1 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: A late stage republic. We talk about that a lot 2 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: as far as what we are as a nation, And 3 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 1: let me explain a couple of things about being a 4 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 1: late stage republic. As we talk about America like it's 5 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,760 Speaker 1: gonna be a great special, we're gonna talk about us 6 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 1: crumbling a bit, We're gonna talk about the other nations 7 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: who might take over for us at some point in time. 8 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: But before we get into any of that, allow me 9 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:34,839 Speaker 1: to just do this. Maybe as an American, maybe you 10 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:36,840 Speaker 1: like me, and I admit I'm one of these people. 11 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 1: Maybe you look at what's happening in your country as 12 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: we begin to falter and fall, and you say to yourself, 13 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: I'm really bummed. I hate this. I don't want this. 14 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 1: That's fine that you feel that way. I'm glad you 15 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: feel that way. I feel that way. But you should 16 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: also understand this. It's the year twenty twenty three. Okay, 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: what does that mean? When the country start seventeen seventy six, 18 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: Where does that put us almost two hundred and fifty years? 19 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: Right about that two hundred and fifty year more, you 20 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: know how long Historically most significant empires last two to 21 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 1: three hundred years. That's about what you've got. Now, maybe 22 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: that doesn't make you feel better at all, but you 23 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: should know this is how it goes. What I'm about 24 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 1: to describe for you, this is how it always go. 25 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,680 Speaker 1: You start out and things are good, and you have 26 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: good patriots and great people running the country, and the 27 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: country has a new idea, like we did, the idea 28 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 1: of freedom, and everyone loves it and they embrace it, 29 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:40,639 Speaker 1: and we go all in. And then the country grows 30 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: and it's ambitious and things are going really well, and 31 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: things get going so well that you just get so 32 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: rich and so far removed from your founding that you 33 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: lose your way. And the people who want to pick 34 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: at the bones and tear your country down, they don't 35 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: like to your number one people inside your borders and 36 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: outside of your borders, which we'll talk about a bit tonight, 37 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: they see an opportunity. They see a population that's fat, complacent, lazy, 38 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: board and just doesn't want to protect the thing they have, 39 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 1: and things just start rotting. Slowly, but surely they start rotting. 40 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: That's all you're seeing here. And now now we're probably 41 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,799 Speaker 1: at the stage where things will pick up in pace 42 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 1: a little bit. No, America is not going to fall tomorrow. 43 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: I'm not doing any of that doomsday stuff. But we're 44 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:38,679 Speaker 1: at a place now where we have failed multiple times, 45 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: and we've failed on the world stage, and that in 46 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: and of itself, that is the problem. I've been doing 47 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: a lot of reading lately, is we We'll get to 48 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: America in a second. But I've been doing a lot 49 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 1: of reading lately on Napoleon and his various conquests and whatnot. 50 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: And he's one of these historical characters that have a 51 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 1: real love hate relationship with He's so fascinating and talented 52 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: at the same time just horrible about something. But one 53 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: of the things I always find sad about the Napoleon 54 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,679 Speaker 1: story every time I read it is there's this great 55 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: general and he's conquered so much and all these lands, 56 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: and everyone's scared the death of him. But then towards 57 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: the end, towards the end, when he loses a battle 58 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 1: here there, they all just start coming for him. The 59 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: second they see the king bleed a little bit, they 60 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 1: start coming for him, and from there it was already over. 61 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:30,959 Speaker 1: That's what we are right now. Do you remember you 62 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: remember Afghanistan? Now, this building up to this moment took 63 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: a long time. I don't want to act like it 64 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: was just one singular moment that really that really brought 65 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: all this about. That would be a huge oversimplification. But 66 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: this was the moment the world found out, Oh man, 67 00:03:50,320 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: we got a late stage republic over here. You see. 68 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: It's one thing to fail. It's one thing to embarrass yourself. 69 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: It's another thing to do it publicly. If I go 70 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: home tonight when I'm done doing the show for you, 71 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: and I walk in and I'm eating dinner, and I'm 72 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,239 Speaker 1: walking around the house and I absently stubbed my toad, 73 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,359 Speaker 1: and I stub it so bad I trip and fall 74 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 1: and bang my knee on the ground. Well that sucks, right, 75 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: that's not fun. That hurts a little bit of humiliating, 76 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: but not that big of a deal. It's just me 77 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 1: at the house, maybe the wife and kids. If I, however, 78 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: have to go give a speech somewhere in front of 79 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: ten thousand people, and I do that when I'm walking 80 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: down on the stage, that's a whole different problem entirely. 81 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: It's one thing to have some embarrassing things happening within 82 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,359 Speaker 1: the borders of your nation. It's another thing to have 83 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 1: each and every country on the planet look at their 84 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: tell vision screen and watch you stub your toe and 85 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 1: bang your knee and fall flat on your face and 86 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 1: embarrass yourself. Afghanistan, the disasters some draw that was America 87 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 1: sending the bat signal to the world that we ain't 88 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: what we used to be. I told you this back 89 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. You should feel embarrassed on behalf 90 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 1: of your nation because we look terrible to the rest 91 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: of the world right now. There's not a way to 92 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 1: put it. This is in international international embarrassment. America has 93 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,720 Speaker 1: been the global superpower for your entire lifetime, it has. 94 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 1: We took over that rule right about the end of 95 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: World War One. That's when we really became top dog, 96 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:42,359 Speaker 1: and we've been top dog ever since. That's about one 97 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: hundred years. The world is looking right now and they're 98 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 1: asking are they still top dog? I mean, this is 99 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: not what the top dog does. This is what some 100 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: fading power does. And what happened after that was done. 101 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: What happened Russia goes marching into Ukraine about fifteen minutes 102 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: after that happened. Now we're mired in a crappy war there, 103 