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April 4, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson joins Mike Adams on the Alex Jones Show for uncensored truth...
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All right, welcome back.
This is the third hour of the Alex Jones Show.
Mike Adams filling in today.
Thank you for joining us.
And we're going to be joined now by our special guest for this hour, who I think has just outstanding analysis of geopolitical events.
It's former CIA analyst Larry Johnson.
His website is sonar21.com, which is definitely worth a read.
Welcome, Mr.
Johnson, to the show today.
Hey, Mike.
Good to be back with you.
Well, it's good to have you on today.
It's all good.
Yeah, you're framed quite nicely.
Thank you for joining us again.
And I've really come to admire your analysis.
I've seen you on many other shows like Judge Napolitano and so on.
That's why I invited you on here today.
Appreciate you taking the time.
Let's start with the obvious one here.
I mentioned in the last segment that it looks like Because of Israel's bombing of these food aid workers, that much of the Western world has now turned against Israel as of maybe today.
Do you think I'm overblowing that assessment, or does that ring of truth to you?
What's your assessment?
Yeah, no, let me put some context on this.
So, the World Central Kitchen workers, WCK, that was set up by Jose Andres.
I know Jose, we're not friends, but We were members of the same golf club and played in tournaments together up in Potomac, Maryland.
And he is a diehard anti-Trumper.
And boy, he loves himself some Joe Biden.
So let's put him in the context right there.
He's a big Biden supporter, and he was doing this basically to, I think, try to shore up Biden's political issues.
Fading political base, because there are so many Muslim Americans, Arab Americans, very angry at Biden over his support for Israel.
And so here's, you know, Jose puts these guys out there to serve meals.
And the food's pretty good.
Well, they were in full coordination with the Israelis.
And Let's be candid.
The only reason the world gives a damn about this right now is that they were white guys.
They were Europeans.
They were Americans.
If they were Palestinians or Arabs, who cares?
They're not real human beings.
But these are real human beings because they look like us.
It's that sickening and disgusting.
Let's put this into context.
These people were deliberately targeted.
This was not an accident.
An accident is like, you know, I'm reaching for my coffee cup.
I hit it, falls on the ground.
That's an accident.
When I pick it up and they keep knocking it off two more times, that's not an accident.
That's a deliberate act.
What the Israelis did, they hit the first vehicle.
And then the two other vehicles stopped, picked up the wounded.
They continued to flee.
They had pre-coordinated this route with the Israeli military.
That's the thing to understand.
And yet another 800 meters down the road, boom!
The second car gets hit.
And understand, these cars are carrying the WCK markings on the roof.
Now, it was at night, but the pilots are flying with night vision.
They can see this.
And they knew where these vehicles came from.
And then the third vehicle tries to gather up some of the wounded and trying to flee.
It gets another kilometer down the road, and it gets hit a third time.
Now, the Israelis are coming and saying, oh, this is terrible.
We didn't mean to do this.
Bullshit.
They absolutely meant to do it.
Because this isn't the first time they've done it.
They've been doing this starting on October 7th, when in response to the Hamas attack, Israel ordered its pilots to shoot up every car that was fleeing the scene of that rave out in the desert.
And that's how they killed, that's how the Israelis killed most of their own people.
Because they didn't know who was in those cars.
And remember, and then- So, Larry, if I could ask, though, from what you're describing, I think your assessment sounds accurate to me.
Doesn't this take away the number one excuse or defense of the Israeli defenders who say, well, Israel has the right of self-defense?
That's why they bombed the hospitals.
Well, Hamas might have been there.
That's why they bombed the refugee camps.
That's why they bombed whatever.
But if you're doing missile strikes, targeting three food aid vehicles, you can't say that's self-defense.
Oh, no.
Hell, absolutely not.
Look, I'm a pistol instructor.
I've got credentials that I can teach and train instructors, certify people as new instructors.
So what you teach with self-defense is if your life is at risk, if you don't act and you run the risk that you could lose your life or somebody else could lose their life, then under those circumstances, yeah, you can react.
That wasn't this.
These people weren't carrying weapons, number one.
Let's recall that this is, you know, let's ignore what happened on October 7th with what Israel did, killing its own civilians.
Yeah.
Let's go back to the three Israeli hostages that were taken by Hamas.
