On February 25, 2022 at 4:59 pm, Douglas wrote:
Mark,
What, in your view, is the cause of Putin's invasion? Is it NATO expansion, or is he another Hitler? Also, what do you make of the idealistic rhetoric coming from both American conservatives and liberals? To me, it shows the uni-party deep state is still here and that Trump did not drain the swamp.
Best,
Douglas
On February 25, 2022 at 5:00 pm, Brian from Minneapolis wrote:
Dear Mark,
More and more I'm believing that WWIII is going to be a certainty. The west foolishly believed by not defending itself as to not anger our geopolitical and nuclear powered enemies that we can avoid WWIII. WWIII can only be prevented if we show the world that we are ready for WWIII, not afraid of it. We can't keep trying to avoid conflict because we're afraid the neocons are going to get rich from this. Opportunists are always going to be there as the pandemic has shown. The west with it's leaders practicing totalitarianism are going to be taught a harsh lesson from those who have mastered it. Is there hope for us or are we witnessing the beginning of a very dark and deadly future? Your thoughts Mark.
On February 25, 2022 at 5:00 pm, Paul Harmon wrote:
Ironically, the Taliban is calling for peace and restraint in Ukraine. "The Islamic Emirate calls for restraint by both parties," from a tweet by Taliban spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi. "All sides need to desist from taking positions that could intensify violence." Seems... odd.
On February 25, 2022 at 5:00 pm, Peter Jones wrote:
"John Kerry fears Russia-Ukraine war will distract from climate change".
Well, gosh.....
On February 25, 2022 at 5:01 pm, Jan Schiebout (She - bowt) wrote:
Dear Mark,
Western enemies have apparently been working tirelessly for years on a master plan. Events are happening so fast, that it's difficult to keep up. Considering the reported cooperative deal the trifecta of evil, Russia, China and Iran, have hatched, do you think that they are executing this plan of democracy defeat in coordinated stages, and that Russia was simply the first to go? I notice they targeted Ukraine, the nation that has enormous mineral, energy and agricultural assets needed for a war machine, but then nabbed a strategic island off of Romania. Considering that British Airways was just cyber-attacked, how does a hobbled US not begin sending in our bravest? Now the Ukrainian President has unfollowed all world leaders on his Twitter account! Do you think that we could see western surrender before our planes even take off? Please gaze into your Earl Grey tea leaves and give us your take on your analysis of possible scenarios. Thanks, Mark - loving you on GB news!
On February 25, 2022 at 5:01 pm, Ornery Texan wrote:
Hi Mark, has John Kerry been dipping into his wife's stash of vodka-soaked raisins again? I saw him say that one of the biggest dangers of the Russian invasion of Ukraine was what it might to do climate change activism.
On February 25, 2022 at 5:01 pm, Eric Dale wrote:
Mark, why is it that "western trained and armed" forces always collapse? It does beg the question of how the NATO militaries would actually fare in a peer to peer war.
On February 25, 2022 at 5:03 pm, Eric Dale wrote:
Hey Mark and fellow Club members. Why is it our elites our always surprised by the latest crises? Our deep state and defense department have every resource, technology, and budget they could dream of. Yet, despite being the most lavishly funded defense network in the history of mankind, our elites have again and again been caught with their pants down from 9/11 to Georgia to Afghanistan's pullout to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. What do we pay these people for?
How can we fire our present incompetent and replace them with people who are good at their jobs?
On February 25, 2022 at 5:04 pm, eaglepatriotminuteman1776 wrote:
Dear Mark,
My family and I are in Ukraine and I ask that you keep us in our prayers.
On to my question now.
I think elites like Gates, Zuckerberg, and Schwab are correct when they say ordinary people need to managed. But they are the wrong people to manage us, for they hail from the rabble they seek to govern.
Instead of having bourgeois barbarians as our elites, why not have a return to the old noble families of Europe? I think the Romanov Hapsburg, Bourbon, and Hohonzollern families have a window of opportunity to regain power if they enter the political fray on our side and offer an alternative solution to the current status.
I would rather be ruled by Prussian junkers than woke Eurocrats any day of the week.
I would appreciatr your thoughts.
All Our Love,
William from Kiev
On February 25, 2022 at 5:07 pm, John Shuba wrote:
Where is Otto von Bismarck when you need him? After he was let go by Kaiser Wilhelm II, he predicted that the next great war would be started by 'some damn fool thing in the Balkans." It was. He was also once asked what was the secret of effective diplomacy. His response - "Always make a good treaty with Russia." Say what you will about the guy but he knew European politics. Our current leadership class seems to know nothing about anything.
