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00:03:22.000It's been, it's definitely been a whirlwind.
00:03:25.000And Human Events is great because I think they really punch above their weight class right now.
00:03:28.000There's only a few people that are really working there behind the scenes.
00:03:32.000But in terms of the analysis that we're putting out on the op-ed side, it's second to none because what they do there in terms of their editing process, it's not like 500 angry words on a blog that someone's just firing.
00:04:24.000And we try as much as possible to link back to other human events articles on the news side so that you're really kind of staying within our ecosystem.
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00:04:41.000And it's definitely a standard that it's interesting because some of the people contributing and that have submitted things, they say, wow, you guys have this like long process and it's kind of annoying.
00:04:50.000I'm used to just like firing something off and it, you know, it goes up.
00:04:53.000But you know, we don't need to name any other sites.
00:04:56.000But I said, look, you know, I think that's something that eventually will set human events apart because you know when you're getting an op-ed from us, it is something that's gone through a very rigorous examination, a fact check.
00:05:08.000You're backing up your sources and it's all right there compiled for you.
00:05:12.000Humanevents.com, which of course comes from the first words of the Declaration of Independence, one of the course of human events, one of the greatest, if not the greatest, documents ever written, especially in the last couple hundred years.
00:05:45.000And Emmanuel Burke was the kind of cold water on the fire of the French Revolution.
00:05:51.000I love it because the only reason we got the Constitutional Convention was because Thomas Jefferson was in France during the Constitutional Convention.
00:06:15.000Well, he was sort of like, yeah, so Franklin was chief tipper and he was like the chief envoy because France, keep in mind that at that point in our history, France was our greatest military patron.
00:06:28.000We needed France just extremely because, you know, and then, of course, in the way that people look at it, it's France is peeling the U.S. away off from Britain as part of their 100 years' war and all the conflicts between France and Britain.
00:06:41.000Because at this point, and people always kind of forget this about when it comes to European history, that France was kind of seen as the rising power through the late 1700s, early 1800s.
00:06:50.000This is before, and then, of course, you get Napoleon, his wars of expansion.
00:06:54.000And this is all prior to, and the way we kind of look at it now, we always think of Germany and sort of their wars of when they were the advancing power.
00:07:02.000But really prior to that, it was France.
00:07:25.000So, is it true that our military is teaching or instructing or mandating critical race theory?
00:07:33.000What they're doing in our military now is creating and pushing social programs and social agendas as opposed to sitting there and explaining to us how to fight militaries, how to beat them.
00:07:48.000I was in the Navy, so when it comes to the Navy, our job should be how do we find the enemy ships and how do we blow them out of the water and send them to the bottom of the ocean, right?
00:08:17.000What I hear people, my friends that have stayed in, and when I talk to active duty folks now, it's far beyond anything that was going on in the Trump administration.
00:08:26.000They hit the accelerator on this thing to the floor.
00:08:29.000I've got people telling me, they say, Jack, they go through these extremist hearings and they're only focused on one group of people and they are trying to divide us.
00:09:22.000And I got to tell you, the entire time I was in the military, eight and a half years, and I really challenge people to go and to ask this same question.
00:09:31.000I couldn't tell you a single actual racist incident that I saw.
00:10:01.000Are you saying that the people in charge want to try to weaken our military?
00:10:07.000What I think they're doing is an ideological purge.
00:10:10.000I think they are trying to push people out, whether through attrition, through resignation, or from even not joining in the first place.
00:10:19.000They do not want people who are conservatives.
00:10:22.000They don't want people who have that strong religious core.
00:10:26.000They don't want people who believe in all the things that we just outlined, who actually believe in this country, because they view it as a force that is not.
00:11:39.000I don't really understand the military thing.
00:11:41.000How is this even remotely possible, Jack?
00:11:44.000Because for someone like me, like a civilian, it doesn't make any sense.
