Just How Vulnerable Is The US’s National Security?

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I don't know about you, but that was quite shocking when I believe it was death Secretary Austin had made reference in Millie as well that we had the most diverse military. Well, I've never heard of a diverse military winning a war. Have you well in Our president also has just revealed to the world that America is running low on ammunition. Well, I mean, there's nothing top secret anymore, I guess. Well, is this the leadership that is needed as we appear to be getting closer to a possible world war? Well? The senior Executive, Adam Roosevelt, is a government relations expert x US Army and former advisor to US government and UAE Royal family, and he presents a risk analysis Adam, Welcome to the show. Good to have you with us. Oh. Bill has a pleasure to be with you. Thank you for having having me on. Well, and let me tell you, being former Marine, it's hard for me to say X anything. You know, my brother was in the Army. You know, thank you for your service, your dedication, your commitment to liberty, and it's it's just hard for me to say X, maybe just because of my you know, Marine Corps background. So so forgive me if I refer to you as former Army as opposed to X. Okay, no problem, Bill, I'm okay with it. Okay, excellent, Well, tell us a little bit about your background, sure, Bill. For the viewers, in for the folks listening in. I started my career as a young seventeen year old US military entering the service. I deployed to Afghanistan two tours. I served in Operation and During Freedom and also in Operation Freedom Sentinel, which focuses on train advised Assist, and the first campaign was a counterinsurgency. My background was primarily working in the cyber security field, and then I got into the mission advisory working with some of the task Force to go after our primary enemy, which was al Qaeda. I then went over to homeland security, continuing my work and worked with the DHS Intelligence and Analysis and was happy to be involved in national security programs, mostly regarding homeland security. And then I ran for office in twenty sixteen in Arlington, which, as you know, the Pentagon area, and was advising defense contractors. Well, Adam, let's go back a minute seventeen years old. What motivates you to enter the military at seventeen. Well, I had a sense of duty and patriotism, and I think sometimes it sounds cliche, but at seventeen, when you sign up, there's only really one reason, and my reason was to serve the community. And my reason was to change the policies or put myself on the front lines so that the policies I could see them effectively being engaged with my body, mind skill set in the field. So I'm very committed to patriotism, love the country, will die for the country any day. Well, I you know, I get that. But you know, a kid's your age, and I'm not saying today. I mean this was you know, several years ago, to say the least. But even at that point, I mean, you're you're quite the rebel, You're your counter the culture. Even at that time when you entered the military. Well, I can tell you that. I guess now, ten years ago some time, this was a very different climate. Today's climate is not the same. Millennials are very different and their focus in terms of patriotism. But but during my time, as even a millennial today, it was still very patriotic. We still had the pledge of allegiance during that time. No longer do we have that. For we had a strong sense of patriotism even during those years years ago. Well, let's fast forward to today. We've got military having a hard time meeting their quotas the young kids, they seem to want little to do with the military, and I think that that's unfortunate on many levels, and I want you to address that and then I'll give you my two cents. If that's okay, I'd be happy to hear your thoughts on it. Bill. I'll tell you I just recently spoke on Sky News Arabia on this very topic and they brought on one star general to complement the conversation and we unpackaged it and we saw a narrative of culture that had been impacted due to these new policies of today. We had LGBTQ impacting the military, that impacted our readiness. That also impacted the ability for certain members to deploy if they were LGBTQ doing these channels. That's one aspect, but really also the youth today is not interested in serving in the US military. There has been a large call against military service. We even saw this with Harvard when students were effectively protesting military fundamentals in the advisory and curriculum, which we were taken aback by that. There seems a culture against US military service, and that's happening now with today's liberal policies entering into the school where we really need to recruit and retain to influence the future of national security in the best entrance of the United States. You know, with my marketing background being what it is, and I gotta tell you, I look at the universe and say, Okay, of the potential universe, the kids that could come into the military today, how many of them are you know repped up at about diversity. Well, I don't think many, at least on my side of the aisle. I come from the servative viewpoint, but I do think that diversity and inclusion can be a good topic as long as it's not overly politicized. There is no room for confusion in the US military, and I think exactly politicize the US military, it becomes an