June 11, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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Well the virus has now killed more than a hundred people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world. | |
| You don't want to frighten the American public. | ||
| France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans. | ||
| But you need to prepare for and assume. | ||
| Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China. | ||
| This is going to be a real serious problem. | ||
| France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. | ||
| Health officials are investigating more than 100 possible cases in the US. | ||
| Germany, a man has contracted the virus. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. | ||
| Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. | ||
| We have to prepare for the worst, always. | ||
| Because if you don't, then the worst happens. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, it's Saturday, 11 June, Year of Our Lord 2022. | ||
| Let's go to Jane Zirkle. | ||
| Here's the thing I want to tell people. | ||
| Most of the people that we have in this worldwide network have put this show together are under 30 years old, and many of them are under 25 years old. | ||
| You've got a rising generation of these, what I call, assassins. | ||
| Right, her the best. | ||
| Jane, this whole issue about school safety, you got everybody running around one door, armed teachers. | ||
| One thing they're talking about is facial recognition. | ||
| You've been the cutting edge with our guy Joe Allen. | ||
| Say hey, when you're talking about AI, you got to start, you got to be very careful what you ask for. | ||
| Jane Zirkle. | ||
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So following the tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, we have seen tech companies push biometric data surveillance technologies as a way to, they claim, prevent school shootings. | |
| Now one of the companies at the forefront of this discussion is Clearview AI. | ||
| And now Clearview AI gained notoriety for its use against people involved in January 6th. | ||
| And now Clearview AI has a database of over 20 billion images of people that have been scraped off the internet in various social media platforms. | ||
| And they themselves have said that their surveillance is more comprehensive than the likes used by the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| They have had dealings with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and they are even working on a technology that will be able to gather your fingerprints from a distance without your knowledge of the consent. | ||
| And this is a type of technology that is going after the children in those schools. | ||
| And so I want to read to you a quote from John Edwards, the UK's information commissioner. | ||
| He said the company not only enables identification of those people, but effectively monitors the behavior and offers it as a commercial service. | ||
| That is unacceptable. | ||
| And so this company arguably violates the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. | ||
| And that has been addressed in legislation such as the Fourth Amendment is not for sale And if we look at a history of how similar biometric data technology has been implemented in schools, we can look at Fulton County, Georgia, for example, where facial recognition cameras were introduced. | ||
| And then once the pandemic hit, they were actually used as a way to enforce COVID mandates, when the company introduced a no mask protection technology into their cameras. | ||
| So the school system was essentially using this technology to police Yeah. | ||
| the Children in their wea really crucial that parent is being introduced as sa in schools and they conti that they have, you know, and saying, yeah, this is This is one of the things we're going to add to the... We were going to get Tiffany on here this morning, but something came up. | ||
| We're going to start... This is going to be added to the whole school board. | ||
| Remember, there's 13,000 school boards. | ||
| We're going to take over 10,000 by November 8th. | ||
| 95,000 school board seats taken. | ||
| This has to be this whole discussion of biometrics because Clearview has $20 billion. | ||
| It's like the CCP's monitoring system. | ||
| This is exactly what the social credit score gets to be when they get the facial recognition. | ||
| Jane, give your social media handles so people can get to you over the weekend. | ||
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You can find me on Getter and Twitter, at Jane Zirkle. | |
| Jane Zirkle, another home run here. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Talked to you guys over the weekend. | ||
| Jane Zirkle, one of our new investigative reporters. | ||
| She's actually done a ton of work on all the stuff that you guys have seen, maybe haven't seen her handprints on, but they're all over them. | ||
| Okay, I want to play the cold open. | ||
| I got Dr. Peter Varra, I got the great Eric Prince. | ||
| We're going to talk about, unfortunately, the metastasizing global war that's upon us right now. | ||
| Let's play the open. | ||
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Now, it was supposed to be a meeting to find a way amid rising hostilities. | |
| But Beijing boasted of its belligerence over Taiwan. | ||
| In its first face-to-face talks between Washington and Beijing, the Chinese Defense Minister warned his American counterpart that it won't hesitate to start a war. | ||
| That is, if Taipei declares independence. | ||
| The stark warning was issued during a meeting between U.S. | ||
| Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chinese Defense Minister General We finger! | ||
| In Singapore, the duo met on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue Security Summit. | ||
| The statement from China has alarmed not just Taiwan, but the entire Indo-Pacific region. | ||
| The keenly watched meeting was intended to find a middle path of a number of contentious issues, which include South China Sea, human rights issues in Xinjiang province and Hong Kong. | ||
| But the most thorny issue by far is Taiwan. | ||
| Beijing views the island nation as its own territory. | ||
| It has time and again threatened to seize it one day, even if it means using military force. | ||
| China has been increasing its activity in Taiwan's air defense identification zone. | ||
