MARCH TOWARD GLOBAL CONFLICT
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In the wake of Iran's attack on Israel on October 7th, some are asking whether the United States should have done more to help defend itself. Former Vice President Joe Biden's response to the attack has been widely criticized, and some have suggested that he was actually guiding Iran in part of the attack. In this episode of The Great America Show, we talk to National Security Analyst Gordon Chang about why we should have been prepared to defend ourselves, and why we failed to do so.
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Hi, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show.
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an unprecedented attack against the Israeli nation of firing missiles,
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ballistic and guided missiles, rockets by the hundreds into Israel.
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And with an amazing, an amazing result, that is,
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99% of those ostensibly were intercepted by the United Kingdom,
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the United States, by Jordan, and the Israelis.
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And only 1% got through, and that 1% apparently doing no real damage,
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But nonetheless, it is an unprecedented attack,
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an attack that Prime Minister Netanyahu and the State of Israel cannot ignore.
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And the Iranians started almost immediately trying to explain how this was a conclusive act
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and that Israel should not make the mistake of retaliating itself.
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Preposterous and nonsensical propaganda on the part of the Iranians,
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And it is only by benefit of advanced technology in the hands of those fighter pilots
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and the commands from the U.K., the U.S., Israel, and Jordan,
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that there was not more damage, far more damage and injury as a result.
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So we wait, as we will learn at some point, when Israel decides to retaliate.
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And there are now reports that Joe Biden was actually guiding Iran
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These are unconfirmed reports, but nonetheless reports.
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And given the perverse nature of the Biden regime's policies, foreign and domestic,
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one has no reason to question those reports, other than journalistic obligation, of course.
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I am delighted to tell you that we have with us Gordon Chang.
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I consider him to be foremost among the Asia experts,
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foremost among the national security experts in this country.
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And, Gordon, we're delighted to have you with us, and we appreciate your time.
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Let's very quickly turn to your impression of the performance,
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but the performance of the Biden administration itself in the run-up to this moment
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and his absurd, to me, and inexcusable conduct as the commander-in-chief.
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The broader context is that the world has fallen apart
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since the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.
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China and Russia are fueling insurgencies in North Africa that look like wars.
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And then, of course, the attack on Israel on October 7th
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and the spreading of that war throughout the Middle East.
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One mistake after another has convinced Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin,
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and others that they can take on the United States and the international community.
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And right now, we have Biden trying to prevent Israel from retaliating
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What Biden sort of thinks is that we're still in peacetime
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and that we can avoid escalation, but we're not.
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But escalation is a concern during peace, but Israel right now is involved in a total war.
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It's a war where the other side, Iran, has said it's going to destroy Israel.
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I know that a lot of people think that that might be extreme,
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but the point is we are now seeing China engage in proxy wars,
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And if we don't start defending ourselves with the vigor that is necessary,
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In the late 1930s, there were separate wars around the world.
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They merged into what we now call World War II.
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We are seeing the same dynamic today, the almost irresistible momentum to global conflict.
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I think that that is salient analysis and absolutely one of the most rational conclusions
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one could extract from what we are witnessing around the globe, as you say.
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I also, at this moment in history, truly believe that the United States,
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and this, as I called it, a perverse regime under Joe Biden.
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At most, he is a cardboard cutout, a figurehead, a puppet, but no better than that.
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Your sense as to who actually is running this country right now, and by that I mean making
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the national security decisions that mean life and death, war and peace.
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You know, I think that as we see in the National Security Council and in the State Department,
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there are many people who are more loyal to Iran than they are to the United States,
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and that helps explain inexplicable decisions that Biden nominally made himself.
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So I think that we have really just not only disloyal elements, but people who are just totally
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But, you know, the one thing I know is we are seeing what's happening in the world.
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And if we contrast that with Biden's predecessor, there was peace for four years.
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And there were a lot of reasons why the Trump policies worked and the Biden policies didn't.
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So really, whoever is making those decisions, and I agree with you, it's probably not Biden
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We see that this is creating the worst of all possible outcomes for us.
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As Gordon put it, we're going to take a larger look at what is happening in the world and why.
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Because there is much to be considered and to try to reach some understanding of exactly where
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We're back now with Gordon Chang, a preeminent expert on Asia national security.
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And I want to say, Gordon, that as we look around what is happening, this is an administration
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that has opened up a border 2,000 miles long to the south.
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We are watching an estimated almost 15 million illegal aliens have come into this country at
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Biden's invitation since he took the Oval Office.
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But it is also a national security issue to consider the state of our economy, almost $35 trillion
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We know that the deficit will be somewhere between $1.5 and $2 trillion this year.
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It was always said our economy was the foundation of our national security.
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Because from every level, from within and from without, we're under threat.
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And by the way, when I say within, I'm also talking about the tens of thousands of Chinese
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nationals, males, military age that have crossed that border and are now in the United States.
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For what purposes, we do not know, but we have to assume the worst, I believe is true.
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And also decamped in northern Mexico, tens of thousands more of those Chinese nationals.
