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Deal or No Deal - Can Trump Get Putin and Zelensky to the Negotiation Table?
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Jack Posobiec
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Narrator/Host Introduction
A commentator, international social media sensation and former Navy Intelligence veteran. This is Human Events with your host Jack Posobic.
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Jack Posobiec
Christ is King. DC Is already safer than it was nine days ago, but we're going to make it safer. Still to come, this is your city. You should feel free to come and visit here, have a meal, see all these incredible, incredible monuments and actually enjoy yourself. And that's what we're trying to make happen. And I think that if we set a standard in Washington D.C. that political willpower can bring some common sense law and order back to these communities, then maybe some other communities and other cities will follow suit.
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Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer
For the first time in a long time, D.C. has gone seven days without a homicide. And that's not all. Carjackings are down 83%, robberies are down 46%, car thefts down 21%, and overall violent crime is down 22% percent.
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Narrator/Host Introduction
Former President Barack Obama says he is giving his blessing to California governor Gavin Newsom's redistricting map. Obama endorsed the map while speaking at a fundraiser for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. The former president says it would be his preference not to have political gerrymandering, but given the effort in Texas to approve new maps favoring Republicans, he's supporting California's effort.
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Jack Posobiec
Are three guided missile destroyers deploying off the coast of Venezuela? It's all part of President Trump's plan to help combat drug cartels in Latin America.
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Narrator/Host Introduction
Three US Guided missile destroyers, the USS Gravelly, USS Jason Dunham, and the USS Sampson, are being deployed in these efforts, with some news outlets also reporting that the ship should arrive there imminently off the coast of Venezuela. So this will bring the military posture to about 4,000 sailors and marines. Ukraine saying an American electronics plant in the western part of the country is one of the targets in a massive Russian drone attack overnight. One person is dead and 15 people are hurt, according to President Zelensky, who also wrote In a statement, there have been no signal from Moscow that they are really going to engage in meaningful negotiations and end this war. Pressure is needed. Strong sanctions, strong tariffs.
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Jack Posobiec
Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard. Today's edition, Human Events Daily. We're here live in Washington, D.C. today is August 21, 2025, Anno Domini, the much safer Washington, D.C. whereas, of course, we just saw the news. The Washington, D.C. has for the first time in a very, very long time, gone an entire week without a single homicide. You'd think, by the way, that that wouldn't be something that we'd be cheering about in our nation's capital, but it is, because that's just how bad the situation has become here in D.C. it's one of the reasons that I and many other people that I know in Washington, D.C. that we don't take our kids out. We don't go to the parks. Certainly if you're going anywhere, you're not going after night. And of course, we also, it's by the way, so President Trump has been talking about the Smithsonian and wanting to fix up the Smithsonians. And, and I'm saying, wait a minute, he must be watching Human Events Daily again, because I've been railing against the D.C. museums all year, specifically this summer. I know I talked about the spy museum a couple of times and we've mentioned a few others as well. The museums are an absolute joke. They teach lies as truth. When you come into the city and you just can't do it, you just absolutely can't have it for the kids. So as, as a dad, as a father who has young children in the D.C. area, you know, this is absolutely something that I support. Thank you, Mr. President. I've watched all of the videos that have come out thus far, and I haven't seen a single one that I disagree with. Funny enough, you also can't seem to find any of the videos of people being arrested by ICE where they're speaking English. Amazing. Well, folks, we're looking at, of course, the Ukraine, Russia situation, Deal or no Deal. And we saw the momentum early on this week, which was huge. Of course, at the tail end of last week, their historic moments in Anchorage, Alaska, the Anchorage Accords that sit down with Vladimir Putin, Sergei Lavrov and others. Then the multilateral meeting which came on Monday, just 48 hours later, where you had the heads of seven world leaders coming to the White House. France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, they were all there, Ursula von der Leyden, even Alexander Stubb of Finland. But the question is, here's the Question, will the deal come out? Because you've got an issue here and one of the tensions is short game versus long game. All right? For the Americans, they're looking at it from the perspective of a short game. Ukrainians are looking at it from the perspective of a short game. So are the Europeans, because all of those leaders are directly tied to election cycles. They're also directly tied to the current public opinion of the time. The Russians don't have that. So the Russian leadership is looking at this from the long game perspective. And from the long game perspective, they're saying, what kind of deal, what kind of assurances can you give us? What do we want? By the way, I mentioned yesterday how they want to bring the United nations in. They said UN Permanent Security Council, which would include China. Zelinsky then came out yesterday and said, absolutely not anything with China. So again, you're. When it comes to these things, and I had the opportunity, real honor, by the way, to be able to sit in that new media seat in the White House and ask the question of our Press Secretary, Caroline Levitt, to say, well, when we say security guarantees, what do we mean? Can we elaborate on this? And the devil is in the details, and the devil certainly is in the details here because when it comes down to it, a security guarantee from the west means that that country, whether it be the United States, France, England, Germany, you've got to roger up and deploy troops to go to be willing to go to war with Russia. And no country, not even Poland, has been willing to do over the last three and a half years, are we going to get a deal or not? We'll see. We've got General Flynn coming up next when I get his take on it. Human Events Daily returns right back.