| In 2021, China appeared to ramp up pressure by sending military aircraft into Taiwan's airspace. | ||
| The number of aircraft reported peaked in October of 2021, with 56 incursions in a single day. | ||
| Now, according to Taiwan's defense minister, the relations with China are at their worst in 40 years. | ||
| U.S. | ||
| President Joe Biden has voiced support for Taiwan, saying he would defend the island nation militarily if it is attacked by China. | ||
| But how did all of this start? | ||
| The separation between China and Taiwan came after World War II, when there was a clash between the Chinese Communist Party and Nationalist government forces in mainland China. | ||
| And after the CCP won Beijing in 1949 and Mao Zedong took control, the Nationalist Party, known as the Kuomintang, fled to nearby Taiwan. | ||
| And ever since, the party has been one of Taiwan's most prominent parties. | ||
| Till now, 13 countries, including the Vatican, has recognized Taiwan as a nation. | ||
| And China continues its diplomatic pressure on other countries to not recognize Taiwan. | ||
| China continues to conduct military drills around the island, and in any military confrontation, China's armed forces would dwarf Taiwan's military power. | ||
| But with the United States in the picture, Taiwan can expect some help from the world power. | ||
| And with this conflict, another possibility of war looms over the world, as long as China stands firm on its one China policy. | ||
| Okay, but one of the buried leads there is that that's the lead on the news in India. | ||
| Here in the United States, you won't even see anything about it. | ||
| Or if it is, it's some two-minute tap-in over at Fox News. | ||
| You don't see MSNBC, you don't see CNN. | ||
| And yesterday's meeting was amazing, in our face. | ||
| Peter Navarro, you sat in the Oval Office with President Trump and said, hey, we've got to move the Silicon Valley West, we have to move these chip plants to Arizona and to Texas, and we need to do it like yesterday. | ||
| And of course the quote-unquote free marketeers, I don't know, I won't name names because I know you will, said they go, oh no, let the market decide on it, etc. | ||
| You were banging on the Resolute Desk saying this has to happen. | ||
| Dr. Peter Navarro, are we going to go now to a kinetic war because of the people that, not just the President Trump, with Obama, Bush, the people around President Trump, and now Biden didn't get focused enough on this chip problem? | ||
| See, I wish it were just a cliche that peace through strength is the way to go and weakness invites war. | ||
| But that's the situation we're in right now. | ||
| We see a world in which the Biden regime is perceived by Xi Jinping and his team as weak and vacillating and unable to rise to the challenge. | ||
| My background today, and for those on the podcast later, I'll describe it. | ||
| This is me here sitting across the table from these Chinese negotiators, and they were playing us like dupes. | ||
| You know, all they wanted to do was postpone the tariffs and ending their economic aggression. | ||
| They gave us this skinny ass trade deal. | ||
| And then and then they foisted the virus upon all of us and are destroying our political system in real time. | ||
| I don't want you to comment on what I'm about to say, but, Steve, there's no accident. | ||
| There's no coincidence, the fact in signaling weakness to the Chinese that the only two people, the only two people who have criminal contempt charges filed against them are the two people who are also sanctioned by the Chinese government, the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| And that's Stephen K. Bannon and Peter K. Navarro. | ||
| And we are just a small part of the signaling We will likely have conflict there. | ||
| Missiles will fly. | ||
| Torpedoes will fly. | ||
| In 2015, I wrote a book called Crouching Tiger, which was kind of like two books on economics. | ||
| That one was on military. | ||
| It's a seven-minute trip by missile from the mainland of China to the capital. | ||
| of Taipei. Seven minutes, Steve, and there's thousands of missiles sitting there. Our fleet right now of aircraft carriers is derided in the Chinese press. They don't call them aircraft carriers. You know what they call them, Steve? Targets. And we have not responded to the asymmetrical warfare strategy of the Chinese to take out | ||
| our military in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. | ||
| Asymmetric warfare, Steve, in a nutshell, is when you can take a million-dollar missile and sink a billion-dollar ship. | ||
| And that's what the Chinese have basically done. | ||
| The Stalin Magnet, the quantity has a quality of its own. | ||
| Is the basis, initially, of the Chinese response. | ||
| We beat the Nazis, we beat the Japanese in World War II, not by quality. | ||
| Yeah, there were just so many brave soldiers and sailors and pilots, but ultimately what swayed that, Steve, was the factories of this country, just overwhelming. | ||
| Overwhelming, the Nazis in particular, just overwhelming. | ||
| Guess what? | ||
| China right now not only has a quantity advantage, They're coming to quality parity. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because these fools in this friggin' swamp here, Steve, let the Chinese, for the last 30 years, steal technology from us. | ||
| The planes they fly, right? | ||
| We got the F-35. | ||
| Yeah, they got the same plane, except it's called the Chengdu something, right? | ||
| But they stole the blueprints. | ||
| So they can steal our blueprints. | ||
| Build those planes for a third of the price, have three times as many as we do, and right now, Steve, this is the most dangerous economic time because we are in this stagflation that ain't gonna quit, that isn't transitory, that may well sink our financial system. | ||
| At the same time, no coincidence, some friggin' Chinese are coming at us. | ||
| The Financial Times of London finally caught up with Dr. Peter Navarro, the headline day accelerating U.S. | ||
| inflation. | ||
| Powell's pressure on Fed to tighten hard, baby. | ||
| It ain't going to be a soft landing. | ||
| It's going to be a crash and burn. | ||
| Dr. Peter Navarro told you about that a year ago, he and Cortez. | ||
| He also told the market it was going to go into bear territory back in November. | ||
| Peter, we've got to bounce. | ||
| I don't want to get in the way of your other book, but I will say this. | ||
