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Allen Jackson: Peace Through Strength | Allen Jackson Now

February 2, 2026 | 20:12

Allen Jackson: Peace Through Strength | Allen Jackson Now
Captain Chuck Nash joins Allen Jackson to discuss current events.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Peace Through Strength | Allen Jackson Now | February 2, 2026
  • Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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  • I'm alan jackson.
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  • There's something that most people don't know
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  • Or even remember from their history classes.
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  • When world war two ended,
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  • There wasn't
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  • Just a single ticker tape parade through times square.
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  • There were five parades
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  • With millions of cheering people each time.
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  • But 80 years later, there's no parade
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  • And there's no ticker tape, just sharp edged criticisms
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  • For what the president and his team have accomplished.
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  • Eight global conflicts have been successfully stopped.
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  • No american lives have been lost
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  • In any of the conflicts that span our globe, from gaza
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  • To the congo and rwanda to iran, with its nuclear operations.
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  • India and pakistan.
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  • Cambodia and thailand.
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  • Armenia and azerbaijan.
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  • Kosovo and serbia.
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  • Egypt and ethiopia.
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  • Surely there are people around the globe
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  • Who are grateful and whose lives have been saved.
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  • But so little appreciation is heard here at home.
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  • No, it's not your imagination.
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  • We're living in a confusing season of great turmoil
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  • And change.
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  • The media reporting is not trustworthy.
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  • They told us for years and years that russia colluded
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  • With us to influence our election.
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  • They got a pulitzer prize for that reporting,
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  • And it all proved to be a farce.
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  • They're not the greatest resource
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  • When it comes to processing domestic
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  • And international affairs.
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  • President maduro of venezuela was openly allied with iran,
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  • China and russia.
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  • It was no secret.
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  • Well, america's elite forces captured
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  • That communist dictator, someone who is in our own hemisphere.
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  • His regime, they committed tremendous resources
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  • In cooperating with our enemies
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  • And smuggling drugs into our country.
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  • More than 100,000 fentanyl overdoses every year.
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  • That's a stunning number of lives.
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  • Families devastated by that imported poison.
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  • Well, i'm grateful that the administration
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  • Has chosen to confront evil and not let it continue to fester.
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  • Venezuela has enormous oil reserves,
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  • And yet their economy is in shambles.
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  • It's what happens when communism and socialism take root.
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  • You know, we have to pay attention.
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  • Spirits have influence over
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  • Cities, over nations, over regions.
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  • That's not some mythical something or other.
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  • It's biblical.
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  • And what about our own nation?
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  • We see citizens of sanctuary cities endure chaos
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  • And suffering due to leaders who ignore law and order.
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  • We need to do better.
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  • Well, this year is america's 250th anniversary.
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  • I am unapologetically grateful to god for the nation
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  • In which i was born.
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  • I believe we have liberties that are unique in our world.
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  • But i think we as a society have to change.
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  • We can't keep blaming the coach in high school
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  • That didn't teach us our history.
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  • We may have to actually open a book
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  • Or go ask rabbi google or do something.
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  • We've got to know our history, or we're doomed
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  • To make costly mistakes with our futures.
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  • The shiny promise of free things.
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  • That seems to be the reason why the socialist mayor in new york
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  • City is so popular.
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  • Free busses, frozen rents, city run grocery stores
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  • Bombed on his popularity reveals not that socialism works,
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  • But that when society imagines life without almighty god,
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  • They gravitate to ideologies that will ultimately prove
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  • Hollow.
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  • America is about a set of values.
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  • It's not about the way we look or the accent
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  • With which we speak,
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  • Or even the nation from which we come, or even our dna.
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  • We were bound together by a set of ideals
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  • That have made us the most prosperous,
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  • Blessed, free people in the history of civilizations.
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  • In the 6000 years of recorded history.
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  • America is the oldest country under one
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  • Article of incorporation,
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  • Even with just 4% of the world's population.
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  • We have more patents, more nobel peace prize winners,
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  • More symphonies, a greater accumulation of wealth
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  • Than any other nation in the history of the world.
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  • It's not because we have more natural resources,
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  • But because we were given freedom.
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  • And if we're going to have an extension of liberties
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  • And freedoms for our children and those generations to follow,
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  • It will be because of our choices.
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  • Now the church has an essential role to play.
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  • If we don't respond to evil with a biblical worldview,
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  • It will increase.
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  • We have to speak against evil when we see it.
