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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back our number two. Ed's going to join me
in a minute, but we're both going to sit here
along with you and listen to a story from Vietnam.
This is first person. It's six minutes long. It's worth
every second. So if in your car, don't get out,
just sit there and enjoy this one. This is a
story about Vietnam on news radio eight forty WHS.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I said, we need to at least take out a
fighting position. I says, I just don't feel comfortable about
tonight because I just have a feeling we may need
some chopper support before you know, before daylight. They was
complaining about it. Should we or should we not dig
a fighting position? And I said, you guys, do whatever
you want to do. And I turned to my two
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I referred to them as cowboys. The Vietnamese issued each
of us to individuals, bodyguards, comfort, foxhold, diggers, whatever that
I needed. And I told my two cowboys, I said,
you dig a you dig a you dig a hole
bigg and for the three of us and the others
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didn't on a hold, that's fine. And so I fell
off the side of the hill and I had just
blown a.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
L Z.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And I heard an old hollow thump, and it was thump, thump, thump,
and I said, oh, that don't sound good. That sounds
like and then I heard three more, three more and
three more, and I said, there are twelve mortars in
the air. And I said, I bet they've got this
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hill z road. So I see this big tree and
so I go face first, body first into the tree,
and I said, you know, if I'm gonna get strapped
normal and get it in the back and uh. So
I started counting the impacts and I counted twelve. You know,
I'm thinking I didn't feel the sting, so you know,
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if I've got tripping rod, it's not much. So I
knew it was very very close. So I said, you know,
I'm gonna get a walk over and talk to Battanian commander,
Lieutenant Green about being in my foxhw And I walked
over and one of the twelve rounds had gone in
that fox hole hit Lieutenant Green in the chest and uh,
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the battalion commander and its rt O was uh was
killed the concussion, and so I g I fortunately got
a chopper in and I told him, I said, rang
just as much ammo as you can. And I need
to get you know, hump Lieutenant Humphreys, Sergeant Dyke's the
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battalion commander's body, Lieutenant Green's body out and we were
fortunate enough to do that, and that was the last
chopper at the battle started, and it was just they
attempted to breach the hill, you know, massive wave after
wave after wave, and our Vietnamese rangers fodem Off, fadem Off,
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and the battle four days and four nights, and about
two o'clock in the morning on day four, I'm crawling
around the perimeter trying to readjust ammunition and you know,
treat that wounded the best I can. The battalion surgeon
and I were the only two that was wounded, and
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so we were taking care of the ones that we
could that seriously wounded and come to the realization that
we were out of our own right. We abused everything
that we had and it was like two o'clock in
the morning. I remember leaning up against a tree. You
know what I'm saying, Now, the next wave, it's going
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to be hand to hand combat, and our chances of
seeing the sun rise is very small, and a very quiet,
trankful beaning come over me. You know, it's you know, lord,
if you want me take me, I, Uh, I'm not ready. Uh.
I got a wife and two kids at home, and UH,
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but I understand, I mean battle's battle. But the next
wave never come. Apparently we had beaten them down to
the point that they were out of ammunition also, and
so that morning, right after sunrise, we was given the
UH order to withdraw and I had approximately eight eight
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kilometers or kilometers to uh uh to move and again
we were completely out of ammunition. But fortunately and I
asked for air support UH to escort us off the hill,
and I was told that uh, you know, there was
no no support available because we wasn't in direct contact
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and we had troops in direct contact. So all the
support was going uh and rightly so to the ones
that was in indirect contact. But UH, the people that
had been supporting me over the four days and four
nights UH come up on the radio and said, you know,
if we get a diverted mission, you know, give a
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certant location and and we'll do the best we can
to support you. And they did. We had enough diverted
missions that they pretty much leap frogged me off of
the off of the hell the UH helicopter gunships would
cover our flanks, and we'd got a few fast movers
that had got missions diverted, and theygn only stay on
station but ten to fifteen minutes, and they didn't wanna
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go back to Thailand with a belly full of bombs,
so they would literally blow me a uh a bomb
crater and and we would go from crater to crater,
and and we got to the l Z and got
everyone in metavaked and UH. The next day I went
over to the Vietnamese hospital and to get a head count,
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and we had forty one uh walking wound. It survived
the entire old dere and UH. The only two people
that wasn't wounded was the battalion surgeon of myself, and
we laughed about it after saying, you know, how did
we survive? You know, because we were everywhere, and I
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remember him saying, well, well, Trunkshield Littel, we never stayed
in one spot long enough to get hit. And so
I guess that was a good way of looking at it.
But very very fortunate the only two that wasn't wounded.
So I went up on the hill with four hundred
and seventy three and for advisors and myself and forty
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one walking wounded come off of the hill four days later.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
There you go. That is Wednesday's hero. A first persons
story about holding a hill in Vietnam four hundred what
do you say for it? And seventy three and forty
one walking wounded survived the entire engagement. El Gal Ryan,
how are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Good?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Good?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Thank you for playing that. I want to thank al
Heart Radio, WHS Tony and Dwight for you featuring those
for the listeners here. If that doesn't strike a cord
and pull at your heartstrings, as as lucid and as calm,
cool and collected as that hero was, nothing will so
God bless him and those like him.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
A couple of things. When he said he was out
of AMMO, they've been fighting for four days, four days
and four nights. Continue with the assaults. They're out of AMMO.
And then you know, he says that a part of
the tranquill comes over and goes okay, well not panic,
but a tranquil feeling of okay, if this is it,
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this is it.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
He's in the zone, as we call in combat. He's
in the zone.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, Yes, Wednesday's Hero it's brought to you by horse soldiers. Bourbon.
It's really good bourbon, and it is. It was invented
and designed and browed and all that with the twelve
guys that went into Afghanistan in the first three weeks
of the engagement twenty something years ago. All right, ed,
(07:56):
we've got.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I want to get it. Yeah, get a pitch out
to my fellow Special Operators, Army, Special Forces Riding horses.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Riding horses. That movie is incredible. The guys that have
been in the studio and they were like, well, I say, well,
how close is it? He goes It's pretty close. But Hollywood, Hollywood,
hollywoods Hollywood. They're going to do Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Now what I got to get another piece out there.
They're from Fifth Group, otherwise known as the Legion Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
They want to be proud there. Fort Campbell, one of
the tribes of the Special Operations family. So a shout
out to the Fifth Group and the Legion.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Ed give it a real quick twenty seconds. Your credentials,
most people know them, but just so anybody that's tuned
in for the first time to hear you.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Go ahead, all right, well, I'm native Kentucky and we've
been farming in Kentucky for over one hundred years. I'm
a fifth generation farmer. I'm a career Combat Arms Navy
seal officer joined before there was a book in a
movie when President Reagan was rebuilding our great nation in
the Service Army ranger as well. Served at seven sealed
teams in units all over the world on behalf of
our great nation. It was an honor and a privilege
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to do that. And it's going to be back on
the farm. Thank you for having me in here this morning.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
All right, ed, We'll start with this and then you
can take it into direction that you like. But I
would like to talk about the peace deal that Trump
is brokeer. But we all know Hamas and the Palestinians.