Three guys who had all served in the Israeli military.
They got away.
They escaped from Hamas.
They were in no man's land.
They were getting ready.
They wanted to surrender themselves to Israeli troops.
But they knew what a bunch of murdering thugs these guys are.
They took their shirts off.
One of them was waving a white shirt.
They were bare-chested.
And the Israelis still shot them.
Larry, the image that's being shown on screen right now, I'm sorry to interrupt, but this is really important.
The image shows that this is a food aid vehicle.
It's easily visible from the sky, from a drone.
They can see this is a food aid vehicle, and yet the missile went right through the roof.
So these are precision strikes on vehicles that are clearly marked and clearly pre-worked out with the IDF that we are food aid vehicles.
It's impossible.
Larry, when...
Netanyahu apologizes for this.
Do you think he's sincere?
No, absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
Because the point is, this is not the first time.
They've been doing this all along.
The Israelis have killed more correspondents with news agencies than died in all of World War II. Think about that.
I mean, and that's in six months.
That's in six months.
And remember that there were these two elderly women that were Palestinian Christians.
Most people make the mistake to assume that all Palestinians are Muslim.
They are not.
And so these two women, Palestinians who sought refuge at one of the Orthodox churches there in Gaza, A 60-plus-year-old woman taking her 80-plus-year-old mother, trying to walk her to the bathroom.
An Israeli sniper gunned him down.
These old ladies weren't carrying weapons.
So what I'm saying is, this is a pattern.
This is not an aberration.
This is a pattern.
And in fact, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting today based upon IDF sources.
I call them the Israeli Occupation Forces.
But those sources are saying, even though they're supposed to get orders from the top, the commanders in Gaza, they do whatever the hell they want.
Yeah.
Whatever the hell they want.
So one of the big questions I have for you, and I really appreciate your analysis, I think you've been spot on in so many ways, is what's it going to take for the U.S. and Antony Blinken in particular, who's just increasingly looking like such a pathetic, sad, ineffective figure, what's it going to take to do more than talk?
What's it going to take for the U.S. to say, stop shipping bombs, stop sending money, stop selling F-15s or F-35s?
Is that point ever reachable?
Yeah, loss of money and loss of political support.
So if all these people who are supporting the Biden campaign suddenly cut off the money, say, hey, no more until you stop this.
But that's not going to happen.
The American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC, has got both Republicans and Democrats, by and large, sewn up.
They're in their pocket.
They're not going to do anything that's going to back away from Israel.
But the events on the ground may force it.
Israel is intent on getting a war going with Hezbollah.
I know that there are some analysts who I respect, a guy named Steve Bryan, I think the world is Steve.
He thinks Israel is trying to avoid it.
But I listen to what their own defense minister said and their own general said.
They're going to invade southern Lebanon.
They're going to push Hezbollah north of the Latani River.
I take them at face value.
Yeah, I would say they're going to try to push Hezbollah, right?
I mean, Hezbollah is no small force to deal with.
And as I understand it, Hezbollah has been stockpiling weapons for many years.
They have elaborate tunnel systems just like under Gaza that go under the Lebanon-Israel border.
Well, let me ask you if you agree with this.
I think Israel, just in attacking Gaza, already a bit off more than they can chew.
I think they're taking more casualties.
They're losing more armored vehicles.
They're finding out that IDF forces are not as strong as they thought.
And the resistance of Hamas in Gaza is more effective than they anticipated.
Would you agree with that or not?
No, I would.
Let's compare and contrast.
The Israeli army is attacking an area that's about the size of Washington, D.C. Okay?
Think about that, because Washington, D.C. is not, you know, it's not a big area.
It's basically got six mile, it's a square, six mile square, and then they took off the bottom third of the square and gave it back to Virginia some years ago.
But still, that's the size of territory we're talking about.
And with all of their troops mobilized, They haven't been able to defeat Hamas.
Compare that with what the Russians are doing along an 800-mile front with multiple cities, multiple entrenched positions, and the Russians are steadily advancing.
So it puts into perspective what's going on.
And then Israel's killing civilians.
They're not fighting.
They are fighting a guerrilla war, but they can't kill their way out of this.
They think they can't.
And that's what they're coming to discover, that they lose more through attrition and through these ambushes that Hamas, and not just Hamas, but Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Pidge, you know, they're going to continue to go after the Israelis.
