On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, Russia has begun the invasion of eastern Ukraine under the pretext that there are two independent Russian provinces along the border. The unrest and guerilla warfare already occurring in these provinces was initiated and funded by the Russians. What if Putin doesn’t stop at Ukraine, and rolls straight through to conquer the Balkans or other areas of eastern Europe? Its clear that our enemies are watching this just as they watched Biden’s failure in Afghanistan. If Putin is not stopped he will drag us all into World War III. Then, Canada continues to threaten protesters with criminal investigations and financial sanctions. The Canadian government is embracing totalitarianism and strengthening itself as a police state. Later, James Carafano from the Heritage Foundation joins the show from Hungary, noting that Putin has slowly amassed a presence in several neighboring states and noted that this incursion will not stop with you Ukraine as this is a long game to regain former soviet states. Carafano says that this aggression is in response to Biden’s weakness and defensive responses instead of taking an offensive posture as Trump did. Afterward, Matt Schlapp Chairman of the American Conservative Union calls in to discuss his new book “The Desecrators: Defeating the Cancel Culture Mob and Reclaiming One Nation Under God.” Schlapp added that conservatives are the largest voting bloc in America and need to act like it.
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Rough transcript of Hour 1
Hour 1 Segment 1
You’re about to learn why does matter what happens in Ukraine? Because Russia is now invading even the way the media, some of our friendlies are reporting is not proper. Russia has created the pretext and has begun the invasion of eastern Ukraine and has in fact mobilized and is moving its tanks and armored personnel carriers into eastern Ukraine under the pretext that there’s two provinces there that Russia recognizes is independent. And basically, given the fact that there’s a large Russian population and maybe the people speak Russian and they have removed a lot of those Russians now and are into Russia, it’s right on the border. And those of you who do know history understand actually this is what Hitler did. This is how he started with the Sudetenland, that there were ethnic Germans and they were being abused and he and he went in there to protect them. It was a matter of ethnicity. And, of course, that was never his his purpose any more than it’s Vladimir Putin’s purpose. Putin has created the unrest in these two provinces, he has funded the militia, funded them in these two provinces. And he has funded the guerrilla warfare in these two provinces. And so he creates the basis for his own actions. Now, I do notice some of our friends at Fox are, in fact, picking up on some of the things I’ve mentioned, and that’s very important. Including 1994, when Ukraine was forced by the United States, Britain and Russia in exchange for security protections and recognition. To give up its nuclear weapons and if you’ve been listening to this program over the last several months, this is a key point I’ve been making about the Bucharest memorandum. And that if Ukraine had any of those nuclear warheads still, that this wouldn’t be happening. Let that be a lesson on the nuclear freeze movement and so forth and other appeasements, you’ve had people, friend and foe alike, on radio and TV, the neo appeasers in the flat out appeasers telling you that really it’s our fault. That we don’t want another war and we don’t want to send any troops in. Nobody said we should send troops into Ukraine. Can anybody name a single serious politician who has said so? I can’t think of one. But I have a different question. What if Putin begins to roll through Ukraine and he decides to enter the Balkans? That’s still none of our business, what are we going to do then? What are we going to do then? How about the western border? Of Ukraine. How about Bosnia? And Serbia. That alone, Eastern Europe. We’re going to send in American troops then this is why you don’t allow a situation to reach this level. Now, Mark, what could we have done? We could have loaded up Ukraine not just with defensive weaponry, but offensive weaponry. People are talking about the price. That Russia will have to pay well, of course, to pay a price, but it won’t pay as big of a price as it should have paid. To dissuade it. From doing what it’s begun to do. And you think it matters what’s going on with Ukraine, as in communist China? He thinks it matters. He’s got both of his eyeballs glued to this situation. Yes, the Islama Nazi regime in Tehran, if they think it’s important what happens in Ukraine. They have their eyeballs glued to this situation to see North Korea rocket man, what he thinks. The world is a gravely dangerous place, much more gravely dangerous than it was before Joe Biden became president of the United States. Afghanistan was the big issue. When they saw the withdrawal, the surrender in Afghanistan, we all knew it. But it led up to Afghanistan when he kowtowed to Russia on two other fronts, they wanted to get out of a nuclear arms deal and he let them get out of it. And then, of course, as you know, we open that pipeline not just to Germany, but all of Europe is now dependent. On fuel from