Erik Prince - 6 Enemies of Big Government, Combating Cartels and the Ukraine War | SRS #76 Part 1

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Eric Prince welcome back to the show. thanks Sean nice to be back. we got a lot of topics to cover today. and uh you know the world was in a. fragile spot the last time you were here. now. more fragile it's even worse so um you. need no introduction but former Navy. SEAL former CEO of Blackwater the.

biggest private military Contracting. Company. in the world and you know was was was. the before it got broken up by. the Obama Administration but um but just. you're just a fascinating guy you are. brilliant when it comes to. what's going on in the world and and. um me and the audience are all dying to. hear what you have to say on on all. these various topics so.

but you know what the number one. question was on our last interview. do you know what it says it was. why aren't you running for president in. 2024. uh because I think um. certainly not the time for me to do that. I think president Trump uh has a. significant momentum. um I think he will be the nominee and. um. he may not be the. the perfect vessel but as a as a country.

we're not hiring a messiah we're hiring. a president and his. his ability his willingness to take on. the political Elite the swamp as he. rightly called it and when you look at. the nonsense that happened around the. 2020 election I think it's uh it's a. fair shot to give him. a chance to go again and to finish what. he started. do you have any hesitations about him. taking office again.

uh there is no question that he loves. the country. I mean what guy living that level of. life of comfort would step away in 2015. to run in the first place and then with. all the that they put him. through while he was president and even. after president all these these four. sham indictments that they're putting. him through none of that would have. happened if he just retired and played. golf at Mar-A-Lago but the fact that. he's stepping back into the arena and.

the knives that are out for him shows. what a threat that the the political. Elite uh. seeing him so again. an imperfect vessel but the right vessel. uh. to push it you know to push forward with. one one the only thing that really. concerns me. is who is he going to put in his cabinet. who's gonna work for I agree that's. that's my concern as well because he. never really got control of his National. Security apparatus last time but um I.

think he did not. understand I don't think he fully. comprehended the depth of how uniparty. Washington had become and and that a lot. of those changes were not affected uh by. the lack by the by the people he put in. place do you think there's any other. candidates that could take the job. um look Rhonda Santos has governed. Florida. extremely well extremely competent.

proven. um I like his policies he has not. ignited. the um. uh the retail politics of it all in. appealing to a broader Market as much. but I wouldn't rule him out. um I saw Vivek ramaswamy at CPAC. geez probably nine months ago and I. remember I said to my wife I said that. guy really is sharp on the issues and uh. and he's going somewhere and so. um.

is America ready to to elect a. Republican. an Indian republican from from Ohio. maybe I mean crazier things have uh have. happened but but whoever it is what's. unproven about him is can he take the. unrelenting pounding of Washington and. the left in the media. attacking him in every way that's a uh. that's a pretty hot fire. the one thing about Trump.

he has a very stiff neck and it has. persisted. um unabashed unafraid through withering. fire. it definitely has a hell of a chin. there's no doubt about that like um. one of my favorite quotes from Churchill. he was speaking to the uh the Canadian. Parliament. um. and he said a year ago hair Hitler this. is right as the as the bombing of London. was starting you said a year ago Hitler.

said that he would ring the neck of the. British people like a chicken and I. stand before you a year later and I say. some chicken some neck. and and so we need a president that has. um brass ones that are just. because it's a it is a struggle for what. is the future of the Republic is it a a. Democratic Republic or is it a rule the. elites with managed elections and and.

nothing less is at stake. does the president. you know one thing that I'm starting to. realize is maybe the president doesn't. have near as much power as what we think. or what the majority of the population. thinks. um the. the Constitution was well laid out with. three branches of government legislative. executive judicial. the real problem. we have so much funding so much money.

has been thrown at the problem that has. created such a permanent state. unaccountable. bureaucracy that in some cases even. funds itself off of fines. that the the so the regulatory permanent. state has to be reined in. and and actually this started. I'd say the worst of it started in 1984. with a court case and it was the natural. resources defense Council and. Environmental Group versus Chevron. and the Supreme Court ruled that the.

federal agencies that the rules that. they that they. came up with. had the force of law so now you can have. bureaucrats writing policy that had the. force of law meaning felonies and so the. administrative state had an inch and. they've made it into many many miles of. regulations to where you're. like on under the Obama Administration. there was about 80 000 pages of new. regulations coming out every year not.

passed into law by Congress but written. by bureaucrats in all the different. federal agencies as to. food air quality. um I mean you name it across the. spectrum of your life all those. regulations. um. had the force of Law and and that's what. that's what has to be curtailed the. Supreme Court just in the last four. months five months had a positive ruling. that actually curtailed some of those.

Federal authorities to start to pair. that back. that's the that's the I'd say that was. the Catalyst that caused our current. problem and like mushrooms those uh. those rules and those truly runaway. bureaucrats have um. I've gotten too much power I think the. most important. issue for the president. um I wouldn't of I would say top three. uh is to reign in that regulatory state. is to reform. um Civil Service laws so that and a.

government bureaucrat can be fired. because basically if one's not let out. in handcuffs under some indictment now. it's almost impossible to fire a federal. employee and that can't be that way. I Meander Jackson and back in his day. talked about the spoil system. where the party that won the White House. would run the bureaucracy. um we probably need to point back to. something like that because the. permanent state bureaucracy in. Washington all tilts hard to the left. like 92 percent of the political.

donations at the justice department. guess which party they go to. 75 percent of the dod. Democrats. that's pretty much across the entire. Federal bureaucracy is you have a. permanent state of Democrats of people. that believe in big government that. believe in the regulatory state. that don't really follow the same small. government's Paradigm that you and I do. making those calls and truly.

unaccountable to anybody. and and Republicans with the power of. the purse. the most important thing they can do is. to siphon off is not siphon is to close. off. um. is to close off that money supply. because nothing will choke a bureaucracy. out of existence faster than cutting off. its money and so if there's one thing. somebody should do to any Republican is. to pound on them to just say no just.

just stop bundling all these massive. hundreds of billions of dollars. Appropriations together make them do. their job do it in smaller chunks and. say no and write much tighter. fiscally sane policies we are teetering. towards bankruptcy as a country now with. 30 plus trillion dollars in debt so it's. not like we have extra money to burn. especially with a lot of the ways that. we waste it now. you want less stupid government spend. less on it. like thalidomide why is there such a.

push to. grow the government. big government what is I don't. understand the logic behind that what do. they want to accomplish is it is it. total control. the other so the the. um Republican all the candidates all the. Republican candidates except Trump. debated. um recently and I was sorry that none of. them brought up what I think is the most.

important topic. um. you have you know first of all the we. have to reign in the administrative. state but the other thing is we have to. restore competitiveness. across American industry. um. a great book. uh that I uh I recently read actually at. the impetus of my daughter. uh was called the myth of capitalism. like Jonathan Tepper please read it. please have your audience read it. and it is it talks about.

um the real problem in America is that. we don't have enough competition amongst. industry. and the reason is. um and and just take a step back and. think. you basically have four Airlines left. and in most of the super hubs there's. one or two airlines that control. most of the slots. banking you have. five of the major Banks control about. fifty percent of the nation's savings.

you have BlackRock and Vanguard. two of the. multi-trillion dollar money management. firms controlling a lot of pension money. and in institutional passive investing. money you have beef processors you have. down to three or four beef processors. you have thousands of farmers Across. America those are the guys that do the. really hard work raising cows. um doing their thing and they get. screwed by the the middlemen the.

processors and that's the same for beef. for pork for poultry. we've allowed and again it started. really badly in the 80s. and when you look at. the wealth inequality uh in America it. stems from a massive consolidation of. businesses down into a few oligarchies. and that's before even Tech we'll talk. about tech next. but the basic things of Life Insurance. you buy health insurance health.

insurance is is regulated state by state. by state and so in your local market you. probably have one or maybe two insurance. providers you have one or two hospitals. to compete with. it the regulations Feed the Beast of big. business. because big business can withstand the. delays and all the compliance nonsense. that all these extra regulations that. Washington continues to pile on onto big. business that's okay they just stick it.

to the customers. and they um and they pay higher fees all. the small businesses the little guys. that are starting in their in their. garage or their basement with a good. idea they get squeezed out they cannot. survive it and so. even public companies you have a. significantly less public companies now. than you did 20 years ago you have. um a a a consolidation and an elite that. are making those big decisions which is.

why. they feel confident enough that they can. have cancel Karcher and they throw. people out of banks if they don't like. your politics. um the the pricing that is charged is. they've above average above Market. average pricing that they get Now versus. what they've ever had historically. because of the effectively it's not a. monopoly but it's an oligopoly. when you have a couple of sellers in the. market it's very easy for them to. cooperate and to collude on raising.

prices to stick it to their customers or. in some cases you have what's called a. monopsony which is a if they're the sole. buyer so if you have one large Factory. or an Amazon warehouse that's um big in. the area they can really control what. pricing gets paid for wages why are. wages going down or not going up or. especially under Dems it's because they. they love to flood the market with more. and more cheap labor that makes big. business happy.

um yeah more and more regulations which. keeps the small guys down and out that. is the the Paramount question that must. be fixed in the American economy or the. the American Republic with a really. healthy middle class is gone you're. gonna have Elites and everybody else. that is struggling to survive and that. is not what made America great. couple years back I had this crazy idea. that I wanted to sell my own branded.

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thought of you know uh well and listen I. challenge you and your readers when you. go in the um. when you go to the grocery store and. you'll see six or eight different kinds. of packaged Meats. it's all just brand uh uh brand facade. it's often one or two different. companies it was different brands. the it's an umbrella company with a. bunch of different names exactly when. you look at the consolidation it's like.

a it's like a matrix that goes from 50. companies. down to a few and they keep a lot of. those brand names functioning so people. have the perception that there's. multiple companies in competition but. it's not anymore. um beer. 80 90 of the beer in America it's two. companies. yeah so again that's why they can. that's why. um Anheuser-Busch can can put people in.

charge that hate their customers that. much that they that they do really. stupid out of Market uh offensive stuff. and think they can get away with it yeah. so so whatever. boycott and and righteous anger that. normal people feel towards Bud Light in. the end it's not going to move the. needle because they have 10 other brands. that people will still buy from. if you really want to protest against. big beer then buy from your absolutely.

local microbrew guys because that's. who's that's who needs the help to. survive very true very true. well Eric let's let's uh keep going down. the subject pipeline but you know. I know that's probably the only reason. you came back for the gift came for the. gummy bears well there's something. different in there ah so I'm big on. brain health now so there's some coffee. okay it's got functional mushrooms in it. Lord knows I need some brain health yeah. so so yeah layered superfoods coffee.

creamer and uh performance mushrooms. thank you Sports brain health but. so I got a ton of questions for you and. um and then you have a list of stuff. you'd like to cover as well I want to. start with the cartel and the Border. situation. there is roughly about a hundred. thousand deaths a year 109 000 last year. from fentanyl overdoses coming up. through the southern border we know that. China is coming across teaching these.

guys how to make the deadliest fentanyl. known to man now they're moving on to. another drug uh which the Name Escapes. me right now but it's going to be more. potent than Fentanyl and China is also. shipping in all the supplies for the. cartels to make the Fentanyl now a lot. of these presidential candidates are. talking about sending in the military. uh DeSantis I interviewed him and he. wants to send in.

strike teams to hit these cartels Rama. Swami I interviewed him he wants to. utilize the military to to combat the. cartels which. what's your take on this I think you got. a very different take. well this goes way back to. the 1840s when the the Chinese started. what was called their their Century of. humiliation and you had the Opium Wars. where you had trade colonies carved out.

which what became Hong Kong Kowloon. um. um on on Southern China at the bottom of. the uh the Pearl River. um. the Opium that was pushed into China. which came out of India at that point. uh definitely had adverse effects and so. what China is doing now is a double Fu. back. to the United States. for or the West period uh for that.

it is absolutely. CCP Chinese Communist Party policy to. uh generate create the precursor. chemicals in China actually. [Music]. um. uh not far from Wuhan oddly enough the. same place that the the coven the covid. labs were uh so those precursor. chemicals are sent. to Mexico and to Venezuela eventually. they're they're made into Labs.

um in Mexico and uh pushed across the. border through the cartel Network and. worse than that the Chinese are even. directly intervening into Mexican. politics to support very leftist. candidates uh amlo the um Lopez obrador. who's the president is a committed hard. leftist and the Chinese want to keep him. in office because he is not the law. order candidate he was the the hugs and. love candidate against the cartels. promises to take no stand and so Mexico.

