July 16, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Banham. | |
| Okay, welcome here in the War Room. | ||
| It is Saturday, 16 July, the year of our Lord, 2022. | ||
| We're going to get into it today. | ||
| We're going to have Jerome Revere, hopefully, here in the War Room in a little while, but we're going to go spend the next, go through what is called The Economist this week. | ||
| Called this, How to Win the Long War. | ||
| And I know if you're on the podcast or a radio, you can't say I've got the cover up. | ||
| By the way, this is why you've got to go. | ||
| Everybody's got to go to our website, join our email list. | ||
| You get the daily show notes. | ||
| They come out and they've got a lot of the videos associated with them or go to Getter. | ||
| Everybody in our audience should be on Getter. | ||
| Why should you be on Getter? | ||
| You get the best of Ben Harnwell. | ||
| Harnwell's on fire on Getter. | ||
| He's doing live streams, he's putting analysis, but I put up stuff all day long. | ||
| I'm putting up 20 or, you know, 30 pieces all day long about an analysis at the top of it so you can read and kind of understand what's going on politically, geopolitically, economics, capital markets, politics here or throughout the world. | ||
| The Economist has got how to win the long war, okay? | ||
| And it's all about a very skewed And very wrongheaded approach to the Ukraine, which is something that we would never agree with about what their policy is towards Russia. | ||
| Earlier in the week, and I kept a stack of stuff here, earlier in the week, and this is what, remember during the week I was heckling everybody about this. | ||
| You had uh because remember the 40 billion dollars the 40 billion dollars of your money that was voted they first had to move the entire um discretionary spending bill of 1.5 trillion in the middle of the night couldn't even read it why it was so important to get the 10 billion dollars to Ukraine for emergency measures and the republicans are the ones that agreed and pushed this in the senate that 10 billion dollars then it was followed by 40 billion Nobody even read it. | ||
| It took the heroic Rand Paul to slow it down a bit. | ||
| And of course, the headline in the, this was in the, I think it was Wednesdays, the Financial Times of London, not Gateway Pundit, right? | ||
| Not National File. | ||
| What does it say here? | ||
| West fears arms sent to Ukraine end up on Europe's black market. | ||
| Kiev issues assurances the whole thing allies want a tracking system Concern over criminal gangs and as we noted they're selling to the highest bidder So they're actually selling some of this to the Russian military. | ||
| It's the third most corrupt nation on earth It's unworthy of being an ally It will never be an ally because an alliance can never get two-thirds of votes in the United States Senate impossible Because it's, you know, it's the third most corrupt place on earth, and you're showing it right now. | ||
| We're pouring men and materials into Ukraine with very little understanding of what's going on, and the Republicans have not forced Joe Biden to come. | ||
| At least in Vietnam, we had a Tonkin Gulf Resolution, I think, in the In the Gulf War, you had resolutions, you had to vote on these war resolutions. | ||
| We need to force Biden to come to the American people and explain what the objectives are. | ||
| Explain exactly what we're doing there, because now the blowback from this war is starting to metastasize and affect many, many different things. | ||
| We learned early in the week that Turkey is now working with them, sending them, Iran sending drones, Turkey's very close to Putin. | ||
| What I've warned about for years, and if you saw that movie called The Brink, Back in 18, by the way, the filmmaker thought we were on the brink then. | ||
| She must be in complete meltdown now. | ||
| I would go around, I had my red notebook, and I would do that diagram. | ||
| It said China, Persia, and Turkey. | ||
| And they were controlling the Eurasian landmass. | ||
| And maybe Pakistan was helping them out, or North Korea was helping them out. | ||
| But I said, hey, the key thing here, the one thing we have to avoid, the one most important thing in American geopolitics is never let Russia Pardon with that access never let it partner with China Iran and Turkey because then you're going to have four dominant powers control the Eurasian landmass and from Japan Taiwan India Australia all the way to Western Europe will be on the periphery of that and that will make that will change world power dynamics | ||
| And this is what we've gotten into, and of course, The Economist gets it totally wrong, because their solution is to essentially get into a military conflict with Russia right now. | ||
| That Russia has to be defeated in the Ukraine, and by defeated, I mean take back all the territory in eastern Ukraine, protect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine, and self-determination of Ukraine, particularly in eastern Ukraine, and Kind of what Tony Blinken and Austin said, degradate severely Soviet military power. | ||
| Now, Jerome Revere from the European Parliament is going to be joining us hopefully in a little while, in hour two. | ||
| But I've got our international editor, Ben Harnwell. | ||
| And Ben, you've really been on top of this. | ||
| And kind of what's shocking, given the money we put into our Rome Bureau, right? | ||
