Col. Daniel Davis
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The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Because here's the key. So like Bakhmut is here and it's tough to move into. But if you had moved back here where there's a lot of open land and to the next defensive position, which high ground, then it would cost the Russians a lot more to move across this territory. And they could have defended themselves better. But instead, they stayed there. Then they lost thousands of men.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Avdivka, the same thing. They keep repeating the same mistake over and over. They've done it now in Turetsk. in Chesivyar, and they're doing the same thing, head up on Pokrovsk in the area down there. Let's see, the one in the south there, not the Kupyansk area, the one in the south was one of the worst, too, because the Ukraine side held out in that town for a year and a half. In Vulidar.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
In the Belarus, in the Minsk. In the Minsk agreements, yeah, in 2015. And it was never done, ever. So the Ukraine side didn't implement the most important provision of it. They were also supposed to move back heavy weapons and all this kind of stuff, some of which happened. And then both sides had minor incursions over the time with artillery that was going back and forth.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
But then the Russians learned a lot. And so now that instead of going head on, they start flanking it and it becomes evident you're going to lose it. But again, they would not give the order to receive. So they keep losing thousands upon thousands of trained people. So now then they're talking about lowering the age to 18. So that they can bring more people in.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
No, I think that it is the incoming administrations to put Zelensky in a position to say, look, if you want to do this, you have to go and put these people in here. I get it. But you can't because it's so – this has been talked about for probably close to a year in Ukraine. It keeps getting pushed back for the reasons that you just illuminated there. It's just irrational.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Don't you wreck the country and kill more young people? Why would you take another generation and sacrifice them for nothing? And so people are violently against that. So he's putting them in a position, I think, I hope. No, you're right. So that Zelensky will realize now you have to have a negotiated settlement.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
I agree with you. It is anguishing for me to hear. Even if it is a negotiating position, I hope it works. If that gets the war over, then okay. But I fear that they may say, okay.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Well, see, then there's more truth to that than a lot of people may realize, because Putin last month reiterated that point. It's a fact we're willing to talk, but we can't sign any deal with Zelensky because he's he's not a legitimate leader. He went past his country. He's not legally the president of the country. That's right.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
So he said, until somebody gets in there, then we can sign a deal, but we can talk to the United States right now. And so I think Trump's coming in. Trump's not going to be tied to what Zelensky does, like Biden apparently was. I can't imagine he's going to. Who cares what he thinks? Because we call all the cards and Russia says, yes, America has it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Because the Russians are going, all right, we're not going to implement our part of this all fully until you get that central part. And so they just talked about it all this time. And all we had to do is say, okay, Minsk agreements had no NATO in it. There was no NATO for Ukraine inside there. It was just resolve this situation peacefully. It didn't address NATO. It didn't.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
I think Sergey Lavrov in the interview you had with him said the same thing. We'll talk. We're open to talk with the Trump administration. We're willing to do that. And the Biden administration could have done it at any point and they refused to do it. And now we have the wreckage that we have. Yeah, we do.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Well, and I didn't describe the worst part of it yet because of everything we have done. And by the way, we set as an objective. Biden did on the first day of the war in his speech to the United States and the secretary of defense, Austin, did so in April. Was to weaken Russia. That's what we said. Ukraine must prevail. Russia must fail. I think that was the exact phrase that Biden used.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
So it definitely didn't say that they were on the table. It didn't talk about it. So since 2008, that had been talked about by the West that they were going to come in. But the Minsk agreement would have ended all the the conflict that was on the line of contact for essentially an eight year civil war before this one broke out. All they had to do was just implement those.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
And Austin said that we have to weaken Russia. That was our objective.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Just because we don't lack Russia. There's too many people in power still today in Washington that grew up in the Cold War and were mourning the loss of the Soviet Union and the enemy. We should have ended NATO.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Because they replicate themselves. They're the ones that are in charge, and so they don't let anybody else rise up, even to the lower and the middle levels, unless they – Give in to the way people think there. If you're not like me, forget it. If you're talking about doing something that makes sense, that doesn't mean more war, you're going to get rid of. Look at Tulsi Gabbard.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
