"KUDLOW" IS NEXT.
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LARRY: HELLO, EVERYONE, WELCOME
TO "KUDLOW," I’M LARRY KUDLOW.
I DON’T KNOW IF YOU’RE LIKE ME,
BUT I GROW QUITE WEARY AND
INDEED GET KIND OF ANGRY THAT
EVERY TIME VLADMIR PUTIN MAKES A
THREAT PRESIDENT BIDEN AND HIS
MINIONS IMMEDIATELY LOOK FOR A
DESK TO CRAWL UNDER.
YOU KNOW BIDEN’S SABRE RATTLES
ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THE
ADMINISTRATION JUST GOES, OH,
NO, OH, NO, NO, WE’LL NEVER DO
ANYTHING TO OFFEND YOU.
THAT IS PUTIN SABRE RATTLES, NO,
NO, WE DON’T DO ANYTHING.
YOU KNOW WHAT?
THE U.S. IS STRONG NUCLEAR
FORCE.
HAS A STRONG MISSILE DEFENSE
SYSTEM.
BY THE WAY, WAS STARTED FOUR
DECADES AGO BY MY FORMER BOSS
RONALD REAGAN.
I MEAN, IT WOULD BE NICE JUST
ONCE IF JOE BIDEN SAID, THAT THE
UNITED STATES HAS THE NUCLEAR
FORCE TO DESTROY RUSSIA AND THAT
PUTIN OUGHT NOT TO FORGET THAT.
JUST ONCE BLAST BACK AT PUTIN.
OR, HE COULD SAY, THE ENTIRE
RUSSIAN ECONOMY IS ONLY ABOUT
6 1/2% THE SIZE OF THE AMERICAN
ECONOMY.
ALL IT IS.
AND NOW THE U.S.’S BELATED
SANCTIONS ARE STARTING TO TAKE
HOLD.
WE RUINED FOREIGN EXCHANGES
RESERVES.
THEIR CURRENCY IS ESSENTIALLY
GONE.
THE BANKS ARE CLOSED DOWN.
THEY’RE DOING GREAT DAMAGE TO
THE ENERGY SECTOR.
WE COULD DO MUCH MORE IN THOSE
AREAS.
MAYBE WE WILL, BUT THINK ABOUT
THIS, IT TAKES ABOUT 120 RUBLES
TO BUY A DOLLAR, WHICH IS
PATHETIC LIKE A THIRD WORLD
COUNTRY.
IF YOU LIVE IN RUSSIA IT TAKES
200 RUBLES TO BUY A DOLLAR.
THAT IS EVEN MORE PATHETIC.
JOE BIDEN OUGHT TO START ACTING
LIKE A AMERICA FIRST PRESIDENT
INSTEAD OF COWERING AT EVERY
PUTIN STATEMENT, BIDEN SHOULD
REMIND PUTIN OF OUR ECONOMIC
SUPERIORITY.
AS WELL AS OUR MILITARY
SUPERIORITY.
NATO FORCES BY THE WAY, AND
THEIR ECONOMIES ARE SO TOTALLY
VASTLY OVERWHELMING LARGER, MORE
POWERFUL THAN ANYTHING RUSSIA
COULD POSSIBLY MUSTER.
NOBODY IS PERFECT IN LIFE.
THE FACT IS THE U.S. AND NATO
SHOW THE GREAT VIRTUES OF
DEMOCRACY AND A MARKET ECONOMY
THAT BY THE WAY IS WHAT PUTIN IS
SO AFRAID OF, THAT IT MIGHT TAKE
HOLD IN UKRAINE.
PUTIN’S RUSSIA SHOWS THE
WEAKNESS OF AN AUTHORITARIAN,
UNDEMOCRATIC STATE CONTROLLED ECONOMY.
AND IN THE LONG RUN PUTIN AND
HIS AHISTORICAL DREAMS OF A
CZARIST RUSSIA EMPIRE WILL
ULTIMATELY BE DOOMED TO THE
DUSTBIN OF HISTORY.
HE KNOWS IT.
MOST FOLKS KNOW IT.
THE QUESTION IS WHY DOESN’T
JOE BIDEN KNOW IT?
PLEASE, STOP COWERING,
MR. BIDEN.
START ACTING LIKE THE LEADER OF
THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE
HISTORY OF HISTORY.
YOU SHOULD HAVE SLAPPED THE
SANCTIONS ON BEFORE PUTIN
INVADED.
YOU SHOULD, YOU TOLD US
WITHHOLDING THE SANCTIONS WOULD
BE A DETERRENT, BUT YOU WERE
WRONG.
THEY DETERRED NOTHING.
YOUR DIPLOMACY FAILED.
THEN YOU TURNED AROUND AND LIED
BY SAYING THEY WERE NEVER MEANT
TO BE A DETERRENT.
REALLY?
HUH?
WHAT IN GOD’S NAME WERE YOU
TALKING ABOUT?