| The huge capital costs and luxurious surroundings and your big staff. | ||
| uh that that you've been on top of this and ahead of the telegraph the times of london the french papers the financial times but particularly the financial times in the economist how could that be how could a person that's working let's say let's say this Ben works on a tight budget. | ||
| We work on a tight budget in our International Bureau. | ||
| How is it, Harnwell, that you've been ahead of this? | ||
| Of every development in the Ukraine, you've been weeks and weeks ahead of it, and still the legacy media over there, still at this day, now we're in mid-July, still do not get it, sir. | ||
| It's an interesting question, Steve. | ||
| I can only put it like this. | ||
| Before I started formally working here on the war room for you, One of the great things I always admired about what you were doing when you were with the Trump campaign, when you were with the White House, and then when I started listening, and as an ordinary member of the posse to the war, and this is back when I was working on our monastery project, it was your capacity to see the data points and to draw the straight line through them. | ||
| And what I have tried to do is to imitate you in that regard. | ||
| I spend about 10 hours a day just hoovering up all the press. | ||
| I go to like the FT, Reuters, the AP. | ||
| Specifically because I trust their data points. | ||
| I don't trust their narrative. | ||
| I don't trust their interpretation. | ||
| But I trust their data points. | ||
| If they say a fact, that fact is likely to be true. | ||
| They might massage how they present that to fit their agenda, obviously. | ||
| So learning from how you interpret the news. | ||
| I've tried to copy that. | ||
| And that's how we've been ahead on this, Steve. | ||
| It's as simple as that. | ||
| Go to things like the trustable media. | ||
| I can't underline this enough. | ||
| Never for their interpretation. | ||
| Go to the data points and then try and analyze what's going on behind it. | ||
| I've learned this from you and it's what I try to do on my live streams as well, on my contributions to the war room. | ||
| It's to say, look, here are the data points. | ||
| And this is what's going on behind that. | ||
| You pushed out something on your on your getter feed earlier on in the week, Steve. | ||
| It was an Axios story about how basically the Democrat Party is imploding. | ||
| It's losing all of its minority support. | ||
| And the only metric it's ahead on is white college graduates. | ||
| How did Axios Whose facts are normally OK. | ||
| How did they spin that story? | ||
| It was something like the Democrat, in ground change, Democrats move ahead in white college graduate voters. | ||
| That is to say, you read the story and you understand how badly the Democrat Party is in meltdown. | ||
| But they're not going to tell you that. | ||
| They're not going to tell you that explicitly. | ||
| They're going to tell you the fact and let you work it. | ||
| They'll probably bury the lead, but they'll let you work it out for yourself. | ||
| This is why The War Room is doing such important work. | ||
| Another example, Steve. | ||
| I think back on the 5th of July, The War Room was the first news organization in the world to talk about the link between Sri Lanka and the Netherlands. | ||
| We were the first. | ||
| I did a number of contributions on the War Room. | ||
| I did a few live streams on it. | ||
| And then earlier on this week, Tucker Carlson, who did a great job, carried it, right? | ||
| But this is why I'm so proud of the War Room, because we're the first on these things and we're giving the posse, the War Room posse, the correct straight line from the data points. | ||
| We might not have the Fox Empire's media take, but people know that when they listen to us, they might think, oh, this is something quite dissonant here about what I'm hearing, because I'm not hearing this on any other media. | ||
| Give it time. | ||
| Give it a few weeks. | ||
| Give it a few months, and the rest of the media will pick up on it. | ||
| Tomorrow's news today. | ||
| Talk to people. | ||
| You've been, you're an Englishman, but you've been in Italy for a long time. | ||
| We worked in the monastery project, and people should understand we're still building our training ground for gladiators, the gladiators of the new populist nationalist right. | ||
| But you've been there and you now have gotten back to Rome and you head up this, you're very engaged in the war room every day and going through the analysis. | ||
| This whole concept, because I think a lot of people in the United States don't, they see the independent nations of Europe, but this thing the EU we talk about or Davos and NATO. | ||
| Why is the Ukraine, the Ukraine is front and center now on MSNBC, we call it the next big thing, right? | ||
| It's what these guys always do to try to get, try to win elections. | ||
| Why is the EU and why is NATO made such a big deal about it to the fact that we've actually got the Economist now saying how to win the long war and they are literally talking about now hunkering down for many years if not decades to get Russia out of Ukraine, and they say, hey, if we don't do this, it's all over. | ||
| What is so powerful about the EU and NATO that drives this entire conversation in Europe, and particularly about the war in Ukraine? | ||
| Well, let's wheel back a little bit, Steve, to the COVID crisis. | ||
