0 hike. we eat healthy. we exercise. t i noticed i wasn t as sharp as i used to be. my wife introduced me to premature as i sit down i llgh try. i noticed that i felt sharper. i felt like that i was able to respond to things quicker and it works for. me a healthier brand, better life. good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. since the day that donald trump became president, democrats in washington have toldsi you have a patriotic duty too hate vladimir putin. it s not a suggestion. it s a mandate. anything less than hatred for putin is treason n . many americans have obeyed this directive. they now dutifully hate vladimir putin. maybe you re one of them. hating putin has become the central purpose of america s foreign policy. it s the main thing that weci talk about entire cable channels now devoted to it very soon that hatred of vladimir putin could bring the united states into a conflictf in eastern europe. before that happens, it might be worth asking yourself since it
always tea leaves, right, there s not a lot of detail in there, does say that he spelled out both economic and other consequences. the economic consequences we know from cnn reporting that that would mean really a higher level of sanctions designed to really hit putin s inner circle, go after their money, in effect, the billions that they have spirited away overseas but also potentially, if the administration goes this far, would seek to consequentially penalize russian businesses, energy producers, for instance, keep them from raising debt on international markets. that matters. that would have consequences. the other measures, we don t know how far the president went. we know the u.s. is not talking about sending ground forces to ukraine. it s not a treaty ally, but there is a possibility of positioning more nato forces among eastern nato allies, which russia, frankly, doesn t like. on the good side, i will say this. reading the readout, the couple things that looked like vaguely pos
this is an independent country, taiwan. it is a thriving democracy. it has been not a treaty ally of the u.s., but a friend of the u.s. for many decades. this would be an enormous event. by the way, from china s perspective, it is not a crime to do this. it is righting a historical it would be like if texas was under mexican control. that s the way xi jinping looks at taiwan. so the defense minister says it expects an invasion from china by 2025. you ve been talking about this and writing about it extensively for some time. this is an abstraction. this may be a likelihood. it is. i don t like to be right about this, and by the way, others have been right before me about this and much higher and more powerful positions than me, but china is very public about it. you got to listen to what xi says. xi talks about this as taiwan as part of our country, so now you have u.s. official and taiwanese officials talking about this not as and if, but a when. and then the question becomes
country, a democracy, a highly vibrant economy and economic system and political system, a friend of the u.s.. the u.s. is not a treaty ally, but it is a friend. we send many millions of dollars in weapons systems to taiwan to protect it from china. but china watches afghanistan, says the u.s. not willing to defend that ally, does that mean it won t be willing to defend taiwan? does it move up china s idea of perhaps invading there? and what does that lead to the risk for war? so that happens. then you look many thousands of miles away to australia, a u.s. treaty ally in the pacific. the u.s. decided this week to share with australia its most sensitive military technology. that is technology for nuclear submarines. there s only one other country in the world that the u.s. has shared this with in the last several decades. that is the uk. it did that to respond to the threat from the ussr, an
mistake. it s not the usual. the republicans in congress and, frankly, the commentator set that you see in the news are not representative of republican voter opinion or necessarily of american opinions regarding this. look, you know, this is a difficult situation. you re caught between a nato ally and turkey, a treaty ally, and a military ally in the kurds who are, frankly, a stateless people who are occupying, you know, other areas of land within dispute. you re caught between a lot of different moving parts, and yet the opinion is all generally going in one direction. and i find that to be really troubling in this day and age, that we haven t taken a step back from the last two decades of activity in the middle east which, clearly, the american people have soured on, and maybe injected some additional opinions into the mix, opinions that would be more representative of what we see from the american people and less just the conventional approach that washington republicans have had