July 10, 2023 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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On today’s can’t miss episode of Human Events hosted by Jack Posobiec, Poso dives deep into the latest out of Ukraine. Joined by Col. Tony Shaffer the duo dissect the Biden Administration’s announcement that they would be providing cluster ammunitions to Ukraine in their war effort. They also break down the concerning admission that the United States is running low on ammo as the war drags on. Jack is also joined by Jim Nelles and the two discuss the supply chain and how the green mafia fails...
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They either have the weapon to stop the Russians now, keep them from stopping the Ukrainian offensive through these areas, or they don't.
And I think they needed them.
There is nothing controversial about it.
We are fighting on our territory a brutal enemy.
There is nothing worse than tortures, rapes and everything that Russians do on the territories they occupy and we need to liberate as quick as possible.
The Iranians are providing the Russians critical drones and munitions for their aggression in Ukraine.
China have this stranglehold on a lot of critical minerals, and they just blocked the export of two of them that are really essential for computer chips.
Is this a warning shot?
My purpose is to make sure that we don't engage in a series of unintended escalatory actions.
There is a plan and a path forward, and as long as we sustain our bipartisan support for it, I think there is a clear path to transition away from what is currently a dangerous dependency on China.
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Human Events coming in hot like clustered munitions that we're going to have Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer on later in the program to walk us through that.
The clustered munitions, which used to be a war crime, but now they're totally fine.
Why?
Because Ukraine is doing it.
Well, you know what else is coming in hot?
They came in hot all weekend.
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For the theaters that are out there, for the people who have gone to see it, I know there were AC issues in some theaters.
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We're working very hard to bring in, let's just say, other people associated with the film as well.
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We don't have the weapons to keep Americans safe.
I remember there was a president who said that manufacturing in steel was, you know, something like a national security issue and people mocked him.
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Welcome back to the show, Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer.
Tony, I gotta ask, man.
Wall Street Journal, huge headline this morning.
They're dropping it out there.
Dmitry Peskov, The Kremlin spokesman comes out publicly, shocks the entire media by saying not only did Purgosian not go to Belarus like they all claimed, they just said that in fact he's been having private meetings with Putin.
Now, we had all these people, like the last time we were on here, like Jennifer Rubin and Malcolm Nance and others, and they were telling us that this was a civil war.
Well, what kind of civil war do they have where it's, you know, it's instead of, you know, Gettysburg and Appomattox, they're just walking into the, you know, the main headquarters and shaking hands and talking.
Tony, why did the media get this so wrong?
And can you tell, give us your assessment of what's actually happening?
Well, look, I'll be right up front.
I am mystified as most others about what is actually going on.
I always refer back to the Cold War.
The Russians, for better or for worse, were masters of deception.
Jack, you and I have a counterintelligence and foreign intelligence background.
One of the things during the Cold War the Russians were very good at is essentially sending in walk-ins.
You know, we were trained to deal with walk-ins, that is to say people who Pretend to be or are leaving their side in this case, Russia coming in to say, Hey, we want to spy for you.
We, we have information critical.
And, uh, there's, uh, ample evidence that something was going on.
I think Purgosian did have contact with us intelligence in some form before he did what he did.
The question becomes, did he try to actually deceive the U S and West saying that he's going to lead this revolution and see who came out and wanted to support it?
Obviously, we do know that the Gang of Eight, the intelligence folks, both House and Senate, were briefed by the Biden administration on something before Purgosian did what he did.
The question becomes, did Purgosian approach them and say, have I got a deal for you?
If you pay me, I'm going to lead a revolution against Putin.
Come along with me.
I think that's a distinct possibility based on the amount of secrecy that surrounds whatever was going on.
I don't know that.
What is important is to acknowledge when we don't know something and start, uh, providing or projecting aspirations onto the audience.
We all have responsibilities.
I front think tanks.
You're a member of the media.
I think we, we owe it to the American people, uh, an honest answer or an honest, I don't know.
Instead, I've seen members of the, on the left side, left wing media project their aspirations.
And I remember back when this started.
You had two names that I think we often mention, Malcolm Nance, Jennifer Rubins, to name a couple who were saying, oh, this is the beginning of the end for Putin.
It's all over.
There's going to be a mass revolution.
And we, you know, we think that Purgosian is going to replace Putin.
And first off, if that was true, Purgosian is, I think, if not as aggressive, he's probably more aggressive.