Daily weekly creeps closer to becoming a. full-on narco state where the cartels. really have that say. um. but it is a. the cartels make as much money moving. humans as they do drugs. and in some cases they'd get both. because they'll have the the people that. they're smuggling across also carry a. backpack of drugs so they get uh they. get a twofer because they'll charge.

fifteen twenty thousand dollars to move. a human but when that human moves fifty. thousand dollars worth of drugs they're. they're really making money all the way. so. it is the the problem starts much. farther up River than just going after. cartels action should be taken inside of. China and when the Secretary of State. U.S Secretary of State goes there. has a meeting in China and they say well. yes there's chemicals coming out of. China but it's really just a matter of.

the mislabeling it and and accidental. shipping it it is a a willful ignorance. in denying the problem that the Chinese. are actually behind this because it. because the U.S continues to send. treasury secretary Commerce Secretary. diplomats pleading to have meetings with. the Chinese not that they're getting. anywhere but they think the point of a. meeting is to have another meeting. and it is a. what's like I said last time I said. we're going through a period of the late.

70s now of a Carter Administration and. that's the same outcomes we're seeing in. a lot of places a lot of problem areas. around the world so to answer your. question yes cartels big problem it is. funded directed organized by the Chinese. Communist party and so dealing with the. cartels is dealing with a symptom I. think we should deal with the root cause. which is in China yeah and and sending. saying the military.

uh look we the the US has had two major. incursions into Mexico. one was about 1845 where we literally. invaded and went to Mexico City. we don't need to do that and there was. certainly mandatory in the Border areas. around 1900 Pancho Villa Etc. um. done with minimum with with mixed effect. if anything's going to be done on a. kinetic basis it should be done through. the smallest and tiniest of covert.

action and to really pit the cartels. against themselves. can you elaborate on that. how would you do it. it's probably better not to say on. camera. fair enough. would you. [Music]. or would you let me how do I. would be a good idea to send in special. op teams to take out specific leaders.

look. they the cartels operate without. consequences. and so giving them actual consequences. if you say if you keep moving fentanyl. if you keep moving XYZ then this will. happen there's ways that can be. communicated to them that they would. respect. um the reason the farc in. Colombia was finally brought to heal is. because. farc is a effectively it was a it was a.

leftist guerrilla Army uh which was. fighting the government which is then. effectively merged with a lot of the. cartel activity to become the muscle for. bigger cartels in the jungles of. Colombia the reason they were brought to. heal is because using signals. intelligence. flying aircraft around figuring out. exactly where their camps were and they. dropped a 500 500 pound laser guided. bomb in the middle of that camp again. and again and again and they finally got. the message. so yes there is some some nuanced.

kinetics that can be done but remember. Mexico is also pretty much our large. largest trading partner and so. anything that's done has to be done with. a mind towards protecting the the. Mexican people and and it's a. it is a terrible. if you're a Mexican policeman. getting paid. 100 a week maybe. and some cartel guide comes to you and. say Plateau y plomo.

silver or Lead take my money let me pay. you. or I'm gonna kill you and I'm gonna kill. your family and you're going to watch. them die. the biggest issue what's causing. that amount of drug demand. is the U.S drug policy is the is U.S. consumer spending money so for every. everybody that's smoking crack or uh or. any of the drugs that are coming north. of the Border. clean up your act and and if America.

would get healthier Society wise it's. definitely having that the most negative. policy you can imagine on the Mexican. people. what about China how do you. how do we deal with them what the. concept of this is when it comes to this. issue. they are a very heavily trade dependent. economy. uh Trump was right and when Trump was. President I can say the Chinese were. truly scared about what Trump could do.

with trade policy with tariffs Etc. and the idea of throwing a 20 or 30 or. 50 tariff on some Chinese Goods. um. definitely sends chills into Beijing and. so having a much harder line policy. um uh and in a reassuring of a lot of. the. um a lot of the production that we took. for granted that was being done in China. is now slowly coming back to the Western. Hemisphere.

a lot of that I mean and it I've had a. contract manufacturing business since. 1997. and it's been hard making money as a. manufacturer in America because of the. the taxes the cost of Regulation labor. costs all the rest it's been very hard. and the wind it was like a like a wind. arrow that was pointing one way and. Trump came in. and and and women tariffs and Regulatory. change and all the rest the demand.

signal to make in America again was was. marked and distinct and so a lot of that. manufacturing is coming back to America. or at least back to Friendly more. friendly countries. Mexico Canada. um Columbia even and and elsewhere in. South America the U.S should have a much. more of a Monroe Doctrine Focus policy. on. the Western hemisphere is the American. Hemisphere and and and trade regularly.

and often with our uh with our neighbors. to the South. um. if if we miss that. you know the the Chinese are an ancient. Society for 19 to the last 20 centuries. China was one of the single largest gdps. in the world if it wasn't for the. the anomaly of the Chinese Communist. Party taking power in 1949.

the Great Leap Forward. it killed 50 some million of their own. people starved them by. the worst of worst Central planning when. Mao said well we're going to. collectivize farms and and then um well. the birds are eating too much of the. grain so we're going to um. kill all the birds literally task people. with killing birds within the insect. population exploded and you just had. this. it's a fascinating and horrifying read. to read about the Great Leap Forward.

that happened in China in the 50s and. 60s millions of people starving. then you had the cultural revolution in. late 60s early 70s. which was basically. a precursor what we see with this woke. Revolution with. Mouse little green book on how to be a. good communist and how to enforce that. and and it really went crazy to the. point of arresting any. businessman Bourgeois any intellectual. anybody in China like that.

um and when Mao finally died dang. Xiaoping. said okay we're not doing that again. and the first trip he took was to. Singapore. uh that recast. okay that that started the opening of. China. because you know Singapore at the end of. World War II was a shitty little fishing. Village and a fort. but. um Lee Kuan Yew was it became.

effectively the CEO of Singapore and he. dragged them forward. and developed the heck out of what is. basically a city-state on an island. and to where geez even 20 years ago they. had a sovereign wealth on north of a. hundred billion dollars. a savings account they did it in a. country with no water. meaning no no fresh water supply really. no land for for agriculture but they did. it on trade they closed the currency. trading loop from when San Francisco.

closed and London opened now Singapore. opened so you could trade currencies 24. hours a day they made themselves the. indispensable economy. China saw that and said okay we want to. embrace those parts of capitalism and. we'll call it um. um capitalism with Chinese. characteristics so that really led to. the unleashing of. hundreds of millions of Chinese laborers. that wanted to make everything with. really no environmental restrictions.

with no labor restrictions none of those. things we we appreciate in the West. the issue. right when the Soviet Union. after World War II. Soviets were our allies. but their their mandate their mindset. was we are communists we're going to. spread this Communist Revolution and. this workers Paradise is going to. overtake the world that was the Soviets. mandate. and they showed their hand right away.

remember when they blockaded Berlin. because the the Russians had conquered. what was East Germany. but then Berlin was you know declared an. open City and you had you had the. Soviets in part of Berlin and you had. the French British and Americans. but later became West Berlin. but in 47. I believe. the Soviets closed off all the road. access. for the free for the West to get to. Berlin and and it necessitated the.

Berlin airlift but right away the. Soviets the point is the Soviets showed. themselves to be. our our opponents our ideological. economic. opponents to Western. capitalism judeo-christian way of. thinking. the Chinese on the other hand have. always been Communists and they've 49. they take power. and then they go in the late 70s dengxia. Peng who succeeded Mao takes over in the.

80s they start to open up Western. businesses are like woohoo we can make. huge money there developing China and. the and the the Elites in Washington and. the capitals Europe said if we can make. China Rich they'll become like us. but it hasn't happened yes we've made. China very rich. but they've at their very very core. remain committed Bolsheviks. and and so their hooks are in. to our institutions our universities.

our business Elites our big money. managers. Etc when. when the the super Elite money managers. are managing tens of billions of dollars. from China. and they're doing it on a on a. percentage basis so they're taking a. management fee where the Chinese. Communist party is paying them tens if. not hundreds of millions of dollars a. year. and then these guys are making apologies.

for China's Behavior. that's a problem right that's that's. part of the uh part of the hooks that. that have to be clarified. um when China is funding movies. um and they're controlling the content. of what's in those movies right even. when when good on Tom Cruise for at. least having the uh the stones because. the Chinese were freaking out that there. was an actual patch of Taiwan on the. back of Tom Cruise's jacket. in Top Gun right the fact oh my God.

showing Taiwan on a cruise patch on a. Navy flight jacket that's the kind of. uh Obsession that China has about. controlling the message and influencing. that message. and they do that on a daily basis in the. United States American universities take. tens of millions of dollars a year in. research grants. in exchange for a lot of that IP making. its way back to China. we have hundreds of thousands of Chinese.

students that pay a very full tuition. rate to a lot of American universities. and they're addicted to that money and. again that kid is taking the seat of an. American that could be in that seat. otherwise and that Chinese person that. comes here and studies maybe gets an. advanced research degree. goes back to China and takes that uh. that knowledge with them. the Confucius institutes which are. funded by the Chinese Communist Party.

present on many if not most American. universities. large state level even even some private. ones. are done to promote the message the. propaganda message of the Chinese. Communist party in talking about. um their position on the South China Sea. and on Taiwan on trade everything. basically amplifying. everything that's wrong in America and. everything that's great about China. again. funded subversion inside the United.

States and then you have it down to the. it's called the united front work. department which is. um. organized in China to send. maybe a member of the pla over to study. at a U.S University or to place them to. work at an American company. you you say that's the straight out. Espionage and. um. the US has not done a very good job at.

um at. because of fears of racism or you know. all the the buzzwords that Washington. hates to hates to have on the kind of. organized subversion and Espionage. that's going on against the range of of. elite American intellectual property. development that we have. it's a problem it's different than what. we face in the Soviet Union times. because we knew all right Soviets were. our opponents.

and uh and we addressed it that way here. the Chinese have gotten their hooks in. uh a lot over the last uh 30 40 50 years. you know I want I just want to reiterate. something for the audience we are scared. to call out Chinese spies over fear of. racism. that's where we're at right now we've. got Mitch McConnell who's married to a. Chinese woman has a Chinese Shipping. Company controlled by China we have our. families and stuff we have the Escape so.

