Episode 4749： 80th Anniversary Of The Surrender Of Japan; XI Putin And Modi Meet
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Learn English with Joe Biden. President Joe Biden delivers a speech to commemorate the anniversary of the surrender of Japanese forces in World War II, and talks about the impact of the Potsdam Declaration and the surrender terms Japan agreed to in 1945.
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I have received this afternoon a message from the Japanese government
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in reply to the message forwarded to that government by the Secretary of State on August 11.
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I deem this reply a full acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration,
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which specifies the unconditional surrender of Japan.
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Arrangements are now being made for the formal signing of the surrender terms
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General Douglas MacArthur has been appointed the Supreme Allied Commander
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Great Britain, Russia, and China will be represented by high-ranking officers.
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Meantime, the Allied Armed Forces have been ordered to suspend offensive action.
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The proclamation of VJ Day must await upon the formal signing of the surrender terms by Japan.
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President Putin, my old friend, I'm very glad to see you again in Beijing.
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Literally yesterday, we participated together at the SAO Summit,
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along with other heads of state and other guests of honor from the five continents,
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we are going to celebrate together the 80th anniversary of the Chinese people's victory
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over the Japanese invaders and our victory in World War II.
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Your Excellency, my dear friend, both myself and the entire Russian delegation,
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we are glad to have this chance to meet again our Chinese friends,
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We are grateful for the warm welcome extended to our delegation.
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Our close communication reflects the strategic nature of the Russian-Chinese cooperation
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which was demonstrated during your official visit to Russia in May,
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and our joint participation in the festive events to commemorate the victory.
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We are gathered here, representatives of the major warring powers,
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to conclude a solemn agreement whereby peace may be restored.
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The terms and conditions upon which surrender of the Japanese imperial forces
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is here to be given and accepted are contained in the instrument of surrender now before you.
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I now invite the representatives of the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese government
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to sign the instrument of surrender at the places indicated.
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Mr President, this demonstrates just how profound and comprehensive
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our specially-privileged strategic partnership truly is.
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India and Russia have always moved forward shoulder to shoulder.
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Our close cooperation matters not only for the peoples of our two nations,
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but also for ensuring global peace, stability and prosperity.
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according to the provisions of the Potsdam Declaration.
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General Jonathan Wainwright, liberated hero of Corregidor,
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and British General Arthur Percival, who was forced to surrender Singapore,
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stood at attention behind MacArthur as he began to write his name
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The third and fourth were earmarked for the National Archives and West Point.
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Joe, I thought that the summit at Tianjin was a significant setback for the United States.
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The image of Vladimir Putin holding hands with the leader of India, Narendra Modi,
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That three years into this war, he is now claiming this was the West's fault.
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And he has an audience of prominent world leaders who agree with him,
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including somebody who was a key person in America's efforts
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to create a new kind of informal partnership to contain China, namely India.
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India's repositioning toward Russia and China reverses diplomacy that's been conducted
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since the administration of George W. Bush, at least.
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In terms of the broader outlook for Trump's foreign policy,
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he's now looking at failures or lack of success in each of the major diplomatic initiatives
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and Russia is essentially thumbing its nose at President Trump.
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The Gaza war continues in a bloodier-than-ever direction
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Just a terrible situation for Israel and the Palestinians both.
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And Trump seemingly unable to make his peace policies.
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I'm going to go make peace to make those policies work.
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And this weekend's summit was a symbol of just how tough the obstacles to him
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At that moment, as if on cue, the sun came out.
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And as the Japanese departed, a stunning aerial display.
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More than 2,000 Allied aircraft flew in formation over the Missouri.
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In Washington, President Harry Truman marked the moment.
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There, on that small piece of American soil, anchored in Tokyo Harbor,
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the Japanese have just officially laid down their arms.
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They have signed terms of unconditional surrender.
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Our first thoughts, of course, thoughts of gracefulness and deep obligations,
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were out to those of our loved ones who have been killed or maimed in this terrible war.
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so that this day of ultimate victory might come
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We think of those whom death in this war has hurt,
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taking from them fathers, husbands, sons, brothers and sisters whom they love.
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No victory can bring back the faces they long to see.
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Only the knowledge that the victory, which these sacrifices have made possible,
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will be wisely used, can give them any comfort.
