The Ben Shapiro Show - June 25, 2024


Is It Too Late To Stop Massive Global Conflict?

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Is it too late to stop World War III from breaking out? A new book written by a British historian, Richard Overy posits three types of WWIII that could break out, and why they are more likely than not to happen, and what we should do about it. This episode is brought to you by Modern Crisis, a podcast produced by Popular Science and edited by Alex Blumberg. The opinions expressed here are our own, not those of our corporations, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of our respective governments. We are not experts, and we do not hold any of this information dear to our own. This podcast is not meant to be a substitute for professional military advice, or military advice. It is meant to point the finger at the problem and suggest ways to prevent it from happening in the first place. If you are a military strategist, or someone who wants to know how to prevent WWIII from happening, this podcast is for you. Listen to this episode to get some tips on how you can prevent a WWIII, and how to prepare for it, from someone who is an expert on the subject. Tweet me if you have any thoughts or suggestions on how we can prevent WWI from happening. Timestamps: 1:00:00 - What are your thoughts on WWIII? 4:30 - What is your biggest fear? 5:00 6:40 - What would you do to stop WWI? 7: What are you worried about? 8:15 - What do you fear most? 9:20 - Is it's too late? 11: What s the worst thing you can we do? 12: How do we stop it? 13:00 | Is it too Late? 15:30 | What do we need to be prepared? 16:40 | What are we fighting for? 17:30 18: What is the best thing we can do to prevent a world war? 19: Does it matter? 21:20 | What s our best chance? 22:30 // Is it possible to stop a war in the 21st century? 23: Is there any chance of a civil war in Europe? ? 25:30 Is there a better country? 26:40 27:30 Can we stop WWIII too late yet? 29:10 | What is our worst enemy?

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00:00:00.000 Is it too late to stop World War III? 0.54
00:00:02.000 When you look around the globe, you see a bunch of conflagrations.
00:00:05.000 Obviously, you have the massive war in Ukraine.
00:00:08.000 You have the fight that's happening in the Middle East between Israel and pretty much every extremist Muslim in the region. 0.91
00:00:14.000 You have burgeoning conflict in China and Taiwan.
00:00:17.000 Is it too late to stop the possibility of a World War III from breaking out?
00:00:21.000 There's a columnist named Richard Overy who's writing for The Telegraph in the UK this weekend.
00:00:25.000 He's a historian, and he posits three particular types of World War III that could break out.
00:00:30.000 Number one, he says, imagine that the Iranian government announces it has developed a nuclear bomb and threatens to use it on Israel.
00:00:36.000 The United States reacts with the threat of military intervention, as it did in 1991 and 2003 in Iraq.
00:00:41.000 Iran signals it will not tolerate a third Gulf War and looks for allies.
00:00:44.000 American forces mass to enter Iran, which orders national mobilization.
00:00:47.000 Russia, China and North Korea express their support for Iran.
00:00:49.000 Washington expands its intervention force, bringing in a British contingent.
00:00:53.000 The Third World War begins with an exchange of nuclear fire.
00:00:55.000 Or picture this.
00:00:56.000 Chinese frustration over the status of Taiwan prompts a buildup of invasion forces.
00:01:00.000 The United States is preoccupied with its own domestic political crisis.
00:01:04.000 Japan anxiously watches the exchange of harsh words between China and Taiwan, wondering whether to intervene.
00:01:09.000 And eventually, China tries something, siding with North Korea and Russia.
00:01:14.000 Or a possible different kind of conflict, a growing division between the Democratic West and authoritarian states across Eurasia, in which there is some sort of space-based attack that takes out communication systems in the West, the West attributes it to the East, and suddenly you have a world war.
00:01:31.000 What Richard Overy suggests is that we are looking in the wrong place.
00:01:33.000 We need to look at the human penchant for war.
00:01:36.000 How exactly do we stop the human penchant for war?
00:01:38.000 But trying to change human nature is generally a giant fail.
00:01:42.000 The reality is that when it comes to foreign policy, aggression thrives where strength is absent.
00:01:49.000 Aggression thrives where strength is absent.
00:01:51.000 A vacuum of power begs for some sort of intervention, usually by a more hostile power.
00:01:57.000 Each of the scenarios that is spelled out here by Richard Overy are scenarios in which the West demonstrates its weakness.
00:02:03.000 Because the reality is that Iran gaining a nuclear weapon, for example, that would be the legacy of West that has mollycoddled Iran since the Iranian revolution of 1979. 0.75
00:02:13.000 The possibility of a Chinese blockade of Taiwan would be because the West failed to Despite their attempt to integrate China into the world system, believing ridiculously that globalized economics would suddenly make China into a moderate power.
00:02:28.000 Or the possibility of an attack by some sort of Eastern power on the communication satellites of the West, which would provoke a war.
00:02:36.000 The only reason that would happen is if there was a misperception of the possibility of Western response.
00:02:43.000 When aggressive powers around the world see weak Western powers, that is when they act.
00:02:48.000 And what we have in the West over the course of the last several generations, particularly since the end of the Cold War, is a West that does not know what it stands for and that is internally divided and raging against itself.
00:02:58.000 This is coming to the fore in many places around the world.
00:03:01.000 It's especially coming to the fore actually not in the United States right now, although it is, but in Europe, where you are starting to see right-wing parties on the rise and so-called centrist and left-wing parties are freaking out about it.
00:03:13.000 The reason those right-wing parties are on the rise is because the center-left in Europe has basically forgotten why exactly those nations exist in the first place.
00:03:21.000 Emmanuel Macron, the French president, is an excellent symptom of this.
00:03:25.000 So he warned on Monday a victory for either the far left or the far right in this month's snap election could spark civil war.
00:03:32.000 Again, the prelude to civil war within countries usually is people talking about civil war.
00:03:37.000 Because the reality is that until that becomes an actual ensconced thought in people's head, nobody actually thinks about it.
00:03:43.000 That's why in the United States, I've chided politicians on both the right and the left when they talk about the possibility of a civil war in the United States.
00:03:49.000 First of all, it ain't gonna happen.
00:03:50.000 But number two, when you talk about that, you make things significantly worse.
00:03:53.000 Right now, it is Emmanuel Macron who's talking like that in an attempt to scare people into voting for him.
00:03:59.000 He says the far-right's answer to insecurity, quote, reduces people to their religion or their origin and therefore pushes people toward civil war.
00:04:07.000 Or maybe it is centrist policy, in France, left-wing policy on immigration, that has brought in a bunch of people who do not care about Frenchness, who do not care about Westernization.
00:04:17.000 who are very much involved in destroying, on the basis of multiculturalism, the common values that were once held in places like France.
