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Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday to you. Always extra special on Tuesday because
Speaker 1: at this time we get to talk to Daniel Davis
Speaker 1: for the Daniel Davis Deep Dive. You can find the podcast.
Speaker 1: Just search for it. You'll run into it. Retired Lieutenant
Speaker 1: Colonel Daniel Davis, Welcome back to the Morning Show, my friend.
Speaker 1: I've been looking forward to this one extra special since
Speaker 1: the breakdown on Friday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, was there something that happened? Maybe I missed it.
Speaker 2: I years under a rock and maybe I still hurt something.
Speaker 2: You know, I just have to observe.
Speaker 1: From a political perspective, when did the Democrats become the
Speaker 1: party of war? This is kind of a strange political
Speaker 1: twist that we had.
Speaker 4: You know, you used to see, you know, all the
Speaker 4: Vietnam pachests and all the get piece of chance, and
Speaker 4: now they're the ones that first of all the last
Speaker 4: four years, that's all they wanted to do was fund war.
Speaker 4: And now then they're mad at the Republicans for not
Speaker 4: doing yet more war.
Speaker 2: So it's a bit of a head scratcher.
Speaker 1: I often wonder that, well, I maybe they're trying to
Speaker 1: hide something I had my last guest in studio. We're
Speaker 1: talking about this and Ukraine, hotbed of corruption and money laundering,
Speaker 1: and maybe there's some suggestion that I don't know, they
Speaker 1: don't want to have revealed what might be revealed, but
Speaker 1: we won't speculate on that today. Let's talk about the
Speaker 1: deteriorating situation. Donald Trump just said he's cutting off funding.
Speaker 1: There was supposed to be a mineral deal sign which
Speaker 1: would have benefited both Ukraine and the United States mutual
Speaker 1: financial benefit there. If those minerals are extracted, of course
Speaker 1: the Ukrainian people are going to have jobs and money,
Speaker 1: and we, of course, by investing in it, are going
Speaker 1: to have get some money and maybe bring some stability
Speaker 1: to the region. It at least put American interest in Ukraine,
Speaker 1: which usually serves as a mechanism to require defense of
Speaker 1: American interest if they get attacked see anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1: So all the incentive in the world to do this,
Speaker 1: and it looked like he was going to sign on
Speaker 1: to it. All the indications were that he was. But
Speaker 1: what happened, he didn't do it, and he got kind
Speaker 1: of feisty with with the bit the hand that.
Speaker 4: Feeds him, you know more than just a little puzzling.
Speaker 4: There was an outright agreement had already been reached, and
Speaker 4: that's why they all had up that set up the
Speaker 4: big tables, the signing tables, and the deal after this
Speaker 4: meeting was supposed to have taken place. It was agreed
Speaker 4: to by everybody. And I really think that National Security
Speaker 4: Advisor Mike Wallas put it best the next morning when
Speaker 4: he said, listen, we got to ask does Zelenski even
Speaker 4: want peace? Because it doesn't look like and if you
Speaker 4: go by what people do rather than just what they say,
Speaker 4: it's it seems to me crystal clear that Volodimir Zelensky
Speaker 4: did not want to sign that deal because he did
Speaker 4: not want it to move in the direction of peace.
Speaker 4: He wants to keep fighting because and I'm just I
Speaker 4: honestly believe this. I think he his brain has become
Speaker 4: deluded to the point he can no longer see reality,
Speaker 4: and he still has these delusions of thinking he can
Speaker 4: win the war if I just get a little more stuff.
Speaker 4: And so he's going to sabotage any chance for peace
Speaker 4: and then go to a very friendly Europe and say, yeah,
Speaker 4: keep giving me more stuff. And honestly, what the Europeans
Speaker 4: are doing is the equivalent, in my view of a
Speaker 4: guy who's a cokehead crack on living on the street,
Speaker 4: shooting up heroin whatever and saying, oh, you, poor guy,
Speaker 4: here's more drugs. All that's gonna do is get him killed.
Speaker 4: It's not gonna help him. That's not what he needs
Speaker 4: right now, it's not what his people need. But I
Speaker 4: think that that's where he's wanting to go, and it
Speaker 4: looks like President Trump is not willing to go there.
Speaker 1: Well, and I certainly understand that. Last time I check
Speaker 1: Daniel Davis, we're broke, you know. I mean, we keep
Speaker 1: digging ourselves in a bigger, bigger hole. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: in a death spiral here shortly with our currency. But
Speaker 1: I don't want to get into broader problems like that.
