's sovereignty for China, sovereignty for Russia, sovereignty for Iran, sovereignty for Venezuela, sovereignty for Cuba. This is an idea that's crucial to the new world, and I think the United States has never accepted that. Sovereignty is not an idea that they can allow. You have.
Today, Explained
"vladimir putin" Discussed on Today, Explained
"Do not want to be hooked into the Russian Empire. It might have seemed to the western world as a great and marvelous thing. That the Ukrainian people were standing up and asserting their right to democracy. To Putin that was a direct threat. And since that time, he has been waiting for his moment. And that moment appeared to come on February 24th of this year. The Russian president Vladimir Putin is calling this a, quote, special military operation to protect on bass. It is clearly bigger than that. Now he made a surprise. We are now in a new phase, not just in world history, but starting in a more micro sense where in a new phase, in Russian history, we can not continue to superimpose western ideas, western logic, western history, on Russia. Russia is a special place with a special history, and it feels it has every right to live that history. The problem here is that that history impinges directly on other countries, which have an equal right to their own legacy, and their own history, and their own future. At the ring collision, is there a possibility that it will expand? I certainly pray that that is not the case. Why? Because that might then involve the use of nuclear weapons. We have been so fortunate since Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 that these weapons have not been used again. Once the weapon is used, if it be a small size, it doesn't matter. The impact is huge. It opens the door to the use of the big nuclear weapons. How do you stop that? We're at a pivotal moment now. Where the west has to be careful how it uses and deals with Putin and Putin has to be very careful in the way he deals with the west. In 2016, a remarkable thing happened. The United States elected as president Donald Trump. And now we had a situation in which an American president appeared to both like end admire and possibly even respect Vladimir Putin. What did that do for Putin in his mind to have the respect of an American president? I got him. I got him. Yeah. I think the first thing that must have run through Putin's mind is I can't be this lucky. Really, I can't be this lucky. In the 2016 election, everybody, including Trump, believed that Clinton was going to win. And in Putin's mind, that had brought back to Clinton when she was Secretary of State. And the conflict that she always had with Lavrov, and with him. He believed that Clinton was a total cockeyed view, but he believed that Clinton was the person who instigated the Russian people to have their anti Putin demonstrations in 2011. What she said and I think is accurate, the United States was in support of people who wanted their freedom. Good. We might have been a bit too careless in the way in which we were using words and the way in which we took certain actions because Putin regarded the words and the actions, as mortal threats, to him, and to Russia. In that order, and he then felt he had an enemy that he had to defeat. Is there someone in particular waiting behind a curtain so to speak for Putin to either be overthrown or to be killed? Is there one person one friend in particular who you think might take over? No, I do not have a name. There is a group. And that group is small. And you're talking about a handful of people. From that group, some one will emerge. Likely to emerge and replace Putin. But when that is, is that near, if I had to roll the dice right now, I would say we are nearer. To a change in the Russian leadership than we have been in the last 22 years. But are we talking about another year? Another two years? I think not more than that. Not more than that. Russia has a way.
Today, Explained
"vladimir putin" Discussed on Today, Explained
"Back with Marvin kalb journalist author Russia hand for almost 70 years in 2009, the Obama administration announced what it called a reset between the U.S. and Russia. Then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva. The cameras were flashing Clinton handed him a red button with a word on it. I wanted to present you with a little gift, which represents what president Obama and vice President Biden and I have been saying. And that word in Russian was supposed to say reset, but it was actually the wrong translation and the word that appeared on the button was overcharged. You get the drunk. I got it wrong. It should be better. Let's talk about that moment. Vladimir Putin was not president, a man named Dmitri Medvedev was, at the time, what was the U.S. trying to reset from? There had been a very long time in the recent historical relationship between Russia and the United States when we were in constant state of anxiety of tension of confrontation and that was all called the Cold War. By the time Clinton came around with Lavrov and the reset idea, what they were trying to do was simply say enough of that confrontation. Let's try to get along because there's a whole rest of the world. That the U.S. has to deal with, and for Medvedev, who was then technically the leader of Russia, with Putin very much in the background, but very much in control. The idea was simply to romance Russia into an association with the west, and they wanted to reset it. It was an easy, very American way of doing things, but not a Russian way of doing things. From the beginning in 2009 and 2010, were there any gains made toward normalizing a relationship between the United States and Russia. Did anything go right? Absolutely. There were a number of agreements that were reached. There were long-term negotiations on arms control. There were trade agreements that were reached, there was more than anything in attitude of openness on that spot. That had never been apparent with Putin. In 2007, Putin delivered to speech in Munich. He simply attacked the west. He made it very clear that he was unhappy with the state as quote. We then came in with this reset, but at that time, Putin felt that the progress that had been made under Medvedev. Was not healthy for Russia. In the years after 2012, what would you say were the pivotal moments where it became clear to you and other observers O Vladimir Putin doesn't want to reset? Vladimir Putin wants to do what Vladimir Putin wants to do and the U.S. be damned. The most important thing that happened were the mass demonstrations inside.
