Episode 2546: Pounding At The Door Of WW3
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In this episode of the Third World War podcast, we are talking about the early days, early years of the third world war and the fall of the Soviet Union, the loss of our defense industrial base, the disappearance of the rust belt, and the decline of our economic and political power.
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this is the primal stream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going with the evil
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on this people you're just not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people the
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people have had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do
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everything in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and
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where do people like that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of
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these people had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer
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is to save my country this country will be saved here's your host stephen k van
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welcome it's saturday 25 february in the year of our lord 2023 we're here we're talking about the
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early days early years of the third world war we're in the second year now officially of the
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war in ukraine frank gaffney has been talking with us frank you said the industrial base
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has kind of gone away the industrial base to keep us a military power why has that happened and what
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needs to be done because right now correct me if i'm wrong we're sending basically what virtually 100
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percent of our ammunition bullets things like that uh to ukraine and we're already hearing that
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you know we're six months behind in taiwan and they're more than six months behind in getting
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the m1 a1 tanks walk us through this this issue of logistics and industrial base
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well let's start with the industrial base steven uh with your very considerable help we've put together
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a new book called the indictment and one of the strongest points of the book is that we have been
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subjected to war crimes by the chinese communist party and just a perfect example of one of those
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is the rust belt uh don't know that anybody else has quite connected this dot before but
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that that didn't just happen that that factories that produced uh among other things the arsenal
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for democracy over decades but also the the strength of our economy the the dominant position that we've
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had uh as a manufacturing nation for many years that was taken out by the chinese communist party as
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you know as part of their economic warfare strategy which was part of their larger unrestricted warfare
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strategy and so whether you look at the defense industrial base as a sort of microcosm of that
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problem or at the macro picture it's a story of how this country's greatest economic power was
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sapped stolen from us in an act of economic warfare by the chinese communist party and on the defense
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industrial side in particular they sort of convergence if you will of all of that with this sort of notion
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of the end of history after you know the soviet union was taken down by ronald reagan that led to
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a notion especially coupled with this idea that well as long as we make the chinese rich
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they won't be a problem they'll be happy campers they'll be part of the international community
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uh we'll maybe compete with them but it'll be an active trading relationship right no what they
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determined to do was to um the pretext the so-called hide and bide strategy of uh dung shaoping the general
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secretary of the chinese communist party at the time that the soviet union defeated he said that cold war
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is over the soviets lost a new cold war has begun we will win china will win and they set about
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concealing from us hide what their true intentions were and bide their time so that they could both
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take down this country through unrestricted warfare and they could build up china among other things
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in terms of its military power as well we mostly missed the memo we allowed our defense industrial
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base as we've talked about steve to contract artificially and foolishly foolishly foolishly
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excuse me and where we find ourselves today is it's not nearly up to the job of being
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the arsenal for democracy that we need it to be um not least to defend ourselves
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it's a war crime i mean they did this in conjunction with our financial and economic
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elite and political class you know the um exactly was it graham allison came here to the to the war
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room or to breitbart uh years ago uh when his book came out i think destined for war which is about the
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thucydides trap which is you know you have to you know you have athens and sparta since the
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television wars i think it's 14 times in world history this has happened you have a declining
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power and a rising power and where they didn't reach some rapprochement or accommodation it always
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led to some catastrophic catastrophic war um and and here in the decline when he was here for lunch i
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said hey here's one of the problems with your theory you don't have any examples where the elite
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and the declining parent made more money on the way down than they made on the way up
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and uh and that's a situation we have today so we say the ccp is guilty of a war crime isn't that
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war crime the perpetrators that actually american citizens that worked in conjunction with the ccp to
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take all the industrial base uh to mainland china it's a critically important point steven and this
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indictment is aimed at both the chinese communist party and at their enablers in our own country and