Russia now, how insane was that so committed as Joe Biden? They’re destroying the American fossil fuel industry, that he shuts off our pipes and turns on theirs. It’s really unbelievable. The time to move U.S. troops was to move them months ago, not into Ukraine, but yes, indeed, NATO nations. And the NATO nations had a bigger number in order to ensure that Putin won’t move any further than he and he might and drag us into a world war, see the people, the phony colonels that are cherry picked and the other people who go on radio and TV and go on and on about Russia’s sphere of influence and everything. You heard it today from Putin. You heard it today from Putin, right, Mr. Producer? Right. Mr. Corkscrewed. What did he say? Ukraine effectively belongs to Russia, did he not say that? They did not say that. That the leaders of Russia, the Soviet Union, let down the Russian people because they let all these countries go, did he not effectively say that? Yes, he did. And we’ve been talking about this, you don’t have to be a mind reader, you don’t have to be. Nostradamus knows what goes through a KGB guy’s head. And when he sees the fecklessness and weakness of not just the president, the secretary of state secretary to they’re running all over the place, they go on American media, the secretary of state, the National Sea, and they talk to us. We don’t. We’re not the ones invading. But as I said three weeks ago on life, liberty and liberty, and as I’ve said time and again on live in TV, this administration is not prepared, the American people for this other than to say we expect them to invade this day, that day, another time and so forth and so on. But then there are the the people, the third parties, surrogates from one ideology or another. To talk about. To talk about, well, they said we would invade, wed, look how they were wrong, what who cares if it’s Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, if it’s 12 o’clock, three o’clock, what? What’s the difference? Doesn’t prove anything. Stop defending Putin, stop defending Russia. What kind of minds are these kind of perversion is this? We’ll focus on China, they want world domination, no, the real enemy. Oh, OK, so only focus on China. What do you think China is focusing on Ukraine? They’re watching now because depending on what happens there, ladies and gentlemen, I have a little bit of news for you. It’s not news on this program, actually. They’re going to invade Taiwan. And Israel was just told by the Biden administration, basically, butt out, we’re cutting a deal with the Iranians, don’t screw up like he did last time and side against the Obama Biden administration. You folks need to recall the people who are negotiating this deal with the Iranians. We’re involved in negotiating their first deal with the Iranians. Same administration. Just flip the president. Obama, now Biden. And our ambassador to Israel just announced he’d be happy to meet with settlers, but not in Judea and Samaria, not in the indigenous homes of the Jewish people there. He won’t meet with them, sending another message to Hamas that Hezbollah. And to Iran, message is being sent all wrong all over the world. All over the world. So, yes, it does matter, this invasion of Ukraine and yes, it could spread to other countries. And as we’ve talked about you and me for four years here, really? For years here, really. Our enemies were rooting for Biden enemies, foreign and domestic, they got who they wanted, the press got who they wanted. The academicians got who they wanted. The Washington establishment and bureaucrats got who they wanted. The rhinos are never Trump has got who they wanted. G Putin honor and the rest got who they wanted. By hook or by crook, they got their man. The American media. Really quite disgusting. So Putin signs to decrease hours ago. Recognizing these, quote unquote, breakaway territories in eastern Ukraine, if Ukraine dares to defend its people and dares to defend its territory, that will be the pretext Putin uses to attack. Kiev, or as they call it now, Kiev, this is a big city, ladies and gentlemen, with millions of people. This is not a joke. And they are targeting their bombers, their fighter jets, their missiles, their 500 battle tanks. Ultimately on Kiev, I’ll call a Kiev I used to call Kiev and I’ll continue to call a Kiev. More when I return
Hour 1 Segment 2
We actually have a movement in this country now coming out of our universities as prize their. Trying to. Reverse. A Trump administration policy that was aimed at targeting and has been targeting espionage against our technology and our private sector by the communist Chinese regime, and the Bush administration is not considering reversing course as a way to appease China. And try and convince China to stop cheering on Russia. Think about this. China views us as the enemy, Russia views us as the enemy, Iran views us as the enemy. North Korea views us as the enemy. But we don’t even talk in those terms, we don’t view them as, hey, if you’re opposed to Russia, that must mean you like China or you can’t you can’t focus on two potential enemies or adversaries at the same time. And look at Iran, you know, they’re going to get the nuclear deal. So we got to we got to cut a deal with them. They’re not going to follow anything. They never have any more than the communist Chinese did with Hong Kong