On February 25, 2022 at 5:08 pm, Veronica L wrote:
Hi Mark,
Back in 2016, Prof John Mearsheimer at the University of Chicago said that: "The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked." He suggested that it was in the best interests of Ukraine, and the West, to take NATO membership off the table, as Russia would never allow it, and support Ukraine as a neutral country. Why did the USA and NATO choose to take the opposite approach? Thank you for the David Starkey interview by the way, it was excellent :)
On February 25, 2022 at 5:09 pm, Peter S wrote:
Mark,
I'm conflicted. On the one hand, I loathe the liberal Western elite and am immensely enjoying watching Putin punch them all in the noses with his recent actions. On the other hand, I understand that even if Putin does succeed in unraveling the current liberal Western order, it should only serve to make him, or his successor, a stronger foe.
My question: Do you think Putin's military actions will damage the current western liberal order? Do you have any other thoughts on such ambivalent feelings as I, and perhaps others, have towards the Putin/Russia?
Thank you.
On February 25, 2022 at 5:12 pm, Paul Harmon wrote:
How about them Ukrainians? Reports of the "Ghost of Kyiv" shooting down 6 Russian warplanes, and the 13 posthumous heros from Snake Island raise a lump in the throat. Do you think the Russians are finding the Ukrainians harder to roll over than they had expected?
On February 25, 2022 at 5:13 pm, Michelle Dulak wrote:
I don't see that Trump has anything to do with this, but everyone seems to be tripping over themselves to say so. I think that Putin took a good look at Biden and decided, enough with this nibbling-at-the-edges stuff, why not just take the whole country? I do wonder whether Poland is (once again) next.
On February 25, 2022 at 5:14 pm, Dale Owens wrote:
Mark,
The Western liberal elite hate Russia not just because of its military interventions but also because of what it represents as a nation: conservatism, sovereignism and traditionalism. And, shock horror, Putin has no time for "Diversity and Inclusion" and LGBTQ+ etc.
Liberal Russophobia is driven ideologically and culturally. For the liberals it is the elightened progressive West v. backward, Asiatic Russia. What is your take?
Dale
On February 25, 2022 at 5:16 pm, Aaron Everitt wrote:
The west are not serious people. The last two days have demonstrated that with the comments from celebrities, hashtagging activists, and pleas for peace. Is there Anything that wakes the west up from being nerf ball people?
On February 25, 2022 at 5:20 pm, Laura Rosen Cohen wrote:
Hi Mark, how did Klaus Schwab become a thing? I don't remember voting for him to be King of the World. Do you think he's more powerful than the Big Tech oligarchs? Also, for real and not for joking, how creepy is his accent?
On February 25, 2022 at 5:23 pm, Louis deBoer wrote:
Hi Mark, what do you think the main reason is that Justin Trudeau called off the martial law in Canada and do you think his government will last? Also, do you think there is actually a chance that Canada will be removed from the Commonwealth?
On February 25, 2022 at 5:25 pm, George Pereira wrote:
Mark,
What is going on with Christa Freeland in the recent video with Justin?
She is twitching from side to side, violently shaking, even with the mask she is obviously hyperventilating, and constantly clenching her fist. Her eyes had a bizarre crazed look. She is obviously not well.
Good / Ah Bien
Honk! Honk! / Klaxonner! Klaxonner!
On February 25, 2022 at 5:28 pm, Paul Courtney wrote:
Dear Mark Steyn: Will try to remember 5 pm here. My question is, do you foresee Canadians accepting this, as it appears thus far? I am hoping for a literal uprising up north, to spread south. Is there a way forward for Canadians who think it's time for a new order?
On February 25, 2022 at 5:32 pm, Kate Smyth wrote:
Hi Mark - there have been some great conversations and insights on your GBNews show in recent days.
You and David Starkey alluded to John Kerry and the give-peace-a-chance Davos crowd as being completely out of touch on Putin and Ukraine.
Your guest Peter Schiff warned - before the bombing started - of massive looming inflation.
To what extent do you think Putin has been deliberately provoked into a conflict by NATO expansion and US support for it ... and (*conspiracy theory alert*) by global elites whose aim is to use war (along with a man-made pandemic and global energy crisis) as a cover to further centralise their wealth and power? Could the current situation in fact be a "win-win" for both sides, when viewed from this perspective?
On February 25, 2022 at 5:33 pm, SabreMike Carroll wrote:
Mark, I don't think anything could possibly sum up the unserious dumbthink infecting the world right now than the person who tweeted about Ukrainians huddling in bunkers being dangerous because of the nation's low vaxination rate.
