In this episode, we take a look at World War 3 and the events that led up to it, and how the United States came so close to nuclear war with the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and early 1960s, that it almost led us to the brink of nuclear war. Today, we re going to look at what happened in the lead-up to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Suez Canal Crisis, and why the U.S. did what it did in order to try to prevent a nuclear attack on Cuba. We re also going to talk about the reasons why the USSR didn t attack Cuba and why it didn t try to take control of Egypt. And finally, we talk about what happened when the Israelis and the British and French stepped in to help the Americans liberate the S.E.C. from the Egyptian leader Gamal El Farah Nasser and liberate the Egyptian people from Nasser s grip on power. And how that led to the creation of the modernized Egypt. and modernized the Middle East, and to the end of the Cold War, and the birth of the Arab-American relations between the West and the USSR a world where the USSR and the Arabs in the mid-twentieth century as a result of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, and what we know today as World War III. We re looking at the events leading up to that crisis, and after that crisis. What happened and what could have happened and how it could have been prevented and what might have been done to prevent it. and why we should have been prepared for such a world war in the first place. Why a nuclear war could happen and how to prepare for it why we need to be prepared for a nuclear world war what we should be prepared to be ready for one how we should prepare for one, not just now, not now, but in the future, not tomorrow, not in the next 30 years not in 2040, not 2060, not ever, but now, in the coming decades, and in the meantime, in 2060 What s going to happen in the not so distant future the next 50 years, and not in 2030, and so on, and beyond . and so much more we ll be prepared, and the next, and so much so, more , and , and more.
00:00:00.000Today, I want to talk about World War 3 and how World War 3 could happen.
00:00:04.000To understand how World War 3 could happen, we should look historically at the closest that the world has gotten to World War 3 since the end of World War 2.
00:00:13.000The world came closest to World War 3 during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 when the Soviet Union attempted to ship nuclear-tipped missiles into Cuba, and the United States put a blockade around Cuba to prevent just that from happening.
00:00:25.000Essentially, the United States and the USSR stood eye-to-eyeball And eventually the USSR backed down.
00:00:32.000And everybody knows how close that was.
00:00:34.000It's become an incredibly famous incident, not only in foreign relations, but in American history.
00:00:38.000But to understand why we came so close to the brink of nuclear war in 1962, you actually have to reverse field for a few years.
00:00:46.000The reality is that the USSR started to challenge the United States so strenuously around the world because of about a decade of weakness in American foreign policy.
00:00:56.000The way that world wars break out is miscalculation.
00:00:59.000They break out because one side believes that the other side is likely to cave in the face of its aggression.
00:01:04.000And that's particularly true when the United States shows its neck to its enemies.
00:01:09.000So to really understand what was happening in the lead up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, you really have to reverse field to about 1956.
00:01:16.000So 1956, Dwight D. Eisenhower is president.
00:01:20.000And there is a crisis that emerges in the Middle East.
00:01:25.000There's a leader of Egypt, a nationalist, pan-Arab nationalist leader of Egypt named Nasser.
00:01:30.000And Nasser decides that he is going to unite all the Arab countries by essentially flexing muscle in the face of the West.
00:01:36.000And so he decides that despite the fact that he had nothing to do with the building of the Suez Canal, that he didn't run the Suez Canal, that the Suez Canal is actually an incredibly important artery for trade, Nasser decides that he's going to nationalize the Suez Canal.
00:01:48.000The French and the British Both have an interest in the Suez Canal.
00:01:51.000And they say to Nasser, you can't do that.
00:01:54.000And the United States stands on the sidelines.
00:02:23.000Now it turns out that would have been highly unlikely, that the USSR was not interested
00:02:27.000in some sort of major international war over the Suez Canal.
00:02:31.000In any case, the British, who we now understand historically with 20-20 hindsight, were no longer an international power of the sort of vintage they had been historically.
00:02:40.000The British and the French Who had historically not worked particularly well together, decided to work with the Israelis in order to liberate the Suez Canal.
00:02:48.000And so what they did is they went to the Israelis and the Israelis were, of course, very afraid of the Egyptian militarization of the Sinai Desert, for example.
00:02:56.000And so Israel decided that it would work with the British and the French in order to free the Suez Canal and possibly overthrow Nasser and put in place somebody who is not going to be an enemy of the West.
00:03:07.000So, in 1956, July 1956, Nasser decides to nationalize the Suez Canal.
00:03:12.000The Israelis end up moving into the Sinai Desert.
00:03:15.000They quickly overrun the Sinai Desert and actually are on the march to Cairo.
00:03:19.000The British and the French are about to intervene.
00:03:37.000Nasser gets to nationalize assets that he did not create and that he should not have run.
00:03:43.000Now, the supposed result of all of this was going to be that Nasser would then align himself with the West.
00:03:48.000After all, Eisenhower was showing goodwill.
