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@colonelhomsi - Geo_monitor
Senator Graham: I like the path we're on. With American weapons and money, Ukraine will fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.. https://t.co/UbzKmSRXje
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Ukraine's determination to fight till the end relies on two crucial factors: having the necessary weapons and receiving economic support.
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Speaker 0: I like the structural path we're on here. As long as we have Ukraine with the weapons they need and the economic support, they will fight to the last person.
@SenatorWicker - Senator Roger Wicker
Vladimir Putin wants to see nothing more than the United States weakened and unable to project strength across the world. Brave Ukrainians have made sure that will not happen any time soon. It is time we honor our promise and help arm them to win. https://t.co/91Y1xCG3NL
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A year ago, Putin invaded Ukraine, aiming to weaken the U.S. and challenge Western dominance. Instead, the brave Ukrainians, with our help, have decimated nearly half of Russia's military.
Supporting Ukraine is in our best interest and a worthy investment. We've provided effective weapons while maintaining strict oversight. This support sends a strong message to China and ensures our own military readiness with American-made equipment.
The Ukrainian heroes have defended their homeland, serving the free world. Now, we must honor our commitment and provide them with the arms they need to win.
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Speaker 0: One year ago, Russian war criminal, Vladimir Putin, tested Western resolve by invading Ukraine. He said at the time he planned to topple Western hegemony. For years, Putin has invested in his military and intelligence capabilities to accomplish this goal. He wants nothing more than to see The United States weakened and unable to project strength across the world. Brave Ukrainians have helped ensure that this will not happen anytime soon.
With US military assistance amounting only to a small fraction of our defense budget, Ukraine has destroyed nearly half of Russia's conventional military. What many national security leaders feared that Putin could break NATO with a march through the heart of Europe did not happen. For a whole year, Ukraine has shown us that supporting their fight is in our interest, that our assistance is money well spent. We have conducted rigorous oversight while also delivering effective weapons to our Ukrainian friends. We've sent a message of strength to Chairman Xi and the Chinese Communist Party as they consider holding our interest hostage abroad.
And we have readied long dormant production lines to make sure our military has the best equipment and munitions available, most of it made in America. Ukraine's courageous heroes have done us and the entire free world a noble service by defending their homeland. It is time we honor our promise and help arm them to win.
@ShadowofEzra - Shadow of Ezra
Mike Pence warns that U.S. troops may have to fight Russia if Ukraine loses war. Ukraine has already lost the war.
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If Ukraine's military doesn't halt the Russian invasion, it won't be long before our NATO forces have to fight on the border.
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I am convinced that if the Ukrainian military doesn't stop and repel that Russian invasion, it's not gonna be too long before that Russian army crosses a border that our men and women in uniform are gonna have to go and fight under our NATO
@RepMTG - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸
Joe Biden and Antony Blinken have depleted the US military weapons supply by sending BILLIONS of dollars of OUR weapons to Ukraine. My amendment would prevent the Biden administration from putting our national security at risk to fuel their proxy war in Ukraine.
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The speaker opposes sending defense articles and services from the US to Ukraine, arguing that they should be used to defend the US border instead. They claim that veterans in their district prefer fighting against Mexican cartels at the southern border rather than supporting Ukraine. They criticize the Secretary of State for prioritizing Ukraine and accuse the Biden administration of depleting US military readiness. The speaker also expresses concern about China's growing strength and accuses the government of lying about the need to support Ukraine to prevent China from invading Taiwan.
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Speaker 0: Thank you, mister chair. My amendment would prohibit the secretary of state from using funds to initiate a drawdown and delivery of defense articles and services from the Department of Defense stocks to Ukraine. Those those stockpiles of our equipment and weapons are for the United States of America and should not be sent to Ukraine. I will reiterate and remind everyone Ukraine is not the 51st state. Just this past weekend when we were sent home, I had an emergency See town hall in my district, and many of my constituents showed up.
Most of them were veterans, and they made it very clear to me that they would rather fight a war at our southern border against the Mexican cartels that are leading an invasion into our country. Thousands and thousands every single day, smuggling deadly Fentanyl across our border, many other drugs, and killing 300 Americans every single day than they ever support a single penny of their hard earned dollars to go fight a war in Ukraine. Our veterans are fed up, and there's 22,000,000 of them in this country. They want our our border defended. The Secretary of State plays a central role in the initiation and coordination of these drawdowns, and they put Ukraine first.
Since August 2021, the secretary has exercised authority delegated by the president to direct 44 drawdowns of defense articles and services from the United States Department of Defense to Ukraine, which by the way is not the 51st state. As our southern border is being invaded every day. Joe Biden and Antony Blinken are shipping all of our weapons and equipment to Ukraine. Nearly a week ago, President Biden announced that the Department of Defense is sending an additional security assistance package valued up to 325,000,000 more American hard earned tax dollars, which would include AIM 9 m missiles for air defense, additional ammunition for high mobility artillery, rocket systems, Avenger air defense systems, 50 caliber machine guns to counter unmanned aerial systems, 155 millimeter artillery rounds, 105 millimeter artillery rounds, 2 blanche optically tracked wire guided missiles, Javelin and AT dash 4 anti armor systems, over 3,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition, 59 light tactical vehicles, demolitions, munitions for obstacle clearing, and spare parts maintenance and other field equipment. By the way, that also goes with our money paying farmers in Ukraine while our farmers are going broke, paying small businesses in Ukraine while our small businesses are going out of business under Biden's ridiculous inflation.
This is America last across the board. This security assistance package will utilize assistance previously authorized under presidential drawdown authority for Ukraine. This is utterly disgraceful. This administration will continue to deplete our military readiness and strength in favor of fueling another forever war in Ukraine that the American people no longer support. While our own country is weakened and destabilize by the invasion the daily invasion of our border at the southern border and the northern border.
And while we go even further in debt, fighting Russia in Ukraine, not even defending our own border. China is getting stronger. They are beating us economically, they are growing their military, growing their equipment, and they're not wasting it in some other countries, defending their border. They're saving it up to fight us. I am sick and tired of hearing we have to fight Ukraine in order to stop China from invading Taiwan.
That is the biggest lie that is being told to the American people. Mister chair, I reserve.
@Brookltnwilliw - Ultra MagaBA🇺🇸
We’re on the “Brink of War” https://t.co/HfE4gbADPR
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The speaker discusses the changing dynamics in the Middle East since Israel's last major war in 1973. They highlight the significant increase in rocket and missile arsenals, particularly from Hezbollah. The speaker warns that if Israel were to march into Gaza, they would face a difficult and unrewarding battle, as they would not be able to eliminate all Hamas fighters and would not gain support from the people. The speaker also mentions the potential involvement of Iran, Turkey, and Pakistan, emphasizing the risks and challenges Israel would face. They conclude by stating that the fight would be unwinnable for Israel, even with US air power support, as there are not enough troops on the ground.
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Speaker 0: How can we, the United States and the West, avoid Armageddon? Well, that's the that's the question that should be on everyone's mind in Washington, and sadly, it it seldom comes up. I think the greatest challenge for Americans, even more than for the Israelis is to understand just how profoundly the world we live in has changed since the last major war that the Israelis were compelled to fight, and that was in 1973. Some of your observers and audience may remember. In 1973, Israel was attacked by the Syrians, in the east and the north, and at the same time, attacked from the south and the west, by Egypt.
The problem was that Egypt had very limited goals. The Egyptian president was not interested in destroying or eradicating Israel. He simply wanted to regain control of the territory that had been lost in 1967. So he moved across the canal, set up a defense, and that was as far as he went. The Syrians, of course, did try to break through, and that was somewhat desperate for a period of time, but the Israelis were able to meet that threat first before turning their entire attention to Egypt.
This time, the situation is very different. First of all, the weapons have changed. The arsenal of rockets and missiles in the region is enormous. People are quoting, numbers in the realm of a 130,000 rockets and missiles from Hezbollah alone. We don't even need to mention others in the region.
That kind of arsenal is enough in and of itself to destroy very much of Israel. But then you have a problem with Hamas and Hezbollah and the rest of the region, and that is the rest of the region is as sick of Israel as much of the world and Europe is sick of us. And what I mean by that is that we are on the threshold of total war. That's that's what no one seems to understand. If the Israelis march into Gaza, which I think would be a very unrewarding exercise for them, but nevertheless, they seem determined to do it.
