Ep 174 | Is Our Military CAPABLE of Fighting WW III? Space Force Vet’s Grave Warning | Matthew Lohmeier | The Glenn Beck Podcast
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Summary
After spending his entire life in the Air Force as a real-life maverick, former commander of a space-based missile warning unit with Space Force, Matthew Lowmeyer was let go last year after he began to notice the radicalism creeping into the military last year. He was removed from that post after he talked about the neo-Marxist agenda that has infiltrated the military, and it is the subject of his new book, Unmaking the Military: Marxism's Goal and Conquest and the Unmaking of the American Military.
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out here in the hallway here outside of stage 19 we have an old old edit machine and it belonged to
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frank capra he was the guy who directed it's a wonderful life before he made that he made
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a series called why we fight and why we fight was edited on that machine it was a series that
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explained world war ii to the american public and it it opens with a vaudevillian narrator saying
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why are we americans on the march back then americans were marching into hell that had seized
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europe today we're fighting something that lincoln predicted an enemy within a whole new generation
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of cult members devoted to marxism or climatism but how did they weasel their way into every
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aspect of our lives from the classroom to the white house their contributions to society if
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you can call them that are rooted in negative violence protest rioting hair trigger raised
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rage the emotional instability they aren't revolutionaries like they want to believe
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they're in my opinion many of them are coward tantrum loving brats who suckle on capitalism
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as they whine about capitalist oppression they bully our children they attack our values they mock
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our families they in many cases have destroyed some of our towns they set fire to our businesses
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they steal your property decapitate your statues erase your history covet your money spit on your god
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and assassinate your character wow how do you get around that without having hate in your heart
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you're gonna like today's guest these people have found a way to silence their opponents
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in every walk of life including the military today's guest after spending his entire life in the air force
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as a real life maverick today um he's here um no longer as a commander of a space-based missile warning unit
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with space force because he was let go he began to notice the radicalism creeping into the military
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last year he was removed from that post after he talked about the neo-marxist agenda that has infiltrated
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the military and it is the subject of his new book irresistible revolution marxism's goal and conquest
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and the unmaking of the american military um i have so much to talk to him about we're going to talk
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about nukes because that's what he did for a living we're going to talk about space we're going to talk
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about the military um i have a feeling we're going to talk a lot about god um and i hope we get some time
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on aliens and uf ufos please welcome matthew lowmeyer before we get to matthew when it comes
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hi matthew welcome thanks glenn for having me you bet glad you're here
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um i will tell you this is the first podcast i think i've ever done where uh everybody was
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excited for the guest but oddly the women were more excited you're not excited no i'm excited but not
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not the same enthusiasm as uh i mean i don't look at you as the space hunk but uh i have a feeling a
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lot of women do um you know my wife bought me um for christmas a license plate i don't know what
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you call those things border i guess they don't make them for the space force yet and i'm a veteran
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of the space force and so for christmas she got me a customized license plate border that said first
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veteran space force and i was uh excited to to put it up so i set it on the back of my truck that i drive
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with the intention of screwing it in yeah to the back of the truck and i forgot about it oh my god
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i dropped it somewhere between my house in my office and it's been crushed by a hundred cars
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i still don't have that on the back but my wife uh she appreciates too that i'm the space force hunk
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so um look can we let's just start there for just a just a minute um you've never been to space you
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don't have to be in space to be part of space force you were you were looking uh at what
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in space what were you what was your particular job my particular job was space-based missile warning
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which ties in incidentally with some of what you've recently been talking about our cold war with china
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at the moment and the previous cold war that we'd fought with the soviet union we established
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along northern latitudes all across north america and western europe a ground-based
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radar early warning system so that we could detect icbms that were coming over the poles from the
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soviet union during the last half a century right and of course that grew into a space-based architecture
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that was also used in conjunction with the ground-based radars to do space-based missile warning
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so my career field in the space force and before that in air force space command is what it was called
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was space-based missile warning we do a number of other things in the space force
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but that was my area of expertise and uh the space force you know to to many people
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it's funny i travel all around the country and try and speak in various conferences
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and space force comes up when i'm in ubers and when i'm uh in airplanes and i ask people have you
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heard that there's a space force and the answer is almost always no so many people aren't aware there's
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a new branch of the military or they've thought well it's just a netflix documentary with steve carell
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and they think it was ridiculous right right so how
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uh how worried are you about the hypersonic missiles and china and the possibility of nuclear war
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now so this is a great question and it's not a question that most people ask uh as um a commander
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of space-based missile warning unit that used infrared technology and geosynchronous orbit i know
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that's that language can be lost on your typical americans the satellite rotates with the earth
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that's right right it appears from our vantage to be stationary correct uh and to give you an idea of
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how far out that is i mean if you had your typical globe sitting on the table and you put a yardstick
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uh perpendicular to that globe and put a speck of dust at the end of that yardstick
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relatively speaking that's where our geosynchronous satellites wow that far away yeah they're 22 23
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000 miles out wow phenomenal distance and uh so we would use infrared capabilities to detect heat
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signatures on the earth against a relatively cool background to look for rockets right and um one of
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the biggest challenges that our senior defense leaders admittedly have had is trying to figure
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out how to detect and track hypersonic glide vehicles uh i've heard some of them say that is the threat
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that keeps them awake at night if there was anything that kept them awake at night so we're talking big
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threats the kind of thing um and again i'm not going to assume that your listener understands what that
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is so by definition a hypersonic vehicle travels at speeds at least at mach 5 which is how fast it
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depends on um altitude air temperature and so forth so when you think of a jet breaking the sound barrier
