Shownotes Transcript
Bye.
It is March 20. It has become physically painful for me to read the news, because time and time again I see attempts to normalize evil. I watch as the Western world tries to speak with Putin, the very man who kills and terrorizes Ukrainians every single day, who has ordered the abduction of thousands and under whose command Ukrainian prisoners are tortured and executed.
As if he were a regular politician, the normal president of a normal country. No one demands that he stop the torture, the suffering. Instead, they ask him: "What would you like in exchange for stopping your terror?" "What can we offer you so that you will stop killing children every day?" And of course, whatever is offered will come at the expense of Ukrainians.
I know that by saying this I will lose some American listeners, some will follow Vice President Vance's lead and start shouting that Ukrainians should be grateful for past support and keep quiet when the big wise men in the White House decide what to do with us. But I have to say this.
Negotiation hockey games with Putin, pressuring Ukraine to give up its occupied territories. These are not peace initiatives. These are the normalization of evil and an attempt to force us into surrender. We are being asked to abandon our occupied lands. And that means abandoning the people who live there. They will continue to be persecuted.
tortured, murdered, their children taken and turned into Russians. The war will not end. It will simply take another form and only for a time. Given a break in fighting, Russia will seize the opportunity to regroup, correct its mistakes, amass strength and buy a few more immoral American reporters to spread its propaganda in the West.
And when they will return. Don't think they only want the ruined cities they have bombed and occupied. They still want to completely erase Ukraine as a state, to either turn Ukrainians into Russians or to kill us. This is an imperial project, a campaign to destroy everything democratic and progressive, to turn it into a swamp and absorb it.
It has always been this way. And the American governments used to understand that in the past. Why did US troops remain in Europe after defeating Nazism? Because Russia was no less of an aggressive threat than Nazi Germany. What was Elvis doing in Europe during his military service?
He was part of the force that stood ready to fight back if Russia attempted to invade the West.
Many in the West still don't fully grasp the future of this war. They think it is simply Russia attacking Ukraine. But that is not quite true. This is Russia's attack on the free world. Ukraine is just the first victim. And trying to negotiate with murderers, bribing them with Ukrainian land
is a betrayal of the ideals of democracy. It is a betrayal of the memory of those who fought past wars on the side of good against evil. What would those millions of heroes of the past do if they saw what is happening now? What would Elvis do? Whose side would he be on?