Kurt Schlichter - How to Win Wars Again

you forgot sexual powerhouse. I mean, you did tell me that at some point your wife is going to bring you a bottle of wine. So I figured we would have the you know, the life advice for the gentleman out there. Once we had. Once you had a couple of glasses of wine. Missus schlicht could tell everybody you know how the alpha dogs actually roll. I'm just saying that's what I've heard. Well, you've seen her, you know how hot she is. You and I like share this.

We just will not tolerate women who aren't of a certain standard. Well, I will tell you that I have a we have a mutual friend who I don't want to I don't know if I have permission to give away his secrets, but you and I have a mutual friend. You probably know who it is. Just for me saying this. Who has a theory that you basically can't trust a guy who doesn't have a hot wife. Now, as long as the guy thinks his wife is hot, that counts, right, It's all about that. But you can't trust a guy

who doesn't have a hot wife. That's or who doesn't believe he as a hot wife. That's his theory. I always think that's an interesting case study. Why would you Why would you settle for anything less than the best? You're a man, damn it, you're a man. There you go. So we could get into a dating advice for the younger male portion of the audience later on the program, Like I said, Kurt asked me. He's like, He's like, can I smoke? Can I drink? Can I drink a cigar?

That would be crazy? Can I smoke a cigar? Can I drink some scotch? During this? And I was like, Kurt, you you roll however you want, buddy. This is Kurt's world. We're just trying to film it um and and we'll get into some of that stuff. I can I ask you about some real stuff though for a second first, because like there are a lot of people coming here that we want to have news content analysis. You're very smart man. You come from the old school, Cold War era,

thump it out with the bad guys with tanks. We're talking order of battle stuff. We're talking about how many, how many, you know, millions of rounds and hundreds and thousands of gallons of fuel and you know, massive formations to fight the Soviet beasts. So you know you're not one of these fancy counterinsurgency guys. Oh. I speak multiple languages of the natives, and I read books and sit around and try to win the hearts and minds. You're like, boom,

we're dropping bombs on you. Howsovo after nine to eleven, which you know, was a lot like a fireman instead of getting to put out the fire at the orphanage of the old folks. I mean, it's the cat out of the tree. What I was at coast of I was helping people, you know, start musher arms. It was it was. It was not a slam band. But I started out in the Cold War. I started out in Germany. I was part of NATO. I went to the Gulf Wars, part of seventh Corps, end up at seven Core Headquarters.

I ran a heavily armed car wash at that time. After that, got out, went in the reserves, immediately went mechanized infantry, which is uh you know. And of course being the new lieutenant, I got to be the vehicle guy. I got to be the battalion motor officer for a heavy battalion. That was just a delight because they break all the time. How prepared are we for the possibility of a war with a country like either Russia or China where they have very large things that can go

bang to you know what I mean. You know, we've been fighting We've been fighting wars for twenty years where we have absolute uncontested air superiority from day one, right, we have under air attacks and Korea right, absolute technological superiority. You know, in most cases, even our guys in Afghanistan at Rock had you know, night vision, goggless. Some of the you know we can get into like some of the Hakani network guys and everything would have. But generally speaking,

you know, we had much better technology. Are we ready if we had to go, you know, Abram's tank muzzle to muzzle with Russian tank formations. Are we ready for this? I mean, just just to get an understanding of where we stand right now with military readiness for the wars we may be fighting. I'm not as worried about crew to crew fighting as I am about high level leadership. Leadership cures a host of illnesses. It is a solution to many, many problems, and we don't have it right now. Buck.

