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The Rabbi Daniel Lapin Podcast
Episode: World War 3 Is Cancelled. Not happening
Date: 12/06/24 Length: 01:06:30
Daniel Lapin 0:00
Greetings Happy Warriors and welcome to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show where, as usual, I solemnly dedicate myself to revealing how the world really works. Welcome to each and every Happy Warrior, and thank you for all you've done to help promote the show. The number of subscribers continues to climb, which brings me a certain amount of joy, and I very much appreciate everything that you have done to make that happen. If you yourself have not yet subscribed. Please go ahead and make that happen as well. Now I, you know, I first saw this a little earlier in the week, and I wasn't really going to discuss it. I plan to do something else on this particular show. But then a day later, I saw this item again in a slight variation, and then two more times, for a total of four times. What is it in one way or another, I saw four separate articles in four separate credible publications. Of when I say credible, they're not fringe things, they're publications with a lot of people who read them. And each of these four articles focused on the same thing, which is we are heading into World War III. We are already in World War III. We don't yet know it. World War III is just around the corner. You've surely got to be able to understand that, dear Happy Warriors, I promise you that if my antennae start alerting me to danger. I will share it with you instantly. I promise you I am very alert to real danger. I am part of a people that has been thrown out of many, many, many places with very little notice, but with certain whispers in the wind. And so we've become reasonably adept at knowing when the dangerous signs are real. And you will remember in the United States of America, back in 2016 when Donald Trump won his first term as President of the United States, many people said, Oh, it's time for all people who leave the country. You won't be safe here. Minorities have to leave the country, Jews have to leave the country. It's not going to be safe. And at the time, I denounced that as sensational as tripe, complete farmyard manure, utter, ridiculous bilge water. And obviously it was the case. But I'm very aware that there is such a thing as danger and things can go downhill very quickly. 1290, is a long time ago, but that was when England, through the Jews, who were well established in England, threw them out with nothing but what they could carry and and they were out until 1650 approximately 1650 or 1660 when Oliver Cromwell brought them back, 1492 Jews who had been established in Spain and in Portugal, throughout the Iberian Peninsula, for years and years and years, thrown out unceremoniously with absolutely nothing. Germany, obviously a case in point. Russia, places, place your places that fell under the Soviet Union as part of the Potsdam Conference and and the agreements made by Stalin with Roosevelt and Churchill at the end of World War Two, there were many countries in which Jews had lived for a very long time. Poland, Lithuania, I won't say they'd lived safely, prosperously, in tranquility. That's not true, but they certainly lived there for a long time, and again it became impossible. They had to get out. And so I'm just trying to establish my Bona fire dates you can. Trust me on this. When I sense danger, I promise you, I will tell you and world war three would obviously be a danger, no question about it. What? What should one do? Well, for one thing, if it's really World War three, well, that I suppose you should make sure you're not living in a city. You should get out into the countryside where you can be self sufficient, and where you where you will be less of a target, and so on and so. But don't worry, that's not what's happening now. I assure you it isn't. And so maybe what I should do is just walk through what some of these articles and some of these commentators I've even seen on television, legacy media, people talking in terms, oh, we're on the threshold of World War III. We're not, I promise you, but I'm going to explain to you where this comes from, and I'm also going to remind you that the big danger of succumbing to the sensationalist rubbish is that it distracts you from your five F's. And so while you should be focusing on your family and your fitness and your finances and your friendships and your faith, it is so much more comfortable in a way, to say, oh, none of that matters, because we're facing the crisis of world war III. It's, you know, when young men are called up and in no way minimizing what that means, particularly because I know so many people in Israel who whose lives are in a shambles. Their businesses are being run down because they're not there to take care of them. Their wives and children are struggling to hold the family together. It's very, very rough, particularly when the call up to the military is long lasting, where it goes on for quite a while and and the deployment goes on for many, many months. Israel's never fought a war that's gone on this long, over a year already, since October the seventh, 2023 - 14 months approximately from the time I'm talking so it is difficult, but I also want to explain that there is something appealing about it also, and I'm not in any way diminishing the heroism of men who are deployed, men who serve in the military. But one of the nice things is that the routine problems of life vanish when you have to go and serve in the army, and it's an existential crisis, right? I mean, yes, the Israel is in peril. There's no question about it, in many, many different ways, even on a political level, when you think that more than 10% of Israel's land has been unoccupied since much more than 10% between parts of the south and areas in the north, close to Lebanon, they're vast areas where Israelis have left their homes and had to move into hotels, move into settlement, into refugee centers and so on. And so it's very difficult. There's no question about it. It is very difficult indeed.
