Hello everyone. This is Rumble with Michael
Moore and I am Michael Moore. Welcome everyone wonderful to
have you with me here today, I just I just watched a Belfast
again in honor of st. Patrick's Day tomorrow is such a
powerful movie about a Protestant family, back at the
beginning of the troubles. 1969 Protestant family, living
essentially in a Catholic neighborhood And and how
everyone for many, many years saw themselves, mainly as Irish
and not not so much as a Catholic, or Protestant, or
whatever, but because of the way that the British government ran
Northern Ireland. The way that the Catholic
citizens were kept in permanent to second-class citizenship.
And, and then finally, in August of Nine.
The British soldiers opened fire on unarmed protesters Catholic
protesters and killed a number of them, including a number of
children and all hell broke loose after that.
And so Kenneth Branagh, the director and writer and producer
who started it? Really in in the air, I started
it went with his first film. I think it was first of all,
first big film Henry, the fifth nineteen, this 1989 Fine.
So it was Spike, had do the right thing.
Brenda had Henry, the fifth, Steven soderbergh's, first film
sex, lies and videotape. I think it was the first we saw
Denzel Washington in glory. It was really, it was an amazing
year. I'm leaving out a lot.
Paul mazursky these enemies a love story.
It's I'm just aren't trying to do this from memory now but
there were so many things. A cusp They answered Drugstore.
Cowboy and every Festival we were at Denzel was there at the
next Festival? We'd all see each other and Gus
Van Sant and Matt Dillon, and the others from Drugstore
Cowboy. Wow, was such an exciting moment
in time. They have my first film out
there and I was just nobody from Flint Michigan.
And I, of course, it never made a film before and didn't go to
film School. At least I didn't think I knew
what I was doing, but it turned out sometimes it's helpful.
Not to know what you're doing and it became Roger and me and
so and so to see, you know, get branded filling.
All these years later now, his new film Belfast.
Great filmmaker and it is so powerful.
And I know, I guess it's hard, it's hard for me because of, you
know, most my family. My ancestors are Irish and and I
know all these stories and all the stories have been passed
down and how they had to suffer and survive and get by, how many
my, my first. You should be my great.
Great. Great.
If not great, great, aunts came from Cork in the 1880s.
We still have the our family's loved the boat ticket with the
three sisters. They were the first to come
came, got jobs came to Michigan. I don't know if they pass
through Canada or whatever, but they came to Michigan, and they
got jobs and sent money back, and so others in the family
could come over. And it's a you know and here I
am grateful to all who came before me grateful to those who
suffered grateful to those who suffered discrimination here in
the US. No Irish need apply taken off
the boat in New York Harbor and the 1860s and enforced into the
army. Not go and settle a life here
but go fight. And died in a war for a country
that they'd only been in for an hour or two.
If, you know, if you're Irish, you know, all these stories
you're not, you know, your people.
However, they got here, be it in Chains, be it, they were the
first ones here, we're all the other, all the other ethnic
groups that have come here over the years to try to make it.
Everyone has their story and Or he's.
So these were these were mine and and I've held them close and
I remind myself of it and the empathy that I need to have as a
grandchild of immigrants it into stand.
For those who are now being punished, who are now being
discriminated against never to lose sight of of the fact that
that except for the, the First Peoples, the native people who
are here already and the, and those who were brought Heroes as
enslaved, human beings, the rest of us, all came, we're all
descendants of immigrants. And it is stunning to see the
behavior of our fellow Americans, when it comes to the
treatment of immigrants and I'll tell you, it's even more
profoundly. Stunning to see, my fellow Irish
Americans, the the level of some of bigotry, Not just to new
immigrants, but to people of color, it's really shameful and
embarrassing. And and those who live in
Ireland, and those who are Irish, they they know what four
years, the people in Europe, in other countries, called the
Irish I'm not going to say the word, you know what the word is,
they were considered that of Europe.
And so if anybody should have empathy toward immigrants and
and toward people of color in this country, it should be us,
the Irish, the Irish Americans. And of course, all my Irish
friends, I do have that and have fought for that and stand up for
that and fight racism and bigotry in all that.
