And I said, this is genius, Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine,
of Ukraine, Putin declares it as independent, that's wonderful.
>> That's wonderful, ow that's Donald trump doing what he actually
does best defending Vladimir Putin, his lovely Russian daddy.
Someone who he could not stop complimenting when he was president,
someone he couldn't stop complimenting before he became president.
And it's kind of incredible because what he's referring to there,
what he's responding to is the escalation by Vladimir Putin in this conflict
with Ukraine will get some more details about that in just a second.
But he just went on to really puff up his chest and make himself out to be
the individual who would have put an end to this conflict from the get go.
Okay, before we get to those videos, just a little bit more context, so Putin,
this is what he's responding to.
Putin recognized the breakaway Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and
Luhansk as independent.
And use this as a pretext to send peacekeeping forces into the regions in
what is a violation of Ukraine's sovereignty,
president Joe Biden announced sanctions against Russia in response.
We'll be talking about that in a lot more detail later on in the show,
we're going to have a historian on someone who's an expert on this very issue.
But for now let's get to some more sound featuring Donald trump and
his defense of Vladimir Putin.
>> So Putin is now saying it's independent, a large section of Ukraine,
I said, how smart is that and he's going to go in and be a peacekeeper.
That's the strongest piece force, we could use that on our southern border,
that's the strongest piece force I've ever seen.
There were more army tanks that I've ever seen, they're gonna keep peace alright.
>> First off, obviously Putin is not sending troops to Ukraine on
a peacekeeping mission, that is ridiculous.
In order for it to be a peacekeeping mission,
you would need the government to you know, consent to it to want to have that happen.
Obviously, the Ukrainian government does not want Russia or Putin to send troops
across its border, like it's ridiculous to refer to it as a peacekeeping mission.
I mean, Trump knows that, I don't think that he's that stupid, right but
listen to what he was suggesting there.
>> Maybe we need that on our border, yeah,
maybe we need another country to invade through our southern border against
our will as long as they claim they're doing it as a peacekeeping mission.
>> Like what, I mean, this guy is incredible but honestly,
that was the least ridiculous part of what he had to say during this interview and
this was on some random dude show, the Buck Sexton show.
And he also puffed up his chest and made it seem as though, you know,
he would be the one who could find a real solution to this conflict and
the conflict before it would even begin let's watch.
>> Well, what went wrong was a rigged election and
what went wrong was a candidate that shouldn't be there.
By the way, this never would have happened with us had I been in office,
not even thinkable, this would never have happened.
But here's a guy that says, you know,
I'm going to declare a big portion of Ukraine independent.
He used the word independent and we're going to go out and we're gonna go in and
we're gonna help keep peace, you gotta say that's pretty savvy.
And you know what the response was from Biden,
there was no response, they didn't have one for that, now, it's very sad.
>> Okay, so first off, Biden did respond with sanctions,
their sanctions that are supposed to specifically target oligarchs and
people in positions of power in Russia.
I was actually a little surprised at how mild Biden's
response has been in response to Putin.
You know, giving this speech announcing two parts
of Ukraine which have been annexed essentially as independent states.
So, I thought Biden might actually act really irrationally to that and
further escalate this conflict, which of course, we don't want,
okay, we want to find a way to prevent a potential hot war.
So, I was happy to see that Biden was willing to be a little more measured in
his response to Putin.
Now, that is obviously going against the grain, from what we've seen from the Biden
administration so far in honestly escalating the conflict with Russia.
And yes, I will admit Russia has not been innocent but nonetheless,
Putin did something that further provoked the situation,
Biden responded in a relatively measured way.
But to say that Biden didn't do anything in response is ridiculous,
now let's get to the point that Trump is trying to make here that of course he.
There has to be a moment where he airs his grievances about the 2020 election because
he's a loser and can't accept the fact that he's a loser.
So he uses any and all opportunities to bring that up the election, you know,
the election was rigged, it was stolen from me,
I can't accept the fact that I'm incompetent, I'm a loser.
I failed the American people when it came to responding to a pandemic and
they voted me out of office.
but then he kind of talks about how he would handle this so
much better than Biden did.
