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Welcome to the show. We've got a really,
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The midterm elections have already been decided-- surprise.
America's fish are doing drugs, and Her Majesty the Queen
is celebrating 70 years as the world's
most beloved unelected dictator. So let's do this, people.
Let's jump straight into today's headlines.
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All right, everybody, as you may know and as you should know,
today was a very special day for the queen.
And, no, I'm not talking about Beyoncé.
I'm talking about the original queen--
the crown-wearing, Range-Rover-driving 96-year-old
five-foot giant whose face has been on money
longer than any of us losers have even been alive.
-Long live the queen! -(cheering, applause)
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Every one of us from the colonies,
we just get so excited when we talk about the queen.
Yeah. They whipped it into us when we were kids.
It's not my fault. Where was I? Oh, yes, yes.
Queen Elizabeth II has now
officially been on the throne for 70 years,
which means it's time to throw a little party.
NEWSWOMAN: Four days of parades and pageantry underway
in London this morning to celebrate the historic
70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Hundreds of thousands gathering outside of Buckingham Palace.
(cheering)
Tens of millions watching around the world,
an event filled with royal tradition and ceremony.
NEWSMAN: 1,500 troops, 350 horses,
this pageantry is the envy of the world.
At Stonehenge, they have been showing pictures of the queen
from different decades.
NEWSMAN 2: The jubilee's official dessert:
a seven-layer lemon trifle in honor of the queen's
seven decades of service.
The queen has gi-has given us her life, really.
I love her. She's beautiful.
-(people whooping) -God save the queen!
The incredible composure of the queen herself,
standing on that balcony.
Just how glamorous Kate looked.
I mean, she is becoming an icon.
And, uh, then little Prince Louis, who looked,
frankly, bored and a little unimpressed by the whole thing.
Yeah, of course he's bored.
Don't forget, he's a prince, okay?
So, to him, she's not the queen of England in her palace.
She's just Granny in her house
with the grandma smell, all right?
It doesn't matter what the spectacle is,
at the end of the day, he is still a little kid
at a family party. If you want to hold his interest,
you know what you got to do? You got to give him an iPad. Yeah.
That's what I do with four-year- olds whenever I look after them.
Yeah. I put YouTube on autoplay
and then, boom-- they sit for, like, ten hours straight.
Yeah. I'm the world's best babysitter and
they come away understanding that Bush did 9/11.
But, seriously, this looked like so much fun.
Four days of parties.
It's like a Burning Man where nobody's pretending to be poor.
They've got 1,500 troops, hundreds of horses,
seven-layer desserts. The only part I didn't enjoy
was when they projected the queen onto Stonehenge.
Yeah, that felt kind of like an age thing, you know?
It was like, "Hey, you two know each other, don't you? Yeah.
Queen, say hi to the stone faces."
And while this extravaganza may seem excessive to people,
you got to admit, 70 years on the throne is impressive.
You know, in fact, it's impressive for any job.
Who else has held on to a job for that long? Huh?
I mean, if you think about it, in fact,
maybe it's time for the queen to try something new.
Yeah, I mean, with the skills she's learned at this job,
you know, she could try something else.
She would be an incredible Walmart greeter. You know?
Just like, "Plasma screens in aisle five."
She could be a consultant on the next season
of Bridgerton, you know? Yeah, just being like, "It's not bad,
but I wish we had this many chocolate hunks in my day."
Yeah, or-or the best one of all-- she could be a rapper.
Yeah, the queen would be seamless in that. You know?
She's got the bodyguard. She's got the bling.
She just went platinum. All she needs now
is to start a beef with another monarch. Yeah.
You want some of this, Emperor Naruhito?
Didn't think so, bitch!
But let's move on from someone
who's been on the throne for 70 years
to someone who wishes they could be on the throne
for 70 years more:
Donald "jubilee" Trump.
Because, do you guys remember,
um, you know, how Trump and his people
pea-peacefully tried to, uh, dispute
the 2020 election? Do you guys remember that? Yeah?
Well, if you don't, if you don't, I understand.
It was, like, 34 years ago in pandemic time.