| We've had two years of governments around the world locking up and imprisoning their own people, giving trillions of dollars away to the government's preferred client base, and possibly a thousand, two thousand dollars to the average American. | ||
| That is a huge, a huge transfer of wealth that makes 2008 blush with shame. | ||
| That is to say, that is to say, put that together with the populist nationalist revolt that we'd started to see take root right around the world. | ||
| Basically, Steve, our governments were in a crisis of authority. | ||
| People were at revolutionary point right across the world. | ||
| And nowhere more was this sentiment felt at the international level, where there is already no democratic mandate and no democratic legitimacy. | ||
| And then comes Russia's invasion into Ukraine. | ||
| And President Volodymyr Zelensky, to give him his credit as a certain genius when it comes to communication and to tapping in, to in advance to a message. | ||
| He he he doesn't have a hold. | ||
| He does have a genius. | ||
| The recipe. He's an actor, comedian. | ||
| The rest of these people are just simps. | ||
| It's embarrassing the way that they have groveled at this guy and slobbered all over him. Right? | ||
| It's so obvious what he's doing. | ||
| I mean, he's played right into it, but they want to be convinced. | ||
| It has been embarrassing as an adult to see it. | ||
| When he did the big screen here in the Capitol, they had all the congressmen, the five-minute stand ovation. | ||
| They're all there like five-year-old school kids. | ||
| Ben Harnwell. | ||
| It's true, Steve. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| I'm not saying there's any depth or substance to his shtick. | ||
| But we didn't see anything like this when Russia rolled into Georgia a few years before. | ||
| There is something about Zelensky that has captured the global imagination. | ||
| And this is, you know, just like a couple of cycles before, it was Greta. | ||
| Like, if these people don't exist, Our sociopathic overlords would need to invent them, and that's effectively what they've done, right? | ||
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| We're going to come back and we're going to get into, what do you call it? | ||
| The sociopathic overlords. | ||
| I love that. | ||
| You can get that on Getter. | ||
| That's how Ben Hardwell describes them. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| We're talking about the long war and how to really win it. | ||
| Not what the comments say. | ||
| I hope you're doing okay. | ||
| Don't cough up a lung on us, Ben. | ||
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| Ben Harnwell, you've been doing some amazing analysis and connecting dots on the Ukraine. | ||
| Walk us through your assessment, what you've seen recently in the news that points to points you've been making about the Ukraine and why are sociopathic overlords of everything in the world you could be obsessed with? | ||
| Why are they obsessed with this? | ||
| Well, because it's given them back their opportunity to be legitimate and for there to be a need for them. | ||
| When I was talking about Zelensky's certain genius, one of the things that he's done extremely well is, in all of his comments, he's talking about values. | ||
| He says he shares the values of the West. | ||
| That Ukraine's future is part of Europe, not part of Russia. | ||
| Now, for people, especially at the European Union level, in this crisis of legitimacy, to hear another country that's been invaded in this fashion, sort of saying, hey, you guys, I'm part of you, I need your help, we're the same, you know, we go to the same conferences. | ||
| But we're part of one another. | ||
| We need your help. | ||
| These guys, our sociopathic overlords, whose meat and drink is broadcast into the world, their moral superiority, and what I mean by that, that they're not 30 oily, greasy nationalists. | ||
| These people are superior to these grubby values. | ||
| Well, it's an invitation to be relevant again, and they took that invitation with both hands. | ||
| That's part of it. | ||
| The second part of it, Steve, is simple grits. | ||
| Well, hang on. | ||
| Before we get off to the first one, when you say values, I want to make sure everyone in the audience knows this. | ||
| That's the values of progressive America. | ||
| When you talk about the EU and Davos, it's the reason they came in and tried to shut down our monastery. | ||
| They don't believe in the values, the traditional values of the Judeo-Christian West. | ||
| Or what, anathema to these people. | ||
| What Zelensky puts forward is the secular values of the EU, of Davos, of the American ruling clique. | ||
| I mean, the LGBTQ, the gender ideology, everything to deal with the progressive left. | ||
| I mean, people, MSNBC would be on here in the first night's broadcast, and they kept saying, you know, Kiev is very different in that it's got this social scene that's very much like Berlin. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Very much like, I should have said Weimar, but very much like Berlin. | ||
| They praise because Ukraine is not, and Zelensky and these guys don't promote the classic values of the Judeo-Christian West. | ||
| So when you say he shares the values, he signals to them The virtue signaling that he shares the ruling elite's values. | ||
| This is going to get to the politics of why I think many of the countries are pulling. | ||
| The people in the country are saying, whoa, right? | ||