They are terrified of having somebody of her quality in that position at DNI because they know she'll actually tell the truth. She'll actually faithfully tell what the intelligence is, as opposed to just slanting it so that the president gets wrong information or slanted information that makes them think, yeah, you should go and use more military force, whatever it is.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
So that's why these people are still in power today. But yeah, you're right. There was no reason to want to weaken Russia. We should have wanted to end the war. And if we cared about the Ukrainian people, that's what we would have done. We would have prevented it or at least ended it when it came in. But instead, we wanted to weaken Russia. So why not keep the war going?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Because the Ukrainian people are willing to do it. Zelensky is willing to keep them going in there, even though any rational explanation could have shown the opposite. Okay, so we achieved the opposite. Russia is now much stronger than it was in February 2022. The Ukraine side is much weaker than it was. We're much weaker than we were.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Just imagine, just fundamentally, how many thousands of armored vehicles have we sent to the Ukraine side? How many interceptor missiles have we sent? Almost all of our Atacoms missiles have been sent to Ukraine. We don't even have a handful left. What if we get into a war with somebody? God forbid it should be China or North Korea or, you know, even more, God forbid, if it should be Russia.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
What if we have to defend ourselves? We have now just eaten into our capacity to even wage war. And now then you have the Russian side has gone to the opposite side because they have now mobilized their industry. They've now expanded their army by 50 percent from where it started. They do have a lot of people that are have gotten experience in this army and lived and
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
And then now then Russia has no need to intervene because the whole issue has always been protection of the rights of the people. Russian people and the ethnic Russians living in eastern Ukraine and the protection on their border not to have NATO in it. So if you get that off the table, now then there's plenty of room.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
And so now then their institution is growing even more capable. So that's why this is so hard for Trump, because Putin is coming in saying he's willing to talk. He's willing to have negotiations. But he set some pretty high standards. I think when you talk to Putin in February of last year, he when you ask him what his terms were, he kind of went back.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
He said, well, we've already talked about this at Istanbul. So maybe something like that. Well. because we didn't take it, and then we allowed long-range weapons to be used by Americans into Russia, Putin said, that deal's now off the table. Now, on June 14th, he listed a new set of deal, which is all for the Oblast, all of it, even the territory that Ukraine still owns.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
So now it's not going to be that deal before, because that would have been just the Donbass area, just the Luhansk and Donetsk. Now it's going to be bigger. But then Biden didn't accept that either. And so now then, with all the price that Russia has paid there and the strength, they don't have to negotiate. This is so important to understand. Ukraine has to negotiate to survive.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
We have to negotiate to get the war over. Putin doesn't. If he doesn't get the deal he wants, he'll just keep rolling until he does. And I believe that the likelihood is that they would take all the way up to the Dnieper River, even if it took another six, nine months of fighting. I don't see any way that they're going to stop fighting here. And they've said so. They've said we're not.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Lavrov, about three weeks ago, said no kind of ceasefire. We're not going to do a pause because that would just help the other side there. We're going to keep fighting and we'll negotiate. We'll talk, but we're not going to stop fighting. So there's no ceasefire that's going to be involved because that would help the Ukraine side.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
That's why I'm asking that. So I think that the likelihood is that Odessa and Kharkiv cities are probably not going to remain on the western side if Trump doesn't come in and give Putin everything he wants on the first day. And I perceive and I certainly don't know this. No, I haven't talked to Putin, so I don't know.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
But I perceive that he's set these lines here on the 14 June lines, which were all of those four oblasts, because there's large swaths that Ukraine still owns. It would be so hard, maybe even impossible politically, domestically for Trump to to give away. Areas that Ukraine hasn't lost in the war and agree to that.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
And so if Putin, if Trump, you know, with the Kellogg plan or whatever, they try to say they want NATO put off or, you know, they want the current line of contact to be the dividing line, then Russia will just say, OK, we tried to negotiate with you. We didn't. And they'll just keep going until they get to the Dnieper River because we can't stop them.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