But, uh, it turns out that since Trump left office,
the MAGA crowd has been plotting their next move
like a cartoon villain.
And the reason we know this now is because yesterday,
Politico dropped a bombshell story
about how the GOP might plan to win the midterms
without having the most votes.
Yeah, because, you see, in 2020,
they were trying to challenge the election.
But thanks to a new leaked recording,
we now know the new MAGA plan
is to install Trump supporters as poll workers
to challenge the election from the inside.
NEWSWOMAN: In a stunning piece of reporting,
Politico has uncovered tapes
of Republican operatives strategizing
on how to overturn votes in Democratic precincts.
NEWSMAN: The idea, uh,
is to install party-trained volunteers
prepared to challenge voters
at Democratic-majority polling places
and then to back up those party-trained poll workers
with a "army of party-friendly lawyers."
Those folks are largely QAnon,
uh, election deniers,
folks who think the election was corrupted
who are now gonna be trained as p-poll workers,
sitting there,
having their hands on the ballots,
taking in the information from the voters.
Oh, boy, this is not good.
This is definitely not good.
Trump lovers are planning to install themselves
in place of nonpartisan poll workers.
It's a major conflict of interest.
It's like hiring death as a lifeguard.
(laughter)
I don't know if he's interested in saving you.
And look, I'm not surprised that Trump Republicans
are switching their things up for this coming election.
Because last time, what did they do?
They left it to this guy, right?
A man who was somehow even bad at sweating.
(laughs): I mean... I mean, look-look at that.
Right? That's-that's what it looks like
when hope physically leaves your body.
(laughter)
And this is the thing about Republicans:
they're not deterred by setbacks.
Right? They tried to steal the election last time,
and-and what happened? Everyone laughed at them.
and they could have given up, you know,
and tried to win the election
based solely on the strength of their ideas.
But no, they got up.
They dusted themselves off, and they said,
"This time, we're not gonna need to overturn the votes
because we won't count them in the first place."
And let that be a lesson, kids.
You never give up on your dreams.
(laughter)
I think that's the lesson, right?
That is the lesson? No, it's not that?
Oh, and by the way, if you're worried
that this means you won't get your "I voted" stickers,
calm down. You will.
Yeah. It'll just have a question mark at the end.
Spice things up.
-(laughter and applause) -All right. (laughs)
Let's move on.
(cheering and applause)
Are you one of those people who eats fish
instead of red meat because it's healthier for you?
Well, if you live in Florida, you might want to think again.
NEWSWOMAN: There's this alarming study out of Florida
finding fish off the coast
are contaminated with pharmaceuticals.
Researchers sampled 93 bonefish over three years
and found an average of seven meds per bonefish.
One fish had 17 different drugs.
List includes blood pressure medication,
antidepressants, antibiotics, pain relievers and a lot more.
Researchers say the meds get in the wastewater
every time people flush.
You know, every time I think I've seen
the most American story of all time...
(laughter)
...this kind of stuff comes up.
'Cause which other country can say,
"There's so much medication leaving our bodies,
"we're bosic... basically providing Obamacare
to the fish"?
Think about it. How much medication
are American doctors prescribing people?
I think it might be too much
if I can shit out a full dose for somebody else.
(laughter)
I will say, this could be a good thing.
There is a silver lining.
Drug prices have gotten so high in America,
if you can't afford your heart medication,
now you can just go to Red Lobster. Yeah.
Yeah, you might get your blood pressure down,
or you might get a four-hour erection.
Either way, you're happier.
You're happier.
(cheering and applause)
And I know, I know there are some people who are like,
"Trevor, it's not about the people.
"This is unhealthy for the fish.
It's not about humans."
I actually think this is good for the fish.
I do. I think it's good that they got a hold
of some of those antidepressants, you know?
Yeah, if your habitat was slowly boiling around you,
you could use some Lexapro, you know?
Just chill you out.
And, you know, when I was watching the story,
like, I know that we put toilet water in the ocean,
but this story just reminded me
that we put our toilet water in the ocean.