We have a military that has not won a war unequivocally in thirty years. We have a military that is very concerned with nonsense. You know, I was talking to another guy who's associated with war colleges, and he was telling me that he would, you know, sit in briefings and you know, basic exercises. A bunch of colonels on Saturday will brief you on what America's greatest strategic challenge is. Then Sunday they'll brief you on what the solution is,

you know, basic one oh one war collogey stop. Half the people will show up and say, our number one strategic challenges climate change. Okay, No, our number one strategic challenge is Chinese trying to kill US. I am not confident in our military leadership today. I think we have dropped our standards, taken our eyes off the ball, lost

our focus. I think if we get into a high intense conventional conflict against a peer competitor, and I don't think the Soviet are the Russians got Soviets updating myself. The Russians are truly a peer competitor at this point, though after they rebuild their shattered army they probably will be UM. I think I think we're gonna find ourselves outgunned an outfought. I think we've milked our our past experience,

particularly in the Navy. You know, we were the only military name of the British, the only Navy that had done massive worldwide combat operations. We did that World War Two. We lived off that legacy. I know, my family's all Navy. I'm the I'm the Green sheep, uh. And we lived off that for years and that that's just gone. Now. Our ships are running into each other. Are the officer corps is a disaster. There's no real focus on combat readiness.

Soldiers do what commanders check. Commanders are checking wokeness, so you get wokeness and it's uh, it's a disaster and if we get into a fight, we're going to lose people. Well, this is you know, we saw in in a rocket Afghanistan excellence at the warfighter level continuously, but with the with the idea of a war, a conventional developed world conflict now right. I brought up things like ammunition, gasoline,

because that's what actually matters. You know, who has who brings more guns that they can keep in the field, that they can fire accurately and feed with MMO and you know, all that component of it, which is not you know, really what we were doing in these other places. I mean I was reading about six months ago. I think it was maybe a little more than that. We were worried that our ability to provide munitions to Ukraine was outstripping our ability to make them. And that's for

a war we're not even in. Look, the United States is one war since the Civil War with two things. First of all, our troops are generally excellent. They're generally pretty good. You might be able to say at the British Army, maybe the German Army Man for man, we're better trained, had a more focused professional military traditions. But the American soldiers are pretty damn good, but you put

pretty damn good with endless artillery rounds. You know, the Germans would fight the Americans, and they'd be tactically very proficient, but every time they shot at Americans, they just get pummeled by one five finds. They just get blown to bits, and and you can't fight that. We win because we mastered logistics. We deliver steal on target. Steal on target is not just pulling the cord on a camp, it's

building the shell, moving the shell. I remember in the Gulf, I was at seven Core, Maine, which was the city of Hafer Albatine is right off what's called Tabline Road, big road running over the north, and I was going back towards the town down in through a Waddy, which is a big valley, big valley, completely empty, nothing but rocks. In the occasion euromastic Lizard. Three days later, I drove through that same valley. As far as the eye can

see was American military material. We moved a city of five hundred thousand men from America and Europe to the ports and then out in the middle of the desert, and then we fought it moving. That is a logistic achievement desert Storm, and frankly, we never I can't think when they're military that's mastered it. I mean, I think the Victorian Desert Storm was probably the height of America's

undisputed power, but it was a power of logistics. Right, Well, what I was gonna say, I mean, by the way, there's you know, How to Make War, the book by William Morrow, which is now a multiple multiple editions, a good basis for our basics for people to get a sense of how to make war, what it actually entails,

and and it is so much and over. Yeah, strategy, every strategy is sexy, right, you know, Sunsue and you talk about the clouds of wis to uh, you know, you talk about all these different people from from history. That makes everyone sound fancy and then look at there's a lot of insight and interesting stuff from that. But you really want to understand how people win wars. You look at the greatest military powers in history all had

superior logistics. Superior logistics. I mean this is this was true of even though people don't think of it this way. The Mongolia. Mongolians were amazing at siege warfare, which required you know, enormous building and construction and coordination. I mean, you know, as well as moving and feeding eighty thousand men or you know, whatever the size the military was that they were talking about on horseback obviously, the Germans moving guns that are like bigger than any guns we

even see now for the First World War. They're doing it with some of it on trains, but a lot of it with horseback. Obviously, the British, the British Navy. I mean, most of the army that Wermark that invaded Poland was horse drawn. Its not me, Yeah, you can hear about the Parsers, but a ton of it was horse drawn. I mean, even when the Ottomans were at

their peak too. What the Ottomans could do, the reason the Ottomans were the pre eminent Western world military power for certainly a few hundred years, was they could bring more men into the field, feed them with better material, better training, and better logistics support for them than anybody else by far, like no one else even close to

being able. Now, you know, a lot of that was the logistics of or the the advantage of having Constantinople, which is the single probably most advantageous real estate you could have had in the entire certainly entire Mediterranean world, but of course it was the Romans who really built that up. And of course we still you can go swalk on a Roman road today. Yeah, and it's better than most roads in our third world cities in Blue America.

