I have no idea what he just said, Ben.

Truthfully, there is no connection to World War II history and the things he said in terms of taking it and giving it back.

Hi, everybody. I'm Ben Parker from the Bullwork.

And I am Mark Hurtling, a bulwark contributor and also a retired lieutenant general.

This is the third edition of command post, something that we've

been doing as part of bulwark takes to really dig deep into the military aspects of some of the

headlines we're seeing in the news. Yeah, I think you put it very well in one of the previous

videos. Only 1% of Americans serving the armed forces, but what those people do is a big effect on

the rest of us and vice versa. So we're trying to close the civilian military divide one video at a time.

And boy, do we have a lot to talk about today. We had a whole list of topics planned. And then

President Trump gave his remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

We're going to talk later about domestic deployment of troops here in the United States, in Minneapolis,

and you've got some really interesting details on which troops are asking to deploy and what that means and why it's alarming.

But first, we've got to talk about this speech.

And we have to talk about

some of the text messages you've been getting from your former contacts back when you were in

charge of U.S. Army Europe and their reactions to what President Trump said. And we're going to get

into a lot of his quotes later. But first of all, what are the reactions you've been hearing?

Yeah, Ben, I tell you, as you and I have talked offline before, I get an awful lot of message from former military officials from the 49 different countries that are in Europe.

You know, there are some of those, 30 of them are part of NATO.

Canada and the United States are the ones that are outside of Europe

that are part of NATO. But I have connections with quite a few. I won't name which countries

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