Ep. 2186 - Investigating “Putin’s Brain” + Zelensky Part II
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
4.4 • 152.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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| 0:41.1 | nation in the middle of a war? And the answer is simple, because getting the facts matters. |
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| 1:00.6 | Ukraine, the Russians launched one of the biggest salvos of the war all across Ukraine, drones, |
| 1:06.6 | missiles. One of those missiles struck an apartment complex in Kiev that killed at least 12 people. |
| 1:12.3 | This prompted President Trump to take to truth social and issue a statement, quote, |
| 1:16.7 | not necessary and very bad timing. Vladimir stop. 5,000 soldiers a week are dying. Let's get the |
| 1:23.1 | peace deal done. And said, I'm not happy with the Russian strikes on Kiev. Okay, well, |
| 1:26.8 | that is not going to get it done. I'm sorry'm not happy with the Russian strikes on Kiev. Okay, well, that is not going |
| 1:27.8 | to get it done. I'm sorry, but yelling at Vladimir Putin over truth social is not the thing |
| 1:33.6 | that is going to get it done. President Trump has been very successful at successfully |
| 1:37.9 | pressuring the Ukrainians to come to the table. He's gotten Vladimir Zelensky to agree to a 30-day |
| 1:42.7 | ceasefire. However, when it comes to the actual pressure on the Russians so far that seems to have been |
| 1:51.1 | largely in abeyance. |
| 1:52.6 | In fact, President Trump yesterday was asked directly about this. |
| 1:55.1 | He was doing a presser in the Oval Office, and he was asked about what concessions Putin |
| 1:59.5 | had made thus far, because the United States is asking some pretty large concessions from the Ukrainians, ranging from acknowledgement of Russian ownership over eastern Ukraine and Crimea, to the possibility of banning themselves from NATO, essentially, and not even getting great security guarantees from the United States or from Europe in the process. |
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