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But it is our responsibility, ours, the living,
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to see to us that this victory shall be a monument worthy of the dead who died to win it.
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And our thoughts blew out to our gallant allies in this war,
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to those who were not strong enough to hold out,
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kept the fires of resistance alive within the souls of their people,
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to those who stood up against great odds and held the line,
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until the United Nations together were able to supply the arms and the men
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It was the spirit of liberty which gave us our armed strength
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we take renewed faith and pride in our own way of life.
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We have had our day of rejoicing over this victory.
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as one of renewed consecration to the principles
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which have made us the strongest nation on earth
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Victory always has its burdens and its responsibilities,
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God's help has brought us to this day of victory.
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we will attain that peace and prosperity for ourselves
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the 80th anniversary of the signing of the surrender document
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Okay. Well, by the way, tonight, I think at 10 o'clock, the new federal state of China is going
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to be streaming. They're going to be streaming the parade, the three September parade with the
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important, very symbolic. I will be, to the degree that I'm around, I'll be jumping into that. We're
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Jack Posobiec. And so much more going on, too. I'm going to get to everything that's happening
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because now, after Labor Day, you're going to have a mad rush. September is going to be absolutely
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that the big, beautiful bill either has to be sold harder or you have to have another reconciliation
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where maybe, wait for it, you actually tax the wealthy. More on that later as we progress through
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this, Jack Posobiec, the Second World War is not Pearl Harbor. It's not Normandy. It's not the Holocaust.
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It's all of that, obviously, and so much more. At the end of the day, it was a fight for the Eurasian
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landmass of which, I don't know, 100 million casualties in that fight of which the United States
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with Great Britain, but particularly the Russian, the Red Army, the Russian people, and the Chinese
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people, Lao Baixing, actually broke Imperial Japan and broke the Nazis and the fascists in Italy.
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Today, folks are not taught the history of the Second World War and therefore really don't understand
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fully what we're commemorating today on the 80th anniversary of that. The people that fought it
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certainly did. You can tell about how geopolitically they went about it. I think that the leaders of
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our country would be quite disappointed that given all the sacrifice, all the blood, all the agony
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of our getting engaged there, which we did not want to until we were forced to by being attacked,
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and then the Nazis, two days after or three days after being attacked at Pearl Harbor, declared war on us.
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Always want people to understand we did not declare war on Nazi Germany until after they declared war
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on us. That the architects of that victory and the young men who sacrificed their lives for that
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victory would be quite disappointed 80 years from that time that we've allowed some of the worst actors
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in the world to try to reconvene and to try to take not just the Eurasian landmass, but the entire
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world. And so an America first policy has to be to partner with the correct people. And I think the
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Russian people are someone that we ought to think long and hard about partnering with, not Putin and
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the KGB. Obviously, they're not the best actors in the world, but this feckless NATO allies. And let me be
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specific. All the happy talk you saw here at the Oval Office two weeks ago, the big talk, they're going to do
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this, they're going to do that. The head of the EU, the president was talking over the weekend about
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army they're going to put together and troops they're going to send to the line of contact in
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Ukraine. And yet we have this morning a crisis in England. The bond market is throwing up all over
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their government securities. They're facing a financial crisis. Macron, and this is Politico reports,
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as Bloomberg reports, as Macron and his government are in a crisis this week, where Le Pen's now rising
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in popularity as they're facing a financial crisis. As we forecast here in the war room two years ago,
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that both of those, Germany's already in a major recession, but those two are hurtling towards it.
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They have a mass immigration problem. You're hurtling towards a civil war in the United Kingdom.
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You put up the cross of St. George, you put up a flag of England, and the police come around and
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trying to lock you up. So with all these problems, right, now we see the Chinese Communist Party,
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which is the major font of all evil in the world, plotting against us. And what they're focused on
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right now, folks, is to take down and destroy the U.S. dollars, the prime reserve currency. That's where
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their banks are buying gold in record rates because they intend, as we reported, or as the
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Birch Gold guys reported from Rio, it's all these bilat deals. So you have the worst actors in the
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world, particularly Lula. And today or tomorrow, we're going to get the verdict on Bolsonaro,
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and Bolsonaro is going to be found guilty, and he's going to go to prison, and they're going to
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try to assassinate him in prison. This is why his health is deteriorating so rapidly.
