Welcome to Caribbean Resumes, episode 106. I have special emergency guest show with Josiah Lippincott, a patriot and a writer, and a serial, I would say, Josiah, please forgive if this, but I would call you a serial humiliator of stuffed shirts of the people who are running America's currently, unfortunately, decrepit institutions. But Josiah, I got to know him only recent. I saw him on Twitter. He used his face and he did the best thing that anyone who's face can do. He humiliated authorities who do not deserve their position. He exposed mediocrity, lameness in American so-called military establishment especially. And for this, for actually criticizing the military, he was banned. He was censored off Twitter several times. Josiah, welcome to the show.

As far as I know, you never use profanity. You never insult anybody or reveal personal information. You are censored merely for criticizing sclerotic institutions. But welcome to the show, Josiah. Yeah, thank you so much, Bab, for the opportunity to talk, and thank you so much for that introduction. And youíre right, when I initially got on social media, I kind of have sort of some ground rules which I try and follow which is that make it family friendly in a way which is to say, present a message thatís for the broadest possible audience. And thatís why I avoided stuff like profanity and doxing personal information and stuff like that about the people who engage with me. But you're exactly right, my time on social media concentrated on members of the military, which I was a part of.

I served as a Marine officer for four years and during that time I came to have some realizations about the way the military operated and about foreign policy. I eventually just had this thought and I said the thing that I wanted most of all was for people in power to listen to what I had to say. The reason for that is I go to the polls and I vote and it doesn't matter. I pay my taxes, the roads don't get fixed, the politicians do crazy stuff overseas, they waste my money, they waste the future for myself and my children and I felt I had an obligation to speak the truth and in the process I ended up developing a profile online and That was in part thanks to you and your work and so that's how I kind of came to know of

you and your work and you know I'm honored to be here so again thank you. No thank you Josiah, the honor is mine and Josiah has written extensively, you have sub-stacked now but you've also written for American Greatness, yes? Yes. And Josiah you say you are a veteran, you are an officer in Marine Corps, is that correct? It is correct. I joined in 2016 after graduating from Hillsdale College, and I joined the Marines because I wanted to serve my country. I had patriotic fervor, if you will, and had grown up in a family that didn't have a lot of military experience, but a history of loving the country and wanting to do what was good for it. I wanted to do something manly, and the Marine Corps, from what I saw, that was the hardest branch to join.

that's why I wanted to join and so I did and in the process became an artilleryman and then I deployed you know to use that phraseology if you will for about seven months to Okinawa in 2019 but that was the extent of my experience overseas but it was really informative I traveled all over the far east yes kind of came to like I said earlier came to understand some of the crises that we're facing right now abroad in the military itself Yes, well, you joined just as the Obama administration was ending, I'm guessing, and with Trump, you joined with only president who did not start war in the last few decades. So he did not, whatever people attack him now, he's incompetent, he's decent. Some of the attacks may have some truth, but he did not put life of men like you in danger during his term.

In any case, do you want to comment at all on this experiencibility? Because I think I have many audience who are active service, many veterans, and perhaps also much audience who is thinking of joining because I have at least in a book an exhortation In one of the, just the last part of the book, I have just one aphorism where I think very qualified, but I tell people some of you may want to join. I think I would withdraw that recommendation for now, perhaps, I'm not sure. But did you have a comment on that, on your personal experiences during that time? Yeah, and I never, when I was on Twitter and social media, I've never fully described my own experience. In part, that's because a lot of these people, to describe my time in service is to describe people

who are actually alive and still around and serving, but they're really informative. And I think it's useful for your audience especially. From what I've seen of your work online, most of your followers, like you say, are young men, typically pretty intelligent. Now, when I see people translating Sumerian, your followers, knowledge of languages, very high IQ takes. I recommend the Twitter user, HispanicCosmos. That is a very intelligent young man. And what I've realized is a lot of these young guys are not really in positions of authority, though they deserve to be. And they're often very patriotic and interested and curious. And if there's to be any future for the, you know, conservative movement or the American right wing,

It will come from these young men, many of whom are young white men, to be more specific. And they're often marginalized, and I can speak to that. Let me tell an anecdote here that I think is really helpful. When I was at the basic school, which is entry training for officers, once you do OCS, you're selected to be an officer in a commission. Sorry to interrupt you. Was OCS difficult? Was OCS hard? In 2015 when I went through, it was. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. It was physically demanding, mentally demanding. Just for the audience to know, this is the selection course to become Marine Officer. Usually about 70% selection rate, but there's a not-insubstantial number of applicants at the time who would fail. And that was the appeal for me. Really, I wanted to test myself.

I'm a bookish guy by nature, and so I needed to do something physical that would demand something of me, and it did. But I think once I got past that point, I began to see some things more clearly. I came in right as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, though they continued, really significantly drawn down, and the emphasis really changed within the institution, and that was revealing. To tell one story, at the basic school, which is about six months of training, every officer in the Marines goes through a basic infantry training regimen. You get selected for your eventual job based off of your performance and your interests at the basic school. They do these social events where they let you talk to other officers in that field to see if you want to join.

When it comes to combat arms, everyone who wants to join is young white guys. That's the demographic who's attracted to infantry, tanks, artillery. I counted myself among that group. That's what I wanted to do. At the time, they really wanted women and minorities to join the combat arms. There was this night where they took all the women and all of the minorities and they sent them to their own social event and all of the white male officers went to the barracks and cleaned. And this was this was 2016, right after Trump had gotten elected. And to me I began to see clearly pretty much from then on that that what we would call wokeness, the sort of critical race theory, cultural Marxism, whatever you want to call it, it had already, it was showing its face and

just outright racial and you know gender discrimination but against people like me who, you know, did want to serve, and you know, that's troubling. So I could go on, certainly, but that's, that's, I think, a kind of very revealing moment to me, like, oh, okay, okay, I see how this is, and yes, informative. No, that's, that's awful. That's the kind of thing those divisions are the kind of thing I imagine that ruin many militaries historically. But I, it's a good retort by the way to any immigration supporting neocon. I often hear arguments with neocon about, for example, Mexican other immigration. And one of their stock arguments is that in the military so many minorities join, but of course most of them join to become cook, line cook, or for the benefits.

So in my opinion military became slowly a large project for another benefit program for women and minorities, except for the combat arms, which these immigration-supporting neocons may be not aware, it's 80 percent white men. I think, correct me if I'm wrong, I think Mexican men also do join the combat arms, but in a lesser percentage. But aside from white men and Mexican men, almost it's a Benny's program, as far as I know. Yeah, very few people are, but I was not aware that even in 2016 it got this bad where they essentially had a humiliation ritual is what you're describing, racially based. Yes. Well, and I think what's troubling about this is, you know, it puts the line and I think, let me take this a step further. Yes, the military is a benefits program, but it's

it's turned into a massive center for grifting, and that's among every branch, and let me propose a radical thesis, and I would encourage any of your followers, many of whom are very intelligent and could shed some light here, but I believe the modern conventional military is not equipped to fight other states. It can't win a conventional war, but it also can't win against an insurgency, against partisan fighters in places like Afghanistan, against the Pashtun and the Taliban. And what that reveals is, what are we spending our money on, what is it being spent on? And I'll tell another story, I was in Okinawa and my job was a liaison officer, so I would take our rocket launcher system and I would liaise with other units and explain how the

explain how the system worked, put it into their network, data, all this stuff. Yes. And at one point, the marine expeditionary unit that's based out of Okinawa asked if they could take our rocket launchers on one of their ships for a training exercise. And I said, sure. But I also thought we should bring live ammunition with us when we're on the ship. Here's the problem. When I asked my OIC, I said, where is the ammunition for the system? and he turned to me and said there is not a single live round for your rocket launcher system on this island yes and i turned him i said where is the nearest ammunition supply point and he said it's on mainland japan it's 600 kilometers away yes and to me that was revealing which is to say

all this talk about defeating china and facing off against you know the chinese threat and and And you literally have a military that doesn't have the live ammunition to use its own weapon system. It's revealing. It says, what are we supposed to be doing here? What is the point of having a military? I joined because I wanted to defend my country. And what I discovered was really, we're just spending hundreds of billions of dollars to maintain this, what I would argue is an obsolete overseas imperial force that allows those huge percentage of these hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans to suckle at the teeth, some of them with the best of intentions. But I think that's really what it's become, and that's very troubling.

