WEBVTT - China’s Aggression with Rebekah Koffler 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.920 The world has grown more chaotic and unstable under President 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:08.320 Joe Biden. Our enemies like Russia, China, and Iran have 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:13.320 only grown stronger because of Biden's weakness. We saw that 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:16.400 recently and when Chinese leaders Hi Jimpang and Russian President 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.960 Vladimir Putin met for talks in Moscow during a three 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.960 day meeting. This is concerning when you've got people like 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:27.000 the Air Force General Mike Minahan, head of Air Mobility Command, 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.400 saying that the United States in China will fight in 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:34.680 twenty twenty five. This also becomes concerning when we're bogged 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:39.040 down in Ukraine right now fighting Russia. We're depleting our military, arsenal, 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:43.479 financial resources, and without any sort of defined plan of 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.559 what winning actually would look like there or if Ukraine 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.400 can even win. So what does all of this mean 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:53.640 for the United States. Rebecca Koffler is a strategic military 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:57.560 intelligence analyst who previously worked as a Russian doctrine and 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.640 strategic specialist in the Defense and Eligence Agency, and she 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.360 joins us to break it all down. She's also the 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.400 author of the book Putin's Playbook, So go check that out. 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:16.520 Stay tuned for Rebecca Koffler. So, Rebecca, Chinese leader Shi 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.760 Jimping and Russian President Vladimir Putin just recently held talks 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:24.840 in Moscow. What are your big takeaways from these three 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:27.360 day meetings and what we have learned from them so far? 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:32.800 The takeaways are huge, Lisa, First, if I may let 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:36.760 me read your quote of what She Jinping told Putin 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:41.320 as he was saying goodbye to his quote unquote, dear friend, 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:46.640 changes a taking place now that haven't happened in a 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.880 hundred years. When we are together, we drive these changes. 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:58.720 Putin responded, agreed, So here the takes the takeaways. First, 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:04.120 the two She Jumping and Putin forming a permanent anti 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.280 US block with China as global center of gravity. What 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.959 does it mean? Both of them have written what I 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:18.760 would call manifestos in their respective state newspapers outlining their 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.280 vision how they see the world. What they want to do, Lisa, 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:26.920 is transform the world, to shift the balance of power 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:31.400 in their own favor, specifically in China's China is on 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.480 an upward trajectory and the Rush is on a downward trajectory. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:41.520 So Putin specifically kind of signaled to she that China 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:46.600 is now a higher ranking higher ranking member of the partnership, 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:50.360 if you're Will. So what they were strategizing about is 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:55.040 how do they displace the United States from its top 0:02:55.120 --> 0:03:00.320 place as the dominant political, economic, and military power. And 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:05.480 that's China's goal by twenty fourty nine. And so they're 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.840 planning to replace the dollar with the petra Yuan is 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.880 the dominant currency of international reserves. And more importantly, they 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.640 want to challenge the United States potentially in a two 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:23.480 theater war. And my intelligence assessment is that she would 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:28.839 possibly authorize China's incursion into Taiwan during Prison Biden's first term. 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:33.120 You know, we're often told, Rebecca that, look, we have 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:37.080 to be involved in Ukraine, because if we didn't get 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.000 involved in Ukraine, if we didn't take this fight against Russia, 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.800 then China would see it as a green light to 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.720 invade Taiwan. But if you're China, wouldn't you want us 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:50.720 preoccupied in Ukraine. We've depleted our military arsenal, we've joined 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:56.520 our finances, we were distracted. Right now, you are exactly correct, Lisa, 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.720 and I heard you talk about this or not on 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:05.360 box and you just nailed this analysis. Because all of 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:09.760 these pundits, right, they think like Americans, but our adversaries 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:13.000 don't think like Americans. Russians think like the Russians, and 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:17.640 Chinese think like the Chinese. So what she jumping is 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.600 pondering right now is that, as you said, he has 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:29.279 two of its top geopolitical adversaries just decimating each other's 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:33.960 combat readiness in a proxy