Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - Everyone Is Focused On The Wrong Strait

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00:00:50.840 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec. Christ is king. Last minute deal

00:00:56.240 tonight between the U.S. and Iran to stop the fighting at least temporarily after 38 days of

00:01:01.680 joint U.S.-Israeli military operations against Iran, known as Operation Epic Fury, that agreement

00:01:07.440 announced this evening by President Trump. Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz, that crucial oil

00:01:13.000 shipping lane that has been choked off for weeks, and the U.S. will stop its attacks for at least

00:01:18.420 two weeks. The double-sided ceasefire, as the president calls it, was brokered by Pakistan.

00:01:23.580 After multiple delays, the president had given Iran's leaders until 8 p.m. Eastern to reopen the strait or else threatening attacks on power plants, bridges and more.

00:01:33.640 As a president truth this morning, a big day for world peace.

00:01:38.440 Iran wants it to happen. 0.74

00:01:40.260 They've had enough. 0.97

00:01:43.360 Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield.

00:01:49.360 a capital V military victory. You've seen the attacks going across the region,

00:01:56.740 multiple barrages here in Israel, including cluster warheads, and then all the reporting

00:02:01.640 about the counterstrikes carried out by Israel. That is common in which we see Israel trying to

00:02:06.520 knock out any ballistic missile launch sites that might be in Iran. Now that said, just moments ago,

00:02:11.780 we got the first public acknowledgement from the Israeli prime minister's office. I want to read

00:02:16.480 for you part of this statement here saying, this is from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying

00:02:20.480 that Israel supports President Trump's decision to suspend strikes against Iran for two weeks.

00:02:25.680 It also says that Israel also supports the U.S. effort to ensure that Iran no longer poses a

00:02:31.460 nuclear missile and terror threat to America, Israel, or Iran's Arab neighbors in the world.

00:02:36.820 Reports indicate that at least two vessels have passed through the Strait of Hormuz today,

00:02:41.280 the first ships to make this journey since the ceasefire went into an effect. Now,

00:02:45.980 this really was an 11th hour agreement down to the wire and announced by President Trump

00:02:50.620 on True Social shortly after the Iranians released a statement. And then in the hours

00:02:55.180 later, we're launching ballistic missiles at Israel. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome on board 1.00

00:03:02.160 today's edition of Human Events Daily. We're here live on Real America's Voice. Today is

00:03:08.340 April 8th, 2026, Anno Domine, day one of the ceasefire, day one of the ceasefire between the

00:03:19.220 United States, Iran and Israel. And I've been saying all across media, I've said it here on

00:03:27.420 the program, guys, you're looking at the wrong straight. Everyone thinks this is about the

00:03:34.120 straight of Hormuz. Everyone says, oh, it's the straight of Hormuz. We have to open it. Is it

00:03:37.940 open? Is it closed? Is the traffic? Is it flowing? What's really going on here? We need to look at

00:03:41.800 it. You are lost in the forest. You're not even seeing the forest because you are stuck on the

00:03:50.680 trees. You're looking at the wrong straight. The real straight to be looking at right now

00:03:56.900 is the Taiwan Strait. And what is going on right now with the Taiwan Strait is inextricably linked

00:04:04.900 to what we see happening vis-a-vis the Strait of Hormuz.

00:04:09.820 The global rules-based order.

00:04:14.020 Well, that was the rules-based order.

00:04:15.760 The United States, the UK, the West, NATO, Israel.

00:04:21.100 That was the Western allies.

00:04:23.540 And what do we see in opposition to that?

00:04:27.320 China, Russia, India, the BRICS nations.

00:04:31.540 When Iran set up its tolls to be paid for those ships that were going through the Strait of Hormuz, how were they paid?

00:04:41.280 Were they paid in U.S. dollars?

00:04:44.400 No, they were paid in Chinese yuan, the renminbi, currency of the people.

00:04:52.600 That's how they were paid.

00:04:54.180 Understand what this means for the petrodollar.

00:04:57.020 Understand what this means for the global system.

00:05:01.540 All right. That's what this is all about. And where is the Taiwanese opposition leader right

00:05:07.420 now? The head of the Kuomintang Party. She is not in Taiwan. She's in China. Who's she going

00:05:15.760 to be meeting with? Xi Jinping, the same Xi Jinping that President Trump is going to be

00:05:21.320 meeting with on May 14th in the Forbidden City up there, Zhongnanhai in Beijing, with the Chinese

00:05:28.500 leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and the same Beijing, the same Xi Jinping that worked

00:05:35.060 with Pakistan to set up the negotiations that ended this thing. Understand what's really going

00:05:41.980 on here. That's what Human Events Daily is here for. We are here to explain all this to you.

00:05:49.620 This is about who controls the money. OK. And yes, of course, the spice must flow.

00:05:58.020 but where does the petroleum from Iran flow? It wasn't going to Europe. It wasn't going to

00:06:06.380 the United States. No, it flows to China. And so China is looking at that and they're looking at

00:06:13.060 this imperial artery, the imperial artery of the Strait of Hormuz, the same way that the Suez

00:06:22.480 Canal was the imperial artery of the British Empire. President Trump has been the one to see

00:06:30.720 this through. President Trump, the dealmaker in chief, he's putting together a grand deal right

00:06:37.100 now. It's behind the scenes, but I'll tell you something right now. The deal isn't about the

00:06:41.820 deal that we make with Iran or with Pakistan or Israel or Lebanon, any of this. The deal is all

00:06:49.500 about what President Trump is working on the grand deal with China coming up on May 14th.

