Excursus: Israel/AEB (gehi EB plus Pentagonoa eta NATO) versus Palestina (13)

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Retired Lt. Col. Daniel Davis discusses the need for global powers to prioritize peace to avert a catastrophe amid multiple conflicts including the Ukraine w…

Elon Musk GOP Presidential candidate V

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ramaswami and entrepreneur David saaks

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were among several participants of a

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virtual rendevu discussing the need for

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world leaders to prioritize peace

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diplomacy and cooperation to avoid

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another global war here’s a snippet of

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the hour and a half conversation

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starting with Elon Musk how do we avoid

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World War I um the there’s it cuz if you

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look at the various conflicts currently

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and likely potential conflicts these

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things are obviously bad there’s people

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that to a lot of people die and suffer

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but they’re you know they’re they’re not

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civilizational risks but World War III

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is a

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civilizational risk uh that that uh we

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may not recover from so we want to I

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think prioritize avoiding World War III

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ramas Swami also joined the conversation

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in which he warned the US is ill

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equipped to handle another world war

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let’s listen I think it’s important for

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people to understand especially when the

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US Homeland is as vulnerable as we have

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been in modern memory not just from a

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border perspective but from missile

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defense or cyber defense or defenses

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against super electromagnetic pulse

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attacks I think this is where I am

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attempting unsuccessfully so far but

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attempting to awaken a GOP from what

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appears to be a deep

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Slumber so can another world catastrophe

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be avoided retired lieutenant colonel

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Daniel Davis took part in that

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discussion too and he’s here with us

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today to discuss this question further

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welcome Colonel Davis hey thanks for

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having me back all right so I’ve been

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accused of being hyperbolic whenever

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I’ve raised in other context outside of

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this show the question of the imminence

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of a potential global conflict uh can

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you walk us through the likelihood of

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that and what kind of tipping points

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could lead to that

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outcome well I I’ll tell you nothing

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isn’t ordained everything is still

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possible and that means peace is

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possible or at least the avoidance of a

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of an expansive War but but look Elon

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Musk and Vic RIS Swami are both right I

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mean the risk is high and I think that

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by people downplaying this we just make

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the potential even that much higher

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everything I think is going to come down

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to really what happens once Israel

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launches its incursion into the Gaza

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Strip I think it’s for dained at this

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point I I I personally would would argue

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that they would benefit from delaying

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that uh for a number of reasons but I

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think that the pressure is too great on

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the Israeli government I think they’re

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probably going to move it depends on

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then what happens after that you have

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Hamas in the northern part that’s that’s

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threatened to open a northern front

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against Israel so that they’ll have a

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two-front war whether that would happen

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immediately or whether they would delay

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and let Israel get uh you know deeply

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engaged before doing that who knows but

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but then the big question is what

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happens next now you have the folks like

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Lindsey Graham who’s saying yeah we

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should just basically assume that is the

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same thing as Iran getting involved and

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so we should go after Hezbollah and then

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if Iran does anything to us as a result

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of that or if Iran does anything to our

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troops in the region then we should go

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after them we should destroy their oil

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infrastructure Etc the problem with this

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I mean there’s a bunch of problems is

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that that underestimates what the

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reaction would be we still think that

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this is like the 1990s or we think that

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they’re like say Syria uh when uh

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president Trump and and Biden both

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launched missile attacks into the into

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their country and Syria was so weak they

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couldn’t do anything in response and

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they didn’t but this situation is very

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very different than that because there

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are so many additional actors the and

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and you’re talking about we have

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vulnerability with our troops in Iraq

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with their troops in in Syria which have

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already been attacked even in today

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earlier today so far God they thank God

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none of them have been killed but you

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know the minute that that changes and

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one of our troops actually dies because

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of this now that the the you know that

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the screams from that uh you know that

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proar Lobby in the United States and

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those are big time on the Hawks side

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will be screaming for an attack on Iran

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saying that’s who did it oblivious to

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the fact that that could draw us into a

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war and that’s the big danger is that

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once those things start happening then

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War takes on a momentum of its own and

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no one can control what happens next you

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know Tucker Carlson said recently that

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if we had another world war there’s no

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guarantee the US would win in fact I

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think he said the US would lose um V in

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his remarks there mentioned the weakness

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of the US’s position and then you know

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Nikki Haley who’s on the totally

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opposite side foreign policy from V and

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Tucker you know was talking about the

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need to give the defense department well

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to rename it the department of offense

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and then give it whatever it needs to

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conduct a lot of intervention you know

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in your opinion what is the the state of

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um the US’s ability to to defend itself

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currently versus where we might have

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been historically in terms of you know

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how how untouched and unrivaled we

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were you know when when when the Soviet

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Union collapsed in 1992 and the United

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States had just just clean the clock of

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Iraq and Desert Storm uh China was still

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basically third world country they had a

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peasant Army you know they they were not