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that's breaking mach 1 and at sea level geez i don't even know what it is anywhere around 600 miles
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an hour and of course that that speed goes down depending on your altitude and and air temperature
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and whatnot but um so we're talking multiples of the speed of sound and you know both russia and china
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have extremely advanced capabilities we pay close attention in the space force to the testing that
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china has been doing in particular with their hypersonic glide vehicles and how far developed
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that capability is and the united states is focusing on developing that capability as well
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it's my sense that we're a little bit behind the power curve if there was if there was a bell distribution
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and china and russia in this capability are somewhat on the leading edge of that bell curve and i'm i suspect
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that we're not uh yet on the leading edge of that bell can i just ask you why i mean it's as an american
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great question why why we we have this opportunity after um the end of the cold war in the 90s and beyond
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i think to maybe dominate the space domain we elected not to for whatever reason there uh i don't
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know if it's just policy decisions budgetary considerations you know the star wars program
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of reagan's era there was uh not just a um claim that we weren't yet technologically advanced enough to
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pursue the star wars initiative whether or not that's completely true but there was also very real
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global global geopolitical concerns for that program we're establishing a defensive architecture
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oh really yeah it could also very well be used as an offensive architecture and that is the that is
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your standard international relations security dilemma um that is probably one of the best
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contributions of international relations theory in my opinion is the security dilemma right and
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and so uh that's probably one of the best reasons i think that we didn't pursue that now i think
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during the trump pence administration when they became very serious about um what you could rightly
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term a space race between the united states and china and president trump got excited about the idea
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of an independent branch of the military for space i think that we were pursuing and perhaps still are in
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some ways some capabilities that we had long since abandoned since the star wars initiative and you know
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there are some capabilities although most of what we're doing in the space force is has already been
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done by air force and the department of the air force for a number of decades there are other capabilities
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and platforms that we are pursuing that i think the american people probably wouldn't hear about for a few
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years still but i've got good friends who've been placed in command of some of those units
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when you look at a hypersonic missile i believe it doesn't have to go as high right that's right which
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makes it dip more difficult to track and if i remember right it was i thought it was 18 minutes but i just
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read this week that it was 13 i'm sorry 30 minutes from russia to the middle of america is that the right
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number and what is the number for hypersonic same same distance the right numbers depend on a few
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factors now it's probably helpful to just mention that the original nuclear weapons threat at being
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delivered by an intercontinental ballistic missile the idea was that the missile would be on a certain
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trajectory would leave the leave the earth's atmosphere end up in space and then it would fall
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ballistically into a known target we can we can predict with relative accuracy what that target
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looks like uh when you get into hypersonic so it was but it was on power it was just falling to earth
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at some point after it burns out it's falling it's on a ballistic trajectory which makes uh detect so
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detecting the launch was relatively i won't say simple but really it's become quite simple for us
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and beyond detecting it then tracking it using both ground-based and space-based sensors and then
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targeting it to kill it or intercept it we have a missile defense uh architecture as well i wasn't a part
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of that i was part of the missile warning architecture but when you get into things that are moving much
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much faster than the than the the standard icbm ballistic trajectory and potentially also
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maneuverable platforms you can think that there's a target in new york city because for all intents
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and purposes it looks like the weapon is headed for new york city but it changes course and it heads
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to detroit instead or it heads down to dc and so even if we figure out the detection piece and even if we
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figure out the tracking piece and even if we're able to potentially get you know shoot the bullet
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out of the sky with another bullet you have to you have to ask where is it headed and how do we solve
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that problem that's why this is the kind of threat that keeps our senior military leaders policy makers
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decision makers up at night if anything keeps them up anymore we've got plenty of other problems as well
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but you know the point is um yeah how long your question was how long does it take for this
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weapons delivery to to happen uh yeah 30 roughly 30 minutes for this the old traditional icbm is a good
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estimate however it depends on where these things come from and with a with a hypersonic vehicle
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uh they can be launched from any number of platforms and potentially platforms are from places that aren't as far
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from our from our coasts as uh your traditional icbm i mean remember soviet union 1962 placed a bunch of
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i think they're medium range ballistic missiles as close as cuba now you're talking minutes for nuclear
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weapons delivery to a major u.s city hypersonics almost eliminate uh the need to even stage things
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that close just based on their speeds and you're right they don't go up into space and fall on a
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ballistic trajectory they can kind of skip along right in between space and the thickest part of
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dirty bombs and things like that but nuclear war right has i mean reagan and gorbachev both said
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it can never be won it should never be fought but we are now looking at the first time two superpowers
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nuclear superpowers are facing off not i mean still through a proxy today right but that facade is
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falling away quickly russia knows we want to topple putin and his regime it's becoming more and more
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apparent they think they could just collapse the united states uh by having a war with us if one of
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us are in the position of we're losing and they will be dominant we'll be gone that's when nuclear war
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actually becomes not reasonable but but potentially potentially likely yes that's right yeah when someone
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when an actor is backed into a corner uh and feels like it's left with few options right every other
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time there's this exponential increase in the likelihood of the use of extremely destructive
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weapons so that they can extract themselves from correct the dangerous existential problem they find
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themselves but people think of well we've been like this before afghanistan and they were going after
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vietnam it's not the same that's right this is the collapse of one or the other where the other was just a
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you know bloody nose or a bruised eye when we got involved in the desert conflicts for the past couple
