Caller to Mark Levin's radio show expresses concern about pro-Putin Republicans
Caller after the Trump/Zelensky meeting: “One thing that's really disturbed me today is all the people who are blaming Zelensky. Like, he's the problem. Like, he's the villain in this story, and he's not. It's Putin. I mean, Russia invaded Ukraine.”
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Caller to Mark Levin's radio show expresses concern about pro-Putin Republicans
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From the February 28, 2025, edition of Westwood One's The Mark Levin Show
MARK LEVIN (HOST): Of course, Putin has massive yachts. Putin's worth about 40 billion dollars. Again, we've had one caller that's mentioned Putin. Have you noticed that, mister producer? One caller. It is shocking. It's it's stunning to me. And, I think four or five of them have said he's a crook. Now he may be. I have no idea, but I just want a little something to see.
If that, makes any sense. Alright. Let's go to Joe, Saint Louis, Missouri on the Mark Levin app. Yes, Joe. Go right ahead, please.
CALLER: Hey, Mark. I'm a huge fan. Thank you for taking my call. Yeah. It's actually gonna have works off the last call very well because one of my one thing that's really disturbed me today is all the people who are blaming Zelensky. Like, he's the problem. Like, he's the villain in this story, and he's not. It's Putin. I mean, Russia invaded Ukraine. Ukraine did not invade Russia, and I am just perplexed at all these people who are saying that Zelensky is a crook or that Ukraine wants war. I mean, Ukraine —
LEVIN: It's very weird, isn't it? I mean, I I have to say, I think, Zelensky kinda blew it today. He shoulda just kept his cool, muscled through, signed a deal, and then when he's on a plane home, he can curse and kick and all the rest. That said, the trash talk about him has been endless among the Putinoids and the isolationists in a certain wing and element within the Republican Party, or they're not even really within the Republican Party. There's no question about it. One guy's going on about how the CIA installed him. They just throw this stuff around. It's very weird. Meanwhile meanwhile, Putin's KGB.
CALLER: Right. And and I think there's, like, the code pink Republicans, you call them, there's this isolationist strain that just thinks, oh, we just disengage it in this —
LEVIN: And you know, there always has been. There was an isolationist strain right up even though Hitler was getting more powerful and expanding, they said no support for British for the Brits. No support whatsoever. They couldn't get the support through Congress. And then look. With this massive war, we lost hundreds of thousands of American troops, and then they even argue that we ought to get out of NATO. One of these knuckleheads is in the United States Senate. Get out of NATO. So what are we gonna do? Have to go back and fight over that one day again? The Chinese are laughing at us. The the Russians are laugh or they're laughing at these people anyway. Sure. Get out of NATO. Sure. Get out of there. Get out of there. We'd love you to do it. Meanwhile, they're in our hemisphere. They're in Central America, South America, both ends of the Panama Canal.
Notice President Trump isn't saying get out of NATO. He threatens them with it because he wants them to pay their damn fees and strengthen themselves. Notice President Trump, when it comes to the Middle East, he's talking about Gaza. Clean it out. We'll develop it. We'll take it. Notice if you really listen to President Trump, he's no isolationist, and he's no Putinoid. The biggest sanctions that were put on Putin were put on Putin and his oligarchs by Trump. So this is a different element altogether. And I agree with you a hundred percent, but I think they're having a — it's resonating to some extent because I don't you know, Zelensky's a crook, Zelensky's this. Zelensky hurt himself today. There's no question about it. And he needs to figure out how to come back. Or if he's not gonna come back, then these deals are not gonna be made. And that deal over minerals was a big damn deal.
Anyway, go right ahead.
CALLER: Yeah. And I just wanted to say, you know, I feel like, it's sort of like, the way Biden was with Israel. I don't wanna say Trump necessarily, but the elements of the right are the same way with Ukraine where they're blaming the victim. And, I mean, these people are —
LEVIN: I don't even say they're of the right anymore because they sound like they're of the hard left. They're making the arguments the hard left used to make. They're making the arguments The New Republic used to make. They're making the arguments the, the progressives, AKA, the American Marxists were making at the turn of the last century. They're making the arguments for Russia. It's crazy.
CALLER: Yeah. So I —
LEVIN: 1917 and beyond, they were cheering the revolution. John Dooley wrote about it, how how they teach the people in their schools and how wonderful it is. The New York Times promoted it with Walter Duranty and go on and on and on. They're not conservative. They're not constitutionalists, Republicans or anything of that, they're something else.
CALLER: Yeah. I just wanted to say I'm a strong conservative. I support Trump, but I also support Ukraine. And there are people like us like me out there, you know, and I don't know why —
LEVIN: I support Ukraine against Russia a hundred percent. The question is what do you do now? It's one thing to say I support Ukraine against Russia. But when the president of Ukraine is, I mean, he's handed a lifeline here. You gotta be honest with about this. And he drops the ball here. That's not good. I mean, that deal helps America and helps Ukraine. And it also has the effect, as I've said, to actually help their national security. We have a huge presence in Ukraine. Putin's not invading Ukraine again. Not gonna happen. Alright, my friend. Very good call. We appreciate a lot of good calls, actually.