If they do, they will not only lose soldiers, they will fail to root out the thousands of Hamas fighters that are there. They'll get some, but they won't get them all. They will not improve their position at all with the people of Hamas or the people living on the so called West Bank, and the rest of the region is prepared to go to war. You have to stop and think about it. It's not just Iran.
In fact, Iran has militias that can attack us. Anyone who works with us in Iraq and Syria. That that's one part of the problem. The Iranians are not going to trying to lob theater ballistic missiles at, Israel because the Israelis have said they would use a nuclear weapon. But Turkey is different, and the Turks have an unhappy record with the Israelis.
Just a few years ago, they tried to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. The Israelis boarded their ship, killed some of their citizens, and turned back the aid. This kind of thing did not cultivate support and friendliness in Turkey. And remember, mister Erdogan is the de facto leading military power in the Sunni Muslim world. Finally, you have the Pakistanis who are very close to the Turks and have made it abundantly clear that the Turks will receive nuclear warheads another capabilities from them if they need them in order to deter the Israelis from using a nuclear weapon.
And finally, the Turks have the largest air forces and, armies in the region. The Turks can put 2,000,000 men in the field in the space of a little over a month, and the Turks are ferocious fighters. Now all of this spells doom for the Israelis if they launch this attack on Gaza. What I've just described is an unwinnable fight. Even the air power from the United States that we could commit is not gonna be enough, and we all know we don't have the troops on the ground.
We simply don't have very many soldiers or marines at this point.
@jakeshieldsajj - Jake Shields
This is why they are trying to make America fight their war for them https://t.co/GRAhLp7PNM
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Israel is currently mobilizing 360,000 reservists due to fear and insecurity. The Israeli army is not considered very capable, especially in conventional combat. Many of the reservists have previously served in the West Bank, engaging in brutal occupation activities that demoralized them. Israel's past encounters with Hamas and Hezbollah have resulted in defeat, causing further fear. The Israeli intelligence is blind, making it difficult for them to locate Hamas in Gaza. If Israel enters Gaza, they will be committed to the battle, leaving them vulnerable if Hezbollah opens a northern front. The US is attempting to deter Hezbollah and Iran, but their efforts are not successful. Israel is weak, exposed, and scared, with no clear solution. The Israeli experiment is seen as a failure, and they must negotiate with Palestine, but the US's tendency to threaten war hinders progress.
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Speaker 0: Look. The Israelis right now are scared to death. Scared to death. They mobilized 360,000 reservists. Let's just put this in perspective.
The vast majority of these people did their two and a half years military service. The Israeli army's not very good. They have some units that are very capable. Some of them are special forces units, some of them are specialized units. They have some technical units that are very good.
But the mainstay, the the infantry units, the armor units, they're not very good, and they it become even less good by being pulled back from conventional combat duties to policing duties in the West Bank. So most of these reservists spent their time, you know, walking the streets in the West Bank, learning how to break the arms of 10 year old children, how to rough up 15 year old girls, and how to belly shoot 60 year old men. That's what they did. Brutal occupation. It was horribly demoralizing for the many of these people.
They didn't like doing this. And when they left the military, they didn't have a high regard for the military. So now they're back, but this time, they're being called upon to do something that nobody in Israel wants to do, going to Gaza. Why? Because in 2014, they went into Gaza and Hamas handed it to them.
In 2006, they went up against Hezbollah and Hezbollah handed it to them. The Israeli army just isn't that good, and they're scared to death because Hamas is waiting for them. This is 1 giant ambush, and the Israeli intelligence is blind. They don't know where they are. They're gonna have to go in there and probe.
And as they probe, they're gonna be blown up, ambushed, slaughtered, and they know this. The other thing that scares them is once they go into Gaza, they're gonna be committed to that battle with the bulk of their reserves. And if at that time, Hezbollah decides to open up a northern front, Israel's got nothing left. And even if they had something left, they can't beat Hezbollah. They can't beat Hezbollah.
They know it. They've exercised it. Last year, Chariots of Fire. This year, Firm Hand. Those are the names of 2 major exercises where Israel tested its ability to fight a conflict against the Palestinians in Hamas in the West Bank and Hezbollah up north, and they can't do it.
They don't have the resources to do it. Now you throw in Iran, and they're definitely screwed. So America is stepping in saying, hey. We're gonna flex our muscle in an effort to deter Hezbollah and Iran from striking. It's not working.
2 aircraft carrier battle groups an amphibious ready group of 2,000 marines, does not a war win? And we don't have anything behind so I think what's gonna happen is that Biden is gonna try and talk some common sense into Netanyahu and let them know the hard reality that, yeah, we flexed our muscles here, but if Hezbollah comes across the border, we'll bomb them, but we can't stop them. It's up to you. And if you can't stop them, you're screwed. And so you might wanna think about coming up with a different solution than the one you're picking right now, a full faced invasion.
Right? There's there's a lot of thing go behind and say, the Israelis aren't as good as everybody thinks they are. They're very scared. Netanyahu's very weak. He's remember how weak he was moving into this before Right.
Right. Hamas invasion. He was getting ready to collapse because of what he was doing with the judiciary and the and the reform you know, the the rewriting of basic law. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis were in the streets. It's gotten worse for him because everybody's blaming.
He was mister security. I will protect you. I am the man. And look what happened. Nobody trusts him.
There's a lot of Israeli talk going on, a lot of hot air coming out of the mouthpieces of Netanyahu's minions. None of it's backed up by reality. And the fact is Israel's extraordinarily weak, extraordinarily exposed, extraordinarily scared, and America doesn't have a solution for them. And I guess is the template to look at what would happen to Israel? Just look at Ukraine.
It would be worse than that because what Ukrainians right now don't have a place to run to. Millions of, Israelis have dual citizenship, and they'll just leave Israel. I mean, that's what that's the death of Israel. Every every Israeli I've talked to said, we can't this happened in 1991 when the Iraqi scuds came in. One of the big things they were saying is it's not so much the damage, physical damage that the Iraqi skuds are doing.
It's the emotional and psychological damage it's doing to Israelis. If we can't get the European Jews and the American Jews to wanna come here and stay here, it's over for the Israeli experiment. And if Hezbollah could come in and threaten northern Israel, Hamas can continue to threaten, it's over. People will flee. Millions of people will leave, and they will never come back, and that's it for Israel.
You know? So I I I think right now, Israel's in a very difficult situation where the Israeli experiment has been shown to be a failure. And now the question is, you know, how do you get out of this? They're gonna have to come up with a solution for Palestine, one that's acceptable to the Palestinians. And Israel no longer has a superior position where they get to dictate outcomes.
They're actually gonna have to negotiate. This is where the United States could be of great benefit, but we can't because we continually shoot ourselves in the foot by opening our mouths and threatening war with people when we can't beat them.
@GrahamAllen_1 - Graham Allen
As World War 3 approaches, THIS is supposed to win a war?! We are doomed! https://t.co/8OMMokqOi8
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China's military readiness is cause for concern. Their report reveals alarming figures: 500 nuclear warheads (1,500 by 2035), 370 ships + submarines (more than US Navy), and 1,737 violations of Taiwanese airspace. Urgent action is needed. Wake up, executive branch!
@committeeonccp - The Select Committee on the CCP
“Reading the new @DeptofDefense report on China’s military readiness will send a chill down your spine.” - @RepGallagher - 500 nuclear warheads (1,500 by 2035) - 370 ships + submarines (more than @USNavy ) - 1,737 violations of Taiwanese airspace “It should be a wake up call to the executive branch to take action before it’s too late.”
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China's military readiness is a cause for concern, according to a new Department of Defense report. The Chinese Communist Party has increased its nuclear warheads by 25% since 2022, now possessing over 500. They have also built 300 new ICBM silos, with projections suggesting they may have 1,000 warheads by 2030 and 1,500 by 2035. Despite diplomatic efforts, the CCP's military buildup continues. Their navy now surpasses the US Navy with 370 ships and submarines. The CCP has violated Taiwanese airspace 1,737 times in 2023, a 79% increase from the previous year. The report serves as a warning for the Biden administration to take action.