00:04:24.000 And that internal division is presaging the possibility of broader conflict.
00:04:28.000 In other words, when the West is perceived as weak and internally divided, that is when attacks on the West tend to increase.
00:04:35.000 It's not just true for the West, it's true everywhere.
00:04:38.000 Whenever there is a perception of weakness, the enemies of a country that is internally divided tend to take advantage of that situation.
00:04:47.000 By contrast, when the West is internally united, and when the West has the moral stomach to look at its enemies and recognize that it is not concessions that its enemies generally want, it is not niceties, that very often it is just an iron wall That if there is, in fact, a loss of hope among America's enemies, among the West's enemies, that is better for America than attempting, again, to massage and mollycoddle America's enemies when the West realizes that America's enemies tend to back down.
00:05:18.000 Because as it turns out, America's the strongest military force in the history of the world, bar none.
00:05:24.000 The West right now is militarily superior to all competitors, including Russia and including China. 0.59
00:05:31.000 But is the West's lack of focus, lack of vision, that is leading to the possibility of an outbreak of a World War III?
00:05:36.000 We'll get to more on this in one second.
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00:06:40.000 The entire idea of peace through strength is not that you fight everywhere, it's that you fight nowhere, because everyone is afraid to challenge you.
00:06:47.000 President Trump once expressed it to me this way.
00:06:49.000 We were talking at a fundraiser, and he was talking about Ukraine and Russia.
00:06:55.000 And President Trump said, You wanna know the reason why Vladimir Putin never attacked Ukraine? 0.99
00:06:59.000 It's because I told him, Vlad, Vlad, if you attack Ukraine, I will bomb the f*** out of you. 0.88
00:07:07.000 And Vladimir Putin looked at me and said, no you won't, Mr. President. 0.99
00:07:09.000 I said, well, I might.
00:07:12.000 And then President Trump added, if there's a 5% chance the United States is going to bomb the bleep out of you, you don't do it.
00:07:19.000 That is accurate.
00:07:20.000 It turns out that a show of strength very often dissuades the bad guys from trying things.
00:07:26.000 This is why it is so extraordinarily destructive and terrible that in the United States, we have internal divisions that allow for fans of terrorist groups to wander the streets beating people up.
00:07:40.000 A country that is worth its salt does not stand for this sort of thing on an ideological level.
00:07:46.000 Now, the reality is that the Democratic Party has fallen into a trap of believing At least on its more radical front.
00:07:54.000 That the United States is inherently bad.
00:07:56.000 That the United States owes an apology to the rest of the world.
00:08:00.000 As I recall, this really began...
00:08:02.000 During the Bush administration, John Kerry did some of this, suggesting that America was a nefarious force in the world.
00:08:08.000 And that really accelerated with Barack Obama, who campaigned on the basis that America was aerating villages and bombing civilians in Afghanistan, which was a slander, a gross slander against American troops in Afghanistan.
00:08:18.000 And then, in his first act as president, he went on an apology tour around the Middle East, proclaiming that Western interventionism around the world was some sort of net bad.
00:08:26.000 He was apologizing to Muslim dictators all over the world at the very beginning of his presidency.
00:08:31.000 And that has now become baked into the Democratic cake.
00:08:34.000 It is gaining steam on the left.
00:08:36.000 Joe Biden is falling for it.
00:08:38.000 And you can see the symptoms now breaking out on American streets.
00:08:40.000 That is not a problem for Israel, which is an internally cohesive society, for example, when you're talking about Hamas.
00:08:45.000 It's a problem for America.
00:08:47.000 It's a problem for the West. 0.54
00:08:47.000 When you have 300,000 Hamas-supporting terrible people marching in London, that is a problem for London. 0.54
00:08:56.000 When you have people in the United States who are showing up outside synagogues and beating people up because they're attempting to get in to go to some sort of real estate conference, which is what happened in Los Angeles over the weekend, that is a problem for the United States.
00:09:09.000 That's not particularly a problem for Israel.
00:09:10.000 Well, that is, in fact, what happened over the weekend.
00:09:15.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with pro-Israeli demonstrators and blocked access to an L.A.
00:09:21.000 synagogue Sunday in a violent episode condemned by President Biden and other leaders as anti-Semitic.
00:09:26.000 Well, I mean, it is.
00:09:27.000 If you're standing outside a synagogue to block people from going into the synagogue because you don't like Israel, imagine that the roles were reversed for just a moment.
00:09:34.000 There was a terrorist attack somewhere and people started chanting outside of mosques and blocking people from getting in.
00:09:39.000 What do you think the media reaction would be?
00:09:42.000 Dozens of protesters shoved, punched, and yelled at each other near the Adas Torah Synagogue in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood, an area with a sizable Jewish population.
00:09:49.000 We used to live in Los Angeles.
00:09:50.000 Obviously, I know this area incredibly well.
00:09:51.000 Pico-Robertson is very Jewish, and it is very observant.
00:09:54.000 A lot of kosher restaurants in this exact area.
00:09:56.000 Bunch of shuls. 1.00
00:09:57.000 Bunch of schools.
00:09:59.000 The pro-Palestinian protesters were blocking access to the synagogue, according to L.A.
00:10:03.000 Mayor Karen Bass.
00:10:05.000 And you can see the video.
00:10:06.000 Here are pro-Hamas protesters who are blocking entrance to the shul.
00:10:09.000 Apparently, according to people who were there, including Noah Pollack, the police officers were stationed outside the synagogue, the Adas Torah synagogue.
00:10:17.000 They were stationed outside of it, and the Hamas protesters were behind them, like between the cops and the entrance.
00:10:22.000 So instead of trying to secure the entryway for Jews who wanted to go to synagogue for this real estate conference or whatever, They actually were protecting the Hamas protesters. 0.81
00:10:30.000 Jews were forced to go into the back door of the synagogue in Los Angeles.
00:10:35.000 Here's what some of that video looks like.
00:10:37.000 We can see Hamas protesters who are running around with poles and keffiyehs.
00:10:51.000 Again, my family and I used to eat here all the time.
00:10:53.000 They're like blocking off the street, like fully blocking off the street here.
00:10:58.000 And then they're attacking people.
00:11:00.000 Some of them are holding a woman on the ground and physically assaulting her.
00:11:07.000 Daniel Greenfield was covering this for Front Page Magnet.
00:11:10.000 And then you see people who are hitting each other, of course, because it turns out that if the police aren't going to do anything, people are going to defend themselves.
00:11:16.000 And all of this begins with protests outside of Eshol.
00:11:20.000 Here is a woman who is being held to the ground by a pro-Camas protester.
00:11:24.000 So Daniel Greenfields, who's a writer for Front Page Mag, is 30 minutes after Camas supporters first set up their operation outside an L.A.