00:03:50.000Eisenhower was showing how much the United States cared about non-colonization of the Suez Canal, despite the fact that, again, the Egyptian government really didn't build the Suez Canal.
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00:05:24.000The United States steps in and basically chastens the British and the French.
00:05:28.000By the way, in chastening the British and the French, the United States was basically saying to the British and the French, they are no longer world powers.
00:05:33.000The United States is the only hegemonic world power.
00:05:36.000And therefore, the British and the French start to withdraw from the international scene.
00:05:42.000The fact that the French no longer think of themselves as a world power is one of the reasons why the United States ends up embroiled the way it is in, for example, Vietnam.
00:05:49.000Because, remember, French Indochina was French.
00:05:52.000It was the French who were actually occupying that particular area.
00:05:54.000Again, geopolitics is complicated and intertwined.
00:05:57.000So, 1956 Suez Canal Crisis goes down, the United States steps in and prevents Nasser from falling, and also ends up basically wrapping the British, the French, and the Israelis on the knuckles.
00:06:07.000The next thing that happens, just a few months later, is that there is an uprising in Hungary.
00:06:12.000Hungary is a state in the Soviet sphere of influence.
00:06:20.000Or it's an aligned state with the USSR, rather.
00:06:22.000And the Hungarian government starts to feel these roiling currents of anger from the population.
00:06:31.000And suddenly, there is a Hungarian revolution in 1956, an attempt to actually substitute the puppet government that has been installed by the Soviets with a new government, a better government, that is going to essentially remain non-aligned in the way that Tito's Yugoslavia was non-aligned during the Cold War.
00:06:48.000Because the United States has shown its neck, because it has shown no willingness to actually do anything about Soviet aggression, and in fact, has shown itself pretty wishy-washy as far as international politics.
00:06:58.000The Soviets immediately invade Hungary and crush everything and kill everybody who's involved in the Hungarian uprising, the Hungarian revolution of 1956.
00:07:07.000By 1957, Sputnik is launched, the space race is on.
00:07:10.000By 1958, Nikita Khrushchev, believing that he has the impetus, he has the forward momentum, That between Sputnik and the Middle East and Hungary, that he actually has the power to challenge the United States globally.
00:07:24.000In 1958, he demands the withdrawal of American troops and Western troops from Berlin, beginning what's known as the Berlin Crisis.
00:07:31.000And so Berlin, geographically, is located inside the Soviet-occupied areas, East Germany.
00:07:39.000Berlin was this strange island of Westernism that was in the middle of East Germany.
00:07:45.000And so it had been divided between the Allies and the Soviets.
00:07:49.000Right after World War II, and so there was a Soviet side of Berlin that became East Berlin, and there was West Berlin.
00:07:54.000The big problem the Soviets were having is that everyone in East Berlin, and it turns out all of East Germany, was rushing to West Berlin in order to get the hell out of Soviet-occupied areas or Soviet-aligned areas.
00:08:03.000And so the Soviets had a problem, but they also had a solution.
00:08:06.000And their solution was they were going to apply extreme pressure to the United States and see if the United States would back down in the face of that aggression.
00:08:13.000And so for three long years, The Soviet Union and the United States stand toe-to-toe and battle over Berlin.
00:08:19.000And in 1961, Khrushchev steps in and solves the Berlin crisis by building the Berlin Wall.
00:08:24.000So overnight, a giant wall goes up right in the middle of the city, dividing family members from family members, and it sticks around all the way from 1961 until 1989, when it actually falls.
00:08:34.000But again, even between then, Soviets facilitate a Cuban revolution that ends with Fidel Castro in charge of Cuba, right?
00:08:41.000All of this is the lead up to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
00:08:43.000In other words, I tell you this story, not just because the history is interesting, I think it's fascinating, but because there is one rule when it comes to world war, and that is lack of clarity in your intention, vacillation, failure to make clear to your enemies what exactly your lines are.
00:09:05.000Much more likely that that leads to war than the open threat of war.
00:09:09.000Very often, the open threat of war actually deters war.
00:09:11.000Very often, the willingness to actually flex muscle leads the other side to believe, hey, maybe I shouldn't actually go and have this firefight with somebody.
00:09:19.000Miscalculation is the most likely way that great powers end up in war.
00:09:23.000That's precisely what happened during World War I. And actually, that's what happened during World War II.
00:09:28.000The Germans miscalculated because they thought that since the West had caved at Munich and before, because they've been able to occupy the Sudetenland, that they would then be able to occupy the rest of Czechoslovakia.
00:09:37.000In the aftermath of that, they thought they could then occupy the Danzig Corridor, and that is where the West drew its line.
00:09:42.000So again, failure of willingness to convey your intention.
00:09:46.000Failure to act as an iron wall against the aggression of your enemies leads to escalation and then you actually do get dragged into hot wars that involve extraordinary numbers of casualties.