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General Michael T. Flynn
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Jack Posobiec
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General Michael T. Flynn
I'm doing great, Jack. Thanks. Thanks for having me on. It's very, very important day here. And I was listening to the earlier part of the show about the lack of murders in our capital, which is where I'm at right now. And it's sad that we even have to report on that. But we do so good on President Trump for doing what he did.
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Jack Posobiec
Oh, it's incredible. And I can't wait to see that ride along later today. I'm sure that's going to be, it's going to be quite the, quite the entourage you'll have with them security wise. But hopefully, hopefully you won't need as much as usual.
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General Michael T. Flynn
Yeah, exactly. Well, I'm actually here in Washington, D.C. i had a great meeting with the secretary of defense this morning on some other issues. But very important time that we are in right now. A lot of, a lot of things still coming out from the DNI and I think DOJ over the weekend. So a lot of things happen in addition to I know what you wanted to talk about really was the, was this deal or no deal, right? Are we going to get a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine and frankly Russia and the west, as we saw Trump meeting with damn near half of the European Union in NATO the other day, I think where we're at right now. And one little piece of intel, I'm not sure a lot of people track the breach. It was a cyber security attack against Ukraine recently, like recently being the last 96 hours. And there was a Range of data. One of the points of data was the number of killed in action over the last three years. The records of the deceased were actually part of the attack. And we're looking at 1.7 million people that have been killed in this war just in the last three years alone. So under the, during the Biden administration. So when President Trump says we got to stop the killing, I mean, he, you know, the numbers of, of deceased that we, that were reported on and then now from this breach of, of this cyber attack, and we don't sure who exactly did it yet, whether it's the Russians or whether it's the Chinese or whether it's internal. No, no clue yet. But the numbers of killed in action, civilians and military, is just staggering. So there has to be some recognition of those numbers. For those that are trying to come to grips with how do we achieve a long lasting peace deal? Not a ceasefire that they typically don't end well, but a long term peace agreement. And I do think that there's going to be some security guarantees that are going to have to be given to Ukraine. I do. I've called for Jack, I've called for an election, an immediate election in both Ukraine and in that election, a referendum of sorts for not only the president of the country of Ukraine, the government of Ukraine, but also a referendum on what the people in those eastern Donbasses want to do. Give them a choice. Right? We want to have people give, given the freedom to choose. You know where they stand. You give those people a choice as well. We can do those things. We've set those kind of international elections up. We've monitored them. The United States of America, there's nobody does it better if we have the right people and we're not trying to, not trying to sway a country one direction or another. So those are just a couple of things that need to be considered as we go forward in coming up with a peace negotiation and a peace deal. Never mind. I think what can be huge, huge benefits will be an economic. And we have the best president in our history to be at the helm right now in the United States to come up with probably one of the best economic deals between not only Ukraine and Russia, but between Russia and Europe and Russia and the rest of the world. So there's so much at stake there. The other thing that I have asked for and I've spoken about is I kind of call it a mini Marshall Plan. Most people don't remember the Marshall Plan post World War II, where we rebuilt all of Europe so we would have to come up with some type of mini Marshall Plan, if you will. And I know that that's on the table, not necessarily in that name, but a reconstruction effort inside of Ukraine. And frankly, you can help out Russia as well because there's been some things that have been destroyed in there too, but some type of a mini Marshall Plan that is part of this long term peace agreement that, that allows people to come together and rebuild and retool what it is that we need to have, not only in Eastern Europe, but, but certainly, you know, globally and certainly for all of Europe to stop this fighting. We have to stop this fighting to stop this killing. Neither side, Jack, can afford it any longer. The manpower is not there, the economies are not there. And more attrition is not in anybody's benefit except for, except for probably the ccp. I think that one of the great beneficiaries here is China. So let me stop there if you have any questions.