He was arguing for a more severe, more aggressive approach to taking out Uh, the Ukrainian forces in Donbass, uh, the other members, uh, who would have joined him on this would have been more severe, more aggressive.
So the idea of replacing Putin with, with, with Purgosian or others was never something I thought was a good idea, just because, you know, I don't think you want to see that level of chaos.
The other thing to remember, if it was true, if Purgosian really was trying to take out Putin, Jack, you and I both know we don't want Russia to become quote unquote, ungoverned, uh, ungoverned space, uh, Especially in something as big as Russia, with nuclear weapons could be tragic.
One of the things that I and some other folks have looked at is loose nuclear weapons.
The moment you have an arsenal the size of Russia, left somewhat ungoverned, unrestricted, you could have nuclear weapons going loose, which we don't want.
Even if you only had one or two percent of the nuclear arsenal, Left into the hands of oligarchs and criminals.
You don't want nuclear weapons being sold in the black market.
It would result in some very bad things.
So, the aspirations of the left to see Putin dethroned and the potential chaos it would cause is not something in anybody's interest.
So, I always caution people on projecting their aspirations rather than reporting on the facts or simply saying, we don't understand something, which in this case, I think most of us were saying, we didn't know, but it looked like this.
And one last point.
We do not.
We, the United States, do not necessarily understand how they do business within the Russian Republic as it is.
It is not truly a democracy.
It's a bunch of criminals, thugs, oligarchs who basically have a country that they use for their own purposes.
And I've said a number of times that this is more like the Tony Soprano, the Sopranos meets the Hunt for Red October.
Regarding how they do business and it's something that's different than our system.
We cannot project our system onto their system and somehow try to make sense of it.
It just will never work.
No, I've got to ask you this other piece, and I think you're exactly right.
Sure.
This is one of those things where these are just known unknowns, and we need to acknowledge that, because sometimes that's part of the game, that's part of the business, has been for a long time.
But this is also a great reason why we shouldn't get involved in a place where there are so many known unknowns.
And one of the knowns in all of this is obviously the threat of nuclear war, with the world's largest superpower.
They have more nukes than we do.
On the flip side of that, there's two pieces that have come up just in the last 24 to 48 hours.
Last week, we talk about the fact that Biden is now sending cluster munitions to Ukraine to replace essentially their artillery shells, if I understand that correctly, because they're completely out.
These are the same munitions, by the way, that the Biden administration, Jen Psaki, we played the clip, had referred to previously as a war crime early on in this conflict.
Now with the same idea, this is mission creep, this is escalation.
Now we're doing it in a sense, you got Jack Kirby up there saying, oh, it's okay because they did it too.
See, the Russians did it first, so it's okay if the U.S.
does it.
It's war crimes when they do it, but it's perfectly fine when we do it.
Now it's the You know, it's the in DC, they call it the interagency consensus.
But now it's the it's the will of the international community.
This is the rules based order.
It's the rules based order using cluster munitions.
When the rules based order uses cluster munitions, it's totally different.
But my question to you as well is there's this there's also now an issue of us saying, oh, we need to ramp up our capacity.
That's not how that works, is it?
No.
So let's go through and break this out, and I appreciate the way you framed it.
First off, there's been 41 acknowledged draws from our global forward positioned stocks of ammunition that are there for us to go to war with a variety of potential enemies.
Jack, those are supposed to be there for the purposes of our military forces showing up at a location, being able to draw rapidly and have at least 30 days of weapons available to go fully into combat with a near peer.
41 draws.
It's not a good thing.
As a matter of fact, I think it's closer to 50.
They've only acknowledged 41.
I think they've drawn to the point of where we basically have no wartime stock left.
And that's a dangerous position for us to be in when we, if we're actually thinking about trying to challenge the Chinese, if something happens in Taiwan, there's other things that could happen in the Middle East.
I think we're in a very dangerous time.
And our concern, my concern, our concern should be always, can we provide the men and women of the American military sufficient military force And ammunition to prevail.
And I'm skeptical at this point.
Joe Biden himself acknowledged this.
Now Joe has actually said, you know, Joe Biden has said, we have a critical lack of availability of wartime supplies.
That's significant.
And I think it's dangerous.
He actually said this publicly.
It's one thing for you and I to speculate, another thing for the president to say it is a matter of policy.
So that's the first part of this.
Secondly, that acknowledgement does mean That we do not have the industrial capacity to rapidly build and supply common, everyday munitions.
