America…Why Are We So Insecure?
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Now, if you listen to many presidential candidates, pundits, newsmakers out there, talk programs, man, we sound really insecure as a nation. What do I mean by insecure? You know, according to all of these hawks, these wizards are smart out there. All of these bad actors around the globe, that’s what they’re calling them, with the new axis of evil that we’ve talked about, China, Russia.
and I ran. They’re putting together some sort of Legion of Doom. I remember Legion of Doom. I remember Legion of Doom from the Super Heroes cartoon when I was a kid. Yeah, some big Legion of Doom they’re looking to put together to come after the United States of America. And we’re, you know, oh my god, we got to act now and we need more money and we got to send more money. And if we don’t do it now, everything’s going to fall apart. It’s all connected. Yes, Hamas is connected to
Hamas is connected to Ukraine, which is connected to China, which is connected. You got to follow all the plot lines here, OK? Why in the world are we so damn insecure as a nation? I’m going to get into this a little bit. First, I want to start off new House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has voted against Ukrainian aid in the past, now said he wants to break up.
Joe Biden’s $106 billion funding request. He wants to do a funding request for Israel, funding request for Ukraine, funding request for the Pacific, funding request for the border, yada, yada. He said that he wants to know what the objective is in Ukraine, what the end game is in Ukraine, and the White House hasn’t provided that. What have we got in an end game on any war?
When was the last time we had an end game on any of these conflicts that were in? Because there is no end. We got the war authorization post 9-11. That’s still in effect. And we still got troops all over Africa. Troops and seers. We got them all over the place. I mean, what’s the end game? Does anybody know? Because we never talk about it.
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What is the end game? I know, I know. If we don’t stop Ukraine, Russia’s gonna take over Europe.
I mean, I want everybody to think about that for a second. Do you really believe that?
Do you really think that Russia is going to roll through? I don’t know, people. Again, I’m trying to try to figure out the mentality there. I really am, because I don’t think China would be thrilled with that by any stretch of the imagination doing a lot of business in these Eastern European nations. I I’m sorry. I don’t see it. With that being said, this proxy war that we’re waging in the Ukraine
How does it end? Nobody knows. I mean, this is basically our foreign policy. It echoes the underwear gnomes from South Park with their business plan. And if you’re not familiar, I’ve gone over before here on the podcast, great episode of South Park. You got these underwear gnomes, it’s steel underpants from the kids and it’s their business. That’s part one of their business. Part two of their business model is question mark. Part three is profit. Basically, that’s our foreign policy.
Get involved in conflict and war, part two question mark, part three, win. We don’t even know what we’re gonna win, okay? Let alone how we are gonna go about getting there. Right now, we’re being told more money. Ukraine needs more money, needs more weapons, gotta send more guns, gotta send more weapons.
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And, you know, we get various different candidates. Well, Biden administration screwed up and they should have sent the MiG jets from Poland from the get-go and should have sent the missiles over from the get-go. Again, everything from the get-go has been a half-assed business plan. You haven’t drawn anything out. If you were to take this idea, if it was an idea, if this war plan was an idea, business plan to a bank, you’d get rejected. It doesn’t make any sense, because there isn’t any plan.
All we’re told is more money. And I’m curious to see, I really am. I’m curious to see what Republicans are gonna do on this. Because again, you’ve got that wing in the Republican Party, neocon hawks out there that just, they just, guns a blazing. Guns a blazing. And yeah, you’ve got many of them that are running for the presidency right now. I’m sorry, I don’t believe at all. I don’t believe that.
all of these things are connected. I don’t think that China was in the ear of Iran saying, yeah, you know what, you know, get those Hamas guys to hit Israel. You understand that everything that’s going on in the Middle East now is bad for business, in particular, China has made enormous investments in that area, made overtures to that area of the world. You think they want this going on?
No, it’s bad for business. I mean, it’s great if you’re a defense contractor, of course. Great if you’re a defense contractor, but bad for business within that region. Michael Dardy in National View put out a column. Again, he’s talking about this debate that’s taken place right now within the Republican Party about whether or not we got to have this bill to send money to the Ukraine and Israel or separate the entire thing.
You’ve got Republican hawks and you’ve also got Democrat hawks too. They like the Hillary Clintons of the world. Ah, yes, there’s a, you know, here in this all time, you’re here. Ah, democracy is on the wane. Yes, you got tyrannical governments are going to take over the world. Still, I’m not buying what you’re selling. I’m not.
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I don’t see that happening. Ah, it’s a new world order. Remember we were being pitched that not long ago. Ah, they’re gonna come up with an alternative currency to the dollar, yeah, China’s gonna get together and they’re having this meeting and they’re gonna get South Africa and Argentina. I’m like, Argentina? You mean the country that’s got like 200% inflation? The things that people come up with to scare people into wars is extraordinary and people buy it, hook, line and sinker, which I…
I don’t seem to get because the government, government along with their buddies in the media have been lying to us for decades about conflicts, wars. Yeah. Ra-ra-ra. Oh, you’re not American if you’re not supporting it. Bill O’Reilly. Yep. Freedom fries. Damn those French people. They don’t support the war in Iraq. Time and time again, we’re lied to. So yes, there’s a supposed decline of democracy worldwide.
