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May 22, 2025 | S25:E522

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: May 22, 225 | Allen Jackson | May 22, 2025

Good evening.
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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What? to begin with some good news.
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America's global leadership is being recognized again.
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But with that, there are some big issues
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That need to be settled.
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For one,
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Russia and ukraine are behaving as though they're in a fight
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To the finish.
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If an end of the war is not found,
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Zelenskyy will eventually run out of people to fight the war
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And putin will get what he wants.
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India and pakistan have squared off this year
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And nuclear weapons are a part of that equation.
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Then there's china, which may be willing
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To talk about a tariff deal,
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But they're never going to stop building up their military.
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The chinese navy now has 400 ships.
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And while hamas and hezbollah have been crippled,
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Isis is making a comeback in syria and afghanistan.
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And so is terrorism aimed at the jewish people.
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With all of that, i'd like to bring in our chief
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National security and military analyst, captain chuck nash.
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Welcome back. captain.
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A pleasure to be with you, pastor.
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Let's start with the continued attacks on israel.
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The iran backed houthi has fired
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Two more long range missiles at downtown tel aviv this week.
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Fortunately, they were intercepted
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Before they hit anyone.
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How do we resolve these random attacks of terror from the
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Houthis?
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They're going to have
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To realize that they're in a losing battle.
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The iranians are going to have to realize that supporting them
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Just extends their vulnerability.
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Even more.
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We've had recent reports that either one confirmed
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That the israelis are preparing a strike on iran.
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So, these activities just hastened,
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A kinetic action against the iranians.
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So i think what really needs to happen is the iranians,
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As the sponsors of these, need to back them off.
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There seems to be some chatter.
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I keep hearing that if israel were to attack iran, that
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That spirals into some larger global conflict.
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Do you share that fear? it very well could.
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One of the things that i think
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The iranians would do almost immediately is,
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Attempt to, mine the strait of hormuz.
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Which would shut off, saudi oil,
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Coming out of the gulf and,
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Also oil out of, the uae. so,
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That would
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Certainly send a shock to the markets.
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But also what would happen is the iranians, i believe, have
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Cells, sleeper cells, the spread throughout the western world,
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And they would be activated, should kinetic activity start?
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I'm pretty sure that.
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The conflict in the middle east had an expression
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A little closer to home.
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Last night, there was a very tragic double murder.
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A young couple,
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Both of whom worked for the israeli
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Embassy in washington, were shot and killed
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While they were visiting a jewish museum.
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Even more tragic, because they were about
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To start their life together by getting engaged.
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Well, the israeli prime minister said it was the result
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Of the wild incitement against the state of israel.
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You know, chuck, he's surely referring
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To american campuses, columbia university among them,
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Where jewish hate
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Has been allowed to take place
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Despite the threat to jewish students.
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How do we deal with this growing anti-semitism here at home?
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We enforce our laws,
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And expel those who refuse to live by them.
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Coming here as a foreign student,
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Is is a is a privilege.
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And we allow that.
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Because we're a we're a welcoming people.
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However, for those who will not abide by our laws,
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Not just foreign students, but u.s.
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Born students, u.s.
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Citizens, they've fallen into this trap.
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And what's happened here?
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I think we have the confluence and the joining rather,
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Of the american political left
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And the radical,
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Islamic, activists.
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And they share a common enemy, which is western culture,
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Specifically u.s., culture.
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And so they teamed up together
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In this unholy alliance.
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And, it's going to take enforcement of our laws
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And not just turning a blind eye
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Because other just young students.
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No, no, you break the law. you pay the price.
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Well, actually,
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There's one more component to that
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Unholy alliance, and it's our academic institutions.
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They seem all too willing to push that leftist
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Propaganda and the anti-israel, anti-semitic hate.
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Am i misreading that?
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No, not at all.
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And one has to wonder how much of that is influenced
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By the tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars
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That some countries have poured into to create,
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Islam study centers and things like that
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In religious,
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University, just like georgetown, and others.