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Speaker 0: The new Department of Defense report on China's military readiness will send a chill down your spine. The Chinese Communist Party now has more than 500 nuclear warheads, a 25% increase since 2022. Over the past year, Beijing has built 300 new ICBM silos with the Pentagon projecting the CCP's arsenal may reach 1,000 warheads by 2030 and 1500 by 2035. Now Senior DOD officials are suggesting that the CCP is on track to exceed even those previous projections. In other words, Despite the Biden administration's much bonded diplomatic accommodations to Beijing, the CCP's military buildup is not slowing.
It is celebrating. The conventional picture is just as frightening. Beijing's navy now has 370 ships and submarines, up from 340 last year, more than the US Navy. With the CCP announcing plans to increase its defense budget by 7.1% in 2023, we shouldn't expect this trend to reverse anytime soon. They're already on the move.
The CCP believes that Taiwan, outside its control, causes national weakness, and Xi Jinping has ordered his military to be prepared to act by 2027. The CCP aircraft violated Taiwanese airspace 1,737 times in 2023. That's an increase of 79% from 2022. Beijing has exported drones and other military equipment to Russia to advance Putin's war in Ukraine. The Biden administration's own DOD report is yet another warning sign.
It should be a wake up call for the executive branch to take action before it's too late.
@Mos_Translators - MOS Translators
Speaker Johnson says China (CCP) is the most threatening near-peer adversary to the U.S. since World War II, and the U.S. must maintain global military superiority and pass legislation at the federal and state level to address CCP encroachment on the U.S. #TakeDownTheCCP https://t.co/oh0RUykTpu
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China, Russia, and Iran are seen as the new axis of evil and pose a significant threat. China, in particular, aims to rebuild its empire and challenge the US as a global superpower. They are establishing outposts, buying farmland and land near military installations in the US. Meanwhile, the US is the only nation with the ability to project power globally. The concern is that China is encroaching on this power. Additionally, there have been questionable decisions made by the Biden administration, such as allowing a Chinese spy balloon to float across the country for 8 days.
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Speaker 0: I call it the new axis of evil China, Russia, Iran. Yeah. How big a threat?
Speaker 1: It's huge. It's the biggest threat. Since World War II, we have been the big hit on the block. Right? We're the last real superpower.
And and after the, USSR fell, we we've been unrivaled. Now, China is a near peer to peer adversary to us now. And of course, their goal is to rebuild the empire. And so we're doing everything we can to ensure that we maintain our military superiority. We're the only nation that has the ability to project power and force like that around the globe right now.
But China is doing its best to encroach upon that power. And you see they're even putting outposts around us. They're buying up farmland in states here in the US. All of these things have to be addressed at the federal level, at State level with legislatures and even in some of these localities. We have a Chinese CCP owned companies that are coming in and open shop on Main Street and some towns in our small towns.
Speaker 0: They're buying our farmland. Yes. They're buying our ranch land, and they're buying land in military installation.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 0: Would we be allowed to buy it there?
Speaker 1: Of course not.
Speaker 0: Of course not. Of
Speaker 1: course not. And and they allowed a, you know, a Chinese spy balloon to float unimpeded across the country for 8 days. You know? We have we We scrapped our heads a lot around here about these Biden decisions and
@committeeonccp - Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party
“The issue we must confront is whether we want the dominant media platform in America to be one controlled by the Chinese Communist Party... If they can control what information you get, then they can have almost unlimited power.” - Chairman @RepGallagher https://t.co/1TQYISggXL
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The issue at hand is who controls the algorithm of TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance. Chinese companies, particularly technological champions, are influenced by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The concern is whether we should allow the dominant media platform in America to be controlled by the CCP. TikTok is not only a platform for dance videos but also a source of news for young Americans. If the Chinese Communist Party can control the information people receive, they will have significant power. This is the concern we must address.
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Speaker 0: The fundamental problem is who controls the algorithm. TikTok is, of course, owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company that is beholden like most Chinese companies, but especially their technological champions to the CCP. We've had ByteDance executives apologize in the past for failing to follow appropriate political direction. So the issue we must confront and, admittedly, it's a complex, difficult issue. But the issue we must confront is whether we want to allow the dominant media platform in America to be one controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
Because TikTok is not just a source of dance videos increasingly for young Americans, millennials, Gen Z, below, it's how they get the news. And that's really the concern. If they can control what information you get, then they can have almost unlimited power. That's the concern we have. Do you
@PBDsPodcast - PBD Podcast
🤯 “If Russia and China are in alliance… that means the Unites States of America as we know it, could cease to exist.” @VivekGRamaswamy on how World ward 3 could end America. https://t.co/JkovijCIVm
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If Russia and China form a military alliance and the US enters World War 3, there is a high likelihood that the United States could cease to exist. The foreign policy establishment that led us to Iraq and Afghanistan has failed to protect our borders and cyber defenses. A super EMP attack from a country like Iran could take out our electric grid, causing millions of Americans to become impoverished. Russia and China have advanced space-based offensive capabilities, while the US lacks both offensive and defensive capabilities. Russia is accumulating nuclear weapons at a faster pace than the US. Going to war would be a huge risk, especially when our own homeland is vulnerable and our industrial capacity is lacking. Both parties in the US support a pro-war agenda, increasing the risk of World War 3. The American people are not being informed about the potential consequences of such a war.
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Speaker 0: I'll put a fine point on this. This is not hyperbole. If Russia and China are in a military alliance with each other and we enter World War 3, I want people to understand what that means. That means the United States of America, as we know it, could cease to exist. K.
We're we're with 2 nuclear allied superpowers, I want people to understand this. It's not some vague idea avoid World War 3. No. Like, this country that we know, 250 years in, The greatest country I believe known to man to secure freedom, to advance human being to allow human beings to achieve the maximum of their potential. That gift To human history that we have the blessing to live in today, that nation will be at a high likelihood of ceasing to exist If we enter World War 3 right now why do I say that?
Because that same foreign policy establishment that led us to Iraq and Afghanistan and spent $7,000,000,000,000 We killed tens of thousands of our sons and daughters fighting somebody else's war, which is a mistake. And I don't want that Dick Cheney goes to the past to come retake over the Republican Party like they're trying to with the Nikki Halys of the world who are doing it now. That same foreign policy establishment as they were doing those things Failed to protect the borders of this country. Failed on cyber defenses, completely missing. Failed on and I want people to understand this with a country like Iran could hit us with a super EMP and electromagnetic pulse attack.
What does that mean? It takes out our electric grid in a matter of days. You could have millions of Americans impoverished instantly if our electric grid is taken out. You could have tens of millions of Americans impoverished instantly if our entire electric grid is taken out. Space based defenses.
Russia and China both have space based Offensive capabilities. We have neither meaningful space based offensive or defensive capabilities when it comes to space based nuclear capabilities. So cyber, super EMP, space, border, missile defenses, all missing. So our homeland is as vulnerable as we have been in a long time. Russia has actually been accumulating nuclear weapons at a much faster pace way faster pace than the United States.
Hypersonic missiles that Outdate that that beat old, outdated missile defense systems. Against this backdrop, do you really wanna march away to World War 3? It's bad enough to say I wanna send $200,000,000,000 of our taxpayer money Said that some Ukrainian mid level kleptocrat can buy a bigger house because that's what's been going on so far, well, with $34,000,000,000,000 in the hole over here, bad enough here. And that's all bad enough. But that's not even the biggest risk here.
Biggest risk is at a moment where we're bankrupt, where we have no industrial capacity in the United States, and the foundation Of war is absolutely economics, and and we have the economic backbone not to fight this war right now from an industrial capacity standpoint. But our own homeland is as porous and vulnerable as it is. And so there's a reason why younger people do not like the idea of going to war. Right? The peep young people who are disaffected from politics, you wanna pay attention right now?
It's gonna be a gun over your shoulder while you're sitting in some trench, Dying in a World War 3 or, yeah, worse even somebody else's war that gets us there along the way if you put the people in charge in either party. Right? It used to be that we would have 1 party on one side and 1 party on the other side of this issue. Now it's even there's another factor domestically that could increase the risk of World War 3. It's not like you have a Democrat party that's against a pro war Republican Party or a Pro American interest, Republican Party that's against wars that the Democrat Party is pushing.