| You know, I think right now, 33% of the people oppose the war. | ||
| It's down to 40 that approve it. | ||
| And now the economics are just hitting in. | ||
| But when you say he chose these people, he wants the values of the West. | ||
| He ain't talking about the Judeo-Christian values. | ||
| He's talking about the values of the secularists, globalists, sociopaths that run this operation, right? | ||
| Absolutely correct, Steve. | ||
| I couldn't put it better. | ||
| He does. | ||
| That's the language he talks. | ||
| That's certainly the gang that he wants to be a part of. | ||
| And they want him in as well. | ||
| Why do they want him in? | ||
| Well, this is the second part of what's going on. | ||
| When I talk about grift, I don't mean it necessarily in, say, the Latin American sense or the third world sense, where ministers or senior civil servants will offer to give a favoured tender or something for an envelope under the desk. | ||
| It's far more subtle than that. | ||
| It's these people at the UN, at the WHO, at the European Union, they exist Because they intervene constantly in our lives. | ||
| And they have a mandate to do this. | ||
| An illegitimate mandate, but they have a certain mandate to do this. | ||
| So they're always there. | ||
| They're getting involved, interfering with their pointless regulations. | ||
| And the more that these supranational bodies do, the more they get paid, the better pensions they get. | ||
| Their economy is a scale, sort of false, infrastructures, they grow larger, like corporations, to give you an opportunity to work up. | ||
| So when I talk about grift, I mean in this sense, the whole shtick, the whole job, the pensions and everything, it's dependent on this, what is it? | ||
| This rules-based international order, which they represent. | ||
| They are the paladins of this order. | ||
| That is why they claim that Vladimir Putin has put this order under threat, which puts them directly under threat. | ||
| Because it's not as if these people produce anything useful, as we would define this in terms of the free market capitalism. | ||
| There's nothing they provide. | ||
| They don't provide the service that people actually want. | ||
| But they have jobs for life. | ||
| In the European Commission, they pay 10% income tax. | ||
| They have styles of life. | ||
| Seeing this in practice, Steve, is what turned me from being quite a fanatical pro-European into an equally fanatical Eurosceptic. | ||
| Because when I went to go and work in the European Parliament, I had all these pro-European ideals. | ||
| You know, the EU's kept the peace for 50 years and all the rest of it. | ||
| It was when I went there that I realized that no one was motivated by these ideals. | ||
| They were just basically in it for themselves. | ||
| They wanted to go out on the best pension possible. | ||
| They worked hours, to say that they worked. | ||
| ours is to over egg it. | ||
| They turn up in the office, they mill around and go to the bars in the parliament, and then they go home at 3.30. | ||
| Then they get months off and they can get years off if they want to go and study. | ||
| I mean, the whole thing is a racket, right? | ||
| And it's now increasingly seen as a racket, one of the reasons the UK pulled out. | ||
| Vladimir Putin gave them all their legitimacy back because they can go and grandstand And all this money, you know, as we've been saying on the War Room, right from the beginning, all this money that's going to go into Ukraine for the rebuilding of this country is going to go through, through what? | ||
| Through the European Union. | ||
| It'll go through the President's Office of Ukraine himself, right? | ||
| Where there, perhaps, we are talking more about the traditional Mr. 10% philosophy than at the European Union. | ||
| But we're going to see the greatest transfer of wealth, I think, globally. | ||
| Now, when it comes to the rebuilding of Ukraine. | ||
| Well, let's talk about the Ukraine. | ||
| When you first mentioned it, I thought it was so ludicrous. | ||
| I kind of blew you off, said, no, let's not put it on the show. | ||
| And then the Financial Times of London had it last week. | ||
| They're already talking about a $750 billion, which will be $2 trillion by the time we finish, rebuilding of the Ukraine that the EU and the United States, which means the United States, is going to underwrite. | ||
| And you said, Steve, the whole purpose of this is to get to rebuilding because that's when the graft is. | ||
| I blew you off, Ben, and that's before I understood when this headline came out to say that the arms, and remember, we're not making that many weapons because we never figured wars of attrition anymore. | ||
| That's the other big article that's in the FT this week. | ||
| We're running out of ammunition. | ||
| In fact, they actually mentioned it in the Economist's Long War articles that one of the problems with this war of attrition We're not really set up for this. | ||
| That's the Economist cover right there, how to win the long war. | ||
| They say, hey, we can't really win it immediately on munitions because we don't have enough. | ||
| Here, this is how bad the corruption and the grift is. | ||
| West fears arms sent to Ukraine end up on Europe's black market. | ||
| They're taking your money and your arms of the $40 billion and the $10 billion. | ||
| It gets in there and the criminal gangs and the oligarchs, who are one and the same, take it and immediately sell it to the third world and they're selling it to the Russians. | ||