And I think that leads into the ideological takeover by the left, and I think it's very revealing. Yes. The sucking at the teeth of funding goes very well with this so-called woke ideology that infect the military and which I think, correct me if I'm wrong, it sounds like you are implying is a cover for this graft, this pig trough, people sucking the financial benefits of military. But before we talk some more about this and about if you want to continue with your own experiences, I think audience find that very interesting. Just to let the audience know, you have some widely popular tweets and articles and I think some of them went so-called viral. The first one, if I am not wrong, is about suicide in military over COVID restrictions. Is that correct?

and yeah yeah so that's you know you know so after after um i got out of the marine corps i went to graduate school to continue studies and to work on and flesh out some of my ideas during that time you know i had social media and um general donahoe who was the uh he's the commander of um fort benny um excuse me um he uh he was on twitter and he was talking about the importance of all these covid lockdown measures this was the summer of 2021 jesiah are you Are you drinking what you drink? Do you have the beer? Are you having the whiskey? No, I have just filtered water through the Berkey. This is a sign of right-wing extremism for all the parents out there. You know, your son, you can tell he's becoming more and more right-wing when he filters all of the fluoride out of his water.

It's just grass-fed milk and beef. These are troubling signs. And this is a Berkey-supporting show. It's one of the best water filters. The Berkey, you can get the fluoride filters too. and supposedly you can use pond water to filter that. Now, now, Josiah, they will say that I am being paid by Berkey to make a advertisement for, excuse, you know, these schizophrenics were accusing me when I praised some Singaporean tea company because I like their tea. They were saying, I'm part of Singapore Big Tea, PSYOP. That's true. But anyway, sorry to interrupt, Josiah, please tell. So yes, General Donahoe, who was the chief, excuse me, of Fort Benning, is that right? Yeah, and you know, he was just talking about COVID and what I pointed out to him, I said, look, you know, I'm viciously opposed

to the biomedical security state, and I'll argue, and we can talk about this later, I think the COVID lockdowns are probably the singular issue of our time, and many attempts to distract from the crimes, and I believe outright murder, committed by the governments in the West against their own populations. And I think it's very important to remember what happened there. But what I pointed out to the general was that there had been as many suicides, the increase, the excess suicides in the fourth quarter of 2020 equaled the total number of COVID deaths from January of 2020 all the way until August of 2021. Yes. Just the excess suicides in that one quarter, the three month span equal the total number of COVID deaths. And I hypothesized, I said, that's a by-product of military policy.

You're locking young men in their rooms, these horrible quarantine procedures. Guys came back from combat zones, couldn't see their family for two weeks after being overseas. and so forced to live on base, can't see your family, told this is for your health, et cetera, et cetera. Very horrible, horrible, inhumane things. And the general attacked me and told my institution to come get their boy, quote, unquote. And then another Twitter user, at Valdaccio's, he questioned the general, General, how many wars have you won? Yes, exactly. And his response was, you're a Russian Putin bot, you're a Russian shill. Yes. I believe, I think this story is okay to tell, but I was sitting with my now wife and we were watching TV show and doing this and then I looked at my phone and to that point I only

had about 150 followers and all of a sudden I saw my notifications blowing up and I realized that you had retweeted both of those tweets and over the span that was what I think got the ball rolling. Over the next several days, the tweets got hundreds of thousands of impressions and then eventually led to a spot on Fox News. I talked to Laura Ingraham about the woke military and just talked about things I'd seen on the Twitter. That really kicked off this sort of chain reaction. I spent the next couple of months really going after these people I'd watched for months and years, just flagrant abuse of the rules, flagrant abuse of the uniform. Outright grifting, sexual misbehavior, breaking the rules. I saw generals interacting and sheltering lieutenants. Anyone who knows anything

about military rank, this is highly unacceptable. Obvious impropriety, just very bizarre behavior. And you know, I don't mean to rant, but that was, to me, that really hit home. Really hit home. It was like, someone needs to say something. And I said, it's my duty to do that. And you know what, when I put on the uniform, I wanted to serve my country. I wanted to do the right thing. And while doing that, what I realized was that the real threat to my country and to my way of life was not located overseas. As much as I despised China, Xi Jinping never locked me in my home for two years. You know, Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan, shut down churches on Easter Sunday. And how can I, as a good Christian and as a good American sit back and say you know what I need to be

distracted by the lather you know overseas you know defend freedom in Afghanistan it's like I don't have freedom here yes so I don't mean to rant but I think this is how I'm gonna serve my country you know what I'm gonna go and I'm gonna reveal to people what the reality is and I'm gonna fight to make something better yes yes no but they are revealing this so-called general he's yeah he's a general general Donahoe and of course they jump at people's throats calling them putler bots and and if you if you if you question their competence and yeah you know he doesn't win wars what does he do he locks people up but it's he's not the only one you humiliated you attack also some general With the nails, she was posting that she was doing her nails or something like this?

Yeah, this is disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. I mean, just that platoon of a squad of Marines, excuse me, and a few sailors and a soldier ripped apart by an IED. And then I think about two weeks later, you had this female general posting about how she had to take her French manicure off because the army wouldn't let her wear it in uniform. I'll be damned if but I think the army and the Marine Corps just changed the rules to allow you to have a French manicure In uniform. Yes, I think it was entirely because of that tweet. Anyway, I quote tweeted her and ratioed her and You know, I I just enjoy I love the spiritual battle. I love spiritual war. Yes You know, I you know, I come from very humble background, you know

a very decent family, a very appreciative, loved, great childhood, very patriotic, but not anyone famous or wealthy. The idea that someone like me can get out there and say something to people in power and just make them listen, there's such a power in that. It fires me up, it's optimistic. We can make a difference, you can really do something. Well, it's what free political speech is supposed to be about, and you are censored for exposing these French manicure and General Cabbage Donahoe was there, you know. But just letting audience know, you had many other popular attacks on these people. They had this very embarrassing military videos showcasing their hardware. So, for example, F35, I think it was. And they have this woman influencer, TikTok influencer,

who she, it's very embarrassing because she's, I think, 35 or looks older than 35. And she looks like she should be serving egg noodle pastry at the community center Hillel, Jewish community center. You know, she looks, that's called a yantai with this hair. but she's dancing to this hip hop music's junk in the trunk and she's dancing to that and you point out, I forget what you said, but it was very embarrassing to them and it amazed me to see, again, military, supposedly dignified military people answering you and you were very polite, you did not insult, you just pointed out how absurd this was and how undignified for the military. But then I saw military officers or similar say, Yeah, but it got you hard, didn't it? Yeah, you know, it was amazing to see.

I don't know that conservatives understand how degraded, and not just in woke ideology, but how vulgarized the officer core of military has become. No, it's very troubling if you think there's ought to be standards for how officers or the military or the government should represent itself online. And that one was a pretty intense tweet There are a lot of people accusing me of misogyny and I'll say this, of course, this is always the chart, you hate women, you're an incel, you're bitter, your career didn't turn out better, blah, blah, blah, oftentimes lies about me spread online about my career. I never want to falsely represent who I am, not Achilles reborn. not the way I present, I'm not guru, special forces operator showing you how to put a kid

together and how you can survive the zombie apocalypse, blah, blah, blah. There's a huge drift industry around this. But you've never used arguments from authority, Josiah, as far as I know. You talk as a concerned citizen and patriot, and you point out these stuffed shirts that But again, you are doing amazing work because you are exposing the last institutions that conservatives unfortunately still have respect for. Yeah, and I actually set a goal in one of the pieces I wrote for American Greatness. I said I wanted to get public approval of the military to 40%, and I also wanted to create a recruiting crisis. And I don't know if I've succeeded in terms of the approval rating, I haven't checked recently to see what Pew Research, they don't, excuse me, sorry, I haven't seen the most

recent time that they've done the poll, but it was declining and they are having a recruiting problem and kicked out a lot of people for the vaccine mandate, I'll tell another story and this is, this I got from first hand experience, anyway there's a National Guard unit in the Michigan, Ohio and Indiana area that's being sent to Syria because that's a war we're still fighting, in case anybody was wondering. We've got to send farm boys from the upper Midwest to go fight and die in Syria, a very important political goal. Yeah, allied without no strife, but yeah, go on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fred Kagan, he's very concerned that young American boys don't want to go die overseas, very troubling. I talked to a young man in the unit, and what he told

me is that 30% of the unit wouldn't get the vaccine, and they're not sending them. They They literally want to send them abroad. So that unit is at 70% combat strength, but if you look at the table of equipment or table of personnel for a unit, that's a destroyed unit, but they don't care. There's no connection between reality and their ideology, they just do stuff. And I oppose this as much as I can. Yes, Josiah, actually, this segment, I must brew more coffee and perhaps put rum in it, but I want to come back and talk to you in more detail about this particular problem, the woke ideology in the military, how far it's infected the upper ranks and so forth. Why don't we take a break? And I think, by the way, Brennan is back. He's brewing me with

with Chemex coffee maker from Massachusetts. Very good Chemex maker. We will be right back Josiah. You want another segment on Vogue military, is this okay? Yes, yes, of course, of course. Very good, we will be right back. Welcome back to the show, Josiah. So I may say for audience who, or especially detrimental robots who are listening, might say, oh, this Russian intelligence operation, this is a Russian bot who's trying to corrupt the youth in America with far right thought and to defame and to denigrate the American military. And I just want especially older conservative who might listen to me or to Josiah to understand. I don't think Josiah is trying to attack the American military as such with its noble and long history.