This is my opinion that that's not going to last long.
It's really nice right now, but how long will it
before they get back to work comas.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I'd say probably while we're speaking here right now. But
to accurately characterize it, what we're up against is Palestine
and a moss. They're not a nation state with they
like generals, colonels, sergeants and such. So when there is
a piece deal that requires some military interaction. You're dealing
with factions subfractions already. We've heard reports, for instance, of
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faction fighting, just as you and I talked about about
ten days ago thereabouts that that would occur. What was
just a few days ago we were discussing that the
kerfluffles that are going to go with this, and so
you can anticipate that. Also factor in that in this
prisoner exchange, there's going to be about two thousand released prisoners,
many of them what you call harden true believers. They're
(10:05):
not going to give a hoot about a piece of
paper some folks signed in a far away country. They
really aren't, you know. The way they behave is going
to be based on other factors to come full circle.
Though we cannot overstate the strategic significance of this. There
will be those matters to deal with. There will be
their cache and weapons. Iran is going to continue to
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smuggle them in. In fact, recently Iran just caught smuggling
weapons over to the West Bank to try to start
some violence over there. So that twelve day war is
you and I talking agreed, It's a twelve thousand day war.
It's not going away but to come back to that,
the strategic importance of this cannot be overstated. There are
going to be some friction points. It will be dealt with.
(10:48):
Back to Palestine, it was wholly ill advised for nations
to recognize them as a state that without conditions to
your point of having them come to you know, conditions
that are agreeable and just give them. That was wholly
ill advised the way President Trump, and that YAHOO was
playing that out more strategically, pulling in the Arabs as
(11:11):
they had enlarging the Abraham Accords is hugely important. Right,
but we can't anticipate again not a nation state, there's
gonna be some kerfluffles. There's going to be folks that violated.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Your point is who's in charge? All right? I mean
that's that's there's there's five different groups that are in charge. Now.
With what you're describing to me, it makes it sound
even more incredible he got the deal done.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
That that would be an understatement, absolutely positively. And the
move and parts and to think that he went from
initially in Israel right over to Egypt to meet first
with the Arabs, you know, concretes that it indicates he
had buying up front, not when the piece of paper
was put in front of him. It was a men's
of game, underwater at night, blindfolded what they had to
do there, you know, just characterize it. It was to
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say it was difficult, what again would be an understatement.
So this is strategically hugely important.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Let me go off on another thing here. If we're
going to rebuild, if everyone is going to rebuild Gaza,
does that mean American troops on the ground there?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
It is.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
It's a moonscape, it is, So they're gonna have to
rebuild it. You're talking about bulldozing construction. All that is.
Israel can't do that by themselves. This is what this
is common sense and critical thinking to teaching me. Is
if they're going to rebuild the whole of Gaza, we're
involved in that, right. I mean there were a lot
of real estate agents in that room the other night. Okay,
(12:39):
So that tends to lead me to believe that we
are going to be involved. So that's going to be
a big talking point if we got boots on the
grounds right there.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yes, Well, the reports are open source reports that the
US is committing roughly two hundred troops to help navigate
this new agreement and the implementation of it, and the
confirmation that both sides are about and bout and so
forth and so on, back to a high level. As
the President's characterize, they're potentially, you know, the Rivi era
of the Mid East. Yeah, so just picture that, and
though with respect to the details of say, the construction
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companies and the real estate and so forth and so on,
leave that to the Arabs, and that will have a
much better outcome.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, they're pretty good head.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
What do Lawrence Arabia famously say, never do for the
Arabs what they can do for themselves. We should take
note of that, recognizing senior military officers study history, So
with respect to that, that's a that's a page out
of his book. We should take. So all that to say,
this is a great opportunity, not a challenge.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Right, Okay, So let's move to China. Do you want
to do that? And we'll take a short break and
we'll come back and we'll talk about China.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
You want to do that, Let's let's take a short break.
Because they are the hundred one thousand pound guerrilla in
the brim All right.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Ed Gil Ryan is with us here on News Radio
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s ed Gaal Ryan is with us for mel Galryan
Farms for a seal, former ranger, very knowledgeable individual. We
were going to talk about China right here, but we're
going to switch gears to Ukraine that that could be on.
(14:46):
You know, people are like, look, he got this done.
Is Trump going to go and try to get the
Ukraine deal done? What's your thoughts? H?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Absolutely suspectile pivot in a couple of things going on
in Ukraine. As we've watched things unfold, the the strategy
by Putin and Russia has clearly been not to attack
the military of Ukraine, but to defeat their will by
hitting their infrastructure as we get ready to go into
the winner. So nothing's off the table with Putin, and
they should be considered, you know, acts of you know,
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in terms of for lack of better term, war crimes,
but to finish that peace out. The key thing he's
watching is two years ago the survey said seventy five
percent of the Ukrainian said fight to the end, we
won our land back, and twenty five said let's find
some kind of peace deal. That has flipped to seventy five.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Now one give them the section they want, let's move on.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Well, some kind of terms not further specified, but that
is the fight that Putin's trying to win. However, the
game changer President Trump the administration has mentioned the possibility
of Tomahawk cruise missiles. Very short story on Tomahawk's precision,
deep strike buried tree top level with pinpoint accuracy, proven
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weapons system, very hard to defend and defeat. That would
be analogous to how we were able to bring the
Soviets to their needs as in Afghanistan we provide the
Afghani's the Stinger missile. Right, it could be the same effect,
and remember what that did that ultimately led to the
fall of the Soviet Union. Accordingly, I don't want to
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overstate it, but those Tomahawk cruise missiles could be more
than a game changer. They could literally threaten the poulation. Yes,
he does, and that's why you're going to see him
amp up as he normally does all his rhetoric. I'm
going to do this, I'm going to escalate and so
forth and so on, and try to intimidate. I don't
think that's going to work with President Trump and the administration.
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In fact, I know that won't work. So back to
what you said, I would anticipate. And oh, by the way,
the administration hasn't pivoted away from Ukraine. There's a lot
going on there, and there's been reports we've been helping
them with their deep strike targeting all open source won't
violate any you know, my class security clearances. So with
respect to that, the media has already put that out there,
But you can't anticipate that Tomahawk Cruz mental option.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
That's going to be one of the tools in the
toolbox that Trump uses. Absolutely, Okay, so does is putin
all there and does? Look? Trump scares the crap out
of everyone, and that's why he gets things done when
he gets Look, I knew when he got elected that
we weren't going to have a lot of wars. The
ones that were already existing were going to be it
because people are not they're scared of him because he
doesn't flinch, he doesn't blink, and he's willing to do it.
