America’s Place in the World Is About to Change in a Big Way. Tucker Responds.
4/2/202656 min
Trump’s speech last night announced the end of global American empire. There’s turbulence ahead, but long term it’s a huge win for the United States.
(00:00) Ground Troops
(03:12) Who Controls the World?
(23:00) Is It Possible to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz?
(32:10) Is This the End of the American Empire?
(47:30) Corrupt Church Leaders Are Being Replaced
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Tucker Carlson· Host0:29
[news music] So the three headlines from the president's speech last night, at least in the short term, are no ground troops, didn't mention ground troops. Yes, we are getting out in some number of weeks by the end of April, and there's not going to be regime change. Regime change, as he said explicitly, is not our goal. So are those true? Well, of course, you can't tell. You can't know at this point. As Trump himself said, this has been a very short engagement relative to, say, the First or Second World War or Vietnam. But all of those wars began with similar promises. This won't last long. Back by fall. All the kind of famous slogans that we chuckle about ironically decades later. They had no idea what they were getting into, and that is true, again, for every conflict. The second people start dying, you really don't know where it's going to end.