The Strange Truth Episode 40 When Will China Invade Taiwan

[00:00:01] Welcome to episode 40 of The Strange Truth.

[00:00:42] It's crazy to think that we are now on to 40 episodes of this podcast, but here we are.

[00:00:50] Right? And I just want to say, you know, welcome.

[00:00:55] And we're just going to jump right in.

[00:00:59] Today's topic is when will China invade Taiwan?

[00:01:03] Right. Because, you know, it seems like things are escalating in that part of the world.

[00:01:12] And it does have, you know, it does have a major, we will have a major impact on our foreign policy.

[00:01:23] And, you know, we can even be dragged into a war with China.

[00:01:28] Right? It could even be the trigger of the next World War really.

[00:01:34] So we're going to take a look at that today, right? Tonight.

[00:01:38] And so let me just start with a few recordings here. Right?

[00:01:44] Take a listen to this.

[00:01:47] Tensions are escalating between Taiwan and China as Beijing intensifies military aggression against the island.

[00:01:58] In a stunning move, China has flown nearly 150 warplanes into Taiwan's air defense zone since just last Friday, sparking growing fears of a potential conflict.

[00:02:10] Taiwan's premier says that the island needs to be on alert while its president said it will do whatever it takes to defend itself.

[00:02:17] So joining me now with more on this intensifying situation is CBS News Asia correspondent Remy Innocencio.

[00:02:23] So this is really concerning.

[00:02:26] There's been a tremendous uptick in activity over just the past few days.

[00:02:31] Do we know what has triggered this military action by China?

[00:02:37] Sure, Anne-Marie. Well, basically, China and Taiwan are both caught between each other's national days.

[00:02:43] October 1st, last Friday was China's 72nd anniversary of its founding.

[00:02:48] And that's when we saw that first flight of sorties, 38 sorties on Friday, 39 on Saturday, 16 on Sunday and then at least 52 on Monday.

[00:02:58] And we're heading into the October 10th national holiday for Taiwan.

[00:03:03] That's when it celebrates its 110th anniversary of its founding.

[00:03:07] So there's a lot of tension, a lot of pride coming from China.

[00:03:12] And you know, President Xi Jinping earlier this year said that one of his main goals was to reunify Taiwan with China.

[00:03:20] And we're trying to and we're seeing this ramp up in terms of the actual physical behavior on the part of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

[00:03:29] Now, looking ahead, we have about five more days.

[00:03:32] So the timing is somewhat about sort of patriotic military muscle flexing.

[00:03:59] But the message behind it has been pretty consistent when it comes to Xi Jinping.

[00:04:04] Yeah, that's right. Absolutely.

[00:04:08] And it's not really just Xi Jinping.

[00:04:10] Ever since the Civil War in 1949 ended between the nationalists and the communists, there has always been this chest beating on both sides saying that at one time Taiwan would come back to reclaim China.

[00:04:25] But now because China itself has become so strong politically as well as economically, the second most important economy in the world, the tables have turned.

[00:04:37] And through the presidents through the past 70 years, it really is this narrative that's become nationalist basically that Taiwan must be returned to China at all costs.

[00:04:50] And if you try to engage with anyone in China, they say that this is a national prerogative and that this needs to happen.

[00:04:58] Yeah, I was looking at some of the.

[00:05:01] All right. So that's the the first recording that we're going to be listening to.

[00:05:07] And the second one.

[00:05:13] The second one. Yeah, here we go.

[00:05:15] The second one that we're going to be listening to is the recording of the Taiwan foreign minister, Joseph Wu and his statements about the Taiwanese.

[00:05:28] You know what?

[00:05:29] Their, you know, their willingness to repel Chinese aggression.

[00:05:34] Let's let's let's take a listen to this.

[00:05:37] Things of Taiwan is in our own hands and we are absolutely committed to that.

[00:05:43] And if China is going to launch a war against Taiwan, we will fight to the end.

[00:05:48] And that is our commitment.

[00:05:50] And of course, during this period of time, we would like to exchange with other countries for security cooperation.