organization that is not fit to fight and serve out our purpose, which is to defend the American people, no matter what color you are, what religion you are. And politics has entered and infected the system, and now it's become a primary talking point versus focusing on what the real issue is, and that is defending the American people. Well, I served our country during Vietnam. I was an in country. I served at Camp Pendleton, California in the Joint Public Affairs Office. And I can tell you to your point, politics is what messed up the whole execution. In my humble opinion of how the war was conducted there in Vietnam, we say it was a conflict. Call it what you want. A lot of people died. Uh and and I believe, you know, the political perspective invaded the execution of the military plan to such a degree it compromised our abilium. Here we are, we're the number one fighting for us. No other time. I mean, there's you just can't even fathom that the United States would get their you know, their butts kicked by you know, by the North Vietnamese. Yeah, and you were you were there during a phase of war where things were a little more aggressive. I think you've got Vietnam, and we saw the fighting that happened there. We've got Iraq and Afghanistan, and you're absolutely right. These phases of war were cultures of mentalities, at least in the homeland, that either supported the war campaigns and the troops coming back home or did not. I think there were a lot of not support the Vietnam service members that went out there. Well, that's because see the media told the American people how they should feel about, you know, the soldiers coming back from Vietnam sadly, and this is what's happened. This was, you know, a purposeful move by the mainstream media to not necessarily report, but to opinionate, and as a result, it really uh put you know, those veterans coming back, you know, from Vietnam on a bit of a hot steat seat and on a plane of I say a plane, just a level of lack of appreciation of what they did. I mean, they they went, and they responded to the call by our US government. We can argue all day long the rights and wrong of Vietnam, but uh, you know, these men are guilty of answering the call of their government, and the way they were treated was unfortunate. But I believe it's sent a temperament and sent the wrong message that we still deal with today in terms of honoring the military and appreciating what it's all about. I mean, I told you I'd give you my two cents. I'm kind of like beyond twenty five cents, so forgive me. But the deal is is that I've always believed that every citizen of this country should have skin in the game, and just like Israel, everyone should participate in some level of service or the military. I was blessed to be in the military course before even going the military, I was blessed to be raised by nuns, and I think that's what prepared me for the Marine Corps when so many people got watched out. I'll tell you whether you're in the Marine Corps, in the Navy Seals, if you have a runway of education by Catholic nuns, you can handle anything. You know what I'm saying. So, but the point being is that when you and as you know, even at seventeen, the maturity and the development of your character was so solidified because of your experience in the military. You learn so much, so rapidly. And I just think that it's unfortunate that only one percent of America today serves in the military. And I feel for the ninety nine percent because they miss out. They're missing out on so many things, life lessons and experiences that only the military can give them. Right, I completely concur with your assessment, and I also too agree that the US could benefit from policies that enforce recruitment that start at mandatory policies, and I mean that because the IDF is really defense force who I'm sitting next to in Dubai are very efficient and they have defense first mentality and then they go into the commercial space, but they're always ready to fight exactly their national interests. Well, we're talking Senior Executive Adam Roosevelt, government relations expert, former US Army I'm going to say, and former advisor to US government and UAE Royal family, Adam. So here we are today, with the threats quite emerging, America appears to be very weak. The leadership of our country seems to be compromised, and our enemies are taking full advantage, whether it's the communist Chinese or the Russians, and even Iran is beating their chest and clanging their swords as well. It's a tough situation for the United States, especially now as our reputation has been degraded with decisions made under this current administration. And we've seen from this timeframe the withdrawal in Afghanistan, which created a we'll say a narrative that the American is not capable of being the peace and security leader. So that's now the question. In China and Iran, all these different things that are happening, even with Taiwan, even in Ukraine. It has reshaped the international order. But the US was supposed to be the number one country leading that international order, and now we're being questioned in so many different ways domestically and internationally. Adam address the damage of Afghanistan. You know what that did too. You touched a little bit on it. What it did to the reputation. How are allies now see us, and how our enemies even worse, how they see America. Well, I can tell you from being on the ground in Afghanistan that