Ep. 1636 - Zelensky Goes To Washington
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
4.4 • 152.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky comes to Washington, D.C. and receives a hero's welcome. |
| 0:04.7 | Republicans debate whether to vote against a massive omnibus spending boondoggle and House Democrats |
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| 0:23.6 | Well, big news of the day, obviously Vladimir Zelensky visited Washington, D.C. |
| 0:27.3 | Yesterday, he spoke before a joint session of Congress last night. |
| 0:30.1 | This is his first trip outside of the country since the beginning of the Ukraine war that Russia |
| 0:34.3 | launched in February of 2022, a lot earlier this year. The war has been going |
| 0:39.2 | on for at least 10 months at this point. It has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. |
| 0:45.1 | One of the big questions that has arisen, particularly on the right, but also for some people |
| 0:50.0 | on the left, is why the United States is involved in this in the first place. And the answer is |
| 0:53.9 | actually multifaceted because foreign policy is a complicated area. So the left is why the United States is involved in this in the first place. And the answer is actually multifaceted because foreign policy is a complicated area. So the answer is actually not all |
| 0:59.7 | that complicated. Russia is a geopolitical foe of the United States. Degrading Russia is in the strategic |
| 1:05.2 | interest of the United States. Now, there are some people on the right who are very isolationist |
| 1:08.7 | in orientation, and they're constantly asking why the United States should basically be involved anywhere in the world, which was a fair |
| 1:15.0 | question in about 1850. It is a less fair question today when obviously global supply chains |
| 1:19.6 | have to do with international politics, when global economics have to do with international |
| 1:23.5 | politics, when the ability to move weaponry and troops and terrorists around the globe |
| 1:29.0 | is very, very easy. We live in a very global society. What that means is that the waters |
| 1:33.1 | that once protected the United States from all encroachments abroad, those waters look a lot narrower |
| 1:38.0 | than they did, circa about 1850. And what that means is that geopolitically, our foes are either |
| 1:42.9 | on the move or they are in retreat. The Unitedes are either on the move or they are in retreat. |
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