| They'll take the highest bidder. | ||
| Ben, we got a couple of minutes. | ||
| The $750 billion they're talking about to rebuild Ukraine, how much of that's going to get scared? | ||
| By the way, should the United States have any part of that at all, Mr. Harnwell? | ||
| No, the United States should have no part of that and neither should the peoples of the European Union. | ||
| When a country declares fights in a war like this, it needs to check its resources. | ||
| There's a gospel, I think it's in Matthew, you know, when someone comes to make war against you, you check your resources and you decide whether you're going to go ahead and fight them. | ||
| And if you don't have the resources, you send an ambassador ahead, an emissary ahead to make peace on favorable terms. | ||
| That's in the gospel, right? | ||
| Common sense. | ||
| But what our sociopathic elites have done is that they've enabled this war to start and to continue. | ||
| And the sick part of this is, is that whilst they're feeding our elites, are feeding the Ukrainian people into the meat grinder as this war continues, they're standing there doing press releases as if they're the protectors and Ben, hang on for one second. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| as we were saying, talking about their values. The contrast between what is happening to the poor Ukrainians on the ground and the moral grandstanding of our Western leadership couldn't be larger and it couldn't be more disgraceful. | ||
| Ben, hang on for one second. We're going to take a short commercial break. We're going to be back with how to win the long war. You have the Economist version and you have the War Wounds version. | ||
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| I want to go back, but by the way, if Denver can put up, do we have the map of the Eurasian landmass? | ||
| If you have that? | ||
| We don't have that? | ||
| Couldn't get that? | ||
| Too tough? | ||
| Well, just think about the Eurasian landmass for a second. | ||
| I know you can get that in your mind. | ||
| Maybe we can get it up on the I want to talk about Ben's mention, and the head of the National Economic Council the other day, I think his name's Dease, he's Larry Fink-Grundon, this guy named Dease, he said, people are going to have to suck on, the United States is going to have to live with higher gas prices because this is all about protecting the liberal world order. | ||
| That was his quote, the liberal world order. | ||
| And Americans are just going to have to get used to $5 gasoline or $6 gasoline or, you know, just going to have to suck on it because we've got to protect the liberal order. | ||
| And I had to do this one time with General Mattis and other guys to explain because they keep saying, well, the post-war, you know, international rules-based order is the greatest gift of the greatest generation. | ||
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| Well, let's deconstruct that and talk about it. | ||
| When the White House talks about the liberal post-war order, or Ben Harnwell stoned out, he mentions the EU, you got all this. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| What are we talking about? | ||
| So here's a simple construct. | ||
| For you to think about and I think about the Eurasian landmass and we get a if we do get a map of that, let me know. | ||
| It's up. | ||
| OK, put it up and you do a split screen. | ||
| OK, I want to start in Europe and I'm going to go around the periphery of the Eurasian landmass. | ||
| What is the postwar international rules based order? | ||
| What is it? | ||
| You hear this all the time, it's like there's some mystery, it's a talisman, or it's something that can't be explained. | ||
| Secret size, secret handshake, gotta have a Dakota ring. | ||
| Well, no you do not, because it's actually pretty simple, pretty basic. | ||
| You go to Europe, you then go to the, let's say the Persian Gulf, around the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, then go around the map, go all the way past India. | ||
| Go to the Straits of Malacca and really the South China Sea right in there, that part. | ||
| And then you go up to either Northeast Europe if you're on the landmass or by Japan and Korea, what I call the Northwest Pacific from the United States perspective. | ||
| So those four areas, those four areas of the world. | ||
| Now, what kind of ties them together? | ||
| Well, first off, in each area you have trade deals. | ||
| The United States has trade relationships with those areas, whether it's the EU or the countries, right? | ||
| Has trade relationships. | ||
| So we have trade deals. | ||
| We have commercial relationships, strong commercial relationships in these areas, commercial relationships. | ||
| We have capital markets. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Your pension fund money buys bonds over there through your brokers here or through the big investment banks or the pension fund managers. | ||
| So it's an integration of global capital markets and just in Europe. | ||
| So you have trade deals, right? | ||
| Codification of that. | ||
| You have commercial relationships and yes, you have cultural too. | ||
| That's important, but I'm talking about money and power. | ||