| As an expert in this area, and the Chinese Communist Party tells you that because that's why I'm sanctioned as the head of the Super Hawks, which is the ones dedicated to take them down, Crouching Tiger may be one of the best military books about this conflict. | ||
| It reads like it's ripped from the headlines today, but I don't want to step on your new book. | ||
| Peter, tell us about your new book, where they go, how they get to it, and what's your coordinates? | ||
| Look, I want to thank the War Room Posse already. | ||
| They put that book in the top ten on Amazon as we've talked. | ||
| It's taking back Trump's America on Amazon. | ||
| Taking back Trump's America on Amazon. | ||
| It's a two-for, right? | ||
| First of all, it's going to help my legal defense. | ||
| Taking back Trump's America? | ||
| Hold on, stop. | ||
| We gotta go. | ||
| Dude, you walked out of a federal court where you'd just been shackled and you pitched a book. | ||
| I said, that brother has learned so well. | ||
| I thought I was big doing getter. | ||
| I'm a schmendrick. | ||
| What presence of mind? | ||
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He walks out after being shackled, and he pitches the book, and it goes to No. | |
| 1 on Amazon. | ||
| I said, that brother's got it down right there. | ||
| Dr. Peter Navarro. | ||
| I sell a hundred thousand of those, Steve. | ||
| I have the money I need for the legal defense. | ||
| It's a hell of a book. | ||
| It's going to take back the White House for Trump. | ||
| And the House in 2022 taking back Trump's America's bedroom. | ||
| Give me your getter. | ||
| What's your getter handle? | ||
| What's your getter handle? | ||
| Bill P. Navarro. | ||
| Getter's a Twitter killer, friends. | ||
| They're the only ones who let us speak freely about things that matter and present facts without stepping on us. | ||
| Eric Prince. | ||
| Eric Prince is in the House next in The War Room. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| At Navarro, we created a monster. | ||
| I think he's worse than Boris now. | ||
| That's a hard act to follow. | ||
| You agree. | ||
| If you're any more self... Boris has got to be the epitome of the self-promotional, right? | ||
| So, Navarro, he comes out of a federal court. | ||
| I mean, the presence of mind to do... You know what I'm saying? | ||
| When you come out to the media, the presence of mind to pitch the book and make it number one on Amazon, really... That's product placement. | ||
| Product placement. | ||
| Really honored to have you on here. | ||
| In fact, we're going to talk about something you've been working on for the remainder of the hour. | ||
| But I asked you to come in. | ||
| This is the third week in a row we've done a special on this Third World War because it's on. | ||
| Game's on. | ||
| You know, because war today is, you and I have talked about, it's hybrid. | ||
| You have information war, cyber war, economic war, and kinetic. | ||
| When you finally get to kinetic, it's kind of the last thing but the most powerful. | ||
| We're going to talk about Ukraine. | ||
| You know Asian culture as well as anybody. | ||
| When they go to Alaska and insult Blinken to his face, when they go to Rome and spend seven hours tagging Yang yelling at Sullivan, when they had the conference call, the televideo with Biden, and they put out the readout ten minutes later and said, we told the Americans this is what it's going to be, and the Financial Times puts it on the front page. | ||
| Biden, three and a half hours later, totally lies and spins, totally different readout. | ||
| When they get General Austin in his face yesterday, people have to understand this, they said, and they're a subtle people, how about this? | ||
| We're going to war over Taiwan, a shooting war over Taiwan, and we dare you, the United States, to try to stop us. | ||
| Where are we then in this conflict? | ||
| It's a consistency of the absence or the destruction of deterrence by the Biden administration. | ||
| It started with Afghanistan and just the foreign policy screw up after foreign policy screw up. | ||
| What they promised in Ukraine now, not delivering. | ||
| They promised all kinds of weapons. | ||
| Less than 5% have actually been delivered. | ||
| Is this why we're going to get Ben Harmon later? | ||
| Because he's following the tracks out of our International Bureau in Rome. | ||
| Because today, the big news in Ukraine is they're coming back and saying, we're out of everything, you need to send more immediately. | ||
| Are you saying that the $40 billion hasn't been spent, or it hasn't gotten there? | ||
| It might have been spent, but it certainly hasn't been delivered. | ||
| So the defense counter has been paid, but it hasn't gotten there? | ||
| Correct. | ||
| How can that possibly be? | ||
| I thought we were the logistics experts in the world, and NATO, if NATO can't fight, but at least they can move stuff around, how could it not be? | ||
| Well, and that goes to, you can drive a train still across the border, right? | ||
| So that makes... Yeah, no, to Pessova, Pessova took a 700 trip, he went all the way down to Odessa. | ||
| Sure, I have contacts that were just in Kiev, and they're still getting sushi, right? | ||
| So the fact that you can have fresh fish means there's a logistics chain flowing. | ||
| But trying to resupply Taiwan if they invade and they attack is hard, right? | ||
| First of all, a maritime invasion of Taiwan is an industrial problem for the Chinese, right? | ||
| You have to move hundreds of thousands of people across 70 miles of waterway, put them into an urban area, which is pretty easy for the defenders, if the Taiwanese will get serious about their defense. | ||
| They don't even spend 2% of their GDP on their national defense. | ||
| They're dependent on the Pentagon, which doesn't understand asymmetric warfare and fighting this in a clever way. | ||
| If they did a proper home guard in Taiwan, you only need 2-4% of that population that will add to the initial soldiers to make it a very difficult problem. | ||
| Because China, if they're going to seize Taiwan, they have to do it quick. | ||
| They cannot sustain the kind of sanctions... I don't know if Denver's got a map, if we can put a map of China up. | ||
| I want to go to some specific details, and for our podcast audience, pull a map of China of this. | ||
| In Normandy, in one of the great amphibious operations, one of the greatest in history, there was misdirection plays non-stop. | ||
