Trump Gets Torched by Four-Star General Over War!!
3/21/202621 mincomplete
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1:29Donald Trump was just torched by his former defense secretary, General James Mad Dog Mattis.
1:39He served as Donald Trump's defense secretary during Trump's first term from 2017 to 2018.
1:46And General Mattis, who is a four -star general, says that Donald Trump has no
1:52plan at all when it comes to this disastrous war in Iran.
1:57General Mattis says it will take at least 8 to 12 years to try to
2:03rebuild America's relationships with our former allies after Donald Trump eviscerated it by attacking NATO,
2:13by attacking our former allies.
2:15And General Mattis makes it clear that he believes that this Iranian regime is not
2:21going to be toppled, they are not going to crack, and that Donald Trump is
2:27utterly failing right now. I want to show you what General Mattis said when he
2:33appeared on PBS's firing line with Margaret Hoover.
2:38This deserves to get more attention, because let me also be clear.
2:41In addition to being a four -star retired general, General Mattis served in that region
2:49in leadership roles in the Middle East, probably with more experience than any living person
2:54today. First off, after the revolution in 1979 in Iran, General Mattis was in the
3:02region. He saw firsthand how the Iranian regime engaged in terrorist attacks throughout the region.
3:09He also led troops in the Persian Gulf War, in the war in Afghanistan, as
3:15well as the Iraq War.
3:17He headed the U .S.
3:18Joint Forces Command and the U .S.
3:21Central Command, CENTCOM, from 2010 to 2013, overseeing operations across the Middle East, including Iraq,
3:30Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen. Then he served as Donald Trump's defense secretary.
3:35You'll recall that somewhere right around the end of December of 2018, he resigned because
3:42he didn't like what he saw Donald Trump doing foreign policy -wise.
3:46Then Donald Trump acted like he fired General Mattis, but General Mattis said, nope, I
3:52absolutely resign. So let me show you what went down on this PBS program.
3:58This first clip I'm going to show you, General Mattis says that he believes that
4:03the regime, the Iranian regime, will not fall, that Donald Trump does not have any
4:09coherent plans at all, and that we absolutely need allies.
4:14We need NATO. We need to have friends in the world.
4:19Otherwise, doing anything internationally, engaging in any wars, it's impossible.
4:24And again, this comes at a time where earlier today, earlier yesterday, Donald Trump's been
4:29posting attacks on NATO. NATO is a paper tiger, right?
4:34It comes as Doug Burgum, Donald Trump's interior secretary, is saying, ah, it seems like
4:39the United States right now is much closer to Russia and other countries in Russia's
4:45orbit than to NATO. Watch General Mattis eviscerate Donald Trump.
4:51Let's play this clip right here.
4:53How would you estimate the likelihood of the regime's falling?
4:59I do not believe the regime will fall in the near future.
5:04Now, understand war is fundamentally unpredictable.
5:09Fundamentally, that is part. of war so what i'm saying could be completely reversed in
5:1624 hours but i think it is very unlikely that that regime will fall anytime
5:21soon i think we're going to have to deal with it so how do you
5:25deal with it i'd suggest that america has got some of the greatest strengths our
5:32economy our education system we have ways of engaging with the world no other country
5:38has and yes we need a very strong military to defend this this uh idea
5:43of a democracy but at the same time uh if we don't use all of
5:49our strengths and there i would point to allies without them we're not going to
5:55we're not going to get there you say in your memoir nations with allies thrive
6:00those without them die whether we like it or not we are part of a
6:03world that needs allies and yet president trump has said we don't need anybody we're
6:10the strongest nation in the world so can the united states succeed in this war
6:18without allies other than israel no what is your sense of the biggest concerns from
6:28our allies right now well there are many of the same concerns uh that we
6:33hear from our our fellow citizens uh america is becoming predatory uh america is as
6:40unreliable uh they say one thing and then they change uh seven days later or
6:46two days later uh so there's a sense that we are not a reliable security
6:51partner right now the first time nato went to war was after we were attacked
6:56and one of the countries that lost as many boys per capita fighting alongside us
7:04after america was attacked on 9 11 was denmark and denmark is of course the
7:10country that uh that owns greenland so when you think of a threat against a
7:17nato ally or when you hear that we're putting tariffs on allies at the same
7:23time we're demanding they increase their defense expenditures which requires a robust economy you're seeing
