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>> FIRST OF ALL THOSE COMMENTS
WERE RECKLESS.
I THINK THAT EVEN MORE
IMPORTANTLY, THEY DEMONSTRATE
MAYBE ONE OF THE GREATEST
FOREIGN POLICY FAILURES OF THE
LAST DECADES WHICH WAS THE
FAILURE TO DETER VLADMIR PUTIN
IN THE SAME WAY THAT THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION DID FOR FOUR
YEARS.
DAVID: FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE
MIKE POMPEO SLAMMING THE
PRESIDENT’S ARMAGEDDON WARNING
LAST WEEK, COMMENTS THE
WHITE HOUSE QUICKLY WALKED BACK,
SAYING THERE IS NO INDICATION
RUSSIA IS PREPARING TO USE
NUCLEAR WARS.
HERE TO TALK ABOUT IT, KELLY
CRAFT, FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO
THE UNITED NATIONS.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF PRESIDENT
BIDEN’S COMMENTS, HIS ARMAGEDDON
COMMENTS?
>> IF YOU’RE AFRAID AS WE ALL
SHOULD BE TO MAKE SUCH A
COMMENT, A SERIOUS COMMENT
DURING COCKTAILS AND HORDEUVERS
IN MANHATTAN, THAT SHOW AS BIT
OF FEAR THAT BIDEN IS PLACING
AND PUTIN IS WATCHING THIS FEAR.
I HAVE MEAN THIS IS, THIS IS NOT
ONLY PUTIN, THE KREMLIN
WATCHING, IT IS CHINA.
IT IS CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY.
IT IS IRAN.
IT IS NORTH KOREA.
THEY HAVE BEEN SHOOTING MISSILES
OVER THE ISLAND OF JAPAN.
I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT
WE NEED TO TAKE NOTE.
WE NEED TO STRESS DETERRENCE.
WE DO NOT NEED TO BE FEARFUL.
THIS IS AN EVIL MONSTER.
WE NEED TO TAKE THIS SERIOUS AND
WE’VE GOT TO DETER EVIL.
DAVID: YOU KNOW, IT’S A GREAT
POINT THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE
LOOKING VERY CLOSELY AT THE
PSYCHOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
PUBLIC AT LARGE AND OF
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS THAT WE HAVE
AND I KNOW THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA
HATES THIS, THESE WHAT IF
QUESTIONS, HEY, WHAT IF
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD ANOTHER
TERM, DO YOU THINK IF PRESIDENT
TRUMP HAD ANOTHER TERM THAT
PUTIN WOULD HAVE GONE INTO
UKRAINE AT ALL?
>> WE WOULDN’T BE HAVING THIS
CONVERSATION IF PRESIDENT TRUMP
HAD ANOTHER TERM BECAUSE THE
RESPECT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD FROM
COUNTRIES WAS RESPECT FROM SOME
OF THEM OUT OF FEAR BECAUSE THEY
KNEW IN THE FACE OF EVIL WE
WOULD TAKE ACTION.
WE WOULD NOT REACT.
WE WOULD HAVE ACTED.
DAVID: WE TOOK ACTION AGAINST
RUSSIANS IN SYRIA.
THAT FORCE THAT IS CAUSING HAVOC
IN THE UKRAINE THAT WAS BASED IN
SYRIA, THAT GROUP OF RENEGADE
SOLDIERS THAT THEY USED FOR
REALLY DIRTY OPERATIONS, WE
JUST, WE KILLED OVER 200 OF THEM
UNDER DONALD TRUMP.
SO HE KNEW, PUTIN KNEW THAT
DONALD TRUMP WAS SERIOUS ABOUT
PUSHING THEM BACK WHEN NEEDED.
>> YES, AND YOU KNOW THEY ALL
KNEW THAT AMERICA IS A
SUPERPOWER AND NOW MY BIGGEST
FEAR IS, YOU KNOW, THERE IS NOT
A BODY DOUBLE THAT IS WAITING
FOR US.
THERE IS NO ONE TO TAKE OUR
PLACE EXCEPT FOR IRAN, RUSSIA,
CHINA, THE NATIONS THAT ONCE
FEARED DONALD TRUMP, WE WOULD
NEVER BE IN THIS SITUATION AND
YOU KNOW MORE OF THE REASON THAT
UKRAINE HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND
THEMSELVES.
WHEN THEY HAVE BEEN ATTACKED,
THEY HAVE BEEN VERY RESTRAINED
BECAUSE THEY COULD HAVE ATTACKED
ANY INFRASTRUCTURE IN RUSSIA YOU
ABOUT INSTEAD THEY ATTACKED THE
KERCH BRIDGE BECAUSE THAT WAS
ALLOWING THE RUSSIANS TO
TRANSPORT MILITARY EQUIPMENT AND
THEIR MILITARY MEN OVER TO
UKRAINE.
THIS IS BLATANTLY, THESE ARE WAR
CRIMES PUTIN IS COMMITTING.
HIS RESPONSE WAS SHOOTING AT
UKRAINE CIVILIANS.
THIS IS YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF
WAR CRIMES BY PUTIN, ANOTHER
EXAMPLE OF EVIL AND WE MUST TAKE
THIS VERY SERIOUS.
WE MUST DETER THIS.
WE MUST MAKE SURE HE HAD NEVER
BEEN INVOLVED IN ATTACKING
UKRAINE.
DAVID: THE EXPLOSION, THE BRIDGE
EXPLOSION WAS VERY IMPORTANT.
IT MAKES ME WONDER WHAT PUTIN
DOES NEXT.
HE WILL NOT JUST WALK AWAY FROM
UKRAINE THE SOVIET SOLDIERS
WALKED AWAY FROM AFGHANISTAN.
I GET THE SENSE HE IS GOING TO
TRYING SOMETHING MORE THAN JUST
WALK OUT OF THERE, RIGHT?
>> I BELIEVE THAT HE WAS
LISTENING, HE LISTENING TO THE
STATEMENT.
HE WAS LISTENING TO THE VENUE.
HE WAS LISTENING WHETHER OR NOT
THIS WAS SERIOUS, WHETHER THIS
STATEMENT WAS IN FEAR WHICH I
BELIEVE IT WAS, A REALLY POOR
MESSAGE TO SEND TO RUSSIA, AS WE
JUST DISCUSSED TO IRAN, CHINA,
AND NORTH KOREA.
I BELIEVE THIS WILL ONLY PROVOKE
PUTIN AS WE’VE SEEN WITH HIS
REACTION TO THE ATTACK ON
UKRAINE CIVILIANS.
DAVID: AGAIN YOU WONDER WHETHER
HE IS MAKING THAT CALCULATION?
RUSSELL MEADE WROTE ABOUT IT,
WOULD WE RISK NEW YORK TO KEEP
ODESA FREE?
THAT IS THE BIG QUESTION HANGING
OVER ALL OF THIS, IF IT CAME TO
THAT.
I JUST DON’T THINK THE PRESIDENT
HAS MADE THE WORLD A SAFER PLACE
WITH THOSE COMMENTS.
THEN AGAIN THE CONSTANT
BACKTRACKING THAT YOU GET ON
STUFF THAT HE SAID.
THAT ALSO LEADS PEOPLE A LITTLE