Why CopiaPort E in Chile is a National Security Priority with LTC (Ret) Tony Shaffer

we were stopped from stopping them. More to come on that soon. Tucker Carlson and Kurt just had a interview, So we're gonna there's more coming on that. And then after I got out of the after I retired, I became worked a couple of different think tanks, ran the London Center for Policy Research. After my friend and mentor, doctor Herb London passed, I see what oh I did.

I'm an actor and producer. I produced a series called Chain of Command for net GEO right there over my shoulder, acted in something called Spy's I. I also was the national skirt advisor for the Trump twenty twenty campaign. Little hint they didn't take my advice. They lost, just saying, so I can tell stories there, couldn't we Jerry, So.

And uh if this is a key strategic I think challenge for the Trump administration because China wants this port on the Pacific to be part of China's Belt and Road initiative, their landing spot in South America. And Trump's gonna have to act fast to get Rubio and gear Marco Rubio secretary of State in order to enter into the negotiations because it's possible to grab this port from China providing the United States makes an offer on it. And it's so twenty one. Don't we just begin there?

Because I think you know the key I think awareness in terms of national security issues, and Chris Gordani is showing here where the port is located. It's strategically accessible to Argentina, two low gradient passes where the trucks can bring the produce from Argentina to these ports, and this port these ports, the copiate E Port goes directly on the Pacific to China, so it bypasses having to ship out of a port, and the Atlantic side of South

America in Argentina go through the Panama Canal. This port will cut fifteen days from the trip to China and have major deep water access to all of South America. So again, I think the issue here is the strategic control of a resource that's important to our hemisphere and the national security implications if China gets this port. And what are your initial thoughts here, Tony.

Is the fact that the Latin America South American particular is one of our most reliable trading partners, and we need a lot of what they produce, so to the Chinese, by the way, So anything we can do to slow or degrade the Chinese ability to absorb resources, especially those that we want, is a good thing. And we are in a competition. It's a competition of civilizations, if you will. The Chinese have said that they want to eventually dominate a Pacific rim. This is part of the Pacific rim.

They've already said in their own doctrine that that is a national objective and they will accomplish that objective through a series of business deals, commercial buyouts, and influence. They're first wanting to use soft power, buying people out, trying to obtain access to worts and resources for their own purposes, and then trying to push us out of the market. And as you said, the Belton Road thing is very important.

That is the competition to the G seven, G twenty, whatever G you want to bring up, that's the alternative to it, and much of what we're trying to do right now, Jerry is to deter people from joining that. As a matter of fact, I think India, it's one of the latest nations we've condensed to rethink their membership in that for a number of reasons which we don't

that's probably a conversation for a different day. But to your point, this is an important physical location that the Chinese covet and would be able to take advantage of as part of their larger grand strategy. So set that

as one factor. Secondly, regarding just the Trump doctrine, President Trump is now establishing a doctrine which is going to look a lot like the Monroe doctrine, and I would like to believe Jerry as we develop a strategy sp Hexteth and Marco Rubio look at this and keep in mind they've only been in office three months, so it's

going to take some time. But part of what they have to do is take a step back, look at the big picture and recognize that they need to take elements of the Cold War regarding how Reagan approached the Cold War, regarding looking at the Soviet Unions evil empire. China is now that evil empire, so you've got to

look at it kind of for that perspective. But more importantly, you've got to modernize the approach to look at how we can counter a near peer who was essentially said, we're going to take you on playing your own game

economic destruction. Remember Jerry, you know this. We were able to essentially convince the Russians that as the strategic defense in issue was real, and we helped bankrupt them through a number of things that had them overspend, get over their skis, and then we helped also make them really really troubled by Afghanistan, by the war in Afghanistan. These

things really had a big impact. And then plus we went about using Dallas, the TV Dallas and other media to undermine uh Soviet people, the Soviet people's resolve regarding thinking that we're we were evil And you know, this is something that I think is really not appreciated. The Russians wanted to, oh, we want to import and show Dallas to show people how corrupt the Americans are. It's like, no, all the Russians wanted to become become America.