Yeah, it's just like, whenever I'm having fun at the beach,
you know, frolicking in the waves...
(laughs)
(laughter and applause)
...I never think, "Man, it's great to spend time
in a big, giant toilet."
We don't think of the ocean
as that when we're in it, you know?
You realize people propose at the beach.
Now once you remember
that our toilet water goes there,
it's not as romantic anymore.
You know? It's just like, "So, how did he propose?"
Like, "Oh, remember that huge dump
"you flushed the other day?
It was right next to that."
"Oh, my God."
All right, but let's move on to some exciting news
from the world of science, and in particular, robots.
There's no denying that robots have come a long way,
you know, from helping humans assemble cars,
to showing off their dance moves
to distract us from the apocalypse they're planning,
to even running some of the world's biggest
social media companies.
But it turns out,
the next big leap in robots might actually be really small.
Well, a group of engineers
from Northwestern University developing the smallest,
remote-controlled robots ever created.
Look at this. So, this tiny crab robot
is only half a millimeter wide.
That's smaller than a flea.
It can walk along the edge of a penny, too.
Now, the bot has the ability to crawl, jump and even twist.
The engineers hope micro robots
can eventually repair small machines in tight spaces.
-Ew! -(laughter)
Oh, those things look like something
WALL-E picked up at an airport La Quinta.
Yeah. It's just like, "Ooh, you got to wrap it up, WALL-E.
That looks disgusting."
You know, I don't know why this kind of robot scares me
a lot more than the human-sized ones, you know?
'Cause at least, if a big robot goes berserk,
we can close the door.
I don't know, man. We're making tiny robots?
They're just going to wait until you're asleep,
and they crawl into your mouth, into your brain. Yeah.
And they get into your brain, and they trigger that memory
of the time you asked that girl to prom, and she said
she was busy that night, but then, you saw her at the prom.
(laughter)
(crying): "Now I wish that robot had killed me."
(laughter)
And you know, while it's cool to have a super tiny robot
to repair small machines,
what are you going to do when the tiny robots break?
Do we think about that? Huh?
Yeah, you don't think about it, do you?
Yeah, you realize what's going to happen.
You've got robots breaking,
you bring the tiny robots to fix those,
and then the tiny robots break, and then what are you gonna do?
You're gonna have to call the world's tiniest repairman
to your house.
Okay, before we get started,
there's a few things I'm going to need from you.
I'm going to get thirsty
so give me a drop of water for the day, okay?
Secondly, I only take Venmo.
Can't risk getting stuck under another dollar bill for a week.
No more of that.
And most importantly, make sure you lock up your cat.
That thing is like a T. rex to me. I'm tiny. I'm tiny.
(applause and cheering)
Okay, finally,
have you ever wondered what happens
between the time you click "order"
on a food delivery app,
and the food actually arriving at your door?
And you might be saying, "Oh, I know what happens, Trevor.
-I rub one out while I wait." No. -(laughter)
What I mean is, what happens on the food side.
You guys are disgusting.
Well, now, delivery drivers are revealing
what's really happening behind the scenes.
You may want to pick it up instead of having it delivered.
According to a new poll, 80% of delivery workers admit
to eating some of the food in their customers' orders.
NEWSWOMAN: Uh-uh. More than 500 delivery drivers were polled
for the survey, and the results show 25% confessed
to hooking up with someone in their vehicle.
(laughter)
I'm sorry. That is... that is shocking.
80% of drivers eat their customers' food?
So that means 20% of drivers are delivering vegan meals?
That can't be right.
I actually don't necessarily have a problem
with sharing my food with someone.
I'm not Swedish, and also,
this news actually makes me feel better about ordering takeout.
Yeah, 'cause now when someone says,
"Do you know how many calories are in those fries?"
I'll be like, "30% less, thanks to Barry.
Five stars, Barry, five stars."
And before you hear this news and go,
"Ah, delivery drivers are shit, they're eating our food,"
maybe you should be asking, why do these billion-dollar
tech companies pay the delivery people so badly
-that they have to eat your food? -(applause and cheering)
In fact, they should have an option where on top of the tip,
you can order extra food for them.