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you're absolutely right one of the other war crimes i would suggest this indictment is the
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very successful use of what the chinese call elite capture peter schweitzer's written a terrific book
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called red-handed as you know on this subject naming names documenting the extent of it not just in
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you know the business sector and you're absolutely right wall street has been arguably the worst of the
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lot and we can talk more about what that's meant for the rest of this enterprise but academia the
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media the culture and of course not least our political elite have all been captured um egregiously
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the commander-in-chief of the united states is among those and has been working i believe assiduously
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for our enemy as have many of these others and it's put us in mortal peril they persist in it that
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wall street guys are to this day intent on putting still more and again i mention this every time
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we're on air your money folks if there if you're in pension funds if you're in mutual funds or if you're
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in index funds or exchange traded funds or other investment vehicles that wall street manages for you
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you can bet that a portion of your funds are in china and if god forbid steve as we were talking
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about earlier this second front old-fashioned shooting war with china you're going to lose
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every dime of it and not a one of those captains of industry or masters of the universe or whatever
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you want to call them on wall street are telling you the truth about that instead they're interested
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in getting more fees by putting more of your money over there even now under these circumstances it is
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not only reckless and and malfeasant i believe in terms of their fiduciary responsibility it's treasonous
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let's go let's go to that if you want to avoid if we don't have the industrial base it would take us
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too long to ramp up if we don't don't have the money to continue to pay you know uh almost a trillion
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dollars in in defense spending you go back to the chinese they didn't have that any of that money
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either they looked at the gulf war and said hey um if we have to fight foreign devils with the
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technology they have we're never going to beat them because they're so far advanced as they saw the
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combined arms and the intelligence and and the remote uh targeting we could do during the gulf war
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and they came up and they wrote unrestricted warfare walk through unrestricted warfare of what
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we should do today because we don't need for us to fight a kinetic war in the south china sea the
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western pacific around the the east asian uh eurasian landmass as a second front of the third
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world war right now would be suicidal um our our sociopathic oligarchs uh and overlords have us
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really funneling every piece of ammunition every piece of logistics we have into the ukraine war
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uh with with starving the other so we have to be creative what is unrestricted warfare how have the
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chinese used against us and how can we immediately immediately flip the table on them economically
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uh technologically uh cyber information warfare frank gaffney
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well just a small corrective steve their insight into the necessity of using unrestricted that is to
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say non-kinetic means to take us down predated that spectacular victory um in the gulf war by a decade
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and some back in 1999 they were putting together this uh you know game plan excuse me i've got my
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timing off you're right no no they was yeah yeah the gulf war was in the early 90s they were so blown
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away by schwarzkopf's briefings and what happened in the remote targeting they came to the conclusion
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we militarily will never almost have no chance of catching up to the foreign devils the foreign devils
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are that good with combined arms i mean they were in shock this also shows you how adaptive they are
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they looked at that and said well we can't just do that we we got to be we got to be smarter than that
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you're right my math is wrong but your point is right this was a wake-up call for them and others
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around the world by the way and i think what they decided to do was not to give up on the possibilities
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of military might being used against us but just to patiently build that up over time but to start
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immediately with these other techniques for taking us down and um you know you've you've asked the
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right question um what did they envision and we we go through this in some detail drawing on the
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unbelievable resource that we've created at the committee on the present danger china which you've
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done so much to help inspire and and nurture steve some 70 different webinars we've now produced
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about an hour hour and a half long in some cases that have walked through in exhaustive detail how
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unrestricted warfare has been waged against us and with what effect and also by the way who's been
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helping them do it and over time whether it's in this area of economic warfare whether it's the elite
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capture that they've engaged in as kind of a part of their political warfare against us their
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information operations their energy um warfare uh they're working to take down our military that's
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another playbook item by the way with help from the democrats uh most especially in our congress
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you've seen over time them adjusting the correlation of forces as the soviets used to say
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and it's been through this succession of uh criminal acts against our country you often say and you're
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absolutely right about this what we're dealing with is not a communist party as much as it is a