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Jack Posobiec
So the question I have is going back to, and I asked Press Secretary Caroline Levitt about this on Tuesday in the White House is also an elaboration of these security guarantees. Because we hear from some reports that they're talking about Article 5 like guarantees. We hear NATO, but no NATO. President Trump says unequivocally no U.S. troops on the ground, possibly some air. But when it really comes down to it, doesn't this all run up against the deadlock of you're going to need some country, then if you're providing those security guarantees, you're going to need some country to be able to say that they're willing to go to war with Russia and be willing to put actual boots on the ground in a scenario like this. And I'm looking around and I just don't see anyone in Western Europe or the United States, quite frankly, that's going to be saying that they're willing to do so?
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General Michael T. Flynn
Yeah. So a couple of things, Jack. First of all, Ukraine does not meet the conditions to join NATO. They just don't. They also do not meet the conditions to join the European Union. So those are pretty high standards. And there's still countries in the Balkans that are trying to join the European Union, but they have not been able to because they can't meet the conditions to join that particular consortium. So just put that in a box. Now what we're talking about is the potential to deploy military forces in some type of posture, maybe as a barrier force, you know, in between, in sort of a no man's land between the two countries. So who is going to do that should, and the question there is, should it be NATO or should it be the European Union? Because the European Union has a, has a military force all of its own. So it doesn't necessarily, the answer doesn't have to be NATO. And I also want people to understand that as we go forward, one of the important parts of what is happening and what's been going on is the destruction is so monumental that there's going to have to be some sit down. So you achieve a peace agreement, but part of that peace agreement has to be a recognition that we are going to have to rebuild parts of that country, in this case Ukraine and probably certainly elements along the border, certain, certainly some of the cities and towns along the border, as well as even into the Crimea area. So those elements, is it the European Union that should step in and help there? Is it the world, Is it countries like the Republic of Korea? Is it Japan? Are there other countries that step into this role? What we, what I, what I do not recommend is, I do not recommend the United nations stepping in because I think it would become a, a quagmire of sorts. And, and it's the wrong direction to take. I think that there has to be a direct responsibility by the Europe, by Europe and I think principally the European Union, more so than NATO, because NATO is what it is. It has a high standard of, of coming and joining. It is a defensive charter. I, I, you know, when they talk about Article 5, like, what does that mean? Does that mean if something happens, how do you prove that what happened, happened, you know, then do you respond to it immediately? Do you, do you, do you, you know, gather the intelligence and you do the analysis as to what happened before you make decisions to deploy troops against, against, in this case, Russia. So big questions. And I do think that Europe, and that's why I'm so glad that Trump had that mini summit, really a European summit in the, in the Oval Office. They're the ones that are going to have to take responsibility. I think President Trump is doing all he can to bring the, you know, to bring the capabilities, the intellect and the resources of the United States to help where we can help. But we have other issues and he knows this right here at home that have to be dealt with. Not only our border, not only our own streets and making them safe, as he's done in Washington, D.C. but we've got to rebuild our military, we've got to retool our military.
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Jack Posobiec
We've got to get, we certainly do, General Flynn. We've got a We've got a quick break coming up. Let's, let's hold there. I want to hold you over after this because this is a thorny Gordian knot, if you will, the Odessian knot. President Trump, if anyone can solve it, it will be him. Right back, Jack Basilic, Human Events on Will, America's Voice.
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General Michael T. Flynn
They talk about influencers. These are influencers and they're friends of mine.
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Jack Posobiec
Jack.
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General Michael T. Flynn
Where's Jack? He's got a great job.
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Jack Posobiec
All right, Jack Sovic back live here, Human events daily, Washington, D.C. we're on Today with General Michael Flynn. He just met with Secretary Hegseth. He's here in Washington, D.C. as well, getting up to speed and briefed in on a lot of different things that are going on, talking about rebuilding the force. But General Flynn, I wanted to get into and if we could, from a military intelligence perspective, since we do have your, your expertise with us and you've been gracious with your time when, when you look at the battlefield right now, and this is something that I've, I've brought up again and again with my contacts in D.C. as well as when I was on this trip with up to Anchorage and then back in the White House for this multilateral, the mini summit, the military situation on the battlefield, it's favoring the Russians at this point. And so when we're talking about this deal, I think everyone needs to remember that the Russians either have to agree or disagree. And right now there's a lot of people to the right of where Putin is right now in the Kremlin saying, why make a deal at all? Why not just keep going, take Odessa, work our way up the river to Kiev and just be done with the whole thing? Because we've had deals, we've had Minsk accords and Budapest agreements and memorandums, and they, they never seem to be followed. So why not just go for the whole thing? And it seems to me that it's easier for the Russians to walk away right now than it is for us. And they seem more willing to.
