Team Buck. Welcome to the Freedom Hunt. Friday, February twenty, fifth edition of the program. The war in Ukraine expanding Russian forces trying to take Keith the capitol, the head of government and his advisors those around him saying they will fight till the very end. What is the Biden administration doing about this? Why haven't maximum financial measures been taken to put pressure on Putin's regime. We'll get into that. Plus the CDC putting out its guidance on masking any moment.
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What is going to stop ochins onslot in Ukraine? That is a question that everybody is thinking about right now, and we need to understand that this situation was something the Biden administration had a lot of advanced warning about and does not seem as though they're going to be able to do anything right now to stop this from becoming a much higher casualty situation, perhaps possibly even something
you would consider a bloodbath. It is terrifying to see these images of Russian soldiers and Russian planes and helicopters attacking these targets. There will be more civilian casualties. Boris Johnson is out there saying that Putin will never be able to cleanse the blood of Ukraine off his hands.
Play four. He is hurling the might of his military machine against a free and peaceful neighbor, in breach of his own explicit pledge and every principle of civilized behavior between states, spurning the best efforts of this country and our allies to avoid bloodshed. For this, Putin will stand condemned in the eyes of the world and of history. He will never be able to cleanse the blood of
Ukraine from his hands. And although the UK and our allies tried every avenue for diplomacy until the final hour, I'm driven to conclude that Putin was always determined to attack his neighbor. Noy matter what we did, always determined to attack his neighbor. It certainly seems that has been the case for months now. But notice the way that Boris Johnson speaks about this issue with force, with fluency.
Here is the Biden administration envoy of sorts, the Vice President, Kamala Harris, who was sent to prevent exactly this situation that is going on right now. Play clip one, police. So I know you are allies around our country and the world are on Ukraine and Russia's invasion as Ukraine, and I want to be clear that we know and believe that this is a war of choice. It is unprovoked,
it is unwarranted, and it is unjustified. As the President made clear from the beginning, if Russia were to take aggressive action against Ukraine, our response would be swift and certain. And that is in fact what has occurred today. The President outlined the sanctions which are going to have a direct impact on Russia's economy, both in terms of sanctions
and in terms of export controls. Yeah, not exactly the stuff of Winston Churchill, but at least she's not saying we need to do what we have been doing every day and that time is now or whatever it was that she recently said, seems absurd. Why isn't the Biden administration in leading a maximum financial pressure campaign from the get go? Boris Johnson again over at the UK, saying that there will be a remorseless mission to squeeze Russia
out of the global economy. That that is underway. Placlip five Russians stocks are down by as much as forty five percent, wiping two hundred and fifty billion dollars from their value in the biggest one day decline on record. Spare Bank, Russia's biggest lender, is downed by as much as forty five percent, and Gazprone down by as much as thirty nine percent, while the ruble has plummeted to
record lows against the dollar. We will continue on a remorseless mission to squeeze Russia from the global economy, piece by piece, day by day and week by week. That's what will be required here. Will they keep it up? Though? The more financial pressure you put on Russia, the more likely it is that Russia will push and have means of well, honestly, just in bringing that financial pressure there will be cost of the US economy that has been
made clear to us at this phase. But let's understand this is another area where the Biden administration looks clownish, looks absurd, And if you want further proof of it, here's a story for you. The US met with China over three months. This from the New York Times. The US met with China over three months to present intelligence showing Russia's troop build up near Ukraine and to urge Beijing to help avert war. Chinese officials rebuffed the US
and shared the information with Moscow. Wait a second, we were talking to the Chinese, the Biden administrations talking to the Chinese to try to get their help, and instead they didn't do anything to help us, and they shared our sensitive collection about Russian intentions with the Russians. And how much more of a slap in the face a
rebuke could you really expect under the circumstances. Then what has been done to Biden by the Chinese just goes to show you all that stuff about we'll be respected on the world stage again when Biden's president. This is the media chorus, absurd, absurd, and they're acting like we're all idiots. I mean, here's CBS News. Is Margaret Brennan, who's a LIB, but she's a smart LIB, saying that Biden's foreign policy team has already set up a huge
contradiction saying that sanctions weren't meant to stop the invasion. No, that is what they were saying. Play clip ten. I thought that was so interesting when President Biden said, no one expected sanctions to prevent anything. Actually, that's exactly what his foreign policy team said, again and again. It is what his secretary of State said to me on Sunday alone. The purpose is to do everything we can to deter it, to prevent a war, to deter the aggression, and once
you trigger sanctions, you lose the deterrent effect. Vladimir Putin was not deterred. What I heard and how the President laid it out today was that they are now looking for a reassessment by Putin that he's gone this far. If they hit him now, will he stop where he is? Will he stop where he is? What are the ultimate goals of the Russian invasion? That's something that nobody seems to be able to understand in advance, because it depends
