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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, welcome to the Buck Brief. We got our buddy,
Speaker 2: Kurt Schlickter back.
Speaker 3: In the house. The man himself.
Speaker 2: He is a lawyer, he is many many years in
Speaker 2: the United States military. He's a senior columnist at townhall
Speaker 2: dot com. He's an author. He's got a new book
Speaker 2: coming out which makes a great stocking stuffer, but for
Speaker 2: early next year, right because it technically you can't stock
Speaker 2: your stuffing with it X. It's coming out the first
Speaker 2: week of January, but you should pre order it if
Speaker 2: you can. The Attack by Kurt Schlickter, coming out January eighth.
Speaker 3: Mister Kurt, how are you, buddy?
Speaker 1: Oh? I'm doing great. I've got my Noel going on.
Speaker 3: That's good. That's good to know.
Speaker 2: So I wanted to know for you. You know, this
Speaker 2: is a little bit of a of a year in
Speaker 2: review and then a year look ahead show. Right, what
Speaker 2: for you is the biggest and most interesting story of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: What were you just as fired up about as anything?
Speaker 1: Well? Look, I think I think the story that sums
Speaker 1: up twenty twenty three was the Senate staffer and his
Speaker 1: buddy making it happen in the Senate hearing room. I
Speaker 1: think that perfectly encapsulated everything about this year, from a
Speaker 1: gross leftism to bizarre perversion, to a total contempt for
Speaker 1: our norms and our institutions. I think that we can
Speaker 1: tell me there is like the perfect ending.
Speaker 2: It's really in the Christmas spirit. Apparently with it it's
Speaker 2: like the worst year ever.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at this. You've got America is in
Speaker 1: retreat around the globe. We have a economy that's in
Speaker 1: the dumpster. We have a an alleged president who's trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, if not arrest, at least disenfranchised his political opponent.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much to choose from. Yeah, Harvard,
Speaker 1: you have a midwain diversity hire who's a plagiarist, who's
Speaker 1: heading America's allegedly greatest university. I mean, it's uh, Jimmy
Speaker 1: Carter is just happy that he's not going to pass
Speaker 1: on to his reward before seeing a worse president than him.
Speaker 2: You know a lot of people are just listening to this,
Speaker 2: so they don't they don't really see it because they
Speaker 2: don'tubscribe to the YouTube channel, which they should YouTube Buck
Speaker 2: Sexton for the Buck brief. But you know, this is
Speaker 2: one thing people say, oh do you have you have
Speaker 2: such You know that they will comment on my luxurious
Speaker 2: main and with the donor is stand Kurt. A lot
Speaker 2: of maintenance goes into this and it can get it
Speaker 2: can get crazy like right now, just happened. It started
Speaker 2: sticking off to the side, like like Dennis the Menace situation,
Speaker 2: and there's not nothing I can do about it. You know.
Speaker 2: So while it is a blessing, it is also a curse.
Speaker 2: This is a total non sequitor. Let's get back to
Speaker 2: the real things. What what for you is is the
Speaker 2: thing that uh, you know, in terms of the stories
Speaker 2: of the past year, is there anything that you think
Speaker 2: we're going to get a particularly joyous resolution to in
Speaker 2: the coming year, whether it's a conflict abroad or a
Speaker 2: election here at home? I mean, what, what's kind of
Speaker 2: making you hopeful? Grinch after your whole is everything sucks?
Speaker 2: America is getting this, you know, butt kicked or whatever.
Speaker 1: I I'm becoming one of those guys. I hate that.
Speaker 1: I look, I have hope for America. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's always darkest before the dawn, and don't worry, it
Speaker 1: can always get worse.
Speaker 3: Okay, can I ask you?
Speaker 2: Can ask you a real question because you're your military guy.
Speaker 2: My concern here is, so you know, we're both a
Speaker 2: little we both had a little eggnog with a little
Speaker 2: spiked rum probably even though it's morning as we're doing
Speaker 2: this podcast. But but but looking yeah, I mean, is
Speaker 2: it ever too early for eggnog?
Speaker 3: It's a food group, but I would say.
Speaker 1: And it's always Christmas somewhere.