The only detail that threw me in this whole thing is the part
about hooking up in the car. That threw me off.
Yeah, when they said, like, delivery drivers admit
to hooking up in the car. Like, when?
I just want to know when. I don't mind, but when.
Is it, like, when they're not delivering,
or is it when they're on the job?
Is that, like, while they're delivering the food?
'Cause I'll be honest, man, you know.
I don't want my freshly-cooked dumplings to witness that.
Oh, boy, oh, boy!
I can't wait to go to my new house!
Oh, it's gonna be... Wait! Why are we stopping?!
What-what are you two doing? Aah! Aah!
I don't want to see this! I don't want to see this!
Close the lid! Close the lid!
Why does he have a sausage on him?!
What's going on?!
(applause and cheering)
Tough life for the dumplings.
All right, we got to take a quick break,
but don't go away, 'cause when we come back,
Michael Kosta hits the streets
to find solutions to America's gun problem.
You don't want to miss it.
(applause and cheering)
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Welcome back to The Daily Show.
On May 14,
a man armed with an AR-15-style rifle
shot up a supermarket in Buffalo.
Ten days later, another man with an AR-15-style rifle
shot up a school in Texas.
And just yesterday, a man with an AR-15-style rifle
shot up a medical building in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Now, you might think the problem here
is all the AR-15-style rifles,
but that just shows how little you know,
because the real problem, according to some,
is all the doors.
Have one door into and out of the school,
and have that one door armed, police officers at that door.
There should be one entrance in and one entrance out
at all of our elementary and all of our middle schools.
They're small enough to do that.
It is about the single point of entry.
If the school was on lockdown, could the doors have
been locked where he couldn't have gotten in?
Classroom doors should be hardened to make them lockable
from the inside and closed to intruders
from the outside.
That's right-- America has a doors problem.
In fact, some doors are totally unhinged,
and yet politicians are doing nothing.
Since we know other countries don't have America's
mass shooting problem, that clearly means that
they know something about doors that we don't.
So we asked Michael Kosta to hit the streets
and find out how other countries
deal with their doors.
In the days since Uvalde, we've had 11 more mass shoot--
-(phone dings) -Hold on.
Shit, another one. (sighs)
In the days since Uvalde, we've had 12 more mass--
-(phone dings) -Hold on, news alert.
Thirteen!
-(phone dings) -Shit. 14 mass shootings.
-(phone dinging, buzzing) -Jesus.
But for some reason, mass shootings are
the one part of American culture that
isn't popular in other countries.
How often are you having mass shootings in India?
Is it weekly? Is it daily?
It's zero. None.
-In our 30 years, never. -Absolutely none.
Never. I've never heard of a mass shooting in Ireland.
KOSTA: Wow. So what are they doing differently than us?
Mass shootings in America.
Everyone knows what's causing them.
No one's really saying it.
It's the elephant in the room. Let's say it together.
America has too many...
-Guns. -...doors. Wait, what did you say?
The one thing America can do to prevent mass shootings
is to limit each school to one or, even better, zero doors.
-I disagree. -KOSTA: Why?
That doesn't make sense.
One door? How is that gonna work?
Like, one door for the entire school?
-It's like a jail. -How are you gonna get out of a fire?
Let's say we're in a school together
with no doors, and we're in a fire.
That's why the kids should have guns.
-No. -You shoot out a circle.
I'll grab your hand. It'll be like...
I saw it in an action movie once.
-Okay. -And then we... And then we-we go out.
Or shoot out the window.
-Do you know what I mean? -Well, what do guns have to do with it?
-I'm talking about, like, doors. -Yeah.
You know, like, the shooters come in through doors.
-Okay. Yeah. -Right?
I wasn't sure why these tourists
were ignoring the real threat to our nation: doors.
How did the Polish government defeat the door lobby?
They don't. They just let people have doors.
Okay, and how many shootings have there been?
-None. -Exact...
What?
-None? -Well, yeah.
(sighs) But these are little European doors,
like little ones that, like, Hansel and Gretel walk through?