Now there's a little kernel of truth to what trump is saying in regard to
preventing, you know, the situation that we're seeing today.
And what I mean by that is, remember Donald Trump did Putin's dirty work for
him when congress had appropriated military funding for Ukraine.
Donald trump illegally withheld that military funding until
Ukraine would announce some sham investigation into the Bidens,
that was the first reason why Donald trump was impeached.
Remember that, so it's not like Trump would be in office and
would serve as someone who would counter Putin,
he would work along with Putin, he would do the dirty work for Putin.
In fact, he was so complimentary toward Putin both before his presidency,
during his presidency and as you guys can see, after his presidency.
In 2013 for instance, Trump wondered on Twitter if the Russian autocrat would
attend his miss universe pageant in Moscow.
And whether the two would become best friends, Putin did not show up, very sad.
In the following years, trump repeatedly spoke highly of Putin's strategic acumen.
Noted the strongman's intention to rebuild the Russian empire and
defended Putin's habit of killing dissidents and
journalists arguing that the United States does the same thing.
So while Trump likes to posture as like this tough guy,
in reality it's not about being a tough guy for Trump.
It's all about cowering to his daddy Putin like that's just who trump is,
he loves strong men, there's no question about it.
In office he sided with Russia over US intelligence agencies and
accepting Russia's claims not to have been involved in election interference.
Trump subsequently claimed without evidence and at odds with all
the evidence gathered by US intelligence officials that it was Ukraine.
It was Ukraine not Russia that had interfered in the 2016 election in Trump's
elaborate conspiracy theory, Ukraine did this in order to frame Russia.
So again, there's a little kernel of truth to what Trump says,
he would handle it differently, it's just that he wouldn't counter Putin,
he would enable Putin much like he did with the Turks.
I mean, Donald Trump enabled Erdogan by pulling us troops out of Syria to
pave the way for the Turkish military to come in and slaughter the kurds.
The very individuals who assisted us in taking down ISIS,
that's who trump is, he cowers to strong men, that's what he loves to do.
He loves whoever the strongman daddy is, like the, it's like the soup de jour,
right, it's whoever that person is that's dominating the news on any given day,
Trump will defend them.
It's pretty incredible, I actually want to get to this next video though
because while trump again loves to posture as the strong man as someone who
is respected by the international community.
I just want to remind you of what a laughing stock Trump and
his administration was, here's one example,
this was in 2018 as he was speaking before the United Nations.
And he made a statement that was so
ridiculous that world leaders had to respond the way that you would
expect anyone to respond to this insane statement, let's watch.
>> In less than two years, my administration has
accomplished more than almost any administration
in the history of our country, America's so true.
>> I didn't expect that reaction but that's okay,
it's just it's incredible how much this guy is delusional,
delusional enough to think that he's somehow better on foreign policy.
And let me be clear, I'm not a fan of many decisions that
the Biden administration has made in regard to foreign policy.
I've been critical in the way that they've responded to Russia in this
entire situation.
They keep claiming that they're approaching this from
a standpoint of diplomacy, but that is not the case,
rather than finding ways to really de escalate this.
I've seen escalation day in day out,
pretty like insane claims day in day out, that has only led to
provoking the situation that we're seeing now in Eastern Ukraine.
Okay, I'm not saying that Putin is a good guy, I'm not saying that
Putin has done nothing wrong, however, for a party that claims they love to go high.
When others go low,
they're unwilling to bend at all when it comes to some of the provocations that
they're engaging in provocations that inflamed the relationship with Russia.
And I'm not saying we need to be best friends with Putin,
I'm not saying that we need to constantly collaborate and work with Russia.
Although when it comes to the climate emergency,
a case can be made that we probably do need to work not only with Russia.
But with other adversaries, China for instance, but
when you consider the fact that you're dealing with the nuclear power.
When you consider the fact that Ukraine does not have the military capability
necessary to really fight off Russia.
And when you consider the fact that Biden's like,
I'm not going to send in troops to Ukraine, but
I'm going to do all these other things that inflame the situation.
I just, I would argue that Biden hasn't handled it well, but
to make an argument that trump would handle it better is ridiculous.
The only Thing trump would do is enable the worst possible motives
that Putin might have, it's just the truth.