{"id":75184,"date":"2021-12-09T14:17:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T20:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75184"},"modified":"2021-12-09T14:17:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T20:17:10","slug":"75184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75184","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RKBA and self defense is not just nationwide, it&#8217;s international.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/mark-finkelstein\/2021\/12\/08\/morning-joe-hard-russia-subdue-ukraine-people-have-million\">Morning Joe: Hard for Russia to Subdue Ukraine \u2014 People Have a Million Guns!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wait! Was that an NRA spokesman on Morning Joe today, making the case for the Second Amendment?<\/p>\n<p>Nope, turns out it was actually David Ignatius. But the hyper-establishment Washington Post columnist\/editor and Morning Joe foreign-policy maven unwittingly made a strong case for the right to keep and bear arms!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/565795\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the price Putin would pay if he ordered an invasion of Ukraine, Ignatius said:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>He&#8217;s going to face a guerrilla warfare, extended partisan warfare<\/strong>\u00a0in Ukraine. There &#8212; I counted 400,000 people who&#8217;ve received some kind of militia training.\u00a0<strong>There are a million guns floating around Ukraine. I mean, it&#8217;s a place where it\u2019d be hard to subdue the population.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You go, David! From your lips to the gun grabbers ears!<\/p>\n<p>The segment opened with Ignatius and Joe Scarborough mocking the Zoomesque virtual meeting that Putin and Biden had yesterday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JOE SCARBOROUGH: These two were sort of posing for the cameras.\u00a0<strong>I can\u2019t think of a setup that would be less conducive to having any sort of diplomatic breakthrough\u00a0<\/strong>than what we just saw in those images.<\/p>\n<p>DAVID IGNATIUS:\u00a0<strong>That was a pretty wooden exchange<\/strong>. Hi there! How are you? I\u2019m good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>David Ignatius on Morning Joe saying the Ukrainian population would be hard to subdue if Putin invaded because they have &#8220;a million guns&#8221; was sponsored in part by\u00a0<a title=\"CFB Liberty Mutual\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/conservatives-fight-back\/advertiser\/liberty-mutual\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liberty Mutual,<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"CFB Volvo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/conservatives-fight-back\/advertiser\/volvo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volvo<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"CFB Google\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/conservatives-fight-back\/advertiser\/google\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"CFB Abbott\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/conservatives-fight-back\/advertiser\/abbott-laboratories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abbott<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"CFB Amazon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/conservatives-fight-back\/advertiser\/amazon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"CFB Sling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/conservatives-fight-back\/advertiser\/sling-tv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sling<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the transcript.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq_collapsible_wrapper\" data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">\n<blockquote id=\"bq_219339\" class=\"collapsible collapse\"><p><em>MSNBC<br \/>\nMorning Joe<br \/>\n12\/8\/21<br \/>\n6:04 am ET<\/em><\/p>\n<p>MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Let\u2019s get to the high-stakes meeting between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the president warning of heavy economic consequences if Russia invades Ukraine again&#8230;Officials say Putin gave no indication of his ultimate intent, but asked for reliable guarantees that NATO will not expand into Ukraine. Officials say Biden made no commitments on that matter.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>JOE SCARBOROUGH: David, I am hopeful that you have great reporting about the diplomacy going on quietly behind the scenes while<strong>\u00a0these two were sort of posing for the cameras. I can\u2019t think of a setup that would be less conducive to having any sort of diplomatic breakthrough<\/strong>\u00a0than what we just saw in those images.<\/p>\n<p>DAVID IGNATIUS:\u00a0<strong>That was a pretty wooden exchange.<\/strong>\u00a0Hi there! How are you? I\u2019m good.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-blog_image_50_ img-fluid blog-img\" title=\"Joe Biden Vladimir Putin MSNBC Morning Joe 12-8-21\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.newsbusters.org\/styles\/blog_image_50_\/s3\/2021-12\/Image468.png\" alt=\"Joe Biden Vladimir Putin MSNBC Morning Joe 12-8-21\" width=\"465\" height=\"262\" data-insert-class=\"image-blog_image_50_\" data-insert-type=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>I just was looking this morning at all the costs to Putin of invasion. He would wreck his economy. He would galvanize the Europeans and other U.S. allies against Russia, and I think also against China, in a way that would have lasting repercussions.<\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0<strong>he&#8217;s also going to face a guerrilla warfare, extended partisan warfare in Ukraine. There &#8212; I counted 400,000 people who&#8217;ve received some kind of militia training.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are a million guns floating around Ukraine. I mean, it&#8217;s a place where it\u2019d be hard to subdue the population. So I think that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on behind the scenes.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RKBA and self defense is not just nationwide, it&#8217;s international. Morning Joe: Hard for Russia to Subdue Ukraine \u2014 People Have a Million Guns! Wait! Was that an NRA spokesman on Morning Joe today, making the case for the Second Amendment? Nope, turns out it was actually David Ignatius. But the hyper-establishment Washington Post columnist\/editor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75184\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75185,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75184\/revisions\/75185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}