April 15, 2026 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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White House Confirms Other Democrats May Be Involved In Eric Swalwell’s Sex Crimes
Jack Posobuk and Bo Davidson dissect the White House's confirmation that other Democrats knew of Eric Swalwell's sex crimes, questioning Senator Ruben Gallego's silence while linking media focus to eliminating weak candidates. They analyze Irish farmer protests driven by 65% fuel tax costs and connect the Iran naval blockade to China's Belt and Road Initiative. Ultimately, the episode frames the Iran crisis as a strategic proxy war between sea and land powers, suggesting Trump's upcoming Beijing meeting will determine if geopolitical posturing avoids direct conflict or escalates into kinetic confrontation. [Automatically generated summary]
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Irish Tax Protests Explained00:15:16
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Christ is King.
For the third straight day, President Trump is criticizing the Pope.
The president told an Italian newspaper that the pontiff, quote, doesn't understand and shouldn't be talking about war because he has no idea what's happening.
We certainly have a good relationship with the Vatican, but we're also going to disagree on substantive questions from time to time.
I think that's a totally reasonable thing.
I certainly think that in some cases, it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of, of, uh, you know, what's going on in the Catholic Church and let the president of the United States stick to dictating American public policy.
One suspect is dead.
A child is recovering after a very scary incident at a Walmart in Nebraska where police say somebody tried to kidnap a toddler at knife.
Investigators are still trying to piece together what happened here, but they say officers approached the suspect outside the store.
She had a knife.
They said drop the knife.
And that is when they say she slashed this three year old across the face.
At least one officer then opened fire.
Fortunately, that little boy, that three year old, is expected to be okay.
Tonight, that high stakes U.S. naval blockade of all Iranian ports is holding.
U.S. Central Command saying no ships got past the blockade in the first 24 hours and six merchant vessels were turned round.
The U.S. hoping to choke Iran's oil income.
To force concessions in peace talks.
And tonight, President Trump signaling a second round of negotiations could be happening soon, along with a deal.
The president telling our John Carl, I think you're going to be watching an amazing two days ahead.
President Trump, in a new interview, says the war in Iran is close to over.
His comments come hours after big gains on Wall Street, which is apparently expecting a peace deal soon.
I think it's close to over.
I mean, I view it as very close to over.
You know what?
If I pulled up stakes right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild that country.
And we're not finished.
I think the people we're sitting across from wanted to make a deal.
And I know the President of the United States told us to go out there and negotiate in good faith.
That's what we did, that's what we're going to keep on doing.
Well, welcome to Human Events Daily.
It is Wednesday, April 15th, a.k.a. Tax Day.
I'm Bo Davidson, filling in temporarily for the great Jack Posobuk, who was just in a press conference with Caroline Levitt that we just saw in the past hour.
He's making his way to his studio now, so just for the next few minutes or so, I will be manning the ship, so to speak, as we go ahead and kick off Human Events Daily.
You did just see this great presser by Caroline Levitt, where she was joined by Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler to talk about tax policy and the Trump administration's agenda.
It was a great We'll be getting to that later on the show.
Jack Pasobic did have some questions for them, which we will take.
But right now, we want to turn our focus to Ireland, where Kevin Pasobic is in Dublin at the moment.
Kevin, you got me?
Can you hear me?
Yes, I can, Bo.
Thanks for having us.
And I'm here with Kevin Delahanti.
We're out for the Migrant Center here.
This is a protest over.
How are you?
Doing great, Kevin.
Doing great.
Well, you know, I know that you're in Ireland not for the great Guinness beer, which may not be in short supply, but rather the gas.
There have been a number of protests that have been happening over there.
Can you tell us just the lay of the land?
I know you have a gentleman with you.
I don't want to bury the lead here, but go ahead and take it away.
Absolutely.
So, yeah, it's coming off the heels of a no confidence vote yesterday.
We thought we were going to get that passed.
And so, what that means is these protests have ended for the time being.
The farmers just kind of had to go back to work, honestly.
But the regroup and the reorganizing, potentially for this weekend, and I can confirm that here.
That there will be something happening this weekend.
But, you know, they're pretty discouraged right now.
I mean, up north in Belfast, you got people fined for just parking there, you know, peaceful protests.
And, Bo, unfortunately, like down south, even in the Midlands and the rural lands, you had a guy, even unfortunately, commit suicide because he had to close his farm down.
So this is like serious stuff.
And they're saying it's a blockade.
They had to bring an army in to shut it down.