00:06:58.900 Mark my words, it is going to change the world. Be right back here at Human Events Daily.

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00:08:43.600 All right. I want to bring in Matt Boyle here. He's the Washington Bureau Chief for Breitbart News and someone who's been writing about China for just as long as I've been talking about it here. Matt Boyle, how are you?

00:08:57.520 Doing well, Jack. How are you, sir?

00:09:00.220 Well, I've got to ask, you know, so I'm sitting here and I'm going out to, you know, on a limb. Everyone says, oh, it's the Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Hormuz.

00:09:07.380 how much traffic and is there a toll is there this or that and i said guys you're all looking

00:09:11.640 at the at the wrong straight you are focused on the wrong straight the straight to look at right

00:09:16.900 now is the balance of power in the taiwan straight because that is actually the leading indicator of

00:09:24.360 everything that's going on here because this is not about iran it's not about pakistan it's actually

00:09:30.440 about china what say you yeah yeah no you're 100 right that's the defining the civilizational

00:09:37.280 struggle of the 21st century here. We're 40 years into the Second Cold War. We won the

00:09:46.080 First Cold War. We defeated the Soviet Union. We broke them up. Yes, the Russians are still 0.80

00:09:51.820 out there, and they're not the greatest actors on the planet. Nobody's defending them. But 0.99

00:09:56.660 the point is that they're not the Soviet Union. Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, the 0.85

00:10:01.140 collapse of that and the victory in the Cold War where the wall came down in the early 90s,

00:10:08.040 what we've seen is the rise of the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese Communist Party

00:10:12.560 has become the new global communist power. And there's a major challenge between, look,

00:10:20.220 the leaders of both countries, the United States and China, see the center of the world as their

00:10:24.840 capital. The Chinese see the center of the world as Beijing. The Americans see the center of the 0.81

00:10:29.120 world is Washington. The rest of the world faces a choice. Which one do you want to be the world's

00:10:36.800 superpower? Do you want America or do you want China? I think the vast majority of the planet

00:10:41.420 sides with America, even if they do so kicking and screaming along the way. Some of our Western

00:10:46.660 European partners, I would point to about that, and NATO, and so on and so forth. And Trump's not

00:10:51.780 wrong to call them out. But the fact is, is that you're 100% right. By the way, all of this has to

00:10:57.220 it has to do with energy. China needs significant levels of energy to continue its explosive growth

00:11:04.220 that we've seen over the last several years. They need to import oil. They've been doing it

00:11:09.860 from Venezuela and from Iran. And they've been doing it at a significant discount, by the way.

00:11:16.500 And they engage in, as you point out there, currency shenanigans and whatnot to be able to

00:11:23.000 to get it on the cheap as well.

00:11:26.480 But the fact is that ever since Trump took out Nicolas Maduro

00:11:30.120 and we have a new regime down in Venezuela,

00:11:34.120 the Chinese can still buy Venezuelan oil,

00:11:36.740 but they have to buy it at full price.

00:11:38.220 They don't get a discount anymore.

00:11:39.880 We'll see as the Iranian situation comes to a close here.

00:11:43.340 The war appears to be over in the ceasefire. 0.74

00:11:46.840 I mean, I get it.

00:11:47.580 Ceasefires are bumpy as they begin,

00:11:50.860 and there's all sorts of questions about Lebanon

00:11:52.700 And there's questions about, you know, you've got the Israeli prime minister out there saying the war is not over.

00:11:58.860 The campaign's not over. I think the war is over. Right.

00:12:01.620 Like and based off of what we're hearing from the White House and from the president.

00:12:06.620 So ultimately, the big question moving forward here is what does a deal with Iran look like and what does that mean for Iranian oil exports?

00:12:14.020 I don't think that by the way, the U.S. doesn't buy any of the Iranian oil.

00:12:18.720 Most of it goes where? It goes to China, right? Like, you know, right through the Taiwan Strait. And so the fact is, is that there's a reason why the Chinese stepped in and actually helped negotiate the end of this war in Iran, which all reports are indicating to that, because the Chinese need that oil more than we do, right?

00:12:39.500 Like, we don't really, we don't use it, right?

00:12:41.720 Like, we don't, it doesn't make it to America, Iranian oil.

00:12:44.980 It goes to China, mostly, and, you know, and to other bad actors around the world.

00:12:50.760 But the fact is, is that the big question here moving forward, and again, we're going

00:12:58.040 to see the big meeting between Trump and Xi in Beijing, and then apparently Xi is going

00:13:04.920 to be coming to the United States at some point later in the year.

00:13:08.120 That's what President Trump has said. So we'll see how that develops. But I mean, the big, you know, everything that President Trump has been doing for the last, you know, 18 months here, right, since he's, you know, for 15 months, whatever it's been, since he's come back in the second term has been all about cornering and out chess playing China.

00:13:27.260 And it's a big chessboard, the whole world.

00:13:31.080 And the president's been, frankly, kicking China's butt up and down the court on every level worldwide.

00:13:39.200 I would point people back to, though, you know, to your point, though, about the Iran situation being all about China.

00:13:46.320 I would point people back to we did a big Breitbart event a little over a week ago here in Washington, D.C., in the nation's capital with Senator Tom Cotton and Senator Jim Banks.

00:13:55.580 And Senator Cotton and I spoke exactly about this exact topic, about how it has everything to do with China.