to put a stop to this. So what I'm saying is we we need to learn the lessons of how we won in the past, and how some of those lessons, some of those techniques are now being focused back on us by the Chinese. So that's part two. This port, the strategy that includes this port has to be included in this modified Monroe doctrine that becomes a Trump Trump doctrine. So those two things are related. Third, and I think probably simply put, is having the political will and foresight

to take action ahead of time. This Jerry is a point of engagement that has to be recognized sooner than later. So this is where I hope this is something that gets to the higher priority list of what they're doing right now, and that way they can recognize that through this one example, they need to start looking at the other two things that I just outlined so.

It could become a protectorate or something. And by the way, Canada should be the fifty first state. So there we are reaching all the way to the Arctic. And then his visions extending down south. We just recently have Argentina agreeing to take a naval port down at the tip of Argentina that China wanted and Malay has said no, the United States will have that port. Now Chile with this deep water port, you know, which is could handle. It's really got tremendous advantages in that it's a thirty

meters natural deep water port. You don't need a dredge to accommodate these China Mas cargo ships, which can accommodate eight more cargo than if you're taking ships out of the the eastern coast, the Atlantic coast of South America. So you know this is you know, this port essentially will function to tremendously enhance China's ability not only to bring its goods into Latin America, also take agriculture produce

from Argentina, which China desperately needs in food. And also Argentina and and even Chili are very very rich in lithium. Chili Chile, I think the world leader in lithium export right now. And so therefore, between the lithium and other rare earth minerals that you get in Latin American South America, that's certainly something that China covets controlling. Yeah, no matter.

we can't not live with batteries. So even with the current pace of just expansion of technology, computers and other things, we're going to continue to have to have a steady supply of lithium and other rare earths. That's something we should corner. And this is what I don't understand, and this is where I hope the Trump folks are paying attention.

We have to recognize that not only through tariffs. Once we reduce the ability of China to basically hold us captive to rare earths and technology, we have to develop our own. So to your point, Jerry, this needs to be one of the places we partner with to have access unencumbered, uninterrupted access to rare earth for purposes of re establishing our own production of technology within the United States.

It's kind of like a loss of sovereignty again that in other words, you know, these are resources that impact our ability to remain America first. And just like the tariffs are going to make it harder for us to ship all of our jobs to China. Mean, this whole free trade was all about one way, one way transfer a capital out of the United States, transfer manufacturing jobs out of the United States, and a destruction of the middle class. And again, if we're going to have America first,

we've got to secure our borders. But we also have to make sure that we contain and think about these ports and other natural resources of infrastructure that we need to maintain in US control. I mean, if we're down at the Panama Canal, why aren't we also concerned about this port in Chile? And you know, so just on that national sovereignty issue, just on the issue of you know, the Trump doctorate, expanding the Monroe doctor and thinking about our hemisphere security in a world.

how to come up with a Trump doctrine. This would be something that's formalized and implemented across the board. It take about six months to do. You could do this, and I think that the very thing you're saying, Jerry, should be essentially the five bullet points, you know, expanding our sphere of influence, expanding our our sphere of nations who are essentially part of the Republic. Go about doing that and make it a policy. And by the way, you got three years into work it, and I think

it would be very helpful. But that should be a roadmap going forward. So again, they should have an off site. You could do this in three days easy, get it all kind of laid out, go through, establish the framework, agree upon it, and then implet it. And I think this would help everybody understand how important this really is for the American world.

over to China. China is just seeing this. You know this the southern Southern Hemisphere, which is rich in resources and economically was always the Third World, is as fertile for them to develop this maritime empire, right and access these resources, the earth, minerals and other resources that these countries have, right, and you know, we're not strategically that.