00:09:55.000That is the story of large-scale war in the world.
00:10:01.000Because today there's a story out of the Daily Express that American troops are to be permanently stationed in Taiwan.
00:10:09.000According to Taipei, they say Taiwan has officially confirmed the presence of US troops stationed on its islands in the Taiwan Strait permanently, a development that could further create impetus for war for the Chinese It escalates mounting tensions.
00:10:23.000The National Defense Authorization Act passed in 2023 facilitated the deployment of troops to conduct training programs for Taiwanese frontline forces.
00:10:30.000The move comes as China continues to assert its disputed claim over Taiwan, viewing it as a renegade province despite never having ruled it.
00:10:36.000The heightened military's activities by China in and around the Taiwan Strait have prompted Taiwan to bolster its defense capabilities.
00:10:42.000And that comes just after Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued what he called an ironclad warning to China as tensions between the two nations rise.
00:10:51.000Meanwhile, the Chinese are buzzing the borders of the Taiwan Strait.
00:10:54.000The Taiwan Strait obviously divided between Taiwan and China in terms of sort of offshore control.
00:10:59.000And apparently, Chinese jets have been busing the Taiwan Strait.
00:11:04.000And not only that, the Chinese are again pursuing hypersonic missile tests and all the rest.
00:11:49.000And it's not an imaginary axis, it's just countries we don't like.
00:11:51.000Those are countries that are very obviously working together, and they're pretty openly working together.
00:11:56.000So much so that the Houthis, which is an Iranian-backed terror group that has currently been attacking shipping in the Red Sea, announced that they would not be attacking any Chinese or Russian shipping in the Red Sea or the Gulf of Aden.
00:12:10.000Meaning our allies, their ships get to go through, Which means a lot cheaper shipping for them, for Russia and for China.
00:12:16.000And anything that is associated with America or the West, we will try to blow up their ships.
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00:13:24.000So in the face of that, what the Biden administration should be doing is saying no.
00:13:28.000The Biden administration should be taking the position that it is going to destroy any who the attempts to harass shipping in the Red Sea.
00:13:38.000It's not going to be pinpoint hit a camel in the ass little attacks in Yemen.
00:13:43.000If pirates attempt to harass shipping in the Red Sea, we will put naval gunboats in the Red Sea and we will blow away anything that attempts to move against shipping from anywhere in the Red Sea.
00:13:55.000What the United States should be doing in Ukraine is holding the line.
00:13:57.000That doesn't mean that the United States should put out their pie-in-the-sky things like, well, Ukraine is going to take back the Donbass and Crimea.
00:14:04.000But the United States does have an interest in holding the line against Russia.
00:14:08.000The United States, when it comes to Israel, should be saying that Israel has the full capacity to go and destroy Hamas, which is an Iranian proxy group.
00:14:16.000The reason that China is getting aggressive with Taiwan, the reason that a war could possibly break out is because, again, Chinese miscalculation.
00:14:22.000What they could say is, yeah, we see that you guys have troops over there.
00:14:25.000We see that you have troops on Taiwan.
00:14:27.000We just don't believe that Joe Biden is going to do anything about that.
00:14:29.000Not only that, you guys look so divided internally in the United States on foreign policy that if we make a move, we think that probably you will just let it go.
00:14:37.000And by the way, we should note here that the single most effective method of upgrading Chinese military capacity is to take or blockade Taiwan.
00:14:44.000It is the single most effective thing they can do.
00:14:47.000It's not about the money for the Chinese military.
00:14:52.000Taiwan has the largest manufacturer of microchips, sophisticated microchips, on the planet.
00:14:57.000About 92% of sophisticated microchips are being produced in Taiwan.
00:15:00.000When I say sophisticated microchips, I'm talking about the kind of stuff that goes in American F-35s, American F-22s.
00:15:08.000I'm talking about the kind of stuff that goes in our nuclear submarines.
00:15:10.000Those microchips are the single greatest advantage the United States has in terms of military tech, because we design all the software here, and then the hardware is then printed off and created in Taiwan.
00:15:22.000And we're not going to be able to ramp up our microchip facilities in the United States fast enough to make up for Taiwan being lost.
00:15:28.000But not only that, It's not about that.
00:15:30.000It's about, will China have access to those same microchips?
00:15:33.000Right now, Taiwan, because it is run by a government that is unfriendly to the Chinese, is saying that they will not supply those microchips to China.
00:15:40.000China is hoping to apply enough pressure to Taiwan to make the people of Taiwan feel so threatened and feel that the United States is a bad partner in the world.
00:15:48.000After the abandonment of Hong Kong, after the abandonment of Afghanistan, after the internal pressures in the United States over Ukraine and Israel.
00:15:54.000They're hoping, the Chinese, that Taiwan is going to get the message and elect a government that is friendlier to China and then just give them the microchips.