any more than the Russians did with the nuke deal involving Ukraine. I mean, what is this any more than the North Koreans did as we continue to allow them to build and build them? But we removed our nuclear missiles. From South Korea on the promise that North Korea wouldn’t build nukes, both parties and North Korea has build nuclear missiles and South Korea has no nukes. We pressured the Ukrainians into giving up their nukes after the fall of Ukraine. During the Clinton administration, I’ve talked about this, they gave up their nukes. Now look what’s happening to Ukraine. So Ukraine doesn’t have nukes, South Korea doesn’t have nukes, North Korea does have nukes. A deal was cut with the Iranians that literally would help them fund terrorism, the growth of conventional weapons exploded. MIRVs, that is, I should say, intercontinental ballistic missiles made it impossible to oversee. Bob Corker writes the law that makes it possible that Obama to get this through the Senate without a treaty. Joined by Ben Sasse and others, by the way, that’s when I had it with SAS, when he called me and started lobbying me on behalf of Bob Corker, what a puch. And then he pretends he’s the principal one out there. But in any event. That’s where we are. So now we’re to trust them. Trust us. People say America first, OK, let’s do it. Appeasement sell out. That’s not America first, that’s America last, pretending Russia invading Ukraine is of no consequence to the United States like JD Vance and others do, is absurd. It’s not. The rest of the world looks at this, particularly our enemies and our allies. Shakes up the whole board. And if Russia thinks they have a head of steam and nobody’s going to stop them, that’s when you have to worry about a world war Ukraine in of itself. No, but beyond. Yes. It’s really quite bizarre. They hear how people respond to this and they bring in these these bizarre. Military men, you know, there’s millions of people in this country served in the military, but for some reason they find the same three or four are out of their minds. And of course, this will affect you on a different note, financially and economically, because the price of fuel is going to go way up, your pensions are going to be clearly affected by a drop in the stock market. I go on and on and on the weakening of the dollar. Of course, it’s going to affect you’re going to give Biden the opportunity to blame the Russians in the pandemic rather than the two brain cells he tries to rub together three times a day. No question about that. Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable. Don’t worry, I’m going to get the Trudeau. Trudeau is a Marxist fascist pig, 20 years. In any police officers who comply with this, particularly at the senior level like this Ottawa police chief that says even if things have settled and they have, we’re going to track down people, we’re going to close their bank accounts they need to wear. Brown shirts and shiny, polished black boots. Because when they talk like this and act like that’s that’s what they remind me of. And speaking of, Putin has used essentially the argument that Hitler did to go into the Sudetenland area. What’s the big deal? I mean, there’s a lot of Germans there after all. Unbelievable. No, no, no. I guess I’m wrong. It’s the neocons direct the neocons, whatever that means. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 3
This is one reason you’ve got to build the United States military up under all in any circumstances. This is one reason you do not take away forward basis. This is one reason you do not withdraw from NATO. Many of you have a father or a grandfather, some, although a rare number, have a mother or a grandmother. Who fought in World War two? And he fought in Europe. Some of whom didn’t return. Some of whom were terrible casualties, some of whom did return, we honor them, we finally built a monument to them. There’s not many left. Those in my family who fought World War Two, they’re gone. Including my grandfather and my great uncle. Among others. They’re gone. What do you think they would say? The men and women who actually spilled blood in Europe. During World War Two, what do you think they would say? To the isolationists in our own country, to the appeasers in our own country. Don’t worry, just give up all the land to the Russians. What’s the big deal? We don’t have a foothold in Europe to protect us, too many men died and suffered. To claw our way into Europe in order to defeat Germany. And first, to defeat Italy. We have allies over there, people point to Afghanistan as ifI. We left a lot of our friends and 9000 American citizens there, this is still sickening, it still makes you want to throw up. Take Afghanistan and multiply it by tens of thousands. Leading up to World War Two, we had a similar mentality, we had the isolationists, we had the appeasers. In fact, they went as far to say, what does Europe have to do with us, forget about Ukraine, what is Europe have to do with us? The hell do we care what happens to Britain and France and all the rest of it so far away can’t affect us? That’s when Roosevelt came up with Lend Lease because Churchill was begging him for resources and support. So he comes up with this illegal Lend Lease, which is really a way to try and get them some arms. Then Churchill’s begging the United States, please come in, in