0:01

I can report to the American

0:03

people and to the world that the United

0:05

States has conducted an operation that killed

0:07

Osama bin Laden, where we continue to

0:09

follow the capture and killing of Osama

0:11

bin Laden now. Those are just some

0:13

of the scenes overnight as thousands of

0:15

Americans gathered in celebration of Osama bin

0:17

Laden's death. Former Navy SEAL Rob

0:20

O 'Neill says he has thought about the

0:22

mission every day since that May day

0:24

in 2011. For multiple conversations you had with

0:26

Rob O 'Neill over the past year and a half,

0:28

And you describe that his head kind of exploded

0:30

when you hit him. I actually hit him three

0:32

times because I shot him twice when he was

0:34

standing and once on the floor. We

0:39

are not going for fame and

0:41

we are not going for bravado. We

0:44

are going for the single mom

0:46

who dropped her kids off at elementary

0:48

school on a Tuesday morning and

0:50

then 45 minutes later she jumped to

0:52

her death out of a skyscraper. Hang

0:56

up and then dial your operator. I'm

0:58

Rob O 'Neill and this is

1:00

the operator podcast. Welcome

1:09

back to the operator

1:11

podcast. We're

1:13

in the 130s now. This is going to be

1:15

episode 131 and I appreciate you joining me. We're

1:17

going to have a lot of fun today, hopefully.

1:20

I'm gonna get into just a

1:22

little bit of history because it's fun

1:24

to know from where you come

1:26

and what's been happening and

1:29

why. And one

1:31

of the phrases that's going

1:33

around now is that, and you'll hear me

1:35

say it too, that history is written by, history

1:38

is written by the victors. Whitten

1:40

is a, was a tight end for the

1:42

Dallas Cowboys. Hell of a good guy by the

1:44

way too. I had a funny story about Jason

1:46

Whitten. I went to dinner. with Jason

1:48

with Tony Romo back when

1:50

they were both starting for the

1:52

Cowboys good crew Romo is a good

1:54

quarterback. I think he's a really good Commentator

1:56

as well. I think he's smart and he

1:58

knows what he's doing People give him shit.

2:00

I said Witten written on an accident with none

2:03

accident So we went to dinner in Dallas

2:05

and this is a while back when I lived

2:07

in Texas That's a long time ago, but

2:09

we read a restaurant downtown or uptown I still

2:11

don't know the difference in Dallas if you're

2:13

a Texan from Dallas Tell me in the comments at

2:15

the operator podcast Uptown and downtown

2:17

in Dallas because I don't know. Not a lot

2:19

of mountains in Dallas. Uptown buttes uptown. Anyway,

2:22

butte Montana. We went

2:25

to dinner and we got done.

2:27

We were all getting an Uber. There was

2:29

a couple cocktails we had. And as

2:31

we're leaving, Roma went over to, we're out

2:33

front. Like, it's a nice restaurant. The guys at

2:35

Valet are there, but we're waiting for an Uber.

2:37

And Roma went over and started peeing on a tree.

