Biden Bans Russian Oil & The Latest on Ukraine

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And man, do we have a lot to discuss today? Eric Prince, former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, founded of the private military company Blackwater USA, what he would do right now if called on to help out in the Ukraine against Russia. What have you seen so far? This guy can analyze, break down, purchase, weaponize, and acquire just about anything he wants in the world.

Man, I hope he goes in. Right now, there are 20,000 foreign fighters fighting for the Ukrainians. The Russians, I don't care what you say, they have been butchers. They have been killing innocent women and children, duping them into thinking there's a safe haven corridor to evacuate, and then killing them in cold blood while performing terribly on the battlefield. Field.

They have people abandoning their posts. They have two generals killed, nine aircraft shot down over the weekend, and then they lost maybe two more today. And now, this news: the world is uniting around making Russia suffer economically and maybe eventually militarily. Uh I'll get to Colonel Weston in just a moment, but let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. The reality is, is that deal then becomes a backdoor for Russia to enter the global economy. Iran will money launder everything for them, and Iran will turn around and they will take all the cash that they're making, and they will buy weapons from Russia that they will use to threaten their allies. Of course, that was James Carfano.

He's a former lieutenant colonel in the army. He knows exactly what happens. Don't look away. The Iran deal could get done today. It will remove virtually all sanctions and allow them to sell their oil openly, and deal is done with the guidance of Russia.

I'm not kidding. While the U.S. is not even allowed in the same room, this has got to be stopped. Number two. Would President Biden ever undo his executive order that stopped the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline?

Are you suggesting that would solve the gas prices? Issue?

Well, do you think that that would maybe affect prices faster than getting the whole country off of fossil fuels? I actually don't think it would. Really? You're the one. Energy.

What will it take to isolate Russia's oil and keep it from coming to American shores? Today at 10:45, the President of the United States is going to announce that Russia oil will no longer be welcome here only because Congress pushed them. We'll bring you the details. Number one. I stay here in Key at Vancouver Street.

I don't hide and I'm not afraid of anyone. I will stay here as long as it's necessary to win in our patriotic war. While all around him is turned to rubble, his men fight like, and some women fight like heroes. That's his President Zelensky. Say, I'm not moving.

And then he took us on a tour of his office to say, come and get me if you want. He's the leader. We're talking about the fights, the talks, the Russian disregard for innocent life, and the need to take down Vladimir Putin. First off, we know there's no no-fly zones, right? I got to get details on this, but Politico has an original story that a letter was signed by 27 foreign policy experts to say there's a way to set up a limited no-fly zone in the Ukraine.

Humanitarian corridor is one element of it.

Next, you inform Russia, this is what we're doing. We don't want any trouble. We just want people to be able to evacuate and not die a horrible death with a pet in their hand and a suitcase in the other and maybe a two-year-old in their arms. That's what we're witnessing. And I think instead of sitting back and saying we can't do it, I think these 27 foreign policy experts.

Bipartisan, they say. I'll get more detail as the show moves on. Political have the exclusive story as we move through. The other big news is I'm going to give you the play-by-play as we understand it. Jackie Heinrich, our White House reporter, let us know.

Yesterday, the Ways and Means was over the weekend working very hard on a bipartisan basis to eliminate Russian oil and gas from being purchased by American companies. 7% of our total purchases are from Russia, but we are their number one customer. And if you ask the American people, when you see the carnage in Ukraine, do you really want to buy oil from these people and give them additional funds to fund that terrible military and that war machine that's inflicting horror on innocent Ukrainian people? The answer is no. In fact, Quinn and Piak did a study.

Seven of 10 Americans, when asked, would you pay higher gas prices to not purchase Russia gas? The answer was seven in 10, yes, we'll pay more. And President Biden and all you White House people, especially, I'll leave Democrats out of this, White House, don't Say this problem in Russia has raised gas prices. The gas prices were up to $4.

Now they're around $480. 200 barrels of oil is coming our direction, but that was happening before Russia moved into Ukraine.

So listen to this.

So the Ways and Means Committee, working on a bipartisan basis through the weekend, developed a plan to ban all oil imports from Russia. Then they get a call before they make the announcement to say, hey, guys, from this is the White House. Don't make the Don't make the announcement. They say we already posted it five minutes ago. They go pull it down.

Well, Reuters kept it up. Then Nancy Pelosi goes, Let's put it back up. This is a bipartisan House plan to ban Russian oil. Then President Biden calls Nancy Pelosi reportedly and says, Please take it down. She is not persuaded by the argument.

It moves to the Senate.

So then Schumer gets a call from the White House to put pressure on Ron Wyden not to move forward with a ban on Russian oil. What it seems to me is, as the 1045 presser is about to take root, the President of the United States wanted credit. for taking this down when the credit belongs in Congress. And Nancy Pelosi, to her credit, came out and says, you know, I agree with Senator Lindsey Graham, and Lindsey Graham agrees with Nancy Pelosi and Senator Menendez and Jim Jordan and says I don't want to b I don't want any Russian oil here. What happens after is the controversy.

We want to drill more. We want to get those permits out. We want to open up the possibilities, have emergency meetings with oil and gas companies and say, we need you to drill more to provide America with more in order to keep oil and gas prices and diesel prices down at a decent level. Why? Because Trucks need diesel, diesel's through the roof.

You need gas in your car, you gotta travel, you gotta go to work, right? Guesses are the roof. If your boss is not going to pay you more, you're probably not going to go to work. You might have to change jobs. Everything moves up.

Inflation moves up.

So that's what's happening. Energy is this major story, along with the carnage that we're witnessing. And for Nante Pelosi, excuse me, for Jen Saki to come out. And smugly answer Peter Doocy's legitimate inquiries into why you are not doing more to keep prices down. Listen.

Cut 18. Jen, it sounds like you guys are blaming Putin for the increase in gas prices recently, but weren't gas prices going up anyway because of post-pandemic supply chain issues?

Well, I think there's no question that as we have seen, and outside analysts have conveyed this as well, the increase and the anticipated continued increase, which is I think what some of your colleagues were asking about, that that is a direct result of the invasion of the- Okay, you got that. They moved on. Cut 19. You say that you're going to do everything that you can to reduce the impact that high gas prices have on Americans. We're asking other countries to think about maybe pumping more oil.

Why not just do it here?

Well, to be very clear, federal policies are not limiting the supplies of oil and gas. Let me finish. An executive order this last week that halted new oil and gas. Let me give you the facts here, and I know that can be inconvenient, but I think they're important in this moment. To the contrary, we have been clear that in the short term, supply must keep up with the demand.

And here and around the world, will we make the shift to a secure, clean energy future? We are one of the largest producers with a strong domestic oil and gas industry. We have actually talking points. Peter's question is totally reasonable, and facts are an inconvenient thing here. I mean, just a total put-down, dismissive, smug, condescending.

Pick your Poison. 'Cause it is poison which he spouts out. And you know what?

Some of these administration positions, which I'm sure she's not in on, are indefensible. And look, I felt bad for Kayleigh McInnie.

Sometimes sometimes President Trump did things that were unexplainable. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, tough. But her smug, condescending tone is not appreciated. I think for the country, asking legitimate questions. The oil and gas sector employs a lot of people.

Pipelines really employ a lot of people. Union jobs that you just shut down would have produced over 700, some say 800,000 barrels a day from Canada instead of what they did over the weekend. They actually went and met with Maduro and asked him in Venezuela, a government we don't even recognize, to pump more. In Saudi Arabia, they said, Would you do it? We have a visit plan.

Why don't you? And then Iran, if you sign this deal, could you put more oil on the Global in the in the global marketplace.

So in terms of what she's saying She goes on to say I'm back to I'll I'll play the Leicester one more of this and then we'll we'll take it point by point cut twenty one Gas prices are approaching an all time high per gallon. How high would they have to get before President Biden would say, I'm going to set aside my ambitious climate goals and just Increase domestic oil production, get the producers to drill more here, and we can address the fossil fuel future later.

Well, again, Peter, the U.S. produced more oil this past year than in President Trump's first year.

Next year, according to the Department of Energy, we will produce more oil than ever before. Those are the facts in terms of oil production. And again, right now there are 9,000 unused approved permits to drill onshore.

So I think you're misidentifying what the actual issue is. All right, great. We're going to handle those permit issues. About, you know, what she said, Donald Trump's first year. He took office.

It wasn't pumping immediately. But guess what? By the time he was done, between the fracking, the lease, the lifting of restrictions, The push to move oil forward, we were an unstoppable energy force.

So when we come back, I'll talk about that with Tenant Colonel Alan West and then Eric Prince about winning this war. And of course, at 10:45, the president's going to announce we're off all Russian oil. This is the Brian Killmeat Show. Don't move. A radio show of the people for the people.

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It's Brian Killmead. Hey, with me right now is Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. And, Colonel, I want you to hear this before we talk: Cut 16. I think RussiaGate was not only a despicable, dirty trick that hobbled the first part of the president's administration, but it also affected a great damage to the United States. RussiaGate essentially froze the Trump administration from engaging with Russia.

Now, that may have been a second term issue if the president had won re-election, but when Biden won, I felt that there would be no incentive on the part of the Russians to try to use diplomacy to reach a stable modus vivendi and that they would just grab what they wanted under Biden. And then, when he had the kind of exit from Afghanistan, which he did, and then when he essentially took America out of energy independence, increasing the leverage of Russia dramatically, I thought it was inevitable. What a great breakdown of the mess we're in right now. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, welcome. It's good to be with you and absolutely right, Brian.

It is an incredible mess. And all the indicators and warnings that a person like Vladimir Putin was looking for, it happened. And so, yes, the Trump administration was severely hampered and damaged by the whole Russia, Russia, Russia thing. And of course, when you have Joe Biden come in, and one of the very first things that he does is he undermines our own border. He undermines our own energy security sector and our own energy independence.

And now we know clearly that we are purchasing oil and resources from Russia. And now we're even talking about buying it from Iran and Venezuela. And you put on top of that the debacle that is Afghanistan. Weakness is very enticing, and that's exactly what we see happening here. What about the Russians?

We thought they were 10 feet tall. They're great at bombing schools, 202 of them, 34 hospitals, 500 residential buildings, 625 missiles, rockets, if you will. There's 20 dead this morning. Most civilians, as they were leaving, heading into Poland, killed 20 innocent people with suitcases. How would you characterize this type of warfare?

This is indiscriminate killing of innocent women and children. This is, without a doubt, war crime-level actions. And I think this is something that the world has not just to sit back and say we're going to condemn it and point fingers. The world needs to step up and take action about this because history is repeating itself. It wasn't too long ago in the last century when we saw what happened when Adolf Hitler won a Sudetenland.