We also live in a moment now where even as we're having this election Turn in tug of war between 2 parties and, you know, who's gonna defeat Joe Biden and Ronald McDaniel talking about defeating Joe Biden to deflect from her own Failures as a leader here, that's a tall deflection because both parties agree on the pro war agenda right now. That is another danger that increases the risk of World War 3, and they say the most dangerous ideas in Washington are the bipartisan ones. Well, this is the most dangerous idea of our den generation, And I think that the policies that they're advancing of arming Ukraine and other otherwise to the teeth, Driving Russia further into China's hands. Yes. Our own policy makers are Driving us into World War 3 where the risk of doing so is at the highest point it's ever been in our life and at a moment where we could very well lose it, which means our nation ceases to Exist.
And there isn't a single person in either political party laying that out for the American people who will be left holding the bag suffering and possibly dying as a result of
@committeeonccp - Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party
“For the first time in history, [we have] a bipartisan report saying we need to move on from the PNTR paradigm and adopt a new economic relationship. Reset the relationship with China so we can actually defend ourselves from the CCP’s economic aggression.”—Chairman @RepGallagher https://t.co/uelNHa9A7s
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The evidence against China's adherence to WTO commitments is too significant to ignore. A bipartisan report suggests moving away from the PNTR paradigm and establishing a new economic relationship to counter the CCP's economic aggression. The consequences of inaction include deindustrialization, increased reliance on a hostile regime, and mounting debt. It is time to address this issue rather than simply acknowledging it.
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Speaker 0: And I think the evidence has just become too big to ignore. I don't think anyone could say with a straight face that China is abiding by the commitments, they made, when they acceded to the WTO. We had great testimony from former US trade representative ambassador Lighthizer that was very persuasive. And so What you have here, I think, for the first time in history is a bipartisan report saying we need to move on from the PNTR paradigm and adopt a new economic relationship. Reset the relationship with China that we can actually defend ourselves from the CCP's economic aggression because the results have been devastating.
We've seen deindustrialization in the Midwest. Again, a growing dependency on a hostile regime and debt, debt, and more debt. So we can either admire this problem and do nothing or take action. It's time to take action. And a baloney
@committeeonccp - Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party
“The success of [Taiwan’s] election really demolish[es] the CCP’s claim to speak for all people of Chinese heritage. So it’s time for us here in America, inspired by Taiwan’s bravery, to stand up to communist aggression.” — Chairman @RepGallagher on @MariaBartiromo https://t.co/qsuI7RcwqV
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The success of Taiwan's elections challenges the Chinese Communist Party's claim to represent all Chinese people. The CCP's attempts to bully Taiwan have backfired, as the Taiwanese people witnessed the bullying tactics and the fate of Hong Kong. It is clear that the CCP's true intention is to destroy Taiwan's democracy, as emphasized by Xi Jinping. However, the Biden administration and the business community seem reluctant to acknowledge this. Inspired by Taiwan's bravery, it is time for America to confront communist aggression. (English)
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Speaker 0: Its success and the success of its elections really demolish the Chinese Communist Party's claim to speak for all people of Chinese heritage. It's also clear to me that the CCP's attempt to bully Taiwan, whether it's through spy balloons, sanctions, military incursions, backfired. Certainly, when I was there, the people of Taiwan saw that bullying, saw what had happened to Hong Kong, and I think it revealed the CCP's true tensions which are to destroy Taiwan's democracy. And Xi Jinping keeps telling us this plainly, and yet the Biden administration and the business community simply don't want to hear it. So it's time for us in America, inspired by Taiwan's bravery, to stand up to communist aggression.
@committeeonccp - Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party
“Our intelligence agencies have discovered that the CCP has hacked into American infrastructure for the sole purpose of disabling & destroying… This is the cyberspace equivalent of placing bombs on American bridges, water facilities, and power plants.” — Chairman @RepGallagher https://t.co/MQDD49vs5f
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China's hacking program, deemed the world's largest by the FBI, has resulted in the theft of more personal and business data from Americans than any other country. However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has gone further by targeting American critical infrastructure. Intelligence and cybersecurity agencies have uncovered CCP's hacking activities, which aim to disable and destroy vital infrastructure in the event of a conflict, such as one concerning Taiwan. This cyber warfare strategy can be likened to placing bombs on American bridges, water treatment facilities, and power plants.
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Speaker 0: According to the FBI, China's vast hacking program is the world's largest, and they have stolen more Americans' personal and business data than every other nation combined. But that wasn't enough for the CCP. In the past few years, our intelligence and cybersecurity agency have discovered that the CCP has hacked into American critical infrastructure for the sole purpose of disabling and destroying our critical infrastructure in the event of a conflict a conflict over Taiwan, for example. This is the cyberspace equivalent of placing bombs on American bridges, water treatment facilities, and power plants.
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I report Schumer threatens to send U.S. troops to fight Russia unless Republicans back a $100B Ukraine aid bill, warning: if we don’t aid Ukraine, Putin will walk all over Ukraine, we’ll lose the war, and we could be fighting in eastern Europe and a NATO ally in a few years.
@tomselliott - Tom Elliott
.@SenSchumer threatens to send U.S. troops to fight Russia unless Republicans agree to his $100 billion world-aid bill: "If we don’t aid Ukraine, Putin will be walk all over Ukraine, we will lose the war & we could be fighting in eastern Europe & a NATO ally in a few years. Americans won’t like that."
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Speaker 1 describes four months of arduous negotiations to produce a bipartisan bill, noting there were many times negotiations derailed and that he stayed on the phone at midnight to keep them moving. He argues the bill is crucial and a turning point for America, outlining the stakes across several flashpoints.
First, he asserts that if the U.S. does not aid Ukraine, Putin will walk over Ukraine, the war could be lost, and the U.S. could find itself fighting in Eastern Europe as a NATO ally in a few years, a scenario Americans would not like. Second, he says if the U.S. does not help Israel defend itself against Hamas, the perpetual war will continue. Third, he claims humanitarian aid to starving Palestinians in Gaza is essential to prevent hundreds of thousands from starving. Fourth, he mentions the border crisis, referencing statements from Speaker Johnson that it is chaos, and asserts legislative action is needed.
Speaker 1 credits Mitch McConnell for his contributions, but contrasts him with others, including Speaker Johnson, who he says are "scared to death of Donald Trump." He contends Trump has called for chaos and suggested that if he becomes president, Ukraine could be gone, the border could worsen, and war in the Middle East could escalate. He argues Trump’s stance is political rather than policy-driven and asserts that the majority of Republican senators recognize the bill as the right thing to do.
He emphasizes the bill as a compromise—describing it as something he does not like in full, nor does McConnell, but necessary to accomplish important outcomes in the Senate. He recalls bipartisan legislation from two years prior as proof such collaboration is possible. The core question he poses is whether senators will drown out the political noise from Trump and his allies and do the right thing for America.
Speaker 1 frames the bill as a turning point in American policy and history, asking whether history will look back and see that they rose to the occasion. He asserts that the majority of Republican senators understand the bill’s necessity, despite political headwinds, and he casts passage as essential to addressing Ukraine, Israel, Gaza humanitarian needs, and border stability. Speaker 1 ends by reiterating that history is watching their decisions at this moment.
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Speaker 0: You've said that you worked very closely with leader McConnell on this. This bill, now that we see what's in it, seems to be as bipartisan as it gets. Why wouldn't this why wouldn't both sides really want this to go through?
Speaker 1: Well, it's a great question, Mika. Look. It took a long time, four months of arduous negotiations. They fell off the tracks a whole bunch of times. I had to be on the phone even at midnight saying we gotta keep going.
Why? We're the turning point in America. This bill is crucial, and history will look back on it and say, did America fail itself? Why is it crucial? Well, if we don't aid, Ukraine, Putin will be walk all over Ukraine.
We will lose the war, and we could be fighting in Eastern Europe and a NATO ally in a few years. Americans won't like that. If we don't help Israel defend itself against Hamas, that perpetual war will go on and on and on. If we don't help humanitarian aid to the starving Palestinians in Gaza, hundreds of thousands could starve. And the border, everyone has said it's chaos.
A speaker you just saw speaker Johnson. He said it's chaos. We have to do something legislative a few months ago. But what has happened in answer your to your question. So this is crucial for America.
It's a turning point. History is gonna look over our shoulders and say, we rise to the occasion? To his credit, Mitch McConnell did. But too many Republicans, including speaker Johnson, are just scared to death of Donald Trump. Donald Trump has said he wants chaos.
Donald Trump has said, well, wait till I become president. That'll take at least a year. Ukraine could be gone. The border will get much worse. War in The Middle East will get worse, maybe bring bringing bringing us into it.
