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>> Tucker: GOOD EVENING AND
WELCOME TO "TUCKER CARLSON
TONIGHT."
THE WAR IN UKRAINE BEGAN A YEAR
AGO TODAY ON TO BERRY 24TH,
2022, WHEN THE RUSSIAN MILITARY
ROLLED ACROSS THE EASTERN BORDER
OF THAT COUNTRY.
BUT, IN MANY WAYS, THE RUSSIAN
INVASION OF UKRAINE WAS THE
END POINT OF THE MUCH LONGER
STORY.
THE PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN DESIGNED
TO CONVINCE AMERICANS TO TAKE
SIDES IN THIS CONFLICT, A
CONFLICT THAT HAS NOTHING,
STRICTLY SPEAKING, TO DO WITH
THEM OR WITH AMERICA.
THAT EFFORT BEGAN MANY YEARS
EARLIER.
JULY 22ND, 2016.
THAT’S THE DAY THAT WIKILEAKS
PUBLISHED THOUSANDS OF EMAILS
FROM THE SERVERS OF THE
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE IN
WASHINGTON.
THOSE EMAILS PROVE THAT PARTY
OFFICIALS HAVE RIGGED THE
DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, THE PRIMARY
PROCESS, IN FAVOR OF
HILLARY CLINTON, AND AGAINST THE
INSURGENT POPULIST CANDIDATE
THAT YEAR, BERNIE SANDERS OF
VERMONT.
WITHIN DAYS, THE CHAIR OF THE
DNC, DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ,
RESIGNED IN DISGRACE.
THE WIKILEAKS SCANDAL BROKE ON
THE SAME DAY THAT
HILLARY CLINTON SHOWS HER
RUNNING MATE, SENATOR TIM KAINE,
AND IT OVERSHADOWS THE NOMINATIN
FOLLOWED.
BUT MORE SIGNIFICANTLY, THE
WIKILEAKS SCANDAL THREATENED
TO SPLIT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
INTO PIECES.
MORE THAN 13 MILLION
BERNIE SANDERS VOTERS, MANY OF
THE YOUNG PEOPLE, LEARNED THAT
THE PROCESS THEY HAD ALWAYS
BELIEVED IN WAS, IN FACT, A
SHAM.
THEY HAD BEEN CHEATED.
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS HAD TO ACT
QUICKLY IN THE FACE OF THIS TO
DEFLECT BLAME FROM THEMSELVES ON
THE SOMEONE ELSE.
THE DNC’S SERVICE, THEY CLAIMED,
HAD BEEN HACKED BY THE RUSSIAN
MILITARY.
THE GOAL IS TO HURT
HILLARY CLINTON, WHOM THE
RUSSIANS FEARED FOR HER STRENGTH
AND WISDOM, AND TO HELP
DONALD TRUMP, WHOM THEY
CONTROLLED.
RUSSIA HACKED THE SERVERS IN
ORDER TO HACK THE ELECTION.
THAT WAS THE STORY TO READ
"THE WASHINGTON POST" RAN WITH
IT THE FIRST DAY AS IF IT WERE
TRUE.
BUT THERE WAS NEVER ANY EVIDENCE
THAT WAS TRUE.
ALMOST SEVEN YEARS LATER, THERE
STILL NO EVIDENCE.
THE DNC STORY ABOUT IT SERVERS
IS A LIE.
BUT AS A POLITICAL STRATEGY,
THAT LIE WORKED FLAWLESSLY.
RUSSIA MADE THE PERFECT VILLAIN.
IT WAS A WHITE CHRISTIAN COUNTRY
WITH A TRADITIONAL SOCIAL
STRUCTURE.
IT WAS EVERYTHING THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY ALREADY
OPPOSED.
THE FOREIGN POLICY APPARATUS IN
WASHINGTON WAS HAPPY TO HATE
RUSSIA AGAIN, AFTER 40 YEARS OF
COLD WAR, HATING RUSSIA WAS MUSC
SO THEY SIGN ONTO THE RUSSIA
COLLUSION HOAX.
IT HAD THE TWIN BENEFITS OF
PARALYZING THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION, WHICH IT DID,
AND JUSTIFYING THE EXPANSION OF
THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE.
AS THE YEARS PASSED AND THE
RHETORIC INTENSIFIED, HYSTERIA
SET IN.