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Is putin not scared of him, but he realizes that, right.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah, he realizes one. He's decisive. Remember when we talked
at length about the strikes in Iran, Yes, and I
said that is a game changer. You cannot overstate that
with respect to how that changed.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
That was how they got the deal done this week.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
That's a good point. I should have brought that in earlier, right, Sorry,
don Tom. What set the conditions for that deal was
to separate our Ran from Hisbala Huthi's and hamas and
then we got to give a lot of credit to
Israel who laid the groundwork for that. Then ultimately the
present act of decision. To your point, Putin fears the
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administration because of their decisive actions. They're unpredictable. They say
what they mean, they mean what they say. One other thing,
could I talk about the Secretary of War's recent speech
to the general officers.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Could Putin be bought? Does he have enough billions of dollars?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I wouldn't say bought, but he you can play game
theory with him because he likes his plush lifestyle, his palaces, yeah,
and power for that's right. He is not an inchu
law you know, to go, you know, go to the afterwards.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
This is not a religious thing with him, it's a
money thing. It's a lifestyle.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, he's going to do a calculation. But remember he's
on the path rebuilding the former Soviet Union. But this
could be interrupted similar to how again the Soviets were
defeated in Afghanistan, which contributed to the fall of the
Soviet Union. Hugely important with respect to that.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Does anybody else besides Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Well, that remains to be seen. His probing that's occurred,
you know across Europe has been to do two things.
Test and measure the actual defense capabilities of those nations.
The other thing is test their will. And when President
Trump said shoot him down to the NATO countries, that
was a message. I'm anxious to see if a NATO
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country gets that opportunity.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
We are the greatest fighting force in the history of
man in all volunteer. Putin's army is not that they
are not volunteers, that.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Is correct, and they have called up yet another draft.
And to that point, that's also what contributed to the
fall of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan because the mounting
casualties that they couldn't cover up any.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Fatigue back home was not good.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
That's exactly right. So finally there was a sentiment there,
but it was now we got to remember that was
a bit different Putin war. That's a police state rules
with an iron hand. It was a different construct then.
So the deep strike Tomahawk capability will put it right
on the front page of every community in Russia.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
As evil as Putin is, we are better off with
him in charge.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I wouldn't say that, no, I wouldn't necessarily say that
at all. It would remain to be seen what Russia
would look like post.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Putin's that's the sixty minute kazillion dollar question.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Yes, but we do know this. He's a destabilizing factor
all over the world. And the other thing that goes
largely unreported, and again I'm going to talk unclassified, is
they're kentuckting a massive sabotage campaign across Europe using i'm
gonna say uber not meaning vehicles literally, but using criminal
syndicates to just go out and market Hey, could you
do this for us? Could you do this for us?
Could you do this for us? So things are going
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on in addition to the black fleet that's tearing up
undersea cables that largely carries the bulk of global communications
all over the world, and so they're involved in in
a whole litany of grey zone warfare.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I'm gonna throw a curveball at you. How happy are
our enemies that they see video like those individuals that
were protesting the new U of L president then with
that banner that globalize Intofada and they're wearing the Palestinian
dress and all that, they have to laugh, right like
they have to. Our enemies have to say we got
their own people going against them.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Well, our enemies more than that never underestimate. Things are
not always what they seem. It's interesting when you find
out and they arrest some of the protesters say up,
Eric David League schools or a given demonstration, to find
out they're not from there. They seem to have an
interesting background, and where did that money come from? Rest assured,
Our enemies are thinking enemies. They will fund disruption in
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order to continue to divide us. They want to send
a stalemate, not passing budgets, not advancing our policies, and
so for.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
To me, that's the big thing that people don't believe.
That's true. That is absolutely okay, okay, Ed gall Ryan
is going to continue here. We'll move to China next.
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whas continuing our international discussion with Ed Gallerand from Galleran
Farms from a ranger Firmer Seal, very good source for us.
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We've covered Ukraine, We've covered the Middle East. We are
moving to China right now, and that is with all
everything else going on. The Chinese they are dancing in
the aisle saying, no one's got eyes on us, but
we kind of do.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
We haven't taken an of off them, especially with this administration,
and we a moment ago we ran out of a time.
I don't want to go back to the recent Secretary
of War's address to the generals. That address wasn't just
to that room, it was to two other audiences, if
not three, our adversaries. So never mind the quibbling and
the emotional outcry. What he articulated that what he wanted
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to make our enemies understand is we will be a
formidable adversary and we are going back to deterrence, and
if deterrence fails, we will defeat them.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
That was clear Edwin. I didn't realize it was on TV.
Like I walked in and it was on every channel
on our we have ten channels here, and I was like, oh,
I know why he's doing that. He sent in a
message for sure, so China.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
To include China.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
So remember we're at just three points on China. They're
building a Pentagon ten times as large as hours of
just about thirty miles outside Beijing under ground that is
servive ti mentional and nuclear strike.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
And at one point the Pentagon was the biggest building
in the United States at one.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Well one in the world. Is I reall as a monster? Oh,
by the way, you can get lost in there very easy,
But we don't know that. Not that that happen to me,
but I know some guys.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Sounds like it happened to you.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I know some guys got lost there.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
But there was a story on sixty minutes. You texted
me Sunday, what was the story? I missed it on
sixty minutes CBS.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Sixty minutes in their A bloc they highlighted the penetration
of a small town, Littleton, Massachusetts, public utilities, infrastructure, their power,
in their water, and how China this little roughly ten
thousand person town, not unlike you know, probably rural towns
right here in Kentucky, Indiana listen area. And they basically
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got themselves inside, took no further action, but remained passive
like a user, so they could go and manipulate it.
What it was is it highlighted very eloquently the threat
that we face as that this would be another to
do that the tip of the iceberg, to position themselves
to interrupt our infrastructure in the event of hostile actions.
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Are alternatively that they just want to do disruption operations.
So if you take that to a higher level, and
that happened across the United States, and let's go back
to salt type.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Thing, shut off the power to the eastern seaboard, is
that what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
You would just say the whole US interrupt everything, everything
that's on the grid. And this is what we.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Did with that ran two decades ago, when we slowed
their screws down, right, we screwed up their nuclear.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Yeah they're centrifugees, yes, well, and again the reports are
and again I'm going to talk unclassified, it actually caused
them to spin out of control.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Got right.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
So all that to say, it's a disruption operation, that's
part of if you want to if folks want to
do some quick research, Salt typhoon, we're over the past
two decades and a half, China has infiltrated massively global
telecommunications and IT systems to position themselves passively to interrupt,
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disrupt and bring Imagine if you just you know, you
just name the entire parts of your life that are
touched by the grid, so to speak, and they can
shut it down from your utilities all the way over,
medical care, everything, kiss that would be an understatement, you know,
we would cast us into darkness for lack of a
better term.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Uh, if they did it thirty years ago, it's less
than what it is today. Everything is what we're sitting
in today right now.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Well, they reports are they started their deliberate campaign over
two decadatees go to rebuild the China of centuries ago,
and it's been a long term play and they have
made great strides in the previous administration to further penetrate here.