2:39

And I said, hey, man, I don't think you

2:41

can do that here. And he looked back and said,

2:43

yeah, we all know there's only one sheriff in

2:45

Dallas. It's pretty funny. It was a joke. He was

2:47

starting. He was good. A lot of fun. I

2:49

said, I said written, written

2:51

history is written by

2:53

the winners is what I'm getting at

2:56

too. So I'm going to get into a

2:58

little bit of history and kind of know

3:00

where we're going with that. Based

3:03

on what we see now, because there's comparisons

3:05

and similarities, what's happened in the past and

3:07

what's going on now, especially with relations around

3:09

the world, everything from China. I'm going to

3:12

focus on to the fentanyl stuff. what's

3:14

happening on why because a lot

3:16

of people don't know the why the

3:18

long the long war we're too

3:20

busy with instant gratification

3:22

and it's not even

3:25

a 24 -hour news cycle and

3:27

at a point to where not everybody's

3:29

even a journalist it just you don't

3:31

need to be right you just need

3:33

to be first so but

3:35

there's you know nutty stuff is

3:37

going on this weekend a

3:39

couple days ago there was

3:41

a The stuff coming

3:43

out of the Pentagon about UFOs not

3:45

UFOs UAPs and I the reason I pulled

3:47

this story up not because I mean

3:50

it's the same damn videos F -18 pilots

3:52

2015 it's always F -18 pilots the ones

3:54

that are out there on the F -18's

3:56

land on the carriers which are out

3:58

at sea and they're saying a lot of

4:00

these UAPs are also are

4:02

also Hydrodynamic and they have bases

4:04

and whatnot underwater a lot

4:06

of subs have seen whatever A

4:09

lot of the sightings turn it out to

4:11

be balloons and whatnot. And there's also weapons. We

4:13

just heard President Trump mention that we have

4:15

weapons that no one knows about. And

4:17

I don't know if he said this, but I've

4:19

said it before that nuclear weapons aren't even our most

4:21

powerful weapons. But I pulled this

4:23

up because I love how the military

4:25

changes abbreviations and acronyms all the time.

4:27

And I'm assuming that's because someone gets

4:29

an award for being that clever. But

4:32

instead of unidentified flying

4:34

objects, now UAPs, which is

4:37

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Phenomena.

4:40

But I liked it because they made

4:42

a task force, the

4:45

UAPTF, which is the Unidentified Aerial

4:47

Phenomena Task Force. It

4:49

should be the UAP TFF why

4:51

for the unidentified aerial phenomenon a

4:53

task for fuck yeah But yeah,

4:55

they're seeing a lot of stuff

4:57

and I've heard every kind of

4:59

weird story about how they're Attempt

5:01

re attacking the Russians and whatnot.

5:04

I'm looking at pictures right now

5:06

and What's exactly there? Why would

5:08

they why would they be attacking

5:10

Russian soldiers and turning him into

5:12

stone? I don't know But that'll

5:14

be interesting to get into also

5:17

I mentioned last

5:19

week in episode

5:22

130, Tariffs for Dummies. And again,

5:24

bear with me because I call it Tariffs for Dummies

5:26

because I needed to know more about tariffs. And

5:28

the best way to learn something is to teach it.

5:31

You know, you can memorize it, you can read

5:33

it out loud. Once you teach something, hopefully you know

5:35

what it is. And you're gonna, I've taught classes

5:37

before where I wasn't quite prepared. This was when

5:39

I was a young Navy SEAL and you realize

5:41

real quick that if you don't know what you're talking

5:43

about, you better be good at bullshitting because It's

5:46

about to go down. But with

5:48

the tariffs and with stuff that's going

5:50

on with social media, like I mentioned,

5:52

the less than 24 -hour news cycle,

5:54

a lot of stuff is getting emotional. And

5:57

that's part of the whole process, too. What

5:59

it boils down to and by it,

6:02

I mean everything. What it

6:04

boils down to is follow the money.

6:06

Someone somewhere is getting paid for something. So

6:08

why would they there be vested

6:10

interest in emotions? Well, because people act

6:13

funny when they're emotional and we

6:15

see it all the time that there's

6:17

a I I give presentations to

6:19

companies about why we were successful as

6:21

Navy SEALs the traits Common to

6:23

our success and one of them is

6:26

do your best not to make

6:28

decisions based on emotion Because you're probably

6:30

gonna be wrong the best example.

6:32

I have I stole it from my

6:34

father -in -law Tommy help and he

6:36

said To

6:38

you know, if you write a you can

6:40

write that mean email, but don't hit send

6:43

for 24 hours And if it still bothers

6:45

you, you know, if it still bothers you

6:47

then it might be worth it And that's

6:49

the same thing as take a breath take

6:51

a step back or nowadays when I find

6:53

myself getting worked up I'll just take a

6:55

walk and know you're gonna feel better soon,

6:57

but don't make that don't hit send man.

