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Jack Posobic
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Donald Trump
This monument will never be desecrated. These heroes will never be defaced. Their legacy will never ever be destroyed. Their achievements will never be forgotten.
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Jack Posobic
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily. Today is for July 2025 Anno Domini, America's 249th birthday and the one year countdown. The start of the one year countdown to America's grand 200. They said it couldn't be done. They said no great power lasts more than 200 years. Well, boom, here we are 249. Here we are 250. But will America stand? Will America continue on? What does it mean to be an American? All of these things are suddenly in question. All of these things are now being brought to bear in the public mind in the public discourse, because so many people are asking again and again, why, what is America's standing? What is America's role? And who are the core Americans? Does the American government stand for those core Americans here at home? Are we going to have fortress America and a grand nation state that stands head and shoulders above the world, or are we going to continue on the failed, decrepit and fading blueprint of the globalist American empire which was constructed from the 1980s on forward to be this global power world police state, whereby in the tax base of the United States is used to fund global military operations, global finance, a global series of military bases and military offenses in order to sort of be this world international order, as Tony Blinken and Joe Biden and all these great luminaries and statesmen used to refer to it. Well, so that's what we're going to do today. We're going to talk about these issues. You know, what does it mean to be an American, a core American, a heritage American, an American who has family ties to the great wars and great struggles that this country has faced, especially in the face of mass immigration, the type of mass immigration that we've had in this country since the 1960s. And it needs to be said and it needs, needs to be borne out that the people coming today do not view this country the way that the people who have been here for a long, long time do. And furthermore, America still faces threats abroad and America still faces threats from abroad. And President Trump is the best one equipped to face them. So today, what I decided, no guests. We're doing no guests today. It's just you and me on this Fourth of July for a global situation report. So you got, I got my old Navy officer's hat on. We're going to do a little bit of a global sit rep today on Human Events Daily. Right back.
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Donald Trump
We'll stand in our way. And our golden age has just begun.
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Jack Posobic
This is Human Events with Jack Posoba. Now it's time for everyone to understand what America first truly means. Welcome to the second American Revolution.
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Donald Trump
President Obama was a terrible president. President Biden was the worst president in the history of our country. President Bush should not have gone into the Middle east and blown the place up. So I don't give him high marks either. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. I give Trump very high marks. Goodbye every.
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Jack Posobic
Well, ladies and gentlemen, we are back, Human events daily, Washington, D.C. and we're conducting this global SITREP. Global Situation Report. Want to start, of course, with the region That I think that's on everyone's mind and that being the Middle east, obviously. We know Israel conducted what they call Operation Rising lion, which lasted from about June 13 to June 24. President Trump, of course the United States instituted Operation Midnight Hammer conducted in conjunction with Israel, which was an attack directly on Iran's uranium enrichment facilities. So let's go through a little bit of the money line, a little bit of the stats on those. So we're told that Operation Rising lion, this was this massive preemptive strike on Iran. 200 aircraft aircraft dropped more than 330 munitions from the Israeli Air Force on 100 targets. This destroyed mainly those nuclear facilities and mainly those targets there, Natanz, Bordo, Esfahan, but also conducted massive assassination or decapitation strikes using drones all across Iran, particularly within Tehran itself, targeting military bases and senior commanders. We're told that all in all the death toll is anywhere between the low end of 224 to a high end of 974 fatalities. With this mix of military and scientists associated with the nuclear program of Iran. Israel of course has claimed to neutralize Iran's near term nuclear threat. Iran of course, as we know, retaliated with massive missile and drone attacks on Israeli soil, particularly targeting Tel Aviv and some military areas as well. Many of which were intercepted by elements of the Iron Dome and other implements of Israel's very advanced high tech air defense. Although the United States was also involved with that. Those terminal high altitude air defenders with those air interceptor missiles. The question of course being the price, the price price of those air interceptor missiles and the ability to continue use of them given their low number of the munitions. This is also one of the reasons that we saw just a few days ago Ukraine had pointed out that there was a halt of Patriot missile systems delivered to Ukraine. And most believe