And notice what Israel just said the other day.
They told these people, say, hey, that are in Rafa, you need to flee back north.
Well, wait a second.
For the last five months, the Israelis have been telling them to go south.
Now they're telling them to go north, except they've basically destroyed all the habitable space that is up north.
So this is...
Well, that's the absurdity in this.
I'm sorry to interrupt, but I heard Netanyahu say, oh, it's no big deal.
They can pick up their tents and move.
Well, wait a minute.
You've destroyed the water infrastructure, the medical infrastructure, the power infrastructure, the sewage infrastructure.
What do you mean you can just pick up and move?
I mean, Netanyahu has lost touch with reality.
Yeah, he's just trying to save his own political career.
That's all.
And the critical thing that these people need is, one, they need clean water.
Two, they need to have some sort of secure toilet facility.
Because otherwise, if people are distributing human waste all over the place, it's just a recipe for massive disease.
And then a plague that will wipe them out, which is, candidly, that's what Israel's banking on.
They want as many of these Palestinians to die as possible.
They don't care.
Women, children, elderly, men, they don't care.
Kill them all.
Larry, I would also add, I agree with what you're saying, but I would also add that the engineered famine causes immune suppression, which makes the population more vulnerable to the sewage, like E. coli and other factors that you were just talking about.
Public health is collapsing there.
Yeah, no, you're absolutely right.
This is a desperate...
Yes.
And then to attack food aid workers, doesn't that send a message to all other aid workers that you're going to be murdered by Israel if you help the Palestinians at all?
Yeah, we'll see.
And look what happened in the wake of killing the Jose Andres aid workers.
They cut off, they turned their ships around, they stopped distributing food.
Another organization, don't recall the name of it, Just today announced as well they were serving like 15,000 meals a day.
They suspended aid service.
That's Israel.
That's why Israel killed these people.
Kill them.
Make everybody else afraid so the aid workers stay out.
Now, Larry, and I want to remind our viewers to visit your website, sonar21.com.
It's spelled just like it sounds.
And we skipped a break already this segment to maximize time with you, Larry.
And again, I thank you for taking the time.
Let's shift to the Israeli bombing of the consulate building in Damascus.
Right.
Because now we're talking about an escalation ladder situation that could be quite dire.
Do you have any information in the last, what has it been, 72 hours or whatever it's been, 48 hours.
48 hours.
Okay, thank you.
Iranian retaliation, is there any posturing?
Is there any hints of what Iran might be attempting to do in retaliation?
Let's first say that the reason Israel did this was to try to provoke a massive retaliation by Iran That would then justify or create a foundation for bringing the United States into the war against Iran.
That's what Israel's trying to get the United States in on the ground fighting with Israel because they know, as you pointed out earlier, they can't defeat Hezbollah by themselves.
And frankly, I don't think they can defeat Hezbollah with the United States.
You know, look at how effective the United States has been against the Houthis.
After five months of, you know, firing missiles and bombs.
Right.
You know, so, you know, we need to wake up in America and stop believing this nonsense that we've got the greatest military in the world and we can stop anybody.
We can't.
But back to the question of, is Iran more likely to retaliate in an emotionally charged way, or are they more likely to be very meticulous and planning to have a measured response, in your view?
Yeah.
No, I think it's gonna be measured.
You know, this is, look, this is the first, let's call it outrage, that Iran has faced, where they would have ample reason to retaliate.
Terrorist attack, some bombings within the last six months inside Iran.
They killed hundreds.
That was funded by the West.
I am almost certain of that.
They have faced the assassinations of other generals going back to Soleimani by the West.
And then going back to 14 years, U.S. and Israel together were involved with assassination plots inside Iran, killing nuclear scientists.
So throughout all of that, Iran has not mounted some massive counterterrorism offensive.
I think what they're going to do is they will do some pretty precise attacks in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, where the Israelis are involved there primarily for oil.
They'll kill them.
They'll probably attack some more of the U.S. bases.
That are in Syria and Iraq.
At this juncture, I don't see them escalating to hitting Israel directly.
Even though they have that ability- What about Israeli- Good point.
But I was gonna ask about Israeli diplomatic properties in other areas.
Could Iran strike an Israeli embassy or a US embassy?