So it's kind of discouraging right now.
And, you know, where's all this funding going anyway?
It's going to migrants here.
And this local Patriot's an expert at it too, bud.
So that's what we're focusing on here.
Well, Kevin, I want to ask you as I was doing a little bit of research about this particular situation, it seemed like a lot of the farmers are demanding tax relief because about 60% of gas costs are from taxes.
Now, that's exceptionally high.
So I can understand why anybody would want to protest that.
Based on that and the fact the government wasn't giving them the tax relief, What is the farmers' overall goal?
What do they hope to achieve with this government based on what's happening or what's been happening over the past week?
Sure.
Well, maybe I could toss that link here.
Yeah.
The taxes and then what they want.
At the moment, it's been categorized as a fuel protest, but it's really not.
It's a tax protest, and fuel is just the culmination of it this week.
In another time, it'll be a teacher strike or a nurse's strike.
We are just being killed by taxes here in Ireland.
You guys know nothing about the level of taxation we have compared to the States.
You know, income tax is 52%.
We have a thing called VAT, which is revenue tax.
Who else might call that a sales tax?
That's 23%.
And we've all these social taxes.
Where all this taxes has been going, the biggest burden on the Irish taxpayer.
We'll have to leave it right there because we do have a hard break.
We do want to bring you back, Kevin, so just sit tight.
I want to go to break, and we'll be right back with more Human Events Daily.
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I'm Bo Davidson, temporarily filling in for Jack Posobic as he makes his way from the White House over to our studios.
Kevin Posobic, we had to cut you off there and the gentleman that you have with you in Ireland because we had a hard break.
But I want to bring you back in because I think what the gentleman was saying, and I'd love for him to clarify that this protest is largely about taxes because we don't experience the same level of frustrating taxes that apparently the Irish do.
So if you would go ahead and hand the mic back over and let's hear more of what he had to say because unfortunately we got cut off.
Let's expound.
Absolutely.
Here you go, Nick Delahante.
Yeah, so this is a carbon tax that's on this fuel.
So it's basically a woke tax to fund this green ideology, green agenda.
And, you know, this is the world has changed.
We've moved on from green ideology.
So about, you know, 20 cents or 15 cents of every litre of gas or diesel goes to carbon taxes.
And as well as carbon tax, we have excise tax.
And it all means that 65% of all costs on fuel in Ireland go to taxes before this emergency.
It's gotten too much.
Right.
And Bo, so what the farmers want is they basically want their jobs back.
It's amazing to see the parallels between Ireland and America.
And so you might be wondering, you know, back at home, what this all is about, but there's so many similarities.
Nick's doing great work.
He's exposing a lot of the fraud with the taxes and the migrant taxes, the asylum taxes, all these green woke taxes.
He's like the Irish Nick Shirley, this guy.
But really, though, it's.
Yeah, the comparison that's been made, you know, you've got the Somali fraud.
We have something similar here.
This building behind me was supposed to be a set of 500 houses.
We're in a housing crisis.
And they've turned it into a migrant hotel and it's owned by a billionaire.
And it's just like, why are we doing this?
Why can't we build houses?
Right.
And not incentivizing Irish citizens, Irish farmers, Irish fishermen, all that.
But instead, they get taxed to build houses for this.
And you're going into even the zoning and the funding.
We're seeing it in small businesses too, Poe, where it's the same exact thing as in California.
These small businesses are being put up for refugees.
You know, instead of our own citizens.
Yeah, I run a small business and I have 10 employees, and it's just not worth it anymore.
You're working for nothing at the moment in Ireland.
It's nothing like the States.
I would give you my left hand to go over to Texas and operate a business there where the taxes are minimum.
We just don't get that opportunity.
But, Nick, just real quickly, in about 30 seconds or left, it sounds like this is what President Trump is saying when he's saying, if we don't stop what we're doing, we're going to become like Europe.
Is that right?
Whatever you do, you do not want to become like Europe.
We are failing.
Statson.
We'll leave it right there.
Nick, thank you so much.
And Kevin, thank you so much as well for your great reporting there in Dublin.
We'll keep an eye on this as the farmers keep protesting there.
60% taxes on gas sounds terrible to me, but I think that's exactly why President Trump is making his stand now and saying, you know, look, we've got to stop becoming like Europe.
We don't want to be anything like them.
And I think Nick just spoke to that.
Well, I want to segue now to the press conference we just saw with Caroline Levitt because Jack Posobic was in the new media chair and he had a question for the press secretary regarding Eric Swalwell, a story he's been covering all week.