the military veteran community has been impacted because they are also still a part of that historical engagement. Then we had our partners who were there, the Afghanians, the Afghan National Guard, the civilians who put their lives on the line to work alongside us to win this war. And then President Biden made that decision, and he had the ability to be strategic and execute with efficiency. But they moved so quickly without drawing down properly, and I think that has impacted so many different things. There were horrific crimes being carried out on American citizens, not just our allies, but Americans who were left behind. We watched the videos built we saw the children being thrown over the walls, we saw the bomb explode that took several of our members, and we have to say to those families that we are upset and we still need justice for these inactions from the president. And it's very disappointing that we've lost faith and confidence as a nation of peace and security, and we've lost faith and confidence as an international ally in our international space, and that's damaging, not just in that phase, that's also damaging in the future as we entered new conflicts around the world. Were you satisfied with the final conclusions of the investigation into the exit f Afghanistan and particularly the death of those thirteen soldiers. You know, I'll tell you I've had one interview on TV and it was the only interview that I could not seem to find my words, and it's because I was tied to that issue so closely. I'm not just unsatisfied. I really would like to see justice and accountability in some way, shape or fashion, that the executive branch, the secondary himself as well, and the DoD is held accountable these men and women who have given their lives, they trust their commanders, their presidents to protect them, and they were failed. And we know that these generals who've been going to the War College, this is the best trained military in the world. And we could not figure out an exit strategy. And we've been trying to solve so many other nations issue and we could not save our own men and women, and those men and women were left behind. And that is an unfortunate truth. Well, excuse me for making the linkage and connection here, but I am still grieving for ben Ghazi. You know what happened there. I mean, there's just something that's underlying our military preparedness and our ability. Here. We are the number one fighting for us with all this technology and everything that's available to us. How do we allow four of our citizens, including a U. S. Ambassador, to be murdered in Libya. This was probably the very first event in my career where I woke up to politics, because I was trained not to think about political things in the military uniform. I was in Italy actually at the time, and we were looking at being a what they call a QRF, a quick reaction force, because there's certain locations that they will deploy units too for quick reaction they told folks to stand down. They didn't have the ability. But this was under Secretary Clinton, you know, the Secretary of State at the time had the information. They did not act on it. They didn't enhance the security parameters. They should have known better, and they did know better, and they failed America, and they failed our lead ambassador who was in that country. And we saw what happened in those tapes. We saw what happened in the body recovery, in the autopsy. It was unbelievable, sodomized. It's something you can never actually want to address as an American soldier or any American having seen what happened to our ambassador that way. Yeah, and all that was buried and covered up by some stupid video blamed on a video which you know, of course the people there in Libya were kind of laughing about it and go, okay, yeah, buy some airtime and you know, spend on hundred thousand dollars, you know, playing some sort of apology which was total nonsense. And again, you know, what what did it do for our reputation? And how it how did it present America? And I guess this is what I'm hearing at them. You know on our radio show and also on this TV show, is our audience and listeners will say, Bill, you know what, what what is happening here? I mean here we are We give so much money to these nations to help them. Whenever there's an emergency, America is the first to run there and to serve and to help these countries who are in trouble. But yet when we hear from them, they say they hate America and they have no respect for America. And they go, Okay, what's going on here? Is America being misrepresented by these political forces. And my tendency is to go along, I mean I to agree with them, because there's a disconnect here for all the good that the everyday America is doing with their taxes and their tax money, you know, in foreign aid, and to be disrespected like this, there's some miscommunication. There's something that's not connecting right. And I believe it goes back to what you touched on earlier, and that is that we have countervailing forces and agenda that is not consistent with our constitutional beliefs. You've summed it up exactly correct, and I concur one and I think politics provides red tape. We know when President Trump, and we'll try to keep it neutral, but we know when President Trump was the president. What he did was he allowed the combatant commanders to have the autonomy to make decisions. Under different administrations liberal leaning, we have