105mm rounds are completely gone at this point from everything I understand.
That's why, as a matter of desperation, Jack, they're now saying they want to use these cluster bombs.
Now let's talk about cluster munitions.
I, for one, do not see the tactical benefit of using these things.
In Operation Dark Heart, in my first book, Operation Dark Heart, There's a, I think we documented in there where we were on a combat, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, convoy coming back from Kabul on the new Russian road.
And on this, we were returning from supporting an NSA mission, which I can't get into, but you could probably figure what we were doing.
Uh, the FBI vehicle has a flat.
Uh, and so during, and these things are high speed convoys we're doing between 80 to a hundred.
Because we're unarmored vehicles going as fast as we can to avoid any potential for someone setting off an IED and taking out vehicles.
One of the vehicles has a flat tire, the FBI vehicle.
We pull over to the side and we set up perimeter.
You've done this.
We do set up a perimeter around the vehicles as they change the tire.
I take the point since I'm combat commander.
I walk up to the front of the FBI vehicle to take the point.
As I'm walking up, Jack, just past the vehicle about 10 feet is an unexploded
Cluster of munition from that we dropped had the vehicle have an FBI vehicle gone ten more feet It would have hit it and it would have completely destroyed the vehicle resulting in the loss of at least four FBI agents So I'm just telling you based on my own personal experience You can never ensure that all these things are going to be a command detonated after they're supposed to be used it's a very dangerous add to the war and secondly
I'm sorry, the White House has never told us the Russians have been using cluster munitions to any great degree until now.
All of a sudden, when it's convenient, oh yeah, they've been using them.
Really?
You guys have shouted... Tony, we've got a quick break here.
I want to put a quick pause in you.
We're going to come right back.
I want to hear all of this human events beyond the break.
This is huge.
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Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer.
Tony, you were walking us through this crazy story, basically, where you almost had a near encounter, I should say, close encounters of the explosive kind with a cluster munition.
Fortunately, by a completely, you know, sideways situation, you weren't harmed, obviously, and you're here able to tell the story to us.
But walk us through this pernicious use of them.
Well, we did use them in Afghanistan.
And again, let me be very clear on this.
We have better options for precision strike against specific military targets, especially down to individuals.
Cluster munitions are unguided.
Uh, they are not something that's controlled.
And Jake Sullivan alluded to the fact that there's a two to 3% dud rate.
And what he means is that it's not duds.
They're still sitting there and ready to be exploded.
It's just, they're not, you cannot remotely command detonate them.
The theory is that once you use these things, you drop it, you use it for a certain amount of time.
You set off a command to blow themselves up.
About two or 3% don't, and they sit there.
And that's what would happen with me in Afghanistan.
So again, just to recap, we were on a combat convoy.
One of the vehicles, the FBI vehicle, blew a tire.
We had to pull over to change the tire.
We set up security.
And I recognize, since I took the point, that there was a number of these unexploded US-designed and deployed cluster munitions on the battlefield in Afghanistan.
This is 2003.
And had that vehicle, the FBI vehicle, had to come off the road and went just 10 feet further, it would have hit one of these things and blown up.
Again, fratricide.
So based on my own personal experience, I know that even one or two of these things will do great damage to either light skinned or no skin targets, where you actually have the potential of either killing your own forces, killing civilians, killing children.
It's just not a good idea.
And the idea here is that that's all we have left to give the Ukrainians indicates to me that we've depleted our wartime stocks to the point of where we are as a military force.
Not combat, not effective.
And that's something that should frighten everybody.
Yeah.
No, I agree.
I just wanted to read something for you.
So, Congressman Ro Khanna, who's a man of the left, has put this tweet up this morning, and it shocked me when I read this.
He said, because he's basing on this, the fact that we do not have enough conventional artillery to send Ukraine should be a wake-up call.
Most of the top 15 steel producers now are Chinese.
They're located in the People's Republic of China.
And we don't have a single one.
The U.S.
urgently needs a strategy to become a manufacturing superpower.
And there's a response to it from, I love these, I love the anons, I love the anons.
Carolina Lion responds, well, It takes about four to five years to build a factory in the United States.
That's under best circumstances.
Gotta thank the EPA for that.
Then you need coal to fire up the steel furnaces.
Democrats have been waging war on that for a decade.
Then you need railroads, roads, a fleet of trucks.