I don't think they will.
Because we saw, if you watched any of the UN Security Council debate the other day, you got to see a role reversal.
In 1979, when Iran had taken, under the Ayatollah, students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, took U.S. diplomats hostage and held that facility for more than a year.
U.S. was outraged at that.
This was a violation of the Geneva Convention.
All right, so let's jump ahead now, 44 years.
It is now 2024.
What happens?
Israel hits a consulate and kills diplomatic members of Iran as well as some military personnel.
All of a sudden, the United States is okay with that.
And Iran is outraged at an attack on its diplomatic facility.
So we've had a complete role reversal.
And I think that I don't see Iran responding in kind.
I think that they're going to take the moral high ground on this, that, you know, we're going to hit legitimate military targets.
We're going to go after legitimate military interests of both Israel and the United States.
We're not going to hit diplomatic facilities.
I anticipate that's what we're going to do.
condemnation of Iran.
If they did that, they would lower themselves to what Israel has become.
Now, this has a lot of parallels to the attack on the Krokus Theater in Moscow, right?
So another provocation.
And I'd like to hear your analysis of what Moscow is doing, what Putin will be doing in terms of retaliation against that terrorist attack.
And I'm going to say, and you can agree or disagree, but I'm going to call Israel's government now a terrorist state.
Yeah.
It's clearly a rogue state.
I think it's a terrorist state at this point.
But what are your comments on the parallels between what Israel is doing and what clearly the West did with the terror attack on the Krokus Theater in Moscow?
Well, just today, there's one interesting parallel.
The United States has told Israel, expect an attack by a response by the Iranians in 48 hours.
We've heard that before, right?
Yeah, I've heard that 48-hour thing again.
Oh yeah, that was the warning issued on March 7th by the U.S. Embassy.
I'm beginning to think that there are people in the Biden administration that are big Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte fans.
You know, 48 Hours.
Remember that movie?
I do remember that movie.
What happened at the Crocus Theater, it's fascinating because the United States is using that terrorist attack As a way to try to attack the credibility of Vladimir Putin and to promote, let's call, ethnic strife in Russia.
The warning that came out on March 7th stipulated 48 hours.
And you've got to understand, when you get that kind of intelligence, I've had access to that intelligence for 35 years, nothing in the last five years.
But before that, I saw, worked with that intelligence on a daily basis.
I've never seen a piece of intelligence, whether we're talking a human report or we're talking an intercepted communication like an email or a phone conversation, where we could go out and issue a report definitively saying, from the moment this report is issued for the next 48 hours, the threat is high.
You don't do that.
Because how do you know if after that 48 hours that the threat has dissipated?
Oh, okay.
It's not like, you know, they don't have the lifespan of like a 17-year locust, you know, crawls out of the ground, chirps, mates, dies, you know, goes away in a certain time frame.
That's not how these terrorist threats are.
And so I almost believe now that That that was a bogus warning that the United States issued on March 7th.
It was a setup to be able to say that Putin didn't listen to us.
Yeah, when the real terrorist attack took place.
I was there when the U.S. government made the policy decision to start warning about terrorist attacks.
I was there at the creation of that policy.
It was 1989.
Larry, I'm sorry to interrupt.
We've got to go to break.
Stay with us, Larry.
Apologies.
We'll be right back here on the Alex Jones Show.
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All right, welcome back.
Mike Adams here joining you from the Brighton Studios in Central Texas.
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I'm honored today to continue hosting here on the Alex Jones Show with our very special guest, Larry Johnson, former CIA analyst from the website sonar21.com.
And Larry, thank you for your time today.
Your analysis is really important.
And in this segment, I want to ask you about What are the repercussions if our Western leaders do not listen to the advice and analysis of people like you?
Because as a CIA analyst, your career, you were trained.
I mean, you were a master of providing analysis, like fact-driven analysis, to decision makers to keep us out of nuclear war and to protect our national interests.
And yet our leaders right now are just throwing everything to the wind and they have no plan, it seems.
What are the repercussions if we don't turn this around?
Well, this wouldn't be the first time that presidents and their advisors don't listen to what the analysts are saying.
I saw that firsthand with respect to the whole contra war in Central America, where the White House just didn't want to hear what we had to say because what was happening wasn't what they wanted to happen.
