In this episode of War Room, we look back at the early years of the Third World War and the impact of mass migration on the Irish people's identity and sovereignty. We speak to Michael Leahy, the leader of the Irish Freedom Party and candidate for a seat in the European Parliament in the upcoming European parliamentary election, about the impact mass migration is having on the sovereignty of Ireland.
00:21:52.180What's their intelligence and surveillance capabilities against our probes?
00:21:56.320And then they also, during the exercise, while they didn't fire missiles, there were dozens of aircraft, dozens of ships that were surrounding Taiwan in real time
00:22:05.980and crossing the center line of the Taiwan Strait, probing and testing Taiwan's defenses
00:22:12.580and actually looking at our defenses from our forces that are in the Far East.
00:22:16.820It's a joint operation, as I mentioned, and in the articles that the Chinese talk about, they talk about mock fire strike.
00:22:24.820So for the first time that I've seen in a long time, they're actually mentioning fire strike, which is part of their doctrine of this first campaign,
00:22:33.500joint fire strike, which is to rain down thousands of missiles on key political and military targets in Taiwan
00:22:42.020to isolate military capability and isolate leadership or decapitate leadership through physical kinetic attack.
00:22:51.380This is obviously, this exercise is a signal to the new leader of Taiwan, President Lai.
00:22:58.800He took, he was inaugurated on the 20th of May.
00:23:02.320This exercise went on the 26th and the 27th.
00:23:05.260And it's a signal to Lai, the new president of Taiwan, that guess what?
00:23:10.880Every minute of your time in office, you are going to be under the threat of an invasion.
00:23:16.760Every minute, you will get no relief from us.
00:23:20.440And that's what's happening even today.
00:23:22.460Chinese warships and aircraft are surrounding Taiwan.
00:23:26.180And so if you're that leader, that's a lot of pressure.
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00:32:58.000We just had Memorial Day, and our head, Steve Stern, always helps us out.
00:33:01.600Memorial Day with the Flagshirt Company that, not Veterans Day, but Memorial Day, where we commemorate our honored dead.
00:33:08.160And Captain Fennell, talking about honored dead, what you just laid out with Firestrike and with this, you know, the scale of it seems like it's orders of magnitude even bigger.
00:33:19.040The concept's the same, but even bigger than you had worked on, you know, 10, 15, 20 years ago.
00:33:26.220Can the Seventh Fleet, can the Pacific Fleet stop this, defend Taiwan, keep it free?
00:33:31.720And at what cost, sir, are we going to have a carrier battle group with 10,000 American sailors at the bottom of the Straits of Taiwan?
00:33:41.000Well, Steve, with all due respect to Admiral Papro, who said yesterday that he, if this were to occur, that the U.S. would prevail.
00:33:51.140The numbers, just the sheer numbers of ballistic missiles, anti-ship cruise missiles, ships, aircraft, submarines, it overwhelms us right now in the Western Pacific.
00:34:04.120And for us to get there from the West Coast would take us three to four weeks, two to three weeks at the best.
00:34:10.860And our ships, especially our carriers, are in range of these specifically created anti-ship carrier missiles.
00:34:17.860And so it's very likely that if we are operating within the first and second island chain from basically Guam towards the mainland of China through the Ryukyu Island chain, that we would be at great risk.
00:34:31.240And there's a great increased potential for one of our carriers to be sunk.
00:34:35.880And then we just had a study put out or a great assessment put out by Dr. Jerry Hendricks last week about the state of our submarine force, which was kind of our ace in the hole.
00:34:45.200We thought that we would have the superiority of our nuclear submarine force that would be able to launch, you know, land attack missiles against Chinese ships, against the Chinese mainland, and that would swing the tide and help defeat the invasion.
00:34:59.700And now we're finding out that maybe up to a third of our submarines are laying aside, waiting to get into dry docks that don't exist.
00:35:49.600And we should not take this lightly, which is why in our piece we call for the president to be calling for a national mobilization of our military-industrial base to focus on the Pacific.
00:36:00.680We spent the last 40 years fighting in the desert in CENTCOM, and it's like China wants to keep us fighting there with what's going on in the Middle East right now, in Israel and Gaza and with Iran, this war in Ukraine.
00:36:13.200And we have not retooled our Department of Defense for 35 years to do what we did in the Cold War, which is to be able to deter an adversary with a strong Navy.
00:36:27.740Dr. Thayer, this is almost like the 1930s and the run-up to World War II.
00:36:32.540You go back and look at the newspapers, all the focus was on the war in Europe, virtually nobody paying attention to what the Asian co-prosperity sphere or what was happening in Manchuria, what was happening in mainland.
00:36:46.860I mean it got some press, right, particularly when I think Nanking fell.
00:36:50.520But overall, it was a second or third tier.
00:36:55.320Why – you guys call for a national mobilization.
00:36:57.980But more importantly, I'm going to have Harnwell on who covers this every day.
