Glenn Beck (27:22)
So what he's talking about here, Pete Hegseth just came in and said, we're going to reshape our strategy, which I think is really good, you know, after the last 25 years of war. No, the last 50 years, the way we've been fighting has been ridiculous. It's ridiculous. We don't fight to win. We put handcuffs on our people. We should be breathtaking. I mean, that is the, that should be the goal of our military. You go in, you go in quickly, and you just suck the air out of the lungs of your opponent. So everybody's like, oh, my gosh, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. That's the way you save lives. And we've not done that. Now when he's talking about nuclear. I have talked to the President about this personally multiple times. He despises our nuclear capability and he knows what we can do because as he just said, he rebuilt it. And he said, glenn, you don't want to even know what we are capable of doing. It just. It keeps him up at night. It keeps him up at night. And he believes that we have to have these defenses or when the world goes crazy, if you don't, you'll be threatened by them. And you have to have a response to hold people into check. And that's why they've changed the Department of Defense to the Department of War. Hegseth is really, really sharp. Hegseth knows that we have become this, this force that cares more about, you know, spreading democracy than winning a war when our nation is attacked. You know, if you really wanted to change things, the United States would have gone into Afghanistan, quickly, knocked out the Taliban, killed Osama bin Laden, and come home. Come home. That sends a message. We're not an enemy of people. We are going to destroy the people who have just hurt us in our own homeland. We will destroy you. You will pay the highest of prices, but we're not going to get involved in your local politics or anything else. We're just not going to do it. And the State Department and everybody else has made this nation building bullcrap our main priority. That's not what our Pentagon is supposed to do. They are supposed to break things and kill people. And so the first message that Pete Hegseth and the President sent to the fighting forces all around the world, and I believe even our own fighting forces, is we are not a Department of Defense. We are a Department of war. We don't want war. We don't want to go to war. But that's what we should be preparing for all the time. Because if we're prepared for war, it's the best deterrent out there to stop wars. I agree with it 100%. So why did Hegseth call everybody in now? He said it wasn't any big deal. The president said it was a big deal. There's been speculation on, you know, what does all this mean? Let me tell you what I think it means. After listening to Hegseth, let me tell you what it means. All Hegseth did, he said, in the coming months, we're going to be changing all of our strategies. We are going to be re looking at our offense and defensive posture all over the world. We are not going to be playing the same game anymore. And we'll have more on that later. That's not worth calling everybody in from all over the world. Here's what was. We've made some changes, and you have felt those changes. I believe you've seen those changes. We are now a department of war and we operate only on merit, not dei, not special favors, not how long you've been in the chain of command. If you don't earn your space, you lose your space. We are going to be a lethal fighting force. We're not going to lower our standards. If you can't pass the physical test, you're out. We must keep our standards high. His main thing, I think, was to let the fighting force, let the leadership know two things. One, if you're a warrior and you want to be a warrior, you are probably the one who is least likely to vote for war. Because you know what war does. You know the scars, you know the death. And so you don't want war. But you grew up, most likely, and I'm paraphrasing him, you grew up wanting to be a soldier, wanting to defend your country. And you have now found yourself in this situation to where that's not what you've been doing. You've been nation building and you've been, you know, the woke police. That all ends. Why did he have to call everybody in? Let me explain it this way. If you work at all remotely, like today, I'm in Florida, my staff is in Dallas. And if I said to my staff, guys, I want to have a meeting today online, and it's mandatory, everybody is there and I make a statement and I say, hey, we're changing a bunch of stuff and this is just the way it is. It'll imprint and make an impact, but not the kind of impact that I said. Everybody, I want you to drop everything you're doing and I want you to get on a plane and you're going to join me for a day in Florida. Because I want an all hands on deck meeting and everyone is required to be there. That gets everybody in the building going, what the hell is happening? What, what is, what is, what is coming. And so you're very clear, you are listening intently and you realize that your boss has now sent a message. We're not fooling around on this. I'm not just saying these words. I mean these words. We are changing the way we do things and if you don't get on board, you're fired. That's why