He's doing it all for political reasons. And let me just say, will senators the crucial question, the $64,000 question, the majority of Republican senators know this bill is the right thing to do. It's a compromise. I don't like everything in it, neither does McConnell, but it's a compromise. That's the only way you get things important done in the senate.
We proved that two years ago in our bipartisan legislation. And will the senators drown out the political noise from Trump and his minions and do the right thing for America? It's a crucial question. History will is looking down on every one of us right now.
@ianellisjones - Ian Ellis
“The security environment is the most dangerous I’ve seen in 40 years in uniform,” Adm. Aquilino warned last week. “We haven’t faced a threat like this since WW2.” A few more clips, quotes, & mic-dropping moments from his final public appearance as Commander, U.S. INDOPACOM 👇 https://t.co/bKHeHAzaaC
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The speaker expressed deep concern over the security environment due to the close cooperation between China and Russia, as well as North Korea's support for Russia in developing ballistic missiles. This alliance is seen as a response to the United States' alliances with other countries. The speaker likened the situation to the "axis of evil" when Iran is included, emphasizing the global significance of this cooperation.
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Speaker 0: I've described the security environment as the most dangerous I've seen as in 40 years in uniform, and a big portion of that are the cooperation, number 1, between the PRC and Russia. Again, in President Xi's words, a relationship that has not been seen in 100 years, And we should listen to him when he speaks. They tell us what they're thinking about. So that cooperation from those 2 authoritarian nations puts us in a different security environment. So I'm very concerned about that.
It's amplified with regard to the DPRK supporting Russian in the form of ballistic missiles and other munitions and capabilities. My sense is this is a way to combat the broadened United States alliances, partnerships with our like minded allies and partners. This is their counter. But I articulated, we're almost back to the axis of evil when you plug in Iran to this problem set. That set of cooperation is concerning, and it should be concerning to the whole globe.
@TaraInExile - Tara In Exile
It’s incredibly alarming to see talks of long-range missiles aimed deep into Russia. We are on the edge of WW3, and the only way to stop this madness is for the American people to make their choice https://t.co/R94HirykNt
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The speaker believes the U.S. is closer to World War III than ever due to the Biden-Harris administration's policies. In 2019, the speaker predicted that Joe Biden's presidency would lead to war with Russia, based on his anti-Russia stance in the 1990s. The speaker claims the U.S. aimed to prevent Russia from regaining superpower status, but Vladimir Putin revitalized the country.
According to the speaker, Russia's economy and middle class are thriving despite sanctions, while the U.S. vilifies Russia and its president. The speaker asserts that the U.S. and NATO have lost a proxy war against Russia via Ukraine, and the U.S. is now escalating the conflict by supporting attacks on Russian civilians, which the speaker believes are war crimes. The speaker concludes that this will lead to World War III, which Putin has stated no one would win due to nuclear weapons. The speaker urges Americans to end the Biden-Harris regime to avoid this outcome.
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Speaker 0: I don't think we've ever been closer to World War three than we are in this moment. And the Biden Harris regime has taken us to this point. In 2019, I had been in an interview and it was right when Biden was still not for sure the candidate at the time for the 2020 race. It was in 2019 when I first came forward about him, his corruption, what he did to me. And I made a prediction.
I said, if Joe Biden becomes president, we will go to war with Russia. I said that because Biden was very anti Russia when I worked for him back in the nineties, at the fall of the Soviet Union. It was right after that, and it was very clear that he didn't want Russia, in his words, to have a seat at the table. And that was the plan all along, to try to keep them from ever becoming a superpower again. Now Vladimir Putin, president Putin, of course, thwarted those plans and pulled Russia out of the chaotic nineties, unified it, started using the resource in a really positive way.
You know, because of that, Russia is stronger. The population is rallied around their Russian leadership, 80% approval rate. The middle class is thriving. Their economy is thriving despite sanctions, and they are more focused than ever on the future and on innovation and on building their resources. Meanwhile, The US continues to vilify Russia to ban its RT international media that's, founded in in Russia as well.
It's discredited, you know, professionals from Russia for no reason, vilified it, vilified the president of Russia. And it wouldn't matter who the president of the Russian Federation was. West would find a way to vilify whoever that was. In this case, it's Vladimir Putin. And now finally, we've reached this point where it's obvious that The US has lost the proxy war and NATO has lost this proxy war against Russia via Ukraine.
It's run its course. The American people are sick of billions of dollars of taxpayer money going to these endless wars and corruption. Biden's family pocketed millions. The weapons manufacturers literally pocketed trillions. So now we're looking at the off ramp.
What is the off ramp? Well, The US seems to be doubling down, and now they're talking about long range missiles going deep into Russia and supporting Ukraine in attacking, basically, Russian civilians. They're basically supporting war crimes. This will lead to World War three. And Vladimir Putin put it eloquently in his Oliver Stone interview over and over again, no one would win because both powers have nuclear weapons.
So I don't understand the hawkishness of the administration continuing down this reckless path. It looks like Harris is picking up where Biden left off, but here we are. We're on the edge of World War three, and the only way out of this is for the American people to en masse, make sure that the Harris Biden regime ends and does not continue.
@LibertyCappy - Declaration of Memes
@joerogan WW3 is a possibility thanks to the Democrats https://t.co/r5lCep8DtC
@EvaVlaar - Eva Vlaardingerbroek
JUST IN | Mark Rutte, former Dutch PM and now Secretary General to NATO: “It’s time to shift to a wartime mindset and turbocharge defense production and spending.” https://t.co/g70xnBbUpY
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I resigned as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine due to Trump's foreign policy, which I believe unfairly pressures Ukraine instead of holding Russia accountable. After nearly three decades of service, I could no longer support a policy that allows a democracy to be invaded and children to be harmed. Peace at any price is not true peace; it leads to more suffering. Russia's invasion has resulted in countless atrocities, and how we respond will impact global security, including our relationships with NATO allies and China. The America I believe in would never stand by in the face of such evil.
@rshereme - Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦
Powerful text from Bridget Brink: I was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. I resigned because of Trump's foreign policy. I have proudly served five presidents ― to make sure the United States is the strongest, greatest country that the world has ever known. 1/n https://t.co/gdHq8c89Jg
@rshereme - Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦
2/ I respect the president’s right and responsibility to determine U.S. foreign policy ― with proper checks and balances by U.S. Congress. It is the role of America’s Foreign Service to execute that policy.
@rshereme - Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦
3/ Unfortunately, the policy since the beginning of the Trump administration has been to put pressure on the victim, Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor, Russia.
@rshereme - Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦
4/ As such, I could no longer in good faith carry out the administration’s policy and felt it was my duty to step down. After nearly three decades serving our country, I resigned as our ambassador to Ukraine.
@rshereme - Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦
5/ I cannot stand by while a country is invaded, a democracy bombarded, and children killedwith impunity. I believe that the only way to secure U.S. interests is to stand up for democracies and to stand against autocrats.
@rshereme - Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦
6/ Peace at any price is not peace at all ― it is appeasement. And history has taught us time and again that appeasement does not lead to safety, security or prosperity. It leads to more war and suffering.
@rshereme - Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦
7/ Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, it has done what can only be described as pure evil: killed thousands of civilians, including 700 children, with missiles and drones that hit their homes and apartments in the dead of night
@rshereme - Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦
8/ It has committed over 150,000 war crimes, abducted 20,000 children from their families, and forced millions of men, women and children to flee into Europe and elsewhere.
@rshereme - Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦
9/ For three years I heard the stories, saw the brutality, and felt the pain of families whose sons and daughters were killed and wounded by Russian missiles and drones that hit playgrounds, churches and schools.
@rshereme - Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦
10/ Over a career spent in conflict zones, I’ve seen mass atrocities and wanton destruction first-hand but we have never seen violence so systematic, so widespread and so horrifying in Europe since World War II.
@rshereme - Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦
11/ Why does Russia’s invasion of Ukraine matter to the United States? It matters because how we handle this war will speak volumes to our friends as well as our foes. If we allow Putin to redraw borders by force, he won’t stop with Ukraine.
@rshereme - Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦
12/ Taken at his word, Putin’s ambition is to resurrect an imperial past ― and he can’t do that without threatening the security of our NATO allies.
@rshereme - Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦
13/ And if Putin succeeds, it sends signals to China that will undermine the security balance in Asia and throughout the world. That will have profound implications for America’s safety, security, and prosperity.