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  • You know, i understand
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  • We may face disapproval, rejection, adversity,
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  • But the consequences for everyone will be far greater
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  • If we hide and we don't share god's truth.
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  • In a moment, we'll be joined by national security analyst
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  • And retired navy aviator captain chuck nash.
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  • I'll be right back.
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  • I'll be right back.
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  • Welcome back.
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  • We're joined
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  • Now by one of our regular guest
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  • Who we're honored to have with us again, captain chuck nash.
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  • It's great to see you in the new year.
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  • Pleasure to be back with you, pastor.
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  • Before we go global, would you share your opinion on
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  • Why president trump and his team don't get any real recognition
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  • For what's been accomplished to bring peace to this world?
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  • Well, i think partly because,
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  • What he has done basically eviscerates,
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  • The practices and procedures that the world,
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  • Has been operating under post-world war two.
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  • And the europeans, they're looking at it as.
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  • Wait a minute.
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  • I thought we were power sharing here.
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  • No, it's, america first, and we are the only superpower.
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  • China is come up.
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  • And of course, we've got russia.
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  • Well, after the fall of the soviet union,
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  • It was the united states by far, because we were leading
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  • And we were dictating how the european countries
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  • Would manage their foreign affairs.
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  • Basically.
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  • And that is what's kept the peace.
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  • Nato has kept the peace by
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  • Essentially the us
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  • Saying to the europeans, use our dollar,
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  • You can trade around the world, we'll protect your shipping
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  • Lanes, we'll do everything.
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  • We will be the the global cop.
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  • But everybody's got to stay peaceful.
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  • Well, now all of a sudden,
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  • The united states is pulling back.
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  • We're looking at the western hemisphere,
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  • Which in recent years has we've lost control of that.
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  • So the monroe doctrine now is being put back in place
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  • Since china, russia and others
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  • Have moved in aggressively into our hemisphere.
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  • So the president is saying we can't be worldwide right now.
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  • Europeans pay for your own defense.
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  • I love your social programs, but get real.
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  • You know,
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  • As a is it's the common phrase now is touch the grass.
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  • Yeah. get it, get real.
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  • Get back to reality.
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  • If you want to maintain
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  • Your sovereignty,
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  • Then you're going to have to pay for your own defense.
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  • So we are concentrating on the western hemisphere.
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  • The monroe doctrine is the president likes to joke.
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  • About calling it.
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  • And, the rest of the world, china,
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  • They have a raft of problems which i hope we can get into,
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  • With this visit, but,
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  • So that's why i think.
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  • I think the europeans are a little bit miffed that,
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  • Uncle sam is no longer going to foot the defense bill,
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  • And they're going to have to, you know, make their own way.
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  • Know, i would have thought that after the botched
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  • Withdrawal from afghanistan by president biden
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  • And the fact that president trump was able
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  • To get all the hostages out of gaza,
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  • That the american people would be more openly grateful.
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  • But listen to how some democrats are describing what he's done.
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  • I have three brothers, and i remember growing up that,
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  • You know, they'd wave their hand over here,
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  • Distract me, and then, like, gut punch me.
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  • I think that's what the president is doing
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  • With all these foreign entanglements.
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  • He's doing the foreign thing
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  • To distract from him having no plan on the domestic side.
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  • You know, i suppose it's not surprising,
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  • Since he was a ringleader on president trump's impeachment,
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  • Which never made it through the senate.
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  • What would you like to say
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  • To someone with that type of mindset?
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  • Well, not that long ago,
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  • During the biden administration, inflation was running at 9%.
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  • And in some, areas of our economy,
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  • It was up to 21%.
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  • It's now pulled back below three.
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  • It's closer to two and a half.
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  • The atlanta fed is saying that, fourth
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  • Quarter gdp growth is going to be 5.4%.
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  • And that's even with,
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  • Having had a democrat government shutdown
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  • Where it would have been probably seven plus percent,
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  • Which those that number is so amazingly high.
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  • It's it's something that you would expect
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  • The chinese to come out with.
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  • If you look around the, the,
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  • The wages now have exceeded, cost growth.
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  • So gas prices are coming down.
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  • Food prices are coming down.
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  • The economy is getting stronger,
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  • But that is a total
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  • Anathema to the left.
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  • The media, i repeat myself, it's redundant,
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  • But the left does not want to give him credit.
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  • If you talk to people on the street,
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  • They'll.
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  • You get these really negative,
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  • Polls.
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  • They say, oh, well,
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  • The economy's not really good and everything.
