With less than two months until the mid-terms, we re watching the political landscape shift all across the country, and we ve got a lot to cover. President Biden s approval rating is in the tank, his student loan forgiveness plan is an albatross around his political neck, and a top FBI official is under investigation for business dealings with sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deriposky. We re also joined by Chad Robichaud, a decorated U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran, a best-selling author, a professional MMA champion, the founder and President of the Mighty Oaks Foundation, and the Co-Founder of Save Our Allies, a new book available for pre-order now.
00:12:05.420We still have 80,000 troops in Japan, 30,000 in Germany, 40,000 in South Korea since the World War II and Korean wars.
00:12:14.020Like, why were we in such a hurry and so hasty to get 4,000 troops out of Afghanistan
00:12:19.380when the entire international community was participating in an international effort that was the way it should be to keep terrorism at bay?
00:12:26.860We controlled the most strategic place in the current world's globe, which is Bagram Air Force Base, between Iraq, Iran, Russia, and China.
00:12:34.380And we abandoned it without any consultation with the international community, without consultation with even the Afghan government.
00:12:41.640The only person that people in the United States negotiated with was the Taliban, which is the enemy terrorist organization.
00:12:48.820And this Doha agreement that was signed to the peace, the Taliban peace deal is just such a joke.
00:12:54.300I mean, the agreement says that you're going to sign a deal to not allow terrorism in Afghanistan with a terrorist organization.
00:13:02.520The Taliban, we can't forget, is a terrorist organization.
00:13:05.880And so to be in a situation we're at right now should be no surprise to anyone.
00:13:10.200The world is a much more dangerous place, and we've seen that recently with al-Zahiri walking around Kabul freely.
00:13:16.740It was so frustrating for me to hear this administration brag about, hey, we killed al-Zahiri.
00:13:22.840It would be like if you lit my house on fire and threw a glass of water on it and wanted me to say thank you.
00:13:29.040Like killing al-Zahiri and Kabul is because you created a scenario for a safe haven of terrorism and al-Qaeda to feel free that they could walk around Kabul.
00:13:37.880And so the world is a much more dangerous place today because of it.
00:13:39.940This administration, to be clear, is not blessed with great geopolitical foreign policy acumen or talent.
00:13:53.720Right now, most Americans don't even know who the National Security Advisor is, the Secretary of State or the Department of Defense Secretary.
00:14:02.700I mean, when you talk about Lloyd Austin and Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan and President Joe Biden, they're all missing from the White House right now and not speaking to any of these issues.
00:14:19.240They don't want to remind anyone that a year ago they created the greatest stain on this country's reputation in the modern era in foreign policy and in the failure to keep promises.
00:14:33.180You know, Chad, when I think about what you've gone through, Saving Aziz, the title of your new book, it'll be out in January, folks, and we recommend it to you highly.
00:14:41.960I think, when did America quit keeping its promises?
00:14:46.420When did America start thinking, like, we'll keep the terrorists, you know, hold up somewhere in the remote regions of a faraway country like Afghanistan?
00:14:58.000There was a time when this country went out and killed those who meant to do us harm and made damn certain that the rest of the world knew all about it.
00:15:07.220I can't think of anything in the modern era that compares to the doctrine, thank you, David Petraeus, General David Petraeus, the doctrine of the long war.
00:15:19.560Why in the hell did the United States ever quit thinking about killing its enemies and instead letting its allies be killed
00:15:28.880and to allow our soldiers, our Marines, our service members to be on harm's way for 21 years?
00:15:39.700There certainly isn't any forward thinking going on right now, Lucas.
00:15:42.920I mean, how could, with this reputation of doing this, how could America ever gain the trust in the future war of local nationals?
00:15:51.700Wars are won by relationships with the local nationals.
00:15:55.420And we know this from, you know, just history shows that if we can't have relationships with local nationals as we move into future wars,
00:16:02.540because America always will be defending its freedom and freedom around the world,
00:16:08.060how could we ever be successful in future wars when we have a reputation like this?
