RADIOFebruary 23, 2022

Was part of Putin’s Ukraine speech a hidden message for Biden?

President Vladimir Putin delivered a speech Monday, addressing the situation between Russia and Ukraine. He spouted the typical nonsense you’d expect from an authoritarian world leader, threatening his neighbor if they don’t comply with Russia’s invasion. But there was one part — Glenn explains — only Americans in power likely would understand. Glenn reads from Putin’s speech, explaining how there may have been a secret message for President Biden and his White House held within…

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Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: Russian president, Vladimir Putin, claimed on a speech on Monday, that Ukraine was completely created by the Soviet Union, in the aftermath of the 1970 Bolshevik revolution.

Ukraine -- I'm quoting, an inherent part of our history, culture, spiritual space. They're our comrades, relatives. Not only colleagues, friends. But our family. People we have blood and family ties with, Putin said. Okay. That doesn't sound good.

And then he went into this really weird history lesson. Remember, he's the guy who said, the fall of the Soviet Union, is the biggest error in modern history.

STU: There's a strange thing to say about that. That particular century -- there's a lot of big events that happened there.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. Right.

However -- however, I don't think he means the fall of the Soviet empire. The Soviet Union. He means the fall of the empire. Because yesterday, he went on to take on Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev. For giving away parts of the Soviet Union, to Poland, Hungary, and Ukraine.

He said that these guys are responsible for taking apart the Russian empire.

Well, don't you still have Lenin on ice there in front of the Kremlin?

Why is he doing this?

Because of the influence of thought, of one guy.

Aleksandr Dugin.

If you ever read Aleksandr Dugin, this could have been written by him.

He was talking all about the core values that we have. And the religion that we all celebrate.

And the rise up of -- of the old Russian empire.

The premodern empire.

It was scary stuff, if you know what you are looking for.

I don't know what his intention is. He looked crazy. He sounded crazy. If you look at what he said read what he said, it sounds crazy.

But if you know Aleksandr Dugin, and what he preaches in -- in Russia. Oh, it's -- it's a fourth political theory.

Now, I don't know if he was doing it, because he has adopted this crazy philosophy. Or he just wants people to think he's crazy. So they're like, don't screw with him. He's got a a twitchy eye. One way or another, it doesn't really matter.

Putin threatened yesterday, a bloodbath, if Ukraine resists the loss of territory, because he took two states. And they've -- and they've -- you know, they have the Russian separatists in those two states. But what happened was, when they took over Ukraine. You know, they killed almost all the Ukrainians.

And then they sent in all these Russian families. They said, you, you, you, you're moving to Ukraine. But I don't -- you're moving to Ukraine. So they moved to Ukraine, and they raised their family.

And in these two particular states, there's a lot of Russian ties.

Okay?

And so they've already claimed, no, these are Russian states. No, it's a Ukrainian state. But you just sent a whole bunch of Russians in here. So yesterday, he just took them. And then signed a document, and said, yep. They're ours now.

STU: Well, he recognized their independence.

GLENN: Thank you. Yes. Yes. Yes. You're right.

STU: And then sent troops immediately in. Which is what you do, with a new independent country.

GLENN: Right. We're recognizing them. That's all we're doing, and sending in troops. It's not an invasion. So that's pretty much what our government said. It's not really an invasion. This is what Putin -- I mean, I'm sorry. This is what Biden said in a gaffe. Quote, unquote.

It wasn't a gaffe. He's just so senile, he doesn't what he's saying sometimes. He's like, oh, that was secret?

I wasn't supposed to say that?

He has spoken in the past, about we'll see what kind of invasion it is.

It's just like a little incursion, then we're not going to do much.

Well, I have news for you. The rest of the world is doing a lot. We're not. But why?

Let me tell you about the part of the speech, that no one will talk about. No one is going to talk about the Aleksandr Dugin stuff.

Because they don't have any idea what it is. I'm telling you, if you don't know who Aleksandr Dugin is. And you're interested in world affairs.

Especially what Russia is up to. You should read the fourth political theory.

Your hair will fall out. Okay?

It actually -- you'll read the first part of it. You know, few chapters. And you'll be like, yeah. That's right. Who will tell us, what our heritage will be?

Who will tell us, what religion we've got to practice, and tell us have to be alone on the swim team. And guys can't have babies.

There's a lot in there, that you can go, yeah. It's there for a reason. It's there to scoop up all of the disenfranchised people.

You'll agree with some of the stuff he says. If you're smart, you won't get wrapped up in the rah-rah. And then you'll say, wait a minute. What is his plan?

Armageddon?

He's really for Armageddon. It will take Armageddon to reset the whole world.

Yeah. I'm not for the Armageddon party. Maybe that's just me. Okay. So here's what he said, Putin.

He talks about going in. And the problems of Ukraine.

And then he says this: At the time radicals were becoming more and more brazen, and the claims were becoming bigger and bigger. So they had no problem to influence the weak power, that was weakened by the virus of corruption.

And they were replacing cultural, economic, social interests of the people. Actual sovereignty of Ukraine, by speculations on nationalist ground.

Cultural, economic, and social interests were being changed. Who does that sound like?

Who could possibly change though? Who was over in 2014 to 2016, that could have possibly influenced cultural economic and social norms?

In case you don't know yet, he says, stable statehood hasn't been built in Ukraine. And the political electoral procedures, oh. Who could have changing those.

Served as just a screen to divide power and assets, between oligarch plans. Wait a minute. Who was giving money to the oligarch plans?

Corruption, that is a problem in a lot of countries, including Russia.

Ukraine has become a thing of its own. It's been corroding the entire system. As the branches of the state. And radicals use the unhappiness of the people.

Fear and happiness. So they rode -- that we have. And they turned 2014. Into a coup d'état. They were backed by foreign states. From the data that we have. The support of the so-called protest camp. The independent square, in Kyiv. Came from the U.S. embassy. It was $1 million per day. And additionally, large amounts of money were transferred from the private accounts of the leaders of opposition. And we're talking about tens of millions of dollars.

Boom. Now, if you happen to watch our special, on the impeachment of Donald Trump, we found all kinds of bad stuff, going on in Ukraine with Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, and Barack Obama.

Millions, just lost. Gone. What happened?

We were actually doing training, a year before, maybe two years before 2014. We trained those people.

How to do a coup d'état. Our social media was helping them. Huh.

So this is why we're being such a weenie. I think.

All the people that were involved in that, are currently in power. Here in the United States.

All of the people, that were doing all these really nasty things, are still in the government, of the United States.

So when Putin just says something that nobody else will pick up. He knows nobody, but the White House will pick up on this.

When he says this, in an hour-long speech. And it's only a couple of lines. Only those who are in trouble, because they did those things, will recognize it.

Hmm. Ukraine was not brought closer to democracy, after the coup d'état. And the political forces that backed them, brought the situation to a deadlock. They pushed Ukraine into a chasm of civil war. That is us.

So if he goes forward. I think, I hope, what he's saying is, I am only going to do this.

But it will be a bloodbath, if I decide to take Ukraine. And guess who is responsible for me saying, we have to save the Ukrainians?

And who are we saving them from?

The evil Americans. Believe me. If my research team, can find all of the dirt on this administration, and the Obama administration. You don't think Vladimir Putin can?

Now, we've responded with pantywaist sanctions. Germany just responded. They're closing the Nord Stream pipeline. And to that, Putin has responded today.

Shocking train video: Passengers wait while woman bleeds out

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?

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