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  • And yet you look at consumer spending
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  • And it's setting records.
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  • So you get these terrible polls.
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  • But the spending doesn't match.
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  • So something is not connecting here.
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  • And so i, i don't trust the mainstream media.
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  • I haven't they lost me, back during the second
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  • Obama administration. but,
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  • Be that as it may,
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  • I think if you talk to people one on one,
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  • They're seeing things as they truly are,
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  • Which is during the biden administration.
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  • He was saying the economy was great
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  • And it wasn't, but people saw how it really was.
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  • And what happened?
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  • President trump made the greatest political comeback,
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  • Probably in u.s. history.
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  • 13 americans died during the biden afghan withdrawal,
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  • But there were no boots on the ground
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  • During the eight settled wars last year.
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  • We shut down iran's nuclear plans,
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  • We extracted nicolas maduro from venezuela, and we ramped up
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  • Attacks on isis in somalia and syria with no us casualties.
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  • It's an unprecedented record and a real tribute
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  • To our men and women in the service, isn't it, captain?
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  • Absolutely.
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  • And when you think about it, those, young men and women
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  • Who are in the service today,
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  • Virtually all of them have some combat experience
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  • Because everybody from the top down,
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  • Over the last couple decades has been given combat experience.
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  • Well, when i was a young officer,
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  • My heroes, my leaders were vietnam vets.
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  • And if you did not fight in vietnam,
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  • You were in the cold war.
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  • It was pretty much conflict free.
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  • You know, change that to today, where virtually
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  • Everyone, even the most junior people,
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  • Probably have some level of combat experience.
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  • So the ability to execute plans
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  • To first know how to plan
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  • And then execute those plans
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  • Is much, much higher today than it was,
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  • I would say back even during the cold war when i served.
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  • Well, iran is in turmoil now
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  • And while there's no real world to figure out
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  • How many citizens have been killed
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  • For going up against their government,
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  • The president has moved a carrier
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  • Strike group to the arabian sea to let the ayatollah know
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  • That we will not stand by
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  • While they can
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  • Continue this bloodbath
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  • And try to reactivate their nuclear weapons plans.
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  • What sort of capability does the strike group have?
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  • Strike group has an amazing capability.
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  • It can do, what?
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  • What we'll call raids.
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  • It's not a sustained bombing effort or anything like that,
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  • But i think that's what
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  • If you go back to your reference to the maduro,
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  • Snatch and grab.
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  • They're not going to go in, i do
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  • The ayatollah khomeini.
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  • But what they can do is go in and with tactical precision,
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  • Take out key targets, decapitate the leadership.
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  • They can do a lot of different things.
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  • But the question then becomes, what is the desired outcome?
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  • Because if you take away the irgc leadership,
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  • The islamic revolutionary guard corps leadership,
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  • Then those troops are going to try to figure out what to do.
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  • So you decapitate the leadership,
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  • Then there's nothing who takes over.
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  • We've seen the, the
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  • The son of the shah,
  • 00:13:11.575 --> 00:13:15.946
  • Probably, pavlovic.
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  • He's been kind of out of the woodwork now,
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  • Talking about returning, the real,
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  • Strength in the resistance, though, is with the the,
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  • National council of resistance in iran.
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  • The ncri the principal group there is the,
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  • People's mujahedeen of iran.
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  • So the pm i through the ncri,
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  • They have organized resistance groups inside iran.
  • 00:13:41.672 --> 00:13:47.044
  • They are the ones who have found and disclosed
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  • The iran nuclear sites.
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  • So, there is an organized resistance
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  • Probably does not strike me
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  • As someone who has a great following.
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  • And in fact,
  • 00:14:00.925 --> 00:14:02.026
  • Some research was done that i saw where they determined
  • 00:14:02.026 --> 00:14:05.296
  • That virtually all of his, social media support are bots.
  • 00:14:05.296 --> 00:14:10.367
  • So there again, you're setting up something.
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  • Who takes over?
  • 00:14:13.671 --> 00:14:15.039
  • Is there a structure?
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  • Because otherwise, if the thing implodes
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  • And turns into a civil war, then you've got,
  • 00:14:19.343 --> 00:14:22.446
  • Another libya on your hands.
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  • Well, captain ash, please stay with us for another segment.
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  • We did take a short break.
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  • I'll be right back.
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  • I'll be right back.
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  • We're back now with captain chuck nash.