But many people, especially even older, especially who served before, perhaps some decades ago, are not aware of the extent to which this status-seeking so-called woke ideology has infected the upper ranks, the extent to which American military has been destroyed. I think after, Josiah, I don't know if you remember, maybe you were not born yet, but during Clinton administration, there was something called the Tail Hook Scandal that fired all the alpha males from military leadership. And after that purge, and it was a political purge under the guise of sexual harassment, you know, the ideology in the early 90s was already there, the so-called sexual harassment. So the MeToo thing is, again, quite old. But the same principles under the guise of this egalitarian woke ideology, they keep

purging the military to where right now at the top is these kind of status-seeking people who perhaps just want to attend party with cheap prosciutto and such. Josiah, I wanted to ask you, and this question comes from the bureaucrat, because in ancient Rome there was a religion, Sol Invictus, the unconquerable son, this kind of meme religion for the soldiers only, not only, but it was a meme religion for the military, and I'd We'd like to know if something like this exists today for American military. You see, in Russia, they recently have video of this Orthodox Church. And I think it was built out of tank part or some kind of war machinery part from World War II. It looked very imposing. It's a militaristic kind of, you know, version of Christian Orthodoxy for the Russian military.

This is a question from a bureaucrat, because he wants you to know, he is coming, he's coming for all the idols over time. And so he wants, yes, and I mean, you are doing the same good work, exposing the fake ideologies. I wanted to ask you, does this, is it a religion of identity? What is it? Does this exist in American military, some mean religion like this? Yeah, I mean, we have the sole-invictus footprint. That's my, that's my take is you, you know, as you get decline in the way that the way I've described this as the military went, it didn't, it's our inability to win is not because we went, whoa, uh, we can't win. It's like we, we went woke because we couldn't win, right? So it's maybe, maybe that's for a pity statement, not as this, it may be clear or a different

way, but basically the point is the reason you have liberal ideology is because of these failures, consistent failures since 1945, this question of nuclear weapons, and then the problem of insurgency, this vice-grip that's just slowly screwing down onto the conventional military. So meme-religion, I think the Mattis worship would qualify. Very bizarre cult. And General Maddock, so-called Maddock Mattis, yeah. Yeah, massive, Grifter Mattis would be more like it. I have, I was actually, and you know, we all make mistakes in our youth, I guess, and kind of participated in this, you know, kind of praised him at one point and thought he should, you know, come speak at, you know, my graduation, and they, you know, just like in the college newspaper wrote this article, that was very cringe.

You know, Mattis is not, this is a sign of the decline, there's nothing impressive about him. book, which is, you know, I've read significant portions of, he whines the entire time. There's always failure is someone else's fault. It's Obama, it's, you know, he was the party, he was leading CENTCOM, the central command in Asia, in Central Asia, Middle East, when the rise of ISIS happened. And, you know, outside of the initial drive to Baghdad, some of those operations, you know, at Fallujah, which I think is very dubious how successful a lot of that was, but just consistent failure, not really producing anything, but you inculcated this cult of personality rooted in institutional self-worship because when you no longer know what it means to have a country and you can't have shared

principles and you're dedicated to woke racial ideology and isn't it the worst thing ever that you were born with white skin yada yada yada you know you what what is the institution supposed to do and what happens is we never talked about the country and always about the core about the institution yes worship it yourself that's that's a dangerous place for the institution so that i think in you know the blather about neo-con democracy and human rights you'll hear that quite frequently from people you know who serve now a lot of Officers especially they love that they love it sounds so refined. You know, we got it dude. We're the world policeman It's like what is this 2005? That's you feel very calm. Yes

Well, I mean you could think of a separate a military case with its own separate morality Could could last for quite a long time This has existed before in history but it sounds like the ideology or religion of American military is is something very different from that of the Samurai or the Janissary or it is, it sounds like it actually is inherited from the rest of the American managerial elites. It's a kind of office culture, right? I mean, as far as I know, the people who advance in military are these office types, you know, the same kind who would do well in corporate asking world, you know? Yeah. designed that way too. One of the interesting, there's a great writer for those of your followers who are interested or listeners who are

interested, Martin Van Creveld, a very very interesting historian of military affairs, I believe it's Van Creveld, the other one is William S. Lind, both of them, very readable, very very important. One of the books is called Fighting Power, just describes the way the American military was different, you know, from the German military, for instance, in World War II, one of the most striking things is American units are not cohesive. You're always moving around. So you get what are called permanent change of station orders about every two to three years and you completely move all over the world, at great expense to the military, billions of dollars. But the point of that is to prevent the creation of fraternity and brotherhood within the service,

To prevent, you know, no leader is allowed to stay in place long enough to become honored by the men and to be seen as this great figure. So you get these faceless bureaucratic types who you literally don't see. I mean, I never saw generals, colonel, they were always in offices, carrying briefcases, reports. It's a humiliation in a way, I mean, we're harping as if we're, you know, this great world-conquering force and it's it's as a friend of mine put it I think quite succinctly you know we're mailmen with in camouflage and yes yeah excuse the detrimental robot attacked my throat but I wanted to ask you because you mentioned this on last segment how you do not think American military can win even a conventional war and now you say

that they prevent this you you call it fraternity between soldiers and officers or between soldiers themselves this, you know, this get called Esprit de Corps. And this, the Wehrmacht, the German military managed to be extreme effective by, I think, allowing this spirit of camaraderie among soldiers to develop to such high intensity that even detractors of the German military would say one German soldier was worth a hundred in their combat effectiveness. And it was primarily, maybe because of this, I don't want to say primarily, maybe because of this, the esprit de corps that was formed between the men, which did not exist in Soviet military, of course, at all. Would you care to elaborate on this? Why you say that American military in its present incarnation cannot win conventional war?

Yeah, I think this is a really important point. And I think you once did a podcast with Sozo, who had a very interesting presentation on von Clausewitz, and I respect Sozo a great deal, he's a very thoughtful, certainly far more thoughtful and cogent analyzer of current military affairs than anyone I've ever seen in uniform. I'll point this out, Sozo would do threads on things like artillery, tanks, competently done historically researched, and you will never see anyone on Mill Twitter even attempt that. Sorry to interrupt, because audience might not know, what is Mill Twitter? It's these circle of veterans and so on who talk, they very much presents themselves as authorities on military affairs because they are veterans, I'm a special forces X, this

that, and they present themselves as based and conservative. But whenever there is any great crisis, they fall in line behind the regime establishment. And of course, they attack you when you humiliate their beloved, effeminate General Miley. By the way, audience should remember, you repeatedly made fun of so-called General Miley, who I believe wears makeup on the face. You were saying something about he destroyed Plate of Nacho, because he's a very fat That meant you were viciously attacked for that, right? This is very helpful. I'd point out that Twitter is not just veterans. It's currently serving military officers who are on Twitter sharing their exquisite wisdom with the world. Yes. One of the lines I like to use is asking one of these morons for advice on how to win a

a war is like consulting the French military officer corps in the summer of 1941 about how to defeat the Germans in Russia. They don't know, you don't know. The LARPing, Emperor has no clothes. But the point I was making is that we face a strategic problem. There's a spiritual problem in the West, which is the hatred of life, self-contempt, The rise of the ugly and decrepit into positions of power, the rule of the rabble, the Jeffrey Epstein's, the Harvey Weinstein's. This is the type that populates the highest reaches of our regime, and that's very troubling. But then you have political crisis. No one knows what the military is for. I like America. I like the founding principles. I still do. One of the things is, war is for defense. War is to preserve your rights.