They wanted a different outcome.
What we see right now is a very dangerous situation that the Biden administration has pushed us closer to nuclear war, to wars that we cannot win, than at any time in our history.
And it's extremely dangerous.
But it's not just the Biden administration.
You know, you can't identify for me a single prominent politician that if they stood up today and said, look, We need to stop the funding for Ukraine.
We need to open talks with Russia.
And we need to get back at the negotiating table with Russia.
We need to treat Russia as an equal.
Biden's calling them names, thugs, you know, dictatorship.
And anybody that tries to propose that is going to get shouted down.
As a sellout, as a puppet of Putin, as somebody who's in the pocket of the Russians.
So we don't even have the foundation for a reasonable discussion.
A little bit of that is opening up with respect to Israel.
It used to be no criticism of Israel was allowed at all.
But now you've got a significant sector of the Democrat Party, principally, That are Muslim-American, Arab-American, that are pushing back against Biden.
On the Republican side...
Go ahead.
I'm sorry.
America, in the post-World War II era, America, coming out of World War II, was the dominant power, the dominant military power, the dominant economic power, and then throughout the 50s, 60s, and 70s, the dominant currency power of the world.
And so America took on an aura of being able to bully the world.
Like, do what we say or else.
You'll be sanctioned, or you'll be bombed, or you'll be killed.
I mean, look at what they did to Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein and others.
But guess what?
That story has come to an end.
The U.S. is not militarily more capable than Russia's military.
Russia's economy, many would argue that Russia's economy per capita is far stronger than America's economy.
Russia's industrial output is extraordinary.
It's had a revolution, frankly, since 2022.
And Russia's cities are cleaner and safer than America's cities.
You know, America's cities are looking like crap holes.
I'm kind of semi-quoting Trump there.
It's not Haiti.
You know, it's San Francisco.
It's Chicago.
It's New York City.
While Moscow and other, St.
Petersburg, look great!
You know, I mean, it's so obvious.
America can no longer be the bully, but they're still playing the bully, is my point.
Well, if you go back and look at our history, and this is, you know, American people need to have some historical knowledge.
During the Eisenhower administration, Eisenhower conducted 158 covert actions that were involved, directed at what we call regime change, interfering in the affairs of other countries.
That included the overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz, elected president in Guatemala.
That included the overthrow of Mossadegh, the elected prime minister, in Iran.
And we've continued to live with the consequences of those actions.
During the Kennedy administration, remember Eisenhower was in office for eight years.
And the less than three years that Kennedy was in office, he mounted at 163 covert actions.
So the United States has a record of this.
In 1964, guess who we helped install and control of Iraq?
Oh, that would be the Ba'athist Party, and one of the young guys that was involved with that group happened to be named Saddam Hussein.
So we've had this history of, we'll set up people like Saddam Hussein, Manuel Noriega, and then when we get tired of them, we don't want to use them anymore, then we find a way to go after and destroy them.
We have been the one country, more so than any other country in the world, That's been involved with subversion and terrorism in other countries.
It's not Russia.
It's not China.
It's not Iran.
It's not Libya.
It's been us.
And we need to look in the mirror and recognize, because like any recovering drug addict or alcoholic, the road to recovery starts with an acknowledgement of, man, I've got a problem and I need help.
Words of wisdom, Larry, but that means then the United States empire needs to recognize that we are transitioning into a multi-polar world where the US cannot weaponize the money supply for much longer.
You know, BRICS nations are launching their own settlement currencies over the next couple of years.
The U.S. military, as I said before, is very much technologically outgunned.
I would argue, and by the way, I love America.
I'm an American.
I love America.
I love our Constitution.
I'm a Texan.
I love Texas.
So don't anybody accuse me of being a Russian spokesperson.
But I would argue, from just a factual perspective, that right now Russia's military is the most...
Accomplished and capable land-based military force in the world right now.
Is that honest?
Is that accurate?
Absolutely.
They're built to defend Russia.
That's what they're for.
Right.
You know, we're in the position, would you take advice on health, nutrition, and exercise from someone who is five foot four inches tall and weighed 300 pounds?
No.
Stop bringing up Victoria Nuland, please.
I've had enough of her on the show.
Come on.
The point of that is, set an example.
It would be one thing if we ran clean elections in this country.