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of decades um i think it's probably i don't want to say safe to say but um it's fairly accurate to say
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that the united states was the global hegemon and russia and china hadn't re-emerged as competing
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uh global powers and i think that's changed today it's entirely different to your point uh what we're
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we're at a critical juncture the uh position we're in relative to china and russia is is completely
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different than the wars that we fought in the deserts for the past 20 years and we dumped a lot
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of treasure and blood into those conflicts there but uh we're talking about re-entering a period of
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proxy wars i think we're probably in a multi-polar world between china russia and the united states
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uh where not only are we getting increasingly involved in ukraine there's a rising china invading
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taiwan threat and we have the potential of getting more involved in a proxy war in taiwan and the
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philippines and then we're upping our presence uh elsewhere in the indo-pacific theater uh which
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has been a policy recommendation to both the previous and the current administration in order
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to preempt a taiwan attack and invasion but there have also been really serious considerations about
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whether or not we should draw back out of the pacific because all of our war gaming says that
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a war that we get involved in in china's backyard in the taiwan straits is not going to end well for
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the united states and we don't even necessarily have the fuel in our tankers or the number of tankers
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required to fuel the fighters and the bombers in that region to successfully execute a campaign and
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establish air superiority over the island of taiwan and so policymakers have asked and strategists have
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had to ask really hard questions about whether or not we should stay put and they've been asking that
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question for a number of years of course those conversations don't happen in front of the
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american people they happen behind closed doors in the pentagon um but there's a legitimate case to be
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made for the fact that we're going to have our i won't say the word that's coming to my mind uh rear
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handed to us if we choose to get involved in a conflict there i mean the number of drones
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alone that china is able to send across the strait uh it is something that we would have an exceptionally
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difficult time pushing back before they soak up all of our missiles all of our all of our
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sweet aim 9x's we're shooting down balloons with um that um you know how do you wage a conflict after day
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three or day four when they've not even put up a manned aircraft yet and we're trying to establish
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some air superiority in the region uh it's a it's a it's a wicked problem and i think frankly
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policymakers and strategists are just hoping that the problem
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remains a potential problem for long enough that we can figure out some way to successfully
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navigate those waters but if it happens soon uh which i think there's um good potential for
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and frankly if i was xi jinping i'd do it while biden is in power oh yeah uh but it's a i mean
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this is a disaster in the making the bottom line and every time i start talking foreign policy or
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international relations i can't help but then rein in my own thinking to think about the tremendous
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problems we face here at home i hear nick i mean nikki haley was here on your show and i'm not
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interested in yet disparaging any candidates for the president but i have to say i disagree with
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the idea that we keep dumping our treasure into ukraine i agree uh we've got so many problems here
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at home that unless they have our undivided attention i mean they're likely to undo our country before
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hypersonic weapons do in fact oh with the soviet union i mean sorry russia is doing what we did to
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the soviet union they know we are on the edge i mean i've talked about this for 25 years there's
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going to come a point to where the enemies of america will go oh they are weak just a few more
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pushes and they're out and we're there we are there we're weak in every way yeah we are and we've
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demonstrated that i mean a lot of people like to point back to afghanistan withdrawal from last year
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and the year before that afghanistan withdrawal that was um tragic we were demonstrating to the
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american people and to the global community to putin and xi jinping that we had misplaced
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priority priorities within this administration and within the defense department i mean
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uh we're going to probably talk about it because oh yeah we are next to you no no we are i talk about
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our misplaced priorities and it shouldn't surprise us when we misplace our priorities that we would end
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up making terrible decisions uh in how we execute withdrawal for example so could i've had this
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conversation with conservatives here over the last couple of weeks because i believe we are in a
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different position than what americans always think we're in when we're talking about the military
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we think of war and we think oh well we're not really going to feel it you know like the last 20 years
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um and that you know who's going to beat america it's a different time a different military which we'll
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get into different leadership money uh prestige all of it is completely different than it was even five
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years ago right um and so people are saying because i i don't want to be i don't like putin i don't like
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the russian government i don't like the the europe um the ukrainian government it's dirty yep and our
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government is dirty i don't know i can't point to the good guy here right you know what i mean and i
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don't want to have my child go out and have to fight against or for any of those you know that's
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right um and so i say that and then people like oh we can't back out otherwise we look weak we
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couldn't look more weak than we look right now right so if you were advising the president
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what would you tell him to do with with ukraine and russia and china well first he wouldn't listen
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you don't care what i have to say yeah it goes back to something i just said a minute ago we've
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got so many problems at home that need our immediate focus right that that's where we need to turn our
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attention i'm not i'm not advocating to become an isolationist state by any means and our alliances
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are more important than ever i think uh now do they trust in our strength anymore probably not
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i think frankly as much as they work with the current by administration they probably think he's a joke
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uh and now depends on who you're talking about but right every serious country on the planet is
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willing to go to war to protect their territorial integrity and their political sovereignty
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so whatever one says about putin i talk about this all the time in public in fact i get asked
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questions are we doing enough in ukraine and i think okay i don't i think the question is misplaced
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first off but let's talk about just heads of state and whether you like putin or not and frankly
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most people don't and shouldn't right because he's a bloodthirsty killer right but the fact is as a
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head of state he's got a team of advisors around him that will help him understand threats to
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territorial integrity and political sovereignty and then he has real-time decisions to make