But so so many more Don't. Saturday night, I was asked to
be a presenter on the Irish Academy Awards in Dublin and it
it's called. And the official name is the
Irish film and television Awards, or the Irish film &
television Academy Awards. I just hate guys.
It's okay. Just call it Academy Awards.
It mean, we don't mind, you know, it's not like, it's kind
of cool because I've been to the, I've been to the Irish
Oscars. I've been to bafta with the
British Oscars. I bend the French Oscars is
called the same as ours and I won.
I won that best documentary. I didn't, I didn't get that.
I won best foreign film. And I was up against Steven
Soderbergh, that Year, Steven Spielberg, and I forgot another
filmmaker to you and and we won. And we were stunned.
You know, I went up on the stage to accept the award was given to
me, my French actress Isabelle, who bear?
And wow, I was just, um, You know I spoke a little French
awful don't ever try that. I've done it a couple times, I
mean, I'd there they appreciate it.
I mean, well, when I do that but they, you know they're like.
Okay my God thank you for trying but it's it I think that year
was actually the year of cheese. That's right.
That was the actually, it was the month.
Before we invaded in bombed and killed civilians in Iraq.
A war. Of course eventually lost big
loser once again but um probably going to mention that here in a
little bit because I want to talk about it as it relates to
what's going on with Ukraine right now.
But my thanks to the people at the Irish Academy for having me
present the best Irish documentary award best Irish
documentary, the year and and I and I got to speak.
A tiny bit of Irish are Nate our native tongue which is not
English. And I think I pulled that part
off. I didn't hear from anybody
because we average will be the first make commentary and
anybody who's up on their high horse thinking that they could.
Oh, oh, so you can speak Irish numbers tomorrow.
But no, it's so but st. Patrick's Day I'm recording this
on. I need, I don't know, whatever
the day before st. Patrick's Day, I guess we're
sort of the day before, always loved this day, not for the
parades and that for the drinking.
But for my gratitude, My gratitude for knowing that
sometimes my sense of humor, your sense of humor is what
saves us from utter friggin Despair, and we've needed it.
These last couple of years more than ever, but the best part
about seeing Belfast today, Is that two years ago today was the
last time I entered a movie theater to watch a movie.
And today, I called up the person who went to the movies
with two years ago today and I said, if you've been to the
movies yet, in these two years of the pandemic and I know me
neither, let's let's do it. Let's just do it.
We're good, we're good. We're, we're triply vaccinated.
We've got good n95, masks, let's just go do it.
What do you want to see? I want to see Belfast.
It looks like a like just the look of it, the cinematography
just black and white beautiful. I want to see that I want to see
the theater and, you know, you can go on a mini feeders out and
see how many seats have been sold and where they've been
sold. And so, this theater had 150
seats and 138 of them were empty.
So talk about social distancing, it felt safe, and I'd already
talked to people at AMC about, They're filtering systems in the
things they've done during the pandemic.
It's not what I did at my theaters.
I went Whole Hog on big, new filters are exchanged fresh air,
new fresh air in there every, you know, 10 or 15 minutes just
to make it as safe as possible. They don't do that in the, you
know, the multiplexes, but they have done many things to make it
safe. And so, it felt safe.
And so we went to the movies, we went to the movies and salt
Belfast, and, Wow. I was in tears.
The final scene. It just hit too close to home.
And so, thank you, Kenneth Branagh, for making this
incredible movie. It is nominated as best picture
and I think a whole bunch of other nominations this year, for
the Oscars, not the Irish Oscars, the American Oscars.
And but it was also personally, uplifting for me to get out and
to go to one of my maybe my favorite place. you know, my
real church that I used to go to Two, three times a week.
And now I have a con in two years if you could be in here in
the podcast room right now and just see me how how uplifted I
am and How glad I am to be alive.
And how sorry I am to all those who've had to suffer or who've
lost loved ones, nearly a million Americans gone well over
6 million worldwide. So, You know I think that's also
part of the Irish in us how much we care and how much we don't
forget the suffering of others. So here I am reinvented.
In the movies. And Ready to go.
As I'm recording this, just a few hours before president.