MR. PRESIDENT, YOU FINALLY GOT
AROUND UNDER PRESSURE FROM
CONGRESS TO STOP RUSSIAN OIL
IMPORTS AND START PONYING UP
ANOTHER $15 BILLION OF
ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE TO THE
UKRAINE.
YOU SHOULD HAVE DELIVERED THE
WEAPONS AND THE MONEY AT THE
BEGINNING OF PUTIN’S
ADVENTURISM, NOT AFTER IT WAS
TOO LATE.
I MEAN I DON’T LIVE AND DIE BY
POLLS, BUT YOU KNOW, FOR
HEAVEN’S TAKES, THE COUNTRY
WANTS YOU, MR. BIDEN, TO STOP
LEADING FROM BEHIND, HERE IS
SOME NUMBERS, THESE ARE LIBERAL
POLLS.
CBS, UGOV.
50% SAY YOU’RE NOT STRONG
AGAINST RUSSIA.
ONLY 36% SAY YOU’RE RIGHT.
STRONGEST OPTIONS AGAINST
RUSSIA, 65% SAY THEY WANT
TOUGHER ECONOMIC SANCTIONS THAT
BY THE WAY MEANS ALL OF THEIR
FOSSIL ENERGY EXPORTS, ALL OF
THEM.
61% SAY MORE WEAPONS AND
SUPPLIES IS WHAT THEY WANT.
"WALL STREET JOURNAL" POLL, 55%
WANT MORE MILITARY AID TO
UKRAINE, LIKE WEAPONS AND
EQUIPMENT AND 55% WANT MORE
ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA.
NOW THAT MEANS, FOR EXAMPLE,
RIGHT NOW PUT YOUR STAMP OF
APPROVAL ON THESE POLISH
AIRPLANES GOING TO THE UKRAINE.
PUTIN CALLS THAT AN ACT OF WAR.
THERE YOU GO AGAIN, SIR.
YOU’RE COWERING, YOU’RE LOOKING
FOR A DESK UNDER WHICH TO HIDE.
COME OUT FROM UNDER YOUR DESK
AND BARK BACK AT PUTIN.
GET THE AIRPLANES OVER THERE.
JUST A BUNCH OF OLD SEVEN YET
PLANES TO BEGIN WITH, FOR
HEAVEN’S SAKE.
FIRST YOU SAID YES.
PUTIN BARKED, YOU COWERED.
WHY DON’T YOU BARK?
BARK.
WE’RE SENDING THEM ALL THESE
OTHER WEAPONS.
PUTIN KNOWS THAT.
HE IS JUST TOYING WITH YOU.
STOP LETTING PUTIN CONTROL THE
PLAY.
STOP LETTING HIM CONTROL THE
PLAY JUST LIKE HE HAS SINCE LAST
NOVEMBER AT THE VERY BEGINNING
OF THIS.
YOU’RE DIPLOMACY FAILED,
MR. BIDEN.
YOU STILL HAVEN’T RECOVERED.
THE WORST PART IS THE UKRAINIAN
PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING VERY BADLY,
VERY BADLY.
NOW THE GREAT FACT HERE AT LEAST
IS THE BRAVERY AND THE COURAGE
OF THE UKRAINIANS AND THEIR
PRESIDENT.
THEY HAVE STYMIED RUSSIA.
THE PERFORMANCE OF THE RED ARMY
IS THE LAUGHINGSTOCK.
SO-CALLED 40-MILE CONVOY BROKE
UP BECAUSE IT WAS GETTING
SHELVED HEAVILY BY THE BRAVE
UKRAINIANS.
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS RUNNING AWAY EN
MASSE.
RUSSIANS BY THE WAY, LET’S GO
BACK A BIT, THE RUSSIANS WERE
AFRAID OF RONALD REAGAN.
THE RUSSIANS WERE AFRAID OF
DONALD TRUMP.
AS MACHIAVELLI TAUGHT US 500
YEARS AGO, IT IS ALWAYS BETTER
TO BE FEARED THAN LOVED.
IF YOU STOOD UP, MR. PRESIDENT
BIDEN, IF YOU BARKED BACK AT
PUTIN, IF YOU PUT HIM IN HIS
PLACE, IF YOU SHOWED GOOD,
OLD-FASHIONED AMERICAN BACKBONE,
AND CONSISTENCY, YOU COULD DRIVE
PUTIN TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE
FOR A PEACE DEAL.
THAT IS WHAT A STRONG AMERICAN
PRESIDENT SHOULD AND COULD DO.
BUT NOT, WILT EVERY TIME PUTIN
DOES A BIT OF SABRE-RATTLING.
ACT LIKE A PRESIDENT MR. BIDEN,
AND THIS WHOLE WAR AGAINST
HUMANITY IN UKRAINE WOULD COME
TO AN END, AT LEAST WITHOUT AT
LEAST WITHOUT SPREADING INTO
WORLD WAR III.
THINK OF IT, AMERICA FIRST, YOU
ARE THE PRESIDENT OF THE
GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE HISTORY