On February 25, 2022 at 5:36 pm, Wayne Lanham wrote:
Mark,
Do you care to hazard a guess on when we might see the USA break up? Might Canada break up sooner?
On February 25, 2022 at 5:38 pm, Walt Trimmer wrote:
FJB has three more years. Do you think we'll survive?
On February 25, 2022 at 5:41 pm, Rob Grzeszczak wrote:
Mark, is it too simplistic to wish for the prescient-but-ignored strategic thinking and proposed actions of Patton and MacArthur, generals who, for whatever their faults, EARNED the fruit salad decorating their uniforms (though I find it interesting that most photos of them show they didn't even care to showcase their ribbons and medals, unlike the current crop of 'wokers' we have) and seemed to know that Russia and China would, at some point, have to be dealt with? MacArthur especially seems to have understood the way of things, as many of his contemporaries laughed at the idea of China's rise. Just a thought.
On February 25, 2022 at 5:43 pm, Robert Bridges wrote:
I wonder what "sanctions" President Biden has ready for China when they "annex" Taiwan? The present sanctions against Russia do not include oil since the US imports 7% of its oil from Russia. Maybe a carve out of sanctions for flat screen TVs?
On February 25, 2022 at 5:43 pm, Dan wrote:
Please apply your acerbic wit to the fact that Gucci Loafers and Belgian Diamonds are exempt from sanctions due to Prime Ministerial lobbying.
On February 25, 2022 at 5:47 pm, Gary Alexander wrote:
It's too late now (to quote a fine song), but hasn't this Ukie-war been long avoidable by one of two simple means? (1) By not forcing Ukraine into NATO, which is sort of like Cuba forcing Florida into an anti-American pact, or (2) By brokering an amicable divorce of Ukraine into two nations, the southeastern Russian-speaking half and the traditional northwestern Ukrainian nation -- similar to Czechoslovakia's amicable divorce into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It seems pig-headed to force their allegiance to artificial borders of young, divided non-nation and then force that neo-nation to choose NATO over its traditional Russian roots. What am I missing, State Department?
On February 25, 2022 at 5:50 pm, Elisa Angel wrote:
Could you remind me where Hillary Clinton arranged for all the uranium to go? She was out today badmouthing Trump, praising Biden, and saying something about Republicans liking Putin because like Putin, Republicans are anti-gay. She spews nonsense when she speaks so I didn't pay much attention, and then I remembered that she maybe needs to deflect to her usual nonsense because of her own role in getting money from Ukraine and Russia. How much money was funneled into that charity she fronts from Ukraine and Russia?
On February 25, 2022 at 5:51 pm, James P wrote:
At the risk if being branded a traitor, a Kremlin stooge, or worse, amd without in any way making excusing thr attack on Ukraine, is it unreasonable for Russia to take issue with potential Nato expansion (not to mention ongoing US meddling in the local politics) to its doorstep in a strategically sensitive region? After we promised that wouldn't happen? I seem to recall the US was not happy about the prospect if Soviet missiles in Cuba.
On February 25, 2022 at 5:52 pm, Mike wrote:
Mark,
While the spirit and fight in Ukraine's people is admirable, and I hope they inflict huge casualties on the Russians, any neocon wanting American boots on the ground needs to explain why we have that moral obligation when Ukraine suffered only 18 casualties in Iraq and left early, and sent almost no troops to Afghanistan, both wars having 20 year windows to demonstrate their assistance to America. And for next month's debate when China invades Taiwan, let's remember that Taiwan didn't send one troop to either Iraq or Afghanistan.
On February 25, 2022 at 5:54 pm, Robert Fox wrote:
We seem to have lost our ability to discern reality. Are we so far gone that we as a society will never be able to connect the dots between our weakness and the world's nuclearized strongmen further asserting themselves?
On February 25, 2022 at 5:54 pm, Philip Paustian wrote:
Excellent thoughts. But on a lighter note, have you ever considered pitching the Prisoner of Windsor/Prisoner of Zelda to Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber for a two night musical evening where his music would be the same for both but the lyrics would differ, Just a thought.
On February 25, 2022 at 5:57 pm, AlyM wrote:
Bizarre at it may sound, could Russia be delivering the "reality check" that Western democracies (especially the U.S.) desperately needs? Might these events, although horrific for the Ukrainian people, ultimately benefit democratic principles and a return to the concept of nation-states and a rejection of globalism and the New World Order of the unelected, unaccountable elites?