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based on an extremely dynamic data set about how he's going to act in the best interests of his
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country i can say that i think that his decisions are actually a reflection of some decent thinking
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and strategy that include some probably really bad decisions uh and foreign policy decisions of the
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west over the past and the nato alliance over the past couple of decades that people have warned about
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i cannot look at our own government at the moment and say that we have our own best interests
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can either uh at the forefront of our intentions we are not interested in preserving our territorial
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integrity we actually seem intent on destroying it and at every turn we're making policy decisions
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that threaten our political sovereignty and so i bring up those two points to say well i think i think
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xi jinping and putin are actually interested in making decisions they believe will help their country in
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the century now whether or not it will help right putin but they're actually trying i think they're
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my assessment and it's a novice one to be sure is that these people have legitimate care and concern for
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the well-being and the future march of their country into the century ahead and i don't get that sense from
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the current government in the united states and i think that china and russia get the same sense that i have about
00:28:23.060
the current administration and i think that many americans and i don't care if they're
00:28:28.100
pro-trump ra ra ra americans or not there are many americans who are concerned at the lack of
00:28:33.460
interest that the current administration seems to have and the lack of interest the dod seems to have
00:28:37.680
at pursuing legitimate well-prioritized uh policy and and strategy as it pertains to problems that
00:28:46.860
we're having in our own country and so uh that's the advice i'd give if i could give any advice at all
00:28:52.600
let's let's focus on the problems that the alligators that are nearest the boat
00:28:55.880
back to matthew in just a just a second as you know you think about the things that are going on
00:29:02.380
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before we get to the book one more question i'm greatly concerned about the blowing up the nord
00:30:26.320
stream pipeline probably five countries in the world that could do it the one that is makes the
00:30:33.180
most sense is us um we don't see any of anybody who investigated it on our side even saying anything
00:30:44.640
about anything you know it's kind of like yeah well that wasn't an accident uh and we're not going to
00:30:50.420
talk about it anymore um that if that was done without congress if it was done by us that's an act
00:30:58.560
of war if it was done by us and went around congress that's an act of treason as well can you give me
00:31:07.860
hope that you don't think that we did that no i well no i'm not interested in giving false hope
00:31:13.960
but here's here's you know i interviewed with you about a week ago on the radio for 15 minutes and
00:31:21.260
we talked about this a little bit and i've tried to learn as much as i can about this thing since
00:31:26.480
then and i've got a you asked me about um sy hirsch's report and while i said in that previous
00:31:33.560
interview that i thought it was entirely plausible what he's stitched together i can't help but wonder
00:31:39.140
if he's been fed some information deliberately that was um
00:31:43.960
sending him down the wrong trail i think the united states was directly involved i think it
00:31:48.520
was responsible probably and this is again uh an opinion i also think a navy p8 was responsible for
00:31:55.620
the attack what's a p8 uh it's it's uh you look it up i think it's a 737 that's been outfitted with
00:32:01.380
a bunch of bombs and missiles and um i mean go google or youtube a navy p8 and take a look at the
00:32:08.260
capabilities that that aircraft carries and there's a really great video that maybe we can push out
00:32:13.600
as a part of this that i came upon uh a friend of mine sent it to me and the guy traces the flight
00:32:19.740
path of a united states navy p8 uh that had had killed its squawk and went in and refueled in a
00:32:26.460
particular region waiting waiting waiting waiting for the right the right timing to then go drop
00:32:31.860
a payload and i don't know why it's not in the headlines yet but i'll share it with you afterward
00:32:37.480
because i think it's quite compelling so i i imagine that story is going to emerge
00:32:44.300
in the uh in the weeks ahead so if if that happens though see this is
00:32:51.520
i am like you i love america i think america is very flawed and has been for a long time
00:33:02.140
but when we like martin luther king said live up to your principles when we try to live up to our
00:33:11.360
mission statement of the things we found self-evident and we actually honor our constitution and the bill
00:33:19.100
of rights we do more good than bad but all of that is being dishonored all of that is gone
00:33:28.580
if if if they can do this without even congress knowing and approving
00:33:36.380
don't you have a uh unplug it and plug it back in kind of scenario where the whole thing has just got
00:33:45.200
to be reset to factory settings yeah speaking of a great reset i mean that might be one that's kind
00:33:53.080
of useful but how to how to properly manage that and how that will happen is that is the bad news
00:33:59.520
i mean because that's not something that um well the last chapter of my book i give what i consider
00:34:08.380
um it's a warning that's based on history about where this path leads if we don't immediately change
00:34:16.820
course which by the way is called repentance and i believe it's possible for national repentance
00:34:21.520
thank you but um and if if we don't do that we're headed down the path that leads to civil strife
00:34:27.920
more hatred and anger and violence you said the path we're on as a country leads to a fratricidal
00:34:34.500
and genocidal warfare right explain that yeah um i'm glad i put it that way because um people have
00:34:43.940
asked me questions about the potential for civil war and one of the ways you've heard people talk about
00:34:49.000
it now is a cold civil war which is apt um and when i've used the term civil war to answer the
00:34:55.520
question people have pushed back and said no no there's no north south divide in this country we're
00:34:59.620
not going to have a war between democrats and republicans and when they think quote unquote civil
00:35:03.940
war they're thinking about something that is cleanly um divided into halves and i don't think that's
00:35:10.400
necessarily useful right so i'm thinking more along the lines of something that looks far more tribal
00:35:15.840
uh where people flock to the nearest uh community whether it's religious political apolitical
00:35:24.000
areligious uh and that they believe can provide them the best security temporarily before they move
00:35:29.180
on to the next tribe that can provide could be familial fratricidal what i meant by that is
00:35:33.980
brothers and fathers and sons and family have such a hatred of visceral emotional response to one
00:35:41.260
another based on political disagreements uh for example uh that they could kill one another we've
00:35:47.920
seen this in countries all throughout the last century in fact and genocidal sometimes it's called
00:35:53.560
democide but when governments get involved in killing their own people and and you could see
00:35:59.300
already in the past couple of years how if a city became violent theoretically how the government
00:36:06.700
could justify the use of force against our citizens in order to keep the peace i mean that's one
00:36:11.840
potential legitimate use of government also but uh based on the uh recent precedent that they've been
00:36:19.920
establishing you've had plenty of americans tens of millions of them probably frankly that wouldn't
00:36:25.260
trust that their federal government at all would have their best interests um at heart and and so
00:36:31.820
there's that's what i meant by fratricidal and genocidal violence it's this it's this idea that
00:36:37.760
if you can sow hatred in the hearts of men using rhetoric or a narrative anti-american narrative we are
00:36:46.680
loathsome we are like vermin we are a white supremacist country um first off what u.s citizen wants to sign
00:36:56.100
up in an all volunteer force to defend that and many are losing their incentive to do that
00:37:01.660
but also over time that breeds hatred and anger and then when you have an angry people
00:37:09.860
and a hungry possibly and potentially a hungry people and when your children are hungry
00:37:15.920
and you don't trust the institutions and the bureaucrats around you to provide for you like
00:37:22.160
they always have or they're not coming to provide for you anymore people do terrible things and i'm not
00:37:28.340
trying to be fantastic i'm not trying to be hyperbolic in fact there's a great book that we
00:37:33.420
read at a defense strategy school it's by status calivas it's a terribly boring book it's called
00:37:38.620
the logic of violence in civil war and he surveyed uh countries around the globe that got wrapped up in
00:37:48.380
what were largely in fact although he doesn't emphasize this point marxist revolutions in the past
00:37:52.460
half a century and people described their experience in the who survived it in the lead up to the civil war
00:37:59.660
by saying things like i knew things were getting bad in my country but i didn't know it was getting
00:38:06.060
that bad and then we woke up one morning and the whole country was embroiled in violent conflict
00:38:10.120
and it didn't end for seven years or it didn't end for seven months or whatever the case might be
00:38:14.400
and they said it was like a madness swept across the land and you think about that from a spiritual
00:38:20.800
psychological emotional perspective when people become so emotional as ideology can make you or
00:38:28.580
false narratives of the country you live in then and you're filled with enough emotion and hatred