on how stiff the Ukrainian resistance is. Right now, you have the Ukrainian president saying he's going to be staying put In Kiev in the capitol city Zelenski. He's going to fight. I mean, this is a guy whose previous role before literally his role before being President of Ukraine was being on a TV show where he played an everyday guy who becomes the President of Ukraine. Talking about life imitating art, he says he's gonna stay and fight
till the end. The Klichko Brothers very famous boxers, multi multi millionaires. One of them is the mayor of Kiev. They say they're going to stay and fight till the end. They're handing out thousands, tens of thousands of rifles to military age males in Ukraine to fight against the Russian invader. And right now the official policy is if you're a male between eighteen and sixty, you are not allowed to leave Ukraine. So they seem to be preparing for a major,
a major and protracted battle against the Russian invaders. Meanwhile, back here in America, who do you think the Libs that love Biden so much, who do you think they're blaming over all this? Who do you think they are turning their ire on at this stage? Well, if you think it's putin, yeah, there's some of that, But it's not the only one. Who are the Libs upset? What
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really helpful, and very efficient for your business. So what are the Libs saying about Republicans right now? They are blaming us for this, that we are on Putin's side. They say, here's Joy Behar, the dumbest person on the View, which might be the dumbest show on TV play seven. Doesn't it scare you that people in the right in this country are on Putin's side? I mean why, I don't understand you. Nothing surprised. What are they making a
lot of money over there? And parallel there to the insurrection, people thought that they could just take the election. And I think that's why you see so many people on the right thinking that this is okay, this is the full of our democracy in the world. Who on the right is supporting Putin? I just want to know one person who's supporting Vladimir Putin. Everyone that I know on the right is saying, I hope the Russians are bloodied
and have a horrible, horrible time with this invasion. And we are rooting for and supporting the Ukrainians in ways that we can that don't involve us doing the fighting for them. The Ukrainians are are the ones that need to do this fight. That's the position of the right. We're not saying don't take economic action against Putin. We're not saying don't send the Ukrainians missiles and munitions. Trump was doing that. We've been doing that. But notice that
they can't handle the reality. They have to lie about it. They have to come up with some excuse where they're the good guys. It's not even just an idiot like Joy Behar, whose I think job is to effectively be an idiot. Here's Hillary Clinton who is saying that there are people giving aid and comfort to Putin in this country.
Play nine. I do think it's important to support both the Ukrainian military and then, depending upon what happens and how quickly events unfold, supporting those who are putting up resistance.
But I want to make another point, which is that we have to also make sure that within our own country, we are calling out those people who are giving aid and comfort to Vladimir Putin, who are talking about what a genius he is, what a smart move it is, who are unfortunately being broadcast by Russian media, not only inside Russia but in Europe to demonstrate the division within our own country. She's referring to the interview that I did with Clay and President Trump older this week. That's
Hillary Clinton. That's what she's doing. She's misrepresenting it. Okay. He says that the move against a doddering buffoon Biden looks like genius because Biden is such an idiot. Trump also said in the same interview, this would never have happened under my watch. I would have he made it very clear to Putin this would not have been acceptable. But they can't. They can't actually deal with what he says.
They can't deal with that reality. Instead, they'd much prefer to create this lie that somehow the right is backing Putin. They go in on Biden's and it's the right's fault. Putin goes in while Biden is president. Oh, it's gonna restore our standing on the world stage. It's absurd, absolutely absurd, and yet they have to come up with something. I
guess they're unwilling to deal with the reality. Here, speaking of unwilling to deal with the reality, the CDC's now saying that they're setting up a low, medium high transmission plus some formula of hospitalization bet capacity. Things like that, a formula for whether mask mandates are recommended or not. This just days before the State of the Union address. Wow, the science changes fast. When the polls demanded huh, it's about the science, they said, total lies, as you know, absurd,
total bullcrap. But they wanted to control us, and they got away with it for a long time. Not everywhere, though, Rhonda Santis in Florida says that they have defeated Faucis and play fifteen. In Florida. We reject the biomedical security state, which erodes liberty, harms livelihoods, and divides our society. And
we not only reject it if it's government. We have done things like band vaccine, passports and mandates because it's unacceptable to simply subcontract out faucium fauccism to big companies. So we've stood for freedom across the board and the result has been. Florida has defeated faucism. Freedom has prevailed in the Sunshine State, and Florida led when it counted. We led early on when the weight of the world was coming bearing down on our shoulders. Florida did it right.
Not all Republican states did it right. Texas was okay. I give a B minus to Governor Abnel on COVID stuff. No, there are other states. Why didn't they ban vaccine passports in South Dakota when they had the chance, because it's big government. I was told no, no, Actually, Florida did it right. Other places did it wrong. And obviously the Democrat enclaves were completely out of their minds on this issue.
But we need to hold them accountable. That means they lose their jobs in government, they lose their jobs as elected leaders. This is critical. They massed up your kids. They just got rid of the outdoor mask mandate in public schools in New York City today. An outdoor masking mandate that's not based on science. That's hysteria, that's pathetic, that's child abuse. I will not let this go. All right,
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