And this is why, you know, as as I look again now at the future and what we'll be able to do. Um, Look, our economic pre eminence is really what drives our military preeminence, certainly in a conventional conflict. And I see what's happening in Ukraine, and I wanted to switch and get your sense of where we are in We're going to talk strategy now. We've been talking logistics,

talking strategy here. Here's where here's where I think the right tends to be on this um and not including Lindsay Graham, who's just like blow it out of the sky, went with the Russian claims. I mean, I don't I don't understand how the Republican base. I want to meet these South Carolina Republican you know, rock solid Republican voters who are like Lindsey Graham is my guy. I guess it's just habit. But I sit here, I go what do you you know anyway, you know, these red states

get soft because they don't have to fight. You know, Republicans in California are pretty hard because we're on our back foot all the time. But you get to like Texas and if you want to be electeds som you gotta be a Republican. Seeing it a lot of soft Republicans who should be Democrats in a normal state coming in. And then there are things like well, you know, we can't really stop groomers. Oh well, school choice is terrible. Oh well, ain't gonna be started? Yeah, no, I mean

you want. I was thinking it's interesting, you know, the you could argue like three of the great and great I don't mean like good people, but most impactful. Although I hate that word. It's not really the way it should be used. Impactful. It's not even a word, but people use it all the time. Um. I think it's probably is considered a word now. But then again, so or is like, you know, there's all these things that

they're changing all the time. Um. Yes, you look at Napoleon, sort of the greatest French nationalist of all time from Corsica, which is like I know, right, not really Frans like coming. You know, Wrench warriors were a delusional teenage girl and a Corsican dwarf. You know, he went back and forth between Italy and France, right, so it's like, is it really France. Um, you had Joseph Stalin, who came from uh, Georgia, which is on the frontier of the Russian Russian Empire

at the time, right, and you have Hitler. Much of every of those things of Hitler's being German. Hitler is Austrian, which from from the from the sort of frontier, and and you know the nationalist ultra nationalist sentiments that came from some of these individuals and the way that they I just think it's interesting because you know, they grew up in places where there was that that friction of empire and holding all together. Yeah, that's a good point.

I mean, you look at somebody like Trajan uh and uh he was I believe he was Spanish. He was born in Spain. Hold on, I'm gonna get honey, I'm gonna get the pizza. This is fine. This is what we expect on this to see on the radio show. We're on the clock, man, it's every we got sponsors, we gotta get do you know here here you could get the pizza. What do we get on this pizza? By the way, we talking pepperoni? What do we get on this Oh? I got pepperoni, sausage, bell, pepper and onions.

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hate the most, but I'm I'm a pro man. That's you know, you got you got your space and the time you're dead no dead air, no dead air even on the podcast. That's how we roll. By the way, I heard a dog pizza because I heard wait, wait, I got a question. I heard a dog in the background. Do you have a dog? What do you what do you have? I have a rat like, uh, terrier and kind of like a little quarty. Okay, I mean, you

know it's funny. Um, I'm looking at houses with the uh with the wife, you know, we want to actually get a house, gonna try to start a family, that kind of stuff. And because I've lived in just like tiny apartments my whole life, very bachelor style. Um, you know it was at one point, yeah, at one point, my my very small studio apartment in New York was described by a young woman as uh as as looking like something that was a shrine to uh, like my

time in the CIA, and and a sword collection. And I was like, what guy in his early thirties who lives alone doesn't have a bunch of weapons on the wall anyway up there? See for every squad right exactly exactly why why why wouldn't I have a saber handy? I'm not telling you what's in some of these drawers around me. Yeah, but I will say that, she laughs

to me. Because we go see houses, I always want to see the books of the person who lives there, like what books they have, and it's just I just feel like I can I look at the books and I get a sense. I'm like of who lives here right away every time. First of all, I know Democrat or Republican. And she thinks it's really funny. I mean, I've seen your books. We're gonna talk about Inferno and you're you know, you're an author, My man, here's an author who writes um thrillers. We call it? Is that?