[00:05:56] And we would like to engage in security or intelligence exchanges with other like my partners, Australia included, so that Taiwan is better prepared to deal with the war situation.

[00:06:08] And so far, our relations with Australia is very good.

[00:06:12] And that is what we appreciate it for.

[00:06:14] All right.

[00:06:18] So it the tension is escalating.

[00:06:23] And I think that it warrants a further, you know, more in depth look here on the Power Broadcasting Network.

[00:06:31] So we're going to take a look at this in this podcast.

[00:06:35] OK, so let's get ourselves going.

[00:06:39] Let's get ourselves started.

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[00:08:55] And so we'll talk a little bit more about that another time.

[00:08:58] But I want to stay on topic. Right.

[00:09:01] Because I know that your time is is precious.

[00:09:04] Right. And it's this is concerning.

[00:09:08] You know, news broke over the weekend when China flew those planes, you know, into a Taiwanese airspace.

[00:09:18] Right. And the way it occurred got a lot of people people's attention.

[00:09:28] Right. It got the world attention the way it occurred.

[00:09:31] OK. And we have we have looked on the strange truth.

[00:09:36] We've looked at, you know, in the past, you know, the possibility of getting into a war with either Russia or China.

[00:09:45] This is this is something that we've discussed in the past.

[00:09:48] You know, if you want to check out episode seven, episode 15 and episode 30.

[00:09:54] Right. We have looked at the possibility of one day, you know,

[00:10:04] really going to war with those two nations, you know, Russia and and China.

[00:10:12] Right. Although with this podcast, we are going to be talking about the real possibility of of,

[00:10:18] you know, being in a war with with China.

[00:10:23] Right. We're going to we're going to isolate it to China in today's podcast.

[00:10:34] If you were in Chinese intelligence and looking at the state of the world right now,

[00:10:39] looking how we just fluffed our lines there in Afghanistan, just how what a debacle that was when you look at the state of our military.

[00:10:48] Right. And they must be saying, well, you know, a lot of the military, they don't know whether to fight for the country.

[00:10:55] Right. Or run from it because, you know, this new idea.

[00:11:04] Well, it's an old idea that's being pushed. Right.

[00:11:07] But now it's again a real foothold that is really eroding, you know, American confidence.

[00:11:14] You know, here at home and abroad. Right.

[00:11:17] That, you know, some people believe that the country is inherently racist, inherently evil, inherently, you know, whatever evil they want to throw at it.

[00:11:27] And, you know, there's a lot of people in the military right now that hold that view.

[00:11:33] Now, there are some people in the military, of course, who are patriots and who understand that their job.

[00:11:40] Right. Is to kill the enemy. That's the job of the people in the military.

[00:11:46] You're supposed to be devising ways and strategy to neutralize or debilitate or kill the enemy period.

[00:11:56] Right. You're there for national defense. Right.

[00:12:01] But it seems like, you know, there's a lot of there's a lot of among the leadership in the military.

[00:12:09] Right. And these people are are more concerned with, you know, you know, social development than war.

[00:12:22] And that's a problem. OK, that's a problem.

[00:12:26] You know, the the defense of the country has to come first.

[00:12:31] And I think that philosophy typified what happened in Afghanistan.

[00:12:37] It's typifying what's going on at our borders right now, too.

[00:12:41] And and I'm sure that, you know, the other intelligence agencies around the world are looking at this.

[00:12:49] And and they're just probably, you know, they're either shaking their heads or or licking their chops.

[00:12:55] Right. Because if you were going to get aggressive against the U.S., now would be the perfect time.

[00:13:03] Right. We have pretty much a president and an administration that is not really in control of itself.

[00:13:14] OK, the president is old and he really I think is becoming apparent to more to most Americans at this point and to, you know,

[00:13:28] our allies around the world and, you know, people around the world and other countries write that he is not really he is not really in charge.

[00:13:42] His handlers are in charge. He's just a figurehead at this point.

[00:13:47] And it makes the world that situation that uncertainty makes the world a much more dangerous place.

[00:13:54] Right. So I think that China, their intelligence agencies are calculating at this point.