Let's take a look at that clip.
This past Saturday, I published a video of former, now former Representative Eric Swalwell in bed.
The President said he was in Las Vegas while Eric Swalwell was in Las Vegas.
In this video, I'm told, according to geotagging, this scandal has erupted now.
Accusers coming forward, many others coming forward, as well as questions regarding his extremely close relationship with Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego.
And I want to know if the administration had any comment on the fact that Senator Gallego.
Seem to be very vocal about wanting the release of the Epstein files, and yet when questions come to his own involvement with Eric Swalwell, he doesn't seem to want to provide anything.
Yeah, look, I think the accusations and allegations against former Representative Swalwell are despicable and disgusting.
I think it's also quite plausible, as you point out, Jack, that there were many other Democrats in this town on Capitol Hill who knew about his perhaps illegal behavior, certainly his disgusting and inappropriate behavior.
And why were they silent for so long?
I think those are questions that must be raised of these sitting representatives, including Mr. Gallego.
And I hope that the journalists in this room will do their jobs, and the journalists on Capitol Hill will do their jobs to ask Democrats in power how they knew about such despicable behavior from one of their elected representatives for so long, but never said or did anything about it.
So that's what we hope to see as far as the White House and the president is concerned.
So there you see the question from Jack Basobit to Caroline Levitt.
We want to bring in our guest now, Avita Duffy.
Avita, thank you so much for joining us here on Human Events.
You know, Avita, obviously all this salacious stuff about Swalwell is just building and building.
It's getting worse and worse.
He's now resigned.
It's amazing to me that it took this long.
Is this, at its very core, is this because he was failing so badly in the California governor's race?
Or why did they turn on him?
Why now?
Yeah, well, I mean, first of all, I think that Democrats saw the writing on the wall.
In order for them to win, At the gubernatorial election, they have to consolidate power with one Democrat.
And having Swallow in the race as kind of the weaker candidate was really harmful to them.
What I think is interesting about what Carolyn Levitt said in that clip is that she hopes the journalists in the room actually go and investigate this story because Gallego is obviously a close friend of Swallow, but also there's been rumors and accusations that he may have been the second person in the room.
We don't know.
There hasn't been an investigation.
The journalists aren't doing their job because, again, This is about one scalp.
This is about Eric Swalwell.
It's not about anybody else because they wanted to get him out of this gubernatorial race.
And what Americans everywhere are saying is, I don't really care about Democrats' political aspirations in California and their hope to continue to control that state.
We just want people to be held accountable finally in elected office.
And I think that we're not going to see that from the Democrat establishment or the left wing media, who, by the way, right now are congratulating themselves.
Brian Stelter, I think, had this entire monologue about how wonderful it is that.
He and his other pals in the corporate media are taking on this story.
Yeah, they're taking on this story at the behest of the Democratic Party because it's beneficial to Democrats in California.
This is one scout.
That's all they're interested in, who, again, a very close friend of Swalwell and should be looked into.
Well, Evita, you know, I was reading some of the testimony of Lana Drews.
She said that she was drugged and choked and raped by him in 2018.
And what I thought was interesting is, Swalwell's attorney says that these accusations are, quote, false and offensive.
Now, to me, That's a way of deflecting.
I mean, what's more offensive, the allegation or the actual crime?
It turns the heat back on the victim as if she's the liar.
That's what I took away from that.
Right.
I mean, it's complete deflection.
And it's, I mean, the context here is truly despicable, right?
I mean, there are rules, laws against members of Congress having these sort of relationships with underlings, with junior staffers.
This is completely unallowed.
So if these allegations are correct, I mean, this is extremely serious.
And of course, he's being dismissive about it.
And again, he's also a man who is married.
At the time, his wife was apparently pregnant.
I think what all of us are thinking as the story is rolling out is we want leaders like the founding fathers, right?
These were upstanding, good Christian men.
What we're seeing come out of Washington lately and hidden by other powerful people in Washington is despicable.
How does somebody like Eric Swab will get elected?
Not only that, how does he stay in power for as long as he did?
Why is he sitting on the Intelligence Committee when clearly he's somebody who's very easily compromised?
All of these things should make every single American, irrespective of political affiliation, take a step back and say, we really need new leadership in Washington.
Eric Swalwell Under Scrutiny00:11:44
Indeed, we do.
Well, I know that Jack Posobic has made his way back over to the studio now, so I certainly want to integrate him.
After all, it is Jack's show.