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  • Before we go any further, i want to point out that
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  • In a winter season, when canceled
  • 00:14:47.711 --> 00:14:49.612
  • Airline flights are commonplace due to bad weather.
  • 00:14:49.612 --> 00:14:53.450
  • Captain nash landed his fighter jets
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  • 965 times on aircraft carriers.
  • 00:14:56.353 --> 00:15:00.757
  • Even as the ships are bobbing up and down in the ocean,
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  • And not always in the best weather either.
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  • Thank you for your service, captain.
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  • My pleasure.
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  • I served with some great people.
  • 00:15:09.065 --> 00:15:10.967
  • Let's pick up with venezuela.
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  • Maduro remains in jail,
  • 00:15:13.503 --> 00:15:15.505
  • But the anxious democrats are already pestering
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  • The white house for a swift change to a full democracy.
  • 00:15:17.874 --> 00:15:21.911
  • Listen to how secretary of state marco rubio
  • 00:15:21.911 --> 00:15:24.514
  • Explained it to them in a pretty simple form.
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  • I get it.
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  • We all want like something immediately.
  • 00:15:29.185 --> 00:15:30.186
  • But this is not a frozen dinner.
  • 00:15:30.186 --> 00:15:32.188
  • You put in a microwave, and in 2.5 minutes
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  • It comes out ready to eat.
  • 00:15:34.024 --> 00:15:35.258
  • And these are complex things.
  • 00:15:35.258 --> 00:15:38.028
  • So no tv dinners for the noise makers on the hill.
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  • Do you think that was clear enough for them, captain?
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  • Yeah.
  • 00:15:43.900 --> 00:15:45.035
  • Sometimes you really got to break it down to basics.
  • 00:15:45.035 --> 00:15:46.736
  • And he never fails to school.
  • 00:15:46.736 --> 00:15:50.206
  • Those, those folks up on the hill,
  • 00:15:50.206 --> 00:15:52.175
  • And they they take him on at their own peril.
  • 00:15:52.175 --> 00:15:55.245
  • Well, i have a question about china.
  • 00:15:56.012 --> 00:15:58.348
  • We've seen the pictures of xi jinping
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  • With the british and canadian leaders recently,
  • 00:16:00.450 --> 00:16:03.053
  • But there's been a shakeup at the top.
  • 00:16:03.053 --> 00:16:04.687
  • And it appears that
  • 00:16:04.687 --> 00:16:05.789
  • He is scrambling to keep his warrior team in line.
  • 00:16:05.789 --> 00:16:09.392
  • Can you tell us what's going on and how that might affect
  • 00:16:09.392 --> 00:16:11.761
  • Our own balance of power with them?
  • 00:16:11.761 --> 00:16:14.764
  • Well, nobody's 100% sure what's going on in china,
  • 00:16:14.764 --> 00:16:17.434
  • But from what i've been able to glean,
  • 00:16:17.434 --> 00:16:20.904
  • It looks as if,
  • 00:16:21.271 --> 00:16:24.140
  • President xi has taken it upon himself to essentially
  • 00:16:24.140 --> 00:16:29.345
  • Get rid of any potential, threat to his rule.
  • 00:16:29.345 --> 00:16:34.184
  • He started like, in the last two years, 20 generals have been,
  • 00:16:34.184 --> 00:16:38.588
  • Taken out,
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  • Two of their equivalents of secretary of defense,
  • 00:16:40.223 --> 00:16:43.393
  • Have been fired.
  • 00:16:43.393 --> 00:16:44.661
  • And now what he's done is he's in this latest move.
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  • He's taken out
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  • The vice chairman of the
  • 00:16:49.866 --> 00:16:51.601
  • Central military committee, which is an extremely high post.
  • 00:16:51.601 --> 00:16:54.537
  • It's it's it's second only to g
  • 00:16:54.537 --> 00:16:57.307
  • In power and control of their military.
  • 00:16:57.307 --> 00:17:00.643
  • In the meantime, what he's done is he's intervened
  • 00:17:00.643 --> 00:17:03.580
  • In the promotion process and in the people's liberation army,
  • 00:17:03.580 --> 00:17:07.383
  • And he's promoted a bunch of people
  • 00:17:07.383 --> 00:17:09.252
  • Who are much less confident than those that he's fired,
  • 00:17:09.252 --> 00:17:13.123
  • But that are intensely loyal to him.
  • 00:17:13.123 --> 00:17:15.992
  • So he's taking what was the people's army,
  • 00:17:15.992 --> 00:17:19.062
  • Turned it into the party's army,
  • 00:17:19.696 --> 00:17:22.165
  • And now he's turned it into his personal household army.