00:38:33.660
that you can really feel it it's guttural then you become irrational you become animalistic and you
00:38:39.360
become tribalistic and you're interested in survival and other things and and so that that's where i
00:38:47.260
think as impossible as it might even seem to some today it surely was more impossible seeming to
00:38:54.780
people two and three years ago although we've made a lot of progress uh towards that very thing in the
00:39:00.240
past couple of years unfortunately and without that kind of national repentance i think that's precisely
00:39:06.800
where things are headed and if again if i was xi jinping i would be well aware of this taking place
00:39:14.860
in our country and not only would i not be interested in if i i i i got pushback from some people after my
00:39:22.520
last interview with you with you who said that they they're military people and who i respect i respect
00:39:28.000
their view uh retired general officers emailed me and said they think that china is actually very
00:39:33.040
interested in a in a kinetic conflict with the united states and i thought carefully about what
00:39:38.640
they said i still disagree uh while there might be the the occasional exchange of conventional or
00:39:45.780
kinetic weapons in a proxy war somewhere like taiwan in an effort to degradate united states forces
00:39:52.480
i think that xi jinping knows that in the long run and in the long game his strategy needs to be to help
00:39:58.660
facilitate the decline of american society american culture and there's no better way to do that than
00:40:04.820
with narratives uh about how terrible a country we are i mean that's why what putin said this week
00:40:11.780
about america right is true is true but it is also part of the strategy from russia to point those things
00:40:23.080
out to continually stir it so you look at him and go he's a killer and he'll stand up for us more than our guys will
00:40:33.280
right well there's no better weapon he has at his disposal than uh to speak the truth about some terrible things
00:40:39.860
that the united states is doing saying to their own people um another example that you may not be aware of is that
00:40:47.840
several months ago the united states air force academy um gave some diversity and inclusion
00:40:55.040
training slides to their cadets and on one of the slides they taught their cadets that it was probably
00:41:02.200
insensitive and maybe even inappropriate to use terms like mother and father anymore at the air force
00:41:07.280
academy and so they should use parent one parent two guardian one guardian two and a cadet that was
00:41:12.440
really dissatisfied with those training slides leaked those and we shared them with fox news and then
00:41:17.780
there were a bunch of headlines that were generated about this to draw attention to the issue which
00:41:21.400
caused the air force academy senior leadership to backtrack and try and defend hey look we weren't
00:41:26.300
saying you can't use mom and dad anymore we're just saying try not to be insensitive monsters here
00:41:31.860
well putin within i think it was within a week gave a gave a speech in russia that seemed to me
00:41:39.760
i don't have the text on me here i'd read it to indicate that he was well aware of the trainings that
00:41:46.780
have been given at the u.s air force academy he said do we want here in our country where we care
00:41:53.420
about the the nuclear family parent number one and parent number two and parent number three he says
00:41:59.500
we don't need any of the satanic evil and all of the russians who want to support putin cheered and
00:42:05.500
all the western world looked at him and said well yeah he's right and we're pushing this stuff on our
00:42:10.200
people and putin said they're pushing it on the rest of us and it's got to stop we'll talk about a
00:42:14.060
great weapon in his arsenal oh yeah use our foolishness against us i was just talking to a
00:42:20.500
friend of mine as i walked into the studio here a little while ago and uh he was in so much pain
00:42:26.300
and i said have you tried relief factor and he said i'm trying it right now on my second week
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it is um it's hard to get past pain i mean he was at the point where he's about to give up
00:42:40.520
and that's usually when people try something like relief factor and i don't know why if you have
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pain try it now please don't let this be the last thing you try my wife said to me when i i said i'm
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not taking that it's not going to work for me she's like oh okay i thought you were willing to try
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everything i thought you were actually looking to get out of pain yeah yeah yeah so i took it
00:43:03.480
three week quick starts that's how i did it and in three weeks i started to feel a difference
00:43:08.580
my pain is gone most of the time my pain is completely gone try it three weeks 70 of the
00:43:16.160
people who try it for three weeks find out that it's working for them to some degree and they
00:43:20.880
continue to order more month after month if it's not working for you in three weeks at all it's not
00:43:25.760
going to help you it's worth the risk it's worth the 19 bucks 800 for relief 800 the number for relief
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or relieffactor.com so let's talk about um your book because you you go into uh marxism and uh i mean
00:43:44.980
you've you've nailed it down but tell me because people know that this stuff is happening and it's
00:43:52.580
happening in our schools etc etc tell me why this why somebody who is worried about putting food on their
00:43:59.480
table should care about marxism in our military great question what i meant by marxism and i just
00:44:07.800
want to clarify because people who may be skeptical want to distance themselves from the use of that
00:44:14.340
word as it pertains to some of our race-based trainings uh that come in the form of diversity
00:44:19.580
and inclusion trainings in the uniform services so i tease out the idea that's laid out in part one of
00:44:27.100
the communist manifesto about the oppressor versus the oppressed class and in the in marx and ingalls
00:44:33.660
communist manifesto from 1848 that was an economic class stratification kind of thing that had to do
00:44:39.960
with the bourgeoisie and the proletariat uh we've usurped that i mean the critical theorists have in
00:44:46.420
academia over the past century as you're aware and it became critical theory and critical legal theory
00:44:51.200
and now critical race theory it's still the same oppressor versus oppressed group structure but it's
00:44:59.180
blacks versus whites essentially i mean i'm simplifying things that is what i meant by a
00:45:05.020
marxist rooted critical race theory there's a clear lineage of ideas that you can trace from
00:45:10.960
marxist ideologies roots to the present day and all of our current critical social justice activism
00:45:17.640
that you see in the country why it should concern the person at home um the the short answer is
00:45:23.760
because the united states military has long been a bastion of patriotism and conservatism in this country
00:45:30.780
and the strength of the united states military is predicated upon its unity and critical race theory
00:45:40.640
destroys and divides everything it touches into camps into tribes as we were talking about and so the
00:45:47.420
last thing that the american man or woman wants at the dinner table whether they're aware of it or not
00:45:53.920
is for their nearby base of soldiers or airmen or guardians to be constantly brainwashed into thinking
00:46:03.760
that our diversity is our strength and that um there are real race differences here we ought to
00:46:11.060
be talking about each week so that we can help be more sensitive to one another and more inclusive to
00:46:15.780
one another no by the way as the air force recently announced we're going to get away from the number of
00:46:20.600
white fighter pilots that we've got we need to go from 80 percent white pilots white male pilots in our
00:46:27.140
force to 67.5 that was a that was the numbers that were given by whatever his position is there in
00:46:34.480
the pentagon a two-star maybe three-star uh in the air force who's uh responsible for public affairs
00:46:40.600
i just want the best fighter pilots i just want the best doctors all asian right you know all jewish
00:46:47.040
all black i don't care doesn't matter give me the best ones well that's the greatness of the american
00:46:52.120
ideal i mean merit matters in the united states military unity matters in the united states
00:46:58.360
military if you inject race-based identity politics you divide and then you start establishing quotas
00:47:05.880
and you lose merit and then you lose lethality and you lose readiness so that's why the american people
00:47:11.820
need to be very concerned about this is this something we i mean because i i remember in 2007 i think
00:47:20.420
i started kind of figuring this out 2005 is when i i thought wait a minute i don't think i don't think
00:47:30.440
the cold war really ended they just took their uniform off and put suits on you know what i mean it's the
00:47:38.300
same kind of stuff now it's just corrupt but it's the same guys you know same guys same ideology
00:47:46.380
roughly speaking right and even though it formally came to an end one of the things that characterizes
00:47:52.340
the difference between today and say 1991 is the degree to which foreign actors who share that
00:48:00.140
ideology are able to infiltrate the united states and our institutions and we've got more apologists
00:48:05.200
for this stuff or believers true believers true believers in this with embedded within the
00:48:11.780
bureaucracies unelected officials and elected officials both we've got them in uniform and we
00:48:17.200
pride ourselves in sending our senior military leaders to some of the best institutions of higher
00:48:23.840
learning that exist in this country and elsewhere because it's great when they come out credentialed
00:48:29.180
and now they know what they're talking about because they're experts they also come out
00:48:32.780
more and more left in their political bent and more and more supple and pliable in the hands
00:48:38.780
of a totalitarian spirited uh government policy machine which is what the current
00:48:44.260
the current just last week joe biden signed a new executive order the american people probably
00:48:49.600
haven't heard about yet it's furthering um oh what's it called it's it's more on race equity
00:48:57.660