Well, we don't.
to lecture other countries on how to run elections?
Hell, there are a lot of third world countries out there that run cleaner, more honest elections than we do.
How about the other day when the white administration is attacking?
Think of this.
They're attacking the government of Modi in India because they've arrested the opposition political candidate.
How dare they?
And it's like, dude, look in the mirror.
Look in the mirror.
What are you doing to Donald Trump and his supporters?
And the rest of the world is picking up on that, and they're sick of it.
They're fed up to here with the hypocrisy of the West, where we're trying to tell everybody else how to live their lives.
Let's clean up our own act at home.
Let's get our cities in shape.
The other day when people were all fixated on the bridge that collapsed in Baltimore, yeah, a terrible thing, but nobody's paid attention to the fact that every high school in Baltimore City limits, predominantly African American high schools, 2-3% of the kids read at grade level.
That means 97% of the kids can't do math or reading at a high school level.
And we're letting that go on.
I mean, that's how you destroy the foundation of your country.
Yeah, that's exactly what's happening.
Now, you mentioned Trump in your explanation there, so I'd like to ask your assessment.
How would a Trump presidency be any different in your view in handling these international crises situations?
I mean, Trump is still pro-Israel, and Trump is not going to obviously give any pass to Putin and Russia.
So what would be different in your view?
Well, Trump has always demonstrated the ability and the willingness to go talk.
The problem he faces is when he tries to do that, then he's immediately accused of being under the control of the Russians in the case if he tries to broker a deal with Russia.
And Russia's been very clear all along what they want.
Don't bring NATO any closer to our border.
Do not bring Ukraine in as NATO. That's what we want.
That's a good negotiating position.
The U.S. has refused to entertain that.
Instead, we keep pushing NATO to the borders of Russia and not even understanding how we would react if Russia created a military alliance that was going to align with Mexico and Canada right on our borders.
We wouldn't put up with it for a minute.
Do you think Trump is capable of negotiating peace with Russia that would stop the slaughter of the Ukrainian men?
Yeah, I do.
I think he has learned something since his first term, that a lot of people that he thought he could trust, he can't trust.
But there's still those, you know, there's still people like Mike Pompeo who's lingering, hanging around on the ages.
And, you know, Pompeo, he would like to get us involved with the war with Iran.
And he's not so far keen on letting, encouraging talks with Russia.
That's what I said.
Trump left to his own, yeah, he'd probably do it.
But I think the political environment is so toxic in the United States and so blind, so ignorant.
We're going to walk ourselves into a war at some point.
We will get defeated.
We will get beaten.
And it'll be out of that defeat that we will be reborn.
I'm afraid that's what it's going to take.
Is it that the West has forgotten, generationally forgotten the price of war?
Because you have Medvedev, who is there sort of like the bad cop playing off against Putin.
And Medvedev is like, hey, guess what?
We can nuke you.
We can nuke Paris.
We can nuke London.
I mean, it's not that he's threatening to aggressively But then there are other even more radical, you could say, spokespeople in Russia who say that the West needs a nuclear reminder.
I've heard that phrase.
Like, I don't know, TV personalities or somebody in Russia saying that maybe they should nuke one city in Western Europe to remind Europe, you know, what war really is.
I mean, it's a horrifying thought.
But this is a risk, is it not?
Yeah.
The last war, the United States actually won.
Where we declared victory, dictated terms of surrender, was World War II. People say, well, what about Panama?
You know, Panama, Iraq, those don't count.
Those aren't even against peers.
I'm talking about going up against a nation that has the same military clout and force that you do and beating them down.
We played to a tie in Korea with the Chinese and the North Koreans.
We got beat in Vietnam.
We pulled out.
We claimed that we won.
We didn't win.
We pulled out and abandoned a lot of people in the process.
So what the United States has got accustomed to these regime change endeavors, which they work for one reason.
They simply enrich corporations that are, you know, making contributions to members of Congress to increase the defense budget, to produce a lot of defense equipment that is, you Either not useful, not effective.
Look at the F-35.
I mean, this terribly expensive aircraft costs an enormous amount of money just to operate it to keep it in the air.
And it's not that good.
But we're spending, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars.
In some cases, billions of dollars.
Look at our aircraft carriers.
I think the last one that came off the line was $13 billion.