Daniel Lapin 9:08
However, when you're called up, it's like all the routine challenges of life vanish, and all you've got to do is basically obey orders and stay alive and fight and do whatever you're supposed to be doing, whatever you're assigned in the military. So in the same way, dealing with your 5f is hard because it's routine, you have to deal with it every single day. You've got to take care of business. You've got to deal with your finances. You have to deal with family matters every single day, and all of a sudden, you are overwhelmed by a sense that we are living a major existential crisis. We're on the threshold of world war three. Well, if that's the case, why worry about finances? Why worry about fitness? Once. The difference, you know you're probably not going to last long. Why worry about family? Nothing matters if we truly are in the opening shots of world war three, why both? Anyway, you see what I'm trying to tell you. You really should put out a mind this rubbish about World War Three because it distracts us from the things we really need to do when we really need to do them, the 5f now. So what's going on? Why? You know, what are some of the pointers to world war three? And the answer is that there have been a bunch of things happening and and here are just the ones I'm going to tell you about. You could probably add to this list. I'm sure all the signs that we are facing world war three, all the signs that show that incipient World War Three is already underway. It's happening, all right, so some of the things, well, North Korea. Well, North Korea has always been a little bit of a saber Rattler, but now South Korea claims that North Korea is is responsible for an attempted coup against the legally elected government of South Korea, and so now there's a crisis in South Korea precipitated by North Korea who but wait, that's not all. There's more Syria. You've probably caught that Syria has been in the news lately. Well, Bashar Al Assad is the guy who's been the head of Syria for many, many, many years. He was the one you might remember that Barack Obama drew a red line in the sand, or red line out of the sand, and Barack Obama told him up to here and no more, if you do this anyway, he did that and made absolutely no difference. Turned out, Barack Obama's Red Line was done with a children's Crayola coloring pen. It was complete and utter nonsense meant nothing, and Bashar Al Assad knew that it meant nothing. He was in no way deterred, and astonishingly because of the amazing goodwill that Americans were willing to extend to the first black president. They didn't come after him. You know, the press ordinarily jumps onto anything that a president does so quickly, right? Well, provided Republican president and the press should have said, Mr. President, your red line has been violated by Bashar Al Assad in Syria. What are you going to do about it? They never did. Barack Obama did absolutely nothing, and Bashar Al Assad proceeded to do everything he had been doing. I'm not going to go into details of it, because to tell you the truth, I don't really care that much about what Syrians do to one another. It is not my concern. It should not be the concern of the United States of America, unless it turns out that they are threatening anyone outside of Syria. But at any rate, so what's happened is, all along there's been the civil war between the so called rebels and the government of Bashar Al Assad and and now the rebels enjoyed a surge of success, and What's happened is they have taken the city of Aleppo, and they're saying, Well, next stop Damascus. And so Syria is in flames. And so there's another part of the world that's in serious trouble. How about this one? There was an incident in the middle of November, november 17, where data cables in the Baltic were severed. Initially, it wasn't clear how that happened, but suspicion immediately fell on China, and thereafter, the movements of a Chinese ship in the Baltic were monitored, and the ship's movements were what you'd expect to find if the ship had. Dragged its anchor cable over the sea floor. It's all a little hard to understand, because I know a little bit about anchors, a little bit about ships, and you can't drag your anchor. The anchor is designed to resist dragging it would it would be very, very questionable as to whether you could drag your anchor. In fact, you know one of the things when you drop your anchor, it's intended to hold your ship stationary, and one of the things is you actually engage the engines in reverse to try and pull the anchor, and all that does is dig it deeper into the seabed. So I will tell you that I am a little skeptical about exactly what happened, but maybe the ship dragged chains, not the anchor just to train, and that damaged the cables. I have absolutely no idea, but data cables were damaged in the Baltic, and these were cables that linked various NATO countries. This is what they're saying. The cables also linked non NATO countries, but you got to understand that media is driven by sensationalism, just like social media right click bait. Who hasn't been tempted to go onto a video because of the seductive little thumbnail that advertises the video. Then turns out to have very little to do with that. Everybody knows that you've got to get eyeballs, and it's no different for CNN, as it is for Fox, and it's no different for internet news sources and so right now, oh, it's a Chinese and maybe it is, I don't know, and maybe they did it deliberately, and maybe it was an accident, I don't know. But the important thing is it doesn't matter. It really doesn't. There was a destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline months back. You will remember, oh, who did that? Lot of suspicion fell on the United States of America. A lot of suspicion also fell on China. Oh, it's an aggressive Yeah, it probably is. And bottom line is, it got fixed and life continued. And similarly here, there's no question about that, breaking of a data cable under the ocean data cable, you know, it's not a simple thing. It takes