00:16:01.000And if they get the microchips, suddenly their military goes from a very large but second-rate military to a first-class military.
00:16:07.000I mean, people who estimate the sort of strength of the Chinese military are missing the central feature of the Chinese military, which, again, is more about size than it is about sophistication.
00:16:21.000If you're interested in this sort of thing, the reason that Taiwan is necessary for the United States to protect and defend is not just because it is a democracy far away.
00:16:29.000It is because we have a very real interest, a military interest in making sure that our military superiority remains over threats to the world like China, which, by the way, is killing 100,000 American citizens a year by shipping fentanyl into Mexico that just gets shipped into the United States.
00:16:43.000This is why, again, Foreign policy weakness is all of the piece.
00:17:10.000Or yes, what's going on in the Gaza Strip.
00:17:13.000Now, most obviously, the Biden administration has been, at least promoting rhetorically, American support for Ukraine.
00:17:19.000Although again, I think that they've done a piss poor job of explaining exactly why Americans should support what's happening with the Ukrainian government, or to what extent, or what the off ramp is, or all the rest.
00:17:29.000I've made my critiques of the Biden administration on Ukraine very clear.
00:17:32.000But what they're really doing, the heavy lifting on behalf of America's enemies, is obviously with regard to their rhetoric, with regard to Israel and the Gaza Strip.
00:17:48.000That doesn't mean they're all terrorists.
00:17:50.000It doesn't mean that they all deserve to be put in prison or they all deserve to be killed in airstrikes.
00:17:55.000What it means is that if you're going to formulate a foreign policy, that foreign policy ought to be somewhat related to reality.
00:18:02.000So while the Biden administration is pushing for the establishment of a Palestinian state, They're completely ignoring the fact that a Palestinian state would be a terror state directly in the heart of the Middle East.
00:18:12.000That would, by the way, not just be a threat to Israel, it would be a threat to Egypt.
00:18:15.000It would, in fact, be a threat to Jordan.
00:18:18.000Jordan likes to mouth off about a Palestinian state, but I noticed that between 1948 and 1967, there was no talk of a Palestinian state by either Egypt, which ruled the Gaza Strip, or Jordan, which ruled Judea and Samaria.
00:18:28.000They don't want a Palestinian state, because if there had been a Palestinian state, it would have been a threat to the Hashemite dynasty in Jordan, and it would have been a threat to the Egyptian military.
00:18:37.000But the Biden administration continues to ignore reality because they have this cloud-cuckoo-land view of foreign policy.
00:18:43.000That if they say nice words, then somehow that's going to magically heal all the problems.
00:18:48.000So they'll say to the Israelis, yes, sure, you should take out Hamas, but really, can you not?
00:18:52.000And also, we need you to establish a Palestinian state as a reward for the worst terror attack in the history of the state of Israel.
00:19:00.000And again, by the way, a poll released on Wednesday Found that 71% of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank believe that the October 7th massacres was correct.
00:19:26.000Support for Hamas as a political party is up to 42% in the Gaza Strip.
00:19:33.000In the West Bank, it is about 35-44%, but there is no backing for Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party.
00:19:38.000The Fatah party, which is what the Americans are putting all their faith in, Mahmoud Abbas being a Holocaust-denying semi-terrorist, as opposed to, like, an openly genocidal terrorist in Hamas.
00:19:48.000There is no backing for Mahmoud Abbas.
00:19:51.000It is hilarious to me that you see Chuck Schumer calling for new elections in Israel.
00:19:54.000They have not held an election in Palestinian areas in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip since 2005.
00:20:00.000And there's a reason for that, because everyone knows who wins if there's an election in the Gaza Strip or the West Bank.
00:20:06.000backing for Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party is currently 25% in Gaza and it is 12% down
00:20:13.000from 26% in September. So that means that it is currently 14% in the West Bank,
00:20:22.000which is the area that by the way, Fatah actually has power.
00:20:27.000Asked who they would hope to see in charge of the Gaza Strip at the end of Israel's war with Hamas, 52% of respondents in Gaza said they wanted Hamas back.
00:20:36.000In the West Bank, 64% think Hamas should run post-war Gaza.
00:20:42.00021% of respondents in Gaza said they hoped the PA would return to control the Strip, but only under the leadership of someone other than Mahmoud Abbas.
00:20:49.000So, there is no support for the American plan for what's going to happen in the Gaza Strip, and everybody knows this.
00:20:56.000Everyone knows this, which is why this is all pie-in-the-sky absolute nonsense.
00:21:00.000And again, everything that the Biden administration does rhetorically smacks of an unwillingness to acknowledge the realities of geopolitics, up to and including this unbelievable story.
00:21:09.000It's an exclusive from Spencer Lindquist of Daily Wire.