-No. -This isn't the old days
with the old doors, the big wooden, heavy doors
it was real difficult to open.
Y-You know, these are new, modern doors.
Like, even a kid can open them.
There are so many heartless manufacturers
like Smith & Wess... No, like Crate & Barrel.
They make doors.
It doesn't have to do with the doors.
Hey, I realize doors are a hot-button issue,
but just keep your cool.
I'm not saying anything crazy.
I'm just saying you should have a license to buy a door.
You should have a-a background check to buy a door.
If you have committed a violent crime
in the last five years,
maybe there's a waiting period for you to buy a door.
So are you saying that buying a gun should be easier
than buying any door?
Well, what do guns have to do with it?
Guns are what keep us safe.
Foreigners like to say
that Americans are obsessed with guns.
Yet, when it comes to preventing mass shootings,
all they wanted to talk about was guns.
Now who's obsessed?
Do you think it would help to ban revolvers?
-Yeah. -You know the doors that go around like this?
-Oh, I thought revolvers. Sorry. -Right.
Oh, you were thinking of guns?
Very. Yeah.
But what about your constitutional right
to have a gun?
No constitutional right.
Whoa!
Does it suck over there?
We have a... a law.
You can't buy a gun just like that.
You have to have permission to have a gun.
-A permit, a license? -Yeah, a license.
You can't go in a shop and have a gun.
-It's complicated. -It is.
But let me tell you what's simple:
one door.
-You keep coming back to these guns. -Right.
People are coming through the doors to do dangerous stuff.
Well, they have to have something dangerous with them,
like a gun.
And the doors-- I don't know.
You walk through the doors. I can't see the rel...
I'm sorry. I can't understand.
I appreciate you apologizing. Apology accepted.
Maybe one day, these foreigners will have some actual advice
on how to stop mass shootings in America.
But until then, our door is open.
(cheers and applause)
We'll figure it out, Michael.
Stay tuned, 'cause we're going to be joined
by Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations,
Sergiy Kyslytsya, so, please, don't go away.
(applause and cheering)
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Welcome back to The Daily Show.
My guest tonight is Ukraine's representative
to the United Nations.
He's here to talk about Russia's war in the Ukraine.
Here he is addressing his Russian counterpart
at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council
at the start of the war.
It's too late, my dear colleagues,
to speak about the escalation.
Too late.
The Russian president declared war on the record.
Should I play the video of your president?
Ambassador, shall I do that right now?
You can confirm it.
Do not interrupt me, please.
Thank you.
Then don't ask me questions when you are speaking.
Proceed with your... proceed with your statement.
KYSLYTSYA: Anyway, you declared the war.
It is the responsibility of this body to stop the war.
Please welcome Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya.
(cheers and applause)
Welcome.
(cheers and applause continue)
Ambassador, welcome to The Daily Show.
Oh, thank you. Thank you for inviting me.
You have a really position... uh, interesting position
and a difficult undertaking right now,
because you are representing Ukraine at the U.N.
and Ukraine is in
one of the most precarious positions right now.
Before we get into where we are,
let's maybe clear up the beginning.
How did this start
and what is the cause of what we're seeing in Ukraine?
Well, do you want a long story, or you want a short version?
(chuckles): I guess, we're on TV so the short version.
Well, the long one is like 300... 300 years.
The short one is Putin came to power,
and, uh, he probably promised himself
that he would restore the Soviet Empire,
and ever since, uh, we are, um, in the state of war.
And now we are in the state of hot war.
Actually, the war started not on the 24th of February.
-It started, uh, back in 2014. -Mm-hmm.
And you-you're in a position now where...
As you said, I like that you called it a "hot war"
because it's a war that, you know,
people that can see very clearly.
There are many people who are being killed,
there are tanks rolling in.
It-It's a different type of war, though,
because everybody agrees that Ukraine is in the right.
Everybody agrees that Russia is doing something wrong.
And yet, because of Russia being Russia,
it seems like the United Nations
and many other countries are scared to overact
for fear of causing a world war.
How-how do you then ask for help?
And what do you... what do you hope will be achieved
if countries, you know,
have to balance this precarious position?