And just think of the balloon, for the love of Pete,
you know, the balloon. It overflew the United It was
a drive, it was as a drone.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
So back toward China is the other couple of things
we need to remember. We are only how many months
from twenty twenty seven when.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
That was their target date and there's Taiwan.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
There's two periods that are favorable. Speaking from Oh, by
the way, happy two hundred and fiftieth anniversary the US Navy, Amen,
God bless him. Yep, he's grey and underway. So with
respect to that, there's two periods during the year that
it's that it's possible to do an amphibious land. It's
roughly April May and then October November, where the sea
states and the weather allows for that. We are only
(27:07):
what how many months away from twenty twenty seven, and
then if you were to make April May as the
mark on the wall with fifteen sixteen months away, seventeen
you know thereabouts, you know we're in October, and so
you know more or less, you know, right around the corner,
less than eighteen months away. We're in the window of
when Chi says we need to be ready to take Taiwan.
(27:27):
What's the prize with Taiwan, the prestige of reuniting China
to solidify you know, his historic place in Chinese leadership
and you know, basically bring his people together. He's going
to use that information operation and the chips because the
Manhattan Project of our era is the ai Race.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
What hasn't those The Taiwanese have said the second they
hit the beach, we're blowing. We have all this, We're
blowing every chip building we have. You're not getting them. Well,
of course, it'll take you ten years to re build it.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
The enemies that think an enemy, maybe they do something
to disrupt that.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
So what is China's weakness? We hear all day long
Condor's sixty four, two hundred and fifty pounds, and they're
doing this anonomy. That's their weakness.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Economy is their weakness. The economies. They have to have
a market. So the president and the administration are playing
chess with respect to that card. As we've talked about here, diplomatic, informational, military,
and economic are the four pillars of national power. Economic
is by far the trump cart. You know, play on
words there so speak and remember that's how we defeated
(28:32):
the Soviet Union. That's how President Reagan did. We didn't
beat them in a battle.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
They remind me so much, and that I think their
weakness is their ego. They remind me of Japan in
nineteen thirty in the late nineteen thirties, they just thought
they were smarter and better than everyone else, and that
their ego fed to their fall. I think Chinese, because
the Chinese are their culture is five thousand years old.
They're like you people have been around for two hundred years.
(28:58):
We don't worry about you. That that could their weakness.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Well, don't underestimate their successes. As we found out daily
another China Chinese spid did this, another one did that,
and so forth and so on. What they've done in
our own backyard, you know, spike to them.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
How many council members and people in power that they
have put that they slipped in twenty years ago that
have been voted into office.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
And staff members and so forth. So they oh, yeah,
they put peace for people for what we call placement
and access, so everything wouldn't be a hostile act initially,
but their positioning people and capabilities back to us talking
about how they penetrated the infrastructure that little town in Massachusetts.
Extrapolate that at a higher level. And then the other
(29:42):
key thing I wanted to talk about, in addition to
their Pentagon underground ten times because ours, they have constructed
makeshift US carriers in their desert target ranges to hit
them with, and they're practicing with hypersonic missiles, and they
now have two aircraft carriers and they're starting to deploy
them farther out to see that is offensive power projection.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Right, and they want that area. How much of America
does China own?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
That's a good question. I wouldn't have that answer, but
i'd say too much, if any, because you've heard I
live at that. I've gone on the record here. The
Chinese aren't buying farmland to get rich. The profit margins
are no right.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, they're buying land around a basis and everywhere else,
but they own businesses and buildings and all kinds of
I don't know how much China owns of America.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
That that's a great question. There's been some legislation to
block that thousand percent in agreement. It's ill advised for
us to give up that real estate to an adversary
of that nature. So with respect to that, that's a
great question, Tony.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Wow, it's a lot. We've covered a lot in the
last hour. Yes, I'm a little overwhelmed. I'm trying to
focus on one or two. But right now, those are
three situations the Middle East, Ukraine and China. Right now,
if you're a smart person, you're you're just scared of Well,
I think we got it handled. But man, the future
(31:03):
is a little unsteady here.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
But for the fact the decisive actions by the US
we have to celebrate, to include the recent action there
in Palestine's well it's not in state, but Gaza, in
the Palestinians and Hamas. That's hugely significant, farther than just
the geography right there, to include with the Arabs. So
with respect to that, the administration is going to continue
(31:25):
to deal with these matters and they're not taking their
eye off the ball the other things. Remember, I don't
want to pop you in Dwight's bubble here, but you
don't hear about everything. The President and his staff are
immersed in classical information. They're getting those briefings. They know
things that are never said in public and out to
the media. So there is a close scrutiny of our
adversaries and what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
The rules of engagement have changed under this administration.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
That has decisive action is the flavor of the week
back to the most with a six to hit on
one of the fast boats that heretofore it was yesterday,
Yes that we had been printed doing You might recall
I was last commanding officer of the Seal Unit based
in the Canal Zone and we were still there and
I conducted operations in support of our federal agency partners
all over Central and South America, and we were constrained
(32:11):
with the ability to you know, strike.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
They're going to continue to how many boats? It's numbers.
I don't think how many boats are they going to
continue to do that before they figure out another way
to get it in well?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
And again, it's a thinking in a man. Historically they've
used the airplanes, they've used ships, not just fast boats.
They've used commercial vessels, and they've come by land, and
they use semi subversibles and so for and so on.
So they're a thinking enemy.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Wait a minute, we got We've got about a minute here.
What is you brought a bag? It says Kentucky, proud
on it. I don't know what's in the bag. I'm
kind of scared, John Olden or what's in the bag?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
But do we have a drum roll? Is there a
drum roll? All? Right? By the power investing to me,
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Speaker 1 (33:13):
Okay, all right, yeah, John Allison, get my hat there
standing there? You go? All right? All right? Ed, Thank
you for coming in and sharing your information with us.
You're always a valuable tool for us. And and keep
doing what you do and go America.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Thanks for having me, Thank you for your tribute to
the heroes. And again, happy birth of US Navy two
hundred and fifty years at sea.
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Welcome back our number two. Ed's going to join me
in a minute, but we're both going to sit here
along with you and listen to a story from Vietnam.