furthering or further advancing race equity i think was the name fair no yeah f-a-r-e i think yeah and
00:49:05.240
i don't know if they're calling it fair but further advancing uh racial equity i probably got one of
00:49:09.500
the words in there wrong but i don't have the racial equity part wrong and if his january 20th 2021
00:49:18.420
executive order advancing racial equity hasn't done enough damage to the federal uh agencies and the
00:49:28.040
uniformed services he's ramping it up yet further still as of last week and yet there are there are in
00:49:33.540
fact democrats in congress who say that the fact that crt is being taught at our military service
00:49:39.460
academies is just a talking point of some rabid alt-right republicans that's total totally bogus
00:49:44.200
in fact it's been established by policy that they need to be teaching it and the military is happy to
00:49:50.440
comply and these people have been educated and now they're so educated they're going to help
00:49:55.560
educate the rest of so the military so when you look at this i've i've always trusted our military
00:50:05.780
i've always thought those those people generally speaking will follow you know the law and the
00:50:12.980
constitution um and they wouldn't turn guns on you know american people i mean unless the people
00:50:21.980
were just out of control they just wouldn't do it um however we are teaching them now that you know
00:50:31.660
peaceful people are monstrous terrorists and everything else um and i don't know how long it
00:50:39.120
takes to metastasize in something like the pentagon and the war machine can this be reversed how deep does
00:50:49.340
this go um you made a really important point that i want to draw back out it is unthinkable that the
00:50:58.880
united states military would turn their weapons on the american people but
00:51:04.020
governments turn their weapons on monsters governments turn their weapons on terrorists
00:51:12.160
governments turn their weapons on threats to democracy governments turn their weapons on
00:51:17.280
you pick your word i know and what you've seen over the past few years is that we have an ongoing
00:51:24.180
escalation of rhetoric about how dangerous the white supremacist alt-right republican is the trump
00:51:31.160
supporting mega republican uh they're so afraid that the january 6 footage has been handed over to
00:51:37.060
tucker carlson for example because that's too sensitive and it'll do terrible damage
00:51:41.440
the fact is you have to build sufficient narrative to dehumanize citizens in any country if you want
00:51:50.340
the uh government if you want the actors who are just normal citizens in one sense to justify in their
00:51:59.180
own minds and as an organizationally the use of force against their own people and you do that only if
00:52:05.520
you've been sufficiently educated into that kind of monstrous behavior but there's a growing belief that
00:52:12.140
we've got factions within our society that are just animals and monsters who want to tear down the
00:52:16.980
government and maybe there are plenty of those too and make no mistake about it plenty of people want to tear
00:52:21.320
down the government uh but uh so it isn't possible that american citizens who are in uniform are going to turn
00:52:27.740
their weapons on american citizens but they might on terrorists and they might on monsters
00:52:31.440
i know you're smart enough you know you know where i'm where i'm going oh i do so they're buildings
00:52:35.360
all the rhetoric that we see should be very troubling to us you hitler i know you have read ordinary men
00:52:43.520
that's right yeah i mean that's exactly how it happened exactly right exactly right so people are
00:52:48.840
puking their guts out because of the terrible things they did to a pregnant woman the day before or the
00:52:53.160
the family that they had to brutalize in the course of their job and americans are
00:53:01.420
no different than chinese no different than russians no different than nazi germans
00:53:05.120
they're just not humans or humans human nature is something that is universal cultural differences
00:53:11.760
aside what marxist ideology does to the chinese it will do to the american correct
00:53:19.560
so i don't think you answered can we turn that around maybe i did answer it
00:53:26.860
um it's a hard question there seems to be so much piling up that is out of our favor
00:53:37.280
um and so you mentioned the man or the woman sitting at the dinner table and they ask the same
00:53:45.980
question what is it that i can do and my answer is you know each of us has a unique sphere of influence
00:53:51.120
we operate in and the man at the dinner table his sphere of influence might be exceptionally small
00:53:57.760
and it might be the walls of his own home and the community he works in monday through friday and i
00:54:03.040
think it's the best advice i could give in this regard is that we can try to be the best humans that
00:54:10.800
we know how to be helping educate in a peaceful manner those around us within whatever sphere of
00:54:15.620
influence that we currently occupy and affecting some kind of repentance in that sphere of influence
00:54:21.920
there are others that have a much larger stage like you and others that run for office or who find
00:54:28.860
themselves in office who should be saying the same thing uh we need to change course is the bottom line
00:54:34.060
and uh solzhenitsyn said famously i think he was trying he was wrestling with as he wrote his
00:54:39.820
his uh gulag archipelago series he had a mountain of um evidence stories um testimonials if if you will
00:54:55.900
about why the things had gone the way that they did in the soviet union and he concluded after all of that
00:55:05.760
and this is right to your question he said i can't summarize any better than to say that men have
00:55:12.840
forgotten god how we ended up here and that sounds to someone who wants the more meaty fleshed out
00:55:19.060
secular rational it's like that answer because when when when we abandon god and i don't care what
00:55:25.900
religion people when we abandon god that belief system turns into a vacuum and ideal ideology fills all
00:55:33.760
the gaps and people are filled with a meaning in a new way and it's hatred for the other
00:55:37.720
and they set about trying to create order in the world by fixing the other and that leads to terrible
00:55:43.780
things and it all in the aims of establishing the utopian correct state and um you know i i don't like
00:55:51.120
saying history proves uh dot dot dot but history shows history has demonstrated in the past century
00:55:59.980
uh exactly i mean you can almost you can prognosticate where this is headed you could prophesy
00:56:06.700
where this is headed looking in the years ahead because we're no different than anyone else that's
00:56:10.800
walked this path of hatred i i've i've said this for 20 years we think we're so superior we think we're
00:56:21.000
so whatever with our technology if we continue to walk down this road and we are capable of
00:56:29.860
holding our country together at some point you know of some way with our technology we will make the
00:56:39.560
we'll make the germans look like rookies i mean it will happen it's human nature and if you read
00:56:46.700
what was happening in the 20s and 30s and you really understand the psyche of somebody who had
00:56:56.160
fought in world war one and then you look 10 years down the road and where they are we're repeating
00:57:02.460
almost all of the same things right you know on the navy reading list last year was ibram kendy's
00:57:09.460
how to be an anti-racist and i start working through this book and i thought you know i've got
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mind comp sitting on my shelf right and i wanted to pick it up and start to compare the spirit of the
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text and it was uncanny the fact that our military has advocated for reading texts that are filled
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with that kind of hatred and evil um tells you the point to which we've gotten in this country
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but it's not very different than hitler's worldview and i he he usurped he read marx he didn't he i think
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he detested marx and communism uh and we placed them on opposite ends of a political spectrum
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whether or not that's appropriate but he essentially usurped um some of marxist ideology and inserted
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race and then justified the extermination of people based on their race and we're marching that path
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right now and so we've got so much of the 20th century wrapped up in what's happening here but
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people don't know 20th century history one of the things that einstein also said it and you mentioned
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how devastating this could be i think he and this was before they developed like hydrogen bombs and
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at the very outset when we had started to develop the atomic weapon he said i don't know what weapons
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he said uh i don't know what weapons we will use to fight world war three
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but we'll use sticks and stones in world war four or something to that effect and that that's about
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right that tells you the gravity of the situation that we face i mean people can kill each other with
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ice picks but when nuclear bombs start going off uh it sets back civilization for an unknown period of
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time to the point where you don't have your electricity and your technology and the signal from your gps
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satellite anymore and you don't grow your food the way that you did before and so whoever makes it
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through that filter uh has a lot of work to do on the yes i was going to say it doesn't take a nuclear
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bomb now no that's right it takes it takes anybody who's not today living in a cave you know somebody
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who's not you know way off the grid in some place where the whole community is set up that way
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that's not the civilized world and you hit the power grids you take that down it could be months
