Tucker Carlson Takes ZELENSKY TO TASK, Prez DISSAPEARS Before Meeting With Senators

Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss President Zelensky’s cancelled address to United States senators on military aid. Originally aired December 6, 2023.

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Ukrainian president Vlad Vladimir zalinsky will no longer attend a scheduled virtual classified briefing where he was set to address United States senators due to a last minute matter according to Senator Chuck Schumer zilinsky also did not appear virtually at the house briefing lawmakers say this comes after zalinsky

Was set to address US senators in a classified briefing via secure video conference to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine and advocate for additional military aid Senator Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced this briefing a day before a Senate vote on a16 billion emergency foreign aid package which includes over 61 billion

Designated for Ukraine Schumer emphasized the importance of senators attending the briefing to hear directly from zalinski about the critical nature of the upcoming vote zalinsky had previously warned senators in a closed door meeting in September about the potential consequence quences for Ukraine without increased us Aid meanwhile the aid package faces delays

Due to disagreements between the parties regarding the inclusion of immigration and Asylum policy reforms aimed at reducing migrant flows across the US Mexico border Tucker Carlson recently discussed the Biden administration’s War spending on his Twitter show let’s watch Biden’s budget director the head of the OM sent a letter yesterday to speaker

Mike Johnson imploring him to spend more money in Ukraine and what they said is they want to revital ize our defense industrial base it’s uh that’s the new acronym di for the mic the military industrial complex and they sent a list of states that would get money when we

Spend uh you know money on deadly Munitions because they have to be manufactured in Alabama or Ohio or Texas and so you know they’re saying the quiet part out loud that congressmen tend to vote for this stuff because a lot of this federal spending that goes to Ukraine is actually laundered back to

The military industrial complex and in some ways not very efficiently but in some ways it enriches people in their districts and the stockholders some of whom are congressmen I you sort of that’s all so grotesque but it’s also straightforward you know people are getting rich so let’s do it okay that’s

An argument it’s an immoral argument but it is one but that’s not the argument they’re making in public they’re saying we have a moral obligation you’re a bad person you just heard the National Security adviser say that a bad person if you’re against this but no one ever

Mentions that we have abetted the killing of an entire generation of Ukrainian men that will not be replaced Tucker Carlson wrote on X how could Washington possibly send tens of billions more to sleazy oligarchs in Ukraine now that the whole Enterprise has been revealed as a fruitless corrupt and Incredibly destructive disaster

Because that’s what they always do uh very eloquently explained there by Thomas Massie who’s been on fire lately you know pointing out that you know some it’s being presented to Congress as a as almost like an improve the economy plan and it is true when you move money from

When you like you know raise taxes to pay for something and then the product is is going to be manufactured you do like make things better for he’s saying that like inefficiently for a couple people for the people who manufacture those weapons but that’s basically just a wealth transfer from the people to

Specific firms and I I guess you could say that’s a positive side effect if the spending in question is is really necessary or really important but of course what we’re calling to attention here is that it doesn’t feel very necessary doesn’t feel likely to work Ukraine is in the position it’s in um

Everyone is starting to gradually acknowledge that this is not a winnable War it’s a stalemate but Russia occupies the territory in question it occupies the territory that it meant to um to wrench out of Ukrainian control I don’t think this is ideal I don’t think in an Ideal World Vladimir Putin’s government

Is is great or should exist but I can’t snap my fingers and make the world magically um suddenly conform to our unrealistic expectations we have to deal with it as it is and as it is it does not seem like Ukraine can possibly win this war it seems in fact that our us

Intelligence knew with relative certainty that they would not be winning this war from the GetGo yeah from the beginning and we’ve been getting more reporting about that recently we now have we covered this about a week or so ago um that a top Ukrainian official and now also Germany’s former leader have

Admitted that Russia wanted to sign this peace deal with Ukraine like a month after the uh Invasion first happened in March of 2022 but it was these NATO the the United States and the UK specifically that sabotaged that deal I mean and also a couple of weeks ago I

Think we covered this as well there was this argument that was made I think in response to how the public was not supportive of additional foreign a dollars going out out the door that hey don’t worry about this Americans This is is actually not money going out the door

It’s going to inur your benefit it’s coming back to America they were trying to sell the idea of the military-industrial complex as a positive job enrichment plan that Americans should be happy about but they have to start asking the question if we’re going to do that kind of socialism

If we’re going to kind of do a a spending plan just to have Americans work and have jobs do we really want to design it so that they are manufacturing weapons of mass of mass killing to be sent to be used and in some cases as as

Being AR in Israel in a way that violates international law or do we want to put people to work doing things that actually benefit our American community and don’t earn us more enemies all across the world yeah this is kind of going to like a fundamental economic

Like the the broken window’s idea under what keynesianism where this the economists say oh you know a broken window is a good thing because then you pay the window repair man to fix it and then he has a little bit more more money in his pocket and he spends it on

Grocery and then the grocer has a little bit more money in his pocket okay but if the window’s just not broken to begin with the person whose window it is has a little bit more money to do those same things to you know to to to improve the

You know to fix his door or to you know u u buy his kid a bike and then the person who sells the bike has a little bit more money and they can do like it happens anyway that’s the economy I mean if the econom is totally dead you need

To you know Kickstart it that’s a different matter but just spending I mean if that were true then we should like blow up all our bridges and then we could you’rea I think your analogy makes a really important point about how many kind of social consequences Community consequences um externalities aren’t

Always captured by these kind of formalized economic arguments there are people who live in these houses who have safety concerns who don’t want to be cold in the winter whose kids don’t want to be cut by the glass on the floor I mean this is obviously just a strain

Anal ology but when you have people making doing the decision- making who are on the very far abstracted side of that equation trying to tally numbers about who what window sales are going to happen this year then you lose sight of the community level effects and I also

Want to say that massie’s point about corporate corruption and corruption in Congress shouldn’t be passed over the number of Congress members who personally benefit from defense uh stocks the fact that the media breathlessly reported on the rise in stock value among uh people who own defense contractor stock as soon as both

The Ukraine uh Russia war broke out and the escalation in Israel Palestine uh broke out it’s a craving admission of how backward our society is I mean when uh Joe Biden was picking his uh cabinet and picked a former rathon board member as a secretary of defense many of us on

The left rung alarm Bells what do we think Lloyd Austin is going to do what do we think his incentives are going to be is he exactly one of those pencil pushers that we were talking about in your analogy who’s looking at these highlevel um numbers on a page instead

Of thinking about how this is going to impact people’s lives and I would remind folks that in response to that critique from the left a lot of liberals said you’re only criticizing him because he’s black so this is the world that we live in one of my favorite um economic uh

Pieces of writing is Frederick bastiat’s the candlemakers petition where they he creates this fictional scenario where uh candlemakers Lobby the French government um he was writing in the 19th century to blot out the sun because that would be the the best job creation program for the candle makers um always great to see

Thomas Massie on with uh with on in conservative media talking to Tucker Carlson uh very interesting conversation there more Rising right after This