What's up, guys. If you're on Spotify right now, please follow the show so that you don't miss any future episodes and leave a five-star review. Thank you. I remember I had to do what's called CTR, a close target reconnaissance. It was broad daylight. It was in Takeda, Saddam's hometown. There was a strike force lined up and we're going to hit this one particular target in this neighborhood, which is a bad neighborhood. My job was to go in, dressed up as an Iraqi.

So I drive in, the assaulters all get out, they're running into the compound, and there's a little kid standing outside about two years old little Iraqi kid. And when he sees all these assaters barging into the compound coming after his dad, he just lost his street. I'm out of the vehicle. I got my weapon in my hand. And I see this

kid. And all I can think about is my own son. Right? I remember my son when he's two years old. Same height and everything, you know, and just ran over and I picked this kid up in my arm. Holding him. I got armor on. Got my weapon and my long gun in my right hand. I'm holding my left hand. I'm like, it's okay, little buddy, everything's going to be okay.

I'm not sure you understood me or not, but I'm thinking,

we're going to go into that they might just kill his dad right now. You know, I don't know what

they're going to do. It depends on what kind of fight. He puts them. I got to hold this little kid, you know. what do you think of China and all that?

And the reason I asked that is because I'd kind of go in either direction on this one.

So for a long time, I felt like no one was talking about China.

And I would always be like, are we not going to look at this, right?

And there were plenty of other people out there saying the same thing, but it wasn't

like a mainstream thing to talk about the growth of China and stuff like that and what threat that could pose the United

States. And then over the past year and a half or so, it's become totally in vogue to talk about. I don't know why that happened. But you kind of have two camps with this. You have the camp of Andy Bustamante who's been on my show and now he's he's been on, like, every podcast in the world, where, you know, from his perspective as a CIA case officer, who he's allowed to say, like, he worked in Asia. That was a place he spent a lot of time. You know, China is the biggest threat we got in front of us. They're going to overtake us, yada, yada, yada.

That's why I feel like Taiwan is not long for this world.

If I could take my family to Taiwan in the next two years so they could see how beautiful

Chinese culture is, I would take them.

Because after that, I won't be able to take them.

Wow.

Yeah. I'm for all, it's not just me saying it right

but but if you haven't heard it before look for taiwan to get taken by china in 2024

and then you get the other camp which is more like the peter zion camp he's a foreign policy

strategist online very big big. And he talks

about how China's demographics are fucking. COVID actually backfired on them. They're going to have

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