Oct. 10, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is what you're fighting for. | ||
| I mean, every day you're out there. | ||
| What they're doing is blowing people off. | ||
| If you continue to look the other way and shut up, then the oppressors, the authoritarians get total control and total power. | ||
| Because this is just like in Arizona. | ||
| This is just like in Georgia. It's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and misrepresentations. | ||
| This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged. | ||
| As we've told you, this is the fight. | ||
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All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | |
| War Room. Battleground. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Good afternoon. I'm Brad Thayer, filling in for Steve Bannon, who should be here, of course, but isn't. | ||
| We look forward to his return. | ||
| It couldn't be soon enough. | ||
| I'm very pleased to be hosting today, October 9th, 2024, War Room Battleground. | ||
| And I'd like to take a start with a recognition of Hurricane Milton and many of us know folks in Florida, have friends, family, relatives there who are going to be affected by this horrible hurricane. | ||
| And they're all Americans, of course, too. | ||
| So all Americans' hearts, prayers, thoughts go out to the people of Florida, just as they did for those in the seven states who are hit by Hurricane Helene. | ||
| It just seems to be one blow after another for these good folks, for these good Americans. | ||
| Hold them all in our thoughts and prayers this afternoon and tonight, of course, when Milton hits and dealing with, of course, the aftermath of that in the days and, of course, weeks to come as the events in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, and Florida demonstrated with Helene. | ||
| Well, I'm very pleased to be here today, and I want to just underscore the importance of voting. | ||
| It's critical that individuals register to vote, that you vote, and that you get your friends and family members, all acquaintances registered and actually voting as well. | ||
| And so I'm very pleased to have Grace Chung, the CFO of War Room, join us to talk about what she's been doing, just outstanding work In ensuring that everybody is ready, that the War Room audience, the posse, knows what they need to do, where they need to be, and how they can help. | ||
| So, Grace, good afternoon. | ||
| Thanks for joining us. | ||
| Thank you, Dr. | ||
| Thayer. Really appreciate you having me on. | ||
| So, we have 27 days left, soon to be 26. | ||
| We started this War Room Posse Get Out to Vote campaign, where all of us, all of the Posse members must be texting, calling, sending postcards, 10 to 20 people every single day. | ||
| So I hope that everyone has been doing that. | ||
| And really getting involved. | ||
| And I think everyone has. | ||
| So I just wanted to go over some critical dates and information. | ||
| The first is registration dates, voter registration. | ||
| North Carolina, the last state to register, is this Friday. | ||
| So make sure that you contact your friends, family, neighbors, and they are registered to vote. | ||
| And Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan is Wisconsin's next week, and then Pennsylvania, Michigan is that following Monday, and Nevada is that Wednesday. | ||
| So make sure that you reach out to everyone and that they are registered to vote. | ||
| Going on to early voting, today is a critical day for Arizona. | ||
| I hope a lot of you guys have already casted your votes in Arizona. | ||
| And it starts today or started today. | ||
| And just use those apps and make sure that you cast your ballot early this time. | ||
| I was there in Arizona last year to check it out. | ||
| I saw firsthand how long the lines were. | ||
| It was so hot outside. | ||
| Some of the printers weren't working. | ||
| People were asked to go to different locations. | ||
| It was really chaotic. | ||
| So this year, make plans. | ||
| Make sure your friends and family have plans to go vote early. | ||
| This gives an opportunity to give us A longer period of time to chase ballots. | ||
| Not 12 hours, but we have a couple weeks, just like the Democrats. | ||
| So let's take advantage of that and really vote early. | ||
| And then you can take a screenshot of that and make sure that you know. | ||
| Yes, make sure you know when your state—Ohio already started yesterday. | ||
| And then moving on to— Yes. | ||
| The Get Out to Vote apps. | ||
| It's Early Vote Action. | ||
| That's Scott Pressler. TP Action. | ||
| That's Charlie Kirk and Tyler Boyer. | ||
| And Nevada's GOP app. | ||
| They're all very similar, and you can call, text, send postcards, and send postcards, you can start it, and then they will give you addresses. | ||
| These are targeted voters. | ||
| These are the voters that we want to go after. | ||
| There's just so much information on it, so I highly recommend downloading these apps and using them. | ||
| If you have any questions, You can reach out or just any general get out to vote questions. | ||
| You can reach out to Jojo. | ||
| She's our War Room Grassroots Liaison. | ||