You need trains, mills to haul out the product.
Democrats have been waging war on those industries too.
And you need clean and reliable electricity.
Solar and wind will not cut it.
That means either coal, natural gas, hydroelectric, and possibly nuclear.
All industries that the Democrats wage resources on.
This is what's needed to make this kind of industry profitable in the United States, yet they've been attacked by the policies of the Democrats and the federal government for 30 years.
And we ask, why are all these industries moving to China at the same time that we're allowing China to dump their cheap steel in the U.S.
market?
Look, Tony, I just got to say, this is what Donald Trump said.
He said that it was a national security issue, and now we're seeing exactly what he meant when he said that steel and manufacturing were national security issues.
And here we are, embarked in a war, a crusade of adventure, if you will, in a proxy war against the Russians.
And guess what?
Turns out that we're running up against cold, hard reality smacking us in the face.
It's true.
Now, so Russia never gave up its coal war.
regarding factories.
And that's one of the things that's benefiting Putin now.
Putin can produce literally tens of thousands of rounds on a routine basis.
And let's all be very honest about this.
Putin made huge mistakes in his initial entry into Ukraine.
He thought it would be like George Bush thought.
It would be a very short kind of entry into Iraq and be done with it.
Putin saw the same thing.
Will be welcomed as liberators.
Yeah.
My personal theory, just real quick, my very personal theory is that they were giving him intel that they thought he wanted.
That they were telling him, oh, the Ukrainian people are just waiting to be liberated.
They hate this regime in Kiev.
Just like George Bush in Iraq.
Absolutely.
They will, you know, they will rally behind your forces.
Zelensky will be forced to flee.
I honestly think that the people, probably, whether it's FSB or GRU, were definitely giving, because, you know, they don't want their heads cut off, so they're giving him the intel that he wants to hear and he's focused on, you know, he's reading, like, the Ukrainian-Russian history instead of, like, actually finding out what's going on.
Right.
And so, but after he made up for that mistake, he turned the entire Russia economy onto a wartime footing.
They are now on a wartime footing.
They've adjusted.
They're producing all sorts of material.
They're producing probably enough ammunition that they could take and continue their current war at the current pace for five years at minimum.
We can't.
We don't have that industry.
And to your point, the way you laid it all out from that tweet, we have degraded our economy.
Jack, we actually recognize this as a potential back during the pandemic.
We tried to get a project off the ground with Rutgers University, not even a conservative university, trying to examine the very issue we're talking about.
What do we need to examine and have available to us critical materials for a wartime posture?
Everybody, nobody wanted to look at that.
Nobody wanted to look at how we needed to detach from China and reestablish Uh, production primacy within the United States.
There was just no interest, even this is during the pandemic.
So now, you know, three years later, we're looking at this from a perspective, again, recognizing that we do not have American industry available to ramp up and rapidly produce conventional weapons.
And that's something that we should all take left and right, no matter who you are politically recognize that this is a critical failure of planning, of vision, created by political conditions, mostly from the left, that has left us in a position of vulnerability, huge vulnerability at a time that we're going to be looking at potentially challenging others regarding the Pacific.
So it's not a good situation to be in.
And I think everybody needs to take a deep breath and examine us for what it is, not what they want it to be.
That's something necessary.
I actually, one of the pieces that I noticed in this, because to create a manufacturing base and sustain it, you don't only need the government production, you don't just need the demand for it, which in this case would be military, but also you need the supply you need.
And that doesn't just mean the companies with proper capitalization and profitability, which of course are all key components of it.
The energy inputs is a huge line of it, but all Also, the capacity of the workers.
So that means, look, when we started cutting down and cutting back on tech schools in the United States, even on basic things like shop class in high school, guess what?
Russia has been investing in that.
They've been expanding theirs.
They still send their kids at the high school level to, you know, how I know this because I went and I asked people about this.
I found out the information, like, you know, like, Like an Intel officer would.
Now, they call it different things.
We don't do that in the U.S.
anymore.
We don't promote these things.
Everybody wants to be a TikTok star.
Russia never stopped that.
Russia never stopped the capacity for manufacturing.
That's why they're able to go to these manufacturers now and say, you know what?
You're going to completely turn your manufacturing line over to tanks.
Meanwhile, so Russia's pumping out tanks day after day, dropping off the line.