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Jack Posobiec, put it in perspective for us. Where, on the 80th commemoration, 80 years ago,
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what would the folks, the architects that won the Second World War from the United States of America,
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the rising superpower, what would they think? What would they think today on the 80th anniversary of it?
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Well, you know, Steve, it's very interesting because you go back, you talk to the boys in Normandy,
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look at some of the public opinion pieces, or for those of us who were blessed enough and gifted
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enough to have had the opportunity to meet that living generation, which we're losing now,
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those living links between our families and our forefathers, our recent forefathers who fought
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in World War II and their opinions. You can go and listen to them. You can listen to them over and
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over, and they tell you, they say, this is not what we fought for. We didn't fight for our cities
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to be destroyed and turned into dumps and slums. We didn't fight for these open-air drug markets to
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be put out. We didn't fight for our cities to be flooded with migrants from the Third World. We
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didn't fight for any of these things. And you're seeing tyranny from the government now,
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from, say, oh, well, you know, at least we're not speaking German in London, and yet they're
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locking up people over memes. They locked up a cartoonist or a comedian over a couple of tweets
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just recently. A left-wing guy, by the way, just locked him up. I think that was earlier today,
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and they put a huge fine on him. So you come back and say, oh, we fought for freedom. Well,
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what freedom? What freedom do we still have? Now, here in the United States, fortunately, in 2024,
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we were able to turn away from that. But you still look at what's being pushed on Western Europe
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now, particularly Poland, of course, and they're going to be here in the United States with the
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Polish president meeting President Trump in just a couple of days. They're now at a precipice where
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they were trying to impose this on Poland, but the people of Poland said, stood strong and said,
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absolutely not, because we don't care if the tyranny is coming from Berlin or Brussels or Moscow.
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We say no. And that's what the people of the United States did as well. But at the same time,
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you still have people all over the world looking at these bastions. Look, when we talk about this
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history of freedom, these ideas, they came from the United Kingdom, and now suddenly that's where
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they're falling apart. And by the way, Australia, and I had the opportunity to speak on Sky News
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Australia over the weekend, massive rallies all across every single major city in Australia over the
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weekend. Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, tens of thousands of people marching for freedom and
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marching against mass migration. They said mass migration is a silent invasion, and this has
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become the watchword of the Western world. So while we're trying to recalibrate our freedoms here in
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the Anglosphere, in Western civilization, what do we see going on on the landmass of Eurasia?
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We're seeing this super integration far beyond anything that they were able to do. Because,
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Steve, we talk about the end of World War II, and it was. Certainly the formal war ended today 80 years
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ago. But look at what happened just after. You have the Chinese communists winning in Beijing just a
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couple of years later in 1949, so four years later, after they restart the civil war with what the
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backing of, oh, the Soviet Union. Why? Because the Soviet Union had been able to invade through
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Manchuria. It was Manchukuo at the time, taking the entire industrial base up there in the Northeast.
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And they were able to use those arms and everything that they captured from the Japanese, hand that over
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to Chairman Mao. Now he's pushing the nationalists out. And Chiang Kai-shek, because we totally cut him
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off, we sold him out. He's got to flee to Taiwan. That's what set up the Taiwan situation,
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which remains to this day. They pushed down into Korea a couple of years later, but really just
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one year later. And that sets up the Korean War. So you have all of this aftermath that goes on on
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the Asian landmass as a connection between what communism is doing out of Moscow into the fall
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of China, which the United States either stood back and watched or was given to them as a dowry
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over there at the conference in Yalta, the same way we gave them Eastern Europe. So how does it,
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how, how does World War II actually end, right? If you, if you think about it, who comes out of
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World War II on top? Joseph Stalin comes out of World War II with a communist empire that stretches
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from Berlin all the way to Beijing. And that is a history that needs to be reckoned with.