00:11:29.000 synagogue.
00:11:30.000 They maced their first Jew, and the L.A. 0.98
00:11:31.000 police did nothing.
00:11:32.000 Now, by the way, this is not on the LAPD.
00:11:34.000 The LAPD, I know many members of the LAPD.
00:11:36.000 They're excellent people.
00:11:38.000 These are directives that are coming down from the top.
00:11:40.000 They are coming from the top of the LAPD and the mayor's office.
00:11:43.000 Not until an hour into the terrorist rally outside a synagogue did the LAPD finally step in, pushing back masked Jihad supporters in Hafea terrorist scarves from the entrance of Congregation Adas Torah, which they had occupied.
00:11:54.000 Then the mob, chanting calls for intifada and the destruction of Israel, moved outward to target two smaller synagogues attended by Persian Jewish refugees from Islamic terror in Iran. 0.85
00:12:03.000 Billions of us will come and kill you, a heavily accented Middle Eastern man in a keffiyeh unprompted raffed at me as I walked up. 1.00
00:12:09.000 Only dozens had actually shown up, but they made up for it with bullhorns, robotic chants, and assaults in the middle of a Jewish neighborhood. 0.98
00:12:15.000 So, remember Charlottesville?
00:12:18.000 Remember that time that there were a bunch of white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville?
00:12:21.000 And President Trump suggested, not that there were good people among the Nazis, but that when it came to the debate over the removal of Confederate monuments, there were good people on both sides, and then he condemned the neo-Nazis, and then the entire media covered it as though he had made excuses for the neo-Nazis.
00:12:34.000 In fact, that incident was supposedly so morally egregious, because Donald Trump didn't say enough, that Joe Biden said he got into the 2020 presidential race because of Charlottesville.
00:12:44.000 Well, pretty much every weekend there is now a Charlottesville across the country with pro-Hamas supporters who are Democrats.
00:12:50.000 That's the only reason why Joe Biden is humoring them.
00:12:53.000 Going to Jewish areas, chanting outside synagogues, going to Jewish businesses, chanting outside Jewish businesses, trying to hold up traffic, sometimes getting involved in physical assault.
00:13:02.000 Already one Jew was killed in Los Angeles for the great crime of being pro-Israel. 0.91
00:13:05.000 He was smashed over the head with a bullhorn.
00:13:09.000 Again, the reality is that this is not a problem for Israel or for the Jews alone.
00:13:14.000 This is a problem for the United States.
00:13:16.000 People who are wandering around the United States wearing terrorist scarves, chanting slogans on behalf of Hamas, is a problem for the United States.
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00:13:58.000 According to Daniel Greenfield, the LAPD had allowed the terrorist supporters
00:14:01.000 to take over the entire sidewalk, leaving only a thin lane for attendees to walk through to
00:14:05.000 get inside.
00:14:06.000 The LAPD did little to interfere with the terrorist supporters, but did block Jewish counter-protesters from reaching their own synagogue.
00:14:11.000 The police also did nothing as clumps of mass Hamas supporters broke away from the synagogue and began confronting, threatening, and attacking Jewish community members on the street.
00:14:20.000 Again, this is really nothing new.
00:14:22.000 Unfortunately, we saw this at UCLA as well.
00:14:26.000 The statement from Joe Biden is utterly lacking.
00:14:29.000 So Joe Biden put up a statement saying, quote, So I have a question.
00:14:32.000 the scenes outside of a Das Torra synagogue in Los Angeles.
00:14:35.000 Intimidating Jewish congregants is dangerous, unconscionable, anti-Semitic, and un-American.
00:14:38.000 Americans have a right to peaceful protest, but blocking access to a house of worship 1.00
00:14:41.000 and engaging in violence is never acceptable.
00:14:44.000 So I have a question.
00:14:46.000 Let's say that this were back in Charlottesville and Donald Trump had put up that statement,
00:14:51.000 that he was appalled by the scenes in Charlottesville. 0.76
00:14:54.000 Intimidating non-white supremacists is dangerous and unconscionable.
00:14:59.000 Americans have a right to peaceful protest.
00:15:02.000 But blocking access to people is wrong.
00:15:05.000 Would that have been deemed enough?
00:15:06.000 Or would there have to be some remark about the ideology, the evil ideology of the people who are actually doing this terrible activity?
00:15:14.000 Joe Biden only is willing to comment on the excesses of the protesters, but never on the content of the protest itself.
00:15:19.000 Which is quite fascinating, because you know if it were about white supremacy, he wouldn't stop there.
00:15:23.000 It would be all about the evil of the cause.
00:15:26.000 But the problem is that for Joe Biden and Democrats, because inherently they believe that the West is some sort of imperialist, colonialist power, or at least they're afraid of people who do, they won't say a word about the cause itself.
00:15:36.000 They'll just say, don't do bad things.
00:15:38.000 I don't like bad things.
00:15:39.000 Bad things are bad.
00:15:40.000 How about bad ideologies?
00:15:41.000 Are bad ideologies bad?
00:15:43.000 Or so long as those people are likely to vote for you, are those bad ideologies good?
00:15:46.000 Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles did the same thing.
00:15:48.000 She released a statement saying, today's violence in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood today
00:15:52.000 was abhorrent.
00:15:52.000 Blocking access to a place of worship is unacceptable.
00:15:55.000 I've called on LAPD to provide additional patrols in the Pico-Robertson community,
00:15:58.000 as well as outside of houses of worship throughout the city.
00:16:00.000 I'll be meeting with Chief Troy tomorrow to further discuss the safety of Angelenos.
00:16:05.000 Now, you notice that entire paragraph? 0.78
00:16:06.000 I could read that whole thing, and you'd have no idea that this was Muslims attacking Jews.
00:16:10.000 None. 0.75
00:16:11.000 Zero.
00:16:11.000 It doesn't mention synagogues.
00:16:13.000 It doesn't mention Hamas.
00:16:14.000 It doesn't mention Jews.
00:16:15.000 It doesn't mention any of those things.
00:16:17.000 It's just random houses of worship, randomly being attacked.
00:16:20.000 Who knows?
00:16:21.000 It could be anything.
00:16:23.000 Then she says, I want to be clear, LA will not be a harbor for anti-Semitism and violence.
00:16:28.000 Uh-huh.
00:16:28.000 Sure.
00:16:29.000 Sure it won't be.
00:16:30.000 Meanwhile, localities all over the United States are releasing pro-Hamas protesters who violated the law during the university uprising of 2024.
00:16:38.000 The Tentafata.
00:16:42.000 Again, this has become a popular cause on the left.
00:16:44.000 It is just that simple.