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General Michael T. Flynn
Yeah. And I wrote about this the other day where I said, you know, to the victor goes the spoils in war, but in this case, the victor so far is Russia. And so you're exactly right to raise this issue because the Russians may not hold the moral high ground, but they hold the ground and they're in a much better posture militarily than the Ukrainian military. Now, when you talk about an array of forces, when you look at the size and scale and capabilities of the Russian military compared to The Ukrainian military is much different. And despite all of the potential equipment sales and provisions that have been given to the Ukrainians, they are running out of fighting age males because of the number of losses that they have had and frankly the defections. And what's one of the indicators that you look for from a military intelligence perspective? You look at the morale and inside of the opposing force that you're facing and I can tell you the morale inside the Ukrainian military is not high. And the fact that they're now having to force much older men, in this case 60 year olds and above, to come into the military to be able to fight on the front lines. So I don't know if Russia has the ambition. There are probably some on the far right in Russia, far right of Putin, that, and that means really far right that want to go and take over Kyiv and all of Ukraine. But I actually think that there is a group around Putin that says, look, we hold this ground. Right now. We're in a really strong negotiating position. We want to maintain what we have and basically hold what we have and keep that as our strategy and not necessarily threaten all of Europe, which the Russians don't have the capability to do that. So anybody that says, well, NATO's worried about Russia attacking across the plains of Europe, that's not the Warsaw Pact anymore, they do not have the rear end, the capacity, the capability to do that. They have barely the capability to do what they're doing in Ukraine, but they hold the ground right now. And you use the term Odessian, not people need to pay really close attention because Odessa, Crimea and the Black Sea are parts of this deal that Russia desperately needs because there is an economic angle to this, to this war. That's where President Trump, I've said for.
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Jack Posobiec
A long time, and maybe this may be my bias as a Navy guy, but you know, when I look at the port city of Odessa, the Dardanelle Strait, the mouth to the Black Sea, I say this is everything, this is everything right here.
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General Michael T. Flynn
Probably the most strategic point that the Russians have ever held. And it's something that we're going to have to deal with. We have to work with them. There's still control mechanisms within the Black Sea. You mentioned the Dardanelles, of course, the eastern Mediterranean. I mean, so when you look at the bigger picture here, Jack, it's not just these eastern provinces of Ukraine. There is a much bigger play here. And this is where we're going to have to try to figure out in a long term peace deal. What does that mean? Does it mean constant direct access by the Russian Black Sea Fleet to be able to exit and entrance, you know, the Dardanelles Strait to get into the Mediterranean and then operate in the east, at least in the eastern med. I mean, they have not been able to do that for a long, long time. And they only started to do that back around probably 10 years ago when they brought their Black Sea Fleet out to actually support our operations against ISIS in Syria. When the United States of America and the US Military, US Military and Russian forces were working together. That was at the tail end of really the. Well, actually, it was probably the middle of the Obama administration. So, I mean, there's so much history here that we have to, in recent history that we have to understand to be able to have this negotiated settlement that has a long term value to it, a long term value proposition. Not just something that is a ceasefire which will end the next time somebody blinks the wrong way. So that map that you're showing is so meaningful. And I do know that there's some other things that are going to be in play here. I love the fact. And let me just throw this in because it matters. Trump's pressure on Venezuela right now, okay, Russia has a long term. And they have, you know, sites inside of, inside of Venezuela. Venezuela is right off of our borders here, folks. So this pressure that Trump is providing against Venezuela right now matters to these negotiations. This is why when people talk about 3D, 4D, 5D chess, Trump is a master at this. And he's, and he's got levers of power and levers of authority that he's able to exert when he goes in to bring these two, you know, these two presidents together. Last point, Jack, and I'll get off my high horse in the Oval Office. There was a question to Zelensky about, well, you've, Are you going to have an election again? You know, you declared martial law, right? And he says, well, no, we can't have an election until the war is over. Wait a second. You know, as I, as I wrote about the other day, that's during the American Civil War, we've had elections. During World War II, we've had elections. So that's a misnomer for Zelensky to say that. To me, that means he's in a very weakened position. And the Russians know that. I believe the. Yet Europe knows that he's in a weakened position because the people, and I think we talked about this maybe off camera, the people in Ukraine is 60, 70%. In a recent Gallup poll, that said, we don't want this.