| I mean, again, she texted me this morning again saying she was flooded with, like, just emails asking a lot of questions. | ||
| And so please reach out to her. | ||
| She will give you the VIP treatment and try to answer all the questions that you have and give you suggestions. | ||
| You can reach out to her on social media, Twitter or get her at JoJoWFMA or directly by email, which is JoJoWFMA at Proton.me. | ||
| And then, also, I want to stress how critical it is for us to hold the House and take control of the House and the Senate. | ||
| And I know that a lot of PASSE members—you might not like your Republican candidate for whatever reason—but it is just so critical that we control this, because It's not going to help Trump or the movement if we don't. | ||
| We need to make sure that we control it, plain and simple. | ||
| So I'm just asking the posse to be open-minded and strategic about this, and just vote Republican down the ballot. | ||
| And going back to Arizona, Carrie Lake, we must send her to the Senate. | ||
| So make sure Carrie Lake, Abe Hameday, and just read all the way down. | ||
| And I just wanted to correct yesterday's program on Battleground. | ||
| I said that Steve being in prison was a blessing. | ||
| I meant to say a blessing in disguise. | ||
| Obviously, it's not a blessing. So I just wanted to clear that up. | ||
| But again, I was talking to Mike Lindell this morning, and I asked him, do you think that the energy is different than four years ago? | ||
| And he said, absolutely. | ||
| In 2020, we were coming out of COVID. Everyone was like... | ||
| Just, it was a really strange, weird vibe. | ||
| I was, you know, we didn't really know what was going on. | ||
| But this year, everyone is so engaged. | ||
| Everyone, the energy is there. | ||
| So let's just keep this momentum going. | ||
| Let's make sure that when Steve gets out, we're just, we're already ahead. | ||
| So I'm just so proud of the Posse. | ||
| And I just want to thank all of you guys for just really participating and getting involved. | ||
| Well, everybody thanks you, Grace, for what you've done. | ||
| Your industry, the fact that you've been absolutely driving these issues ahead is so important. | ||
| And we're so pleased to have you on so that you could review those issues and provide the information to the audience, which is so essential. | ||
| So, Grace, thank you so much for what you've done. | ||
| Thank you. And continue to do. | ||
| Thank you, obviously, because the days are getting longer, aren't they, Grace, as we come up to November 5th? | ||
| Things are already well underway, as you've stressed, but everything's got to be in for it for the presidency, for President Trump, for the Senate, and for the House as well, as well as state offices and local offices as well. | ||
| Grace, thanks very much for joining us. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Next, I'd like to turn to Sam Faddis, a great friend of the program and well known to folks, a former CIA operative. | ||
| Sam, welcome to the program. | ||
| I know that you have some great knowledge of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. | ||
| And I just wonder, building on what Grace said about the momentum, that there does seem to be a very, it's very different in 2024 from 2020. | ||
| Sam, do you see the same thing in Pennsylvania? | ||
| Yeah, I absolutely do. | ||
| I am extremely optimistic. | ||
| Look, the Dems always want to mischaracterize this for very deliberate purposes, right? | ||
| The MAGA movement, America First, is a bunch of neo-Nazi inbred white violent extremists against, you know, all right-thinking Americans. | ||
| Obviously, that's ludicrous. | ||
| This is a vast populist movement. | ||
| This is the American people. | ||
| It has nothing to do with ethnicity, color, any of that. | ||
| I mean, look, I was down in Hazleton about an hour and a half south of me, which city is two-thirds Hispanic now, meeting again. | ||
| We've been doing this for some time with influential people in that community, and I can tell you that city overwhelmingly pro-Trump. | ||
| I think what you are seeing is a fundamental realignment politically in this country. | ||
| Now, having said that, Nobody watching this broadcast, go back, put your feet up, turn on the tube, and say it doesn't matter. | ||
| This is like coming to the end of a long run. | ||
| What do you do at the end? | ||
| You kick, you sprint, you put everything out until you are across that finish line. | ||
| That's what we need to do. | ||
| But I am really optimistic we're going to deliver Pennsylvania for Donald Trump. | ||
| Wonderful news, Sam. | ||
| Absolutely. And I'd just like to add that Sam and I, along with others, will be at Karen Siegman's American Freedom Alliance World War III, the early years, a conference which is going to be held Saturday, October 19th in Allentown, Pennsylvania, from 9 to 5. | ||
| And folks can go to American Freedom Alliance, the website, To find out the details of that, again, that'll be Saturday, October 19th from 9 to 5 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where we have really a great lineup of folks to talk about. | ||