Today, Explained
"vladimir putin" Discussed on Today, Explained
"Putin's own advisers are misleading him about the war, they're telling him what he wants to hear. So what's going through this secretive solitary dictator's mind? We found one man who thinks he knows the answer. It's today explained I'm Noel king for almost 70 years Marvin kalb has loved Russia. In the early 1950s, he studied Russian history as a PhD candidate at Harvard. In 1960, he moved to Moscow as a reporter for CBS News. He's interviewed lots of powerful Russians, but he's never talked to Vladimir Putin. Kelp says, to get insight into Putin, it's better to read about him than to interview him. I have found over the years that if you read intensely, what it is that a leader says or writes or thinks about himself, you're going to get a pretty good idea of what he actually is. Sometimes in an interview you get only what a major political figure wishes to convey. And he does that very well, Putin is an astoundingly good interview. And reporters who get in the views with him, do very well because he can play to the personality. He knows how to deal with people. That's terribly important to him. Based on your many years of reading and observing and knowing that you have a keen sense into who people are. Who is Vladimir Putin? Vladimir Putin at the moment is a very lonely figure. He is finally a dictator. He used to be an authoritarian figure. He used to have the kind of power that a Tsar had. He is now an absolute dictator, and for him, that's a bad thing. What it means is on the one hand he has absolute power to do whatever he wants in Russia, but the people around him are now terrified of him. And that means that they will tell him what they think he wants to hear. That is very bad for any leader of any country. Putin now is in desperate need of solid 100% verified information, and he is not getting it. That is the belief of the U.S. government of western nations, and I think logically given the history of dictatorship. But when you get to an absolute top point of power, you begin to lose it, and put you now is in the process of losing the power that for most of his life he sought to accumulate. He is a former KGB official. One of the young men in the dying days of the Soviet Union, who would try to live in the artificial world, created by the KGB. He would imagine what the western world was like. He would try very hard to understand it. He would pick up a language, the government gave him every opportunity to learn as much about the enemy as he could, and he did, and he thought he would be able to figure out how to manipulate the enemy so that he could destroy it. That was the whole point of the KGB operation. It was an intelligence unit, but it was also a unit that operated to achieve certain ends, and for the KGB the end as always been. The dissolution of the western threat. We know that U.S. intelligence has tried to assess whether the pandemic changed Vladimir Putin's mental state, whether isolation from the pandemic changed him. Was he a solitary person before the pandemic? Was he a lonely figure prior to this virus? Every leader is to some degree a lonely figure, but Putin was not. Putin enjoyed being with people, but at the same time he was always very suspicious of everybody. And so there was always a distance between him, and any one he was negotiating with, and certainly between him, and a person he would regard as an enemy. And so yes, distance existed. He was surrounded always by his own intelligence, his own ambition, his drive for power, and when he achieved that, and he was very good at persuading the man above him. The president of Russia, mister yeltsin, in the 1990s, guilds him brought him down from St. Petersburg to Moscow, yeltsin appointed Putin the head of the KGB or the new version of it. And a couple of years later appointed him prime minister, and then when yeltsin wanted to resign, he looked around and the only person he felt he could trust was potent, and so Putin became his successor, and almost immediately established a new kind of governance in Russia. He had his KGB folks ready to roll into power. Not only in Moscow and Petersburg, but all over the country. It is a vast country. It extends over many time zones. It is difficult to run a country that large. And Putin had his people in position to run it, he had control over the entire operation. He became the boss. And so who surrounds Putin now? Who are his advisers? Who are his friends? The people who are around him now are the same people, more or less, who have been around him for the past 22 years. Wow. They are the people from the KGB, he allowed those people to take over control over large economic assets in the country, oil, gas, timber, were invested in the hands of a very small group. And this small group proved to be effective enough for Putin to become the boss and run this very complex society. What does it tell you that Vladimir Putin has not made new friends over the last 22 years that the same people who surrounded him when he was a KGB agent surround him as he is president of a world power? And that is an extremely important observation, because what we learned from it is that we are dealing with a man who had a certain vision of the world, 2030 years ago, and retains it only in sharper form today. Please remember, Putin is first and foremost, a Russian nationalist. The question that comes into mind is he an ultra nationalist by which I mean, does he see everything? From a Russian point of view and the answer, unfortunately, is yes. And because he sees everything from a Russian point of view, he looks at a country, for.