00:16:11.780Right now in Ukraine, I've made great friends with some of the Ukrainian soldiers.
00:16:16.800And when you make great friends with people and especially the personality of the Ukrainians,
00:16:20.380you do a little jabbing at each other and have a little fun picking at each other.
00:16:24.820And there's been a lot of that on the road as we spend, you know, many days and nights traveling around Ukraine.
00:16:29.020And one of the things that we get made fun of the most is how embarrassing the leadership is in America.
00:16:35.960And it's, you know, all in good fun and picking, but the truth is, it stings and it's embarrassing because I'm proud of our country.
00:17:08.220It is also a strong statement as to what and who we've become.
00:17:13.700What I think about, as I just said, our national security apparatus and the national security team, whether it's defense or state.
00:17:24.200I've got a question because you have you have been throughout a hero to our allies, to Americans, to your your comrades at arms in the services of the United States.
00:17:39.200Has once the State Department, and I'm really curious about this, has once the State Department turned to you or the Department of Defense, please come.
00:17:50.600Our senior officials, because they need to hear what's happening on the ground with a man who has been there representing the United States and in in combat and humanitarian missions.
00:18:07.900Rescues, have either one, either the State Department or Department of Defense asked you to come to speak?
00:18:18.660You know, the State Department has not, the State Department, in fact, you know, has been nothing but a an obstacle to doing, you know, doing the right thing.
00:18:27.620I mean, I think a lot of when I say our efforts, I want to just take all credit for the NGO community, the non-government organization community of the United States really stepped up to where the government didn't in Afghanistan and embarrassed it embarrassed the State Department.
00:18:43.280And rightfully so, because they were just a disaster.
00:18:46.120They took over the NEO operation, which is non-combatant evacuation operation of Afghanistan.
00:18:50.560I write a lot about that in the book so people could understand how much of a blunder that was for the White House to take that away from the DOD where it belongs and give it to the State Department, which is a total conflict of interest and costs lives, thousands and thousands of lives.
00:19:06.180And so the State Department is embarrassed, so they're embarrassed by organizations like us.
00:19:09.680So they have really worked against the migration of these SIV applicants to get them to the United States.
00:19:18.560I mean, I know Glenn Beck and Mercury One is in constant battle with them as the State Department.
00:19:24.300They try to move people to one country and the State Department will call ahead and tell that country not to take these SIV applicants into their country and really giving them no place to go, no place to move these people to.
00:19:36.200So you mean the Department, the U.S. State Department, is insisting on breaking promises made to these SIVs, to our allies, to those who are shoulder to shoulder with our service members in combat and in conflict in Afghanistan.
00:19:56.080They're not only not keeping promises, they're assuring that they are broken and that we are sealing off avenues of rescue and refuge for those very same people.
00:20:12.440And as a motivation behind it that I can't understand because it's very aggressive, it's not passive at all.
00:20:18.020They're very aggressive about making sure that NGOs are not able to move these people not only into the United States but from country to country.
00:20:29.400So, you know, I mean, it would be no business of the United States if I was to get an Afghan refugee and move them to a, let's say, to Brazil.
00:20:39.660Well, that has no interest to the United States, but they have shown over the last year that they will go out of their way to call that country and say do not take any of these Afghans into your country and they're not allowed visas for them.
00:20:55.340In fact, in my book, I talked about a group that we brought to Albania.
00:21:00.220We brought 300 Afghans to Albania and as we're bringing them to Albania with permission from the Albanian government, I was on my social media and I was saying I was in an undisclosed location.
00:21:10.360And once people found out it was Albania, they're like, why did you say an undisclosed location?
00:21:16.300It wasn't dangerous for my personal safety.
00:21:18.440What it was dangerous for is if the United States State Department would have knew we were taking 300 Afghans to Albania, they would have called the Albanian government and said, no, don't give visas to them.
00:21:28.960We were having to work around our own State Department to help rescue these people.
00:21:33.760The State Department is despicable in doing so.