divers, it takes specialized equipment, but the world is so dependent on undersea data cables that every nation has repair facilities ready to go on a moment's notice. How long will it take before the Baltic cables are repaired? I think most of them are already repaired. And so there it is, but it's a big piece of sensation. It's an act of war on the part of China. We don't know anything, and it's just not that important, really. It's not the threshold of world war three. I'll tell you when it is, but it isn't now, that's for sure. Let's see what else they're talking about. Oh, obviously Ukraine, right? Ukraine is a big Oh, a war in Ukraine is intensifying. You know, why? Turns out that there are North Korean soldiers, 10s out not 10,000 but there's 1000s of North Korean soldiers fighting with Russia in against Ukraine and so and as a result of that, Russia is able to be more aggressive in the war, and it's all right, fine, okay, right. That's been going on since 2022
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the fact that there are now said to be soldiers from other countries involved? Really a big problem. Why is it not a big problem? When American built fighter jets and fighter bombers are sent to Ukraine? Of course it is. All of these things are problematic, particularly if you are Ukrainian, and if you are Russian, you're also involved. But, and those of you who do have strong connections with Ukraine or with Russia, I understand you're miserable about this, and it's not good world war three, not even. And close, I assure you, I'll give you I'll give you one more. But first of all, let me ask you, not only to make sure you subscribed, and not only to make sure that you are a member of the Happy Warrior community, because, as usual, there is a bonus show, and the bonus show for today for members of the Happy Warrior community, and we do that because we want to find a way of expressing our appreciation to those of you who have become members of the Happy Warrior community. And the bonus show is going to be talking about why it is that in spite of the fact that there has been a huge surge in the number of little girls joining chess clubs and little girls joining chess leagues and little girls playing chess. The number of female the number of women at the Grand Master level, hasn't changed a bit. It's so few, by the way, it's like about two. Less than 2% of grandmasters are women, that they've actually set up women's designations where the scoring is lowered to make it as a woman Grandmaster shocking, right? But what's going on there? Why is it after all this time? Why is this still the case, and that's what I explain on the and it's got other attributes as well. It's also related to why it is that if you look at the, let's say, the 100 biggest names in art of the 20th century, easy to do, right? Just look it up on Google. Turns out that only 8% of them are women, the overwhelming majority of artists. And I'm talking it just about painters. I'm not looking at, you know, where's the female Mozart? Okay, it's not there. And, and this is all explainable. This is not because of the patriarchy and it's not because of sexism, and it's not because of embedded and systemic bigotry and misogyny. It's none of these things. It's a very simple reality that part of the culture doggedly refuses to countenance to such an extent that it has almost become a deity, right? And that's something that I've found that happens that once the understood deity of religion, once the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob is banished from American public life. And this, you know, only happened in the last few decades. It's not as if Americans worship nothing. They've just replaced the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob with the God of of anti racism, and the God of climate change and the God of diversity and and all the things that people worship now that they're totally and deeply committed to. And that's an interesting thing about human beings, right? We always need a cause bigger than ourselves. And the great thing about Bible based Judeo Christian thinking is there's a boss, and so we have the cause. But when you get rid of that, you'd think that people would now not need, no, they still need a thing. And since it's not that the cause is saving the planet. This the cause is less carbon dioxide in the air. The cause is undoing the racism that has infected America, or undoing the anti women misogyny, dealing with the toxic masculine. This is all the stuff that is believed for the most part, by people who have renounced the faith of Abraham Isaac and Jacob, the faith of the Bible and the faith of the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and they adopt a new faith. It is religious, like in the devotion that people have for it. And so anyway, a lot of that stuff will be in the bonus podcast. But in as far as today is concerned, very. Very important, World War Three is not upon us, and all you got to do is stay tuned to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show, and I'll tell you when World War Three is headed our way, but it isn't yet. And those of you who are already members of the Happy Warrior community, and those of you who are now going to become members of our Happy Warrior community, where we have an opportunity to meet and talk on the Happy Warrior website. Many of you are aware that that's where we communicate. That is also the community from whom I invite people for periodic interviews on the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show. It's a segment I call, you know, get to know the happy warriors. And we've done one already. We got another one coming up soon. But if you want to know where, how to how you remember, you want to find the bonus podcast, our staff was good enough to give me some directions, which I'm going to pass on to you. All you got to do is log into your We Happy Warriors account. 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Okay, and so, back to World War Three, which is not happening, really not happening.