ESPN Daily
"vladimir putin" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Big part of why you're seeing this sort of spirit from the Ukrainian population that you are. So when you step back now, TJ and you look at the full story here that you've reported. The life story of Vladimir Putin to all of these massive global events to the athletes who are clearly on the ground, a part of the biggest news story on earth. What comes to mind? That sports are not incidental to this fight. They are another front in this fight. I mean, this is a war being fought in the streets with guns, but it's also a cyber battle. It is also a battle of information and misinformation and propaganda plays a part like really no other war in recent memory and sports are part of that sports are politics, sports are essential to Russian culture and identity and to Vladimir Putin's identity. And so when the world steps, steps up and says, we are going to eliminate Russia from the global sports community. That's not just propaganda. That is not just a cosmetic step. That is something that absolutely hits at the core of who Russia is of who Vladimir Putin is and how he maintains his support. DJ Quinn, thanks for doing this, man. Thanks, man. I'm Pablo Torre. This has been ESPN daily. I'll talk to you tomorrow..
ESPN Daily
"vladimir putin" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"He was a scrapper, Street Fighter. We shot images of the apartment building where he grew up in St. Petersburg. He has one generation removed from maybe the most brutal chapter in Russian history, which was the siege of Leningrad. Once St. Petersburg, Leningrad under communist Soviet rule, and then back to St. Petersburg again. I was born in Leningrad. And as you know, during World War II, Leon grad went through 900 days of blockade. Every day. This is where a million people died during the Nazi siege where people were cannibalizing bodies that were dead in the street where everybody lost family members. And he was born in this rough part of town, he lives in this apartment building where by his description and by others there were this courtyard with drunks and thugs and he's always getting into fights. And he gets into judo and gets good at it. And that became absolutely essential to his personal identity. And all this is happening as he comes of age and then goes to work for the KGB during the Cold War. So now you've got this idea. He is a street scrapper who is now working for the most notorious spy agency in the world. Putin as we know, he joins the KGB, the Russian spy agency, and he gets staffed in Dresden in East Germany during the 70s and 80s. This is the height of the Cold War. Just remind us what the role of sports was during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Sports were the battlefield. That is where the Cold War was really fought, where there was any actual engagement between the two sides. What it meant, every time these teams faced was which system was superior, capitalism or communism, democracy, or authoritarianism. And in 1972, when the Soviets beat the Americans in basketball was one of the greatest moments in the history of Soviet Russia. Now the clock shows three seconds. There is time for the Russians to go to their big man Alexander bell out. They're going to try. Alexander Bella. Between two American defenders. And this time it is over. Other than, you know, conquering all the nations that they invaded. This was the biggest political victory. And same thing in 1980, for those of us who are old enough to remember, it's funny to think of the American superpower as this plucky little kid on the world stage, but in the hockey world, that's what we were. They were pros. We were amateurs. And then all of a sudden, how many people, even if they weren't alive and can still do Al Michaels, do you believe in miracles? Yes. Unbelievable. It felt like a miracle. That was a political victory for this country. And so these are the formative years for Vladimir Putin TJ is what you're saying. And it takes us to 1991 because this is the collapse now of the Soviet Union, and with it a lot of Russia's sporting empire. Vladimir Putin is returning home from East Germany. He's working his way back up through the political ranks in Russia. He eventually becomes prime minister under the then ailing president Boris Yeltsin. And when yeltsin resigns on the last day of the 20th century, December 31st, 1999, Putin takes over and how does he begin to use sports once he's in office? Well, he recognized a couple of things. One was that having events like the Olympics, like the World Cup, that means you're a world power. That means that you are right up there with everyone else. And I'm choosing this word specifically. When the Soviet Union collapsed and then as yeltsin's presidency collapsed in the late 1990s, it was emasculating for a lot of people in Russia. They had convinced themselves that they were this major world power into the Soviet Union and now they were a joke. The president of the country is this man whose lampooned is a drunk who almost collapses during public events and Putin recognizes that sports are one of the vehicles that can get them back into maybe not actual world power, but at least the appearance of it. And when you run a country like that, appearance counts for an awful lot. I don't know if there's a moment that did more to create that appearance than the one that we got in 2007 TJ when Russia was selected to host the 2014 Winter Olympics. The 22nd Olympic winter games in 2014 are awarded to the city of Sochi. Putin himself was everywhere at the Sochi games. I mean, he was arguably the whole thing's biggest star. Well, they're called the Olympic Games, but they may as well call them the Putin games. Never before have a game has been this closely identified with one personality. And one of the people you talk to for this story, TJ, before he passed away, was senator John McCain, what did he have to say about Putin and staging those Olympics in Sochi? That was really something. That was a month before McCain was diagnosed with the cancer that eventually killed him. We were lucky to get that time. And he immediately drew a contrast with Adolf Hitler in the 1936 Olympics. Having the Olympics and being clearly responsible for it was another step in that deification of Vladimir Putin with the Russian people. Dominating the world's sports was not only his ambition, but by the way, it was another guy, too, and his name was Adolf Hitler. You know, we also interviewed for this piece, Gary Kasparov, one of the, if not the greatest chess player in history, one of the two greatest in a former hero of the Soviet empire. And both of them said that the apt comparison is those 36 Olympics. And both of them pointed out, look, we're looking from the 21st century as Hitler in full of the man who murdered 6 million Jews, tried to take over Europe. But in 1936, he had only been in office a few years and was trying to show the world that Nazi Germany was a force to be reckoned with. I mean, this was a propaganda event. And that's what Kasparov told us when we pressed him about it. We're not talking about Hitler from the history book. We're talking from Hitler of 1936. Where Hitler could enjoy tremendous popularity around the world because he was at a limelight in the center of world attention. That's where you can make the case. It's a valid comparison. A rising authoritarian figure with bigger ambitions than just his own country. Frankly, that holds with Putin. Yeah, TJ look, anytime there's a Hitler reference, right? This is the Godwin's law thing. It sort of is like, wait a minute. Are we sure we want to talk about it in this way? But there do seem to be parallels here that you have come to report out and understand. There is great validity in this because what you're talking about is an authoritarian figure with two audiences. One is domestic, showing look what I can do for us on the world stage. Look at the glory that I'm bringing us. The world is coming here. I'm the leader who did this for us. And at the same time, it's a message to the rest of the world that we are a country to be taken seriously. That is very much what the 36 Olympics were for Hitler. And.