On February 25, 2022 at 5:58 pm, Joseph Dornisch wrote:
So, I always found the location of kaliningrad a bit strange - maybe the appropriate response to russia taking the ukraine should be to take kaliningrad - or if that's too direct - maybe it should be to take Cuba as they've been a vassal state of russia for 60 years or something anyway. What say you - warmed over imperialist?
On February 25, 2022 at 6:02 pm, George Pazin wrote:
How do we solve the problem of equality before the law?
This is the single biggest problem today. Magna Carta started this, but sadly didn't end it. Likewise with the Constitution we wave in your face.
What say you?
On February 25, 2022 at 6:06 pm, Peter Geraghty wrote:
Hi Mark, I am reading AJP Taylor's biography of Bismarck and re-reading Conrad Black's excellent biography of FDR. Bismarck was regarded as "the man of the nineteenth century" and FDR as "the man of the twentieth century. Do you think that Xi Jinping will be "the man of the twentieth century." I am thinking in particular of the manner in which China appears to be willing to render the western sanctions meaningless, driving up the cost of the confrontation with Russia.
On February 25, 2022 at 6:08 pm, Frank Gallenstein wrote:
Mark,
So many analysts and experts (some who have been recent guests on your show) seem to be obsessed with Putin's concerns about NATO expansion. I believe this is a Putin diversion. What he is likely concerned about is opposition within his own country; that is, the Russian masses.
It appears to me is he is trying to get rid of any Rus border country that has some semblance of democracy. Any success or freedom from such a country would impose a serious threat to him from the masses in Russia. They would be able to see the nearby successes and think, "Hey, why can't we be like them?"
And meanwhile Putin must keep his coterie happy. If he oversteps to the point where the West starts sanctioning his coterie, they'll come down on him. Just ask Gorbachev.
Speaking of Mikhail, why haven't any adoring western journalist asked Gorbachev his thoughts on these matters? I realize he is now 90 years old, but I suspect he is more cognitive than our president. Maybe these journalists who had Gorbasms over the years realize Mikhail won't say boo about it because he, like Putin, still fears for his life.
What say ye?
On February 25, 2022 at 6:08 pm, Elisa Angel wrote:
Putin is threatening to drop the "father of all bombs" if Ukraine doesn't surrender. Meanwhile back in lala land, NATO prepares a statement demanding Putin take sensitivity training and refrain from attributing "gender" traits on bombs.
That may look like a bad joke, but it's really what the West has become. We are a laughingstock. And we will be run over by the thugs of the world because let the weakest, lamest, and stupidest people run our countries.
On February 25, 2022 at 6:10 pm, AJ wrote:
Hey Mark, how hard do you think Chairman Xi, Putin and the ayatollahs are laughing right now? Do you they're worried about transgendered bathrooms in Ukraine right now? Asking for a friend.
On February 25, 2022 at 6:14 pm, Jackie Verbowski wrote:
The west is culpable in the extreme, even though it is, of course, Putin who is inflicting the pain and horror. I am very sympathetic to the Ukrainian people, not least because all my ancestors, Polish and Ukrainian, come from near Lviv. That said, what on earth have the Ukrainians been thinking? They elect a clown, a comedian, whose party was formed from the crew of a television program he starred in, to be their leader at a time when their national security is in the most peril it has been in decades. It's really astonishing to think of that. Then they follow the pied pipers of the west down the garden path, which we now see leads straight to their likely destruction.
Why? Why did the west lead them on like this, filling their country with weapons and egging them on, merely to sit back and Tweet sad tweets from their living rooms and back gardens while Russia pummels Ukraine with missiles and send tanks across their borders? Now the idiotic west is ginning up more and more hysteria about WWW III by suggesting no fly zones over Ukraine, cyber attacks against Russia and God knows what other stupidity? Do they really want war with Russia? Is that the end game? Do they think China will just sit back and watch? Or will China simply take Taiwan as their first military action of the third world war?
This is all very, very bad, and what is required more now than anything else is restraint not hysteria. What we have are leaders who lack any vestige of critical thinking and will go out and say basically any old stupid thing to show they are doing something and we're supposed to be reassured by that? That the current president of Ukraine's main qualification for the job was that he played one on TV is just such a perfect distillation of the primary ideological divide of our time between the subjective idealists of the woke west and objective realism. The west really does seem to believe it constructs it's own reality and can win a war with words and toothless sanctions.