[00:14:01] Right. Well, you know, if we were to go, I'm sure they're saying if we're going to go well, you know, we should just go now.

[00:14:11] And you couldn't blame them. Right.

[00:14:15] What better time than now? Right. We have a president that is not all there mentally.

[00:14:20] Right. We have an administration and a military that if the Chinese invaded Taiwan, they I think that there would be a lot of bluster.

[00:14:33] There would be a lot of bluffing. There wouldn't be a lot of teeth behind it.

[00:14:39] And once the Chinese are in Taiwan, you know, and taking over military in Taiwan, there's nothing I think this administration would do to stop it or to prevent it.

[00:14:57] Because what are the options? You get into a ground war with China in Taiwan.

[00:15:04] I don't think they have the stomach for that to you get into, you know, you get into a naval battle.

[00:15:14] Once again, I don't think that we have the stomach to deal with that.

[00:15:19] And we're certainly not going to start a nuclear war. Right. You know, start lobbying nuclear warheads at each other.

[00:15:27] I don't think that's going to happen. Okay. So I think that the Chinese government at this point, I think I think it's a done deal.

[00:15:37] I think it's just a matter of when they're going to go, not if they're going to go, but when and and the repercussions and action like that is going to have around the world.

[00:15:50] Because I would say immediately after the invasion starts, we would have a very, very dangerous 72. What is it? You know, 72 hours, right? Three days, right?

[00:16:05] We would have a very, I think the first three days after the invasion would be very, very dangerous.

[00:16:10] All you know, because we, you know, we can't really forecast right is beyond our power to figure out what the American real American response would be.

[00:16:22] Right. You know, it could be that, you know, the warhawk hawks, you know, they prevail and we take some kind of military action against China.

[00:16:36] And from there, you know, that that, you know, that's an escalation point right there. Right.

[00:16:44] And before you know it, we're we're in a full-fledged war or we could, you know, or we could decide we don't want to get involved in it.

[00:16:52] And and once that occurs, America is done. Right. Once it occurs, then you know, it's all about just pretty much protecting our own patch if we can.

[00:17:03] Right. But American, you know, dominance, hegemony around the world is over from that point.

[00:17:12] OK, if you know the way we got out of Afghanistan was a big signal of how we would handle China with this administration at least.

[00:17:25] So the world has now seriously become a more dangerous place since Mr. Biden took over.

[00:17:34] You know, it was the whole premise about him being put into power.

[00:17:38] And you notice I was saying he was being he was put into power.

[00:17:41] He was he was placed into power. Right.

[00:17:44] Because they, you know, the premise was he was supposed to be a more stable and and a more judicious and a more knowledgeable.

[00:17:58] Right. More experienced diplomat, right.

[00:18:03] A more experienced politician than than the previous president.

[00:18:10] But it appears that that's not necessarily the case here.

[00:18:19] He's old. He's he he doesn't seem to be completely all there.

[00:18:26] And and they're just at sixes and sevens.

[00:18:30] So the world has definitely become a more dangerous place since this guy has been in charge.

[00:18:36] Right. And and I think you see this ramping up, you know, in in the in the recording that I play there, you know, they're saying, well, you know, it's this national holiday and national pride and this and that and everything else.

[00:18:52] But I think that China needs China needs more territory.

[00:18:56] OK, they have a massive population that they've got to feed.

[00:19:01] They've been hit by massive floods and and droughts.

[00:19:06] And they've had to decimate a lot of their protein supply over the last year or two.

[00:19:14] Right. And, you know, of course, covid is our took its toll on their population as well.

[00:19:20] Their economy is in shambles.

[00:19:23] Right. So I think I think one of the things that drive war is economics.

[00:19:31] Right. We know that economics drive war.

[00:19:37] OK, one country has resources another country needs and and a great, you know, and and and that's where the aggression begins.

[00:19:51] So I think that they need Taiwan.

[00:19:56] You know, Taiwan is rich in lots of minerals and different things that they need.

[00:20:03] OK, I think that will see the you know, I think that the Chinese will move into Afghanistan.

[00:20:09] Right. Then the Russians will probably come to an agreement on Afghanistan.