ESPN Daily
"vladimir putin" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"The video again to see, no, he's dead serious. It was not a joke. Everyone is supposed to pretend the emperor is wearing hockey clothes. Putin has only been playing hockey for a few years. That was not his sport. He was big into judo and sambo, which is a Russian version of martial art. And all of a sudden, here he is with fatigue soft and all these legends and he scores 8 goals and he's always by himself in front of the net. Nobody's in front of him and the goalies are flopping around like dead fish. And no one can stop him. It would look like a parody except that it was meant to be taken seriously. Look how great this man is. And nobody winked, you know, no little grins or nudges. People watching were supposed to think, yes, this is how good Vladimir Putin is at hockey. And so obviously TJ from the outside, this sort of like humorless epic delusion. I mean, we laugh at this. Instinctively, but given that they are so clearly important to not just the Russian people, but Putin himself in particular. Why is this a thing he cares about so much? Wind and why did Putin himself begin to see sports as central to his conception of himself? Any biography that you read about him talks about the great pride he had in.
ESPN Daily
"vladimir putin" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Today, TJ Quinn investigates how Vladimir Putin used games to gain power. And how his Kremlin has used the World Cup and the Olympics, and every sport in between. To keep it. I'm Pablo Torre, it's Wednesday, march 2nd. This is ESPN daily. So DJ ESPN daily obviously is a sports podcast, but it is impossible to not pay attention to what is clearly the biggest story on our planet right now, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the man at the center of that story. The man everybody's trying to understand. Is of course Russian president Vladimir Putin. Back in 2018, you worked on an investigation for E 60, where you went to Russia, you look deeply into Putin and his connections to sports and how he uses sports maybe more than any other world leader as a means for power, what made you want to look into Putin back then? This was coming off the revelations that Russia not only had a pretty extensive doping system through the Sochi games, but that it was state run. Drug cocktails and bogus urine samples. The doctor admits providing those and more to Russian athletes at the Sochi Olympics. Gregory rodchenkov tells The New York Times. It was all part of Russia's state run doping program. You had a doping operation that was actually facilitated by the FSB, which was the national police. It's like the FBI running a doping scheme in this country. And it came straight from the office of the minister of sport. We don't have one in this country, but almost every other country does. This was Putin's right hand man vitali mutko overseeing this with the Russian anti doping agency with their top scientists carrying out this scheme with the help of federal police. And just started thinking about how this is not just about sports, this is about his international goals. His geopolitical goals. If you want to understand Russia and how it operates,.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"vladimir putin" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"So what if I told you that Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are actually cheering for the great reset? Are they not cheering for the great reset in their country, but they would love nothing more than any of their rivals their competitors or their enemies to basically forsake their national sovereignty and become part of some sort of woke weak globalist project and Putin and Gigi ping can figure out what to do while they're the only two remaining nationalistic countries that have any sort of strength. The great reset focused primarily on Western countries is all about private property confiscation and western value deterioration and owning nothing. We've gone through that list multiple times, but one of the currencies a big part of it obviously, but energy is the one that's the most obvious. Remember the gas shortage in May of last year and gas prices have gone nothing but up since, energy secretary Jennifer Granholm, remember she said, if you drive an electric car, feel shortages, it won't affect you. Like that 45. Obviously we have the acute issues with the corneal pipeline. Ransomware attack, but looking more holistically in a macro view. How does this speed up the efforts at DOE to move in more of a renewable direction since this is going to have an impact on people at the pump? Yeah, I mean, we obviously are all in on making sure that we meet the president's goals of getting to a 100% clean electricity by 2035. And net zero carbon emissions by 2050. And if you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you, clearly. And this is what it's just so hard to watch. So where does electricity come from, then Jennifer Granholm? Oh, it just comes from the bolts. Yeah, it's the holes in the wall. Yeah, you know, energy shortage is not like, you know, we just rub our hands together and the lights go on. Right. Cut 46, Jennifer Granholm doesn't get nearly enough press. Through her head back and laughed when asked if there was a plan to bring back gas prices down. Play cut 46. You're just Michigan. It is $2, 89 cents a gallon. I guess that's better than in California. What is the grand home plan to increase oil production in America? Oh my God. That is hilarious. I must submit the joke. Now, if you really want to get into the environmentalist part of this and any environmentalists can come on the show at any time and I'm just going to ask some very simple questions. What are you going to do with the batteries? All these electric car batteries, where are you going to put them? Because they're really bad for the earth, like they're really bad. So we're kind of new in this curve because electric vehicles have been around for that long. And so 5 years from now, we're going to have millions of electric car batteries. We're going to have to get rid of. Where are you going to put them? Have you ever have you done any sort of kind of analysis of how corrosive battery acid is to the earth or is that just kind of you're