Solinsky from Ukraine, is going to be on a big screen wife
inside the House of Representatives were both.
Houses of Congress. Will hear a talk from him?
I'm sure it'll be a powerful and emotional moment.
Everyone I know is behind him, but I have some things to say
he's going to make certain requests of us in the morning.
That I want to suggest we pause and think about it first.
That will be the next. 30 minutes or less of what I have
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important that I want to say to all of you today.
I don't know if you feel this way.
But I feel this way. I feel I feel that there are
people. That are trying to take us to
war. And I'm not talking about people
like Putin, I mean and if you've listened to my podcast and you
were at my things online and whatever my sub stack, you know
exactly how I feel about mr. Putin and you know exactly how I
feel about the Ukrainian people and as someone who years ago
traveled both with in what was then the USSR Soviet Union, and
someone who myself who then came back and travelled in what was
the new Russia? And twice was present when mr.
Putin long before he was president of Russia where he was
present where I was present. Our paths weirdly crossed.
So, my feelings about all of this about what he's done.
About the sad and tragic place that the Ukrainian people are
in, none of that has changed in these last few weeks.
But here's what has changed. What has changed is there are
those Who are trying to take us to war.
And, I mean, they're trying really, really hard and some of
it is very effective. The media.
Our politicians. Are corporations who stand to
make millions billions off of War.
And you know what? I've been through this enough in
my lifetime that I'm hip to it. I know when I'm being
manipulated. And I wanted to take a few
minutes in this podcast here today, it's a, this won't be
long. I just I just I want to express
my dissatisfaction with the manipulation that is going on,
so that I somewhere in my heart will eventually say any day now,
We have to go there. We have to go to Ukraine.
We have to go to war. And you know, also, if you know
me, I will fight that feeling every inch of the way.
Because we are not going to war. As I've said before we we are
such. We have such a bad history of
warmongering. We've done good things.
We've in the past there have been some times where we've gone
and supported and protected people and all of that.
But generally, that's not us, generally, that's not us.
We had we are violent people. So we founded the country.
Based on E genocide elect many acts.
To remove permanently, the people who were here first.
And then our second Original Sin, That of bringing slaves
here through acts of violence. Killing a lot of them hanging, a
lot of them. But we needed to build the new
country and we needed free labor, and so boom.
Millions of slaves. And deaths.
And what is my our responsibility to protect the
people here and around the world because we all live on the same
planet. We all share that planet.
So But our actions since World War Two. have been pretty sad
and Despicable and wrong, whether it was Korea, Vietnam
Cambodia, Laos, you go down the whole list of things that we did
invading, the Dominican Republic, all the all the other,
the wars after Vietnam or started, you know, mainly by
Reagan with, you know, Panama and and then the first Iraq war
under Bush the first And then, the grotesque invasion of Iraq.
In 2003. And before that going into
Afghanistan, without really a clue of event.
Let's go to war, let's go to war.
Let's all hop on our horses and go to war.
That's just always seems to be the first thought.
How's that worked out for us? How'd that work out for the
Afghan people? How'd it work out for the Iraqi
people? So after these two colossal
mistakes, I wrote a thing, basically saying that we have to
go to the timeout room, we Americans, we are not allowed to
go to war anymore. If there is a justifiable reason
to help others who are being attacked, whatever, there's
things we can do. And we've seen that in this case
here, with Ukraine with sanctions with defense.
Of armaments. There's things we can do, but we
can't go there. We must not go anywhere because
of our behavior in these last 20 years, we have to stay in the
timeout room. And it's how I filled this week,
but I'll tell you, I have to turn the TV off.
Are you, are you feeling the same way that you can't watch
the news anymore? I mean, I literally have had to
stop. I'll maybe once a day, I'll
check. In just to see, what kind of BS
is being shoved, down the throats, or the ears, or the
eyes of the American people. in every day, if you notice us, it
just gets more and more and more and the story they want to tell
The sad story, The sadder the better.
Showing the Ukrainian cities being bombed.
Showing people dead in the streets showing the children
awful awful awful. In your heart breaks. and if you
care, if you give a damn Your brain goes, I should be doing
something, we should be doing something.