| So you have trade relationships, you have commercial relationships, trade deals, capital markets, and then we have, wait for it, an American security guarantee, whether that's NATO or what's happened for the 9 trillion dollars we've spent in the Middle East and what we still spend around the Gulf with the UAE. | ||
| So you have an American security guarantee of your money and your children, the blood and treasure. | ||
| So we have NATO, of which essentially the United States underwrites. | ||
| Let's be blunt. | ||
| Let's have a partners discussion. | ||
| The individual NATO countries put in very little. | ||
| They try to hide, they never put the 2% percentage of GDP, which I think ours is over 3.5% now. | ||
| Remember, your defense bill every year is $1 trillion. | ||
| Don't look at the $880 billion or $840 billion they talk about. | ||
| That's not, that's accounting conventions. | ||
| It's a trillion dollar capital commitment. | ||
| And we have, wait for it, a trillion dollar deficit. | ||
| Every year, a systemic deficit of about a trillion dollars. | ||
| So, you have a trillion dollar defense bill and your kids, that's what we have 100,000 combat troops right now, forward deployed into the Balkans and the Poland. | ||
| And that goes already against, that doesn't even count the traditional Germany and Rammstein and all the bases we have over there in Italy and Germany, right, that were already forward deployed in NATO. | ||
| We've just spent $9 trillion in 20 years in Afghanistan and Iraq, and we're still the biggest supporter of Israel's defense budget. | ||
| We're the biggest supporter of the Saudis, UAE, all of it, right? | ||
| We fought wars there continually, even with Reagan and the guys in Lebanon and Qaddafi. | ||
| But think about, you know, think about the Gulf War in 92 and then the war on terror and everything we did the last 10 years. | ||
| So you're in the Gulf Emirates. | ||
| Remember, trade deals, commercial relationships, capital markets, integrated capital markets, and an American security guarantee. | ||
| Your money, your ships, your troops, and your kids, your blood and treasure. | ||
| Then you go around, you get to the littoral nations of the Straits of Malacca and the South China Sea, you know, Vietnam, Philippines, all that. | ||
| Once again, commercial relationships, trade deals with each individual nation, Uh, capital markets, and those are booming capital markets, right? | ||
| With real growth. | ||
| But, once again, an American security guarantee. | ||
| Back in, what, 1977, 78? | ||
| A young Stephen K. Bannons on a Navy destroyer, and what are we doing? | ||
| We're patrolling... | ||
| The South China Sea, the 7th Fleet, kind of the remnants of World War II. | ||
| In Vietnam, we're still there on patrol to keep those sea lanes, those very important sea lanes, free. | ||
| And we're in the Philippines with Clark Air Force Base, and we've got Subic Bay Naval Base, the biggest naval base in the world at the time. | ||
| So, we're there, and once again, trade deals, commercial relationships, capital markets, and an American security guarantee with your blood and treasure you give to the Northwest Pacific. | ||
| Just gave his life campaigning. | ||
| What was Abe campaigning for? | ||
| He says, we've got to get off of this just Japanese defense thing. | ||
| The CCP is ascendant. | ||
| It is coming after us. | ||
| It's an existential threat. | ||
| What we need to do is to drop that clause in our Constitution that we're going to be passive. | ||
| We need to rearm. | ||
| We need to make Japan great again. | ||
| This is why he's so close to Trump. | ||
| And why is that South Korea? | ||
| We have troops on the 38th parallel. | ||
| You know, I think it's the American, was it the Third Army or Fifth Army? | ||
| No, the 5th Army is a new group, wait for it, that's going to be headquartered in Poland, just announced that, new 5th Army group in Poland. | ||
| 3,500 forward deployed combat regiment team, I think, from the 101st Airborne, the 101st Airborne, excuse me, Combat Brigade is going to be forward deployed there. | ||
| So, you've got, once again, up in the Northwest Pacific, 38th Parallel, South Korea, ships all over the place, big naval bases at Yokosuka, and a naval air station, I think, at Tsugi, right, with parts of the 7th Fleet, the four deployed there, and still part of the 7th Fleet, or the Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, still four deployed in Pearl Harbor. | ||
| So, and that is, it's the American security guarantee that makes this international rules-based order, and remember this, In this rules-based order, this was the order that we allowed the Chinese to come into in the late 90s. | ||
| We invited them into the World Trade Organization and the most favored nations. | ||
| That was part of the rules-based order. | ||
| Come and play by the rules. | ||
| That economy, when we let them in, I think was just over a trillion dollars. | ||
| It almost is as large as the American economy today. | ||
| In 22 years, The Chinese Communist Party has been able to game the system into becoming an economic superpower underwritten by American taxpayers and underwritten by your pension funds who have financed this. | ||
| That's what the rules-based order did. | ||
| The Chinese gamed the system while you were paying for the defense of it. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Including another nine trillion dollars into these Middle East wars. | ||
| They took advantage of it. | ||
| And so this is what's being defended now. | ||
| When Dease comes out to the thing and says, no, we have to be in Ukraine. | ||