this was due to their use defending not only Israel's assets and Israeli facilities but also American facilities across the Middle East. In this response by Tehran to Operation Midnight Hammer and the attack on the U.S. air base at Al Adid in Qatar. So for the first time ever to get into Midnight Hammer, for the first time ever in history, the United States military conducted military strikes within Iran. This is the U.S. air Force and U.S. navy joint offensive. These strikes on Iranian territory during this 12 day war between Israel, the United States and Iran. The main targets of course were the uranium enrichment plants and Natanz and Isfahan and then the 14 bunker buster bombs, two of which were at Natanz and the rest of which were targeted At Bordeaux, that site deep within the mountains south of Tehran. President Trump had stated that the sites were obliterated. US Intelligence agencies also concluded they were seriously and heavily damaged, likely delaying and setting back Iran's near term nuclear program. Iran themselves confirmed serious damage to the Fordo facility. Notably, one of the attacks that occurred by Israel just after Operation Midnight Hammer was this attack on Evin prison in Tehran on June 23. So one day later, which was an attempt, many believe, to have prisoners and criminals released out into Iran in hopes of sparking a regime change. And Iran confirmed that 56 Artesh military members, including generals, and 41 IRGC Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel were killed, including Brigadier General Nemati, killed in separate Israeli strikes. Iran's supreme leader adviser has criticized the United States and Israel in response to all of this, calling any potential nuclear talks deceptive. President Trump coming in on June 24th at the end of all of this and instituting a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, brokering it and bringing this pause to full scale hostilities. So some of the implications there, obviously nuclear setback for Iran, U.S. and Israeli strikes, inflicting significant damage, significant damage to their nuclear ambitions and to their nuclear program. One of the one assessment, of course, is there a risk of escalation? Absolutely, should either side breach the ceasefire deal, many believe, whether through reciprocal, direct reciprocal strikes, proxy attacks, cyber attacks, which could include threats to the United States with critical infrastructure, or even domestic terror warnings going through September, obviously September 11, the key date there, could suggest a sustained cycle. One of the main threat that we're hearing, of course as well is a humanitarian and refugee crisis. It's estimated that 100,000 civilians fled from Tehran during these strikes. And the question is, are they staying in different places within the massive country of Iran itself, or will they flee to neighboring countries or perhaps to Europe, as we saw during the Syrian civil war? And as well, one of the big takeaways of all of this is that Tehran has suspended cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency and halted visits to bombed sites and threatened for their consequences and cooperation, saying that they believe the IAEA is now completely controlled by the west and they do not believe it to be objective. So for President Trump and for others, the goal now is consolidation of the ceasefire. So consolidate the ceasefire, maintain this Trump mediated truce, obviously monitoring for violations, but any using any domestic diplomatic or financial pressure, economic pressure to suppress any threat of escalation. Obviously in this situation like this, an increase of surveillance, satellite recon on nuclear sites, military command nodes, proxy groups to rapidly detect any reconstitution efforts or emerging threats or emerging escalations, calibrate deterrence strategy. And this is, of course, US Posture within the region. With so many US Bases that are nearby within striking range of the force protection level is going to need to remain high. And that also includes monitoring of the Strait of Hormuz itself with a variety of reports that have come out saying that Iran did at some points load sea mines. IRDC personnel were located loading sea mines onto various ships that could have been used very quickly overnight to mine the Strait of Hormuz to block again, 20% of the world's oil, the world's petroleum flowing through the mouth of the Persian Gulf. This key node, this key choke point of infrastructure for the sea lanes and obviously goes towards all of the key risk for any international, any international global power. Looking around the Middle East a bit larger. We also see President Trump calling for and says that just a few days ago he instituted a 60 day ceasefire between Israel and Gaza. The ongoing conflict there that's been happening since September, since October 7, 2023, with Gaza fatalities in estimates ranging from the low tens of thousands to the high tens of thousands, with more than 90% of the 2.3 million population of Gaza displaced. Among 50 hostages remain within Gaza. Some about 50% of those, so 25 living, 25 unfortunately, seem to be deceased as of this point. President Trump will be meeting Netanyahu on July 7 and and certainly we'll hear more about the ceasefire. They're also looking at potential escalations with the Houthis on the other side of the Red Sea and then up in Syria where an Islamic extremist group has taken over the country. However, they claim that they are going to be working on deals with Israel and the United States, potentially even entering the Abraham Accords. Folks, that is the Middle east in a nutshell. We'll be right back. Human Events Daily.
