the thinking listen, be tough guys. we ll be behind you. then when the fighting starts we suddenly start resorting to all kinds of symbolic nonsense like pouring out russian vodka and preventing a russian singer in performing and telling them we will give them lessons in fighting by zoom calls and skype. this reveals the unseriousness of the western approach. laura: back to mearsheimer. he has been sounding the alarm on this for years. you paid attention to him and he basically predicted this in 2015. we are encouraging ukrainians that they will ultimately become part of the west. because will ultimately defeat putin. the ukrainians are almost completely unwilling to compromise. with the russians. the end result is that country is going to be wrecked. and what we are doing is in effect encouraging that outcome. laura: he is saying that
plane out of kabul s airport depart. the troops flew to kuwait from where they will travel home to fort bragg, north carolina. their commander, major general christopher donahue, the last american soldier out of the country. these images have to stir some emotion inside of you, having served yourself. are best, our backbone. they did not let us down. they stood on that wall. they pulled everyone in that they could. nothing that went down in afghanistan is on them. god bless the 82nd marines, the images show how steadfast they are in a time of unseriousness in new places. no doubt, they are our heroes. they did a valiant, heroic, successful job. we are so grateful for them,
voting rights bill from democrats is the seriousness of the language that they use. like the return of jim crow or jim crow on steroids. the unseriousness of some of the proposals that they re talking about. a lot of people on capitol hill view s-1, the for the people act, the bill the president is talking about, as a messaging bill. it s filled with progressive democratic wish list items, public financing of campaigns, national mail-in voting, voter harvesting. all sorts of things that are not going to happen because they don t even have the support of all democrats in the u.s. senate. remember, there s just 50 of them. of course, they haven t gotten rid of the filibuster. so this is really a messaging operation essentially. the president went to philadelphia, spoke at the national constitution center to give it the gloss of a heavy constitutional issue, but it s not really a serious measure.
it s like it s all fun and games until somebody gets hurt. so i doubt that he wishes to provoke violence in the united states. but that said, he thinks this is a game. presidents before him tie themselves into knots trying not to use words and say things and make phrases that will be misunderstood not only by their own people, but across the world. so they get briefed by their aids who say don t use this word, don t say that. so last night when he made that perfectly mild joke, it s like, everybody should vote. if you re a democrat, don t vote. but nonetheless, it conveys this unseriousness at a serious moment. that is his challenge in the next two weeks, particularly if, god forbid, more bombs emerge,
it should be the parents above all, which is why in this case i would allow them to take the child even though if it were mine i wouldn t. or secondarily, if it can t be the parents, or if the parents aren t present, then the courts of your own system, your own society. but to rely on some convention nobody s ever heard of drawn up by bureaucrats who lived on a different planet is absurd. i think that s an absurdity introduced here. the british are serious about how to deal with this, but this is the one sign of unseriousness. tucker: i ve got a key decision to make about my chilton, one a lot bureaucrats in zimbabwe way in? charles, thank you. my pleasure. tucker: we will be right back.