00:14:02.200 And I would point people to go back and watch that interview that I did with the senator.

00:14:07.700 He's the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference.

00:14:09.960 He's been on this stuff about China and Iran for many, many years.

00:14:14.840 And I would encourage people to watch what the senator had to say because I think that you're spot on about this.

00:14:21.060 People that are in the know know that that's what this is all about.

00:14:23.920 And the fact of the matter is, is that one civilization will win and the other one won't.

00:14:32.160 It's that simple.

00:14:33.260 Is the center of the world in Washington or is it in Beijing?

00:14:36.140 And that's the question of the 21st century that will be answered by the moves of these world leaders, particularly Trump and particularly Xi, but also others as well. 0.85

00:14:46.660 look it's it's entirely clear that it's about can china be put back in a box and there's so 0.96

00:14:54.980 many people who say the rise of china is inevitable that it's just going to happen it's the way of the

00:14:59.460 world and i completely disagree with that i reject that premise and i always have and i think that's

00:15:04.060 always been sort of the inherent pledge of maga is that no we don't have to be subservient little

00:15:10.780 consumers of the global economy backstopped by the chinese communist party and the elites of

00:15:16.460 the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. No, it's about unleashing American economic dominance yet again 0.65

00:15:22.780 through our heartland, revitalizing the Rust Belt, doing everything that we can to make sure

00:15:29.600 that we go out and become players once again in the world economy from an export perspective,

00:15:36.460 which we have not done by our own choice for so many years. And the other piece of this,

00:15:43.240 Matt, and I'm just going to say it's very clear to me. And I said this CPAC Tokyo a couple of

00:15:49.380 years ago when I spoke there. I'm going to say it again. It is time for the United States to look

00:15:54.960 to Japan as the regional partner that we should be building up and encouraging their remilitarization

00:16:02.700 as a country to be our partner there in that and be the bulwark of the Pacific of the three island

00:16:11.120 chains to box them in. Look, the Japanese Navy needs to be restored to the level where it could 0.89

00:16:17.480 go toe to toe with the Chinese Navy. And the fact that we haven't done that, the fact that we have

00:16:22.680 been holding them back for so long is something that I think it needs to change. And I think we

00:16:27.040 need to look at that from another perspective, because Japan absolutely is going to be the key

00:16:31.580 player here. Yeah, no doubt at all about that. I think, yeah, I think Japan, the US Japanese

00:16:38.180 alliance is going to be a defining alliance for the 21st century, maybe the defining alliance.

00:16:44.580 And also U.S.-India relations are really important. And frankly, the Europeans are

00:16:50.940 part of this as well. But look, when we have all these questions about NATO and whatnot,

00:16:56.760 what was NATO built for? It's the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, unlike what the New York

00:17:00.940 Times called it. They called it the North American Treaty Organization. It's not. It's

00:17:04.900 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

00:17:06.880 NATO was built to win the Cold War, okay?

00:17:09.540 It's in the sense that it's important

00:17:12.320 because it encourages all of its partners

00:17:14.420 to ramp up defense spending

00:17:16.720 and help the free world, et cetera.

00:17:19.240 But the fact is that the purpose of NATO is,

00:17:23.860 I'm probably gonna get in trouble for saying this,

00:17:25.760 but it's kind of obsolete, right?

00:17:27.920 Like we won the Cold War 40 years ago, right?

00:17:30.760 What we need is a 21st century NATO.

00:17:33.220 And at the forefront of that would be Japan and the United States and, you know, our other partners in the Indo-Pacific, like the Indians, like the Australians, like the New Zealanders, right, like and whatnot, even though they're very, very left wing down there in Australia and New Zealand.

00:17:50.780 But the fact is, is that, and yes, the Europeans are part of this, but really the most important alliance, I think, is between the United States and Japan, to your point.

00:18:00.440 And I think that President Trump's relationship with Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister who was assassinated later, was critically important in his first term.

00:18:10.160 And his relationship now with Shinzo Takeuchi is similarly equally important.

00:18:18.280 look at the two of them they're they're extremely warm right like they they both get exactly what

00:18:24.240 we're talking about here i would love to talk to prime minister takeuchi about this i've reached

00:18:28.560 out to the japanese we've had several conversations about it we haven't been able to schedule it yet

00:18:32.180 but i'm hoping that at some point we'll be able to make that work but i know that the president

00:18:36.020 deeply understands this it is uh uh critical and by the way also equally important in this

00:18:42.980 whole thing is what happens with taiwan back to our original questions there and that's and that's

00:18:47.840 Well, Matt, let's get to that in one second because we're coming up on a hard break.

00:18:51.680 But you're exactly right.

00:18:53.000 That's where I'm going on all of this.

00:18:54.480 It's about the Taiwan Strait.

00:18:56.980 Your guys are all focused on the wrong straight.

00:19:00.100 We'll be right back at Human Events Daily.

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00:19:24.180 And I'm not going to let this go, folks.

00:19:26.160 I totally support it.

00:19:27.320 The United States should totally support it. 0.99

00:19:28.840 The full remilitarization of Japan, including the Japanese Navy. 0.98

00:19:34.960 And by the way, Japan, it's not just about China.

00:19:37.260 So it's about China.

00:19:37.900 But you've also look at the neighborhood there and they've got North Korea, North Korea,

00:19:41.460 which has the nuke, has nuclear weapons.

00:19:43.700 North Korea, which fires their nuclear ballistic missiles, you know, nuclear capable ballistic missiles over Japan every single time they're tested.