just factoring it in? Oh, I know, they'll dump them in Alabama because we hate those people. Got it, sure. Remember, Trump exposed NATO for paying billions of dollars to Russia for energy. He was right about this. He was totally spot on. I know a lot of people listening didn't like Trump's toner demeanor or whatever, but his focus on energy superiority and supremacy was just a basic instinct. It's not ideological. It's like, okay, wait, if you can't feel your civilization, how are poor people going to become rich? Cut 47. Well, I have to say, I think it's very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia where you're supposed to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia. So we're protecting Germany. We're protecting France. We're protecting all of these countries. And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia where they're paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia. So we're supposed to protect you against Russia, but they're paying billions of dollars to Russia. And I think that's very inappropriate. I got to tell you the setting. He was at a NATO lunch and that's supposed to be usually so they do a photo op and oh look at the beautiful building and all this. And he just goes off for like ten minutes on how NATO is allowing Putin to become rich and based like, wait a second. If this whole thing is supposed to be against Russia, why are you guys buying natural gas from them? Of course they were silent and leaked on him and they didn't like those kind of questions. It feels good to say you're for the environment. It feels good to want to go put solar panels and wind farms everywhere. But does it feel good when all of a sudden we're now going to be dependent on the Middle East or Putin or wherever for energy that we have right here? The civilization that channels and uses energy the best and most efficiently wins. And we're currently doing a pretty poor job of that. Thanks so much for listening everybody. Email us your thoughts as always freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Do you want to support our show? Go to Charlie Kirk dot com slash support. Thank you so much for listening. God bless. For more, on many of these stories and news you can trust. Go to Charlie Kirk dot com..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"vladimir putin" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Is a war on scarcity. Economics is the is the challenge of trying to deal with scarce resources. Well, when things become less expensive and more abundant, you are winning that war on scarcity by definition. And for a while we were winning that war energy. In fact, there was an entire debate when Trump was president that energy was too cheap. That American producers were so worried that it was so cheap to fill up a tank of gas that energy producers were going to go bankrupt. It was when energy was 25 or $30 a barrel. And now it's right near a $100 a barrel. Now, in order to achieve the great reset from the World Economic Forum, they need to weaken the United States. And one of the competitive advantages we've always had over other countries, despite, of course, having, you know, being neighbored by two allies, I guess Canada is still an ally, being neighbored by two massive oceans, having a sizable population rule of law, private property rights, and a phenomenal constitution and an aspirational and driven and hustling middle class. All those things are awesome, but we were able to empower normal people to be able to cover large distances quickly and to be able to do hard work quickly because we had energy at our disposal. You can't take risks, I'm talking about big risks if you do not have the energy and the ability to do that. And they know that. This is part of the agenda, which is they want it to be harder for you to move, create, and to flourish. Because then you become a lot easier to control, now Putin knows this, and he is using the green energy movement to his advantage to try to reshuffle the geopolitics of the world. So how's your new year going so far? Pretty good, I hope, but it's been tough, hasn't it? Lots of us have begin to wake up and smell the roses. And some of us have smelt coffee instead. All of us are now realizing how quick time is rushing past. You're that much closer to retirement, and that much closer to not earning. But in the meantime, you've got some catching up to do. With crypto and markets very risky right now and inflation running anywhere between 8 to 20% and conservatively it's 8% where are you going to keep your money to keep up and beat it? You might want to talk to an expert at noble gold and run through the options for keeping your money safe. No pressure, no hassle, and no call centers. This month, noble gold is giving away a free one tenth of an ounce, solid gold, American Eagle coin with any qualifying plan that you start. So to speak to someone who knows what they're talking about for once, how good would that feel? Calls at 877-646-5347 or visit our website at noble gold investments dot com. That's noble gold investments dot com. I've said for a while, I really don't care about a family border dispute 5000 miles away in a country that most Americans couldn't pinpoint on a map if they were able given a $1 million. I think most Americans say, hey, which one's Ukraine? I think that it would be a 10% chance that they would be able to label it correctly. And I think most people would say, oh, it maybe that's the Belarus sir, is it Lithuania or Latvia? Yeah, okay. So not exactly a primary concern for me. However, it is important to know that geopolitics changing in real time is worthy of commentary and exploration and if you think Vladimir Putin is like the greatest threat to democracy, which I don't believe Ukraine is not a democracy at all period, they jail dissident leaders. They restrict opposition newspapers and Ukraine is kind of a mishmash of a country anyway. Western part of Ukraine is more kind of legitimately Ukraine, the eastern part tends to be very sympathetic to Russia. But again, that's not my concern in my issue, but what is important though is how this impacts America and it's not about whether or not Putin is going to cross some arbitrary line in the snow. What is important though is how we're going to get our energy. That's important..