00:37:02.200I mean Blinken is at the foreign minister's meeting in Europe right now, and all they're talking about is America, France, and the UK having offensive missiles and tech crews launching missiles into Russian territory with virtually – the whole Taiwan thing is on the second page.
00:37:25.080That's why your article in The Washington Times is so shocking.
00:37:27.400When you go through the details and you and Captain Thayer talk about the details of how the CCP has thought this through and have built a scale to be able to overwhelm us immediately and a blow that psychologically the American people – it's one thing to not prevail militarily in Afghanistan.
00:37:44.180Another thing not to prepare militarily in Vietnam.
00:37:46.880You think the politicians stab you in the back.
00:37:49.180This is psychologically – you could have the second Coral Sea.
00:37:52.380I mean you could have a couple of carrier battle groups on the bottom, and the American people are not prepared to deal with that.
00:38:29.420We want to ensure that Beijing knows, Xi Jinping knows in his mind what he's thinking, that he can't win a conventional conflict and he can't win a nuclear conflict over Taiwan, and we're not sending those messages of deterrence.
00:38:45.660Instead, everything is flowing like an obsession, an ide fix, into the Ukraine war.
00:38:52.940And so when he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Omar Bradley said the war in Korea was the wrong war at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with the wrong adversary, right?
00:39:05.900And that's the way we should think of Ukraine, right?
00:39:11.980The Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping is the center of evil in the modern world.
00:39:17.320It's their support for Russia, which is continuing that conflict, which is allowing Russia to continue it.
00:39:23.760It's their support in the Middle East, and they want us to have a multiple-front war, right?
00:39:28.880They want the United States to be focused on anything but the Indo-Pacific and anything but Taiwan.
00:39:36.080And thus far, they've largely accomplished that goal, which is what Jim and I are trying to do, is to say, hey, we're moving to conflict here.
00:39:44.400This is happening right here and right now, and we have a chance to deter it, which is everything.
00:39:52.360But it's quite likely, if we don't take the measures that Jim identified, we're going to be in a hot war, which is going to escalate horizontally and vertically, vertically in terms of the intensity of the conflict to a nuclear level and horizontally into other theaters.
00:40:08.400And that is in Guam, the homeland of the United States, as well as sucking in the Japanese, Australians and other countries.
00:40:16.040We have the problem in the Pacific Island chains now.
00:40:20.460Back to something Captain Thayer said.
00:40:22.360But is the very scale of this and now showing that they're prepared to execute on it, is that fear enough to have the Taiwanese say, you know what?
00:40:32.260Because right now it's 40 percent of the country.
00:40:34.760Is this set up to have the Taiwanese say, you know what?
00:40:41.660We have to cut a deal with the Chinese, with the CCP.
00:40:44.420As much as we want our freedom, we're just not confident that the Americans are A, focused, or B, even if they are focused, have the materiel and the men and the will, the political will to actually do this.
00:40:59.280This takes getting the public, and the public's quite savvy about Asia and about how important we're a Pacific country.
00:41:09.860We have to be engaged on an America first basis.
00:41:13.380But it's not been drilled home to them that, hey, Taiwan falls, the economy in this country will drop 25 percent.
00:41:21.020The advanced chip design in those factories is not going to be moved to Japan and Phoenix, Arizona overnight.
00:41:26.900It's as much an art as it is a science.
00:41:29.340It's going to take at least a decade and maybe more to actually get capacity over here.
00:41:35.120And the Chinese Communist Party know it.
00:41:37.180Do you think that one of the things they're doing is this a psyop?
00:41:40.640And not that they're not militarily ready to do it, but they want to strike fear in the leadership, particularly focused on a decapitation strike.
00:41:47.980And just have the Taiwanese, particularly the 40 percent of the people that are already quite comfortable being a province and not an independent nation, for another 20 or 30 percent say, hey, look, this thing, we're going to be the tip of it.
00:42:02.960The Americans are eventually going to get beaten and retreat.
00:42:06.000There will be no public support for American lives to defend chip plants in Taiwan.
00:42:10.540Do you think the CCP is thinking about focusing, doing this without actually firing a shot?
00:42:17.660I think without question they're focused on that.
00:42:20.360They want a quick and decisive victory at the lowest cost possible.
00:42:24.340And if they can win through political warfare by having Taiwan run up the white flag ahead of time, and more importantly, having the Biden administration run up the white flag over Taiwan, that's exactly what they want to achieve.
00:42:39.700And that's why political mobilization is necessary.
00:42:45.160Yes, the chips are absolutely important.
00:42:47.560If those chip factories are shut down, we're in a depression.
00:42:51.000That is, the West, the American economy is.
00:42:53.880But Taiwan also matters, secondly, because of its geostrategic space, right?
00:42:58.620It's, as Douglas MacArthur called it, an unsinkable aircraft carrier, right, that's capable of offensive action against the People's Republic of China, as well as occupying a bottleneck in the first island chain.
00:43:12.700And then, lastly, thirdly, it matters because of political warfare.