00:19:51.520 President Trump, of course, was able to work with them.

00:19:54.300 But what I'm talking about is a broader strategic picture.

00:19:57.760 And the broader strategic picture is that China, for so many reasons, when you're talking politically, when you're talking and we've got an interesting map of China here, slightly different than than the current map.

00:20:10.840 But that's you know, that's we'll see about that.

00:20:13.700 Um, and we, we need to understand that it's come down to our key allies in the region,

00:20:19.760 Australia.

00:20:20.360 We're talking about the Philippines.

00:20:21.880 We're talking about South Korea and we're talking about Japan and what, and who also

00:20:26.360 is on that list?

00:20:27.600 Taiwan.

00:20:28.220 That's how, if you, if you're worried about the straight of Taiwan, that's how you create

00:20:32.660 that strategic defense for Taiwan.

00:20:35.560 You build up the allies in the region.

00:20:38.380 Matt Boyle's on here.

00:20:39.600 That's exactly where we left it in the last segment.

00:20:41.560 And, Matt, you know, a lot of people talking about this, of course, the opposition leader of Taiwan now on the ground in China planning to meet very shortly with Xi Jinping. 1.00

00:20:54.080 I think this is the straight that the world should actually be looking at, the chattering class, if you will. 0.99

00:21:00.560 Yeah, well, look, by the way, the KMT in Taiwan, I went to Taiwan in 2019, I want to say, back in Trump's first term. 1.00

00:21:09.480 And I learned a lot when I was there.

00:21:10.960 I think it was the 25th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act.

00:21:15.320 And the fact of the matter is, is that the or the or the 40th anniversary, sorry, of the Taiwan Relations Act.

00:21:23.420 The the the fact of the matter is, is that Taiwan is it is the if you control the Taiwan Strait in the South China Sea, if you're China.

00:21:33.160 Right. Like they they then have like global geopolitical shipping dominance.

00:21:37.740 Right. So we're talking about, you know, all of the goods that move around the world, navies that move around the world.

00:21:44.960 You know, if you go back to World War Two and when the Japanese were trying to in World War Two, when they were our enemy, they were trying to, you know, gobble up all these islands. 0.98

00:21:55.480 Right. Like if China controlled Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait in the South China Sea, they would be able to expand beyond that and essentially geopolitically take over the world with their navy. 0.95

00:22:07.740 And with their trade dominance in ways that are just like, as of right now, people aren't even thinking about.

00:22:16.300 But you're worried about, like, you know, this product or that product or whatever.

00:22:21.340 They could, for whatever reason, just shut down exports of this product or that product.

00:22:27.100 It's so, it's literally everything comes down to the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait.

00:22:31.680 I remember sitting there with an Air Force general back in President Trump's first term.

00:22:35.940 you pulled out a map similar to the one you have up on the screen right now and started drawing

00:22:40.860 lines across it for me and explaining everything right like uh that they're doing through the

00:22:46.780 belt and road initiative and how they've been using that as a strategic hundred-year plan to

00:22:51.460 essentially uh create a global hegemony take over the world and uh they were very very very close at

00:22:59.380 the beginning of trump's first term trump started turning it around a little bit in the first term

00:23:03.860 here in the second term he's blowing them out of the water one of the things that's working too in

00:23:08.700 the united states's favor is that any countries that have especially in the west that have joined

00:23:14.540 up with china or made deals with china uh that we see this with european nations like italy like

00:23:20.300 greece uh etc that have that have made close relations with them uh they were they learn to

00:23:26.340 regret it and so and they're turning back to the united states the greeks and the italians in

00:23:31.240 particular. I've been to Greece a couple times over the last year. I'm going again in a couple

00:23:35.460 weeks. That's really like almost the front line. And by the way, it's worth noting that 25% of the

00:23:42.920 world's LNG moves on Greek ships, right? So the Greeks are a huge shipping country. They move a

00:23:50.980 lot of these ships. And when we're talking about shipping stuff around the world that, you know,

00:23:54.960 the Greeks, the Japanese, et cetera, they're a huge part of this. And, you know, a big part of

00:23:59.500 the president's doing whether it's the panama canal whether it's greenland whether it's what's

00:24:03.820 happening in iran whether it's um the trade deals and the peace deals what he's doing in africa

00:24:09.820 right like frankly with uh congo and rwanda uh you know a lot of this stuff has to do a lot of

00:24:15.900 these african nations that made deals with china uh you know where china that just just comes in 0.69

00:24:20.460 and steals everything from them uh we've learned to regret it um by the way pakistan right like 0.87

00:24:26.140 Like, we're talking about Pakistan right now because they're a big intermediary here between the U.S. and Iran.

00:24:31.520 They're helping hosting.

00:24:33.160 They may be hosting the negotiations in Islamabad.

00:24:36.960 But the Japanese made a whole – sorry, the Chinese made a whole bunch of ports in Pakistan, I think.

00:24:44.940 The Pakistanis maybe not so much, you know, on board with that.

00:24:49.260 Indonesia is a major partner, right?

00:24:51.220 You see the Indonesia islands there as well.

00:24:54.100 So, but the Taiwan is the first one and it's the most important one. It's also the one that the communist government really, you know, they view it as a thorn in their side because the reason why they despise it, it's the old government that, so the old government during the Chinese civil war fell back.