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 1: and look, other nations know it. And again back to 104 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 1: the Napoleon thing. This is one of the things I 105 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 1: notice every time I read about it, how they just 106 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: start they're trying to feel him out the other nations, 107 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: and they're trying to figure out is this the same 108 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: guy who never loses a battle? Am I about to 109 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: lose here? And so what they really try to do 110 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 1: is they start just poking them in the ribs a 111 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: little bit, just kind of just kind of like you'd 112 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,840 Speaker 1: be with like a rabid dog you're trying to get 113 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 1: away from. Just kind of poke them with a stick 114 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: and back away. Is it gonna get me? Well, that's 115 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:42,919 Speaker 1: what they're doing with us right now, just trying to 116 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,600 Speaker 1: feel us out, see what we're made of. Remember when 117 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: the Chinese sat down just doctor Joe Biden got elected, 118 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: sat down in front of the Secretary of State and 119 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: essentially told him, you ain't running things around here anymore. 120 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: So let me say here that in front of the 121 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: Chinese side, States does not have the qualification to say 122 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: that it wants to speak to China from a position 123 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: of strength. How you don't get to talk to us 124 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: from a position of strength. And maybe when you watch 125 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: that clip initially, maybe you were filled with this wait 126 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: a minute, Yes we do. I know. I was, hey, 127 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:23,239 Speaker 1: who do you think you are China? Maybe we were wrong. 128 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: Maybe we were wrong. After all, not only did they 129 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 1: just fly a spy balloon from coast to coast, from 130 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: the Pacific to Atlantic. Here in the United States of America. Embarrassingly, 131 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 1: the President of the United States met with the press 132 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: and said he wanted it shot down, but they told 133 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: me no. Brief found the balloon. I order the Pentagon 134 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: to shoot it down on Wednesday as soon as possible. 135 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: They decided, without doing damage to anyone on the ground, 136 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: They decided that the best time you do that was 137 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: got over water. I told them to shoot it down Wednesday. 138 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 1: I wanted the recommendation. They said to me. Let's wait 139 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: till the safest place to do it. They said to me, 140 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 1: so someone's ordering around the commander in chief. That's where 141 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 1: we're at now. This guy, Mark Milly, the guy who 142 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: promised China, he'd warned them if we were going to attack. 143 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: As part of that conversation, I said, generally, there's not 144 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: going to be a ward. There's not going to be 145 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: attacked between great powers, and if there was, the tensions 146 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: would build up. They'd be calls going back and forth 147 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: from all kinds of senior officials. I said, hell, generally, 148 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: I'll probably give a call, but we're not going to 149 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,559 Speaker 1: attack you. Trust me, We're not going to attack you 150 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: a late stage republic. And you know there are a 151 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: million examples. I used Napoleon off the bat. Maybe Rome 152 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 1: is a really good one too. Just you have this 153 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:55,320 Speaker 1: gigantic juggernaut superpower who forever would dictate terms to whatever 154 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 1: country they felt like dictating terms too. If Rome said jump, 155 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,559 Speaker 1: you said how I. And then internally they were rotting 156 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 1: and rotting and rotting. And this took place over a 157 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 1: long period of time. And then eventually these various tribes, 158 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 1: from the Huns, the Vandals to all, they start picking 159 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:12,680 Speaker 1: at the bones and picking at the bones and poking 160 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: at the ribs and poking at the ribs. And soon 161 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: what's happened is you've let the world know that the unstoppable, 162 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 1: the Great Juggernaut isn't really a great Juggernaut anymore. The 163 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: Great Juggernaut eventually becomes painted rust. And once the world 164 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: finds out that the Great Juggernaut is painted rust, you're 165 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 1: in a lot of trouble because they remember all those 166 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 1: years they weren't number one, and they want to come 167 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 1: make sure you remember how you treated them. All that 168 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: may have made you uncomfortable, but I am right. This 169 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 1: is all while we have a military that is rotting 170 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 1: out from underneath us, as always happens with these late 171 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: stage republics. We're going to talk to green Beret Joe 172 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 1: Ken about that next. We don't need a military that's 173 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: women friendly. We don't need a military that's gay friendly, 174 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:20,319 Speaker 1: with all due respect to the Air Force. We need 175 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: a military that's flat out hostile. We need a military 176 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: full of type A men who want to sit on 177 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: a throne of Chinese skulls. But we don't. We don't 178 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:29,599 Speaker 1: have that now. We can't even get women off of 179 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: naval vessels. That should be step one, but most of 180 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:37,560 Speaker 1: them are already pregnant. Anyway, I forgot how mad the 181 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:42,079 Speaker 1: Chinese got mad at me about that. They're furious joining 182 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: me now one of those men. By the grace of God, 183 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 1: they still exist. Joe Kent, green beret combat veteran, former 184 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 1: congressional candidate, and hopefully I believe running again. Joe, You're 185 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 1: running again in Washington, right, I am, Jesse. We're back 186 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: in the fight. Yes, my man, Joe Kent is running 187 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 1: for Congress again, one of the few people one percent 188 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 1: support in this country. All right, Joe, let's set aside 189 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:12,199 Speaker 1: some stupid take I did on Tucker Carlson. We're missing, 190 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: we're shooting down a lot of things. Apparently we're missing 191 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 1: some of these things as well. We actually dropped the 192 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars sidewinders somewhere, and no one seems 193 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: to know where it is. Joe, what am I missing? 194 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:27,959 Speaker 1: You know? Look, I mean the Biden administration just doesn't 195 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: take our security seriously. We knew that before they opened 196 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: up the border for an invasion, and then this nonsense 197 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 1: with Chinese spy balloons, Chinese spy craft. They won't give 198 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 1: us any straight answers. And look, I think initially they 199 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 1: were caught off guard. They hadn't seen these things before. 