Jack, I thought you had an excellent question there for Carolina.
Navita brings up a great point about whether the journalists will actually do their job in pursuing this.
I was thinking back, Jack, about the Brett Kavanaugh situation and trying to compare the two.
Now, Lana Drews documented this event in her calendar.
She told her friends she had sexual assault therapy in Connecticut.
She didn't come forward to law enforcement out of fear, apparently, because of Swalwell's connections and how powerful he was.
I think that's probably a common denominator among a lot of women, particularly in dealing with people of power.
Seems she's got the receipts, Jack.
To me, I know you've been following the story all week, so I'd love for you to just kind of tee it off and tell us whether you think that the journalists are actually going to do their job outside of yourself in terms of pursuing this.
Yeah, Bo, I just want to say thanks so much for helping me out and getting over the, you know, going from the briefing to here and the logistics of all that.
And thanks to Avita, of course, for rolling with the punches on this.
But you're exactly right.
The question that we have here is we know what it looks like when the media wants to go after someone.
We know what it looks like, whether it's the takedown of Harvey Weinstein, whether it's the takedown of Jeffrey Epstein, whether it's the takedown of whoever, whoever it is.
And when they went after Kavanaugh as well, we know what it looks like.
We know what one of those pressure campaigns looks like.
But where is that kind of energy?
When it comes to Eric Swalwell.
And we know, and I asked Press Secretary Caroline the question just now where's the energy for Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona, who we know is a close friend?
They traveled together.
They appeared shirtless on vacation together.
They have text messages back and forth that they've tweeted out.
And what he was out all year, all last year, saying Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, release the files, release the files, release the files.
Okay, those files are out.
But what about your files with Swalwell?
What about the Swalwell files?
Where's that same level of energy?
And we just don't see it.
So, and Avita, I'll come back with you.
I think we have one more segment.
But, Bo, that's what this comes down to me about is who else in government knew about this, especially this network of close friends?
Yeah.
And to Avita, to your point, I mean, was this just the means to the end?
You know, like you're saying, Brian Stelter and all these people are piling on saying, oh, look at what we're doing.
When in actuality, it just helps the Democrats because they didn't have an effective candidate running for governor.
Just helps them out.
Right?
Yeah, I mean, let's be real about this.
There is zero chance that Democratic leadership, that Nancy Pelosi, especially leadership in the state of California, didn't at least hear rumors about what was happening with Eric Twawo.
This is completely absurd.
What did you know?
When did you know it?
I think it was a long, long time ago, especially with Fang Fang.
We'll leave it right there, Jack.
I'll hand the torch over to you.
And thanks so much for being here, Avita.
I think you might have another segment with Jack.
So we'll be right back with more Human Events Daily with Jack Visoba.
Talk about influencers.
These are influencers.
And they're friends of mine.
Jack Prasovic.
Where's Jack?
Jack.
He's done a great job.
All right, Jack Prasovic, we're back live here, Human Events Daily, and we're on with Evita Duffy.
And there are so many questions.
And I was just over at the White House, came over here, and we have this situation that's ongoing.
With Senator Eric Swalwell, but do we really think he was the only one?
And that was the question I asked to Secretary Levitt, and of course, asked the administration as a whole.
And I can confirm, I said this, this came up after the show last night.
And I said, guys, this is something that's on the radar of law enforcement.
Law enforcement is involved.
All right, I can tell you that.
And we now saw on the LA side that that has come out.
And I'm selling you that regarding the specific situation that I've been reporting on regarding this Las Vegas bedroom is on the radar of law enforcement as we speak.
And that's all I can really say about that right now.
Avita Duffy, we're still on with you.
And Avita, this is my big question here it's not even about, you know, Swalwell as a person.
It's about this wider network that he seems to have been operating with because does it.
Does anything that Ruben Gallego said make any sense when he came out yesterday and he was saying that, oh, that he fooled me and he lived a double life?
Like he's like Batman or something.
It's ridiculous.
It doesn't pass the smell test.
No, it doesn't, Jack.
And I was thinking about this story.
First of all, when you're a parent, right?
You're a parent in 2026.
Unfortunately, you have to have conversations with your 16 year old son, like, hey, I know you have a Snapchat.
Like, don't be sending D pics out.
And you have to tell that to your 16 year old son, maybe because Their prefrontal cortex isn't fully developed.
They're stupid.
They're teenagers.
We're talking about like a 40 something year old sitting member of Congress, somebody who wanted to be the governor of California.
Like, this is a leader in our country.