And in the U.S.
and Tony, I don't know if you saw the headline just this morning, but Uh, with the Stinger missiles, with our Stinger missile capacity being so low, when we realized that we didn't know how to make them anymore, they had to call in retirees from Raytheon to come back because they didn't know how to design the nose cones anymore for the Stingers.
I'm like, This is ridiculous.
They said, well, you can't just press a button and the computer makes it for you.
It's not like 3D printed Stinger missile technology.
What are we doing as a country?
What are we doing?
So as a nation during the Cold War, we actually had part of the army looked at operational security and basically large strategic We've done a great job with what I would term as surveillance.
worked with us very closely, by the way, because the Navy has the Marines and has clearly the need for conventional munitions and guided munitions.
We share that.
So there was a great effort to actually work together to make sure that there was always something available.
And then we were always looking at what was going to be the next thing to have.
We've done a great job with what I would term as surveillance.
We've been able to increase ISR, intelligence reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities to a great extent.
But what's not kept up with that, Jack, is to your point, is making sure that we have munitions, which matches our ability to see and do things.
This is a very dangerous thing.
And then obviously, munitions.
We had created during the past 20 years, enough stocks to be available for the U.S.
Army, U.S.
Marines to roll in somewhere, pick up, stock up, arm and go do something.
We now do not have that capability.
And again, this is not us.
This is not you and I having opinions.
This is Joe Biden as the president announcing this.
So, I don't know what it's going to take.
We've always talked about no more Task Force Smiths.
One of the things that General Reimer did when he was Chief of Staff of the Army at the end of the Cold War said, we cannot permit the attrition of resources and interest to come to the point of where we have to launch people into combat like we did.
Task Force Smith was that task force that went into Korea, South Korea.
When that war started, and they got decimated because we weren't prepared.
So here we are again, déjà vu all over again, to quote a great American baseball coach, looking at not being prepared, being faced with challenges we have to accept that we do not have the military prowess to be able to deal with.
And this is a strategic failure that has not played out yet.
Something that I pray we get a handle on before we have to do something militarily.
Tony, final minute.
Where can people go to follow you?
What a great interview for the first on a Monday.
Thank you.
This is going to set the tone.
We've got the NATO Summit coming up later this week, as well as Turning Point Action in West Palm Beach.
So they've got the summit of the globalists.
We've got the summit of the nationalists.
Tony, where can people find you?
So just at londoncenter.org, projectcentral.net.
We have a wide range of things that, you know, Jack, you and I have conversations.
We try to educate folks on all these things.
So, and watch the NATO Summit really closely.
It's going to be a very interesting kind of week of intrigue, to say the least.
So, thanks for having me here and I appreciate our conversation.
God bless, and I do think that we need to be on the lookout for provocations.
There was a potential strike on the Kerch Bridge to Crimea.
There's been this talk about the nuclear plant that Lieutenant Carl Schaefer and I have talked about.
Stay tuned, and as the great Art Bell used to say, watch the skies.
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All right, folks, folks, I figured it out.
I figured it out.
All right.
You remember last week when Biden said that he was going to try to block the sun?
OK, we all thought it was crazy.
We all thought it was silly.
It's like something from The Simpsons.
But I think I figured out what's actually going on here.
He's not just trying to block the sun because for eight hours a day, he's actually going to position the sun blocker so that it will block Putin From being able to see Ukraine and that's how he's going to win the war by conducting operations using the sun blocker.
It's actually a secret Ukraine blocker folks.
I've just I've solved the war.
I've blown the CIA operation completely.
All right.
Well to talk more about this because it turns out unfortunately that for for everyone in I don't know, on the left or in the Green Mafia, whatever it is, we go, we want to bring on a guy who's been writing non-stop about the Green Mafia and their, I should say, unrelation, not relation to, but unrelation from reality.
His name is Jim Nellis.
He's a supply chain consultant based out of Chicago.
Jim, you've been writing about how we've been pushing for this green insanity.
You've got a lot of pieces up on FoxNews.com, other places, but I'd love to be able to continue this conversation with you because here we are with the United States, find ourselves in this situation where we are essentially in a proxy war with Russia, but because we've turned away from fossil fuels and coal and we said, oh, green energy is going to rule the day.
Suddenly we realized that we don't even know how to make weapons anymore.
We don't know how to make tanks.
We don't know how to make stinger missiles because we don't have people with the training and we have no manufacturing capacity whatsoever.
Let me ask you a quick question.
Does energy policy play a role in national security, Jim?