I named the politician that was sleeping. with a Chinese spy they just swallow yes. we had was it a couple weeks ago we just. found out two Chinese spies inside the. U.S Navy I think one was working on a. submarine the other one uh I can't. remember. yep nothing's being done well at least. those guys are removed but but the the. counterintelligence screening obviously. needs to be. far more aggressive and diligent because.

here's the thing when you when you see. what G says Xi Jinping the ruler of. China The Dictator. he says prepare for great hostilities. not prepare for our Pure competitor that. our trade rival all the rest the kind of. the Washington thinking of what China. still is oh no China is talking about. full-on preparing for. one hostilities. and we sent Janet Ulin.

Department of Treasury over there to. talk about climate change. yes. and that so that's the that is the true. disconnect of reality of what's. important in Washington versus what our. opponents are thinking about. I mean I just I don't see a way out of. this I just talked to this guy. last week he's part of the Afghan. resistance I think part of the reason. that that withdrawal happened the way it.

did is because. they took over all the lithium mines. no I don't think. we didn't withdraw from Afghanistan to. give China the lithium. um. I I no I there's sadly there is. a trillion or more dollars of value in. the ground in Afghanistan that the U.S. never even helped the Afghans fully. develop. because we're dumb and because we have.

how did we miss that 20 years we've been. there there's been this green Initiative. for. since I can remember. 20 years we've been there and we don't. help them develop. Minds to get the lithium out so that we. could Supply ourselves with batteries so. now we're going to take them all from. China. Well it's worse than that Sean I mean I. I talked about it last time but. before it even gets green the.

hydrocarbons that the U.S required right. to have. tens of thousands of forces in. Afghanistan requires a lot of gas diesel. and jet fuel and all of that was coming. from the med that we would boat down. through the Red Sea to Karachi truck it. up all the way up into Afghanistan which. is why the fully burdened cost of that. gallon of diesel fuel. was between 200 and 250 dollars per. gallon by the time it got there. but.

in just south east of Mazar Sharif up in. the north of the country. uh in bulk province is the amudaria oil. field which was. discovered drilled proven by the Soviets. in the 1980s and when they left in 1989. they cemented the wells left it properly. and left. and so U.S is there and we're there for. 20 years. the the real problem is is the the US is.

a lousy colonial power. and and with the mindset of Washington. as if an unending supply of money. to send the money from Washington that's. easier than figuring out how to build. value locally. the Brits had a great. with the East India Company model and we. should talk about that more later. they had a great saying that a. functioning Workshop is better than a. battalion of soldiers. and.

doing. figuring out ways to actually make value. uh and and face it a society needs. energy. it needs water. and these building materials. to start building out a society. and what we never did in Afghanistan was. while we overempowered clowns like. Karzai. origani who were just corrupt awful. people do you know what.

um cars I was doing. before he was a hot dog vendor he had a. hot dog cart on Capitol Hill in. Washington. the CIA put him in a position of power. because he could speak good English. not because he was a great unifying. candidate you're kidding me. fact Karzai had a hot dog cart. wow but. um. I mean Masood. the the line of the Pangea the kind of.

the leader of the Northern Alliance was. a great leader and The Logical leader to. turn to but Al Qaeda killed him with a. suicide media crew that literally took a. camera packed with explosives into an. interview with him and blew it up two. days before 9 11. so that Lisa Taliban. knew or the al-Qaeda knew that guy's. going to be a rival and they took him. out but over empowering the Afghans to. let them make these decisions meant that. the Chinese bid for the amudaria oil. field and they sat on it not because.

they're waiting for us to leave it's. because they were too scared to operate. it the Masai knock mine which is one of. the largest single copper deposits in. the world. is only 30 miles south of Kabul has been. mined for at least a thousand years. and still the the rights were sold to. some Chinese entity because they black. bagged meaning paid cash to some corrupt. Afghan official to get the rights to it. but again functioning Workshop better.

than the Battalion of soldiers a. functioning must I knock mine we could. have sucked 10 000 Afghans with Taliban. out of their fighting pool and giving. them picks and shovels Three Square. meals a day pray five times a day and we. would have taken the equivalent of an. infantry division worth of Taliban off. the battle space and let them produce. copper. generals the problem with our generals. is they don't think about what controls. the arteries of Commerce what really. makes an economy work because their.

money their money in their mind comes. from Congress and it just appears in an. account. for them to consume they don't think. about how the money gets there in the. first place and so generals think about. controlling battle space. not about actually controlling hearts. and Minds by employing people and. feeding people and so. so many opportunities like that were. missed and. it really comes down to well and this is. the problem in in the Sahel.

um with with collapsing states there. with places America has been. that. I think we forget what built our society. in the first place. um. one of my favorite movies is um it's an. old Tom Cruise movie called farn away. poor Irish kid has nothing in Ireland. makes his way to America Nicole Cruz is.

the daughter of some wealthy Irish Elite. and uh and they go together but they. eventually make it to Oklahoma because. he wants land he wants to own land in. America gave away a lot of land to. settlers that would come in. legally and claim their land and they. they could own it if they could Farm it. and I think the. it's really easy to forget what the the. underpinnings of what made our society.

function. and that really became a clear to me. when I met a guy named Hernando de Soto. um he's a Peruvian economist. um. so he grew up he is probably 70 years. old now. but in the 80s. he was managing a construction company. in Switzerland. grew up in Peru somehow winds up in. Switzerland he's managing instruction. construction company that's very well.

makes a ton of money. goes back to Peru. peruse a they have huge. problems they had this intractable. unsolvable communist Insurgency called. The Shining path send Daryl luminoso and. it's raging and it's causing all kinds. of problems and he thought why is. Switzerland great. why is Peru not what's the problem. because the Peruvian people aren't dumb. they're hard working they want to be. successful what made Switzerland.

successful so he really dug in and I. think it's important. to remind people of what makes. capitalism possible and he said the. difference is. you can get title to land clearly and. simply. and and defensively you can get title to. land in Switzerland you can open a bank. account you can get a business license. you can get a banking account you can. have if there is a commercial dispute.

you have some means of arbitration or a. or a fairly. transparent honest court system. and and he basically mapped. how an economy works from the very. bottom of the ladder right think about. what you've done here you did the the. Sean Ryan show you had to get Elise on. some commercial space. you had to get a uh a trademark right on.

your stuff you had to be able to enter. into contract with advertisers and you. have to have a a release form sign but. you have all those basic elements of. contract. that we take for granted right if you. want a new company in America you can. call a Delaware business formation place. and you'll have it in an hour for a. couple hundred bucks. that wasn't existing all that basic. infrastructure. regulatory. Commercial Code Etc doesn't exist in.

Peru. um and that's what's keeping people. really down because if if you're an. elite yes you can pay this guy and this. guy and you get this license you. navigate and you you coordinate your. Monopoly right and they're they're doing. fine but the poor guy who's just trying. to farm. so we grow something how does he get it. to Market. probably doesn't have a road that's. reliable he can't enter into contract on. these very limited number of buyers. because he can't advertise because he.

doesn't legally own his product and he. can't doesn't have a business or a bank. account to receive money so he's limited. to cash only it literally is the road. map of how to suppress somebody and keep. someone down. so. uh DeSoto. made a recommendation because again he. had a communist Insurgency just raging. um causing Carnage and Mayhem he said. enough let's give the composinos the. country people rights to their land.

clear title. within a year of doing that it was over. people own their land they started to. have a path forward of capitalism to say. this is my land when I put the trouble. into clearing it and tilling it and. fertilizing it and growing it. this is this I will defend. and so. um. and and good um uh good borders good. fences make good neighbors and good.

trading partners and that started to. build the basis of society so DeSoto. built. a Consulting business. and you wrote a couple of books one of. them is called uh invisible capital. recommended. and the other is uh the other path. obviously the other path other than The. Shining path. I'd encourage your viewers to read that. as well it gives a great appreciation of. what. you see what happens in other countries.

or doesn't happen. versus what we really take for granted. in America and why we have to fix the. regulatory State because all those. basics of business formation of. Commercial Code all those things the. more we let Washington and big. government screw it up the more it. suppresses it's another rock in the. rucksack of the little guy who's. starting at the very bottom of the. ladder to climb up. I then. I reconnected with DeSoto.

uh about 15 years ago. I mean so forgive me but I went to. Hillsdale College which is a very. libertarian school it accepts no money. from the federal government and so. reading about De Soto and Hayek and the. Austrian School of economics in a very. free market approach was that's what I. that was unfortunately it was my. experience in college to do that. but I reconnected with him because.

um. I'd had um. I had dinner with a with a Middle East. monarch. and we're talking about. the basics of building an economy and in. affecting reforms like DeSoto had done. in small places like. Peru or in other countries where he kind. of built a Consulting business about how. to declutter their economy. and DeSoto came and gave a so it was. amazing the the Monarch his immediate.

cabinet were there at this lunch. and um. DeSoto gave this amazing. display a talk about about something. they'd done in Egypt that they'd. recommended in Egypt just a few years. prior. and what they'd done they looked at. Egypt again Egypt 100 million people. bursting at the seams got a lot of. people not a lot of capitalism a lot of. corruption very very hard for people to. climb from the bottom of the ladder to.

start up. and what they found. is about 45 percent. of the Egyptian economy was considered. gray Market. not black it wasn't illegal they weren't. doing criminal stuff. but the fact is the bureaucracy and the. corruption made it. impossible. for a normal guy to start a business and. to make something happen and he gave an. example if you're a baker right you're. baking bread. but a lot of flatbread you've had a lot. of flatbread flat bread in the Middle.

East right yes we have. that poor guy. to be a legal Baker and to grow his. baking business Beyond his. Hut on land that he doesn't even own. the licensing process and he mapped it. it was like 35 steps long. and he paid they literally sent people. around to figure out okay this is the. this is the bribe you have to pay for. this one and this signature and this. signature in this signature just to do a. baking license.

how do you get. um land for it how do you get the import. permits for for the wheat or to put the. entire supply chain together. it was more than a year it was 14 months. of wages just in bribes to get the. license. it was two years in duration just to try. to go through the process just for a. baker to become a baker worse. about 40 to 50 percent of the population.

of the country occupies government. housing. that they don't own that belongs to the. government. and so they can't get a mortgage on it. they can't sell it to their son or. daughter or they can't sell it if they. want to move it's just Frozen Capital he. identified trillions of dollars of. Frozen capital in Egypt alone between. land that was not owned. real estate that wasn't owned all of. which combines to keep.

the poor poor. and you know Egypt is run effectively by. the military the military controls way. too much of the economy to the detriment. of that society and that's a model that. you could show pretty much anywhere. Pakistan same problem the all of Africa. hat doesn't have that kind of. infrastructure and that's what. the the blessings of the founding. fathers. laying out a new land and it's.

interesting George Washington was his. first job he was a surveyor he. understood land he understood title. heck I even remember I learned about a. lot about Land Title. um when I started Blackwater because I. had to um. originally contracted for a 3015 acres. and then we did the survey I picked up. an extra 85 Acres on the deal because. there was a difference between the Torin. system which was something that went. back to the George Washington days up to. the present.

but the other Brilliance of land owning. land in America is you own it from the. surface. to the Center of the Earth. really I didn't know that yes so you own. unless you conveyed the mineral rights. to someone else you own from the surface. to the center. that's why fracking that's why a lot of. the extractive industries flourish in. America not in the UK because a UK. farmer. owns the surface. but the government owns underneath and.

so. the farmer doesn't benefit if someone. comes puts a drill rig in his Farmland. he doesn't really have a position to to. take so that's why so much of that that. we that's been effective at making. America energy independent doesn't apply. in Europe so the the benefit of the new. world of mapping of of. codifying private property rights in. commercial code so that the very very. poorest the people with nothing can.

