what i meant. honestly, this is a cult. after everything this country has done the folks that look like you and me here we sit bicker patriots than those two half-witted individuals with their feigned outrage and lies to the american people. how does this persist? well, it s going to persift so long as they have the ability to inject the poison of the cultism through the veins of the news media. they have an information sphere which is impenetrable. they represent only 30% of the country. the other 70% have to wake up. they have to be mobilized. i think that s what president biden did this week. he finally sounded a clear clarion call that america is under attack. and i don t use those words irrationally. okay. i spent my entire career in the navy and in bell jens warning this nation about clear and present dangers to the constitution and to our citizens. this is a clear and present
forces ukraine is moving the ukrainian government is moving into the region in the west and look at all these civilians and baboushki training with wooden gun kind of mock-ups as if that s just happening out of the blue, and unfortunately, now, you re starting to see it reflected in the american information sphere, that disinformation is getting picked up by the democratic socialists of america, the people like ben & jerry s, unfortunately, saying it s the u.s. that s escalating the situation and trying to pull russia into war, as if their vision stops at, you know, the northern ukrainian border, as if the russian troops aren t there and aren t on the territory of belarus. it s amazing to see that messaging go from, you know, kremlin-controlled tv over here. we ve seen that ecosystem work before. it just usually happens on the right. yeah, it s incredible how it seeps in, and everyone forgets that russia s actually done this
ukraine to fight russia. why? and would that ukraine to fight russia. why? fich would that change? that ukraine to fight russia. why? £“tc would that change? that is not ukraine to fight russia. why? £3“tc would that change? that is not going to change. ukraine is not a nato ally and we have an obligation to defend nato allies but we also have an obligation to help this democracy defend itself from a larger power committing an act of aggression to control the country and we can do that, being smarter and faster with sanctions, making sure we provide more weapons and keep them coming, now by ground, because of the russian air strike. and also more nato forces in the east. we should be using our skills with cyber and the information sphere to get into russia by social media with accurate reporting. the russian people do not want soldiers fighting civilians in ukraine and they do not want soldiers dying in ukraine. we need to provide evidence. this is an unpopular war in russia. th
independent media has been closed. and those journalists have been driven out of the country. that is the culmination of the last 22 years of putin s increasing control on the information sphere and on the media. by this point, this isn t happening today, this isn t a new development, this has been slowly happening for the last 22 years. and older people, people who watch tv who trust the state, who trust the television and what is said to them from the screen, they believe this stuff. they have been hearing this for the last eight years at least. so i think a lot of them do believe it unfortunately. then how essential is it for kremlin propaganda, that now you have far right media outlets here in the united states pushing these lies. and they are able to clip these tv segments and put them on their air, and say to the russians look, even the
he s telling putin and the russians exactly where he is? well, who would have thought that someone of his professional background as a actor, comedian, would rise to the occasion as he has? and it s almost like he s in the information sphere, poking putin in the eye, almost daring him. he s obviously been a tremendous inspiration to his own people. i think he is to the extent that s possible, stiffened their resolve even more. so it s really quite remarkable, but i think he is attempting to message putin directly. he s a very, very impressive 44-year-old leader of ukraine right now. very courage us as i keep saying. director clapper, thanks so much for joining us. we ll of course continue this