I want to show you specifically how Vladimir Putin is engaged in nuclear blackmail against Donald Trump. I want to do that by reading you the following headlines. First, this headline over here. Putin gives Russian security guarantees to ally Belarus, including possible use of nuclear weapons, or as this other article puts it, nukes of hazard. Russia deploying nuclear missiles to NATO's doorstep. As Putin and his crony Lucas Shanko from Belarus, the dictator there, brag about their big red buttons taunting Donald Trump. We've got big red buttons. They're using that language that they know scares Donald Trump. Big red buttons. This from the Irish star Putin's chilling map showing the 14 US cities Russia could nuke amid World War Three fears. And at the same time, this is all happening. Putin's pal says Tucker Carlson is acting as a secret back channel to Trump. Tucker Carlson has been in Russia over the past week meeting with Vladimir Putin's top advisers to spread Russian propaganda or having the consequence of spreading Russian propaganda. And one of Putin's closest advisors is saying that he believes that Tucker Carlson is acting as an emissary for the Trump transition, the same way they use Viktor Orban, the authoritarian leader of Hungary, for that purpose as well. Then I want to go and show you MAGA Mike Johnson from the House of Representatives, speaker of the House, saying that he will not support any current aid to Ukraine while Biden remains in office. I want to then show you what Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of Germany, has to say. Then let's talk about what's going on on Russian TV right now, how they're mocking Donald Trump and continuing to mock him. So, you know, one of the things in Donald Trump's psychological profile is actually how weak he is. As I've said before in the past, American foreign policy was the big stick policy. Under Donald Trump, it's the teeny, tiny stick policy, right? It used to be you, you walk soft or you talk soft, but you carry a big stick. You ultimately can back up what you're saying. You don't have to be loud and obnoxious, but you've got actual power when the time comes. With Donald Trump, it's the opposite. It's puff your chest and be loud and obnoxious and wave your accordion hands, but ultimately, you are a scared little person. When Donald Trump is confronted face to face, he often backs down. And Putin knows that pathological profile of Donald Trump and One of the things Putin wants to terrify Donald Trump with is the threat of a nuclear war and having Donald Trump's entire legacy, entire tenure, being known as the person who resulted in World War Three. Remember Donald Trump's language during the campaign? World War Three, World War Three, World War. Well, Putin is basically saying, okay, we'll bring that to you unless you basically give us everything that we want. Nuclear black men. Now, you'll recall after Donald Trump, after the election, where Donald Trump won the election, you'll recall that Donald Trump leaked to the Washington Post that he had spoke to Putin and he told Putin, do not escalate. Remember, Putin responded saying, not true, never happened, total fiction. And then Putin continued to escalate. We talked about Putin using North Korean troops on the front lines of, on the front lines in the unlawful invasion of Ukraine. And now one of the things that Putin did is over the past week, he met with the dictator of Belarus, Lukashenko, and he said, we'll give you nukes, basically, and we'll allow you to control him. This is how it's being reported by the Los Angeles Times. Putin gives Russian security guarantees to ally Belarus, including possible use of nuclear war. Here's another article. Nukes of hazard. Russia deploying nuclear missiles to NATO's doorstep. As Putin and his crony Lukashenko brag about big red buttons, Lukashenko now has control over the potential use of Russian tactical nuclear weapons. Russia is set to deploy a hypersonic missile capable of carrying nukes at NATO's doorstep. In a chilling taunt in the west, taunting, let's be clear, in a chilling taunt to Donald Trump. It comes as Vladimir Putin and his pal Alexander Lukashenko signed a security agreement that finalizes the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear arms in Belarus, Moscow's closest ally. You can see right here where those nuclear weapons are going to be positioned relative to where the NATO block of Europe is. Putin also shared a map of the 14 US cities that Russian can nuke. And as they were mocking Donald Trump, saying that they've got their big red button. While all of that's happening, Putin's pal says Tucker Carlson is acting as a secret back channel to Trump. This from the Daily Beast. Tucker Carlson, the darling of the Russian state media, returned to Moscow this past week, apparently intent on boosting Vladimir Putin's key message on Ukraine. The Kremlin's TV stooges suggested he may have had an even more sinister ulterior motive. You think during Carlson's second pilgrimage to Moscow, he interviewed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov the interview broadcast Thursday night allowed the former Fox News star to push the Kremlin's agenda that the US should back off the war in Ukraine to avoid sparking a global nuclear crisis that could doom us all. The nuclear blackmail I was referring to using Tucker Carlson to push that out. It goes on to talk about this. Sit down. But Kremlin insiders believe that Carlson was doing something else while in Moscow. While the former Fox host is positioning himself as a dove of peace toiling to prevent nuclear war, Putin's acolytes say he is also acting as a carrier pigeon for the Russian president and privately delivering his