| Brian Kennedy, many, many Colonel John Mills, Frank Gaffney, as well as Sam and many others who will be talking at that conference. | ||
| So hope to see folks there and to get information again at American Freedom Alliance. | ||
| Sam, you've written two great pieces recently. | ||
| One, again, which is on the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Tim Waltz, and his misdemeanors and his misbehavior and his sordid relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Could you talk to the audience about that and what he's been doing and how you're getting the goods on him, Sam, definitely in the pieces that you're publishing in AND Magazine, A&D Magazine? | ||
| Yeah, well, look, to summarize Walz's background, his connections to the Chinese Communist Party are terrifying. | ||
| And again, as everybody in this program knows, we're not, you know, when we're opposing the Chinese Communist Party, it doesn't have anything to do with opposing the Chinese people. | ||
| They're the ones that suffer first at the hands of the CCP. But the CCP is a monstrous totalitarian, thuggest organization. | ||
| And this guy, Walls, has been up to his eyeballs in direct contact with the CCP for a very long time. | ||
| By his own count, he's made something like 30 trips to Communist China, taking along groups of American students to show them the wonders of Communist China. | ||
| According to the information that's coming out now from the committee investigating this, the CCP paid for that. | ||
| So that means this guy has been in business with the CCP for many years to take Americans to communist China and then convince them of the wonders, in his view, of the CCP. He describes communism as everybody's the same, everybody shares its neighborliness, right? | ||
| That's his description of a system that has forced organ harvesting, slave labor camps, Outlaws free speech and hunts down dissidents across the world. | ||
| That's neighborliness. | ||
| This guy has funneled money to the Hormel Institute in Minnesota. | ||
| Okay, well, they're lashed up with the Wuhan lab. | ||
| Yeah, that Wuhan lab. | ||
| The point of origin of COVID. These guys at Hormel Institute are in partnership with them, and Walls is funneling money to them. | ||
| On down a list of other entities, all associated with the United Front. | ||
| Which is the CCP's program to effectively manipulate and control, take control of other countries. | ||
| So the best you could say about him is he's a completely useful idiot. | ||
| the CCP. Even that, I think, quite frankly, is a stretch to think that after all of these | ||
| years and all of this money, he doesn't understand what he's doing. I think he picked a side | ||
| a long time ago, and it was Beijing. | ||
| Indeed. And also, Sam, you pointed out in your piece the Chinese People's Association | ||
| for Friendship with Foreign Countries, right, which is a front organization. | ||
| It's an influence group directly funded by the CCP. So, Waltz, the ties of the Hormel Institute, and then even as late as 2007, he was a fellow at the Macau Polytechnic University, which is part of the Belt and Road Initiative, | ||
| launched by the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| And that's another influence operation. | ||
| So there seem to be enough data points, Sam. | ||
| I think it's quite clear. | ||
| You can run a through line here, and we can see that he's taking students to China | ||
| where MSS can pitch him, right? | ||
| Sam, that's your former employer and others. | ||
| On their territory, MSS could pitch American students. | ||
| And we should think of that as another influence operation in addition to the Hormel Institute, its ties to Wuhan. | ||
| It's really sordid, Sam. | ||
| And I think it's the fact that, you know, as you said, a useful idiot. | ||
| I think it's indeed, as you suggested and as you conclude, it's far worse than that. | ||
| What do you think, Sam? Yeah, I think you're bending over backwards to... | ||
| To attempt to conclude that this guy somehow is up to his eyeballs and all these contacts and all this money, but he doesn't understand what's going on. | ||
| I mean, come on, if I was still working and I was looking at this, I would be saying, you know, turn on every alert we've got, start the red lights flashing. | ||
| This guy was bought and paid for a long time ago by the CCP and now he wants to | ||
| be standing one heartbeat away from control of the United States government. | ||
| I mean come on this is this is and that it's not I would say ludicrous but | ||
| ludicrous diminishes it. | ||
| It's terrifying. And that's what we know. | ||
| I'm sure there are many more shoes to drop on Tim Waltz and his relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| And it just seems layer after layer of this guy's ties to United Front Group's influence operations, MSS, that is the Chinese Intelligence Service, another element. | ||
| Sam, you also wrote a great piece on the implications of Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina in particular. | ||
| And the fact that, as you put it, folks have got to realize that the U.S. government's run by folks who despise their fellow citizens. | ||