No one today uses that language. It's all abstraction. We've got to protect our national interests, which means bringing gay rights and transgender grooming to Botswana, et cetera. Very important that we do this. And then there's a strategic problem, which is nations like Russia have nuclear weapons. How do we defeat a nuclear-armed power with a conventional military? It has never been tried. There has been no two nuclear-armed powers that fought a war, a significant war since 1945. Yes. I don't think it's possible. There was a book called NATO Under Attack by von Mellenthin, which I have read, and I think it's a very flawed book because the authors don't understand. How could the United States have waged war with the U.S.S.R.?

You could have, as soon as you have warheads start flying, and there's no way to get decisive victory. And then you have the insurgency, the absolute enmity, total war. I think we could maybe talk about further, this is a very complicated but important topic, but we've lost all sense of restriction on war. So now civilians are legitimate targets, World War II, bombing these cities, killing civilians en masse. I think there's a straight line from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the 9-11 attacks and that method of warfare. You lose all sense of what the state is supposed to be doing. Maybe I've rambled for too long, maybe too many points, but it's important to grasp what's happening around us. Yes, but I am concerned, just, are you saying that American military capacity right now

is not big enough to defeat, let's say, I don't want to say Russia, because now the Ukraine's happening and people are saying the Russian military sucks because it couldn't take Ukraine? We'll see about that. But I heard before the Russia-Ukraine war, there were war games, NATO war games, and NATO officials even were saying that America would lose a conventional war because they weren't ready or so forth. Are you saying something like that? You know? Well, no, I'm saying something more radical, which is that the war, that kind of war wouldn't happen. It can't happen. And let's let's talk about war games. I sat I was actually at one at one point and they it was several days long and we were basically playing out a scenario of the United States against China.

We did several days, and I was a subject matter expert, a lieutenant in the background, if someone wanted to ask me about my system, the people actually playing the war game, then I would provide information, etc. We did this for a couple days, and then at the last day, one of the referees for the war game, he turned and he said, �Well, you know, if we attacked China in this way, they would then use nuclear weapons.� And the colonel in charge just clapped his hands and he said, you know, that's it, we're game over, we did what we came here to do. And I thought, wait, you know, hold up, that's striking, like, no, that's the most important thing that's happened this whole week, is like, how do you solve that problem?

And what I'm saying is, we could, you could have a military filled with, you know, overweigh, you know, you could get rid of every standard the military has, it wouldn't meaningfully affect national defense because we are warfare, conventional warfare, you know, it changes over time and there just isn't a place for that. But there is opposition, you know, I think the opiate crisis in the midwest, that's a chemical warfare waged by China, very effective, kills hundreds of thousands of Americans. They're never going to do that with a tank battalion, you know, ISIS is not going to land amphibious forces on the Potomac, that's not happening, I think it's a very important point, you know, that war changes, you know, it's just historical,

you know, reality just hits you in the face and then we just don't know how to deal with it. But what about these people talking now that the United States should go to a conventional war with Russia over Ukraine or that NATO should engage in limited way with no-fly zone? What about these? Are they crazy? Are they actually planning to do that? I think that if anyone is a danger to the world, it is the Democratic Party establishment in Washington, D.C. These people are nuts. There's something called the Tiger Team, which meets the White House to war game out scenarios in the Ukraine and the use of nuclear weapons, and those circus clowns, I know, don't have a nuclear strategy. We have no idea. And there's a grave danger that we could provoke serious, you know, response from Russia.

If they felt, and they have hinted, if they're existential, if we make the war existential, they'll use nuclear weapons. And you know, they just passed a lind-lease, they used that term, lind-lease, for 14 billion dollars of aid. One border wall is what we're giving the Ukraine to spend in our proxy war against Russia. And that could very well lead to conflict, but I don't know how that would play out. I think it far more likely is just a grueling series of proxy wars, insurgency, horrible for the people who live through them, and then catastrophic economic effects here at home, and the potential degradation of the dollar, and maybe a turn away from that. So that's more complicated, but I don't know, I just don't see how conventional war, like,

no way we could get our troops over there. We don't have the shipping capacity. In the Battle of Okinawa, they sent seven divisions by ship onto Okinawa, which was crazy. There's no reason to do that. The logistical requirement to do that was absolutely massive. Hundreds of ships. I think they landed in March, April of 1945. Ships left Washington State in October Washington State in October of 1944, carrying gear for the invasion. And that was before they even knew when they would hit the beachheads. There is no capacity to do anything like that today. None, zero, nada. So a lot of this is just larping into the helmet. Yes, this is what I was asking if the capacity of American military has really degraded to where it could not win such a conventional war.

Because I remember some people in military who were very much opposed to the Iraq war in 2002, 2003, and so on. And their point was that the first Iraq war, the first Gulf War, redeemed the reputation of the American military for the American people somewhat after the failures of Vietnam and so forth. With Vietnam, very bad, and then the Gulf War was a great reputational boost for American military. But then, they didn't mention tail hook, but I'm thinking with tail hook and then with the ascendancy of so-called neo-cons in a clown presidency, in the clown presidency of the second Bush, then that wrecked the reputation of American military again. And it led to this series of post-9-11 failures that you say is where the woke ideology has come in as a kind of fig leaf cover for that.

Well, we are failures, but we're not really failures because we are the just ones and we go with Victoria Nuland and Madeleine Halfbright to eat canapes of dry frankfurter and this. But so this is my question if actually, yes, but it's in your saying that actually the capacity of American military to fight conventional war has that it perhaps it couldn't win against Russia or China if it came face to face with them in yeah okay there's nuclear weapon but if it came face to face with them without nuclear weapon are you saying it couldn't win and I wanted to ask you about Ukraine conflict too because you are artillery officer and this seemed very much artillery conflict right now that's some kind of limited conventional

watch for between the two of them now you know yeah no yeah now I think this to let to first talk about the the first Gulf War I think the presentation is that this was the redemption of the American military post-vietnam I would argue that was where all the disasters in the Middle East began and there's a general Barry McCaffrey who attacked JD Vance for his insistence that America should stay out of the Ukraine-Russia conflict. And McCaffrey, I discovered by looking into him, that guy committed war crimes, absolutely butchered retreating Iraqi troops after the ceasefire, and all of the evidence indicates just gross misbehavior, killed thousands of troops who had already, were not interested

in fighting, and they lied about the circumstances, and of course now this guy's an MSNBC commentator. So I think that's very revealing in its own right. The bigger point I would make is, yeah, if our military had to fight the Chinese or the Russians, I think it would just be an absolute shit show, to pardon my language. It would be a disaster. We do not have the logistical requirements to go overseas and fight, not really. These aircraft carriers are massive sitting targets, a huge waste of money. We have all this obsolete equipment, I'd say the aircraft carrier is completely obsolete. And I would say the existence of nuclear weapons makes that conflict almost impossible to occur. And you'd have to be a proxy war to even get it to happen.

But then you'd have insurgency and you'd have, you know, someone explained to me once that we outspent the Taliban 100,000 to one and they kicked us out of their country after 20 years. I just don't think we could win in that way. And I think the only reason you're seeing a conventional conflict in the Ukraine is because the Ukrainians do not have nuclear weapons. And so they can get involved, but NATO, its hands are tied because if they establish a no-fly zone, it's over. So my specific comments about the Ukraine is that, A, a lot of that is just absolute lying and propaganda every which way. Yes. And in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, my comment is I'm rooting for America. Yes. And that means no sanctions.

You know, the older law of war, it discriminated between civilians and troops, and it actually forbade economic warfare. You could have blockades, but only for the sake of keeping out weapons. You had to let food go through, just warfare away from the civilian populace, bracketed war. When you collapse that distinction, you get crazy. We gotta remember the insanity of having the Soviets judges condemning the Nazis for invading Poland in September of 1939. Even though the Soviets also invaded Poland in September of 1939, I could go on, but this world order is crazy. It's tied up in this COVID insanity and I think it's moving toward a very authoritarian an ideologically crazed move, and I'm worried, my greatest fear is that one of these regimes

accidentally loses its grip on power and its understanding, and that we use nuclear weapons. I think it's unlikely, but that I think is my great fear, and the more likely outcome I think is just economic suffering for ordinary Americans because of publicity, et cetera, at all. Yes, it seemed like they are putting sanctions on themselves. The Europeans certainly are and the United States too. It's very strange. And the war fervor is on people who even our side considers based, for example, Scott Adams, who goes around. He was very wrong on the vaccines and the Wuhan Grids crisis also. But now he goes around saying things like, oh, because of Never Again, we have to hold all of the Russian people responsible for continuing Putin's butcher war.

