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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. I'm Tony Cruz. I'm always happy to have
(00:02):
US Navy Captain Det. Gal Ryan, highly combated, excuse me,
a highly combat decorated senior Navy Seal officer and Army
Ranger member of Seal Team six. You'll remember their stored
units in the US military, successfully conducting the raid on Osama,
Ben Lauden and at highly decorated. Appreciate your time, Captain
Gal Ryan, for joining us this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How are you hey, Good morning, Tony. Greetings from out
here in Shelby County. Doing well, getting ready for these
storms coming in. Good morning to you and the listeners.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yep, Gal Ryan, Farm's good place to go. I got
to meet up a lunch with you soon out there, Ed.
But let's talk about the world that we live in today,
and let's start with anything you want to start about.
You know, we were talking before off air about cartels
(00:53):
the border of Mexico, and we've seen now that President
Trump has indicated a lot of these cartels are going
to be associated as a terrorist organizations. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, I'll tell you what. That is a move that
was long time in the making, and it's good for
our great nation. If I could set the table on
that and currerect that to our avacarae Tony, that might
help for an understanding of it. You know, Tony, it's
likely we're going to have a front row seat on
the fifty yard line of twenty twenty five to witness
actions that continue to reset the global power landpscape by
the new administration. And they're wasting no time to do that.
(01:28):
And we can't forget that Russia, China, I ran in
North Korea or behind things like the cartails and other
actions against US. Collectively and individually, they are challenging the
US interest in national security at an unprecedented level that
we haven't seen since pre World War Two to diminish
our influence and standing, and they're doing it through what's
(01:49):
called gray zone war actions to gain an advantage, and
the cartails are going to fall in that category, as
I'll explain. But Tony, when it's all in sudden done,
the one thousand pound grill in the room is China
arguably the greatest existential threat to the US. And we
may be writing the sequel to the famous book At
don We Slept that tells the story how the US
(02:09):
ignored all the obvious signs of upending Japanese tack in
World War two. China carefully calibrates each move with the
aim of staying below the threshold of actual war by
operating in the gray zone. And the cartels fall into
that category. Remember the overflights of the US sensitive sites
with the balloons, you know, back in twenty twenty three,
(02:29):
what would be considered intolerable behavior in an active war. Well,
they just do that to incrementally push you know, the
you know, push the limits of what they can get
away with. Now, the illicit drug trade is arguably an
unconventional warfare operation that falls right in that category. It
fuels the drug human gun trafficking that turn fuels related
crime to include gangs. Right here in Kentucky. The term
(02:52):
gang may not warrant, may warrant being revisited. It's arguably
extensions of China through the cartels, now declared foreign toast organization.
As you just mentioned, many of them, they behave more
like armed militias on our soul, with organizational network, supply chains,
operational plans, command and control strategies. As such, they're far
more than gangs. Tony Unmistakenly China remains the primary source
(03:17):
for the illicit fentanyl precursor chemicals and pill pressing globally,
and reports are the drugs are now being laced with
a venarian animal tranquilizer called the zombie drug because it
causes the skin rot. It's been found in forty eight
to fifty states and narcan cannot remedy its effects to
revive a victim.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Wow, that's right. Oh gosh, yeah, bad news story. But again,
the root cause of that is back to China. So
China knows exactly what it's doing all the way to
the streets of Louisville. You could draw the network diagram
and trace it all. Now, I got to shift gears
and talk about their other campaigns against US, to include
their audacity of aggressive spying. Just recently, two active duty
(03:59):
Army A listed soldiers and one former soldier were cotton
indicted for passing classified documents to China. And that's just
in the past few months, and a separate indicement indictment
and army officer was caught conspiring a former Army officer
was caught conspiring to do the same. And in twenty
twenty three, two s us Navy members are charged in
(04:20):
separate cases, were also conspiring to provide the Chinese classified
information on the US Tony. And that's just the tip
of the iceberg. That's just here recently. And a correction,
actually that Army officer was active duty in conspiring with
another former soldier. So it's complicated and they are audacious
in those actions.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You have told us many times that really cyber is
not only the new battlefield, but it's the Manhattan Project.
And I was hearing that from others over the weekend
as well, that this is just about like the nuclear
bomb was a game changer. Whoever wins the cyber war,
you say, is going to win basically the world.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I guess they will dominate the twenty first century. That's
a good segue to the next domain. China's campaign to
access and a critical infrastructure and has been more recently
reported as Bolt and Salt Typhoon, where they have literally
infiltrated the phones and systems that we're talking on right now, Verizon,
ATTT Mobile, et cetera. It demonstrates their audacity and growing
(05:21):
threat to compromise our capabilities and in fact, on to
your point, the next Pearl Harbor will likely be a
cyber attack that completely paralyzes our nation, holds its hostage
like ransomware. Imagine everything could be halted, utilities, medical care,
every aspect of our society. Just remember this isn't a
long history of hacking. The Chinese hacked the Office of
(05:44):
Personnel Management back in twenty fifteen and stole our databases,
exposing the personal data over twenty one million government employees,
include all of our security clearance information, fingerprints, etc. So
they know exactly who we are and they've collected that data.