7:30a strategic disconnect and right now many of the actions we're taking unfortunately uh mean
7:39that we're working against our own strategic outcome at the end and you can't bring
7:46allies on board if they don't trust you we're going to have to deal with
7:51this threat by this aberrant bizarre murderous regime in tehran and we're going to do
7:57it at the end of the day with allies lots of allies more from general
8:02mattis in this powerful interview with pbs right here where he talks about how it
8:08will take at least 8 to 12 years to try to repair the wreckage of
8:14donald trump's wrecking ball to the entire world and it'll probably be even longer than
8:20that we may not be able to recover general mattis says and also he says
8:25that donald trump is basically a putin bootlicker and china is benefiting from this as
8:30well here play this clip general mattis if if we are going to deal with
8:35the regime that is in place and we are not going to do it without
8:37our allies is there a method or a mechanism for trust rebuilding is is there
8:45a path forward yeah and you go to the heart of it right there uh
8:51there's a saying about trust it departs on a horse at a gallop it comes
8:57back at a very slow walk and i get the sense it's going to take
9:02us eight to twelve years to restore the levels of trust that the allies believe
9:06that we are once again someone they can count on we've treated them poorly and
9:12i think it's going to take a while to recover but it's going to be
9:16by giving our word on something and living up to it and going back to
9:21a strategic approach and a good strategy is an appetite suppressant to war it is
9:28not an appetite uh increasing uh tool uh because you don't go off and do
9:36silly things if you've got a strategy because it sets priorities and you don't do
9:42something for example reopen russian oil take sanctions off russian oil because you know that's
9:50a key problem for europe right now you don't do certain things that end up
9:55actually causing you more problems down the road so we're going to have to get
9:59back to thinking strategically and giving our word and living up to it you mentioned
10:04easing the sanctions on russian oil uh president zelinski said that that certainly does not
10:11help peace and only strengthens russia's position it sounds like you agree how is china
10:17reading these actions well china is benefiting uh from a a lot of this and
10:24russia is benefiting militarily because weapons that could have been given to ukraine are not
10:31being given they're being used in other places that sort of thing economically russia is
10:36benefiting uh so right now uh China and Russia are probably benefiting from this war.
10:43All right, fellas, real talk.
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12:44More from General Mattis right here saying, Let's be clear.
12:49I've studied this Iranian regime.
12:51It is very unlikely that they are going to crack.
12:55And also, Donald Trump's purported goals are very muddled and murky.
13:00And it's unclear what the hell he even wants.
13:04And when you are engaged in warfare, if you are also a student of warfare,
13:10if you study at military academies, having very clearly defined objectives, seems like an obvious
13:18thing to say, though, that that's very important.
13:21And from one minute to the next, Donald Trump will be like, All right, we're
13:25done. And on the other hand, like yesterday, he's like, We're going to be sending
13:29in thousands and thousands of troops.
13:31Remember yesterday, he sent in a huge amount of troops from San Diego, thousands and
13:37thousands of troops, the 86th Airborne Division.
13:39Heck, they were separately called.
13:41And then in addition to other marine expeditionary units that won't even get there until
13:45April. So what the hell is the plan?
13:47Here, play this clip. They are not, quote unquote, not cracking, and they are willing
13:52to fight to the end.
13:53Is it your understanding, based on what you know of the Iranian regime, that it
13:58seems plausible that their will is unbroken?
14:07I think it would be very unlikely that this regime would break right now.
14:12But like Hemingway's point about how a man went broke gradually and then suddenly.
14:19You know, it is a very fragile regime in terms of its grip, but it's
14:25strong enough with its murder and all.
14:28They've told, for example, they've told the Iranian parents, don't let your sons and daughters
14:33demonstrate because we will shoot them.
14:35We will go after them.
14:37So, no, they're not going to go away anywhere right now.
14:41I would not think that they're going to break.
14:43So you've summarized one of your leadership techniques as, and especially on the battlefield, as
14:49clearly stating the purpose, sparsely outlining the methods that are to be used, and then
14:57explaining the desired end state of any mission.
15:01So how do you understand, as a civilian now, the Operation Epic Fury's purpose and
15:11desired end state? As you can see, the lady does her homework.