This has to stop. This guy's crazy.
Of course, that's part of the debate, isn't it?
Putin isn't completely stupid. He knows we like the bait of
War. And it doesn't take much.
To get us active. And to get us violent.
And to show up. Thousands and thousands and
thousands of miles away. He's doing something on his
doorstep. He's doing something to a
country that used to be part of Russia.
He is that he's, you know. It's it's it's again just
imagine if he had sent Russian troops to Mexico or Canada here
in the last month, where would we be then?
Probably not in the timeout room, right?
Yeah. But he knows us.
He's got her number. Most of the world has her
number. And what I am when I want to say
here today on this episode is I am begging you To resist.
Not resist, Putin, the Ukrainian people are doing a great job of
that. I mean, how many, how many weeks
have gone by, where we still are watching.
That one, that one piece of footage of the Russian tanks and
trucks on that one road. And like every other day it gets
bigger, Ellis has five miles long and then it was ten miles
long. Then it was 40 miles long.
Okay. Well, why is that?
It might be because actually the Ukrainian people are doing what
we would do, if that if that line of tanks are whatever, if
it wasn't a convoy of trucks of trump supporting Canadians, that
such a thing coming across the Ambassador Bridge in.
But what if what if it was Russian tanks and and all
whatnot, what would we do? We'd have to probably say
goodbye to the Ambassador Bridge for one thing but of course you
know that's not what's going on here and what we're seeing every
day is this kind of uptick in more footage more photos more
and there's one last night I don't know.
I tuned in to one of the networks and they showed a
missile coming into a parking lot and blow up.
I don't know like I think I went back and paused it and counted
seven seven and nine cars and it is awful course, you know, but
they made it sound like this happen today.
And I'm thinking, dude, you showed me this like three weeks
ago. What is going on here?
What is going on and the president zelinski?
Fellow satirist and of course, as you know, a couple weeks ago,
I offered to, you know, conduct any negotiations on his behalf
to get this thing to stop, but he is he's taking this position.
Now that that we are responsible to, we have to fly airplanes,
and shoot down, Russian planes, that are flying over Ukraine.
We need a no-fly zone. It has to be enforced by our air
force, or we give planes to the polls, or I don't know.
Each day. There's a new method, but it's
all about shutting down the airspace. but, First of all,
we're not going to do that. I don't know how to say this to
president solinsky into the arena Ukrainian people, but let
me I'm just we're not doing that that would start such a massive
war with Putin with Russia. You've got two countries that
have thousands of nuclear missiles pointed at each other.
And we are not going to do that, not even for Ukraine.
And they may be hard to hear if you're Ukrainian, if you're
president solinsky. But we are not going to risk the
destruction of the world. For well for anything, frankly.
That I know is a bitter pill to swallow, but there are other
people Europeans European countries, neighbors of Ukraine.
There are others because it is their neighborhood and because
they don't have our record of just willfully.
Randomly invading other countries and killing your
people bombing. Civilian populations.
Like we've done in Iraq, there are people that can help Not us.
Because we're afraid it's because we've behaved badly.
And so we're not allowed to. Especially not when there are
others who can help. And let me tell you who's
helping. I think let me just offer a good
guess here. If you watched Putin's crazed
speech. From that table of his on the
day. He decided to go to war.
I think we ran at least an hour. You saw that I never, I never
thought Putin was like just outright batshit crazy, but
there he was saying stuff that I'm like, dude.
You know, even though I don't agree with you but at least I've
thought you had a brain and and I think you I hoped you knew
what was best for your people and to keep them out of war and
all that. But man but here's the thing,
you've got to go back and watch this a couple days later.
He televised a meeting with his top generals about the war and
again he's that one of those hundred foot long tables or it's
not that long but you know what I'm saying?
It looks like it's you know it looks like Like, you know, he's
at one end of the table of Moscow and the people down at
the other end of the table are in Minsk, but they would cut
away to the generals, like close-ups two shots and the
generals were like looking each other out of the sides of their
eyes or they were looking down at their papers and trying to
pretend they were shuffling them around.