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Donald Trump
Hey, you know, they talk about influences. These are influences and they're friends of mine. Jack, where's Jack? Jack? He's got a great job.
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Jack Posobic
All right, Jack. Sober. Here we are back Human Events Daily. The global sit rep continues. We turn now to the Asia Pacific and the Chinese Communist Party. Now, for longtime viewers of Human Events Daily, you'll know that China is the country I've spent most of the time in my career focused on, lived there for two years, learned to speak and read Mandarin Chinese and worked as a Navy intelligence officer with a direct focus on the People's Republic of China. Now, we know that there are questions about Xi Jinping there Always will be questions about Chinese leadership. Xi Jinping has been the Party chairman now longer than anyone since Mao Zedong himself. He's been longer than Deng Xiaoping, longer than leadership than Jiang Zemin, longer in leadership than Hu Jintao. And he is in the third of his five year term, so third of his fifth year term. So what does that mean? 13 years. He's been there since 2012 and there are a lot of rumors currently, will, will he stay, will he go? Does he have the same level of power that he once did? And while people can play this sort of, you know, form of Kremlin ology or, you know, Jong Nan high ology, I suppose, Beijing ology as to whether or not he is these movements within the party actually constitute a loss of face or a loss of control for him. The question remains, and the question still is that he has not appointed any heir. There is no clear heir to Xi Jinping, There is no clear next leader of the Party. And those are the things that would be needed for a successor to really take over. And of course the Politburo is still stock absolutely with his leadership and his loyal members. And of course the Politburo being that nine member standing committee that controls the Chinese Communist Party. Switching over to the military side though, one of the key elements that we've seen, and absolutely a key sign of Xi's growing power and the Chinese Communist Party's growing power, was this first dual carrier deployment that China conducted in the western Pacific. So two aircraft carriers, Liaoning and the Shandong, both deployed at the same time for the People's Liberation Army Navy. The plan. So the plan was able to operate both of these carriers at sea for the first time ever. And they went deeper and further into the Pacific than we've ever seen, even operating further than the second island chain. Now what are the island chains? Why does this matter? Well, the island chains are a set of strategic defenses, a strategic chains of defense that the United States and our allies, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, have set up since World War II. And it's sort of a mirror of the island hopping campaign of World War II. So the first island chain, of course, being the ones that I just mentioned, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, even though it's not really an island, and the Philippines, the Luzon Strait, there of course, being between the Philippines and Taiwan, that's the first island chain. The second island chain is much deeper into the Pacific and everyone knows that's New Zealand, that's Guam, that's further out. The third island chain, that's Hawaii. So for the first time ever, a Chinese aircraft carrier, Liaoning was able to actually operate further into the Pacific than Guam itself. This is the furthest, as far as we know, this is the furthest an Asian aircraft carrier has conducted operations across the Pacific since World War II, since Pearl Harbor. And the significance here, this is a ship that was built during the Soviet Union. Actually the hull of it was originally called the Varyag and it was initially constructed by the Soviet Union in shipyards in Ukraine. And it is of course fueled by Iranian oil. So these aircraft, the strike groups operated both launching hundreds of aircraft, launch recoveries and sorties. So the Liaoning, that's the older aircraft carrier, the original hull that the Chinese navy was using, the Shandong, is a completely indigenous, domestically produced and domestically manufactured aircraft carrier. That platform has been out a much fewer time. So 420 aircraft launches compared to 700 for the Liaoning. But of course this is the first time the PLA Navy has simultaneously deployed both carriers east of Taiwan and the escort groups in these flotillas. So their strike groups included destroyers, frigates, missile corvettes as well as even an Anhui amphibious task force group joining these maneuvers. So this is a major milestone. China's aircraft shifting now towards high seas force readiness. So Guam, Taiwan, the Luzon Strait now in complete focus as they are able to take to the high seas. The PLA Navy is now a force to be reckoned with on the blue waters. And so for the American Navy and for the rest of the world, it comes to us and is on President Trump's desk. Of course, as all of these matters are are as to whatever deal we are able to come with as the rise of China continues to push further and further into the world with their belt and road initiative backstopped by a massive and growing in power of the LA Navy. Be right back. Thanks.