200 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 1: They had left that entire northern frontier wide open. And 201 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 1: they're back pedaling right now. And really they know that 202 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: the mainstream media is just going to help them cover 203 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: up their incompetence and really just their negligence. Joe, it 204 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: seems like we're watching everything uble around us. It goes 205 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 1: way beyond you know, military stuff, and let's focus on 206 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 1: that there. It doesn't feel like we have the same 207 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 1: proficiency we have known that we've always known as Americans. 208 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: It's been that way my whole life. Always the biggest, 209 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: always the best, always on point. It feels a little 210 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,479 Speaker 1: rotting now, But you're you're the one with the experience. 211 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 1: Is it most certainly is? I mean, look what Joe 212 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,200 Speaker 1: Biden has done to our military, Joe Biden, Lloyd Austin, 213 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 1: but they've done to our military in a short period 214 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: of time is nothing short of absolutely catastrophic. They they 215 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,680 Speaker 1: received one of the most battle hardened forces, the force 216 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: that fought the global War on Terror for twenty years. 217 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: They received them, and they put the vaccine mandate on them. 218 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 1: They put the extremist stand down on them, or they 219 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:44,839 Speaker 1: automatically said, hey, we think any of you who are 220 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 1: on the opposite side of the aisle as the ruling power, 221 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: we think that you are domestic terrorists. And then, like 222 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 1: I said, the vaccine mandate, we've just eroded and eroded, 223 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: and we put all these different woke talking points as 224 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:57,719 Speaker 1: our priority as opposed to just war fighting. And look, 225 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, our enemies see there's 226 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 1: no way in heck that China would have taken these 227 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:07,319 Speaker 1: drastic and very dangerous and very provocative measures against the 228 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: United States if President Trump or really any previous president 229 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 1: was in the Oval office because they didn't think they 230 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 1: could get away of it. And now under Biden, they 231 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: are completely and totally emboldened. So there's a direct result 232 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:21,199 Speaker 1: at what our ruling class, what our political leaders, Joe 233 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: Biden and Lloyd Austin, what they do to our military 234 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: and our national security. Joe, what do we talk about 235 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 1: when it comes to these high altitude balloons, satellites, various 236 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 1: ways that people spy today, the Nation States spy on others. Look, 237 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,319 Speaker 1: I'm just an idiot. What information can they gather? Can 238 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: they gather valuable information? Sixty thousand feets so that's pretty high. 239 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: What are they getting it is? Look, I mean there's 240 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: a lot of technical collection that they could get from 241 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,079 Speaker 1: these balloons or these other types of crafts. However, look 242 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know, I served 243 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 1: in the military and special forces. I was also an 244 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 1: intelligence officer in the CIA. Every time you go to 245 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: do an operation like this, you do risk versus gained. 246 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: And the Chinese had to assess that Hey, look, we're 247 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: not really risking much. Under any other administration, the risk 248 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 1: would have been really high. Hey boss, I want to 249 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: float a balloon over an American nuclear installation. I think 250 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 1: most of the time that the answer back would have been, 251 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 1: are you crazy, You're going to start a nuclear war? 252 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: But with Biden in the White House, they were like, Yeah, 253 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: what the heck, let's let's give it a whirl. I 254 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 1: personally think that the Chinese could have collected sense of 255 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,040 Speaker 1: information from their satellites or from all of the different 256 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: operatives they have deployed on the ground here in the 257 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: United States buying up farmland by these nuclear installations. I 258 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: think that this was meant to send a message that 259 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: they control the time in place in which they can 260 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 1: attack us, and that also, look, at the end of 261 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: the day, they have our ruling class, especially the Biden 262 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: crime family. They have them at their behest. Joe, is 263 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 1: this as simple as well? Here's a little video clip 264 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 1: of Joe Biden not remembering Austin's name. I want to 265 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: thank all of our distinguished guests that are here today, 266 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Secretary of the 267 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: of the Secretary, Austin the Secretary of State and the 268 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 1: Secretary of the military of the behind me, Joe. It's 269 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 1: this as simple as a commander in chief problem. We 270 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 1: have a dementia riddled old man who can't speak, can't 271 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: remember anybody's name. And that's the reason this is rotten. 272 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: Or is the rot deeper? The rot's much deeper. It's 273 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: it's way too easy to give Biden to pass and 274 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: just say like, oh, he's he's an old man of dementia, 275 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: he doesn't know what he's doing, he's sleepy. Joke, yeah, 276 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 1: I mean that factor is when you're talking about a 277 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 1: press conference. However, at the end of the day, Joe 278 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: Biden is a career politician, fifty years in government. He 279 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: has been in the back pocket of the Chinese Communist 280 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: Party now for decades, going back to when he was 281 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: on the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate. The Hunter 282 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: Biden laptop is very real. It speaks for itself. It 283 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: shows the level of compromise that the Chinese Communist Party 284 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: has on Biden not to mention oligarchs in Ukraine. So 285 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 1: this is a deeply corrupt person who, at the end 286 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: of the day him in the vast majority of people 287 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: on his national security team. They don't believe there's anything 288 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 1: exceptional about America. I don't think there's any kind of 289 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: secret cabal of globalist plotting against us. What's even more 290 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: dangerous is this mentality that, Hey, this expert class of 291 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: corporatists should be in charge of everything, and we'd be 292 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: much better off having closer relations with people in Brussels 293 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: than we would be having relations with people in East Palestine. Ohio, Joe, 294 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: what are you hearing from the hardcore types who are 295 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: still in? Because there are many, many great men and 296 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 1: women still in the United States military. They want the 297 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: right things, they're there for the right reasons. But if 298 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: your emails look at anything like my emails, they're not 299 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: going to be in very much longer. Jesse. I'm getting out, Jesse. 