And so he doesn't seem to see that it doesn't matter what justification you use. When you start to hold 150 million, whatever it is, people responsible, he's arguing for what you are saying for an intensification of ideology to what it leads to total war and all but name. But it's very strange because it's on the right also, not just on the left. Yeah. No, I think I was going to add one comment. I think this is important. And I've said this in my writing. I just do not, I don't think young men should join the military in its current state. I want to ask you more in detail about that on the next segment, but related to that, the woke ideology, the woke religion of American military, which I asked before this, would

you care to comment when we close this segment now, how this affects the morale of, I assume you made friends in your unit and other units. You're saying the structural problem of how military is arranged leads to lack of esprit de corps because everybody keeps moving around, you don't form foreign friendships. I assume that has a bad effect on morale, but what about when a soldier, and again 80%, I think that's still the case of combat soldiers, are white men and most of them have an attitude, As you'd find among white conservative young men, what is the effect on their morale when they see tranny generals and things of this kind, you know, and other woke thing? I think it's not good. And what it reveals is that you can get some measure.

I think a lot of these guys, they want structure in their lives and they want to serve. But you also have a lot of young men. You can just see the collapse of the American family very prominently in the military. I think that has a huge effect on morale, the sense that what you're doing doesn't matter. Watching your friends die and think, what was that for? Some people double down. Some veterans and service members double down on the religious dimension. We're always right and that's not a good thing. It's psychologically really bad. A lot of our best Marines got out at four years. They just wouldn't stay. That's a problem if you think... I'm sorry to interrupt you, but just to remind me, I remember on Fox News, I think on Laura

Ingraham's show, actually, they had a veteran from Afghanistan or Iraq. I forget. He was very disfigured. Half his face was gone. And he was very sad to see he was railing, I think, against Trump or these people that that they are not respecting the sacrifices that we made. And so, I mean, the answer to that, guys, don't, you know, it's cruel, but don't you wish you had your face back? What did you lose your face for? I mean, that's what Trump is there for. So you don't, other soldiers, don't lose their face, you know, but you're saying that, what percentage would you say moving that direction versus realizing that they've been had? I think it's pretty, I'd say among the officer corps it's probably 60-70% believe the official

narratives and love the regime and then among the enlisted it's like 70% who are very resistant. And that just reflects the status striving that you see among, you know, it's just another game for status driving in the military, and that's pernicious. I knew some people who joined Marine officer and others, and they just told me direct, oh, I want to put it on my resume because I want to join some type of the security establishment. It may sound strange to people that, oh, I'm making this up. No, I mean, they use exact these words I'm telling you now. what percentage of your fellow officers would you say were that type of careerist toady? I think it was split pretty evenly. A lot of guys I think got very frustrated and got out,

especially the really good ones. But there were a lot who were pretty open like, yeah, this is all crazy but this pays well and it's respected, you get honor for doing it and that's It's an incentive and a lot of mercenary, what I would call, grifting that's going on. It's horrible for the institution, especially when it's sanctioned. People telling you how to manipulate the VA so you can get all these health benefits. I never liked it. I don't like it. It's bad for your soul. It's bad for men to have that view. A lot of young guys, military can just abuse you, so I feel that I'm getting what I deserve or I'm getting the support that I need and that's also a factor, especially with Iraq and Afghanistan. I think a lot of veterans that I know and who I talk to, they're very sympathetic to

my message because that was a waste and that was bad. I met a guy who got a combat action ribbon, like he had seen combat because a mortar round landed in his face while he was asleep. And he was like, that's not, it's like he's ashamed of the award. He's ashamed of what that means because it's not real. And that's a real, that's a real problem. Yes, Josiah, exactly on this point, I wanted to add something that I'm sure the audience wants to hear about current debates regarding Ukraine and the future of the world. But I've been keeping you for quite a while on this segment. you say we take a break and come back. Yes, I want to cook some bacon. I need some strength bacon here. We will be right back. Yes, we'll be right back.

Pribian Rhythms, episode 106. We are talking about the fruitlessness of modern warfare. And if you are surprised to hear me say this, you should not be. There are people who are trying to strange enough guilt trip me. They say, Bap, you wrote this book and your book means that you must support all warfare in all cases, because war is adventure and war is hygiene for the world. I do not use that phrase, but they associate that with, you know, fascism or whatever they think I am supposed to say. And they try to guilt trip me. How dare you not support the latest thing, the Ukraine war, and specifically the Ukrainian side? It may seem strange if they say that I believe that why would say Ukrainian side, why not also Russian side, why not also al-Nusra or North Korea. They do not specify this.

But in any case, you may have seen this tedious argument lately that, oh, how dare a Bronze Age pervert and his friends not support this war because Zelensky is a real man. They appear on the green screen with, you know, from Lvov or Krakow or Hollywood with green screen of Kiev in the background. How dare Bronze Age pervert not support this specimen of manhood who promotes war as hygiene for the world? Well, I will write longer on this, because I am getting tired of it. I don't think people advancing the argument are doing it in good faith. But I will write longer on this because his rather important point relates to what Josiah was saying at the end of last segment, that he did not see any combat.

He wanted to join, Josiah, correct me if I'm wrong, but he wanted to join in part for adventure, but also primarily, I gather, because you are a patriot and you wanted to do something difficult and disciplined and instead you found the women generals posting on social media they're doing their nails or this type of thing and you did not experience combat and then your friends who supposedly did feel ashamed by their combat badges because it was a mortar hit the base while they were sleeping type situation, they didn't even hear it. have friends who did experience more traditional combat they had in one engagement bullet fly past their head but I don't know that they would say is this so rewarding for them either and I think people misinterpret my advice in

book and my book in general in particular again Josiah forgive for if I go into too much detail on book but almost nobody who attacked me on these ground has read especially the last aphorism of the book, where I talk about necessity of forming mafias outside state system. My book has nothing to do with telling people to rah, rah, join military for patriotic reasons. I do not even believe in legitimacy of any existing modern state, Josiah, but that is spicy topic. We do not need to touch that. I want to add something else. This Ukraine conflict, I saw a thread the other day written by a communist. I think his name is Gonzalo Lira, if I'm not wrong. I did not agree with him. He is a two communist, two xenophilic.

He loves China and he misunderstands, I think, the American state because he believes there is a centrally planned policy run by one faction. And I think he's wrong about that. I think there is schizophrenic, various factions fighting each other and so forth. But he says something, I think, that is essentially true in this thread. He's trying to show that America has a strategy of using small country against big country, which is old principle. It's not the invention of new American security establishment. But this idea, we're going to use Taiwan against China and we're going to promote this social media frenzy, a big country attacks small country. You know, Gamal Harris low IQ statement on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. But Russia-Ukraine, same thing.

We use Ukraine and we will fight to the last Ukrainian. We are willing. In fact, it even helps us if Putler does Grozny. He absolutely leveled cities in Ukraine and so forth. You look by contrast to previous post-Soviet conflict, something like Transnistria, which is this piece of Moldova beyond the Dniester. And there has been, my friend Thomas 7-7 just pointed this out, there has been a 30-year three-way ceasefire there. It is not situation ideal for any parties involved, even Russia or Moldova or Ukraine, but it hasn't been war for 30 years. It's been peace. Same with Abkhazia in Georgia. After Georgia break away from Soviet Union, this peace of Georgia-Abkhazia, the Abkhazians do not, they're not Georgians. They don't want to be with Georgia. They want to be with Russia.

Same with the Ossetians in north Georgia. This is what led to the 2008 Russian invasion of Georgia, when McCain at the time he wanted Georgia to fight, he wanted Georgia to do essentially what Ukraine is doing now, but Georgia could not resist so easily. In any case, the point is this strategy to use a small country against big country has somehow taken hold of a certain particular United States establishment security faction. This thread alleges that I read the other day. I was not aware that Bridge Colby, L. Bridge Colby, wrote a book about just this subject in 2001. For audience who might not know, William Colby's grandson, and he is Ross Douthat's longtime friend. Few people know this part. I do not want to go into too much detail on this. I have known of these creatures for a while.