| And what is what are they all saying? | ||
| You know, Kamala Harris up there all the time. | ||
| We're fighting for the sovereignty of Ukraine, the territorial integrity of Ukraine, and their self-determination. | ||
| Now, they're not on the southern border of the United States doing any of this. | ||
| But they're in Eastern, Russian-speaking Ukraine. | ||
| That's everything. | ||
| And what does he say? | ||
| If your $5 gas is a problem, that is a problem to you, that's your problem. | ||
| Because we're in it for the long haul. | ||
| This is what Biden said, that we're here to support that rules-based, that liberal order. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| And Ben just laid it out for you. | ||
| When you go, it's just a bunch of apparatchiks. | ||
| All these trade regulators, and all the guys running the capital markets, and all the... It's just a bunch of... It's just a bunch of apparatchiks. | ||
| Government apparatchiks. | ||
| Yet, it has strapped the United States that you've paid... We have paid... The American taxpayer and the American working class have paid for their own destruction. | ||
| That's the tragedy here. | ||
| I can walk you through the math down to the fifth decimal place. | ||
| How you underwrote it. | ||
| Ben, your assessment of my analysis of the post-war, international, liberal, rules-based order, sir? | ||
| It's absolutely correct. | ||
| You know, one of the things that often gets thrown into the mix as well is free trade. | ||
| That's often pulled out, especially these days, especially in our own movement. | ||
| It has a bad name, right? | ||
| It is often attributed as the root cause for the total destruction of the local economies throughout the Rust Belt. | ||
| I would come in here, however, on this point, because of course the ostensible point about the rules-based order is to preserve peace, but also to underwrite the parameters for free trade. | ||
| The problem here with free trade isn't so much free trade in and of itself, because That would have given, all other things being equal, that would have given the opportunity, at least for people, to pay less for goods on the global market. | ||
| The problem here is the Federal Reserve. | ||
| Because instead of prices being allowed to fall, thanks to free trade, which would have widened people's discretionary income, and therefore improved their cost of living, what happened? | ||
| Look at Amazon. | ||
| And with its huge possibilities for competition, should there have been a force to drive down prices and allow people's quality of living correspondingly to rise? | ||
| No, because the Federal Reserve comes in and it pumps up prices ostensibly to 2%, right? | ||
| Of course it's going a lot beyond that. | ||
| It pumps prices up for 2%. | ||
| So no matter how hard people work, Right. | ||
| On that hamster wheel, the Federal Reserve will just flip the switch and make the hamster wheel go even faster. | ||
| So people can't save for their future because their savings are being destroyed by inflation. | ||
| And this is a problem of whom? | ||
| It's the international rules-based order. | ||
| They themselves, to allow themselves an indefinite stretch of grift at ordinary people's expense, have gamed the system. | ||
| And everything they have touched has ruined. | ||
| So I'd like to say it is not in and of itself the rules-based order or free trade that has decimated our societies both in the West, but both in the European Union and in I'll finish with this point, if I may. | ||
| of China. | ||
| Not so much that…it's the fact, and this comes back to something that Trump said right…he was saying this since the 1980s, it's the fact that in international negotiations we don't send our best. | ||
| You can say many things critical of Xi…I'll finish with this point if I may, right? | ||
| You can say many things critical of President Xi and his successors, but there's something Short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to come back. | ||
| By the way, what Ben said about the free trade, I'm going to get right into that. | ||
| Because Trump, remember, when I said trade deals, commercial relationships, capital markets, we were upside down on every trade deal. | ||
| Every trade deal was against the United States. | ||
| Except when Donald Trump came on the scene. | ||
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| Ben, Trump, and when you talk about that on fair trade, free trade, we didn't have free trade. | ||
| Each one of these areas, the EU was terrible. | ||
| Japan was bad. | ||
| Korea was terrible. | ||
| We had, this is why we got out of the TPP before we signed it. | ||
| The administrative state had done a terrible job of once been globalist, didn't put America first. | ||
| Trump said we're going to change that. | ||
| So when you look around that map of the rules-based order, not only did China, the CCP, game the system, to become a Goliath by stealing our intellectual property, not following any of these trade orders at all. | ||
| But even the individual trade deals, whether it's for the EU, for a bloc, or for Korea as a country, or Japan, we were upside down. | ||
| So we're underwriting the security and we're having our jobs and our economy sucked out because this is what the globalists want. | ||
| Ben Harnwell. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Stephen, this is something that you've been saying as long as I've known you. | ||
| The people who govern us are incompetent. | ||