| They always thought they would come across in Calais, led by Patton. | ||
| They kept Patton with the 7th Army, a fictitious army? | ||
| But Project Fortitude was an entire misdirection play that was so sophisticated that even though we massed troops down in the southern part, and that was actually the Normandy invasion, even at the end, Hitler wouldn't let reserves go. | ||
| How can you, just walk me through the logistics, before you get ship-borne or air capacity or anything, how do you get enough equipment down into Fuzhoun, Fuzhoun Province, without our satellites, everything, understanding every troop movement going? | ||
| So, correct, that's hiding it in plain sight. | ||
| They have converted a lot of passenger ferries into being amphibious vessels, enough to carry a battalion worth of equipment. | ||
| I can see them doing that and pushing that from farther up the coast. | ||
| So they have a lot of port options, more than the UK did for the Normandy invasion. | ||
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Maybe they tried an airborne invasion. | |
| Would they actually be able to mass the troops down that you'd have to get the lift capacity to, whether it's seaborne or airborne, without us understanding a month or two in advance? | ||
| Because people are telling me pretty well-placed sources that this whole exercise of shutting down 400 million people, and particularly the eastern seaboard of the country, is not related to COVID. | ||
| They go out and spray some stuff and the big whites come out to kind of do it, but it's he wants to show them they can lock it down, they want to show they can do it, and also it's about troop movement. | ||
| What are your thoughts? | ||
| My thoughts on that are more about the politics of Xi being re-elected to a third term in November. | ||
| In being able to squash... Not a third term, basically emperor for life. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| To squash the Shanghai faction of the Communist Party by locking down... Walk that for a second. | ||
| You have three factions of the Communist Party. | ||
| You have the Young Princelings, of which Xi is a member. | ||
| You have the... | ||
| The Shanghai Faction and the Communist Youth League. | ||
| Communist Youth League has been decimated with the anti-corruption campaign. | ||
| There's a huge amount of wealth yet, you know, because Shanghai is kind of the finance capital of the mainland China, which is where the ancient Europeans' colonial trading posts were. | ||
| Huge wealth concentrated there that is a rival center of power and he smashed it with this latest COVID lockdown. | ||
| I think that's what it was about. | ||
| It was not about masking an invasion prep. | ||
| What about talk about my theory of the case? | ||
| They will never do an amphibious thing until they actually have a deal or peace. | ||
| And the reason is it'd be too catastrophic, catastrophic, particularly to the Crown Jewel, which is the technology center of Taiwan. | ||
| But they can't enforce a naval blockade and they can't enforce a quarantine. | ||
| And we don't have the ability, the 7th Fleet. | ||
| As it's constitute today. | ||
| In particular, let's be blunt. | ||
| The ship handling, the seamanship... It's terrible. | ||
| It's disgusting. | ||
| As a former naval officer... Multiple fatal collisions at sea, running a Virginia-class submarine into the seabed, losing the Bonhomme Richard, a six billion dollar warship, to a fire because it took him two and a half hours to first get water on the fire. | ||
| While it's in port in San Diego, a list of terribles that For our audience, maybe I've got to compile this, but if you go read the reports of the surface collisions, it is stunning the incompetence and malfeasance of really the ship's watch of not briefing people. | ||
| But the scariest thing, as a surface warfare officer, always the elite of the elite were the submariners, right? | ||
| The report that came out about the Virginia-class submarine, the collision at the mountain, of the incompetence in the watch, I mean, Rickover would have fired the entire Pacific Fleet submarine command. | ||
| But going back to these surface ships that collided with commercial vessels, this is not a thousand knots closure of two F-18s like in Top Gun, right? | ||
| No, this is one ship going 18 knots, another ship going 22 knots, and you see each other hours away. | ||
| On top of a radar that's worth five hundred million dollars, that's supposed to see everything. | ||
| Constant bearing, decreasing range, CBDR. | ||
| It's like the second thing you learn is maneuvering board, how to not run into another ship. | ||
| But yet, when they did, Steve, many of the crew were cowering in corners. | ||
| They'd been triggered and they were horrified that there was this violent, dangerous, deadly act. | ||
| It's not a good look for the surface Navy. | ||
| Scary. | ||
| Do you believe that the Chinese, given, and remember, One of the things, let's go back to World War II, the Imperial Navy had beaten the Russians, and the Imperial Navy did the sneak attack at Pearl Harbor, but when it came to the moment they counted, in the minute of battle at Midway, they made a couple of fundamental mistakes. | ||
| We were able to save Midway, turn it around, sink a bunch of their carriers, and we always call that fight, you have to know how to fight the ship. | ||
| One of the most complicated things in the world is fighting naval warfare, because the confusion gets to be just amazing. | ||
| We're the heirs to the Royal Navy. | ||
| We pride ourselves on being that fleet that knows how to fight the ship. | ||
| And I've continued to argue that the Chinese have never really been there. | ||
| When the balloon goes up and you start smelling cordite, they've never been there. | ||
| Captain Finnell, who I respect him more than anybody, head of PAC Fleet Naval Intel, who got fired for telling us almost 10 years ago, we have no chance of standing up to the Chinese Navy. | ||
| He says the Navy you're talking about, Steve, doesn't exist anymore. | ||
| It's not the Pacific Fleet Navy of World War II. | ||
| It's not even the gun line in Vietnam. | ||
| This has been support operations in the Middle East. | ||
| They don't know how to fight the ship, and the Chinese are going to come with a massive firepower. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| You have a more woke Navy that has de-emphasized combat readiness in favor of other politically popular mandates from the Pentagon. | ||