What I really don't understand is why Ukraine fell for the west's tricks, as it has had an actual military conflict raging in part of its territory for 8 years, one in which, to my great shame, they have recruited actual Nazi sympathizers to participate, and as a result of which 14,000 have already died. They ought to have known that wars are won by bullets and blood, not words, and that some ideologies are so noxious they ought to be avoided at all cost. Turns out words are really just words.
On February 25, 2022 at 6:20 pm, Carolinan wrote:
Putin gave a detailed account of the motives behind his war decision. Perhaps that was just an empty diplomatic courtesy, but there it is. Biden responded with slogans. For years, Washington has dismissed Russia as just another basket of white trash deplorables, whose proper role is to bend over and take it, because the Kool Kids Rule, end of story. My question: Does this view over-rate beltway provincialism?
On February 25, 2022 at 6:21 pm, Chris Hall wrote:
Even our betters in DC have gradually come to appreciate Presidents who they loathed while in office. Eisenhower, Reagan and even Nixon have managed to mellow with age. However, the process can take decades and maybe with the current situation, we just don't have decades. Is there any way we can speed up the process of getting the Elites to stop worrying and learn to love mean tweets?
On February 25, 2022 at 6:22 pm, Frank Gallenstein wrote:
Mark,
So many analysts and experts (some who have been recent guests on your show) seem to be obsessed with Putin's concerns about NATO expansion. I believe this is a Putin diversion. What he is likely concerned about is opposition within his own country; that is, the Russian masses.
It appears to me is he is trying to get rid of any Rus border country that has some semblance of democracy. Any success or freedom from such a country would impose a serious threat to him from the masses in Russia. They would be able to see the nearby successes and think, "Hey, why can't we be like them?"
And meanwhile Putin must keep his coterie happy. If he oversteps to the point where the West starts sanctioning his coterie, they'll come down on him. Just ask Gorbachev.
Speaking of Mikhail, why haven't any adoring western journalist asked Gorbachev his thoughts on these matters? I realize he is now 90 years old, but I suspect he is more cognitive than our president. Maybe these journalists who had Gorbasms over the years realize Mikhail won't say boo about it because he, like Putin, still fears for his life.
What say ye?
On February 25, 2022 at 6:22 pm, JON FACCI wrote:
I hardly see Putin in opposition to Boris, E.U., the Swamp, or Biden.
How many days until China invades Taiwan?
On February 25, 2022 at 6:23 pm, Joe Olson wrote:
Happy Friday, Mark! Your work is consistently entertaining and edifying – but yesterday's analysis regarding hash-tags was especially brilliant. If you start selling T-shirts with "#BanalityDuJour" printed on them – I will buy one for myself and every member of my family. Even everyone I know if the tax refund is big enough. Thanks for everything - God Bless.
On February 25, 2022 at 6:23 pm, Drew Weber wrote:
Mark,
I see Biden has nominated a judge with the demographics of reportedly being married to a "6th generation Harvard graduate". Good he checked that box.
On February 25, 2022 at 6:24 pm, Bart Nielsen wrote:
OK Mark, I finally got around to trying to improve my grasp of geography in an unfamiliar corner of the globe for me, and lookied up the location of Honkers. Imagine my consternation at my search coming up empty.
Please educate me. Surely you're not referring to Honkers Restaurant in Muscoda, Wisconsin, nor to the geese that bear the name of the Deranged Dominion, who, given their vocalizations will surely be rounded up shortly by Jacinda Castro and have their golden eggs frozen.
Anyway, keep those time zone recitations coming. It's one of the few things we can count on.
On February 25, 2022 at 6:24 pm, Martha McNeely wrote:
Is Tucker Carlson showing admiration for Putin as the left say, or is he warning the world of how clever and dangerous Putin is?
On February 25, 2022 at 6:24 pm, Toby Pilling wrote:
I heard on the radio earlier today that the murderer of Sabina Nessa in London was described simply as an 'Eastbourne man'. His Albanian nationality wasn't relevant, it seems. Why was his country of origin memory holed, do you think?
On February 25, 2022 at 6:28 pm, Nicola Timmerman wrote:
What with Covid's Reign, Winter, Trudeau, Russia and Chinese invasions and real estate madness, any plans for a cruise this year? Desperately seeking sanity and a few laughs.
On February 25, 2022 at 6:54 pm, Walt Trimmer wrote:
You should have gone with Tex Ritter.
On February 25, 2022 at 6:54 pm, Walt Trimmer wrote:
You're referring to Konigsberg. The Soviets murdered a couple of million ethnic Germans at the end of WW2 when they occupied it. It sits like a dagger in NATO. I wonder how Putin would feel if we put restoring Konigsberg to the Prussians on the table.
