RADIOFebruary 20, 2023

Glenn: THESE signs show we're moving toward WORLD WAR III

It seems like we’re going to be helping Ukraine indefinitely, and now President Biden has announced we’re even paying Ukrainian PENSIONS. But it gets worse. In this clip, Glenn demonstrates how signs TODAY show we are following the same pattern that eventually resulted in World War I. And thanks to government leaders — including our own — continuing to escalate tension between the world’s most powerful nations, it seems that we may be MARCHING toward World War III…

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GLENN: Okay. So the president is -- is over now, and he's in Ukraine.

And, wow. And we are going to be there indefinitely, it seems.

Here is President Biden about the money going over to Ukraine. Cut 11, please.

BIDEN: And they'll delivery much-needed humanitarian assistance, as well as food, water, medicine, and shelter, and other aids to Ukrainians displaced by Russia's war, and provide aid for those seeking refuge in other countries from Ukraine.

It's also going to help schools and hospitals open.

It's going to allow pensions and social support to be paid to the Ukrainian people, so they have something in their pocket.

It also will provide critical resources to address food shortages around the globe.

GLENN: Okay. So wait. So wait. So wait. So we're sending, what?

Money for food shortages, all around the world? All around the world. We are also paying Ukraine's pensions?

Social Security is on the ropes here?

And we're now paying the Ukrainian pension fund!

Did you approve this? Because I didn't. Have we even discussed this?

That's the first time I've heard it. That's my money and your money. Our country. Our children's lives at stake here. And nobody seems to be talking about it, at all. It doesn't matter.

When you listen to what they said over the weekend.

This is the foreign minister, from Ukraine. What is victory? Cut one.

VOICE: There is a short notion of victory.

And that's full restoration of Ukraine's territorial integrity.

GLENN: Okay. Not going to happen.

VOICE: And there's long records, which includes compensations for the damage inflicted, and accountability for creators of crimes. And most importantly, Russia must change.

GLENN: Okay. May I just say, we are repeating to the letter World War I.

The elites, the socialists, got together with all the socialists in the west, and they all got together, and said, you know, if we kind of push this along, it will be a quick war.

And it will be able to collapse all of the old regimes.

And -- and we'll be -- and we'll be great.

And we'll have this new utopian world.

So what happened?

Well, it wasn't quick.

It killed millions.

Changed the history of Europe.

It did collapse some of the old empires. If that's what you were excited about it.

But at what cost? And then at the end, what did they do?

The same people who started the war, got together and said within now we're going to punish Germany. And we're going to make them pay.

And we want all the land, that they the claim is theirs.

And we're going to take it. And they're going to pay us. And what did that do?

Set up World War II.

We're doing the same thing. Exactly the same thing.

And the people were not for the war. In fact, they elected a President who said, if you elect me for a second term, I will not send your boys into war. And what did he do?

He waited a full three-six months. What was it, Stu?

Do you remember? Before Woodrow Wilson sent all our boys to war.

We have got to wake up. By the way, Lindsey Graham. He's now saying that we now have to send fighters. We have to send the jets. We have to send the jets.

Really? Because Putin has just said, that's our final straw.

If you put western jets, in Ukraine, that is the final straw.

STU: Because you don't need jets to defend Ukraine. You need jets to fly into Russia, and make targets in Russia. I can understand why they would want to do that to win a war. But I can also understand how, I don't know. If you're Russia, you're going to see that as a big problem.

And this is one of the biggest issues with this, Glenn. And I don't see how this stops. Is that both sides have arguments that you can see from their perspective. They will not want to give up on. You mentioned Crimea will not happen.

But if you're a Ukrainian citizen, you're like, well, wait a minute. They just took that. What do you mean, it is not going to happen? It is going to happen. We're going to go in there and get it.

And there's going to be this constant push to be able to hold those lines.

GLENN: And they can have their constant push.

I am not involved in their constant push.

STU: I know. But that's not what -- unfortunately, you're not -- actually, fortunately, you're not president.

Unfortunately, someone better than the current president is not president. Because he's currently doing that. With no seeming -- no limiting principle whatsoever. He keeps putting down these lines. Oh, we're not going to send jets. We're not going to send tanks. We're not going to send missiles. All these things have happened with the exception of planes, and now we have Republicans saying, we should be sending the planes. So at what point does Biden fold on that?

GLENN: Well, I don't know.

Because during this -- during this global security conference in Munich, the Chinese are talking now about giving weapons and ammunition to Russia.

And the United States came out, over the weekend, and said, they better not do that.

Excuse me?

You better not do that. That is a line for us.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Not only are we sending over tanks, missiles, bullets, guns, we're now paying for their Social Security. I mean, we are the Ukrainian government.

We're over there -- can you imagine, if Brezhnev, would have shown up in Hanoi. He would have just shown up in Hanoi, Vietnam. We all knew Russia was involved. We all knew they were giving -- but if he would have said, you know what, we're with you until the very end.

And the very end, we look at this as regime change in Washington. Do you not think we would have gone to war?

Do you not think we would have been justified to include Russia in that?