the war on our side, you’re going to be in this war at some point. Churchill was a genius, obviously. And geniuses aren’t always right, they’re quite imperfect, but he was a genius and he said, you’re going to get in on this, you’re going to have no choice. They’re not going to leave the great United States alone, you know, and of course, they did. So we wait for these countries to build up these massive military machines while we undermine what critical race theory and other B.S.. Sex operations and who the hell knows what? With the falls and the phoneys and the fraud to. Insinuate themselves every aspect of our government, our society, and and impose their will on the rest of us. But you heard Putin today, is there any doubt in anybody’s head? That from his perspective, Ukraine is just one of many. One of many. And we all knew this and he was furious with what happened in the Soviet Union. Which is why from his perspective, he stepped into the breach. In order to take over the country from what he thought were these buffoons. And he blackmail them. And he promised not to prosecute them, he promised to keep them wealthy, which was fine by them, and he took the country over. He dislodged any major politician who was a challenge, he dislodged major politicians who are running various cities, put in his own puppets. He sent to prison these huge industrialists who picked up on our capitalist system, sent him to prison where some of them still languish and had others executed. He basically took over the media again, over two dozen journalists were killed suspiciously, of course. And he would track down his most outspoken opponents, whether they were in London or anywhere else, and he’d have been poisoned, as you well know. And we have people in this country who are putting files, Ruso files, look, most of my ancestress Russian, what does that have to do with anything? Nothing. They had to get the hell out of there, they wouldn’t have survived. Like most of our ancestors who could do so voluntarily, had to get the hell out of the countries they’re from, even though we romanticize them. But at most, I wouldn’t be here. I’m not talking about slaves were captured and brought here. I’m talking about people who voluntarily came here. And most of us, whether we came here voluntarily or not, would one would not want to go back. To the same circumstances, I can’t imagine, but that’s beside the point. You know, it’s just an amazing thing. To watch and listen to the George McGovern left. And the isolationist appeasement, right? Remember, we’re somewhere in the middle where constitutionalists were constitutional conservatives. We don’t fit neatly on this right left thing because we’re not right left, that’s the ideologues, we’re not ideologues, we’re prudential. We do believe in principles and philosophy, but we’re not ideologues. Quite different. You can look it up. You know what I’m talking about. So I will be keeping both eyes. One good one. One sort of good one on what’s going on, you’ll be getting my perspective, which is not the perspective of many now in the media and in the Republican Party. But it is my perspective. Perspective, a man who believes in this country, who believes in the superiority of this country, who believes our United States military must be supported every step of the way, who believes that this can get out of control of Russia, China and the others? And that putting your head in the dirt. And being an ostrich. Ain’t going to fix a damn thing when the enemy’s on the move. And as I’ve said to you many times. They’re not building hypersonic weapons for Ukraine or Taiwan or South Korea. Even the Gulf states that building it for us to elude our defense systems, to take out our grid. They are poised with offensive military capacity to defeat us. The Chinese economy 30 years ago was considered a joke. It’s about 70, 80 percent of the size, not the American economy, much of it stolen right out of our industries. If we only had a real press in this country. If he only had a real. College and university system in this country with real professors. Rather than these Marxists and other. Reprobates. We really had a serious, strong two party system with both parties outdoing one another for which party can. Best advance the cause of liberty and constitutionalism and capitalism steadily, one party that has as its mission to destroy them and the other that has as its mission, self survival of the people who run it. Pretty much. Pretty much. We’re soon going to turn to Canada. I know Canada. You’re going to hear the words of a Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland, the deputy, you’re going to hear Steve Bell, the Iowa police chief, you’re going to hear people like this. You’re going to hear Jim Watson, the Ottawa mayor who wants to keep and sell the confiscated trucks and equipment that they took from these truckers. And if this doesn’t remind you of the 1930s, I’m quite serious, I don’t know what does. People in jail for organizing, people in jail for speech. I hear one of my colleagues say. How do I know, because people tell me. But look at all the inconvenience these people have caused, they’ve created inconvenience even for people who manufacture automobiles and put them at the same people who defended the bureaucrats in our own government for shutting down one industry after