Or if I could have put subtitles under the looks of those
generals faces, it would have said, this guy is fucking nuts.
That is the look on their faces, you'll see it.
If you if you go back and look at it they're there.
They looked embarrassed. They looked like they were
trying to look communicate with each other because I couldn't
say anything. Like what do we do?
I don't know what do we do? We back we must do something.
Yes, you must do something because he he is going to get
your soldiers killed. So between that and then a week
or so ago, the various oligarchs, the uber wealthy in
Russia. People that were have, been made
wealthy essentially by Putin, and his crimes and his, his
dishonesty. And but they started coming out
publicly against the war, saying it was wrong.
We need to end this, stop it. Like like the top three or four
of the richest ones in Russia were saying publicly to Putin
stopped. And I have felt pretty much
since last week and again, I don't know if this will happen,
but I think what may stop him and what may stop, this war are
the people who enjoyed their wealthy.
Criminal life in Russia with their billions of dollars that
he made available to them. They probably don't want that
way of life to end. In a war like, this could make
that come to a close. So they want to stay Rich, live
rich, and, and the generals and the soldiers they want to live
And they don't want to fight for something.
They don't believe in. And I thought, well you know
what, that is going to that is going to bring, we won't have to
really do anything. I think you're maybe in the next
few weeks. The generals.
And the rich are going to put a stop to this.
Your they're going to convince them to stop or come up with an
idea to save face. Or there may not be a Vladimir
Putin, any longer something will happen.
That's that's my, just a wild idea in my head that may be
true. And you know, me, if you've been
with me for a number of decades, you know that sometimes when I
have these crazy ideas, it's actually what is the truth and
what will happen. So maybe not, I could be wrong.
But but we jumping into this war and tugging on our heartstrings
and, and today, a documentary filmmaker and American, Brent,
ran out, and into another reporter for Fox News killed
there, and it's a good way to get Americans again to get
behind a war. Now, they're killing us, they've
killed American journalists. They're killing Americans.
Did you hear me? They're killing Americans?
Like Mike. Mike Mike, Mike, Mike And I'm
here to say that while I'm very sad about that.
And I will remember all. Who have perished in this war be
there Americans or not? The solution is not form or to
perish. And president solinsky the
there's not going to be a no-fly zone that the United States is
going to operate. We are not going to send in our
jet fighters and our bomber planes.
It's just not going to happen. And for those of you listening
to this, who are thinking, yeah but Mike, no no, there's no,
yeah, but we have not earned. The privilege of coming to the
aid of others who are dying. We have not earned the privilege
of that act. Because of our Behavior because
of how many civilians we killed in Iraq.
The numbers vary, it's all over the place.
We killed a hundred thousand civilians.
We've killed over the years and this dates back to when Clinton
was President nearly a million araki's.
Someday the UN somebody will sort out the exact number but,
you know, it's bad. And for what?
We wanted to protect our oil that was under there ground
because of all the lies we were told by Colin Powell.
I'm sorry, I don't speak ill of the Dead.
I rode with them on an Amtrak train one time and it had a nice
conversation. I thought it was nice.
I'm not sure also sure he did but but listen, We were lied to,
we were sent to war. Between Afghanistan and Iraq.
What do we have, six seven, eight thousand dead American
soldiers. I'm sorry, I don't know the
exact number right now. You know, and if there's if
there's 7,000 of them that's 14,000 parents lost a child,
it's thousands of husbands and wives.
Who lost a loved one? I don't know how many thousands
of kids no longer have a dad or a mom because of our Insanity.
So know, President solinsky. We're not coming.
I know that's hard to hear and we will help.
We are helping. In every other way possible.
And we will support your neighbors who I know, want to
help you. But all of this, you know, the
bombing yesterday that was just 10 15 miles from the Polish
border in Ukraine. And they all got on TV, all the
politicians, all the ex-generals, all the pundits.
Last night and today the Russians bombed, a base that was
just a few miles from the Polish border.
In all, we've had to listen to today is Putin.
We told you You touch any, any acre of land, bomb?
It kill, its people, whatever of a NATO country, we're coming in
all of us. One for all and all for one.
Can you did this just a few miles from the Polish border?