Rich Colby taught democracy promotion in Iraq after a United States invasion. How well that went. But this is a typical spook profile, Josiah. And I think this communist thread who was alleging all this is wrong, because this faction, pseudo-realist faction, whatever you want to call it, an American establishment, I do not think they run American foreign policy. But I think nevertheless, it's essentially correct in that it explains what the social media frenzy we are seeing now regarding Ukraine is about, because an essential part of the strategy wanted to be put into action is to intensify nationalism, intensify nationalism in these small countries, Ukraine, Taiwan, but many others. And you see, indeed, a push, a kind of reconciliation in the American establishment with small-country

nationalism, which is based, of course, on the model of Israel. This is why Yoram Hazony, with his Mossad National Conservatism Conference, I believe this why he is promoted by American establishment or a faction of it for the last two or three years, whatever it is, he is pushing this ideology. Nationalism good, imperialism is bad. America must support the fight against imperialism. That is a nationalist foreign policy. No, no, no. It's not to care about America's national interest and not get involved unless that's directly threatened. But no, no, it is to fight imperialism around the world. In other words, Wilsonianism is nationalism. This is the kind of pill-pull these people are doing. Again, I go on for some length of this, but I will write on it longer to make a case for people.

desire. We have to name the devil. When we name the devil, no, all you need to do is point out what they're doing. And if you point it out clearly enough, people see through it. But so a big part of this new American security state establishment project of small nation versus big nation where they use these marginal nations against Russia, China, and so forth, I assume they will use one against India next. But a big part of that is to intensify feelings of nationalism. So therefore, supposedly, the supposedly globalist American establishment will and is increasingly, as you see, supporting small country nationalism. A second element of this strategy is to mobilize the far right within Western nations, and

especially within the United States, but also Western Europe, to mobilize the far right to do their fighting for them in so-called volunteer battalions in Ukraine or Taiwan or whatever else next they will choose. And with this, they kill to burn one stone because they can get rid of the frogs. They get rid of us. They can send us to die in a missile strike in Kharkov or whatever. And oh, Josiah, I don't know if you've been watching this on Twitter lately or something. They are so angry at me because I'm still around and they wanted to ban me and then to use my book to say, oh, you see this book is a support, the war fervor in whatever context, any war whatsoever is great. In other words, they're stupid neocon ideology. But I'm still around Josiah. I'm not letting them do that.

And I'm telling them that misinterpretation and they're so mad at me that I'm not going along with their stupid plan to actually try get frogs killed. I mean, you know, I don't want to reveal order of battle or so on, but I don't think I am bragging when I say I have quite a few veteran men and other active duty, but many veteran and others and so forth who could listen to me if I told them go in Ukraine and fight. Of course, I'm not going to tell them that. That's insane. But they want me to do that. And in some In some ways this is an update of Gladio, you know, the Cold War strategy America had to use XSS officers and the European far right to fight against the Soviets. And I actually approve of that because they were being sent to high-reward, low-risk conflicts

in the third world, to Angola and other parts of Africa, Congo, and so forth. That's different. cases is against big powerful states like China and Russia. It is high-risk low-reward. In any case I'm going on for some time about this. I hope you do not mind. But I just want to, I mean I'll write more on this, but Josiah what this sound like to be, I just want to reveal what they're trying to do. They're trying, these are evil people Josiah, with the putting the woman with the gold braid in a wheat field propaganda and saying, love your people. And that's been around for a few years. And that perverse crap is done by people in establishment and by Kolomoisky, the billionaire worm from Ukraine, essentially trying to get frogs into a war fervor to die for him, die for his factories.

And the people in the establishment who are doing that are evil people who are actually not just trying to fight Russia. They're trying to get you killed. I don't mean you Josiah, but the frogs, they're trying to get me and my friends killed. They're trying to physically hurt us with this propaganda. And I'm really disappointed to see that it has worked on some small part of the European right who has been completely taken over by this fervor. But I will reveal everything that they are doing, because Richard Spencer and Greg Johnson and all these people, this is what they've been doing, Josiah, for the last few years with people from the Ukraine, Olena Semenyak, I believe her name is, and quite a few other

of these shield maidens from Ukraine promoting this, essentially trying to get the far right, as they see it, the hard right in the United States into a war fervor where we will die. This is what they're trying to do. Again, forgive I go on for too long. What this sound like to you? Because it sound to me, again, the thanklessness of modern warfare and modern military. Do you want to comment some more on this and on what I just said? Yeah, I think that's exactly right. And that's it's you have to you have to understand you got to see through the lies, the propaganda, anything where you see the establishment and everyone's getting along and they all agree, that's a sign that they're lying. And I've stated in my writings that young American men

should not join the military. Yes. You just should not do it right now. Because something similar happens to, you know, you're talking about the far right and right-wing elements. If you look at ordinary patriotic young men, something similar happens and I think this is actually a release valve for the regime. It takes these incredibly manly patriotic types who really don't have a place in liberal democracy quote-unquote and it sends them to places like Afghanistan and they play around in the sandbox and they get to drop you know all these munitions but it's all very controlled safe and away from the regime and so they you know eventually a lot of these types become spiritually broken damaged just intensity of combat that the operational tempo basically

destroys their personal lives and it makes them they get locked in to the experience comes to define their whole life yes and so instead of thinking about the political troubles of the that are in their own communities and fighting against this regime that works daily against our rights and against Just ordinary decency. They're in this community of veterans. They're disengaged from the rest of the population. Yes. Very common among veterans to love war. To love the idea of the existential experience of it, even though they know the great costs. Yes. This is, you know, that lust for manly virtue or the longing to greatness, that has to be moderated by wisdom and thoughtfulness, and what I've seen most frequently is the abuse of the men who have that type of inclination to go and fight.

I think you're describing something similar here in regards to an ideological side. Yes. Yes. No, I think it's exact. It's a release valve. It's actually, there are historical precedents for this. Franco got rid of the Falangists this way. He sent, I believe it was called the Blue Division, and they wanted to volunteer to fight against Bolshevism, and he wanted to remain neutral in World War II, and here he saw means to get rid of two things with one act. So he say, OK, I will fulfill, I will make it look to Hitler like I'm doing something for him. And I'm going to get rid of these crazies, the Falangists, these were the–Franco was the Catholic right, and he was getting rid of essentially the Spanish National Socialists.

He told them, go, go, go fight against Bolshevism, be heroes, be heroes in Russia. So of course they all got killed. And it helped him politically, both things, you know, in two different ways. Now, I like Franco, so that's different, but I think they're trying to do that not only with me and my friends, but for far longer with the Americaner, with the founding stock Americans, as you say, with the manly Americans, they say, go, go, go fight in another place. And you're telling people it's thankless. Before we move to next subject, which I know you want to talk about Wuhan grids, excuse me, and how all of these things, including Ukraine is a distraction from that. But do you want to add anything else about what would you tell to a young guy, they want

to join military for reasons you said, can you give them other concrete reasons not not to do it now? You know? Yeah, I think one is you have to, you have to ask, I mean, do you really want to die for this transgender grooming that's going on at the highest levels of this government. That document from the Office of Population Affairs is despicable. I mean, this regime endorses the mutilation of children. I mean, God will judge us for that. I believe that. There will be a day of judgment for that insanity. And I would say, moreover, I think another argument often hear is young men longing for friendship and to gain martial skills and I believe in both of those things and I think you should do both but I would argue just from my own experience

you know if you go buy a thousand rounds of ar-15 ammunition and you buy a rifle and you practice and you know you form you just gain basic outdoor skills that you could learn just from someone who who knows the landscape, you will gain a far better appreciation for modern war and for potentially a conflict you could be in than you would in the military. I did precious little shooting in the military. We had so low allocations of ammunition, it was basically worthless training, oftentimes just enough to familiarize yourself with the weapon system. That's very troubling and I think if you just spend a couple of weeks shooting or you get good coach, you can get quite good at those things. Machiavelli, he gives good advice.