15:20It's murky. It is murky right now to understand what we in the military call
15:27the commander's intent. And we've heard things like unconditional surrender.
15:32We will select the next leader.
15:34We've heard all sorts of things, frankly.
15:38And it's been murky, and it's hard to articulate an end state that's achievable.
15:47For example, as the American president has said, it just takes a couple people to
15:52screw up the Gulf because they can get down there in their fishing boats and
15:56drop mines in. And Lloyd's of London injects the insurance rates up, and people don't
16:02want to send their ships through.
16:04And for the American president to say, well, you know, they're - It's going to
16:07have to show guts. Let me tell you, I've been in minefields and I hate
16:11them. And every ship can be a minesweeper once, but that's not the way you
16:16want to find the mines, I guarantee you.
16:19So right now, yeah, it's pretty confused.
16:22More from General Mattis right here, talking about how Donald Trump has described what he's
16:28doing in Iran, whatever the hell it is, as an excursion by its nature that
16:33is limited. Whereas the Iranian regime views this as a total war, limited war excursion.
16:41That's Trump's definition for Iran.
16:43This is about survival. So when you're talking about a regime that's in survival mode,
16:49and that regime has lots of weapons and the citizenry is unarmed, it's unlikely to
16:57topple them. And also you're likely to have an outcome where you have even more
17:03extremists within the regime taking power.
17:07That's precisely what we're seeing now.
17:09Monjaba, Khomeini, the new Ayatollah.
17:12And when the Trump regime and Netanyahu kill a new leader, a more extreme person
17:19takes their role. Play this clip.
17:21We have seen one administration after another try to find what I call the fruitless
17:28pursuit of the Iranian moderate somewhere in that regime.
17:32And we haven't found him yet.
17:34Okay. It doesn't exist. This is a regime, like if the CIA is analyzing the
17:39regime to show you how we learn about them, they have a list of what
17:45are the indicators of an autocrat staying in power.
17:49There's over 70 indicators, and they look at all these things.
17:52One of them, one of those indicators outweighs all the rest.
17:57Will the regime murder their own people at the industrial level?
18:02If they will, they're going to stay in power.
18:05You have an unarmed population up against a very well -armed regime that is fighting
18:12a total war right now.
18:14Total war. We're fighting a limited war.
18:16The American president a week ago called it a little excursion.
18:22But they are fighting for their lives, the Mullahs are, because the people probably will
18:27kill them if they overthrow them.
18:28They're just that angry at them.
18:30So they're fighting like that.
18:32What have we learned from it?
18:34It's going to be a darn difficult problem.
18:36A darn difficult problem. I hope we learned it.
18:39Let me share you this last clip from this interview.
18:43Again, a very powerful interview indeed.
18:45Let's play it. Is this a reflection on unpredictability in war?
18:54That and some other things.
18:56But what happened in 1979 when this was being filmed is that changed everything in
19:03the Middle East. In Iran, the Shah falls.
19:08And this regime that we're now dealing with comes in some 47 years ago, whatever
19:13it is, the Grand Mosque falls to the nutcases, the political Islamists, what eventually becomes
19:22the Sunni side of the terrorist organizations coming out of the Mideast.
19:28And so out of that, the question when this war started some couple of weeks
19:34ago, were we going to fundamentally change, from a strategic point of view, fundamentally change
19:40the construct of the Middle East?
19:43Israel, using hard power, had basically shattered two of the militias.
19:48And was there an opportunity now to rock them back so far on their heels
19:53that the regime would fall?
19:55That obviously has not happened, although it's been defanged in terms of its proxies, in
20:00terms of its nuclear program has been setback.
20:03But the regime is still there.
20:05So basically, the war on a strategic level has not changed the overarching framing principle
20:12of what we have to deal with in that area.
20:14And we will have to deal with it.
20:16We can't walk away and say, sorry, we got distracted or we got tired of
20:20this. We're going to have to deal with whatever comes out of this current war.
20:24And I think it's going to include that regime still there that goes back to
20:28that fateful year in 1979 in the Middle East.
20:32Well, there you have it, folks.
20:34I think that was such a critical interview.
20:37I mean, there's no one, there's really no living person more knowledgeable about this stuff
20:41than General Mattis. Put simply, what you heard there, I think, is an unbiased, unfiltered
20:49view of what's really going on.
20:51Tell me what you think.
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