The other consideration that I've had is that you know, both Russia and China are militarizing the Arctic, yes, and doing it very fast as well as outer space, and Antarctica is not far away from that. So, I mean, when you start looking at you know, the Western hemisphere as our sphere of influence, it's going to need that kind of a vision in order to compete with Russia, which is looking at the Bricks Nations, and China, which

is looking at the Belton Road initiation. It is, so, you know, these are what concerns me is that you know, I know TODM. Calendar very well is a strong patriot, and he desperately is trying to get the attention of Rubio in the State Department to pay attention to this port. But with everything else going on, you know, it's how do we get the attention of the State Department to focus on this and a timely fashion, because China's got

a memorandum of understanding in place. China as if one is going to press to close this, especially since they know we're making an issue of it. Yeah, well, I got to get you to the right people.

don't have a comprehensive bench to go to. There's a few folks i'll just be blunt that know what they're doing, Telsea Gabbert, you know, Pete, a few others secretaries, but they haven't been able to really establish a bench they can go to to get things done. They can't turn to someone and say, hey, go do this. So this is where President Trump is very important right now. Try to get it to his level. So he says this is a priority, go do something about it. I think

the bench will develop. It's going to take him a while because I'll be again blunt, there's resistance. There is an organized resistance in all directorates, every department of the government trying to fight the Trump agenda. So it's tough because you've got to fight the swamp, and you got to not only get the swamp, protect yourself. You've got to start looking over the horizon to things like this, and that's where the challenge is to get the right people to pay.

And Trump's going to have a lot to do to turn these countries in an economic direction. Now, the combination of what Trump is thinking about with you know, doing future payments for natural resources. Maybe get a company like Morgan Stanley in here, begin developing options, go futures twenty thirty eight years out on killing in lithium. You can generate wealth simply by creating the futures trading on those resources.

And Trump begins to combine this kind of creative finance work with the fact that we want to help these countries develop. I'm finding in the Middle East, in in Africa, we even had the Congo saying we'll come in here and settle our civil war, just just give us some options on our natural resources. These countries are desperate to have development and to have economic progress being made. Look

at l Salvador. It's turning El Salvador around from the home of MS thirteen to now being where they're willing to take MS thirteen captives and you know, murderers, mother rapers, father rapers, baby rapers, all the worst scum of the earth and willing to imprison them. And you know it's our lawfare that's in the way of blocking this yah

And so therefore the resistance is still there. And for Trump to have his own team in place, I mean, I'm concerned about, you know, Pam Bondi, whether she's going to be effective enough. I remember her compromising in the Zimmerman case and apporting special counsel. She seems to not have the resolve to tell the you know, the radical

left that they're insane. As insane as they are. You know, we got Ben Holland out having margaritas with MS thirteen terrorists, and you know in El Salvador, I'm worrying about whether they had judicial review before they were deported is insanity. These are not citizens. And again the the left, the left will not go easily into the night. It's going to have to be beaten. And what Don Doge is doing with taking his money away is vital. Take the money away.

showing up because theyin't get paid. And you get people like Jamie Raskin and other Democrats who should probably be keeping their mouthshup because I think if I were the president, I'd try to remove their pardon because I don't think it's worth the paper was auto pinned on just saying and I think that'd look at them because you know him and Chris van Holland, these people are engaged in the national security and foreign affairs issue which they do

not have the authority to be engaged in. And I think if I were Pam BONDI I'd be looking seriously at the well, I don't know, maybe the Logan Act violation is something to start with.

Number one is Donald Trump can introduce into the Congress a plan to reorganize the district and circuit courts, and that planet passed, will make all existing federal judges who have lifetime appointments if they don't if their courts are gone, they don't have lifetime appointments. So you can reappoint the entire federal judiciary with the new Federal Judiciary Reorganization Act.

And secondly, even that would be an excellent way to and therefore establish that the district courts are you know, primary jurisdiction and are not to exceed their reach. And they have the circuit courts. We have circuit courts in every state instead of having circuit courts that are over a group of states, so that each state has a circuit court to appeal to, and then it goes to

the to the Supreme Court. I mean, you could have a restructuring that limits jurisdiction and redefines the function of these courts and thereby get rid of all these soro supported judges. In one fell Swool.

of the government single handed. I don't know that is problem.

here's the law, and everybody has to obey it. And so the key issue a debate was whether or not the judiciary would have enforcement powers, and Jefferson won that debate.