6:59

Don't hit tweet. Jeez Getting trouble for tweets.

7:02

I got in trouble in 2020 for tweets

7:04

bullshit. I was right I was right but

7:06

decision -making There's

7:08

all kinds of outcomes that come with

7:10

it. You know, I'm reading some of

7:12

my notes here. I was thinking about

7:14

some of the decisions that were made

7:16

in my career and whatnot. And the

7:18

emotions are an integral part of the

7:20

human experience, but you can't rely solely

7:23

on them to make your decisions. A

7:25

prime example nowadays is bring up anything

7:27

online, climate change, abortion, trans

7:29

women in sports, stuff like that. And

7:31

emotions are going to start flying. Bring up

7:33

anything on X and emotions start flying. Because

7:37

people got biased for different things and

7:39

they it's not that people think they're

7:41

right They know they're right and also

7:43

both sides are kind of guilty of

7:45

it one more than the other But

7:47

they don't want to hear the other

7:49

person's point of view. I mean look

7:51

at the left of the Elon Musk

7:53

Elon Musk Just just because of emotions

7:55

they they They they're great. They make

7:57

us who we are, but they need

7:59

to be tempered by reason to avoid

8:01

idiocy like we've seen Remember,

8:04

trust the science. A lot of emotion with

8:06

COVID. Everything from the vaccines

8:08

to the lack of vaccines to the mass to

8:10

all the crap. And

8:13

just people getting spun out of control.