seen that there has been micromanagement and that makes the force ineffective. That's why we were unable to respond. We know in Libya we had CI assets that could respond again micromanagement across the entire division, in the military and our sister agencies and the intelligence community, and that is why we are continuing to fail because we need to trust in the investment, and we've invested in those combatant commanders, We've invested in our CI operations, and we need to allow them to make decisions that will move quickly to accomplish America's main objective, and that is to win. We got to go to break on the other side. We'll talk more about that as we unpack that specific part of the topic. He's a senior executive, Adam Roosevelt governor relations expert, and we've got more from Adam right after this. Stay with us. If you're living with diabetes and using insulin, you know the pain of pricking your fingers over and over again, ouch well. By wearing a small remote device, it's called a continuous glucose monitor or CGM. 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Many of us have become victims of cyber insecurity, and so I want to give you a chance to tell our viewers you know what your organization is all about. Sure, I appreciate the time built for this. I will just expand quickly. Our organization started off advising homeland security and we managed programs for cyber and protecting digital ecosystems of what's called the dot gov network, and that's everything protecting government assets, critical infrastructure sector. I worked for the Assistant Secretary and advised on massive national security related programs. I then went commercial and started advising law firms on ransomware and policy and providing CISO advisory to a number of different clients in different industries ranging from energy and other critical infrastructure sectors. We are the best at what we do, which is why on Land brought us in and we took our practice global. But we're always happy to talk about policy and the shifting landscape of cyber as emerging threats emerge. Exactly, give us a little bit more of the state of the Union of uh, you know, cyber and where we are. You know, we here often that America is very vulnerable to EMP attack. Other attacks have been happening. Of course, we see what's happening just uh, you know throughout our industry in America. You know, hospitals under attack, big businesses, uh, you know, with ransomware and other uh you know, other weapons that these malefactors have been utilizing against us. Well, yeah, exactly right, Bill. And the interconnection of technology now touches everyone in some way, shape or form. Your children have mobile devices, you have smart TVs. You now have pacers for our senior citizens who connect through Internet of Things and is sharing information remotely everything we touch and do has a technology integration somewhere, and the problem is there's a difficulty in communicating the need to protect that asset. And then the question is how do you protect that asset either in the commercial space, the personal space, or in the government space. And we are at risk. We've seen energy attacks take down massive infrastructure in terms of our corporations and text as we saw the interesting impacts on pipelines. And now when we wake up and our electricity is off, our oil and gas sector is not functioning, we see what happens to everyday life in America, and we have to bolster our cybersecurity in order to protect our economic and national security interest. Adam, do you kind of wake up sometimes just pinch yourself. I mean, your experience and how your career has been so fast tracked has my head spinning here for just a moment. You know, at seventeen, you enter the military, you work hard, you leverage your experiences, so when you come out, you're an asset to companies, to organizations, to our government, to a government's overseas. I mean, you're you're still a young man. You're not supposed to be this experience, you know, that I do build you know, ambition and called a duty and service our drivers and we have no choice at times but to do what is best for our community and our family and often also our communities. So I have no choice if if I don't do it, then we always ask then who? And that's the military mantra for service. Yeah, but still you have to have the wiring and the IQ and capacity to be able to do this. Adam, and and I'm sure as fortunate as you must feel you know about your experience and your career, you have a message to a lot of kids out there that could be the next Adam Roosevelt's behind you. Yeah, we've tried our best. Actually, also to give back to education. I've actually been speaking on multitude of issues, starting from resiliency and then going up into the career skill development which helps these children and these young adults obtain jobs that are higher paying in the cyber industry now blockchain and there's so many different pathways, and we're helping to give back where we can, not just in America, but also overseas as well well. I look at it from a standpoint I always talked when I'm talking to young people, is that it's a canvas to work on. You know, every artist, I mean, we're all painting our own stories in a sense metaphorically, right, And the military affords you an incredible breadth of canvases in which to write your story. And you know, and I think this is an important message for people to get out there and also for