Speaker 3: That's also true. But but onto like a real question
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 2: On the military side, my concern is with with the
Speaker 2: Ukraine thing. You'll notice the funding continues, but people putting
Speaker 2: the Ukraine flags in their bio that's kind of gone
Speaker 2: down a bit, do you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 2: somehow it's now on autopilot, like it's not the thing
Speaker 2: that all the Libs are like, like like they're about
Speaker 2: to go and fight, you know, alongside the Ukrainian military
Speaker 2: or something that has died down, right, But you know,
Speaker 2: the people that had the syringes for the vaccine alongside
Speaker 2: the flag, now it's just the syringes and even less
Speaker 2: of that. The Ukraine flags are disappearing too. Are we
Speaker 2: just going to keep funding this thing though for the
Speaker 2: next year and no one's really gonna care about America
Speaker 2: getting I don't know, We'll be three hundred billion in
Speaker 2: the hole over this thing and nothing changes. They're not
Speaker 2: even it's not even like one side is winning or losing. Really,
Speaker 2: it's just like a stalemate.
Speaker 1: It's it's a stalemate. But you know, having knowing something
Speaker 1: about history gives us kind of an advantage over all
Speaker 1: the people running this country. What Russia does is it
Speaker 1: loses initially, then it rebuilds, then it counterattacks, then it
Speaker 1: destroys its enemy. And you know, it's true under Napoleon,
Speaker 1: that was true against Hitler, and I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be true about Ukraine. And I look, I like Ukraine.
Speaker 1: I went and trained Ukrainian soldiers. I don't think they
Speaker 1: should have been invaded. I'm not for Russia. I was
Speaker 1: actually in the Cold War while a lot of the
Speaker 1: people with Ukrainian flags were stucking up to the KGB
Speaker 1: sponsored nuclear phrase movement. So it doesn't give me a
Speaker 1: pleasure to say, but you know, Ukraine is running out
Speaker 1: of Ukrainians. I have heard, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's sure or not, that the average age of a
Speaker 1: Ukrainian soldier is forty three years old. If true, that's
Speaker 1: not good. That's that's bad. And there are millions of
Speaker 1: young Ukrainian men who've already voted with their feet. They're
Speaker 1: all over Europe, they've emmigranted, they're not fighting for their country.
Speaker 1: I think what we're going to get out out of
Speaker 1: our three hundred billion is Russia is going to have
Speaker 1: all its old equipment wiped out, so it's going to
Speaker 1: build new, modern equipment, and it's going to have all
Speaker 1: its bad generals killed and then get new generals who
Speaker 1: know how to fight, so they will come out with
Speaker 1: a stronger military. We will come out with a weaker
Speaker 1: one because we're you know, we're using up our stocks
Speaker 1: of ammunition like one five millimere shells and Himer's missiles
Speaker 1: or rockets, and we're absolutely not learning anything either, because
Speaker 1: the United States military seemed capable of learning well.
Speaker 2: Also, though I mean I wonder about this sometimes, you know,
Speaker 2: from the time I was in Cia and then many
Speaker 2: years afterwards, I got a sense as to how we
Speaker 2: we have If you're trying to find people who can
Speaker 2: in close quarters combat go into a you know, a
Speaker 2: house and smoke a bunch of Al Qaeda guys.
Speaker 3: We got the best guys in.
Speaker 2: The world at that, I mean our you know, our
Speaker 2: Delta guys and seals and rangers and and s F
Speaker 2: and all these like marsk all these guys got I
Speaker 2: mean the skills set that they developed over these wars
Speaker 2: and then through the actual you know, experiential component of
Speaker 2: it from fighting for so many years. We're amazing at that.
Speaker 2: Are we amazing?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 2: At the sending tanks across a battlefield, massive amounts of ammunition,
Speaker 2: artillery support, and all of that at the level we
Speaker 2: would have to be if we were going to fight
Speaker 2: against a Russia or a China.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like? Are you know exactly you mean? And thirty three
Speaker 1: years ago, I was in the Golf War about to
Speaker 1: be in the Golf War, and that's what we did.