This is first person. It's six minutes long. It's worth
every second. So if in your car, don't get out,
just sit there and enjoy this one. This is a
story about Vietnam on news radio eight forty WHS.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I said, we need to at least take out a
fighting position. I says, I just don't feel comfortable about
tonight because I just have a feeling we may need
some chopper support before you know, before daylight. They was
complaining about it. Should we or should we not dig
a fighting position? And I said, you guys, do whatever
you want to do. And I turned to my two
(00:41):
I referred to them as cowboys. The Vietnamese issued each
of us to individuals, bodyguards, comfort, foxhold, diggers, whatever that
I needed. And I told my two cowboys, I said,
you dig a you dig a you dig a hole
bigg and for the three of us and the others
(01:02):
didn't on a hold, that's fine. And so I fell
off the side of the hill and I had just
blown a.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
L Z.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And I heard an old hollow thump, and it was thump, thump, thump,
and I said, oh, that don't sound good. That sounds
like and then I heard three more, three more and
three more, and I said, there are twelve mortars in
the air. And I said, I bet they've got this
(01:33):
hill z road. So I see this big tree and
so I go face first, body first into the tree,
and I said, you know, if I'm gonna get strapped
normal and get it in the back and uh. So
I started counting the impacts and I counted twelve. You know,
I'm thinking I didn't feel the sting, so you know,
(01:53):
if I've got tripping rod, it's not much. So I
knew it was very very close. So I said, you know,
I'm gonna get a walk over and talk to Battanian commander,
Lieutenant Green about being in my foxhw And I walked
over and one of the twelve rounds had gone in
that fox hole hit Lieutenant Green in the chest and uh,
(02:14):
the battalion commander and its rt O was uh was
killed the concussion, and so I g I fortunately got
a chopper in and I told him, I said, rang
just as much ammo as you can. And I need
to get you know, hump Lieutenant Humphreys, Sergeant Dyke's the
(02:34):
battalion commander's body, Lieutenant Green's body out and we were
fortunate enough to do that, and that was the last
chopper at the battle started, and it was just they
attempted to breach the hill, you know, massive wave after
wave after wave, and our Vietnamese rangers fodem Off, fadem Off,
(02:59):
and the battle four days and four nights, and about
two o'clock in the morning on day four, I'm crawling
around the perimeter trying to readjust ammunition and you know,
treat that wounded the best I can. The battalion surgeon
and I were the only two that was wounded, and
(03:21):
so we were taking care of the ones that we
could that seriously wounded and come to the realization that
we were out of our own right. We abused everything
that we had and it was like two o'clock in
the morning. I remember leaning up against a tree. You
know what I'm saying, Now, the next wave, it's going
(03:43):
to be hand to hand combat, and our chances of
seeing the sun rise is very small, and a very quiet,
trankful beaning come over me. You know, it's you know, lord,
if you want me take me, I, Uh, I'm not ready. Uh.
I got a wife and two kids at home, and UH,
(04:04):
but I understand, I mean battle's battle. But the next
wave never come. Apparently we had beaten them down to
the point that they were out of ammunition also, and
so that morning, right after sunrise, we was given the
UH order to withdraw and I had approximately eight eight
(04:27):
kilometers or kilometers to uh uh to move and again
we were completely out of ammunition. But fortunately and I
asked for air support UH to escort us off the hill,
and I was told that uh, you know, there was
no no support available because we wasn't in direct contact
(04:48):
and we had troops in direct contact. So all the
support was going uh and rightly so to the ones
that was in indirect contact. But UH, the people that
had been supporting me over the four days and four
nights UH come up on the radio and said, you know,
if we get a diverted mission, you know, give a
(05:08):
certant location and and we'll do the best we can
to support you. And they did. We had enough diverted
missions that they pretty much leap frogged me off of
the off of the hell the UH helicopter gunships would
cover our flanks, and we'd got a few fast movers
that had got missions diverted, and theygn only stay on
station but ten to fifteen minutes, and they didn't wanna
(05:30):
go back to Thailand with a belly full of bombs,
so they would literally blow me a uh a bomb
crater and and we would go from crater to crater,
and and we got to the l Z and got
everyone in metavaked and UH. The next day I went
over to the Vietnamese hospital and to get a head count,
(05:51):
and we had forty one uh walking wound. It survived
the entire old dere and UH. The only two people
that wasn't wounded was the battalion surgeon of myself, and
we laughed about it after saying, you know, how did
we survive? You know, because we were everywhere, and I
(06:11):
remember him saying, well, well, Trunkshield Littel, we never stayed
in one spot long enough to get hit. And so
I guess that was a good way of looking at it.
But very very fortunate the only two that wasn't wounded.
So I went up on the hill with four hundred
and seventy three and for advisors and myself and forty
(06:32):
one walking wounded come off of the hill four days later.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
There you go. That is Wednesday's hero. A first persons
story about holding a hill in Vietnam four hundred what
do you say for it? And seventy three and forty
one walking wounded survived the entire engagement. El Gal Ryan,
how are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Good?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Good?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Thank you for playing that. I want to thank al
Heart Radio, WHS Tony and Dwight for you featuring those
for the listeners here. If that doesn't strike a cord
and pull at your heartstrings, as as lucid and as calm,
cool and collected as that hero was, nothing will so
God bless him and those like him.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
A couple of things. When he said he was out
of AMMO, they've been fighting for four days, four days
and four nights. Continue with the assaults. They're out of AMMO.
And then you know, he says that a part of
the tranquill comes over and goes okay, well not panic,
but a tranquil feeling of okay, if this is it,
(07:32):
this is it.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
He's in the zone, as we call in combat. He's
in the zone.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, Yes, Wednesday's Hero it's brought to you by horse soldiers. Bourbon.
It's really good bourbon, and it is. It was invented
and designed and browed and all that with the twelve
guys that went into Afghanistan in the first three weeks
of the engagement twenty something years ago. All right, ed,
(07:56):
we've got.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I want to get it. Yeah, get a pitch out
to my fellow Special Operators, Army, Special Forces Riding horses.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Riding horses. That movie is incredible. The guys that have
been in the studio and they were like, well, I say, well,
how close is it? He goes It's pretty close. But Hollywood, Hollywood,
hollywoods Hollywood. They're going to do Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Now what I got to get another piece out there.
They're from Fifth Group, otherwise known as the Legion Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
They want to be proud there. Fort Campbell, one of
the tribes of the Special Operations family. So a shout
out to the Fifth Group and the Legion.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Ed give it a real quick twenty seconds. Your credentials,
most people know them, but just so anybody that's tuned
in for the first time to hear you.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Go ahead, all right, well, I'm native Kentucky and we've
been farming in Kentucky for over one hundred years. I'm
a fifth generation farmer. I'm a career Combat Arms Navy
seal officer joined before there was a book in a
movie when President Reagan was rebuilding our great nation in
the Service Army ranger as well. Served at seven sealed
teams in units all over the world on behalf of
our great nation. It was an honor and a privilege
(08:57):
to do that. And it's going to be back on
the farm. Thank you for having me in here this morning.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
All right, ed, We'll start with this and then you
can take it into direction that you like. But I
would like to talk about the peace deal that Trump
is brokeer. But we all know Hamas and the Palestinians.