Daniel Lapin 28:40
You've got to become less susceptible to the sensationalism. Immunize yourself. Vaccinate yourself against this panic and hysterical response that we are now very subject to. You know, it was different. Once upon a time, you tuned into, this is years ago. You tuned into the local radio station in your city. You read one or two of the local newspapers published in your city. There was more of a sense of responsibility, because there was an accountability. It wasn't a an ad hoc and that's really what the internet is, has become, and you just have to be aware of it. It's a very useful tool. There's lots of value. There's also lots of garbage. But don't allow yourself to be stampeded and distracted from your basic mission, which is your five F's. You've got to be on top of this, and this is where your time and energy should be going, building up your finances, building up your family, wherever you are in that journey, if you're not yet married, that's something that you should be putting energy in. And doing it correctly. Don't waste time. So you got to deal with your finance. You got to deal with your family, social very important. You got to make sure you are growing your social circle friendships. Take care of your body, which, again, if World War Three is going to obliterate us all next week, then why? Why worry about your diet. Enjoy those chocolate cream eclairs from me. Enjoy them. But World War Three is not upon us. So keep on with your diet, and keep on with your exercise, and look after your body and take care of your connection with the boss as well. That's the five F's, faith, friendships, fitness, finance and family. Here's another reason. They say, Oh, you know why we're on the verge of world war three. Have a look what's going on in the Middle East. What's going on is Israel is still bombing in Gaza, and there is a tenuous ceasefire in Lebanon, America has pushed Israel to a ceasefire with Hezbollah and and it's it's not going to hold. It's already looking as if it's raining at the edges, and when that happens, all hell will break loose in the Middle East, and that's going to be the beginning of World War No, it isn't, I promise you, relax. It's okay. No, don't relax. Don't let yourself be distracted by this nonsense, and focus on your five F's. Now why is it that I can assure you with such conviction that what you have to worry about is plenty. You must worry about your finances, worry about your family, very much. Worry about your family. Worry about your fitness and your friendships and your faith. Yeah, plenty to worry about, but what you don't have to worry about is world war three. Why do I say that? Well, let me explain these things that look like different problems, right? Ukraine and North Korea fighting with the Russians, and that's there between Germany and Russia, between, yeah, in Europe, and you got all the Middle East problems. Oh, and don't forget, in addition to Israel fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon, you also got Bashar Al Assad and Syria ready to erupt into flames. Don't forget that. And, and, yes, up in the Baltic region. Well, there we have the problem of the China breaking the the wires, the data cables. Oh, here's one more thing, China is going to invade Taiwan, and what's going to happen then that's another hot spot. Well, America is going to be plunged into war. And there it is. Off we go. Yeah, I nearly forgot about that one. That one's a biggie, you see, must be close to world war three. We're really not relax. And instead of looking at these things as separate conflagrations, fires breaking out all over the place. Think of it as, let me give you this analogy, a guy in Los Angeles wakes up and during the night, there was a big earthquake, and it broke bridges, and it broke gas mains and it started fires. But he slept through that entirely, and he gets up in the morning and he notices that a bookcase in his in his living room had fallen over. Oh, my God. How did that happen? He said, What a strange thing. Who's ever heard of a bookcase falling? Well, I guess maybe my dog tried to jump on it and pulled it over. Then he goes out in the streets, and he sees a water main broken and is flooding. And he takes a little walk, and he sees a fire. And then he goes somewhere else, and he notices the freeway bridge down. All of these things happened in Los Angeles in 92 with the earthquake then and he says to himself, this what a coincidence. I mean, the world's falling apart. There's fires, there's floods, there's broken bridges, there's my bookcase tumbling down. Everything going wrong in the world today. And the wise man taps him on the shoulder and says, relax. These are not five disparate things that are going on. And it's not just that fires are being set and floods. It's that there was an earthquake last night. You slept through it, and the earthquake calls. The Bridge to fall, and it caused the intersection to flood and a fire hydrant to break and fires to break out from broken gas mains. That's just one thing they're giving it under control. And sure enough, they did get it under control. That's what's going on here. Admittedly, if these were all disconnected concerns, China breaking the cable. China invading Taiwan, North Korea and South Korea arguing, whoa, wow, everything's breaking up. The delicate and fragile status quo is being imperiled. No, these are all manifestations of the same thing that's all that's going on here, and as a result, there's nothing to worry about. Now, okay, let me explain.