Well, I think that, as a matter of fact, for me,
we're already in the third world war,
which may be kind of crazy to say.
But, uh, the 21st century is not the 20th century,
where we had these standard wars with tanks crossing the borders.
We are in a hybrid world,
and you don't really need to cross the border
to attack, uh, the United States.
You can do that in cyberspace, you know.
Or you can do, like, terrorism or financial terrorism.
So, basically, uh,
we are there in the United Nations,
and the United Nations is a product
of, uh, three old gentlemen,
among, uh, which were Joseph Stalin.
So it's not perfect.
And we still, uh, in the hundredth day of the war,
we still have Russia sitting in front of us,
and we still pretend that we have to, uh, respect it.
And the only reason we respect Russian Federation
is because, uh...
Well, I do not respect, but they have to respect.
-Uh, they-they... (chuckles) -(laughter)
Yeah, that's a very important correction.
Because they-they possess the nuclear arsenal,
and they are really paranoid
that Russia may use, uh, nukes against them.
So, is-is your argument, then,
that Russia shouldn't be sitting
as one of those permanent members of the U.N.?
Oh, first of all, Russia is not a permanent member,
if you ask me.
I mean, Russia occupied
the seat of the Soviet Union back in 1991
the same way Russia occupied Georgia,
the same way Russia occupied, uh, Transnistria in Moldova,
the same way Russia invaded, uh, Syria.
So, uh, Russia occupies, occupies, occupies,
and we are all complacent with that.
I mean, we were complacent with that
until, uh, the night of the 23rd,
and all of a sudden, we were surprised that it happened.
I mean, which was imminent for 30 years.
But do you... do you think that maybe this has been...
You know, it-it...
Everything in hindsight is twenty-twenty.
You know, and-and I've read, you know, some historians
who would argue that, you know,
there could have been a way for the world
to bring Russia into the fold from the very beginning.
Some say the problem
was the fact that Russia was pushed out.
-Russia felt like they were being isolated. -Oh, yeah, yeah.
It felt like NATO was encroaching on their territory.
If Putin was brought into the fold,
he would have had a vested interest
in being part of the world.
Do you see any credence in that argument?
Well, you know, I saw many kremlinologists
or Sovietologists, as, uh, they call, they're called often.
And they are tunneled with their vision of the world
the same way, like, Germany was tunneled with Nord Stream.
Uh, you know, they saw the world
through the tunnel of Nord Stream.
And, uh, we were...
All of us, we, uh, we're guilty
of, uh, uh, letting Putin grow as a dictator,
uh, of unprecedented scale in Europe.
Well, probably Hitler is only the one
we can compare him with.
Uh, no, I don't believe in appeasement.
I believe in the need to fight the virus.
And, uh, Russian, uh, Putinism is the same as COVID,
but it's only the international politics COVID, you know.
Right. Right. And-and it is taking its toll, as well.
You know, your country's in a position now
where every day, we read
about how Russia is-is changing its tactics.
You know, it's slowly becoming a war of attrition
as opposed to a direct assault.
You know, Ukraine has inspired the world
in how... in how you're fighting back.
You know, your-your president has been there,
staying in the country, you know,
despite what everyone thought he would do.
Um, when you get to the point, though, where it feels like
European nations are almost encouraging Ukraine to,
in some way, you know, give up a piece of territory...
You see many European nations saying
"Ukraine, maybe you should give them the Donbas region.
"Just give them that part that has already expressed
some sort of interest in becoming part of Russia."
You have said that that is a complete nonstarter. Why?
Yeah, it's absolutely... I mean, no, unless
everybody is an amnesiac, you know?
Let me remind you what happened in 1938,
when Hitler signed the Munich Agreement with Chamberlain.
The New York Times literally, literally ran an article,
and I can quote from it.
"The world has never been pregnant with hope
as it is now."
-Ooh. -And then what happened?
Czechoslovakia lost one fifth of its territory.
The Nazi troops moved in.
And then, in less than 12 months,
the second world war started,
and the whole Czechoslovakia was invaded.
