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Speaker 2 (00:00):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Tony Cruz. You've heard of Gal Ryan Farms, that
great farm there in Shelby County that me and the
grand kids and my wife and everybody enjoys. Well, he's
also a US captain, a Navy Captain decorated, a combat veteran,
and senior Navy Seal officer and Army ranger. And Ed
also really sarved this country in so many great ways,
(00:21):
two Presidential Unit citations along with four Bronze Stars each
our equivalent to the Navy Cross. And he's joining us
here as a member of Sealed Team six, also a
Special Operations Task Force commander and leader in numerous positions. ED,
first of all, welcome, And I did not know this
until well, I've known it for a little while, an
(00:42):
honor graduate of the War College, earning that master's in
Operational Intelligence. So there's nobody better I can think of
them bringing you on board here to talk about what
we're seeing. The President now saying he's going to talk
to putin today the Middle East operation and what President
Trump was trying to get down there.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
What are your thoughts? Well, a lot going on, Tony,
and thanks for that introduction. It was an honor to
serve our nation and lead those great Americans all over
the globe on behalf of our nation. And I want
to get this out there. My families. Open up the
strawberry patch for you, Paris, your grandparents, oad those kids
and grandkids up and get on out to gallround farms.
And I'm the official food tester, Tony. As you know,
(01:20):
if you got any questions, yeah, all right, well if
we could jump right in, because there's a lot going on,
and right you are you the listener sent me to
the War College to think and act strategically. Don't think,
drop bombs and shoot people. Think to plan and act
in a strategic manner so we don't have to drop
bombs and shoot people. So we achieve our outcomes through
(01:41):
other means, namely to Terrence. All right, well, Tony, we
continue to have a front row seat in a skybox
on the fifty yard line to witness actions to reset
the global power landscape by the Trump administration. There're wastes
no time to address the fact that four horsemen of
the apocalypse, Russia, China, I ran in North Korea individually
and collectively or continue negress. Willy challenged us and our allies,
(02:02):
national security, and global stability at an unprecedented level not
seen since pre World War Two by Germany, Soviet Union,
Italy and Japan. Tony, that is not hype. Those are
the facts. The Trump administration is leveraging the four elements
of national power in the Mideast and it's on full display.
That's diplomatic, informational, military, and economic. Economic is the centerpiece
(02:28):
of national power. It's called dime as we study at
the War College. As such, the US is now playing chess.
Note the fact that delegation included more than thirty major
US business and tech leaders, not just government officials, taking
the middlemen out of the transactions. And it included what
two hundred billion with the UAE, six hundred billion with
(02:50):
Saudi's and one point two trillion with Gutter. That's the
deep end of the pool with respect to economic power.
One other things Tony, I got to add noteworthy is
the clarity of the message by the Trumpe administration to Iran.
Two words, no bomb period. National security and foreign policy
suffers when there's a lack of clarity because ambiguity feeds
(03:12):
adversaries in their nefarious activities. Now, could I jump in
a little bit more detail about Iran, right now.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Tony, Yeah, please do we need to know that?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, primary menace in the Mid East, and they're leading
global state sponsor terrorism. We can't forget that. Remember they
fired at US forces over three hundred times in the
recent crisis, had started under the last administration, killing three
and injuring some sixty six. So let's remember that. And
they still control the Huthi's a moss and Hballa now, Tony,
(03:43):
just for a setting of this matter. With respect to
the nuclear weapons, North Korea obtained its nuclear direct weapons
with the assistance of the Soviet Union starting in nineteen
sixty three, so it too could be a threat to
the US and the West, making it untouchable once it
got a weapon. In a similar manner, Russia has been
providing Iran both Uranian materials and some six hundred tons
(04:03):
now and possibly added technical support, so they too can
develop a nuclear weapon and be untouchable and a threat
to the US and the West. Tony. They've got reportedly
some twelve nuclear weapon development sites, many strategically placed and
built deep underground to survive tax so they know what
they're doing with respect to hide in their program. There
(04:24):
an oil rich energy nation with only one civilian nuclear
power plant. As such, they have far more materials than
whatever be needed for that one civilian nuclear power plant. Tony.