Is that what we would describe the matter? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I write The People's Republic was the first of the novels, and it's back there, and uh, I decided always bored right I board reading these novels. They seemed fairy cookie cutter, I want to write some of his action pack funny

and talked about what was going on. So I'm at a world where America has a great divorce, half of its red, half of its blue, and a guy from the Red has to go into Blue America to do missions with guns and he carries a Wilson Combat forty five, which got me to meet Bill Wilson eventually, who's just a badass gunmaker. And then people buy this thing and they enjoyed it. Yeah, I'm a funny guy. I'm the only O six I know who was ever a stand up comic and how to write a joke. And they're

funny and action packed and interesting. So I write a second one and a third one. I'm writing number eight now, Okay, Inferno is number seven. It's out and there's so much fun to read, and there's so much fun to write. And I've sold a tone of these things. They'll be in the top hundred of Amazon. And this is just I mean, this is just you know, a great use of technology because while I do do non fixed and frangory with these, I don't have to go and ask

anybody if they want to publish it. I can publish it, and I sold on Amazon, and it's professional quality, and it's you know, people love these things, and it's finally making some conservative culture well, this is the thing. This is the thing that we have to do. I've been saying for a while and I to others say this too, but I think it needs amplification, right that. You know, you think about Tom Wolfe, who I think people would would put as a conservative or certainly a more traditionalist

author Bonfire the Vanities. You can read Bonfire the Vanities, which is a great novel. I've actually got it right over here on my bookshelf which people can't see. But you know, I don't have my credibility shelf behind me. It's in front of me right now, but it's still there. I just want ever to know I'm not you know, I'm calling it out. It's still there. Bonfire the Vanities, great book, terrible movie, So don't ever watch the movie. Tom Hanks, Goldie not Goalie on um who is in it?

Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis is in it. And I was trying to remember who the female lead was, but anyway, UM, not a good remember either. Yeah, the book was. The book is excellent though, but you you can read that book and you understand that we just sort of go through cycles here with with Democrat urban politics and the way the city machinery works, and the way the newspapers and the narrative and racial politics and all this stuff

comes together. We need more people creating things in that space. And I say this is somebody who does like traditional news talk radio every day. Um, obviously I think I have a particular take on it. Or I've been good at it, so I you know, I love what I do. Um, but I do want to actually do some of that

other stuff. I mean, if I had my brothers, I'll just tell you this, right, we nerd out together here for a second, just you, me and the you know the there's gonna be like hundreds of thousands of people when all of sudden done. You're gonna listen to this at least watching. We need more people to watch. So if you're listening to this, please subscribe to the YouTube channel as well. Because Kurt and I shirt. He's wearing a cool shirt. If more of you click subscribe at

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I don't know if you remember Bronson okay. I also was good friends with the sister of Lisa Ailbacher who was in there. She was a stand up comic and she would never tell her real name, but we figured it out. Good dude, you're also in LA. I would say, I'm a New York Conserva guy though even though I've moved. I've moved to Miami to join the Lord of Revolution. So and I love it here, by the way, and I I don't know what to say. It's awesome, Like

I just went on. I went. I went and picked up an AAR fifteen recently, and dam of Defense, you'd be very proud. It's very, very excellent. I also also got a Staccatos too. We can talk about this in the oh oh oh yes, oh yes. Papa Buck doesn't mess around, you know what I mean. If I'm getting firearms, yeah, it's like the Lamborghini of firearms. Like I'm not playing games over here. But I walked out of the gun store, and I know this is gonna sound crazy to the

people listening who are from like normal red states. For the Second Amendment, there was a part of me that kept thinking, like I'm gonna get arrested because in New York. Yeah, in New York, if you walk out of a gun store with an AAR fifteen, like that means somebody sold you something in the back they weren't supposed to and like you're in trouble. You know what I'm saying, Like this is crazy. Yeah, here comes to slat team. Yeah, yeah, I was up. I've got an a state concealed license.

