Ed Turzanski - National Security Expert Joins Houston Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's feeling like World War III is not that far away.
Edgrews Aski joins this national security expert. Do you take
a look at all the people who are kind of
piling up against us here, Russia, Iran, China, North Korea.
These are all nuclear powered countries, with the possible exception
of Iran, and they are probably going to have nuclear
weapons fairly soon. Ed, that's dangerous stuff.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
To me. It is not the first time this country's
experienced it. World War Two. It is the Axius Powers.
Then it was the acxis of evil in the War
on Terror. And now you have China, Russia, North Korea,
and Iran who are deepening their ties and supporting one

(00:43):
another in complementary ways. So the Russians suddenly find themselves
in need of some technical capabilities, the Chinese pitch in
the Russian the Iranians send them missiles the whole time.
And by the way, keep in mind, that's conscious design.

(01:05):
And it's not just in military matters, it's also in
economic matters. And I go back to Reagan who very
preciently said weakness is provocative. So if you suddenly pull
troops out of Afghanistan, leave your people and allies behind

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the way we did and leave the Taliban with eighty
one billion dollars worth American worth, American hardware. That sends
a message. If you wind up saying to the Israelis,
we're with you, but don't strike here, don't strike there,

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all of this sends a signal that you're ripe for
the taking.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
And NATO marges in and decides it they're going to
put basically a Cuban missile crisis right on the edge
of Russia with Ukraine. Is is that not provocative?

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Well, so I always say reverse the circumstances. What if
it was happening to us? So let's presume that from
Mexico last week one hundred and eighty one ballistic missiles
were fired at the United States. How likely would we
be to say to other powers, no, we're going to

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listen to you, we're going to hold back, We're going
to be very careful about what we strike. Or would
we hit them so hard that they wish they hadn't
been born? And we demand of our allies through are
in trouble behavior that we would not tolerate on our
own account. And as I said, these countries coming together

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against us we're talking about military matters right now. Let
me put something else on the radar screen. The dollar
as the reserve currency for the world. Conscious effort that's
building steam to replace the dollar as the reserve currency.
There are many people who say that can't happen, but understand,

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the day it does, we're going to feel the full
weight of thirty five point three trillion dollars in debt.
We're adding a trillion dollars every one hundred days to
our national debt. This year, the debt service is one
point one trillion. You're spending about eight hundred and fifty
billion on the Pentagon. How likely are you to be

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able to sustain that spending? And by the way, we're
under investing in the military. I always, I'm your seriason,
know this.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
We're going to run out of time, and you don't
have time really to answer this, But I just want
to raise a question because I'm not hearing anyone do it.
We have a major port strike underway, and it's like
good guys, bad guys, except that the people who are
negotiating these contracts is association. A lot of are multinational corporations.
And how much did the Chinese already control the technology

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that actually automates our ports in America.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Not so much in our country, but throughout Europe and
Africa through the Belton Road Program. The Chinese have invested
heavily and they're going to have a stranglehold on commerce,
seaborn commerce. That's the one thing the United States Navy
in the post war world had always fought to preserve

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seaborn commerce because were so dependent on it for import
and nextport.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Scary stuff.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
ED.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Thanks for sharing it, though, do appreciate it. Edgrewsanski, national
security expert,