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We know that uh President Zelensky, he's not even the president anymore. He is the head of the government de facto.
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Would never consent to any kind of a ceasefire because that would mean he'd have to get rid of uh martial law, the exposition of what you're talking about, and there'd have to be elections. And of course, there's no way he'd be elected. I don't even know if he would, if he would physically survive uh any uh any election campaign.
Colonel President Biden uh boasted not at the um may- maybe it was at the uh at the NATO conference that we have 100,000 troops in Europe. What are we doing with 100,000 troops in Europe? Are they a tripwire?
Well, 100,000 troops in Europe and I assume he's talking about ground forces, although I may be wrong on that.
I I th- It sounded like he was, but who knows what he meant.
Well, those 100,000 ground forces are a drop in the bucket. You're talking about a minimum of 8 to 900,000 Russian troops that oppose you. You You've got 100,000 American troops and they are going to be the core of a European force that's going to attack Russia? Well, that's absurd. You know, if they they're strung out along perhaps a a thousand kilometers from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Slovakia uh Moldova down to Romania. Who Who are we kidding? I mean, it's it's it's too widely dispersed. It's not effectively organized. It's not adequately trained at this point. Uh I don't know what the morale and discipline are like, but the things I'm hearing from our behavior in Poland of our troops doesn't encourage me to see much good there.
So, the bottom line is it's a it can't be a tripwire because the Russians are certainly not going to attack Poland. They're not going to attack those Baltic littoral states. They've never had any intention of doing so, but what Putin has made very clear and the Russian government, not just President Putin, but Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister, is if we allow missiles and aircraft to be launched from territory that is NATO territory, what in in those any of those states that I mentioned, then he will regard or Russia will regard the source of those missiles as legitimate targets. So, within the space of an hour, we could see dozens of airfields, airports, and troop cantonments, storage areas, command and control sites essentially vaporized in a hail of missiles. So, I don't think there's much of a tripwire there.
Uh I think we're just kidding ourselves. We're kidding the American people. It reminds me of watching uh our responses to emergencies around the world. One of the first things we do is usually send an aircraft carrier built group. And then we have these wonderful pictures of the carrier at sea and the planes taking off and landing, and Americans are proud and they think something's happening. In reality, the people ashore could care less. Has no impact whatsoever ashore. I think we're doing things for the same reason in Europe right now. We're trying to have a PR impact for the people back home.
Because you know, Judge, there are always foolish Americans that are members of what I call the bombs away club. They think that our greatness is served when we bomb hapless opponents. What we've got to understand is up until now, we have been attacking people who cannot defend themselves. If we are drawn into a direct confrontation with the Russians, which looks eminently possible given the stu- stupid remarks that we're making, then you're going to be up against a force that can fight back on a dramatic scale. We need to wake up. We need to understand it and and I ask ourselves, why? Why? What is the purpose? How What do we gain from this? And the Ukrainian people aren't going to gain anything. That state, that nation is destroyed.