Speaker 1: But Brian, you look, I think that's a big point.
Speaker 4: I want to go on that we are already cutting
Speaker 4: hundreds of thousands of government positions because we are in
Speaker 4: this big deficit spending. That's why he's cutting all this stuff,
Speaker 4: in addition to some inefficiencies, but also we just don't
Speaker 4: have the money. Now, what sense does it make to
Speaker 4: say we're gonna cut American jobs and then get money
Speaker 4: indefinitely for somebody else to fight a war that can't
Speaker 4: be won. He's not gonna do that because he really
Speaker 4: does want to cut spending and sees where things aren't
Speaker 4: working well.
Speaker 1: Back to Zelensky's delusions. Is he not aware of the
Speaker 1: stacks and stacks of bodies of his people that are
Speaker 1: piling up and that he's running out of in order
Speaker 1: to continue to fight that war?
Speaker 2: He is delusional on that.
Speaker 4: He's either oblivious to it or he's just convinced himself.
Speaker 4: And I hate to make these analogies, but there is
Speaker 4: some consideration to Hitler in the last days. You remember
Speaker 4: that when the Red Army was rolling in towards Berlin
Speaker 4: and he just would not stop, and he kept giving
Speaker 4: orders to non existent divisions to block this and to
Speaker 4: penetrate here, and it was all just delusion and he
Speaker 4: could see well around him it wasn't true, but he
Speaker 4: kept going. And I think Zelenski's in a similar spiraling
Speaker 4: dynamic right now, and it's going to take somebody from
Speaker 4: the outside, President Trump to cut.
Speaker 1: That off well, and most notably another parallel can be drawn.
Speaker 1: I guess they're going to start recruiting twelve year olds
Speaker 1: to fight the war like the Nazis did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean there are some thought right now
Speaker 4: to drop the age down to eighteen, which has parents
Speaker 4: panicked all over the country. And I've got some reports
Speaker 4: from inside Kiev saying that there is a mass Acctidust
Speaker 4: where people are literally risking their lives to get their
Speaker 4: kids out of fearing that that is coming.
Speaker 1: Well, is this maybe in part a face saving measure
Speaker 1: because I knows LUNSI doesn't want to see any territory,
Speaker 1: which you and I both know in order to resolve
Speaker 1: this conflict that's going to have to happen.
Speaker 4: Well, it's more than that. It's not just you're going
Speaker 4: to have to see territory ended. The territory is gone
Speaker 4: past tense. The question is are you going to continue
Speaker 4: to hold out for something better and lose more land?
Speaker 4: That's what this is about. Is it here or is
Speaker 4: it going to be much further to the west. Because
Speaker 4: there's an Austrian Colonel Marcus Reisner did a piece video
Speaker 4: a week or so ago, one of the absolute best
Speaker 4: analysts in all of Europe, and he showed on a
Speaker 4: map what happens if you don't agree to this deal
Speaker 4: right here, and you forced Russia to take it by force.
Speaker 2: Then it's all the way to the Danepa River around Kiev.
Speaker 4: But then it circles back around and goes all the
Speaker 4: way to Transnistria, which means there's a tiny rump of
Speaker 4: Ukraine left.
Speaker 2: That's what will happen. It's Zelenski continues to be.
Speaker 4: Allowed to fight this war because the Russian onslaught will
Speaker 4: eventually just swamp over them.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm not overly or entirely familiar with the system
Speaker 1: of government they have there, but Zelensky's coming across as
Speaker 1: sort of like an autocrat or a dictator. It's like
Speaker 1: he has the final say on everything. Is there no
Speaker 1: political structure around him that could sort of stop him
Speaker 1: or talk some sense to him and say, listen, lad
Speaker 1: you know it's not our night. We need to get
Speaker 1: the hell out of here or we're going to have
Speaker 1: a real problem on our hands. Along the lines of
Speaker 1: what you just said, Daniel.
Speaker 2: No, there's not.