And Tony, to your point, they reportedly just develop a
quantum processing unit that will accelerate their ability to win
(06:06):
the Manhattan Project race of our time, the artist official
intelligence race, as you just said. And we thought we
were well ahead of them until the Deep Seek. The
new China built AI chatbot was recently redeced release and
that was a sput nick moments for us, so to speak,
a wake up call.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah. Well it showed up in the Nvidia with the
with the markets right, all of a sudden, the six
hundred dollars chips were able to beat you know, something
that you had to pay a billion dollars for something
of that nature, you know, or it's worth billions of
dollars with these chips.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, out of nowhere buttonnick type moments, dear point.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I mean just little things. China now has a very
affordable electric car. It goes farther than the American cars,
and now they can drive up and get another two
hundred miles with a five minute charge. There's there seems
to be a lot of this technological progress that's going
on in China that uh, you know, it may seem
innocent to us, but but it leads to other things,
(07:01):
like you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well Tony, it's under reported. Frankly, our nation would benefit
from a almost almost a fireside chat like information of
sharing of what the clear and present danger is of China,
because I'm afraid we're sleepwalking, you know, right into you know,
right into basically World War three. We're Chrya wins, you know,
hands down. If I add a couple of other things, yeah,
(07:25):
we got too many now reported the deploy and satellites
that can do dog fighting in space. Not only can
they fire lasers and do jammers, but think of literally
dog fighting in space to neutralize our satellite capability, which
we rely on everything from a financial transaction to your GPS.
Imagine that could be neutralized in the same way China
(07:47):
has done some other things. And those cyber attacks on
US are rehearsals. They're not intended to defeat us per se.
They are rehearsals of their rehearsing and probe and their
own capability. And Tony, can I ship shift to what
they're doing at sea?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, let's do that real quick.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Remember, global commerce is dominated by the sea liones of indication,
and that's why it's important that it's open navigation. But
China has recognized that, Tony. They now have fifty three
percent of the global shipbuilding capacity. The US has one percent.
That is for both warships and commercial ships. And they
(08:25):
have gone around the world to develop dual use ports
by treaties and other agreements with folks from all other regions,
and they have produced the entire equivalent of the British
Royal Navy fleet. In the just four years from twenty
nineteen to twenty twenty three, China produced enough navy ships
(08:46):
to surpass the British Navy, and right now they're at
three hundred and fifty plus in county, while the US
is at two ninety four and declining in numbers and readiness.
By twenty thirty, China will have roughly four hundred twenty
five warships.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Just want to interject, I mean they're creating infrastructure, including
in our own western hemisphere, at various different places, and
just if I may, you know, when you hear about
aid and things that the US does, that's what China
is doing now. And so it's not a political statement
that I'm trying to make, if you're forgive me, but
(09:25):
there's sometimes where you do things so you can build
infrastructures as well, you can get intelligence. There's a lot
of different things that come along with that. So I
think we have to be really careful as a nation
as to what we do cut well we don't cut.
And that's my take.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, what we've got to notice basically kinda slip the
tables on us is the same way we did containment
on the Soviet Union. Containment and one they have slipped
the tables on us, and they're doing containment on us
in many ways. And that's around the globe of notice
is Greenland. We've got to play that in. They have
been approaching Greenland and getting contracts for minerals and mining,
(10:01):
and that is a prize because it is so natural
a resource. And that could be a reason why you
see the interest by the US new administration in Greenland.
That's largely under reported what China is up to there
to include ports and access. Uh, So that's got to
be recognized. And if I could, I wanted, I wanted
to shift gears, just say one thing about Taiwan.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Uh, you got to get but yeah, just just real quick.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Well, and that continues to be the prize for two reasons.
They want, uh, the prestige of reuniting China and they
want the chips. That's the prize that will dominate global
information technology. Tony. Now, before we leave, we got to
talk about the Mid East and what's going on there
with you.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I don't have time to do it today. We'll have
to do that though next segment, maybe a couple of
weeks if that's okay okay.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Iran has threatened h a preemptive attacks on it, so
I would keep a close eye on the Mid East
and what's unfolded there as US as apparent prepositioning some
forces over there, and we have warned Aranians to stop
their nuclear weapons program. But they have accelerated the development
of those materials. It appears.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Always great Intel appreciate the time, Ed.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Thanks, okay, thank you, Tony, thank you to the listeners.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
All Right, Ed gall ran here on news radio. Weaight
for the whas
Good morning. I'm Tony Cruz. I'm always happy to have
(00:02):
US Navy Captain Det. Gal Ryan, highly combated, excuse me,
a highly combat decorated senior Navy Seal officer and Army
Ranger member of Seal Team six. You'll remember their stored
units in the US military, successfully conducting the raid on Osama,
Ben Lauden and at highly decorated. Appreciate your time, Captain
Gal Ryan, for joining us this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How are you hey, Good morning, Tony. Greetings from out
here in Shelby County. Doing well, getting ready for these
storms coming in. Good morning to you and the listeners.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yep, Gal Ryan, Farm's good place to go. I got
to meet up a lunch with you soon out there, Ed.