To put a bow on this, there's two models that
this whole matter could follow. As a reminder, in two
thousand and three, under extreme pressure, Livia gave up its
(04:47):
nuclear program peacefully. However, in two thousand and seven, serious
secret nuclear program was hit by surprise precision attack by
the Israelis. Tony. A lot going on over there, and
the US has positioned a lot of strategic capabilities think
standoff precision attack as what's called a flexible to turn
(05:09):
option to encourage the Iranians to come to the table
and negotiate with good faith. In the past, they've been
world class cheaters, Tony, and they've always not allowed anytime
anywhere inspections. That's been an issue with respect to previous agreement.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Let me interrupt you there if I may, And that is,
if Trump says we've got to be able to inspect it,
is that going to be one of the big details
here this time.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Oh? Absolutely, it'll be the absolute centerpiece. It's going to
have to be in any time anywhere at our desire inspection.
They have never agreed to that, and that was little
reported on, but that is the centerpiece of any effective
nuclear agreement. Hey, Tony, Now, something interesting that happened. You
might remember when we were on the show last time
in April, we talked about some Chinese ships carrying rocket
(05:58):
fuel precursors we're getting into port and Iran. Well, just
days after that, after they pulled in after that session,
there was a massive explosion in fire at Vandera Boss,
Iran's largest commercial report, where those ships had pulled into.
Reports are that explosion appeared to originate from shipping containers
with hazardous chemicals with rocket propellants. Tony, things are not
(06:22):
always what they seem. As you and I talk many times, recognized.
You know, I've served our nation at the classified level
for nearly four decades now, remember the pager bombs by Israel. Yes, now, Tony,
if I could, I've got to touch on China for
a minute, because there's some things going on that really
aren't hitting the news. Please do all right, Well, the
(06:43):
thousand pound gorilla in the room, and I don't mean,
you know, for lack of better term to overstate this,
but it is China. Now, let's look at the calendar.
President Chi openly tasked as military to be ready to
take Taiwan by force in twenty twenty seven, Tony, that's
only nineteen months away. For all intents and purposes, China
(07:04):
is at war with Taiwan right now through gray zone
and war actions. We've talked about foreign evidence by their
hundreds of aggressive acts that continue daily. China is rapidly
developing and rehearsing in plain sight the ability to invade Taiwan. Remember,
the prize of Taiwan is the prestige. Reunite China and
obtain the chip production facilities and workforce to win the
(07:27):
Ai race, the Manhattan Project of our time. Whoever dominates
Ai will dominate the world. There's three other things real
quick to talk about, Tony. China is constructing a massive
military complex near Beijing that's basically the second coming of
the Great Wall. It is a Kinagon type structure, at
least ten times the size of the US Pentagon. It's
(07:50):
on about fifteen hundred acres, where ours is on about
one hundred and fifty acres, counting parking lots and landscaping,
deep underground bunkers, and it's designed to survive nuclear wars
with fortifications deep underground. It is basically messaging us that
they are getting ready for a whole other phase of confrontation.
(08:11):
While that's going on, China's has launched twelve advanced satellites
and started put to build a supercomputer in space. Now
why would they do that. It's to speed up and
dominate the control of information technology, where they reduce the
time that they can do supercomputing by literally space based
(08:33):
computers and dominate military and intelligence operations. Finally, Tony, last,
but not least, US energy officials are reassessing risk posed
by Chinese made electronic devices that have been found in
communications and energy infrastructure, think bugs that might also be
able to facilitate hacking into our communications and energy grids.
(08:57):
Not widely reported, but that has been dis.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, just reading what last week that they found some
solar panels with that kind of construction where China could
literally stop the Chi stop those solar panels. And I
know that you know, everybody maybe doesn't believe in mission
impossible and all these kind of things. Well, China trying
its darnness to play the role you know, in some
(09:21):
of these situations. One more question, and that is President
Trump looks to be doing something a can to me
of what Nixon did with China, and that is, you know,
opening up markets and things like that with the Middle
East now maybe becoming some kind of a partnership with that.
It looks like the President also knows that China still
(09:44):
needs us to get our money. So is China still
willing to attack knowing that they already still don't have
the wages. There's there's a job, there's job concerns amongst
the people. And the last thing Jean Ping wants to
see is some of his people revolved.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Well, great point, Tony. I would say, never underestimate an adversary.