start to climb the ladder and with hard. work and diligence and savings they can. make it work. coming back to the lack of. competitiveness in America. what's eroding the income disparities. all those things is a direct result of. the regulatory State and very big. business which has been allowed to to. consolidate at a very very unhealthy. level. is what's causing that income disparity. and these costs and this inflation.

you've heard of John Rockefeller right. so he donated Central Park to the city. of New York. that's the kind of wealth we're talking. at its peak Standard Oil controlled 90. percent. of all the hydrocarbons in America. think of that. what other country what other company. controls 90 of something in America. Google. search we'll come back to that. so because of the truly robber barons.

level right Vanderbilt controlled the. railway. uh Rockefeller controlled. um. hydrocarbons they've pushed through laws. the Sherman Antitrust Act and then uh. Clayton which was another Anti-Trust. enforcement. Frank Teddy Roosevelt okay a bombastic. ballsy guy his main campaign was in. taking on these big trusts these big. uh cartel-like behavior of the major.

industries which caused. really big uh income disparities in the. late 1800s early 1900s as these guys. really Consolidated and started to. dictate terms to the government. finally when and it's actually one thing. that Franklin Roosevelt did well in the. 30s was Anti-Trust enforcement and you. can see. um average wages started to improve and. and costs normalized and that worked in.

the 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s quite well but. then in the 80s. um. um sadly judge bork who is a supreme. court nominee of Reagan was not. confirmed but his his stuff on on. Anti-Trust enforcement was terrible. because he thought well if only if if. big business is great as long as it. drives efficiency. ignoring the fact that the fewer and. fewer businesses that control everything.

means it's very easy for them to. coordinate into cartel eyes and to set. prices and to Stick it to the Man to. stick it to the little guy. the. what what. made the rise of Hitler possible. was big cartels cartel-like Industries. there was the guy that that built uh IG.

farben which was the biggest super. conglomerate in all of Germany in the. tens 20s and 30s he saw what Rockefeller. did and he said we're doing that in. Germany so they had some super. Industries. super is in super large. um. um. that that was very easy for for the Nazi. party to control an influence. when you think about World War One.

Germany was defeated. I meant to take him I'm sorry I didn't I. have a I have a collection of of German. banknotes. from. 1918 1920 you can see they're beautiful. they're very articulate and it's one. mark five marks 20 marks. but then their inflation starts and it. goes crazy then you have twenty thousand. fifty thousand one million one billion. five billion Mark notes and it got so.

bad that you had would have a a. wheelbarrow of five billion Mark notes. to just buy a loaf of bread. so hyperinflation takes off in Germany. in the 20s because a really bad Economic. Policy a cartel lives like industry. and what do people do they elect Adolf. Hitler. we must. never let it come to that. uh and respect the institutions respect.

the Constitution our founding fathers. gave us the document and we ignore it at. our peril but what really made going. back to Germany and in cartel-like. businesses. people talk about communism. communism is State ownership State. control of the means of production. fascism. not so Nazism national socialism was. government control of private resources.

much easier to control 10. oligarchs 10 super wealthy super big. companies versus a hundred thousand. small businesses small business. entrepreneurs. so the the the super controlled. cartelized Industries much easier for. the Nazi party control and influence and. to and to get them to. to be fellow Travelers in their awful. Voyage into you know trying to for them.

to launch the Fatherland I feel like. we're seeing that today here in this. country. again individual owner operator. entrepreneurship businesses is the enemy. of big government in control. so everything we do has to be to promote. individual entrepreneurship individual. liberty Free Speech private land private. ownership private Capital that is the. enemy of big government and big control.

the three things it was the mission of. the US Army after the defeat of the. Nazis. denotsify. demilitarize. and decartellize German industry so. believe it or not the US Army did a very. good job of breaking up those big. Industries. so that they wanted to educate by force. I mean we're occupying the country as. necessary. that to the German people that you can't.

have political Liberty if you have. all your businesses in the control of a. few big super majors. and so literally the US government broke. up those German businesses and. effectively democratize them. in the in the late 40s 50s which is why. the German economy came roaring back and. is still one of the most productive ones. in the world. but U.S did that. so we have the Anti-Trust legislation.

from. 125 years 130 years ago we've done. Anti-Trust work in the United States. before in it and you can look at the. graphs read that book The Myth of. capitalism it shows it as clear as day. we must do that again to break up all. these super major industries. and and I I challenge your readers or. your your listeners in their daily. activity as you look at big companies. you think.

how many of those how many competitors. are there because it's not nearly many. as as is perceived. and that that that is the root of what's. wrong in America today. how far do you think we're going to see. this go. [Applause]. I mean you're talking about. land ownership do you think it's. is going to intrude owning land. well look anytime anytime what is the. anytime government puts restrictions on.

what you can do with your land. how much do you owe if you're paying the. taxes on it and they say and you say you. own it but you can't do. 10 things you want to do with land. that's the that's the issue. um. look if if if government starts taking. away private property ownership no it. will be in a civil war long before that. I mean because even as bad as Poland was. under Soviet rule. 45 until 1989.

a lot of the land in Poland was still. actually privately held. no they couldn't do a lot of what they. wanted with it but at least there was a. there is a. it is healthiest for society the more. people own land. and owning it. um is far better than renting it I I an. immediate problem that I see even. um is is Big corporations. big pools of capital that are buying up. all kinds of private housing.

and turning around and renting it. basically making it into all Airbnb. Airbnb properties that must be curtailed. if you're a mayor if you're a city. councilor accounting commissioner. cut that out because that the advantage. will always always go to this the super. big guys. because when you've had low interest. Lending. by the central bank. the people that have the benefit the. most from you know quantitative easing.

low interest rates to Infinity like we. have for the last 30 years it seems. is the big Banks sorry it's the big the. big borrowers because they can borrow at. the very very cheapest rates and so they. can always afford to pay a little bit. more for that house and always squeeze. out the little guy. the the responsibility of government. right why did why did um. why did government start after Kane. killed Abel back in Genesis government.

exists to prevent murder. um and to and to establish a basic level. of Justice. and the the role of the US government. should be to ensure individual liberty. and ensure equal treatment under the law. not skewed treatment under the law based. on on um. wealth accumulation and political access. and lobbying access. like so a lot of sense let's um let's. say quick break when we come back I'd.

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that's fine too I appreciate it either. way love you all let's get back to the. show thank you. all right Eric we're back from the break. Russia Ukraine's always at the top of. the media headlines. I got a couple of questions one why are. we so involved in that conflict and why. is Putin so hell-bent on on this war as.

well I've heard I mean it's obvious that. he wants the two locations on the border. that that are already underbrush and. influence but I keep hearing this other. thing that he it's it's it has to do. with NATO and the woke agenda moving. closer to his border do you think. there's any validity to that or is that. just. social media internet nonsense. Vladimir Putin is a traditionally. trained KGB officer. operated in the 90s.

in the 80s uh at the height of the Cold. War. and as. Soviet Union collapsed the Empire. collapsed. um. and I think the West unnecessarily. embarrassed Russia which is a ancient. and proud country. um and the promises that were made hey. we're not going to extend NATO. uh farther east. um We're Not Gonna not a threat all the.

rest of course. the neocon. Paradigm that is dominant in the. Democrat foreign policy now. is one that Russia must be destroyed and. embarrassed and brought to heal. Etc. I think that's a that's a huge mistake. when you look at the resilience. that. the Soviets that the Russian people. showed in World War II. I think it's easy for us in America to.

forget or to ignore history right we. watch Saving Private Ryan and we see. movies like that and think. we won World War II we defeated the. Nazis. the fact is. 22 million. citizens of Russia of Soviet Union died. defeating the Nazis. 22 million yes. how many Americans died in World War II. four hundred thousand. 250 000 in the European theater 150 000.

in the Pacific Theater that's it. four hundred thousand. 22 million. while the U.S. was just invading North Africa in um. Morocco Operation Torch 1943. by then. the Soviets had erased 650. 000. members. of the German order of battle at the. Battle of stalagrad alone.

do you know how many Russians died at. Stalingrad 1.2 million. okay so they paid a very. heavy price in defeating. national socialism. and so if you're a Russian if you're. Putin a traditionally trained KGB. officer who thinks of the days of Peter. the Great and the greatness of the. Russian Empire and making Saint. Petersburg beautiful again and all the.

rest. um at no time. since May of 1941. did you have more unfriendly forces at. the at the border of Russia than now. with NATO. look I get the baltics. Poland. in wanting to to make partners of and. and Allied partners of them but there's. a lot of stuff we do that is.

unnecessarily. antagonistic you don't need to be flying. B-52s across the Baltic Sea constantly. in in mock nuclear missile runs so. there's a lot of things the U.S did. that were very unnecessarily provocative. and the idea of adding Ukraine which was. never that much of an independent. country always part of the greater ruse. and and and and very much a intermixing.

of Russian Ukrainian language even a lot. of the east of Ukraine speaks Russian. parkive the netsk donbath Crimea. um. talking about making them part of NATO. dumb idea really dumb and so it's all. part of the fu Russia Fu Russia Fu. Russia of the of the neocon agenda and I. would say linked with the permanent. State military-industrial complex in. Washington.

the Russians had said consistently. don't do this or we're going to react. um and I guess in keeping with the. unseriousness of how Washington. negotiates just like we sent Janet. Yellen. to Beijing to plead for meetings and to. talk about climate change the state. department sends Wendy Sherman. who is the deputy secretary of state. to dissuade the Russians and she had.

been she'd been a social worker. so you're going to send a social worker. diplomat. I'm sure she's a nice woman but not. being kind of imposing figure to sit. across a table from. Putin who sits on the top of a gang of. oligarchs and Russian generals and. badasses. to say please don't invade Ukraine we. will be very upset if you do it's just. not the right image I mean I think back. an early mentor of mine. um a guy named Dick Allen who is.

Reagan's first national security advisor. and he was sent after the election in. 1980 to meet with the Mullis in Geneva. because at that point you had. 52 American hostages that have been held. for a year plus the failed rescue. attempt very much a low point in. American foreign policy Mojo. his message was very simple if the. hostages are not released by the time. Reagan makes it from the front steps of.

the Capitol to the White House. we're going to turn your country into a. sheet of glass. and he's the right guy to live with a. message he's a huge Scotch Irishman with. huge hands huge jawline I'm sure that. was delivered with. all the necessary bravado and they got. the message and sure enough the houses. are released. it is a lack of seriousness in. Washington sending unserious people. trying to do serious. statecraft anymore so.

long answer. to a key topic why Ukraine. why now. we've spent. a lot of money. the Europeans have not spent nearly as. much I think it's a it's a great. evidence of what a joke NATO is and even. even how hollowed out our own industrial. base is. that it's a struggle for the U.S and the. West to keep up with just the basics of. artillery shells that we have to depend. on the Koreans and Indians and other.

random Supply bases around the world. to even fight a very limited front uh. land war or to support a country that's. doing so. um. in Ukraine. there is a great. book I read called Freedom's Forge so. coming back to who really defeated the. Nazis. the Soviets did most of the heavy. lifting they killed most of the Soviet. or most of the German army.

what made it possible was American. industry. how do you go. um you know because the German Army was. had only like half trucks still used a. huge amount of horses to move their. Logistics stuff. how do you make it possible for the. Soviet Army to go from Moscow to go all. the way to Berlin 600 000 us-made trucks. six hundred thousand. made in Detroit. shipped to romance down driven that kind.

of American industry cranking out. um Freedom's Forge talks about and I'm. biased because I'm from Michigan and. come from an automotive. manufacturing family. uh we were making a major combat. aircraft every six minutes. um a liberty ship they could put it. together in a week just a staggering. amount of production and that's you know. P for plenty Works uh still in that kind. of War. how does it end.

group look real quick I thought I heard. you mention that our Industrial. it's it's it's is are you saying it's. shrinking it's it's hollowed out it's a. fraction of what it used to be do you. think that there's a possible I mean I. know we're sending a ton of equipment. over to Ukraine which which is a ton of. money. I don't know if this is just wishful. thinking or not but are we are we on the. precipice of a new era of Weaponry if.

we're just sending our old junk over. there. well. I think um. for all the the love affair of this. super glorious. um high-end American weapon systems they. haven't had the. uh the Catalyst effect of success that. has been promised and. um the nature of warfare is changing. absolutely when you think uh you know.

the first strategic offset right with. the uh cold war starts U.S versus Soviet. Union East versus West the first. strategic offset was. um nuclear weapons and so we competed. with the Soviets as to who could throw. more tons of nuclear weapons and then. Precision strike. the US gets really smart on delivering a. bomb from uh aircraft artillery shell or. whatever. um with with high accuracy and that. starts late 80s.

