Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - WATCH: How My Father Would've Handled Afghanistan Differently

In this episode, I sit down with my good friend and long-time friend Don to talk about the recent decision by President Trump to withdraw all of our troops from Afghanistan and the impact it will have on our country and the world. We also talk about why this is such a bad idea and what it means for the future of our country. I hope you enjoy, sit down, and have a nice rest of the week! -Jon Taffer and Matt Taffer Don t forget to Like and Subscribe to our new podcast, The Ringer, to get notified when we deconstruct the latest news in politics, economics, entertainment, and culture! Subscribe and Retweet to stay up to date on all things politics, culture, and everything else going on in the world! Timestamps: 3:00 - What would Joe Biden have done differently? 4:15 - What do you think of the Afghanistan decision 6:30 - What are the consequences of losing our closest ally, Taiwan 7:20 - What is the worst thing Joe Biden could have done in Afghanistan 8:00 9:30 What would you do differently 11:00 | What would your father do in Afghanistan ? 12:00 // What would he have done? 13:30 | China s timeline for taking over Taiwan? 14:20 15:15 16:40 17:15 | What do we need to do to keep America s infrastructure 18:30 // 15:00 Is it possible 19:40 | What are we going to do next? 21:40 // 22: What are our future in Afghanistan s timeline 26: What would we do in the next 100 years? 27:10 | How do we have a chance to win in the future? 29:00 / 30:00 Can we win in 2020? 32:40 / 33:00 We can keep up with China? 35: What is our country s timeline? 36:10 33:30 / 35:00 Are we have enough money to get a seat at the board seat? 37:40: Can we get a board seat in 2020 or do we re reelected? 40:00 Do we keep it? 39:00 Should we get that seat soon? 45:00 What s our country be better than this?

00:00:00.000 What do you think your father would have done differently?

00:00:02.000 Because these guys kind of surprised them, right?

00:00:03.000 Well, listen, like I said, Pompeo's talked about it the other night in terms of the details.

00:00:06.000 Like, you know, there were conditions to this thing.

00:00:08.000 They weren't going to do it at a time, you know, during the summertime when, you know, the Taliban, they're literally

00:00:14.000 bored.

00:00:14.000 They got nothing to do but fight.

00:00:16.000 You know, we've been calling it the fighting season.

00:00:19.000 We've known it every year since 2001. 0.90

00:00:21.000 They fight in the summer and then the winter sucks. 0.96

00:00:23.000 Yeah, the winter sucks. They go hide. 0.91

00:00:25.000 Things are calmer so you can do it so you don't have this massive surge. 0.99

00:00:28.000 He would have been droning the shit out of the highways coming in. 0.71

00:00:31.000 I mean, there were just caravans and convoys. 0.98

00:00:33.000 It'd be like the original Iraq war, right? 0.99

00:00:35.000 You'd get an A-10 and just run down the line shooting depleted uranium at these things, and you could take out tens of thousands.

00:00:44.000 There would have been real conditions.

00:00:46.000 There would have been fear in the back of the mind of these guys saying, like, hey, I'm going to get nuked on this road going in there.

00:00:53.000 They wouldn't do it the same way.

00:00:55.000 It would have given the Afghan fighting forces if they wanted to actually fight a chance because it wouldn't just be this deluge, this onslaught at once.

00:01:02.000 But again, Joe Biden changed that plan because he wanted credit on the world stage.

00:01:07.000 He's so not there that he figured, hey, if I do this, it'll go great and I can take credit for this.

00:01:13.000 And now he owns it.

00:01:15.000 So what consequences is this going to have now in the West?

00:01:19.000 What do you think, if you're sitting in Taiwan right now, what do you think happened in the last week to sort of, you know, the notion of being an American ally?

00:01:28.000 You're an American ally.

00:01:30.000 We just abandoned, you know, 40,000 Americans up to possibly, you know, in Afghanistan.

00:01:35.000 What do you think Taiwan's thinking?

00:01:36.000 Whatever China's timeline, and there is a timeline for taking over Taiwan, it just accelerated a thousand times because they're going around saying, see?

00:01:44.000 You can't rely on America.