00:16:46.000 This is why you see people like the child of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck wearing a Free Palestine shirt.
00:16:51.000 Like, what does their kid have anything to do with this?
00:16:55.000 She's got the watermelon shirt.
00:16:58.000 Which is supposed to be the Palestinian flag, because it's a green, white, and red.
00:17:03.000 But the entire, look at that, that's the entire state of Israel.
00:17:06.000 Not the Gaza Strip, and Judea and Samaria, the entire state of Israel.
00:17:10.000 This is a cause celebre on the left, the destruction of the state of Israel.
00:17:14.000 And it is considered perfectly fine, so long as you don't beat up too many Jews in the process.
00:17:18.000 Calling for the, you know, extirpation of 7 million Jews living in Israel, totally fine. 1.00
00:17:24.000 Meanwhile, Jennifer Garner joining along in our ignorant celebrity class. 0.99
00:17:27.000 They're a good reflection of sort of the ignoramuses on the left generally. 0.97
00:17:30.000 So here is Jennifer Garner looking a little rough here. 1.00
00:17:33.000 She is drumming confusedly with people who are wearing free Palestine 0.50
00:17:45.000 gear on a drum that has keffiyehs on it. 0.99
00:17:48.000 We've got an ACFC, don't worry.
00:17:54.000 She's getting enthusiastic about that drumming now.
00:17:58.000 Never before have I rooted for Jennifer Lopez in the Ben Affleck controversy, but now I'm beginning to.
00:18:04.000 So again, solid stuff there from Jennifer Garner.
00:18:08.000 Really, really, really good stuff.
00:18:10.000 Now again, all of this is because the left refuses to dissociate from a full ideology that suggests that a meritocracy is bad.
00:18:17.000 Understand that the modern leftist hatred of Israel is simply a hatred of merit.
00:18:21.000 That's all it is.
00:18:22.000 Israel has spent every year since 1948 building up a successful state.
00:18:26.000 A state that has something like $57,000 in terms of per capita GDP.
00:18:31.000 Meanwhile, the United States and its allies have poured billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars, into places like the Gaza Strip, into the Palestinian areas of Judea and Samaria.
00:18:41.000 And in return, the West has been given hundreds of miles of terror tunnels and the wild popularity of Hamas. 0.66
00:18:48.000 Now, the Western left suggests that that's because of exploitation and evil on the part of the people who spent their time actually building a successful state.
00:18:55.000 This mirrors, of course, leftist prescription when it comes to inequality in the West.
00:18:59.000 Don't look to the individual action or the individual actor.
00:19:03.000 Don't look to ideology.
00:19:04.000 Look instead to the successful and blame them.
00:19:06.000 It's obviously their fault.
00:19:08.000 This is the philosophy of intersectionality in the West.
00:19:11.000 If you are a member of a less successful group on any level, that means that the society itself has victimized you and that particularly breaks down in terms of race.
00:19:18.000 And so when you extend that to the Middle East, the Jews are the white people and the Palestinians are the brown people, as Cori Bush and AOC keep proclaiming.
00:19:26.000 And all of this sort of stuff continues to be promoted by the Biden administration, which refuses to understand the stakes of any sort of ideological conflict here.
00:19:34.000 So Tony Blinken is apparently now warning Yoav Galant, the defense minister of Israel, calling on him to avoid further escalation on the Lebanon border, which is truly amazing.
00:19:45.000 Because if you want further escalation on the Lebanon border, tell Israel to back off.
00:19:50.000 Hezbollah has already taken weakness as a sign that they should move forward, as always. 1.00
00:19:54.000 As I say, power abhors a vacuum.
00:19:57.000 And when Western powers leave a vacuum, terrible powers inhabit that vacuum.
00:20:02.000 Israel has not been strong on its northern border.
00:20:04.000 Its northern border has been largely abandoned.
00:20:06.000 There are 100,000 Jews in Israel who are not living on the northern border.
00:20:09.000 They're living at hotels in the middle of Israel paid for by the Israeli government while their homes are destroyed.
00:20:14.000 By Hezbollah rockets.
00:20:16.000 And meanwhile, Tony Blinken is telling Israel it better be careful with that terrorist group in its north. 0.69
00:20:21.000 As opposed to what the United States should be doing, which is going to the Lebanese government.
00:20:24.000 Lebanon is an actual state with an actual government.
00:20:28.000 The United States should be using its leverage to go to Beirut and tell them, hey listen guys, we can't control the Israelis. 0.98
00:20:33.000 The Israelis are a separate government.
00:20:35.000 And, um, you know, if they go, that's kind of your fault.
00:20:38.000 You probably should get Hezbollah to pull up 10 miles from the border. 0.96
00:20:42.000 But instead, the United States continues to put pressure on Israel in the benighted belief that somehow pressuring Western powers to cave to terrorists is a big win for the West in some way.
00:20:52.000 We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:21:53.000 According to the Times of Israel, Secretary of State Blinken urged Israel to take additional steps to protect humanitarian workers and ensure the delivery of aid throughout Gaza during his meeting with visiting Defense Minister Yoav Galant earlier today, according to the State Department.
00:22:06.000 Apparently, the pair discussed ongoing efforts to secure a hostage ceasefire deal.
00:22:12.000 This is amazing.
00:22:13.000 Arab and Israeli officials said these were complicated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim on Sunday he was only interested in implementing part of the deal before resuming military operations in Gaza.
00:22:23.000 Well, yes, because he wishes to extirpate Hamas. 0.92
00:22:26.000 And this again goes to the weakness of the West.
00:22:28.000 True weakness.
00:22:30.000 Richard Hanania has a very good column over to Substack talking about the weakness of the West when it comes to fighting terrorism.
00:22:37.000 And he points out that there are a few different models of how exactly you fight evil ideologies.
00:22:42.000 Because one of the big claims is that Israel can't defeat Hamas on an ideological level, that the more bombs you drop, the more people are radicalized.
00:22:49.000 Hanania points out what he proclaims to be three different models of how you defeat an ideology.
00:22:55.000 Model number one is what he calls the lose hope model.
00:22:59.000 Which is that as the military crackdown grows greater, as it becomes clear that Israel is not going to cave, people lose hope and they realize that it turns out that their incessant hatred is not getting them anywhere.
00:23:10.000 That, by the way, is the exact model that the United States pursued in, say, Germany or Japan during World War II.
00:23:16.000 That's always funny when you hear commentators say, what, are you just gonna bomb your way and military your way to extirpating an ideology?
00:23:22.000 And it turns out that sometimes, yes.
00:23:24.000 Sometimes, actually, you have to do that.
00:23:26.000 Or you have to militarily occupy an area.