So, basically, if people are not very...
cognizant of the history lessons,
they have to go back to school, I think.
And it's a duty of all of us to make them study the history.
Are you worried that European countries may,
at some point, say, "This is too much for us,
and we don't know if we're going to back Ukraine through this"?
Because we've seen, again, through history,
Russia is not afraid to fight long, painful wars.
You know, it seems like Vladimir Putin's not afraid
to send his troops out onto the front lines
and have them perish 'cause he doesn't have to worry
about an election that he's losing.
You know, approval is not his issue.
And so, if you're in that position, you know,
Ukraine is in a space where you have
your-your people who may get demoralized,
you know, you have a nation that is constantly bombarded.
You know, obviously, the U.S. is helping you.
But what would you hope the next steps would be then?
Where do you see the world moving towards to help Ukraine?
Well, Trevor, you just came from Europe on tour, right?
-I did, yeah. -Yeah, you see... you saw
with your own eyes that Europe is not really homogeneous.
Uh, it is so diverse. It's like a bouquet of nations.
-Right. -So it would be kind of an overgeneralization
to say that "Europe believes, Europe says."
I mean, we have wonderful, wonderful nations,
like Poland, like the U.K., like Portugal.
I just talked to the Portuguese ambassador.
Like Baltic states.
They will fight hard until the very end
to defeat the Russian despotism.
You know, we have some countries that got used
-to living in comfort for so long... -Mm-hmm.
-that they're out of context all together. -Hmm.
But the thing is
that if we do not defeat Putinism today, right,
if we will be satisfied with just a military defeat
of Russia in Ukraine,
then we will let this dictator
to regrow his chopped-back claws.
They will hit all of you again,
like in five or seven years from now,
and then we all pay triple price for it.
So, even from the point of view of, uh...
...investing money in Ukrainian, uh, victory,
investing money in Ukrainian victory
is investing money in your own security.
And you should be all grateful
that it is the U-Ukrainian soldiers,
not the British soldiers, not the American soldiers,
who are dying in the front,
defending the collective democratic world.
You know?
So I have to remind about that,
to all, uh, of our viewers
and to all people in Europe, in North America.
And not only there.
I have to remind all Africans
who will suffer from the food shortages
in two months from now.
A lot of people don't know about that.
You know, I-I saw many people complaining
about food prices going up.
Many people in the Middle East and Africa struggling with, um,
you know, a shortage of wheat and bread as, you know,
-one of the most important food sources. -Exactly.
Many people don't know how much of that grain
is coming from Ukraine for the entire world.
There are countries-- there are countries
that are 70% dependent on Ukrainian grain.
And those countries are devastated with civil wars
or with droughts or with, uh, uh, climate calamities.
They have no way to go on the market
and buy grain from somewhere else.
So, I mean, from-- for them,
it is a matter of surviv-survival.
And the fact is that we have 21 million tons of grain
-sitting to be exported. -Right.
And we can't do that because one crazy...
little person in-in Kremlin
does not really allow us to do that, you know?
And that's-that's amazing.
I mean, that's amazing.
And, uh, one of the jobs, uh, we have to do,
one of the things we-we are doing currently
in the United Nations,
we are desperately seeking the way
how to save millions of people
who are literally under the threat of dying of starvation
-10,000 miles away from-from Ukraine. -Mm-hmm.
You know, and that is why
this conflict has so many implications
that, unlike in 2014,
where we-- when we were all happy
to have 100 nations voting, uh, in favor
of the territorial integrity of Ukraine,
we now have overwhelming majority.
We have 141 nations
that voted on the 2nd of March
and that identify Russia as an aggressive state.
You know, there were only four countries--
such wonderful countries as North Korea and Syria--
who voted in support of-of Russia.
You know, and it's very important. It's very important.
Because the world finally understood
-that it's not just about Ukraine. -Mm-hmm.
It's about the entire collective democratic community of nations.
Thank you so much for joining us, Ambassador.
Thank you for inviting me.
I appreciate your time.
-Hopefully we'll see you again. -Thank you.
All right, we're gonna take a quick break,
but we'll be right back after this.
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