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Well, after 1943, there was arguments even inside the government that were giving too many arms to,
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to, to, to, to the Russians, right? The Russians obviously were going to be the instrument to
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break the back of the Wehrmacht, the German army. But there were a lot of people that say, a lot of
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people in time, the government were saying, Hey, um, including some of the America first people in
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Congress, Hey, we're given, there's one thing to have them as an ally, uh, as bad as the Bolsheviks
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are, as bad as the Soviets are, but we can't, we, we oversupplied them. There's no question about
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that. And I agree with you. The World War II actually started in the, uh, in the mid 1930s,
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early 1930s, uh, in China, right on the landmass, not just the Spanish civil war, but the, uh, the
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invasion. Yeah. The invasion. And it didn't end until, uh, and it still has, it's really just an
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armistice. The, uh, the Korean war immediately fighting in China, continued on a book about it last
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year. I can't, I can't remember who that was again on humans, some guy, some guy, some Polish
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guys, some Polish guy, uh, stick around Jack. We're going to be comparing and contrasting America
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first, uh, Chicago's next. That's where troops ought to be going. No troops to Ukraine, no troops,
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uh, to Persia troops to Chicago. They cleaned up DC or then process of cleaning it up Chicago next
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understand the logic of the BRICS. You have to understand how your enemy thinks. And right now,
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the BRICS are the enemy of the United States of America. No doubt about that. That's where we got
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to keep India out of it. Jack Posobiec. You got to have the rapprochement with Russia and the Russian
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people. You got to sort out Ukraine. Let me just be blunt because we have not been wrong on this yet.
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And we said it the day that the chaperones were here taking up all that time of President Trump.
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They don't have the financial wherewithal, the political will, or the military capacity
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to add anything to Ukraine. They gave a bunch of happy talk that day, but they went back with
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over to the Ukrainian embassy. And there was that picture with Zelensky. He's trying to sell them,
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but they got nothing. Zero. It's all happy talk. The British economy is collapsing.
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The French economy is collapsing. The German economy is already in a recession.
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There's no political will of the people to do this. They don't have any arms. They have no armies.
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They can't defend themselves. They depended upon the underwriting of the United States of America.
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That's why, folks, over the next two weeks, they're going to have a must-pass NDAA,
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National Defense Authorization Act. It's basically going to lay out over $1 trillion
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defense budget for the good old United States of America that you are paying for and that your kids
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are signing up for. And that is because they want to get us into Ukraine big league. It's not going
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to happen. President Trump's not going to let that happen. But, Jack, right now the Russians are
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pounding. Zelensky says we're going to pound back. I'm sure they will, as long as they have the arms and
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somebody gives them money and arms, they'll continue to pound back. It's not about the courage or valor
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of the Ukrainian people. Hell, 1.8 million of them are either dead or wounded in this fight.
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And I think now it's pretty obvious that the Russians are going to focus on taking Odessa
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before they have any discussions about shutting this thing down. Your thoughts, sir?
00:33:04.480
Well, Steve, and not only that, you talk about the political precariousness position that many of
00:33:09.980
the leaders of Western Europe are facing, but Zelensky himself is in a precarious position. This is why
00:33:15.260
just last week, Zelensky was able to reopen the borders. People know that, of course,
00:33:21.320
military-age men in Ukraine, since the war began, were not allowed to leave the country. So when we
00:33:28.040
traveled in a couple of times earlier this year, what did we see at the train station? It's women
00:33:33.060
and children. The women and children are heading out of Ukraine, and they've gone into Poland in a large
00:33:38.440
amount, and, of course, further on into Germany and other parts of Western Europe. But now, just last
00:33:44.100
week, Zelensky, because of his own political position, he's allowed 18 to 20-year-old men,
00:33:50.900
18 to 22, are now allowed to leave Ukraine. You can read this all over the media. You saw videos
00:33:58.660
flooding all over social media. So 18 to 22-year-olds now able to leave. This new regulation was just
00:34:04.660
confirmed on August 26. And that, of course, doesn't mean that they can't volunteer. They
00:34:10.220
can't necessarily go ahead and say they want to join the military. But it does allow them to leave
00:34:15.560
because the pressure has been building up so much. And this has really been the issue from the very
00:34:21.020
start. There's been two inextricable factors to this entire war that you and I have talked about for
00:34:27.240
three and a half years now, Steve, and that's been energy and manpower. So we talked on the very first
00:34:32.840
day of this, how energy strategy and the feckless nature of Western Europe and their ridiculous
00:34:38.820
energy strategy with the windmills and going green and all of this had played a huge role into setting
00:34:44.960
this off. We talked about Greta. She's back in the news again with her new haircut. He-Man wants his
00:34:51.420
hair cut back, by the way. Hang on. Hang on. The fetish of decarbonization.