[00:20:15] Once again, because of, you know, the different level of lithium deposits, the different mineral deposits, are there valuable deposits that are in Afghanistan?

[00:20:28] Plus, it's a it's a gateway into right into the Middle East.

[00:20:35] I think that you're going to see China expand into into Africa, into other parts of the world.

[00:20:47] Right. Because they need farmland to grow food and they need they need minerals.

[00:20:55] Right. To drive their industry.

[00:20:59] And and they don't care about global warming.

[00:21:07] They don't care about taking care of the planet.

[00:21:11] And that makes them a huge threat.

[00:21:16] Right. It makes them a huge threat because they're not playing by the same rules as the rest of the world.

[00:21:22] They're playing by their own rules.

[00:21:24] There was a country that played by its own rules during the 1920s and 30s.

[00:21:30] Right. And that was that was Germany.

[00:21:33] And we remember what happened there. They started World War Two.

[00:21:38] They didn't care about what the other countries saw.

[00:21:42] Right. Or the other world leaders thought they just you know, they figured no one is going to be able to stop us.

[00:21:49] And they went and they tried.

[00:21:51] And the world got dragged into a massive war cost millions and millions of lives.

[00:21:59] Destruction was just unimaginable.

[00:22:03] Right. So that's kind of what we're looking at now with this whole situation in China.

[00:22:12] Right. And it's it's a bad situation.

[00:22:17] I'm going to read an article from the Economic Collapse blog.

[00:22:24] Right. And it's written by Michael Snyder.

[00:22:27] And he's been following this following this for a long time.

[00:22:31] But, you know, let me just read a little bit of the article here.

[00:22:38] The article says on top of everything else, could we potentially see two major wars start before the end of the year?

[00:22:46] OK. And let's hope that's not the case. Right.

[00:22:51] You know, he part of the article deals with what's going on with Israel and Iran.

[00:22:56] You know, I'm going to try and keep it to our topic tonight, which is China.

[00:23:01] And he says here, Likewise, by now, it should be exceedingly clear that China very much wants to invade Taiwan.

[00:23:11] Reunification is a top national priority for the CCP.

[00:23:16] And as you will see below, we're being warned that Xi Jinping has apparently decided that Taiwan is not a problem that will be passed down to the next generation.

[00:23:30] From a U.S. perspective, the goal is to delay these conflicts for as long as possible.

[00:23:35] But China just keeps getting more and more aggressive with Taiwan.

[00:23:38] In fact, the Chinese military sent 77 military aircraft into Taiwan Air Defense Identification Zone on Friday and Saturday.

[00:23:47] Now I've seen different numbers on this.

[00:23:51] Right. You know, let's just say that they sent a lot of military aircraft into the Taiwanese airspace.

[00:24:00] Right. Let's see.

[00:24:02] Taiwan has reported a record number of incursions by the Chinese warplanes into its air defense identification zone for the second day in a row.

[00:24:11] Taiwan Ministry of National Defense said on Saturday night, the self-governing island said a total of 39 Chinese military aircraft enter the ADIZ on Saturday.

[00:24:24] One more than the 38 planes it spotted on Friday.

[00:24:27] As I said, you know, these numbers change.

[00:24:30] Right. And it says this shocking provocation led one one British news source to boldly declare that China and Taiwan are on the brink of war.

[00:24:41] And that isn't too far from the truth.

[00:24:44] In response, the head of Taiwan's government has some very tough words for the Chinese.

[00:24:50] Right. And he says China has been wantonly engaged in military aggression, damaging regional peace, said Taiwan Premier Su Seng Chang on Saturday.

[00:25:05] He also referred to the fact that Taiwan is depending on the United States to protect it from China.

[00:25:12] Ah, no. Right.

[00:25:17] He can you know, the Taiwanese has reached out to its allies.

[00:25:23] Right. And I say that in quotes, its allies around the world.

[00:25:26] Right. But I don't think any of these allies around the world, whether it be Australia or the US is really going to come to its aid if and when the Chinese invade.

[00:25:37] But the article goes on and it says the US commitment to Taiwan is rock solid and contributes to the maintenance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and within the region.