90s early 2000s now that's pervasive not. yet now you have Isis. uh you know terrorists with a with a. commercial quadcopter can deliver a a. grenade into the hatch of uh of a Humvee. from a thousand feet overhead right so. everybody has Precision strike the next. and what does that mean that it means. any weapon or person that can be. localized identified on the battle space. can be targeted immediately so big.

heavily armored slow. uh or command bunkers or anything that. has emitting a lot of electrons. can be targeted for annihilation. immediately so it's going to rapidly. have to disperse and make your Force. very small and mobile and agile to be. much more cavalry-like in in your. movements and obviously there's going to. be Ai and Robotics and a lot of those. things you're going to drive towards.

more and more unmanned weapons it's a. stark reminder that big ships can be. targeted by lots of missiles and. overwhelmed. from weapons that are fired a long long. ways away well beyond. Horizon so for for the aircraft carrier. U.S Navy surface vessels Etc it's a very. very dangerous time as the Russians have. even experienced moving boats around the.

Black Sea whether they're targeted by. Ukrainian Neptune missiles or jet skis. that have been hot rodded to be operated. from Beyond the Horizon and even fire or. even launched in an autonomous mode. again anything that could be found can. be targeted that is a huge problem and. now I even see there's you know one of. the popular. weapons being used in Ukraine is a. cardboard drone made in Australia. it was originally a resupply drone.

possibly repurposed cardboard doesn't. show up on radar it's autonomous and it. delivers a 5kg warhead. um P for plenty still applies and if you. can have cheap and accurate uh it will. have. significant effects in the battlefield. the problem is. the Russians are really good at. conventional War. they do they do the. combined arms infantry artillery tank.

warfare exceedingly well. in. August July the summer of 1943 was the. largest tank battle in world history six. thousand tanks. just north of where the heavy fighting. is now in Ukraine it's called The Battle. of Kursk. it was the last big offensive push that. the Germans tried because at that point. there was a bulge in the line.

surrounding Kursk that the the Soviets. held. and so the Germans. tried to do a pincer movement from the. north and from the south. but the Allies the U.S the Brits. specifically the Brits because they had. broken the Enigma codes the German Army. codes they knew what the intentions of. the German Army were. that was passed or leaked to the Soviets. who then proceeded to build up multiple. lines of heavy heavy anti-tank defense.

and so when the Germans came with. thousands of tanks and hundreds of. thousands of dudes. they just exhausted themselves and. got consumed and that was the last. offensive push the Germans could ever. muster and from then it was a slow. manage Retreat all the way to Berlin. the Russian generals are not idiots. they know the terrain that the. ukrainians will want to come through. and they have built multiple lines in.

that in that break from last. fall. until the summer the Russians were very. very busy building one two and three. lines of defenses now when when some. breathless. um article comes through this ah the. ukrainians have broken through the first. line of defense yeah there's at least. two or three more to go. and you're gonna chew through a lot of. Manpower and equipment. to try to do that and even once you're. through. that doesn't mean you can reinforce that.

attack because you have to. uh the amount of logistics flow to feed. a tank Army and the move is really hard. it's very very hard and it's exceedingly. hard if you don't have air power what. made the maneuver Warfare. Blitzkrieg offenses of the German Army. possible or stukas and air power over. the battle space and it's really enabled. the Russian army flying starmovics a.

Russian plane and a lot of us-made. aircraft like uh P 39 p59s an aircraft. with a 37 millimeter cannon right in the. nose. that it was air power with ground power. that made those breakthroughs possible. and and. um air power has not made much of an. impact over the Ukrainian theater right. now because of the amount of missiles. both sides have that makes it a very. very unfriendly place to be so I don't. think.

well here's the other thing. Putin got fed. um. a lot of hubris like you'll be bit. you'll be oh you know viewed as. liberators they'll they'll welcome. Russian troops it'll be great it's gonna. be over in five days there's a great. report written by the Royal United. Service Institute which is a British. military Think Tank on the UW. unconventional warfare preparations that.

the Russians had all up until their. invasion of February of 2022. and they were so confident it was going. to go that they'd already rented. apartment spaces for their guys in Kiev. because they thought it was going to be. that quick obviously it's not a daylight. assault into an Airfield by helicopters. didn't go well for him the Russians were. slaughtered so all those. those uh soft type missions. really did not go well.

and they got bogged down their Logistics. you see the the stories about the the 30. and 40 mile lines of logistics. that's the other thing that really. affects. Warfare despite all of our technology is. uh novices argue tactics professionals. playing Logistics. um you have fighting seasons and you. have mud Seasons there's even a word for. it it's called The Great rasputitsa the. the great slush. um when when you take muddy Great Farm.

fields and you cover them with snow and. ice and then it melts. it's enough to sink a tank. uh we're we're reaching the end of. fighting season now and then you're. gonna go into mud season in the fall or. it's impassable then by December you'll. have some very very hard Frozen. conditions again possible to roll tanks. and stuff. across the fields. so Putin got fed. obviously bad Intel and so his invasion.

didn't go as planned and so now he's. stuck. he's kind of like riding a tiger that he. can't get off. because if he gets off the Tiger. and says okay now it's it's peace and. and you know one of the things that. really brought down the Soviet Union in. 91. was tens of thousands of pissed off. veterans that came back from Afghanistan. saying what the hell do we sacrifice all. that for. that helped throw over to the government. he has lots of those problems.

lots of really damaged. I mean he's lost hundreds of thousands. of dudes so he's got parents siblings. spouses and wounded veterans that gave a. lot. with nothing to show for it so if he if. he if he is can't show a win. he's toast he's got an election in March. of next year that he has to get through. a a presidential election. yes he's he's locked up a lot of the uh.

the opposition right his his opposition. on the left would be the navalnys and. the other Free Speech guys but he's also. been locking up the really really. right-wing super Russian nationalist. hardliners. trying to turn to Securus flanks trying. to stay on top of this of this tiger. it's an exceedingly uncomfortable. position for him I'm sure. I don't think. I don't think the war is on his side. that he's ready to end until.

uh at least until 25. because the. Russians look still making all kinds of. money on selling oil and gas and wheat. and and all those basic Commodities the. world still needs those and people will. find a way to buy it the longer that. goes and they'll it and this is where. it's really not in our strategic. long-term interest the more. we push Russia away from Europe. and into the into the servitude of China.

that is not not not in our interest that. is exceedingly bad. long-term. historically culturally we in the west. and in Western Europe have a lot more in. common with Russia than we do with China. or Japan or Korea or India. and that's the really the tragic thing. the criminal thing that the whole Russia. collusion the lie that was spun.

by the left. to damage trump it prevented Trump from. making a deal with Putin that would have. brought him away from the orbit of China. into a look we don't have to be their. best buddies but they can we can trade. with them and even if it was at best if. it was Frenemies and not enemies that's. a a better position of respect and a. much better in in American interest in. Western. um.

Western Nation thinking making them our. uh our trading partner that we don't. have to agree with all the time but they. at least have mutual respect for instead. of well now we effectively have a a. proxy war and it's not healthy now I'm. hoping. that. a lot of the previous Appropriations. were done under a Democrat control. Congress Republicans have a. obligation. to rein in the spending and to try to. bring that war to a rapid close because.

there's a lot of ukrainians dying and a. lot of Russians dying every day. and I don't think I don't think the. lines are going to move substantially in. either direction and so it's just going. to be like a like a World War One. um. trench warfare scenario where guys are. just into the into the cauldron and. dying you remember like the battle of. the psalm the British lost 60 000 dudes. in a weekend. just. awful. what what the Russians are doing is. recruiting widely and they're paying.

more and more it's like a thousand guys. a day sent to the front and about 400 of. them are dying so it's just uh it is a. meat grinder and I can't imagine it's a. lot different on the Ukrainian side. what is our motivation what is our real. motivation to be there. it's that neocon attitude of weekend. Russia destroy Russia. all the rest do you think there's any. validity to the money laundering these. supposed bio Labs I don't know about the.

bio Labs look what I will say is about. because I try to buy a business. in Ukraine long before this started it. was mortar's itch which was a um. it's a company that made most of the jet. engines uh for used in Ukrainian. aircraft like antonops or in um in in. Russian or Ukrainian made helicopters. they made turbine engines and they were. really good at it and they were. low cost it was an interesting window. into Chinese interest because one of the.

things that Chinese still don't do that. well is make turbine engines and super. important for our Fighters F-22 F-35. whatever to have way better engines the. Chinese make. and um the Chinese had actually spent. um at a billion dollars to illegally and. illicitly through a bunch of shell. companies try to buy Motors itch. um and then when the Ukrainian. government figured it out they they. blocked the sale but by then the Chinese.

had gotten some hooks in and were. basically hiring away a lot of the. the engineers and line production guys. Etc because they didn't really have a. job anymore in Ukraine brought them to. to China and um yeah sadly under the. both the. uh Obama and even under the Trump State. Department. we were blocked I was with some Western. investors blocked trying to buy Motors. itch by largely.

idiot bureaucrats at the state. department which is not the. unfortunately not the first time we've. been block trying to do something. positive for America yeah yeah so I. don't know about bio Labs yes there's an. enormous amount of money being blown. um in that process. this industrial complex love to spend. more stuff and turn the inventory. absolutely. um it shows how absolutely pathetic our. industrial base is compared to what it.

used to be. 20 years ago we had a hundred major. defense contractors now we have five. it's in keeping with the rest of the. consolidation that's been allowed to. happen all across Society it's. especially the case that's why all of. our weapon systems cost way too much are. way too slow to get to Market and are. way too overly complex. and so. you saw. you saw a little bit of faster adapt. adaptation during Afghanistan and Iraq.

because it was different sources of. money where if it was a general or a. lower level Service Chief that said I. have this urgent and compelling need and. I'm gonna buy that I'm going to buy that. capability and get it to the field. versus the normal procurement process. which is ponderous and ridiculously slow. and horrifically expensive who are the. five defensive Contracting companies. Boeing Northrop. uh Raytheon uh General Dynamics Lockheed.