| Could you talk us through that piece as well? | ||
| Well, I think folks that are following the aftermath of Helene are familiar with the fact that people out there who have been abandoned by the federal government are saying repeatedly, in effect, that they don't care about us, they're not doing anything for us, they're not supporting us, they're not doing their job. And the point of the article was to say, It's not your imagination. | ||
| Rasmussen just did a really, really thorough survey where they looked at the attitudes of what they call the elite 1%, and how that mirrors or dovetails with the attitudes of government managers. | ||
| So these government managers, senior people in the federal service, really largely identify with this 1%. | ||
| So what does that boil down to? | ||
| And the results, quite frankly, are shocking. | ||
| It's one of those things where you sort of knew this instinctively in advance, but then when you actually see the data, it still kind of blows your mind. | ||
| I mean, you can go to the article and see all the breakdown of the stats and then, of course, go to the original survey. | ||
| But you're talking attitudes where 70-80% of these people think there should not be private ownership of firearms. | ||
| In other words, there should not be a second amendment. | ||
| 70% of them think you shouldn't be allowed to vote unless you have a college degree. | ||
| Somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 to 80% want to ban gas stoves, want to ban gas-powered vehicles. | ||
| I mean, all these attitudes that in the average amongst the populace are regarded as Crazy, quite frankly. | ||
| Really extreme viewpoints not to be taken seriously. | ||
| you find, good Lord, these people who are running your government actually believe this. | ||
| And then you get down to their attitudes on, do you have the power to, should you go ahead | ||
| and issue a regulation even when the vast majority of the American people disapprove? | ||
| In other words, should you order the American people to do something they don't want to | ||
| do and don't think you should do? | ||
| And overwhelmingly, the attitude is, yeah, what's the problem? | ||
| So you realize that, no, these people, the term public servant is an anachronism. | ||
| They don't regard themselves as public servants. | ||
| And they don't share your attitudes and they don't care because they believe they are superior. | ||
| Your job is to shut up and sit down and do what you're told. | ||
| That's what it comes down to. Yeah, it's quite clear. | ||
| The people of the states affected by Hurricane, the seven states affected by Hurricane Helene, and the disastrous performance of FEMA, and the contemptuous, right? | ||
| I mean, it was deliberate contempt, deliberate obfuscation, and deliberate, simply, treatment. | ||
| It's absolutely unacceptable that the federal government, the FEMA, People in dire need who need assistance without wireless, without cell phone, are being told to do it online. | ||
| It just seems to be... | ||
| It's not incompetence. | ||
| It's by design, Sam. | ||
| And you've added so much, I think, to our understanding of that. | ||
| And it just seems there are so many different levels, as we were touching on, and The incompetence is absolutely driven by far deeper forces. | ||
| And the fact that they dismiss fellow Americans in that way is just outrageous. | ||
| Yeah, it is. And they have no idea. | ||
| I mean, these people are completely divorced from reality. | ||
| Contemptuous is precisely the word that I was searching for. | ||
| You hit the nail on the head. | ||
| They don't think like you. | ||
| They don't act like you. | ||
| And they don't care because you have to understand they're better than you. | ||
| They're smarter than you. | ||
| They are superior to you. | ||
| You are ignorant. | ||
| You're a serf. | ||
| Your job, again, is just to do what you are told. | ||
| And they do not, it's not, even when they, well, here's another point, the last point | ||
| I'll make is maybe the most terrifying aspect of this is when Rasmussen looked into their | ||
| attitudes and you show this just grand canyon between them and the American people. | ||
| He then asks them basically questions that go to, and do you think most Americans think like you? | ||
| And a terrifying number, way in excess of 50%, say, oh yeah, the American people agree with us. | ||
| That's how oblivious they are, how out of touch. | ||
| They want to ban private firearms and actually believe most Americans accept that? | ||
| I mean, think of the level of self-delusion involved here. | ||
| Well, I like the piece. | ||
| A great point that you made was that we're a country divided, certainly, but it's not the racial divisions that were touted often by our media, of course, not men and women, gay versus straight, but it's that elite in the American people. | ||
| And I think you're right there, Sam, when you're making that point. | ||
| It is, as you've stressed, it's the elite versus the American people. | ||
| And the elite are running the show, and that shows up in the seven states affected by Helene. | ||
| And let's say, heaven forbid, that it shows up in Florida with Milton hitting tonight and afterwards. | ||
