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Aug. 21, 2021 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
04:26
WATCH: How My Father Would've Handled Afghanistan Differently
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What do you think your father would have done differently?
Because these guys kind of surprised them, right?
Well, listen, like I said, Pompeo's talked about it the other night in terms of the details.
Like, you know, there were conditions to this thing.
They weren't going to do it at a time, you know, during the summertime when, you know, the Taliban, they're literally
bored.
They got nothing to do but fight.
You know, we've been calling it the fighting season.
We've known it every year since 2001.
They fight in the summer and then the winter sucks.
Yeah, the winter sucks. They go hide.
Things are calmer so you can do it so you don't have this massive surge.
He would have been droning the shit out of the highways coming in.
I mean, there were just caravans and convoys.
It'd be like the original Iraq war, right?
You'd get an A-10 and just run down the line shooting depleted uranium at these things, and you could take out tens of thousands.
There would have been real conditions.
There would have been fear in the back of the mind of these guys saying, like, hey, I'm going to get nuked on this road going in there.
They wouldn't do it the same way.
It would have given the Afghan fighting forces if they wanted to actually fight a chance because it wouldn't just be this deluge, this onslaught at once.
But again, Joe Biden changed that plan because he wanted credit on the world stage.
He's so not there that he figured, hey, if I do this, it'll go great and I can take credit for this.
And now he owns it.
So what consequences is this going to have now in the West?
What do you think, if you're sitting in Taiwan right now, what do you think happened in the last week to sort of, you know, the notion of being an American ally?
You're an American ally.
We just abandoned, you know, 40,000 Americans up to possibly, you know, in Afghanistan.
What do you think Taiwan's thinking?
Whatever China's timeline, and there is a timeline for taking over Taiwan, it just accelerated a thousand times because they're going around saying, see?
You can't rely on America.
Like, we just made ourselves so weak on a world stage that I don't think the average person can fathom it.
I mean, if you're an ally of the U.S., we just told all of them, like, we're there with you, but we're not really there with you.
Like, when the shit hits the fan, we are leaving and tucking tails.
Well, our strength has been a triage of forward defense, deterrence, and alliance solidarity.
And that's how you can win.
You can win without firing a shot.
But once we lose our allies like this, I mean, it's like they don't trust us.
I wouldn't trust us. I would not be an interpreter anywhere for the United States right now.
Yeah, and if you're in Taiwan and you're talking about that, like, you know what?
China, come on in. You know, if you're in any one of the places that China's essentially trying to colonize around the world, they'd be like, you know what?
We'll take their money. We'll take the briefcase of cash they're giving us onto the table.
The Americans, you know, they got to play by different rules.
they're not gonna like China's gonna take over the world.
So Don is that?
With rare earth minerals, it's what they've done with everything and that's their plan.
And that was gonna happen probably one way or the other because they're actually,
you know, they're smart and they don't play by rules.
Meaning, you know, they don't care about political niceties.
You know, they're not trying to please anyone.
They could care less.
They have one mission and one mission alone.
And they're able to think beyond two weeks from now when we have our next elections and say,
this is where we want to be in 100 years.
And this is how we get there and everything else doesn't matter.
We don't think that way.
We're so short-sighted. We make stupid decisions so we can have a win for next week so that we can get reelected, continue to keep power, get that board seat in the future.
You know, America's future be damned.
I mean, we've leveraged the shit out of our country.
You know, our children's futures are screwed because we just, hey, what's another couple trillion dollars?
Joe Biden, you know, a couple trillion dollars to teach critical race theory, you know, and woke bullshit to our children.
Who cares? It's infrastructure because everything's infrastructure.
You know, your sneakers are now infrastructure, Bob.
Like, That's where we've gotten.
And they don't care because it's not their money, but it allows them to keep power and it allows them to then later make money again.
And that's why my dad got involved in this in the first place.
He was like, listen, I'm a business guy. He's been watching this shit pissed off for decades.
And now you're seeing, because you said it right, right?
We're only seven months in.
Like, we've got two humanitarian crises, right?
The border, unquestionably.
Again, you don't have the coverage because the media is one way, but it's a crisis.
Afghanistan, serious crisis.
Inflation, serious crisis.
I mean, we're going to destroy the middle class of this country.
And then, you know, by the way, the next crisis is going to be the refugee crisis.
And, you know, there are definitely some great people probably in Afghanistan.
And there are people that we have no idea...
What their intentions are. You know, I have friends in the Border Patrol.
I mean, for the last few months, he's like, hey, like a good percentage.
And I don't mean like one or two.
I mean like significant double-digit percentage are like, yeah, they're guys from the Middle East coming in.
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