They said, okay, ethnic Germans, I now want Czechoslovakia.

Okay, give them Czechoslovakia. And next thing, we've got to introduce the Blitzkrieg War. And so Vladimir Putin's machine is stalling, but right now, he does not see any deterrent whatsoever coming from the West. And we have got to step up, especially Europe. They've got to step up and do something about this.

And NATO has to do something about this. And I don't understand why Joe Biden is dragging his feet on cutting off the purchasing of Russian oil by the United States of America. To me, it's just unbelievable. Bipartisan push. To pass legislation to force him to do it.

He had emergency calls yesterday to not push this legislation forward. And I guess I know why. He wants to take credit. At 10:45 today, he's going to announce we're no longer going to be importing Russian oil. I mean, isn't that terrible leadership the exact opposite of what you should be doing in times of strife?

He wants credit for doing something he did not want to do. Like he said, I couldn't. We can't get off the SWIFT system. Europe moved first. We can't stop Nordstrom 2.

Not yet, anyway. Germany says it's scrapped. And now we find out about Russian oil. Congress, bipartisan set of Congress, he can't control the Democratic Congress.

Well, the thing is that I learned in the military, leaders never take credit, they only take responsibility, and this administration has a hard issue with that. But even if he comes out and says today that we're going to cease the purchasing of Russian oil, we know that they have already sent invoice to Venezuela. We know that they're already talking about buying oil from Iran. And why would you want to talk about buying oil from Iran? Why would you go back into the Iranian nuclear agreement, which is also going to upset the Saudis?

And you're going to go and beg the Saudis for increasing oil production. None of this makes any sense whatsoever, Brian. But the bottom line is that Joe Biden is more so a slave to the progressive socialist Green New Deal energy delusion, and therefore he is not going to do what is necessary for the American people as far as our energy independence. And look at the prices of gasoline right now. He is killing the American people.

This is an increase in taxation, if you want to put it that way, what we're having to endure at the pumps. We have put sanctions on them. We did pressure many banks outside the energy sector on the Swift system. We have pulled out so many from Apple, I mean, dozens of companies from Shell Oil to Apple. I can run through them all.

Starbucks, Pepsi, and Koch and McDonald's mysteriously have stayed in Russia. They are going to feel the pinch. There's been 17,000 Russian protesters arrested. How do you break this standoff? How do we get to Vladimir Putin?

He's the problem, Colonel.

Well, he is the problem, and I think that most importantly, you start to isolate him economically and those people that support him, and that means isolate China. That is now his number one financial backer. And so, we've got to look at how we can be tougher on China, who has said that they're not going to condemn him, and they still see them as having an ironclad relationship. The other thing you have to use is your information operations to start going after these Russian troops and forcing them to have some type of moral sense about what they're doing, and maybe they'll lay down their arms, and maybe they will not continue on with what we see happening there in the Ukraine.

So, it's many different things that you have to bring together: the diplomatic aspect, the informational aspect, the economic aspect, but you also have to have a credible military deterrent in the end. Colonel West, you didn't get the nomination. Where do you go from here in terms of the governorship?

Well, I tell you immediately, I had the folks from the American Constitutional Rights Union reach out to me, and that was an organization started in 1998 by Robert Carlson and several others from the Reagan administration.

So, we're going to work on restoring constitutional rights here in the United States of America. Nice. Colonel West, thanks so much. Appreciate it. My pleasure.

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It's Brian Killmeade. They continue to advance, but they cannot hold and secure their rear area, which really brings down to logistics. They're going to struggle over time because the way they have conducted this battle is so spread out on so many fronts, and they're pushing all their combat power forward without securing their rear areas. The Ukrainians are going to put up a tough fight. They are, and I'll tell you what, Russians, we don't get the true number on how much damage they're getting, but two generals are dead.

We know that. Nine aircraft shot down over the weekend. We know that. Two just happened this morning, we understand from Ukraine. The capital still holds, and Odessa still holds.

Joining us now to talk about winning this war and what we actually could do, and what he thinks of the Russian performance so far as Eric Prince, former U.S. Navy SEAL, founder of Blackwater and the Academy. Eric, welcome back. Good morning, Brian. How are you?

Good. Good. I mean, we do it ten forty five today just to announce the President's going to make it official. We're no longer importing Russian oil. But in terms of the actual battle, are the Ukrainians doing better than you thought?

Sure. They're they're winning by not losing. When they're up against that much combat power. I think the Russian generals had assumed it was going to be much, much simpler than it has been. And now as they as they drag into spring, every day it gets a little bit warmer, which means all that fantastic farmland of Ukraine that's covered with snow turns to one big mud bog.

which further channelizes the Russian supply lines or lines of attack, even more so onto roads. Which makes it that much better for the defenders to be able to ambush, roadside bomb. uh and and to cut off uh the Russians from advance. It's um especially in the north where the Russians have pushed in trying to get to Kiev, it's It's almost a magnificent opportunity if the Ukrainians could marshal enough resources to counterattack and to cut off and surround that Russian army coming in from the north. And we have that convoy that just sitting there, mostly supply trucks.

I know they've gotten a few of them, but that's a mystery. Have you figured out that they the word word is they just ran out of gas? Uh the old phrase of urban rommel, novices argue tactics, professionals plan logistics, somebody missed that in the planning. I really think they thought this was going to be much simpler, that they were going to be viewed as liberators, And that's the thing, as imperfect as Ukrainian democracy might be. The fact is, there's a lot of people turning out to defend, to stand up, to toe the line, to say, not on my country.

Um it's uh it's an amazing vote uh of confidence. in the in the Ukrainian um Form of government because the citizens have really responded amazingly strongly. Right. I want you to hear what President Zielinski said to ABC last night, cut nine. The problem is that for one of soldier of Ukraine, we have ten Russian soldiers, and for one Ukrainian tank, we have fifty Russian tanks.

But we are destroying them, and this difference is The gap is closing. But the question is how long can we withstand many things depend not just on us. We will endure.

So the question is, is times on whose side, Eric Prince? Yeah. it's it's gonna become tougher and tougher for the Russians to um uh to win this. I mean, look, the and and the and the more Uh contested, the more damage they do to these cities. The nastier the urban defense can be.

If they try to fight in the cities, it becomes a huge advantage to the defender. All the high-tech. uh firepower of the Russians becomes uh largely, you know, evened just by the the physical nature of urban terrain.

So the weather is not going to be on the Russian side for the next three months because it's going to be mud season. uh the great raputista that uh that they say in Russian, the great slush.

So it's certainly the Russians are trying to push, they're trying to close off Kiev, even if they do. They're going to be extremely vulnerable to rear attacks, but we certainly have to get all the help that is possible to them. I wish the administration had uh had moved Earlier back in December to offer some air power. The Russians thought this was going to be a cakewalk. If it was apparent to them that it was not going to be a cakewalk, I don't believe they ever would have invaded.

Right. And so. Deterrence again, right? A total failure of deterrence. Right.

So simple, cheap deterrence, not expensive deterrence. Would a missile defense system have been effective? Would an iron dome-like system been effective? Are they practical for a country like that? Uh We wouldn't even know how to do that.

I recommended, I laid out a very detailed plan. Based on existing U.S. Air Force documents, they're retiring more than 200 combat aircraft this year. And I said, look, send some of those under a lend-lease program, some of the old F-16s, F-15s, A-10s. that are literally going to be flown to the desert of Arizona this year and parked.

to rot. uh for all eternity written off by the US Air Force Instead, they could have flown into Ukraine and had a significant deterrence factor. I mean, the A tens were literally built from nose to tail to destroy Russian tanks. That's the kind of thing that would have made the Russian generals pause. Yeah, Michael Waltz said the same thing.

I don't think the fight is in it in the rank and file Russian soldiers. There's probably some generals that are under pressure from their boss Putin. To try to get this done, but I don't think the fight is in it. And so any deterrence at that level. Would have prevented this entire debacle from happening.

So who? And of course, the Biden administration could have said, carrot and stick. Carrot. Ukraine does not need to be part of NATO, but here's the stick. We're going to give them the means to defend themselves so that nobody does anything stupid to their borders.

Right, but they wouldn't have liked that because they don't want weapons at their borders and troops there. But guess what? Russia has got that.

Now, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, there's now more troops in those NATO nations than ever before. And they're more united than ever before. The EU is more united than ever before. In many ways, Vladimir Putin hasn't achieved almost any of his objectives. Would you agree, Eric?

Correct, and he has managed to reinvigorate NATO. In fact, he even got the Swiss to come off the sidelines. The Swiss. Sanctioned Russian bank accounts. The Swiss did not even sanction Hitler in World War II.

So he he is is certainly um Caused a wake-up call that he was not expecting in all of Western Europe.

So, Eric, if you were called on, could you help? I mean, he's asked for everybody and anybody, and there's about 20,000 foreign fighters who are there. I mean, there's a lot of aid there to afford a guy like you. Could you go in there and help, or would you? Are you interested?

But I definitely have some ideas on what can be done, Brian, and I'll leave it at that. Would that be is that one of the reasons why you would put together a private army? Uh Not a private army. Look, there's all kinds of there's all kinds of historical precedents. to Americans volunteering and going as to assist.

friendly nations that needed it, whether it was in World War One, there was Americans that flew for France, there was Americans in the Eagle Squadron that flew in the Battle of Britain, defending London from German bombs. And Flying Tigers did significant work Over China defending Chinese cities from Japanese bombs.

So there's lots of uh parallels where Americans with um the right skill sets Can go add value and defend humanity.

Well, we already know when the Russians don't get their own way, they just blow as much up as possible. I mean, I ran through some of these stats. 202 schools, 20, they just killed 20 people evacuating from the Sumi region into Poland. They just killed them indiscriminately. 34 hospitals.

They say 500 apartment buildings minimum have been destroyed. And some people worry about tactical nukes. This guy, Clint Watts, a research fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute, said this, CUD 15. The last thing I just want to add is the comment about short-range or tactical nuclear weapons has not been discussed enough. In our mind, we think of the day after tomorrow, a big inter-ballistic battle on multiple continents.

Russia has other capabilities, and I would not be surprised if it starts to enter into the conversation here if they can no longer advance and they can't get the settlement they want.

So some tactical nukes, we haven't really seen them in the battlefield, have we? Uh Fortunately, never. There was only been two nuclear blasts, and that was Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Look, what the Russians did to Grozny, to their own Russian territory in the late 90s. was was abhorrent.

They destroyed lots of urban terrain and lots of civilians. I would be surprised if they even have tactical nukes Distributed down to those artillery units or to the rocket units. I certainly hope they don't. Um That stuff should have been eliminated or removed from those line units by the previous arms reduction treaties because the U. S.

certainly pulled all that stuff back. Yeah. Um But who knows? You never know. It is certainly not going according to plan.