[00:25:46] He added, We will continue to stand with friends and allies to advance our shared prosperity, security and values and deepen our ties with democratic Taiwan.

[00:25:56] Right.

[00:25:58] Where any goes on here in the article, when China finally invades Taiwan, the US and China will instantly be in a state of war.

[00:26:05] And everyone understands this at one time, the Chinese had hoped to peacefully reunify with Taiwan like they did with Hong Kong.

[00:26:13] But that is out of the picture now.

[00:26:15] CCP leaders have realized that they are going to have to take Taiwan by force.

[00:26:20] And so they're looking for an opportunity with feeble Joe Biden in the White House and with the American people deeply tired of wars.

[00:26:28] This may be the best chance that the CCP is going to get.

[00:26:31] And they certainly realize this.

[00:26:34] Right.

[00:26:36] And he says, So could they pull the trigger on an invasion in the months ahead?

[00:26:41] Let's hope not, because such a conflict would throw the entire globe into a state of chaos.

[00:26:46] But the clock is ticking, because as I noted above, we're being told that Xi Jinping has determined that Taiwan is not a problem that will be passed down to the next generation.

[00:26:58] Right.

[00:27:02] You see, I think that I think that we should take these guys that they were.

[00:27:08] I think that they say what they, you know, they say what they mean.

[00:27:12] Right.

[00:27:13] And if he's saying that Taiwan is not a problem that will be passed down to the next generation, then that means he wants to solve this problem as quickly as possible.

[00:27:22] Okay.

[00:27:26] And I think it's going to happen.

[00:27:31] Now, if you Google around the web.

[00:27:33] Okay, there's there's just hundreds of articles on on on the situation.

[00:27:39] A lot of people are across the world are concerned about the situation and for good reason.

[00:27:46] Okay.

[00:27:47] As I said, you know, as a person who is concerned about this and as a person who, you know, is in into the preparedness lifestyle.

[00:28:00] Right.

[00:28:01] You know, we're all preppers.

[00:28:02] Right.

[00:28:03] We're all into the preparedness lifestyle.

[00:28:05] All right.

[00:28:06] Then we have, you know, this is how we have to ask question.

[00:28:09] How will this affect us here in the United States?

[00:28:13] All right.

[00:28:15] If the Chinese invaded tomorrow, you know, immediately our lives wouldn't change.

[00:28:26] Right.

[00:28:27] You'll be still going to work.

[00:28:28] You'll be still dealing with covid.

[00:28:29] You still be dealing with all your problems.

[00:28:33] But then think about what would happen to the food supply.

[00:28:38] Think about what would happen to all those items, all those materials that we depend on to be shipped from China or, you know, through their their holdings or whatever.

[00:28:55] Right.

[00:28:56] Just just think about because immediately those shipments would cease.

[00:29:03] If you're thinking that we're having a food shortage now, which we are right.

[00:29:07] You know, my last show was about the food shortage.

[00:29:09] If you think that we're short on items now, imagine us being in some kind of pseudo state of war or state of war with China.

[00:29:18] Right.

[00:29:19] Where because of that they're not they're not sending right.

[00:29:24] They're not sending their their they're not sending their ships.

[00:29:30] Right.

[00:29:32] You know, the containers are not sending the supplies.

[00:29:35] You know, it really does make me wonder too why all these big companies.

[00:29:42] Why?

[00:29:43] Why being but why be involved with China at all at this point?

[00:29:48] A war is coming.

[00:29:52] OK.

[00:29:53] Can you imagine Apple stock?

[00:29:56] If you have any stock, any kind of financial entanglement with any Chinese interest, now is the time to terminate those interests and put your your time, energy and money elsewhere.

[00:30:15] Right.

[00:30:16] Because we are going to be at war with these folks at some point in the near future.

[00:30:23] All these companies that have major billions and billions dollars worth of investment.

[00:30:30] In China, you know, just can you imagine them seizing all us all of Apple's assets in China and all the other companies that are there?

[00:30:40] Can you imagine?

[00:30:41] Because that's what would happen.

[00:30:43] Right.