But let's talk about the world that we live in today,
and let's start with anything you want to start about.
You know, we were talking before off air about cartels
(00:53):
the border of Mexico, and we've seen now that President
Trump has indicated a lot of these cartels are going
to be associated as a terrorist organizations. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, I'll tell you what. That is a move that
was long time in the making, and it's good for
our great nation. If I could set the table on
that and currerect that to our avacarae Tony, that might
help for an understanding of it. You know, Tony, it's
likely we're going to have a front row seat on
the fifty yard line of twenty twenty five to witness
actions that continue to reset the global power landpscape by
the new administration. And they're wasting no time to do that.
(01:28):
And we can't forget that Russia, China, I ran in
North Korea or behind things like the cartails and other
actions against US. Collectively and individually, they are challenging the
US interest in national security at an unprecedented level that
we haven't seen since pre World War Two to diminish
our influence and standing, and they're doing it through what's
(01:49):
called gray zone war actions to gain an advantage, and
the cartails are going to fall in that category, as
I'll explain. But Tony, when it's all in sudden done,
the one thousand pound grill in the room is China
arguably the greatest existential threat to the US. And we
may be writing the sequel to the famous book At
don We Slept that tells the story how the US
(02:09):
ignored all the obvious signs of upending Japanese tack in
World War two. China carefully calibrates each move with the
aim of staying below the threshold of actual war by
operating in the gray zone. And the cartels fall into
that category. Remember the overflights of the US sensitive sites
with the balloons, you know, back in twenty twenty three,
(02:29):
what would be considered intolerable behavior in an active war. Well,
they just do that to incrementally push you know, the
you know, push the limits of what they can get
away with. Now, the illicit drug trade is arguably an
unconventional warfare operation that falls right in that category. It
fuels the drug human gun trafficking that turn fuels related
crime to include gangs. Right here in Kentucky. The term
(02:52):
gang may not warrant, may warrant being revisited. It's arguably
extensions of China through the cartels, now declared foreign toast organization.
As you just mentioned, many of them, they behave more
like armed militias on our soul, with organizational network, supply chains,
operational plans, command and control strategies. As such, they're far
more than gangs. Tony Unmistakenly China remains the primary source
(03:17):
for the illicit fentanyl precursor chemicals and pill pressing globally,
and reports are the drugs are now being laced with
a venarian animal tranquilizer called the zombie drug because it
causes the skin rot. It's been found in forty eight
to fifty states and narcan cannot remedy its effects to
revive a victim.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Wow, that's right. Oh gosh, yeah, bad news story. But again,
the root cause of that is back to China. So
China knows exactly what it's doing all the way to
the streets of Louisville. You could draw the network diagram
and trace it all. Now, I got to shift gears
and talk about their other campaigns against US, to include
their audacity of aggressive spying. Just recently, two active duty
(03:59):
Army A listed soldiers and one former soldier were cotton
indicted for passing classified documents to China. And that's just
in the past few months, and a separate indicement indictment
and army officer was caught conspiring a former Army officer
was caught conspiring to do the same. And in twenty
twenty three, two s us Navy members are charged in
(04:20):
separate cases, were also conspiring to provide the Chinese classified
information on the US Tony. And that's just the tip
of the iceberg. That's just here recently. And a correction,
actually that Army officer was active duty in conspiring with
another former soldier. So it's complicated and they are audacious
in those actions.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You have told us many times that really cyber is
not only the new battlefield, but it's the Manhattan Project.
And I was hearing that from others over the weekend
as well, that this is just about like the nuclear
bomb was a game changer. Whoever wins the cyber war,
you say, is going to win basically the world.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I guess they will dominate the twenty first century. That's
a good segue to the next domain. China's campaign to
access and a critical infrastructure and has been more recently
reported as Bolt and Salt Typhoon, where they have literally
infiltrated the phones and systems that we're talking on right now, Verizon,
ATTT Mobile, et cetera. It demonstrates their audacity and growing
(05:21):
threat to compromise our capabilities and in fact, on to
your point, the next Pearl Harbor will likely be a
cyber attack that completely paralyzes our nation, holds its hostage
like ransomware. Imagine everything could be halted, utilities, medical care,
every aspect of our society. Just remember this isn't a
long history of hacking. The Chinese hacked the Office of
(05:44):
Personnel Management back in twenty fifteen and stole our databases,
exposing the personal data over twenty one million government employees,
include all of our security clearance information, fingerprints, etc. So
they know exactly who we are and they've collected that data.