00:25:12.820 that it was called the KMT, right, like not the opposition party KMT, but the Kuomintang,

00:25:19.300 it was a military dictatorship that fell back to Taiwan when the communists took over the mainland.

00:25:24.360 They ruled it as a military dictatorship for like 30, 40 years on Taiwan, and then they opened it

00:25:29.880 up and made it a democracy in the late 1980s. And the fact is that since then it's been a major

00:25:37.400 democracy and now uh the the um the the governing party in taiwan which continues to win elections

00:25:43.720 is very pro-west but as you mentioned the opposition party is very pro-china uh the

00:25:48.840 the opposition party is called the kmt the kuomintang and they're the you know they're very

00:25:53.880 much trying to make uh you know cross-strait relations their focus rather than uh relations

00:26:00.600 with the west so uh it is a very very by the way also we talk about semiconductors right like

00:26:06.760 Like most of the world's semiconductors right now are made in Taiwan.

00:26:09.920 Now, we're trying to make them here in America, but a lot of them are made in Taiwan right now, like 90-something percent of them.

00:26:16.640 If the CCP got control of Taiwan, that could decimate every American industry from automobiles to—

00:26:24.220 That is absolutely a wrap, from the shipping lanes to the semiconductors.

00:26:27.520 Matt Boyle, where can people go to follow you and get your work, brother?

00:26:30.440 Yeah, just on X at mboyle1, true social at realmattboyle, and just breitbart.com.

00:26:35.040 Our team's working around the clock.

00:26:36.760 Make sure to check him out.

00:26:39.540 Always the ever-important work of Matt Boyle over at Breitbart.

00:26:43.560 Right back here, Human Events Daily continues.

00:26:54.760 Where's Jack?

00:26:56.860 Where is he?

00:26:58.180 Jack, I want to see you.

00:27:01.780 Great job, Jack.

00:27:03.360 Thank you.

00:27:04.100 What a job you do.

00:27:05.160 You know, we have an incredible thing. We're always talking about the fake news and the bad.

00:27:09.240 But we have guys and these are the guys who should be getting policies.

00:27:15.160 All right, Jack, we're back live. We're walking around the world.

00:27:18.500 We're talking about the geopolitical aftermath of Operation Epic Fury.

00:27:25.260 And I want to get on someone that we've had on a number of times because he has incredible commentary when he looks at political geo powers.

00:27:34.200 right how does geo power work in the world it's malcolm flex a commentator from and he runs flex's

00:27:41.060 warrior way malcolm how are you i'm doing pretty good jack honestly uh you know we got a ceasefire

00:27:49.480 which may or may not be over you know schrodinger ceasefire going on right now so it's giving us a

00:27:54.560 little bit of reason we can sort of look around so you know that's that's good but you know now

00:27:59.980 it's like no time to rest guys you know we kind of got to look at the pieces of this lego tower

00:28:05.300 that we just smashed and see all right where do we start building from next or you know what's

00:28:10.060 what's coming up next and yeah well and so let me let me throw my hypothesis past you because

00:28:15.860 like a lot of people have been spreading this out in the you know in the ether over the last

00:28:22.020 couple weeks they're saying this is america's suez moment the american suez that in the same way that

00:28:27.820 the Suez crisis of the 1950s, which was led by Israel, by the way, and then the British and

00:28:33.040 French came in, you know, the British's failure to to achieve freedom of navigation there in the

00:28:39.620 Suez Canal led to what is perceived as the really the end of the British Empire. It just led to the

00:28:46.620 end of the British run system. And this, of course, is done in the context of post-World War

00:28:51.820 Two. And it led to the rise of the Americans being the new power. That's the situation we're

00:28:56.760 currently in. People are saying, oh, we'll see. Just in that same way, you look at the parallels.

00:29:01.180 Egypt did it back then. Now it's Iran. Now we have this situation. They poked a bear. They stood up 0.89

00:29:06.340 to the United States, the global rules back order. NATO didn't come. You know, NATO didn't join the

00:29:11.820 fight the same way Eisenhower didn't get into the American, didn't bring the Americans into

00:29:16.460 the Suez crisis. So I can see that I can see the parallels or I can see the parallels. However,

00:29:20.580 What I can also see are ways that the United States doesn't fall into that trap.

00:29:26.520 And so that's why I've submitted, and this has been my thesis since day one of this conflict, that the strait that we need to be focused on is not the Strait of Hormuz.

00:29:36.260 It's the Taiwan Strait.

00:29:39.040 And it's all about superpower politics between the United States and China.

00:29:45.680 So I want to get you on, talk about this, talk about the Taiwan Strait, the importance there, importance of Taiwan.

00:29:51.080 And I know, by the way, Boyle was just talking about the semiconductors.

00:29:53.780 That's something that you've written about extensively.

00:29:57.040 Yes, yes, it is. It is.

00:29:59.100 You know, everything that we see, you know, from the iPhones, the new iPhone fold that's coming out, guys, the iPhone 18 Pro Max, in case you're going to needlessly upgrade.

00:30:08.380 All of that hangs in the balance right now because of the semiconductors.

00:30:12.340 And we're not the only ones that recognize that, actually.

00:30:15.040 You know, again, Taiwan's got a couple of different forces pulling in different directions.

00:30:19.360 You know, you've got the Kuomintang and you've got the Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan.

00:30:24.320 The DPP is the ones that we see as the more Western aligned, Western friendly anti-China front.