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Donald Trump
Jack. Where's Jack? Where's Jack? Where is he? Jack, I want to see you. Great job, Jack. Thank you. What a job you do. You know we have an incredible thing. We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys and these are the guys should be getting pullers.
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Unknown
President Donald Trump, after meeting his Ukrainian.
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Jack Posobic
Counterpart Zelensky on the sidelines of NATO.
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Unknown
Summit indicated he will consider providing more of the Patriot missiles to Ukraine.
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Jack Posobic
The US is ready to sell anti air missile system systems. Patriot to Ukraine.
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Donald Trump
They're very hard to get.
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Jack Posobic
We need them too.
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Donald Trump
We were supplying them to Israel and they're very effective, 100% effective. Hard to believe how effective. And they do want that more than any other thing, as you probably know.
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Jack Posobic
All right, Jack Masopic, we are back here. Human Events Daily. The global sit rep continues. And of course no global sit rep would be complete without going into the current status of the Ukraine, Ukraine, Russia fight this proxy war between the United States and Russia that the United States has been supporting, that NATO has been supporting Since February of 2022, a massive conflagration and conflict which began under the Biden administration and their failed diplomacy and failed rapprochement with the Russians. Now as you heard President Trump say just moments ago in that clip, that the focus, strategic focus of the United States really has shifted and the strategic focus of NATO even to an extent has shifted because as such America supplies most of military hardware to NATO as it is that they have now shifted. And the Patriot missiles have become a sort of political football almost in a sense in this shift. Because as the United States is backfilling those Patriot missiles to Israel, backfilling those Patriot missiles to US forces within the region, within the Middle east region, who then draws the short straw? Well, that's Ukraine. Ukraine is now unable to receive those Patriot missiles because there is a finite amount of these things. The United States bases, Al Adid and others were required to have those, those implements, these are Patriot missiles or those, those types of air interceptors, those air defense that we were talking about before. Well, Ukraine is going to have fewer and fewer of those because the United States isn't able to provide them as much. And the Patriot Arab defense batteries were the same Patriot defense batteries that we saw protecting the skies of Kiev and shooting down Russian missiles that were attempting to strike the capital of Ukraine. Now Russia has viewed all of this as a sign for them to be able to conduct further strikes into Kiev, further strikes into Odessa in the south along the Black Sea, because they realized that Ukraine is running low on their air defense capabilities. And again, it doesn't matter how high tech your targeting system is if you do not have the ammunition for it. And of course this is the entire point of attrition warfare which is practiced by the Russians. And in some extent you could see that that same doctrine being employed by the Iranians firing missile barrages intended to SAP the resources of this high tech air defense to be able to defeat them through attrition, defeat their enemy through attrition rather than direct combat. So at the same time, while the world's attention was focused on the Middle East, Russia was able to take over 350 miles of territory in June of this year, the most since Last September, gaining another 200 miles. In May they've expanded their incursion into Sumy oblast with potentially 50 to 60,000 Russian troops involved and have the ability for a breakout here should President Putin choose to do so. With various areas along those eastern Russian speaking provinces where the Russian army and these Russian forces are pushing back against the Ukrainian front lines. At the same time Ukraine is defending with fortifications, drones, light vehicles and counter drone systems. We also saw that Operation Spiderweb, that was the Ukrainian deep strike of drones into Russia, damaging long range bomber bases. Very similar to the operation that Israel took undertook in Iran just a few months later. Now the drone warfare strikes have continued, the air warfare has continued, the air war has really ratcheted up. 315 drone strikes and seven missile strikes on Kiev and Odessa just on June 10th alone in one night, a record high for June saw over 5,400 drone strikes across Ukraine from the Russian advance. So it really providing that suppression of Ukrainian air defenses and ability for Ukraine to conduct command and control as the Russian army advances along the front lines. In fact, in a one night salvo, 500 missiles and drones, including cruise missiles and hypersonic missiles, targeted cities like Kremuchuk. And of course, even if Ukraine is able to to intercept several hundred of these, that means the large amount of the large number in these salvos again is intended for suppression of the air defenses. So Russia has massed currently current estimates say that Russia has 695,000 troops on the front, another 121,000 in reserve, 9,000 new troops being added and recruited and coming through their pipeline per month. So these are huge, huge numbers of soldiers that Russia is churning forward into their military machine as