the leadership to get their acts together to make sure that they create an environment that I say that you have a fair chance to win, that the giftings and talents that you've been blessed with can be complemented in an environment to where you can go out there and you know, as as the army, it was gonna be the best you can be, right, Yeah, And we always say Armies Strong. Yeah. I think there's a lot more we can still be doing with our veteran community and also with the transition, which has been very difficult for veterans to be able to align their skills that they learned in the military and go into the commercial sector or the public sector again. And that I think is also an ultimate challenge that needs to be solved. Built. Yeah, to me, that should be a no brainer. And I just said, I don't know, maybe because I transition, you know, fairly easily. I was, you know, in the public affairs department of Camp Pendleton. You did radio and television based basically I was the Camp Penalton version of Good Morning Vietnam. Okay. And although I wasn't as rambunctious as as Robin Williams was, I would have been. I'd have been eighty six and uh up for some serious discipline, couldn't not get away and didn't have a desire to do that. But you know, I was proud to serve the military, and for me, the transition I just I guess I was just very fortunate, thank God, because I went from you know, public affairs and I ended up getting back on track with my broadcasting career, which which was what I was doing before I went in the military, and uh, you know, accelerated through and ended up working you know in Los Angeles, California at several radio stations and enjoyed a wonderful career. And now here I am down the road fifty plus years of experience, and the last fifteen years God gave me an assignment of doing you know, television and radio show. So here we are. Well, you know, God, bless you. Bill, because that I think is one of the most impressive gifts that we can be given is the form of communication. And I think it's the number one thing that helps change the world. And if we are great speakers and communicators and we have the platform, there's a lot we can do to serve the community. So, you know, thank you for your time and also the work you've done. I didn't say that yet, but appreciate the fact that you've dedicated your life to service as well well. And for you. I guess where we're in harmony is that in communication. You know, we're working hard to disseminate the truth, not to participate in this information age in which we live in today. And I mean, as you know, there's so much misinformation out there. I mean, and it's been allowed to run rampant to such a degree that the traditional institutions that we thought we could trust in we're finding that we can no longer trust them. And this is why, now more than ever, I caution our audience to own your own knowledge, you know, the things that we're talking about. Hopefully what we do is we've motivated them to say, you know, I heard what Adam said. It kind of resonates with me, but I want to know for sure. By all means, do a deeper dive, check it out for yourself, so that you own the knowledge and you're not just somebody that's there where you have mainstream media and others telling you what you should believe and how you should behave right, completely correct. I have done a lot of work in terms of looking at the political leanings and the investors behind social media platforms media platforms, and that information is interesting and you will see really who's behind who's a shareholder. You've got a Russian shareholders in media organizations people would And that's a scary thing because when you put money to something, you have influence over the direction of that program or the long term direction of that organization. And you can see that in Alga zero, you can see that in multitude of different platforms. But it's a scary situation the information behind the scenes. Yeah, you're exactly right. I mean, do these outside sources and influences, do they have a commitment to the US Constitution as we do. I would say no, I would say that their main objective is to sell. Yeah, yeah, without a doubt. Well we'll go to break when we come back. We've got more from Adam Roosevelt stayed with us right here on the Bell Martinez Show. Do you have heart failure? And often here those stomach issues ruined your birthday? You're too tired to play catch Grandpa? Sweet? Do you haven't touched your tools since the carpal tunnel syndrome diagnosis? 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Are you paying less than fifty bucks a month right now for your internet? Then call whole Home right now for blazing fast internet at fifty bucks a month with no price increases, no hidden fees, no contracts, no upfront costs, no equipment fees. It's a great deal. And guess what, you can try it for fifteen days. If you don't like it, you get your money back. But you're gonna love it, and you're gonna love the price. Internet for your home for fifty bucks a month. That's less than two bucks a day, plus no contracts, no upfront costs, no equipment fees, and our fifteen day guarantee. Call now eight hundred six nine nine three five eight eight hundred six nine nine three five eight eight hundred six nine nine three five eight. That's eight hundred six nine nine zero three fifty eight. Well, welcome back, Bill Martin. This year, we're talking with the government relations expert, former