Tucker Carlson, Episode 45: Discussion on Ukraine Funding with Kentucky Cong. Thomas Massie
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Tucker Carlson: [00:00:10] Ever notice how the bigger the tragedy is, the harder it is for the people responsible to apologize. If I rear end your car, increase your bumper. I'm happy to jump out and say I'm sorry. I can't believe I did that. But if I were to say invade Iraq under false pretenses and kill a million people and spend a trillion of your dollars doing it, I wouldn't say a word. I would never admit that was a bad idea. I couldn't. It implicates me too profoundly. The same goes for if I say locked your kids inside for a year and destroy their brains and prevent them from getting an education, or if I say forced you to take up VAX, that didn't work. That very well might have hurt you. I could never admit that I did that. I just couldn't. Because if I admitted it, I'd have to suffer the consequences. Something very much like that is happening with the war in Ukraine, which has been in progress now for almost two years. We were told at the beginning that our support would allow Ukraine to beat Russia and keep Russia from invading the rest of Europe or something. Well, almost two years in, none of that has turned out to be true. Ukraine is not going to beat Russia.
The only person who's been beaten in this is the United States. The US is weaker, measurably weaker because of our support for Ukraine in this war. That's just true. The verdict is in. And honest, rational people admit that no matter what their previous position. But the Biden administration cannot admit that, and neither can the US Congress. And so now there is, believe it or not, an effort in progress to get the US government to send another 60 odd billion dollars to the oligarchs in Ukraine. So another generation of Ukrainian men, this one probably in their 50s, can die in a pointless war on the battlefield. They're not going to win. But the US Congress would like to keep this conflict going anyway. So you'd think someone would stand up and say, this is awful. But almost nobody has. Why? Because the position of the administration is if you're not in favor of this sending other $60 billion to the oligarchs in Ukraine, then you're working for Vladimir Putin. Watch the national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, say that out loud. I want to ask you a question about Ukraine. Do you think that any member of Congress should vote against aid to Ukraine. [00:02:32][142.1]