But then by 2021, which very few Westerners are even aware of, is in March of 2021, Zelensky signs this law that says they're going to now take back all of the temporarily occupied areas, especially Crimea, which is a no-go red line for the Russians, and by force if necessary.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
If Trump says, OK, well, I'm going to get tough and I'll give more stuff to you than Biden did. Well, first, we don't have it. But second, it doesn't matter because they don't have the manpower to use it. We literally don't have it. We don't. And Tucker, if Trump said, all right, well, I'm going to go in big.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
I'm going to take the 1st Armored Division, 1st Infantry Division, 1st Cav Division, all of that equipment, the whole set, and just give it powerful divisions that we have there and just hand it to the Ukrainians. They don't have the manpower to use it. They would still lose just as much.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
I can see where he would have that temptation, and I know that he's going to have that suggestion from many of his supporters because I've been reading about him already because I say we've got to show him he's tough.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Yeah, they're definitely not because they know, they can see what we're talking about here. It's nothing but a losing prospect. Why pay more to lose? So why is it our, how do we get involved in this?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
That is exactly what we're talking about here. And it's much worse because also we're bankrupting ourselves while we're enabling that family to die even more. Exactly. And more of them. So it's immoral and irrational in my view. Yes. But here's the problem that Trump's political enemies here, and I've already seen it. Biden has absolutely set this up.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
He just said last week that I have created all this great situation here where our enemies are weaker and our friends are stronger. And I'm handing this over to Trump. You had Secretary Blinken say, you know what?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
100% agree. And his exit interview showed why. He actually told that interviewer last week that we have put Ukraine in a stronger position militarily, economically, and domestically. Are you serious? Oh, yeah. He said straight up. And we have them on a sustained path to continue improving. And then he said, but if Trump comes in and they negotiate an end, that's up to them. Those are lies.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
And I know because I travel a lot.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Yeah, well, the reason why is because you have Zelensky. It was about three weeks ago, I think, was specifically asked this question. So he went at some length in one of his interviews to say, oh, no, absolutely not. There's no truth to that at all. We've implemented all this. I know that, but the media just reported what he said.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
100% it is because it is in a direct contradiction to reality on the ground. They're selling weapons to the drug cartels?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Historically, Crimea has has was in Russia, too. I think it was I can't remember the exact year that it was it was given to Ukraine by I want to say Nikita Khrushchev. That's correct. So he gave that to them. But it's historically, I mean, for centuries been Russian. The vast majority of people gave it to Ukraine when Khrushchev controlled Ukraine. Right. When he was part of the Soviet Union.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Yeah, that's one of the bigger questions.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Yeah, you haven't seen that report. Yeah. I mean, how could they not? I mean, this stuff is all over the place. And this has been an open secret for almost the duration of this. Yes. And sometimes they put a little caveat headline and then move on to whatever's next. And no one says the implication of, wait, this stuff could come back to bite us on our own border.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Yeah, well, how you bring the war to an end, this has been on the table since before the war started. And Trump is going to have a much more difficult position now to bring that to fruition because of the horrific decisions made by the outgoing administration. This war could easily have been avoided before it happened. The Minsk agreements.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Well, yeah, I mean, I pray that remains a potential and not something that actually gets manifest, but it's out of our hands. And that's the problem.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
I can only speculate that they just don't care about that. If it ends up if some of it ends up hurting Russia, then cool.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Thank you.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Yeah. So it was just like, you know, moving things left and right within his controlling and holdings. But the people in it were still ethnic Russians primarily. And when they had this plebiscite, like 95 percent of the people voted to go into Russia when after the, you know, the coup that happened that unseated the legally elected government in Ukraine.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
that Victoria Nuland and all these other people supported, then Putin said, well, I'm certainly not going to have a NATO country around Sevastopol where I have my Black Sea fleet. So he said, we're going to annex this thing. The people voted for it, and that's what he claimed. Now, you can disagree that that was legitimate, but that's how they voted, and that's why.
