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“Kevin McCarthy compares Putin and war in Ukraine to Hitler and 1930s”, Oct. 3, 2023
“Kevin McCarthy compares Putin and war in Ukraine to Hitler and 1930s” https://youtu.be/_CrwiivOI3k
Unofficial Transcript corrected against video:
“LOOK I SUPPORT ARMING UKRAINE, THAT DOES NOT MEAN SENDING THEM CASH BUT ARMING UKRAINE. BUT I HAVE BEEN ON THE WHITE HOUSE EVEN BEFORE THEY SENT THE SUPPLEMENTAL, I SAID YOU GUYS ARE DOING IT ALL WRONG BY JUST SENDING US THIS AS A SUPPLEMENTAL.
AND, I THINK THE PRESIDENT IS FAILING HERE BECAUSE HE IS NOT TELLING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WHAT IS THE MISSION. WE HAVE A LOT OF MEMBERS WHO ARE NAVY SEALS WHO HAVE BEEN IN THEATER AND F-18 PILOTS, AND THEY ARE FRUSTRATED. THEY WANT TO SUPPORT BUT THEY DON’T WANT TO SUPPORT AN EVER-ENDING WAR, THEY WANT TO SEE WHAT IS GOING ON HERE. I HAVE REALLY BEEN ON THE WHITE HOUSE, YOU’VE GOT TO COME DOWN AND TALK TO THEM BUT YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO THEM AND THE PROSPECTS.
I’M REALLY CONCERNED THE LONG TERM – WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND LOOKS A LOT LIKE THE 1930s. A LOT OF ACTIONS THAT PUTIN TAKES IS VERY SIMILAR TO HITLER.
IF YOU ARE HISTORY BUFFS, YOU WILL KNOW HITLER SERVED IN THE WORLD WAR I ARMY. RIGHTS? HE HATED THAT HIS COUNTRY COLLAPSED AND THEY SIGNED THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES.
AND WHAT DID HE DO?
HE RAN AND CREATED A NEW PARTY AND RAN IN A DEMOCRACY AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN UNTIL HE WON.
WHEN HE WON, WHAT DID HE DO? HE TOOK THE FREEDOMS AWAY.
AND THEN HE REBUILT HIS MILITARY AND EVEN THOUGH IT WENT AGAINST THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES, THE WORLD POWERS SAID NOTHING.
THEN WHAT DID HE DO?
HE TOOK PART OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA.
HE TOOK AUSTRIA.
THEN HE TOLD THE ENTIRE WORLD THAT HE WAS GOING TO TAKE THE REST OF IT ON A GIVEN DAY.
SO NOW THE WORLD POWERS COULD NOT SIT BACK SO IN COMES NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN.
WHAT HAD HAPPENED?
BUT HITLER LOVED IT BECAUSE HE WAS EQUAL NOW TO THE WORLD POWERS BUT HE SAW WEAKNESS.
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN MADE HIM SIGN A PIECE OF PAPER, AND TOLD US PEACE FOR OUR TIME AND THEN HE INVADED POLAND THE NEXT YEAR AND WORLD WAR II BEGAN.
IF YOU STUDY PUTIN, PUTIN DID NOT SERVE IN THE SOVIET UNION ARMY BUT HE SERVED IN THE KGB.
HE HATED THAT HIS COUNTRY COLLAPSED TO THE WEST.
HE HATED IT SO MUCH, WHEN GORBACHEV DIED HE STILL DID NOT ATTEND THE FUNERAL.
WHAT HE DID?
HE REBUILT HIS MILITARY.
BUT HE LEARNED SOMETHING. A MILITARY MAKES YOU STRONG BUT DEPENDENCY MAKES YOU WEAK.
HE REBUILT IT BY SELLING HIS NATURAL GAS TO EUROPE. BUT WHEN HIS PIPELINE THAT WENT THROUGH UKRAINE, WHEN THEY CHANGED POWER HE DID NOT WANT TO PAY SO HE PROPOSED A NEW PIPELINE, NORD STREAM 2.
EVERYBODY LOVED IT,
AMERICA AT LEAST SANCTIONED IT,
MERKEL SAID GREAT.
WHAT DID HE DO WHEN HE REBUILT HIS MILITARY?
INVADED GEORGIA, TOOK PART OF THE DONBAS TOOK CRIMEA.
AND THE WORLD POWERS REALLY DID NOT SAY MUCH.
BUT THEN WHEN HE PARKED 100,000 TROOPS ON THE BORDER OF UKRAINE AND AFTER HE WATCHED AFGHANISTAN COLLAPSE, THAT IS GOING TO GIVE US CHALLENGES FOR THE NEXT TWO DECADES.
HE GOT HIS MEETING WITH THE WORLD POWERS.
SO, IN COMES BIDEN AND WHAT DOES BIDEN DO?
HE LIFTS THE SANCTIONS OFF OF NORD STREAM 2 BUT ASKS NOTHING FOR IT. PUTIN MISREADS THAT AND INVADES UKRAINE THINKING IT WOULD COLLAPSE IN TWO WEEKS BASED UPON AFGHANISTAN.
BUT NOW WE HAVE SOMETHING EVEN WORSE THAT IS HAPPENING IN THE 1930s.
BEFORE HITLER MOVED, HE CREATED AN AXIS OF POWER WITH ITALY AND JAPAN. ALL COUNTRIES WHO WANT TO EXPAND THEIR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE.
BEFORE PUTIN INVADED AFGHANISTAN, WHAT DID HE DO?
HE CREATED AXIS OF POWER WITH CHINA, NORTH KOREA, AND IRAN,
ALL COUNTRIES WHO WANT TO EXPAND THEIR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE.
