John Mearsheimer, warning of World War III on a two-front axis, and Transhumanists make their move. Today's episode is a mashup of two pieces of commentary from John's recent interview with CNN's John Avlon.
00:00:00.000Absolute monster show today, Mearsheimer, warning of World War Three on a two front axis and transhumanists make their move.
00:00:14.040We have so much to get into, but also because there's too much to get into in just one show, you've got to come and see the full thing live and in person at America Fest.
00:00:25.600This is the summit that is being held December 17th to the 20th, Phoenix, Arizona.
00:00:55.600The United States and Russia are almost at war in Ukraine, and we can hypothesize plausible scenarios where the United States ends up fighting against Russia in Ukraine.
00:01:20.780And then we talked about the U.S.-China competition and the problems associated with Taiwan.
00:01:25.380And Taiwan is not the only flashpoint in East Asia.
00:01:29.660There's also the South China Sea, the East China Sea, and the Korean Peninsula.
00:01:34.700So you can imagine a war breaking out between the United States and China in East Asia and a war breaking out in Ukraine involving the United States and Russia, I think, more easily than you could imagine a war breaking out during the Cold War in Europe or in East Asia involving the United States and the Soviet Union.
00:02:01.480So I think we live in more dangerous times today than we did during the Cold War.
00:02:07.760And certainly than we did during the Unipolar moment.
00:02:11.140And I think, if anything, the situation is only going to get worse for reasons that you and I have talked about regarding Ukraine as well as Taiwan.
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00:02:55.820And he makes a very compelling case for this.
00:02:59.100And don't forget who John Mearsheimer is, by the way.
00:03:01.260John Mearsheimer is the one individual, the one individual out there who eight years ago predicted that the United States was leading Ukraine down the primrose path to war with Russia and that NATO in general.
00:03:18.020And what he says later on in this interview is that the U.S. and Russia are already in a de facto kinetic conflict.
00:03:26.200We are the ones who are sending the money to fuel the Ukraine war.
00:03:29.280We are the ones who keep underwriting it.
00:03:31.600We are the ones who keep supplying it.
00:03:33.860And so at what point, at what point do we say we're going to get involved directly?
00:03:41.500At what point do Russians say, well, you know, maybe we're going to take aim at some kind of U.S. asset?
00:03:46.120Again, it doesn't need you don't need to go through a million scenarios for people to say we can understand how something like this could break out.
00:03:54.300And understand, there are now three great powers in the world, the United States, Russia, and China.
00:04:04.920We are the regional hegemon in the West.
00:04:08.880China is becoming a competitor global hegemon, and Russia is attempting to regain their regional hegemony in Eurasia and parts of the Middle East.
00:04:24.220So when you look at it through that lens, you can understand.
00:04:28.660But of course, the question then becomes, what is best for the United States?
00:04:59.920And more to the point, if we are facing conflict between the United States, Russia, and China, who's on what side?
00:05:09.040Because I'll say the same thing, and I've said it before.
00:05:11.420All right, if we are going to war with China, if that ends up being World War III, and I've said for 15 years that I think that is the most likely potential outcome of the current relationship between the U.S. and China.
00:05:27.380You had Trump, you had America First, that have been trying to de-escalate things, to decouple, to pull China out of the global system.
00:05:36.600But there's so many other people out there that want to point everything towards conflict.
00:05:43.480And so if conflict comes, right, if conflict comes, and keep in mind, I'm the guy who moved over to China in my 20s to study Mandarin, and to learn Mandarin, and speak it fluently, then join the military.
00:05:56.080Because this is something that I believe is the greatest threat to the United States.
00:06:02.500And should that come, do we want the Russians on our side, or do we want them on their side?
00:06:07.500Because they're only going to be on one side or the other.
00:06:11.660We have Libby Emmons joining us from the post-millennial Libby.
00:06:15.100I know you haven't had a chance to listen to the entire interview, but when the guy who predicted the Ukraine war, eight years before it happened, says something like this, is it something that we should take pause and listen to?
00:06:28.020I think it is something that we should listen to.
00:06:30.380And I thought a lot of what he had to say was interesting.
00:06:33.180And yeah, I didn't listen to the whole thing.
00:06:36.580I'm looking forward to listening to the whole thing, actually.
00:06:38.880But I think what he was saying was actually a little bit terrifying.
00:06:43.800It does appear that we are in a proxy war with Russia.
00:06:47.240We have people in the U.S. and in Europe who are saying that the West should go all in on a war with Russia and that we should be encouraging Ukraine to win a war against Russia, which I don't know how anyone thinks you really win a war against Russia.
00:07:03.000If you look at that historically, that's a very...
00:07:06.540Mearsheimer's take, just real quick, Mearsheimer's take on that was that you're going to end up with a split Ukraine, right?
00:07:13.220One part of it that's going to go back to Russia or become part of Russia, this Novorossia section, whether or not that includes Odessa, and then the rest of Ukraine is just going to be completely decimated or just too weak to be able to sustain itself.