| Well, Sam, where do folks go to get your writings and get your insights? | ||
| Best place to go is to go to N Magazine at Substack. | ||
| So that's andmagazine.substack.com. | ||
| And as always, I will close by saying, free Steve Bannon. | ||
| Absolutely. And we look forward to seeing you then October 19th in Allentown, Pennsylvania, for the event, the American Freedom Alliance event hosted by Karen Sigerman, where Sam will be talking and I'll be talking and some other great folks are going to be offering their reflections on World War III. The early years. | ||
| And what Sam has illuminated is that those early years have a domestic context happening within the United States as well as internationally. | ||
| So Sam, very much look forward to seeing you then on the 19th in Allentown, Pennsylvania. | ||
| And thanks so much. | ||
| It's very happy. | ||
| I'm sure the audience joins me. | ||
| Your recognition that things do seem to be changing in Pennsylvania and the Commonwealth for Trump. | ||
| Let's hope that that remains the case. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And just the final point, just before we break, would be to recognize, of course, that Grace's | ||
| observations really are based on the many, many years of experience that she's had and | ||
| her just unceasing efforts to get folks registered, to get folks voting, and to ensure that folks | ||
| who want to help out are able to help out in the way that Grace identified at the outset | ||
| of our show this afternoon. | ||
| I did encourage folks to go and to get her apps and obviously to follow her on X, as well as on Truth, as well as on Getter. | ||
| Well, I'm Brad Theron for Steve Bannon, and we'll take a break here. | ||
| We'll be back in just a moment. | ||
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All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | |
| War Room Battleground with Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Good afternoon. We're back. | ||
| I'm Brad Thayer, filling in for Steve Bannon, and I'm very pleased to be joined by my friend and frequent writing partner, James Fennell. | ||
| Jim Fennell is a retired U.S. Navy captain. | ||
| Jim and I write for American Greatness. | ||
| We've got a column every week appearing there, and we co-authored A new book, Embracing Communist China, America's Greatest Strategic Failure. | ||
| And Jim served as a career naval intelligence officer, and he's had very senior positions with CTF-70, the 7th Fleet, and retired from the Navy in 2015. | ||
| And presently, he's a governmental fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy in Geneva, Switzerland. | ||
| Jim, we're very pleased to have you on the program this afternoon. | ||
| Jim, you've done so much, obviously with your background in Navy intel and looking at the tremendous growth of the threat from the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China. | ||
| We've seen in the last couple of weeks a series of very worrisome developments, beginning with an intercontinental ballistic missile or ICBM test. | ||
| Jim, could you bring the audience up to speed on these issues? | ||
| Sure, Brad. Well, first of all, thanks for having me on. | ||
| And I want to echo what Sam Faddis ended on. | ||
| Let's remember Steve Bannon is in prison. | ||
| And so when we talk about the threats to democracy, we should think of those examples of Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon. | ||
| And we all obviously remember our friends and family in the hurricane-struck areas from Helena and now with Milton that's coming. | ||
| In terms of this discussion about what the Chinese have been doing and what's going on in the Indo-Pacific, I'd like to frame it in the reference of, we hear a lot about President Trump asking folks, what was it like four years ago? | ||
| How was your life four years ago in terms of economics? | ||
| Was your gas cheaper? | ||
| Was your food cheaper? | ||
| Was inflation down? | ||
| Those kinds of things. And I would extend that to The national security arena in the Indo-Pacific. | ||
| Maybe most people don't follow these things that close like you and I, but there's evidence there that things are demonstrably worse in the Indo-Pacific since four years ago when Donald Trump left office. | ||
| And you mentioned the first one, which is on September 25th, the Chinese launched For the first time in 44 years, an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific. | ||
| They went from South China Sea, Hainan Island, out 7,500 miles to maybe 9,000 miles. | ||
| They launched a missile, most likely a DF-41, and they were testing their capability to be able to attack continental United States With ballistic missiles that have nuclear weapons on them. | ||
| So they're practicing to destroy America and put us under threat. | ||
| And the fact that that happened for the first time in 44 years is really quite shocking, demonstrates the capability of their strategic rocket force and their political will to continue to achieve their goal, which is to displace the United States and defeat us. | ||