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Jack Posobiec
They want. They want to negotiate, end this thing.
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General Michael T. Flynn
That's right.
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Jack Posobiec
We've got to run. I know you've got to run. You got a number of meetings. I want to thank you for being so gracious with your time. Where can people go to follow you and get all your access to your state reps?
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General Michael T. Flynn
And they go to general flynn.com general flynn.com I got a new book out, Pardon of Innocence. It's a great bestseller. So general flynn.com thanks, Jack.
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Jack Posobiec
Generalflin.com get that book. Make sure you're supporting a great American general. Be right back. Human Events Daily Remark his voice.
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General Michael T. Flynn
Jack. Where's Jack? Where is he? Jack, I want to see you. Great job, Jack. Thank you. What a job you did. You know, we have an incredible thing. We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys and these are the guys who'd be getting policies.
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Jack Posobiec
All right, Jack. Brazil. But here we are back, Human events daily, Washington D.C. we're talking about Deal or no Deal. What is the situation? Does it seem like the deadlock, the diplomatic deadlock is locked in, or will President Trump ironically be going to Alaska to thaw the ice? We certainly has thought it in a sense with Russia. The question is, will he be able to get Europe to come along? Wanted to get Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer on right now. We just had General Flynn give us his sit rep and I wanted to bring Tony SCHAFER on now. Lieutenant Cole Schaefer, how are you?
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Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer
Hey, I'm well, Jack. Always great to join you. Thanks for having me.
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Jack Posobiec
My gosh. So, Tony, you know, I always tell people that every time I have you on, I just, you've got to take the biggest victory lap ever because Tony Schaefer was the one who told us, look, to the end of July, the end of July is when all of Ukraine is going to blow up. There's going to be counteroffensives. There's going to be all this stuff going on and nobody in the world was talking about it except for Tony Schaefer. And that's exactly what happened. Not only did we see that breakout by the Russian forces, but it also triggered what worries about a collapse in Ukraine and then this huge, monumental, historic swing of diplomatic meetings with President Trump, Vladimir Putin and the multilateral mini summit at the White House. So kudos to you, Tony, for just nailing that. So, Tony, when, and we're just playing a clip of the, of the summit there. So, Tony, when, you know, when you look at things, you know, you saw that at the beginning of the summer. You saw that this would be an inflection point. Where. Where do you see things as it stands now?
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Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer
Well, to summarize, the military situation, it's dire for Ukraine. I don't think people fully understand it. I think President Trump has people around him who are not quite being honest with him regarding how bad it is, the whole pork Trovsky encirclement. Anybody can go. There's a number of outlets which are covering this. And the Russians fall. They're not anxious to get it done. They are getting it done, and they're strangling off the last effective forces. Azov Brigade is there deployed. The Azov Brigade is being essentially used as kind of a. A stopgap to stop the inevitable. It's just coming. And. And once it happens, it's going to be catastrophic for the Ukrainian military. There's been some leaked documents which I don't necessarily think are completely accurate, but there are indications that finally the word is out about the enormous losses of Ukraine. And, Jack, we've talked about this from the beginning of the war. The Russians have an order of magnitude more people to throw at this, and they don't have to do it all at once, and they're not. So I think that Putin, Vladimir Putin probably had a private conversation with President Trump saying, look, this is all over. We're kind of holding back because, you know, we don't see the need to be, you know, aggressive to the point of where we have to go to the Dnieper, but we're going to continue to move forward. And I think that's the military situation, the diplomatic situation. The Europeans, Jack, continue to drag their feet. You saw Mertz, you know, the German chancellor, saying, oh, we want this, the ceasefire. Nobody's going to go for a ceasefire at this point, who understands the situation? And the Russians most certainly will not, because they're winning. So I think that's the situation. And the question becomes, will President Trump have the force of will? I'd like to believe within the next 10 days to get Vladimir Putin and Voldemort Zelensky together in a room somewhere where they can sit down and hash out the two issues which remain. What exactly does security guarantees mean? Because that's the big issue. And secondly, what land is going to go where regarding the outcome? And I know there continues to be this reluctance to give up the land the Russians hold, but I just don't see any way out of giving some land to the Russians. So that's the way I see the situation right now.
