The Bongino Brief - February 25, 2023

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So is China preparing for World War III? The answer is, I hope to the hell. Not, they're not because I don't like the idea of World War III. Joe, World War III bad.

No, not a fan either. I'd rather sit here, do my podcast, watch my daughter play flag football, watch my eldest daughter in college, enjoy her time in college. I'd rather not be looking at starvation, nuclear annihilation, war killing people, people killing us, the threat of people killing us, and us having to threaten to kill other people. I really don't like that idea, and you probably wouldn't either.

Unfortunately, the Chinese Communist Party, I don't believe, feels the same way. Are they preparing for World War III? What would invasion look like? Ladies and gentlemen? I covered that last week and folks. The threat of an EMP attack, an electromagnetic pulse attack detonated by a balloon in our atmosphere and a nuclear weapon attached to it, is very real. I had state senator from Texas Bob Hall on my radio show yesterday. He'll be on my Fox Show again this weekend Saturday at nine o'clock.

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He was talking yesterday about how easy this is to do. China. Just did they not just show us how easy it is to infiltrate our airspace with a balloon? And nothing happened. Did anybody miss that?

How difficult for them would it be for them to attach a nuclear payload to detonate it and to basically wipe out every electronic device? You have everything. Nothing would work water filtration plants, nuclear plants. nothing would work, energy plants. nothing.

God forbid, your parents or something need supplemental oxygen that has to be plugged in. Nothing works.

State Senator Hall brought up a fascinating, for all the wrong reasons, point. He's like, you detonate an emp in the atmosphere, or a couple of them. Over the United States, you wipe out 90 of the population, probably within six weeks, you got about 10 of us left.

Chinese wouldn't even need to invade, military, facilities would probably be broken, chaos would break out, There's a possibility of desertions invade. They just walk in and take everything.

He brought up the point that they're not going to nuke the United States. Because they need the food, they need the farmland, they can't feed themselves. They just walk in and take it, folks, the time to prepare for this is now.

Now, why am I bringing this up again? Conspiracy theory? Whatever, man, I don't care anymore. I spent my entire life in the preparedness field, trying to prevent both Republican and Democrat presidents from being attacked or anything happened to them. I got paid to think about crazy things that might never happen.

You know why? So they would never happen in real life? And you know what I get paid to do now to tell you the truth that the signs are everywhere, that something's going on. A friend over at Fox Tucker Carlson addressed this new Russia-China symbiote. How China and Russia, who've been historical enemies, by the way, look at history, you'll see that yourself have been historical enemies. In many cases, all of a sudden seem to be teaming up, like the perverse wonder twins, and they're up to something.

Tucker addressed this the other night. Check this out.

That's not speculation, it's a fact, and as a result of that fact, according to Zelensky himself, hundreds of millions of people will die. No big deal, as long as we take Crimea.

Because if we lose, it's over. And are you really confident knowing they could fly a balloon over our territory with?

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Check this out U.S general's gut feeling of war with China sparks alarm over predictions. Leaked memo forecasting a Taiwan strait conflict in 2025 triggers a debate about undisciplined comments. This guy was a four-star general, folks.

He said Quote His gut told him that we'd be at war with China in 2025. He was kind of, like, disciplined for this. His name is General Mike Minahan. He's only the head of U.S Air Mobility Command.

Predicted a war with China by 2025.

Why do you think he said that, Joe? You think he was bored on the weekend playing scrabble? He was missing a word and the word came up, Oh, war China, there you go.

I think he knows something we don't. Oh, you maybe.

You agree, Joe? Yeah, I'd say, So, Dan, a little bit. Yeah, yeah.

I haven't been sitting in on those briefings. You think that was just a slip of the tongue? Four-star general Yeah, we're going to be at war by 2025..

You find it strange, too, the eagerness of the administration to squash that. All of a sudden. No, no, no, undisciplined comment.

What about this one, folks? Again? I'm just reporting to you what's happening, I'm not trying to scare you, I'm not trying to frighten you. There's a pretty good chance that, hopefully this will not materialize into World War III.

Unfortunately, if there is a 5 to 10 chance that it will, which would result in potential nuclear annihilation. And the death of me, my kids, my family, any future kids my kids would have, and your kids, too. I think we should know about it.

Wall Street Journal, February 2023 China's Xi Jinping plans a Russia visit as Putin wages war in Ukraine again. What do you think they're doing over there? Campfires, s'mores, maybe.

Chatting about the Yankees Garrett Cole next season? See if he's up for it, maybe chatting about the Super Bowl.

Here, here's another one. It goes on and on. Notice how. I'm using a variety of different outlets from all sides of the political spectrum to show you that this isn't some right-wing conspiracy theory. These things are actually happening.

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S Sun China's learning from Putin's Ukraine disaster as the regime prepares for an all-out Taiwan blitz to cut off the island from the U.S.

Ladies and gentlemen, they are learning all the wrong lessons. China from the Ukraine disaster. There is a school of thought I believe is wrong. I could be wrong. It's my opinion, though I'm telling you, it's my opinion.

I'm speculating, but there's a school of thought out there. That China has learned from the Ukraine disaster, and China is saying, Oh, you know what, we better not invade Taiwan. Look, Russia couldn't even do a land invasion into Ukraine, which it shares a border with.

We'd have to cross the strait to Taiwan, making it geometrically more difficult to get in there. We better not do that. No, I don't think that's what's happening at all. I think China learned from the Vladimir Putin incident that if you're going to do it, you have to blitzkrieg immediately.

