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April 8, 2022 - Sebastian Gorka
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This is America First with Sebastian Gorka and our very special guest host, Kurt Schlichter.
Thank you, Dr. Gorka.
It is great to be here.
If you guys don't know who I am, well, you should because I'm kind of the Michael Collins.
I'm a senior columnist at townhall.com.
I am a retired United States Army colonel.
while the other guys get to go down onto the surface.
But on the other hand, I'm closer to the moon than the rest of the 8 billion people.
Who the heck am I?
Well, I'm a lot of things.
I'm a senior columnist at townhall.com.
I am a retired United States Army colonel.
In a second, that's going to come into play.
I'm also a graduate of the United States Army War College.
As Dr. Gorka likes to point out, it's the Chico State of War Colleges, but it is a war college nonetheless.
I'm also a noted Los Angeles trial lawyer and an author.
You want to go out and get my new book or pre-order it.
We'll be back.
The Fall and Rise of America.
It's coming from Regnery.
It's coming out in July.
You want to be a part of that.
I'm going to channel my friend Dennis Prager right now and tell you today's theme.
Today's theme is the problem of evil, because the world is full of evil.
And it's full of evil today.
From Israel to Ukraine.
Evil seems to be taking control, but it isn't.
It's a lie.
It's wrong.
It's not true.
We can fight back.
We will fight back.
In Israel today, a man for no good reason walked into a bar and opened fire.
He killed two people, killed four more.
Israeli security forces hunted him down and killed him.
And out on the West Bank, there are people cheering.
There are people excited.
They're people celebrating the murder of innocent people.
I look at the Palestinians, who if they had chosen could be a great people, an educated people, a wealthy people, a successful people, but they didn't make the right choice.
They chose evil and hatred while all around them.
And thanks in large part to President Trump and guys like Robert O'Brien and Rick Grinnell, other Arab countries are choosing the path of peace.
And they're uniting against a real threat.
The threat to freedom in the Middle East is not a small state composed of Jewish people from around the world gathered back into the Promised Land.
The real threat to the Middle East is Iran.
Now just north of there in Ukraine today at a railroad station in town called Kramatorsk, People were trying to evacuate, they were lined up, and 50 of them were killed in a missile strike by Russians.
Let's talk a little about that.
And I want to give you my background.
So like I said, I'm a retired United States Army colonel.
I served in the Gulf War, where I was a glorified You know, car washer, frankly.
I ran a decontamination platoon.
That is, if there was a chemical warfare event, my unit would go in and clean up.
Later, I moved into the reserves and I was mobilized.
I went to Kosovo in the aftermath of that horrible genocide.
And what I did there was convince Serbs and Albanians not to kill each other.
And we did a great job of that.
It wasn't a shooting war, it was a thinking war.
And it was a bunch of us reservists using our skills behind the Iron Curtain, because it was in former Yugoslavia, to undo the wounds of communism.
And of course the wounds of communism are nowhere more apparent than in Ukraine, because I actually trained Ukrainian soldiers.
I hit, you know, that base by the Polish border, Yarivov, it's outside of Lviv.
I've been there three, four times, training Ukrainian soldiers.
I worked with Ukrainian soldiers in Kosovo.
They were part of the Polish-Ukrainian battalion that was attached to Multinational Brigade East, which was commanded by us Americans.
And I found them tough, patriotic guys.
Imperfect guys.
The history of Ukraine is not uncheckered.
And if you look what has happened in Ukraine, you'll see that The establishment, our establishment, the foreign policy geniuses who have this unbroken track record of failure over 20 years, they've gotten it all wrong.
And they've gotten wrong about everything.
Now look, if you have a map, all right, if you have a map, you could see exactly how Putin was going to attack.
Remember, I'm a veteran of the Cold War.
I was literally in Germany when the wall fell.
I was part of VII Corps.
Our job was to hold the Russians off long enough to essentially die in place long enough for us to bring American reinforcements back in.
I learned very young how to fight a Russian motor rifle regiment and all that stuff.
Stuff that, well, we don't really teach our guys anymore because we spent 20 years hiking around mountains tracking down banditos but the fact is that what's going on in Ukraine should not be a surprise to anybody You look at the map, you see where they were going to use their armored forces.
They were going to surround the major cities, Kharkiv and Kiev.
They were going to push up from the south out of Crimea, try and form a land bridge between the Donbass regions and the Crimea regions.
I mean, it's absolutely obvious.
And they should have been able to do it with the forces they had.
Why couldn't they?
Why couldn't they pull this out?