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So it's, kind of a widespread seeding of capital
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Into these things, which then
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I think tends to influence their decision making.
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One more question on israel.
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President trump was able to negotiate
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The release of the last american hostage.
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But do you think israel will be able to free their citizens?
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There's only 21 of them believed to still be alive.
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And if not, i'm curious from your military perspective,
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Why is it israel been able to rescue them?
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Well, if you look at some of the videos
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That that have come out of gaza, it's mostly rubble.
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And if you take that rubble
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And you realize that underneath it is an entire labyrinth
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Of tunnels, the whole network has been built
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Down there, miles and miles and miles of tunnels.
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And and staging areas and things like that.
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So how many of those hostages are still alive?
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I don't know, but, in fact, nobody knows.
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I don't even think hamas knows, what?
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They're what they're sitting on
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Because their leadership is getting wiped out.
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I saw a report earlier today where the israelis believe
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That they killed, suha, mohammed sinwar, who was the brother
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Of your son in law, who was killed previously.
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And his brother mohammed took over the reins of hamas.
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Well, the israelis now think, based on intelligence
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And forensics, that maybe they killed mohammed.
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Sinwar.
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Earlier this month. so
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Who knows?
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I'm sure that they can't communicate
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Other than with runners passing notes,
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Because any
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Electronic communication would be immediately intercepted
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By the israelis. so,
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They're back to caveman days, and they're living in caves
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Where they're manmade and they're tunnels.
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Well, let's move to russia and ukraine.
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Well, attempts have been made to get a cease fire.
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It looks as though
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Nothing will get done until president trump works it out.
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And the president sounds determined
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To stop the killing, as he said repeatedly.
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Listen to what he said.
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We have to get that thing solved.
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5000 young people every single week, on average.
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Five.
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And i've seen satellite pictures.
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You don't want to see these pictures.
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We'll have to see what happens.
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Chuck, putin and zelensky don't seem to care
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As much about the death toll as president trump does.
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How can that be?
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Well,
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Pastor, they're dancing with the devil.
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And you know,
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They're in a deathmatch,
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And it's really sad.
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And the president is absolutely spot on.
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They're just grinding up a generation of young men.
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And that doesn't count the civilian casualties.
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And then when you add on top of that all of the destruction,
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It will take billions of dollars to rebuild.
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Those cities, they're they're nothing but a bunch of castles
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Spread all over eastern and northeastern ukraine.
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So i think the president is going to be
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The one who finally brokered the deal.
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But zelensky is saying it started in, in,
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In the crimea.
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It's going to end in the crimea,
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Meaning i'm not giving up the crimea.
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I want it back.
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That is not going to happen under any stretch
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Of the imagination.
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And the russians are not going to give up a lot of the land
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That they took with and paid for in blood and treasure.
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They're not going to give it up.
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So zelensky has to realize
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That he gave up and
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Lost about 20% of his country.
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And putin is going to have to realize
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That he's going to have to knock this thing off.
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He's not going to get what he wants, which is the overthrow
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And therefore control of the ukraine.
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He doesn't want to have to manage it himself.
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He just wants a friendly government in there.
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What he's going to get is part of the donbas, the crimea.
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A cease.
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Zelensky will stay in power until the next election,
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And there won't be any nato troops put in.
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Or nato, the membership for ukraine,
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Maybe peacekeepers, but not nato membership.
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And i think we're going to have to settle for that
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As a minimum.
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Well, captain ash, please stay with us for another segment.
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In a moment, we'll talk about what
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Putin was unable to accomplish
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And what it says about the state of the russian military.
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And after that, some thoughts of my own and all of this.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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We're back now with captain chuck nash,
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A man with a career full of many military accomplishments.
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Speaking for all of our viewers.
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Thank you, captain nash,
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For your great service to our country.
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My pleasure. bastard.
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And this memorial day weekend, i was thinking that, you know,
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Sometimes people
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That don't understand the meaning of these things.
