Tucker cautions his viewers to be very wary of what we hear with distraction and manipulation running rampant among news media around the world, and interviews retired Army Colonel Doug MacGregor about Putin’s possible goals in the Ukraine invasion. Highlights include:
“What is the state of our union tonight? Well, in a word, it is fragile, very fragile. The United States is poorer, it’s more fearful, it’s far less free than it was when Joe Biden became president just 13 months ago. Joe Biden inherited a divided country, a very divided country, and then he proceeded to make it much angrier. History will judge Joe Biden for that, but in the meantime, voters already are. Biden’s pol numbers have dropped to the point that it’s impossible to explain them without admitting that you were at fault. “
“The question is, how does he explain his failures? And the answer is, mostly, he doesn’t. Biden is guaranteed to make sympathetic noises about inflation and gas prices, he has no choice but to do that, but he also has no answers. He cannot fix the problems that he has caused. Thankfully, from his perspective (and we’re preparing you, this is very cynical), Biden now has a war to talk about, and of course that’s what he will do tonight. The White House understands the invasion of Ukraine is a chance to change the subject, it is what Bloomberg News described today as a ‘political reset’. So, forget what Biden did to your country, and your economy, and your school, Joe Biden is Winston Churchill now.”
“Our advice is be very wary of what you hear. There is an awful lot of lying going on, an unprecedented amount of lying. This war is a humanitarian tragedy, that we know, but the war is also a political event that various groups, including in this country, are leveraging feverishly in the hope of gaining more power for themselves — that is real. So, to gain that power, they’re manipulating you, the consumer of news, and they’re doing it in ways that are often hidden and therefore highly insidious, and we would say immoral.”
“Vladimir Putin set out to honor his word of 2007. 2007 at the Munich Security Conference he said, ‘we will not tolerate the expansion of NATO to a point where your border is touching Russia, specifically Ukraine and Georgia. We see these as essentially trojan horses for NATO’s military power and US influence, subversion, and so forth. He then turned to several opportunities to reinforce that over and over and over again, most recently with president Biden, in the hopes that he could avoid taking action to effectively clean out Eastern Ukraine of any opposition forces whatsoever, and to put his forces in a position, vis-a-vis NATO, to deter us from any further attempts to influence or change Ukraine into effectively a platform for the projection of US and western power into Russia.”
“This is the interesting part. Now everyone is talking about spending lots of money on defense and lots of money for NATO, but very shortly people are going to begin to ask ‘Why? Why are we doing it? Because it’s patently obvious that NATO is not in a position to fight, not in a position to challenge the Russians.’ So I think Mr. Biden’s problem tonight is not just his narrative is going to break down over the next few days as it becomes obvious that this whole Ukraine business was a fantasy on his part. He’s going to end up trying to write checks that he can’t cash.”
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