It is becoming. It maybe even start to endanger the regime with the amount of economic shock. That it's causing to the average Russian people. I'm all in favor of sanctioning the oligarchs and the government. But We may, there's two things that we can do to overreach.

One is to squeeze the average Russian wage earner that's just trying to feed his family. Their ability to influence Putin is pretty limited. And so it doesn't make sense to me to make 140 million people suffer in Russia based on the actions of less than 1 million people. And two, If by totally forcing the Russians out of the SWIFT system, if we go that far, to where the only entity they can really trade with anymore is China, it's going to start to create a solid alternative to the dollar. In the United States economy, our entire way of life is subsidized by the dollar being the world's reserve currency, and that's demonstrated every year by the fact that Congress can just print another trillion dollars extra in deficit spending.

To fund our way of life. And when there's alternatives to the dollar, then. Uh we can't do that. And that means the United States government has to has to go on a diet which is going to be uh quite Quite wrenching for a lot of people in the country. Right.

Kind of, yeah, kind of wrenching. I want you to see, talk about creativity and winning this war. I want you to hear what Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, who is a very valuable to President Trump, said. He goes, I want people thinking out of the box now. Cut forward.

Look, somebody's got to start thinking creatively. Think out of the box. Put everybody in the world on record. Put the Chinese on record. You're part of this.

Economically, they're more dependent on us than they are with the Russians. But put a lot of pressure on everybody. Go to the UN, do that. If it doesn't work, go somewhere else. Keep trying to be creative, continue to put pressure on the Russians.

Because I'm telling you, Jesse, this is going to be a terrible week. You're going to see a lot of civilian casualties this week. He's going to employ his artillery, he's going to employ his rockets, and he's going to make some really massive destruction in Kyiv. And Kyiv's a 2,000-year-old city, and he's going to try to destroy it.

So is there some creative things that they could do? Uh Eric, some scenes like that. Sure. The problem is in Washington, we suffer from an inherent massive groupthink. And for all their talk of diversity, they really don't like diversity of action.

When you have the Pentagon and the people at the NSC, particularly at the NSC, that are largely inexperienced outside of think tank And Washington behavior. They've never done anything difficult or dangerous in the world. It's hard for them to evaluate, let alone come up with any out-of-the-box thinking. That's been my frustration, whether it was a different plan for Afghanistan or a different plan for how to deter or how to. how to stop the Russians' in invasion capability.

before it even enters the country. But yes, there are some out of the box things. That can be done militarily. I won't broadcast them to the audience now, but hopefully, some things can be implemented here soon. Um Stay tuned.

So, for two years, I don't know if you heard that bump in, but basically earlier in the show, William Bard talked about the fact that for two years you could not have a Russian policy because of that hoax perpetrated on the American public, really targeting President Trump, that he had some type of illicit relationship with Vladimir Putin, and there was no there there. You know that personally. He said that really set this relationship back. And when they saw the weakness of Joe Biden, he said, This is my opportunity. Specifically, after we left Afghanistan, do you buy into that theory from what you know?

That's that's accurate. They smell weakness. And why not?

Okay. I think America is going to have a similar experience to what we had during the Carter administration when we had a number of countries got rolled over. We had a hostage crisis. We had stagflation. Um it's gonna be a it's gonna be a wild next uh two and a half, three years in America yet.

Right. What do you think China how do you think China is inter in internalizing this?

Well If the invasion had gone well for the Russians into Ukraine, Uh it would have made them more likely to act.

Now, you know, they view the Russian military as experienced and powerful and much more capable than the Chinese military. To see them a bit bogged down and not going to plan, and all the Russians had to do was drive tanks across the border. For the Chinese to contemplate an amphibious operation across a wide expanse of water. It's it's much more difficult logistically to do. And Taiwan has very defendable terrain with a lot of mountains and a lot of places to stash.

rockets and artillery and and forces that can be um shielded from the from the inevitable onslaught of missiles and rockets that the Chinese would launch.

So it probably gives them pause, although I would not be surprised if they still don't try something on some of the smaller islands, maybe something with the maritime militia uh to to create a crisis just to test and to probe. Um G is not as strong politically uh as as it appears he is. Uh so Mm-hmm. doing something desperate to uh to rally uh the the Chinese uh man in the street. might be in the cards.

I wouldn't look at them to do it until the weather turns better because, again, weather affects military operations to this day. And you don't want to do an amphibious operation in rough and stormy weather when it still is in the Taiwan Straits. All right. Eric Prince, thanks so much. Always appreciate it.

You bet, Brian. Thank you. All right, that was great. 1-866-408-7669. It's your first time to talk today, so get on board.

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I just want to get some calls as much as we can. I appreciate your patience. Howard, listen on COIL in Nebraska, in Omaha. Hey, Howard. Hey, Brian, what we need is another Berlin airlift.

We need to bring supplies into Kiev. It would not be technically a setting up and no fly zone. We would announce each flight in advance, but we would bring a strong fighter escort. And if we ended up shooting down some Russian planes, all the better in helping to defeat Putin.

Well, I think I'm very curious the details of this 27 foreign policy people who say there's a way to do it to helping for humanitarian purposes. I also thought that we could do a UN airlift. That, according to General Kellogg, that's just a big airlift, like you're saying, for humanitarian purposes. James, listen on WDBO in Orlando. James.

Brian. It's an honor to talk to you. Same here. What's on your mind? Oh, I wanted to point out something that I've been missing on the news.

I feel like the invasion from the north, the convoy, it's not a convoy. It's a wall or it's a border. It's a seal. It's stopping people from traveling the northern part of the country. They're joining another one up from the south.

They're going to cut the country in half. And it's also bait. People The Russians are trying to get the Ukrainians to come out of the city, and the Ukrainians are trying to get the Russians to come into the city.

So it's it's basal lures about and it's a wall.

Well, I mean, they are talking about the the river that runs right up Kiev being the new DMZ line maybe of that country, where maybe the Russians will just look to hold the east and just give up on the west. I wouldn't like to see that, the mostly oil, the coal, the iron, of course the beach, the ocean access. Is in the east, and the Russians will be rewarded for their thuggish invasion.

So, a lot going on today, but the Ukrainians are fighting like real warriors, and it's making the world take notice and try to help. Live from the Fox News Radio Studios in New York City, fresh off the set of Fox and Friends, it's America's receptive voice. Brian Killmead. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. It's going to be a big hour.

I appreciate you being here. Brad Meltzer will be here live in the studio, do a simulcast of the number one show in business television, Barney and Company. Kurt Volko will be joining us at some point, former U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine, an ambassador to NATO.

So, how perfect is he? We'll get his perspective. And we know this: sometime within the hour, the President of the United States will have a press conference, at which time he'll make his last effort to get ahead of Congress. And Congress was about to do this on their own. And that is ban Russian oil from American shores.

Stop private business from refining it and buying it. And I believe Congress is going to pass it. The president was desperate to get ahead of it. And now, today at 10:45, he'll look like the hero. Bottom line is: seven out of every 10 of you would pay more in gas to make sure Russian oil, who are carving Russia, their Russian country, is not benefiting from sales to our country.

So let's get to the big three.

Now, With the stories you need to know. It's Brian's big three. Number three. The reality is, that deal then becomes a backdoor for Russia. to enter the global economy.

Iran will money launder everything for them. And Iran will turn around and they will take all the the cash that they're making and they will buy weapons from Russia that they will use to threaten their allies. As well as fuel their terror in Syria, in Iraq, and beyond. Lieutenant Colonel James Carafano with that expertise. Don't look away.

The Iran deal could get done today. It will remove virtually all sanctions that allow them to sell their oil openly and deal. The deal is done with the guidance of Russia, while the U.S. is not even allowed in the same room. Got to be stopped.

Number two. Would President Biden ever undo his executive order that stopped the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline? Are you suggesting that would solve the gas prices issue?

Well, do you think that that would maybe affect prices faster than getting the whole country off of fossil fuels? I actually don't think it would. Of course it would. Energy. What will it take to isolate Russia and keep them from American shores?

We're about to find out in a half hour. And why does the whole White House care about green, care more about green than red, white, and blue? Number one. I stay here in Kiev at Bankova Street. I don't hide and I'm not afraid of anyone.

I will stay here as long as it's necessary to win in our patriotic war. As President Zelensky is showing tremendous valor, the leaders, the fight, the talks, the Russian disregard for innocent life and the need to take down Vladimir Putin, get this.

Some staggering stats that just show you the brutality of this country, of this war. 20 dead within the last three hours, who are just evacuating from, we believe, the capital city into Poland, just killed. Russian airstrike. six hundred twenty five missiles have been shot off in the last twelve days. We're in day thirteen.

And two hundred and two schools have been targeted and destroyed. thirty four hospitals have been blown up. Hospitals, five hundred minimum, five hundred residential buildings. These are all war crimes. I mean, my goodness, if something like this happens in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it did, it is by mistake.

And there'll be investigations and there's a cover-up, there's a problem. It is not done intentionally. This is done intentionally. And get this: Russia is not doing well. In fact, they have not taken a major city.

The one city they did take, there's protests from Ukrainians of the Russian occupation. They still have not moved on in Odessa, even though we can tell there is no. And believe me, I'm not hoping this happens. There's no presence of a Ukrainian navy to block the Odessa amphibious landing. President Zelensky has shown tremendous valor, and now he's saying, I want to give you a little tour of my bunker.

He's not afraid at all of being taken out. I am. Because he means so much to that community, to that country, and now to the world. This is what he's doing though. He's using his Magic with the media to get to go to bat for not himself.

But for his country T today, he is doing something extraordinary. President Zelensky via video link. will actually address the House of Commons, the first time a President of another country has addressed that the main Westminster chamber after having a Zoom call on Saturday with a bipartisan committee at the U. S. Senate and House.

With me right now is Kurt Volcker, former U.S. Special Representative, the Ukraine Ambassador to NATO. Mr. Ambassador, thanks so much for being here. Brian, thank you.

It's great to be on. We have so many different things to pursue. First off, your reaction to what's going to happen in thirty minutes. The President of the United States is going to say we will no longer purchase. oil from Russia.

Yes. What has taken us so long? This is so obvious. We are buying Russian oil. That means we're giving Russia money, and they're using that money to pay for the military to attack Ukraine.

And we should have cut this off some time ago. How can we be sanctioning them and paying them at the same time? What about if I bring you behind the scenes, and this is what happened? And keep in mind, at Democratic Congress, the Ways and Means Committee, on a bipartisan basis, were about to pass a piece of legislation to ban Russian oil purchases. The Senate was moving to, in between the White House calls and says, stop it.