| Going back to Midway, remember, we'd broken the Japanese code and figured out that they were coming to Midway, and so we had three carriers laying in ambush, which really helped. | ||
| But also, very individual effort. | ||
| Don't forget that there was a couple pilots that scored multiple hits on carriers in the same day. | ||
| Okay, this gets to exactly my point about the Chinese. | ||
| They are not taught individual initiative. | ||
| Well, is that teamwork added with punctuated by individual? | ||
| Okay, this gets to exactly my point about the Chinese. They are not taught individual initiative. It's all group Our our teams ready to go. Do you think at the at the level we had in the seventh fleet post? | ||
| World War two Are we still at that level of individual initiative and team action that we've been living off of for 50 or 60 years? | ||
| I worry that the de-emphasized... a de-emphasis on combat culture has driven those... What do you mean combat culture? | ||
| Are you ready to fight tonight? | ||
| And you're going to win at any cost. | ||
| I worry that those kind of people have been driven out of the military because they're just sick of woke nonsense. | ||
| And when those few go away, the military loses a huge amount of its fighting capability. | ||
| This whole situation with Trump and everything like this, Emphasizes, we've got a lot of work to do with the military, the uniformed services, particularly the senior level. | ||
| I am shocked by the wokeness and not just that, the disregard for the chain of command. | ||
| They totally disregard the chain of command. | ||
| Because there's no consequences. | ||
| There's no consequences for failures. | ||
| There's no consequences for spectacular victories. | ||
| It's everyone gets a prize for showing up and that's the problem. | ||
| But nobody wants a spectacular victory because they understand if you have one screw up, you're cashier, right? | ||
| You can't Remember, you know, the admirals that won the Pacific War in World War II, right? | ||
| Nimitz, court-martialed as a J.O. | ||
| They called Burke, 31 not Burke, because he ran his destroyer squadron aground. | ||
| These guys would have blemishes on the record that would disqualify them today, but those guys got it done because they knew how to fight. | ||
| fight. Short break back with Eric Prince in a moment. | ||
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| Eric Prince, we're going to go pull the camera back about geopolitics everywhere in this metastasizing third world war, but my phone's been blown up from all of our colleagues that are veterans or even some active duty that said, you're speaking truth to power. | ||
| This problem is so endemic right now. | ||
| The combat culture That we had at the end of World War II and quite frankly the combat culture in Korea and the combat culture in Vietnam, we have lost that. | ||
| This wokeness has a penalty to it and part of it is we've lost the focus of what the military is. | ||
| The military is not a social engineering platform. | ||
| The military should be just a lethal killing machine. | ||
| Right, I think of when Dakota Meyer, a Marine, received the Medal of Honor for actions for saving some of his own Marines in Afghanistan, surrounded by U.S. | ||
| Army unit, and the U.S. | ||
| Army officers would not release artillery fire or helicopter gunship fire because they were afraid to. | ||
| And they asked, who is the wounded? | ||
| Is it an Army guy or a Marine? | ||
| The fact that those officers were just quietly dismissed from service instead of being viciously prosecuted for malpractice in war. | ||
| I think the danger of fighting a 20-year GWAT, it's more like fighting a football game where at the end of the play you get a whistle and you get to go back to your base and refuel and rearm, when sustained combat is more like a rugby match where the whistle never blows and it's on and it's on and it's on. | ||
| Until one side stops moving. | ||
| You say the port of Iraq and Afghanistan is not the valor of the individual troops, but the legalese and really the handcuffs put on the officers where you're always looking over your shoulder. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So you got so timid, you got so timid of putting direct fire on people. | ||
| We allowed lawyers to become what Zompolites were, the political officers in the Soviet Union, the real power behind the throne, telling you what you can and what you can't do as a commander, and it's literally made, it's a culture of gun shyness, and it is extremely corrosive. | ||
| If you're going to fight a naval war, you have to have maximum initiative and maximum lethality that each officer of the ship is ready to unleash on the enemy, and we don't have that. | ||
| Let's talk about the Ukraine situation. | ||
| We've been part of the de-escalation, de-escalate, de-escalate. | ||
| They mocked the Russians. | ||
| Look, it hasn't been pretty, but they're grinding it out. | ||
| And we said from day one, they're going to win, and they're going to win because Quite frankly, just like in World War II, they're not into maneuver warfare. | ||
| They didn't beat the Nazis with maneuver warfare. | ||
| They beat the Nazis with... With rototiller warfare. | ||
| What, did you give me that? | ||
| With rototiller warfare. | ||
| The Russians are rototilling the Ukrainian soil with 10,000 artillery shells per day. | ||
| They are chewing up units with up to 65% casualties. | ||
| Artillery, by the way, people don't understand, whereas the tank with the U.S. | ||
| and the Germans, there's always been combined arms of artillery in the tank at the tip of the spear. | ||
| The Russians, it's the artillery. | ||
| Artillery, right. | ||
| When the Russians unleashed their final artillery barrage on Berlin, it was 6,000 guns, and it actually generated a wind. | ||
| Okay, so they love artillery, and they are just pounding the hell out of the Ukrainian positions. | ||
| I think the next thing they'll do after they seize the Donetsk-Donbas area, They will do an amphibious invasion west of Odessa by midsummer. | ||
| They've already put 75,000 troops up in Belarus and Brest and they will split the western part of Ukraine. | ||
| I think they're going to take the whole thing. | ||
| You're predicting this doesn't stop in the eastern provinces right now? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| The problem with the lack of deterrence is when the Biden administration says, yeah, we're going to give you $40 billion in equipment and supplies. | ||