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Jack Posobiec
And it really comes down to it. And I've seen, I saw one report earlier this morning saying that Zelensky is at least privately conceding that he likely will have to say, have to agree to a frozen conflict along at least the contact line where it is now, which is strikingly similar to those old maps of Novorossia. This, the idea of new Russia or Malorussia, like the Little Russia that they would, that they would show. You go back to the Russian Civil War. This was very much the same area where the White army was able to make some of their final stand against the Bolsheviks. So this, these are cities. These are. And when I say cities, I mean, I mean, you know, towns, villages, farmlands that have seen war after war after war. So in the Russian Civil War, which of course, in this program I've talked about at great length, as well as, of course, World War II, many of the same area. I mean, when people look at a map, you know, the Balakirsk, it happens right there. And then Stalingrad is really not much further to, to the east of, of Donbass. And I think people need to remember that, that Donbass is sort of the door to. It's not Stalingrad anymore, it's Volgograd now, but really the door to the Volga, and then that cuts you right up to Moscow. So this is key strategic land for the Russians, something that they fought for for a long, long time and something that they take very seriously.
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General Michael T. Flynn
Yeah.
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Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer
And to that point, I still see this entire engagement as a form of civil war. I just don't believe we should have been ever involved to the level we are at this point. With that said, if anyone who looks at the Battle of Kursk, the Battle of Stalingrad, once those major engagements were done, once the Russian military had open field, they took it, and I mean fast. So I keep hearing Keith Kellogg and others say, wow, you know, they've been, they've been at war for three years and they've not made a lot of gains. They don't have to. The basic philosophy and strategy is attrition. They want to demilitarize Ukraine, which is, and frankly, NATO as well, and that's what they've been doing. And the other thing Jack, I find interesting is this whole idea of a security, guaranteed security force. Many of the European nations are not prepared to do anything. I mean, I think the British army right now is smaller than the Mississippi National Guard. So I just don't know how the European militaries who were significant during the Cold War have been reduced to probably one tenth of their size during that time. And how the guarantee, you know, how they want to put boots on the ground constantly, Jack, it's insane. And I think one of the things that has to be introduced to the conversation is reality. So much of what I see posturing from the Europeans is based on fiction. And I think President Trump has to be a lot more vigorous. I know he's trying to be polite and diplomatic and he did call out Mertz, but he's got to be a lot more direct about what he, President Trump wants regarding an end state, because left to the devices of both sides, it's never going to happen. He's got to be the leader. He's got to set up the framework and he's got to say this is what has to be done and go with that. I think that's the only way this is going to be resolved.
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Jack Posobiec
You know, in fact, and if you look at that video when they're all sitting there around the table in the multi Latin, when Mares brought that up about owner, we're going to push for a ceasefire and we need a ceasefire. We need the preconditions for the ceasefire before we move to peace talks. You see, Maloney just gives him the eye roll, right? Just like, what, what do you, what do you, what are you talking about here? And then Trump, Trump kind of looked at him with the side eye. It says, you know, I've done, you know, six, seven peace deals in wars all around the world, and none of them followed this standard of a cease fire and then a peace deal. We just went right to the peace deal. And I have to commend the president as well for just having that willingness to say, we're going to cut through all this bureaucratic red tape. This is, it's very, by the way, very old world to have to go through multiple layers of bureaucracy to get to a deal here. And I think someone at one point in the meeting said, oh, let's, you know, let's, let's try to get the date on the month, a date on the books for a month from now, for the next meeting. He goes, a month? A month. No, let's call him right now. And he calls Putin right in the middle of the meeting.
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Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer
Yeah, well, see, that's, to me, this was a bringing back of the TV show the Apprentice, the European edition where he's basically, I love that. Think about this. I have never seen, and I talked to a lot of reporters about this too. They have never seen every major leader in Europe drop everything and show up in D.C. because of your point, these visits are normally planned out incrementally over like six months and everything is very orchestrated. No, basically we're going to have a talk. If you want to talk, you show up, you be at the table. Otherwise we're moving on. And I think, Jack, that's what's got to continue. You can show no fear to the Russians, you can give no deference to the Europeans because either side's going to bog you down. So you got to continue to go forward. And, and again, that's why I think it's so important that President Trump personally called for Zelensky and Putin to meet with him somewhere next week, maybe Budapest.