This is my opinion that that's not going to last long.
It's really nice right now, but how long will it
before they get back to work comas.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I'd say probably while we're speaking here right now. But
to accurately characterize it, what we're up against is Palestine
and a moss. They're not a nation state with they
like generals, colonels, sergeants and such. So when there is
a piece deal that requires some military interaction. You're dealing
with factions subfractions already. We've heard reports, for instance, of
(09:43):
faction fighting, just as you and I talked about about
ten days ago thereabouts that that would occur. What was
just a few days ago we were discussing that the
kerfluffles that are going to go with this, and so
you can anticipate that. Also factor in that in this
prisoner exchange, there's going to be about two thousand released prisoners,
many of them what you call harden true believers. They're
(10:05):
not going to give a hoot about a piece of
paper some folks signed in a far away country. They
really aren't, you know. The way they behave is going
to be based on other factors to come full circle.
Though we cannot overstate the strategic significance of this. There
will be those matters to deal with. There will be
their cache and weapons. Iran is going to continue to
(10:27):
smuggle them in. In fact, recently Iran just caught smuggling
weapons over to the West Bank to try to start
some violence over there. So that twelve day war is
you and I talking agreed, It's a twelve thousand day war.
It's not going away but to come back to that,
the strategic importance of this cannot be overstated. There are
going to be some friction points. It will be dealt with.
(10:48):
Back to Palestine, it was wholly ill advised for nations
to recognize them as a state that without conditions to
your point of having them come to you know, conditions
that are agreeable and just give them. That was wholly
ill advised the way President Trump, and that YAHOO was
playing that out more strategically, pulling in the Arabs as
(11:11):
they had enlarging the Abraham Accords is hugely important. Right,
but we can't anticipate again not a nation state, there's
gonna be some kerfluffles. There's going to be folks that violated.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Your point is who's in charge? All right? I mean
that's that's there's there's five different groups that are in charge. Now.
With what you're describing to me, it makes it sound
even more incredible he got the deal done.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
That that would be an understatement, absolutely positively. And the
move and parts and to think that he went from
initially in Israel right over to Egypt to meet first
with the Arabs, you know, concretes that it indicates he
had buying up front, not when the piece of paper
was put in front of him. It was a men's
of game, underwater at night, blindfolded what they had to
do there, you know, just characterize it. It was to
(11:56):
say it was difficult, what again would be an understatement.
So this is strategically hugely important.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Let me go off on another thing here. If we're
going to rebuild, if everyone is going to rebuild Gaza,
does that mean American troops on the ground there?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
It is.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
It's a moonscape, it is, So they're gonna have to
rebuild it. You're talking about bulldozing construction. All that is.
Israel can't do that by themselves. This is what this
is common sense and critical thinking to teaching me. Is
if they're going to rebuild the whole of Gaza, we're
involved in that, right. I mean there were a lot
of real estate agents in that room the other night. Okay,
(12:39):
So that tends to lead me to believe that we
are going to be involved. So that's going to be
a big talking point if we got boots on the
grounds right there.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yes, Well, the reports are open source reports that the
US is committing roughly two hundred troops to help navigate
this new agreement and the implementation of it, and the
confirmation that both sides are about and bout and so
forth and so on, back to a high level. As
the President's characterize, they're potentially, you know, the Rivi era
of the Mid East. Yeah, so just picture that, and
though with respect to the details of say, the construction
(13:10):
companies and the real estate and so forth and so on,
leave that to the Arabs, and that will have a
much better outcome.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, they're pretty good head.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
What do Lawrence Arabia famously say, never do for the
Arabs what they can do for themselves. We should take
note of that, recognizing senior military officers study history, So
with respect to that, that's a that's a page out
of his book. We should take. So all that to say,
this is a great opportunity, not a challenge.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Right, Okay, So let's move to China. Do you want
to do that? And we'll take a short break and
we'll come back and we'll talk about China.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
You want to do that, Let's let's take a short break.
Because they are the hundred one thousand pound guerrilla in
the brim All right.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Ed Gil Ryan is with us here on News Radio
eight forty w h as Steinfest is this weekend and
we will talk a little bit. We're going to do
a yodeling contest. You know you can't ed, you can't?
Can you not a lick?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Everybody afthleic.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yoldel uh. So we are going to do a yolding
contest a little bit later with that, but stick around.
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we are back News Radio eight forty w h A
s ed Gaal Ryan is with us for mel Galryan
Farms for a seal, former ranger, very knowledgeable individual. We
were going to talk about China right here, but we're
going to switch gears to Ukraine that that could be on.
(14:46):
You know, people are like, look, he got this done.
Is Trump going to go and try to get the
Ukraine deal done? What's your thoughts? H?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Absolutely suspectile pivot in a couple of things going on
in Ukraine. As we've watched things unfold, the the strategy
by Putin and Russia has clearly been not to attack
the military of Ukraine, but to defeat their will by
hitting their infrastructure as we get ready to go into
the winner. So nothing's off the table with Putin, and
they should be considered, you know, acts of you know,
(15:16):
in terms of for lack of better term, war crimes,
but to finish that peace out. The key thing he's
watching is two years ago the survey said seventy five
percent of the Ukrainian said fight to the end, we
won our land back, and twenty five said let's find
some kind of peace deal. That has flipped to seventy five.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Now one give them the section they want, let's move on.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Well, some kind of terms not further specified, but that
is the fight that Putin's trying to win. However, the
game changer President Trump the administration has mentioned the possibility
of Tomahawk cruise missiles. Very short story on Tomahawk's precision,
deep strike buried tree top level with pinpoint accuracy, proven
(15:59):
weapons system, very hard to defend and defeat. That would
be analogous to how we were able to bring the
Soviets to their needs as in Afghanistan we provide the
Afghani's the Stinger missile. Right, it could be the same effect,
and remember what that did that ultimately led to the
fall of the Soviet Union. Accordingly, I don't want to
(16:22):
overstate it, but those Tomahawk cruise missiles could be more
than a game changer. They could literally threaten the poulation. Yes,
he does, and that's why you're going to see him
amp up as he normally does all his rhetoric. I'm
going to do this, I'm going to escalate and so
forth and so on, and try to intimidate. I don't
think that's going to work with President Trump and the administration.
(16:44):
In fact, I know that won't work. So back to
what you said, I would anticipate. And oh, by the way,
the administration hasn't pivoted away from Ukraine. There's a lot
going on there, and there's been reports we've been helping
them with their deep strike targeting all open source won't
violate any you know, my class security clearances. So with
respect to that, the media has already put that out there,
But you can't anticipate that Tomahawk Cruz mental option.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
That's going to be one of the tools in the
toolbox that Trump uses. Absolutely, Okay, so does is putin
all there and does? Look? Trump scares the crap out
of everyone, and that's why he gets things done when
he gets Look, I knew when he got elected that
we weren't going to have a lot of wars. The
ones that were already existing were going to be it
because people are not they're scared of him because he
doesn't flinch, he doesn't blink, and he's willing to do it.