war. So there's this famous 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:39.320 Chinese program a wise monkey, and monkey is a young 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.880 is a symbol of wisdom and shrewdness and intelligence in 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:48.760 Chinese culture. Right, So a shrewd monkey is sitting atop 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:53.000 of the mountain watching down the valley how two tigers 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:58.000 are fighting ferociously, and she's waiting patiently to see how 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:02.200 this ends. And this is what China is doing right now, 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:07.120 because we are the only country that can intervene and 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:12.599 disrupt China's plans to take over Taiwan. And we simply 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:17.520 will not have the combat readiness needed and the military 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:22.680 arsenal because we are hyper focused on this Ukraine business. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:28.200 And so Joe Biden and his team are absolutely, you know, incompetent. 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:33.159 They are missing the forest for the tree. You're exactly right, well, 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.400 and you've written a lot about some of the steps 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:39.720 at present, she is taken installing a wartime cabinet directing 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:44.720 his military for war. Is this just posturing or how 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.640 real is this threat for the United States? Oh, it 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:54.160 is absolutely real, Lisa. In fact, we are living in 0:05:54.200 --> 0:06:01.240 the riskiest period in modern history in my analysis. Here's why, 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.320 because we face a two front war and we're simply 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.520 capable of fighting it. We do have the doctrine, but 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:13.039 we have eroded our capability because our pentagon is actually 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:18.599 focused on pronouns and you know, teaching Marxist ideologists to 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.160 our military officers instead of how to win wars. And 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:26.280 so she knows this. You know, it is not costing. 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.320 He's doing all of these things that we call in 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:34.880 the intelligence business i NW or indications and warnings in 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:39.360 plain language. These are the signposts when we assess does 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:44.200 the country transition onto a wartime footing. There are certain 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:50.200 checkmarks that we're looking for, and China's pasture right now 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.760 fits all those. As you said, he installed back in 0:06:54.000 --> 0:07:00.400 October the wartime cabinet. He also gave direction to his 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:07.400 armed forces to get ready for war, very very specifically. 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:12.720 He directed them to get all their energy, all their weaponry. 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.360 Here's what he said, the entire military must concentrate all 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:20.600 energy on fighting a war, direct all works toward warfare, 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:24.720 and speed up to build their ability to win. So 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.560 here's what they're doing in order to win. China has 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:33.680 beefed up its space order of battle from two hundred 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.600 and fifty to four hundred and ninety nine satellites. Why 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:41.040 is that. It's because every aspect of fighting right now 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:45.600 is conducted through satellite constellation, anything from mister warning to 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:50.520 navigation to reconnaissance, commander control. At the same time, China 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:55.960 is developing and fielding count what we call counter space 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:00.840 weapons too, and I quote blind and deaf and US forces. 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:05.400 This is part of China's what they call unrestricted warfare concept. 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:10.160 And these counterspace weapons include kinetic kill missiles, ground based lasers, 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:15.720 electronic warfare systems, and directed energy weapons and even orbiting 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.960 space robots. And there's a long list of these of 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:24.360 these items that the Chinese are doing, including developing chemical 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:29.480 and biological warfare agents that their artillery could be arm duets. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.280 And so there's a piece that I've written on the 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.760 New York Posts that it's titled White China app is 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.120 ready to go to war with the US over Taiwan, 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:42.040 and I provide detail on all of these steps. So no, 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:47.440 it's not posturing, it's actually getting ready for war. Take 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:53.559 a quick commercial break more with Rebecca Kaffler. Well, and 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.320 you wrote regarding that New York Post article. I found 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:00.480 this part really interesting. You talk about us down the 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.720 Chinese spy balloon with a four hundred thousand dollars missile, 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.080 pointing out it's an example how China could defeat us 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.080 by depleting our combat arsenal. And you write, imagine China 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.839 sending one hundred balloons ahead of its attack on Taiwan. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.240 How many f twenty twos would be needed to do 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:21.320 down the ball Imagine air traffic disruptions across America, Imagine 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:25.640 the panic that would ensue. Yes, exactly. That's again part 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:29.840 of their concept that they developed actually back in nineteen 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:36.319 ninety nine called unrestricted warfare. And that concept was published 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:41.959 and accidentally was published in the open space and we 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.760 grabbed it, re meaning the United States and the analysts, 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:50.200 and this is considered to be the seminal paper by 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:55.760 the Chinese that allows us to leave from their way 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.440 of war. Unfortunately, right now, the very very few, you know, 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:03.960 expert in the Pentagon who are able to take lessons 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.040 learned from this. And one of the things that the 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:11.800 Change wrote about is that the US fighting is old 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:19.480 style the war fighting because they're they're shooting birds with 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.559 golden bullets. This is how they said it. They're shooting 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.560 birds with golden bullets, just like we shot down the 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:30.520 balloon with the very extensive high tech missile, right four 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:37.040 hundred thousand dollars. That is how they plan to further 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.720 erode down combat arsenal that we are already doing to 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:45.240 ourselves by sending, you know, billions of dollars worth of 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:48.520 weaponry to Ukraine. We by the way, it's already one 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:52.959 hundred and ninety six billion dollars worth of weaponry either 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:56.920 sent or promise to Ukraine. Okay, it's an equivalent of 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:02.080 Ukraine's entire GDP grows tostic product for twenty twenty one. 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:06.160 And so the Chinese are watching us doing that, and 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:12.760 they developing concepts on how they're gonna stretch us thin. 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.960 And that's just one of the ways. Another way is 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:22.440 to send something like that balloon but also equipped with 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:27.520 either a kinetic or a non kinetic payload that contains 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.640 cam bio, and so this is what specifically they were 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.400 talking about. They were talking in these doctrinal writings about 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:45.080 overwhelming the adversaries healthcare system, hospitals and creating panic. And 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:51.080 so imagine that they equipp the balloon with something like 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:55.400 CORVID nineteen. This is exactly what happened during COVID nineteen. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:59.800 It's another program that the Chinese are running right now. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:06.480 How do they weaponize these types of shameric viruses through 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.280 gain of function research? And so we know everything about 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:15.160 how they fight the war, and yet we are unprepared 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:19.680 because we're just used to throw money at the program problem. 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.280 You know, we have. We're a very rich country. We 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.880 have superior weaponry, but the industry end of the stams 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.480 a way of war, and they have spent decades on 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:34.400 how to bypass our technological superiority that they also believe 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:38.360 is our crutch and our vulnerability. Well. Also, the Washington 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.120 Examiner had reported that the you know, kind of Chinese 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.960 by balloon that we talked about is a delivery platform 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:47.800 for a potential nuclear emp attack. And our electrical grid 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.560 is so vulnerable it's actually pretty terrifying when you look 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:56.600 into it and the damage that that could do to America. Oh, yes, absolutely, yes. 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:03.520 The EMP electromagnetic pulse is another pretty unique, i would 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:07.040 say type of weapons that we just simply don't pay 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:11.880 attention to because we so So here's the belief in 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.160 the Pentagon. And as you know, I'm a former DA 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:19.280 intelligence officer. DA is a military count de bide to CIA, 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:23.960 and so back in the intelligence community, I warned about 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.320 the Russian prep. Right, I've believed scores and scores of 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:33.920 military commander's DA, CIA director, President Obama's Messial Security Council 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.199 of the White House, et cetera. But nobody wanted to 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:42.000 believe that Russia would do what Putin said himself he 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.959 was going to do. All kinds of excuses were given 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.520 to me. You know, No, Russia's not going to do that. 