300 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 1: I'm getting out, Jesse. I'm getting out now. My son's 301 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 1: not joining Jesse. I'm hearing a lot of this. Are 302 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: you hearing this? I'm hearing the exact same thing. N 303 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: It's very dangerous because, like I said, I mean, these guys, 304 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: they're the ones who really bore the burden of twenty 305 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:08,639 Speaker 1: years of constant combat, and we need these guys to 306 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 1: stay in and bring up the next generation of soldiers, 307 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:14,200 Speaker 1: and the vast majority of them, if they haven't already 308 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 1: gotten out, they're going to do the bare minimum until 309 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 1: they can get their retirement, and then they're going to 310 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 1: get the heck out of the military, which is dangerous 311 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 1: if you look at how the recruitings are going, because 312 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: we're not being we're not able to put folks into 313 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:27,640 Speaker 1: the military to fill those gaps. So I think it's 314 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,199 Speaker 1: in there's especially with Joe Biden taking us, you know, 315 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 1: ever so close a kinetic war with Russia and Ukraine. 316 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:40,679 Speaker 1: Joe fix it for me. Joe Kent is a dictator 317 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 1: for a year. How do we fix America's military? We 318 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:46,919 Speaker 1: love our military, We're proud of it. We're used to 319 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 1: be in number one. We don't want to watch this 320 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:54,199 Speaker 1: rot happen. What fixes this? Yeah, I mean, first and 321 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 1: foremost the vaccine mandate. It's good that we got rid 322 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:58,120 Speaker 1: of it, but we need to bring back everybody who 323 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:00,360 Speaker 1: has kicked out and make them whole again and give 324 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 1: them back their rank, give them back pay. That's number one, 325 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: and then get rid of all this woke nonsense. And 326 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: that's going to That's easier said than done because it's 327 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: so deeply ingrained. I think we need to remake our 328 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:12,239 Speaker 1: officer corps. We need to start bringing in a lot 329 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: more guys from the enlisted ranks to become officers, so 330 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 1: we can cut the university and doctrination system of how 331 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: groom our military leaders. And there we need a foreign 332 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:26,200 Speaker 1: policy that is America first. We don't need to have 333 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 1: a combat division plus sitting over in Poland, sending the 334 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 1: vast majority of our military resources into Ukraine for a 335 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: conflict that we don't need, that we don't benefit from, 336 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:37,640 Speaker 1: that we'll only lose in. We need to get very 337 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 1: serious about restoring economic dominance and really getting back to 338 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: being an energy dominant once again, energy independent, energy dominant. Really, 339 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's like you said 340 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 1: in that opening clip with Tucker, our military has one purpose, 341 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 1: and that is to kill people and to break things. 342 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 1: The second they start trying to do anything else, they 343 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: are veering into a very dangerous area that makes our 344 00:18:57,359 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 1: country less safe. We have to get back to Joe 345 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: war fighting as far as our military goes Man, Joe Kent, 346 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 1: I appreciate your brother, Thanks very much. Thanks for having 347 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 1: me all right, Jacket, soback is going to join us? 348 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:18,640 Speaker 1: What is the capability of China? What can they do? 349 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:38,480 Speaker 1: Hang on? Have relations now between the US and China 350 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 1: taking a big hit? No, how do you know? I 351 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 1: know I talked to him. You've talked to Shock a 352 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:55,719 Speaker 1: j Pain before. I and our team talks to our 353 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:59,199 Speaker 1: people during this. Yeah, after, I haven't talked to him 354 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:06,920 Speaker 1: to during this. What joining me now? Jack Posilviic, host 355 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:11,679 Speaker 1: of the Great Human Events Daily podcast, also a Navy veteran. 356 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:13,520 Speaker 1: I don't like that, but it is what it is, 357 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:18,639 Speaker 1: all right, Jack? What is what is our relationship with China? 358 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:22,640 Speaker 1: I know we're enemies, we're friends, We're enemies who need 359 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: each other. What is it? Well, so, I mean, there's 360 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: a lot of ways you can answer that question. But 361 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 1: the reality is this is that China has always, for 362 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 1: the last thirty years or so, been the partner in 363 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 1: crime of the elites in this country. When all of 364 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: our jobs were shipped overseas. The deal was manufacturing will 365 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: go to Asia's. We're going to remove manufacturing from the 366 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: steel belt will become the rust belt. We're going to 367 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: remove it from the Midwest, We're going to remove it 368 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: from the South. It's going to go to East Asia 369 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,439 Speaker 1: as particularly China, so that they can pay slave wages 370 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: to Western capital and the intellectual property will be our 371 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,479 Speaker 1: angle of it. So the people who were shipping all 372 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:05,159 Speaker 1: the jobs over there got filthy rich, while all the wealth, 373 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 1: the jobs, the employment, the growth that all went to China. 374 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: The backstop of the included in all of this was 375 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:14,679 Speaker 1: that the imat from the World Bank would be going 376 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 1: and funding all their rides with loans. So you know, 377 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: there's a reason that Chicago and Detroit look the way 378 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 1: they do, and Shenjen and Shanghai and Beijing look the 379 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 1: way that they do, because we paid for that. Our 380 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 1: wealth was transferred to China. However, on the military side, 381 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 1: we also sort of you have the military industrial complex 382 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,880 Speaker 1: which always must put China out as a rival, as 383 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: a major threat, so they seek to portray China as 384 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 1: this and it's it's kind of this interesting track where 385 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 1: China as a military threat and by the way, they 386 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,159 Speaker 1: are by the way, an actual threat to the United 387 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:52,360 Speaker 1: States at least in terms of Taiwan, in terms of 388 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 1: our partners in East Asia, Korea, Japan, etc. But when 389 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 1: it comes to it, we have this sort of dual 390 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:00,679 Speaker 1: relationship which I think you were kind of getting at 391 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,119 Speaker 1: there that we are deeply in bed with them economically, 392 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,719 Speaker 1: and yet we look at them also as military rivals. 393 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,879 Speaker 1: What you're actually seeing is a fight at the highest 394 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 1: levels of globalism. Right. So that system that I just outline, 395 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,120 Speaker 1: that's that's globalism, That's what that is. We outsource also 396 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 1: our energy policy to the Middle East, so manufacturing in 397 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 1: East Asia Middle East gets gets our energy policy. But 398 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 1: underpinning all of that is that the United States the 399 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,959 Speaker 1: West is supposed to be the senior partner. Well, now 400 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,880 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, here comes Chijan Bing and here 401 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 1: comes the resurgence CCP. They want to be senior partner. 