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What is it? What are all what are all these things? I'll tell you. The things that are all happening are all the result of great weakness in America. Great weakness.
Daniel Lapin 36:22
Okay, where, where to start? Let's start off with Israel's frail ceasefire with Hezbollah, the Iran sponsored. Oh, that's another thing about oh Iran. Israel damaged Iran's air defenses, and so Iran is vulnerable, and who knows what they may do, because they're building the nuclear bomb. Yes, they are. And guess who made that possible? I'll give you a clue, an American president whose name starts with an O, see if you can figure it out. He was so eager to announce the public relations triumph of a deal with Iran. The deal was no deal. The deal was exactly what Iran wanted they got. And so what we're talking about here is that every single one of these hot fires, each one of these outbreaks of a disturbing cause of an incipient World War. All of these things are the result of incredible American weakness. Israel's war against Hamas and Hezbollah could have all been done by now, accepting, as I've told you in a previous podcast, since World War Two, America is allergic to victory. America didn't win. Korea, America certainly didn't win. Afghanistan, America hasn't won anything since World War Two. There is a reason for that. It's a spiritual reason, not a military reason. When Moses said to Joshua, be strong and of good courage in Hebrew, it sounds better, Emma. It's not really what it means. Be strong enough good courage. That just sounds like a poetic repetition. Be strong and be of good courage. The meaning in Hebrew is have strength and have the moral will to use it when necessary. It's the second part that's missing with America, and they force Israel to fight a war in the same way America has fought wars. America has this bizarre spiritual lapse that says wars must be fought proportionately. Oh, really, when wars are won, they are won by disproportionate force. It's when one side utterly obliterates the other side's ability to continue making war that's how wars end. But wars end with power, not with paper. Wars end with victories and defeats. They don't end with peace treaties and ceasefires in war one ended with a treaty, and it was never, it never produced the the peace that World War Two produced. As a matter of fact, many historians and I include myself in that. Believe that World War, there really was just one world war, or you can call it the long war, and that was from 1914 to 1945 that's what I think, with the 20 year ceasefire in the middle. That's all it was, because treaties do not end wars. You. Victories and defeats do and so America's weakness was spread to Israel by force, by holding Israel ransom to the supply of military equipment which they were buying. So that's all that happened there. And so the fact that there's any ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah is really only Israel marking time until January the 20th, 2025 when President Trump becomes the President of the United States for his second term, for another term, and at that point, many things are going to change. Israel certainly believes that to be the case. And so to just get the Biden administration off their back, cease fire with Hezbollah. Fine. It doesn't have to be. It's not a big deal. It'll vanish. But it'll vanish once Trump will give Israel the green light to do whatever it has to do. So that's, that's the that part of the Middle East, Syria doesn't have to be an American problem. America doesn't have to take sides in that at all. And all America has to do is make sure that the trouble doesn't spread into areas of concern to us. But in and of itself, look, there have been civil wars throughout Africa for many, many years. America didn't feel the need to intercede there. What do you think it was when the Hutus killed a million Tutsis in Burundi in Uganda? Why did that not matter to anybody? Huge Civil War? Nobody interfered. America didn't interfere. There's no reason for America to interfere in whatever's going on in Syria, if, if they are tied up in that. Fine, not a problem at all. Now, as far as the fact that Iran and Russia are supporting Bashar Al Assad, fine, so let them become ensnalled. When Russia went into Afghanistan, it turned out to be a complete mess, and this was highlighted and depicted very colorfully in a movie that starred Tom Hanks called Charlie Wilson's War. And this was how the CIA armed the Mujahideen in Afghanistan and suddenly gave them the ability to destroy Russian gunships and Russian troop carriers and Russian tanks. And before very long, Russia left Afghanistan. And that pretty much became the end of the Soviet Union's adventures around the world. That was about the end of it and and so if Russia is involved with, with Syria, fine, you know, let it be one of the great tragedies. And it'll be rectified as well. Is that the Bidens obsession with Ukraine, which I believe had a lot to do with corruption, with Hunter Biden and with large sums of money that were recirculated from America to Ukraine and from there to Biden enterprises. In my belief that is the case, that is what drove Russia into the arms of China. It didn't have to be that way. It was tragic, but it'll become repaired. And there's a reason for my optimism, because things to some extent tend to be rational. Russia is going in, China is going to invade Taiwan, and no, they really aren't, and I've spoken about this before. First of all, if they did, don't for a moment think that the United States would be able to do anything about it militarily, the amount of time it still would take to rebuild America's industrial ability right now, our. Full industrial ability to produce 155