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The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
that? No, no one argues that because they know it wouldn't be the case. And life has improved for the Crimean population since Russia annexed it. It's gotten a lot better and it's gotten even better since the 2022 invasion because they got water back is one of the big things there. So none of them would ever want to go back into the Ukraine side.
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Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
We have made ourselves substantially less good than we used to be. So I fought in an armored warfare in 1991, and we were at our preeminent power because we had been training for a potential Cold War clash all this time. And so we had the force structure. We had the training. We had the institutionalized training. We had all the different levels, everything you can ever want.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
We had it at that time. Well, then all of a sudden we win the Cold War. And then after 9-11— We completely get rid of all that institutional knowledge we had. And now we're starting to fight, you know, Arabs in the Middle East. And so you had the Iraq war, you had the Afghan war, which dragged on for one and two decades each. And we're doing counterinsurgency stuff.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
And now we have these stupid bases all over the place. Every time you send a guy there, that means he's not training for our core requirement to defend America. That's why I'm hopeful that probably the new secretary of defense, Pete Hexeth, he said he's focused on national defense issues.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
on our borders and our skies and to rebuild the military to make them lethal warfighters, which is what we need to get back to. It's all women now, right?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Well, it's not all women. I guess we're supposed to all think it's great, but I don't think it's great. What is true is that in one of this DEI stuff, whatever, and they wanted to give women opportunity, they gave the women opportunity everywhere, even when they weren't physically capable of doing so.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
No, especially if you care about people getting to make their own decisions, which we claim to in other parts of the world that, yes, the will of the people should rule. Unless, of course, it's somebody we don't like, which goes back to the whole thing that happened in February 2021. I'm sorry, 2014.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Who gives a shit what the feminists think?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Do you have to go any further than David Petraeus, former CIA director, the architect of the disaster in Afghanistan to this day is still putting a mic in his face. Ben Hodges, the worst analyst I've ever seen still to this day. And I'm talking like two or three days ago is still saying Ukraine can win and eventually get back Crimea.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
It's totally detached from reality, but they keep putting the mic in front of them. That's what needs to change. Recognize the failure and don't put your mark in front of that guy.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
There's nothing closer. You know, and one of the reasons for that is because we have lowered the standards so much that a lot of the good guys, they don't want to come in. Like some of your staff members I talk to, those are the good guys, right? But a lot of those kind of people, now they don't want to come into this force because it's like your standards are low.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
When we encouraged the coup and then supported the overthrow of the legally elected government because we didn't like what they were doing. And we helped the actual occupant, the other people who were going against it. So everything that violated what we claim to believe we were supportive of at that time. And that's not democracy in any way, shape or form.
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Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
And I see you're not serious about it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
So why don't you shut up, Tubby? So if you can't recruit enough men like that, then you have to recruit something. So that's why we're lowering the standards.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
See, that hasn't been exposed yet, though. And I fear that one day we will have to fight a peer or a near peer. And we haven't since, really, you can say Korea, maybe Vietnam, but none since then where we fought anybody who was any good. So you can have anybody, honestly. You know, even our base is so good that we can be You know, the Taliban.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Well, we can tactically beat the Taliban in any engagement with our military. So there's nobody in Iraq that could have beat us, et cetera. But if we had to fight, I'm just telling you, if we had to fight the Russian army right now, like war broke out tomorrow and all of a sudden we have to send in our divisions, I think we would probably get hammered. Well, obviously.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
I mean, not even just because of the stuff that you're talking about there, which will also be exposed, but because we don't have the combat experience that they do. And we're still locked in like the 1991 or 2003 Iraq War. And the Russians have gone way beyond that. And we're way behind on that. But all these things would be exposed. And then until then, they're not exposed.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
And still, then we still are the greatest military power on Earth. And who's to say differently? Who?