@rshereme - Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦
14/ Russia’s war is about more than foreign policy or economics. It’s about who we are. The America I love, the one our grandparents served, would never stand by and let such horrors happen.
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The analysis reveals that the US military is significantly outmatched in the Western Pacific due to China's advanced missile capabilities. American airpower, once a cornerstone of strategy, is now a critical vulnerability, with simulations predicting catastrophic losses in an initial conflict. The Pentagon's Agile Combat Employment strategy is deemed ineffective, as it merely relocates aircraft to less protected bases. The US faces a grim reality: it must either accept severe losses or escalate tensions. With allies unwilling to engage, the US risks losing its influence in Asia and must reconsider its commitments.
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
🚨🇨🇳🇺🇸Checkmate in the Pacific: How China's Missiles Have Made US Power Projection Obsolete A sobering analysis confirms the US military is fundamentally outmatched. China's precision-strike complex can decimate American air forces on day one. Here's how 🧵 https://t.co/mY3y7KvxUG
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
Let's be blunt: the US military is no longer the dominant power in the Western Pacific. China's vast arsenal of precision missiles and satellites has created a kill zone where US bases and carriers are not shields, but giant, vulnerable targets. https://t.co/Ajjw7mrdxL
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
The US strategy hinges on airpower, but this is now its greatest vulnerability. The simulations show that no matter where the US flies from—large bases, small fields, near or far—China can saturate them with barrages of accurate ballistic and cruise missiles. https://t.co/6QASLEcwBg
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
The losses are not just bad; they are catastrophic and war-ending. The US would likely lose 200-400 aircraft in the opening weeks—primarily destroyed on the tarmac. This isn't a setback; it's a defeat from which the USAF couldn't recover. https://t.co/po8xuSPKJS
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
The Pentagon's plan to "get agile" (Agile Combat Employment) is a fantasy. Dispersing to smaller, austere airfields doesn't save planes; it just puts them on bases with fewer defenses and no shelters, making them even easier targets. https://t.co/eQwUtl3Erb
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
This flawed doctrine forces a horrific choice: 🔸Either accept the annihilation of your air force 🔸Or, in a crisis, immediately launch escalatory attacks to blind Chinese satellites. There is no middle ground. Deterrence is now a dangerous bluff. https://t.co/aqkOxl9QZx
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
The only potential solution—hardening bases with hundreds of shelters—is a monumental task the US hasn't even started. Meanwhile, China has already built over 800 shelters for its own air force. US is years behind in the defense that desperately need. https://t.co/wjGCRKh6XD
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
Even if US built them, it's an arms race that might not win. China's missile production dwarfs the West's. The grim math suggests they can produce missiles faster and cheaper than US can build shelters to protect against them. https://t.co/W4CVfDSzqk
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
US allies cannot save them While South Korea's 700+ hardened shelters are a tantalizing lifeline, Seoul has shown zero appetite for being drawn into a US-China war over Taiwan. Counting on them is a dangerous gamble. https://t.co/VxtAhlSxHL
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
The uncomfortable truth: The US is on a trajectory to lose a war with China US have three bad options: 🔸Spend trillions playing catch-up 🔸Retreat to a less vulnerable but less influential force 🔸Reconsider US geopolitical commitments in Asia The era of US primacy is over https://t.co/bFWT28YeVJ
@HoodedClaw1974 - Patriotic 🇬🇧 Nation 🟣
American patriot with stark warning for those who seek to wage war on us. 👇👇 https://t.co/WTtyiGlRgk
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I hope when this is all over, you remember who fired first. You've tried to kill the president twice, and now you've assassinated man for talking. You don't really wanna do this. K? 400,000,000 plus firearms in this country, and they don't belong to the left, bro. Yeah. If you think it's okay to murder someone because of their opinion, you get what's coming to you. You and yours.
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Speaker 0: I hope when this is all over, you remember who fired first. You've tried to kill the president twice, and now you've assassinated man for talking. You don't really wanna do this. K? 400,000,000 plus firearms in this country, and they don't belong to the left, bro.
Yeah. If you think it's okay to murder someone because of their opinion, you get what's coming to you. You and yours.
@HoodedClaw1974 - Patriotic 🇬🇧 Nation 🟣
They will push people to far.
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I’ve been reflecting on Senator Tim Sheehy's warnings about the US military's vulnerabilities. He highlights a troubling shift over the past two decades, where the US has become bogged down by bureaucracy while China has built a disciplined military. Our munitions stockpile is alarmingly low, and we could run out of long-range missiles in just a week of conflict. The Pentagon's slow development cycle and concentrated defense industry further exacerbate these issues. Proposed reforms indicate a recognition of these flaws, but they reveal a significant gap compared to China's efficient system.
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
🚨🇺🇸SENATOR WARNS: US COULD FACE DEFEAT IN FUTURE WAR The myth of America’s unstoppable military is fading. Sen. Tim Sheehy warns the US' “broken, bureaucratic defense system” risks costing it the next major war—a fatal weakness against a peer like China. Here's the breakdown👇 https://t.co/FUoHZ214DA
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
The core of the issue is a massive divergence in focus and efficiency over the past two decades. China spent two decades building its military with focus and discipline, while the US lost its edge—trading risk-taking for bureaucracy, and ending up with slower, smaller, lower-quality output.
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
The US National Defense Authorization Act analysis highlights a critical munitions deficit: The US could exhaust its long-range anti-ship missile inventory in just one week of conflict with China. This is not a minor logistics issue; it is a war-losing scenario. https://t.co/40pVyd8VQq
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
The pace of innovation is equally telling. The Pentagon takes almost 12 years to field a new weapons system. This glacial development cycle, prioritizing process over outcomes, cannot compete with China's ability to rapidly iterate and deploy new technologies. https://t.co/HeYLkzTgwR
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
The industrial output gap is another key metric. The conflict in Ukraine and the war in Gaza consume "thousands of drones, missiles and bombs per month." At the same time, the US "struggles to make that many in a year," as Sen. Tim Sheehy admits. China's world-leading manufacturing base and centralized planning are structured for this scale.
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
The US system is also dangerously concentrated. Decades of a "byzantine contracting structure" have boiled its defense industrial base down to a "small sect of companies," creating single points of failure. China's integrated and diversified state-led system avoids this fragility.
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
Proposed US reforms, like the "Dynamic Tech Defense Reform," aim to fix this by adopting a "commercial first" model. However, this is an admission that their current model is unworkable. China does not face this fundamental need to re-tool its entire procurement philosophy. https://t.co/INeomUZSKB
@NewRulesGeo - NewRulesGeopolitics
In conclusion: The data points to a clear asymmetry. The US is grappling with a self-described "broken" system, critical munitions shortfalls, and an inability to scale production. Against China's focused, scalable, and efficient defense-industrial complex, these are not merely disadvantages; they are potentially decisive factors in a major conflict.
@clashreport - Clash Report
Former US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns: We've underestimated Chinese power... I think the Chinese technology, military, and economics are stronger than we think they are. We've underestimated them, and we can't do it any longer. https://t.co/FZNHFb0M3o
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We have underestimated Chinese power in the world. The trains are fabulous: Beijing to Shanghai in four and a half hours, roughly a thousand kilometers, unlike Amtrak’s typical long-haul experiences. The infrastructure strength is one key advantage. A second is their scientific and technological capacity, which is crucial for the coming decades. The question is: which society will turn out more scientists and engineers? A data point: 34% of first-year students in Chinese universities study engineering or a STEM field, while the United States is at 5.6%. And they are a much bigger country. At Harvard graduation, when we ask our graduate students to stand up as a class, chemistry majors, biology majors, physics majors largely consist of Asian Americans, or Americans of Asian ethnicity, or Chinese American citizens. Last week, when President Trump gathered all the tech titans of the United States in the White House, a tremendous number of those tech titans are Indian Americans and Chinese Americans.
We’re not competing when it really matters for the future, and that’s on technology. The PLA, some have said, well, it hasn’t fought since 1978. What is it worth? I’ve seen the PLA and I think we’ve underestimated their military strength and their technology strength.
And one other thing: the Communist Party of China is strategic, and they don’t have to worry about what the press says. That can be a good thing to have the press challenging the government, but they have nobody opposing them, so they can make big bets over ten, twenty, thirty years. Mary and I were mentioning one of them.