And this idea I said it was absurd that other Democrats didn't know about this or at least hadn't heard the rumors is, I think, of course, ridiculous at its face.
But I also think that that might be on purpose.
I feel that we are, they pick.
Individuals to run for office to be elevated in power because they are loose cannons, because they are completely deplorable and disgusting individuals, because they're easier to control.
I mean, you saw the second that they didn't want Eric Swowell in this governor's race, everybody comes out and is taking this man down.
And I think that that is a reflection of this idea, Jack, that you were talking about, where there's probably a lot of other ones like it.
And you know what?
They all have to go.
I don't care if you have compromising information about this person.
And they vote really well on the Democrat or Republican side.
We can't have leaders in our country who are disgusting, compromisable human beings.
First of all, it's a national security threat.
But second of all, it's not who we are.
As a country, we deserve better.
There's so many things to unpack about what you just said.
And we had former Congressman Madison Cawthorn on here yesterday, and he walked us through the system of how it works.
He said, once they have you on video, they own you.
And that this is a system that has existed for many in this town not everyone, but many and that they ply these individuals with this physical gratification, in other cases, Chemical and using other, you know, perhaps aphrodisiacs to be able to have them in their power and whatever the special interests are at play here.
And there's so many questions about, and people keep asking me as well.
People keep asking me as well who is the other individual in the tape?
And I've not been able to get that information from, I'll say, the place where I obtained the initial video.
I have requested that information.
I've requested information about, I've requested the full video because we can obviously tell.
That this is a longer video, and we are still working on this.
We're also working on further leads regarding others in, I'll just say government, others in elected office.
And that's where it stands.
But at the same time, it's this conspiracy of silence, Evita, that is really holding back so much, not just from a TV show or a podcast or something, from the American people who deserve better.
Isn't that the point?
Yeah, well, Jack, this is why alt media is so important because I'm interested in who's the other person in the video.
You're interested in it.
You're actively investigating it.
But to be clear, no one else in corporate media is interested in who is the other individual in that video at all.
Nor, I mean, I think are they interested in anybody who was involved in any of Eric Swallow's various escapades that he's clearly been involved in throughout the years.
Because again, this is about one person, this is about one scalp at the behest of the Democratic Party and their own political goals.
That's it.
That's what this is about.
It's not really some sort of principled stand being taken by Nancy Pelosi and the democratic media apparatus.
That is just, it's not true.
So I think it's important for people like you and me to continue pushing for transparency, for the truth, because the media is not going to do it.
That's not what this is about.
No, and it's very unfortunate because we do have these two sides to the situation.
You notice, even just in the press briefing that I was in right there, there wasn't a single follow up question about that situation at all.
I'm talking about a guy who's been credibly accused by multiple victims, a guy who, again, we have him on video.
I published that video, it's out.
It is right there, it's verified.
You notice he hasn't even tried to deny that it's him because you're caught.
You're caught in 4K, as the kids say.
This guy is, I guess he didn't, by the way, get the 16 year old Snapchat lecture.
But it's the ridiculous part of this is that the rest of the media who sat in the room right next to me were all in the same room.
And I'm not saying they didn't have good questions about other things, but you notice there wasn't a single follow up.
Last minute to you, Avita Duffy.
Well, I'll just say this, Jack.
This has been the game plan for, this has been the playbook for a long time.
Bill Clinton was a disgusting human being.
Everybody knew about it.
And that was actually an advantage for them.
The Democratic establishment liked that about him because it made him easy to control.
There are lots of individuals like this in American politics.
And the problem now is that we have alternative media.
We have this thing called the internet and it's wide open.
And they're not going to be able to get away with it as much as they used to, especially because the American people are sick and tired of having people like Bill Clinton or Eric Swawal leading us.
Simple as that.
Via Duffy, where can people follow you?
Via Duffy underscore one.
My husband's running for Congress.
His website is alphonsopholwisconsin.com.
All right.
Thank you so much.
Jack Vasobic, right back here at Community Events Daily.
Where's Jack?
Where's Jack?
Where is he?
Jack, I want to see you.
Great job, Jack.
Thank you.
What a job you do.
You know, we have an incredible thing.
We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys who should be getting politicians.
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So we saw, obviously, the questions regarding former Congressman Eric Swalwell, Senator Ruben Gallego, this relationship that the two of them have, the relationship the media doesn't even seem a little bit interested in asking about.
We'll ask about it.