I was in Texas where it applies, and of course in California, I was only a guy in charge of thousands of guys hearing automatic rifles on the streets of Los Angeles as a battalion commander during civil operations. But I can't be trusted with a concealed carry permit. No, some GS three has to decide for the colonel who whether or not I should be armed. So I'm I had a gun. I was carrying it, and it felt

very weird. I know I carried guns a lot, but you have to recock your mind when you're doing it. You can't be allowed mouth, you can't drink a lot. You gotta behave yourself. And it was you know, normally, you know, gun three, I would be an as big an idiot as I want. Suddenly, you're you know, you got that glock and suddenly it's like, ah, I better, uh make sure I don't do anything stupid. It is remarkable.

I mean I remember even when I was sent by the federal government to the NYPD to help the Intel Division the CIA, the federal government had trained me to use firearms, and I asked, I was like, so, is there any way, like can I get a permit here as as you know, a civilian essentially, you know, And they were like no, sitting. I was like, wait, but but I mean, I don't understand, like I have the

Second Amendment and I've been trained. You guys knew you I have a top secret clearance And they're just like, yeah, we don't. That doesn't that means nothing? Yeah, no, no, no, that matters. Yeah, you know, the gang members, they get to have the guns and if by the way, and even if arrested with them in New York at least now and a lot of other Democrat precincts, you've noticed, there's a fascinating I like to tell everybody about this card.

I'm sure you've noticed this. There is a fascinating reality of firearms, uh law enforce or enforcing laws around firearms where they're always talking about how we have to crack down on guns, more background checks, ban AAR fifteen. So you know all this stuff right that Biden's still talking about it, you know this this week. I mean they're

talking about the stuff all the time. Wow. You know that they basically don't prosecute gang members for a first defense with guns in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles go on the list. So if you have a if you have a handgun that is totally illegal for you to have because you're a convicted felon. Anyway, a lot of district attorneys are just saying, you know, we don't want we don't like this is gonna make your life hard, So we're not gonna actually prosecute you for this. But

they would totally charge me. I was gonna say, I guarantee you if you had an illegal r if you had you know, if you did something that even made if you had an sp let's do this. If you had an spr if you had a short bear rifle and you and they bagged you with that in California, even if every other firem you had was legal, you and I both know you're going to prison. You and I both know the disrict attorney is going to try to send you to prison or you know, the county

attorney or whatever. Absolutely yeah, oh yeah. So this so the gang members who actually murder people, they get the pass right because you know, all social justice. But the guy that wants to you know, I'll actually tell you this is this is a true story. I knew a guy in New York who had the cops come to his home and they they to be fair, they didn't arrest him, but they confiscated his double barreled shotgun. Okay,

like his Elmer Fudd. It wasn't an overunder. I mean, it wasn't a side by side, but it was in an over under. They confiscated a shotgun because he was a lawful permit holder for that long gun in New York City who had sent in the renewal check. Because you have to renew it's not even enough to go through the process and pay you know, seven hundred dollars or whatever it is, or five hundred dollars to get the permit the first time there's a renewal I think

it's three years or five years or something. He sent in a renewal check, but it was a personal check, not a certified check. Do you think that they reached out to him to say, you know, hello, sir, we know you're trying to you know, the Licensing Division, the NAPD. No. No, they just put it all on a drawer with this file, waited until it came up, and then they paid him a visit. They confiscated his shotgun, and they said we

could arrescue, you know, but we're not gonna do. They didn't do that because obviously I think people would have completely lost around. But that is the anti firearms regime in a major city. That's how they actually do things. Yeah, it's anti firearms for normal people, pro firearms for you know, preferred democratic constituencies. The one of the biggest problems in our country right now is the two tiered system of law, the two tiered system of everything. You saw it recently

with a Silicon Valley bank. Do you think a bank that somebody else pointed out its brilliant, a bank catering a regional bank in Texas catering to the oil wildcatter industry, would get a Sunday night pass on the FDIC limits. Oh, I don't think so. I'mocratic connected one in California. Oh yeah, yeah, we can. Here you go, there's free money. It's true.