Now the Ukrainians don't have the conventional capability that the Russians do.
The Russians had a lot of armor.
The Ukrainians had a lot of guys with AK-47s.
And you would think that the Russian armor would just smash through.
The Russian military was not the Russian military we've been promised.
The Russian military was poorly led.
Incapable of doing basic operational planning and utterly inept in the most important part of a war, which is logistics.
And I think, I think Dr. Gorka would, you know, high-five me for saying so.
But the most important thing in a war is logistics.
All right?
I'm going to say it again.
The most important part of war is logistics.
And of course, logistics can only happen when you have leadership.
Here's how the American Army works.
We have officers.
I was an officer.
I was a colonel.
We plan larger operations.
We have non-commissioned officers.
That's sergeants.
They handle the troops.
And they have huge responsibility.
And they are highly trained.
And they are respected professionals.
If you are, for instance, a sergeant first class, that means something.
And you get respect.
Russians don't do that.
They got conscripts, they got professional soldiers, they have sort of a NCO corps, non-commissioned officer corps, but they're really led by officers.
And that's a problem.
And where's that problem manifest?
It manifests when your BTR is at the side of the road, and the engine's seized up, Because Private Ivan didn't change the oil.
Who's responsible for making sure that Private Ivan changes the oil?
It's the NCO.
In the American Army, it's the NCOs, the non-commissioned officers.
Throw that hood up, specialist!
I'm gonna check your oil, make sure you did it.
There's no oil in here!
Come here, knucklehead!
That's NCO leadership.
That's why we win.
Russians didn't have that.
And the war crimes that you're seeing are to a great degree a result of that utter lack of leadership and lack of discipline.
You look at the Russian soldiers, they look like they're a mess.
They're bivouacs.
That's where they're staying.
It's always a mess.
Their equipment doesn't work.
And now they pulled back.
Leadership.
That's the problem.
You need leaders to control your troops, to get the job done, and to do it without doing evil.
That's the problem with the Russians.
We'll talk more about this as we go on.
I'm here for three hours.
We've got Robbie Starbuck from Tennessee coming up.
That's going to be a great talk.
I want you to stick around on America First with Dr. Sebastian Gorka.
The End
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We have Mr. Starbuck on the line.
Okay, how long do we have?
We have 70 seconds to go back on the air.
Okay, was that monologue any good?
I thought it was great, yeah.
You liked it?
Okay, alright.
I know I was rambling, but I have so much to say about it.
You can talk to Robby now, he's on the line.
Hi, Robbie.
How are you?
Goodies, Borkas monologues.
Hey.
Okay.
What I want to talk about is what it's like to be an outside the establishment America First candidate.
I don't want to trash any of the others.
I want to focus on you and introducing you and get some of your input into the Hollywood and the groomer stuff because you've really been taking a lead against the perversion folk.
20 seconds.
Yep, 20 seconds.
Alright, standing by.
Alright, and... Yeah.
Okay, sounds good.
Alright, 15 seconds, stand by.
We are back.
Back on America First with Dr. Seb Gorka.
I'm guest host Kurt Schlichter, sitting in today.
We're going to be talking a little more about Ukraine as we go on, and I want to make sure that you guys can get in the conversation as we do that.
The number is 833-334-6752.
That's 833-334-6752.
Call in and we will chat.
833-4-6752.
That's 833-334-6752.
Call in and we will chat.
But first, I want to introduce a good friend of mine.
His name is Robbie Starbuck.
He's running for Congress as an America First candidate in Tennessee Five, and a whole bunch of people are jumping in there, and it's going to go Republican.
That's for sure.
But our question has to be, as America First conservatives, what kind of Republican?
And I think Robbie brings an entirely different and, frankly, necessary skill set to the race and hopefully to Congress.
Robbie, welcome to America First.
Thank you for having me, buddy.
Robbie, you are not the typical Republican.
You don't have a bow tie.
You've kissed a girl.
You can do a push-up.
Why are you different?
By the way, I did all those things today.
I kissed my wife and I went to work out with her and I'm not wearing a bow tie.
But, you know, I would just remind people of something.
I did this, you know, recently last night.
We had this big candidates forum.
I said, you know...
There's a lot of talk about me being an unconventional candidate with unconventional hair and all these other things and you know what's interesting is in 2016 I remember a guy who was an unconventional candidate with unconventional hair and that worked out pretty well for our country.
I'd say best president in my lifetime.
So you know I think that sometimes people look for the wrong things and so the question I kind of pose back to people is what is the definition of insanity?
It's doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
That's what we've done in our elections for decades.
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