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millimeter shells, which are the mainstay of artillery. Ukraine is going through so many of them that if we took six months manufacturing, Ukraine uses it up in about a week. So the idea that we're able to do that right now, China enjoys widely recognized naval superiority of the United States. In addition to that, we proceeded to build our military you know, Eisenhower spoke about the military industrial complex. I didn't understand it when he said it, I was too young. But it does help to explain why America has been building aircraft carriers when that's just not the weapon of the future. America does have aircraft carriers, but what good are they? You send an aircraft carry into the South China Sea in an attempt to protect Taiwan. It gets taken out by Chinese hypersonic missiles, which fly much quicker than the ones America is still working on. We don't have the capacity America, speaking as America, to do anything about that. So you might say, well, that that means that you all the more likely that we're ending up with World War Three, because China is about to invade Taiwan. Relax. China is not about to invade Taiwan. And I, I say that with great certainty, and the reason is because I pay a lot of attention to Taiwanese elections, and I pay a lot of attention to Taiwanese surveys and polls, and it's very, very clear to me that Taiwan is moving, in its own Right, towards reconnecting with China. It's the obvious move for them. Do you really think China wants to bomb Taiwan into a parking lot? Of course, they don't. TTaiwan semiconductor manufacturing company is there. So as many other things there, of course they don't want to. There is no way that China is going to launch a military attack on Taiwan. It's absurd. They don't see the Taiwanese as the enemies. They see them as Chinese. And the point that so many people are ignoring in the United States of America, it's not I just wanted it's not that I'm this big genius, and I see it many, many, many, far more knowledgeable observers of China and Taiwan have have made this point as well. In fact, I may not even have come up with it myself. It's even conceivable that I got it from reading somebody else a few years ago. But if you follow China Taiwanese elections, it's perfectly clear that the Chinese people themselves are moving closer and closer towards reconnecting with China, which is exactly what Xi Jinping of Tai of China wants to see happen. It's going to happen very quietly. Will it be a problem for the United States of America, I don't think it's going to be a big problem. We may have to we may find we're paying a little bit more. We will find ourselves more vulnerable, because any threat to impose tariffs on China could be countered by a threat on the part of China to slow down shipments of critical things right now China, between China and India, the medications we need, the vaccines we need. A lot of these things are manufactured in China and India anyways. And so it's going to be perhaps a little more difficult to get semiconductors well, don't for a moment believe that the Biden administration's tremendous boondoggle of money given to build new semiconductor facilities in America, that's not where it's going to come from. It will come but it'll take time. Will there be hiccups in the shipment of semiconductors, quite possibly. But none of this is going to be crucial. We're not looking at anybody trying to start a major conflict China. You got to understand, if you look at their Belt and Road Initiative, and you see what they've been trying to do in Africa and in South America. It's, it's not invading, it's not military. They're winning simply through economic power. And there are two conflicting views on China. One is, China's in big trouble. Their real estate industry is in trouble. Their demographics are in trouble. A rest of population is objecting to the surveillance and to the control of the state. And then there are, there's the view of many, many other people to which I subscribe, which I think is a far more educated approach to China, which is they're doing just fine. There's no desperation in China at all. Like everyone else, ups and downs, rate of growth is a little lower now than the crazy rate of growth it had a few years ago. It may well come back. Do they have demographic challenges? Yeah, but so do we in the West, almost every western industrialized nation, with the exception of Israel, is suffering a very severe fertility crisis. So yeah, it's not like that. So the important thing that I want to try and suggest that you consider to be a true analysis. I think it is, but you must make up your own mind. Investigate it, research it, read about it, and you will see that all of these things I've been talking about everything, whether it's Iran, or whether it's Syria, or whether it's Israel, or whether it's the Baltic, or whether it's Ukraine and Russia, all of these are the direct consequence of American weakness since the time of Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton became president in 1992. He was president till 2000 in 2000 he wanted Al Gore to take over from him, but turned out to be George W Bush took over from him. George W Bush was president from 2000 to 2008, in 2008 Obama