messages to Trump. During Wednesday's broadcast of Full Contact on Channel Soleil Live, host Vladimir Soliev told American American is Malik Dudikov, quote, what is important here is that the man who came to talk to Lavrov spent the last six months shoulder to shoulder with Trump. Obviously he didn't just come to conduct an interview. He has something to say. Apparently he has a message that he is bringing to Vladimir Putin. Dudekov confidently surmise, yes, we currently see quite a few similar emissaries. It seems Viktor Orban is again planning to meet with Trump and after that he may come to Russia. Once again there are more people who are willing to pass messages back and forth. Dudekov hypothesized that Trump and Putin are exchanging messages as to the terms of their future negotiations. About Trump's alleged 24 hour peace plan, Soliev replied, quote, trump will understand that his plan, what his plan is only after he personally meets with Putin, implying that the Russian president will dictate the terms to his American counterpart. And you see how Putin is already conditioning the battlefield, both the literal one and the psychological one, by engaging in this nuclear blackmailed to Donald Trump. All of that's going on. But yes, corporate media, please keep whining about President Biden pardoning Hunter Biden. Please keep. I'm of course being sarcastic there. Let me just share this with you as well. We'll remove the lower third right now from our YouTube so you can read the captions right here. This is Russian state media from this week as well, celebrating all of Donald Trump's cabinet pick saying if they're allowed to get in, Trump's going to have them dismantle America for us. Here, watch this. Let's play it.
Political Commentator (12:55)
You know, throughout all of this, one of the things that ironic would not be the right way word here. But you know, you still have some Republicans who pretend that they care about foreign policy. Um, you know, for example, you've got Republican Don Bacon. Um, you know, and he's posting things like this, but at the same time he's supportive of Donald Trump. Don Bacon, Republican, says the following. Russia has lost 700,000 casualties and its economy is in shambles. Putin's threats and nuclear saber rattling shows he's a cornered rat. He's finding out that he's not entitled to control his neighbors who want democracy, free markets and the rule of law. And it's showing the front lines in Ukraine compared to two years ago with Russia not really making any advances at all. You then have Don Bacon repost this image of Ronald Reagan saying, quote, isolationism will isolate. Isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to Tyrannical governments with expansionist intent. Okay, but quite literally isolationism is what your party's doing, Don Bacon. I mean, this is one of the most important issues to you, and Donald Trump does not agree with you at all. I just, I don't understand the mentality of those Republicans on their most important issue to just like post tweets and then support an agenda that directly undermines their entire position right here. I do want to read this history, though. So you all know the history of Don Bacon, the Republicans reposting this. That's why this is Don Bacon's view. But it's obviously at odds with Trump's view. It says the following. Here's the photo of US, Russia and Ukraine right there at the 1994 Budapest memorandum. I like injecting a lot more history into these videos that I've been doing right now. On this day, 30 years ago, Ukraine signed the Budapest Memorandum. According to the memorandum, Ukraine agreed to relinquish its nuclear arsenal, third largest in the world, in exchange for security assurances from the U.S. the UK and Russia. Before the memorandum was signed, a famous political scientist in international relations expert John Mearschmeyer published an article in which he argued that Ukraine should be encouraged to keep nuclear weapons. According to him, this was the most effective way to prevent a Russian Ukrainian war. He characterized the potential war itself as a catastrophe capable of leading to the repeated conquest of Ukraine and, quote, undermining the prospects for peace in all of Europe. Unfortunately, Ukraine was politely forced to sign the Budapest Memorandum and relinquish its nuclear arsenal. As a part of the memorandum, Ukraine has destroyed its fleet of long range strategic bombers and relinquished over 1,000 cruise missiles. In exchange, the U.S. uK and Russia have provided security assurances to Ukraine. Obviously, Russia has gruesomely violated this as well as dozens of other agreements. In fact, the very same rockets that Ukraine has relinquished to Russia are now being used against Ukraine today. While the US and the UK are not Russian, have not violated their agreement after disarming Ukraine, they have an obligation to help Ukraine. Steve Piper, a US Diplomat who participated in the talks leading to the Budapest memorandum, said, quote, there is an obligation on the United States that flows from the Budapest memorandum to provide assistance to Ukraine and that would include a lethal military assistance. I hope the US will behave honorably and will keep its promise by continuing to provide assistance to defend Ukraine's sovereignty. Well, that's being posted by a Republican, Don Bacon, of Roman Shermetta, giving that nice historical perspective right there. Well, Don Bacon, the Speaker of the House, in your own party took to the mic at the end of last week and said, no, we're not going to be given a security assurance, as do your credit. This is your party, Don Bacon. This is, this is who you are. Play this clip of maga. Mike Johnson, let's play it.