We're ready. We're right.
Do that again? And have one of those missiles.
Go astray and coming to Poland. We're coming after you.
That is been the drumbeat today. And I have to tell you
something. No we're not.
We're not coming. I know people don't want me to
say this all out. Because we want to stop him.
He has to be stopped. But the ukrainians seem to be
doing such a good job, you know, they have the third largest army
in Europe. The way, that's another way
they've tried to pull at our heartstrings, look at how bad it
is for the ukrainians, although they all they've got our rakes
and shovels. No, they don't.
We we and others have fun to them to the Max.
And we have sent them so many missiles in armaments and tanks
and things. There are well-trained.
Army were one of the countries who've helped to train them.
I'm just saying we're being manipulated.
And and who amongst you? I want to ask you.
I mean, I know some of you disagree with me on this, but
who amongst you believes that because of NATO that were in
NATO, That we have to jump in if a missile hits Poland.
Don't say that like of course, we do know.
We don't not us. Yes, others have to Europe has
to but us. By the way, first of all, as far
as Europe goes, we've already jumped in more than once to help
and have lost hundreds of thousands of Americans.
To help. To bring an end to Hitler.
Which means I can't let that moment go by without reminding
you that those who gave the most in WWII, were the Russians were
the Soviets. Nearly 25 million killed in
World War. Two Russians Soviets.
To stop Hitler. Without the Soviet Union, a lot
of people will say it will tell you.
So historians will tell you that the Russians had to really take
it on the chin and if they hadn't We may not have won that
war. They became such a distraction
to the sick mind of Hitler. And also because this all this
Eastern Europe and that brushing all that contains so many Jewish
men, women and children. The idea of just going there for
Hitler was just like you know breaking open a pinata.
How Falls all the people that he wants to execute and kill?
They had to fight and fight a vicious fight, and lost so many
millions of people. And we lost a few hundred
thousand. And so it's not like we haven't
done this and it's not like we necessarily wouldn't do it again
under the proper circumstances. But right now, We just ended the
Afghanistan war. This past year and Iraq went on
for so long. We are not allowed to do this
President solinsky and the whole thing about that, we have some
responsibility or that we should feel guilty about this or
whatever. Well, let us feel guilty.
I do feel guilty. I wish that we could protect
this entire planet in more ways than one, not just when it comes
to war. But we are a miserable failure
at that and you cannot ask us. To do that, which we really have
not been successful in doing since World War Two.
And to the media, stop it. Stop it.
All these stories, every day, every night.
What are you trying to do? All the stories you've got
reporters at the train stations and showing them awful situation
with a million or two million refugees.
It's, it is awful. We don't need you manipulating
the truth. The truth is hard enough.
We all feel it. How many of those ukrainians, by
the way, if we put on planes to come here, move them here.
The people that have had the leaf, I don't know the exact
number, but I'll tell you it ain't many.
Refugees in America foreigners. No, that's that us.
That's not US unless you can prove to the Republicans that
should bring them here. They'll vote for republicans.
That's how it worked under Reagan.
And before him with the Cubans and Vietnamese, anybody, anybody
who would pledge their loyalty, To the Republicans that would
increase their votes. In those places in the country
where they were brought talk about manipulation talk about
using them. But no.
This can happen, my friends and I don't want to belabor this
really any longer. I just I want to I want to say
that I am opposed to any form of War when it involves the United
States of America. I want the news media to tell
the truth. And to tell the actual, the
actual political story that's going on.
I want to hear what's being done in Russia with the Russian
people. What they're planning to do to
get rid of Putin, to take them out, to stop him, I want to know
what's the military doing? That would be real reporting,
wouldn't it? What are they oligarchs doing?
I just I see the 10 looker just lost the Chelsea football team
there in England. You know a lot of I've lost
their Yachts. This is serious stuff.
I want to know more about that because that may lead to the end
of this more than anything else. So what I'm asking for to all of
you who are listening to rumble is, first of all, I hope I've
earned your trust over the years from the various movies.
I've made about the various lies we've been told and in the
various movements. We've all joined over these
years to fight against what is done in our name.