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00:22:15.000The Biden administration, intelligence documents, internal documents from the intelligence community, They're now warning to avoid what they call problematic phrases on Islamic terrorism.
00:22:26.000What exactly are those problematic phrases?
00:22:38.000That is an unclassified newsletter from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence called The Dive.
00:22:45.000And they say that the intel community needs to focus on quote, changing terminology related to counterterrorism because words matter.
00:22:51.000Quote, this article is about one of our goals, disentangling Islam from words and phrases used to discuss terrorism and extremist violence.
00:22:57.000The article declares it is trying to quote, remove certain phrases to identify terrorism threats that are hurtful to Muslim Americans.
00:23:04.000Well, I mean, I'm sorry if it's hurtful to Muslim Americans that there are a lot of Islamist extremists in the Middle East.
00:23:26.000Suggest that if you just say the right words, then magically, magically, Nasser will become your friend.
00:23:32.000By the way, we should tell the end of that Suez Canal story.
00:23:34.000Nasser ends up facilitating the Six-Day War.
00:23:38.000He continues to harass Israel on its borders, at which point Israel eventually launches a preemptive assault on Nasser and his allies in 1967 and ends up winning the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
00:23:49.000So if you don't like Israel having done that, you can thank Dwight D. Eisenhower for that, because that is Eisenhower facilitating Nasser's continuation in power in 1956.
00:23:56.000Meanwhile, again, the United States continues to vacillate.
00:23:58.000They continue to shilly-shally on these issues.
00:24:02.000According to the Times of Israel, the United States is going to pitch Israel on securing the Egypt-Gaza border as an alternative to, quote-unquote, smashing Intarafa.
00:24:23.000official said Washington envisions Israel focusing on preventing the smuggling of weapons from Egypt into Gaza through the Philadelphia Corridor.
00:24:38.000We'll just leave the Nazis in charge of Berlin.
00:24:40.000We'll just make sure that no more ammunition gets into Berlin.
00:24:43.000Or alternatively, you could just stop the Nazis being in Berlin by killing them.
00:24:46.000That's the other thing that you could do.
00:24:48.000The second senior official said, if Israel smashes into Rafah with all the civilian casualties that doing so would entail, cooperation from Egypt on locking down the Philadelphia corridor will be much more difficult.
00:24:57.000Does Egypt really want Hamas to have more weapons?
00:25:00.000And why should the United States not apply its pressure to Egypt to stop that sort of thing, considering that we, I know we only talk about foreign aid to Israel, but the reality is that Egypt receives billions of dollars in foreign aid from the United States as well.
00:25:10.000We should have some leverage over Egypt to tell them to stop, you know, shipping weapons or allowing the shipment of weapons across the Philadelphia corridor into Rafah.
00:25:18.000Meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to try and suggest that Bibi Netanyahu is the problem or that the Republicans are politicizing Israel.
00:25:25.000It's a Democratic administration politicizing this entire issue.
00:25:29.000So, for example, Hakeem Jeffries yesterday, he says that Republicans are the ones politicizing Israel, which is weird because it was Chuck Schumer who went on the floor of the Senate and called for the ouster of the elected government of Israel.
00:25:41.000Was Schumer right to address this issue at all?
00:25:44.000Netanyahu Was pretty upset that he said that a Democratic official in the United States was wading into Israel's domestic policies.
00:25:56.000Leader Schumer, throughout his career, has been an incredibly strong supporter of the special relationship between the United States and Israel.
00:26:04.000And I believe he will continue to be moving forward.
00:26:08.000And it is unfortunate that some of my extreme Republican colleagues, once again, are trying to politicize the issue of the relationship between the United States and Israel, as opposed to leaning in at a time when Israel is in the middle of a war against Hamas.
00:26:25.000Okay, so apparently it is the Republicans politicizing this thing, even though it was Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, who literally called for the ouster of the elected government of Israel in a unity cabinet that involves the opposition.
00:27:02.000If Netanyahu asks you if he can speak to your caucus and you say no, and then he goes to the other caucus and they say yes, that's you being a partisan, not him.
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00:28:15.000The media, for their part, have been doing cover for the Biden administration on all this by trotting out every far leftist they can find on this issue.
00:28:24.000So they'll never interview anybody who has, like, legitimate smicha or represents any actual stream of Judaism in any serious way.
00:28:30.000Instead, they have on people like Rabbi Sharon Braus, who is not a rabbi.
00:28:34.000Okay, I have a quick rule about rabbis.
00:28:36.000If you know less than my 10-year-old daughter who goes to Jewish day school, you're not a rabbi.
00:29:40.000In fact, most American Jews don't share Trump or Bibi's vision for Israel and certainly don't share Trump's vision for America.
00:29:50.000Okay, so why should she speak for Jews?
