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0:00 May I may I ask what do you think the likelihood of the US committing ground troops is? >> I I think it's zero. I don't even know why they they maintain the pretense. First of all, the army today is a shadow of what it was 30 years ago. And I hear all this, well, I've rebuilt the military during my first term. Come on. That's just silly. Uh armies take about 10 years to build. You know, that's what it took us after the Vietnam War end. It took us 10 years to build an army. Uh it probably takes 20 plus years to build a navy because building ships and submarines is timeconuming, resource consuming, very expensive, takes a long time to train people. One of the reasons that Yamamoto attacked Pearl Harbor, he
0:47 said was if we're going to fight the Americans, we have to kill all the officers in the United States Navy. So we need to kill them in the harbor in Pearl Harbor. if we can kill them, it'll take the United States years to recover from the loss of all those trained officers. He was right. Didn't work. Thank God. But I don't think people understand civilians have no idea what it takes to build effective military power. And the second thing is a draft. Privately, I would like to have a selective draft because I think average young man, not woman, but the average American male who if he's got an IQ of 100 or above and is physically fit should spend a couple of years in the military. I think it's a healthy thing, but that's not widely accepted in our
1:34 country. We don't like it. The British never liked it. So, the idea of of of this being something good is impossible to convince people to support. And if you go back, you live through the Vietnam period, at least some of it. And I, as soon as Nixon ended the draft, suddenly all the demonstrations against the war went away. Now, there were some very sincere people who were against the war for all the right reasons. But my point is, the vast majority just didn't want to go. >> Yeah. >> What's it going to be like now? Why are we going to Iran? Where is this place? How long is it going to take us to get there? And then we have to look at what's happened in eastern Ukraine. Warfare has changed. It's changed dramatically. We have persistent
2:19 surveillance above. We can see everything everywhere all the time. We can target everything everywhere all the time. So where are you going to concentrate two or 300,000 men? How many ports are you going to get into? How soon are you going to be taken under effective ballistic missile attack? And we already know that however much money you spend on air and missile defense, it's not going to be good enough to deal with modern hypersonic missiles can't be done. So it's it's an accident and a disaster waiting to happen. We're not prepared for that. And the nation psychologically is not prepared for it because no one has sold anything to them. We haven't had any fireside chats from Donald Trump saying, "I just want to spend a few minutes and explain to
3:05 you why I'm doing what I'm doing." Have you ever heard that? No. So why would anybody go? Do you think it's possible since you're describing a culde-sac, you know, box canyon here, um, once again, do you think it's possible that nuclear weapons are used? >> If a nuclear weapon is used, it will be by Netanyahu and his government, not us. >> Yes. Good. >> I I you know, I I've met and talked with President Trump. I like President Trump personally and you can say what you will about the man, but I see no evidence that he would be talked into that by Mr. Netanyahu. I just don't I hope I'm not
3:51 wrong, but I just don't see that happening. I also see little evidence that people at the top of the military establishment collectively would sign on for that. You might get a few. Unfortunately, most of them are airmen or in the Navy, but I I don't think they would be very supportive. I think they'd say, "Is this really the right place, time, and reason?" >> Yes. >> Because increasingly we view nuclear weapons as something that protects your territorial integrity. Everybody knows that if you try to invade the United States from Canada or Mexico, yeah, we'll nuke you. No, no question about it. Right. But why would we do that with Iran? But Israel is different as we've discussed. And the more desperate they become if Iran does not submit. And I
4:38 see no evidence that they will submit, the more likely that option could be embraced and employed. And that's why we started this because you asked specifically about uh who has the authority. I hope President Trump does, but I don't think so. I think Mr. Netanyahu is going to do whatever Mr. Netanyahu wants to do. I mean because we're implicated in that and because the million odd Americans who live in the region and the energy interest there and just like the fate of the world are all part of this calculation. Why wouldn't we bring him to heal and prevent that from? >> How do you do that? How do you do that? I mean, you're going to have all the people that put you into the White House
5:24 that spent billions on your campaigns who gave you the power and the Congress that is essentially being purchased by the lobby, not by the lobby directly, but by the Zionist billionaires that pour money into the process to get people elected. You know how that works. What are they going to do? Are any of them going to sober up and and go to Trump and say, "Look, this has gone too far." I don't see any evidence for that. Before this started, we are now learning and I think these are accurate reports that members of the uniform military understood, advisers to the president understood that this was not the things we were promising we would achieve were