another. Millions of people out of work, millions shuttering, hundreds of thousands of business, especially small businesses. Shutting down religious institutions, shutting down gun shops, wide open abortion clinics. Who abused and politicized the fact of the virus? To destroy our economy. And to spend trillions of dollars instead. A money that hadn’t even been earned yet. Turning our system upside down. They had no problem with that, but the truckers are inconveniencing people, you see. So they’re taking their finances. They’ve nationalized their accounts. They’re tracking them. It’s like a social credit system in communist China being applied in Canada, but in real time in ways that even communist China doesn’t apply. Communist China’s learning from Canada. Russia is learning from Canada. Justin Trudeau. What a punk. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 4
In the midst of all this heat blast, not the most of you care, but what the hell? I have now formally shifted my residence to the state of Florida from Virginia. Now, I’m going to be going back and forth we are from. Florida to Virginia, I’m not giving up my Virginia home. But I’ll be spending more days in the year in Florida than in Virginia, wanted to make sure I was in Virginia to vote the last time around. We have a Republican government in Virginia now, which I am very proud, they’re actually doing very solid things. And of course, you know, the situation in Florida with the Santurce, who’s really to me. The number one governor in the country not to offend anybody, but there you go, give me my my opinion. But. Then I’m tired, I’m tired of these battles, you know, my view is. I don’t mind paying taxes. God knows I pay a tremendous amount of tax, tremendous. But I’m not going to pay to subsidize Democrat rule over me the degradation of my liberties. I’m just not going to do it. And we have a very. Remarkable system in this country, we’re very lucky for now and I say for now, because there’s efforts to change it. And that is. This 50 state thing is very important. Which is why the Democrats were at war with it. And so that’s that a lot a lot is going to be changing or not in the course of the next 12 months, folks. With my various media platforms. And. I’m very positive. In that respect about how things are going and how they will go. But you never know what I do know. Is that you and I have a special relationship, whether it’s over orange juice cans or. Digital TV or cable TV or books or whatever it is. You and I, our relationship will last forever. Because Rush was right, we’re here for the audience. Everything else is the bureaucracy in between. And that’s so true. It’s so very true. You look at the situation in Canada now. And I told you really the first to tell you that it is now officially a totalitarian regime. People have given it other names they can give whatever name they want. Canada is now a totalitarian regime. And it makes me sick to my stomach to watch what’s happening to those truckers. And what’s going to continue to happen to those truckers, this is stuff of the Stalinist mentality, it’s like the January six committee, which is really focused on Trump and not what happened. You can see that kind of Stalinist mentality flowing into our country, it’s flowing, flowing into the the likes of a King Czinger and a Cheney and that commission, so-called are committee. You notice you haven’t seen Larry Hogan. The Republican governor of Maryland who wants to be president of the United States, he’s not going to be president of the. Of the of the of anything. He’s not going to be president. Everything is a pathetic joke. Spent his entire career trying to figure out how to accommodate the Democrats. In an overwhelmingly Democrat state, we don’t need that. As he promotes his own personality and politics. He’s not spoken out one word about people who have been offended, excuse me, who’ve been mistreated by. By the prosecutors in Washington, D.C., violating their due process rights, not a word. Nothing. So we have these elements in the Republican Party to clearly the Democrat Party being the Marxist party that it is, but we have these elements within the Democratic Party, within the Republican Party to. People who embrace. The American Marxist movement on the fringes. In and of themselves, they’re not part of it, but they give it aid and comfort, they breathe life into it. I mean, when you asked McConnell what he would do if he takes over the Senate and he says, you know, I want to meet the other side halfway and figure out what kind of centrist bipartisan decisions we can make, they look at him the way Putin looks at Biden. There’s a sucker. We’re going to roll this guy. Really quite chilling to think about it while he spends an enormous amount of money. Dark money trying to defeat conservatives in Republican primaries. By the way. Beginning at the top of the next hour, hour two, we’re going to focus like a laser again on Canada. We are heard throughout Canada. We have individuals in the United States who are blaming people like me and me in particular for what’s going on in Canada, I don’t know what’s wrong with these clowns, like the listening to Mark Levin in Ottawa. No, I hope they are. But that’s not what’s going on. They try to personalize this like a. No, no, no. This is a bottom up grassroots movement. I’ll be right back.