00:29:52.000She literally is part- There's a Wall Street Journal article that's a feature of her, because again, the way that the Wall Street Journal works, for those who are unaware, the news pages are all far to the left.
00:30:02.000Like, even further to the left than the New York Times, it's only the op-ed page that is not far to the left.
00:30:07.000She founded a supposed synagogue, and I say supposed because literally, It says in this article that this particular congregation, quote, is not affiliated with any denomination within Judaism.
00:30:22.000So obviously that's who CNN is going to trot out as a spokesperson for the Jewish people.
00:30:26.000Slow clap for the geniuses over at CNN.
00:30:29.000And when it comes to foreign policy, part of foreign policy and foreign policy weakness is also domestic policy.
00:30:34.000And when it comes to domestic policy, this administration continues to do the hard work that China is expecting from them.
00:30:40.000So, for example, one of the mainstays of the American economy is the ability to travel in things like cars.
00:30:48.000And by the way, to drill for oil and natural gas, and send those things overseas, and export them to Europe, and provide them with the cheap energy sources they need to, for example, survive a Russian cutoff in materials.
00:31:00.000Is the Biden administration doing any of that?
00:31:02.000Instead, they've declared an LNG pause.
00:31:04.000They've cut down the number of licenses that are available for drilling.
00:31:09.000They made it much more difficult to drill.
00:31:10.000They vowed that they were going to get America off of oil and natural gas in the very near future, which means no one's going to invest in oil refineries.
00:31:18.000And now, apparently, the EPA is pushing forward under Joe Biden toward a zero emissions economy.
00:31:25.000According to the Washington Post, the Biden administration finalized the United States' toughest limits on planet warming emissions from passenger cars and light trucks on Wednesday in a controversial bid to accelerate the nation's halting transition to electric vehicles.
00:31:37.000The Environmental Protection Agency will require automakers to ramp up sales of electric vehicles while slashing carbon emissions from gas-powered models, which account for about one-fifth of America's contribution to global warming.
00:31:48.000Now again, I'd like to underscore that statistic.
00:31:50.000They don't account for one-fifth of global warming, or emissions generally.
00:31:53.000They account for one-fifth of America's contribution to global warming.
00:31:58.000Which is to say a very small percentage of the total contributions to global warming from all countries all over the world.
00:32:06.000So we're gonna crush our automakers in order so that Joe Biden can please his environmentalist base.
00:32:11.000And you know who benefits from this is China.
00:32:13.000Because China is racing to catch up in the EV game.
00:32:16.000China's pouring billions and billions of dollars into their own subsidized EVs.
00:32:21.000And by the way, they don't care how much they pollute.
00:32:26.000Now Biden, again, is trying to split the baby.
00:32:28.000Here, he's trying to make it so that you'll only feel the effects after he is presumably re-elected.
00:32:32.000According to the Washington Post, unlike last year's proposed rules, automakers will not need to dramatically boost EV sales until after 2030.
00:32:37.000So he's going to put the rule in place, but then he's going to delay the effect of the rule until after he would leave office.
00:32:46.000The delayed timeline reflects an election year concession to labor unions.
00:32:49.000Those labor unions don't like the EV crap because it turns out it puts all of them out of a job because people don't want to buy EVs at the same rate as... Listen, I'm not anti-EV, I own a Tesla.
00:32:58.000But let's just be clear, that is an expensive car.
00:33:01.000And most Americans cannot afford to get into one right now.
00:33:05.000This is going to be a gas-powered economy for a long time to come.
00:33:08.000And pretending that it's not is absurdity.
00:33:11.000Here's Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, ripping into Joe Biden over all of this.
00:33:15.000This week, House Republicans will pass the legislation promoting American energy independence and opposing Biden's anti-energy agenda.
00:34:12.000A 100% tariff on Chinese vehicle imports.
00:34:15.000Which would be punishing China and making clear to China that if they screw with the United States, there will in fact be consequences.
00:34:21.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden is basically creating economic pathways for China at the same time that he is appeasing China's enemies and vacillating over America's allies.
00:34:31.000You wonder why the chances of war seem to continue to go up?
00:34:54.000But I just want the legendary Leftist Tears Tumblr.
00:34:56.000Well sure, unlimited access to ad-free uncensored shows from the Daily Wire host you love is great, and so is having hit movies, series, and groundbreaking documentaries on demand.
00:35:53.000That's artificially bumping up the stock market, obviously, because if people expect that the interest rates are going to come down, well, that means that they're going to spend more money now knowing they can borrow at lower rates later.
00:36:04.000That is the general idea of what's happening in the economy right now, so it's artificially being inflated again by the Federal Reserve.
00:36:10.000According to the Wall Street Journal, while the latest data hasn't given officials the confidence they would need to begin rate cuts, Chair Jerome Powell said his outlook for inflation to continue declining had not changed substantially in recent weeks.