[00:30:47] When all of these basketball players went went went there and they basically ignored all all the Chinese, you know, you know, human rights issues.

[00:31:02] Right.

[00:31:03] The genocidal craziness right that goes on in that country.

[00:31:08] And they completely they completely swept it on the rug and blew it off.

[00:31:13] Right.

[00:31:14] Because of the money, because of the deals.

[00:31:17] Right.

[00:31:18] They got a way to sell their products.

[00:31:21] Right.

[00:31:22] And you know, and and to and to and to bring their their programming to billions of Chinese households.

[00:31:30] Right.

[00:31:31] So, of course, for them, that was a win.

[00:31:35] Right.

[00:31:36] But there's a heck of a thing when you bargain when you bargain with the devil.

[00:31:40] Right.

[00:31:41] You know, because it's never a win win situation.

[00:31:44] The devil always wins.

[00:31:46] So now I'm sure that they're deep into the NBA.

[00:31:53] They're deep into all these institutions.

[00:31:57] Right.

[00:31:58] These American institutions, whether it be football, the NBA, you know, these massive pharmaceutical companies.

[00:32:06] These massive tech companies.

[00:32:09] Right.

[00:32:10] They've got their hooks in them.

[00:32:12] And when when you depend on someone for a major part of your income, they've got the control.

[00:32:21] And if they tell you to say or do something, you know, they're going to say and do it.

[00:32:28] Forget about our news media because our news media wants to be in China.

[00:32:32] I've been trying to get in there for a really long time.

[00:32:34] Right.

[00:32:35] And they've they've paid through the nose for it.

[00:32:38] Right.

[00:32:39] And now they're reaping the benefits of it.

[00:32:41] And now, you know, we don't necessarily have we don't have a news media anymore.

[00:32:45] We have the Chinese news media here in the United States.

[00:32:48] We have the Chinese apologists in the United States.

[00:32:55] Right.

[00:32:56] ABC, CNN, you know, the alphabet networks.

[00:33:01] All the ones that say that they're they're unbiased and they're real news.

[00:33:06] Right. We just know that they're basically just at this point now, they're just disinformation.

[00:33:10] Right. They're just lying to the American people.

[00:33:12] So trying to prognosticate here.

[00:33:24] Trying to we're trying to to look at where this thread is is heading.

[00:33:31] Right. Where is this pattern heading here?

[00:33:35] And it only heads in one direction.

[00:33:42] And that is at some point we're going to be at war with these people.

[00:33:47] And when that happens, right, then, you know, all the supplies, all the goods we get from China is going to stop.

[00:33:58] And when that occurs, this nation is going to implode.

[00:34:03] The world economy is going to implode because they're not just going to stop shipments to the United States.

[00:34:10] Right.

[00:34:12] It'd be interesting to see if we institute like blockades and everything like naval blockades to to stop their goods from coming here as well.

[00:34:22] You know, would we you'd be really weird if we say we're at war with them and we're still accepting their goods that are ports.

[00:34:29] Right. And then flying in goods into our into our airports.

[00:34:33] So think about your food supply.

[00:34:37] Think about, you know, your supplies in terms of your appliances and tools and the things you use in your home.

[00:34:48] It would get it would get really crazy.

[00:34:53] I mean, China at this point still produces most of our pharmaceuticals.

[00:34:59] Right. So they decide, hey, you're not going to get those drugs.

[00:35:03] Then what? You know, all those people right on dialysis, all those people, you know, who are fighting cancer, all those people who are, you know, who, you know, who need specific drugs.

[00:35:17] Right. And they say, no, we're not going to be shipping any of that anymore.

[00:35:21] This just goes to show you just how derelict really we've been over the last 30 years.

[00:35:36] We've not really worked to make sure that America is has some form of, you know, that we're insulated or create some kind of redundancy system.

[00:35:50] Right. Where if if yeah, if we have to if we have to go to war with these countries, then we are fine.

[00:35:57] We can produce our own goods and materials and we're pretty much self-sufficient within our own country.

[00:36:04] Right. Greed got in the way and a lot of these companies exported.

[00:36:10] Right. They exported those jobs overseas.