| Now, I've actually formulated this into what I call Hanwell's Ninth Aphorism, which I shall read to you now. | ||
| It's impossible to know with our sociopathic overlords where their incompetence ends and bad fate begins. | ||
| And that is something I'm pushing out pretty much these days in every single live stream I do, because it's always relevant. | ||
| As the CCP was sending its best in to the negotiating table, before President Xi you had Hu Jintao, before Hu Jintao you had Jiang Zemin, right? | ||
| Say what you like about these being international gangsters, and they are, and crooks, which they are, but they know how to negotiate Not in China's best interest, not in all the ordinary Lao-Beijing, but in the interest of the party and them personally. | ||
| They know how... I mean, they're the world's best grifters, right? | ||
| Our guys are grifters, but they're incompetent. | ||
| This is the thing that you've always said, and it's really sort of colored the way I see things. | ||
| The people that we send in—look at Jake Sullivan a month or two ago. | ||
| The people we send in to negotiate— Getting lectured. | ||
| By the way, in Rome, he got a struggle session with Tiger Yang, correct? | ||
| He certainly did. | ||
| He certainly did. | ||
| I think it would, I think it was so bad I wouldn't even have wanted to be a fly on that wall. | ||
| Because I don't like cruelty to animals. | ||
| So I think I would have naturally opposed the three hours of bitch slapping China was putting on America's National Security Advisor. | ||
| It was a cruel, from everything I gather, it was a cruel moment. | ||
| We send in people who are incompetent. | ||
| We have a system, talking about this international rules-based system, we have a system that benefits a certain type of hack. | ||
| It's not like the normal political system where in politics it tends to be the most alpha person that gets ahead, the person who commands respect and even perhaps a little bit of fear amongst the colleagues. | ||
| That's not what you get in these international bureaucracies. | ||
| It has a culture all of its own. | ||
| It's people who can game the system for their own careers. | ||
| But that is perhaps, oh, that's not their only attribute. | ||
| They have another attribute. | ||
| These people talk. | ||
| When they talk, they talk with authority. | ||
| They have no idea what they're talking about. | ||
| No real sense of intuition and connection between cause and effect. | ||
| But when they talk, they talk with a certain synthetic form of gravitas and coupled with a compliant mainstream media around the world. | ||
| Their words are carried as if this is the truth brought down from the mountain by Moses himself. | ||
| So they have these two attributes. | ||
| They talk with a certain gravitas, even though they have no idea really what they're talking about, and they know how to game the bureaucratic system, the milieu within which they are. | ||
| They know how to talk to the other bureaucracies around the world. | ||
| What's that intersectionality thing? | ||
| Like always talking about in the States, one of the reasons they really hated Trump was that he, he, he walked over there, the little departmental dialogues, um, and the interagency process, the fetish of the interagency. | ||
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| And it's exactly the same amongst the international bureaucracies. | ||
| And that's why this shtick had been allowed to grow on and develop, um, for, for 50 years. | ||
| And Steve, this. | ||
| This is why they hated Donald Trump so much. | ||
| It's not that he's represented a threat in and of itself to the international rules-based system, where rules can be good. | ||
| It's not even the fact that he represented an existential threat to the system which has been gamed by China to the detriment of the United States. | ||
| It's that he represented a threat to them. | ||
| It was Donald Trump who started talking about defunding the United Nations. | ||
| And the World Health Organization, right? | ||
| This is hitting these people where it hurts. | ||
| Because these people, they go, you know, I've got my little sinecure that will see me through until I retire and then I'll get my kid's place and we'll be fine in Switzerland or Brussels. | ||
| As you always say, these people are all the same. | ||
| They have no national belonging. | ||
| Their citizenship is in and of this order. | ||
| We're going to be fine. | ||
| There might be a deep recession in my own home country where I was born, but I'm fine. | ||
| I have guaranteed income. | ||
| I have guaranteed pension. | ||
| I have guaranteed health security for me and my family. | ||
| I've guaranteed, what, six weeks off a year and all the rest of it. | ||
| I can work four hours a day. | ||
| I have all these things. | ||
| They're guaranteed. | ||
| There's no country that's going to pull out of this system. | ||
| That is what Donald Trump represents. | ||
| Ben, hang on one second. | ||
| I know you've got to bounce. | ||
| Jerome's going to join in a second, but I just want to hold you through the first part of the next block. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Ben Harnwell, we're talking about how to really win. | ||
| The long war. | ||
| The long war being against the Chinese Communist Party, Iran, Turkey, now Russia, Pakistan, trying to consolidate on the Eurasian landmass. |
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