And Tony, to your point, they reportedly just develop a
quantum processing unit that will accelerate their ability to win
(06:06):
the Manhattan Project race of our time, the artist official
intelligence race, as you just said. And we thought we
were well ahead of them until the Deep Seek. The
new China built AI chatbot was recently redeced release and
that was a sput nick moments for us, so to speak,
a wake up call.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah. Well it showed up in the Nvidia with the
with the markets right, all of a sudden, the six
hundred dollars chips were able to beat you know, something
that you had to pay a billion dollars for something
of that nature, you know, or it's worth billions of
dollars with these chips.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, out of nowhere buttonnick type moments, dear point.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I mean just little things. China now has a very
affordable electric car. It goes farther than the American cars,
and now they can drive up and get another two
hundred miles with a five minute charge. There's there seems
to be a lot of this technological progress that's going
on in China that uh, you know, it may seem
innocent to us, but but it leads to other things,
(07:01):
like you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well Tony, it's under reported. Frankly, our nation would benefit
from a almost almost a fireside chat like information of
sharing of what the clear and present danger is of China,
because I'm afraid we're sleepwalking, you know, right into you know,
right into basically World War three. We're Chrya wins, you know,
hands down. If I add a couple of other things, yeah,
(07:25):
we got too many now reported the deploy and satellites
that can do dog fighting in space. Not only can
they fire lasers and do jammers, but think of literally
dog fighting in space to neutralize our satellite capability, which
we rely on everything from a financial transaction to your GPS.
Imagine that could be neutralized in the same way China
(07:47):
has done some other things. And those cyber attacks on
US are rehearsals. They're not intended to defeat us per se.
They are rehearsals of their rehearsing and probe and their
own capability. And Tony, can I ship shift to what
they're doing at sea?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, let's do that real quick.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Remember, global commerce is dominated by the sea liones of indication,
and that's why it's important that it's open navigation. But
China has recognized that, Tony. They now have fifty three
percent of the global shipbuilding capacity. The US has one percent.
That is for both warships and commercial ships. And they
(08:25):
have gone around the world to develop dual use ports
by treaties and other agreements with folks from all other regions,
and they have produced the entire equivalent of the British
Royal Navy fleet. In the just four years from twenty
nineteen to twenty twenty three, China produced enough navy ships
(08:46):
to surpass the British Navy, and right now they're at
three hundred and fifty plus in county, while the US
is at two ninety four and declining in numbers and readiness.
By twenty thirty, China will have roughly four hundred twenty
five warships.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Just want to interject, I mean they're creating infrastructure, including
in our own western hemisphere, at various different places, and
just if I may, you know, when you hear about
aid and things that the US does, that's what China
is doing now. And so it's not a political statement
that I'm trying to make, if you're forgive me, but
(09:25):
there's sometimes where you do things so you can build
infrastructures as well, you can get intelligence. There's a lot
of different things that come along with that. So I
think we have to be really careful as a nation
as to what we do cut well we don't cut.
And that's my take.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, what we've got to notice basically kinda slip the
tables on us is the same way we did containment
on the Soviet Union. Containment and one they have slipped
the tables on us, and they're doing containment on us
in many ways. And that's around the globe of notice
is Greenland. We've got to play that in. They have
been approaching Greenland and getting contracts for minerals and mining,
(10:01):
and that is a prize because it is so natural
a resource. And that could be a reason why you
see the interest by the US new administration in Greenland.
That's largely under reported what China is up to there
to include ports and access. Uh, So that's got to
be recognized. And if I could, I wanted, I wanted
to shift gears, just say one thing about Taiwan.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Uh, you got to get but yeah, just just real quick.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Well, and that continues to be the prize for two reasons.
They want, uh, the prestige of reuniting China and they
want the chips. That's the prize that will dominate global
information technology. Tony. Now, before we leave, we got to
talk about the Mid East and what's going on there
with you.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I don't have time to do it today. We'll have
to do that though next segment, maybe a couple of
weeks if that's okay okay.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Iran has threatened h a preemptive attacks on it, so
I would keep a close eye on the Mid East
and what's unfolded there as US as apparent prepositioning some
forces over there, and we have warned Aranians to stop
their nuclear weapons program. But they have accelerated the development
of those materials. It appears.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Always great Intel appreciate the time, Ed.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Thanks, okay, thank you, Tony, thank you to the listeners.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
All Right, Ed gall ran here on news radio. Weaight
for the whas
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