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transnational criminal organization and in addition to the war crimes against us it's engaged in the most
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horrific crimes against humanity in history and for all these things all these reasons it should be
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prosecuted at a minimum in the court of public opinion if not through using actual military
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techniques but to your question about so what can we do to flip the tables on them with unrestricted
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warfare of our own i think the obvious place to start is by denying them the funding that they are using to
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do so much of the malevolent things they engage in around the world including by the way helping the
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russians in ukraine that's mostly our money and if wall street and and investors would simply stop
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putting their money over there essentially found money discretionary spending money it would begin
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to change the whole i think trajectory of what may be otherwise an unnecessary avoidable and disastrous
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conflict of the old-fashioned kind with china frank hang on we're going to continue this uh
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conversation in in just a minute we're going to take a short commercial break by the way frank is going
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uh and joining us uh live in studio as well other members of the committee on the present danger china
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who will be around because this is obviously one of the central topics of this cpac okay it's going to
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take place at national harbor march 1st through 4th just go to the we got the site up uh grace and
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on the present danger frank gaffney is going to join us after a short commercial break
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bring it on and have a fight to the end just watch and see it's all started everything's begun
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and you are over because we're taking down the ccp spread the world all through hong kong
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we will fight till they're all gone we rejoice when there's no more let's take down the ccp
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i'll get the great sleep that we need frank gaffney you know here's the thing the ccp is now playing a
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major role in this ukraine situation as we said it would it's coming in kind of big footing uh biden
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and everybody i want to go back this is their plan to control the eurasian landmass it started years
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ago with one belt one road uh which they were going to use kind of predatory capitalism the the east
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india company in reverse for elite capture and all that uh and they were building these connective
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tissues to tie together markets and networks all the way deep into to europe through the you know
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across the stands and pakistan uh iran all that now they're actually putting together a alliance
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with the ayatollahs in iran who just you know the persians went and had a state visit to um to beijing
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this week they've they've also been invited to tehran they're going to go she's going to go to
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uh moscow he just left saudi arabia iraq has notified us that their current um their current
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massive oil deal output deal with the chinese is not going to be paid for and converted into
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dollars and paid for they're going to do it in uh in the chinese currency of yuan which is a game
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changer um they're they're they're they're you know getting close to the turks uh they obviously
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have this a partnership of you know what they call a bottomless partnership it's it's it's a core
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partnership it's like the nazis and the soviets in uh 1939 this war now for the
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eurasian landmass is this the axis that we're looking at and if that's the case and it's a
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two-front war in ukraine or in that part of the eurasian landmass and then you know halfway across
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the world in the south china sea in the straits of taiwan uh in the united states let's be let's be
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blunt that we don't have allies we have vassals the um the uh you know two allies we have are small
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that are real allies are israel and i guess still uae who punch above their weight uh in in india to
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a degree uh you know we have japan we have kri but these are all you know don't punch above their
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weight and we have europe which nato's a group of deadbeats so how do we confront this how do we
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confront this economically how do we confront it politically how we fund it with information
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warfare and most importantly if we have to how do we confront this kinetically
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steve it has to start with clearing our decks to use an old naval term you're familiar with
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of the people who are playing for the other team i don't know how to get around this but
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you cannot conceivably contend with an adversary that has been working as hard as the chinese
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communists have as we've discussed for decades with people in senior positions of leadership
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whether it's in government and that means not just in the biden administration it means not just
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the president by the way but his senior officials with the uh with portfolios that touch on china
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basically throughout the government they are all well compromised i think is not an adequate
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term for it they have all been making deals with the chinese that i think constitute betrayal
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of our country you cannot have that or or in senior positions in business or the financial sector or
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the media or elsewhere this has to stop so one of our recommendations in the indictment and we have 20
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of them by the way is not only we have to investigate those who have these kinds of ties and we have to
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ensure their removal whether it's through resignation or whether it's through impeachment or through
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firing or whatever other means they must no longer exercise control or power in our country