00:11:48.000And this, and I don't want to, you know, it is kind of cliche to say this, but under Obama, what they did was they focused on the military war colleges.
00:11:57.000And the war college system is, so you have to have a degree to come an officer, right?
00:12:01.000But the war colleges are different, each service branch has one of these institutions and they're within the military.
00:12:08.000And basically, what they are is: if you want to become a flag officer, a general, or an admiral, depending on your service, you go through one of these colleges, you go through their courses.
00:12:16.000But what they started using them for was to kind of find the people who were either part of the program.
00:12:23.000No, you're talking about like West Point Navy Air Force Academy?
00:12:47.000Before you get your first star as, hey, this is a route and two general.
00:12:51.000This is a no-crap admiral that you better be saluting when he comes on the ship.
00:12:56.000So those are not just leaders of the unit, they are leaders broadly seen of the force, right?
00:13:04.000And so they targeted these because they knew that if they went to the deck plates, if they went to the guys on the ground, they went to the grunts, right?
00:13:11.000The boots, this would all be rejected immediately.
00:13:14.000But they knew if they could get the leadership track, the management track, and they got all of this, by the way, from academia and from the corporate world.
00:13:22.000They say, if we can just get the management track and peel them off, and then we can find the people through this war college system who are either with the program or the people who aren't on it.
00:13:34.000And you can see this, by the way, in terms of who got promoted under Obama.
00:13:38.000And then this still continues today: that if you are somebody who's like, you know, views yourself in the mode of one of the World War II leaders of a Patton or a MacArthur or a Halsey or a Nimitz, you know, in the Navy, your career will be off-ramped.
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00:17:07.000And so when you have Milley up there, when he's espousing this stuff, I honestly think he believes it, right?
00:17:13.000He's just a guy who's become such a creature of the system that he doesn't see any difference in terms of what he's saying because that's what he's been told on every step of the way.
00:17:23.000And these guys, they learn that if you want to get ahead, if you want more stars, if you become obsessed with rank and status and achievement, you don't lead your men into victory the way that we would kind of, you know, this sort of the layman's view of the military.
00:17:39.000No, you have to find what the military is interested in, what everybody else wants you to be, and then repeat it and regurgitate it again and again and again, all on your way up.
00:17:48.000You don't ruffle any feathers so that as you get there, right, you are the person who's always been able to compromise, been able to compromise.
00:17:56.000So whoever compromises the most is able to do the, to achieve the highest.
00:17:59.000So the one, two, and three-star generals, almost all of them have to go through this war college system.
00:18:36.000But no, I think it's something where, you know, and I understand that when Trump came in, like, he's from that generation where he viewed, you know, he was born right after World War II.
00:18:46.000He went to a preparation right before like a soft West Point.
00:18:51.000So he viewed, you know, those generals and those admirals and everybody coming from the military.
00:18:56.000He still had those kind of like rosy-colored glasses where when he saw them, he's thinking of the World War II era.
00:19:04.000He references him almost every speech, right?
00:19:06.000Because that's his view of what a military general is.
00:19:09.000And because he hasn't been involved in the military, I don't think that he understood just how subversive the system had become under Obama.
00:19:17.000So now that this indoctrination center exists, or at the very least, I think you're.
00:19:25.000By the way, that's where it started, right?
00:20:04.000And so this is where this is where it comes.
00:20:06.000And then when you've seen there's a few videos where these guys will get challenged on actual quotes from Robin DiAngelo or some of these other CRT writers.
00:20:38.000And so now, so the war college thing makes sense.
00:20:43.000That's not going to get fixed until we got a new administration.
00:20:46.000I mean, this isn't going to get fixed either unless you see major pushback from within the military.
00:20:52.000But the problem with that is because they used that bottleneck to create the higher ranks in the military, then all of the people now setting the curricula for these sites are the ones who went through it.
00:21:02.000This war college thing is so brilliant.
00:21:04.000I so understand it makes perfect sense with how these apparatchiks work.
