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"Ukraine President Zelensky just brought the House down at the NATO summit in Ankara, delivering a powerful speech rallying NATO. Contrast that to what Donald Trump just did with President Erdogan of Turkey, where Donald Trump spent the time attacking NATO over and over again and once again..."
[0:00] Ukraine President Zelensky just brought the House down at the NATO summit in Ankara,
[0:06] delivering a powerful speech rallying NATO. Contrast that to what Donald Trump just did
[0:13] with President Erdogan of Turkey, where Donald Trump spent the time attacking NATO over and over
[0:20] again and once again threatening to invade Greenland. Just take a look at the difference
[0:26] as you had Zelensky arriving in Turkey. You could see his posture, his confidence, just how he
[0:33] looked. Contrast that to the way Donald Trump looked, sickly, weak. He had to be held by Erdogan
[0:41] in order to walk in a straight line. Then the two appearances diverged even more from there.
[0:49] I'll share with you what went down as Zelensky gave the speech, where he talked about how in June
[0:55] alone nearly 28,000 Russian soldiers were eliminated in the war by Ukrainian soldiers. He says,
[1:04] we've confirmed every one of these deaths with our drones. We take no pride in this,
[1:10] but this is the way modern war is fought. Here play this clip.
[1:14] In June alone, nearly 28,000 Russian soldiers were eliminated and we have video confirmation for every
[1:24] single one of them. The overwhelming majority were struck by drones. And frankly, we take no pride,
[1:38] no pride in this. We are seeing it to, to show what modern war looks like. A war we did not start, but one,
[1:49] we are forced to fight in order to defend our country, our people, our children.
[1:56] Zelensky goes on to say how the very idea that Russia's rear, that Moscow, St. Petersburg, Omsk,
[2:07] other areas deep in Russia were protected and defended. Zelensky says that idea is gone. They don't have a
[2:16] strategic rear, our drones, which Zelensky refers to as long range sanctions, whether it's the FP1 or the FP5,
[2:26] which is the ballistic missile. The FP1 is the long range drone that could hit 3,400 kilometers right
[2:32] now. Those have been very effective in targeting Russian infrastructure abroad. Let's play this clip.
[2:39] We have completely eliminated the very average idea of Russia having a strategic rear. And you know,
[2:47] this country, and for a long time, Russia believed it had a territorial advantage. No one else possessed a
[2:56] deep rear where it could safely keep military production, military equipment, and everything.
[3:03] Its war depends on believing. No one could reach them. And we have reached them. Just yesterday,
[3:12] Ukrainian drones broke through Russia's defenses and struck a Russian oil refinery in Siberia. And this
[3:21] is not an exception. It's the new reality. And there is no major oil refinery left in Russia that has not
[3:31] been struck by Ukraine. More from Zelensky right here, who talks about how there's also the defense
[3:40] portion of this as well. And Ukraine, he's shown the visuals too that you've seen. Ukraine has been
[3:45] able to defend against the Russian drone swarms and even some of the Russian cruise missiles. But the
[3:54] Ukraine really struggles with the Russian ballistics because you really need the Patriot interceptors to do
[4:01] that. And the United States is not giving Ukraine the interceptors that Ukraine needs. The United
[4:08] States has not given Ukraine a license to produce the Patriot interceptors themselves in Ukraine.
[4:14] And the United States is not giving the interceptors to the European countries to even purchase and then
[4:20] give them to Ukraine. And so Zelensky calls that out right here. Let's play it.
[4:25] And today we defend against hundreds, hundreds of attacks, drones every, every day and night and
[4:33] thousands, thousands every week and every month. Ukraine's defense sector is building that capability
[4:41] even in the middle of a full scale war. And we also maintain a high interception rate against cruise
[4:49] missiles. Thanks to the way we have built our air defense. And thanks, of course, thanks to the support
[4:56] of all of our partners who continue to provide Ukraine with defense assistance. Thank you so much.
[5:06] And I have a question for you. Do you really believe it? Do you really believe it would be right to live
[5:17] outside NATO, a country and people with this level of defensive capability?
[5:24] Zelensky goes on to say, but look, we have things that we want to help NATO out with. It's just
[5:29] interesting, right? Donald Trump is spending his time there attacking NATO. Zelensky is like, all right,
[5:35] whatever you think, isn't it obvious that we've got great drone capacity, great technology right now?
[5:42] We know we could be helpful to all of you. So Ukraine's got the world's largest and most advanced
[5:48] drone warfare capability. And don't you want our help? Let's do it. And so we need a little bit of
[5:55] help when it just comes with the ballistics, but we can help you out a lot. Here, play this clip.
[6:00] Ukraine has the world's largest and the most advanced drone warfare capability. And we are offering
[6:07] this capability to our partners through the Drone Deal Initiative. I'm grateful to everyone who has
[6:14] already joined this initiative and to those who are joining it. Drone Deal Initiative, it's not only
[6:21] about buying drones, but also about co-production, fast track access to the means of protection of
[6:30] critical infrastructure, air defense, and of course, security cooperation.