00:30:31.780 But you have the Kuomintang who currently have their leader. 0.57

00:30:35.480 I believe it's Chin Lee and Ching Lee one. 1.00

00:30:38.900 I hope I'm pronouncing that right. 0.99

00:30:40.700 I'm not as skilled.

00:30:41.660 It's pretty good, actually.

00:30:42.540 Yeah, that's actually not bad.

00:30:43.680 yeah thanks i read a lot of wuxia and so uh yeah there you go i've gotten a little practice

00:30:50.600 but uh yeah you know she's a head of the kmt and she's actually trying to meet with china

00:30:55.900 the x factor here though is this is going to be before trump meets with g on i believe may the

00:31:03.420 14th or 15th and so depending on what happens there as well as what happens in iran it's going

00:31:10.900 to shake up the landscape of this future conflict and the reason why i say what's happening in iran

00:31:15.780 remember i called it schrodinger's ceasefire because we don't know if that's actually going

00:31:19.200 to hold and there's this joint plan apparently you know i've seen things from iran has closed

00:31:24.920 straight iran has controlled the straight no iran is that charging a toll and you know what people

00:31:30.400 forget was iran was having people pay in the chinese in chinese currency to actually pass

00:31:35.920 oil tankers through that damages the petrodollar if this meeting the six-day meeting with chingli

00:31:43.200 won goes good and hua ming tang somehow secures what appears to be sort of a peaceful or amicable

00:31:51.520 relation with china that on the surface looks good enough for the progressives in taiwan to

00:31:58.160 essentially stomach it might reframe that meeting because again now you've got a cooperative taiwan

00:32:05.840 One that was staring down a barrel of not only an energy crisis, but also a potential naval invasion.

00:32:11.760 And people love to harp on the fact that, oh, China's Navy, you know, they've got all these ships that are going to sink.

00:32:17.960 Well, that's true, but they also have the number two rated Navy in the world.

00:32:22.400 Now, that goes back to what you said, though, with Japan, because Japan has the number six rated Navy in the world.

00:32:27.660 Only number six because China outnumbers them.

00:32:30.740 now japanese people and the japanese navy is basically as you know it's it's their bread and

00:32:37.980 butter they've always been on naval expeditions naval battles it's what they do so if you want

00:32:42.500 to be able to balance and have a buttress against chinese influence in the area you need the 0.82

00:32:48.540 cooperation of japan and that buttress provides more guarantees to taiwan to prevent them from 0.51

00:32:55.500 essentially doing what a lot of people are going to say is capitulating to the whims of beijing

00:33:02.260 and nanjing so we're really in a situation where these next couple of weeks whatever happens which

00:33:09.040 again it could be that ceasefire doesn't hold i pray it does but you know there's a lot of forces

00:33:14.040 working against it holding number one being a party that we've essentially excluded from the

00:33:18.500 ceasefire in israel essentially now using what is a deal breaker in lebanon to you know basically

00:33:25.180 jeopardized it and you know ceasefire doesn't work in israel's long-term plans because they want

00:33:30.140 the elimination or at least the very crippling of iran as well as its proxy group so appalled on

00:33:36.520 warfare just means all the prior actions that the united states may have taken either at their

00:33:42.500 behest or you know in sort of a preemptive form of defense mean nothing and then that all plays

00:33:49.140 back into where is our positioning when it comes to being able to actually leverage our military

00:33:54.880 power as well as our political goodwill around the world to defend Taiwan so it's a big circular

00:34:02.340 picture right here and then it always exactly and the consumer no it certainly does and this

00:34:09.080 is something where look what you talk about the semiconductors the fact that they're in every

00:34:12.680 iphone that ships you're talking about the world smartphone market the entire market of smartphones

00:34:19.240 of technology, everything that ships, AI, all of it, the data processing centers, they need

00:34:25.080 the semiconductors. And whether or not, you know, you like that situation and do I want them to be,

00:34:31.920 you know, that's why Silicon Valley is called Silicon Valley, right? Because that's where

00:34:34.880 they invented the chips. I want that industry back in the United States. It should be, but it's

00:34:39.360 currently in Taiwan. That's just the reality. It's also about the shipping lane. So look,

00:34:45.540 The U.S. can do this through trade. We can do this through tariffs. And we certainly can do it for from revitalizing the and reinterpreting our military alliance with Japan.

00:34:57.960 Build the alliance with Japan. That's huge. Make sure. So, again, we re-militarize Japan.

00:35:04.640 We restore the Japanese honor. And you saw the president doing that where and I saw and Twitter was all all behind this because, by the way, X for people don't know.

00:35:14.560 the largest country in terms of active daily users in our daily active users, the DAOs,

00:35:21.480 is Japan. And so this is a place where you find a ton of Japanese users. They have so much

00:35:26.020 affinity for the United States. President Trump, you know, makes a, you know, makes a joke. He

00:35:30.300 makes a joke about Pearl Harbor there with the prime minister. And he's able to sort of say,

00:35:35.600 you know what? It's in the past. We have the situation that we had. Let's move forward now.

00:35:41.460 And the best way that you can do that for my money, it's restore the Japanese Navy, restore the ability of Japan to be able to project power throughout the Pacific.

00:35:54.720 And I understand, OK, though, but they have the Constitution.

00:35:57.400 All right. Well, we wrote their constitution. We can help them reinterpret it.

00:36:00.680 We can do whatever we need to do there.

00:36:02.920 And then, by the way, now the United States doesn't have to sit there and do everything for them.