I mean, these guys have shirtless pictures out there, but there's another piece of the puzzle that I have been banging the table about for a month now.
banging the table, banging the table, and saying over and over, you're looking at the wrong straight.
It's all about China.
It's all about Xi Jinping.
When I had the opportunity on Monday, Monday afternoon of this week, standing just outside the Oval Office, I had the opportunity to ask President Trump directly about this.
I said, President Trump, those ships that are being blockaded from Iranian ports are destined for China.
You are meeting with China on May 14th.
What is going on with China?
What is their role?
And he confirmed that Xi Jinping.
Wants very much for this crisis to be ended.
And then we see President Trump this very morning, two days later, after I asked a question, after I spent the month telling everyone it was all about China.
What does he post on True Social?
Of course, the Strait of Hormuz is open and that Xi Jinping is very, very happy.
It's almost like it's all been connected all along.
Well, someone who's been helping us connect the dots here and Someone who understands the big picture is Malcolm Flex.
He's been on as well.
Flex, how are you doing, man?
Man, I'm tired, dog.
I've been picking up this phone every single time because I keep calling it.
And it's just one of those situations where, man, if only there were somebody, somebody out there who could it be?
Who?
Someone to just walk us through who could have predicted this series of events.
But Flex, walk us through that.
And by the way, I'm not discounting as well.
That if you go over to Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon, what did they sign earlier this week?
Oh, that's right, a military defense treaty with Indonesia, right?
Was Indonesia going to come to America's defense?
You know, I don't know.
But what's that really about?
That's about Indonesia's influence over the Strait of Malacca.
So you got Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Malacca, and then the Taiwan Strait.
It all is inextricably connected.
And if you just look at a map, you can see what the president's strategy is.
Is you can have your opinion, you'd agree, disagree, but understand that this is a bigger game.
Flex, why is it that some people just don't see the pieces here?
And they never took a map break.
And that's just the easy way to find out.
Yeah, I know.
But, you know, in all honesty here, in all honesty here, though, let's sort of be real.
Regional conflicts are dead.
In this world, you don't have situations where the region exists by itself in an insular bubble.
Like anything that you do influences somebody else's possible partnership somewhere where they're getting things.
You know, this new rules based international order.
It exists to preserve these waterways, these straits, the Strait of Malacca, you know, Strait of Taiwan, Strait of Hormuz, as has entered the public consciousness.
All of this is a larger piece in how countries survive.
And this is based on an order that we established.
So China naturally is coming in.
And I remember there was actually a quote from a Xi Jinping speech where he was giving, where he was trying to project strength, saying that, you know, us Chinese are the people of peace.
But if you defy what we are setting up, Then we will bring in, I believe it was a hammer.
It was something basically saying that, hey, don't mess with us.
We are peaceful, but at the same time, you mess with us and we're going to come for you.
Well, I wonder why interrupting Strait of Hormuz is such a big deal for Xi.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Because again, they have a large scale plan with Taiwan.
Now, one of the things that I think a lot of people are not understanding is that when you have a, you know, when you have great power politics and you've got the temperature rising to an unstable, Unsustainable degree again, we just talked about how regional conflicts affect everybody, right?
So, you have the temperature rising to an unsustainable degree, you force these large powers into a possible conflict that they're not ready for, that they're still sort of prepping for.
And so, in this situation, China knows there may be a future kinetic head with the United States.
I think Trump knows that as well.
That's why the whole mutual defense agreement was signed with Indonesia.
Again, we're shaping up for this massive conflict that will one day come.
Whether it comes in our lifetimes or the lifetimes of our children, I don't know.
But G is planning for that, but he can't have what's going on in Strait of Hormuz.
Number one, interrupt his timetables with preparation.
And number two, cause him to look like he either, number one, is weaker than the United States or number two, that he is an Asian of Chaos.
So that's why he's coming out trying to be this adult in the room figure.
But then Trump is now starting to try to work and make a deal with him.
Because again, when you get into a conflict, when you deal with great power politics, it's not necessarily about who's got.
Biggest bombs, the best navy, the best missile.
It's about who looks the most justified, who looks the most reasonable.
And that influences how allies will throw in with you.
So, you're seeing sort of a pageant, if you will.
Both of these guys are on the stage strutting their stuff, trying to look the cleanest, yet also the strongest, the most in shape.
And they're just sort of, this is political peacocking, basically.
So, again, we're looking at it.
Well, I mean, there's a lot of that, but you're also, I mean, to your point as well, that's what it's about.
It's about him showing that level of sort of alpha dominance, posturing, et cetera, peacocking to your point.