[6:35] And then part of Zelensky's speech, he talks about, because let me tell you,
[6:38] the difference between me versus Putin, he says. He says, we are not fighting for pleasure or
[6:43] geopolitics. We're defending ourselves. And Putin wants to conquer Ukraine and believes that Ukraine
[6:51] is part of Russia and wants to reclaim a Russian empire. And we want to be sovereign Ukraine. We don't
[6:59] want to be taken over. We don't want to be demolished. We don't want to be wiped off the face of the map by
[7:06] Russia. Here's what he says. Play this clip on believing no one could reach them. And we have
[7:13] reached them. Just yesterday, Ukrainian drones broke through Russia's defenses and struck a Russian
[7:21] oil refinery in Siberia. And this is not an exception. It's the new reality. And there is no major oil
[7:33] refinery left in Russia that has not been struck by Ukraine. I want to emphasize this. Unlike Putin,
[7:42] we are not fighting this war for pleasure or for geopolitics. Russia brought this war to Ukraine
[7:52] and it's killing our people. It wants to destroy our independence. And we are only defending from the first
[8:01] day of this war. We are defending ourselves and we are raising the cost of this war for Russia. And by
[8:08] doing so, increasing the changes for peace, we are able to do this thanks, thanks to the hundreds of
[8:17] thousands of Ukrainians working in our very important defensive sector, defense sector, and the hundreds of
[8:24] companies producing every type of modern weapon Ukraine needs. Today, because of this, Ukraine has
[8:33] the world's largest and the most advanced drone warfare capability. And we are offering this capability
[8:40] to our partners through the drone deal initiative. I'm grateful to everyone who has already joined this
[8:48] initiative and to those who are joining it. Drone deal initiative, it's not only about buying drones,
[8:55] but also about co-production, fast track access to the means of protection of critical infrastructure,
[9:04] air defense, and of course, security cooperation. And then he talks about the urgent need for our own
[9:11] capabilities to produce interceptors here. Like he's like to all the European countries, we can't rely
[9:18] on Trump and the US for this. Like, isn't that clear? You saw the US had no clue how to even fight a war
[9:25] against Iran. You know, and Donald Trump wanted to brag, look how great we were. You ran out of 50%
[9:31] of your weapons, you know, in a 40 days or so of actual combat. And so from just a technical military
[9:41] strategy, you depleted, you destroyed the global economy, you depleted your resources. And the way you
[9:49] even time the trips with those big aircraft carriers that were deployed for way longer than any time in
[9:56] history, it just wasn't the right way to strategically run this thing. And then, of course, all of the war
[10:00] crimes the US committed, massacring the girls in Manab and then trying to cover it up. Anyway,
[10:07] Zelensky's like, we need our own stuff. So we can't rely. The US is not someone we can rely on. Here's what
[10:12] Zelensky had to say. Let's play. And I believe Europe urgently needs its own capability to produce
[10:19] anti-ballistic systems and the missiles they require. We all value the Patriot system. It's
[10:27] an excellent, an excellent system. And there are others as well. But today's wars have shown that
[10:34] current Patriot production is not enough to meet the growing demand for protection against ballistic
[10:41] missiles. That is a fact. And we must respond to that fact. Those who defend life need more
[10:51] Patriots. We have also discussed Patriot production licenses with our American partners. And I ask you
[10:58] to support our efforts to make this happen. Now, again, contrast that to when Donald Trump was with
[11:03] President Erdogan. And here's what Donald Trump said when it came to Trump said, I'm removing all
[11:10] sanctions against Turkey. And the sanctions were about Turkey buying defense weapons from Russia,
[11:16] defense systems from Russia. That's why Turkey was subject to these sanctions, these Kosta sanctions.
[11:21] And Donald Trump, I'm not worried about anything. I don't, I don't care about that. Here, play this clip.
[11:27] What does that mean? Third party? Is that not part of the deal?
[11:36] Third party? What is the third? With respect to what?
[11:39] There's our concerns about the Russian missile defense systems. Do you have those concerns about this
[11:44] system? I have no concerns at all about anything. I mean, he's a leader of a country that he's made
[11:51] a much better country, much more powerful country. And you see it. I mean, it's beautiful. You get off
[11:56] the roads are beautiful. It's an amazing thing. Now, I have no concerns about anything having to do
[12:02] with Turkey. The relationship, I would say the relationship with Turkey right now is better probably
[12:08] than it's ever been. It was good in my first four years, but I think now it's probably even better than
[12:13] that if that's possible. And then you have Donald Trump saying, I don't, you know, Ukraine doesn't
[12:22] affect us in the United States. Doesn't matter to us at all. Doesn't, doesn't matter one bit,
[12:26] he says. Here, let's play this clip. You know, it doesn't affect the United States.
[12:31] When Biden was here, he gave them hundreds of billions of dollars worth of equipment.
[12:35] Now I sell the equipment for, you know, fair price, full price. And I sell it not to Ukraine,
[12:42] I sell it to the European Union. They pay us. But. And then Donald Trump threatens to annex
[12:47] Greenland. Let's play. Well, that's what hurt my relationship with NATO, because Greenland doesn't
[12:54] help Denmark. Denmark doesn't spend money to really help Greenland, but it's an important part for the
[13:02] United States. And it's surrounded by China ships and Russian ships. And that's not going to happen.
[13:08] The ships is, it's not going to happen. It was Greenland that in my, and it continues to be,
[13:15] that should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark. And when they wouldn't go along with it,
[13:21] and with all the money we spend to help them with Russia, and we don't have to spend any money,
[13:26] we could remove all of our soldiers out of Europe. Because as you probably noticed, Europe's a very
[13:32] different place than it was 20 years ago. A lot different, much different. It's a much different,
[13:38] and they better be careful with immigration and energy. If they're not careful with those two
[13:44] things, you're not going to have a Europe anymore. Okay. Thank you very much, everybody.
[13:49] So that's the difference right there. Let me know what you think. But it seems like a big contrast to
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