The courts do not have enforcement power. I mean, what is Justice Roberts, who, by the way, is constantly mouthing off at his country club, and the people are talking about this from that country club, how much he hates Trump, which I think is a very bad idea for Justice Roberts to be blabbing his mouth and openly expressing bias like that.

The final analysis, I mean, Trump could say you know, that's a nice opinion of Justice Roberts, but I'm not doing it. What's Justice Roberts going to do? You gonna stream to the Washington Post.

keep it there for a minute, Chris. I'll describe it. But the point I'm making is that the Article two powers of the president are the strongest enforcement power of the Constitution gives. He's the only the legislature has no enforcement power except for the purse. That can defund things if they don't like them, or fund things if they like them. But even if the Congress funds that the president is not required to spend it. We can have

recision clawbacks of funding from Congress. But the point is, and if you take a look at this map that Chris is showing, which is Tony, it's the Pacific Ocean and the trade routes now which are going across into China and Asia. So you know this, these are extensive, and they're reaching into Southeast Asia. China's reaching into India, it's reaching into the Gulf of Akaba and the Red Sea. China can control that whole South Asia part of the globe.

And China's also buying ports in Australia. So China's control of the Pacific is I mean, Japan is fading in terms of significance over China, and it's only amount of time China decides to take Taiwan or try to take Taiwan. They took Hong Kong. Yeah, at some point. Now, under the powers of Commander in Chief, Donald Trump has extraordinary powers. Here on the lawfair to limit his powers. I think his power lists when it comes to commander in chief authority.

That's why I'm also looking very hard at the executive order of Trump issued on the voting and the fact that the Department of Homeland Security has now taken the lead Telsea Gabbard Director National Intelligence, making voting fraud and security issue given the penetration of China into the computers of the state boards of election. China's admitted to penetrating our infrastructure with again, so we know the state boards of election have algorithms written into them. And so Trump

is saying, how do we know it's not China cyber attacks? Yeah, and Telsey Gabbart saying, we know our election machines are being penetrated, including the ones inside the state boards of election. That implies who's doing it. Well, these are national security issues under Article two powers of the Commander in Chief, and what the court thinks about that is irrelevant.

funny about it, but I'm not. I mean it's true. And so what we have to recognize is they have been successful and penetrate not only our voting system, they've to your point, bought the best politicians available. So this is why it's important. The Chinese are not blessed with the natural resources and gas and oil we have. We could essentially decide, yeah, we're going to shut ourselves off. We're going to just stay Western hemisphere only Canada, Central America,

Latin America will be fine. China can't do that. China does not have the gas and oil necessary for its billions of people. It doesn't have food and water for its billions of people. They are desperate. So that and that desperation has helped inform their nationalism. They are far more nationalistic than they are communistic. At this point, they are imperial. It's an imperial nation. It should be that the people's imperial Nation of China, not the People's Republic

of China. Just saying, if you actually study what they're doing and who they are, and it's a oligarch, they got oligarchs, I think we could say that.

Free trade is just another, you know, another nice name for the reality behind it, which is we're letting China take over the world, and we're complicit in it as long as China pays the politicians like Biden to do it, or runs the sex and drug parties and films everybody Epstein. And we still don't have all the Epstein data. We don't have all the he did. He still waiting, okay. And what's all this with pedophilia? I mean, you know, the pedophilia seems to come up all over the place,

you know. And and this is the combination of evils that we've got the Trump has gone to combat. It's not just bringing people back to God. It's dealing with the you know, satanic origins of MS thirteen, the satanic nature of their rituals, the satanic nature of this child's sex trade, the drugs. I mean, you know, you can't convince me that the CIA. You couldn't run the drug trade without the CIA's involvement because they need a bank money launder.

since Vatican Two. I've been very close to Archbishop Bigattal and I've raised Catholic and now that the Pope has died of course or decided it was time to kill him finally and get the next one in there, which they're rushing to do the conclave so the LGBT cardinals can control how things are done before the others from around the world arrive and if the Church remains LGBT. And by the way, Vance was meeting with the Pope the day before he died or the day he died.