00:07:27.340Yeah, you know, I think that there's an awful lot of potential for that prediction to come true.
00:07:35.660I'm actually very concerned about the situation with China and when you couple that with the situation with Russia as well.
00:07:42.580I'm looking at the U.S. trying to fight, what, a two-front war against China and Russia, two different wars that eventually become one war.
00:07:51.660I don't think that we are a stable enough nation right now to really undertake this sort of thing.
00:07:57.380It seems designed to prop up leadership and not actually in the best interest of the American people at all.
00:11:05.680Please tell me your perspective on this and your take on this conference, this summit that Elon just held.
00:11:15.480Well, would you like to be a monkey who is happy with your banana smoothie and goes about doing your tasks in order to experience that pleasure?
00:11:39.300By the way, to make it serious, that's how they want you to feel.
00:11:43.900They want you to feel that life is too chaotic, that you just need someone to take care of it, and why shouldn't that someone be the government with their new best friend, Neuralink?
00:11:56.920And I'm sorry, but I keep saying all along, I'm not an Elon Musk fanboy, and this is the difference, and I'll tell you something right now.
00:12:03.920This is the difference between being someone who is a religious believer versus someone who is a humanist versus someone who believes in what did SBF call it?
00:12:19.440So all of this is a terrible, terrible idea.
00:12:22.480It is a terrible idea to link human beings up to one another, to link human beings' brains up to machines, and to make human beings just another object and data port in the Internet of Things.
00:12:35.200This is not something we should be doing.
00:12:37.180We should not want to be connected to our smart fridges or to our cell phones, to Siri, to Alexa, to Google Maps, to Amazon.
00:12:45.400We should not have lives where we think that we may want a new ice cream maker to show up so that we can make our own banana milkshakes or what have you, and then it automatically shows up just because we had the thought, and then our digital currency is debited.
00:13:00.380That should not be lives that we aspire to.
00:13:03.240We should aspire to lives where we search for meaning, where we try to live lives aligned with God's teachings, where we look for companionship and joy and to spread kindness to one another, not to be lumps of flesh that are digitally connected to one another where our thoughts are not our own.
00:13:24.500There is a huge difference between being the kind of cyborg, as Elon Musk says, that has a phone in your hand or a laptop at the ready and one that is connected to data ports.
00:13:37.340What we have now is a circumstance where data flows pretty much in one direction.
00:13:57.680How are we going to be able to differentiate our thoughts from the stream of data that is coming in through this quarter-sized hole in our heads?
00:14:05.860Is that what we're really looking to do?
00:14:07.920Is this the kind of human being that we want to be, one that is half machine and half human being?
00:14:29.000If what we do is connect ourselves via data ports to data streams, to one another, we are cutting out the interface of the human body.
00:14:40.340How long does it become then until we don't need the human body at all, until we are all just data ports in the metaverse with absolutely no understanding of real life or real sensation?
00:14:51.760And perhaps the worst part of all, and this is something that Emily Jashinsky said a few weeks ago at a conference.
00:14:59.600But she was talking about how it's actually not going to be that bad, and that almost is the worst part of all.
00:15:06.060So, therefore, I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
00:15:27.560I think that, you know, what we're talking about is blaspheming God by destroying the human body.
00:15:33.360I think that's a big deal, blaspheming God by destroying free will.
00:15:37.020Once we have an inability to differentiate our thoughts from the various propaganda and advertising streams that we are fed, we have completely destroyed free will.
00:15:49.960We have destroyed our ability to access the Holy Spirit because our thoughts are not our own.
00:16:36.480That's why asking for forgiveness, being truly, truly regretful of your sin and wanting that atonement is so important because it's only through free will.
00:16:49.580But if you take that away, not to mention, by the way, the fact that, you know, if the government gets involved in it, the companies get involved in this, the NSA, the CCP, everybody's going to be hacking that stuff.
00:17:09.700Now, Libby, this whole topic of transhumanism, this isn't the first time you've written about it, by the way, because the last time you wrote about it, you got in a little bit of trouble, didn't you?
00:17:19.620I wrote about the transhumanism revolution for Quillette in 2018, talking about neural link, body hacking, and transgender ideology.
00:17:28.020And some non-binary lesbians in the New York theater community got pretty angry about it and said that I was comparing transgender people to weird futuristic robot people and decided that I shouldn't make plays anymore.
00:19:24.460Were any of the victims found outside of their beds?
00:19:27.940Like, is it possible some of the victims were not sleeping?
00:19:30.340As far as the victims who were deceased, I can't say for sure.
00:19:36.120And that would be one of the details that the investigators would want to protect because very few people would know the exact location of the victims in the house.
00:19:45.520Do you know where any messages left behind in the house?
00:19:51.860Because sometimes in other cases, you know, if it was like a fetish killing, they would leave something on the body or write something on the wall.
00:20:29.880Because keep in mind, by the way, the state police and the state prosecutors, they're doing CYA all over the place after this interview, trying to say, no, no, no.
00:20:39.160Don't take the, you know, don't take what he said.