Because what's President Trump doing in just one month's time?
One month from today, he will be in Beijing, China, meeting with the emperor, meeting with, as we call him around here, the red emperor, Xi Jinping.
And he will be meeting with Chairman Xi in Beijing.
And so all of this, right?
The deal, and I've always said when they say, oh, Pakistan is the mediator and we're working directly with the Pakistan, everything with Pakistan, like I'm not discounting Pakistan, but understand that you could just take the word Pakistan and switch that out with China and then you would get the full picture.
Because that's what Pakistan really is operating from, that perspective.
They are backed by China.
They are working with China to build a massive belt and road initiative from Iran up all the way through Pakistan, across the Hindu Kush, then across the Himalayas into a place called, oh, what?
Xinjiang.
That's why they care about the Uyghurs so much, right?
It's not about the Uyghurs.
They're cracking down on them because they need to build their belt and road across.
There across the Uyghur land because they want the resources from the Middle East.
They need the way to be clear so that the oil can come in, and they're doing the same thing Vladivostok, Power Siberia, too, with the Russians on the other side.
That's why they need Kim Jong Un in North Korea to have a stable regime.
That's what this is all about for them.
And so for folks walking around saying, oh, you know, it's this mix of it.
No, you have to look at the great powers and who they work for.
Through who their proxies are.
And Flex, you get that.
Yes, yeah.
And, you know, furthermore, again, people, it's like we were just saying, people think war is just about hurling metal with explosive chemicals in it.
And, you know, they think it's all about just big boom stick and big bomb go boom.
But no, war is a complicated, it's a very complicated tug of war of logistics.
And that Belt and Road Initiative essentially establishes a logistical chain with China.
That makes them unassailable, that essentially makes them superior.
They have access to most of the world.
And then we have to go back to what we talked about with Taiwan, which I'm sure we'll do there.
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We'll do that in the very next segment because we're cut off by the merciless clock.
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As we left things off, Malcolm Flex, we were talking about Taiwan, the Taiwan Strait.
Of course, that's what this is all about.
And we saw also recently that who just met with Xi Jinping?
Well, it was the opposition leader in Taiwan.
The formerly nationalist party, the Kuomintang, they are meeting with Xi Jinping, talking about peaceful reunification with the party and with the country of China.
And the CCP, now of course, Taiwan, the Republic, claim that they are the rightful government.
But Flex, it's significant that here you have a, you know, the head of, essentially the head of, you know, you're talking about Republicans and Democrats, this is the head of one of the major parties of the country that runs for national office.
The public opinion has shifted so far in Taiwan from 1949 to now that they can sit down with the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and say that they want peaceful reunification and That isn't a major scandal in Taiwan.
So, I want people to understand that within Taiwan, it's not like there's this massive pro independence, pro let's become our own country movement.
They exist, but there's also the other side.
And I would say, you know, it's akin to the left and the right in senses that, you know, some people are sort of peace loving beatniks.
They just want to be left alone.
They just want this mess with China to be over.
Some people kind of live in that area.
And, you know, I've seen videos of.
People training, you know, war gaming, doing sort of resistance exercises and urban combat scenarios.
And I'm pretty sure those are the independent, those are people that back the independence movement.
But you got to think about like the pro gun right in America and like the very gun heavy folks here.
How many of them are there really?
And do they really have that big of a sway?
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And now we look at what's happening geopolitically where China is sort of playing the, oh, we're the big dog peacemakers here.
And, you know, we're trying to just preserve the world while, you know, Crazy America and you know, countries over there in the Middle East are basically trying to disrupt it.
Well, now the Kuomintang can basically go and say, Hey, look, we're working with China, China's close to us.
Uh, you know, geopolitically, this makes sense.
They're also offering LNG to us to help with our energy crisis.
What maybe, maybe you guys should you know just sort of reevaluate this stance because we don't want to go to war with China and China doesn't want to go to war with us.
And you know, can we really trust the United States?
Like, all of these things are getting thrown around, and China's hoping.
That by being the bigger person in the room, number one, they don't have to waste manpower or reveal their naval capabilities in an invasion that may or may not invite Japan to get involved.
Well, and Flex, and you're right about naval capabilities because I wanted to put out this message that the United States Navy is presenting within the strait right now.
The U.S. has announced a formal blockade of Iranian ports and coastal areas.
This is illegal action.
All vessels are advised to immediately return to port if leaving and discontinue transit to Iran if that is your next port of call.
Do not attempt to breach the blockade.