AFTER A WHILE, ANYBODY WITH A
HETERODOX OPINION, FROM
RIGHT-WINGERS TO AVOWED
SOCIALISTS, COULD BE ACCUSED OF
WORKING SECRETLY WITH
VLADIMIR PUTIN.
MANY WERE ACCUSED AND SOME WERE
DESTROYED BY IT.
IT WAS A TEXTBOOK WITCH HUNT FAR
MORE EFFECTIVE THAN
McCARTHYISM.
UNLIKE McCARTHYISM, IT NEVER
ENDED.
RUSSIA REMAINED AMERICA’S
GREATEST ENEMY, EVEN AS CHINA
EMERGED AS AMERICA’S GREATEST
THREAT.
OVER TIME, THE LIE THE DEMOCRATS
TOLD TO HIDE THEIR CRIMES IN THE
2016 PRIMARIES CAME TO DOMINATE
AMERICA’S FORMER FOREIGN POLICY
THEN TO IMPERIL AMERICA ITSELF.
THEY WORKED A LINING IS A BLOCK
AGAINST THE U.S.
THE IDEA WAS PRETTY
STRAIGHTFORWARD.
YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO BEAT ONE
STRONG COUNTRY, BUT IF A COUPLE
STRONG COUNTRIES EVER GOT
TOGETHER, HE WOULD LOSE.
THIS IS WHY RICHARD NIXON WENT
TO CHINA, TO MAKE SURE THE
CHINESE GOVERNMENT DIDN’T ALIGN
WITH BREZHNEV, WITH THE
RUSSIANS.
DONALD TRUMP UNDERSTOOD THIS
VERY CLEARLY.
RUSSIA WILL NEVER BE OUR CLOSEST
ALLY, HE SAID, BUT IF RUSSIA
EVER BECOMES CHINA’S ALLY, WE
ARE IN DEEP TROUBLE.
THE COMBINATION OF NATURAL
RESOURCES, MILITARY AND ECONOMIC
POWER, AND SURE POPULATION WOULD
MAKE THE RUSSIA-CHINESE ALLIANCE
THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE
WORLD.
THE UNITED STATES WOULD SOON BE
DETHRONED.
WE BE TAKING ORDERS.
AS TRUMP PUT IT, THERE’S NO
REASON TO MAKE RUSSIA OUR ENEMY,
AND THERE ARE MANY REASONS NOT
TO YOU.
IT WAS A SOUND CASE, BUT
OFFICIAL WASHINGTON IGNORED IT.
THE RESPONSE SHOUTED IN UNISON,
"SHUT UP, PUTIN STOOGE!"
AND THEY SET ABOUT TRYING TO
PROVOKE A WAR WITH RUSSIA.
NOW THEY HAVE SUCCEEDED.
BUT THE WAR WE ARE FIGHTING
UKRAINE IS NOT AGAINST RUSSIA
ALONE, BUT ALSO AGAINST RUSSIA’S
NEWEST ALLY, THE PEOPLE’S
REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
WHAT DONALD TRUMP PREDICTED HAS
HAPPENED, AND IN THE WORST WAY.
IF THE WAR IN UKRAINE CONTINUES,
WE WILL LOSE, NO MATTER HOW IT
ENDS.
THE WORLD ORDER IS BEING
RESHUFFLED AS WE WATCH, AND BY
THE TIME IT’S OVER, THE U.S.
WILL NO LONGER BE AT THE TOP OF
THE DECK.
THAT’S VERY OBVIOUS TO THE REST
OF THE WORLD, BUT WHAT’S
FASCINATING IS HOW FEW AMERICANS
SEEM TO UNDERSTAND WHAT’S
HAPPENING, OR ITS CONSEQUENCES.
BUT HOW WOULD THEY KNOW?
NO ONE IN AMERICAN POLITICS OR
MEDIA WILL TELL THEM THE TRUTH.
SINCE THE FIRST HOURS AFTER THE
INVASION, AMERICANS HAVE BEEN
FED A STEADY DIET OF
INCREASINGLY ABSURD LIES ABOUT
UKRAINE.
GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK HAVE JOINED
WITH THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO
CENSOR ANY FACTUAL INFORMATION
THAT CONTRADICTS THE OFFICIAL
STORY LINE.