he called everybody in. Not for any new war tactics, etc. Etc. I mean, those may be discussed, but it's not that we are, you know, going to war with anybody, going to war with Russia or anything else. What he was doing was sending the message, this president and I are very serious. The culture is going to change. And it's going to change right now. You don't like it, don't get onto a plane, come to my office, I'll relieve you of command. It was the most common sense thing I've heard from a leader in Washington in a very long time. Everything he said was like, okay, well that makes sense. And you follow that with, I mean, you know the answer, but you follow that with. They haven't known this already. No, they haven't. Because we haven't been fighting, we haven't been dealing with things. We are so far away from common sense that. No, you do have to say those things now. Yeah. You're not going to advance unless you're actually making our situation stronger in the direction that the President has set. If you are making it weaker, if you are sabotaging us, if you think you are going to escape, you are not going to escape. You are going to be fired. That is fantastic. It is called accountability. And I have not heard that for quite some time. The President is also changing the world. He is. You know, I don't know if you saw his 20 point plan for Israel, but man, I love the way this guy thinks. Again, he's not going in and taking this, this view of what we've done before. He's saying none of that has worked. So I've gotten with everybody in the Arab world and I've gotten with Israel. That hasn't happened before. I got everybody in the Arab world and Israel, and we're telling you right now, Hamas, release the hostages today. Accept this 20 point plan. It is all in line with the Arab world. It's not the United States or Israel dictating this to you. The Arab world is saying exactly what I'm saying. So you are out of step with your own people all around you. So accept this deal. Otherwise I can't help you. Israel, as Benjamin Netanyahu said, if they fool around, if they don't accept it, or if they accept it and then don't follow through and release the hostages, then we will finish the job. And what that means is they'll kill all of the Hamas leadership, as they should. I mean, I don't know, I can't believe we're debating that in the first place, but. And there's no two state solution. Now the Arabs are saying, do all these things and then we'll talk about a two state solution. But Hamas and the Palestinians do not want a two state solution. They have been talking about giving Israel giving the Palestinians a two state solution since 1940. Eight, okay? They don't want it. They've turned it down over and over again. They want to wipe out from the river to the sea, that is all of Israel. They want to wipe it out and make it void of any Jews. That's not a two state solution, that's the final solution. So they've turned it down over and over again. And I think what Donald Trump is doing is absolutely right. No, we're not even going to talk about a two state solution until you do all of these things. Stop terror, release all the hostages, then come to the negotiating table and we'll talk about it. Other than that, no, no. And the Arab world is with me. If this guy can get these things done, he transforms the world. Now, I have very little faith that the Middle east is ever going to find peace. Might find it temporarily, but they're not going to find peace. I mean, we know how this ends. Read the book. The whole last chapter is about this. It doesn't end well. I mean it does actually end well. But first there's a lot of problems with it. It's not going to fall into peace easily. Then one more thought on Israel. This Charlie Kirk nonsense has got to stop. Has got to stop this conspiracy theory. Now the conspiracy theory is that his own people shot him, okay? Last week I think it was that the Israelis had a trap door behind him and that's why they're redoing that whole section because they have to get rid of, seal that tunnel underneath the stage where they had a trapdoor and some Jew popped out and shot him in the back. Okay? It didn't happen. I don't know how you would possibly even believe that. But the other was. Ah, yeah, well, Charlie was turning on the Israelis. He didn't like Israel at all. Now the seven page letter is out and I'm glad they released it. I want to finish this here in just a second. First, our sponsor, this, this half hour is Chapter. Look, Medicaid is coming up. The time to sign up for Medicaid or Medicare is right now or it will be soon. If you are on Medicare and you are looking or you're looking for a plan because you're about to go on. Be careful, be careful how you choose. There are plans that you probably didn't even know existed. CHAPTER exists to make sure your, you're aware of every possible plan. This is a bunch of tech people who are big in A.I. sorry, big in Silicon Valley and they use A.I. and their parents all got screwed by these insurance companies that were only Showing them this plan and this plan, not all of them. And so they were just hemorrhaging. They couldn't afford their own care. They wanted to make sure that didn't happen to people anymore. 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