We don't want you to move forward with it. They don't tell us why. Nancy Pelosi gets a personal call from the President. She says, I'm not convinced. I'm moving on with this.

Then the President moves, the White House moves to call Senator Schumer to call to Senator Wyden to stop it. Do you notice I've said all Democrats? The Dem the Democratic House is pushing the White House, the European Union pushing the White House, NATO pushing the White House on on Nordstrom two, on the Swift banking system. What's going on? Everything's asked backwards.

Yes, I agree. We need more U. S. leadership here to drive the train. We need to say that these things have to stop.

We should be pushing Europe to follow suit now. If we ban the oil and gas from Russia, they should too. We're sending them probably we were sending them $70 million a day. European Union is probably sending them $600 million.

So they've got to shut that off as well. And what you just talked about, President Zelensky talking to Westminster and senators over the weekend. They are pleading for help. They are being attacked by the Russian military. The Russians are indiscriminate.

They're killing civilians. They're bombing cities. You've probably been there. I've spent a lot of time in Ukraine. This is a beautiful place, wonderful city, wonderful culture.

And the Russians are bent on exterminating it because of Vladimir Putin's fantasy that the Ukrainians don't really exist as a people. They're part of Russia somehow, and he has a right to take it over. We have to stand up to this. But you know what's uh heartening? We're seeing this so-called great Russian army uh actually be a paper tiger.

Their equipment is outdated. They've put all 150,000 troops in. The rest are unreserved. They're begging the Belarus to fight. They asked Kazakhs to fight.

They said no. They're now recruiting Syrians to fight. This is a country of what, I mean, 150 million, and they can't fight and don't want to fight. Many of which they've had nine aircraft shot over the weekend, two shot down today. They have two generals killed, and I understand, Mr.

Ambassador, people are just giving up. They are disobeying orders. Exactly right. And one of the most telling things is what the Ukrainians discovered when they captured some of the Russian soldiers, they interviewed them and the soldiers did not know that they were in Ukraine and on a mission to attack Ukraine. They thought they were on a training exercise.

What that tells you is the Russian leadership didn't want to tell them the truth because they knew they wouldn't want to do it. And the moment they learn what they're doing, you are seeing these desertions, you're seeing refusal to follow orders. They don't have enough food, they don't have enough fuel, so they're leaving their vehicles on the road. This is a catastrophe for the Russians, and it's Putin's catastrophe. And you have to believe that the generals and the leadership in Russia know this.

It's hard for them to do something about it now, but the worse it gets, the more they're going to be looking at Vladimir Putin's leadership. I'm talking to Ambassador Kurt Volcker. Ambassador, I'm sure you don't know the details. I don't know it either, but Politico has an exclusive story about 27 foreign policy so-called experts who have put together a plan to put together a humanitarian no-fly zone. It talks about a humanitarian corridor.

NATO would be representative. Russia would be informed, but not given permission for, to allow people to leave and supplies to get in. Man, I have to get the details, obviously, but Marco Rubio, most of our NATO allies have all rejected this. Where do you stand? Yes.

I wrote up this idea a few days ago with former Supreme Allied Commander. Your idea? General Phil Breedlove. Yes. Phil and I put this together on one of the signatories of that letter, and a colleague of mine picked it up and ran and got a lot more signatures on it.

And the thought here is exactly as you said. We communicate clearly, this is not about attacking Russia. We're not going to hit any Russian forces on the ground unless they fire at us. We're not going to go after any aircraft or helicopters as long as they stay outside this zone. If they do, we'll try to escort them out.

If they refuse, then and only then would we fire on them. And believe me, with the way things are going for Putin's military, he does not want to draw us into the conflict. But if we clear the skies, we're answering the call from Zelensky, and we're creating some safety for civilians so humanitarian aid can move and civilians can move. And I think this is an urgent step we need to be taking. Wow.

I did not know you came up with that. I apologize. I should have known that. Yeah, so that was my bad. But I mean, I would love to see a practical way of people to entertain that and look at that.

I know you have an ear to almost every NATO NATO member, being the tajab you had. Have you had any people that anybody look at that and say this is something that's plausible, feasible? Yes, and it breaks down on exactly the lines that you would think. You have some of the Eastern, Central European allies saying, Yeah, we've got to do this. We see the carnage, we're taking the refugees, we've got to do something.

But you know, NATO, if the US is not leading, others are not going to do it without us.

So the US has got to be the one that defines this. I think it's achievable, but it's going to take leadership from the administration. You know, we saw 17,000, I'm sure it's more, protesters arrested in Russia, and they say they get 10 years if they're caught protesting in their own country. We saw all the Western media pulled out. Are they going to be arrested?

Because if you're accused of fake news, you get jailed.

So all the networks are pulled out. How do we get the truth to the Russian people that they're not the problem their leader is? And are they powerless from what you know? The people are basically subjects. Putin is willing to use force against them, arrest them.

He has Navalny in prison. He was trying to control all the communications, the Internet, the media. But word is getting out anyway. Phone calls, emails, social media from Russians in Ukraine, from Ukrainians. people to their family members, word is getting out, and that's why those people are protesting.

because they have learned what Russia is doing and they don't support it. What about this MiG situation?

Now, Poland says I'll give him up as long as I can replace the F-15, get F-15s, F-16s. And now they seem gummed up. People are resident because they're reluctant to look as though Poland is arming the Ukraine when they've already said the Ukrainian pilots will show up in Poland and fly them out.

So, do you know what's happening here? Even Senator Schumer was pushing to get this done. Yes, I don't know what's happening. I saw Secretary of State Blinken on the Sunday show where he said we've given him a green light, we're going to backfill. I checked in with the Polish embassy last night, and they said, no, we're not going to do it.

And they wouldn't tell me anything more about why, so I can't answer what's holding this up. My gut feeling is that they want to see more U. S. commitment. that they feel that this would expose them in a way that they are not exposed at the moment, and they want crystal clear guarantees from the US that we will be there with them.

I think, of course, we should be doing this, and it sounded on Sunday like that's what Tony Blinken was saying, too. Um but it hasn't happened. And to some of the technical arguments, I don't think these hold up. Ukrainians fly MiG twenty nines already. They're flying them from Ukrainian airfields.

They have trained pilots. They have the maintenance and spare parts because they're already flying the same aircraft. This should be a no brainer. A tougher one is A TAN attack aircraft that we could provide. We have a whole bunch of A tens.

We were going to declare some of them as excess defense articles anyway. and put them, you know, in the Arizona desert. We should give them to the Ukrainians. They have a handful of trained pilots because they've trained with us. They're going to need help on the parts and maintenance and crews and so forth, but that's something we could do with money and the Ukrainians can go and contract.

So let me ask them, if we put them Ambassador Volcker, if we gave them to the Ukraine in December, they could be using them now, right? They could have. They could have. All of this stuff, Brian, I hate to say it, but everybody saw this coming. And everybody was saying take action now.

before they attack, prevent an attack. rather than responding only after the fact when the Ukrainians are on their on the defensive, when civilians are getting killed and the stakes seem higher because now we're entering a conflict, could have done all this before. Ambassador, we have to ask you, looking at China now, they are trying to backstop what they can for Russia. But Russia has only maybe two dozen oligarchs that have been sanctioned, and they are trying to seize some of their luxury assets. They probably stolen from, I don't know how they got their wealth, but most likely stealing from the Russian people.

And they're going to do that. But why not all? And then we have to the bigger question is why are we not sanctioning the banks that work in the energy sector? Among the people pushing back are our European NATO allies.

So how do we put our hand on the scale there and amp up the pressure? Right. Well, Congress has got this. They were about to pass the legislation on oil, and because they were about to pass it over the White House objections, now the White House is going forward and putting the ban on themselves. That's good.

Any way we get this done, that's good.

Next thing is the secondary sanctions.

So anyone who is helping Russia avoid the first round of sanctions should be subject to the secondary sanctions. And it's it's there's legislation on this pending in Capitol Hill as well. That's the next thing to do. And I don't think the Chinese are invested in Russia's war on Ukraine. They see their designs on Taiwan as completely different and in their minds completely legitimate, whereas Russia is attacking a member of the United Nations, a sovereign independent country, and using brutal tactics.

And they view Russia as a weakened declining power, not the rising power China is.

So I think they want to keep a distance from this. If the Russians can go through their banks and use their currency and finance themselves and China makes money off of this, of course they'll do it. And if it weakens the Western liberal economic order, of course, they'll do it. But I don't think China is actually trying to weigh in on Russia's side. Ambassador, it's been education to talk to you.

Thanks so much. I look forward to talking to you again. Great. Thank you, Brian. Go get him.

When we come back, 1866-408-7669, I'll take your calls. And then the great Brad Meltzer joins us in studio. Don't move. You're with Brian Kilmead. Radio that makes you think.

This is the Brian Kill Me Show. I'm sure that the president can do more. I'm sure he can. And I would like to believe that he's capable of doing that. And of course, that is President Zelensky talking to ABC News last night.

He said, I expect him to do more. He appreciates what we have, but we have to do more. I agree. By the way, just want to give you a note. Ambassador Volcker, always great to get Kurt Volcker's insight as an ambassador to NATO, knows the region, knows an ambassador over to worked with Ukraine.

He's going to be part of a special. It's called Energy Shock: The Coming Energy Crisis. It's available tomorrow on Fox Nation. Fox Nation is doing a kick-ass job, FoxNation.com, or just download the app.

So look for Kurt in that. He's also with Kathy McMorris-Rogers.

So that was pretty cool. I would think that we could do more. Also, continue to squeeze on Russia more. I think we're going to have that.

So, in about 15 minutes, the president's always late. Probably a half hour, he's going to come out and make an announcement that he unilaterally decided, which would be inaccurate, to decide to no longer purchase Russian oil. That's significant. The question is. with eighty percent of energy coming from Europe as their best customer.

I'm talking about Estonia, Bulgaria, Finland. They take most of their energy, almost all their energy from Russia. I don't know if they can afford to do the same. Germany, just 80% comes from Russia. Can they afford to do the same?

Question is no, but can they do less? Can they start squeezing and start looking elsewhere in a massive way? Yeah. When we come back, I'll be joined by Brad Melcher and get the latest. Are we prepared?

Should they use nukes? Should Russia use nukes on us? Tactical nukes or the big ones? Breaking news, unique opinions. Hear it all on the Brian Kill Meat Show.

The last thing I just want to add is the comment about short-range or tactical nuclear weapons has not been discussed enough. In our mind, we think of the day after tomorrow, a big inter-ballistic battle on multiple continents. Russia has other capabilities, and I would not be surprised if it starts to enter into the conversation here if they can no longer advance and they can't get the settlement they want.