00:21:40.680This administration that created this disaster in Kabul a year ago, the loss of 13 service members, it's just the ugliest moment I've seen in a long time.
00:21:57.660The cowardice, the ignorance, the indifference of U.S. officials to do what they did.
00:22:04.880This president, as commander in chief, made those decisions.
00:23:50.120And what I have to say about these people, these people are scurrilous, and what they have done to our service members, to our country, to the men and women,
00:24:05.700the veterans who have served with such commitment over all these decades, and for what is the question.
00:24:14.020And I have to say further, that Ukraine – what are we doing in Ukraine?
00:24:19.960You know, I admire your heroism so much.
00:24:22.680I tell everyone about you, Chad, and what you and your organizations are doing and what the other great patriots and most of them veterans are doing
00:24:33.820to help the people in Afghanistan and others – excuse me – in Ukraine.
00:24:39.620Ukraine, it is – it's just bewildering to me that we're watching this president pay off Ukraine for Zelensky's silence.
00:24:51.500We are doing things – we could have stopped this invasion, in my opinion, and I believe that Biden had all of the foreknowledge to do so.
00:25:00.920Our intelligence agencies aren't very good, but they're that good when they can see 200,000 Russian troops on the eastern border
00:25:48.640And so when you have a war like this in Ukraine, this creates a lot of opportunity for people to make a lot of money, you know, politicians to make a lot of money.
00:26:03.580It's been committed from the United States to Ukraine.
00:26:05.880And I can tell you, I've been there seven times now since February.
00:26:10.920Last week, I was in – I spent 10 days in the red zones, the Russian-occupied red zones, in the very front lines.
00:26:19.040I spent with six different units, a special operations unit, artillery unit, chemical warfare unit, and some engineers, all these amazing Ukrainian patriots fighting for their country and their freedoms and their families.
00:26:33.840And they're not seeing that $60 billion.
00:26:37.280And, you know, I don't know where it's going, but I know that we have committed that money with no congressional oversight, no oversight committee.
00:26:44.620That money is just going out and being – you know, in hopes that it'll land in the right place.
00:26:49.620And it's not landing in the right place because we're out there bringing medical supplies to them and helping equip the troops and bringing them things like, you know, audio Bible sticks and training them in mental and spiritual resiliency,
00:27:01.880which is one of the things that Mighty Oaks Foundation does, and just helping equip them.
00:27:07.280But they're not seeing this – all this billions of dollars that's being sent to Ukraine.
00:27:16.100And just from my perspective, watching this money go out in tranches of $3 billion, $700 million, as the Biden administration is sprinkling money rather than bolstering the military effort of the Ukrainians with significant weaponry so that they can actually mount a strategic response.
00:27:41.340They are – but I have to say, you were amongst the first to give the Ukrainians credit for their will to fight.
00:27:49.500They are acquitting themselves in ways I think most military strategists, the so-called three-star experts, didn't foresee.
00:28:55.360And that's something I've seen over the last 30 years of being involved in combat and being in places all over the world.
00:29:01.720You could have the most technology and equipment and money, but it's the will of the people that – and the soldiers on the battlefield that typically determine the outcome.
00:29:12.120The Ukrainian troops are fighting for their homes.
00:30:20.660I've been in places – I was in Kharkiv recently, and I was in Kharkiv.
00:30:25.700100,000 apartment buildings were down to rubble.
00:30:29.880And now the Ukrainians have that back.
00:30:32.340So as they regain ground, Russia does something more radical.
00:30:36.900Putin does something more radical out of his embarrassment for losing.
00:30:40.220So we don't know how radical he'll become, and we don't know the response of the West because the West has no leader right now who should be leading as the president of the United States, who's the leaders of the free world.
00:30:49.680And he should be uniting the European nations together to take a position and take a stance.
00:30:59.980There is no repercussions to Putin for firing ballistic missiles into civilian populations, for launching chemical weapons in civilian populations, which we know for 100% certainty is happening.
00:31:13.000These are war crimes and crimes against humanity.