00:21:09.000So now it's all throughout the military, though, because then you have it properly instructed towards the Milleys and the Mattises and all these other.
00:22:19.000And I think they actually kind of forget what it's like to be out there in the field.
00:22:23.000And, you know, you're being told that you have to go charge the hill.
00:22:26.000But before you do that, oh, you've got to sit down and listen to why, because of the fault of how you were born and your immutable physical characteristics.
00:22:35.000By the way, you're responsible for the oppression of this and the colonization of that.
00:22:39.000And, you know, I've got a three-year-old and he's responsible for all that.
00:23:27.000And so I think you would see more of it, more agreement or embracing of this in the Navy at the enlisted rank because there's so many people, and I say this as having been in the Navy, they just view it as a job program, right?
00:23:39.000This is just a government jobs program that I can join and I get health care.
00:23:44.000I get education, they'll pay for my college, and I just go out and I get my paycheck and I do my job.
00:23:50.000For probably a third to maybe 40% or so of the force just view it as a jobs program.
00:23:57.000So they're not necessarily adopting it.
00:23:59.000But Jack, the fact they've been able to even have some success in the military, this could have cataclysmic consequences.
00:24:08.000So, you know, it's kind of like the Hemingway quote, right?
00:24:12.000You know, how does a country collapse gradually then suddenly?
00:24:15.000And so when you look at the rot in our military, right, the basic question is, are we prepared?
00:24:21.000And actually, Pacific Command, 7th Fleet, where I used to serve, so Asia Pacific, I was a China guy in the military.
00:24:27.000Obviously, I think everybody knows that.
00:25:24.000You had people who should never have been on the bridge in the first place that are making these decisions that don't understand the basic math of how your trajectories work, how Bering works, how if you're sailing information, that if another ship is going here and I'm going here, we're going to hit eventually.
00:25:41.000And then at the end of it, China does not have a force like that.
00:25:45.000China has a force that is completely based on meritocracy.
00:25:48.000They are completely based on who can succeed, who is the best, who is the most ruthless in many cases when it comes to their general officer corps.
00:26:39.000Well, so there is a native language from Taiwan, but there's also when the Republic of China government fled in the 40s to the island, they brought a lot more mainland Chinese.
00:26:52.000So now you do have like kind of a mixed bag.
00:26:54.000So what we have here is the same thing we have in Crimea, which is kind of a lot of ethnic Russians living in a certain region and the government wants it back.
00:27:04.000And so the Chinese government, it's priority number one, to get Taiwan back.
00:27:07.000And you see that even in a small little instance of how John Cena mentioned Taiwan and had to apologize profusely.
00:27:13.000Well, and this has to do with, and I've briefed actually some pretty senior leaders of our government on this, that Xi Jinping's rise to power.
00:27:20.000And he's a guy, by the way, I had the opportunity to meet when he, when I was in Shanghai, he was the Shanghai City party secretary on when he was on his way up.
00:27:28.000So back 2007, I actually got to meet him once there.
00:27:32.000And, you know, even back then, you knew this was a guy.
00:27:35.000It was like, he was like the Tony Soprano of Shanghai, right?
00:28:05.000But at some point, that bill is going to come due because the people that he has as his most ardent supporters are going to say, What have you delivered for us?
00:28:18.000And if he feels threatened by other factions within the party, if he gets backlash from his many, many purges that he's conducted throughout the party system and the military, by the way, then people are going to come and say, This guy's weak.
00:28:32.000He hasn't been able to make due on his promises.
00:28:34.000And that is going to lead him into a very dangerous position when it comes to Taiwan.
00:29:46.000So they've now started to reintroduce, you know, maybe we should look at star charts and basic navigation again, just in case we shouldn't be relying on this because they weren't teaching it.
00:30:07.000That's the first thing they've targeted.
00:30:08.000They know they want to get into our systems.
00:30:10.000And even if they can't get into them, they want to block them.