And with our tax dollars, I'm asking you to join with me.
Contact your representatives right to the White House
whitehouse.gov and tell them that we are opposed to war.
War is not the answer, especially not in American War.
It's been what. Now 70?
What 77 years? Since we've been useful.
In that regard, it's not now. To all of you who are parents
out there. And you have a teenager.
Boy, or girl. Are you willing to sacrifice
them? You would you give up their life
tonight so that we can save heave Look at your children
right now and I don't care what age.
They're five there 10, 15, 20. Just say to yourself, you know,
little Jason here. Yeah he's a good kid.
Love them. Love them to death.
Key part is death though. I'd be willing for him to die.
To get Odessa back. You can't do it.
Can you there are things that all of us would be willing to
give our lives for and I think the number one thing that each
of us would be willing to give our lives for would be to keep
our children alive. That's why we're not letting
them go off to war. And you cannot sit there and you
listen to me and say, well, no, I think we should, we should be
in there. We should go into him, we should
know no fly and all we should do that because of course, your
kids are not in the military. So let's somebody else's child
died. Let your neighbors child.
What's your cousin's? Child died.
So we can get back, the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
Can you say that? Or let's just be more honest
here, let the children of the poor and the working class.
Let them die. I give them up.
Really let the children of black Americans and brown Americans.
Let them die. That's who's going to die by the
way, you know that I didn't need to say that.
I really white people, my friends, please come on, let's
be honest. No American dies.
We are smart people, we have smart people, we can help in
some ingenious ways to bring this to an end to stop Putin.
But we're not participating in World War 3 and we need to say
that loud and clear. You need to write to your
representatives. Your senators.
Biden. No World War 3.
Nothing that would ignite a war like that.
No Americans in Ukraine. No Americans in Russia.
NATO. That's such an old idea.
It should have gone down as soon as the Berlin Wall came down
cold war was over. Why is there still an 80?
We have to make our voices heard right now.
It won't take long. Call your representative or your
Senator, you know, the Capitol Hill switchboard number by now
202. 2 2 4 3, 1 to 1. If it's busy, try 200 to 225
3121. It's open pretty much 24 hours
of the day, a human will answer. Call them and tell them.
No Americans in Ukraine or Russia and no American support
of NATO. There are other ways to stop
Putin. Let's be smart, let's employ
those methods. And let's support the Ukrainian
people in every way that we can. I will put on this platform page
here, a link, or two. If you want to send money to
help the refugee situation. There's a number of ways to help
the Ukrainian people and we should all do that.
But we will not be barging in with our guns and our tanks in
our planes. And if Biden changes his mind
and if he decides to do that or if he decides to get all up on
his NATO horse, then we have got to get into the streets and we
have got to let them know. No no this is not the way.
To end the killing of the people in Ukraine.
So please call your Senators, your representatives call the
White House right to the White House.
Let them know and president solinsky we're here for you and
every other way and you don't really want us there.
That's like the dumbest thing to do to let us.
Metal in this thing and mess it up, even more.
I'm hoping those of you who are listening to me are agreeing
with us. If you don't agree, I respect
you. I understand.
I'm just saying we should try the other way.
It hasn't worked. We lost the Iraqi War.
We lost the Afghanistan war. We lost the Vietnam War.
That's just the truth hard to swallow when we've got.
We're number one written all over her chest.
That's the truth. I'm open to hearing any ideas
that you have. You who are listening any, let's
hear some smart ideas. I'll talk about it here and
Rumble ways that we can help that don't involve us showing
up. Unannounced.
Thanks so much for listening to this today.
And I would love to hear your feedback, but please don't sit.
Don't sit this one out. We need to be active.
And media Cheese's. Find a different storyline.
Please. Please.
That's it for me today here on Rumble with Michael Moore.
I'm Michael Moore. I'd like to thank our executive
producer, bezel Hamden, our producer and editor.
Angela Vargas are other editor and sound engineer, Nick quads,
and our Jack of all the traits Donald orenstein.
Thanks to everybody. Who else to me with this
podcast? Thanks to all of you who listen
and we'll talk soon here. I'm Michael Moore.
And have a good day.