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Geopolitics & Empire

Kurt Schlichter: Americans are Living in an Unprecedented Time of Decline

Geopolitics & Empire

Geopolitics & Empire

History, News, Government, Politics

4.2568 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Kurt Schlichter discusses the fall, potential collapse, and possible resurgence of America. The apex of U.S. power was the 1990s where Washington stood militarily unchallenged, but the tables have turned as today Russia and China have become worthy adversaries. Inflation and shortages are symbolic of a deteriorating economy and unprecedented time of decline, which is being accepted by the ruling class. He compares the situation that led to the Yugoslav civil war in the Balkans to what’s going on in America today and the real possibility of a second civil war.

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Websites

Kurt Schlichter http://kurtschlichter.com

Twitter https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter

BOOK – ‘We’ll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America’ https://www.regnery.com/9781684513307/well-be-back

About Kurt Schlichter

Kurt Schlichter is a successful trial lawyer based in the Los Angeles area representing companies and individuals in matters ranging from routine business cases to confidential Hollywood and entertainment industry disputes and transactions.  A member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, which recognizes attorneys who have won trial verdicts in excess of $1 million, his litigation strategy and legal analysis articles have run in such legal publications such as the Los Angeles Daily Journal and California Lawyer.

Kurt is a 1994 graduate of Loyola Law School, where he was a law review editor.  He majored in Communications and Political Science as an undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego, where he also edited the student paper California Review while writing a regular column in the student humor paper the Koala.

After college, Kurt enlisted in the United States Army and received his commission as a second lieutenant through the Army Officer Candidate School.  While stationed in West Germany, Kurt was deployed to Operation Desert Storm when he served in the conflict as a platoon leader.  After leaving active duty, he joined the California Army National Guard and served in a variety of command and staff positions for over two decades.

Colonel Schlichter wears the silver “jump wings” of a qualified paratrooper and commanded the elite 1st Squadron, 18th Cavalry Regiment. A veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom (Kosovo), as well as the Los Angeles riots, the Northridge earthquake and the 2007 San Diego fires mobilizations, he is a graduate of the Army’s Combined Arms Staff Service School and the Command and General Staff College.  He earned a master of Strategic Studies degree from the United States Army War College.

His freelance writing been published in major papers like the New York Post, the Washington Examiner, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Washington Times, the Army Times, and the San Francisco Examiner.  Kurt also wrote for Breitbart.com’s Big Hollywood, Big GovernmentBig Journalism and Big Peace sites and is a weekly columnist for Townhall.com.

As a stand-up comic for several years, he has gathered a large and devoted following in the world of social media for his amusing and often biting conservative commentary. He is an active user of Twitter (@KurtSchlichter) with over 37,000 followers, which led to his four #1 selling Amazon “Political Humor” ebooks “I Am a Conservative,” “I Am a Liberal,” “Fetch My Latte,” and “Fifty Shades of Liberal.”

Kurt is often on the air as a news source, an on-screen commentator, and as a guest on nationally syndicated radio programs discussing political, military and legal issues, including Fox News, the Hugh Hewitt Show, the Dennis Miller ShowGeraldo, the Greg Garrison Show, the WMAL Morning Show with Larry O’Connor, the Larry Elder Show, and KABC’s John Phillips Show, among others.

Kurt is married to Irina and has two children. He lives in the South Bay area of Los Angeles.

*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Geopolitics and Empire is joined by Kurt Schlickler, who is a retired Army Infantry Colonial with a master's in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College, a former stand-up comic, a successful trial lawyer, author of a number of books and his latest being, We'll Be Back, the Fall and Rise of America. Welcome to Geopolitics and Empire, Kurt. Well, thanks for having me, of course. Don't forget the fact I look like a hobo right now because I've been up since 1 a.m.

0:24.2

I guess hosted for Hugh Hewitt from 3 to 6 California time.

0:28.8

So if I'm a little loopy, it's probably from sleep deprivation.

0:33.9

And, of course, it being California, I'm drowning in sunlight.

0:38.3

Yeah, no worries there. I got my radio show on T&T in this podcast. I feel you.

0:46.2

Let's get into your book. It's about to be published this month, and I've been reading an advanced copy.

0:52.5

Again, it's the fall and rise of America from Regnery Publishing, and I've been reading an advanced copy. Again, it's the fall and rise of America from

0:55.1

Regnery Publishing. And I'm glad you're fomenting discussion about something I've been thinking

1:01.1

about now for two decades, which is the potential decline or collapse of America. And you started

1:08.1

to book out by saying America has fallen from that pinnacle of power it occupied back in 1991 and it appears to have landed flat on its face.

1:17.6

So what's going on here?

1:20.1

Well, no, I think you've summed up correctly.

1:23.3

At the end of the Gulf War, which I was in, I happened to be, I didn't realize it until I thought about later, which is kind of weird for a guy who studies history and stuff, that I was there at the pinnacle of American power, both in time and place.

1:36.4

I was at the Seventh Corps headquarters in the Persian Gulf War.

1:39.9

Seven Corps was the armored corps designed to basically gut the Russians coming over the border

1:46.4

in World War III, sent from Germany to Saudi Arabia to attack into Iraq, which it did.

1:55.1

And there was a lighter core on one side and the Marine Corps on the other, a Marine and Allied

2:00.5

Corps. But seven corps was

2:04.2

100,000 of probably the most powerful military formation in human history. And the victory in the

2:11.7

Gulf in 100 hours, where an entire nation's armies were completely destroyed. This wasn't just one battle. This wasn't the

2:18.8

Russians being destroyed at Kani, because they came back. They were able to come back fairly

2:24.7

quickly. This was taking an entire country out of the picture in 100 hours comprehensively.

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