He says you should be a knower of sites, geography around you. Know what plants there are. Know the highways and the byways. Understand the rivers and local ports and harbors and roads. That is a kind of martial mindset. Yes, he gives advice to people to hunt and to know the landscape, to know how long it takes to get from here to that tree line and and so forth. Right. These are very useful skills and they're easily gained. But then friendship, too. Yes. Local friendship, community friendship, is very powerful. They don't want you to do that. They want you to social distance, therefore you must anti-social distance. Yes. This is an imperative. Well, let's talk about Wuhan Greece for a moment and we will come back next segment

to this practical advice we can give people because I think that's very important. I'd like people to stay away from big organizations which are always infiltrated and form close friendships with two or three people they know personally for a while. But we can talk, I don't know if you agree with that, but we can talk about that in a moment. This, uh, who hung reads, uh, you know, the, the whole Ukraine insanity now, uh, I knew that the, is that the only way to come out of who hung reads, uh, that's the so-called COVID. to come out of that hysteria was with some type of war or some, you can't just get rid of that hysteria. What do you think of that? I know you have many thoughts about what happened with

Wuhan Greeks, you know? Yeah, it's amazing to me the lies, just the abject lying they've done. The United States during COVID became an authoritarian one-party state. We had edicts from the highest levels about who you could associate with and when, going to church, speech even, the censorship, the criticism of the vaccines, of anything the regime was pushing. And I say one party because Republicans and Democrats alike all followed Bauchi. They're all triple vaccinated. Every single governor. Even Trump himself, and I'm sorry to say I like Trump a great deal and I would vote for him again in 2024. But that's, to me, we have to establish never again. That I will say never again. We cannot have this biomedical security state which

reduces us to mere bodies. It strips us of all human identifying elements and just acts directly on us and that's repulsive to me. I like higher life. I'm very pro-life in that way. art, poetry, love, friendship, excellence, association, liberty. These are the human things. They animate us. And the machine, it raged war on us. The state was at war with the nation. And we must fight back. We have to fight that spiritual conflict. Do not let them distract you with their games and their lies. We must hold them accountable. You had a great something to say on this, we have to keep track of who did what when you always keep track of their lives. Always. This is of utmost importance. Yes, I am surprised that after people were denied the ability to see their aged parents who had to die alone.

And can you imagine someone who was not allowed to see their dying mother and that same week There was the state procession for St. George Floyd, in whose name cities were being burned. And I am just amazed that people who were rightly outraged by these injustices are now animated instead by Putler's attack on a country they know nothing about, in a conflict they don't know anyone, instead of being angered against the people who perpetrated this against them. You're right, I did mention on my telegram, I think, that there should be a world database searchable with every local official who engaged in these types of abuses. Oh, this hospital administrator would not let you see your dying mother. Why? Did they have an option to look the other way, but they didn't?

These local policemen went and closed this bar down and ended people's livelihoods. People should be much more animated by this and making local database and keeping track of it. Is this what you're saying? I believe in this, but yes. And now they're using Ukraine and saying, putler's authoritarianism, after you had the absurd spectacle of Trudeau, the so-called Minister of Canada, taking people's bank accounts away and Macron shooting, shooting protesters. I think people died during those protests against Macron, shooting people in the eye and so forth. The Australian authorities using microwave weapons of mass destruction that I think are banned against their own people to prevent protests, and we are told that we should worry

about protests in Ukraine, about Putin, it's very strange, Josiah, how they were able to take attention away from their own crimes over the Wuhan. As the nation-state goes into decline, as the state, there's a great passage in Nietzsche, The new idol in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, I highly recommend, he says, and I'm paraphrasing, but the state is the coldest of all cold monsters, and it takes these men with rich hearts and it gets them to squander themselves for the sake of this modern death factory, this instrument of destruction, and this, I must warn, all these young men, full of spirit, full of life, They love their country. You must not, do not squander yourselves. Do not squander your rich heart for the people who wish only death for you. And you must waste spiritual warfare.

Spiritual warfare. What they are doing in Shanghai right now, the starvation, the suicidal despair, the drones, you know, do not, you know, what is it? Quench your soul's desire for freedom. That's what the Chinese call, as Nietzsche says, Just to tell the audience that they're sending drones to people saying stop your souls longing for freedom, do not sing outside your window, right? We have to resist. That is the great threat of our time and it won't end until there's accountability. I think there's a thousand dollar bill, I'll play amateur political consultant, I think An explicitly anti-biomedical security state political run would be enormously successful. It could catapult a very minor regional figure to national prominence, simply on the force

of the legitimate frustration with these tyrannical measures. This is a great weapon against the regime. It reveals them for who they are. As the masks went on, the masks came off, and we have to take advantage. Yes. No, I agree with this. Do you think there's any possibility for continuation of trucker protests and trucker strikes and blockades? Or do you think what happened was that right? I think this is the regime just utilized every weapon at its disposal, censorship and then blocking roads in Canada, the use of the state forces. And again, I want to tell young men, you know, they will use you against your own people And there'll be all these rationalizations if you're part of the security state. And the danger of institutionalization, you know,

where you join the blob spiritually, very dangerous. We have to avoid this. The free mind, you need to cultivate skepticism and thinking. This is a thoughtless time. So, so we have to think and we have to come from the fringes, from the edges of the empire. That's where we will see a true, a true response. Yes, Josiah, I mostly agree with you. I do have some, you know, but I want to ask you this on next segment, because again, I am keeping you, but I have some questions specifically about this, about this. How do we take scalps? I will ask you this on next segment. We will be right back. Josiah, it is a pleasure to have you back. This final segment of Caribbean Rhythms, Episode 106, we are talking about strategies against the dragon, you know, this is a Valorian

society interpretation of hero versus dragon in ancient Indo-European myth is that it referred, the dragon referred to these matriarchal, maybe I embellish with that, but these collective states, what I've called the long house and it referred to the defeat of these collective say I see with what you're describing with the biomedical tyranny and the other overbearing modern mammy state is this return of long house. I want to somehow change things. The book I try to give advice in last part, part of that advice, some personality types may like to join some institutions. I always thought we would need some people on the inside. You disagree with this. Would you care to elaborate? What your model is for opposition to this so-called regime, what is your model?

Yeah, I should be clear, I don't think there should be no engagement or attempt to take over institutions. I just think there needs to be more focus on what institutions can be taken, taken over or influenced by those who want to see a decent future for the country. And I think there's an untapped, untapped resource here in the form of local communities that going to places and establishing a life but then being prominent in that local region or area, this is often far easier than people understand. I know a little bit about Michigan state politics, for instance, and running for a local state rep seat or trying to influence local politics at that level, it's much easier and far more rewarding in many cases than trying to climb up the ranks.

a 25-year cursus honorum to get to a place of influence within the federal establishment and whatnot. I think there's a way of interpreting this, which is the retreat from public life view, the Benedict option, and I think as you've rightly pointed out, that's a death sentence that you sign for yourself. But I think we have to come to grips with the absolute spiritual disaster and collapse and our institutions and the need for friendship and I think stability and family, not as ends in themselves, but as a means. Friends spur you on to greatness, to do great things. And this is very important. And I think a lot of these institutions are just dying simply and then there will be a need, I think, coming quite soon to replace them. So this is the way I envision this

And this is what I'm trying to do myself, which is, I am at the very fringes, I'm not in the center of political power in DC, but I've had far more influence than I ever would have trying to scramble, I think, internship to you be the lackey assistant deputy to whoever a powerful person is. This is my model in the way that I think. Yes, I think people should pick fights that they are likely to win in the short to medium term. It reminds me of, I know some krapto people, some so-called kraptocurrency people who realize they do not have enough to be oligarchs in the United States, but they might have enough to be oligarchs or minor oligarchs in other countries. But this open to very few who locked out on the crap-toe casino or who will.

But I say principles, though, I think what you are saying is very good and not just run for office, but also the bureaucracy. If people manage to take the bureaucracy, the school boards now, of course, everyone knows with Chris Rufo's fight, but the local bureaucracies in the Midwest and many of the other state. So much could be done just with that, Josiah, no? Yeah, absolutely. I think what Chris is doing is phenomenal. But it's not just the school board. There's many local licensing boards of all kinds of things. People should be taking those over. I wish that Bannon had been teaching people to do this instead of his planned intellectual hideaway in Italy or whatever he was planning. He should have done This teach Midwestern Americans to take over local bureaucracies.

Machiavelli has, I think, excellent advice about war and about politics that applies evenly in both. And it's this, iron or steel is more important than gold. Yes. And so cultivating virtues, the right habits of mind, and friendship, a great asset to this endeavor. This is what we need. We need young men especially to have high thoughts. I want to encourage Aristotle says, and I think this is very useful advice, he says there are three things that tyrannies fear and have to suppress. One is friendship, you have to keep people social distance if you will. The second thing is the capacity for hard work, the ability to just hone away a single purpose or task year in and year out. The third thing is the capacity for high and noble thoughts.