00:30:13.000That part of the radio spectrum that they're on, or if it's over the horizon, our ability to be able to piggyback messages from some targeter or one of our drones that's operating somewhere forward to be able to get target information back to one of our missile destroyers, right?
00:30:28.000They want to break down that complete system.
00:30:30.000And then third, they look at our carrier defense posture and our carrier defense system.
00:30:36.000So carriers are these huge, big, lumbering, floating airports, right?
00:30:59.000They're going to fire as many rockets and missiles and just cheap ordnance, whatever they can, to fire at these things because they know it's a percentage-based numbers game.
00:31:09.000If we can block 30%, that means we're not blocking 70%.
00:31:13.000So, Jack, I'm just going to make sure I'm understanding this correctly.
00:31:26.000So, what I'm talking about, and by the way, I actually am not one of these people who thinks that we are, I still think that the most likely scenario is that China continues along their slow path of just kind of absorbing Taiwan into their system through soft power, through economic ties, through financial ties, family ties.
00:31:46.000I think that's what the cultural ties are.
00:31:49.000I think they would prefer to be on that sort of, you know, Taiwan's like a 50-year plan, like a 100-year plan.
00:31:53.000But what I'm saying is, if they were led down that path, if there were a financial crisis and a leadership crisis that they were going to pin on Xi Jinping, and then he felt that his leadership and that his role was threatened.
00:32:07.000Remember, when Mao felt that his role was threatened after the Great Leap Forward, what did he do?
00:32:12.000He launched the Chinese Cultural Revolution, around the country, ginned up the Red Guards 10 years, everything shut down.
00:32:19.000If Xi Jinping feels threatened, it's Taiwan.
00:33:19.000Well, and this is something you go back, even Bill Clinton, right?
00:33:22.000When Taiwan had their first presidential election, even Bill Clinton sent naval ships and naval vessels to defend the Taiwan Strait in a show of force because China didn't want Taiwan to hold those elections.
00:33:34.000Even Bill, this was a bipartisan thing, right?
00:33:36.000This was something Democrats and Republicans broadly agreed on.
00:33:38.000It said, you are not going to get Taiwan.
00:36:23.000So Jack, the question is, should we get involved then if the Chinese government says we want to take back Taiwan and we have to make that snap decision?
00:36:56.000That was something that Trump made throughout four years while he was in office, something he campaigned on.
00:37:01.000And then eventually even Biden had, and it's very interesting that Biden doesn't even say it publicly, but he's like, he kind of just acquiesces and says, yeah, we were wrong throughout the entire Obama administration and you were right.
00:40:18.000In 2022, if he is faced with a rival, if he is faced with a serious, what they would call loss of face or lack of leadership, crisis of leadership, I think Taiwan would be his number one priority to say.
00:42:20.000They'll put up, you know, it's like the South China Sea, right?
00:42:25.000So when I was a Navy officer, you know, and I'm looking at the South China Sea, and I would say, write my report and say, hey, they're building islands.
00:42:34.000Hey, they're putting military stuff on the islands.
00:42:36.000Hey, they've got an aircraft carrier and they're using the islands to, you know, conduct aircraft trials, right, when it comes to the aircraft carrier, right?
00:42:44.000And then we would just make note of it.
00:42:46.000And then you might put out some dispatch or some release, or oh, there's going to be a very strongly worded United Nations letter about the whole thing.
00:42:53.000But at the end of the day, we give and we give and we give to China on all of these fronts.
00:42:59.000Meanwhile, what are they doing with One Belt, One Road?
00:43:01.000They're building, they're building infrastructure through Xinjiang.
00:43:04.000So Xinjiang, the Uyghurs, all of that, it's about them, but it's not about them.
00:43:37.000So Tibet, Xinjiang, that's right across the border from India.
00:43:40.000India understands this, and China understands that their greatest rival in terms of population, in terms of economy, and in terms of military, able to fill a land military on the continent of Asia is India.