(17:31):
Is putin not scared of him, but he realizes that, right.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah, he realizes one. He's decisive. Remember when we talked
at length about the strikes in Iran, Yes, and I
said that is a game changer. You cannot overstate that
with respect to how that changed.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
That was how they got the deal done this week.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
That's a good point. I should have brought that in earlier, right, Sorry,
don Tom. What set the conditions for that deal was
to separate our Ran from Hisbala Huthi's and hamas and
then we got to give a lot of credit to
Israel who laid the groundwork for that. Then ultimately the
present act of decision. To your point, Putin fears the
(18:10):
administration because of their decisive actions. They're unpredictable. They say
what they mean, they mean what they say. One other thing,
could I talk about the Secretary of War's recent speech
to the general officers.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Could Putin be bought? Does he have enough billions of dollars?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I wouldn't say bought, but he you can play game
theory with him because he likes his plush lifestyle, his palaces, yeah,
and power for that's right. He is not an inchu
law you know, to go, you know, go to the afterwards.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
This is not a religious thing with him, it's a
money thing. It's a lifestyle.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, he's going to do a calculation. But remember he's
on the path rebuilding the former Soviet Union. But this
could be interrupted similar to how again the Soviets were
defeated in Afghanistan, which contributed to the fall of the
Soviet Union. Hugely important with respect to that.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Does anybody else besides Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Well, that remains to be seen. His probing that's occurred,
you know across Europe has been to do two things.
Test and measure the actual defense capabilities of those nations.
The other thing is test their will. And when President
Trump said shoot him down to the NATO countries, that
was a message. I'm anxious to see if a NATO
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country gets that opportunity.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
We are the greatest fighting force in the history of
man in all volunteer. Putin's army is not that they
are not volunteers, that.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Is correct, and they have called up yet another draft.
And to that point, that's also what contributed to the
fall of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan because the mounting
casualties that they couldn't cover up any.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Fatigue back home was not good.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
That's exactly right. So finally there was a sentiment there,
but it was now we got to remember that was
a bit different Putin war. That's a police state rules
with an iron hand. It was a different construct then.
So the deep strike Tomahawk capability will put it right
on the front page of every community in Russia.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
As evil as Putin is, we are better off with
him in charge.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I wouldn't say that, no, I wouldn't necessarily say that
at all. It would remain to be seen what Russia
would look like post.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Putin's that's the sixty minute kazillion dollar question.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Yes, but we do know this. He's a destabilizing factor
all over the world. And the other thing that goes
largely unreported, and again I'm going to talk unclassified, is
they're kentuckting a massive sabotage campaign across Europe using i'm
gonna say uber not meaning vehicles literally, but using criminal
syndicates to just go out and market Hey, could you
do this for us? Could you do this for us?
Could you do this for us? So things are going
(20:37):
on in addition to the black fleet that's tearing up
undersea cables that largely carries the bulk of global communications
all over the world, and so they're involved in in
a whole litany of grey zone warfare.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I'm gonna throw a curveball at you. How happy are
our enemies that they see video like those individuals that
were protesting the new U of L president then with
that banner that globalize Intofada and they're wearing the Palestinian
dress and all that, they have to laugh, right like
they have to. Our enemies have to say we got
their own people going against them.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Well, our enemies more than that never underestimate. Things are
not always what they seem. It's interesting when you find
out and they arrest some of the protesters say up,
Eric David League schools or a given demonstration, to find
out they're not from there. They seem to have an
interesting background, and where did that money come from? Rest assured,
Our enemies are thinking enemies. They will fund disruption in
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order to continue to divide us. They want to send
a stalemate, not passing budgets, not advancing our policies, and
so for.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
To me, that's the big thing that people don't believe.
That's true. That is absolutely okay, okay, Ed gall Ryan
is going to continue here. We'll move to China next.
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whas continuing our international discussion with Ed Gallerand from Galleran
Farms from a ranger Firmer Seal, very good source for us.
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We've covered Ukraine, We've covered the Middle East. We are
moving to China right now, and that is with all
everything else going on. The Chinese they are dancing in
the aisle saying, no one's got eyes on us, but
we kind of do.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
We haven't taken an of off them, especially with this administration,
and we a moment ago we ran out of a time.
I don't want to go back to the recent Secretary
of War's address to the generals. That address wasn't just
to that room, it was to two other audiences, if
not three, our adversaries. So never mind the quibbling and
the emotional outcry. What he articulated that what he wanted
(23:02):
to make our enemies understand is we will be a
formidable adversary and we are going back to deterrence, and
if deterrence fails, we will defeat them.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
That was clear Edwin. I didn't realize it was on TV.
Like I walked in and it was on every channel
on our we have ten channels here, and I was like, oh,
I know why he's doing that. He sent in a
message for sure, so China.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
To include China.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
So remember we're at just three points on China. They're
building a Pentagon ten times as large as hours of
just about thirty miles outside Beijing under ground that is
servive ti mentional and nuclear strike.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
And at one point the Pentagon was the biggest building
in the United States at one.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Well one in the world. Is I reall as a monster? Oh,
by the way, you can get lost in there very easy,
But we don't know that. Not that that happen to me,
but I know some guys.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Sounds like it happened to you.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I know some guys got lost there.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
But there was a story on sixty minutes. You texted
me Sunday, what was the story? I missed it on
sixty minutes CBS.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Sixty minutes in their A bloc they highlighted the penetration
of a small town, Littleton, Massachusetts, public utilities, infrastructure, their power,
in their water, and how China this little roughly ten
thousand person town, not unlike you know, probably rural towns
right here in Kentucky, Indiana listen area. And they basically
(24:31):
got themselves inside, took no further action, but remained passive
like a user, so they could go and manipulate it.
What it was is it highlighted very eloquently the threat
that we face as that this would be another to
do that the tip of the iceberg, to position themselves
to interrupt our infrastructure in the event of hostile actions.
(24:54):
Are alternatively that they just want to do disruption operations.