And they're frustrated, and they should be frustrated. They should be embarrassed. A country with a shell of a fighting force but great will to survive as a country that wants freedom, Ukraine, is holding them off out of almost every L out of every major city while they have massive defections. I'm talking about the Russian army. I'm talking about their military efforts so far: 150,000 troops in the Ukraine, and they can't win more than one city.

This after almost two full weeks. Brad Melter, bestselling author, host of Fox Station series, Brad Melter's Greatest Conspiracies of All Time, and host of Lost History on the History Channel and author of a brand new book out today, The Lightning Rod, a Zig a Zig and Nola novel. Joins us now. Brad, welcome back.

So good to be back. I love talking to you about the kids' books and the nonfiction books, but this takes us back to how we met, which is my fictional thrillers. Right, but this is real. As I brought, we bumped in with a talk that we think is, if you see the way Russia acted, haphazardly acting with ordnance hitting two separate nuclear sites over the last two weeks, these are energy plants. There's a real fear of technuclear nukes being used in the battlefield.

And your whole book is about preparing for an emergency, right? How America is prepared with stockpiles should something like this happen. What is your thought about tactical nukes actively being used in the battlefield in your lifetime? Yeah, you know, listen, when this was studied by the government in the 50s and the 60s, they Had two kind of secret operations that took place in the government. One was Operation High Point.

which was where they built bunkers for the President of the United States to go to if there was a nuclear attack, the Senate to go to. They built Mount Weather in these places up in Virginia and Maryland outside the city. And then they took a look around and say, well, what do we do about me and you, Brian? What do I do about the regular people? And for that, they launched another secret operation called Operation Low Point.

And that was to study it was actually took place in Michigan and studied what happens to regular people. They made an entire plan for if there's a nuclear war. They said that they're going to take mail trucks instead of delivering mail, They're going to deliver bodies. That's what Mail Trucks are going to be used as hearses and for morgues. And they had this giant plan, studied everything, and they came to one conclusion in Operation Low Point, which is simply this.

It's not going to work. No one wins in a nuclear war. You're going to die. Hiding under the deaths is silly. It's all silly.

But what broke out. was one idea. And the one idea was after years go by, that maybe we can be we can't be prepared for a nuclear war, but there are bioterror attacks. There are other disasters that happen in these wars, especially in the fight we're seeing right now with Russia and Ukraine. And what the government came up with was they have now nearly a dozen secret warehouses, this is all true, are hidden around the country.

And whether the attack is in New York City, in Texas, in California, in Idaho, it doesn't matter where it is. These places are there, whether it's anthrax, whether it's smallpox, that within four hours they'll have what's called a push package of antidotes that will come to your door. And I said, You're telling me the government has a dozen secret warehouses, no one can go inside. I want to know what's in there. And so, when you read the lightning rod, yes, it's a fictional murder mystery, but what you see inside in the final chapters when you go inside that warehouse, I didn't make it up.

It's all real.

So the fact is, as you look to find out real and authentic, that was pre-pandemic. We had a pandemic. We weren't ready for that. And now I think since the Cold War passed, we're not really thinking about nuclear war these days, correct? Yeah, well, you know, we there's it we do think about it.

We have all these games, we have all this continuity of government in place. But it's a disaster. And that's why you saw The international community shifts so quickly when those nuclear places were attacked. I talked to a An expert from the Ukraine about these, I'm like, are there stockpiles? You know, we call it here the strategic national stockpile.

I said, are these secret warehouses, does the Ukraine have anything similar? Are they planned? Are they ready? And he explained to me: he said, any good country has a stockpile, but the Ukraine stockpile is already empty. Why?

Because. they're not prepared for a war, much less a prolonged one. And that's what you're seeing now. This is the David and Goliath story. And as you mentioned, they're fighting back with everything they got, and it's time to put some more rocks in their slings.

You think that we will change the way we get prepared for pandemics? Do you already get the sense of that? I can tell you for sure we are. I can tell you exactly what's happening, in fact.

So the reason why the pandemic was such a disaster, and it's always so easy to play politics, but the reality is the Trump administration, the Obama administration, all the way back to Bush. was told over and over that there could be a pandemic like this. And they didn't care. They didn't want to fund it because people didn't want to spend the money on their taxes. They just were like, you know what?

Let's prepare for bioterror. And what the Trump administration did, good, bad, no one could have predicted it, of course, no one would get this, you know, can get this right, but they placed a bet that the threat for us. was going to be a bio-terror attack. Whether it was anthrax, whether it was smallpox, but a bioterror attack from a foreign enemy like Russia. And we'll be prepared for that, but we weren't going to be ready for a pandemic like we saw.

And it was just a bad bet.

So now, of course. You know, we have mask-making machines, a millions that make them instantly. What we used to do, I'm from Florida. And what we do in Florida, you know, we're always supposed to be hurricane ready.

So, which do you think is better? Is it better to store everything? Stuff's going to go bad every year. You're going to lose some money, but at least you're going to have stuff ready in case the hurricane hits. Do you wait until the hurricane actually hits and then go scramble at the supermarket and have a fist fight with everyone who wants the same stuff you do?

And sadly, what our government did. as they did the latter, and we all paid the price for it.

So now obviously that entire shift has happened. And we're seeing it ready. I guarantee you right now that the stockpile is being filled with things to deal. And I know they already have things to deal with nuclear attacks. There are burn units in there.

There are things to treat radiation better in there. They are it's like a Costco for the end of the world. Um I also know that you know great people that rise up at the right time. You know, for a while, not many people thought Winston Churchill had this leadership ability. You know, he was almost a backbencher before he had the chance to replace Neville Chamberlain.

We know what he did, and then the British people got rid of him, then he came back again. And then we're seeing, I'm not going to put him in. Churchill's class yet, but we're seeing great person emerge at the right time, and the world is captivated by President Zielinski. Listen to a little of him yesterday, Cut Seven. We are a place in Europe, a place of freedom, a zone of freedom.

Um everyone thinks that we are far away from America or Canada. Uh no, we are this zone of freedom. And when the limits of uh rights and freedoms are being violated and stepped on, then you have to protect us because we will come first, you will come second, because the more this beast will eat, he wants more, more and more. Whereas here tomorrow Yeah, and then he goes on. He's trying to get people involved, let them know his fight is your fight, talking about freedom.

And he's doing it with fatigues on in a bunker. Can you put this in perspective, what we're all witnessing? He united the EU and NATO and Republicans and Democrats in a way I didn't think was possible. Listen, my new book is literally about Winston Churchill and FDR during World War II. And what you're seeing here, I've spent the past year, you know, what makes a great president.

And what makes great leaders throughout history, Brian, is one thing and one thing only. It's the ability to adapt when a great disaster happens. It's not about your message when you run. It's not about your promises when you kept them or not. It's when a disaster hits how you respond.

It is what made FDR FDR. And when FDR when World War two hit, You know, people hated FDR. The Republicans hated FDR. He was a Democrat, but the reason that they supported him. is because everyone knew we must stand together when it comes to the war.

We may hate his domestic policies, you may hate his things he put into as legislation, but when it came to the war, we stood together. And that's what you're seeing today, Wiselinski. You're seeing the same way Churchill united his country at a time when people were scared and terrified. They need we always need a hero to look to in those great moments of disaster and those presents who can step up And take us out of them and make us feel like it's not scary, but it's good, those are who rise. And what you're seeing today is: you know, listen, we can't forget, even in the American Revolution.

as much as we love the story as a taking down the British, we had help we had other nations that pitched in and helped us. And I think what you're seeing now the way he's uniting Democrats and Republicans, the way I never thought in my wildest dreams that the American people would still be watching what's happening in Ukraine after a week. I thought, you know what, there's no way we're going to get bored and we're going to want to move on as wrong as that is. But look at us, because we see something wrong happening. If America is great, Because we know when we see something that is like an injustice, We don't stand for it.

And I love the fact that it's united us. And it is behind. I don't want to, again, say he's Churchill or say he's FDR. There's so much history to be written about him. But I think it's vital to understand that this guy is doing something because he's found that way to talk directly to people and it's connecting and it's working.

And I think that's why Putin is, I mean, he thought he was, and listen, the United States thought we were going to be. We didn't plan to give them any help in the Ukraine because we thought they were going to be done within days. Our predictions in all the things that we wrote about it, all the kind of secret notes that went back and forth about the Ukraine where they were going to be overrun in days and it will be done. And here they are still fighting their hearts out.

So, how do you not root for that? And again, we have to kind of put more rocks in their slings. Yeah, we did know what Gumption and Drive and the fight for freedom would actually propel people to, while Russia on the other side said, What the hell are we doing? Why are we fighting? Thanks so much, Brad.

Go pick up his book, The Lightning Rod, and I know it'll be a big success. Thank you, Brad Meltzer. When we come back, Varney and Company, we simulcast, don't move.

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Past performance does not guarantee future results. Hey, welcome back everyone. Brian Kilmey. We're about to do a simulcast with Stuart Varney, Varney and Company, and we're going to talk about what's happening with energy, talk business, energy, and foreign policy. What a situation we've got here.

We've got stocks down, oil up to a record, not a record, but up sharply, gas at a record high. What do you think of that? The presence appearing in the middle of this situation?

Well, I mean the president's coming here coming out. Of course, he's five minutes late. He should probably be a half hour late, knowing the way the White House runs. And he's going to say we're off Russian oil. But behind the scenes, Stewart, you've got to be kidding me.

You see what happened? With a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate, they have voted in a bipartisan way to stop using Russian oil. And the president and the White House calling back to suppress this vote. We don't know why, but Speaker Pelosi wasn't persuaded. They finally got a hold of Ron Wyden through Schumer to not push forward so he could be the hero today whenever he decides to come out and say we're going to stop using Russian oil.

What was the delay? Oh, sorry, I'm gesticulating into the camera because I saw something appear on the screen which I didn't want. My apologies, viewers, one and all.

So I don't get it. You've got a fight now between Congress and the White House. And I think it's because if you ban Russian oil, you're going to raise the price of gas even more. And most Democrats know that that's not a very good option. You know, this called doing the right thing and being a leader.

And that's what I think America needs more than ever. We need people just to lead. I mean, I watch what Joe Manchin's doing, taking on his own party, but not doing that. He's actually doing what's right for the country. Can we stop thinking right and left and start thinking red, white and blue?