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Jack Posobiec
Well, you've heard Budapest as a potential although Zelensky I've also heard is is really throwing cold water on that because you've got a huge, really big row between them and the Hungarians some talk about and I saw the two foreign ministers going back and forth. We've got a quick break coming up. We can get into that a little bit. But some real questions about the bombing of a pipeline going from Ukraine into Hungary that was providing the gas and the Hungarians coming out and saying Peter Syrta, the foreign minister who I've interviewed on this program has said, wait a minute, you know, we're not getting bombed by the Russians, we're getting bombed by the Ukrainians. So you don't just get to turn around and blame the other guys for that. You're the ones who did it. So you're already seeing a lot of this regarding Budapest. So we'll see, we'll see if Budapest is a, a likely option. I think if President Trump wants to get it done, I know he'll be able to get it done. Be right back here. Jack Posobic, Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer, Human Events Daily on Real America's Voice.
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General Michael T. Flynn
Jack is a great guy. He's rich, a fantastic book. Everybody's talking about it. Go get it. And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event. And we're going to turn it around and make our country great again. Amen.
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Jack Posobiec
All right, Jack Masopic, we're back on live here, Human Events Daily. And here's what we're getting out from. I'll just read a couple of the headlines on Ukraine, Russia. So Russia saying Ukraine is not interested in long term peace. The Guardian and you know, of course take it with a grain of salt. But the Guardian saying Trump is Stepping back from Russia and Ukraine peace talks for now according to their sources. Reuters coming out and confirming what I said. Let's see, two days ago. Now in the White House press briefing room they're saying some, by the way, I love this. Reuters claims it's an exclusive. I said this in the press briefing room two days ago. They're saying Putin says Putin's demand to Ukraine give up Donbass. No NATO and no Western troops. Interesting, because pretty sure somebody said that in the White House press briefing room a couple of days ago. But that's all right. That's all right, Reuters. You can have your fun. Europeans back. Zelensky in Washington, et cetera, et cetera. People are talking about slow walking it now. So let me go back to Tony Schaefer here. Lieutenant Colonel Schaefer, you know what we're talking about in terms of this military situation is really the, the onus isn't on the Russians. The onus is on everyone who wants peace. Because the Russians I think have made it pretty clear that if they want to hold this conversation with Ukraine, they're doing so on the battlefield and certainly every night. And they're, they're not holding up. They hit this factory last night and people are arguing about what exactly it was, but apparently with some US Ties to, to the company that was involved in the defense sector there. We know of course the US has been supplying weapons to Ukraine since the very start of this. There's no surprises there. But it really seems though that like, like I said to General Flynn, it's much easier for the Russians to walk away from this than it is for, for us and the Europeans.
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Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer
Well, that's the issue. The, the Russians will insinuate a military solution unless something else is acted upon and they will not be acted upon. They are where I think Putin and Jack, you were there. Look, Putin showed a great deal of respect to President Trump. I think it's absolutely correct that Putin would not have invaded. I think Joe Biden opened that door by saying that, that, that we, the United States would accept a limited incursion. Well, that's kind of what happened. So I, I think at this point it's, it's going to come down to the power of personality and trying to put these things, these guys in the same room. And the other thing that happened today is Zelensky, basically it was, I think Lavarov said that they, the Russians believe the, the, the Russian speaking provinces need to be Russian and they would accept that that's an acceptable outcome. And of course Zelensky immediately vetoed it, saying, no, everything is Ukrainian, then they will speak Ukrainian. So that's part of the problem. So, again, I think there is nothing the Ukrainians have left other than bluster. And unless. And again, I agree with President Trump, we need to do something to stop the unneeded debt. People and Ukrainians are dying, Jack, on a daily basis for no good reason. The war is over. And I think this is where we have to find a way to, to, to force the Ukrainians to understand putting your people forward in their 60s and under 20. Yeah, it's not, it's not a good look and it's not a. It's not going to gain them anything militarily. And I hope President Trump can make that point.