Of course, we would.

We have our president, in Ukraine today. Saying, we are with you, in this fight.

And this fight is unlimited, and it will only end with regime change.

What the hell do you think that means to Russia?

And now, after we're sending all this, we actually think we have the right to tell China, don't send any military aid to Russia.

Who the hell do we think we are?

We're on the wrong side.

We -- this is the beginning, of real darkness.

We are on the wrong side.

And I'm not saying China and Russia are the right side. We should not be involved in this.

This is -- this is -- this should terrify people. We're sending the firefighter jets. You know it's coming. And that's the final straw, for Putin. We're telling China, that, you know, we're going to hold you to a different standard.

Meanwhile, Putin's cronies are threatening to nuke England. They said, London will turn to dust. And they will burn in hell, and be destroyed in flames.

If we send any more weaponry. If they do.

So what does the UK do?

They issue a national warning message of world war. This is the first time they have done this, since early in the Cold War.

But Russians who are kind of on our side, said, they are serious about pointing missiles towards Great Britain. And so the UK, quote, has to be prepared for a nuclear war.

No, they don't.

No, they don't. We can stop this madness right now!

They -- I am not for Russia or Putin.

But I am for this insanity, to stop!

I don't know, other than, what I have told you long ago, would happen. These progressives do the same thing.

They take it up to a certain point.

And right at the moment of collapse. As soon as there's no trust, what do they do?

They have to have a war to be able to justify all of the massive changes that they're going to make to society. Because by the -- the other side of the war, you won't even really care, if you get your freedoms back. You just want the bloodshed to stop.

That's their theories.

And these people are going to do it. These people are crazy enough to do it.

I mean, we don't even know, who blew up the pipeline?

Who belie it up?

If it wasn't us, who was it?

I mean, the western detectives went in, what was it?

Sweden, Norway.

They went in. They said, it wasn't Russia. Germans said, it wasn't Russia. So who was it?

China? India?

Iran? There are only about five countries that can do it. And on the list of five, only two of them, are axis. Only Russia and China.

Explain that. So was it England that did it?

And we didn't know anything about it?

Who did it?

Who did it?

And why would you do it?

This -- these questions have got to be answered right now!

We are marching toward war! And I've never lived in a period of time, ever. Where I have seen my country so detached from the people in the country.

And they are just leading us into places none of us want to go.

Did you want an oil crisis?

Or did you want to remain, you know, the biggest producer of oil, and have our gas prices low?

Were you for that? Were you for that?

Are you for this gas stove thing?

No matter what they say, that is true. They're going after natural gas.

So do you want to get rid of natural gas, as well as oil?

Because I don't. Do you want all of these -- all of these men wearing skirts. That was the latest story. A guy wearing a skirt, he's a teacher in kindergarten. Did you ask for this?

Because I didn't. I don't know Democrats that ask for this. Where are the Democrats that are against war?

Did you ask for a war with Russia? Because I didn't.

They're ignoring us.

And taking us down a path, that they are designing.

And we have got to stand up, you've got to call every congressman and every senator you know. And say, the hell I will.

I am not sending my child, to war.

And I want you to stop sending my money, to Ukraine.

Oh, well, then we'll just empower Putin.

You know what, Putin is really smart.

Really smart. He may be crazy. He's definitely a killer.

Cold-blooded killer. But he's lasted this long. He seems to have, you know, less syphilis than the last mad dictator, that tried to take over the world.

I don't want to give him any help. But I also don't think World War III will end well.

The difference between debate and celebrating death

There’s a big difference between firing someone, like a teacher, for believing children shouldn’t undergo trans surgery and firing a teacher who celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk. Glenn Beck explains why the latter is NOT “cancel culture.”

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GLENN: I got an email from somebody that says, Glenn, in the wake of Charlie's assassination, dozens of teachers, professors and professionals are being suspended or fired for mocking, or even celebrating Charlie Kirk's death.

Critics say conservatives are now being hypocritical because you oppose cancel culture. But is this the same as rose an losing her job over a crude joke. Or is it celebrating murder, and that's something more serious?

For many, this isn't about cancellation it's about trust. If a teacher is entrusted with children or a doctor entrusted with patients, publicly celebrates political violence, have they not yet disqualified themselves from those roles? Words matter. But cheering a death is an action. Is there any consequence for this? Yes. There is.

So let's have that conversation here for a second.

Is every -- is every speech controversy the same?

The answer to that is clearly no.

I mean, we've seen teachers and pastors and doctors and ordinary citizens lose their job now, just for saying they don't believe children under 18 should undergo transgender surgeries. Okay? Lost their job. Chased out.

That opinion, whether you agree or disagree is a moral and medical judgment.

And it is a matter of policy debate. It is speech in the public square.

I have a right to say, you're mutilating children. Okay. You have a right to say, no. We're not. This is the best practices. And then we can get into the silences of it. And we don't shout down the other side.

Okay? Now, on the other hand, you have Charlie Kirk's assassination. And we've seen teachers and professors go online and be celebrate.

Not criticize. Not argue policy. But celebrate that someone was murdered.