became president to 2016 during all of that time, America was weakening itself more and more and more, would have been a good thing for President Clinton to say, You know what? Too much of our stuff is being manufactured in China. We're letting too much in the way of manufacturing leave. We're allowing the unions to exert far too much control. Were allowing regulation to drive manufacturers over. Bill Clinton should have done that. If he didn't, which he didn't, would have been nice if his successor, George W Bush, should have done it, but George W Bush was busy nation building in the Far East, in the Middle East, that's right, nation building, bringing democracy to Iraq. How's that been working out? It was nonsense. It was nothing but weakness. You know, if you felt for one reason or another, weapons of mass destruction, whatever you thought that you need to go into Iraq and you got to take out Saddam Hussein, so you should have defeated them, but you didn't. You couldn't wait to sign a peace and to start rebuilding Iraq in the image of Vermont, one of the states in America. It was a waste of time and blood and money. It was awful. There was no strength exhibited by the eight years under George W Bush. And it was very sad. And then came Obama. Do you remember Obama's attitude towards Russia? Do you remember? What do you remember the reset? He sent Hillary, his secretary of state, to Russia with a sort of toy red button to show Vladimir Putin that they want a reset in their relations with Russia. All of these things radiated total weakness and during all this time, the United States military was being weakened, our industrial capacity to supply the military was being weakened. You know how many shipyards America has capable of building naval ships, and many of them closed in this period, we have two shipyards in America capable of building naval vessels. How many in China? Well over 100
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so when I said that most recognize that China enjoys naval superiority, it's absolutely true, and with no sign of that gap closing in the near future. And I'm telling you all, it's not because this is terrible news. Yes, it's the result of weakness since 1992 and maybe even before. I'm not going to go back as far as George Herbert Walker Bush, but since 92 Yeah, this is what we've been dealing with for. Fatal, not fatal. But when you've heard me speak about the 250 years of an empire, and you've heard me sadly identify the fact that America is in year number 248, it's a reality. It doesn't mean it's the end. It just means it's a new beginning. It's a new era, an era of American unipolarity in the world that's probably history. That's probably gone, but World War Three, come on, don't be susceptible to the sensationalist nonsense. Absolutely not at all the Ukraine and Russia crisis is that also American weakness, absolutely. And by the way, the good news is that if there's one thing that everybody recognizes about Donald Trump is he's not weak, and people everywhere are welcoming that, because in America that is able to act firmly in a masculine way will be very welcome, but, but yes, talk about interference in other countries in 2014 Barack Obama, along with his chief right hand, a woman called Victoria Newland. Her father was Jewish. The original family name was Noodleman. They changed the new land, and Victoria Newland got this unbelievable Emperor complex that she is going to reshape Central Europe and and she interfered. Talk about Russian interference in American elections. I don't think there's evidence of that, but there's plenty evidence that America worked to successfully depose the head, the elected head of Ukraine, and to replace him, eventually, with Zelensky, who's been an absolute calamity. But you know, what are some of the things that that were done, some really, really dumb things they encouraged, as I say, a change of leadership in Ukraine from a pro Russian leader to a pro Western leader. And Zelensky was a pro Western leader simply because he was able to be bought with American money, which he was, or I should say, Biden money. And what happened is that this and the evidence, I mean, it's not hard to find, because the Obama administration boasted about it that they were doing this, and they did do it. And then the the next thing is they encouraged Zelensky to block up the North Crimea water canal. Crimea has been an important naval base for Russia. It's the only warm water port that Russia has had for hundreds of years, and it's occupied by people who think of themselves as Russian. It's always been a part of Russia, and in the fall of the Soviet Union, there was an attempt to take it away and make it part of Ukraine. This was all part of Obama and Newlands dream of making Ukraine part of NATO. Again. You know, what sort of person pokes the bear in the cage with a stick? What sort of person does that, but that's what the Obama administration was doing, culminating in violating an understanding that was made with Gorbachev in 89 that Ukraine would not become part of NATO. But meanwhile, Crimea is not getting any water because the canal that was built by the Soviets. Soon after World War Two, in the years following World War Two, that canal had been blocked, big concrete dam. Well 2022 Putin had had enough people in the Crimea were not his people were not getting water. And so in 2020 excuse me, 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine. Do you know what they did on the very first you check this out, the