00:36:08.720 right we don't we're not talking about that i'm talking about a system of alliances that's in

00:36:14.080 everyone's benefit that's what president trump wants and you know what that's what shinzo abe

00:36:18.940 wanted yes yes it all goes back to the samurais and cowboys we've got to revitalize the samurai

00:36:25.420 experience exactly that's it give them the daisho the long guns the the sub guns and the pistols

00:36:33.120 the dice show i know i know but that i mean it's true and you said one thing and this is going to

00:36:41.340 be a big pivot point a lot of people don't know how much the united states economy rests on this

00:36:46.760 new forming ai bubble slash phenomenon whatever you want to call it have those semiconductors

00:36:52.760 come under chinese control that large bubble of which our economy is leveraged under of which 0.68

00:36:58.540 several big companies that have almost nothing to do with ai have essentially taken out loans 0.95

00:37:04.600 that rest on the future of ai have all of that come into the control of the chinese you will 0.81

00:37:12.200 see economic hard times of which you've never seen world war three will be a financial war

00:37:17.860 that's exactly right malcolm flex i could talk forever about this stuff where good people go

00:37:24.220 to follow your brother hey find me on x uh right now i lost my premium handle is malcolm

00:37:30.080 underscore flex 48 just find me there or look at look me up on malcolm underscore flex 48 on

00:37:36.600 instagram either or all right check them out folks malcolm flex over on on x right back here

00:37:44.200 human events daily we're going to call this the jack pasobic appreciation hour i can say

00:37:52.420 confidently, I believe, I think Josh Shapiro would be the vice presidential nominee if it

00:37:56.720 wasn't for Jack Posobiec. And that is, I'll be honest. An early morning FBI fraud takedown across

00:38:05.940 L.A. County. Federal agents and police storm a North Hollywood home, zeroing in on a man they

00:38:13.100 say is tied to a sprawling mortgage fraud scheme. It's a complex fraud scheme in which people are

00:38:19.180 using private citizens homes to leverage that to steal money. Moments later the suspect walks

00:38:25.240 out barefoot and in pajamas placed in handcuffs parked outside high-end cars a Range Rover and

00:38:31.540 Lexus the home itself appearing freshly remodeled. This arrest related to about 10 others happening

00:38:37.260 simultaneously across LA County as far away as Florida and Canada. This organized crime network

00:38:43.620 has their minions, so to speak, on the lending side and the theft side of it.

00:38:49.320 According to charging documents, the suspects stole identities, often from elderly victims,

00:38:54.360 then used those identities to access property records.

00:38:57.520 From there, they convinced private lenders to hand over millions, falsely claiming those homes as collateral.

00:39:04.180 Total losses, around $17 million in fraudulent loans.

00:39:10.320 All right, Jack Percevic back live, Human Events Daily.

00:39:13.160 I mean, this massive story out of Los Angeles, right there in California, I want to go through

00:39:19.200 some of the details again, 11 people arrested.

00:39:22.020 This was a fraud ring, $17 million, very complex to understand all of it.

00:39:29.420 I wanted to bring in Natalie Dominguez from HomeTitleLock.com because Natalie, this is

00:39:35.820 a story that of course you have warned about.

00:39:39.860 There's a situation you've warned about, and it's a story that you're all too, unfortunately, familiar with because this is exactly what home title lock was set up to fight against.

00:39:50.340 Absolutely. Thanks so much for the introduction, Jack.

00:39:52.560 The cold open scares the heck out of me.

00:39:55.240 This is in my own backyard.

00:39:56.780 I'm from California.

00:39:58.280 And the scary part is we this crime itself, this report hits the three main topics that we talk about all the time.

00:40:06.440 elderly targeting, public records, and people using this publicly available information to

00:40:13.280 an insider knowledge, people that are in the real estate umbrella using their knowledge to

00:40:19.160 commit these crimes. And we're looking through some of this, we're talking about elderly homeowners

00:40:24.760 again. It's Santa Monica, Hollywood, the Hollywood Hills, Westwood, Chinatown. I mean, some areas

00:40:31.060 with, you know, again, pretty high, pretty high value homes, people who have a ton of

00:40:36.460 equity into them. Multiple foreign nationals were involved in this. And really, though,

00:40:42.980 you know, when I look through the details, it seems to be the scale of this was extremely

00:40:47.840 large, but it really followed the same kind of formula that you always talk about, where

00:40:52.760 they file the fraudulent details, the fraudulent details with these, these home loan services,

00:40:59.520 and they have fake notaries, and they are able to take out the loans in people's names.

00:41:05.740 Yep, absolutely. And what's really interesting about this is, I mean, you saw the footage from

00:41:11.860 Fox. They said this is a very complex scheme. It actually isn't complex at all. The way that it's

00:41:17.360 complex in this situation is the fact that they were hitting so many houses, there were so many

00:41:21.120 people involved, and they were creating fraudulent documents in so many different ways. But the

00:41:25.700 reality is this is an easy crime to commit. And that's why they had so many people getting away

00:41:31.680 with this and getting this money extracted because of how easy it is to get the information and how

00:41:37.400 easy it is to forge these documents. Now, they were going above and beyond and doing a bunch

00:41:41.740 of extra stuff. I mean, from what I understand, they were forging death certificates and taking

00:41:47.580 over people's identities and stuff like that. But the reality is all you have to do as a criminal

00:41:53.700 in this situation is go and file one fraudulent document at the county to be able to on paper

00:41:59.840 transfer ownership of someone's home into your name and you can do the exact same thing that

00:42:04.280 this ring was doing they were just doing it on a much more massive scale and we look at this the

00:42:11.740 fact that there are foreign nationals you know 11 that were taken down entirely this is something

00:42:17.380 you got jd vance is talking about fraud that he's fighting at least on the government side

00:42:22.040 fraud in so many of these systems. But at the same time, but at the same time that this sets

00:42:27.840 them up as eligible for being able to apply for variety, I would I would guess of government

00:42:33.620 backed programs for housing, because the government is going to come in the same way that these folks

00:42:39.280 would. They're going to do the same type of testing. And until they're caught, they're able

00:42:43.160 to rack up huge amounts of money, in this case, 17 million dollars. So talk to us a little bit.