it's sweeping across the, grinding across, I should say grinding across these eastern provinces. Now there's a question about will Russia launch this massive offensive? And I've said that Putin will likely make this determination by the end of July and then look for an August offensive should he choose to do so. And this could be done in terms of a breakout in Sumai along the, along the area near Kharkov. And of course the question would be is this going to be a major breakout or would this be potentially smaller pockets of breakouts again choosing to continue this slow grind of attrition, slowly taking territory also all while grinding forward with the attempt really being to attrite Ukraine of their ability to conduct materiel, their ability to again use these missiles and their ability to field soldiers on the front lines. Of course, as Kamala Harris once told us, that Ukraine is a small country and Russia is a big country. And this is true. Russia has a much larger population with which they can use to continually recruit new soldiers, while Ukraine does not. So to an extent, the amount of material, whether it be tanks, whether it be bombs, whether it be missiles, whether it be bullets that NATO sends to backfill Ukraine, it only is able to go so far because Ukraine is still reliant on its own population for soldiers and military age. Males, of course, are becoming a rarer and rarer commodity. And this is why you see press gangs, this is why you see recruitment numbers being pushed so hard within Ukraine. Russia, of course, is continuing these offenses. So the most likely scenario at this point is a high likelihood of a limited summer offensive. And this would mean Russian advances along select sectors, increased use of artillery, drones, the air warfare and pressure on Ukraine's supply lines within those frontline regions. Again, Russia focusing on the eastern Russian speaking provinces, the ones that have been Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkov and Kherson that have been annexed by the Russian Federation to begin with. But of course, the question is, will there be negotiations, will there be ceasefire? And of course Russia is seeking as much position and as much leverage as they can gain before they are able to hold those ceasefire talks or going into any ceasefire talks or negotiations with the Americans before one is decided or held. So it's very clear that Russia is pursuing a two track strategy here where it's diplomatic on one end. So meeting with, willing to meet with Witkoff, willing to meet with the Ukrainians. President Putin having even said at one point during the Iran Israel crisis that he was willing to meet with Zelenskyy himself. But we're also seeing the Russian military pursue their objectives on the battlefield. And the question is how much leverage will they receive before they sit down for any final negotiations. For Ukraine itself, the question for them is going to hinge on Western aid and a massive, massive push for further Western aid. This has been something that will become a political issue because President Trump campaigned, of course, as we know, on ending the Ukraine war and shutting this down. Obviously he has said that it has become, become more catastrophic because neither side is willing to back down. But of course, the real question for Ukraine is how can they continue fighting if the United States does not continue their aid push. And some analysts have suggested that in fact this may be the reason that NATO has put forward its 5% goals on military defense spending. So suddenly, remember, NATO didn't want to pursue this 5% goal for military defense for years and years and years and years. And President Trump has always been pushing for it. So suddenly, at the very moment, at the very moment that Ukraine needs more aid and the United States is potentially not able to do so because of the need to backfill Patriot missiles and others within the military Middle east region, well, suddenly NATO, the European countries say that they're going to increase their defense spending. Could it be then and would the assessment make sense that the reason they're increasing their defense spending is, is not because they want to defend themselves, but because those same European countries, particularly in Western Europe, so think France and Germany want to use that excess spending to be able to backfill Ukrainians and be able to hand those weapons and materiel, tanks, bombs, missiles over to Ukraine. Even though of course the point of NATO is defense rather than offense. And as a key point here, and even Western media has pointed this out, Russia has actually been targeting, in eastern Ukraine, has actually been targeting many of the resource facilities and resource deposits where Secretary Besant had gone over. And I was able to actually accompany him on this trip to Kiev for negotiations in the mineral deal. Well, Russia has now captured the second of four Ukrainian lithium deposits. So this, these key lithium deposits which came to, came to bear during the mineral deal and in negotiations, two of the four that exist with on Ukrainian territory have now been captured by the Russians. So real questions as to what, what Ukraine will be able to negotiate with if in fact those areas take are controlled by the Russians. All indications are that Russia is able to to control the narrative here and that ultimately this will not come to a cessation until there are key and direct negotiations between leaders, not just of Russia and Ukraine directly, but also between Russia and the United States directly. Once again, President Trump in the driver's seat. Is a very complicated world, very complex issues. But President Trump is the one who holds all the cards to continue to de escalate, destabilize or go for peace all in one bell Swoop. Jack right back with summer age.