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if not a couple of years before you could really rebuild a power grid if you hit it right yeah who's
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going to rebuild it i mean the the people currently sitting in their caves who don't know anything
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about the electricity right i mean it's yeah i mean it's uh it's not good um you you just brought up um
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stolz nichan and i know one of the answers in your book is uh live not by lies yeah i am
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such a fan of what he wrote in that i when i read that recently in the last two years or so
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it took on a whole new meaning um right and it is like it was written today for us
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um one of the things i like about so there's some good news in all of this
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when you talk about this kind of stuff it's so easy to get bogged down in how negative and dark
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it all is because it is negative and dark if you're not sure where to find a glimmer of hope
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look at the great opportunity that we've got before us to try our best to not live by lies
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and to become a person a human of honesty first and integrity ultimately who can learn true principles
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and live those principles and values despite all hell breaking loose around us whatever your community
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whatever your sphere of influence try and live up to that first try and live as a person of honor in
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a darkened world and that has so much see what the consequences are in a world where no one trusts
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anybody you know if if you can be the one person that in your circle of influence everybody goes he's not
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like that he's he's honorable if he gets it wrong he admits it he works to tell the truth hard and to
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keep honor you're that person the number of people you can affect in dark times is profound that's the
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hope and the light shines in darkness and the darkness comprehends it not oftentimes and so
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that's our obligation that's an opportunity it is a glimmer of hope and and you know here's another
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thing too i i was in fact um this will seem like a tangent but it's not i spoke here in dallas uh in
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december at a christmas luncheon and they said you normally talk about negative things we want you to
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come and bring a message of hope and i thought well then surely you don't want me to talk about politics
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and so i gave a christmas message and talked about christ and what i tried to do is talk about
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the time in which he came from a social political perspective the jewish people and and i unfortunately
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offended someone and that wasn't my intent and so i won't cover everything i covered and i i was
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trying i tried to be careful but it's clear that the jewish people were um a quasi quasi nationhood living
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within the greater roman empire at the time of christ's birth and there was an expectation and
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a hope that because they were god's covenant people he would come and fix everything politically for them
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and in fact god was crucified their temple is raised and thrown down and once again in history they go off
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into captivity that was god's covenant people and then in my view they were in an apostate condition at
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that time but here's the here's the parallel that i made with the present time i hear it all the time
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around the country well because we're his people and this is christian speaking because we're his people
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he will bring us through this and i think that's not how this works and so i unfortunately ruffled a lot
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of feathers when i share my view that that's not how this works and history does bear that out in fact
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and god has had covenant people throughout history but guess what that doesn't mean he's going to come as
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your political savior this week or next in fact he's far more interested in the individual soul
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oh yeah and in that long game than he is in protecting a wicked corrupt and degenerate government
01:03:40.540
our founders understood that or people or people are our people this is what's so scary is our government
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government is not the people however the people uh have gone dark darker than i've ever seen in my life
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um and god is not important the dollar is our lifestyle is and i i hear this from christians all the time
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that um you know well the the rapture well i i hope you're right because i don't want to be around for
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but just in case you're not right we need to engage and be um preparing for all things they also
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seem to it's amazing we're such self-hating egomaniacs um we expect god to do all these things
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um and and and and yet we don't have any faith that miracles can happen but miracles will only happen
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for a good and generous and decent people you know yeah the rest of us you know we'll he this land
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is so sacred i just don't think he'll have uh a a babylon uh and people of babylon on this land
01:05:07.100
no we'll start from scratch jefferson all of our founders were aware that we had no such false hope
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no promise from the from providence yeah as the word that they so often used that we would be preserved
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despite our ignorance and our immorality uh jefferson made it clear that ignorance and liberty were
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incompatible uh john adams uh said that our constitution does it doesn't i'm paraphrasing
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doesn't have the power to govern an immoral people holy and godless people it's holy and adequate in
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fact he says something like uh i mean the force with which we could bring down the constitutional
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republic would be like a whale going through a thin net if we you know an immoral people
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can't be governed properly by a constitute the constitutional construct that we have now that
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is our construct and so it's incumbent upon us to repent and return to something and at the end of
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my book in fact that was an important sense i had in writing the book and again and i'll reiterate
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this it didn't matter to me what someone's religious worldview or non-religious worldview was but
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there's a national repentance in order if they're a christian then they can repent and face the god
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of abraham isaac and jacob uh jewish the same uh if they're a buddhist or hindu and they're an american
01:06:27.100
then uh they don't need to repent and face jesus per se to save a nation the idea is that you repent
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and face an ideal that was at the founding yeah you believe you have a shared you have a community
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with shared knowledge and beliefs in an ideal and then they live that ideal together and they
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establish justice and we've lost justice and one of someone i i don't agree with everything he said
01:06:50.920
but um mortimer adler now long deceased mortimer adler had said uh there's there's a list of reasons
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for the constitution that are written into the preamble and justice is the establishment of justice
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is one of the first of those he says but if you lose justice then none of the other aims of the
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constitution are possible and i like that sentiment and as you look around and you look at headlines
01:07:14.620
and you watch what's going on in the world you can be sure that we're losing justice well that's for
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certain you lose justice which we have or really close to entirely losing justice redefining justice
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you cannot apply the bill of rights right that's right because you're looking for a different kind of
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justice and a justice that man can't ever solve that's right i i'm not i'm not a you know ufo freak
01:07:45.220
i am however uh skeptical as carl sagan said it best what a what a tremendous waste of space
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if we're the only ones right i just don't find it reasonable to think that we're the only thing in
