Tucker explains how dangerous it is to rush into war without calmly evaluating the long-term dangers and consequences, and continues to question why the democrats and left-leaning media continue to blame their political opponents for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Highlights include:
“No sane American approves of what Russia has done in Ukraine. We certainly don’t, and we don’t know anyone who does. On Twitter you see democrats pretending that their political opponents are responsible for the invasion and somehow support it. So, Joe Biden and his staff so mismanaged the world that Vladimir Putin invades Ukraine after Biden told us for months he could prevent that from happening, and yet all of it is your fault.”
“So that’s a slanderous lie.”
“The question is, what do we do next? Vladimir Putin’s badness doesn’t absolve us of our responsibility to think clearly about how to protect this country … and the rest of the free world, in that order. In fact, Putin’s badness makes wise decision-making in the United States more important than ever, and yet at the same time it makes wise decision-making harder to achieve. It’s not easy to see the long view when you’re angry.”
“As of tonight, here are the two main things we ought to be worried about going forward.”
“First, and most obviously, this war could get much worse than it already is. We could see many Americans die. Joe Biden is telling us he will not commit American troops to Ukraine. Biden also claimed he opposed vaccine mandates — so is he telling the truth? Even if he is telling the truth about his intentions in this case, Biden can’t see the future. Biden has no idea what will happen tomorrow or next week, much less next year, nobody does.”
“We do know that already many in Washington are pushing for a hot war with nuclear-armed Russia. They’re demanding a no-fly zone over Ukraine.”
“Shooting down Russian planes and taking out radar installation would, by definition, entail engaging Russian troops. If Vladimir Putin is even half as evil and crazy as they tell us he is, that could easily spiral into nuclear conflict.”
“Once we start bombing Russia, will Putin withdraw his forces from Ukraine? What will be left of Ukraine by that point? How are we sure that Putin, who we say is deranged, won’t go nuclear if a war with him begins? And then, among many other questions, what will China’s role in this war be?”
“Thanks to the efforts of the Biden White House, China is now Vladimir Putin’s strongest ally. The Chinese have just signed a long-term energy deal with Russia. Russia will be powering China’s economy going forward. But because that’s true, how sure are we that the Chinese will stay out of a war?”
“Are we ready for all of this? We’re moving down a path that could result in the destruction of the United States. Americans may be mad at Putin, understandably, but they’re wary of where our leaders are taking us next. A new CNN poll, for example, shows a strong majority of Americans, speaking of democracy, opposes direct military action against Russia. At the very least, they would like, and we could use, a sober national conversation about the potential consequences of where people like Richard Haas are taking us now.”
“It would be ironic if a defense of ‘democracy’ on the other side of the world led to an erosion of democracy here, and yet that seems to be where we’re headed. You’ll notice that the moment that Russian troops rolled across the border into Ukraine, democrats wasted no time in attacking not just Putin, but their political opponents in this country. Isn’t war the time for unity? But they leveraged this war and the human suffering that it inevitable entails to make partisan points.”
“What do they really hate? Well, listen to them. They hate populist politics. They hate populist politics in this country far more than they hate Vladimir Putin. So, they’re using this opportunity, this war in Eastern Europe, to shut down domestic dissent in the United States. And you’re seeing it, as always, in our allies first. Several of them, including Canada, have banned journalists who don’t agree with their view of the war.”
“Again, if we’re gonna’ protect democracy, that should start at home, and democracy is defined by the tolerance of the regime for dissent. But no dissent is allowed.”
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