For thirty-five consecutive years, the Chinese foreign minister, whoever that person is, has made his first trip of the year in January to Africa to show the Africans you are our priority. I think President Trump never went to Africa in his first term. President Biden went once to Angola for two or three days at the end of his term, just before he resigned. They’re strategic, and we’re not competing on that level. So, actually, I think the Chinese in technology, military, and economics are stronger than we think they are, and we’ve underestimated them, and we can’t do that any longer.
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Speaker 0: We've underestimated Chinese power in the world. Those trains are fabulous. We rode those trains. You know, you can go from Beijing to Shanghai in four and a half hours, and that's, you know, a thousand kilometers. Amtrak's just not like that, if you read a sellout from Boston to New York.
But the level of infrastructure, here's the strengths, the infrastructure, that's one strength. Second, their scientific and technological capacity. That's the coin of the realm in our decade, in the next few decades. Which society will turn out more scientists and engineers? Here's a data point.
34 of first year students in Chinese universities study engineering or a STEM field. The United States Of America, 5.6%. And they're a much bigger country. At Harvard graduation, where I teach, when we ask our graduate students to stand up as a class, chemistry majors, biology majors, physics majors, largely Asian Americans, some American citizens excuse me, Asians, American citizens of Asian ethnicity, or Chinese. Last week, when president Trump gathered all the tech titans of The United States in the White House, tremendous number of those tech titans are Indian Americans and Chinese Americans.
We're not competing when it really matters for the future, and that's on technology. So and I think the PLA, some people have said, well, it hasn't fought since 1978. What is what it's worth? I've seen the PLA. I think we've underestimated their military strength, their technology strength.
And one other thing, the Communist Party of China is strategic, and they don't have to worry about you know, we want to worry about what the press says. Mean, that's a good thing to have the press challenging the government. They have nobody opposing them. And so they can make big bets over ten, twenty, thirty years. Mary and I were mentioning one of them.
For thirty five consecutive years, the Chinese foreign minister, whoever that person is, has made his first trip of the year in January to Africa to show the Africans you are our priority. I think president Trump never went to Africa in his first term. President Biden went once to Angola for two or three days at the in December, just before he resigned. They're strategic, and we're not competing on that level. So, actually, I think the Chinese and technology military economics are stronger than we think they are.
And I think we've underestimated them, and we can't do that any longer.
@RedactedNews - Redacted
🔥 Tucker Carlson just dropped a brutal warning: war is coming, and he says we are not prepared and we will lose. That should scare everyone. @BenFreemanDC joins us. https://t.co/ZThKf5zbzn
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War is coming to the Arctic Circle, with Greenland seen as part of a broader clash for the world’s most important trade route. Russia and China have already laid claim to large portions; the United States now seeks in. The discussion notes the growing competition over the Arctic, Iran, and Europe as flashpoints.
Trump is calling for a Pentagon budget increase from 1.0 trillion to 1.5 trillion for 2027. He tweeted that after negotiations, the military budget should be 1.5 trillion “in the very troubled and dangerous times,” and suggested capping CEO compensation in defense contracts at 5 million per year. Following the tweet, Lockheed Martin stock jumped, as did other defense contractors. Glenn Greenwald is cited, saying the Pentagon fails its audit for the seventh consecutive year and questions how hundreds of billions of dollars move around, then notes a preference to increase budgets from 850 billion to 1.0 trillion to 1.5 trillion. Tucker Carlson is quoted suggesting war is coming and that Trump may know something others do not.
Speaker 1 frames the budget increase as the kind of funding a country anticipates a global or regional war would have, calling it a “war budget,” not a peacekeeping one, and suggests we’re moving toward a big war.
Speaker 0 adds that a large-scale attack against Iran is likely before the end of the year, and questions what will happen in the Arctic Circle. The panel introduces Ben Freeman, author of The Trillion Dollar War Machine, who joins to discuss.
Freeman’s point is that the president justifies a larger foreign war budget by pointing to money generated abroad, including oil resources in places like Venezuela. The panel agrees the implication is that the military is “paying for itself” through conquest, and a speaker notes this echoes imperial patterns. Another participant emphasizes that China’s military budget is about a third to a quarter of the U.S. budget, but China has triple the personnel, arguing that quantity does not necessarily equal capability and that the U.S. remains the strongest military force. There is a claim that the current budget primarily funds contractors, not service members, veterans, or families; defense contractors’ revenues largely come from U.S. government contracts, and this is reflected in stock surges when large budgets are announced. The discussion cites a statistic that about 54% of the defense budget goes to Pentagon contractors, and notes a contrast: one in four military families faces food insecurity despite the existing trillion-dollar budget.
The panel argues that perpetual war is used to justify the size of the budget, not merely to address threats, but to keep the defense industry tidal-wanked into profits. They discuss whether diplomacy with Russia could be a more effective path, and acknowledge a shift in U.S. policy rhetoric compared to earlier promises to avoid endless wars. There is mention that the Senate voted to limit presidential actions in Venezuela; the president defends war powers as constitutional, while critics point to campaigns that promised restraint on war.
Ben Freeman promotes his book, The Trillion Dollar War Machine, noting its availability in hardback, Kindle, and audiobooks, and the discussion ends with praise for the book and thanks to Freeman.
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Speaker 0: War is coming to the Arctic Circle, something we've been covering on this show for a few years. The play for Greenland, of course, all part of this larger plan. Russia, China, The US, all making plays for the most important trade route in the world right now. Of course, we've been telling you for years about this. United States had one ice cutter.
So Russia, China had already laid claim to a vast portion of all of this. Now The United States wants in on this. Trump is now calling for a $1,500,000,000,000 military spending. He mentioned this last night, citing dangerous times. And here is his tweet about it.
After long and difficult negotiations with senators, congressmen, secretaries, and other political representatives, I've determined that for the good of our country, especially these very troubled and dangerous times, our military budget for the year 2027 should not be 1,000,000,000,000, but rather $1,500,000,000,000. Of course, on that news, Lockheed Martin stock exploded. All of the military industrial complex stocks exploded. But then he also said, hey, all of you CEOs of these military industrial contracts companies like Boeing and all should not be getting $25,000,000 a year. It needs to be capped at 5,000,000.
That's it. 5,000,000. So we'll see if that holds. Glenn Greenwald, posted this. He said, when the Pentagon fails its audit for the seventh consecutive year, the DOD simply can't account for the hundreds of billions of dollars flying around like Zelensky.
The only rational solution is to increase its budget from 850,000,000,000 to 1,000,000,000,000 then to 1,500,000,000,000.0. He makes a good point. Tucker Carlson makes the point that war is coming, and maybe Trump knows something that we don't, but clearly something is happening.
Speaker 1: The president announced that he is hiking the Pentagon budget from 1,000,000,000,000 to 1,500,000,000,000.0. Just announced that. Why? Well, it's hard to know without asking him. He'll explain, but big picture, obviously, that's the kind of budget that a country that anticipates a global or regional war has for its military.
There's no other reason to do that. That's not a peacekeeping budget. That's a war budget, a big war budget. So I think it's fair to expect and all the signs suggest that we're gonna have a big war soon. A big war soon.
I think everyone expects that to happen. Hope it doesn't happen, but obviously, we're moving in that direction toward a world war. Sorry. So how do you position yourself for that? Well, you look at a map and you ask the most basic questions.
What areas do I wanna control? Where are the trade routes? Who's got the resources?
Speaker 0: Exactly. Well, one thing is for certain. War is coming. How it will all play out, we don't exactly know. We do know that a large scale attack against Iran is likely to happen before the end of the year.
Excuse me, before the end of the month, likely on a Friday into Saturday morning just like it did last time. Israelis will wake up at three in the morning to learn that their country has gone to war with Iran. That's one piece of it. What's gonna happen in the Arctic Circle? That's another big piece of it.
Europe, of course, is certainly gearing up for war. So all of this to say is something big is happening. Ben Freeman is the author of The Trillion Dollar War Machine, How Runaway Military Spending Drives America Into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us Here at Home. Ben, welcome to the show. Great to see you.
So, know, you the president says this budget is affordable because of the income that is really going to be generated abroad, not here at home. Like, it's largely maybe from the pillaging of oil resources in Venezuela and kind of other places. He says this. I mean and to me, the implication seems to be that the military is, like, paying for itself
Speaker 2: Because they'll steal
Speaker 0: it? By conquering other economies and sort of, like, subjugating them. I mean, it sounds like the Roman Empire. No?