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moving on from that clearly we have to be thinking creatively about what do we do and let me come to the
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military piece of this in a moment but i think it starts with as we talked about earlier
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putting our country on a war footing clearly we cannot continue to rely upon the chinese for
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critical materials critical minerals critical commodities critical chips and so on there's too
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much of that medicine there is way too much of that as it stands right now we will not be able to turn
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it off overnight but we have to immediately begin tapering it off uh diversifying our sources wherever we can
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and with the utmost urgency on shoring as they say those critical supplies when we do that i believe that we
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will find um we have begun combined with cutting off the funding to the chinese communist party which we spoke a
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moment ago changing the dynamic that we currently face in addition i think we have to be using our
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own supply chain leverage and we don't have a lot of it but one area is food they're trying to buy up our
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agricultural land they're trying to buy up as much as they can of our food uh processing and production
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facilities what's left of them many of them are burning up or having planes crash into them
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unbelievably but what's left the chinese are trying to buy that has to be stopped and we ought to be
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making clear that you're talking about going to war with us we obviously are not going to be in a position
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to feed you in that circumstance we need to be moving i think as well um to come to the military
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uh in a direction that a very impressive um air force general officer by the name of mike minahan
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four star who commands the air mobility command um issued a memo to his subordinates a month or so
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ago now bracing i thought very impressively so especially given the kind of environment he works
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in in the biden military he said we're going to be at war with the chinese communist party by 2025
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not because we want to but um they do and he thinks that's what's coming and he said to his troops we
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need to begin training right now to use whatever capabilities we have to the fullest in order to
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maximize deterrence it'd be nice to be able to bring a lot more kit to bear we probably can't do that for
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the reasons we've been discussing but we can make more creative use of assets for example he mentioned to
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his troops look at getting our kc-135 tanker fleet configured to launch a hundred drones or
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unpiloted aerial vehicles as they're called from them creating swarms of offensively capable assets
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using existing equipment like those uh those aircraft that's the sort of thing that we need to be doing
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urgently i don't know there's much of that going on in addition i believe we need to be supplying what
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we can as a matter of the utmost urgency to taiwan to increase the deterrent there to uh the chinese
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aggression and that would mean i think putting american forces on the ground in numbers as well
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i think there's a small element let me stay let me stay with that we're saying you talk i want to go
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back to the indictment for a second about when you're you're calling these guys out but let me deal
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with taiwan right now this is what's driving me mad you can't possibly do that given the capacity
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we're at full capacity utilization they're working three shifts a day in these ammo plants and quite
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frankly for the military industrial complex it's the best thing happen because the cash flow of this
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is enormous because they already have the invested plant this is just running the production line
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if you're at full capacity and essentially all that capacity is going to um going to ukraine and we know
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that the let's take the m1 a1 tank production facility in lima ohio what i hear is not just a 31
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uh m1 a1 tanks that that captain bannon for deployed over there into the baltics and the poland in the spring of
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2014 when uh when the u.s government and victoria newland took the democratically elected although
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putin aligned government down not that these guys were thinking long term not that they had a plan
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long term that they wanted to do here but that the second tranche of those m1 a1 tanks have taken
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uh precedent over the ones that taiwan has ordered and we've authorized so when you say we got to send
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more arms uh more arms and and taiwan's begging for it when you've put everything you've got in all
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your forward capacity into into ukraine how do you possibly do that it's not easy obviously uh we've
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depleted i think our own resources we talked recently about the fact that we've gone into stocks that we
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have of some of this equipment in south korea to send to ukraine and also in israel
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and i think these are these are strategic missteps steve because um my guess is that the next phase
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of this war the second front may well begin on the korean peninsula i think the north koreans are being
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told by the chinese get ready you're you're going to be the leading edge and they're certainly behaving
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that way but whether that's the case or not having forward deployed stocks in theater is going to be
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critical israel may well go for it with iran any day now that that theater is going to light up it's
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my guess because they sense that when even the international atomic energy agency generally late
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to the party that the iranian threat is saying that they're now at an 85 percent enriched uranium
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threshold which gets you pretty much into the zone for nuclear weapons purposes that that's a that's