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Jack Posobiec
Well. And I'm also looking that Professor John Mearsheimer is out again, and he's been saying this quite a bit lately, but he's out again in First Post right now saying that he doesn't think that a deal is possible, not from the US And Russian side, but again, from the Ukrainian and European side. He says that the two countries are Poles apart. Talking about Ukraine and Russia, no compromise acceptable to both sides is in sight. And even though President Trump has made these incredible diplomatic flourishes, his personal diplomacy is not going to substitute for, for hard military realities and says that ultimately this conflict will be decided on the battlefield.
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Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer
Well, again, unless otherwise directed by President Trump. Unless he's able to insinuate himself, yeah, the outcome is going to be a military one, and it's not going to be one that, that the Ukrainians like. The Russians, if they so choose, would, I think, easily be able to partition Ukraine into two halves. Go. Once they're done with the current line of contact, they could go all the way up to the Dnieper, essentially forcing a partition. And then there's Odessa. Odessa is something still that the Russians would like to have. And if I were the Ukrainians, I'd thank my lucky stars that they don't have it yet. And of course, the Europeans want to put boots on the ground into Odessa and some other places. Again, Jack, I think the Europeans are way out of their league. The Europeans, I think, have been the biggest deterrent. That meeting that you attended with the president and Putin should have happened three months ago, but it was because of their obstinate and willingness to be reasonable. I think it delayed it to this point, given if you leave it to them, they will delay it another three months. And I don't think Ukraine has three months left to go.
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Jack Posobiec
Tony, when you're looking at these. What's interesting to me is they're talking about these. These four fortress cities in the Donbass region, that last piece of Donetsk that has yet to fall. And these are really the most fortified pieces of it. And you've been coming on here talking about the importance and strategic importance of these cities in. In this area, because these are the last fortifications all the way up to the river. And now the media hasn't talked about this at all until suddenly this week when the Russians are saying, just pull out of those cities and let us have them. Now all of a sudden the media is admitting that actually those are the last four cities that are left. And there are really no defensive fortifications between there. That's. That's Kramatorsk and Slaviansk and the rest all the way up to the river. I said, wait a minute. That's what Tony was saying the entire time. And they. When. When they said that we were the ones that were spouting propaganda, now they all admit it.
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Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer
Yeah, I know. Well, it's been. The issue is that mainstream media has always reported aspirations, not reality. And their aspirations were the Russians are losing. There's no chance they're going to break out. It's been a fiction, and I think this is where the American public has been badly served by. There's been a handful of networks you and I work for, two that have, I think, been upfront and trying to tell the truth about the reality. And yet we've been the ones who, you know, were pro Russian for speaking the truth. I know it's insane, but I think that's the situation right now. They can no longer hide it. It's obvious. And if those cities fall, which, again, I think it's just a matter of weeks, they will not be able to hide that reality. And it's interesting, there was something in the Washington Post, I think, one of the local D.C. publications, saying, well, if Don Boss falls, that means that the Russians have. Have a gateway into all of Europe. It's like. That's like saying if, If New Jersey invades, New York, Oklahoma is going to fall. No, it's not related. It's not relatable. Europe is not in danger. Europe is in danger by poking the bear without being prepared defensively to do anything about it should the bear decide to do something. That's the insanity of this, Jack. Again, if you just look at the numbers and the current readiness status of every major European nation, France, Germany, England, Italy, they. They don't have any capability to actually do what they, they propose that they would do, which is be a, a, an actual 911 boots on the ground deterrent against Russia. So I don't know what they're smoking, but it's time again for President Trump to kind of force insinuate the truth on the discussions and all these leaders and force them to understand what's going on.
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Jack Posobiec
And that's really what it comes down to. Who knows, Maybe he's going on his ride along in D.C. today. Maybe he'll, maybe he can send some of these leaders on a ride along of Odessa or ride along of Nikolayev like we did on Human Events Daily three years ago, over three years ago now, right after the war started and saw the destruction and the devastation up close of what's going on and saying, guys, yeah, this thing's only ending in one direction. And for the people who live there, they are not being served by continuing the war. Tony Schaefer, where can people go to follow your content?
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Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer
Let's check me out on Twitter x I'm monetizing my account so you'll be able to get special content. Jack, you're going to be invited to come on. We're going to do some stuff on 9 11, which I think you may want to participate in next month. So we're going to have some get.
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Jack Posobiec
Our mutual friend Kurt Weldon, one of my first bosses in politics, on talk about.
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Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer
We're going to be talking a lot about.
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Jack Posobiec
He had a great interview with with Tucker Carlson and a few others will be there. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, do you have my permission to lay ashore.