00:23:29.000 Or you have to completely rejigger the education system.
00:23:32.000 It turns out, John, you know who understands this?
00:23:34.000 John Fetterman, who's the weird hero of the moment.
00:23:37.000 So Senator Fetterman did an interview with The New Yorker.
00:23:40.000 He was asked by the New Yorker, quote, what he saw for the end of the war.
00:23:43.000 Would it be Hamas's dismantling or something else?
00:23:45.000 He said, I do think it's a fact that when you have that kind of an evil or that kind of a movement that came out of a society, whether it was Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan or the Confederacy right here in the South, that kind of movement has to be destroyed into submission.
00:23:57.000 He says the kind of society that gave birth to it now has to reach a point where it has to turn its back to these kinds of uses and pursuits.
00:24:03.000 Correct.
00:24:04.000 So that'd be the quote-unquote lose hope model that Richard Hanania posits, and he is right. 0.99
00:24:08.000 Then there's the linear model, which is that people don't really hate Israel all that much, it's just that when Israel gets mean, then they hate Israel more.
00:24:14.000 Or they start off not hating Israel at all, and then Israel is mean, and then it just sort of extends.
00:24:18.000 The fact of the matter is, people who generally hate the West, it does not have to do, at this point in history, with oppression.
00:24:26.000 It has to do with a simple wish to exterminate the ideologies of the West.
00:24:32.000 And the reality is that in, for example, Hamasistan in the Gaza Strip, in Judea and Samaria, the levels of support for terrorist groups are in the 75 to 90% range.
00:24:45.000 Nothing Israel does is going to increase that because there's nowhere for it to increase to. 0.52
00:24:49.000 And this happens to be true, again, in general, with regard to foreign policy.
00:24:52.000 Weakness in the West is not what got rid of communism in the East.
00:24:56.000 Weakness in the West is not what got rid of Nazism in the East, in Germany.
00:25:02.000 It didn't get rid of imperial Shintoism in Japan.
00:25:06.000 That is not how that works.
00:25:08.000 And yet the West continues to cave, cave and cave and cave, and subsidize its own destruction.
00:25:14.000 So the United States has been one of the chief sponsors of the United Nations, of course, for 80 years at this point.
00:25:21.000 And now there's a lawsuit against the UN Relief and Works Agency, which is a UN agency that is specifically designed for the Palestinians.
00:25:27.000 And it basically is just a branch of Hamas at this point.
00:25:30.000 Many of the people who work for the UNRWA actively work for Hamas.
00:25:33.000 This is why you see weapons that are being hidden in UNRWA schools and hospitals.
00:25:38.000 Well, now they're being sued by victims of October 7th.
00:25:42.000 About a hundred Israeli plaintiffs are seeking unspecified financial damages.
00:25:45.000 They claim the UNRWA is liable because it helped fund Hamas.
00:25:48.000 They're actually claiming that about a billion dollars passed from the UNRWA through to Hamas employees.
00:25:56.000 For years, the UNRWA sent millions of dollars every month to Gaza to pay employees and support hospitals, schools, and other infrastructure, according to a new lawsuit.
00:26:04.000 That money was wired from New York to the West Bank, where financial institutions loaded some of that cash onto trucks to be driven to Gaza.
00:26:11.000 In other words, you got to pay for that.
00:26:13.000 I got to pay for that.
00:26:15.000 I can't think of a better example of Western weakness than that.
00:26:17.000 Again, you wanna know how World War III starts?
00:26:18.000 It starts with Western weakness. 0.65
00:26:20.000 That is where it starts.
00:26:22.000 One of the reasons why Donald Trump needs to be president of the United States again, because he does, on an innate level, understand that Western weakness breeds contempt.
00:26:30.000 It breeds contempt.
00:26:31.000 We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:27:33.000 Which brings us to the debate.
00:27:35.000 So, a lot of controversy now breaking out over the moderators in this debate.
00:27:38.000 That is not a particular shock.
00:27:40.000 We're only a couple of days away from the debate.
00:27:42.000 It is my view that Donald Trump should not have immediately accepted the Joe Biden offer to debate without actually negotiating over who the moderators would be.
00:27:48.000 With that said, attacking the moderators is very often a popular debate strategy.
00:27:52.000 And in this particular case, it'll be worth it.
00:27:54.000 He's got Dana Bash and Jake Tapper.
00:27:57.000 They are obviously very much oriented against him.
00:28:01.000 Jake Tapper clearly does not like Donald Trump.
00:28:04.000 Here is a montage of Jake referencing Trump's Hitlerian language over time. 0.94
00:28:08.000 Which again, this sort of idea that Trump is a Hitler-like figure is one of the dumbest diminishments of history in the media. 1.00
00:28:15.000 It's truly stupid. 1.00
00:28:17.000 That Donald Trump, like, we found out what he looks like as president. 1.00
00:28:20.000 And the answer is, he says weird stuff, and then he pursues really, really solid policy that, for example, doesn't set the world on fire.
00:28:26.000 But the media are obsessed with this idea that Trump is actually secretly Orange Hitler. 0.99
00:28:29.000 And it's just, it's so dumb. 0.97
00:28:31.000 It really is such, it's historic reductionism in an extraordinary way. 0.99
00:28:35.000 Here is Jake Tapper.
00:28:37.000 The dehumanizing rhetoric of Adolf Hitler is once again alive and well on a national political stage.
00:28:44.000 This time, of course, in the United States.
00:28:46.000 Donald Trump, a couple times over the weekend, referred to immigrants from South America, Africa and Asia.
00:28:54.000 He did not mention Europe.
00:28:55.000 South America, Africa, and Asia as, quote, poisoning the blood of our country, which it's not hyperbole. 0.99
00:29:01.000 That does very directly echo Adolf Hitler's language before World War II.
00:29:06.000 If you were to open up a copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf, you would find the Nazi leader describing the mixing of non-Germans with Germans as poisoning.
00:29:17.000 There's really no other way to say it.
00:29:19.000 Donald Trump's language mirrors this directly.
00:29:24.000 Yeah, this is one of the moderators, obviously.
00:29:26.000 Meanwhile, Dana Bash is the other moderator, so CNN's Casey Hunt had on Trump surrogate Carolyn Leavitt, and they had a bit of a fisticuffs.
00:29:34.000 It broke out into a brawl, because Carolyn Leavitt pointed out these moderators are very much oriented against Donald Trump, and Casey Hunt got mad at this.
00:29:42.000 So it takes someone five minutes to Google Jake Tapper, Donald Trump to see that Jake Tapper has... Ma'am, we're going to stop this interview if you're going to keep attacking my colleagues.
00:29:50.000 Ma'am, I'm going to stop this interview if you continue to attack my colleagues.