00:43:15.920Taiwan's existence every day shows what China could have been and might be if the CCP falls, if the Chinese Communist Party falls.
00:43:26.040And so the existence of a democracy, vibrant economy, and vibrant democratic state in Taiwan shows the lie and the illegitimacy of the CCP.
00:43:36.840So they want to kill it for that reason alone.
00:43:45.680Let me bring in Ben Harnwell from Rome.
00:43:47.720Ben, while this is going on, Blinken, and this is where we are with the inaction over Taiwan and a sleep at the switch over Taiwan, we are all in on now going on offense inside Russia with missiles by American technicians and American material, the missiles provided by us, the targeting done by us.
00:44:09.080It's an open secret, UK, France, and this is all blinking these guys are talking about at the foreign secretaries meeting.
00:44:17.560We're going on offense on the Eurasian landmass in where the great battles of World War II were decided without American material, without American involvement.
00:44:28.340And now we're sitting here and we're talking about going on offense against the Russian people, sir.
00:44:33.240Yeah, well, this is part of what's going on.
00:44:38.860And sadly, most of it's going on behind closed curtains.
00:44:44.220So it's absolutely true, as you say, that Anthony Blinken is working behind the scenes to craft a change in U.S. policy.
00:44:55.420He's working with his point contacts in the EU because he wants us to look as if this is this change in policy to allow American weapons to be used to strike deep inside Russian territory.
00:45:09.860He wants that to look as if America is responding to a European demand for that.
00:45:15.680And he's working behind the scenes to have that policy changed.
00:45:19.120Something that has emerged, however, Steve, since we recorded the morning show earlier, and I mentioned how the splits, and now this will interest you,
00:45:31.340and I mentioned how the splits are now emerging in NATO as never before.
00:45:37.460One country, just to reel back, this meeting in Prague has been called really to sort out a new policy on giving permission to Ukraine to use various NATO member states' weapons in Russia.
00:45:55.100What's emerged, and this is the first time that I've seen a change in policy, right, this is Antonio Tajani, who is Italy's foreign minister,
00:46:03.820and, interestingly, an aspirant to be president of the European Commission if the votes, if the numbers work out after the European elections.
00:46:15.060He said Italy will never send any troops to Ukraine, and any weapons it has supplied to Kiev shall not be used on Russian territory.
00:46:25.220Now, the importance of this, Steve, as we've been drilling down, like, for the last two years, is that up until now, Italy has been the number one Atlanticist country in NATO.
00:46:37.120And this is a public, this is a public slap in the face, really.
00:46:44.320This is a rebuke to the Biden administration.
00:46:46.720And I can only speculate the reason behind this is what's going to happen in around eight days' time, which is the European elections.
00:46:56.280And countries now are paying attention like never before.
00:47:00.940And you said this, and your guest Michael Leahy mentioned this earlier.
00:47:04.320There is an anger that is taking place, and it is taking the European elites by surprise.
00:47:10.520And with eight days to go, they're starting to notice this, and perhaps it's too little, too late.
00:47:17.600But Italy has always been the number one European Union country opposed to active involvement in the Ukraine war.
00:47:25.180And this, I think, is the first measure.
00:47:27.380So whilst America is escalating, the Europeans now, at least Italy, America's foremost ally up until now in NATO, in continental Europe, is now taking a step back.
00:47:39.280And I think that's a pretty important development.
00:48:35.380Something big is happening, and there's willful blindness right now among our leadership.
00:48:42.480There's willful blindness among the business, the pro-CCP business community.
00:48:48.660There's willful blindness about the invasion that's happened in our own country with these military-aged men.
00:48:53.500And when this hits, it's going to hit like no military.
00:48:58.080It's going to make Pearl Harbor seem like a Sunday picnic.
00:49:03.340So, Dr. Thayer, where do they go to get all your writings, the book with you and Captain Fennell did, and these new articles you guys are putting up?
00:49:24.300At Amazon or anywhere else you buy books, you reference the 30s, right?
00:49:28.900This is exactly like that time where leading up to war, deterrence is everything, and like the 30s, we're willfully blind, as you said, right?
00:49:39.340And so that's simply inviting aggression.
00:49:43.760Jack Kennedy had written a book where it really came on the consciousness, Why England Slept.
00:50:38.540Taiwan is not the final agenda item for the Chinese Communist Party.
00:50:43.620The Chinese Communist Party detests the United States of America, and they want to destroy us.
00:50:48.940And once they have those bases and that stationary aircraft carrier that Brad mentioned, which is the island of Taiwan, they're going to use that to launch out their military to take over the rest of the Pacific, which they've already been working on.
00:51:03.920But their objective is to destroy the United States.
00:51:06.840And by being able to take Taiwan, they fracture our alliance structure in Asia.
00:51:11.900They put Japan at great risk, and they're coming after us.
00:51:15.660So the reason you care is because you'd rather fight them over in Taiwan than fight them in Manhattan Beach or Redondo Beach.