very first day of the invasion, they went to the dam that Ukrainians had built with American help across the north Crimea water canal, and they blew it up to restore water to Crimea. And so it goes, this stupidity that has been at the heart, oh, by Vladimir Putin is trying to rebuild the Soviet empire. He wants to go back to Catherine, the great Ukraine is just the beginning. After that, it's going to be all the Baltic states. Look, I'm not a prophet, and I have no. To line to the soul of Vladimir Putin. But I do know that Russia is not looking for extra headaches, not looking for more land. They don't need more land. Russia has plenty space and the incredible cost of trying to take and then administer Poland and Latvia and Ukraine. It's absurd. Anybody who knows anything about how Russia is operating in the moment knows they don't need that Ukraine. They need be in the same way that if China were to negotiate a military base in Mexico, just 10 miles from downtown San Diego, just in Tijuana, Mexico. Do you really think America would settle for that? Do you think we'd Oh, that's they can do whatever they like. Do you really think so? Just think back to 1962 the missile crisis in Cuba, with water right 60 miles of water or more between Cuba and the United States. Nonetheless, when Russia put missiles on Cuba America under President J F Kennedy, was ready to do anything. It was not going to and Khrushchev blinked and they removed the missiles. If China put missiles in in south of San Diego. Do you think America would be quiet about that? Of course not, and one should not expect Putin to be quiet when America threatens to put NATO into Ukraine, which means Pershing missiles pointing at Moscow get now placed 50 yards from the border with Russia for for hundreds of years, Russian policy has been to have buffer places between their borders and the West, which they've always feared for good reason, because an invasion into Russia has happened more than once from China and through the lands in between the Baltic and the Black Sea and so yeah, I mean all of this stuff. What I'm trying to point out is that these conflagrations that are being cited as evidence that we are facing the dangers of world war three, they are all the same thing. They are all the result of decades of serious mismanagement in America, a mismanagement based on the idea that everybody wants to become an American. Let me tell you something. This part, I know for sure Chinese people do not want to become Americans. They really don't. Muslim people, we know for sure do not want to become Americans and but we, we operate on this basis of exporting America, the globalism we're going to make everywhere in the in the world is going to be just a little replica of America democratic, and it's going to be peaceful, and they're going to trade. This is a great illusion, but in so in following that illusion, America neglected to look after its own house, and my prayer is that President Trump, who gained office, he gained victory in 2024 in last month because he promised to make America great again. Making America Great Again doesn't mean exporting democracy, making America great again, is not telling other countries, as America has been doing since Clinton's time, that they have to adopt the homosexual agenda or the LGBT gender or the trans agenda. That's not that's been a requirement. American embassies around the world have been putting pride and rainbow flags. Why? Why has this got to be foisted on other nations? Our job is not to improve the world. I think you understand where I'm coming from, and
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if indeed, President Trump proves to really wish to make America great again, which means minding our own business, which will be greatly to the relief of everybody else. You really don't have to worry about World War I'm not saying Trump will head off world war three. I'm saying World War Three is not on the doorstep. It's not happening. It's not as if, oh, somebody better do something to make sure World War Three doesn't era. It's not erupting. It can. All you have to do is start taking care of America. And these configurations will subside. One by one they will be in this I'm I'm very much looking forward to the Trump administration. I think it will be a mass. Of reduction in all of the this nonsense and this sensationalism going on overseas. Let everybody take care of their own places, and America will take care of America. That's the concept. So so above all, World War Three is not happening. Please be aware of that. Pass the good word. Will you spread that? Tell other people, let them become Happy Warriors as well. Take care of your five F's. The website is Rabbidanielapin.com Be in touch. Become a Happy Warrior and stay connected and focus on your five F's. And so that's as far as we're going to go for today. But just remember your five F's. Stay in touch with those. Stay focused on those you, or who you Happy Warriors, who are part of the Happy Warrior community. Welcome to you, and I'm happy for for you to be there. And for that reason, you are going to be able to access another bonus show having to do with male female differences, particularly in controversial areas. We'll take a look at that, and we will move onwards and upwards with our 5f so please forget about World War Three not happening, but what is happening is your family and your finances, your faith, your fitness and your friendships. God bless you.
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