| Less than 5% of that is actually been delivered. | ||
| How can that possibly be? | ||
| Well, we're supposed to be the logistics champions of the world. | ||
| One thing we know is how to spend money, and then get equipment to the get equip. | ||
| There appears to be a different materiality, a problem between flash to bang, even like the the M triple seven, the new whizbang howitzers, the Biden administration sent them without the aiming devices, so they can't fire GPS shells. | ||
| Is that an intelligence thing? | ||
| Because we don't want that to fall into Russian hands? | ||
| The Biden administration continues to deny them airpower. | ||
| There have been offers of... I'm a big believer you can't give airpower. | ||
| You don't have to give U.S. | ||
| airpower, but you can give Flying Tiger style airpower, whether it's using... Aren't the Russians going to say that's a major escalation? | ||
| We don't care if the guys are coming from... There's a bunch of Eric Prince's guy for Eric Prince's Air Force he's got throughout the world. | ||
| That's the U.S. | ||
| in back of it with the targeting. | ||
| Isn't it bad enough you give them It can be done with non-U.S. | ||
| equipment, with non-American personnel. | ||
| Are there going to be enough Ukrainian actual officers and non-commissioned officers left? | ||
| I'm hearing a couple hundred a day. | ||
| You're hearing 200 more? | ||
| Up to 200 a day. | ||
| How deep is the bench on their military, particularly with NCOs and junior officers, to continue this fight? | ||
| And they're sending new volunteers with two weeks of training. | ||
| But this whole thing, the guys wandering in from London and from America, that's a clown show. | ||
| It just is. | ||
| The media plays it up. | ||
| They're not trained. | ||
| And the militia there is not trained. | ||
| The Russians, as bad as I think they've done the combined arms part of it, they're relentless. | ||
| It's just like World War II. | ||
| They have enough cannon cockers that they can fire that artillery and pound the hell out of Ukrainians, which is what they're doing. | ||
| I mean, it looks like you're fighting a battle in World War II, you agree? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I want to get back to the global reach first, but here's one thing that you've been obsessed with, and I know Eric pretty well, that when he gets his mind on something, It's action, action, action. | ||
| You had a concept a couple of years ago, because you've been bugging me about this for years, about this situation, about big data, big tech, being able to not just get into your communications, but monetize everything you've got and eventually monitor what you're doing. | ||
| So walk through the idea you had, and now you bring it to fruition. | ||
| I think we've all seen over the last few years that the pendulum of big government and big tech in the national security state has swung way too far in the direction away from liberty. | ||
| And so we have... And you're part of that, you've been part of that national, both as a seal and then later as a contractor, some would say a mercenary, that you know this better than anybody. | ||
| Not a mercenary working for America. | ||
| A patriot. | ||
| No, but he's a foreign legionnaire. | ||
| But your concern, as you've seen the apparatus, it's gotten way, we had Jane Zirkle on here about the facial recognition, it's gotten way over the top about what it could do. | ||
| This is why I'm very much in favor of wars being put out quickly and not the continuous loop of failure that we've had, because eventually all those tools can be used against the civilian, the citizenry. | ||
| So what we've developed is a phone with our own operating system, our own hardware, without an advertising ID that is effectively unhackable. | ||
| We've taken all the elements of a highly secure government-grade encrypted phone and making it available to every man on the street. | ||
| It's called Unplugged Systems. | ||
| Unplugged.com forward slash war room. | ||
| What do you mean by unplugged? | ||
| It's a catchy phrase, but what does it mean? | ||
| That's the name of the company because you can unplug from big data, from big tech monitoring your life. | ||
| Whether you're a Google or an Apple user now, they collect and resale your data. | ||
| They know where you go, what you buy, who you call, and what you browse. | ||
| Okay, the trade-off for that, they got all that, but the trade-off for that is ease and it always works. | ||
| Is there anything, and you got all these different apps and everything, so people know that I'm trading off Total, they can see everything I do, they can monetize everything I do, but I don't have to pay for it, right? | ||
| And I get easy use. | ||
| Is unplugged going to work just as well? | ||
| I have no interruption of service, I can get everything I've got on a phone? | ||
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| Our phone is unlocked, so you can use it with your AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, or British Telecom phone, whatever that might be. | ||
| Our app store will carry other apps, all the apps that you're used to using today. | ||
| We'll give you a real-time scoreboard on your phone of what of your data is being exported by that app, so you actually know what they're taking from you. | ||
| If you haven't seen the movie The Social Dilemma on Netflix, watch it. | ||
| You'll be horrified. | ||
| This phone is the answer to that. | ||
| If you're pissed off about your phone listening to you, right? | ||
| I had a direct experience. | ||
| I managed to piss off my wife. | ||
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| Sometimes a husband does that. | ||
| And she sent me a scorcher of a message on WhatsApp. | ||
| And for the next week, she was getting advertising from divorce lawyers and from Match.com. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| So, big tech is listening. | ||
| Did she retain the former and start hitting the bid on the latter? | ||
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| Still with me. | ||
| But the point is, I think everyone's had that experience of they say something around their phone or suddenly they're getting advertising based on what they said. | ||
| Our phone is incapable of doing that because we don't have an advertising ID. | ||