So if you take that to a higher level, and
that happened across the United States, and let's go back
to salt type.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Thing, shut off the power to the eastern seaboard, is
that what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
You would just say the whole US interrupt everything, everything
that's on the grid. And this is what we.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Did with that ran two decades ago, when we slowed
their screws down, right, we screwed up their nuclear.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Yeah they're centrifugees, yes, well, and again the reports are
and again I'm going to talk unclassified, it actually caused
them to spin out of control.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Got right.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
So all that to say, it's a disruption operation, that's
part of if you want to if folks want to
do some quick research, Salt typhoon, we're over the past
two decades and a half, China has infiltrated massively global
telecommunications and IT systems to position themselves passively to interrupt,
(25:48):
disrupt and bring Imagine if you just you know, you
just name the entire parts of your life that are
touched by the grid, so to speak, and they can
shut it down from your utilities all the way over,
medical care, everything, kiss that would be an understatement, you know,
we would cast us into darkness for lack of a
better term.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Uh, if they did it thirty years ago, it's less
than what it is today. Everything is what we're sitting
in today right now.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Well, they reports are they started their deliberate campaign over
two decadatees go to rebuild the China of centuries ago,
and it's been a long term play and they have
made great strides in the previous administration to further penetrate here.
And just think of the balloon, for the love of Pete,
you know, the balloon. It overflew the United It was
a drive, it was as a drone.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
So back toward China is the other couple of things
we need to remember. We are only how many months
from twenty twenty seven when.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
That was their target date and there's Taiwan.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
There's two periods that are favorable. Speaking from Oh, by
the way, happy two hundred and fiftieth anniversary the US Navy, Amen,
God bless him. Yep, he's grey and underway. So with
respect to that, there's two periods during the year that
it's that it's possible to do an amphibious land. It's
roughly April May and then October November, where the sea
states and the weather allows for that. We are only
(27:07):
what how many months away from twenty twenty seven, and
then if you were to make April May as the
mark on the wall with fifteen sixteen months away, seventeen
you know thereabouts, you know we're in October, and so
you know more or less, you know, right around the corner,
less than eighteen months away. We're in the window of
when Chi says we need to be ready to take Taiwan.
(27:27):
What's the prize with Taiwan, the prestige of reuniting China
to solidify you know, his historic place in Chinese leadership
and you know, basically bring his people together. He's going
to use that information operation and the chips because the
Manhattan Project of our era is the ai Race.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
What hasn't those The Taiwanese have said the second they
hit the beach, we're blowing. We have all this, We're
blowing every chip building we have. You're not getting them. Well,
of course, it'll take you ten years to re build it.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
The enemies that think an enemy, maybe they do something
to disrupt that.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
So what is China's weakness? We hear all day long
Condor's sixty four, two hundred and fifty pounds, and they're
doing this anonomy. That's their weakness.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Economy is their weakness. The economies. They have to have
a market. So the president and the administration are playing
chess with respect to that card. As we've talked about here, diplomatic, informational, military,
and economic are the four pillars of national power. Economic
is by far the trump cart. You know, play on
words there so speak and remember that's how we defeated
(28:32):
the Soviet Union. That's how President Reagan did. We didn't
beat them in a battle.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
They remind me so much, and that I think their
weakness is their ego. They remind me of Japan in
nineteen thirty in the late nineteen thirties, they just thought
they were smarter and better than everyone else, and that
their ego fed to their fall. I think Chinese, because
the Chinese are their culture is five thousand years old.
They're like you people have been around for two hundred years.
(28:58):
We don't worry about you. That that could their weakness.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Well, don't underestimate their successes. As we found out daily
another China Chinese spid did this, another one did that,
and so forth and so on. What they've done in
our own backyard, you know, spike to them.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
How many council members and people in power that they
have put that they slipped in twenty years ago that
have been voted into office.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
And staff members and so forth. So they oh, yeah,
they put peace for people for what we call placement
and access, so everything wouldn't be a hostile act initially,
but their positioning people and capabilities back to us talking
about how they penetrated the infrastructure that little town in Massachusetts.
Extrapolate that at a higher level. And then the other
(29:42):
key thing I wanted to talk about, in addition to
their Pentagon underground ten times because ours, they have constructed
makeshift US carriers in their desert target ranges to hit
them with, and they're practicing with hypersonic missiles, and they
now have two aircraft carriers and they're starting to deploy
them farther out to see that is offensive power projection.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Right, and they want that area. How much of America
does China own?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
That's a good question. I wouldn't have that answer, but
i'd say too much, if any, because you've heard I
live at that. I've gone on the record here. The
Chinese aren't buying farmland to get rich. The profit margins
are no right.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, they're buying land around a basis and everywhere else,
but they own businesses and buildings and all kinds of
I don't know how much China owns of America.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
That that's a great question. There's been some legislation to
block that thousand percent in agreement. It's ill advised for
us to give up that real estate to an adversary
of that nature. So with respect to that, that's a
great question, Tony.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Wow, it's a lot. We've covered a lot in the
last hour. Yes, I'm a little overwhelmed. I'm trying to
focus on one or two. But right now, those are
three situations the Middle East, Ukraine and China. Right now,
if you're a smart person, you're you're just scared of Well,
I think we got it handled. But man, the future
(31:03):
is a little unsteady here.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
But for the fact the decisive actions by the US
we have to celebrate, to include the recent action there
in Palestine's well it's not in state, but Gaza, in
the Palestinians and Hamas. That's hugely significant, farther than just
the geography right there, to include with the Arabs. So
with respect to that, the administration is going to continue
(31:25):
to deal with these matters and they're not taking their
eye off the ball the other things. Remember, I don't
want to pop you in Dwight's bubble here, but you
don't hear about everything. The President and his staff are
immersed in classical information. They're getting those briefings. They know
things that are never said in public and out to
the media. So there is a close scrutiny of our
adversaries and what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
The rules of engagement have changed under this administration.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
That has decisive action is the flavor of the week
back to the most with a six to hit on
one of the fast boats that heretofore it was yesterday,
Yes that we had been printed doing You might recall
I was last commanding officer of the Seal Unit based
in the Canal Zone and we were still there and
I conducted operations in support of our federal agency partners
all over Central and South America, and we were constrained
(32:11):
with the ability to you know, strike.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
They're going to continue to how many boats? It's numbers.
I don't think how many boats are they going to
continue to do that before they figure out another way
to get it in well?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
And again, it's a thinking in a man. Historically they've
used the airplanes, they've used ships, not just fast boats.
They've used commercial vessels, and they've come by land, and
they use semi subversibles and so for and so on.
So they're a thinking enemy.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Wait a minute, we got We've got about a minute here.
What is you brought a bag? It says Kentucky, proud
on it. I don't know what's in the bag. I'm
kind of scared, John Olden or what's in the bag?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
But do we have a drum roll? Is there a
drum roll? All? Right? By the power investing to me,
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Speaker 1 (33:02):
So that's yours. John'll come. That's a good looking happy
that looks like I belong on a tractor.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Well yeah, we can sort that out too. Come on
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Speaker 1 (33:13):
Okay, all right, yeah, John Allison, get my hat there
standing there? You go? All right? All right? Ed, Thank
you for coming in and sharing your information with us.
You're always a valuable tool for us. And and keep
doing what you do and go America.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Thanks for having me, Thank you for your tribute to
the heroes. And again, happy birth of US Navy two
hundred and fifty years at sea.
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