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"vladimir putin" Discussed on The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"Else are Russians pushing against Russia vacation? This movement has become more prominent since 2014 when Russia first invaded parts of eastern Ukraine. That already was a big deal, right? That already sort of brought a surge of Ukrainian nationalism. And the best manifestation of that, of course, has been the increase in learning Ukrainian. The move to take out street names with Lenin or other Soviet figures are moving statues, et cetera. I mean, there has been a real push towards that, right? And of course, also, again, just to sort of use Ukrainian and magazines, et cetera. I mean, in some cities, I guess, you would see the situation where if you spoke Russian, you would actually be somewhat frowned upon, you know, within certain circles. Of course, it should be said here. I mean, a lot of people still speak Russian, and there are still ethnic Russians here, and they get no harassment at all. But things have a sort of become difference since 2014 just in terms of being sure to maintain a strong sense of ukrainianness, if you will. Ukraine isn't the only former Soviet republic pushing back against Russian influence these days. There's been protests in Georgia, Belarus, and most recently in Kazakhstan against rulers too close to Putin and all that discontent angers him and his stated intent to create a so called spear of influence with those former Soviet republics. Why is it so important to him? Well, I mean, it's all part of this whole return to the Soviet Union. I mean, people have said this quite often now, but Putin really did consider the record of this review as one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century. And also more to the point, it doesn't matter security. I mean, these countries are within the periphery of Russia. I mean, at some level, it's not surprising that he did this. There's also a lot of anger against the west. Nabi, president Joe Biden has already said that Americans won't fight and die for Ukrainians. So what options does that leave to deter Putin from pushing further into Ukraine? It's not as if Putin is going to be able to have such an easy time of it. This is the second largest country in Europe. It has about 41.3 million people, I believe, or at this point probably even more. And a lot of them are very much anti Russian at this point. And this will only push them to be so even further. And so there will be some kind of popular resistance, right? And of course, it should be mentioned that in recent weeks there have been these territorial defense forces, right, which are essentially people training to just know how to shoot a gun, et cetera know how to organize themselves quickly. And that perhaps is where you have the most hope, right? The people here really do have the ability to organize quickly. And that's going to be a big deal moving forward. Now, of course, the other question is, is Putin going to be taking just only parts of eastern Ukraine. Is he going to only stop at the durance and Lohan's people's republic's borders quote unquote? What is he going to do there? These are the questions that we still do not know. It's actually quite fluid at the moment. Finally, nabi looking beyond Ukraine already Republicans in the U.S. are accusing Biden of being soft. The U.S. is still smarting from 20 years of wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East. It's international reputation as seen better days. How much of Putin's push into Ukraine is really a game of chicken to see how much further the U.S. can be embarrassed on the world stage. I mean, it's hard to say if it's a game of chicken because, you know, the rage he displayed. It just shows that there's these deep sea to grievances at this point. I mean, this is a situation where now we see Russia just really coming into its own as a power yet again, or at least trying to project that image in any case. And basically saying that at this point, the west has ignored us for too long, and they won't ignore us anymore..