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.080 And so the same thing right now is happening with 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.600 China because we believe we're the tob dog, which we 0:13:55.679 --> 0:14:01.239 are militarily right, and we can potentially for any adversary 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:06.320 or we can fight them. But with the the experts, 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.520 the so called you know experts in the group, thank 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:15.560 don't account for is those types of unique strategies like 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:20.040 loading an EMP onto a balloon and a multi sense 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.440 of package that you know is going to collect intelligence 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.760 and provide it real time to the Chinese. We don't 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:31.240 account our just our just group think mind that dominate 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:36.160 in the Pentagon, in the intelligence world, in within the 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:40.040 White House specifically, you know, with the Biden's White House, 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.320 that's what's going to get us in trouble with the 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.720 countries like Russia China. And it's not just that basically 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:52.120 Biden created a multi headed monster, right that's just Russia 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.200 in China, they're joined by a run by North Korea, 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:59.240 you know as Syria. It's basically a bunch of gamesters 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.560 right now trying to figure out how do they challenge 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.600 the United States. Well, and where does Iran fit into 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.280 this equation, because you just mentioned Iran, there's reports that 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.640 they're very close to being able to build a nuclear bomb. 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.440 Talk about Iran's growth and you know power. I mean, 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.040 we've seen all these nations, all of our enemies get 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.240 more powerful under the Bide administration. So talk about Iran 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:26.480 and where they fit in into this conversation. Absolutely, Iran 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:30.360 is an ever going threat. So we just had the 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.640 report come out a few weeks ago, the twenty twenty 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:39.440 three intelligence Assessment by the Office of the Director of 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:43.680 National Intelligence. Right, and it's spelled out very clearly. Unfortunately 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:48.480 it wasn't given too much coverage, but I would direct 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.880 to you there's a piece that I provided analysis for 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.320 which is on the Fox News website. It's called US 0:15:56.480 --> 0:16:03.200 Mainland under Threat as Iran pushes assassin nations kidnappings. It's 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.480 written by a colleague of mine, Benjamin wine Cayl. But 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.960 I provide an ass to that. So, nuclear, as you mentioned, 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.400 is one type of threat, right, So, Iran is trying 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:18.760 to get their hands on the nuclear weapon. And Russia 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:23.560 and Iran right now of you know, very close, they 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:29.000 deepening their partnership. Not only that, China has now orchestrated 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:34.000 the normalization of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. So, 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.960 and Russia is the top dog when it comes to 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:42.400 the nuclear and know how it's the It's the top 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.680 country in the world when it comes to the nuclear arsenality, 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.280 even beast the United States. So if you can imagine 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:54.400 if the Russians share that technology with the Iranians, you 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:58.000 know what could possibly go wrong? Right? But then another 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:01.040 threat that is even much clear also, right, because the 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:07.119 threshold for actually detonating a nuclear bomb in the homeland 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.840 is very high. Right then, very few countries would ever 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:13.600 dare to do that and hopefully would detect something like that. 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:18.240 But there's a much simpler threat that is looming right now, 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:23.240 and it's reflected in that assessment. Basically, the Iranians are 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:30.560 developing Condesta networks inside the United States to target Americans. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.960 So there's a report right now that they are planning 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:41.880 to effectively penetrate our law enforcement agencies in our government 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:50.440 institutions and target for assassination and kidnapping those types of professionals. 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:55.119 In fact, we right now are spending millions of dollars 0:17:55.119 --> 0:18:00.159 providing security to somebody like mic compare right and and 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:04.280 one of his top advisors during the Trump administration, So 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:08.840 that these people have gotten so bored that they're planning 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.800 to target, and they have already targeted, like in places 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:16.720 like New York, for example, they plotted a yeah, an 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:20.840 assassination of US citizen, a journalist who published the Iranian 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:25.680 government's human rights abuses. They planned to carry out of order. 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:30.000 And those capabilities are growing stronger and stronger. And this 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.680 is here within the homeland that I'm talking about so 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.919 I direct people to check out that piece of Fox News. 