So with respect to that, I would say the prize
is artificial intelligence. If they can obtain domination in that spectrum,
they will dominate the world. Generative AI is going to
be the centerpiece for global dominance, and that would be
(10:27):
the reason they would do that, Tony, And they are
those other factors might drive them to actually act sooner
as what you would expect in a more rational manner,
So it might in fact trigger them to move quicker.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Appreciate your time, ed I appreciate it, and we'll talk
again soon. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
All right, Come see us at the farm, Tony.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Thank you, you got it. That's Ed gall Ryan joining
us here in news radio A forty whas
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Tony Cruz. You've heard of Gal Ryan Farms, that
great farm there in Shelby County that me and the
grand kids and my wife and everybody enjoys. Well, he's
also a US captain, a Navy Captain decorated, a combat veteran,
and senior Navy Seal officer and Army ranger. And Ed
also really sarved this country in so many great ways,
(00:21):
two Presidential Unit citations along with four Bronze Stars each
our equivalent to the Navy Cross. And he's joining us
here as a member of Sealed Team six, also a
Special Operations Task Force commander and leader in numerous positions. ED,
first of all, welcome, And I did not know this
until well, I've known it for a little while, an
(00:42):
honor graduate of the War College, earning that master's in
Operational Intelligence. So there's nobody better I can think of
them bringing you on board here to talk about what
we're seeing. The President now saying he's going to talk
to putin today the Middle East operation and what President
Trump was trying to get down there.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
What are your thoughts? Well, a lot going on, Tony,
and thanks for that introduction. It was an honor to
serve our nation and lead those great Americans all over
the globe on behalf of our nation. And I want
to get this out there. My families. Open up the
strawberry patch for you, Paris, your grandparents, oad those kids
and grandkids up and get on out to gallround farms.
And I'm the official food tester, Tony. As you know,
(01:20):
if you got any questions, yeah, all right, well if
we could jump right in, because there's a lot going on,
and right you are you the listener sent me to
the War College to think and act strategically. Don't think,
drop bombs and shoot people. Think to plan and act
in a strategic manner so we don't have to drop
bombs and shoot people. So we achieve our outcomes through
(01:41):
other means, namely to Terrence. All right, well, Tony, we
continue to have a front row seat in a skybox
on the fifty yard line to witness actions to reset
the global power landscape by the Trump administration. There're wastes
no time to address the fact that four horsemen of
the apocalypse, Russia, China, I ran in North Korea individually
and collectively or continue negress. Willy challenged us and our allies,
(02:02):
national security, and global stability at an unprecedented level not
seen since pre World War Two by Germany, Soviet Union,
Italy and Japan. Tony, that is not hype. Those are
the facts. The Trump administration is leveraging the four elements
of national power in the Mideast and it's on full display.
That's diplomatic, informational, military, and economic. Economic is the centerpiece
(02:28):
of national power. It's called dime as we study at
the War College. As such, the US is now playing chess.
Note the fact that delegation included more than thirty major
US business and tech leaders, not just government officials, taking
the middlemen out of the transactions. And it included what
two hundred billion with the UAE, six hundred billion with
(02:50):
Saudi's and one point two trillion with Gutter. That's the
deep end of the pool with respect to economic power.
One other things Tony, I got to add noteworthy is
the clarity of the message by the Trumpe administration to Iran.
Two words, no bomb period. National security and foreign policy
suffers when there's a lack of clarity because ambiguity feeds
(03:12):
adversaries in their nefarious activities. Now, could I jump in
a little bit more detail about Iran, right now.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Tony, Yeah, please do we need to know that?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, primary menace in the Mid East, and they're leading
global state sponsor terrorism. We can't forget that. Remember they
fired at US forces over three hundred times in the
recent crisis, had started under the last administration, killing three
and injuring some sixty six. So let's remember that. And
they still control the Huthi's a moss and Hballa now, Tony,
(03:43):
just for a setting of this matter. With respect to
the nuclear weapons, North Korea obtained its nuclear direct weapons
with the assistance of the Soviet Union starting in nineteen
sixty three, so it too could be a threat to
the US and the West, making it untouchable once it
got a weapon. In a similar manner, Russia has been
providing Iran both Uranian materials and some six hundred tons
(04:03):
now and possibly added technical support, so they too can
develop a nuclear weapon and be untouchable and a threat
to the US and the West. Tony. They've got reportedly
some twelve nuclear weapon development sites, many strategically placed and
built deep underground to survive tax so they know what
they're doing with respect to hide in their program. There
(04:24):
an oil rich energy nation with only one civilian nuclear
power plant. As such, they have far more materials than
whatever be needed for that one civilian nuclear power plant. Tony.