  • 00:17:22.165 --> 00:17:27.070
  • Whether that is an effective military or not
  • 00:17:27.070 --> 00:17:31.241
  • Remains to be seen.
  • 00:17:31.708 --> 00:17:33.309
  • But the leadership certainly has been denigrated.
  • 00:17:33.309 --> 00:17:38.548
  • And jiang hu,
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  • He just fired the, former vice chairman.
  • 00:17:40.416 --> 00:17:44.020
  • He was arguing against
  • 00:17:44.487 --> 00:17:47.257
  • G to use force against taiwan.
  • 00:17:47.257 --> 00:17:51.027
  • He was opposed to doing it.
  • 00:17:51.027 --> 00:17:52.595
  • And he thought he could sway xi because they grew up together.
  • 00:17:52.595 --> 00:17:57.200
  • They and were in the same compound.
  • 00:17:57.200 --> 00:17:58.668
  • Their fathers fought with mao zedong, during the the war.
  • 00:17:58.668 --> 00:18:03.373
  • So they are what they call princelings.
  • 00:18:03.373 --> 00:18:06.409
  • And the princelings have been untouchable,
  • 00:18:06.409 --> 00:18:08.378
  • Even with corruption scandals.
  • 00:18:08.378 --> 00:18:10.346
  • So by
  • 00:18:10.346 --> 00:18:12.882
  • Taking out, general
  • 00:18:13.349 --> 00:18:15.185
  • Shang, what that means is no one is safe.
  • 00:18:15.185 --> 00:18:19.055
  • Who's going to want to take those senior positions,
  • 00:18:19.055 --> 00:18:21.724
  • And they'll take those jobs? nobody.
  • 00:18:21.724 --> 00:18:24.027
  • Because nobody's going to want that visibility.
  • 00:18:24.027 --> 00:18:26.563
  • Because you could
  • 00:18:26.563 --> 00:18:27.664
  • You could get thrown under the bus in a heartbeat.
  • 00:18:27.664 --> 00:18:29.966
  • So you have a bunch of unqualified or,
  • 00:18:29.966 --> 00:18:33.670
  • Let's say, certainly less qualified military leadership
  • 00:18:33.670 --> 00:18:37.307
  • Who are intensely loyal
  • 00:18:37.807 --> 00:18:39.409
  • And probably will do anything that ji wants to do.
  • 00:18:39.409 --> 00:18:42.679
  • I think that
  • 00:18:43.012 --> 00:18:43.947
  • What he was really doing here, pastor, was
  • 00:18:43.947 --> 00:18:45.848
  • He was trying to remove shang because he saw that
  • 00:18:45.848 --> 00:18:49.018
  • He was a threat, because he had the loyalty
  • 00:18:49.018 --> 00:18:52.155
  • And the support of the military.
  • 00:18:52.155 --> 00:18:55.024
  • And it's not like in the states here where we have civilian
  • 00:18:55.024 --> 00:18:58.595
  • Control of the military, they have it.
  • 00:18:58.595 --> 00:19:00.830
  • But yeah, the military has all the guns.
  • 00:19:00.830 --> 00:19:03.933
  • Well, captain ash, thank you for visiting with us again today.
  • 00:19:05.134 --> 00:19:08.705
  • We'll be back in touch soon.
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  • I am sure.
  • 00:19:10.006 --> 00:19:11.874
  • My pleasure.
  • 00:19:11.874 --> 00:19:12.642
  • Thank you.
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  • In a moment, your emails.
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  • In a moment, your emails.
  • 00:19:22.006 --> 00:19:25.657
  • Thank you for sharing your thoughts
  • 00:19:26.458 --> 00:19:28.226
  • And your questions and your emails.
  • 00:19:28.226 --> 00:19:30.262
  • Libby c in virginia asks, how do you tell the difference
  • 00:19:30.262 --> 00:19:33.064
  • Between god's plan and man's intervention?
  • 00:19:33.064 --> 00:19:36.635
  • Well, the simple beginning is you get to know god's word.
  • 00:19:36.635 --> 00:19:39.537
  • I think if you know what's in the manual,
  • 00:19:39.537 --> 00:19:41.539
  • Then you know how a bit better, how to interpret
  • 00:19:41.539 --> 00:19:43.775
  • What's going on around us.
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  • We'll pick that one up more later.
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  • With us. it's an honor to share this time together.
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