IT IS DYSTOPIAN.
JOE BIDEN’S FIRST REMARKS ABOUT
THE WAR GAVE NO HINT THAT WE
WOULD BE SENDING ADVANCED
WEAPONS SYSTEMS, AND AMERICAN
MILITARY ADVISORS, TO UKRAINE.
THEN, SUPPORTING THE ENTIRE
UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT AND ITS
PENSION SYSTEM, WITH HUNDREDS OF
BILLIONS OF U.S. TAX DOLLARS.
NO.
JOE BIDEN MENTIONED ONLY
SANCTIONS, WHICH WERE FREE.
SANCTIONS HE SUGGESTED WOULD BE
ENOUGH.
HERE IS JOE BIDEN A YEAR AGO
TODAY.
>> THE RUSSIAN MILITARY HAS
BEGUN A BRUTAL ASSAULT ON THE
PEOPLE OF UKRAINE.
WITHOUT PROVOCATION, WITHOUT
JUSTIFICATION, WITHOUT
NECESSITY.
THIS AGGRESSION CANNOT GO
UNANSWERED.
IF IT DID, THE CONSEQUENCES FOR
AMERICA WOULD BE MUCH WORSE.
AMERICA STANDS UP TO BULLIES.
WE STAND UP FOR FREEDOM.
PUTIN IS THE AGGRESSOR.
PUTIN CHOSE THIS WAR.
AND NOW HE AND HIS COUNTRY WILL
BEAR THE CONSEQUENCES.
TODAY I AM AUTHORIZING
ADDITIONAL STRONG SANCTIONS.
>> Tucker: "STRONG SANCTIONS."
THAT’LL DO IT.
THE GOAL AT THAT POINT A YEAR
AGO TODAY, AND YOU MAY REMEMBER
THIS, WAS TO PUSH RUSSIAN FORCES
BACK INTO THEIR OWN COUNTRY, TO
REVERSE THE INVASION.
AND THAT SEEMED REASONABLE TO
MOST PEOPLE.
IT DID NOT SEEM LIKE THE
BEGINNING OF A THIRD WORLD WAR.
OH, BUT IT WAS EXACTLY THAT.
AND BY DECEMBER, LINDSEY GRAHAM
WAS CONFIDENT ENOUGH TO SAY SO
OUT LOUD.
HERE HE IS.
>> HOW DOES THIS WAR AND?
WHEN RUSSIA BREAKS AND THEY TAKE
PUTIN OUT.
ANYTHING SHORT OF THAT, THE WAR
IS GOING TO CONTINUE.
YOU ASK THE UKRAINIANS TO GIVE
RUSSIA PART OF THEIR COUNTRY
AFTER ALL THIS DEATH AND
DESTRUCTION IS NOT GOING TO
HAPPEN.
TO SIGNAL A CEASE-FIRE, RUSSIA
WILL TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO
REARM AND COME AT THEM AGAIN.
SO WE ARE IN IT TO WIN IT, AND
THE ONLY WAY YOU’RE GOING TO WIN
IT IS TO BREAK THE RUSSIAN
MILITARY AND HAVE SOMEBODY IN
RUSSIA TAKE PUTIN OUT.
>> Tucker: SO WE’RE GOING TO,
SAYS LINDSEY GRAHAM CONFIDENTLY,
CONTINUE POURING BILLIONS INTO
UKRAINE UNTIL THEY "TAKE PUTIN
OUT."
DOES PUTIN KNOW THIS?
WELL, WE HAVE NO IDEA.
WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE
RUSSIAN MEDIA IN THIS COUNTRY.
THAT’S TOO MUCH INFORMATION FOR
AMERICANS TO HANDLE.
BUT IF PUTIN DOES KNOW THAT WE
PLAN TO KILL HIM, WOULDN’T HE
FIGHT BACK WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
WHY WOULDN’T HE FIGHT BACK WITH
NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
NO ONE IN THE UNITED STATES
SEEMS TO BE ALLOWED TO WONDER
THAT, MUCH LESS HAVE A
CONVERSATION ABOUT OUT LOUD.
INSTEAD WE ARE TREATED TO MORE
LECTURES ABOUT DEMOCRACY.
UKRAINE IS A DEMOCRACY, WE ARE
TOLD, THAT’S WHY WE ARE ON THE
SIDE OF UKRAINE.