00:43:53.000And so that is why when you look at One Belt, One Road, they are encircling India.
00:43:58.000India's not, India's very point in all that is they're looking at what we would do and they're planning backwards from there.
00:44:10.000Yeah, India could throw a wrench into their plans.
00:44:15.000China's greatest weakness is its over-reliance on the party and its under-reliance on actually just believing in their own people and allowing their people to rise on their own and have that ability to sort of just have this.
00:44:30.000I mean, it's cliched, but to have the same ability as people in a free nation would have to really grow their structure.
00:44:36.000So there are protests in China every single day, every single week.
00:45:00.000That's millions and millions of people without work.
00:45:03.000They already have a floating population of internal migrants, right?
00:45:08.000This all goes back to the Hukou system.
00:45:09.000We don't have time to get in all of that, but people who are essentially illegally working in cities where they haven't been given permission to work.
00:45:15.000This is millions and millions of people that have been checked out of the Chinese system that aren't allowed access to capital.
00:45:34.000If you can separate that from the leadership of the party, what I call the 1% of China, because if you look at it 90 million versus 1.4 billion, it's about 1%.
00:45:43.000If you can separate that and get them to understand that this party is not working in your interests, right?
00:45:50.000This is why, by the way, when the pandemic first started, that was a very dangerous moment for Xi Jinping because they understand what happens in China.
00:45:58.000They believe in a cyclical version of history and dynastic decline, dynastic cycles, right?
00:46:04.000Every dynasty in China has fallen at some point.
00:46:06.000And if you look at it through this lens, the Communist Party is just the new dynasty.
00:47:18.000I don't think it was released intentionally.
00:47:20.000I think a bioweapon released intentionally, number one, it wouldn't make sense for them to do that in their own population.
00:47:25.000And number two, it just from the bioweapons that I've studied from my time in the IC and from microbiologists I spoke to in the wake of this, it just wouldn't look like so it was released accidentally, but then covered up intentionally.
00:47:39.000That's basically what the way I look at it is.
00:47:41.000But I also would really ask questions about why were those planes allowed to leave Beijing?
00:47:48.000Why were those planes allowed to leave Shanghai?
00:47:58.000Go back to the Chinese ambassador to India's statements, or excuse me, Italy's statements, very early on when Italy was talking about shutting down.
00:48:11.000How dare you say these things to China?
00:48:12.000How dare you say that we should shut down travel with China?
00:48:16.000They knew what was going on, and I believe that they made a strategic decision that if there's going to be a pandemic, why should we be the only ones who suffer?
00:48:25.000And I don't know if the world is ready to hold them accountable.
00:48:30.000Because even the WHO at this point, who was the strongest defender of China early on, even Dr. Tedros, who has done everything he could to help this cover-up, has come out now.
00:48:41.000Finally, we're almost two years into this thing.
00:48:44.000And even finally, now he's come out and said, you know, I have worked in a lab and accidents do happen.
00:50:15.000And I worry that what they're doing now is they're appealing back one layer of the onion and saying, okay, there was a leak, fine, but it was just an accident.
00:50:22.000No, You were doing something in that lab to create enhanced viruses.
00:50:30.000And like, I go back to those early briefings, the task force briefings where I was paying attention.
00:50:35.000And Dr. Fauci's up there, and what is he talking about?
00:50:42.000I can read a report, I can hear those functions.
00:50:44.000And then I look at the studies that they were working on.
00:50:46.000And then they stopped talking about it.
00:50:47.000And they completely stopped talking about it.
00:50:49.000And you look at the studies, they said, well, we inserted the spike protein into the bat coronaviruses.
00:50:55.000And then we used something which they call transgenic mice.
00:50:59.000And transgenic mice means they injected ACE2 receptors into mice so that they would have the same type of functionality as human lungs to see if those.
00:51:09.000those newly enhanced viruses would then infect the humanized mice.