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Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
In fact, I saw we're building two new aircraft carriers right now, and they're already naming them what they're going to be. And I'm like, did y'all not watch what happened to the Black Sea fleet, the Russian Black Sea fleet, because of naval drones? I mean, dude, they were sent to the bottom of the ocean. We would get hammered if we had to fight. That's World War II level.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
We're not at World War II anymore. And look, to your point there— They're already named. One's called the George Bush, I think. Yeah, yeah. And Clinton. Bill Clinton is the other one. I'm not making that up. That's what's being reported.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
Yeah, well, that's what I was going to say. I was a little surprised that Russia didn't start off on a higher level tactically than it did in February 22. They were behind the curve for a long period of time because Armenia and Azerbaijan had a war in 2020 where all of this stuff was put on full display for the first time in large scale.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
The Armenian armor was hammered from the Azerbaijanis because they used the long range drones. They had missiles. They had drones. And then they were able to bring them in and vector in other targets. So it's not that Doug McGregor wrote about 1997. They employed for the first time. And I thought when I saw that, OK, this is now changed warfare.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
But so that's the problem, that we could have ended this war by doing the Minsk agreements. Then in late 2021, and we know this for a fact because Jen Stoltenberg has admitted this stuff very publicly, that Putin said, hey, if we don't get a deal here, we're going to use force. Jen Stoltenberg said for sure, yes. And who is Stoltenberg? He was the former secretary general of NATO. Right.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
No one's going to fight the old one anymore because you see how powerful drones are. And the Russians didn't. Well, here's the problem. We still haven't. And now that not just the 2020, and it was a really short conflict, we've had now three years and we're tinkering around the edges with stuff. There have been some changes, but it's like about this much when you need this much.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
If we had to fight Russia today, even everything we've observed for the last three years, we are not up to the standard. We are way behind the ball and we would die in, I think, large numbers.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ukraine Is Selling American Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Col. Daniel Davis on How to Stop It.
And let me tell you, 25 years later, it was the French army's turn. They were the preeminent power on the European continent. And then they were destroyed in a month. Oh, I know. When the Germans came in using modern technology, modern tactics and new doctrine that they were, and everyone knew, the Germans knew that they were better, but they had to go fight anyway. Right.
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But because they were still in the World War I mentality, that's what happened to them. So you have, yeah, British from World War I, French from World War II. Are we going to be the next in line?
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Did you think because Russians talked openly about if they get into conflict with us, our satellites are the first thing coming down. They've said that recently I'm talking about. And I'm telling you, we don't even know how to fight without all of our connectivity. And the Russians do because they've learned how to.
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And that's another factor that if we get into a fight, I think that we're going to get hammered.
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military fights wars. Now, I retired in 2015, so I can't speak of anything beyond that, but I can tell you that a lot of my experience prior to that, when I was in the Future Combat Systems program at Fort Bliss, Texas, in the early 2000s, you had the senior leaders that were totally disconnected from reality.
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All these exercises and tests that they claim were showing how this new modern force is going to be fantastic, it was all video and fake because the tests were lied. All the guys, I was a major at the time, All of that, like the major below the guys who were physically doing this stuff. We knew it was absurd. And so we told people.
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But to my contact or context earlier in this conversation, those guys don't get promoted. The guys get promoted who signed off on this fake test results here.
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Well, indeed. I'm probably lucky to get colonel, but that's a separate issue.
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And so he has led the NATO up until just very recently when Mark Rutte took over. But he said, yes, Putin told us that. But of course, we didn't sign that. We're not going to agree with that because no one can tell us who's going to join NATO. So understand at that point, we and of course, the United States was in complete agreement with this.
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because in order to become a general you have to have the approval of the generals that's how technically the president designates these people but in reality they just the president signs off on whatever and then the senate signs off on whoever the generals approve of so they don't approve of anyone that doesn't already play the game that is one of the big things that i think needs to be reformed because you that's why i say they replicate each other so nobody gets up into that upper echelon and and i just got to say and i i hate to use this example
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But H.R. McMaster, who was the former National Security Advisor, I fought under him in Desert Storm. He was my direct commander at the time, and he was fantastic under fire. It was brilliant. And I had the highest respect for him. For 20 years, we were close friends all the way through until we both went to Afghanistan in 2011, 2010, 2011 at the same time.