00:36:20.000The projections released Wednesday were little changed from December and showed most of his colleagues expect two or three rate cuts this year.
00:36:27.000So, most economists had expected the Fed to dial back on the expectations of rate cuts.
00:36:32.000Instead, the Federal Reserve, which controls way too much of the American economy via the interest rates, they've decided that they are going to, just in time for the election, superheat the economy by injecting more money into the economy with lower interest rates.
00:36:43.000So, again, the Federal Reserve trying to save Joe Biden from his own bad policy, but Meanwhile, the social fabric of the United States continues to decay.
00:36:51.000According to the UK Daily Mail, America's squatting crisis is at boiling point.
00:36:54.000Every week, shocking tales emerge of helpless families booted out of their homes by scrounging crooks.
00:37:00.000and Atlanta have been ravaged by criminals turning homes into strip clubs and hosting all-night raves, while residents of Texas and Colorado are being tormented by a serial squatter who is running rings around the police.
00:37:10.000Emboldened by weak law enforcement, their unruly behavior becomes more brazen by the day.
00:37:14.000In fact, here is an NYC, a New York City squatter standoff caught on camera.
00:37:19.000One of the big problems here is that basically you have homeless people who have decided they're just going to take over temporarily empty apartments or homes or homes for sale, sit there, and then it is very difficult in liberal jurisdictions to eject them.
00:37:30.000Because these liberal jurisdictions basically say that unless you get a court order, you can't get rid of these people.
00:37:36.000And it might take a while for the court order to come.
00:38:53.000The homeowner's a woman named Adele Andalero.
00:38:55.000She inherited her family's home in Flushing, Queens after her parents died.
00:38:59.000She was in the process of selling it when she noticed a problem.
00:39:01.000Someone had changed the entire front door and the lock of her home.
00:39:04.000She says that squatters moved into the home in February and then they refused to leave.
00:39:08.000She says, by the time someone does their investigation, their work, and their job, it'll be over 30 days and this person will still be in my home.
00:39:13.000Because in New York, squatters have 30-day rights.
00:39:17.000Because they treat it as though you overstayed your rent, as opposed to, you were never renting the place in the first place.
00:39:24.000So, Ann DeLara went to her property, and Eyewitness News followed her.
00:39:27.000They were there when a woman walked up to the house, unlocked the door, and left.
00:39:31.000Angelero decided to enter the property with her daughter and the property deed in hand.
00:39:35.000She found two people who were sleeping in the bedroom.
00:39:37.000Eyewitness News asked one of the men how long he'd been there and he said, I moved in two days ago and the second man didn't answer any questions.
00:39:50.000Police arrived shortly after and started interviewing the man, the neighbor, and asking for documents.
00:39:53.000One officer asked the men, do you have something that shows you've been here more than 30 days?
00:39:57.000When the men did not provide documentation, they escorted both off the property, and Anzaloro had a locksmith change the locks, but before police left, they warned her about changing the locks.
00:40:04.000She said, I may end up in handcuffs today if a man shows up here and says I've illegally evicted him.
00:40:08.000I said, let him take me to court, as I've been told to take him to court, because I'm not leaving my house.
00:40:13.000In New York, it is against the law to turn off the utilities, change the locks, and remove the belongings of someone who claims to be a tenant, which is insane.
00:40:20.000If you're not paying your rent, you're not a tenant.
00:40:22.000And you're certainly not a tenant if you never paid rent and you literally just went to somebody's house while they're not home.
00:41:51.000They mean nothing anymore in places like New York and California.
00:41:53.000Wonder why people are fleeing to Florida?
00:41:54.000Here's why people are fleeing to Florida.
00:41:56.000Lawmakers this week passed a bill to put a stop to squatters' rights.
00:42:00.000House Bill 621 authorizes property owners to request action by the sheriff's office to immediately remove squatters from your home.
00:42:07.000The bill passed overwhelmingly in the Florida Senate last week.
00:42:09.000Before the bill was signed into law, squatters were considered tenants in the eyes of the law.
00:42:12.000Now, squatters will face criminal charges for violating what was once within their rights.
00:42:17.000Senator Keith Perry led the charge on HB 621, which allows property owners to file an affidavit showing the property does not belong to those who are occupying it.
00:42:25.000The bill creates stiff penalties for violators, like second-degree felony for damage to a home and first-degree felony for fraudulently selling or leasing the property.
00:42:32.000The sheriff is required to serve the notice and remove the unwanted occupants without delay.
00:42:42.000Because they see it, basically, the way that Florida works is Florida looks at California and New York, they say, we're going to do the opposite of that.
00:42:49.000But again, the lack of respect for property rights in places like New York and California, like, why would you ever create a business in states that promote laws like this?
00:42:58.000Why would you live in those states if you could get out?
00:43:13.000But that, of course, is not the purpose of public hearings anymore.