8:15

I remember the Colbert show had those

8:17

dudes dressed up as syringes and they're

8:19

singing like the Peewee Herman version of

8:21

vaccines instead of tequila. You

8:25

know, just that's stupid. I

8:27

don't know if I thought I was entertaining whatever crazy time. The

8:30

best time of the lockdown, I think, was when we were all

8:32

watching Tiger King. But

8:34

yeah, emotions are fundamental of who you

8:36

are. But they can dominate the process

8:38

of decision making. And we've seen it

8:41

in history. I'm going to get into

8:43

China and stuff like that. US, China,

8:45

geopolitical tensions. A lot of emotion in

8:47

there. And the problem is, especially now,

8:49

too, is when you speak the truth,

8:51

emotions get involved. Because if you offend

8:53

stupid people, they get emotional. It

8:57

should we should be in a place where

8:59

you can say something have an argument listen

9:01

and then retort But now we just shout

9:03

each other down. I mean, I'm gonna get

9:05

into the US China trade war But little

9:07

things like in in 2022. I don't if

9:09

you're so China is really big into Taiwan

9:11

they want Taiwan they consider a part of

9:14

Chinese Communist Party the part of Historic China

9:16

they want it back, but we don't want

9:18

him to get it. It's some of the

9:20

microchip stuff It's always it always comes down

9:22

to power always comes down to trade who's

9:24

in the best position China

9:26

wants it. We don't want him to

9:28

have it. But Nancy Pelosi went over

9:30

to Taiwan to visit in 2022 and

9:32

that just pissed the Chinese off. They

9:34

started doing military drills. There was economic

9:37

sanctions and escalated tensions, you know, between

9:39

both sides, rising fears, war games, all

9:41

that stuff. Yeah. And

9:43

like I said, too, it just gets

9:45

worse with social media platforms like

9:47

X and then misinformation. And again, that's

9:49

with other players that want to

9:51

hurt morale. They're going to give you

9:53

bad stuff. And You

9:55

know, it's the whole trust but verify. I

9:58

don't just believe something is true because you

10:00

read it a lot of times It's an

10:02

algorithm or a bot or or a paid

10:04

Agitator and I'm not picking on one side

10:06

or the other or the third But the

10:08

emotions are gonna get fired up and I'm

10:10

guilty of it too. That's why I like

10:12

to put the phone down and go outside

10:14

and take a walk but You know, it's

10:17

instead of instead of a short term the

10:19

short term endorphins or whatever it is you

10:21

get from yelling

10:23

or screaming, you gotta think about

10:25

long -term consequences too. And the

10:27

emotions, they

10:29

have a tendency to prioritize

10:31

feelings over sustainable outcomes

10:34

and stuff like that. They're

10:38

good for motivating action. If you're emotional

10:40

about going to the gym, that's great. But

10:42

making decisions based solely on emotion is

10:44

bad because it leads to bias. It'll

10:46

escalate the conflicts that you're trying to

10:48

de -escalate. It'll

10:51

even neglected short -term consequences, but

10:53

they can inspire they can

10:55

be good emotions can be fine,

10:57

but there's got to be

10:59

a time and a place For

11:02

them So that's my that's

11:04

my thoughts here on the emotional

11:06

part of All this goodness

11:08

so I'm gonna get into that

11:10

I'm gonna do a little

11:12

history about of

11:14

what's going on with the, well, I

11:16

mean, I brought up, I'm sorry, I brought

11:18

up emotions because of the tariffs, because

11:20

everyone's getting all fired up and they're watching,

11:22

they're watching, if you're

11:24

not in the market, watching your portfolio

11:27

go down, you're losing money. Some people

11:29

say they lost millions of dollars. It's

11:31

horrible. If you stick with it, does

11:33

it come back? The long -term effects,

11:35

short -term sell, is it worth it? Who

11:37

knows? Yeah,

11:39

we what I would tell my guys

11:42

in combat and I've probably mentioned this

11:44

before just to keep it simple is

11:46

don't react do respond and that might

11:48

take a second might take a second

11:50

even if a second's all you have

11:52

to make an informed decision. What do

11:54

we say the the definition of Bravery

11:57

is just waiting one more second and

11:59

then doing it anyway, so But yeah,

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I want to talk

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15:09

this country and in

15:11

the West and who the

15:13

major players are, why

15:15

China's involved with it too, because

15:17

the issue with China, not

15:19

the issue, but a fact about

15:21

China is that they're They're

15:24

playing the long game. They're

15:26

playing the thousand -year game. They're

15:28

playing President Xi has said that

15:30

China will take over the

15:32

world will dominate the world which

15:34

you know that Yeah, don't

15:36

want to think about that, but

15:38

it's the the fentanyl is

15:40

on purpose The it's here in

15:42

the United States. It's killing

15:44

almost a hundred thousand people here

15:46

or was It's on purpose.

15:48

It's a war We are being

15:50

infiltrated Drug warfare is not

15:52

uncommon Not uncommon

15:54

knowledge with Chinese leadership. I'm

15:57

gonna go back a little bit and tell you why

15:59

they want to do this because during the century

16:01

China was the target for the

16:04

West particularly Great Britain But the Chinese

16:06

people so the Chinese government was

16:08

the target for the Chinese people were

16:10

the victims and they were doing

16:12

this on purpose as well This is

16:14

like a little bit of reverse

16:16

technology The opium wars arose from tensions

16:18

over the opium trade right around

16:20

you know that part of asia which

16:22

britain heavily promoted despite china's bans

16:24

uh due to its addictive and disruptive

16:27

effects so china didn't want opium

16:29

in there but the brits did and

16:31

this is when you get back

16:33

into stuff you'll hear the words like

16:35

uh industrialization or colonization and stuff

16:37

like that and words that get thrown

16:39

around a lot too like bernie

16:41

sanders rolling around the country uh you

16:43

know fighting for everything but he's

16:45

been he's been out there since the

16:47

eighties yelling we don't need a

16:50

oligarchy We don't need oligarchy.

16:52

There's like a skit out there

16:54

online. It literally shows him saying

16:56

the same thing from 1983 up

16:58

until now. We don't need oligarchy. Anyway,

17:02

but the reason this is,

17:05

I don't know why

17:07

I just did that. The

17:10

Opium Trade and Merse, this is back in

17:12

China. Again, this is why they're doing the

17:15

long game. The Opium Trade and Merse is

17:17

a significant issue with Chinese -Western relations during

17:19

the 18th and early centuries, Britain

17:21

facing a trade deficit due to

17:23

the high demand for Chinese goods.