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And then all of a sudden he gets promoted by David Petraeus. After he had not been promoted several times before that, Petraeus gets him promoted. And now he becomes a general. And almost overnight, he starts sounding like Petraeus. And stuff that he and I had talked about before that's like, you know, there's so much. This is unreal, untrue. This is not going to work.
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All of a sudden now he's saying it. He was put in charge during that time of the anti-corruption campaign. process for the Afghan government. And he claimed over and over how they were making progress and all this stuff. And as we talked about earlier in this show, that never happened.
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But then since that time, now that he's going on and saying all kinds of stuff like, yes, he needs to, you know, he's anti-Russian and all this, he became like them. And so now he's just another one of them. He got absorbed. And all the stuff that happened before that, when he was the one who was talking on the outside, I don't understand.
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Yeah, the Battle of 73 Easting that he was in command of was, I mean, they still study it today in West Point, and for good reason, because it was tremendous. But something happened to him after he got promoted from colonel to brigadier general.
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I can I really because we literally never spoke after that time. What? It was really sad. We had a good friendship up until that time. But then we broke in 2011, never spoke again. So I don't have any idea what may or may not be the case. I just see him on TV all the time. So I don't know. Wow.
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Being assembled. I am a huge fan of Tulsi Gabbard. I think I had recommended and sent. I mean, I don't have a lot of influence, but to people who have the knowledge, I suggested she would have been a better secretary of state, maybe even secretary of defense, because I think her mind is brilliant and her focus on America and keeping America safe. You look at everything she's done and said.
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That war could have been avoided by simply saying what we all knew NATO is never going to accept. Ukraine. There's no way we would ever do that. But instead of saying that, we said the opposite. They're going to come in. And so Putin says, then you've made my decision for me. I'm going to we're going to take military action, which he said on December 22nd, 2021.
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She's tough. consistently through her career is always focused on what's going to benefit America. And she's smart and knows how to do it. I hope that Pete Hegseth does what he said he was going to do in his opening statement, that he revitalizes the national security, the Defense Department, and picks up the warfighting ethos mentality, holds people accountable, passes.
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And I hope he does all those things. If he does, then I think we're going to be in a lot better shape. And Mike Walz, I've also been concerned by some of the statements he has made. But if President Trump is calling the shots, I think he'll do what President Trump tells him. We'll just have to hope and see with that. But Those are the main ones in there.
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And so some of the – oh, Bridge Colby is another really good situation there, a good person there. So I think that having him in a position right now is going to be very good. So there's a number of people right now in the Trump team here that he's going to start with that was a huge anchor that he didn't have in 2016. So I'm hopeful that he can move forward. How hard is it to reform the Pentagon?
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It's enormously difficult. I don't want to underestimate how that is because it is absolutely built on no change. It wants to perpetuate because all those generals I just talked about who have been replicated are still in control of that. So it's going to be really hard. I tell you what I would love to see.
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I would love to see Trump come in and do what he did or what President Roosevelt did just before World War Two, where he had the army chief of staff come in and say, you know what, we're going to review everybody here. And anybody who's not pulling their weight or is not modernized, they're going to get low. They're going to get rid of them.
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And I think it was like hundreds of senior colonels and generals were retired from the service, and then they elevated new people who could get the job done, who were smart, et cetera.
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I don't want that path, but I do want the George Marshall path.
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It does. Strongly so, because these guys all have an incentive to maintain the status quo, and they will, I think, push against anything Hegseth does if they're all left in power. So I kind of think that he does need that.
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Because you look at what history is going to say. Biden did all the things you mentioned. He got along with everybody. Everybody loved him. But history will condemn him and all his leaders. Trump will face heat up at the front. But if he does these things, then history will love him if it improves our country. And that's what I hope we see.
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He said we will take military specific measures if this continues on. And it certainly we know what happened on February 22nd. So we could have stopped the war from happening before. And then two months in, we could have stopped it again. It is the Istanbul. People certainly know a lot about that. Putin mentioned that when you interviewed him about a year ago.
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I think Sergey Lavrov even mentioned it when you talked to him about that, too. They always say we're willing to talk. Everybody has said it that way.