US Army and adviser to the US government and UAE royal family, Adam Roosevelt. I'm particularly interested in your association with the UAE royal family. Tell us some stories. What was that like? Well, I can tell you Bill that I spent two years in a private office and the private office structure is essentially a business arm for a member of the ruling family. There's seven inmirates in the UAE. You got Dubai charge RSL came on a few more, and they all have royal ties based on the level of power. You know, you got the ruler of Dubai for example, when he has his sons and daughters and they all have business interests globally. And I was able to integrate into that affair and advise the board on different business strategies and international business development around the world. How did that come about? Speaking? Actually, Bill, I think you'd appreciate this. I came to you. I actually went into a conference that was hosted by the office. I did a speech on artificial intelligence weaponization and I was pulled aside to have a conversation based on what I spoke about, and they asked me to get involved with their business affairs. And that's it. That's how it happened. It's interesting communication and the power of speech. Yeah, exactly. And here you talk about AI and here in America, you know, we're starting to hear more and more, you know, this year about artificial intelligence, and not surprisingly, but I would say a majority of Americans are still confounded and they don't understand, especially when we hear you know, the technocrats saying, you know, AI could be dangerous. It's very dangerous. In fact, I've done many case studies. One in particular was the Google case study about Project Maven, and that was artificial intelligence system that could be integrated on a drone but not have to get permission to carry out a strike, so that AI could determine whether or not you are a threat on the battlefield without having to get the approval from an operator a thousand miles away. That could obviously have humanitarian crisis issues if it made one error or one mistake. That's just one example, and there are thousands others as we talk about AI and how it can either self weaponize or unfortunately, create its own languages and do things that we did not intend for it to do. Yeah, this is kind of ironic because you think of the Pentagon Adam that here they are micromanagers, as you say, and the way they conduct things. They have to you know, everybody has to check in, you know, field officers got to check in with a Pentagon and make sure that they get proper clearance. Otherwise, you know, they're left out hang out to dry. This has got to be brain bruising for them to have a machine out there that's not accountable to them, that they don't control the levers of this machine. I imagine that this is just you know, beyond their capacity. Well, I think they thought that they could design something that had the capability to no longer need human interface. And this is where we have to make sure we design correctly. Where we still have the human interface to make decisions or health we will run the risk of AI making decisions that were not intended for the human And I mean that in the case of taking lives. I mean that in the case of carrying out a tax on the wrong location, that could be a problem. And that's just the military. There are a thousand other conversations to be had. Well, and you probably know this story, Adam, was quite unnerving for me to think about how close to a nuclear release we came to here. Recently, this story was unveiled that there was a Russian officer, uh, you know, controlling you know, the nuclear weaponry, and saw a spike. All the alarms excuse me, all the alarms went off, and it indicated that Russia was under attack from the United States of America. Now, fortunately, human intelligence, a humanoid was there to kind of break it down and reason through it, which had to be incredible because it was like ninety nine against one. He was the only one saying no, I'm not no, this doesn't this doesn't quite connect. And boy, there was all kinds of pressure. I think that he was. He got in trouble by not releasing a nuclear bomb, and what came to be was some sort of you know, environmental flare, some some sunflare or something that triggered the machinery that told them that they were under attack when it wasn't. It was an anomaly. And but for his I guess steadfastness. I say, by the grace of God, he did not pull the trigger, or you know, we'd already be in World War three. Well, you know, the nuclear early warning systems and all these different things in terms of sensors, I would hope that they've enhanced their policies to make sure that they have the right reaction. And US also, don't forget the infrastructure is so old, Bill, and I'm sure you know that we've got twenty year infrastructure, sometimes thirty year infrastructure that has not been modernized and you'll run into techno technical issues over time. And this is a problem that needs to be addressed in terms of our modernization and they need to do the same thing. Well, this is why we've got to stay away from any kind of conflict. This is what concerns me so much about what's going on between Russia and Ukraine. The longer this continues, as you know, Adam, the potential for an oops, you know, it just keeps on growing day by day. As this continues, we cannot go into conflict so casually, especially with the nuclear war power