and Lockheed lockheed's the biggest. so they're overcharging for all their. their. they are wastefully charging meaning. they carry such massive overheads. because they can they can and Cost Plus. contracts do that there's two ways you. do contracts or for government. procurement one is uh fixed price. and the other is Cost Plus so fixed. price means I'm going to provide this. aircraft service and it's going to cost.

this much per hour you want to use it. great if not. that's it the cost plus. incentivizes the contractor to spend. more to apps to to maximize their cost. because the higher the cost is the more. they can add their fee to it. and that's how most of that government. procurement stuff is done. and it is the inverse of of the kind of. competitive stuff and I even saw a. glimpse of that. even with the contract manufacturing.

business if we're bidding something that. was going in a in a military vehicle it. had a completely different pricing. mentality. what the cover customer was driving. versus if we're making. industrial lighting parts. because that purchasing guy is on it and. looking to maximize. best quality best price best delivery. time. completely different priorities for a. government buyer. black water back in the days when I was. doing black water. about 95 of our contracts I wanted to do.

firm fixed price and we did why. because coming from. an automotive hyper-competitive industry. where we really learned to run our costs. we made good margins because we knew. what our costs were and we drove our. costs down as much as possible we got. hyper efficient. so we could out compete. everybody else and I think that's one of. the reasons the big Washington hated the. idea of a black water because we had a.

we were a tiny company we never did. anywhere close to a billion dollars in. Revenue but we our management team and. our capability we punched way above our. weight in the idea of a. of a uh. fast Innovative company that would. go and do and go and dare was. antithetical to Washington. yeah like remember Sudan melted down. like two months ago. The Wall Street Journal reporter.

contacted me said hey are you doing any. evacuations from the 16 000 Americans. that are stuck in Sudan. and even General Millie was calling to. some of these uh ngos trying to get. these American citizens out of Sudan. and I said no I'm sitting this one out I. said well wouldn't it wouldn't it. wouldn't it be nice if there was a. private military company. that had its own aircraft that were. self-insured that would go and solve. that I said oh yeah as a matter of fact. there was but it was smashed by the. Obama Administration. what do they say to that he didn't.

comment and the Wall Street Journal. didn't didn't quilt didn't didn't run my. quote I'm sure they didn't. has anything happening with that. no. not my not my problem wow do you think. what do you think about these black. budget programs. that everybody's talking about with the. with the five military industrial. complex companies you see all this UFO. disclosure. free energy there was the first.

congressional hearing about it all what. is your take on that stuff. do they have these super weapons are. they developing them. within Raytheon Lockheed I I don't know. man I don't know I mean are there black. budgets absolutely should there be black. budgets absolutely. when you know when when in the 50s when. we're trying to figure out what the heck. the Soviets are doing and to go to. completely. um uh.

and run the ponderous slow DOD. production process. the CIA went to Lockheed Martin's Gunk. works and said. build me a plane that'll go Mach 3 plus. it'll go 80 000 feet that will fly. faster than any Soviet missile even. flying can get to it and sure enough. Kelly Johnson with a slide rule built. the SR-71 still the fastest aircraft in. the world when a retired just uh 15 20. years ago it's.

an amazing piece of engineering. and like I said they did it with slide. rules. so what what a few people. a few picked men can do given money and. authorities to uh to affect uh the. course of a nation's history is is. spectacular. another book you must read is called to. Daren to conquer the the book is written. by Derek Lee part and it's about. basically Special Operations in world. history.

affecting uh the the truly the course of. history from Alexander the Great all the. way through to uh to today oh that. sounds very interesting it it's uh it's. encouraging right you come from the. Special Operations mindset and um and. you know the kind of people that will do. that and it even makes the point the guy. the the author is Derek Lee part. it's one of my favorite books it's. probably one of my most recommended. reads because. people that want to consider joining the.

military but being in a soft type unit. it's uh it's very empowering because it. says because it shows you. holy cow look at what Cortez did with. with a couple hundred or Pizarro or Sir. Francis Drake I mean Sir Francis Drake. on behalf of England because they were. raiding against Spain. sailed all the way now in a in 150 maybe. a 200 foot wooden sailing ship sailed. from England all the way down to the. east coast of Argentina attacks some.

Spanish. gold ships. sailed all the way around the southern. tip of Argentina Through the Wood is now. the Drake Passage the most dangerous you. know 50 to 80 mile an hour winds 40 foot. Seas again on a wood Sailing Boat up the. west coast of Chile attacked some more. boats. and you couldn't make it back so what'd. he do he sailed West sailed all the way. around the world around the southern tip. of Africa back to England.

amazing stories of of bold Special. Operations minded people that just kept. it together and did. not just multi-hour or multi-day. multi-month multi-year. missions pretty enlightening very. interesting I can't wait to check that. out. how do we wrap this up in Ukraine.

it is in the interest of the West to. bring Russia away from China. and so. is it is it uh how much of the interest. of the U.S taxpayer is who controls. Crimea. or mariopol or Donetsk or whatever. ultimately. those terrain issues. to me comes down to matters of. governance who governs that ground. the best.

and. like like we talked about earlier. on. how do you get land title or a business. license all those basic elements of. capitalism that allow people to live and. function that's ultimately the contests. that we're in globally between two very. different paradigms. one is what Built America in the first. place the American individualist. capitalist model versus a.

elitist government-run. image of the Chinese Communist party and. it's close I would say intellectual. second a global elitists click that. controls much of the means of production. and dictates terms to the masses of of. what they will do and how they should. live that's the real competition and. um my money's still on on. um having read books like um to Darren. to conquer and to see throughout history. that um.

uh the right people properly motivated. organizing. um to to compete and to uh and to. flourish. will still win out. it's hard a lot of suffering a lot of. struggle but we stand on the shoulders. of giants when you look at what our. forefathers built in the uniqueness of. the United States of America. and even the inherent advantages that we. have even by how America is laid out.

you have nowhere else on Earth do we. have more navigable rivers that are. effectively super highways for carrying. heavy Goods wheat or. manufactured goods whatever from the. Mississippi all the way up the Ohio the. Missouri all those Rivers the Great. Lakes infrastructure we have two basic. borders of non-hostile countries. one. becoming not hostile but becoming.

challenging because it's becoming more. of a narco state so we have to address. that. but. um the the tens of millions of Acres. that we have of really good arable land. again advantage to America it's ours to. screw up and in this idea of an American. Civil War or a great divorce or whatever. no. no American needs to stay United and it. needs to get back to what made it. effective in the first place.

man that's a. it almost seems impossible to me. that's it was so long ago that it seems. like we were United. and we're so far apart. listen. but but think about okay but think about. we we actually fought a war and we. killed 600 000 Americans to settle the. issue of secession and uh and slavery. and. um.

and we certainly came together after. that and we came back better than ever. we did There's I mean there's just so. many. I mean you have it's it just seems like. two totally different ideologies I mean. you have you literally have people that. are saying that a man can have a baby. there are people that think that it's. okay to mutilate children there are you. know for the transgender issue which I. know we're going to talk and back then. there was a mentality that it was okay. to own another human being very true. also pretty diabolical.

exceedingly that the Pure Unlimited evil. the idea that you can own another human. being okay maybe that's worth getting in. a fight over. I mean it took a civil war. yes and there is a lot of other issues. that have been settled you know the the. the the income disparities and the you. know it's funny. um. um for as much as the New York Times. hates private security and and and. trashes the industries that we came from.

um there were labor disputes so violent. for so many years in New York that they. had not just Private Security in the in. the lobby of the New York Times but the. new but but private security with. Gatling guns. really Gatling guns in the headquarters. of the New York Times that's the level. of labor violence that occurred there. we're a long ways from that. we've been there and in the Anti-Trust. enforcement and the the leveling of the.

playing field for the average American. mitigated a lot of those problems. so there's a lot of things that can be. done politically and it may be it's a a. uniting of the. of the populace left in the populist. right to say ah business is too big I. can agree with Elizabeth Warren on some. of these businesses being way too big. and should be um. um get broken up uh and some of these. regulations to be fixed.

fact you know but the more regulations. that are thrown on. like uh Dodd-Frank which was done. supposedly after the it was done after. the the financial crisis in 0809. tens of thousands of pages and. effectively Outlaws or makes it. exceedingly difficult for small Banks to. succeed it cartelizes banking. lending and finance is certainly a. precursor to having a healthy economy. for small businesses small farmers.

first time home buyers Etc the the the. basic first few rungs of the latter of a. capitalist climb. let's talk about the Wagner group okay. last interview. if I remember correctly. your approach to. stand up the Wagner Group which you. declined correct correct on both now can. we actually talk about that how did you. get approached.

there was a Russian guy that made uh see. the idea of private weapons. Manufacturing in Russia verboten. but this guy had made. um basically miniatures not a full-size. AKA it was like a miniature AKA used for. display purposes but it fully functions. so he knew. a lot of those they approached me via. him invited me to Moscow in 2011. now this is during the Great Love Fest. and Hillary Clinton's there talking.

about the great reset between Russia and. the United States and. they invited me to Russia actually went. shooting with Alpha group guys. they do some really crazy stuff on the. Range. like shoot each other. oh yeah seriously yes to the point. of uh your your my back to the firing. line a guy will come up and Blindside. you from behind and as your as your turn. as you're turning and falling you have. to draw and shoot the ipsec target he's.

holding on a stick next to him that. shit's real oh yeah did it. you did it I did it. now but what I didn't do is they were. actually wearing um a plate and they. were shooting each other in the center. of the plate at their chest. now I saw no point in that nor did I. want to be part of that but um they. missed their chance to to kill me by. accident at least but uh yeah there was. some some craziness and they were. carrying All American weapons.

really they were carrying rifles that. they'd taken off at dead Georgians just. three years before. so they had a a high preference for. higher end. American Tech but they'd I remember. they'd done um. had um. a beer with some of those guys after. that and they had um. they've done 900 kill capture missions. the previous year 900 yes inside Russia.

mostly against Dagestan and chechnya. because they had their own Islamic. Terror opposition problems in the south. of the country. but they I was I was shocked by how. um. they didn't really do Mobility very well. because they walked to every mission. no helicopters no air no nothing that. that the enabler the enabling tools that. a Socom guy would take for granted in. getting to the mission area to do the.

mission they didn't have. so anyway hard man I said you know thank. you left never heard from them again. and um and sure enough then a you know. the little green men the the. unconventional hybrid force was used. When They seized Crimea and the Eastern. parts of Ukraine in 2014. and then they used them in um in Syria. extensively and effectively why because.

at that point the Syrian Army had gone. to exhaustion was going to fail the. Iranians had sent in. thousands of irgc and Lebanese Hezbollah. Iranian proxies they were at the point. of exhaustion because they'd taken so. many casualties so the Russians made an. intervention and they used the the. pointy end of that spear was Wagner. group. so. they have. embraced the capability of a smaller.

footprint. um. approach to to exerting. um Security in in presence in countries. the really frustrating thing is in about. 2018. some friends of mine were approached. asked by the government of Car Central. African Republic. which four years before had a. um a coup and an uprising and and now. the country kind of devolved into two.

big warring factions the silica and the. anti-balaka which were supposedly a. Christian and a Muslim gang they were. fighting each other throughout is they. were just both criminals and they were. looting the country and the country had. previously collected about 600 million. dollars in tax. on all the. gold diamond copper tin. valued exports that were leaving the. country and now they were doing zero. and the mission was to collect the taxes.

to it basically to establish a mining. police force. collect the taxes on behalf of the. government and in doing so basically. choke out this gang activity so that. there was. safety on the roads safe trading posts. where people could mine legally and. trade the government collect the revenue. it would work. kind of the same way that trading posts. guarded by the pinkertons would have. worked in the American West. because as much as people think the.