00:29:55.000 I would like to talk about Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who you work for.
00:29:58.000 Yes.
00:29:58.000 If you are here to speak on his behalf, I am willing to have this conversation.
00:30:03.000 I am stating facts that your colleagues have stated in the past.
00:30:06.000 Okay, I'm sorry, guys.
00:30:07.000 We're going to come back out to the panel.
00:30:08.000 Caroline, thank you very much for your time.
00:30:10.000 You are welcome to come back at any point.
00:30:12.000 She is welcome to come back and speak about Donald Trump.
00:30:18.000 Okay, but why aren't you allowed to talk about the moderators?
00:30:20.000 I'm super confused.
00:30:22.000 I mean, the moderators are obviously an issue.
00:30:24.000 They've been an issue in every presidential debate of my lifetime.
00:30:28.000 Speaking of Casey Hunt, I mean, this is not somebody who doesn't have a political dog in the fight.
00:30:31.000 Here she was, just a couple of years ago, mocking Rand Paul after he got pummeled by a neighbor.
00:30:37.000 Details today on the incident that left Senator Rand Paul with six broken ribs.
00:30:42.000 This might be one of my favorite stories, although of course we don't want to... Clearly, Senator Paul is still struggling.
00:30:51.000 Don't worry, there's no bias in the media.
00:30:52.000 The View is very happy about this battle of wits between Casey Hunt and Carolyn Leavitt.
00:30:59.000 They, of course, are very happy because they understand, as does everyone else, that the moderators are very much to the left.
00:31:06.000 The presidential debate of 2024 is airing on CNN on Thursday.
00:31:12.000 But already it's mired in controversy after you know whose campaign press secretary was yanked from the network this morning.
00:31:19.000 Take a look.
00:31:20.000 What do you expect from Joe Biden?
00:31:24.000 Well, first of all, it would take someone five minutes to Google Jake Tapper, Donald Trump, to see that Jake Tapper has consistently- Ma'am, we're going to stop this interview if you're going to keep attacking my colleagues.
00:31:33.000 Ma'am, I'm going to stop this interview if you continue to attack my colleagues.
00:31:38.000 I would like to talk about Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who you work for.
00:31:41.000 I am stating facts that your colleagues have stated in the past.
00:31:44.000 Now, as for this debate, the expectation- We're going to come back out to the panel.
00:31:46.000 Caroline, thank you very much for your time.
00:31:48.000 That was so good.
00:32:01.000 I'm sorry.
00:32:02.000 It doesn't matter.
00:32:04.000 That was so good?
00:32:05.000 Well, of course.
00:32:06.000 Of course they think it's so good, because they think the debate is stacked against Donald Trump and they are very happy about it.
00:32:10.000 CNN put out a statement, quote, Jake Tapper and Zainab Ash are well respected veteran journalists
00:32:13.000 who have covered politics for more than five decades combined. They have extensive experience
00:32:18.000 moderating major political debates, including CNN's Republican presidential primary debate
00:32:22.000 There are no two people better equipped to co-moderate a substantial and fact-based discussion.
00:32:28.000 Sure.
00:32:28.000 Yeah, that's what that's gonna be.
00:32:29.000 A debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is going to be a substantial and fact-based discussion.
00:32:34.000 Well, that would be to my shock and surprise.
00:32:37.000 And we look forward to the debate on June 27th in Atlanta.
00:32:41.000 Sure.
00:32:42.000 All right.
00:32:42.000 Well, in a second, we're going to get to more on the actual debate, what's it going to be about, and where does the race stand first?
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00:33:47.000 Meanwhile, the debate prep is ongoing.
00:33:49.000 Joe Biden, who has no time to do a press conference about violence against Jews across the country from members of his own party, And they're advocates. 0.56
00:33:56.000 You know, like Jamal Bowman over in New York, where a big primary is taking place today. 0.96
00:33:59.000 Again, if you are in New York's 16th congressional district, I urge you to go, if you can, vote in the primary, and vote for George Latimer, because Jamal Bowman is a trash heap.
00:34:08.000 Well, Joe Biden is off in Camp David, presumably sleeping, eating Denny's, and prepping for debate.
00:34:14.000 According to the New York Times, at Camp David, a movie theater and an airplane hangar have been outfitted with lights and production equipment to create a mock debate stage.
00:34:20.000 So I guess that means that they have to actually recreate the debate optics so Joe Biden knows where he is when he steps on stage.
00:34:27.000 At least 16 current and former aides at someone from Washington and Wilmington whiz back and forth on golf courts to join President Biden in strategy sessions.
00:34:34.000 Biden is entering his fifth day of preparations at the presidential retreat in the woods of Northern Maryland for Thursday's debate against Donald Trump.
00:34:41.000 Both candidates are out of practice as debaters.
00:34:43.000 Biden's top advisors, including Ron Klain, are aware of the missteps incumbents have made in the past.
00:34:48.000 They'll be working to position Biden not only as a president in the midst of a re-election campaign, but as a fighter who can counterpunch on the fly.
00:34:55.000 The rust factor is real, said David Axelrod.
00:34:57.000 Neither of these guys is accustomed to having someone a few feet away grilling them with no deference.
00:35:01.000 They're trying to game out exactly which attacks Trump might launch at Biden, which policies of his Trump could try to undermine, how they can best keep the president focused on landing an argument and striking a character and policy contrast with Trump.
00:35:13.000 Apparently, the person playing the role of Trump is Bob Bauer, Biden's personal attorney.
00:35:19.000 The actual Trump has engaged in something that resembles a more streamlined debate preparation process than in past years.
00:35:24.000 He's doing policy discussions, but he says that he's relying on his experiences as a campaigner to guide him when he takes the stage across from Biden.
00:35:32.000 Trump, for his part, says that Joe Biden should certainly do a drug test, and he also tweeted out that he would do one as well.
00:35:37.000 Here he was talking about it.
00:35:40.000 Can't find his way off the stage, can't put two sentences together, although he has agreed to debate, so I don't know, maybe they know something.
00:35:47.000 He's going to be so jacked up for those debates, you watch.
00:35:53.000 I just want to debate this guy, but, you know, and I'm going to demand a drug test too, by the way.
00:36:00.000 I am.
00:36:00.000 No, I really am.
00:36:05.000 I don't want him coming in like the State of the Union.
00:36:07.000 He was high as a kite.
00:36:10.000 I said, is that Joe up there, a beautiful rope?
00:36:13.000 And by the end of the evening, he's like, well, it was exhausted, right?
00:36:17.000 Now we're going to demand a drug test.
00:36:21.000 So at least he's increasing expectations, which is the thing that he has to do.