[00:36:14] You know, they took they took their company interests overseas.

[00:36:18] And in doing so right, they have definitely put the country at risk.

[00:36:25] All those companies who go overseas because of cheaper labor.

[00:36:30] Right. Have you know, those are all security risks.

[00:36:35] They're all security risks because not only do the countries that they're working in right infiltrate their ranks with their own personnel.

[00:36:47] Right. And then they can gain they can gain access to American technology.

[00:36:53] They can gain access, you know, to, you know, American influence.

[00:36:59] Right. But they've also made it so that those assets can all just be taken out.

[00:37:17] And and there is no replacing. You know, there's no quick replacement for those assets.

[00:37:23] Right. So when you look at this situation.

[00:37:31] Right. And I said before. Right. So yeah. So we go to war with China.

[00:37:38] Right. What are the implications for that? Right.

[00:37:42] The implications are yet the world becomes a more dangerous place.

[00:37:45] Right. You know, it could go where we we are toothless and pretty much then we're you know, then, you know, China then gains ascendancy over the U.S.

[00:38:01] Because of that. Right. But regardless of how you look at it, we have to look at for for the average American.

[00:38:11] Right. If it's not if it's not being drafted into a war or or running to a bunker because we're shooting nuclear warheads at each other or some invasion land invasion, you know, you know, coming from the border areas or up there in Alaska.

[00:38:29] Right. If it's not that if we're not dealing with with with those issues, then we're definitely going to be dealing with a supply issue.

[00:38:40] Right. You know, if if they if they decide to stop our flow of oil, all those tankers, they have a Navy, they have an Air Force.

[00:38:50] Right. Never forget that.

[00:38:54] Right. We were always we're always thinking we're never really thinking that that these countries can do that.

[00:39:00] The Russians, if they wanted to, they could you know, they could they could blow up boats and they could run their own blockades of the U.S.

[00:39:08] Right. When this thing kicks off, it's going to get it's going to be ugly, folks.

[00:39:18] It's going to be ugly. OK.

[00:39:20] OK. You know, just the other was it last couple days ago, right?

[00:39:26] We had the whole you know, Facebook went down and Instagram and Zoom and all these all these apps.

[00:39:33] Right. You know, all these social media platforms, right.

[00:39:38] They they they went dark for like about six, six, seven hours.

[00:39:43] And of course, I'm sure that the other companies will come up with some kind of like cover story about it was it was a hack.

[00:39:49] Massive companies like like like these massive companies like these.

[00:39:55] Right. They don't they don't go offline.

[00:39:59] You know, they were hacked. Right.

[00:40:03] So you know that all that they you know that the Chinese and the Russians and the Iranians and the North Koreans would just unleash their whole hacking army against us.

[00:40:14] So if we're if we're not only dealing with you know, if we're dealing with a food shortage, a chronic food shortage situation and then on top of that, we're dealing with, you know, you know, hacking.

[00:40:28] Right. You know, these hacks to our critical infrastructure.

[00:40:33] We're going to we would be in for some tough times, folks.

[00:40:36] America, as we know it, would be done because it would be overnight.

[00:40:44] Right. We would be in pretty much a third, a real third world existence.

[00:40:50] Right. And how would the government react to all of that?

[00:41:00] Would then the government become well, they are already trending down the totalitarian, you know, yellow brick road.

[00:41:07] Right. So if they become right, if they, you know, if they decide, OK, you know, your property is not your property.

[00:41:17] We need the we need we need to start collecting food.

[00:41:20] We need to start collecting your livestock.

[00:41:22] Right. Because we need to feed ourselves here and we're in we're in a state of war.

[00:41:29] Right. Where does that leave us?

[00:41:36] The average, the average person.

[00:41:41] OK. It's a scary situation.

[00:41:46] It is it is a more layered situation than a lot of people if you really get into it.

[00:41:54] OK. You know, it's a lot it's a lot more layered.

[00:42:04] It's a lot more frightening than I think people give it for at first thought.

[00:42:14] Stock your food, make sure that you have water, make sure that you're self-sufficient.