402 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 1: Now we saw this all throughout COVID. We saw this 403 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 1: through just last week when they decided to send a 404 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 1: spy platform, this dirigible over our nuclear silos, basically telling us, Oh, 405 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 1: you think you're in charge. It's like that scene in Batman. 406 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 1: You know you think this gives you power over us. No, 407 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 1: we have power because we have all the wealth, we 408 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,360 Speaker 1: have all the manufacturing, and you handed it to us. 409 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: Here's your cheap you know, big screen TVs and you 410 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: can sit and swipe on your Netflix while we'll be 411 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: building a real army and real military and you guys 412 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 1: can go have you know pronoun Thursday Jack can I 413 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 1: have a bunch of want to nail down on. But 414 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 1: let's nail down on the military part of this. What 415 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,680 Speaker 1: can they do beyond Taiwan and making life visible for 416 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,159 Speaker 1: the Koreans and things like that, What can they do 417 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: to us here on the mainland As an American citizen, 418 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,400 Speaker 1: I live in the I live in rural Texas. What 419 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:27,159 Speaker 1: can they do to me, to my friends, to my neighbors, anything, nothing, everything. Well, 420 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,919 Speaker 1: there's the thing I mean, particularly when it comes to China, 421 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,439 Speaker 1: I would not They're military is geared towards regional threats. 422 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 1: They're military geared towards attacks within Asia, within what they 423 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,639 Speaker 1: call the island chains for second third island chains all 424 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,639 Speaker 1: the way up to du Guam. Maybe maybe hit Hawaii 425 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 1: if there was an actual World War rececenario that kicks off, which, 426 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: by the way, if you look at the way things 427 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: are going with the United States right now, we're escalating 428 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,919 Speaker 1: into a hot kinnetic war in Ukraine while we're also 429 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: escalating in the South China see in the Taiwan Strait. 430 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: So maybe, but more directly I think what you'd be 431 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: looking at is number one, they're going to be spying 432 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 1: on you. We saw that, of course with last week, 433 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: where and I took a lot of incoming for saying 434 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: this that I think that balloon was clearly looking at 435 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: cell phone signals as well as all sorts of personal signals. 436 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: We now the State Department later came out and confirmed that. 437 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 1: But you're also looking at cyber attack, Jesse. You understand 438 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,359 Speaker 1: that their cyber capabilities are such they understand they're not 439 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: going to defeat the United States and open wars, so 440 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: they don't want to fight it that way. What if 441 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 1: all of a sudden you can't because all of our 442 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 1: lives are so connected to any type of cyber system. 443 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 1: You're banking, your car, your GPS. Imagine all of that 444 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 1: goes down for every American at the same time. And 445 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: I'm just talking about Twitter goes down. I'm talking about 446 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: all of the ways that we run our lives. You 447 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 1: can't even make it to the next town. You can't 448 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,400 Speaker 1: even you know, trucks don't know how to go where 449 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 1: they're going. Everything breaks down overnight, Banking completely breaks down. 450 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,199 Speaker 1: That is exactly the threat that I would see from 451 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 1: the Chinese Communist Party when it comes to this, as 452 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: far as a direct threat, the long term threats of course, 453 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 1: the transfer of wealth, and if you know, one another 454 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 1: one of their bio experiments decides to escape from a lab, 455 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 1: we might have to deal with that again, Jack, Why 456 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: would they be collecting cell phone signals? Whose cell phone signals? 457 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 1: What does look? I'm stupid, I understand, So you need 458 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 1: to explain this to me. What is China gain by 459 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: collecting my cell phone signal? I'm on the phone with 460 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,080 Speaker 1: my father. What do they gain by that? I know 461 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: it's something, but what well, what I mean for you 462 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 1: maybe not so much anything, but of course, you know, 463 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: maybe they are looking at you in terms of they're 464 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 1: looking at patterns of behavior within American society. So if 465 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 1: they say, hey, here's a guy, you know, he hosts 466 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 1: a show, he's talking to government leaders, he's talking to 467 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,880 Speaker 1: influential people inside the United States, they're mapping out power networks, 468 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: They're mapping out influenced networks. When it comes to bases, 469 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,879 Speaker 1: they're going to say who runs the base, who runs 470 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: who are the guards, where are the guards working with, 471 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:01,399 Speaker 1: who's the one who what are these trucks that go 472 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 1: in and out. Oh, that's the food delivery. What company 473 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: does the food delivery? Who works for them? What are 474 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:10,120 Speaker 1: the logistics, what are the supply runs that go back 475 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 1: and forth? What's the frequency? How do you get in 476 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 1: and out? What are the codes that we use for 477 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,959 Speaker 1: all of these things that we put on our basic 478 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 1: And we saw this in the navy, by the way, 479 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: how you know they could look at our fire control 480 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 1: they could look at our ages, our early warning radars, 481 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,360 Speaker 1: But what about signals that we send to power the lights, 482 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: to run the engine, to just have basic electricity throughout 483 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 1: the ship? Are those systems as safe as the ones 484 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 1: that we use to run our weapons systems? Not exactly, 485 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 1: But guess what if we don't have the secures on 486 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 1: security controls on them, then what happens to your ship 487 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 1: if all of a sudden you can't drive it across 488 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 1: the ocean. What if you get stuck somewhere? What if 489 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: you can't turn your engine on? You've just neutralized that 490 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 1: as well. So they've really been investing heavily in these 491 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 1: cyber programs, and it doesn't surprise me at all that 492 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 1: their surveillance would have kicked up to another notch where 493 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 1: they're sucking up these types of signals. Jack, why'd we 494 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 1: let the balloon get clear across that? Now I have 495 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 1: my own theories, but I'm positive you have won. It 496 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,880 Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. Republican democratic doesn't make sense. Why would 497 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:19,160 Speaker 1: any president, any administration allow the thing to go from 498 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,400 Speaker 1: the Pacific to the freaking Atlantic before they