SO WHAT WE DO HERE IS VERY IMPORTANT.
WE CAN’T SIT THERE AND JUST COLLAPSE IT BECAUSE LOOK WHAT HAPPENED
TO AFGHANISTAN. WE CAN’T JUST THROW MONEY AT IT.
IF WE PROVIDE THE WEAPONS TO BE SUCCESSFUL. BUT WHY IT IS SO MUCH PERSONAL TO ME, IN 2014 OR 2015 WHEN PUTIN INVADED THE FIRST TIME, I WENT TO UKRAINE. AND, THEN I CAME BACK.
AND, I TOOK A BIPARTISAN GROUP AND WE WENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND WE SAT IN THE SITUATION ROOM WITH THEN THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF UKRAINE, JOE BIDEN.
AND WE ADVOCATED, LET’S SELL THEM [UKRAINE] JAVELINS SO THEY CAN STOP TANKS. SO THEY [RUSSIA] WOULD NOT INVADE.
HE SAID NO. HE SAID EUROPEANS WOULD NOT WANT.
AND I SAID WHY DON’T WE SELL THEM TO THEM NOW AND KEEP THEM IN POLAND. HE DID NOT THINK THAT WAS RIGHT.
I FEAR OF MAKING THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE. AND, SENDING THE WRONG MESSAGES. BUT THE THING I WOULD TELL EVERYBODY, MORE AMERICANS ARE DYING ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER THAN ARE DYING IN UKRAINE. EACH AND EVERY DAY, A PLANE OF AMERICANS CRASH FROM FENTANYL. AND, I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW THE WHITE HOUSE CONTINUES TO IGNORE IT. MY WHOLE PLAN, I’VE BEEN UP FRONT FROM THE BEGINNING, WHEN I WOULD SAY, IF YOU WANT ANYTHING ON UKRAINE WE’VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING WITH THE BORDER”. https://youtu.be/_CrwiivOI3k
Disclaimer: The transcript may not be exact, i.e. no guarantees. Only the video original is the original. And, it’s not really clear what McCarthy said in one spot but the transcript said: “because look what happened to Afghanistan.” The YouTube transcript appears to be using some sort of AI because it puts in words that may be logical but don’t remotely resemble what he actually said. So, it was corrected to the best of my ability, listening and re-listening to McCarthy at 75% speed. He also has issues with failing to put “s” on the ends of some of his words, which is historically associated with African American English dialects. McCarthy’s mother is Italian-American. He grew up in Bakersfield California which had a lot of immigration from Texas and Louisiana starting ca 1890, so the loss of plural “s” could have entered from there. The Texas-Louisiana Cajun dialect would have a silent “s” on the end, as well. He tends to say World Power for World Powers, for instance. He also says “in come Biden” instead of “in comes Biden”. In French power (pouvoir) and powers (pouvoirs) would be pronounced the same. However, Bakersfield is highly Spanish speaking so it’s almost certainly based on a Spanish dialect transposed into English. The loss of “s” was mostly corrected in the transcript.
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Related: “Breaking News: Speaker McCarthy is out. Bad news for #ukraine Ukraine” https://youtu.be/6pdC3D4GjwA
It’s really too late for McCarthy to be looking that far backwards. However, Tony Blinken should be investigated-removed as US Sec. of State. It’s possible that he changed but who knows?
Biden Sec. of State Tony Blinken is the one who waived the US Congressionally mandated sanctions against Nord Stream 2. VP Biden’s response about the javelins seems to mirror Tony Blinken’s senior thesis/book “ALLY VERSUS ALLY: AMERICA, EUROPE, AND THE SIBERIAN PIPELINE CRISIS” on the earlier Soviet pipeline, which the Reagan administration temporarily sanctioned in 1982, due to the abuses of the Soviets in Poland. The Europeans wanted that cheap energy and they acted irrationally angry and anti-American. It was this Reagan’s National Security advisor, Judge Clark, who was trying to protect Poland and sanction the pipeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Clark_Jr.
From January 20, 2013 – January 9, 2015, Blinken was the US Deputy National Security Advisor. From January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2013, Blinken was the National Security Advisor to the Vice President of he United States, Joe Biden. He was succeeded in that role by Jake Sullivan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Blinken
Jake Sullivan was National Security Advisor to VP Biden from February 26, 2013 – August 1, 2014. Jake Sullivan is currently President Biden’s National Security Advisor since January 20, 2021. During the Obama Administration, Jake Sullivan “played a role in shaping U.S. foreign policy towards Libya, Syria, and Myanmar”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Sullivan
A 1988 critique of Blinken’s book by Patrick J. DeSouza states that: “writing about the response of the Western alliance to the Soviet Pipeline crisis, one would expect a chapter exploring theoretical questions about the geopolitical interests of the alliance vis-a-vis the Soviet Union… Blinken does not develop this theoretical analysis. He spends a great deal of time setting out the internal divisions within the Western alliance and not enough on how these divisions relate to the common goal of a preferred public order that the alliance was designed to achieve.” See: “Review Essay- For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Soviet Gas Pipeline Crisis and the Making of International Law ALLY VERSUS ALLY: AMERICA, EUROPE, AND THE SIBERIAN PIPELINE CRISIS” By Antony J. Blinken. New York and Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers-Greenwood Press, 1987. Pp. x, 193., Yale J of International Law, Vol. 13:199, 1988 https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1520&context=yjil
Related posts dealing with the relationships between Blinken, his stepfather, Sam Pisar, and Russia-the USSR;
“Breaking News: Speaker McCarthy is out. Bad news for #ukraine Ukraine” https://youtu.be/6pdC3D4GjwA
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