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a threat to israel's uh existence that cannot be tolerated so all of these things mean i think we
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have to be end ending uh some of this transcriptment that we cannot afford to make at the moment to
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ukraine hang on we're frank gaffney's going to stick with us we're going to talk about the
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potential battlefields around the world where do we stand with all that also we're going to go back to
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the uh who has betrayed us already only in the world
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you move toward an end game how do we move toward a negotiated peace i think that's up for the
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ukrainians to decide that uh so what is acceptable to ukraine uh that's that's territory intact whatever
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that answer is going to be is it militarily possible for us to get russians for the ukrainians get every
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russian troop out of their country and crimea i don't think it's militarily possible for the
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russians to achieve their initial strategic objectives political objectives by military
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means i don't think that's possible anymore on the flip side uh the ukrainians i think for this year
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it would be very very difficult uh not impossible but very very difficult uh for the ukrainians to
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achieve their political objectives and their stated political objective is to for for every single
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russian to leave every single inch of ukrainian territory i think that's a very high bar i think
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from a military standpoint only that'd be extraordinarily difficult to achieve militarily
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this year uh what is achievable uh i think is a significant uh liberation of of ukrainian territory and
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maybe if we're lucky touch wood uh the diplomats will enter the fray here and and and they'll get to
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a negotiating table at some point uh i think at the end of the day uh president biden president
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zelinski uh every european leader said the same thing which is this war lended a negotiating table
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and that's probably right frank when you were in the pentagon in the 80s when i was there in the early
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80s uh as one of the age of the chief of naval operations um having come back off the fleet and
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my anti-submarine warfare destroyer our mission and mandate was essentially hunting fast attack
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soviet submarines there was there was the the battle plan at the time there was there was all
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about maneuver warfare combined arms maneuver warfare deep interdiction you know maybe it would
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lead to if things didn't turn out right it might lead to tactical nuclear weapons this is where they
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forward deploy the persians others but there was never a plan the least i saw and i think i think
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i had to go through all of them and sit through all the meetings where there was a world war one type
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just pounded out artillery shell for artillery shell as you've seen this ukrainian war develop over the
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last year and now they're just pounding each other relentlessly and and really we're feeding in
00:29:16.440
all of our munitions i think the chinese are already started supplying the the russians the only
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way really the russians can keep up at it um when when you hear milley sit there and admit
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that it's impossible to to remove all russians from all land and we now call them war criminals
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and he kind of flippantly says this will all end of the negotiating table
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walk me through that did you ever see any plan for just this world war one type
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in your face trench warfare attrition warfare and that means basically you run out of munitions you
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run out of money you run out of men and if it's all just to get to the negotiating table why are
00:30:00.680
good question steve i i'm not sure that i saw all the plans that you saw um whether there was some
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contingency for a world war one style thing somewhere in the files i don't know but uh my
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guess is that we have not been terribly serious about war fighting uh on the european continent
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for decades let's face it um you mentioned earlier the the hollowness really of nato's forces on the
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ground uh we in the peace dividend moment uh decided to withdraw a lot of our forces some of
00:30:39.620
them captain bannon among others took back but still it's a it's a fraction of what it was at the
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height of the cold war for sure and most of those allies i'm not sure i would characterize them as
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vassals but i would certainly suggest that they're not armed for their self-defense and they are relying
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upon us to provide that defense to them whether that's done through um some kind of uh maneuver
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capability whether it's done through um advanced technologies that are more uh you know uh delivered
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by missile or by aircraft rather than on the ground um whether the uh the use of nuclear weapons is
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involved are all things that i think have been um not properly um re-evaluated in light of very
00:31:30.980
different circumstances that are unfolding today just today i think it was uh medved yesterday maybe um
00:31:38.200
the prime minister now again i think he's called or maybe deputy president or whatever something he and
00:31:45.220
he and vladimir putin have exchanged places several times and i can't quite keep straight
00:31:48.940
um what exactly his title is but he's a senior guy in the kremlin and he's talking about moving the
00:31:56.180
um eastern border of poland and has has nato been properly thinking about that and preparing against
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that eventuality through any of these means not clear but i will say if i could steve i was intimately
00:32:12.460
involved when i was in the pentagon a long time ago in taking the steps that ronald reagan
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insisted upon to restore deterrence on the continent of europe by deploying their two different
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systems uh what were called intermediate range nuclear weapons they were the purging ballistic