00:34:55.900
Decarbonization. Yes. It's a fetish of decarbonization that destroyed Germany as a
00:35:02.900
major industrial power. They're in a recession for one reason. They've tried to decarbonize
00:35:07.820
this radical climate agenda, right? And at the same time being dependent upon Russian natural gas.
00:35:14.740
Well, they were getting some cheap Russian natural gas, but something happened to that pipeline that
00:35:18.940
no one seems to answer what exactly happened to that thing, by the way. Not sure if we can get a
00:35:24.620
straight answer on that one. The Danes haven't given us, but I think the Danish know. They just
00:35:29.140
know that they're not allowed to say. And, you know, when you look at the pipeline diplomacy, by the
00:35:34.280
way, if you want to talk short term effects on this of the SEO meeting, when you see as Xi Jinping
00:35:39.680
called it, the dance of the dragon and the elephant, that it's it's very clear. India is going to continue
00:35:47.980
purchasing the cheap oil from Russia, the cheap natural gas and China. What did they do? They just
00:35:53.840
inked and locked in a pipeline, a new pipeline. Power of Siberia, too, is going to be crossing
00:36:00.340
Mongolia, going from Siberia directly to where Beijing. So they're locking in and solidifying
00:36:07.760
this relationship, financial, economic, military, security. And then, of course, you and none of this,
00:36:16.240
none of this, if they have these new structures in place, the SEO and the bricks, it's not going to
00:36:21.560
need to flow through any Western banks, which the Russians aren't going to want to do, because
00:36:26.380
what happened the last time they used Western banks, everything was frozen. So guess what?
00:36:31.900
That means that the war machine keeps gets to keep pumping. Now, I said the second factor,
00:36:37.060
of course, was manpower. The manpower issue, it is what it is. And the Western, by the way,
00:36:42.160
Steve, you mentioned the coalition of the unwilling. Well, we have the coalition of the unwilling.
00:36:46.980
But of course, don't forget, folks, that Britain and France would love to send a bunch of polls to
00:36:53.480
go and fight in Ukraine. They'd be more than happy to send 10,000, 20,000 Polish men to go and fight
00:37:00.180
in Ukraine. But they're not going to send any of their own people. And why? Because of the political
00:37:05.060
position that they're in right now. So when you hear these numbers, we're going to get 20,000
00:37:09.640
together. We're going to get fit. They're talking about Polish people. They're talking about sending
00:37:13.100
Polish citizens to go and fight the Russian war machine. And that's the war machine that when
00:37:18.120
you look over in these Eastern Russian speaking provinces has continued throughout all of these
00:37:22.780
talks, throughout all of these meetings, they've continued to ground and pound the Ukrainian
00:37:27.900
military in many of these areas and a few places, by the way, also breaking through this massive
00:37:33.000
front line, 600 mile front line that they've kept open this entire time. And what are the Russians
00:37:40.000
doing? Just like a, just like, you know, a chess strategy, they're holding back and they're waiting
00:37:44.960
for the Ukrainian military to attempt these counteroffensives. And then when they come forward,
00:37:49.740
they're using their artillery, they're using drones, they're using everything at their command.
00:37:54.140
I was watching some videos last night where they showed that because the targeting has gotten so,
00:38:00.280
so the fidelity of the targeting has gotten so good now that a number of the Ukrainian training forces
00:38:06.000
now have to train underground. They have to put their barracks underground, even deep into the
00:38:11.300
backfield, into Lviv, because whether it's surveillance, whether it's intelligence networks,
00:38:16.460
and of course, Russian intelligence is all over Western Ukraine, the same way, by the way,
00:38:21.760
American intelligence has been there. We know the CIA has been there for a long time. We know that
00:38:25.720
the US military has been running a lot of this out of that, that, that gymnasium in Germany.