[00:42:20] I you know, on this podcast, on the Strange Truth podcast, right, we already we talked about getting ready for the wintertime

[00:42:27] because it's strange out there, folks.

[00:42:30] There's a lot of weird things happening, man.

[00:42:33] I think that this this Facebook, Instagram hack here, right.

[00:42:37] That's a foreshadowing of maybe other things to come.

[00:42:40] You don't want to be without power and food during the wintertime when it's cold.

[00:42:45] Prepare, folks.

[00:42:47] Prepare.

[00:42:50] I'm sure all the hosts on PBN, they're going to be saying the same thing because just look at it all points to it all points to, you know, our problems, right?

[00:43:13] You know, problems for us in the next six to eight months.

[00:43:18] And that's all during the wintertime, right?

[00:43:24] So pray, prepare, right?

[00:43:28] My analysis of the situation is it's not how it's not about how or if China is going to invade Taiwan.

[00:43:42] It's all just about when they're going to do it, when are they going to when are they going to do it?

[00:43:47] Right.

[00:43:48] And and if that's the case.

[00:43:52] All right.

[00:43:55] If that's the case, then we have to be able.

[00:44:01] We have to be as prepared as we can when that occurs.

[00:44:06] We have to be able to carry on with our lives, to protect our families, to make sure that we, you know, to the best of our ability that, you know, we can we can carry on our lives as best as we can.

[00:44:21] OK. But yes, any war with China means no shipping.

[00:44:30] No, it means a complete breakdown of the distribution chain.

[00:44:35] And you can see right now as it stands that there is a food shortage, that there is a problem with the distribution network.

[00:44:45] Right.

[00:44:46] And if that distribution network, it was to, you know, it was to come under more strain, it would just fall apart.

[00:44:54] And when that happens, people are going to go nuts.

[00:44:59] So prepare.

[00:45:04] OK.

[00:45:06] Prepare for prepare for the unthinkable.

[00:45:09] Right.

[00:45:10] Is it really unthinkable at this point?

[00:45:12] No, no, no, no.

[00:45:13] It's going to happen.

[00:45:16] OK.

[00:45:17] All right.

[00:45:18] So that's I'm just going to wrap this up right now.

[00:45:22] Right.

[00:45:23] I think you got my thoughts on the situation.

[00:45:26] I'm sure the other hosts will probably give their two cents as well.

[00:45:31] As I said, I on the strange truth, we have discussed, you know, I've discussed, you know, the different scenarios, you know, the different war scenarios, you know, with Russia, with China.

[00:45:45] If you want to go back into the archives and look at episode seven or listen to episode 15 of the strange truth or episode 30.

[00:45:52] Right.

[00:45:53] We all know all those episodes dealt with, you know, gave, you know, like deep analysis off the situation with these two countries because these two countries are the ones that are going to if there's going to be a real problem apart from Iran, it's going to be these two countries.

[00:46:17] Right.

[00:46:18] You know, if the Russian if the Russians are going to invade Ukraine or or the Chinese, if they're going to go, if they're going to go for Taiwan, I think both of those scenarios are going to happen is just a matter of when they're going to happen.

[00:46:33] I think that the Chinese situation looks more likely to happen sooner rather than later.

[00:46:42] OK.

[00:46:44] So that's what I'm going to call it.

[00:46:48] I'm going to call it a night here.

[00:46:49] Right.

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[00:47:44] Right.

[00:47:45] You know, get you further along in your in your preparedness and your preparedness goals.

[00:47:49] But these are serious times, folks.

[00:47:51] And it calls for serious people.

[00:47:54] All right.

[00:47:55] And if you have a family, right.

[00:47:58] You know, and if people are dependent on you for, you know, for their safety, for, you know, you know, to provide leadership and guidance, then, you know, we have you have to get your house in order because I think there's going to be some challenging times ahead.

[00:48:16] OK.

[00:48:17] So keep praying and keep scanning the news.

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[00:49:11] OK.

[00:49:13] So that's this is where we're leaving.

[00:49:16] This is where we're leaving.

[00:49:17] You guys have have a good night.

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[00:49:59] Good night, folks.