American West was settled by the U.S. army. the Pinkerton detective agency was about. six times as large as the U.S army then. six times as many armed agents as the US. Army settling the American West why. because Banks Railways Telegraph. operators. needed security government wasn't doing. that so back to car. there's a U.N embargo in the country. um of course State Department blocked. any such innovation of doing that.

the Russians didn't they rolled in there. with 400 of their advisors and now. effectively Russia owns the central. African Republic Wagner group takes. about a billion dollars a year out of. those mines it's a big funding source. for the rest of their efforts and so. that was their first I would say success. they had they made an attempt to do some. things in Mozambique they did not do. well against the jihadis they had a. bunch of their guys. killed and beheaded and ambushes but the. Russians have used them as a as a.

Vanguard in controlling some significant. gas fields in Libya. now in Mali trying to do in Burkina. they're all over Africa huh yes. yeah. is. in the same way the East India Company. which. again I think it's important to remember. what Built America in the first place it. was companies I challenge your your.

viewers to look at the American flag and. look at the flag of Malaysia and tell me. what they see that's similar. the American flag was made from the East. India Company flag all that Betsy Ross. did was cut the Union Jack out and sew. in a field of blue stars the rest of our. flag was the East India Company flag. the East India Company operated in India. mostly for trade. with a security element. and that was a model that worked there. for hundreds of years.

they overplayed their hand Britain did. in the United States and the colonists. rose up and. [Music]. um. and pushed him out but it. put a small number push them out. 40 percent of the American now sorry. yeah 40 was pro pro crown. um. there was another 30 percent in the. middle that didn't really care there was. 30 percent that were pro-independence in.

the American uh Revolution. only 10 percent of that thirty percent. three percent of the American population. actually took up arms against the. British crown. this this competition now in Africa. why have all these French right there's. been like seven coups in the last three. years no eight coups now because Gabon. just just felt fell as well. all French uh Legacy colonies. it is. it is a collapse of governance it's a.

it's a it's a question of of the. legitimacy of the government that's. there are those governments well first. before even the Jihad issue enters in. are those governments providing any. means for the people to start crawling. off the Bottom Rung of the ladder to. start moving up there's no land rights. there's no ability to get a banking. account all those. the most basic elements of capitalism. which is what the U.S should be doing in.

the capacity building and Aid programs. that we do but instead it's mostly spent. on. gender issues and social engineering. issues which is not important to the. people and actually quite offensive. um. yes the Russians have certainly played a. role in stoking the anti-french hate. doing social media manipulation that's. definitely a Wagner function. they're involved in that absolutely. interesting sure look as a as a as a. company or it's not really what if we.

that's what I want to ask what is it is. it group is a brand name. is it government or is it like what you. had with Blackwater a private entity it. is I don't know of their corporate. structure but there's not a company. called Wagner group that's hiring these. people there's maybe a company that does. some Aviation there's another company. that does Manning there's another guy. because because Putin or sorry pregosian. started as a caterer. well firstly is a restaurant. and he was a popular restaurant got to.

know Putin those guys and he started. doing catering or like log cap type. contracts. this is the guy that started it okay the. guy who's not dead. um so starts as a caterer or a. Restaurant catering log cap type stuff. for the Russian army builds a PMC. builds horizontally to you know. basically full spectrum operations from. um political messaging manipulation.

social media campaigns to training. of police or training a military to. Blended to full-on combat forces. offensive type stuff which is what. you've even seen them doing in in. Ukraine. but this this competition of these. collapses is happening all over Africa. is a. stimulated by that messaging B uh maybe. some Recruitment and backing of a few of.

those Military Officers that say yeah. you'd be better at this you should do it. and we'll support you. and it's a lack of consequences. from the West. of of going after them right the U.S. answer to all these coups is oh we're. going to sanction those guys. so they can't get a us or a French bank. account or a European bank account so. what. the the the real scary thing. is you have all kinds of different. Jihadi organizations flowing around the.

Sahel. ever since Libya ever since the the bite. the the Obama Administration took out. Gaddafi in 2011. millions of those arms leaked all over. the Sahel and empowered all these. jihadis. and they're basically self-funding off. of. mining. particularly gold kidnapping extortion. Etc if those various different. giotti organizations unite under one.

strong leader you're going to have a a. super Taliban al-qaeda-like capability. all over the Sahel that will take out. those countries completely. and. on top of that they've had a demographic. Bloom because like 20 years ago the. Gates Foundation started doing all kinds. of vaccination programs there in it and. it reduced the child childhood mortality. which is wonderful. wonderful for the kids but the law of. unintended consequences you have this.

Bloom of of military age Manpower in. countries with no prospects for a job. no Embrace of Education or capitalism or. no plan for them to start climbing the. ladder of getting better except they. have access to money. and weapons and a unifying isis-like. Jihad mindset which is going to be. trouble for a lot of those already very. thinly you know like barely functional. States you it's tough to call Niger a. country.

and most of those countries in Africa. don't even meet the. far from meeting the minimum human. development index that the UN sets for. these countries so if they're not if the. government isn't even doing the most. basic of things for its citizens is it. really a country or is it just a a line. drawn on a map. I'll tell you. it is a interesting reality that nobody. thought of it's a very challenging very. very challenging reality it's fixable. it's solvable and if you look back at.

history as to how it was done in the. past that's that's what we'll be turned. to again and it is not going to be done. by sending the 82nd Airborne Division. there. it's fascinating to see the cause and. effect you know take place from from and. again the vaccination program. you know what did that cause and then. you just described it and then I I'm not. saying it's the vaccination causes. problem that caused it but it definitely. caused a a massive Bloom uh of more.

population that survived and now they're. all standing around saying. what do we do well I guess we go make. Jihad and um and this gets solved by. establishing some level of of credible. security. getting people some kind of property. rights where they have the the means to. farm or the means to to to better. themselves and to feed themselves. um. and when you look at.

when you look at even of what was done. in Africa. well let me back up I'll tell one story. back in. 2017 when I was really pushing the Trump. Administration to change the strategy in. Afghanistan. if we're not bad and uh Trump saw it and. he wanted to do that but really the the. Nash the the Beltway National Security. click said no hell no that's a terrible. idea. everything. I recommended was based on what worked.

for the East India Company for 200 years. which was. better to employ people than to fight. people. two if you're going to do security you. have to have locals but you have to have. locals led by professional expats. effectively like training wheels to keep. the bike upright. and I was speaking at the Henry Jackson. Society. in um in London which is like a. almost like a Heritage Foundation on.

foreign policy stuff. and I was laying this out speaking. unabashedly about the positives and some. of the negatives about the East India. company that it worked and stopped being. ashamed of it because this is the nature. of how you should do stability. operations because again much better to. employ people and to build out the. economy with a credible security. capability. at the end of the Q a this Pakistani guy. stands up and I thought oh here it comes. he's gonna he's gonna attack me and he. said everything that Eric said about the.

East India Company is exactly right he. said I like these damn Communists that. have been trashing everything the East. India Company did I have gone back to. the original records of the company and. found the following. yes. the East India Company built tens of. thousands of miles of irrigation and. made it possible for the entire. subcontinent to feed itself not just. defeat itself but to export food so it. ended famines they stopped the debtor. prisons which were common all over the.

subcontinent. and stop the warlordism they stopped the. Hindus and the Muslims from slaughtering. each other by the thousands and tens of. thousands and they stopped Sati. you know what Sati is I don't. it's wife burning. wife burning wife burning burning your. wife alive yes it's a old Hindu awful. practice. my favorite statue in London and I I was. out for a run one morning and I uh it.

was in Trafalgar Square. so you know Lord Nelson the the victor. of the battle of Trafalgar which. defeated the French navy over in the. corner is Charles Napier and I and it. caught my attention and said this this. statue was erected from the donation of. private soldiers. so I looked into Charles Napier and sure. enough he'd been a battlefield Commander. for the Duke of Wellington. helped deliver the victory at Waterloo. against the French and then he shipped. off to India and he's going to be the. governor of one of the the four trading.

colonies or could they call them. presidencies in in India I think it was. in Calcutta. and as he's getting there. he arrives and the locals are building. this funeral pyre in the center of the. city. he goes what's this. and they said ah yes you must respect. our tradition tomorrow we will burn this. this Indian Noble has died and tomorrow. we're going to burn his wife and she was. alive he said. come back tomorrow. so that night he had his East India.

Company forces erected Gallows. surrounding that funeral priority said. I will respect your culture and you will. respect ours in our culture if you burn. a woman You're a murderer and I'll hang. every one of you if you touch her. no more Sati amazing. if you're not confident enough in your. culture to do that once in a while. you're screwed. and I think we we the United States lost. a huge opportunity in Afghanistan by.

doing something just as bad you know. what bachabazzi is. I don't. you've probably heard of it but it's. that horrible practice of passing a. young boy around to his uncles and. cousins or whatever yeah to be brutally. sexually exploited. awful. not only do we not stop it the Obama. Administration penalized SF guys. who stopped that from happening they. didn't kill they just tuned up some.

corrupt bag police commander who. was raping his t-boy they caught him in. the act and they beat him up and they. court-martialed him for it if we had. done. in 2002. and we said no more bashabazi. we don't care. who you are if you're a warlord or if. you're the junior man no more we see you. doing it it's firing squad the next day. every woman in Afghanistan even the the.

mothers of every Taliban would have been. on our side why because no woman wants. that for their child. what. what a fail what a fail of the generals. to say. I represent the United States military. we stand for certain things and there's. some things I will not Overlook and and. what a what a what a missed opportunity. thank God for all those women in India. that Charles Napier said not on my watch.

man I gotta just you know. our military leadership is just on a. downward slope it has been for a long. time they're just. all things ebb and flow anything about. come on even during the American Civil. War how many Lincoln had to fire five. heads of the army. until he finally gets to Grant. uh Winfield Scott and McClellan a couple. other guys he finally arrives on Grant I.

love I just read. Ulysses Grant's Memoirs what a under. praised American hero because Lincoln. right he gets recognized as the guy that. ended slavery no. Lincoln is the guy that signed the. Emancipation Emancipation Proclamation. Grant is the guy that made it possible. because he made it possible with with. steel and Boots. and I love his story because he. was in the Army in the 40s and 50s.

he had a problem with alcohol. and. um. he was basically fired they said you. either resigned from the Army or we're. going to court martial you he wound up. at a post out in Oregon. and so he's a failed army officer he. goes back to Chicago works for his. father-in-law some shopkeeper in Chicago. the war starts and so he's hating life I. mean he had extremely low point in his.

life. the war starts. Illinois put some brigades together he. goes to work in the Brigade. some junior staff officer and he just. keeps winning Camp battle after battle. after campaign and he's victorious in. the west Vicksburg defeats the the. Confederacy in the West. and then um. by then Lincoln uh promotes him and and. sure enough I mean he had still an. alcohol problem and he said and Lincoln.

said I can't do without this man he. fights. and um. Grant became quite a uh quite a war hero. in the in the media praised him and and. one time he was um. uh pictured on horse with a cigar and so. he ended up receiving thousands of. cigars as gifts from a grateful American. public and he smoked all of them. because he made it through the war. Victorious but again it was it you know.