shot it down? Why? 499 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,199 Speaker 1: I mean, Jesse, Look, I said this the night that 500 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 1: it happened live. This is what it feels like to 501 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,440 Speaker 1: be in a vassal state. This is what it feels 502 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 1: like to be completely owned, to have an administration and 503 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 1: a government, and you see this on both sides of that. 504 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: That is so we talked earlier about the dual relationship 505 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,200 Speaker 1: that the United States has the China, where they present 506 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,919 Speaker 1: a military threat to us, but financially our leaders are 507 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 1: deeply in bed with them. This is exactly exemplifies what 508 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,440 Speaker 1: I just said there. Because they're more interested in their 509 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,440 Speaker 1: dollars and sense, their yuan and ren mimbi that they 510 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,880 Speaker 1: can get in terms of these deals rather than any 511 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 1: of these millet They're willing to overlook the milletary airy 512 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:04,359 Speaker 1: threats because of the massive amount of billions and trillions 513 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,400 Speaker 1: of dollars in generational wealth. It's going to come through 514 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 1: that relationship. So if a spy plane goes across, they're 515 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: going to allow it to happen, and then they're going 516 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,360 Speaker 1: to blow it up after where it leaves us territory 517 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: where you know, they're not even really using it anymore 518 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,200 Speaker 1: at that point, and they're going to beat their chest 519 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,160 Speaker 1: and make it out like they you know, like they're 520 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: taking some big care of it. But at the end 521 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: of the day, I think that was a message. I 522 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,439 Speaker 1: think that was a message to the American people, and 523 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,679 Speaker 1: I think we all saw it that we are owned 524 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 1: and our our new management is not in Washington, DC, 525 00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: it is in Beijing. Dang all right, Jack, Finally, what's 526 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 1: their weakness? Make me feel better? So I feel like, crap, now, 527 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 1: what what we'd like to imagine this big red dragon. 528 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: You know, there's this all powerful red dragon. They see everything, 529 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 1: they know everything there, but they've got weaknesses. Everyone does. 530 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: What are they well? So one of the biggest weaknesses 531 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 1: in China is that once you get past the coastal 532 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: sections of China, you're still dealing with a massive I 533 00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: mean numbers that we can't even imagine, can't even fathom 534 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 1: in the United States, a seven hundred, eight hundred million 535 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: people still living in poverty in that country, people who 536 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 1: if they realize that they are the ones being kept 537 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 1: in those conditions by their elites that are really only 538 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:19,440 Speaker 1: operating in order to enrich themselves rather than do anything 539 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 1: for the country, then if those people were somehow able 540 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 1: to be turned on the regime itself. Just like any 541 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: other dynasty in China, they believe in this thing called 542 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 1: the theory of dynastic cycles, where each dynasty in throughout 543 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 1: Chinese history has had this sort of cycle of growth, superiority, decline, decay, 544 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: and then a new revolution puts a new dynasty in place. 545 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 1: So if you look at the Communist Party is just 546 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 1: another one of the dynasties of China going back for 547 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: five thousand years, it certainly fits into that. So you 548 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 1: get a lot of those regional issues, you get a 549 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: lot of situations where like this. But it's also why 550 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,680 Speaker 1: the Chinese Communist Party uses the United States as a scapegoat, 551 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,600 Speaker 1: uses the Taiwan s suation is the scapegoat because they're 552 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 1: fanning the flames of really ultra nationalism, hypernationalism that only 553 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:10,440 Speaker 1: the Chinese Communist Party can protect you from the outside. 554 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,240 Speaker 1: Only the Chinese Communist Party can return Taiwan can return 555 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 1: Hong Kong from the Western imperialist only the Chinese Commist 556 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 1: part And so this is the way that they keep 557 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: their hold on people to be able to say that 558 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 1: we are the ones that must fight back. So, yes, 559 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,080 Speaker 1: do they have weaknesses, do they have issues, absolutely, But 560 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 1: the same issue is guess what we got them too? Jack, 561 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 1: appreciate your brother, Thanks so much, Jessie. All right, what 562 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 1: about Russia? Though? Boris Rivkin, his name is Boris? Who 563 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 1: think he knows what he's talking about? He's going to 564 00:30:43,320 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 1: join us next. The idea we're gonna send in offensive 565 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 1: equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in 566 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 1: with American pilots and American crews. Just understand, and don't 567 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,200 Speaker 1: kid yourself, no matter what you all say. That's called 568 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:19,880 Speaker 1: World War three. Okay, let's get it straight here, guys. 569 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 1: Today I'm announcing that the United States will be sending 570 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 1: thirty one Abram tanks to Ukraine. Okay, so are we 571 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: in World War three? It is this the early stage 572 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 1: of It's one of the smartest human beings I know, 573 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 1: especially when it comes to that region, is my friend 574 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 1: Boris Rifkin of Modifly Holdings and they get deals done. 575 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 1: Newsletter Boris. Okay, we said it was going to be 576 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: World War three we sent them. It doesn't feel like 577 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,600 Speaker 1: world War three. But maybe we're in some kind of 578 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 1: soft cyber version of world. Where are we when it 579 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:59,200 Speaker 1: comes to US Russia relations right now? Obviously they're not good. Yeah, 580 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: I mean, I think that the world War three card 581 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 1: has been overplayed to some degree in terms of on 582 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 1: the Russian side. In other words, it's in their interest 583 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: to continue to increase the rhetoric, to sharpen it, to 584 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,640 Speaker 1: offset the problems that they have at the front and 585 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 1: their lack of their diminished capabilities. Essentially, so it's rhetoric 586 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 1: as a potempcan village almost strategy to conceal their own 587 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 1: problems in the worsening situation in Ukraine for them right 588 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: now practically so in reality, that's why Poutin, for example, 589 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,080 Speaker 1: keeps defaulting to the nuclear card. You notice that it's 590 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: sort of a diminishing return on using it because he 591 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,959 Speaker 1: threatened to use it if we send any heavy weapons 592 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 1: to Ukraine at all. He's threatened to you know, that 593 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 1: there would be consequences if we sent the high Mars, 594 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,959 Speaker 1: we sent the anti ship missiles that were used to 595 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,680 Speaker 1: sink their battle cruiser Muscovy in the black seat, he 596 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 1: threatened consequences if we increase the range of the howitzers 597 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,080 Speaker 1: and the long range of artillery that we would be 598 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,000 Speaker 1: sending to them, sending me the more of those, and 599 00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,960 Speaker 1: he said the same thing that there would be consequence 600 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 1: is in his former president of Russia, who's now really 601 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 1: kind of a pathetic sap mouthpiece to metrimidved if threatened 602 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 1: all sorts of consequences that the world would end if 603 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:12,600 Speaker 1: the tanks were sent, if the Germans signed off on 604 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 1: sending the Leopard tanks the Ukrainians wanted. So the more 605 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: that we have pushed the envelope, the response has been 606 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 1: largely rhetorical, So nothing has fundamentally changed from the Russian side. Militarily. 