00:42:49.120 How were these guys caught? Do we know how they were actually, you know, which which layer of government came in?

00:42:54.160 I see there's the DOJ announcing Operation Hard Money is what they're calling it.

00:42:59.680 And I'm so glad they were caught. Do we know exactly how they were how they were found out?

00:43:05.260 So based on the press release, that information hasn't come out yet because this is very recent.

00:43:10.200 They're still under investigation in a lot of areas.

00:43:12.420 But what we do know is that on the homeowner side of things, these people that were defrauded and these people who are getting their paperwork changed, their information changed, their ownership changed, this FBI operation isn't really doing much for the homeowner because there's still so much that the homeowner is going to have to unwind in the long run.

00:43:34.740 their cloud, their titles are being clouded, their information is being stolen. It's

00:43:38.800 essentially, you know, title fraud, deed fraud, identity theft. It's all these things kind of

00:43:42.940 wrapped into one. So when we're talking about an investigation of this size, there's really

00:43:48.260 two parts to it. There's the, the criminal side where a bunch of these people are getting arrested

00:43:53.480 and hopefully you're going to go to jail. It's California. So who even knows anymore? Um, but

00:43:57.940 then there's, there's the side of the homeowner having to clean up the mess. And that's really

00:44:01.740 what we do and what we focus on is we want to make sure that if you are a victim of a crime like

00:44:07.200 this, maybe not on a scale of this proportion, but maybe it's a neighbor. Maybe it's a caretaker

00:44:12.840 for your elderly parent. Maybe it's a random stranger that decides they want to start doing

00:44:17.080 this on a small scale. For things where the FBI isn't the one cracking the case, you need to have

00:44:23.400 someone that's going to fight for you because the government isn't going to do it for you. The FBI

00:44:27.360 is not going to do it for you this is happening probably every day um and right under everyone's

00:44:33.120 nose and no one knows about it until it's too late most of the time so that's what we do here

00:44:37.520 at home title log so walk us through i mean my gosh i'm reading some of this and they they had

00:44:43.280 to raid a mansion as they were going through a few you know the investigation even went into calgary

00:44:49.200 canada sees another um you know the example of international ties here but they ran this for

00:44:56.000 almost three years from 2021 through 2023, falsified bank statements, rental agreements,

00:45:03.400 doctor's notes, even death certificates. So with home title lock, how could a home title lock come

00:45:09.520 in and start to push back in any of these situations before it gets to the point where

00:45:14.980 someone eventually goes to the FBI? Absolutely. So you hit the nail on the head, right? Three

00:45:22.220 years for all of this going down and no one caught. We don't know for sure how they caught

00:45:26.380 something, but very likely it was because someone was getting a foreclosure notice on their doorstep,

00:45:32.680 which is generally how people find out in the first place. So what we do at Home Title Lock

00:45:37.520 is we are 24-7 monitoring urgent alerts and restoration. So the 24-7 monitoring is extremely

00:45:44.000 important. We monitor the property and not the person so that if any title records or anything

00:45:48.660 regarding the ownership of your home are being filed at the county level where you can't stop.

00:45:55.320 No one can stop this crime from happening. It's a county problem. If it's filled out properly,

00:45:59.240 they have to accept it. So basically, if you're a victim, you have no choice but to be a victim.

00:46:04.200 But what we do do is we jump in immediately to get everything reversed and the process stopped

00:46:09.060 and the police involved in order to make sure that they don't get away with your money and

00:46:14.300 disappear into the abyss and you're left with all of these loans that you now have to prove beyond

00:46:19.520 reasonable doubt over multiple years of trying and paying all these lawyer fees and doing all

00:46:24.820 these things just to prove that you were taken advantage of by a scammer. So 24-7 monitoring,

00:46:31.300 urgent alerts, and then we spend up to a million dollars to restore your property and your

00:46:37.060 ownership and make sure that everything's taken care of. So we cover the legal fees. We have a

00:46:42.620 network of legal experts around the U.S. to make sure that we are able to jump in

00:46:46.780 and fight for you as soon as we can. I mean, this is just there's there's so much here. And

00:46:53.700 by the way, so I want to let people know home title lock dot com promo code POSO. Boom. Free

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00:47:04.760 you could get for somebody as a service. This is an incredible offer. I want to thank you,

00:47:08.860 Natalie, for coming in, because yet again, and this is just another story that happened between

00:47:12.360 the last time i had you on and now yep absolutely i'm always glad to be here always glad to be

00:47:18.600 sharing stuff with you guys amen we have to continue to fight this because folks these

00:47:24.060 these fraudsters elder abusers they continue to be out there it's home titlelock.com

00:47:29.020 promo code poso ladies and gentlemen as always you have my permission lay ashore

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - April 08, 2026

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