00:36:27.000 Donald Trump's big mistake in the run-up to this debate would be to lower the bar to Joe Biden to can he stay alive during the debate, as I've said many times.
00:36:35.000 Joe Biden will show up.
00:36:36.000 He will be awake.
00:36:36.000 He will have drained the blood of a small child in the back room after sniffing her hair, and then he will be on stage, presumably half-awake.
00:36:43.000 About 45 minutes in, he'll start to get a little drowsy.
00:36:46.000 The biggest thing that Trump has to do is just point out policy failing after policy failing.
00:36:50.000 And every time Biden tries to redirect to 2020 or 2021, Trump should just say to him, look Joe, I'm not obsessed with the past, but you are.
00:36:58.000 Why can't we talk about your presidency? 0.67
00:37:00.000 You stink at this. 0.97
00:37:01.000 I mean, that's legitimately the entire debate.
00:37:04.000 Are people going to vote on the basis of what's happening in 2024?
00:37:06.000 Or are they going to vote based on their thoughts about 2020-2021?
00:37:10.000 That's the whole ball of wax.
00:37:13.000 Well, the Democrats are trying sort of a last gasp gambit, which is weird because it's June.
00:37:18.000 And that is they're just going to talk abortion. 0.99
00:37:20.000 Now, the problem for them is that Donald Trump has actually taken a politically smart tack on abortion.
00:37:24.000 It's a tack with which I In principled fashion, disagree.
00:37:27.000 I'm a full pro-lifer.
00:37:28.000 Donald Trump has never been a full pro-lifer.
00:37:31.000 But Donald Trump has taken the position that this is a state's issue.
00:37:34.000 That Florida should do Florida, and New York should do New York, and California should do California.
00:37:38.000 He has not, in fact, taken a position on something like a federal abortion ban.
00:37:44.000 So this leaves Democrats in the peculiar position of having to argue that Donald Trump is actually an extremist on abortion. 1.00
00:37:49.000 And they're doing so by assuming that the American people are incredibly stupid. 0.99
00:37:53.000 They're attempting to assume that the American people don't understand what Roe vs. Wade means. 1.00
00:37:56.000 Maybe it'll work.
00:37:57.000 Maybe. 1.00
00:37:57.000 There are a lot of dumb people out there. 1.00
00:37:59.000 Roe vs. Wade did not ban abortion. 0.99
00:38:01.000 Roe vs. Wade just said that the Supreme Court would not prevent state laws on abortion because it's none of the federal government's business.
00:38:08.000 Certainly not the judiciary under the Constitution of the United States.
00:38:11.000 But here's Kamala Harris trying the abortion argument. 1.00
00:38:15.000 Trump has not denied, much less shown remorse, For his actions.
00:38:22.000 Instead, he proudly takes credit for overturning Rome.
00:38:28.000 My fellow Americans, in a court of law, that would be called an admission.
00:38:33.000 In the case of the stealing of reproductive freedom from the women of America, Donald Trump is guilty.
00:38:48.000 So, Kamala Harris, bad vice presidential candidate, but this is their last gasp.
00:38:53.000 Apparently, Joe Biden also thinks this.
00:38:54.000 He is tweeting incessantly about Roe versus Wade today.
00:38:57.000 I mean, he's not tweeting anything.
00:38:58.000 His aides are tweeting for him.
00:39:00.000 He tweeted out, Donald Trump doesn't have a clue about the power of women. 1.00
00:39:03.000 He's about to find out, said the 81-year-old white man.
00:39:07.000 The power of women. 1.00
00:39:10.000 And then he voted a vote for Trump.
00:39:12.000 He tweeted, a vote for Trump is a vote for a national abortion ban.
00:39:14.000 No, it isn't.
00:39:15.000 Like on, I wish.
00:39:17.000 Don't sell me past the sale, my dude.
00:39:19.000 Like, I was already voting for him.
00:39:21.000 You don't have to make me vote for him further.
00:39:24.000 But that's actually not Donald Trump's position.
00:39:26.000 And this is part of the problem for Joe Biden.
00:39:27.000 He's actually more of an extremist than his opponent in this race.
00:39:32.000 That is a serious problem for him.
00:39:33.000 Okay.
00:39:34.000 Meanwhile, in other news, Julian Assange has apparently now cut a plea deal.
00:39:38.000 So Julian Assange is the WikiLeaks founder.
00:39:40.000 You remember that he had been prosecuted years ago.
00:39:44.000 He's been in a wide variety of legal battles for a long time because WikiLeaks is effectively a laundering operation on behalf of those who violate classified information laws in the United States.
00:39:55.000 The question was, how do you actually prosecute Assange?
00:39:57.000 So, as you know, I'm no Assange fan.
00:40:00.000 I think that Assange does not have the interests of the United States at heart or the interests of the West at heart generally.
00:40:06.000 I think that many of the things he has done have effectively helped places like Russia and China?
00:40:11.000 The question about the prosecution of Assange is sort of a different one.
00:40:14.000 And that is, on what legal basis do you prosecute Assange?
00:40:16.000 Because there are a lot of journalists who have published classified information before.
00:40:19.000 Does this immediately make them liable for criminal activity?
00:40:22.000 The way the federal government has tried to get around that is by suggesting that Assange himself tried to supply passwords to Chelsea Manning.
00:40:28.000 You remember Chelsea Manning?
00:40:30.000 Nay, Bradley Manning.
00:40:32.000 Who was breaking into classified information, then supplying it unredacted to Julian Assange, who's releasing a lot of it unredacted, damaging the United States, putting American assets at risk abroad.
00:40:44.000 So the attempt to go after Assange was based on the idea that he was actively facilitating the leaking of the classified information.
00:40:49.000 He wasn't just sort of a passive recipient of it.
00:40:51.000 He was actively working with Manning.
00:40:54.000 But now, he has cut a deal to plead guilty to one count of violating the Espionage Act in exchange for a five-year prison sentence.
00:41:01.000 Under the agreement, he'll be freed, having already served that time while in British custody.
00:41:05.000 The deal brings an abrupt end to an extraordinary legal saga, according to the New York Times, that has raised novel issues of national security, press freedom, politics, and diplomacy.
00:41:13.000 Apparently, he is going to settle down in Australia at this point.
00:41:17.000 A lot of people on the right are very upset at Joe Biden for having cut this deal, and his DOJ for having cut this deal.
00:41:25.000 WikiLeaks said Assange was granted bail by a UK court on Monday and then boarded a plane at London's Stansted Airport and left the UK.
00:41:33.000 So again, if so, another aspect of weakness from Joe Biden, obviously, if you're worried about the leaking of classified material.
00:41:42.000 He's been a controversial figure for a very, very long time.