Speaker 3: I live in Florida, and we call that piracy. It hasn't worked historically, and, you know, it's not gonna work that way now. I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm mean, what we're seeing here with Venezuela, you you know, that's what it is at the end of day. The president's justification for a foreign war is effectively that we're going to take their leader, we're going to run the country so we can steal their stuff. That just historically hasn't worked for us.
It hasn't worked for a lot of countries that have tried that. It's not gonna work for Venezuela. And and and to this $1,500,000,000,000 budget that he's talking about, I I think it's important, and then no disrespect to Tucker on this, but I think it's important to put that $500,000,000,000 in perspective. That's more than any country on the planet's military budget. Then that's more than China, Russia, and Iran spend on their militaries combined.
So if we are spending $500,000,000,000 more to prepare for war, I I think at the very least, we're spending way too much on it.
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Speaker 2: I believe that you make an important distinction because China's military budget is about a third of what ours is. But I believe they have is it double or triple the personnel, the service members?
Speaker 3: Yeah. They have over triple the personnel that we do. But I think, know, talk to any Navy SEAL here, talk to any Army Green Beret member. You know, there's quantity and there's quality. Nobody in the world, I don't think, believes that that the Chinese military is more capable than the US military.
I don't think China believes that. Right. And so the idea that even, you know, just because they have three times the, the number of troops, that doesn't mean a thing. The the US military is already by far the best and the most powerful military on the planet, period.
Speaker 2: But this budget is not to pay them better because they're the best. This budget is to buy more weaponry. Right? It's it's not to boost the military or or to better compensate them. Otherwise, that would be a different thing altogether.
Speaker 0: I mean, I guess, what is it for? Like, why throw another 500,000,000,000 into it? Like, what is it for to Natalie's point?
Speaker 3: That's a great question. We don't know. In typical Trump style, we're seeing an idea thrown out on true social and then the rest of us sort of left reeling to figure out what that actually means in practice. We haven't gotten a lot of details, really any details about what that means. But we can look back sort of recent history to get a sense of where that money might go.
And as we document in the Trillion Dollar War Machine, right now in today's military, Natalie, you're totally right, most of the money in the military budget isn't going to military members. It's not going to veterans. It's not going to military families. More than half of the defense budget right now goes to Pentagon contractors, about 54% of it. So to your point there, Clayton, about Lockheed stock soaring, that's where this money is going.
This money is going to the Lockheed Martin's, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman. So there's no surprise to me whatsoever that when this $500,000,000,000 treasure chest is thrown out there, no surprise whatsoever that the defense stock started soaring. Because what this means is it it's a big payday for them at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: Well, I think, I have it in my notes. It's between 24% was the was the, pay increase for military service members. So that does not account account for another half $1,000,000,000,000 by any No.
Speaker 3: No stretch of the imagination whatsoever. And and if you look at our current trillion dollar budget too and you think about what that does for military families. Right now there's a stunning fact that one in four military families is facing food insecurity. One in four. And this is at the same time.
We have a trillion dollar Pentagon budget. And as Clayton mentioned, some of these executives at Pentagon contractors are getting paid ten, twenty. We documented a guy making $80,000,000 a year. And most of the revenue for these companies is coming from the US government, which yet it can't feed military families enough to keep food on the table for their families. And so when you're talking about adding $500,000,000,000 to that, it's just a tragedy what we're doing already with wasteful spending in the military.
This is only gonna put gasoline on that fire.
Speaker 0: I just don't understand. Amen passed the ammo in our chat room says fifty year mortgages and another two hundred and fifty years at war. I don't think so. I mean, I don't don't have see, to me, if you read, like, Jared Diamond's collapse, I mean, or you study the Roman Empire and you're gobbling up these other proxies and and taking over different economies, and you're continuing to just feed the military industrial complex, the snake eating its own tail, and you're really just lining the pockets of, you know, Lockheed Martin and Boeing and Honeywell and all of these other defense contractors, you're you're you're forcing us into wars in order to justify the cost of this. Right?
So these perpetual wars will never end.
Speaker 3: A 100%. I I I Clayton, I cannot agree more. The this system when you have a military industrial complex, when you have a trillion dollar budget, forget about a $1,500,000,000,000 budget, when you have that much money on the line, you have to have wars to justify it. If you do not have wars, if the world doesn't look scary, then people like the folks in your chat, they start to ask questions. And they start to ask things like, well, instead of that $500,000,000,000 going to fight wars, well, what if that helped me with the housing market?
What if that helped with health care? I have a one year old and a three year old. So we're spending just a stupid amount of money on child care. It's like, what if we got some help for that? If the world doesn't look scary, then you start asking those tough questions.
You know, people start having those trade offs. So they don't have to sell us a scary world.
Speaker 1: I was
Speaker 4: gonna say general Wesley Clark said if you're a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.
Speaker 3: Exactly. Right. Right.
Speaker 0: You know, something else Tucker said in addition to what he just what we played there was about our relationship with Russia. He said, under no circumstances would we be able to win whatever boondoggle it is we're trying to win without the support of Russia? What if we became an ally of Russia and try to stop whatever madness is currently going on? And and he he said that that that's arguably the only way that we would survive this. Do you I'm not asking you to be a military strategist here, but what do you think about that?
Speaker 3: I I I would frankly love if we could have more cordial, better diplomatic relations with Russia. You you know, for for too long, the temperature in the room when it comes to US Russia relations has just been nothing but hostile. And I honestly thought it was a breath of fresh air when Trump came in and said, I'm gonna talk to Putin. We're gonna have open dialogue. There's no reason there there there's no justification for The US to to look at Russia as being a natural enemy.
You know? There's no it's the old song. Why can't we be friends? And and and we can't here. You know, I think, you know, we can resolve the Ukraine conflict.
You know, we can resolve help to resolve other conflicts together. There's no reason The US should not have better diplomatic engagement with Russia. So, you know, I think on that point, I I'm I'm definitely in agreement with Tucker.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I I wanna just point out one more thing that sort of supports this because this afternoon, the senate voted to limit the actions that the president can take in Venezuela. That's gonna, continue, and he's furious. He posted this online. It was basically how dare you, saying, look. Every president and Department of Justice before me have determined that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional.
I'm gonna basically, he's telling us, I'm gonna do whatever the heck I want. These people are traitors for thinking that I shouldn't. I mean, the irony is, like you just said, when he was a candidate, he criticized the presidents before him who went around the War Powers Act and waged endless wars. Now he's defending that. I don't see that as anything else as him signaling to us, I'm gonna do whatever the heck I want.
Your little, you know, votes in the senate be damned. I can see it. It pisses me off. I'm not stopping. How do you read that?
Speaker 3: Right. I I you know, I thank you so much for bringing that up, Natalie. And and I'll tell you, I'm gonna shameless plug, but we opened this book, The Trillion Dollar War Machine, with a quote from candidate Donald Trump on the campaign trail just ripping war profiteers a new one. He talks about them making $2,000,000 They want to go to war because rockets cost $2,000,000 Bombs cost this. Bombs cost that.
Whenever he was going around the country a lot of people voted for him because they thought he would keep us out of wars. And so that that's why when we see this rhetoric coming from him now, it's the opposite of what he was saying on the campaign trail. And, you know, we talk about this on the book. And it's not it's not unique to Donald Trump. Every every president we've had, they they campaign on peace, they become president, and they go to war.
And it's not a partisan issue either. Go back to President Obama. President Obama is given the Nobel Peace Prize, and then he oversees the surge in Iraq and Afghanistan. The two highest years of military spending, that we had prior to this one since World War II. So regardless of what party it is, they're gonna tell you one thing on the campaign trail.
When they get into office, they suddenly become war hawks. Trump is just the latest example of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Yeah. They're told something as soon as they get in there. Ben, it's so great to have you here on the show. Check it out again. Hold up the name of the book so people can go and read it.
I think this is valuable. The Trillion Dollar War Machine. It's right there. Go grab it. It's available on hardback.
You can grab it on Kindle as well if you want the digital version. And I think you also have an audiobook version, don't you? Are you working?
Speaker 3: It's everywhere. Everywhere books are sold. Grab your copy now.
Speaker 0: Ben, great to see you. Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 3: Thank you, guys. Take care.