| Here in the last week, we saw that the United Kingdom made an agreement to turn over the base that we jointly have in the Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia. | ||
| And they turned that over to the country of Mauritania. | ||
| And that is a significant issue, very much similar to what President Trump talks about, the relationship with Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. | ||
| The fact that we will now potentially lose access to Diego Garcia is a strategic victory for China in rolling back America's presence in the Indo-Pacific. | ||
| And it puts America's national security at risk. | ||
| Then we've been watching over the last six, eight months, China really ramping up their aggression and threats to our ally, the Republic of the Philippines in the South China Sea. | ||
| And why is that important to Americans? | ||
| Well, they're our ally. | ||
| There's some importance there. | ||
| But also, five to seven trillion dollars worth of the world's GDP goes through the South China Sea. | ||
| And China is effectively trying to take over that body of water and to be able to control who can go in and go out. | ||
| And they want to push the United States out. | ||
| Likewise, they had carrier operations with their carriers here in the last couple of months. | ||
| And just in the last two weeks, they had their first carrier that was operating for over a week in the Philippine Sea and close approaching to Guam and then down very south in the South Pacific to the east of Mindanao, which they've never really operated that far south before. | ||
| And they flew over 630 sorties. | ||
| Maybe not on par with our carriers, but what we've seen over the last two years is a real ramp up of the PLA Navy carrier training operations and their expansion and capabilities, which could be used in any conflict in the Indo-Pacific. | ||
| And this just adds another layer of danger to the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the U.S. 7th Fleet, where we operate out there. | ||
| And it would affect our ability to come to the assistance of our allies or to protect our own interests, our own shipping, or other things that we need to do out there and make it more vulnerable for places like Hawaii and our West Coast. | ||
| And so I think people should be aware that this has all happened under the Biden-Harris watch. | ||
| We just had, also in the last month, we saw Russian long-range aviation and PRC bombers flying from China, then into Russia, over into the Gulf of Alaska, into our Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone, basically flying Bomber profiles that would be used to attack the United States using air-launched nuclear weapons, which would be another leg of their triad of their nuclear arsenal. | ||
| They have sea-based launch missiles, they have shore-based ICBMs, and then they would have air-launched missiles. | ||
| And so they're testing all of these virtually all the time in a kind of a rate that we didn't see four years ago. | ||
| Also, we saw here, tomorrow will be the 113th anniversary of the Republic of China, or Taiwan. | ||
| They will celebrate their anniversary, and their president has been talking about, hey, we don't have this kind of idea that we're I have a motherland back in mainland China. | ||
| We are Taiwan. And China's now using threatening language against Taiwan just for having this idea that they're a self-sustaining island that has their own economy, has their own government, has their own military. | ||
| And they haven't declared independence, but they just said, hey, we don't have any ancestral connections with you guys anymore. | ||
| We're a separate place. | ||
| And China's now threatening to use military force again. | ||
| And on a daily basis, over the last three years, I mean, in the years of the Biden-Harris regime, we have seen a dramatic increase in PRC military operations against Taiwan. | ||
| For instance, crossing the centerline with combat aircraft only occurred four times in 60 years before Biden-Harris came into office, and now it is occurring Hundreds of times a year and on almost a daily basis. | ||
| And so a real failure there to basically stop China's aggression against Taiwan in our own interest, which would destabilize the global economy if Taiwan's were to fall into Chinese hands in their acquisition or destruction of the chip factories in Taiwan. | ||
| Likewise, China has also taken some new unprecedented actions against Japan. | ||
| The Chinese military has flown into Japanese territorial airspace here in the last month with reconnaissance aircraft that had not happened since World War II. Then, a week or so after that occurred, a Chinese aircraft carrier went through the territorial waters, which is in 12 nautical miles of Japanese territory. | ||
| And it wasn't We're down in the lower Ryuku Islands. | ||
| This is up near Kyushu, the main islands of Japan. | ||
| So again, another threatening signal from China to another ally of America. | ||
| So they threatened the Philippines, a treaty ally, one of our oldest, and we have a mutual defense treaty with. | ||
| They're threatening Taiwan, which is a friend of ours. | ||
| They're threatening Japan now with these incursions. | ||