And that can be destroyed by a $500,000 hypersonic missile that the Russians and the Chinese have.
Well, is there a risk of that actually happening?
Because I saw that Iran was engaged in naval exercises with some African nations, I think near the Red Sea, actually.
And the Houthis have, apparently they've been given hypersonic missiles now.
And we know that Hezbollah has anti-ship missiles.
Yeah, I don't think the Houthis, I know the reports that the Houthis got hypersonic, but I've seen no evidence that they have them and are using them.
But let's remember, for the last three years, four years, Iran has conducted annual, joint, naval, and military exercises with Russia and China together.
So they've been prepping for the possibility of having to deal with a war with the West.
And that's where I say the United States is completely unprepared.
Look at what we are not able to do with the Houthis.
We started that operation in December.
We're now coming up on April 7th.
So that's well over four months, going into five months, and we haven't been able to stop the Houthis.
Really important point.
Let me ask your overall assessment here to pivot slightly.
Does the Biden administration, whoever's running it, clearly it's not Joe, but does the administration want a A big world war, to have a bigger crisis in order to disrupt domestically perhaps elections, to crack down on freedom of speech in the way that Zelensky did in Ukraine, banned all dissenting views to maybe confiscate firearms and violate the Second Amendment.
Maybe this sounds like a conspiratorial question, but it's also a strategic question.
Is this something that the Biden administration might be considering?
I'm sure there may be some in the Biden administration that would like to see that kind of scenario unfold, but I think the majority recognize, and this is why they're taking steps to try to limit U.S. involvement now without expanding it, because they know that there is a strong anti-war sentiment in the United States.
And they're already...
They're having to recall retired members of the military because they can't fill the ranks with recruits.
So they're calling up people that retired and saying, hey, you've got to come back in.
You're obligated, particularly with officers.
If you retired as a major or as a lieutenant colonel, they're going to call your ass back in.
And you gotta go.
Are they staffing up in anticipation of a war in the Middle East or with Russia, in your view?
Well, they've got these requirements.
So they gotta prepare for war with China.
They gotta be prepared for war with Iran.
They gotta be prepared for war with Russia.
And they can't do it.
We do not have the force structure.
Right now we've discovered we can't even keep the Ukrainians supplied with artillery rounds, much less artillery howitzers and such.
So what the United States is facing is the reality that we may imagine ourselves as this industrial giant, but this colossus that existed during World War II, but that doesn't exist anymore.
We're like the, remember Men in Black at that one scene where they find the guy, the actual alien that's controlling things and he opens some guy's head and it's a little bitty person?
That's sort of the United States now.
We're that little bitty person that's actually trying to run things.
We don't have the steel plants.
We're not making tanks.
We're not cranking out tanks at a rate of 10 or 15 a month.
We're not even cranking them out at a rate of five a year.
So across the board, the United States is industrially and militarily unprepared to deal with these threats that we claim are out there.
And in most cases, we are creating the threats ourselves.
Yeah, I see.
He just pulled up the image.
Yeah, that's it.
That's the United States.
The little alien inside the skull.
Yeah, I fear what we might see if we opened up Joe Biden's skull.
Like, there's nothing there!
Not even an alien, not human, nothing.
It's a portal to the dimension of nothing.
Larry, I want to thank you for joining us today.
Your analysis, I think, is really critical for our leaders to hear and for our audience to hear.
Tell us real quickly about your website, Sonar21, and what people can find there.
Yeah, so Sonar21 stands for Son of the New American Revolution, 21st Century.
I chose that name because I've got 28 ancestors who fought in the American Revolution.
One of my fifth great uncles.
Yeah, he was the secretary of the Continental Congress, Charles Thompson.
And he held in his possession the Declaration of Independence from 1976 until roughly 1776 to 1798.
So I've got some genetic blood in this thing as far as keeping America free and promoting liberty.
But what we're faced with now is a threat to the very constitutional foundation of our republic.
And it's not external.
It's not from the Russians.
It's not from the Chinese.
It's from within.
And the foundation of it has been an attack on the family and an attack on religion.
And once you separate the family and separate people from God, you're on the road to destruction, I believe.
Well said.
And we thank you for your time.
We pray for your safety and we pray for America.
Thank you so much, Larry Johnson.
It's been a pleasure.
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