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That is that is that is what we understand. And Johnson has almost never he's kind of waffled with it. But he has said you can't talk to Putin. You can't have a negotiated settlement with him. So whether he actually did it all or was with Biden, we don't know. But we know for sure.
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No matter who it was, though, that did happen. So just think about it. How many Ukrainians allegedly around a million are dead? And probably double that or maybe even triple that wounded. It's a staggering number. None of them should have died. All we had to do is just say what we already know. NATO's never going to invite Ukraine in and the war would have been avoided. Absolutely.
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Because then there's no reason for Russia to ever have invaded in the first place.
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Just like if Russia was talking about, I mean, I'm hypothetically here, wanting to have missiles, say, on Cuba or so. We had a negotiation. If they had kept the missiles there, we probably would have gone to war. But we had a negotiation and they moved them off. So if we had said no NATO coming into Ukraine at that time, then Russia had no need to do anything.
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They also would have backed off because it's in their interest to do so. But we didn't. So when we're talking about now, when we say, no, we democracy and and this, you know, unprovoked aggression, which we know wasn't true because we've admitted that it wasn't true. Now that we have what we have here. And so all of these opportunities. And by the way, there was one more in November.
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This is one of the worst ones, in my view. In November of 2022, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said, hey, by the way, if you want to negotiate a settlement, now is the time to do it. Because remember, that was the one year where there were two big successes for the Ukraine army.
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They drove Russia out of Kherson City and they drove them out of a huge swath of Kharkiv area in the north. Yes. At that time, Russia was at its weakest point. They had force-mobilized 300,000 people. They were scrambling just to get uniforms in them, much less trained, et cetera, to stop the gap, to stop the bleeding up there. And the Ukraine side had every advantage.
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And Martin Milley publicly said, if you want to negotiate a settlement, now would be a good time. Russia's at its weakest. Ukraine's at its strongest. He goes, I'm just saying, if you wanted it, now's the time. He knew that Russia, as bad as it had been battered, was still Russia. They still had all the natural resources that they could ever need.
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They had the military and industrial capacity, which was already starting to gin up, and they had the manpower. The population, exactly. Everything that you need, and the mentality, because they view this as an existential fight. It's not like Vietnam was for us. This is on their front door, and it is an existential fight. So they will recover, and he knew that.
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And so if you want to negotiate from a position of strength, which he said, Milley at the time, now is the time. But no, we didn't. Zelensky was now, I think, drunk with power because he's like, we beat them here. We'll keep beating them. But militarily, Tucker, this is one of the things that's so important. Militarily, it was evident at the time that Ukraine couldn't win.
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because Russia then, they withdrew from Kherson City, and it was talked about a humiliation for Russia at the time. But militarily, that was the wisest decision they could have made, because it would have been hard to hold on to Kherson City because of the river behind them. So they moved 40,000 guys across the river, blew all the bridges so that now Ukraine can't follow that up.
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I know a lot in the West like to say bad things about them. But the fact is that we now know Angela Merkel, Hollande of France have both admitted that that was never supposed to be implemented. They just wanted to, quote, stop Russia's invasion of the Donbass area. That's what they said that it was for. Eastern Ukraine. to buy them time, the Ukraine side time, so that they could defend against it.
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And so they preserved all of that manpower and all of the experience that they had. And then they ended up using them elsewhere to build a fortified defensive series of about five different periods. And Russia was really good at defensives. So there was every reason to think. They've had some practice. They have had practice.
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And even when I was serving during the Cold War, we studied the Russian tactics and we knew how hard it would be. I was in an armor unit. So I knew how hard it would be to try to do an offensive against a dug in Russian defensive line.
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And so when I heard in 2023 that the Ukraine was going to have this big combined arms operation going into the Russian lines, I said, there's no way that they're going to do that. I've conducted operations like that before in Desert Storm with Doug McGregor and an armored cav regiment. I knew what it was like to go into prepared enemy defenses, and that was against a not very good unit.
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But to go against the Russians when they had six months to prepare was suicide. Our leaders should have recognized that. Our Secretary of Defense should have recognized that. But instead, they said, no, we're going to succeed. We've trained them up. We've given them all these thousands of military vehicles, millions of rounds of ammunition, training, intelligence support.