And with the amount of corruption between Biden, McCarrick, the Vatican and Honduras which I've been writing about and will continue to expose, you know, we don't need to look at the Catholic Church anymore as what it used to be. This is a you know again, an LGBT corrupted organization. You seem a charac there with Pope you know, Pope friend there Obama and Pope Francis. I mean, Paul Francis was totally on the you know, the climate change hoax, every leftist hope.

to be cleaned up here is tremendous. How Donald Trump has done a great job of messaging. But the job that has to be done now is to dig down into these institutions and root the evil out. And that's where DOGE is so important, because we take their money away, they all die. Without the money, they're not going to survive. And you know, again I'm on this theme of making sure we appreciate how important this this port is because

it's going to happen quickly. It's going to have to someone's going to have to intervene or China's going to get on that we're talking about it, and China's going to start upping the pressure to do the to complete the transaction, to go from an mL random understanding to

an actual final agreement. Okay, now I want to cover one more point before we wrap up, and that is that in nineteen seventy two, when Nixon and Kissinger went to China, you know, their professed hope was that we would get China into the world economy and therefore China would become a more nation, a nicer neighbor that they weren't going to become like Russia was the Soviet Union at that time, which we viewed as a professed enemy.

Now as opposed to what Nixon did, you know, you see, Reagan came in and the other point of all the mixes you made this, you know, having Star Wars, spending, you know, the Russia and Afghanistan and expanding resources. Also very important was that Reagan took control of oil, and oil was reduced to about nineteen dollars a barrel, and that was Russia's revenue. Reagan essentially bankrupt Russia exactly, and

China could be easily bankrupt, you know. I mean, China does not have the resources we do in terms of economic activity. You pull the plug on a slave labor and say, we're going to bring making semiconductors back to the United States, and you know, and Nike shoes and everything else we're making over there with tariffs, and there's no reason why we can't make the apple, you know, cell phones here in the United States.

These are all points of weakness Jerry, that I don't think the Chinese fully appreciate and we haven't reminded them of. And I've said I would be very harsh. It's probably well, I'll never be working again in the Pentagon, but I would be very harsh when dealing with the Chinese on this. I would remind them on a daily basis, you cannot survive more than a couple of weeks without Middle Eastern oil.

You cannot survive if the Philippines, the Vietnamese, the uh the Taiwanese, South Koreans, Japanese all get together and decide they're not going to permit you to fish in the in the part of the ocean they consider theirs just saying and these are all these are all vulnerabilities which we don't remind them of and try to use to lag and.

wanting this port in Chile. China's going to control shipping out of South America all the way from the Panama Canal down to nearly Argentina. And we just can't let that happen right now.

and I think that's well in the right. I think again there needs to be a strategy and hopefully this will stimulate discussion at the Pentagon, at the State Department for US to actually embrace understanding how to partner with Latin American countries like this and take control of this, because you know, now's the time to get that done. So, yeah, you've got Panama great. Now it's time to go further

south and get it all the way down. So I think by talking about this, by having us getting to the right people, Jerry, I think we can help make sure that this becomes policy within the Trump administration. Yeah.

at firsthand family escape Cuba. Okay, so therefore communism is not a stranger to Marco Rubio and he should also be aware of the need to But the State Department, our State Department has spent the last you know, since I guess since Clinton doing everything they can to open our borders to invite in criminals and others into our

country to make sure non citizens vote. You know, to abandon our sovereignty with you know, not respect the fact that the United States as a nation state, the whole idea of nation state was repugnant to these people, right.

respects myself. The State Department became essentially a tool against the American people.