00:31:16.020I do not believe the United States should be jumping in every war around the world.
00:31:19.440But this is a place that a line needs to be drawn.
00:31:22.300And in the year 2022, in a civilized world, we should never allow a neighboring country, a world superpower, to march into a neighboring country and fire ballistic missiles into civilian populations to launch chemical weapons in civilian populations.
00:31:38.460But we need a leader of the free world that will unite the world together and take a stand against Mr. Putin and say this is not okay.
00:31:45.680So in that lack and absence of that, it's very hard to predict what is actually going to happen moving forward.
00:31:52.100I do believe, however, my prediction is that there's going to be a border that's going to be settled and there's going to be a contentious, that contentious border for just like there has been for since 2014.
00:32:05.200And, you know, I think that border is kind of shaping itself as we speak.
00:32:09.660We see a kind of line, that red line of where red areas are.
00:32:13.680You know, I can see that in my opinion from what I see now.
00:32:17.540I can see that holding for the next one or two years of continued fighting there and that turning into a contested border for an indefinite amount of time.
00:32:25.980You know, I was thinking as you were talking about with your compatriots in Ukraine and fellow warriors laughing about the U.S. leadership.
00:32:40.560Is there laughter about the European leadership, which, by the way, in my opinion, are the ones who should be looking upon themselves as bastions and pillars of the free world?
00:32:51.420And Germany and France and the U.K. can't muster the strength to respond as individual nations, let alone the European Union and all the geniuses, genius socialists in Brussels and the European Union without having it.
00:33:32.440So let's let's keep that buffer in place there between between Russia and because, I mean, if they take Ukraine, they're not going to want to stop there.
00:33:40.820So you think the European Union would be taking more of a leadership.
00:33:43.500And I agree with you and you're 100 percent right.
00:33:46.580However, I think the the thing to be seen from here is that the world looks to the United States.
00:33:54.200The world has always looked to the United States since World War Two as the as as the person looked to.
00:34:00.000I mean, they look for leadership from the United States and that's lacking right now.
00:34:04.040Yeah, they're laughing and Americans are crying.
00:34:06.780We have a puppet president doing the bidding of Marxist Dems who have taken control of the Democrat Party, along with the deep state.
00:34:17.360They are depriving us of our rights daily and increasingly.
00:34:24.400It is where they can attack this former president and raid his offices.
00:34:32.920We have reached a new nadir in what America is and may be.
00:34:38.420I personally believe, Chad, America is not the America that we grew up in and what it will become is going to depend on what we as patriots and and citizens unite to make certain occurs, which is to remove the corruption from Washington, D.C.
00:34:56.820Nothing less will change the trajectory we're on, which is clearly decline.
00:35:03.480We always give our guests, Chad, as you know, the last word.
00:35:07.840We're going to be recommending your book strongly and frequently.
00:35:24.620And with that, Chad, your concluding thoughts.
00:35:28.040Well, I know we talked a lot about Ukraine and in Afghanistan.
00:35:31.700But look, the world is in a place to where the United States needs to be strong.
00:35:37.040We got Iran and their and their advancement in nuclear weaponry.
00:35:41.740You got you got North Korea saying they're going to I mean, the difference in North Korea last year, they're saying they're going to launch a nuclear weapon test.
00:35:49.820We have, you know, people all over the world, China.
00:35:53.320Right. And China is going to I'm surprised that took Taiwan yet.
00:35:57.240But then we have the cartels on the southern border and everything.
00:36:00.740No one is intimidated by the United States right now.
00:36:03.400And so, you know, this is a time where Americans need to stand up.
00:36:06.380Our government's not doing the right thing.
00:36:19.640And I don't mean I'm not saying that as a pundit for the right or left or Republican or Democrats.
00:36:24.100I just mean Americans as conservatives, we need to take our country back and get rid of these get rid of these people out there that are self-serving interests and not willing to serve the constituents and the will and the goodwill of the American people.
00:36:39.940So, Chad, it's always great to have you with us.