THE PROBLEM IS, THAT’S A LIE.
UKRAINE IS NOT A DEMOCRACY.
UKRAINE IS A CORRUPT ONE-PARTY
STATE.
UKRAINE HAS NONE OF THE FREEDOMS
THAT DEFINE DEMOCRATIC
GOVERNANCE.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF
THE PRESS, FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY,
FREEDOM OF RELIGION.
UKRAINE IS THE LEAST FREE PLACE
IN ALL OF EUROPE, AND PROBABLY
FOR THAT REASON IT IS
JOE BIDEN’S FAVORITE PLACE.
FOR THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS
ACTUALLY HAPPENING AND WHAT
UKRAINE IS ACTUALLY LIKE, IT’S
VERY FRUSTRATING TO WATCH BIDEN
SAY THIS AGAIN AND AGAIN.
IT IS GALLING TO BE LECTURED
ABOUT DEMOCRACY BY A MAN WHO
TOOK POWER IN AN ELECTION SO
SKETCHY THAT MANY AMERICANS
DON’T BELIEVE IT WAS EVEN REAL.
JOE BIDEN HAS NEVER HAD THE
MAJORITY OF AMERICAN SUPPORT FOR
A SINGLE DAY OF THE UKRAINE WAR.
IN FACT, JOE BIDEN IS FAR LESS
POPULAR IN THE UNITED STATES
THEN VLADIMIR PUTIN IS IN
RUSSIA.
THAT’S NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OF
PUTIN -- IT’S JUST TRUE.
AND IT SAYS EVERYTHING ABOUT
JOE BIDEN’S TENUOUS LEGITIMACY.
DEMOCRACY?
PLEASE.
WE ARE ADULTS.
STOP LYING TO US.
SO, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IN THIS
WAR?
ACCORDING TO OUR ELDERLY
TREASURY SECRETARY,
JANET YELLEN, THE WAR IN UKRAINE
WILL GO ON FOREVER, AND SO WILL
OUR SUPPORT FOR ZELENSKYY.
>> LET ME MAKE CLEAR, THE
UNITED STATES AND THE ALLIES,
OUR SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE WILL BE
LASTING AND IS UNCONDITIONAL.
>> Tucker: UNCONDITIONAL
SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE.
UNCONDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR A
NATION MOST AMERICANS KNOW
NOTHING ABOUT, AND COULDN’T FIND
ON THE MAP.
UNCONDITIONAL SUPPORT.
THAT’S A PROFOUND STATEMENT.
OUTSIDE OF YOUR IMMEDIATE
FAMILY, HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD
YOU PLEDGE UNCONDITIONAL SUPPORT
TO?
HOW MANY COUNTRIES WOULD YOU
PLEDGE UNCONDITIONAL SUPPORT TO?
THIS IS INSANE, WHEN YOU THINK
ABOUT IT.
BUT THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF THIS
DISASTER AREN’T THINKING THE WAY
THAT MOST AMERICANS DO.
THE "ATLANTIC" MAGAZINE
COMMEMORATED THE ANNIVERSARY OF
THE WAR BY COMMISSIONING A PIECE
TODAY BY TOM NICHOLS.
HE’S A SILLY FOREIGN
ESTABLISHMENT PARASITE WHO HAS
BEEN TAKEN FIERCELY BY OTHER
NE’ER-DO-WELLS AND DUMB PEOPLE
IN WASHINGTON.
BUT THE PIECES FASCINATING.
IN IT HE INADVERTENTLY REVEALS
THE POINT OF THIS WAR IN THE
CLEAREST POSSIBLE TERMS.
"NOW WE ARE FACED WITH THE LONG
GRIND OF DEFEATING MOSCOW’S
ARMIES AND EVENTUALLY REBUILDING
A BETTER WORLD."
OH.
DEFEATING MOSCOW’S ARMIES AND
BUILDING A BETTER WORLD?
PERFECT.
THANK YOU, TOM NICHOLS.
ADDING THOSE ITEMS TO THIS
WEEK’S TO-DO LIST.
UNSPECIFIED IN THE PIECE IS HOW
WE PLAN TO DO THIS, TO DEFEAT
RUSSIA AND ITS ALLY, CHINA, AND
BUILD A UTOPIA.