Gee, what a shock.
Yes, energy policy does, and if you combine that with the terrible job that we're doing with our supply chain in the United States because of our wonderful Secretary of Transportation, the two things come together in what Kamala Harris would say is a wonderful Venn diagram of just disaster.
So let's think about this for a second.
We don't have the coal-fired plants to manufacture the steel that we need to make the weapons, and then if we do manage to make weapons, we can't keep the trains on the tracks, we can't keep the planes in the sky, we can't keep the trucks on the road.
So between those two things together, maybe our best hope is that Mr. Burns builds that sun blocker, and Biden is the evil genius we all thought maybe he would be, and we're going to block the sun so that Putin can't see Ukraine.
No, I think that's it.
I think this is actually the CIA operation.
It's Operation Sunblocker.
Operation SPF, if you will.
So, just walk us through that.
Joking aside, walk us through the seriousness of this.
How has it actually put U.S.
national security on the back foot and at a deficit now in a way that I think even like my non-military civilian type friends are calling up saying, wait a minute, we don't have the ability to do any of these things.
I thought that we've always been able to do this.
Why can't our, why doesn't our military have bullets anymore?
And again, this is the president of the United States saying that.
And I know in the last segment with Tony Schafer, we were You know, we were kind of joking about it, but this isn't my speculation.
This isn't human events.
Joe Biden makes a statement like that, but we are running out of ammo.
He said Ukraine and the United States are running out of ammo.
How have we gotten this position?
I think we've gotten to this position because a couple of things.
One is we don't invest the way that we should invest in our infrastructure, and that could be related to energy or it could be related to supply chain.
We have all these discussions about green energy and wanting to go to windmills and solar farms.
But we don't have a discussion about nuclear power and the same thing when nuclear power is statistically the safest and cleanest form of energy that exists in the entire world.
If you look at the history of nuclear power, there have really been three accidents over all of nuclear power's history, and that's pretty darn good.
Now, what we could be doing is a few things.
One is we need to really reinvest in American manufacturing when it comes to steel.
You mentioned I'm from Chicago.
I drive through Gary, Indiana on a very regular basis, and you see a lot of these shuttered plants Just sitting there or operating at one half, one third the capacity that they could possibly manufacture.
The other thing is we've just not made it a priority.
We keep thinking that we're going to win these wars through technology, when at the end of the day, it's bullets and butter that are going to be required to win any sort of ground battle that we get into, or if we need to help support someone to do the same.
Well, and I think that's just it.
And we've been living, and let's just walk through it.
Are we, could we be actually, and Mearsheimer's warning is something that I talk about pretty regularly on this, and that's this idea potentially if the United States were to find ourselves in a conflict with Russia through Ukraine, and then in a conflict with China through Taiwan at the same time, would essentially put us in a two-front proxy war.
I mean, I don't, this is the closest breakout we could see to World War III.
If that were the case, Has our embrace of green technology and green energy put us on the right footing for this?
Absolutely not.
And this is something I wrote about for the Washington Examiner, talking about too woke for war.
And you have to bring in the wokeness of the military as well, because instead of focusing on warfighting, we're focusing on making sure that we have the right number of transgender people at the flag rank in the Navy.
Which is absolutely insane.
We're worried about drag queen story hour on aircraft carriers, which we shouldn't be.
We should be training.
The job of the military is to destroy the enemy and deny their ability to make war, period, full stop.
It's not about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The military is not a social experiment.
Going to energy policy, the same thing.
Oh, and by the way, let's not forget, we still haven't refilled the strategic oil reserves that Biden drained in order to keep the price of gas artificially low and sold a bunch of it to China as well.
So we're in a very bad situation where we're trying to over-invest in green energy, we don't have the infrastructure to manufacture the weaponry that we need to manufacture, and if we were, by some act of God, able to manufacture it, we don't have the infrastructure within the country to get it from point A to point B, and then we can't execute the war if we had to execute the war on two fronts, let alone one front.
I mean, and you look at this, I mean, I remember as I say this as a prior Navy officer, you all served in the Navy, that they've been talking about the Navy is going to go green now and suddenly we're not, you know, whereas, you know, where are the days of Hiram Rickover and the nuclear Navy and embracing new technologies, not trying to force politically driven technologies into everything.
They say, oh, we're going to go green.
We're going to have You know, ethanol-fueled destroyers and cruisers and subs, and we've completely lost the plot.