Missiles, land, air, everything. I think he thought Vladimir Putin got too cocky, used only pieces of his army. That he, and I think Xi Jinping is figuring out that if he's going to do it, he better do it all at once.

EMPs, balloons taking out electrical grids, sea, air, land all at one time. If he's going to do it, he better go for it all at once.

I think they're learning the exact opposite lesson, some people want you to think they're learning from Ukraine.

It's not not to do it. How to do it. Air quotes better, meaning worse for us.

Signs are everywhere, ladies and gentlemen. Washington Examiner, just read the sign Farewell to arms control. Lawmakers decry Vladimir Putin's suspension of the last treaty.

Standing folks, this is a particularly sensitive topic because I was there, literally there, when this treaty was signed, the new START Treaty, I was in Prague, standing right there as the lead advance agent. When Barack Obama and Medvedev from Russia assigned the new START Treaty, imposing limitations on certain types of nuclear weapons. I was there, like, right there, when it happened.

Vladimir Putin just decided to suspend it. Putin wasn't abiding by it anyway, but again, why do you think he suspended it? because he's just kidding around? Listen, Vladimir Putin is a global terrorist and a thug.

Vladimir Putin is not a faker.

Putin said he was going to invade Ukraine, and he did it.

Now he's making sure that we don't inspect their nuclear stockpile. That he wasn't abiding by much anyway. And making a big public spectacle of suspending a nuclear arms treaty with the United States. Again. Joe, In some limited circles, we'd call that something, we'd call that a clue now.

You may be saying, I don't know, Dan. You think China and Russia are going to join forces? EMP attacks over the United States, World War III, Global apocalypse. That sounds kind of crazy. You're just another one of those right wing nuts, am I? Because you think if China was looking to dial down the pressure, Joe, then they would do what?

They would dial down the pressure, but it's weird because they're not doing that right. That's really strange. Like, there's a way to dial it down, and the way to do it is to dial it down, but they're not, they're dialing it up.

Wall Street Journal China, Russia and the U.S. red line on Ukraine. So after the balloon incident over the United States, which caused international chaos. To say the least and showed how feckless the Biden administration is, you'd think China would say, Ah, listen, sorry, blew off course. My bad. Do a Nelson Mons, eh? That's not what happened.

Tony Blinken, our secretary of state, said after a meeting with one of his counterparts in China. That China offered no apology for sending the balloon into our airspace and over our military sites. They didn't, Joe. Does that sound apologetic? To offer no apology? No.

No, right, it sounds like the opposite. Okay, just checking.

Mr. Wang, from China, reinforced the point in his public remarks in Munich, chastising us.

They said, the spy balloon over our sensitive military sites, and they're flipping us the middle finger, calling us absurd and hysterical. Dang that wang, that wang, man, dang him that wang. He also blamed the U.S.

For being an obstacle to peace in Ukraine. Oh, this is interesting. Mr. Wang was headed to Moscow after the Munich meeting as Biden was going to Kiev. Man, another one of those head scratchers. Ooh, itchy scalp today.

Again, don't worry, folks, nothing's, nothing's going to happen. don't don't sweat it at all. Nothing to worry about here.

You know, Nassim Taleb, whether you like him or not, he's I don't know. His tweets lately have been a little, but his book, The Black Swan, is a fascinating one. It's one of my favorites. I used to drive Joe crazy with it. And the thing about these Black swan events, rare events, I mean, how many Black swans have you seen in your lifetime?

Probably none. But the thing about these Black swan events is you have to measure them based on probability and outcome. Right? If the probability of World War III with China is, say, 1, one out of a hundred, that's pretty low, correct? I don't like those chances.

1. I'd rather have a million dollars 1 chance, I'd rather have a 90 chance. However, if it's a 1 chance and that 1 chance actually happens, and then it results in global annihilation. We should probably take the 1 a little more seriously than it was a 1 chance. Of, say, a cockroach being caught in your kitchen cabinet.

I'm just going to throw that out there.

Right before we came on the air, by the way, I mean, right before we came on, this happened. Remember that warning from the general in the beginning? The four-star general saying, Hey, I think we could be going to war with China by 2025, which I don't know about you. Again, I just take seriously four-star general. And I mean, what the hell does that guy know? This just popped.

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S to expand its true presence in Taiwan for a training exercise against the China threat. It's bananas. It's almost like they know something we don't.

Listen, ignore these warning signs at your own peril. Nobody thinks any of this is going to happen until it does.

My conversation with the state senator from Texas yesterday, who's a real expert on the CMP stuff, I asked him, What should we do?

And he stated the obvious Unfortunately, it's not obvious to everyone. Folks, get prepared now. The best day of your life is the day your firearms, your ammunition, your emergency food, your water filtration, your emergency water supply, your emergency food cabinet, your medicines you prepared for in an emergency. The best day of your life is the day you die in your 90s, a glorious death. With your kids around you all saying how much they loved you, and you saying how much you love them, living such a great life.

And you tell them, Hey, listen, there's a big preparedness closet in my house. I didn't use any of it, so you guys can either keep it or chuck it. That's the best day of your life.

The worst day of your life is in the 1 chance or less that this stuff and these warning signs are real, that this actually happens. An emp goes off You find yourself with no water, no food, no weapons to defend yourself. The Chinese Communist Party waltzes into the United States as nine out of ten of us die. And you're sitting there, a subjugant to the Chinese Communist Party and their new U.S gulags.

Ignore the warning signs at your own peril. I'm not ignoring them. Let me tell you that. The Dan Bongino Show If you'd like to hear more, subscribe to the Dan Bongino Show wherever you get your podcasts.