I mean the system, the ways in which the system are rigged are so multifaceted, but also so brazen at this point, but I think when people look into it, it can be overwhelming. I want to bring I want to bring this back to California though in a second, as you're a Californian Conservative, and I think that's fascinating because of what's happening in your state. We'll get to that a second. But I also want to make sure that whether it's Kurt or anybody else out there, they're

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have you reached the tipping point? I mean, have you reached a sort of terminal velocity of crazy such that now even because this is what I always tell people, I say, you have to remember Democrat cities because they think that, first of all, the suffering of their stupid policies is mostly going to be confined to other people who are not important to them, right, So that's step one.

And then there's another step though, and this is more places I think you see like Portland, Seattle, but similar where they believe that the suffering of their dumbass policies is a necessary, almost purification process to get to that better place. So it's like, Okay, we have more shootings, but we have more social and racial justice in this city, now,

don't we. You know, Okay, we have a whole lot more you know, street crime, and people are overdosing on fentonel left and right, but the less class based system than it would otherwise be, you know, stuff like that. But eventually even the Nancy Pelosi Libs are like, I don't want you know, lunatics. Well, I mean half naked lunatic attacking her husband with a hammer for example, Right, I mean, you know stuff like that. Well, look, you're not gonna while we have to add some crime around here.

I live in a rich liberal area. You think you think our cops are gonna let Hobo's Trump up and down our streets. Of course they're not. You know, the suffering in California is to the people who aren't connected, who aren't approved, who aren't loved U. For the rest of us, it's fairly comfortable. I mean, there's annoying things that happen, but otherwise it's you know, if you're I'm a lawyer in a blue state. This state was literally made for me, So it's not that bad, h you know.

I mean, there's certainly some personal things. There's family here that I want to stay here, and I you know, at some point I can definitely see myself moving to the Free State of Florida. I you know, a lot of the nonsense is exhausting. The taxes are exhausting, h the idiotic policies are exhausting. At some point, you just want to breathe free. But I'm not quite ready to leave yet. I don't particularly like the idea of retreating. I don't know if California can be turned around. It's

certainly be a hard fight. But you know, people are doing it. We're registering more and more conservatives out here and else, groups registering ten thousand a month, and I think, you know, I think a lot of regular folks are getting sick of the nonsense. We just hopefully they'll stop voting for idiots like Governor Hairstyle. I think you need to get some really desirable part of the state and make it the red stronghold and then kind of the

ink blot of red grow out from there. Or I was gonna say, I know it used to be Orange County, but you guys need to get you need to get that back, because I think that can have a really a really profound effect. I mean, even just for example, I'm in Miami now and the fact that it was right, I mean it when you know more than fifty fifty for descantists. But the difference from being the difference in quality of life and policies even in a fifty fifty city, right,

So a fifty fifty city. So let maybe what I mean here is like, can we get San Diego to be fifty fifty Republican on the because it keeps a check on the crazy in New York, in DC, in San Francisco it's nine ten. It's literally ninety ten in those cities. Now in DC it's more like ninety seven to three. Oh yeah, yeah. I just want DC to fess ear in its own sewage. It's h you know, boiling your own filth um. Look, I mean everything that the Blues touch turns to garbage. And I think normal

people are seeing that. I think, Look, I think next year it's gonna be a very good year for Republicans if we don't blow it. I think, you know, and I wrote a town hall com has to do with Ukraine and Ron de Santis. I think that the Republican Republicans are going to nominate your De Santis or Trump. It's one or the other. I don't think anybody else has a chance. But they're effectively by next year, they're going to The Republicans are going to have the anti

war candidate. The Democrats are not going to have any choice but be essentially the pro war candidate. And I think, by you know, another eighteen months, I think the American people are going to be firmly in the anti Ukrainian war camp. So I just don't see anything good happening there. This is perfect. It's almost like I see its static right now. I don't see the Ukrainians being able to build up the compact power to break the break the stalemate.