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And one of them is that in armed forces day,
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We celebrate and thank those who are wearing the uniform.
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And when veterans day, we thank those who used to wear
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The uniform and took it off.
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And in memorial day, we honor the memory of those
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Who never got the chance to take off the uniform.
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Amen.
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Well, let's get back to russia.
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When putin invaded ukraine,
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It was believed that he wasn't going to stop
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Until he took the capital of kiev.
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But as tanks got stuck in the mud
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And his supply chain failed and he failed,
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At least in terms of his initial goal.
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What does that tell you about his military
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And his strategic decisions going forward?
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The russian military
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Is just absolutely riddled with corruption.
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And when it came time to take a force
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That he thought he had in being and actually employ it,
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You realized the tires were second rate
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And coming off vehicles, they the tanks were breaking down.
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They couldn't supply the fuel to the tanks to keep them moving.
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They bottled up on the road
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And we all saw the the results of that,
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Where the drones would go out and just start whacking.
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All of that, that armor and and destroying it.
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Well, several years later,
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They've learned the lesson.
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They're getting resupplied with ammunition from north korea.
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China is assisting them.
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They are rebuilding their infrastructure,
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Their military structure.
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And they will probably emerge militarily stronger
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Than when they went in, because it will be an actually a
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Fighting military.
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The only problem is
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They've chewed up a generation.
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So even though they have
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Far more men than does ukraine,
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It doesn't matter, because those who are fit
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And able to fight that percentage of their men,
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Many of them have been, unfortunately,
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To the president's words, wasted and killed.
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As you mentioned along the way, putin has gotten ammunition
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From north korea, but he's actually
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Also gotten troops from there.
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So i wonder if whatever peace deal is hopefully accomplished.
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You think this might just be a holding pattern
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Until he's able to rebuild
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More completely this broken military?
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You've spoken to?
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It's, but there's a lot of work to be done.
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It seems.
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I think i think really, that this will be the end of it
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For russia, that as far as, this type of warfare.
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Now, will they continue to work, sarah,
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Tenaciously behind the scenes?
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Will they continue clandestine operations?
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Yes, absolutely.
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They will try to influence the politics of the west.
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But if you look at that west and you look at
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What is on this western border, it's
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Nato countries and nato is a shell.
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It's been underinvested in.
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Most of the members have not been putting
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In their 2% of gdp investment.
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The german army, the bundesliga.
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They couldn't field an army for more than two weeks.
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And if you recall when what i call hillary's war,
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When we joined the eu and went down into,
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Libya, the eu ran out of ammunition
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After three days and the united states
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Had to supply the intelligence,
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Surveillance, reconnaissance and a lot of the ammunition.
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Well, we've been sending a lot of ammunition to ukraine.
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Our stockpiles are low,
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And we've been firing half million dollar missiles
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At $20,000.
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Drones launched by the.
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So there's going to have to be a reconciliation here
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Where we look at the books, look at the store,
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The stockpiles and see what we've got.
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And our stuff is very exquisite.
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Therefore,
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You can't just be the arsenal of democracy.
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Turn on the factories and crank this stuff out.
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It requires thousands of parts and all you
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All you have to do is have one part
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In the supply chain missing, and the whole weapon is useless.
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It's not the weapon.
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It's just a bunch of parts waiting for that key element.
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So, the president
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Has been absolutely insistent
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On bringing capabilities back to the united states
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So that we are no longer dependent on foreign nations.
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That's going to be a tough job.
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It's going to take a while.
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But the first things first
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Are the defense industry and pharmaceuticals,
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Because we need to be able to to provide the defense
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And to handle, epidemics
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And, and other things that require, a robust,
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Pharmaceutical industry.
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Well, captain ash, thank you for your time today.
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Will you be able to stay for another program
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So we could cover some more of the topics
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That are pushing us into the news?
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I'd be very happy to. great.
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Well, next up, my thoughts on
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What the rest of us can do to help.
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It's not just a pentagon issue.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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When the ukraine war first began.