remember the 64 election. was McClellan who was a youthless. uh Coward of a general. that Lincoln fired McClellan was running. against Lincoln in the 64 election where. McClellan is running as a Democrat. saying we're just going to settle this. we're going to stop the war We're Not. Gonna We're not gonna finish it and keep. the United States United. and Lincoln's down to the last you know.

ounces of energy and Goodwill trying to. fix this and then Sherman working for. Grant went to Atlanta went to the Sea. huge blow and um. and it worked but but I love Grant's. story because he. um never really intended to be president. but then Lincoln is um. assassinated Johnson was useless Grant's. elected right after that. and he's president. tried to tried to clean up this the.

swamp and the corruption all the rest. mixed results doing it. but then he goes to start some. investment fund after that having not. really made any money but he took his. savings and put it into that. and he gets swindled by a um by a total. con and so now he's literally the guy. that saves the union former president. United States. and he's bankrupt and worse than that. he's diagnosed with throat cancer from. all the all the tobacco. and um.

he goes to start writing his uh his. memoirs. and he gets an awful advance in Samuel. Clemens Mark Twain comes to him and says. Mr President let me help you I'm going. to publish your your your biography. and so Grant in a Race Against Time goes. up to this cabin up in New York state. not taking any medicine any pain. medicine for the horrific throat cancer. and he finishes his memoir. two days later he dies wow but it became.

a national bestseller amazing and um. provider for his family to the end and. save the Republic. so I think it's uh it's important to. remember and we stand in those kind of. giant shoulders to say. was real for him I mean he went. through tough time low times alcoholism. working for a father-in-law that you can. imagine the family Dynamics there. battled through the entire Civil War. uh all those highs and lows but he kept.

doing and finished it's finished strong. at the end. so however Bleak it looks it can always. be it can always be worse well you know. we kind of started on the topic of weak. military leadership I want to continue. down that road who are some. strong military leaders. are there any left. I have very little interaction. with any of them. um and I have skin in the game and that. I have sons.

serving and so I will withhold. commentary on that Roger that where do. you but. suffice to say I love the US Military. it is a. fantastic Institution. that. um. well. anything that has that much money thrown. at it can develop a lot of bad habits. and become like an obese triathlete and. so. diets are good and um and and reform is.

necessary. and it's even um you know seeing the the. recruiting problems that the Army and. the Navy have. Marine Corps doesn't. but what's the difference in the Marine. Corps Recruiting right I think anybody. that served can tell the difference. between Marine Corps Recruiting ads. versus the other services. because the Marine Corps says. we're standing on this wall for the last. 250 years and maybe if you're good. enough you can join us.

versus hey join up and we're going to. pay for college and the living. conditions are great and we have. excellent golf courses. that's not why Warriors join the. military. I think the military does a horrific job. of managing their Manpower. there's an enormous amount of waste. and even um. even in the Blackwater days one of the. things right because we employed a lot. of military veterans or law enforcement. guys and the thing the guys really.

appreciated is that we didn't waste. their time. because whether you're the the danger of. the military is that they view the. Manpower as a free good. just like if you. if the water everyone would turn the. water off when they're brushing their. teeth if the water was two dollars a. gallon. but it's so cheap that sometimes easier. to forget and you leave the water on. that's how the military views all their. people as a free good. and because I remember. one of the jobs that we it was.

outsourced when we were doing. um we had Blackwater Aviation is we put. two of our helicopters on board a. military sea lift ship to replace the. military helicopters that were doing uh. vertical replenishment just basically. flying loads from a cargo ship to. warship back and forth whatever the. weather whatever the Seas and we showed. up to do that job with two helicopters. and eight guys. that's it four crew four mechanics on. the ship job done.

the Navy did that with two helicopters. and 70 guys. that's how many they had to put on that. ship because they viewed. all those bodies as a free good and for. every sorry no it's two helicopters and. 35 guys with the the the uh the Navy did. and then they had another 70 plus people. back in Stateside waiting to rotate so. the the costs of doing that mission two. helicopters eight guys versus.

to keep two helicopters fielded was. basically the Navy was two helicopters. and a hundred people that are on their. payroll to do that. very easy to do apples to apples. comparison of who is cheaper. there's lots of market-based reforms. that can be done to make the military. wake up we even um. nsw Naval special Warfare came to us. because they wanted to put they wanted. to add two more SEAL Teams in about. 0-405 times of increased Manning they.

wanted to have more guys go to buds but. they didn't want to change the standards. they said okay you know why do people. rob banks that's where the money is you. want to go find recruits for nsw go to. that we did a study like the the chances. of a state level wrestler in Montana or. Wyoming has a very high pass rate. through floods so that kind of study and. we sent um a couple contractors former. seals with a Suburban with a static.

display to go up here at those kind of. wrestling matches or a triathlon series. or whatever. and the the the pass rate and the the. amount of really qualified studs that. showed up for training not just. benefited nsw but EOD and diver and. swick and all that stuff. program's still running today is it. really yeah. foreign. it's the whole Mentor program to help. guys understand how to get through that. process.

how did the week leadership develop it. seem it just seems like. everybody now is a yes man is it is it. is it greed. um. think about World War II. where almost every flag officer that. started it was fired. fact. and at Peak we had 14 million men in. women mostly men underarms. we have the same amount of flag officers.

now. as we did when we had 14 million men. under arms now we have one and a half. million. so we have 10 of the people the same. amount of Flagstaff. and officers at horrific expense and an. era of. email video conference cell phone where. you should have instant communication. allowing for a flat and fast. organization which is what the private. sector has done a lot in most cases. across the economy but in the military.

it's gotten more and more and more. bloated and so that kind of compression. um and um. a severe thinning of military higher. ranks is absolutely necessary I'm. talking. 80 plus percent. consolidate a lot of those things. eliminate a lot of bureaucracy and. you'll actually start to get faster. procurement decisions faster training. all the rest if I was ever the Secretary. of Defense. I would hire the head of training from.

Chick-fil-A. if you've not been through a Chick-fil-A. drive-through witness what Chick-fil-A. manages to do with with high school kids. in organizing them into a NASCAR style. pit crew of flow that's impressive and. so there's a lot of lessons that can be. learned. and imposed and implemented across the. military there's some Great Courses some. great elements of courses but there's. also some really Arcane dumb ways of.

doing things that have no basis in. today's. I mean I I just I get frustrated because. it bleeds into the veteran community and. I'm not calling everybody a yes man but. even even my friends who own training. companies. speaking events. people of. real influence nobody's having these. tough conversations I'm one of the only. guys out there. from the community sure.

it's not just terrible in the dod it's. also horrific in the VA yeah I mean we. we've had um. we've had dozens of wounded vets groups. uh my family has a place in Wyoming so. we take a bunch of uh truly banged up. vets. out to the ranch and to hear their. stories in the amount of medications. that they're on is horrific when these. guys are on. 15 and 20 different medications a day. it's no wonder the suicide rate is 20.

some a day it's. it's grotesque and wrong and just flat. out evil the invent the basically the. warehousing of the people that served. America. forget about those guys just put them on. drugs and pay them something to sit home. every human being. wants to know that they're adding value. and when they're not adding value. and they know it and they're being paid. to sit there and and drugged up that's.

why that's where the despair sets in. in in the BW days. how we handled it. um and I wish I still own that business. I wish I'd never sold it that was a that. was a mistake. because however shitty even if the. business got 95 smaller fine build back. but the way we handled it is we had. contractors that were banged up and what. do we do we put them in a house right.

outside our front gate living with other. guys that had some of the same issues. and Community they they could rebuild. that that Brotherhood Community there. and we'd get them doing curriculum. development or training or whatever. level of physical performance they could. do based on what their wounds were. but they could feel that they were. adding value and they were part of a. team again and they gave them meaning. and all the vets that are stuck on Too. Many Meds stuck fighting against a.

horrifically unresponsive VA system I. say get rid of the VA and put everybody. on the equivalent of champus or get them. private insurance and let the guys shop. I'm not saying give insurance and forget. about them but if you give them the. means or their family members the means. to go shop for the best alternative. for care whether that's Hyperbaric. treatments for for PTSD or or some of. the other um psychedelics. let them explore and the best Solutions.

will naturally rise to the surface. 100 worthy there let me rephrase my. question or my concern because it wasn't. about veterans that are struggling it's. about veterans that are in the Limelight. we're talking about I'm talking about. active generals all the way down to. low enlisted who now have a voice like. myself who are not utilizing it and and. I'm just venting here but I see these.

guys with influence. and they're not having the tough. conversations or countries in real. trouble right now and they're not. talking about it because it might affect. their business well I hate to tell you. there's already censorship and if you. don't start getting loud you're not. going to have a business and. yeah it's a it's a. it's a false argument to think well if I. if I remain silent they'll leave me. alone eventually they'll get to you look. I never had um.

when I started Blackwater certainly. didn't start it to be I didn't I. certainly didn't have the goal of. becoming uh notorious or as uh as hated. by some as I am uh that's okay I did it. because. my time in the sealed teams was cut. short because of family issues because. my my dad died and my wife had cancer. and so I had to sort some of those. things out but building a facility. knowing what the teams needed and and. just saying yes to the government and um.

and running hard and building a great. team of veterans which. um. which just said yes and found a way to. get things done. was truly the most satisfying thing I've. done. and having it wrecked by politics is. truly one of the most miserable things. I've ever experienced but um you know we. still have um we sell the BW reunions so. you should come to one sometime we had. 500 some guys in Orlando.

in May. um. it is extremely edifying for them to say. it was the best job they ever had and um. so being a business owner and having. employees I understand. whatever the the the pressures of making. payroll and trying to take care of their. immediate flock now and not risking that. I understand that that risk. and and everybody has to make that. calculation but um.

I think it's. when you look at the costs. it's a. I don't know them all by heart but um. the signers of the Declaration of. Independence. their businesses were burned down. some of them were killed multiples had. family members arrested and killed. houses Farms burned I mean they paid a. price for Liberty that we can't yet. hardly imagine.

and um so standing up and being uh and. being counted and fighting against the. um. the dominant Elite Paradigm is. absolutely necessary. one last question then we'll take a. break. back to the Wagner group. leader was just shot down a couple weeks. ago yep what was that. I don't think that was a. Putin initiated hit but I think.

I think it's he didn't protect him he. didn't. um I mean you see the images of them in. St Petersburg together and he gives them. the Embrace I don't know was that like. the kiss of death. I think Putin is sitting on top of a. tiger and there's all kinds of other. Tigers whether it's the the Intel. service or the military or these. oligarch factions already that that. pagosian had been counter or threatened. to and and that was the action they took. that that speaks to how.

chaotic and gangster like a society can. become and let's stay the hell away from. that that's. that is not the right way to settle. disputes. Roger that all right let's take a break. when we get back uh we'll start diving. into Frontier group. next on the Sean Ryan Show one of my. favorite sayings God created man but. Samuel Colt made them equal what about. the China Taiwan situation this was the.

first movie taught us in the SEAL Teams. don't pick a fair fight it's a stated. goal. [Music]. um that who if Beijing has a go at. Taiwan they're going to do all they can. to smash any and all power water and. Telecom and to shut it down in Taiwan. are you saying that Taiwanese don't have. that capability the weird wacky edges of. the frontier where you don't have the. luxury of having all your stuff along. you need a highly.

adaptable Innovative devious mind that. will find a way to win. I don't care how good this guy is if he. looks left and looks right nobody's. there then it's over. [Music]. hey everybody I'm Sean Ryan click here. to subscribe to the Sean Ryan Show. YouTube channel for the hottest and most. compelling interviews that you will not.

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