00:38:30.580
So this is really a situation where when, when you talk about, and when we went up to Anchorage and
00:38:37.280
sat down and talked about how it's a Ukraine-Russia war, you really can't extricate the United States
00:38:43.300
from the massive amount of involvement we've had in this. This has been a proxy war from the very
00:38:52.940
And now the game's up because the, and I think that was a great thing about President Trump having
00:38:58.020
the chaperones come because now they've been exposed in all their phoniness. They're barely,
00:39:03.720
listen, this, these are governments that, that, that wanted and invited in mass migration. This,
00:39:09.300
these, the mass invasion from North Africa and the Middle East. And now each one of these governments
00:39:15.340
are teetering on collapse. I think Starmer's approval ratings are in the low twenties.
00:39:20.740
They're talking about Sadiq Khan actually replacing him. Sadiq Khan, the Muslim Brotherhood front man
00:39:27.740
that has, that has totally changed London, just like Mondani is going to change New York City when they
00:39:34.040
take over. The, the, the red green alliance of these neo-Marxists with the jihadists, you're going to see
00:39:39.900
New York City become the new, new London. And now you get every Democrat running to, to endorse,
00:39:45.560
to endorse Zoran or Zoran. So, but it's the collapse of these governments and they can't
00:39:52.160
provide any manpower. You're seeing the exact same thing in Israel yesterday or Sunday, excuse me,
00:39:57.700
Sunday. And this comes from the Jerusalem post and the times of Israel. A 12, I think it was a 12 hour
00:40:03.900
cabinet meeting where the IDF is essentially saying, and this is the IDF commander who was pretty blunt
00:40:12.100
and saying, Hey, before I came in, in March, you had taken zero of Gaza. I've taken 70% of it since
00:40:17.940
I've, I've been the head of IDF. And he's adamantly opposed. It looks like to the plan that Netanyahu and
00:40:23.960
these guys have of, of going door to door in Gaza with the bad actors, but more importantly than having
00:40:30.520
an occupation, he's saying, Hey, you're going to have to have a military, basically a military
00:40:36.560
government in Gaza run by the IDF. And we can't do it. I mean, they had a brutal, they had a brutal
00:40:42.920
cabinet meeting. And part of the reason is they just don't have the manpower. Remember have this
00:40:48.360
huge political issue where they had the young men, the parents didn't want them to fight in Ukraine
00:40:52.860
because they were just being led to the slaughterhouse. In Israel, you got it differently. I guess
00:40:56.940
the ultra Orthodox young men for a host of reasons, culturally, religious, et cetera,
00:41:04.120
won't fight or been excluded. Now a lot of the Israeli citizens are against that. They want them
00:41:09.560
to serve. The IDF just has a, a massive manpower problem to have to go into Gaza and Gaza is, is,
00:41:16.080
is going to be like some of the tough battles in Najaf and Fallujah in Iraq, where you have to go
00:41:24.400
door to door in these bloody, you know, clearing exercises, Jack Posobiec. So the manpower issue is
00:41:29.780
massive in Israel right now to finish what they started in Gaza, sir.
00:41:34.120
Well, Steve, not only that, you mentioned the old ultra Orthodox. This was a key point
00:41:39.380
in Bibi Netanyahu being able to secure right before the, the Iran campaign began a couple
00:41:46.520
of weeks ago, a couple of months ago. Now at this point between Israel and Iran, what did we see?
00:41:51.560
We saw this key situation where Bibi Netanyahu's political coalition almost fell apart, but it was
00:41:57.560
that ultra ultra Orthodox party that said, we will remain with you. But what we want is a carve out.
00:42:02.940
It was about being drafted into the reserves and being sent to fight. And the ultra Orthodox in
00:42:08.320
Israel, this has been a longstanding issue of them. It's kind of like the, uh, you know,
00:42:11.960
the Quakers in the United States, you know, we don't fight, we're pacifists, we're against that.