And seven out of every ten Americans, when asked, would you pay more for gas if it meant banning Russian oil, told Quinnipiak pollsters, yes, we would. And this is not the reason why oil and gas is going up. And when I found out over the weekend that the president of the United States sent emissaries to deal with Venezuela, a regime that we don't even recognize, to see if they would give us more oil and ask Iran to put their oil on the world market so we buy from them, do they not realize how wrong that is to provide money to terrorist regimes that try to upend freedom-loving people and governments that are rightly elected, like what Iran does and what Venezuela is doing to South America? Look, the Greens run the Democrat Party. Look at this.

Let's get that on the screen now from John Kerry, the climate czar. Here's what he says: We have to do enough in 2020 to 2030 to be able to achieve net zero by 2050. In order to get that zero by 2050, that's a 45% reduction in emissions in eight years. That means they're still pushing heavily. On a green agenda in the middle of an energy crisis.

Makes no sense to me, Brian. I mean, I'm embarrassed for John Kerry. I mean, my goodness, he sees these, he sees. Schools being blown up. He sees residential buildings being destroyed.

He sees women and children face down in the street, shot dead by Russian snipers. And he thinks the big worry he has, as he goes on in that quote, is that Russia will forget their climate obligations. I mean, are you kidding me? Are you a human being or are you just a robot? I mean, are you nuts?

This is about, if you are concerned, you want to talk about renewables, you want to double down on RD when it comes to green technology, I think America could get behind that. But you also want to say we're going to use nuclear or natural gas, that is fine for the environment, and we know that. It's other people's agenda. And then to find out that Vladimir Putin was putting ads together to make fracking seem like a bad alternative and play to the green movement in our country to stop fracking in our country because it hurts his oil sales. Get your head around that for a second.

They are playing our lack of nationalism against us, our lack of. Of national pride against us. And I think we're getting the big comeuppance. This is a war, really, of a green agenda against the real agenda. And I think we're seeing it now.

My hope is. We are paying the price. for the green energy people's dreams. We're paying for their dreams. That's what sounds.

So is Europe. They're paying even more, as a matter of fact. Do you know what it costs for a gallon of gas in Germany at the moment? Seven dollars and eighty cents. In Italy, it's eight bucks a gallon.

No wonder they're going to turn around on the Greens. Brian, I'm sorry I'm out of time. You know how it is. Hardbreak coming. We'll get to you later.

All right, Stuart. Thanks for sharing your audience. Always appreciate it. 1866-408-7669.

So Stuart's able to go in and out of politics in real life brilliantly. We're also going to dip in. We're probably not going to have time to dip in only a few minutes left in this half hour, but I think it's going to be significant to come out and have the President of the United States do this. I just want to say there's right and wrong, and it's going to put a little stress on our system, but I cannot, in a clear conscience, continue to allow private industry to buy Russian oil when we have other options, even though we're in a world crisis when it comes to oil and gas. I want to walk away.

Or is he going to take the tone of I am going to do something that's going to put more stress on the American people, and as gas prices are going to go up, and we're going to suffer for that. But we have to do the best we can to get off Russian oil and, in the meantime, push for renewables and get off fossil fuels once and for all. That's politics. But you know what leadership is? I'm going to do what's right.

I'm going to approach the following nations Canada, Mexico? And the state called Texas, other states called North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. And I'm going to ask for fracking to increase. I'm going to ask for drilling to be enhanced. I'm going to release my ban on drilling on federal land and provide permits for those who want to explore areas in which they think oil and gas might be beneath.

Because right now, we have an obligation to help. Europe, get off Russian oil and gas. We have an obligation to get America affordable oil and gas in an emergency situation. And if you want to please your left and maybe do the responsible thing long term and want to speed up RD, When it comes to green technology, I think people say that's a good exchange. Fair enough.

You know, everyone's for uh getting off fossil fuels if there's a decent alternative. Will we do it cleaner and better than everybody else?

So let's buy from us. Is that possible? Short term, long term? I hope so. Hey, go to BrianKillme.com.

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Hey, thanks so much for being here. Everybody's the Brian Kilmicho, one of the most learned people on China, Russia, and our enemies amongst us. The Washington Post, Josh Rogan. Who's got his book now out on paperback, Chaos Under Heaven, Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century? And keep in mind, he was writing that book before the pandemic hit.

Andy Cart is standing by, and we got some waiting for the president of the United States. to make a historic announcement really pushed by Congress to to ban Russian oil from our shores. And before we get to Andy, let's get to the big three.

Now, with the stories you need to know, it's Brian's big three. Number three. The reality is, that deal then becomes a backdoor for Russia. to enter the global economy. Iran will money launder everything for them.

And Iran will turn around and they will take all the the cash that they're making and they will buy weapons from Russia that they will use to threaten their allies. And finance tarot. That's Colonel James Carafano. Don't look now. The Iran deal could get done today.

It would remove virtually all sanctions, allow them to sell their oil openly. And guess who's brokering it? Russia. I'm not kidding. The pariah of the world.

And where are we? In the room next door. This has to be stopped. Number two. Would President Biden ever undo his executive order that stopped the construction of the Keystone-Texel pipeline?

Are you suggesting that would solve the gas prices issue?

Well, do you think that that would maybe affect prices faster than getting the whole country off of fossil fuels? I actually don't think it would. It would. Energy. What will it take to isolate Russia?

We're about to find out. And why does the whole White House care more about green technology than being red, white, and blue? Number one. I stay here in Kiev at Vancova Street. I don't hide and I'm not afraid of anyone.

I will stay here as long as it's necessary to win in our patriotic war. President Zelensky speaking earlier: the leaders, the fight, the talks, the Russian disregard for innocent life, and the need to take down Vladimir Putin. How that's done, I'm not sure. Andy Carr knows all about Vladimir Putin as he emerged on the scene. He was chief of staff of Bush 41 when the Cold War came to an end and the wall came down.

He was also Secretary of Transportation and then President Bush's first Secretary, excuse me, Chairman of Chief of Staff. Andy Carr, welcome back. Brian, it's great to be with you. Thanks for having me on your show again. I mean, your insight's invaluable, especially on the world players.

Not much has changed. First off, how significant is the President's announcement that we're not going to be importing 650,000 barrels of gas, 1,000 barrels of oil a day from Russia? I think it's the right move to make. I wish that he would open the speaker. pickets more here in the United States and allow us to get more of our domestic energy into the marketplace.

But I think he's making the right decision. I'm not sure it's going to have a huge impact on our economy. because it's a relatively small percentage of the Uh what comes into service the American population, but I think it's the right thing to do and and maybe a little bit overdue. Right, a little bit overdue. I mean, for example, there was a time in which we were very uh trying to be very uh finesse the relationship with Russia.

They're not our enemy, they're not our enemy. Mitt Romney said that and he was mocked for saying For saying that they are our number one geopolitical foe. When did they transition, in your mind, Annie Card, from somebody looking to be part of the world community after the Cold War to this?

Well, I think it began with Putin when he became president a long time ago. It isn't that he wants to recreate the Soviet Union. He wants to recreate the old Russian Empire. And I remember the first time I met President Putin was with President Bush, and it was on June 16th of 2001. at a summit in Slovenia And President Bush had done a remarkable number of a bunch of homework before he did he read everything he could from the State Department, the CIA, the Defense Department, the Commerce Department.

He really did his homework. He also read a biography of Putin, and he read the history of the Russian Empire. And so he was very, very well prepared. But I remember the conversations, and I kept thinking. Mm-hmm.

President Putin has dark eyes and I just could see that he was calculating and not compassionate and I was very skeptical of him. I thought that he was a little bit insecure. Uh I described him a little bit like N Napoleonic. He you know, he he was shorter than he wanted to be, but said everybody claimed he was tall, you know, that type of thing. And so I was skeptical of him, but I remember that summit very well.

And I think that Putin's interest in restoring the Russian Empire has dominated his tenure as President and Prime Minister and then President again.

So I see him as very cold, calculated. And um I can say that he spoke candidly the times that I saw him with the President, and I was surprised at the in the meetings that we had, not just in that Slovenia uh summit, but also meetings in Moscow and at Putin's version of Camp David. Um but he was n not very knowledgeable about Economics, and he didn't really understand how the United States. Set its prices in. If he asked, how do you set the price of bread?

And the President said, we don't set the price of bread, it's the marketplace that sets the price of bread. And the president gave him kind of an Economics 101 meeting on how the economy works. The President also cautioned him to stay away from some of the oligarchs that he was in love with. And I remember the President bringing up one name and said, this person is a bad person. You shouldn't associate with them.

And Putin said, oh, no, he's a wonderful person. And we knew he wasn't. Really? I'd never heard any of this. And now the oligarchs basically are being targeted to try to put pressure on Putin.

Plus, they probably stole their wealth to get what they've gotten so far in that period of time between the fall of communism and when they were trying to establish a degree of freedom under Yeltsin and Gorbachev, right? Absolutely right. You know, the most important word in our Constitution is the first word. we. It's our government.

In in Russia, The we don't make up their government. The the it's not about the people of Russia, it's about the leadership raping and pillaging and taking all they can for their friends.

So there's a big difference between an American democracy and a so-called Russian democracy, which is not a democracy of the people, by the people and for the people. You know, I've never thought President Biden was going to be a strong president. What you do is you surround yourself with the best, whatever your party is. I mean, you could argue Bush 43 without this great foreign policy knowledge puts together Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld and you who have done this job before, Condoleezza Rice with her rich Soviet slash Russian background.

So we had experience around him, and he's got his political philosophy. Game on. Let's go. I look at what President Biden has done. I don't see anything except him.

You see Susan Rice and Ron Clain. You see, his Secretary of State is not a powerful figure, nor is he well known, that I can tell respected. You have a shrinking violet in this huge man and Secretary Austin. I don't see much leadership there. And that's why probably, Andy, in my estimation, we're seeing the EU and NATO lead in many ways in this Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Well, I do want to give credit to President Biden for shoring up NATO and working in an open way. And Jake Sullivan, the National Security Adviser, has been a a very effective communicator with the NATO community.

So I you know, I this is a time when we have to rally behind a President. President Biden has some impossibly difficult decisions to make, and there are tremendous consequences to almost every decision that he makes.

So this is a time when I'm not viewing it as a partisan. Biden is the president. I don't want him to fail in this effort. I don't want him to Do what he did in Afghanistan. I want him to do the right things with regard to Ukraine.

I want him to take Russia seriously. I hope we don't get into a nuclear war. I do not trust Putin, and I feel terrible about what's happening to the Ukrainian people. And I have to admit that their president is doing a remarkable job of rallying his own people, but also tweaking the conscience of the world to pay attention to what's happening. And I think that time is going to tell that President Putin is acting in such a way that he's really a war criminal.