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:40.240 I remember that with a journalist. What should we do 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.040 about all of this? That's like a sixty four thousand 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:48.160 dollar questions that people people ask me about usually raid 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:52.359 and my response as well, first, you can't allow this 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.679 to happen in the first place. Right, It's very difficult 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:59.000 right now on the spot, you know, to find a 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:03.439 magic baller, uh to solve the Russia Ukraine problem. Okay, 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.000 there's zero chance for Ukraine to win. And we can 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.679 go you know, into the reasons why in in the 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.720 next podcast. But that's that's the thing, um. And so 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:18.720 we didn't. We slept at the wheel, so to speak. Right, 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.720 the best way to fight an adversary is to prevent 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:26.159 them from attacking a country from attacking you by developing 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:30.000 a robust determan strategy and and and we didn't, right, 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.440 So the best thing for us to do right now 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:35.679 is to elect people, you know, who who will be 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.960 adults in the room and who could think strategically rather 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:44.119 than you know, hyper focus on one little problem. We 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.640 need somebody who looks at the big picture of what's 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:51.720 going on right now. And unfortunately, the Bindance administration is blissfully, 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:56.040 you know, oblivious. I mean, look, they just going back 0:19:56.040 --> 0:20:00.159 to like Putin, right they designated the international criminal or 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:04.840 right now designated Putin as the war criminal. Okay, well 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.520 that's going to make everyone feel better, but what does 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:13.160 it do in reality? It's just basically cuts off a 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:17.159 peaceful path for Ukraine. So we're going to have to 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:22.160 to help Ukrainian fight the Russians until the last Ukrainian standing, right, 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:27.640 because you can't negotiate with the criminal. And that's just 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:33.879 the nonsensical type of policy that Biden and his so 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:37.080 called experts are pursuing. And so we just need to 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:40.800 get the right people into the White House who are 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:45.760 able to anticipate threats, not react to that. We're constantly 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:49.440 in the reactive posture. We need to get ahead of 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:51.840 the game. And how do you get ahead of the game. 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:56.000 It's you do your job the intelligence. The primary mission 0:20:56.000 --> 0:21:01.720 of intelligence is to prevent strategic supprise eyes and to 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:05.040 protect the United States from threats. You do that by 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:08.720 following very closely those I in doubles used that I 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:13.440 just talked about, and then develop the appropriate forced pasture. 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:17.240 They appropriate strategy, they appropriate weapons portfolio, and we're doing 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:20.840 it all backwards. We let the war happen, and then 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:23.240 we ohe how do we defeat them? Well, it's a 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.119 little bit too late, and so right now we need 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:29.720 to really pay attention to what's going on in China 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:33.320 and develop the strategy accordingly. And unfortunately we don't have 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:37.000 the right people in charge, and our commander in chief 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.520 is simply you know, it's just not tapable on multiple 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:44.640 multiple levels. Well, let's pray we get some new leadership 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:47.159 in twenty twenty four because you know, Lord knows we 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:50.439 need it. Rebecca Kaffler, I appreciate your time. Thanks for 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:52.960 breaking this all down for us. I always love having 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:55.800 you on. Thank you for having man. God bless everybody, 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:59.880 God bless America. Like you said, let's pray we get 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:03.280 the right people in charge so we can't become a 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:06.679 normal country and be s country in the world. Again. 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:16.639 That was Rebecca Coffler with a very informative assessment of 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:19.000 the growing powers that we see in the nation with 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:21.240 Russia and China, Duran and what it means for the 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:24.520 United States. Oh to thank you guys for listening every 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:26.680 Monday and Thursday, but you can listen throughout the week. 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:28.760 Please leave us a review, give us a rating. An 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:31.480 Apple podcast. I want to thank John Cassio, my producer, 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:35.040 for putting it together. Until next time, Thanks for listening.