Vessels will be boarded for interdiction and seizure transiting to or from an Iranian port.
Turn around and prepare to be boarded.
If you do not comply with this blockade, we will use force.
The whole of the United States Navy is ready to force compliance.
Well, there you go, Flex.
That's the United States Navy saying, hey, this is legal action.
We are announcing a blockade.
We're enforcing sanctions.
We are here and we mean absolute business.
What's your response to how this has played out?
Man, Droetinger's blockade just got resolved, I suppose.
So, yeah, this could get very spicy.
If the United States is going to utilize our naval assets to assert dominance in that area, somebody's going to have to make a move.
And now, I'm just wondering what the rest of the world reads this as because you know, I'm pretty sure the rest of the world just wants oil going through, you know, basically pouring that oil out from Iran just out there.
But now we're presenting a blockade of an already or supposedly already blockaded and mined area.
I, you know, I've got to imagine that we're only just doing that necessarily to demine and just sort of clean up the straight, anyways.
But this is just sort of the United States trying to present and.
They might be doing it.
They might be doing it very well if nobody challenges them that, hey, we've got the situation under control.
The rest of you guys that didn't help us out, well, hey, sorry, you're not getting in.
You're not getting out.
It's going to be in our court.
And so this is an interesting show of strength.
And what I'm wondering is again, who makes the first move?
Who's feeling froggy right now?
Because, man, that is spicy.
I've got no, it's exactly right.
And this is what we call it it's Schrdinger's blockade because.
President Trump, we saw his tweet this morning, his true social this morning, that the straits are open and China is very happy.
But then, of course, we see the U.S. Navy still enforcing the blockade with this destroyer, the messaging that they're putting out.
And so it's really to your point, everybody's getting a little bit froggy.
You've got to stay frosty out there, as they say, semper gumby, because it looks increasingly more and more as if China is going to come in and play the role of the cooler, play the role of we are going to work through the Pakistanis with.
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Iran on this.
And Caroline Levitt, when I was just there in the White House, she said, would be very clear that there's the only one mediator, and that is the Pakistanis.
And it's been my contention from the start that they are working for the Chinese as their proxy in these negotiations, so they don't have to say that it was China that came in, et cetera, et cetera.
The same way that you're not seeing the Russians being involved in this, but what did You know, of course, who else did Xi Jinping just meet with?
Oh, that's right, Sergei Lavrov, because we can't forget that Russia plays a huge role in this as well, just in the sense that, look, they don't need oil.
They have plenty of it themselves.
But Iran is Russia's backyard.
Okay, this is right, this is directly south of them.
And what we're really talking about here is this is a conflict, if you will, of the sea powers versus the land powers.
So the sea powers, right, United States, UK, Right?
Those are the world's largest and most powerful sea powers.
Then you've got, and hopefully the third would be Japan, but Japan's, you know, for reasons not quite there yet.
But the land powers, that's Russia, that's China, that's India, and of course, Iran.
And so, you know, India and Iran, you know, they're middle powers.
I wouldn't say they're great powers just yet.
And so, walk me through that flex a bit about how this is really sea power versus land power.
I mean, in essence, you're looking at people have two, and they've got two decks of cards.
Again, like we just said, you've got the land powers, that's one deck, and you've got sea powers, that's another deck.
As countries exert more and more of their sea capabilities in a naval conflict, they sort of turn over and reveal their cards.
And from there, you can kind of get a lay of land.
Like I said, land powers are very costly to reveal and to exert.
And so, if nothing more, you want to keep those as hidden.
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Arbitrary and make those your last resorts as possible.
So, countries like Russia, countries like China that have a large known land capability, they want to preserve that as much as possible and they want to make sure that they can utilize their sea powers to strengthen those land capabilities.
Because again, that ends up becoming the last line of defense.
First line of defense always is going to be your naval resort.
But right now, China is just sort of a question mark on the sea power.
I know we make jokes about it.
You know, all those Chinese ships, you know, they're going to sink like immediately.
But you know, it's like there's always that little bit of ambiguity.
Would they really?
Do we know?
And I think China is, like I was trying to say before, I think China is trying to avoid us knowing that because, you know, that helps strategic ambiguity.
That helps them buy time.
That helps them if they do have to.
Right.
It is a play for time.
No, it is.
It is a play for time.
It's a play for time.
That's exactly what it's about because it's all of this posturing, right?
The peacocking, the posturing is hurdling us towards.
The meeting, the showdown in Beijing, one month away.
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