I think that investigations will probably find that he has violated so many aspects of the rules of law, of war. And I know people like to say, in war, there are no rules. No, there are rules, and I think President Putin is violating them. Right. I think you could rally around the flag, but also analyze what's happening in real time because after 14 days, you just can't keep quiet.

I mean, for example, when it comes to getting off the SWIFT. Financial system. He's like, we're not ready to do that. Europe did it first. We followed.

And now, when it comes to not getting Russian oil, his Democratic-led House and Senate pushed him to do this. They were ready to pass. And according to our reporters in the White House, they were going to pass legislation. And he quickly said, Can you hold off? I'd like to take credit for it.

And I think that's what we're going to be witnessing right now. I would love to see leadership first. And that would be what your original point was. Leadership would be: the heck with my party. We have to drill here at home.

Wouldn't you agree? I do. I feel strongly that Okay, look at I I want American's lead America's leadership to make the difference in the world. We are we want to be the leader of the free world. We want to be the conscience for the world.

And I expect America to lead. I'm not sure President Biden is as forward leaning as I would want him to be, but he is our President. And so this is a tricky time. I'm I'm not looking to play politics with what's happening in Ukraine. It's it's a tragedy and it's terrible.

And I think we've got to all work together. And I'm hoping that President Biden is reaching out to as many competent people as he can to get advice and counsel. And he's encouraging his Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense and his National Security Advisor to do the same. I don't think that this should be a closed discussion. I think that he should be saying, what advice do other people have to do here and try to make the right tough decision?

You know, this is. We have a President of the United States that has to make brutally tough decisions. I want him to get as much counsel as he can and make the decisions in time to have results that live up to the expectations that the President would have when he made the decision. Exactly. And that's why, yesterday, blaming the oil companies for not drilling when they have leases and then for not fully explaining what pipelines would do, I thought that was playing politics through your press secretary.

And then the vice president came out and did this: Cut 34. We are all in the midst. of a turning point. We have the technology to transition to a zero emission fleet. We can address the climate crisis and grow our economy at the same time.

And I am here today to say Together, we all are doing just that. Would that be what you want your Vice President to say? No, I th I think that's disconnected with the reality of the time. And, you know, one of the greatest challenges to our is a war going on in Uk in the Ukraine. Believe me, there's a l a lot of pollution being put into the skies because of the war.

And this is not the time to be saying a windmill will make a difference or a solar cell will make a difference. We've got a rally, and we have the energy to help keep our economy moving, and we've got plenty of energy to be able to make sure we can help the rest of the world keep moving as it's disrupted because of this terrible war that Russia has imposed on Ukraine. And it's really one person. I mean, I don't even see the people rallying around Vladimir Putin because he's just one man, a brutal dictator who might have shrunk his advisory down to really one or two people, both of which we don't know. The general that came up with this plan evidently is in trouble, according to the Wall Street Journal.

But listen to this. We have 625 missiles being shot into this country in 11 days. 202 schools have been hit, 500 residential buildings, and 34 hospitals. I mean, that's just off. This is what the UN is reporting.

Not even Ukraine is reporting. And the numbers, in terms of a human. Humanitarian disaster, I mean, we're seeing the pictures in real time. 77 men killed, 406 overall, eight boys, four girls, 15 children, 257 adults are known as missing, 801 injured. These are non-military personnel, and they're not even trying to be surgical in their strikes.

Now that we're in the middle of this, if I put you as chief of staff, how can we minimize the carnage? At the same time, no, we're not fighting in this directly. We can't. We've got to call it what it is. I think it's a war crime violation.

But this is the tricky decision the President's going to have to make. How far do we go to help the people of Ukraine? And we should do all we can without having some unintended consequence of moving into a nuclear war. And so this is the tricky part of being the President of the United States today. You know, this is not an easy job and we shouldn't pretend that it's easy.

And I know it's opportunistic to say politics is going to be playing a huge role. It should not be playing a role in helping us to find a way out of this morass that President Putin put us into. And I do fear that he is so isolated now, so paranoid, that he is not getting advice from anyone who disagrees with him. What they think he want he wants to hear. And that means he could be making even more consequential decisions that will be jeopardizing not only the people of Ukraine, not only the people of Europe, but it could be jeopardizing the world if he's going to slide into some nuclear attack that would just be beyond comprehension.

I have been in tears watching what's happening with people in Ukraine right now. And this is outrageous that Um I think the bill of particulars that you just went through is the bill of particulars that defines President Putin as a war criminal. Absolutely. Andy Card, thanks so much. Appreciate it.

Thank you, Brian. Good to be with you. All right, go get him. I'll go get him. one eight six six four o eight seven six six nine.

When we come back, we'll bring you the latest from the White House already a half hour late, and then bring in Josh Rogan to put in perspective the challenges we have in China and Russia. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. The United States is targeting the main artery of Russia's economy.

We're banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy. That means Russian oil will no longer be acceptable at U.S. ports, and the American people will. deal another powerful blow to Putin's war machine. This is a move that has strong bipartisan support with Congress and, I believe, in the country.

Americas have rallied to support the Ukrainian people and made it clear we will not be part of subsidizing Putin's war. And that is some of their president's remarks. He had just walked out about four minutes ago to make it official what we heard about about 8.50 today Eastern Time, a.m., of course, when he came out and said through pressure from Congress, the Democrats and Republicans, that we have to stop importing Russia oil. If nothing else to show, we will not put money in the pocket of Vladimir Putin to the tune it would have cost to get 650,000 barrels of oil into our coffers. Nope, we're going to go elsewhere for it.

He also says there's going to be a cost. He also pointed out his bipartisan support.

Now he's taking credit for a lot of the weapons and a lot of the supplies that are getting in right now and said that he was the one who said Anthony Blinken to see all of our NATO allies.

So when we come back, how's this whole thing unfolding? Do we have a chance of knocking out Vladimir Putin for good? Certainly expose him and his army as a hollowed out, hardly a six-foot-tall monster, more like a hollowed out, disgraced judo boy. Josh Rogan next. The talk show that's getting you talking.

You're with Brian Kilmead. It's simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production. That's simply not true. Even amid the pandemic, Companies in the United States pump more oil during my first year in office than they did during my predecessor's first year.

So he's saying the same thing Jen Saki said yesterday. The President of the United States, if you're just tuning in, has come out and said we are no longer going to be purchasing Russian oil, and he's looking for our allies to do the same. But he says, you know, we don't produce most of our more of our own oil and gas than all of our allies combined. That is true.

So it's going to be tough for Europe to do it. It looks like the UK will follow us. But then he followed up with some total inaccuracies. Here's an example of what he just said. The United States is targeting the main artery of Russia's economy.

We're banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy. That means Russian oil will no longer be acceptable at U.S. ports, and the American people will. Okay, here is Steve Malloy. He's a former EPA transition team.

See, Jen Saki said the same thing yesterday. That's why we're ready for an answer.

So he said: because we have all these leases out there and they're not drilling, don't tell me you are holding you back. But when it comes to financing, they've also pushed all the banks and big financial firms not to invest in anything oil and gas. Cut 22. Oil coming through lots of pipelines, but Keystone would bring in more oil faster. And that's really what we need.

But I've got to say, it's not just the Keystone XL pipeline. I mean, the Biden administration right now, in violation of a federal court order, has put a hold on new federal oil and gas leases. I hear Jen Saki talking about, oh, well, the oil companies have 9,000 leases or something like that that they're not using. The oil companies use the leases that produce and make sense economically. Just because a lease has been issued doesn't mean that it's worthwhile producing right now.

It all depends on the economics. What Joe Biden should be doing is unleashing our oil and gas sector, forgetting about the climate agenda. We're not accomplishing anything anyway. Emissions are going up with no end in sight. But people cannot afford gas prices at this high.

It's going to cause even more inflation, which is another thing Joe Biden doesn't really care about. By the way, he's not taking questions. People are shouting out questions like, I know you have a lot of questions. I know there's a lot of questions, but he doesn't like to take questions, which is unbelievable. President of the United States, you can't answer anything.

You walk away from the press. Why are they even there every day? For Jen Socky to make up answers and make dismissive Condescending quotes.

So keep in mind, Peter Ducey just put this out. This is a quote from Jen Socky to show how inaccurate her comments are. We don't have a strategic interest in reducing the global supply of energy, and that would raise the prices of the gas pump for the American people. When asked about should we stop Buying Russian oil. She went, Karine Jean-Pierre, her replacement, said last week.

It's on yeah, last week, the second of uh March. We don't have a strategic interest in reducing the global supply of energy.

Okay, Gen Saki and Gene Perdue, now they both may look like liars. And when you came out and said you're not using all the leases we gave you, some of the leases are not productive. Josh Rogan joins us right now. Josh, your reaction to the President's remarks. You know, it's why is it, Brian, that ev ev every stage of this UK crane crisis, they have to be dragged into doing the right thing after exhausting all the other options.

And then when they do it, they do it sort of in this half-assed kind of way. We saw this with the weapons provi provisions. We saw this with the sanctioning of seven out of three hundred Russian banks. Seven out of three hundred, really? And now we're tiptoeing into this, you know, sort of What the Biden administration has been getting criticized for for the last month, which is, hey, it makes no sense to say that you're sanctioning Putin and not go after the energy sector.

And now we're just doing oil imports. You know, I say, what about the gas? What about the sanctions on all the secondary sanctions on all the people who do business with these energy companies? And here's the thing, Brian: if you look at what happened, the private sector is already doing it. They're already decoupling from Russian energy.

Because guess what? Putin's not a reliable energy supplier.

So we're going to have to do this anyway, but by sort of doing too little, too late, and dragging their feet and going through all this excruciating verbal gymnastics to pretend they're doing everything they can. All the Biden administration is doing is wasting time. And in a war, hesitancy costs lives. You can't pretend that they have the same philosophy as the Trump administration when it comes to drilling, right? Why are they pretending they do?

Just say, I am not for drilling. The first thing I did when I walked in was stop drilling on federal lands, and I'm still ignoring a court order that says I should not be able to do that. And just stand by it. Don't twist the words.

So it takes. The next day, to talk to some oil executives and for them to realize what they're doing on these leases doesn't make good business sense, especially if you give somebody a lease but you don't give them a permit.

Now, the TikTok that led to this moment, I guess, has been out there and been backed up. The Ways and Means Committee, working yes, over the weekend, came up with a bipartisan plan to stop buying oil from Russia. The Senate started moving through with their own legislation. The White House tried to stop it. They called Ron Wyden through Chuck Schumer and said, please stop this legislation.

They called Nancy Pelosi and said, please stop it. She said, I am not convinced of moving forward.

So now the president comes out and essentially takes credit for it. Kind of interesting for all Democratic House and Senate. Right, 'cause everybody knows he he got bullied into it by his own party leadership 'cause Nancy he wouldn't be to the left of Nancy Pelosi on Russia. It didn't really make any political sense.