6:10 not actually achievable and that this was a very unwise course. They knew that that but apparently none of them threatened to resign if the president went forward. What do you think of that? Well, we have to understand something about the people in uniform, and I don't think we've ever had anybody that resigned in protest. The only one that I can think of who made his views on Vietnam uh heard was General Decker. He only served two years as chief of staff of the army because McNamera went to Kennedy and said, "He doesn't support our policy in Southeast Asia. He won't put any troops in." So Kennedy said, "Get rid of him." So he he simply retired at the end of the first two years of his service as
6:56 chief of staff. But we say in theory that and this is something that goes back to Frederick the Great of Prussia, any officer whose conscience conscience will not permit him to execute an order always has the right to refuse that order and resign his commission without prejudice. >> Yes. The problem is we don't let people go like that. If General Kaine were to go in and say, "This is it. Can't do this. I'm tendering my resignation." He loses his retirement benefits and his pension. >> Why? >> So, if you're in the military and you do that, you lose your whether you're a sergeant or whomever you are, the law says if you resign in protest over something, you don't get to keep your
7:41 pension and you don't get to keep your benefits. So it's it's really not true. Now when you move to the civilian side, the cabinet members, what's to stop them? Nothing. And that's where the resignations should take place. But that's the last place I would expect to see any. >> Even though you and I know a couple of them and consider them friends, I don't see any evidence for that. And and the theory is, interestingly enough, if I do this, I poison the waters against me for the rest of my life. If you're in the military, I'll never get a job after, you know, I leave. No one will hire me in the defense establishment. No one
8:27 will hire me anymore. And the civilian says, "Well, I won't get any cushy jobs, no bank boards, no no industrial, you know, concerns. Nobody will have me around." It's a it's a terrible thing because the ones who really have the flexibility to simply stand up and say, "Thank you very much. Here's my resignation. I'm handing it to you right now as of this moment. I resign as X." And you could walk out of the Oval Office and that's just fine. Instead, what will happen if we're going to project into the future is if we don't change course, we're going to escalate. We're going to double down. In other words, well, if the last uh 2,000 bombs and 800 missiles didn't do it, we'll drop 500,000 bombs and 200
9:16 more missiles. You understand? That's where we're headed. Double down. Escalate. Escalate. Escalate. And then at some point, it's going to dawn on everybody, this has gone too far. This is dangerous. Either because the Russians make it clear they won't tolerate or the Chinese or both. or because they suddenly look in the United States and people have said wait a minute you know I can't put gas into my car I don't have a job anymore I mean you just go down the list economic catastrophe will visit us then all the heroic figures in the cabinet will say I resign you know I I never saw a more empty place than the west wing of the white house and the executive office building right after the election in 2020 20.
10:01 That's what you'd see. Everybody just says, "Oh, I'm out of here." >> Do you think I mean, you're describing a system that doesn't serve the country it governs and that moreover has been revealed as useless, in fact, counterproductive. Like, everyone knows this isn't working now. You can't lie about it anymore. So, does that mean we get a new system? Are there after this war, however it's resolved, however it ends, do you think that there will be structural changes to the country? >> I think we have to anticipate something like that happening because government, federal government is a big part of our lives. I I listen to people all the time say, "Well, I want a smaller government." Well, check your mailbox.
10:47 What are you getting in the mail? What's coming into your bank account? >> Uh how much of it is government? uh how much of it is federal? People don't realize that what is the what is the percentage of gross domestic product now for the government? Somewhere in the 30 plus percent. Um you know back in 1900 it was what 2%. You go back before the civil war less than 1%. I mean the government was there but it wasn't a big feature of the economy and and involved in our lives. you know, General Sherman, and everybody's heard of Sherman and his Civil War service. He became commander of the United States Army. In those days, we didn't have a staff system, so he just was designated commander-in-chief US Army. And he was
11:33 so frustrated with the corruption in Washington, that without telling Grant, who was then president, he packed everybody in the War Department up and he went to St. Louis. He said, "I'm getting out of Washington." And when Grant found out, he said, "Oh my god." And he said, "Why did you do this?" And he said, "This is a cesspool. It is full of corruption. I hate those people." And finally Grant persuaded his old friend, "You got to come back to Washington." And eventually he did. So this is not an entirely new problem. No. But in those days, the government was not what it is today. It's very intrusive. It's a source of wealth. Everybody that is sitting in the various cabinet departments over there,
12:20 a lot of them have their eyes on money. What comes down the pike? What what sort of new generous program grant or opportunity is presented? And they're involved. They're they're they're part of this process. A friend of mine said the other day, he said, "These people are parasitic. They're like crustaceans, you know, or raora on the body of a shark." And I said, "Wow, that's that's pretty rough." But, you know, as I said, this is a huge problem. And the American people, when when things go very badly for us in the financial system, and the economy, they're going to want answers. And it's not going to be pretty. And this, unfortunately, what we're doing right now is put us on an accelerated path into disaster, I think. >> Yeah. And I I mean, it was so obviously
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