607 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,719 Speaker 1: They have it up the ante because I think they can't, 608 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:29,680 Speaker 1: and to a large extent that has nothing really to 609 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,440 Speaker 1: do with Biden and what we're doing. It has to 610 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,520 Speaker 1: do with Russia's own internal problems and what Putin realistically 611 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,600 Speaker 1: can and can't do. So what Putin is essentially doing 612 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: right now is he's telling his generals to accomplish political 613 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,280 Speaker 1: objectives for him. So by the one year anniversary coming 614 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,920 Speaker 1: up at the end of the month, he told his generals, 615 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 1: I want a couple of politically important positions in Ukraine 616 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,200 Speaker 1: and the don't boss region like bach Mood where there's 617 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 1: a huge amount of fighting going on right now. I 618 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,240 Speaker 1: want those positions taken. I want something that I could 619 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,480 Speaker 1: spin on. The one year anniversary is a big political 620 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,600 Speaker 1: victory for me in light of the reality that the 621 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,440 Speaker 1: Russians have now lost north of two hundred thousand probably 622 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,360 Speaker 1: approaching two hundred and fifty thousand dead, wounded and captured 623 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,799 Speaker 1: in Ukraine in one year. So in context, what does 624 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,960 Speaker 1: that mean for the Russians. So, the Soviet Union lost 625 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,640 Speaker 1: about ten thousand killed in nine years fighting in Afghanistan 626 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:27,920 Speaker 1: during the Soviet Afghan War. So it's that's about three 627 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 1: or four times what they lost in the two Czechen 628 00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 1: Wars put together at this point, the first one under 629 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 1: yelston In the second one under Putin, So you basically 630 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,239 Speaker 1: just put that in contact. That was the Soviet Union 631 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,600 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. Here you have Russia, which has the Soviet 632 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,120 Speaker 1: Union had about three hundred million people. Russia now today 633 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: has one hundred and forty million, and you know, they 634 00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:51,000 Speaker 1: lost ten thousand killed. The number killed in Ukraine is 635 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:57,040 Speaker 1: about sixty to seventy thousand, So it's a disaster and 636 00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:01,759 Speaker 1: they don't have anything else mill I mean as far 637 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:05,960 Speaker 1: as equipment to technologically to offset that in any way. 638 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,719 Speaker 1: But Putin is setting these political objectives and his generals 639 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 1: are in panic. But they are terrified. They are doing 640 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,799 Speaker 1: what they can because there's a lot of you know, 641 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,080 Speaker 1: to appease the Czar, if you will, to appease Putin. 642 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:19,839 Speaker 1: There are a lot of these factional battles that are 643 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,520 Speaker 1: happening inside the Kremlin, each each trying to kind of 644 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,640 Speaker 1: undermine his political rival. Be it this guy who's the 645 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:29,520 Speaker 1: head of the Wagner Group, which is this mercenary private army, 646 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,759 Speaker 1: the chairman of the their equivalent of the Chairman of 647 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,799 Speaker 1: the Joint chiefs Kasimov chief of the General Staff. Then 648 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 1: you have the hapless Defense Minister Shoigu, who's never served 649 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,160 Speaker 1: a day in his life in the army. You think 650 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:42,560 Speaker 1: it's kind of like some of the people we have 651 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,040 Speaker 1: in our military, But this guy never served a day 652 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:46,279 Speaker 1: in the army, and of course because he was a 653 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,080 Speaker 1: Putin crony, he became defense minister, so his main job 654 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,600 Speaker 1: was robbing the defense budget. And now we're seeing what's 655 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:56,320 Speaker 1: going on there. So you have to separate the political 656 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,880 Speaker 1: the political rhetoric of Putin himself from what's actually happening 657 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:01,520 Speaker 1: on the ground and what they can do. And the 658 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:05,560 Speaker 1: final point on that in terms of what more could 659 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,560 Speaker 1: happen here, like how close are we to the bring 660 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,120 Speaker 1: because we're hearing this and when I said, it's not 661 00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:14,560 Speaker 1: as much to do with us, China is a huge 662 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:18,600 Speaker 1: restraining force on Putin, so aside from Putin's own internal 663 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,839 Speaker 1: limitations and what's happening within the Russian Army and its 664 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,879 Speaker 1: inability to achieve anything that he really wants it to achieve. Strategically, 665 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,359 Speaker 1: the Chinese are a huge restraining force on Putin. So 666 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:33,239 Speaker 1: she basically told Putin do not use nukes. You know 667 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,200 Speaker 1: that There's been a lot of behind the scenes pressure. 668 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,600 Speaker 1: So the Chinese are helping Russia in some areas, but 669 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,000 Speaker 1: they're a huge restraining force on them in other areas. 670 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,560 Speaker 1: So they the Chinese want a Russia that sort of 671 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,439 Speaker 1: weakened and prodding that would be a Russia that where 672 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,480 Speaker 1: they kind of have them where they want them. That 673 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,520 Speaker 1: would actually be useful to the Chinese. But if this 674 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,720 Speaker 1: escalates into them using even tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine 675 00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,480 Speaker 1: at all, that would be really really problematic for the 676 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,759 Speaker 1: Chinese across the board. So they've been trying to get 677 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:06,040 Speaker 1: putin to not go that far. So and another interesting 678 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,920 Speaker 1: point kind of to close that off in terms of 679 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,799 Speaker 1: their capabilities, there was I think it was about five 680 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,759 Speaker 1: or six years ago, maybe longer, the former deputy prime 681 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:20,640 Speaker 1: minister who was later the head of the Soviets the 682 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,880 Speaker 1: Russian equivalent of NASA, RUSS COSMAS, their their space agency, 683 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:25,640 Speaker 1: and he was the deputy prime Minister in charge of 684 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:30,280 Speaker 1: defense issues, and he gave a speech to their equivalent 685 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,640 Speaker 1: of the Pentagon and said that and this was supposed 686 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,920 Speaker 1: to be off the record, but it was somebody filmed 687 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,520 Speaker 1: it and it was disseminated that in his estimation, the 688 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,560 Speaker 1: US could within a matter of hours knock out eighty 689 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:47,160 Speaker 1: to ninety percent of Russia's nuclear capacity with conventional weapons, 690 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:53,160 Speaker 1: so with targeted long range conventional messile weapons, with targeted 691 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:58,719 Speaker 1: missile strikes, without US even having to contemplate any kind 692 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:02,400 Speaker 1: of nuclear retaliation, second strike or anything before they do anything. 