00:42:16.140
But even then, because every other, and everyone knows about the compulsory military service in
00:42:21.040
Israel, every single other group there says, wait a minute, why do you guys get special favors? So
00:42:26.540
the situation has become politically untenable as well as militarily untenable because it is an
00:42:33.680
unpopular war internationally and domestically. It's leading to these fractures and not only within
00:42:39.340
the political governance in the Knesset, but also within the IDF. But of course you're seeing them
00:42:45.920
push forward because, and I believe that Netanyahu firmly believes that this is the best policy for
00:42:52.780
Israel going forward. You saw him starting to release more footage from October 7th over the
00:42:58.220
past weekend, bringing up some of those videos from that October coming up on, I think on the
00:43:02.940
second anniversary of all that. I remember when those videos came out and we played what we could
00:43:07.900
at the time of those horrific events. But you know, now people are looking at two years later and
00:43:13.120
they're saying, wait a minute, we see horrific videos every single day coming out of Gaza. And also,
00:43:19.280
when you talk to the soldiers, they're looking at it saying, wait a minute, this would be like going
00:43:23.100
door to door in New Delhi with a populace that is extremely and increasingly hostile to us. Many
00:43:31.920
cases fighting for their children. And then of course, Steve, what do you see from the Christian
00:43:35.960
community, Catholic community? They're staying put. Yeah. Jack, hang on for one second. We're getting to
00:43:41.620
all that. Short break. Jack Posobiec is with us this morning in the war room.
00:43:47.440
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00:45:04.380
Okay. I see some breaking news that, uh, treasury intensifies pressure on Iranian oil smuggling and
00:45:11.260
sanctions evasion schemes in Iraq, right? They ought to do it with the Chinese Communist Party.
00:45:17.260
They're doing, if you cut off, uh, you wouldn't have a Iranian or Persian problem. If you stopped
00:45:26.260
allowing the mullahs to get cashflow by selling, I think 80% of the energy needs of, uh, China right
00:45:33.580
now, as all these other pipelines are being built, it still comes from the mullahs from Iran. You cut
00:45:40.680
that off and you can cut that off easily because it's supposed to be sanctioned. And now it's supposed
00:45:45.780
to be double sanctioned because of the, uh, because of the Kuwait, uh, because of the, um, Ukraine war.
00:45:51.940
You cut that off, the mullahs drop of cashflow, the Persian people take care of it. It's their call.
00:45:59.280
You know, don't we have enough, uh, track record in, in our, our long engagement with, with the Shah
00:46:06.120
and, uh, and everything that that brought to understand what the Persian people want to do.
00:46:11.700
If they, if they want to overthrow these guys, cut off the cashflow and let's see how it plays out.
00:46:18.500
We can't do BB is going to try to divert everybody's attention from his own
00:46:23.440
mangled handling of Gaza. This is his responsibility. And he can put out all the October 7th
00:46:29.800
videos. He wants what we want to see is an official inquiry into October 7th on this very show,
00:46:37.140
on that very day, in that very moment, Jack Posobiec on that Saturday show, who is a naval
00:46:43.940
intelligence officer, Jack, we talked about, it's just impossible that the Mossad and Shin
00:46:49.040
Ben and, uh, American intelligence. It's just, it, it, it just, it's incredible, right? As bad a job
00:46:56.440
as they've done on the intelligence in Persia, what happened on October 7th, they still haven't
00:47:03.300
answered the questions. They need to have a Pearl Harbor type inquiry, uh, into exactly what went on
00:47:08.760
our 9-11 commission. Not that the 9-11 commission or Pearl Harbor ever got to the answers, but it
00:47:13.860
began the process to get to the answers. We haven't, we haven't seen that yet, but BB is no doubt right
00:47:21.280
now, his whole thing, he had an interview with Joel Pollack last week. His whole thing is you can't be
00:47:27.000
MAGA and be anti-Israel. Look, you can be pro-Israel, you can be anti-Israel, you can do anything you want
00:47:33.560
that as long as you're America first and not Israel first, you can be MAGA. So we don't need a foreign
00:47:39.600
leader, particularly a vassal state. Let me, they are a protectorate. They are a protectorate. You saw this
00:47:48.180
in the 12-day war. They didn't have the ability, didn't even come close to the ability
00:47:53.300
to take out the nuclear enrichment program, including the above ground, the above ground,
00:48:01.160
which Navy submarines with Tomahawk missiles, which I might add, Jack, correct me if I'm wrong,
00:48:06.560
the Tomahawk is a 1970s technology. Okay. For the vaunted Israeli air force, uh, we had to take out