00:41:48.000 You know, two things can be true at once, as always.
00:41:51.000 You want answerability for the American government.
00:41:55.000 You want the American government to hold itself to particular standards.
00:41:58.000 Also, there does have to be classified information in national security, or it does put American soldiers and assets abroad at risk.
00:42:04.000 Julian Assange violated all of those precepts.
00:42:06.000 Julian Assange likely committed criminal acts.
00:42:10.000 The deal brings to a sort of quiet ending a very, very long legal saga.
00:42:15.000 But he is now free and he will apparently head on over to Australia to, I assume, go back to leaking American national security secrets.
00:42:24.000 So we'll see how that works out for the United States.
00:42:26.000 Meanwhile, speaking of the administrative state, a shocking story today broken by Jesse Singel over to Substack.
00:42:33.000 This is not even remotely a right-wing source.
00:42:36.000 Jesse is center-left on virtually all of his politics.
00:42:40.000 He reports today, when the World Professional Association for Transgender Health's Standards of Care version 8 was released in September 2022, a very strange thing happened.
00:42:49.000 WPATH removed references to minimum age requirements for various medical interventions, describing the changes as a correction in a notice that now reads weirdly, this correction notice has been removed, as it referred to a previous version of this article, which was published in error.
00:43:02.000 The SOC 8 was supposed to have been created via something called the Delphi process, But thanks to a rather remarkable document just unsealed, one of the many American lawsuits over youth gender medicine in this lawsuit, we now have a potential explanation for why the age guidelines were removed.
00:43:17.000 Direct pressure from Assistant Secretary for Health of the Department of Health and Human Services, wait for it, Admiral Rachel Levine.
00:43:23.000 The document is titled Appendix A to Supplemental Expert Report of James Cantor, Ph.D.
00:43:28.000 In it, Cantor, a Canadian sex researcher, critic of youth gender medicine, and frequent expert witness on behalf of those attempting to ban or restrict it, claims, quote, Assistant Secretary for Health, Dr. Rachel Levine, strongly pressured WPATH leadership to rush the development and issuance of SOCH-8 in order to assist with administration political strategy.
00:43:47.000 And then there are a bunch of documents that are included in the legal filing, including A document that says, quote, I've just spoken to Admiral Levine today, who, as always, is extremely supportive of the SOC-8, but is very eager for its release so as to ensure integration in the US health policies of the Biden administration.
00:44:03.000 So let's crack on with the job.
00:44:06.000 So in other words.
00:44:07.000 Levine decided to ignore all the science and suggest that transgender quote-unquote medicine is totally good and decided to launder that into the WPATH report so it could be reverse adopted by the United States government.
00:44:19.000 You wonder why so many people don't trust the experts or to science? 0.96
00:44:23.000 The reason would be crap like this. 0.98
00:44:24.000 Admiral Rachel Levine is no more qualified to make a decision like this than the neighborhood stray cat. 0.98
00:44:32.000 It is an absurdity to suggest that it does no damage to small children to trans the kids. 1.00
00:44:37.000 But we have members of our government who are doing precisely that.
00:44:39.000 We'll get to more on this in a moment. 0.99
00:44:40.000 First, you know what's dumb? 0.98
00:44:42.000 The rules of this first presidential debate. 0.98
00:44:44.000 Like, they all favor Joe Biden.
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00:45:44.000 Meanwhile, in accordance with the Biden administration plan to greatly weaken America, China continues to get stronger. 0.86
00:45:49.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, there's a new space race, this time between the United States and China.
00:45:53.000 On Tuesday, China took an important step forward.
00:45:55.000 A Chinese spacecraft touched down on the grasslands in China's Inner Mongolia region, carrying the first ever rock samples from the far side of the moon.
00:46:02.000 A scientific breakthrough in itself, the success also advanced China's plans to put astronauts on the moon by 2030 and build a lunar base by 2035.
00:46:09.000 Such momentum is worrying American space officials and lawmakers who have their own ambitions to build moon bases.
00:46:15.000 The goal now is to build permanent human outposts on the most strategic locations on the moon, the lunar south pole.
00:46:21.000 Some U.S.
00:46:22.000 officials fear China is planning a land grab on the moon.
00:46:24.000 Remember that time that Newt Gingrich was laughed out of court for suggesting that we ought to go ahead and do this?
00:46:29.000 Well, China is just going ahead with it. 0.84
00:46:32.000 The Biden administration, meanwhile, is laser focused on trying to build internet boxes that don't work in the United States. 0.99
00:46:38.000 The beauty of being a tyranny is that you can mobilize enormous resources for specific projects, That's particularly true in the face of an America that is distracted by stupidity. 0.97
00:46:49.000 Also, China is apparently undermining America's diplomatic efforts, of course. 0.96
00:46:53.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, in November last year, President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed to boost engagement between ordinary Chinese and Americans.
00:46:59.000 Instead, says Nicholas Burns, Washington's ambassador in Beijing, China has actively undermined those ties, interrogating and intimidating citizens who attend U.S.-organized events in China, ramping up restrictions on the embassy's social media posts, whipping up anti-American sentiment.
00:47:13.000 Burns said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Burns also took aim at Beijing for what he described as efforts to stir up anti-American sentiment domestically, saying he was particularly concerned about the recent stabbing of four Iowa college instructors in northeastern China.
00:47:33.000 Relations between the U.S.
00:47:34.000 and China appear to be stabilizing after a November summit in San Francisco between Xi and Biden.
00:47:39.000 Secretary of State Blinken, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, all these people are going to China.
00:47:43.000 But when we talk stabilization under Joe Biden, understand that just means concession.
00:47:48.000 And under the surface, China is just doing what it can in aggressive fashion.
00:47:52.000 Burns has tallied 61 public events since November in which China's Ministry of State Security or other government bodies pressured Chinese citizens not to go to American diplomatic activities in China or attempted to intimidate those who did attend.
00:48:06.000 Beijing is also making it harder for Chinese students to attend US universities.
00:48:10.000 Roughly half of participants chosen for U.S.
00:48:12.000 funded exchange programs have pulled out over the past couple of years.
00:48:17.000 Again, none of this is a surprise.
00:48:18.000 China is an aggressive power. 0.97
00:48:19.000 Joe Biden is a weakling.
00:48:21.000 And China is getting aggressive every day, as it has to, because again, their window is closing. 0.92
00:48:26.000 The thing is that in the long run, that means that China will be weak.
00:48:29.000 But in the short run, it means they have to get very aggressive very quickly.
00:48:31.000 And you see Xi Jinping moving toward doing that sort of thing.
00:48:35.000 So the United States in the long term has tremendous advantages over China, but China in the short term better move quickly or their window of opportunity closes.
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