The Danger to America of Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un Getting Closer, with Mike Baker

Can I ask you a question because I was like I checked back in on Ukraine and all I hear is bad news um, you know Definitely the russians have taken a bunch of losses and and putin's got some problems when it comes to finding new personnel but How like how does this end? That is the most important question and frankly, it's the one that most people aren't asking right? I mean it just you you You look at it and you go. Okay, we get it. It's very emotive We we're all waving the ukraine flag everyone's been impressed with the courage and the fortitude uh, nato has shown Terrific resolve right and and in fact putin played the nato angle completely wrong Right and and he started this invasion in part to show Uh how weak nato is and he was hoping to fracture nato And of course he had backfired completely on putin now nato is unified. They've added to their membership but Despite the emotion despite everyone saying yes, of course ukraine needs to win Of course, you know zelensky is saying the obvious which is we when we take back all our territory including crimea That's when we've won but the reality is that we need to be having some pragmatic discussions about what a settlement looks like because the idea that putin will willingly give up uh, crimea In particular is it's just not In the cards and so no we're at we're at day 550 plus in this war We're entering the winter season, which means soon. We'll be in the third year of this conflict so Your question is spot on and it doesn't distract or it doesn't take away from the the bravery and the courage and the importance Of what you know is happening there with ukraine But it is the real world where you have to ask those questions meanwhile, uh Two of our foes russia and north korea are getting cozier and cozier and despite north korea's promise not to arm the russians In connection with this battle with ukraine. They appear to be getting ready to do it Uh, and so our un our u.s. National security advisor. Jake sullivan warned noco that um Providing weapons to russia would not reflect well on north korea What what do you make of that? Yeah, well i'm sure you know kim kim jong-un probably the dear leader probably sat there and goes, you know, he's right It's this is not going to reflect. Well, so we have to rethink our position. Uh gonna be a permanent record Yeah We're gonna they're gonna send us a harshly worded memo. Um, so yeah, I think um, the the The the relationship that's building right this blossoming Romance between putin and kim jong-un over the recent past It makes sense from a strategic point of view for both sides Right. So russia needs to Resupply their their weapons inventory their munitions in particular. Their stockpiles have been depleted at an incredible rate and North korea is one of the few places they can turn to at this point North korea on the other hand needs hard currency. They need food. They need energy so That part of it makes sense. It doesn't make it any less worrisome Uh, but it is not unexpected and now you have sitting over the top of that blossoming relationship you have china and you know according to some south korean intel sources russia recently, uh Suggested that north korea joined china and russia in joint military exercises. So that relationship needs to be watched very carefully That's a nightmare. That's a nightmare triad that we'd really like to avoid of some of the world's worst actors um another thing I know you guys covered and this is of course on the minds of a lot of americans as of last month, but the two-year mark of uh, Losing our 13 service personnel in afghanistan and the disastrous withdrawal a book has come out a journalist uh, frank voyer and it's called the last politician and it it writes about What went down as that one piece of tape that we all saw? Was airing with the plane leaving the tarmac out of afghanistan And these civilians and translators and kids trying to hold on to the exterior of the plane as it took off It was absolutely devastating uh, and they reveal that at the time Anthony blinken was chilling in the hamptons press secretary. Jen. Saki was beachside with her family however After seeing that footage she made the executive decision to cut her beach time short and return to the white house So it appears they were all over it mike. They were ready I mean, this is that happened in the middle of the withdrawal. It was very foreseeable that danger was Was coming to our personnel our military and our friends over there Yeah, it was right in It was right in the thick of things, right? um President biden had taken off for camp david three days later, right? Ghani the head of afghan Afghanistan at the time fled Because he was rightly concerned about his own safety. Um, so like the coward that he is he took off Um, so biden was sitting in camp david Now admittedly, you can do command and control from camp david. It you know, it's got that capability But yeah our secretary of states in the hamptons, uh, our primary white house spokesperson is Sitting on the beach. How tough is it? And this is not a thing against a particular administration Any administration, right that's looking, uh, and and is staring down the barrel of a withdrawal from a war-torn country Where we know Our our foe is knocking at the door, right? It was no surprise at that point that the taliban was moving on kabul, right? So how tough is it to cancel leave and say you know what everybody all hands to the pump? We're sticking around the white house because this thing may head south very quickly So they didn't do that. I think it's just an indication of Sort of the level of sophistication of their national security team and the advice they were getting at the time Uh the idea that somehow the afghan military was going to hold together but We knew for years That we were having the same problems that the russians had the soviets had when they were in afghanistan, right? corruption, uh poor morale Leadership problems command and control. They couldn't hold the the urban centers, right? They couldn't hold the countryside. I mean it was We repeated some of the same problems that the soviets had the soviets spent five years trying to get out of afghanistan Because of the same problems we experienced So it was not the best time to be insightful. Look. Yeah, it was a very insightful look by the author junk science That's what the doctor called many of those fruit and vegetable supplements on the market junk science because they use extracts of Common produce department fruits and veggies with few health benefits, but I want to tell you about field of greens Field of greens is different. 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