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For weeks,
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I was on zoom
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Calls on a regular basis with leaders
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In the christian community of ukraine.
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It was tragic to hear the stories.
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The civilian populations being targeted,
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The apartment buildings
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That were being decimated by rocket fire.
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We bought vans. we sent food and clothing.
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We were doing whatever we could
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To provide support and resources
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For the people that were trapped in that horrific conflict.
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Unfortunately, it seems the leadership
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Of russia and the leadership of ukraine,
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Not in a rush to bring an end to that war
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That has cost more than a million lives.
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It's as if human life is expendable.
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Just another number.
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Well, i'm thankful for the grown up voices that are saying
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We have to bring a resolution
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To that conflict, because life is indeed precious.
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Well, i want to remind you that this monday is memorial day.
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And while many will be participating in barbecues
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And enjoying an extra day off from work,
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Let's not forget the solemn reason for this holiday
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To honor the people who gave their lives to protect ours.
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Since the american revolution, more than 1.3
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Million americans have died protecting our freedoms.
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Let this memorial day be one of reflection and reverence
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As we honor those brave soldiers.
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Men and women who didn't seek their own interest
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But instead sacrificed their lives to protect ours.
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Over this holiday weekend.
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Take time to stop your normal daily activities to remember
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Those who gave their lives so that we could have normal days.
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Let's also honor their sacrifice by considering
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What would be said of us.
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Are we willing to endure hardship
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And even loss to protect the freedoms
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Of our children and grandchildren?
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If we want to see our communities change, we use.
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The church must have the courage to raise our voices
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In a new way, even at the risk of persecution.
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Let's show the boldness of the people of god and faith.
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It's not unique to our generation.
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You know, it's one thing to serve the lord with it.
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Bring smiles and gratitude.
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It's something altogether different
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When it brings anger and resentment.
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If we'll choose to honor god,
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I promise there's more reasons for hope than despair.
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I'll be back with your emails in just a moment.
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Stay with us.
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Stay with us.
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And we thank you so much for
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Taking the time to watch our program.
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Just a reminder you can go to aj now.com.
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There's an archive there of all the programs
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And maybe most importantly, share the idea with a friend.
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Get your friends to watch
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And we can share the truth with more people.
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Thanks for your emails are always a highlight.
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Ruth from california noted your new show and weekly
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Ministries are wonderful.
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They bless me to know more about
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God's character than i ever knew.
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But here's a question for you.
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Why don't the european countries that constantly
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Complain about israel not giving the palestinians aid
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Know that every bit of food or medical aid
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Is taken by hamas, or that hamas doesn't give those items
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To the palestinian people or to the hostages either?
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I don't think it's a lack of awareness.
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I think it's a lack of concern.
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It's politically expedient to keep the that
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Palestinian topic one of agitation against israel.
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We'll have to have a hard change
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Before we get to a political change.
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Robin, email.
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Can you put more of the culture
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And christianity podcast shows on fridays?
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I like the one you had on.
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It was really good.
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Well, robin, we'll see what we can do.
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Thanks for the suggestion.
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And finally, a viewer
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Commented on the youtube episode with pete peterson.
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I love this broadcast.
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I'm in agreement with you,
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But this also gives me understanding
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And insight on what i don't know.
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Thank you for your guest
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And the wisdom of the
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Holy spirit which guides you so you can give
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What we need to learn about now and what god has in store.
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Bless you.
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Well, thank you for the encouragement
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And i agree.
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I learned from our guests every program.
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I seem to go away from the program
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Feeling like i've been to school.
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I hope you have that same feeling.
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Then.
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Kathy, im from florida
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And we love this program and your sunday teachings.
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You remind us that there's more reason for hope than despair.
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We need the daily encouragement of those words
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From a pastor who really believes this.
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Well, i'm grateful for the opportunity,
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But you could use your words
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To be a voice of encouragement to the people around you.
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And that way we can pay it forward.
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Thank you for watching tonight.
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I'm alan jackson, and i pray you have a wonderful evening.
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