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Now that Russia has invaded Ukraine: Our top 3 goals

The main thing that matters in any crisis is deciding what’s most important, creating a hierarchy of concern.

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Tucker looks at what we should be prioritizing now that Russia has invaded Ukraine. Highlights include:

“What’s happening in Ukraine, whatever its scale … is a tragedy because war always is a tragedy and the closer you get to it, the more horrifying it seems. It’s the ugliest thing that men do, ever.”

“Vladimir Putin started this war, so whatever the context of the decision that he made, he did it, he fired the first shots. He is to blame for what we’re seeing tonight in Ukraine. The question is, once we’ve established that, and it’s obvious: How should the United States respond to what he has done?”

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“The main thing that matters in any crisis is deciding what’s most important, creating a hierarchy of concern. So, until last night, the main purpose of our foreign policy was to prevent Russian from invading Ukraine. Obviously, that failed. At some point we should figure out why.”

“But what’s our top goal now? Well, there’s several of them.”

First and most obviously: Avoid a full-scale war with a nuclear armed adversary. And to be fair, very few people in Washington want anything like that. But that doesn’t mean we won’t have one. Wars often break out accidentally, or more often incrementally.”

“Mark Warner, the head of the Senate intelligence committee, just announced that Russia could be potentially close to triggering what’s known as Article 5 of the NATO alliance — that’s a collective defense principle. So, if Russia were to launch a cyberattack on Ukraine, Warner explained, an attack that affects nearby NATO members like Poland or Lithuania, then possibly every NATO country including ours, the United States, would be obligated to declare war on Russia.”

“But, Article 5 is not a mechanical mechanism. Human beings have to decide to invoke it, and the question is, is what the senator just described something that is worth risking a nuclear conflict over? And that is something we should pause very deeply to think about in the most sober possible way, and we hope that our leaders are.”

“But not all of them seem sober right now. Some of them seem reckless, and as usual, ignorant.”

Here’s the second goal: Keep the energy flowing. Cheap energy, we take it for granted, but it is the basis for all we have. No energy, no civilization.”

“Unfortunately, a huge percentage of Europe’s energy now comes from Russia and Ukraine. The European Union relies on Russia for roughly 40% of its natural gas.”

“The fact is that Vladimir Putin has the power to send Europe, and for that matter the United States, into an economic depression. Putin has the power to turn off the lights. So, where did Vladimir Putin get this power? Well, there are a lot of reasons, but a big reason is the climate people gave him this power.”

Finally a topic no one ever brings up: We must protect the US dollar. America’s power derives from its wealth. Rich countries get to do what they want. Poor countries must obey their masters, or they get invaded. We just saw that happen, that is the unchanging rule.”

“In this country, control of the US dollar is the key to our wealth. Our entire financialized debt-based economy rests on the unique privilege of issuing the world’s reserve currency. If the US dollar is ever replaced, we are in legitimate trouble. Our debt will come due, our government will go bankrupt, and millions of Americans will become poor immediately. So, this is the main thing we ought to be worried about, and it is a greater risk now than ever before.”

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Tucker Carlson

Tucker: We’re Back.

At the most basic level, the news you consume is a lie, a lie of the stealthiest and most insidious kind. Facts have been withheld on purpose, along with proportion and perspective. You are being manipulated.

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Tucker again lays into the media propaganda machine as he announces he’s taking the show to Twitter. Highlights include:

“You often hear people say that news is full of lies, but most of the time, that’s not exactly right. Much of what you see on television or read in the New York Times is, in fact, true in the ‘literal’ sense, it could pass one of the media’s own ‘fact checks.’ Lawyers would be willing to sign off on it, in fact they may have. But that doesn’t make it true. It’s not true.”

“At the most basic level, the news you consume is a lie, a lie of the stealthiest and most insidious kind. Facts have been withheld on purpose, along with proportion and perspective. You are being manipulated.”

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“The best you can hope for in the news business at this point is the freedom to tell the fullest truth that you can, but there are always limits, and you know that if you bump up against those limits often enough, you will be fired for it. That’s not a guess, it’s guaranteed. Every person who works in the English language media understands that. The rule of what you can’t say defines everything. It’s filthy, really, and it’s utterly corrupting.”

“For the most part, the news that you see analyzed on Twitter comes from media organizations that are themselves thinly disguised propaganda outlets. You see it on cable news, you talk about it on Twitter. The result may feel like a debate, but actually the gatekeepers are still in charge. We think that’s a bad system. We know exactly how it works, and we’re sick of it.”

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Tucker: See you soon

When honest people say what’s true calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful. At the same time, the liars who’ve been trying to silence them shrink.

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Oh gosh, I’m using Twitter. Tucker dropped a video today on his Twitter account, again commenting on the current state of US media and finishing with a hopeful “See you soon.” Highlights include:

“One of the first things you realize when you step outside the noise for a few days is how many genuinely nice people there are in this country, kind and decent people, people who really care about what’s true, and a bunch of hilarious people also, a lot of those, it’s gotta be the majority of the population, even now, so that’s heartening. The other thing you notice when you take a little time off is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are…”

“Both political parties and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it. Suddenly, the United States looks very much like a one party state. That’s a depressing realization, but it’s not permanent. Our current orthodoxies won’t last. They’re brain dead.”

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“This moment is too inherently ridiculous to continue, and so it won’t. The people in charge know this, that’s why they’re hysterical and aggressive. They’re afraid. They’ve given up persuasion, they’re resorting to force. But it won’t work. When honest people say what’s true calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful. At the same time, the liars who’ve been trying to silence them shrink, and they become weaker. That’s the iron law of the universe, true things prevail.”

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