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the vastness of space so won't surprise me if there's aliens um and i've always kind of just
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rolled my eyes a bit you know with frying saucers and everything else but we have come across
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according to the pentagon if i'm reading it right technology that is way beyond man's understanding at
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this point and the experts i've talked to they have said the way some of these things are moving and
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the things they're doing right if china per se had that technology it would have seeped into so much
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more of their society it wouldn't just be applied in that um so right what are these things do we
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what strikes me as curious is um now like you i'm skeptical uh because i've seen a lot in government
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yeah i've suspected that most of what people have been seeing is something related to governments and
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its futuristic technologies right you know skunkworks and darpa and all this videos you see it's like
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right they're doing stuff that's wicked cool and you're not going to hear about it for 20 years right
01:09:21.560
my uncle my uncle was in uh um engineering uh airplane engineering and top secret clearance
01:09:29.420
and i'll never forget when the the stealth plane came out he's like yeah that's old news yep
01:09:37.240
you know that's right so you're i'm i i agree with that yeah but i hear this is so far beyond is
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that true or not uh it is um what's striking to me about it is that
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i watched a documentary i didn't have interest in this um and but i watched a documentary with my
01:09:57.680
wife called phenomenon it was done in 2020 i think it's on amazon prime or netflix or somewhere
01:10:02.600
and i didn't know just how far back in history oh yeah these sightings go and even when you're
01:10:10.820
looking at recent history we're talking 1940s 50s 60s 70s well before the advent of the kinds of
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capabilities or technologies that i would think could potentially see we're now living in an age
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when i could when i could think well governments are responsible for what you're seeing and we just
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don't know about it yet but i wouldn't have thought i can't think that as i look back at the 1950s
01:10:33.480
right um and so and the eyewitnesses to some of these things there's plenty of kooks and quacks out
01:10:41.440
there i get it but some of the eyewitness testimony is startling and there's this one point in the video
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probably halfway through where these air traffic controllers are describing something some orb
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glowing ball of light or something that they saw zipping all over the flight line and i paused it and
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i said to my wife i've seen that and i'd forgotten this will sound crazy to the listener that i would
01:11:08.140
forget something like this but i was in high school in tucson arizona i was in the foothills in the
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mountains on the north end of town and um maybe the reason i forgot it is because i don't talk about
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i was with a girl and i don't want to talk about stories like that i'm married now and but i was with
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and we saw this orb is a better way i don't want to say ball of light because instantly i guarantee
01:11:29.980
people are thinking well it's ball lightning that you saw and it's a rare which i've seen and that's
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yeah and it's crazy and it's cool this is very different and so i told my wife that's exactly
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what i saw it didn't go away it hovered uh it seemed alive but almost static and it and it was
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completely motionless and soundless it was inaudible and as soon as she and i took notice of this object
01:11:55.600
it zipped right down to over our heads and it startled the hell out of us
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and if i couldn't tell how close it was but i probably could have hit it with a rock if you
01:12:06.920
could hit such a thing with a rock and it stayed there and we picked up our chairs and we booked it
01:12:11.200
to the car and we left and the thing right right then the thing was zipping off and leaving i it was
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probably no bigger than the table we're sitting at i couldn't see through it but it looked like i
01:12:24.900
could have reached my arm into it and there was no it wasn't being flown by somebody and it wasn't
01:12:29.440
something that we make that we humans manufacture and so it appeared to be a natural phenomenon but
01:12:36.180
extremely well organized and almost aware of us and as odd as that sounds i had that experience in
01:12:43.580
high school and chalked it up to some natural phenomenon i couldn't explain and i forgot about
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it until i'm watching this phenomenon this 2020 documentary and so my wife says you've never
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mentioned this to me i can't possibly be real you're misremembering or i mean she trusts me she
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knows i trust the guy but she questioned me she teased me a little bit and so i said come with me to
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facebook i'm going to send a message to this girl that i haven't seen for two decades and um i sent her
01:13:12.460
a message i said i won't even plant the idea and i said hey hey katie how's it going do you remember
01:13:17.600
that thing we saw in the mountains and she wrote back instantly she was on the little green dot was
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next to her name and my wife and i were just anticipating a response she says you mean that
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freaking ufo that zipped down out of the sky and hovered right over our heads and so my wife was
01:13:31.420
convinced i wasn't exaggerating the story and that i'd actually seen this thing i don't know what it was
01:13:37.180
to this day it could have been entirely natural it could have been intelligent and that said there's
01:13:43.180
something intelligent and conscious about light and truth anyway and so i can't quite explain that
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but yeah there is intelligent life in the cosmos i don't think there's just they're so stupid that
01:13:54.580
they'd bring their craft into uh the united over the united states or anywhere in the globe and be shot
01:13:59.380
down by missiles and or accidentally run out of fuel and crash into a field somewhere right and so
01:14:05.620
and do they look like green men uh i don't know i probably not i'm guessing if there's intelligence
01:14:12.280
out there hey man was created in the image of god how about we start with that right and so i presume
01:14:17.420
that there's intelligent life out there uh and hey we know there's angels out there so where do
01:14:22.120
where are they and uh what form do they take right but what why would the pen what's changed in the
01:14:29.200
pentagon i think the frequent i think a couple of things have changed i think the frequency has ramped up
01:14:37.060
uh i think the fact that it's getting so much attention on social media and the media they're
01:14:43.500
having to um uh spend more time talking about it i've had somebody tell me that it's now trackable by
01:14:52.860
two different two or three different points that they can get a ship an airplane and maybe land base
01:15:00.480
to to lock on to it and go yeah it's i see it three separate sources yeah does the united states
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government really not know what some of these things are that we keep you know it remains a
01:15:14.740
mystery to the public uh i have a hard time believing that they don't know what most of
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these things are that that's my sense despite what i've seen despite what um others claim they've seen
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that's probably as good as i can do on the ufo subject one last one last thing bigger chance of
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seeing an alien in your lifetime okay or the return of christ uh hands down the return of christ
01:15:38.440
i think so too i'm gonna keep checking my watch you might be here now i'm not a conspiracy theorist i'm a
01:15:44.960
conspiracy analyst i could say and we've been given every reason to believe in conspiracies in in the
01:15:50.580
modern age in the last couple of years and there's big conspiracies afoot uh no that said people know
01:15:57.080
me as very well grounded uh they know that i'm not interested in dabbling in something that i find
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inauthentic untrue ungrounded unscientific and so i'm very serious about that and i'm a hundred
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percent believer that in our lifetime we'll see the return of christ me too i'd love to have you back
01:16:13.340
you're fascinating come back you're fascinating maybe we'll talk flat earth and space i really want to
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talk to you about i want to talk to you more about space but this is really fantastic i think you have
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nailed it and you have given in in the book you have given uh as somebody who has prayed lord
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what do i tell people to do i think you have come up with solid solutions um and and things that people
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can do and you've hit the most important it's god if we don't humble ourselves and repent
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it's he can't help us he just can't help us that's right well thanks for having me thank you
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