Some have gone so far and said, it's not a tragedy. It's a victory. Somebody else, another professor said, you reap what you sow.

Well, let me ask you: Are these two categories of free speech the same?

No! They're not.

Here's the difference. To say, I believe children should not be allowed to have gender surgeries, before 18. That is an attempt, right or wrong. It doesn't matter which side you are.

That is an attempt to protect life. Protect children. And guide society.

It's entering the debate about the role of medicine. The right of parents. And the boundaries of childhood. That's what that is about. To say Charlie Kirk's assassination is a good thing, that's not a debate. That's not even an idea. That's rejoicing in violence. It's glorifying death.

There's no place in a civil society for that kind of stuff. There's not. And it's a difference that actually matters.

You know, our Founders fought for free speech because they believed as Jefferson said, that air can be tolerated where truth is left free to combat it.

So I have no problem with people disagreeing with me, at all. I don't think you do either. I hope you don't. Otherwise, you should go back to read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Error can be tolerated where truth is left to be free to combat it.

But when speech shifts from debating ideas to celebrating death, doesn't that cease to be the pursuit of truth and instead, just become a glorification of evil?

I know where I stand on that one. Where do you stand?

I mean, if you go back and you look at history, in colonial matter -- in colonial America, if you were to go against the parliament and against the king, those words were dangerous. They were called treason. But they were whys. They were arguments about liberty and taxation and the rights of man.

And the Founders risked their lives against the dictator to say those things.

Now, compare that to France in 1793.

You Thomas Paine, one of or -- one of our founder kind of. On the edges of our founders.

He thought that what was happening in France is exactly like the American Revolution.

Washington -- no. It wasn't.

There the crowds. They didn't gather to argue. Okay? They argued to cheer the guillotine they didn't want the battle of ideas.

They wanted blood. They wanted heads to roll.

And roll they did. You know, until the people who were screaming for the heads to roll, shouted for blood, found that their own heads were rolling.

Then they turned around on that one pretty quickly.

Think of Rome.

Cicero begged his countrymen to preserve the republic through reason, law, and debate. Then what happened?

The mob started cheering assassinations.

They rejoiced that enemies were slaughtered.

They were being fed to the lions.

And the republic fell into empire.

And liberty was lost!

Okay. So now let me bring this back to Charlie Kirk here for a second.

If there's a professor that says, I don't believe children should have surgeries before adulthood, is that cancel culture, when they're fired?

Yes! Yes, it is.

Because that is speech this pursuit of truth.

However imperfect, it is speech meant to protect children, not to harm them. You also cannot be fired for saying, I disagree with that.

If you are telling, I disagree with that. And I will do anything to shut you down including assassination! Well, then, that's a different story.

What I teacher says, I'm glad Charlie Kirk is dead, is that cancel culture, if they're fired?

Or is that just society saying, you know, I don't think I can trust my kid to -- to that guy.

Or that woman.

I know, that's not an enlightening mind.

Somebody who delights in political murder.

I don't want them around my children! Scripture weighs in here too.

Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. Matthew.

What does it reveal about the heart of a teacher who celebrates assassination?

To me, you go back to Scripture. Whoa unto them that call good evil -- evil good and good evil.

A society that will shrug on speech like this, say society that has lost its moral compass.

And I believe we still have a moral compass.

Now, our free speech law doesn't protect both. Absolutely. Under law. Absolutely.

Neither one of them should go to jail.

Neither should be silenced by the state.

But does trust survive both?

Can a parent trust their child to a teacher who is celebrating death?

I think no. I don't think a teacher can be trusted if they think that the children that it's right for children to see strippers in first grade!

I'm sorry. It's beyond reason. You should not be around my children!

But you shouldn't go to jail for that. Don't we, as a society have a right to demand virtue, in positions of authority?

Yes.

But the political class and honestly, the educational class, does everything they can to say, that doesn't matter.

But it does. And we're seeing it now. The line between cancel and culture, the -- the cancellation of people, and the accountability of people in our culture, it's not easy.

Except here. I think it is easy.

Cancel culture is about challenging the orthodoxy. Opinions about faith, morality, biology.
Accountability comes when speech reveals somebody's heart.

Accountability comes when you're like, you are a monster! You are celebrating violence. You're mocking life itself. One is an argument. The other is an abandonment of humanity. The Constitution, so you understand, protects both.

But we as a culture can decide, what kind of voices would shape our children? Heal our sick. Lead our communities?

I'm sorry, if you're in a position of trust, I think it's absolutely right for the culture to say, no!

No. You should not -- because this is not policy debate. This is celebrating death.

You know, our Founders gave us liberty.

And, you know, the big thing was, can you keep it?

Well, how do you keep it? Virtue. Virtue.

Liberty without virtue is suicide!

So if anybody is making this case to you, that this is cancel culture. I just want you to ask them this question.

Which do you want to defend?

Cancel culture that silences debate. Or a culture that still knows the difference between debating ideas and celebrating death.

Which one?

Could passengers have SAVED Iryna Zarutska?

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

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GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

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Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

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Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.