693 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,960 Speaker 1: So before a single Russian nuclear device even gets off 694 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:11,600 Speaker 1: the ground, we have the conventional capability of destroying eighty 695 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,160 Speaker 1: to nine of that capacity without any further problems. And 696 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,520 Speaker 1: he admitted this to their equivalent to the Pentagon, So 697 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 1: they're fully aware of the disconnect between what they're saying 698 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:26,120 Speaker 1: as far as the nuclear threats and the Gulf incapabilities 699 00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:29,000 Speaker 1: between us and them. So you kind of have to 700 00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,600 Speaker 1: keep all of those things in mind when you hear 701 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,719 Speaker 1: a lot of these scare stories. I think about World 702 00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:41,280 Speaker 1: War three being imminent. Boris. Finally, politically, you mentioned Putin's 703 00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,040 Speaker 1: vulnerable politically, and I continue to hear this, He's vulnerable, 704 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,439 Speaker 1: He's vulnerable. We Americans we like to imagine this all 705 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:52,080 Speaker 1: powerful autocrat who has total control of everything. Why is 706 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:56,719 Speaker 1: a guy like that in trouble politically? Well? I don't 707 00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,160 Speaker 1: know if to be honest, I think that that kind 708 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,279 Speaker 1: of devetails too these rumors as Putin ill, does he 709 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,560 Speaker 1: a cancer? Like, what's his staying power? What's going on? 710 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,200 Speaker 1: I wouldn't put too much greevance into that. I think 711 00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:12,720 Speaker 1: that it's too early to think about who might succeed Putin. 712 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,480 Speaker 1: What I can say is or what's his real standing 713 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,600 Speaker 1: in the Kremlin. I think that for now there's no 714 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:19,600 Speaker 1: one really who could challenge him directly. There are a 715 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,719 Speaker 1: couple of people who might together, but Putin has been 716 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:28,000 Speaker 1: able to set up a very specialized scheme. Obviously, he 717 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,560 Speaker 1: was a former KGB colonel. He understands what happened to 718 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,400 Speaker 1: borbatchoff when they attempted to overthrow him in nineteen ninety one. 719 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,920 Speaker 1: Putin is very careful to keep close tabs on everyone 720 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,480 Speaker 1: around him. He hates them, he doesn't trust them. This is, 721 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,120 Speaker 1: you know, a late stage. He's been there for over 722 00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:47,279 Speaker 1: twenty years. He suspects plots and attempted pus at every turn, 723 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,880 Speaker 1: behind every rock, and so he's very careful not to 724 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,839 Speaker 1: allow any potential rivals to gang up on it. So 725 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:55,920 Speaker 1: I would really put too much weight into that, and 726 00:39:55,960 --> 00:40:00,359 Speaker 1: more importantly, the aspiration of Putin's successor being some kind 727 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:04,160 Speaker 1: of enlightened pro Western democrat. I think we shouldn't put 728 00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,120 Speaker 1: up keep our hopes up on that either. I think 729 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,200 Speaker 1: really what I can say is that, I mean he 730 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,200 Speaker 1: does use body doubles that we know he does keep 731 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,240 Speaker 1: his senior advisors, you know, across these mile long tables, 732 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,840 Speaker 1: because he's literally has all these phobias. He's just terrified 733 00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:21,920 Speaker 1: of them being around him. So he has a special train, 734 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,040 Speaker 1: armor train that's prepared to him, like Kim Jong n 735 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:27,799 Speaker 1: you know that. He so that's to not have too 736 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:29,880 Speaker 1: many people close to so I wouldn't. So he's taking 737 00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,440 Speaker 1: every precaution he possibly can. I don't give too much 738 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,720 Speaker 1: weight to any of these rumors, but what I would 739 00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:42,440 Speaker 1: probably say is that the war in Ukraine currently, whether 740 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:46,000 Speaker 1: it expands or doesn't, or there's some kind of strategic 741 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,200 Speaker 1: operational change in the battlefield, if you will, the war 742 00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:53,560 Speaker 1: in Ukraine will continue politically so long as Putin is 743 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,480 Speaker 1: in the Kremlin. So for Putin, he's ideologically possessed with 744 00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,399 Speaker 1: this Ukraine issue and has been for far along than 745 00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,840 Speaker 1: a lot of our commentators and officials I think have 746 00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,799 Speaker 1: given him credit for it. And when somebody is ideologically 747 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:09,480 Speaker 1: possessed with something, rational thinking goes out the window, which 748 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,680 Speaker 1: is why he's continuing to insist on all these really unachievable, 749 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:18,040 Speaker 1: deranged political objectives which have no military aren't militarily realizable. 750 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,120 Speaker 1: He doesn't care so he wants to keep going, and 751 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,360 Speaker 1: so we have to decide that could sort of debtail 752 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:25,960 Speaker 1: to what we need to do at this point. How 753 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:27,839 Speaker 1: will this end? How long is this going to go on? 754 00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,799 Speaker 1: I mean, we have to decide what our tolerance is meaning. 755 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,239 Speaker 1: Are we prepared for a multi year potentially, which I 756 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,600 Speaker 1: think could very well be the case of a sort 757 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:40,120 Speaker 1: of lower grade protracted war another Afghanistan another Vietnam type 758 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,279 Speaker 1: of experience, in more of a proxy setting where we 759 00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,600 Speaker 1: would be providing some kind of open ended support for 760 00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:49,120 Speaker 1: Ukraine as the front begins to sort of ossify and 761 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:52,560 Speaker 1: solidify and we get into this war of attrition stalemate situation. 762 00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,799 Speaker 1: Or are we prepared for a new definition of what 763 00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:00,760 Speaker 1: we would be fined with as far as he's concerned 764 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,480 Speaker 1: over there, because we have other priorities like China and 765 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:05,440 Speaker 1: things that we have to be focused on. So that's 766 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,759 Speaker 1: a political decision for us. But on Putin's end, I 767 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,160 Speaker 1: don't believe he's going to be stopping so long as 768 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:15,719 Speaker 1: he has the ability to keep going. Boris Rifkin, thank you, 769 00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:38,520 Speaker 1: my brother, Thanks Jesse, we have final thoughts. Thanks. All right, 770 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:43,080 Speaker 1: that's a lot right you're thinking about foreign powers How 771 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:46,759 Speaker 1: are they? How are we trying to assess World War three? 772 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,359 Speaker 1: Which is ugly anyway, but let's stay on top of 773 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:53,680 Speaker 1: it around here. Obviously, world War three doesn't matter until 774 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:57,360 Speaker 1: it matters a lot. We'll let you know. We'll do 775 00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:57,719 Speaker 1: it again.