So they had to do it.

So they did it as gently as they could possibly do it. And, you know, it we you know why they're not explaining their energy policies, 'cause they can't please both sides of the party at the same time, so they'll just decide to split the baby and pretend like they're not doing that. But, you know, when it comes to Ukraine, you have to. Imagine these Ukrainians thinking, what are these guys doing? Why are they futzing around?

What is it? What would need to happen to convince them to really put the screws to Vladimir Putin once and for all? And why is it that when you know, when you talk about sort of energy and compensating, they should have been doing this a year ago or at least six months ago. Here's the crazy thing, Brian. If you just think about this for one second, right?

The intelligence about the invasion was so good. That's what they're so proud of. We called it. We knew this was going to happen.

Well, why didn't they do anything about it? Why are we scrambling to make up for lost Russian oil and gas in the middle of the war? If we knew that this was going to happen six months ago, why are they scrambling now? It's because they have a bias towards inaction. They're so risk averse.

And now they're getting pressured politically and geostrategically into doing the right thing against their own instincts. Oh, by the way, Josh Rogan's with us. He has written Chaos Under Heaven.

Now I'd have to paper back. Trump She and the Battle for the 21st Century.

So appropriate. Josh, so let's move forward and talk about what could have been done because we're in the middle of a war in which the carnage and personal destruction is overwhelming everybody I talk to. Can't get the images as these women and children being targeted by this evil regime, and I'm talking Russia. But we talk about maybe putting A-10 warthogs in that were going to be mothballed. We could have given them to Ukraine.

As Michael Waltz said, he was trying to push the F-16s and F-15s instead of going to the middle of a Nevada desert to be given to Ukraine.

Now they're begging for some 1990 MiGs from Russia, and we don't have the F-16s to exchange with Poland to give them the Russian planes that they can actually. When you see how hard they are fighting and how much success they are having despite overwhelming odds, doesn't that just kill you to hear what could have been had we had the foresight to give Ukraine the weapons they could use? It kills me, but it really results in more killing of Ukrainians. And that's what Zelensky said. He said, the blood of Ukrainians is on our hands because we're futzing around and we won't give them the things that they're asking for.

Forget about a no-fly zone for a second. Just talk about the weapons. Those planes, right? I've been talking to Ukrainian officials for weeks who are like, really thought those planes were coming. And what was the Biden administration's line over the weekend?

Well, we wouldn't object if the Poland wants to do it on their own. And then maybe we can talk about giving them some like, you wouldn't object? That's not, does that sound like leadership to anyone? Does that sound like a plan to anyone? No, they're sitting back.

And maybe if the Poles decide to take a leadership role in this Ukraine war, we'll support them. Is that really what it's come down to? And, you know, when I talk to Ukrainian politicians who are, by the way, you know, bombs are going off in the background of our interviews, literally, they keep saying the same thing. They don't understand. They don't get it.

Why does Biden talk such a big game and then nothing comes through? How is that possible? They're they're suspicious that we really don't c care about them anyway and that we only care about ourselves and that we're gonna station a bunch of troops on the NATO border and watch them get slaughtered and you know they might be right about that. Josh Rogan, our guest. Josh, you've been talking to people over there, and I think President Zelensky has been brilliant in using the media.

And now today he addresses a joint session of Parliament. I think that's the right terminology, but it's the first time that's been done. Another President doing it remote. He addressed a bipartisan group of senators and congressmen on Saturday. He is single-handedly pressuring the European Union, NATO, America and the UK to do the right thing.

Don't you agree in a way I didn't think was possible in this day and age? Yeah, he he sh he embarrassed the West into realizing that freedom is worth fighting for and even worth dying for. And you know, how dare we talk about giving him a ride out of town when he wants to stay and fight for his country rather than giving him the weapons that he's asking for? And you know, what kind of crazy world do we live in where the Brits are The most aggressive defenders of freedom and democracy in the world. How did that happen?

You know, did I miss a meeting? Because it used to be the United States of America that had to drag Europe into these fights when the fighting was necessary. And again, I'm not talking about World War III. I'm not talking about putting American troops on the ground. I'm just talking about doing everything short of that to make sure Russia doesn't crush this democracy because Europe will surely be next.

But now it's the Brits ahead and the Germans behind, and we're somewhere in the middle, and it's a mess. And, you know, for the Ukrainians, that's a deadly, deadly outcome.

So, I'm not sure how much you know about the detail, but 27 foreign policy so-called experts have signed off on a program, a policy that would allow a humanitarian no-fly zone in the Ukraine. Essentially, NATO informs Russia that will be guiding these paths to allow men and women who are not fighting in this war to get out to another country. We thought the no-fly zone was impossible. These 27 experts say it is. What can you tell me about it?

Listen, you know, this word no-fly zone can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. I think what we're moving to is a situation where you're going to have millions of people starving to death with Russians starving them to death. And are we going to watch that on TV every day? Are we going to just see the TikTok videos and turn away? You know, unlikely.

So at some point, we're going to have to make a decision probably in the next few weeks or months about do we give these people food and do we get the people out who want to get out? And that's going to require putting some planes in the air.

Now, I don't think it has to be U.S. Air Force planes. What if it was the International Red Cross? Are the Russians going to shoot that down? What if it was the U.S.?

You know, there are a lot of different ideas about how to make sure that millions of people don't starve to death because Russia wants them to starve to death. That's the conversation that we're going to have to have. But first, how about we have the conversation about maybe not letting the cities get under siege? Before we talk about the siege, why not try to stop the siege? And that will require giving these people some air defense weapons, some missile defense weapons, you know, whatever they need, why are we not giving it to them?

Seems crazy to me. The humanitarian catastrophe is only getting worse from here on out. I know. I mean, all these, if you had missile defense, if you had a few warthogs, if you ever give those MiGs ahead of time, the Russians would be blown out of the water. The truth is, the morale is down.

It is not spin. The truth is, there are Russians who are refusing to follow orders. The truth is, two generals have been shot down, that nine aircraft were taken out of the skies over the weekend, that two more were hit this morning. And the Russians, the Goliath in this case, is not too impressive. Is that one of the biggest surprises of this, Josh?

Yeah, but th th it it's a crazy shame that we're not taking full advantage of it, you know. What you know, what I when I talk to people who have been getting bombed by Russians, and there are a lot of them around the world, they always say the same thing. The m the strongest weapon anyone has is the will to fight for what's theirs, the will to fight for their families and their communities and their nation and their freedom and their dignity. That's much stronger than any army. Uh but, you know, there there is an amount of killing that will crush that.

Now, in Syria they've been fi s Surviving Russian attacks for seven years so far. Still going on for seven years. That's what the Ukrainians are staring down. They're staring down seven years or more of fighting Russian. Bombs and tanks and missiles and rockets and cluster bombs and starvation and propaganda and disinformation.

And the only thing stopping that is us. You know, unfortunately, American-led power is better than the alternative. It's the thing that prevents atrocities from happening if it works. And right now, it's not working. We have to be honest with each other.

We have to do more. We have to help these people help. By the way, in talking lives. Josh, I'm not talking to people listening at home. Josh Rogan's not a war hawk.

He's not a Republican or Democrat. He's just reporting as he sees it. I don't know who you voted for. You're able to get inside information, inside, use your experience to come up with these conclusions.

So that's why I think it's so important to hear from you, let alone get your book. But here's a little of their speech we just concluded with Joe Biden, talking about what America's role is. We made this decision in close consultation with our allies and our partners around the world, particularly in Europe, because a united response to Putin's aggression has been my overriding. Focus to keep all NATO and all of the EU and our allies totally united. Right.

And he did talk about his response, which is the fourth. Right. I mean, listen, you're right. I think the best way to avoid war is by showing strength to tyrants.

Okay, the best way to invite war is to show weakness to tyrants. And that's what history shows us.

So if you're for peace and you're against war, especially the war in Ukraine spilling over into Europe and then maybe spilling over to where we're involved, the best thing to do now would be to stop him in Ukraine. The best thing to it's better to fight Putin in Ukraine than to fight him in Europe or in a our Or in the Baltics or anywhere else.

So this is the fight that's on. And I'm not saying we should go to war with Putin. I'm saying we should help the Ukrainians fight for their lives and for their freedom because we we might be next. That's true. And Josh, what do you think this means for China and taking Taiwan?

What do you think they're gleaning from this? You know, there's been a lot of crazy talk Washing in Washington, Brian, about oh, maybe China's an honest broker, maybe they can mediate this thing, that's all n nonsense, okay? The Chinese Communist Party and and Vladimir Putin are as close as lips and teeth. That's a quote from Mao Zedong, okay? What they're doing is they're underwriting the invasion of Ukraine and then they're prom propagating Russian propaganda.

They're on Putin's side, that will never change.

Now What that means for us is that we better stop Putin now. We're changing things going to look at Taiwan like it's lunch. And with all dictators, the appetite grows with the eating.

So if we don't stand up for democracy in Hong Kong, we don't stand up for it in Ukraine, why would we stand up for it in Taiwan? That's the message. That's why we have to act. Josh Rogan's book's How Chaos Under Heaven, Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century. Josh, thanks so much.

Anytime. You got it. 1-866-408-7669. I'll bring back more of that speech when we return on the Brian Kilmeet Show. It's Brian Kilmade.

He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian, kill me. The United States is targeting the main artery of Russia's economy. We're banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy. That means Russian oil will no longer be acceptable at U.S.

ports and the American people will deal another powerful blow to Putin's war machine. President with about a 20-minute speech, not taking any questions, which is unacceptable, but that's the reality. He has decided not to get his 650,000 barrels of oil a day, which is 3% of our total import, from Russia.

So I think that's a long time to come. He's probably the last one to do it. Also, we understand Europe will cut their input of Russian gas by two-thirds. They get about a quarter of all their oil and gas from Russia. They're going to cut back.

But as been brought up by Josh Rogan, just seven of 300 banks have been sanctioned. This is only a small hit on their oil production, and they're going to feel it as many of these. American companies have pulled out, for some reason, not Starbucks. Not McDonald's, not Coke, and not Pepsi for now, but things like Shell and Apple and Disney and Netflix. American Express, Visa, and MasterCard are all pulling out.

The private sector is deciding not to refine in places like Sweden and Finland and in Texas. A lot going on. Quick announcement for the sports fans: Aaron Rodgers will stay with the Packers, according to ESPN.

So the free agent is not going to be a free agent, he's going to be a quarterback until his 40s. in Green Bay. I think that's a good move. Brian kill me, Choe. Don't forget to go to BrianKillMe.com.

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