I think oftentimes young men, especially listlessness, they don't understand, it's better to overshoot and miss the mark than to never pull back the bow at all if you want to use that metaphor. I want to encourage high thoughts. You have to cultivate that in yourself and the human type that thinks in that way. We have to elevate that and don't get mired in local politics for the petty squabbles. There needs to be a unifying theme, something that we aim for. What are we here to accomplish? Chris Rufo gave a great talk at Hillsdale. He called it laying siege to our institutions. Yes, this is what I believe. We must do this in spiritual warfare, through social media. Very powerful weapon. Very powerful. That's why they censor, because this strips them of their rhetorical power, and I think

it's very important. Yes. When people say, oh, you are just posting, well, Josiah did quite a lot with just posting. He truly embarrassed the unworthy military top press. So no, it's not just posting. It is true, you should not only post, but posting itself can be very powerful. I would encourage people to keep extreme tight objects. So if you come online as a frog and you want to do in real life some local politic or any other kind, just keep the two projects entirely separate. You can meet people from online if you truly trust them, including especially trust them with your life. But you should not go out and say, I am Kekistan, I am a frog, and use Internet language in real life. That's crazy. Right, Josiah? I don't know if you agree with that. Yeah.

I think it's, what is it, you know, the youth culture online, often very funny, but hard to understand. And it's difficult to bridge that gap, but it has to be done. So I think a lot of people, the life in the metaverse, in virtual reality, which we already live in, we live in virtual reality, social media, again, I think very powerful tools, but real life, real friendship and having people you can depend on in a time of crisis, this will naturally lend itself to great things or better things, but you can't let them box you in too. No, of course, and you know, you're not saying the long march through institutions. I do not believe in that either. People say the right should do that. I think the right cannot do that for any number of reasons, but especially when you look at

the pettiness of the left, and they act in these local ways often too with NGOs and so forth. But for the right, I think that's a very depressing, tedious idea. I mean, you just said, no, you're going to get mired in local this. You say, no, you do local politic, like you said, but you must keep the high aim and the high goal and keep just this one thing in mind. Yes, you are demolishing institutions. In this regard, I want to ask you, because I believe the murderous rage that the left fields and talks, they are using Hutu propaganda language, exterminationist language. I said this in an article a few years ago, conservatives jumped at my throat. But it's true. They are using pre-genocide language for years, Josiah, the lefties, eliminationist language.

In Tarahumwe left is what I call them after the Hutu militias. And excuse, you see how they attack the throat. And I don't see how it's possible to prevent great violence in the 2020s. It's not that I want it or endorse it, but with huge parts of the left who have been reared on this intense hatred, including ethnic groups who, like the Ukrainians, have been fed Netflix ethnic grievance hatred for eight years. But imagine how much greater the hatred is for the American within America from these minorities who have been fed this ethnic hatred now for decades, ethnic grievance hatred. I'm not saying what form it will take or whatever, but I think bloodshed unfortunately will come because of this murderous rage of the left.

I do not think there will be movements of armies like in Spanish Civil War, but some extreme unstable situation like happened in 1970s Buenos Aires or something like that might happen. And in that sense, I have some questions for you. The first is, wouldn't our side need some people, even on the federal level, some people, it's not that they will take over these institutions, but it's useful to have a guy, I mean, I have fans in State Department and FBI and this other thing, I'm told, I'm told, I don't know. But wouldn't it be useful to have somebody there who can tip our side off, such and such, you know? Yes, I think this is to envision a much darker scenario and one that I think there's, and I think like you're saying that this language of resentment and rage, this is already blown up

I think in the 2020 riots. That was I think a taste of things to come. I think the difficulty, I think the way the right should think about this is in the form of insurgency and I don't don't mean that simply like conducting terrorism or something like that, but I deplore violence. The way one should think is that these institutions of their own accord, the question is whether they'll have a competence to do the kinds of things you're talking about and it would be better if there weren't high IQ, very motivated young men who in the course of their ordinary careers to advance themselves, I think it takes a phenomenal and very rare kind of will who can do the sort of thing you're talking about. And that's not to say that those tigers aren't out there, I just think they're very rare.

I've never met anyone quite like that, which is not to say they don't exist, it's just to say it's almost impossible. They make you perform ritual humiliations so that you eventually break you down. They're grooming you. institution is grooming you and it's very hard to resist that but you know the lesson of the Taliban in the Pashtun was that these local organizations with the spiritedness to preserve their way of life could prevail over you know the trillions of dollars of Leviathan that was poured against them so that I think is a more effective model to take the violence out of it just the idea of, you know, Hillsdale, this place, this town, almost no COVID restrictions, ever. And the reason was, no, we just don't do that here. But, you see, you have to live with that. Yes, of course.

I don't know. It's very hard to imagine the kind of person who could do that and be incorruptible. You know, I have maybe the older... I don't have that in me. I don't have that capacity to simulate and many heartland Americans are like that. It's not a tradition. It's not in us even. It may be difficult. I see what you're saying. It's doing long infiltration work very hard. I have some friends who are trying to do this with Antifa. That's much easier. Antifa is generally low IQ and it's somewhat decentralized, Not as decentralized as people think. Antifa, actually, they often go, they get orders, and that's another topic, Josiah. But there it is quite easy to have someone pretend to be Antifa and join.

But it's harder, you're right, to do long-term infiltrations from the bottom up into Antifa. And the same principle, you would say, applies to the state. I see that I still think dark time are coming and we need some people who can tip off. And it wouldn't be necessarily, you know, these I don't think the FBI will have death squads, but I think they will look the other way and try to stop normal Americans from defending themselves against, let's say, BLM-type death squads. Yes, I do believe that. And in that sense, in, let's say, some- I don't know if I can give people advice for local politic and bureaucracy, co-option in local politics. I think those are very good projects. I got interest in the idea of decentralized resistance design. Now, if this is too spicy, we don't need to talk.

And I'm not talking about violence or anything else, but simply the organizational model that has interested me for some time. If you have heard of the Tamil Tigers, now I do not endorse them or their tactics or I'm not saying people should be doing that, but the way they persevered for such a long time is they had very small squads, two or three people. It was very often two men and one woman. It's very useful to have one woman in your group, but it's hard in modern America for various reasons, excuse. And this group of three, you know, they were autonomous and it's a kind of decentralized model. Now, I'm not saying our side should do what the Tamil Tigers did again, but that type of model action, small sales to take over local bureaucracies or to do social media

prank campaign or the kinds of things that you're doing, I believe should be done through very small groups because any big group our site tries to do gets immediately co-opted, infiltrated but these small platoons decentralize. What do you think? I don't know. I think that's very wise. And if you think of yourself just as friends preserving a way of life, that's different than the sort of kooky organization forming, which is very common on the right. In the case of the quote-unquote militia that tried to assassinate the governor, that was just ordinary guys joking like, wouldn't it be great if we just like put the governor out in the lake and held a trial, that's just crazy, but they abused that, of course, so I think much better for young men to avoid that kind of thing.

For what you're talking about, I think this is maybe for wealthy donors, instead of giving money to the Heritage Foundation, giving it to trying to get really high quality people to run for state office. This is a huge problem. The quality of the human type who gravitates to these offices is often very low and not spirited. State legislatures should issue statements condemning the sanctions on Russia as part of the American involvement, CIA involvement in the Ukraine. This is a very potential avenue and it should be explored more, I think. There's There's just a dearth of good men with good intentions and a high aim who are at this local level, but these institutions could protect ordinary people. People should take ... Look, they don't need to listen to me.

I'm crazy with the things I say and so forth, but they should do what you're saying now is all very nice thing, and also just follow Chris Rufo model, and doesn't need to be about his topics, but his model for local organizations is very good. Why aren't there Chris Rufo copycats Josiah? Well, again, no one is willing to pick up these $100 bills that are just lying around. Rufo made a huge name for himself for what he's doing. I think many of your listeners could do something similar. Even local politics, who knows how that could work out in a given situation, but pretty much anyone can, these people reveal themselves constantly. Just reveal it to the world. Very effective, I think. Yes. No, I think all this advice is very good. Yes. I like other historical figure like Hassan

Isabab. We don't need to talk about this now. It's too spicy, I think. But in any case, Josiah, I've kept you for quite some time, and I hear you are going on a midnight hunt now, and I do not, there is this painting I talk about on previous shows, Night Hunt by Paolo Uccello. Is this true, this happen where you are, do you go hunt animal at night, deer? Yeah, this is true, deer are a great scourge upon this region, they're the biggest killer, the biggest killer of the locals, so you have to stop the herd animal from taking over. I like to go into forest at night without clothes on and many others, but it's a frightening subject perhaps. This is a family show. Josiah, it's been a pleasure to have you on. I hope

you come again, and we must talk, we must have a feast. We will have a Homeric feast with roast lambs and such yes absolutely absolutely thank you so much for your time yes no thank you for coming until next time very good thank you for coming Josiah until next time BAP out