| We will contract in our user agreement that we will not collect or store or analyze or resell their data. | ||
| How big a problem is this? | ||
| Look, if you're a 16-year-old kid living your life on the internet posting what you had for breakfast, this is not for you. | ||
| But if you're an adult that's grown up and values your individual privacy and liberty and your ability to communicate securely, this is the phone for you. | ||
| Our secure messenger uses curved encryption. | ||
| It's peer-to-peer. | ||
| When you download a lot of the other so-called secure apps, you get one encryption key. | ||
| When you download it. | ||
| With ours, it generates a new encryption key every call. | ||
| Nothing stored on servers. | ||
| And you don't get charged for that? | ||
| The charge? | ||
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| That's it. | ||
| So that is the cost. | ||
| You don't physically have the phone until this fall, right? | ||
| Correct. | ||
| Because of supply chain issues. | ||
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| You don't have the phone until this fall. | ||
| They're coming. | ||
| So you can download the app suite right now. | ||
| And what does that give me if I get the app suite on my existing phone? | ||
| It's only Android. | ||
| Can't do Apple, right? | ||
| Correct. | ||
| Android phone will take it. | ||
| You get a VPN. | ||
| We do not resell that data. | ||
| You get a fantastic antivirus to keep all the nasties that may try to infect your phone. | ||
| We prevent that. | ||
| And our secure messenger right now. | ||
| The secure messenger also has a video call function. | ||
| You can do 20 or more people. | ||
| Encrypted, far safer than Zoom. | ||
| And you know, Zoom's calls go back through servers in China. | ||
| Ours do not. | ||
| Once again, Unplugged.com forward slash war room. | ||
| Ten bucks a month. | ||
| Buy it today. | ||
| That's to get the special. | ||
| OK, let's I want to pull the camera back because you've been warning people about sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific Islands. | ||
| The Chinese have the CCP has two strategies, the hegemonic power on the Eurasian landmass, the Mackinder 101. | ||
| But they've also gone throughout the islands that kind of surround that. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| When Reagan took office in 1980, the U.S. | ||
| policy had been containment for 35 years. | ||
| And Reagan said, enough, we're going to go at the Soviets everywhere. | ||
| Economically, politically, culturally, socially. | ||
| That's what the CCP is doing to us now. | ||
| Hegemonic in Asia, and they're coming everywhere. | ||
| They're a huge influence operation, money and spend in as close as Mexico. | ||
| All through Latin America, through Africa, for the pursuit for resources, buying off leadership, buying key infrastructure. | ||
| With One Belt One Road, they seek to literally make all roads lead to China, to tie China to the rest of the world logistically, so that it's easier to buy Chinese products and not American products. | ||
| Whether she laid it out right before Trump's inaugural at the World Economic Forum, it's this new network system. | ||
| It's essentially, they're the center of everything. | ||
| There's a global network and we're all tributary states. | ||
| It's a brilliant strategy. | ||
| It is a China-first strategy. | ||
| You called it years ago. | ||
| I kind of stole it from you. | ||
| It's the British East India Company strategy in reverse. | ||
| Predatory capitalism. | ||
| You get elite capture. | ||
| The elites become your partners in those countries. | ||
| Free trade is wonderful as long as both sides are playing by the rules, but they're playing by a completely different set of rules, and so they have a very mercantilist approach to life, and they're winning. | ||
| Tony Blinken came out the other day a couple days ago and said, we are committed to defend the post-war international rules-based order. I said, dude, that is the system they gamed to come from a fourth world country to a economic superpower that can challenge us in under 20 years. It's historic what they've done with money and technology from the West. | ||
| That's the same line of thinking that said, if we make China rich and bring them into the WTO, they'll become like us and they absolutely jammed it in our faces. | ||
| Well, not just that. | ||
| What you're unplugged about is we became more like them. | ||
| Our elites believe in state capitalism and authoritarian control. | ||
| This is what Unplugged, your company, is all about. | ||
| Okay, short break. | ||
| We're going to be back in a moment. | ||
| Eric Prince, we're talking the metastasizing third world war that's about to engulf us all. | ||
| I'm not saying that. | ||
| The Chinese are saying that. | ||
| Who they're saying it to? | ||
| General Austin today, in his face. | ||
| In Asia, in a face-to-face meeting and said, hey, we're coming. | ||
| You want to talk about Taiwan? | ||
| We're coming for you. | ||
| We're putting you on notice. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Back in the warm in a moment. | ||
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| By the way, Ben Harnwell, at Harnwell, is immediately after the show. | ||
| He's going to do live. | ||
| He's got breaking news about the Ukraine, about the situation particularly. | ||
| They're begging for additional money and arms right now. | ||
| Eric says, hey, one of the reasons is none of the arms have gotten to him. | ||
| So Ben Harnwell, at Harnwell on Getter. | ||
| Go there right now, right after the show. | ||
| Just go to Harnwell's. | ||
| He's gonna go live with only what Ben Harnwell can do. | ||
| You're up on Getter also, right? | ||
| All the other social media has banned Unplugged because you go to the heart of what the social media problem is, right? | ||
| We are the antithesis of them. | ||
| So yes, we are on Getter. | ||
| It's hashtag WeAreUnplugged. | ||
| WeAreUnplugged. | ||
| Make sure we put that up on our site. | ||
| I'll post that today on mine. | ||
| You're gonna be in Israel on Monday and Tuesday. | ||
| We're gonna have you live from Israel one of those days. | ||
| Talk about People don't realize this. | ||
| You've spent a lot of time there. | ||
| The geography of that. | ||
| People don't understand how tiny and small. | ||
| They truly have no chance for second place. | ||
| That is a high cost of air war. | ||
| Their backs are always to the sea. | ||