00:43:15.000Public hearings aren't... They haven't been for a very long time of actually doing things.
00:43:19.000They're about the rhetoric that is used and exposing to the public what exactly is going on.
00:43:23.000So they become TV shows as much as they have pieces of legislative leisure domain, which, again, not...
00:43:29.000Not super shocking, not my favorite thing, but that is, in fact, the way that politics works.
00:43:33.000So yesterday, massive fights erupted at the GOP's hearings about Hunter Biden's corruption.
00:43:39.000According to Axios, the Republican-led House Oversight Committee's marquee hearing on Hunter Biden's business dealings evolved into squabbles between committee members and witnesses on Wednesday.
00:43:49.000So James Comer, Republican of Kentucky, who's the oversight chair, he kicked off the hearing by waiving a rule prohibiting members from impugning the character of the president, saying the members, quote, must be allowed to speak frankly.
00:44:01.000And there are basically two big witnesses.
00:44:03.000One was Tony Bobulinski, the former Hunter Biden business associate, who claims that Hunter Biden was part of a pay-for-play scandal with Joe Biden.
00:44:25.000But this whole thing started off, even before it started, with Jared Moskowitz of Florida, for some odd reason, showing up to the hearing dressed as Vladimir Putin.
00:44:32.000Because, again, the clown show is just so obvious now.
00:44:35.000It's just... The clown car is not big enough for all the clowns.
00:45:10.000Other clowns included Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, who is a deeply stupid human being,
00:45:17.000does not have two brain cells to rub together.
00:45:19.000So she was questioning Tony Bobulinski, and she suddenly announced that RICO violations are not a crime, which is weird, because they are.
00:45:26.000In fact, if RICO violations are not a crime, then she ought to have a talk with Fannie Willis, who's alleging precisely that criminal violation.
00:45:32.000In any case, here is Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez making a fool of herself, because not only is she a lawyer, she's not even a half-bright human being.
00:45:39.000Is it your testimony today that you personally witnessed President Joe Biden commit a crime?
00:45:52.000I believe the fact that he was sitting with me while I was putting together a business deal.
00:45:56.000Did you witness the president commit a crime?
00:46:19.000You keep up you asked me to answer the question I answered the question no go you're obviously not familiar with
00:46:25.000Excuse me, sir. Excuse me, sir. Excuse me, sir Rico is not a crime. It is a category
00:46:33.000What it is a statute and that statute has criminal violations within it
00:46:40.000Is that it's a weird it's a weird statement It's like saying that campaign finance, if you say you violated campaign finance law, well, did you see him sign a check and involve himself directly in bribery?
00:46:52.000And you're like, well, I did see him engaging in campaign finance violence.
00:47:46.000Dan Goldman and Jamie Raskin, both lawyers, and Mr. Goldman, a former prosecutor with the SDNY from New York, will continue to lie today in this hearing and then go straight to the media to tell more lies.
00:47:58.000Hunter Biden's defense attorney, Abby Lowell, weaponized his letters to Congress to try to smear my name.
00:48:41.000Meanwhile, Democrats trotted out Lev Parnas to claim that this is all Russian disinformation.
00:48:45.000Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, he was sentenced to a year and eight months in prison for fraud and campaign finance crimes, or what AOC might call a category of crimes.
00:48:56.000Back in 2022, here he was testifying that everything surrounding Joe and Hunter Biden is really just Russian disinformation.
00:49:03.000I say this to you because I love this country.
00:49:06.000From shortly after my arrest on October 9, 2019 to now, I have been trying to share the irrefutable truth with you.
00:49:14.000The American people have been lied to by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and various cohorts of individuals in government and media positions.
00:49:23.000They created falsehoods to serve their own interests, knowing it would undermine the strength of our nation.
00:49:27.000The only information ever pushed on the Bidens in Ukraine has come from one source, and one source only.
00:49:36.000The impeachment proceedings that bring us here now are predicated on false information spread by the Kremlin.
00:49:42.000Well, that's weird because Tony Bobulinski, unless you're accusing him of being a Kremlin agent, is saying the thing right in front of you.
00:49:48.000In any case, does this mean that Joe Biden is going to be impeached?
00:49:50.000Again, I think it's unlikely that Joe Biden will end up being impeached, but that doesn't matter.
00:49:54.000The American public know that Joe Biden was engaged in a corruption scheme with his family.
00:49:59.000Every member of his family got significantly richer off Joe Biden's name over the course of his tenure in the Senate, in the Vice Presidency, and in the Presidency.
00:50:06.000There's nothing new under the sun here, and everybody knows it.
00:50:09.000Alrighty guys, the rest of the show continues right now.
00:50:11.000We'll be joined on the line by one of our field reporters at The Daily Wire, Spencer Lindquist.
00:50:14.000Plus, we'll talk about whether Disney has some sort of death wish when it comes to the Star Wars brand.
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