Speaker 1: We knew how to do that, We knew how to
Speaker 1: integrate battlefield operating systems to synchronize our operations. We still
Speaker 1: do training at National Training Center sometimes, but I've got
Speaker 1: very little faith in our generals. Our generals have any
Speaker 1: proven track record of failure. They have not won a war,
Speaker 1: a major war, unequivocally since the aforementioned Golf War. Do
Speaker 1: you I don't know if they can do conventional fight.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we have the ammunition to do well.
Speaker 2: That's what what I was gonna ask you, is do
Speaker 2: we even have the industrial base to support? Because I
Speaker 2: was reading I was reading articles a year ago, well,
Speaker 2: I guess it was like nine months ago, but New
Speaker 2: York Times articles, et cetera, where they were saying, we
Speaker 2: may run out of the capacity to help the Ukrainians
Speaker 2: have the capacity to keep firing artillery rounds off, and
Speaker 2: I was like, really, I was looking.
Speaker 1: At something about an artillery shell making plant in the US,
Speaker 1: and then we're trying to make like one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy shells an hour, which sounds like a lot. An
Speaker 1: artillery battalion is going to put one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: shells out in about ten minutes. That's one artillery battalion
Speaker 1: out of what needs to be hundreds. Yeah, we're not
Speaker 1: a serious country about the military. We are a serious
Speaker 1: country about frivolous nonsense like DEI and equity and weird
Speaker 1: trans nonsense.
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Speaker 2: think it's just a matter of time and I really
Speaker 2: mean this, or do you think that they would they would,
Speaker 2: they would draw some kind of a line. Is it
Speaker 2: just a matter of time before we have a And
Speaker 2: I'm being I'm being honest, like I'm asking the real question.
Speaker 2: A purple haired, nose ringed, non binary like three or
Speaker 2: four star general?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 2: Is that coming in the actual military, not you know,
Speaker 2: health and human services or something.
Speaker 1: No, it is. When I wrote the People's Republic books,
Speaker 1: which features that sort of thing, I thought, let me
Speaker 1: talk about crazy stuff. The crazy stuff is happening, and
Speaker 1: that will happen because the military has lost its capacity
Speaker 1: to say this is nonsense. We're a serious organization. They
Speaker 1: are now a petri dish for bizarre social pathologies, and
Speaker 1: we have the track record of defeat to prove it.
Speaker 2: Can I ask you, do any of your friends, colleagues,
Speaker 2: brothers in arms, the military that are somewhat like minded
Speaker 2: to us, do they push back on this? Who are
Speaker 2: you know who are still inside? Are they like guys? Look,
Speaker 2: there's some of that stuff, but it's not this bad
Speaker 2: or are they like? No, it actually is this bad?
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Like, does anyone say all
Speaker 2: the right the right wing media is taking this too far?
Speaker 2: I agree, we shouldn't have all this nonsense, but it's
Speaker 2: going too far? Or is this what they're really seeing?
Speaker 1: Now? This is what they're seeing. It's the point where
Speaker 1: the retired guys like me, we don't recommend anyone joined
Speaker 1: the military anything. Wow. And it kills me. It kills
Speaker 1: me to say, don't join the military right now. But
Speaker 1: why should you? They hate you if you're a normal person,
Speaker 1: they despise you. You are not in a serious organization. Look.
Speaker 1: As a lawyer, I represented one of the families of
Speaker 1: one of the guys killed in combled So I was
Speaker 1: there when you know, the Marine Corps came and briefed
Speaker 1: them on what allegedly happened. And I watched what the
Speaker 1: Marine Corps told this family whose son was killed through
Speaker 1: the gross inconfidence of the military. And then I watched
Speaker 1: later as there was sworn testimony in front of Congress
Speaker 1: that was different than what the Marine Corps told the
Speaker 1: family about the circumstances of their son's death. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it is. It's a disgrace, is unseerious our enemies. I
Speaker 1: think the reason our enemies haven't acted is because they
Speaker 1: can't fully believe we're as bad as we actually are.
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't understand why g doesn't just
Speaker 1: take Taiwan, like we're gonna stop them.
Speaker 3: Well, I keep saying that.