00:48:14.780
the above ground with Tomahawk missiles from the North Arabian sea. Uh, we also had to protect by sending
00:48:21.200
Aegis cruisers in our air defense and 25% of our Thad, uh, missile defense to basically provide
00:48:28.200
missile defense for Tel Aviv and other areas because the iron dome and David sling and all
00:48:33.480
this stuff they promote didn't work to the degree that the ballistic missiles and what the Iranians
00:48:38.360
and Persians were hitting them with. This is why president Trump did the massive raid and president
00:48:43.140
Trump is locked in. He's saying, Hey, total obliteration, obliteration of their nuclear enrichment
00:48:48.540
programs. So end of discussion. They want to have regime change. Let the, let the, uh, let the
00:48:54.800
Persian people do it or the Israelis, if they can finish what they started and don't need to drag us
00:48:59.820
in, which obviously they need to drag us in and they're going to try to drag us into Gaza. That's
00:49:04.700
what we have to be on guard about. Cause this Gaza thing, as tough as the IDF is in this commander,
00:49:10.620
the IDF is a pretty tough hombre. When a guy like that saying, Hey, I think we really got to think
00:49:16.820
this thing through before we do this. And I don't like the way BB and these guys, I mean, he in this
00:49:21.380
meeting, and this is what's reported by the Jerusalem posts and the times of Israel, and even all the
00:49:25.060
right-wing bloggers, he threw up to BB and these guys, where were you guys on October 7th? Where were
00:49:30.100
you on October 8th? Where were you on October 9th? So there's a big gap now you're seeing between
00:49:35.900
the IDF and the politicians, sir. Well, and Steve, you also have, uh, president Trump coming out in
00:49:43.660
this, this really incredible interview. And I've, I've been able to parse through a lot of it with
00:49:48.600
the great Reagan Reese over at daily call or oval office interview. And he mentions Israel and he
00:49:54.200
says that, uh, and I want to read the quote, they have to get that war over with, but it is hurting
00:50:00.280
Israel. There's no question about it. They may be winning the war, but they're not winning the world
00:50:05.360
of public relations and it's hurting them. Israel was the strongest lobby 15 years ago that there's
00:50:10.540
ever been. And now is it's been hurt, especially in Congress. So that's, that's president Trump's
00:50:15.580
statement. And we know president Trump obviously has sided with Israel, uh, throughout all of this,
00:50:20.420
but at the same time, he's now also pointing out that this is something that he would like to get
00:50:25.820
over with soon. Uh, you mentioned before I let you go, I know you got to bounce. Uh, the Bible was
00:50:32.480
supposed to be a big announcement today from the white house at 2 p.m. Department more calling it
00:50:37.220
live and check, check, check, you're going to say what, what, what's the announcement?
00:50:43.540
Well, we we've the, the word on the street is that it has to do with defense. Uh, I know the
00:50:48.400
Democrats and, and are claiming that it has to do with the president's health, which is amazing by
00:50:53.380
the way, because the Democrats spent four years telling us that there was nothing wrong with Joe
00:50:57.280
Biden. I remember watching Joe Scarborough. That's the best Biden I've ever seen up there.
00:51:02.300
He's smart. He's articulate. He's going, he's waxing poetic. Well, you know, Biden can't even find his
00:51:07.400
way off the stage, but, uh, but, and then, and then Trump and political playbook this morning,
00:51:12.080
by the way, completely lied about the fact that Trump held the longest cabinet meeting on record.
00:51:18.260
They said he had no public events. I said, what do you mean? I was standing there on the South
00:51:21.180
lawn for three and a half hours waiting for a meeting to get done. What do you mean? No public events.
00:51:24.960
We all watched it. Like we're out like a, you know, a marathon episode of the apprentice or
00:51:28.820
something or going around the room, but you know, I guess Politico just wants to live in their fantasy
00:51:33.180
world. Uh, you know, they need to get, uh, need to get some, need to get Dasha and some other people
00:51:37.680
back, uh, on that thing because it was good for a minute, but now it's, it's, it's gone to the dogs
00:51:42.920
for sure. Department of War. Hey Jack, uh, we have a two minute break at the top of the hour. I'm going to ask
00:51:49.480
you to hold just for a few minutes because I want to talk to you about Christians in the Middle East.
00:51:53.580
There's a discussion among certain parties of a Christian state in the Levant, maybe to parallel
00:52:01.860
the Jewish state. Uh, want to get your thoughts on that. Short commercial break. Jack Basovic's
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