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"vladimir putin" Discussed on The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"Is a different phase. Unfortunately. You've written about how disinformation has made it really hard for people to determine what exactly Putin and the Russians armies intentions have been. How is that affecting people's decisions in Ukraine about how to live the day to today life? There's been this constant, you know, like, will he situation with Putin, of course, and then you add the situation in general when it comes to just this deluge of news. I mean, again, if you are providing accurate information, it comes as part of a larger continuum that is full of misinformation misinformation, and that is it makes people really unable to make it informed decision eventually just because there's so much stuff coming in. And so it becomes a matter of, okay, how do we sort of do this calculus, right? How do we decide to go? How do we set stay? You look at sort of these official pronouncements about withdrawals, and then you see one about imminent invasions, et cetera. So all this, of course, has been devastating for businesses and the economy here. I mean, now at some level, you can argue there's some not stability, but there is some movement. There is something happening. Finally, so people can react and perhaps a more concrete fashion. But really, it's just been, I think devastatingly very destabilizing, I have to say, at least mentally for people. Yeah, I can't even imagine trying to come to terms with the whole will he or won't he situation. And it's been going on for a while. Last spring, roughly a 100,000 Russian troops were on Ukraine's borders, but didn't end up crossing into Ukraine. So why does the world think Putin will order a full scale invasion this time? Well, I mean, in a sense, you already did invade before. I mean, 2014, you know, what about an invasion? Ukrainian officials say Russian forces backed by helicopter gunships and armored vehicles took control of a village near Crimea. Ukraine's ambassador to the UN, Yuri sergeyev, would only say his country plans to defend itself, but not say exactly how. And now the problem is that we have a situation where he is declared these two regular republics in eastern Ukraine as independent and more to the point he signed a mutual assistance treaty with them. Russia is obligated to help. Russia backed separatists have violated the ceasefire about 84 times in the past 24 hours. The Associated Press has no independent means of verifying the figures released by the JFO. Now it's worth noting that you have, you know, right outside these republics, you know, huge gradient army presence, right? And the fact is that they create an army has been badly separated for the last 8 years. Yes, it's been largely frozen over much of that time. I should say frozen between quotes here because, you know, I mean, how could you possibly think frozen if you are being killed every week? But with that being said, the fact is that it was a low level intensity conflict, what we call it. And now, of course, things have changed. Now we're seeing the entry of Russian troops for ostensibly peacekeeping operation. In the east. Now, the problem is, you know, will they stay in the areas of these self proclaimed republics or will they actually go beyond that line to encompass the entire Donbass region in extreme trade? These are questions we just don't know yet. You mentioned how Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula back in 2014 with very little effort. And while that was widely condemned by the international community, it was pretty popular in Russia that move. This time, though, a full scale invasion of Ukraine will be a much bloodier struggle. How are Russians feeling about all this? Of course, it's hard to say is difficult to sort of have an insight into what the Russian people think because of course the media is far more controlled in many ways than in other countries. And I mean, it should be said that there is, I think, a strong anti war component as well. We just don't necessarily that well. With that being said, it is worth noting that Putin spent a long, long time, almost an hour in what was essentially a lecturer, a historical lecture where he talks about how Ukraine wasn't even a country. It wasn't even a nation. Its government was basically a western puppet. It was really actually, I think, terrifying just because of how dismissive he was of anything that was Ukrainian as a nationality as an identity, et cetera. I mean, to the point where he called the Norman here a regime, right? A bunch of thugs, essentially. The fact is that I think within the ecosystem of Russia's media, probably that too as well. After the break, the historical reasons Putin has his eye on Ukraine. I'm Jake halpern, host of deep cover, our new season is about a lawyer who helped the mob run Chicago. He bribed judges and even helped a hitman walk free into a one day when he started talking with the FBI and promised that he could take the mob down. I've spent the past year trying to figure out why he flipped and what he was really after. Listen to deep cover on Apple podcasts or wherever you like to listen. All of this news can really work up an appetite. Well, Grubhub goods has got to cover. One of my favorite things to do is listen to my podcast while I bake. So last night I got started on some delicious cupcakes. When I realized we were all out of milk. But good news, Grubhub goods. Thanks to our sponsor Grubhub and their new offering, Grubhub goods. I was able to order milk and have it delivered right to my front door in 20 minutes. Talk about convenient. With Grubhub goods, I can bake to my heart's content and never miss a newsbeat. From extras to essentials, Grubhub now delivers all of your go to convenience items all day long, through their own convenience store, Grubhub goods, whether it's a late night snack, paper towels, or a can of soda, convenience items are delivered right to your door, just in the Nick of time, and you never have to leave your home. Order your convenience items from Grubhub goods on the app or online. And we're back with my LA times colleague nabi bulos, who's on the ground in Ukraine right now. Now be you mentioned this long speech that Vladimir Putin gave just earlier this week. And then last summer, Putin published a 5000 word essay that basically said the same thing that rushing Ukraine are really just one people. Why is Putin so obsessed with Ukraine? In a sense, it was one of The Crown jewels of the Soviet Union right of the Soviet republics. I mean, in terms of just the sheer amount of development, et cetera, it's hard to discount the fact that you have, you know, all these areas on the Black Sea that you have also, I should say, I mean, the country is one of the top exporters of corn barley sunflower and wheat, and of course you also have commodities like gas, et cetera. So it is an important country, economically, of course, but also just geographically. It's so close to Russia. It's its Flank. And so, I mean, at some level, it makes sense that he wouldn't want NATO to be, let's say, I'm setting up bases in that area. And I mean, it should be said. This is not a new thing with Putin. He mentioned this like the anger at the at NATO expansion has been a long running affair with him. And with Ukraine, especially the situation where, you know, he feels that this government has been taking moves to sort of cancel its Soviet past. He mentioned the breaking up of Lenin's statues and breaking up of Soviet monuments, et cetera. And all these seem to have actually hit him really personally. It was interesting just to watch that lecture because it really was a lecture. And just to see the rage at some point with which he was speaking, it was really, really quite insightful, actually. But now basically the knife is to rush his throat, and he felt he had to do this move. So if you know Ukrainians at all, they're very proud of who they are, which is to say Ukrainian, not Russian. Just a really quick example, Americans for decades, we've pronounced Ukraine's capital as Kyiv, which is how you pronounce it in Russian, but in recent years that Ukrainian government and especially the Ukrainians themselves, they've been pushing the English language world to pronounce our capital as kip, which is closer to how they say it in Ukrainian. How.