Speaker 2: You know, I just actually spoke to uh, you know
Speaker 2: Bridge Colby, very very smart guy, you know Elbridge. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you got you guys should hang because he's uh, you know,
Speaker 2: he's a military strategist, academic, but you know, a really
Speaker 2: sound he knows he knows the info, but also has
Speaker 2: a sound mind about what, you know, what you can
Speaker 2: do with it.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And we're talking about the Taiwan thing, and he's like, look,
Speaker 2: they're taking Taiwan, Like that's it's just a question of when.
Speaker 2: Like they're telling us they're going to take Taiwan. They're
Speaker 2: going to take Taiwan, and we have to sit here
Speaker 2: and think, what do we really you know, if that
Speaker 2: call comes, if that happens, well you think a Biden
Speaker 2: administration is gonna understand how to either stop it, de
Speaker 2: escalated or whatever. I mean, they're probably just gonna be like, WHOA,
Speaker 2: let's go to the UN So I think there are
Speaker 2: real there are reasons to believe that that China sees
Speaker 2: a big opening, and especially if you get another Democrat
Speaker 2: administration for four years. But hold on, I want to
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Speaker 2: the Attack your book coming out first week January. A
Speaker 2: lot of people will be listening to this going into
Speaker 2: the new year, so it'll be just days away from release.
Speaker 2: Tell me about the book, Kurt, Well.
Speaker 1: Look, after ten seven happened. I I pitched my traditional publisher, hey,
Speaker 1: why don't I write a nonfiction about what a terrorist
Speaker 1: attack in the United States would look like? And the uh,
Speaker 1: you know, my publisher said, uh, why don't you, uh,
Speaker 1: why don't you write it as a novel? And I
Speaker 1: did in about six weeks. It is not a turbul
Speaker 1: it is not a people's Republican novel. It is a
Speaker 1: standalone but it is informed by a lot of people
Speaker 1: I know, from the intelligence community, from politics, from the military.
Speaker 1: It is looks at what a terrorist attack, a massive
Speaker 1: terrorist attack through a southern border, would look like in
Speaker 1: the United States. It talks about our vulnerabilities, it talks
Speaker 1: about our lack of defenses. Buck I had to cut
Speaker 1: stuff out because I didn't want to give these creeps ideas.
Speaker 1: But we were very, very vulnerable. And this book, you know,
Speaker 1: it's entertaining, It is exciting, and it looks at from
Speaker 1: all angles, from individual people to a president of the
Speaker 1: United States who is completely out to lunch. And I
Speaker 1: decided I would release it to Amazon because I want
Speaker 1: to beat this happening. I don't want this to happen
Speaker 1: before the book comes out, so I am It's coming
Speaker 1: out in only January. You'll be able to pre order it,
Speaker 1: and it is. I gotta say, it's a pretty damn.
Speaker 3: Good book, excellent stuff.
Speaker 2: Telling everybody go check out The Attack by mister Kirschlichter.
Speaker 2: He's written some fantastic novels, done very well for himself
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Speaker 2: give us either a Christmas tradition, a Christmas movie recommendation,
Speaker 2: or life wisdom for twenty twenty four. What if you
Speaker 2: your pick dealer's choice.
Speaker 1: Well, look for me, my birthday is the day before Christmas.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be one hundred and twenty eight years old.
Speaker 1: And uh, I always cook spaghetti because it's red and
Speaker 1: it's got pepperss so it's green. It's a very Christmas
Speaker 1: Y thing. But you know, I like traditions. I like
Speaker 1: the Christmas spirit. I like the optimism because you know,
Speaker 1: we're optimistic people. Buck, We're not going to give and
Speaker 1: we're not going to We're not gonna take this. I'm
Speaker 1: not giving over my country to anybody. I'm making it happen.
Speaker 1: And that is a you know, and in maintaining your
Speaker 1: traditions and submernly celebrating Christmas as opposed to happy Holidays,
Speaker 1: you know, generic nonsense. I think that makes a statement.
Speaker 1: It takes a stand. I like it.
Speaker 2: Go check out The Attack. Kirch Luker's book out first
Speaker 2: week of January. And follow Kurt on social media. Sir,
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas and the Happy New Year, Merry
Speaker 1: Christmas, Merry Christmas and of course Happy Kwanza because that's
Speaker 1: a real thing.