I think we've lost the plot, and unfortunately for us, all the Russians have been doing is cranking out tanks and ships.
Exactly.
And Jack, if you've noticed, the military is committed to go to an all-electric vehicle fleet by 2030.
You know what that means?
You're going to have electric military vehicles towing diesel generators behind them to power up and charge the electric batteries in these electric military vehicles.
Think about the absurdity of that yet.
Having been overseas in some of these war areas, there aren't a whole lot of charging stations there, so that's not going to happen.
And the fact that, again, I come back to that we don't continue to talk about nuclear power as the greenest form of energy is insane.
Look at the nuclear navy.
The nuclear navy has done a fantastic job, and they can deploy and stay at sea for as long as the food holds out.
And this is something I do explain to people, I think, more and more because I think, like, if you served in the Navy, you get it.
It's ubiquitous.
It's obvious.
One of the sort of program notes I got the other day is, hey, make sure that, you know, you explain things to folks more.
Guys, every single aircraft carrier for the 14 carriers that we have out on active duty right now, usually about three on patrol, others are in various stages of birthing or resupply training, etc.
All of our aircraft carriers have nuclear reactors on them.
Two.
Two nuclear reactors.
I think some of the supercarriers might be talking about having more.
And then all of our submarines have at least one nuclear reactor on them at all times.
And it's been that way For decades now, inside the Navy, decades, the Navy has completely embraced nuclear power, and to the point where we have not seen one of these devastating incidents like we have in other places.
There's certainly been no Chernobyl at the Navy, knock on wood, but they have an excellent track record.
The idea that the United States couldn't replicate this otherwise is completely insane, and also, people don't understand, because I get it, it gets into numbers, math, The use of nuclear power just obliterates the capacity of other forms of electricity.
It is by a factor of 1,000 times greater than any other form of energy that we've, to date, discovered.
This is what powers the sun.
One minute until break, but I want to hold you over because this is an important conversation.
No, I think the other thing, it's not widely known, but their technology actually exists to take nuclear waste and convert that to power as well.
That's right.
We have 25,000 years- That's the Gen 4, I believe.
Yes.
It's just they've never commercialized that technology, but the technology exists.
The fact that we don't talk about this is, like I said, it's insane.
I really think that we need to look at our energy policy as well as our supply chain policy as a national security issue and no longer just as something that we put Ocasio-Cortez in charge of and let her go run around talking about solar farms.
I wrote a few weeks ago that In order to generate enough electricity in the United States using solar farms, you would need five states the size of South Dakota dedicated to nothing but solar.
Completely not.
Stay tuned, folks.
We'll be right back.
Continuing more with Jim Jones.
Grew up in the hood.
I rolled with Bloods.
And them boys had a saying.
You can't be listening to all that slappy-whack-trimatizolets-a-bam-ship-nippy-bam-bam like human events with Jack Posobiec.
All right, we are back live with Jim Nellis.
We're talking about supply chains.
We're talking about manufacturing.
We're talking about the United States' lack of an industrial base.
The fact that other countries, like China and Russia, have spent the last 30 years building up their manufacturing base, diversifying their electricity.
What are we doing?
Are there energy sources?
What are we doing for our energy sources?
We're shutting down our ability to use energy.
We're shutting down Our ability to manufacture.
We're shutting down our drilling.
Uh, Jim?
What was it you think?
I mean, I understand the politics of it, and I think everyone out there understands it, but certainly you'd think that there had to have been some adults in the room at some point that said, okay, yeah, we'd like this solar stuff, we'd like this green stuff, but we have to still continue the bread and butter of actually running the country and keeping the hospitals on and things like this.
I mean, what happened?
Were people just asleep at the wheel?
No, I actually think it's worse than that.
I think that this green energy thing, if you will, has become such a cult of personality, has become such a religion, that you would never speak of going back to conventional energy.
You would never think of those things.
Let's take what happened in Texas a few winters ago, where because of the over-reliance on a lot of this alternate forms of energy, the grid went down for a couple days during the wintertime.
Now, what are one of the things terrorists would really love to be able to do to the United States?
Take down the grid.
We're doing it to ourselves, and no one took a step back after that and said, we really need to rethink this green thing, or we need to have at least some backup plans in place, because the wind doesn't always blow and the sun doesn't always shine, and we have no way to deal with these excessive drains on On the grid.
Look at, again, California last summer and the summer before that.