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a threat to anyone uh anywhere I mean

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they they could barely defend their own

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borders and their internal situation in

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that moment we were absolutely the

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preeminent power on the globe nobody

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could do anything to us problem is too

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many people today still have that

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mentality we still think that’s true and

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the world has radically changed since

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that time and now just in relative terms

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we’re no longer this you know unrivaled

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un unchallenged power there are

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challenges there are Rivals that are on

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there there’s peers there’s near peers

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and we can’t just do what we want

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anymore and now especially in the Middle

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East you’re seeing that there is so much

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anger that’s building up and so many

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people are doing things that don’t make

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any sense that I mean like Hamas

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attacking Israel I mean in the balance

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of power is just off the charts between

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the two and if it stays just in Gaza

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Hamas has no chance of winning but yet

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they attacked anyway and so the risk is

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that other people say even though this

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doesn’t make sense the United States is

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strong we may attack anyway now Robbie

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I’ll tell you as we’ve talked about on

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your show plenty of times over the last

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year or so all of this military

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equipment we keep sending to Ukraine all

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of these shells we keep sending these

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Rockets these missiles air defense

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systems all these things we keep giving

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to Ukraine has depreciated our capacity

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to wage war so our ability to defend our

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interest is now substantially weaker

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than it was in February 2022 now then

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you’re talking we’ve already diverted

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more shells into Israel so our stocks

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are even further depleted and it’s going

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to take years to recover from that so no

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we are not as strong as we were even 20

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months ago and the longer we keep going

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this the longer we keep giving our tanks

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our Bradley our self-propelled howitzers

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millions of rounds of artillery we’re

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going to get even weaker if this does

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spark into a war Vicki Haley is wrong we

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don’t have the capacity to beat

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everybody and I hope Tucker’s wrong that

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we might lose but it’s not for sure

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either way so if you were in Joe Biden’s

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shoes what would you be advising with

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respect to next steps um encouraging or

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discouraging ground troops and the like

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what what should the anti-war community

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be agitating for as they are trying to

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push the Biden Administration in a

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proace

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direction yeah look you if you’re a

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proar out Advocate if you’re an American

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that desires our country to be secure

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you should be the one leading this

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charge and saying hey we don’t have the

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capacity and the power that we once had

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and and if things go sideways pretty bad

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we could be in real trouble what we

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should say is hey we need to put the

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brakes on what we’ve been doing in

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Ukraine that’s going to have to slow

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down dramatically if not stop and

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certainly at some point it needs to in

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Israel we need to say hey we can help

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you with stuff here we can give you some

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equipment and some some ammunition and

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other things that you might need but you

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are going to have to provide your own

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security that’s the reason that we’ve

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been giving them 3.8 billion annually

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and and for for decad of money so that

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they have a military that’s strong

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enough to defend themselves and they do

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we succeeded with that they can handle

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Hamas and if Hezbollah attacks from the

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north they can handle that too look

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they’ve already done it the 1967 war the

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1973 War we didn’t help them fought in

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and so and they handled it so was a

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multi front War they’re in a similar

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situation now they could potentially be

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and they can handle it so I would

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recommend that President Biden not use

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military force not fight Hezbollah so

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that we don’t get sucked into a war and

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I would advise to get those troops that

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we have on the ground in Iraq and in

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Syria out as I’ve been arguing for years

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I think on your show previously all they

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do is sit there in the middle of the

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desert and act as an opportunity Target

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of opportunity for our enemies but they

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do nothing for our national security so

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we need to get that vulnerability out

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because if something happens to those

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troops they’ve been attacked several

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times already but so far no casualties

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but if it does like I just said there’ll

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be a lot of demand on the White House to

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respond which could spark a war so let’s

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get our vulnerabilities out of the way

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let’s don’t get into a war and let’s

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start actually rebuilding our military

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strength before we go looking for

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dragons to slay elsewhere Daniel Davis

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thank you so much for joining us we

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really appreciate it and it looks like

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you have a new setup can you tell us a

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little bit about what’s going on with

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your new show I do yeah we we have a new

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show it’s called Deep dive uh Daniel

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Davis Deep dive and it’s on YouTube and

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uh basically what we’re doing is saying

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hey you know you watch a newscast you

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know MSNBC Fox CNN you get a three four

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minute hit but you don’t get a chance to

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really know what’s going on beneath the

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surface or get a better understanding so

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we have a show here that takes the

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issues that are most concerning to

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Americans and we go into a deeper

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understand a dive on it so that you have

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more knowledge about what’s going on and

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we can tell you why things are more

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important and importantly also when some

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people make certain claims that aren’t

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challenged on the air we will challenge

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them so you’ll know what the truth is

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that sounds terrific thanks again for

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your time today hey thanks for having me

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I appreciate

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it

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Footage for the mass destruction in Gaza following a heavy series of lsraeli air attacks carried out last night.

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