I do see Russian history tells me that Russians come back from initial defeats. I think the Russians have the capacity to build up combat power. So I think a best case is a static war, which we're funding, and I think people will be sick of it. A worst case would be a Ukrainian collapse in the face of a Russian offensive, with American intervening to try and assure them off. So this is perfect, and I don't think

the American people are going to be there. I think, and the Republicans, could you keep talking, hold on a second, hold on, I gotta ask you something. What should the position of the Republican party be on Ukraine right now

because we're asking questions or raising concerns. We're saying a lot of money is going to this, but I never hear really, I mean, if i'm if I'm being totally frank about this, and you and I are two guys who are frank I mean you're Kurt on Buck, but we're being frankier and they never say, well should we? Just what would a Descantist or Trump administration if they were in charge now, which I know they can't be, But what would they want the policy to be? Is

it just is it totally? Is it set limits to the funding? Is it set limits the aid? Or is it this is not our problem, not our fight. Zelenski's funding under a Republican administration, assuming this war still going on, goes down to basically zero at least for combat operations.

Should that be the policy? What should the policy? Well, look, we have to have a strategy which requires objectives, and we haven't talked about any of that because the minute somebody responds to the reactive tactics, there's always seen our tactics. We haven't seen a strategy. Suddenly, you love Putin and I love being told I love Putin by a guy who is never in the Cold War, who actually went out and marched for the KGB's nuclear freeze, telling me,

you know you love Putin. I you know, I literally trained Ukrainian soldiers. There were Ukrainian soldiers in our battalion, in our brigade in Kosova. I like the Ukrainians. I support them. I would like them to win. They're patriots. I understand why they're doing what they want to do. But I'm an American patriot, and my interest is my country. Our strategic interests as America right now is not Ukraine. It is to preserve American supremacy and make sure the

Chinese don't supplant us. What would support that? That is the strategy. A strategy, A smart one would be to get Russia back in the Western Fold. I have long said that the greatest American foreign policy mistake in the last three decades was not a Rack or Afghanistan, but the failure to bring Russia into the West after the fall of the Soviet Union. It got botched, and then suddenly in the last eight years it's been like politically

useful domestically to hate Russia. You don't have to like Russia. You just need Russia to be on our side against China. So that should be our strategy. And starting that process and it will be a process means making peace in Ukraine. Now, Ukrainians won't like it because they'll have to give up territory. Putin won't like it because he's not going to get everything he wants. But I think our strategy. You know,

are you know to support our strategy? We should make peace, force peace down these guys throats, because it's non American interest for this war to continue. I know it's not just I know it reck it will recognize an aggressor will get some reward out of it. But I'm an American. I care about the United States of America. That's my priority, and that's what supports a meaningful objective which is much bigger than Ukraine. Kurt, we gotta let you get to

your delicious pizza. I can almost smell it, even though I guess it's technically a few thousand miles away. Your books. Though, where's people go? Amazon? Which one is latest one? Let's sell some books here? Go to Amazon, get Inferno, but get get People's Republic, the first one. You'll like it. It's fun. You'll want to read all seven I have sold. A bunch of these conservatives are begging for material, and boy, if only we could convince one of the studios to

make it. But it's a little unpec it's a little not politically correct. Maybe it'd be a real hard a hard kill for them to swallow. But they make great movies. A lot good to me. I'm gonna I'm gonna go get a copy Kirch look through everybody. Also look for him Ontownhall dot com. Kurt always a pleasure, Sir, we'll talk soon. Thanks for having me.