Gavin Newsom one week announces that they're going to go to all electric vehicles by, I believe it was 2050, and then two days later he's telling people not to charge their cars overnight because the grid couldn't support it.
These folks, it's a religion, but it's a religion based on fallacy, not any sort of religion based on fact.
Well, I think that's true, and you know, it's funny enough, on the very first day of the Ukraine war, I made a point, and it was on War Room, it wasn't when I was here, I was with Bannon, and I said, one of the big reasons this war is happening is because Germany listened to Greta Thunberg instead of listened to Donald Trump.
And Media Matters raised this huge headline attacking me saying, Posobiec blames Russian invasion on Greta Thunberg.
And I said, no, I didn't blame it on her, but I pointed out that her as sort of an avatar of the Green Movement set up the conditions that led to this.
Jack, go back to the President's speech before the United Nations General Assembly when President Trump was President.
He told Germany, stop relying on Russia for oil and gas.
You can't do that, and stop building all these green power plants that you cannot operate.
You need to be diverse, and you need to get your oil and your gas from other places.
And if you look at the video, they actually laughed at the man.
And it was more prophetic than anyone thought.
And it just goes to show, you can't over-accelerate these things.
And you have to understand the power that comes from controlling energy and controlling the ability to transport things from point A to point B. If you control those two things, guess what?
You control the outcome of any conflict.
Look, I tell to my staff, I say it to the family a lot of times, it's amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics.
Logistics, logistics, logistics all day long.
Absolutely.
And you know, the issue is with, again, Look at the Navy.
Well, let's go back to the Navy.
We almost cut our fleet size in half.
We don't have the ability to project power ashore.
We don't have the ability to keep our ships afloat because we just don't have the support capabilities.
We don't have the number of ships that we need.
And again, what are they going to do?
Put up solar sails to sail around the world without trying to Increase the carbon footprint.
It just won't work, and we need to get back to what the business of the war is, the business of the military machine is, and that's to destroy the enemy and deny their ability to make war against us.
What do you think Americans should do when they're worried about these issues?
Is this something we can reach out to Congress about?
Is it something we should write about?
What do you think the average person can do when we're talking about issues like this?
A lot of this can be done at the state and local level.
A lot of the state governments, Illinois for example, has banned Any new construction of nuclear power plants.
That can be done at the state level.
You can get involved there.
You need to demand from your representatives that they not just tell you that we're going to go green, but explain how that transition is going to work and what the backup plan is for when it doesn't.
And none of them have the ability to do that.
You need to ask them if you live in a place like Chicago or New York City where you have 20,000 people live in an apartment building.
How long do the extension cords have to be to go from my apartment on the 50th floor down to my car three blocks away to charge it overnight?
People don't understand the infrastructure, how that has to marry up with the dream of the green energy mob that these guys have, because it just doesn't work.
It's just not there, and it's dangerous for the society.
Think about this.
Everyone got so upset when we pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord.
We pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord at a time when China is building two new coal-fired power plants every single week.
So, you know, New York's banning pizza ovens in the name of global warming and green energy, and China is building two coal-fired power plants every single week.
What do you think is the bigger impact on the environment?
Where should we be looking?
Jim, makes sense to me, man.
I hope that we can get someone in office and get people in office that can focus on this a little bit more and take it seriously, as opposed to the screechings of a teenage high school student.
Jim, where can people go to follow you and get more access to your writings?
The best place to follow me is on Twitter, at Jim6555, and you can find my writings, Fox News, Daily Wire, and Washington Examiner.
Awesome.
Hope to have you at humanevents.com too at some point, by the way.
We're going to work on that.
Libby, get him on!
Look, folks, we need to get serious.
We need to get serious, alright?
The U.S.
government is playing games.
Russia, China, Iran, they're playing to win.
I think that everybody understands that at this point.
BRICS, they just put out a statement.
They're moving to gold standard.
They want to have a new currency that's coming.
Not a new basket of currencies, a new complete currency that they want.
Do you want a government That is taking things seriously.
Or do you want a guy who can't even walk up the steps?
A guy, by the way, do you notice in China and where they're going around now with Biden, they're giving, I think he's in the UK, they're giving him the little steps.
He goes into the belly of the plane now.
So he goes into the belly of the plane.
He doesn't go all the way to the top.
He now goes into the belly.
That's who we have.
These guys are waging war on us and they're winning.