00:01:45.000 Like, we just made ourselves so weak on a world stage that I don't think the average person can fathom it.

00:01:51.000 I mean, if you're an ally of the U.S., we just told all of them, like, we're there with you, but we're not really there with you. 0.99

00:01:58.000 Like, when the shit hits the fan, we are leaving and tucking tails. 0.88

00:02:01.000 Well, our strength has been a triage of forward defense, deterrence, and alliance solidarity. 0.99

00:02:09.000 And that's how you can win.

00:02:11.000 You can win without firing a shot.

00:02:14.000 But once we lose our allies like this, I mean, it's like they don't trust us.

00:02:18.000 I wouldn't trust us. I would not be an interpreter anywhere for the United States right now. 1.00

00:02:21.000 Yeah, and if you're in Taiwan and you're talking about that, like, you know what?

00:02:25.000 China, come on in. You know, if you're in any one of the places that China's essentially trying to colonize around the world, they'd be like, you know what? 0.96

00:02:31.000 We'll take their money. We'll take the briefcase of cash they're giving us onto the table.

00:02:34.000 The Americans, you know, they got to play by different rules. 0.56

00:02:36.000 they're not gonna like China's gonna take over the world.

00:02:39.000 So Don is that?

00:02:40.000 With rare earth minerals, it's what they've done with everything and that's their plan.

00:02:43.000 And that was gonna happen probably one way or the other because they're actually,

00:02:46.000 you know, they're smart and they don't play by rules.

00:02:49.000 Meaning, you know, they don't care about political niceties.

00:02:51.000 You know, they're not trying to please anyone.

00:02:53.000 They could care less.

00:02:53.000 They have one mission and one mission alone.

00:02:55.000 And they're able to think beyond two weeks from now when we have our next elections and say,

00:02:58.000 this is where we want to be in 100 years.

00:03:00.000 And this is how we get there and everything else doesn't matter.

00:03:03.000 We don't think that way.

00:03:04.000 We're so short-sighted. We make stupid decisions so we can have a win for next week so that we can get reelected, continue to keep power, get that board seat in the future. 0.99

00:03:11.000 You know, America's future be damned. 1.00

00:03:13.000 I mean, we've leveraged the shit out of our country. 0.99

00:03:15.000 You know, our children's futures are screwed because we just, hey, what's another couple trillion dollars? 0.99

00:03:19.000 Joe Biden, you know, a couple trillion dollars to teach critical race theory, you know, and woke bullshit to our children. 0.99

00:03:24.000 Who cares? It's infrastructure because everything's infrastructure. 0.97

00:03:26.000 You know, your sneakers are now infrastructure, Bob.

00:03:28.000 Like, That's where we've gotten.

00:03:30.000 And they don't care because it's not their money, but it allows them to keep power and it allows them to then later make money again.

00:03:38.000 And that's why my dad got involved in this in the first place.

00:03:40.000 He was like, listen, I'm a business guy. He's been watching this shit pissed off for decades. 0.99

00:03:44.000 And now you're seeing, because you said it right, right? 1.00

00:03:46.000 We're only seven months in.

00:03:48.000 Like, we've got two humanitarian crises, right?

00:03:51.000 The border, unquestionably.

00:03:52.000 Again, you don't have the coverage because the media is one way, but it's a crisis.

00:03:59.000 Afghanistan, serious crisis.

00:04:01.000 Inflation, serious crisis.

00:04:03.000 I mean, we're going to destroy the middle class of this country. 0.94

00:04:07.000 And then, you know, by the way, the next crisis is going to be the refugee crisis. 0.89

00:04:10.000 And, you know, there are definitely some great people probably in Afghanistan.

00:04:12.000 And there are people that we have no idea...

00:04:15.000 What their intentions are. You know, I have friends in the Border Patrol.

00:04:17.000 I mean, for the last few months, he's like, hey, like a good percentage.

00:04:21.000 And I don't mean like one or two.

00:04:22.000 I mean like significant double-digit percentage are like, yeah, they're guys from the Middle East coming in.

Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - August 21, 2021

WATCH: How My Father Would've Handled Afghanistan Differently

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