that has the capacity of destroying a lot of people and a lot of land in an instant. I completely concur and I have to say, where is the policy boundary because this is not a NATO member. I we like to protect our allies, but we have policy too, and I think we have done more than our fair share. And now we're continuing to incite and I think that is going to cause harm to the American people. What about the American people, our taxes that are going toward this war, and it is continuously weekly, Bill, we see a billion dollars here and there, and yet the American economy could be rescued, the veteran businesses could be rescued, the schools could be modernized. We have so many things we could put this money to, and yet we have put billions in pump, billions of dollars into this war. And next week we're doing things with cluster bombs. Today, what's next, Bill, I'm just really concerned. When does it stop? When do we look at the policy and protect American interest? First? Well, President Eisenhower warned us of the military industrial complex, and it is alive and well and flourishing. And you know, the other concerning thing, Adam, is I'm sure with you, is you have the president of the United States essentially releasing top secret information to the world by telling them that we're low on AMMO. You know, to me, you know, call me wrong, but I see that as a breach in national security. Am I off on that. I mean, you're in the ballpark. And I would hope that this is the CIA advising the president to do misinformation campaigns with the purposes of misguiding our adversary. I'm hoping that's the narrative, but again I probably doubt that it is, unfortunately, but I would say we should be confident in our capabilities to not share information when we don't need to share information. This was the CIA strategy. You only say enough to win the strategy. We know information warfare. We should definitely eat our mouths a little more quieter in our classified conversations. Globally. I kind of liked what Donald Trump had to say, and that is that how he treated the adversaries was he left them with about ten percent doubt, and I thought that was pretty wise. It was that, you know, it was like, would he really do it? Would he No, he's not gonna do well. Maybe he might well, but the fact that he just dropped a sea of ten percent of the possibility of him doing something like the way he treated isis right. Yeah. Yeah, I love Trump, by the way, and yes I like his hard line. Me and him agreeed on many things, homeland security, order security, southern border strategy, the way we handled different nations and ambissaries. I think it was fantastic. The type of bold moves, an aggressive you know, new Yorker's style engagement, and it worked, and in fact, he's loved in the Middle East, and he's loved in multiple parts of the world for his style and leadership exactly. Well, I want to talk China here as we wrap things up. We've got about two and a half minutes left here. Adam, you talk about an emerging threat. They've been allowed to expand their influence and their forces in the South China Sea, claiming that is their territory. I mean this is going to come to a head. I mean this is almost like what happened with Ukraine and Russia. You see all the Russian forces mounting up. You can't go to war overnight. I mean they over a twelve month period a mass forces that said they were going to war. They were not coming out and you know, just doing a military exercise or going out on a Wiener roast. I mean they were going to war. And you see these emerging threats happening in the South China Sea and what China is doing. I mean, this is a clear and present danger, is it not. It's our number one national security threat, as has been stated in our National Defense Authorization Act. And we know that China regardless of what's happening in Russia, China is our number one national security threat. They have the intent to reshape international order and they have the resources to do that, and we must do everything we can to deter their progress, their progression forward with accomplishing this. And lastly, I'll say that they're actually on track by twenty thirty to outpace the US economy, and we cannot allow that to happen. Well, when your enemy says what they're going to do, shouldn't you believe them? I think yes, in general speaking, yes, But there could be also psychological warfare campaigns, information warfare campaigns, and we try to keep all of those in mind as people make these statements. We have to look at what's being said and what's not being said, right, But you also connect the dots to say, okay, is their veracity? Can they follow through by what they're saying. I understand a lot of the misinformation out there going I get the strategy of nations. I appreciate that, but also we need to be wise enough to look at just like I use, for example, what happened with Russia and Ukraine. You gotta look at the mounting evidence, don't you spot on. I completely concur and they have done a lot. Look at their built and road initiative, look at their intelligence capacity, They've done a lot, and they are a number one threat to the United States today. Well, Adam Roosevelt, I cannot thank you enough for you know, coming on the show and breaking it down for our viewers. Where and they go for more information, They can find me on any social media platform. You just type Adam Roosevelt. 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