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Chapter 1: What is the focus of Dan Bongino's podcast episode?
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You know, it is the peak of naivete and ignorance to suggest an alternative plan without suggesting an alternative plan. It's like the money ball theory. If he's a good hitter, why didn't he hit good? You ever see the movie Moneyball? Like, yeah, he's a good hitter. And he's, well, if he's a good hitter, why didn't he hit good? Why doesn't he? Kind of a simple question.
I say that regarding the still ongoing fallout over Friday's disastrous Oval Office meeting and how this is just rippled through international geopolitics. You have a bunch of other people asking a very simple question, especially on the MAGA side and around the world. A lot of populists around the world are saying, OK, well, what's your plan to rescue Ukraine?
I saw this question asked last night in an interview, and who was it? Was it Chip Roy and Caitlin Collins? Like, what's your plan? I don't understand. You keep talking about this tragic war going on in Ukraine, but you've yet to present a viable alternative where Ukraine comes out the, I'm using air quotes here because there are no winners, but the winner in this.
Aren't you obligated, if you say this, in other words, Okay, the Trump plan sucks. I don't like it. Say that's your theory, Tommy Boy style, right, if you know what I mean. The Trump plan sucks. Okay, that's easy to have an opinion. What's your alternative? You notice crickets, everybody's quiet? It's really troubling because your inability to express what your plan is, A to Z, is
Your inability to do that means continued bloodshed and body bags. Folks, there's an expression called realpolitik. I encourage you to look it up. You got to deal with the world as it is, not the world as you'd like it to be. We're not writing Robert Frost poems here. People are dying over there. I got a lot to talk about. This story has really shaken up the entire world.
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Chapter 2: How does Dan Bongino view the Ukrainian conflict?
The money is one thing, but the death. And they're losing thousands of soldiers a week. And that's not including the people that get killed every time a town goes down or a missile goes into a town. And I want to see it stop.
Here's the problem, too. Here's the problem with the people who reflexively jump down Trump's throat and have no consideration whatsoever for what he's saying. He really cares about this, by the way. I'm not name dropping. Who cares who people know and don't? It sounds stupid and you sound ridiculous.
I'm just saying I have a different relationship with President Trump than a lot of people in the media. You've never even met the guy and just automatically think, you know, I have all these nasty words to say about him. If you don't think this has deeply impacted him, the carnage over in Ukraine, he keeps mentioning this, how a generation of young Ukrainians are going to be wiped out.
And I'll tell you right now what's on his mind. I'll share something I know is one of these things, like a brain worm, when he can't get it out of his... is he understands fully that hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainians will be wiped out. And in the end, listen, please listen. This is really important. Wait, stop. Everybody pause. You ready? Listen to me.
You want to get in Donald Trump's head and what's animating him. These young men and women will be killed. Dead. They will never take another breath of oxygen. They will never see their kids grow up. They will never invent the world's next supercomputer or cancer drug or anything. And you know what concerns Donald Trump even more than that? It'll all happen.
And later on, after 10 years more of war, not a single thing will have changed from today. I want you to think about what I just told you. You think Donald Trump is a shallow guy. He hasn't thought this through. He's just some guy that magically won the presidency multiple times and transformed an entire political party. You think he's just crazy? I want you to listen to what I just told you.
And you ask him in the media. Write this down. I'm giving you a little hint. That is what motivates this man. He is deathly afraid that an entire generation of young, healthy fathers, sons, brothers, soccer coaches, police officers serving in their military are going to be dead, wiped out. And in 10 years, not a single damn thing will change.
I'm just asking you if you hate this man, President Trump. I'm just asking you. You're allowed to hate him. It's a constitutional republic. And you're allowed to say what you want. His plan sucks. But out of a sense of morality and decency, I'm asking you as a human being, what the hell is your plan? A full-scale Ukrainian invasion into Russia?
What if they're all wiped out and Ukraine loses its entire eastern territory? What was this for? Folks, the United States, the most powerful military on earth, the most powerful military in the history of this rock we call Earth. There are times we have realized that sometimes the better part of valor is to say at this point, this thing may be winnable, but at what cost?
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