Hmm. You do, do you really believe that? You think that what’s taking place in Israel right now has anything to do with a decline in democracy worldwide? But again, you gotta connect the dots. It is, it’s like some crazy conspiracy theory people, like putting this whole thing together. Ah, yes, it’s an existential threat to the United States. They love that word, existential. It’s an existential threat.
to the United States, the America-led world order, 70-year post-World War II order. All the stakes are high, and it’s existential, and blah, blah.
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Matthew Continenti is a columnist and a big, big neocon hawk type. He says, already you see voices on the progressive left as well as on the nationalist right. Separating the war in Ukraine from the war in the Middle East. For the left, different power dynamics are at worth. Progressives must always side with the oppressed against the oppressor. For the right, Ukraine is somehow woke and thus bad. While Israel deserves support.
because it is nationalist and religious. Ukraine is woke. I haven’t heard that one yet. He says, enough with the obfuscation. The normal work of intellectuals, because this guy’s an intellectual, is to make distinctions, to tease out the differences between phenomena. Not in this case. There is more than enough evidence of a vast international effort. Here we go again. Dun, dun, dun.
leaders have asked international effort to overturn the American-led post-World War II international system. The rabid dogs tearing at the seams of the world order are Russia, Iran, and North Korea holding the leash as Communist China, whose leader Xi Jinping welcomed Vladimir Putin to Beijing the day before Biden touched down in the Holy Land.
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Yeah, not buying it. Sorry, I’m not buying. I for some reason, I just don’t see nations around the globe looking to, I don’t know, Russia, Iran and North Korea and saying, hey, that’s a good model. We want to be like them. We want to be just like them. We want our entire population starving to death like they do in North Korea.
Yeah, we want to oppress our people like Iran. No, you think that they want to be that? I’m sure that they want, you know, Russia’s natural wealth, which is all of the resources that they have. And China? But you think that all of the people are not aware of just how stressed their system is right now as far as their economy, the issues they have there? You think that that’s what nations around the globe are gonna say, hey, you know what? We wanna have.
We want to have a surveillance state like China. No. I don’t see it happening, kids. Okay. Anyway, from Doherty’s piece, the primary evidence brought to bear for this vast international effort is that Iran sells weapons to Russia. Okay. The United States, we pretty much sell weapons.
to everyone too. And when we’re not selling weapons, we leave them lying around. We don’t sell them. We just leave them lying around so the bad guys can pick them up like we did in Afghanistan. No, no, no. We’ll leave six, seven billion dollars worth of weapons there. No, they’re not going to end up on the international black market or anything like that. Let’s just send weapons to the Ukraine.
Puzzily because you know that they’re real trustworthy. They’re not the most corrupt country in Europe or anything like that Anyway, anyway, yep, so Iran sells weapons to Russia and Iran has Historically backed Hamas and other terrorist groups that threaten Israelis or Sunni regimes These are regimes that we have good relations with from time to time
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Like the Saudis goes back and forth, you know, when they’re not killing journalists or something like that. But anyway, there’s a gesture made toward Moscow reviving anti-Semitism. And blame is put on Joe Biden for our troubles. This is all because this all happening because of what happened in Afghanistan. Let’s kind of think this through.
points that we’ve been making here as well. If you subtracted American involvement entirely, Russia’s conflict with Ukraine and Hamas is with Israel. Um, they’re explicable. They just didn’t pop up out of nowhere. Russia’s had a problem with Ukrainian nationalism.
since before World War II, for crying out loud. Israel and Hamas, they’ve been going at it for quite some period of time. Quite some period of time. The present conflicts, okay, again, we don’t have this.
world divided into blocks like everyone is saying that we do. I keep going back to the Cold War. No. It’s not the same. It’s again, it was much simpler. I remember what was M and James Bond. What was it? Was it the first one? It was with Casino Royale, the first one with Daniel Craig. She’s like, damn, I missed the Cold War. Yeah, you know.
Pledge your leases, choose your side. There’s no choosing sides right now. It’s not the way it is, even though that’s the way the media like it, because they can present it as such. It’s…
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It’s simplistic, it’s stupid, it’s lazy in what they’re doing. It’s not a two block situation. So yeah, we got this China, Moscow, Iran. Well, what about Turkey? Dirty brings this up as well. Turkey is the, they have the largest military in NATO after us. The largest military in NATO.
after us. Turkey also has an arms industry as well. Yes, not just the United States, they make weapons there too. And guess what? Turkey, Turkey is sending weapons, selling weapons to Ukraine. Now, again, they’ve got a better relationship with Moscow than we do.
Now you think that maybe Putin might be a little upset that Turkey is selling weapons to Ukraine? Probably. But then you look on this side. Turkey, when it comes to Hamas and Israel, has been on the side of Hamas.