THE PIECE IS NOTABLY LIGHT ON
DETAILS.
THEY FEEL BETTER HEARING ABOUT
THIS IF TOM NICHOLS AND OTHERS
LIKE HIM IN WASHINGTON HAD A
TRACK RECORD SUGGESTING THEY
COULD DO ANY OF THIS.
A TRACK RECORD OF COMPETENCE AND
SUCCESS.
THEY DON’T.
NICHOLS HIMSELF SEEMS TO SPEND
MOST OF HIS LIFE ARGUING WITH
OTHER PEOPLE ON TWITTER.
HE’S NEVER ACHIEVED ANYTHING AT
ALL THAT WE ARE AWARE OF.
BUT THEN VIRTUALLY NONE OF THEM
HAVE ACHIEVED ANYTHING.
BIDEN’S CHIEF UKRAINE
STRATEGIST, TORI NEWLAND, HE
WOULDN’T HIRED PLANT
SPRING BREAK.
SHE COULDN’T DO IT.
SHE DOESN’T HAVE THE SKILLS.
NOW, THESE VERY SAME PEOPLE,
THESE DEMONSTRABLY INCOMPETENT
PEOPLE, SAY THEY PLAN TO REBUILD
A BETTER WORLD.
ALL RIGHT.
THAT SEEMS AMBITIOUS.
HOW ABOUT STARTING WITH
BALTIMORE?
BEFORE MOVING ONTO GLOBAL
TRANSMISSION, SHOULDN’T WE FIX
THE BIGGEST CITY IN MARYLAND
FIRST?
UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF PEOPLE
LIKE TOM NICHOLS AND VICTORIA
NEWLAND, NEOLIBERAL GENIUSES OF
GRAND PLANS, BALTIMORE HAS
DEVOLVED INTO THIRD WORLD CHAOS.
BUT THEN, SO HAS IRAQ, SO HAS
LIBYA, SO HAS EVERY OTHER PLACE
THESE PEOPLE HAVE DECIDED TO
"REBUILD."
IT SHOULD SPARE A MOMENT OF
SILENCE AND SELF-REFLECTION IN
THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT THAT
THE MOMENT WESTERN DIPLOMATS AND
NGOs LEFT THE COUNTRY,
AFGHANISTAN GOT SAFER.
THERE ARE FAR FEWER KILLINGS IN
KABUL NOW THAN THEY WERE 18
MONTHS AGO.
PEDESTRIANS AND COUPLE CAN WALK
TO DINNER AND I WOULD TO WITHOUT
READY.
THAT DOESN’T TELL THE WHOLE
STORY OF AFGHANISTAN, OF COURSE,
BUT WE SHOULDN’T IGNORE THAT
FACT.
IT MEANS SOMETHING.
IF YOU SPEND BILLIONS TRYING TO
MAKE A PLACE BETTER AND IT GETS
WORSE, YOU HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO
THINK ABOUT WHY.
MAYBE YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG.
MAYBE YOU ARE NOT AS POWERFUL
AND CLEVER AS YOU THOUGHT YOU
WERE.
MAYBE THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH
YOUR FORMULA.
BUT NONE OF THIS EVER OCCURS TO
PEOPLE LIKE TOM NICHOLS AND
TORIA NULAND, AND, FOR THAT
MATTER, JOE BIDEN.
THE MORE DISCREDITED THEY ARE,
THE MORE SELF-CONFIDENT THEY
BECOME.
THEY SEE EVERY FAILURE IS
EVIDENCE OF THEIR TALENTS THAT
ARE MORE DESPERATELY NEEDED THAN
EVER.
WHAT IS THIS?
WELL, IT’S CALLED HUBRIS.
HUBRIS IS THE DELUSION THAT
CAUSES PEOPLE TO MISTAKE
THEMSELVES FOR GOD.
THEY IMAGINE THEY HAVE POWER AND
WISDOM AND FORESIGHT THEY DON’T
ACTUALLY POSSESS, THAT NO HUMAN
DOES.
HUBRIS IS A SPECIES OF MENTAL
ILLNESS.
THESE PEOPLE ARE UNWELL.
THEY ARE CRAZY.
AND THERE’S NOTHING MORE
DANGEROUS THAN THAT.
HUBRIS HAS CAUSED MORE SUFFERING
THAN POLIO.