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Donald Trump
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Jack Posobic
Amen.
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Jack Posobic
Jack Kosobik here back Human Events Daily 4 July Global SITREP here on Human events. And I would be remiss if in my global sit rep, I left out the largest national security crisis to the United States and to Americans writ large. Because as we've gone through these various hot points around the world, we covered the Middle east, we covered Asia Pacific, we covered Ukraine, Russia, the battle in Eurasia, the war in Eurasia. All of those are threats to the United States. There's no question they are threats to our interest. They are threats in some areas to key global shipping lanes as well as key resources. We talked about the lithium, the rare earth minerals within eastern Ukraine and how Russia is directly targeting those because they know that that's become an area of contention for the negotiations. But and it remains that the largest foreign threat to the United States of Americans is the tens of millions of foreigners that have mass invaded and mass immigrated to the United States, particularly under the Biden administration. But even prior to that, and many of them through a variety of ridiculous paper programs like TPS and these temporary statuses that were granted by the Biden administration and by mayorkas that never should have been given millions and millions who came in illegally, the greatest foreign threat to the United States of America is already here. It is already within our borders. And by the way, you don't need to go and sneak it out and look for it. Just look at the streets of Los Angeles. Burning cars, burning police cars, foreign flags waving. Look at the streets of New York, look at the streets of any major city. Go to any public place, just go to any public place and you will see it filled with non Americans. Okay? Absolutely. Filled in pretty much every single urban area of this country. And there's no question. So on this 4th of July, I really want you to ask that question. What does it mean to be an American? And I'm talking about a non hyphenated American. What does it really mean? What does it mean to us? What does it mean to your family? What does it mean to your legacy? Has the country been left in a better place than it is or than it was when you were born? Okay. Will your children and your grandchildren inherit a country that is better than the one that you were born into? Yes or no? Look at the conditions, look at the quality of life, look at social stability. And there's no question the destabilization that we see in our urban centers, the destabilization that we see across our country, There is no way you can separate this without the impact of the mass immigration that has happened across our borders and across our country. And 50 out of 50 states are experiencing this pressure. So when we talk about the housing crisis, when we talk about health care, when we talk about gdp, when we talk about debt, when we talk about all of these issues, the mass immigration crisis focuses on all of them, and it hits all of them, and it puts pressure, pressure on all of them. So it'd be easy for someone to say, oh, well, you know, mass immigration is why a guy named Zoran Kwame Mamdani is going to be the next mayor of New York. And he himself, having only been an American citizen for. For. Since the. The first Trump administration, He became an American citizen in the first Trump administration. That's how long that he's been a US Citizen. Okay? But the key here is. The key here for everyone to understand is, do we have a country that is not notional or propositional, that's just something that exists ethereally? Or are the Americans a distinct people with a distinct history and a distinct home in this world? And as we look around the world, and we took you around the world today, those issues, are they important? Yes, they are important. But there is no greater pressing issue to the American people than the foreign threat of the invaders that are currently within our own communities, within our own towns, and, yes, taking over our greatest city. And I'm not saying that it's all happening just organically or naturally. Of course not. It's happening because we've allowed it. It's happening because we've sat back and decided that, oh, things are fine, my life is good. I don't need to worry about that. Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who's making my Jimmy John sandwich? Well, you know something? At the end of the day, it does matter. It matters to all of us. Matters to those who came before, and it matters to the boys of Valley Forge. Remember the boys of Valley Forge on 4th of July, what they fought for what they suffered, for what the Continental army went through 249 years ago. Next year will be the 250th. It matters to them and to the soldiers of every single American conflict since the boys of Normandy. You think this is what they were fighting for? For? Because I certainly don't think so. I think it's time to get back to that America. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore and have the independence.