To put a bow on this, there's two models that
this whole matter could follow. As a reminder, in two
thousand and three, under extreme pressure, Livia gave up its
(04:47):
nuclear program peacefully. However, in two thousand and seven, serious
secret nuclear program was hit by surprise precision attack by
the Israelis. Tony. A lot going on over there, and
the US has positioned a lot of strategic capabilities think
standoff precision attack as what's called a flexible to turn
(05:09):
option to encourage the Iranians to come to the table
and negotiate with good faith. In the past, they've been
world class cheaters, Tony, and they've always not allowed anytime
anywhere inspections. That's been an issue with respect to previous agreement.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Let me interrupt you there if I may, And that is,
if Trump says we've got to be able to inspect it,
is that going to be one of the big details
here this time.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Oh? Absolutely, it'll be the absolute centerpiece. It's going to
have to be in any time anywhere at our desire inspection.
They have never agreed to that, and that was little
reported on, but that is the centerpiece of any effective
nuclear agreement. Hey, Tony, Now, something interesting that happened. You
might remember when we were on the show last time
in April, we talked about some Chinese ships carrying rocket
(05:58):
fuel precursors we're getting into port and Iran. Well, just
days after that, after they pulled in after that session,
there was a massive explosion in fire at Vandera Boss,
Iran's largest commercial report, where those ships had pulled into.
Reports are that explosion appeared to originate from shipping containers
with hazardous chemicals with rocket propellants. Tony, things are not
(06:22):
always what they seem. As you and I talk many times, recognized.
You know, I've served our nation at the classified level
for nearly four decades now, remember the pager bombs by Israel. Yes, now, Tony,
if I could, I've got to touch on China for
a minute, because there's some things going on that really
aren't hitting the news. Please do all right, Well, the
(06:43):
thousand pound gorilla in the room, and I don't mean,
you know, for lack of better term to overstate this,
but it is China. Now, let's look at the calendar.
President Chi openly tasked as military to be ready to
take Taiwan by force in twenty twenty seven, Tony, that's
only nineteen months away. For all intents and purposes, China
(07:04):
is at war with Taiwan right now through gray zone
and war actions. We've talked about foreign evidence by their
hundreds of aggressive acts that continue daily. China is rapidly
developing and rehearsing in plain sight the ability to invade Taiwan. Remember,
the prize of Taiwan is the prestige. Reunite China and
obtain the chip production facilities and workforce to win the
(07:27):
Ai race, the Manhattan Project of our time. Whoever dominates
Ai will dominate the world. There's three other things real
quick to talk about, Tony. China is constructing a massive
military complex near Beijing that's basically the second coming of
the Great Wall. It is a Kinagon type structure, at
least ten times the size of the US Pentagon. It's
(07:50):
on about fifteen hundred acres, where ours is on about
one hundred and fifty acres, counting parking lots and landscaping,
deep underground bunkers, and it's designed to survive nuclear wars
with fortifications deep underground. It is basically messaging us that
they are getting ready for a whole other phase of confrontation.
(08:11):
While that's going on, China's has launched twelve advanced satellites
and started put to build a supercomputer in space. Now
why would they do that. It's to speed up and
dominate the control of information technology, where they reduce the
time that they can do supercomputing by literally space based
(08:33):
computers and dominate military and intelligence operations. Finally, Tony, last,
but not least, US energy officials are reassessing risk posed
by Chinese made electronic devices that have been found in
communications and energy infrastructure, think bugs that might also be
able to facilitate hacking into our communications and energy grids.
(08:57):
Not widely reported, but that has been dis.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, just reading what last week that they found some
solar panels with that kind of construction where China could
literally stop the Chi stop those solar panels. And I
know that you know, everybody maybe doesn't believe in mission
impossible and all these kind of things. Well, China trying
its darnness to play the role you know, in some
(09:21):
of these situations. One more question, and that is President
Trump looks to be doing something a can to me
of what Nixon did with China, and that is, you know,
opening up markets and things like that with the Middle
East now maybe becoming some kind of a partnership with that.
It looks like the President also knows that China still
(09:44):
needs us to get our money. So is China still
willing to attack knowing that they already still don't have
the wages. There's there's a job, there's job concerns amongst
the people. And the last thing Jean Ping wants to
see is some of his people revolved.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Well, great point, Tony. I would say, never underestimate an adversary.
So with respect to that, I would say the prize
is artificial intelligence. If they can obtain domination in that spectrum,
they will dominate the world. Generative AI is going to
be the centerpiece for global dominance, and that would be
(10:27):
the reason they would do that, Tony, And they are
those other factors might drive them to actually act sooner
as what you would expect in a more rational manner,
So it might in fact trigger them to move quicker.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Appreciate your time, ed I appreciate it, and we'll talk
again soon. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
All right, Come see us at the farm, Tony.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Thank you, you got it. That's Ed gall Ryan joining
us here in news radio A forty whas
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