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missiles and the ground launched cruise missiles and i was among those who argued um vociferously that
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we should not go into an arms control deal with the then soviet union that required us to get rid of
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all of them while they would still you know have considerable theater and tactical nuclear weapons
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maybe not ss-20s but maybe even those secretly but it was a moment and i think it was actually
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decisive to the strategy that president reagan executed and you've chronicled it better than just
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about anybody of using peace through strength and using our own unrestricted warfare against the then
00:33:15.120
soviet union and uh and soviet communist party to take them down and it was done without firing a shot
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in the end partly because of that peace through strength strategy the credibility of our deterrent
00:33:28.940
and more broadly the will that ronald reagan exhibited to do just that none of those things are operating
00:33:37.100
today and i think our enemies are emboldened as a result when you talk about potential battlefields of
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maybe it starts in korea maybe it starts in the south china sea maybe it starts with an air naval blockade
00:33:49.700
of taiwan of which the american economy would crater maybe it starts in the northwest frontier up with china
00:33:55.640
the ccp and the indians are basically at the at bayonet's edge with each other uh maybe it starts in uh in the
00:34:03.820
middle east with uh with persia and uh in in israel um or maybe just metastasizes uh from from from
00:34:13.740
ukraine all of that is under the uh umbrella of potential strategic nuclear forces talk to us about
00:34:21.060
that because we really in in public discourse we haven't talked about this in decades and now all
00:34:27.500
of a sudden you've got putin making moves and jumping out of the star treaty and like i said you know
00:34:31.600
my destroyer back in the old days in the 70s and 80s you know we care everybody carried tactical
00:34:36.740
nuclear weapons but it was not discussed and it was not discussed generally as as as uh policy now on
00:34:43.760
tv every day you see on msnbc and cnn they've got these military analysts flippantly talking about
00:34:49.260
low-grade tactical nuclear weapons in in crimea in eastern uh eastern uh uh ukraine over there at the
00:34:58.340
russian-speaking border and now you've got uh putin pulling out of the start and talking about
00:35:03.180
redeploying your strategic weapons how close do you think we are because we're normalizing even the
00:35:09.100
discussion trump came out the other day called the two n-words right how how concerned are you since
00:35:14.920
part of your professional career was doing this in europe are you today about the nuclear strike
00:35:20.240
capability of all this and actually getting into a situation that would actually people would be
00:35:24.240
talking about using and actually maybe using uh nuclear weapons on a battlefield you know again
00:35:31.060
just a little context uh i was working on that intermediate range nuclear forces uh stuff as a
00:35:37.460
deputy assistant secretary in the pentagon uh for four years or so with the responsibility of nuclear
00:35:44.900
weapons policy and arms control so i i was living and breathing this uh for early part of my career
00:35:51.820
and i've been worried about it ever since uh you're absolutely right i think we have taken i guess the
00:35:58.020
brits expression is a busman's holiday for a couple of decades i think i mentioned to you the other day that
00:36:04.100
we had essentially done nothing to modernize our nuclear arsenal i mean there's been some service life
00:36:13.360
extension programs and we've retooled some of our warheads but we have not innovated with the exception of
00:36:20.820
some modernization programs that are now still five six years out from replacing old missiles and old
00:36:29.360
bombers and old uh old uh sea launch ballistic missiles and submarines these are these are the
00:36:35.440
sorts of things that should have been done all along we have not done it and i'm convinced that the
00:36:41.800
american people have not had any clue that the adults who they assumed were responsible for maintaining
00:36:49.500
a credible nuclear deterrent we're not doing that we're not actually regularly testing we have not
00:36:59.740
tested a nuclear weapon underground since 1992 vladimir putin is threatening that he's going to do it if
00:37:06.640
we do it well i haven't seen any sign that the biden administration is even thinking about that they
00:37:11.960
should because we need to assure ourselves that those nuclear weapons that are aged and have actually been in some
00:37:18.960
cases um altered from their original design just to try to keep them going um will actually work but that's not
00:37:28.860
really on the table but what has to be on the table is deterrence credible deterrence and one of the steps that i think you
00:37:35.940
asked earlier about what could we be doing we could be replacing on the intercontinental range ballistic
00:37:44.480
missiles we have the land-based ones that the balloon was overflying in uh you know montana and
00:37:51.780
wyoming and the submarine-launched ballistic missiles full loads of the missiles that they uh are you know the
00:38:00.920
warheads that they're capable of carrying those missiles that would very very dramatically uh i believe
00:38:08.680
increase the deterrent to these adversaries to contemplate nuclear strikes against us something that
00:38:16.080
they not only have been preparing assiduously for both the russians and the chinese but they've actually
00:38:23.280
been exercising jointly to launch against us uh and again this all bespeaks a seriousness of purpose that
00:38:33.540
we have not evidenced and we must if we want to try to prevent what is i believe uh unavoidable and
00:38:41.820
certainly um undesirable conflict with these guys uh frank how can people get to the center for security
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policy all the great um webinars because for over a year now i mean for a couple of years we've been
00:38:57.520
doing it but you've had this webinar program of the enemy within and also the enemy without
00:39:01.500
and also the indictment we know you're going to launch at cpac but where do people go to get all
00:39:06.240
your information the real america's voice show all of it well it's a couple of sites um the present
00:39:13.160
danger china.org is where you can not only see these webinars uh the 70 in the recent series and and
00:39:20.160
others going back about four years since we started the program you can sign up uh subscribe uh to get
00:39:26.780
those you know um notices and all sent to you directly that's present danger china.org uh the
00:39:33.840
website of our center for security policy which has an enormous amount of content both about china but
00:39:38.860
also many other things is at secure freedom.org real america's voice is where you can see our show
00:39:45.440
um we're very proud to be on that network with you steve and uh you can also capture it and uh
00:39:52.500
uh my daily commentaries uh which i also would encourage you to subscribe to at uh secure freedom.org
00:39:59.500
and securing america.tv and uh on social media the usual at frank afney platforms
00:40:06.140
frank thanks you so much for taking time away from this obviously you're going to be a much bigger
00:40:12.080
part of the show as we go forward in the early days of the third world war sir thank you very much
00:40:17.460
frank afney thank you steve god bless you um man what a mess what a mess we're in it's incredible
00:40:26.280
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The language is getting very loose, and what we're trying to do is tighten up here
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