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You know, I think it was HIMARS at that time that we'd given them already, Stingers, all kinds of stuff. And I said, look, and I wrote about this ahead of time. So this is not revisionist history. I wrote ahead of time, this will fail and here's why. You have no air force. Effectively, there's no Ukrainian air force.
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You don't have enough air defense and you don't have enough engineering support to penetrate these minefields. And the most important one is you don't have the trained manpower. It doesn't matter how many people they mobilize. I know from Armory Cav how hard it is to maneuver in coordinated fashion across a broad front. It's extremely difficult. And they had this much experience in doing that.
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And you can't train that up in two or three months. It just can't be done. Our leaders should have known that, but instead they encouraged it. And then you had I'll never forget this one. David Petraeus at the end of May 2023 went on the BBC and said, I think that that the Ukraine side is going to do this combined arms operation.
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And he listed all the reasons why they're going to and the tanks and the Bradleys and all this stuff. I think that they're going to penetrate the Russian lines. The defensive lines will crumble, crack, and maybe even collapse, and they'll go to the Azov coast. That's what he said on the eve of this thing.
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And, of course, it worked out the way any rational analysis would have said was a complete disaster. It never even penetrated the first line of defense. So all of 2023 went to a predictable failure. And so now then that was the next chance we had to end the suffering and safety.
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That is what I'm saying, because the Ukrainian leadership and military, they don't have the historical experience. They only existed for 30 years. Right. We've got all of this stuff going all the way back to World War Two, World War One. I mean, we've had all kind of institutional knowledge. And without us, nothing happens.
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Doesn't matter what Ukraine wants to do without our willingness to give the information, the ammunition, the weapon systems, all of it. And to apparently help with some of the plans, they can't do anything.
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It wasn't to implement. And you know that's true because one of the central provisions that was agreed to by the Russians and the French and German and the Ukrainians was that the Ukrainians would change their constitution to have political autonomy and protections for the Russian-speaking people in the East. That was one of the absolute central features of that Minsk agreement.
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Thank you. It was such an avoidable situation. We knew better.
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That is exactly what I say. And very quantifiable reasons why that is. Though I will say it's not exclusively us because Zelensky deserves specific arguments and criticism because he – continued to take these operations and actions. However much who actually made the decisions is unclear, but he actually has a lot of the say over what they did, especially over how they employ them.
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And so he sent his troops to do operations that really had no chance of success. And especially, and he deserves, people claim that he's, you know, like this modern day Winston Churchill kind of thing, right? I mean, he got all this publicity in the first. Well, Winston Churchill made some huge mistakes in early in his career. And because of that, I was just thinking about Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah, he had his Gallipoli.
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Well, he was back then. Yeah, he's that version of Churchill. Good point. But he learned from those mistakes, and so he did a bunch of things right in Second World War because he learned from his mistakes in most parts. Italy is a separate issue. That wasn't so important. but he eventually did help with that. Well, Zelensky doesn't have any of that experience at all.
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And so he fought in this place called Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, and even Mariupol early in the war. And in every case, he stayed too long. So when his forces started, when it was clear that the Russian forces had moved in and into the outskirts of the city, they should have withdrawn to the next defensive line.
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They should have been building subsequent defensive lines, knowing that the Russians were going to eventually get there. It Make it as expensive as you can on every go back. And then you'll have like, all right, well, back here, we're not going to allow penetration or we have to bring the war to an end.
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But instead, he just stayed there and almost like Hitler in the end of World War Two, not one inch. So instead of pulling his forces back, he kept them in there and they were methodically destroyed. Now then you have to have new guys for the next city, and then they're destroyed.
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And you see what happens, Tucker, is that you destroy the ability to have a coherent offensive or defensive because the guys who know how to fight, who've learned, die. So now then you have to bring in new guys, and it's starting from scratch again. Bachmut was the worst. Because they lost probably 10,000 people to defend a city that gave them no value. They should have moved back to another area.