| And then they're also making threatening moves against other regional nations like India along the border, Sino-Indian border. | ||
| And they're expanding military presence in the Gulf of Thailand with a military naval base in Cambodia at Reem Naval Base, which now has Chinese naval vessels there that you can see on commercial imagery. | ||
| When they told us that they were never going to do that. | ||
| So across the board, we're seeing an expansion of Chinese malign influence. | ||
| Lastly today, North Korea announced—Kim Jong-un announced that they're cutting all rail and road links with South Korea because, they say, an unstable situation. | ||
| And then there was reporting this week that North Korea may be in the process of producing their own ballistic—nuclear ballistic missile submarine. | ||
| So in essence, like in the economic sphere that President Trump talks about, in the national security arena in the Indo-Pacific, we are seeing a dramatic degradation of our national security and the stability of world peace in this area. | ||
| And while it's not kinetic like it is in Gaza, in Lebanon right now, or in the Ukraine, It's very, very close. | ||
| The tinderbox is being prepared by China to light a match either in the South China Sea or against Taiwan or against Japan. | ||
| And believe me, folks, if China decides to act in any one of those three areas, the U.S. military that's out there and forward deployed will come under attack from China's aggression. | ||
| And so this is why November 5th is so really important. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| It's so important. | ||
| The election and the lead-up to it, it shows that the Chinese Communist Party is looking at this election, too, and they're doing their utmost to vote in it. | ||
| And their preferred candidate is quite clear. | ||
| Jim, I would just underscore the way we started as well, which is that the ICBM test to the South Pacific was also a threat. | ||
| It's a message, a very important political military message to the American people. | ||
| As you said, as with the spy balloon that we witnessed, of course, that floated over the United States, the Biden administration, Biden-Harris administration tried to avoid, right, did their utmost. | ||
| To avoid calling attention to that while it floated over American military bases and the American people. | ||
| These are powerful messages that the Chinese Communist Party is sending, that their intent is to reach out and hurt the American people And the American people need to recognize that. | ||
| Our allies are absolutely essential and partners like Taiwan. | ||
| As Jim said, the chip production, it's a robust economy, but it also occupies key geopolitical real estate. | ||
| And it's a very important political warfare tool, right? | ||
| It's the political warfare message which is sent by the existence of a free Taiwan, | ||
| is that China can be free. It doesn't have to have a tyrannical government, but indeed can be free. | ||
| And the Taiwanese president, William Lai's great statement that the Republic of China, | ||
| that is Taiwan, is far older than the People's Republic of China, led by the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| So, Jim, what's your assessment in terms of what do you anticipate the PRC doing? | ||
| The sable rattling and this hyperaggression is certainly going to continue. | ||
| Would you not expect in the weeks up to November 5th? | ||
| Yes, Brad. The pressure is going to continue. | ||
| China is not taking a kind of a, we'll just be quiet and wait and see what happens. | ||
| They're being very aggressive across the board. | ||
| In fact, in today's Global Times, they talked about the importance of Taiwan as their sacred territory, which is something that finds a bit unusual for a A communist that doesn't believe in religion to talk in those terms. | ||
| So I think what we're going to see is increased pressure to demonstrate that China is in control and they will continue to achieve their goals, which is domination of the region, acquisition of territory that they assess as theirs incorrectly. | ||
| And then I think also they're using this to influence the election and to make the statement that no matter who's elected, they're going to move forward. | ||
| Unfortunately, this administration has returned, as you and I labeled it, to this posture of neo-engagement. | ||
| And we've seen the conga line of senior cabinet-level officials and the president of the United States seeking to meet with China because somehow they think that's going to make things better. | ||
| This deal with Diego García. | ||
| Go ahead, Brian. | ||
| Yeah, indeed. And the mill-to-mill relationship, right, that the Biden administration was so anxious, Biden-Harris was so anxious to return to that. | ||
| Jim, indeed. | ||
| Well, thank you very much indeed for offering your assessments. | ||
| I know you don't use social media, but folks are able to get our writings at American Greatness and elsewhere where we post, for example, at Brad Theron X or Bradley Theron Getter and Truth. | ||
| Jim, thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. | ||
| Thank you. Chris Hoare, my goodness. | ||
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