Huh, interesting. Okay, what about Qatar? Yes, our friends, Qatar, the Qataris. Yes, for the World Cup was held not too long ago. You do realize that Qatar sends more money to Hamas than Iran does, right?
Qatar sends more money to Hamas than Iran does, and there are allies. We have a base there. Not to mention the fact our allies are housing Hamas leadership at a five-star hotel. Qatar buys weapons from the United States.
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and recently signed a bilateral cooperation agreement with our State Department. So if you’re thinking about it this way, well, again, you know, Dardie puts it quite well. Qatar is basically, and arsonists in this case, it’s funding Hamas and a fireman, because what is Qatar doing right now? They’re actually negotiating for hostages to be released.
Is there some block or some pattern that you’re seeing here? Where it’s, you know, pledge your allegiance, choose your side.
Then there was this foreign policy expert and you hear lots of people talk like this. From the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Sounds tough. I see that. Foundation for Defense of Democracies. I think of Arthur. There, remember that when he was drunk? This is a very tough room. It’s a very tough room. I don’t have to tell you that. Yeah, okay. Another very tough sounding nonprofit think tank BS.
And they’re saying that right now, because they obviously believe in this, choose your pledge, your allegiance, choose your side thing that we should kick Turkey out of NATO and strip Qatar of its major non NATO ally status.
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Can you explain to me what good would that do again? that’s getting back to this theory out there that there’s just two blocks and you know, you’ve got to pick your side one way or another Um, and again, yeah, it’s going back to you know, George W. Bush. Remember when he said that you’re either with us or against us Well, you know what George people might disagree with you. Okay. I mean I you know
I might disagree, my wife might disagree with me on some things, but that doesn’t mean she’s my enemy and she’s against me. No, she just might have a different thought process than I have on that. United States, this is interesting too. Okay, we’re getting this all the time. All the time.
I can’t tell these China experts to have on everywhere. They, you know, China’s coming to invade. China’s coming to take us over. Story, story, story. China’s planes flew too close to our planes. Blah, blah, blah. Anyway, since the start of the war in Ukraine, ah, yeah, China’s making a lot of money. Yeah, so Russia’s trade with China, Putin’s trade with China is booming, so they say. Okay, exports to China.
from Russia rose 63% to 71.8 billion. Imports increased a little bit more modestly to 83.3 billion. OK. Wow, oh boy. They’re buddies, and wow, and they’re meeting, and they’re doing business with one another. China. Yeah, you want to know who’s doing business with China? We are. OK.
Trump’s tariffs, even with the CHIPS Act. Okay, let’s put these numbers in perspective. We bought $562.9 billion worth of China’s stuff. So Putin is trading with China and Putin is bolstering the Chinese military. Not nearly as much as we are. They’re not even in our ballpark.
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He coined a phrase, basically he’s got a similar attitude I have when it comes to the United States and China. He calls it mutually assured financial destruction. Remember, mad from the Cold War, mutual assured destruction, mutually assured financial destruction. That’s what’s keeping us in China at arms. And that’s why I’m saying it’s actually a good thing to be doing business.
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at the globe is that, you know, it’s an America, America’s got to lead, America led liberal world order. Get yourself, line right up. What does that make us? My opinion, I mean, Dougherty says inflexible, fragile and paranoid. Says it’s going to make us the most inflexible, fragile and paranoid world power that ever.
existed and he, you know, quite frankly, it’s a danger to us. As I said, we’re insecure. We are. We’re insecure. And how do you become more secure? I become more confident as a nation. Maybe we should just work on ourselves. But we have we’ve got our issues. We’ve got our problems. We talk about them all the time. I mean, they’re all we can remedy them all. We can fix them all. Maybe that would make us a little.
Little less insecure. And it’s not puffing out your chest with all the bravado and all the nonsense and mentioned yesterday, it’s the whole going back to speak softly and carry a big stick. Maybe a little bit more of that. And a little less of the they’re coming to guess. Oh my God, they’re putting a block together. Ah, they’re gonna invade next week. Yeah.
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Not buying it. Again, for if Dardie finishes up his piece here, he says, for conservatives, the melodrama about the liberal world order leads to simple overcommitment and exhaustion, giving unearned opportunities for revisionist disruption. That disruption is likely to take advantage of our excesses of will if they lead to deficiencies of money and material.
That’s what we have now, right? And then they get to collect a freak out in Washington DC. We need more money! Defense Department needs more money! We’re woefully unprepared right now! Oh no! We can walk and chew gum, we can do this, we can print more dollars. I mean, it’s, people, take a couple of steps back from the hysterics for all the paid for.
Paid for contributors on cable TV, not to mention all of the ex generals and military experts that are getting paid because they’re on the board of directors of all of these defense contractors that are out there or working at their lobbying firms in Washington, DC. Their business is war. I mean, I’ve made fun of this. They were talking about Russia, basically.
you know, gas station disguised as a country. We have to stop being a, I guess a military or a police force, world police force disguised as a country. Watchdog on wallstreet.com