| Literally, they're against the sea. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So they have to win. | ||
| And the same for Taiwan. | ||
| They must prepare right now. | ||
| They should be stockpiling significant basic weapons to deter the kind of land invasion that will have to happen. | ||
| Let me give you, here's my fear because we were the guys that stopped the guy at, the guy that was running, remember the Kuomintang, the one thing wrong about the Indian TV thing is that they talked about in 1949, the Chiang Kai-shek, the Kuomintang was the Nationalist Party. | ||
| Now that is the pro-CCP party in Taiwan politics. | ||
| It's the Liberal Democrats or whatever are turning out the anti-CCP. | ||
| They got it like a nomenclature flip. | ||
| You have a fifth column in Taiwan. | ||
| When the balloon goes up, what the Chinese are going to do is put a naval blockade and dare the Americans to break it. | ||
| But you're going to have at least a third of the Taiwanese. | ||
| It's already been infiltrated. | ||
| You're going to have Taiwanese, including some leaders like the Foxconn head, they're saying, hey, we're really Chinese and these guys are foreign devils. | ||
| We've got to figure out a deal. | ||
| We can't let this. | ||
| We can't go to a gunfight here because it'll destroy the nation. | ||
| I don't know if they'd do a blockade. | ||
| I think the Chinese with their maritime militia would probably seize one of the small islands, right? | ||
| Where there's a hundred or two hundred man Taiwanese garrison. | ||
| And they create some crisis and they seize it and they see what the Americans do. | ||
| You mean the Americans to drive them off? | ||
| Right, because the Taiwanese lack the combat power or the wherewithal to do that in a creative way. | ||
| And so the problem is my frustration with the Pentagon... They seize that one island, the island chain, the little island chain that's right there when you go in the Straits of Formosa, the Straits of Taiwan, off the South China Sea. | ||
| They take it right there, right? | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| And they dare the Americans to come drive them off. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| And create an international incident. | ||
| And so that's my frustration with the Pentagon, is they understand one playbook, which is send carriers, send a conventional force, etc. | ||
| instead of saying, okay, what other things are important to China that we can, in a not obvious, asymmetrical way, push back? | ||
| I won't say it on here because I won't give away that playbook, but there's a lot of ways to creatively mess with their happiness We're already engaged in a third world war. | ||
| Information war, cyber war, economic war. | ||
| They're doing what Reagan did in the 80s against the Soviet Union. | ||
| They're doing that to us now. | ||
| The CCP has never been challenged properly. | ||
| The next president and the next CIA director must do that. | ||
| Well, it's going to be President Trump and you're going to be the CIA director. | ||
| So tell me what you're going to do. | ||
| I would sit there. | ||
| By the way, I want the TV rights to that confirmation hearing. | ||
| I want the TV rights to the confirmation hearing of Eric Prince, the CIA director. | ||
| Is that blowing their heads up right now? | ||
| Eric Prince is going to be Trump's CIA director in the second term. | ||
| I promise I will make our enemies afraid again. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Eric is all about offense, not about defense. | ||
| Once again, give the unplugged. | ||
| How do people get to it? | ||
| So, unplugged.com forward slash war room. | ||
| You can order the app suite right now. | ||
| You can pre-order the phone. | ||
| The phones are coming. | ||
| They're going to be fantastic. | ||
| It's going to free you from big tech snooping in your business, and it's going to give you secure communications with your friends and your family. | ||
| As somebody who's been in the middle of it for your entire professional career, How dangerous is this time? | ||
| I keep saying it's like 1938. | ||
| Are we inexorably drawing into a larger global kinetic war? | ||
| You know, when embargoes and sanctions and all those things are all, you know, just along the continuum of conflict, and it's very easy to spill over into a kinetic war, I think the debacle in Ukraine happened because nobody wanted to believe, oh my goodness, after 70 years, Europe just doesn't fight over land anymore and ethnic grievances, but oh my, they have. | ||
| I think even the Ukrainian leadership was dumbfounded and didn't believe it was going to happen. | ||
| And so, well Biden said that yesterday. | ||
| He said, and he gave a private speech in LA, he said that he was ahead of this and they didn't believe it. | ||
| Real quickly, can the United States Navy win a war at sea against the Chinese, the CCP's Navy, right now, yea or nay? | ||
| We have fantastic equipment. | ||
| We have some fantastic personnel. | ||
| They need ballsy, strong, daring leadership more akin to Nimitz and Burke and Halsey. | ||
| That's a hard no then, because we don't have that. | ||
| If you're telling me I need Bull Halsey and Spruance... No, no, no. | ||
| The fact is, some of those people are still in the Navy. | ||
| You have to promote them. | ||
| The easiest thing to replace... Can I promote them in a week because this thing's coming down? | ||
| When do you think, 30 seconds, when does this conflict start? | ||
| Well, the winds, I check the winds every day in the Formosa Straits, and they have just started to calm down now. | ||
| We're only like five knots today. | ||
| You think by August, September? | ||
| Before the 20th Party Congress? | ||
| No, I think it would be after, because it's such an absolutist go or no go, it has to win, so I think it will go afterwards, but it will definitely be before the next presidential election in the United States. | ||
| Where on getter do they get you? | ||
| Hashtag, we are unplugged. | ||
| Okay, I'm going to be on Getter. | ||
| At Harnwell is going to be up live talking about the Ukraine. | ||
| I'm going to be up all weekend putting material up. | ||
| Make sure you come to At Steve Bannon on Getter. | ||
| We also have more room, all of it. | ||
| We'll see you back here Monday. | ||
| We're going to do a point-by-point refutation of the Monday hearing. |
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