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"vladimir putin" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Hotter and was worse. After you touched there is not one part of the world. That joe biden has ever overseen the became peaceful after. He got charged. It nowhere joe biden also ended a news conference cut four where he said. Look i need some time. In regards to trump era trade sex sanctions cut four. When you're having these conversations with european how is. We're very concerned about these. How do you justify that. And what are your plans to twenty days. Gimme a break the time. Remember when he said. I'm going to build back better. We're going to hit the ground running by the way. He said that was really bizarre but he just like kind of and by the way he's been president for one hundred forty eight days. Okay those kinds of jack nicklaus thing by the way he went into the microphone talking about kind of like a shining type thing. We play that tape again. It's kind of like really weird. Play that again. When you're having these conversations with european allies who are very concerned about these sanctions. How do you justify that. And what are your plans to twenty days. Give me a break the time. Here's johnny like that's kind of what i feel like. When joe biden kind of was kind of a strange unpredictable. You never exactly know where he's going to go. Producer andrew says he sounds like bain from batman. No no. I'm going for the shining okay. Wendy home are enough of that. So then how did this one. We're the world leaders erupt in laughter as biden forgets that the united kingdom prime minister. Boris johnson already introduced the president of south africa during the me now in defensive joe biden. If joe biden was that president he would be probably assistant dogcatcher of some sort of kind of association of people in the villages or in boca raton. So forgetting that you introduce people. We should make fun of them. Of course back because joe biden is doing everything perfectly cut very unpleasant. I love this song. Our allies literally laughing at us in front of joe biden. But i don't think he even understands or has any sort then how about this one when a reporter asked some questions by way. We're doing just the kind of the quick recap of all of this and we're going to get back to this ladder putin thing because it's incredibly important vitamin putin thing kind of goes to show the absolute fraud of the outrage industry. That is the activists press and anytime they ever try to make us be angry or upset about something we say. Thanks thanks very much. We're not doing that. Thanks very little. We should say we had our entire national security conversation around ally that donald trump was compromised by the russian federation and then and then joe biden. Does the exact same thing that warranted outrage from john mccain where he said what john mccain say. I have the quote around here somewhere. Something foolish one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory and again i'm not against de-escalation. I actually am in favor of speaking to vladimir putin. I hope our leaders tried to seek dialogue over tomahawk missiles. Lindsey graham by the way is losing his mind over this entire thing. Lindsey graham right now is is asking himself. Why didn't we send the aircraft. Carry over there and launch some. I don't understand. Why are we talking to the opposition. Okay i don't like that. I am for one thing that we should always try to have some form of a mission towards de-escalation especially when we have our true enemy the chinese communist party that is flying planes over taiwan. And if you if you if you actually go deep in a chinese news. I'm going to get into this in the next segment. I'm going to call it here. We'd only do these predictions every so often and they tend to sometimes unfortunately be true. There will be a conflict of china and taiwan in the next ninety days. There's something that's going to happen now. Taiwan its own sovereign nation. Its own island trying. It gets really upset about this. Because the chinese agent himself john cena dared even mentioned taiwan. That's where our focus should be in fact. I have a story here from one of the chinese Kind of dissident papers here missy with this one is here Trying to fly. Twenty eight military aircraft over taiwan airspace. This should be a fire alarm for any person that understands what this means. That's the true enemy by the way. Taiwan is not equipped to be able to protect themselves. That's going to be a test. Joe biden will joe biden mobilize united states aircraft carrier to defend taiwan against the aggression of the chinese communist party. I don't know but as we kind of do the joe biden g seven recap. What is the theme here. The theme that america's not leading. We know that america is obviously week. We know that joe biden is confused. Here's the real problem. Here's the real issue is that joe biden is compromised is that he's not making decisions. Based on what's best for the nation. He's making decisions based on what could possibly protect his family and his family interest from embarrassment or revelation. Look can i tell you something that really bothers me. When good people get scheduled for cancellation for no reason. That's what's happening to mike lindell. I was just with mike. Lindell with fifteen thousand. My closest friends in wisconsin and mike lindell was hosting an entire event and the media went after him. Like you wouldn't believe and they're trying to take my pillow out of every single store. Mike lindell is a good person. And if you need pillows maybe you're moving in for college or maybe.