Speaker 4: Because of the martial law. They be declared when this
Speaker 4: thing started. That trumped everything else in his constitution. Now,
Speaker 4: even though they went past the election, there's no plans
Speaker 4: for another election. He has literal dictatorial powers. You saw
Speaker 4: the new Director of National Intelligence, Tulsea Gabbard, was on
Speaker 4: Fox a couple of days ago, and she pointed out, look,
Speaker 4: this is not democratic, right. You can't get rid of
Speaker 4: your political parties about the newspapers you don't like it
Speaker 4: at all, and then say you're democratic because there is
Speaker 4: no democratic actions regardless of what words anybody uses.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean he may be setting himself up for
Speaker 1: some sort of coup.
Speaker 4: Then there is there is some concerns on that, and
Speaker 4: I think they're valid, and it could come from any
Speaker 4: number of sources. It's not even just one, because eventually people,
Speaker 4: the Ukrainian people aren't going to want to just commit
Speaker 4: suicide by continuing to fight a war that they know
Speaker 4: they can't win, and people may take action into their hands.
Speaker 2: It's happened a lot in history.
Speaker 1: It certainly has. And you know, the other component of
Speaker 1: this that can't be left by the wayside is the
Speaker 1: practical reality that you and I have talked about many
Speaker 1: times over the past several months, that there are large
Speaker 1: swaths of Ukraine that are all rights, they're ethnically Russian,
Speaker 1: they align themselves with Russia and they're not unhappy about
Speaker 1: the Russian advancements into their particular regions. They're quite comfortable
Speaker 1: with it.
Speaker 4: Well, there are and you know, in along those lines,
Speaker 4: there is increasing evidence that there could be a twenty
Speaker 4: thirteen twenty fourteen style uprising on the Ukrainian side of
Speaker 4: the Line of contact about some ethnic Russian saying we're
Speaker 4: tired of all this, and then they may rise up
Speaker 4: and create new partisan warfare kind of stuff all over
Speaker 4: the France in World War two, which could you know,
Speaker 4: be the final death nail for all this. We'll see
Speaker 4: if that manifests, but there's growing evidence that there's a
Speaker 4: preparation for that.
Speaker 1: Well in the European Union seems to be willing to maybe,
Speaker 1: and I know it's a sort of a theoretical choice
Speaker 1: for them because they have to ramp up their own
Speaker 1: arms production, which they all sound like they're going to
Speaker 1: finally start doing something. Trumply pushing for them back in
Speaker 1: his first term. Listen, you guys got to learn to
Speaker 1: defend yourselves because we can no longer shoulder the burden
Speaker 1: of being your police force. So there may be some
Speaker 1: positive that comes that we can take away from this.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can withdraw some of our military presence and
Speaker 1: save some money by no longer policing Europe and defending
Speaker 1: Europe from the existential threat I guess of Russia or something.
Speaker 2: And you know, towards that end, if you look under
Speaker 2: the headlines.
Speaker 4: One of the big things from Keir Starmer when Zelenski
Speaker 4: came to visit him over the weekend was I'm you know,
Speaker 4: here's a new one point six billion dollar package for
Speaker 4: any aircraft missiles and all this LLM missiles are called.
Speaker 4: And it was great, wonderful to help you fight until
Speaker 4: you look at the details. These are things that most
Speaker 4: of that money is going to be spent in Great
Speaker 4: Britain building their jobs, et cetera. But the missiles won't
Speaker 4: even start coming off the line until twenty twenty seven
Speaker 4: to twenty thirty, so not quite in time to help
Speaker 4: their crumbling frontlines right now. So that just shows you
Speaker 4: that that's all about Great Britain. They're using all this
Speaker 4: to say, hey, we're gonna build up our own arms industries,
Speaker 4: and that's part of his two point five percent raising
Speaker 4: the GDP, et cetera. But he made it heridage, we're
Speaker 4: helping Zelensky, but it's not gonna help Youlynsky, It's gonna
Speaker 4: help Great Britain.
Speaker 1: What a crazy world we live in, Daniel Davis. Absolutely insane,
Speaker 1: and you just kind of wonder where some of the
Speaker 1: decision making are. What drives some of the decision making.
Speaker 1: Is it delusion? Is it corruption? Is it supporting the
Speaker 1: military industrial complex? I don't know all of the above,
Speaker 1: Daniel Davis. I think it is. I you know, you're right.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the point in my life where I've
Speaker 1: just completely concluded that that is what it is. Daniel
Speaker 1: Davis for the Deep Dive. Find them online Daniel Davis
Speaker 1: Deep Dive and another another episode next Tuesday. Already looking
Speaker 1: forward to it. My friend, have a great week. Take
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