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Give us your sense of what you suspect these fifth columns that are rising up right now within
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the United States, whether they're the Chinese nationals, whether they are from various parts
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of the Middle East and associated with terror groups.
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Many of the Chinese coming across our border look like they are here to attack us.
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Beijing is creating the infrastructure in the United States to attack us from our own soil.
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If we go back two years, primarily the Chinese migrants coming across our borders were family
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In other words, desperate Chinese would want to live in a free society.
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But these days, U.S. Border Patrol is reporting that at least 80 percent, probably around 85 percent
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They are military aged males traveling in packs of five to 15 without family members.
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We know that Border Patrol says that some of them actually have links to the Chinese military.
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And, Lou, you know, at the end of January, there was a website, Define America, that posted
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images of Chinese migrants who had been in our country for less than three weeks, who came
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They were taking target practice with pistols and, in one case, a sniper rifle.
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But Blaine Holt, who's a retired Air Force general who lives in Idaho, has said the same
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So we have to assume this is occurring around the U.S., which means that we have to assume
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That's the point of having ports of entry and doing immigration and customs inspections as
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those people who are crossing that border come into our country.
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And no bigger fool in the world exists than Joe Biden.
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It's absolutely dissolving around us right now because of the decisions taken by the Biden
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I can't call him a president because if I did, I'd have to say illegitimate president because
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And we hope that we'll see an election this year that is not rigged.
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The world, how does it look at us now as we are our commander in chief refuses to even,
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as this conflict with one of our most important allies in the world, this conflict doesn't
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even merit a public speech by the president of the United States, ostensibly, the commander
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You know, if we go back to I think it was August of last year, Biden gave a speech to Democratic
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Party fundraisers in Utah, and it was closed to the public.
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And Biden actually said some things which I thought were quite realistic in terms of how
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But Biden refuses to talk to the American people in the same way.
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And that is an abrogation of his number one constitutional duty, which is to protect the United
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You can talk to people in Asia, you can talk to people in the Middle East, and they are
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rooting for President Trump in the November election.
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And basically what they're saying, Lou, is that if Biden were to win, that people in
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Asia, people in the Middle East are saying they have no choice but to come to terms with
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In other words, they're going, these are traditional friends of the U.S., but they realize that
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they have no choice if Biden wins another term.
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And I think that that is certainly the way I see it, because we cannot afford another four
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years of what we have seen, which is the purposeful takedown of American institutions.
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Anyone who would even contemplate the possibility of voting for a Marxist dem in this moment in
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history is turning over the country to the Marxists, absolutely ending our constitutional
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republic, and then we can start to worry about all the rest of it.
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The fifth columns within the threats from Russia and from China and Iran and around the
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Our national media is captured by the Marxist dems, the oligarchs who are demanding that they
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ignore the right, they ignore the MAGA and America first, of course, and we have no response
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from our leaders, so-called Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Actually, as Rand Paul said, Senator Paul said, this is a moment where we have a Speaker of
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the House that is governing exactly like a Democrat, and yet he was in Mar-a-Lago standing next
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to the president of the United States, both former and future, it's mind-numbing to watch what's
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You know, just to go back to the conversation about purposeful destruction of the U.S., you
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know, if you go back to the September 11th deal of last year that Biden arranged with Iran,
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that was the release of certain individuals, as well as the unfreezing of, I guess it was
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You know, and part of that deal, which hasn't gotten reported very much, is that President
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Biden actually gave clemency to five Iranian operatives, and he allowed three of them, three
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This is a hostile regime that talks about destroying America, and he's allowing their operatives to
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We have, the State Department is still providing security to State Department officials in the
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Trump era because they're worried about Iran assassinating them, and Biden allows these
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What do you think of the reports, unconfirmed, but they are reports, and, you know, by responsible
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organizations, that Biden may have been actually giving guidance to the Iranians during the
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This would be part of Biden's appeasement of Iran, that he is working so hard to try to
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get them to do things his way, to see things his way, that he is empowering them.
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He empowered them with all that cash and in other ways as well.
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But, you know, one thing, you know, we know from what his administration has done, and that
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is, it has given Iran the means to attack Israel.
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And the reason why this is important, among other things, is because China stands behind
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Iran is China's proxy, and that means we are supporting a militant regime in Beijing that
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is attacking our friends and allies, and indeed, the United States as well.
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We are supporting, incredibly, the Iranians against our ally, Israel, and trying to make
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It may be the American era, but it may be also the era of just utter madness.
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And that will depend on the outcome on November 5th.
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Gordon, as always, we thank you for being with us.
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Gordon Chang, a great American and a brilliant national security analyst.
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And as I said, I think the foremost expert on Asian issues in this country.
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I want to say thank you for being with us here today.
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A lot of stress and strain for all of us as we go through these dark days because of the
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leadership in Washington, D.C., make no mistake.
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That is the principal cause of all of our misfortune and a country that is, as I said, under some
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Our prayers go out to all of the Israelis, to the nation of Israel.