17:25

Notice I bring up trade deficits.

17:27

You're talking tariffs again. It comes

17:29

down to trade. It comes down

17:31

to trade routes. Money. Are

17:33

we making good deals? But there's a

17:35

high demand for Chinese goods at this

17:37

time. So this is the 19th century

17:40

and 18th century. But

17:42

goods like tea, silk, and

17:44

porcelain were expensive. So the the

17:46

Brits turned to opium primarily

17:48

sourced from India as a means

17:50

to balance the trade. Is

17:52

that fair fair trade? Probably not.

17:54

But Britain view the opium

17:56

trade as economically vital. So

17:59

by the late 18th century,

18:01

the British East India Company. So

18:03

it's called the East India

18:05

Company. It's British was selling significant

18:07

quantities of opium with exports. reaching

18:11

now this is back in the

18:13

day so they were selling them in

18:15

chess full so 4 ,000 chests annually

18:17

and each chest was like a

18:19

hundred and they told me in kilograms

18:21

but scholars can figure that out

18:23

I don't know no one knows how

18:25

much a kilogram is but they

18:27

weighed 170 pounds so 4 ,000 chests

18:29

would be approximately 680 ,000 pounds of

18:31

opium annually this is the late 18th

18:33

century this trade grew dramatically from

18:35

about 1820 with imports

18:37

reaching 30 ,000 chests, which would

18:39

be a little over 5

18:41

million pounds by 1833. So

18:44

this is the buildup to

18:46

the wars. This led to

18:48

widespread addiction and social disruption.

18:51

Addiction comes to disruption and this is

18:53

in China. The

18:55

East Indian Company made it cheap.

18:57

They sold it cheap and opium was

18:59

everywhere in China. The British East

19:01

India Company basically became the world's first

19:03

drug cartel because it eventually produced

19:05

all the opium in the world. They

19:07

got the market corner, they got

19:09

a monopoly, and they eventually got about

19:12

25 % of the Chinese population hooked

19:14

on opium. Even though there

19:16

were efforts to stop it, the Brits always

19:18

responded with heavy hands. They always came in

19:20

militarily. They had a really strong

19:22

Royal Navy. I think they'd only been beaten a

19:24

few times. I'm not going to bring that

19:26

up. And so the Royal Navy would

19:28

come in and they'd keep it flowing because they

19:30

would, you know, I mean, that's

19:32

even the opposite of deterrence. That's like

19:35

bullying. The big bully shows up. And

19:37

people in the West consider this

19:39

fair game a legitimate, including future president,

19:42

FDR, his grandfather, Warren

19:44

Delano Jr. I

19:48

actually read about this part in Peter Switzer's book,

19:50

Blood Money. If you haven't read that book, Blood Money

19:52

is really good. It gets deep into a lot

19:54

of the stuff that some of the corruption explains. Stuff

19:58

like that like Warren Delano, Jr. I

20:00

didn't even know about him until I

20:02

read that book I read it actually

20:04

read it once and I've been I

20:06

kind of skimmed through it a lot

20:08

because there's good points in there but

20:10

before the opium before the East India

20:12

Company brought opium into China just for

20:14

trade they're trying to make trade more

20:16

fair China had the strongest economy in

20:18

the world But after It was in

20:20

shambles man at the economy sucked up

20:22

but so by early the early 1800s

20:25

opium import soared leading to widespread addiction

20:27

and economic strain in China. That's why

20:29

their economy went down. So we get

20:31

into the opium wars. The

20:33

first opium war was about 1839

20:35

to 1842. The second opium war

20:37

was several years later, a little

20:40

over a decade later, 1856 to

20:42

1860. critical juncture in modern Chinese

20:44

history because it led to, now

20:46

this is what's important, it led

20:48

to China's century of humiliation, that's

20:50

what they call it. China's century

20:52

of humiliation refers to the period

20:55

from the mid century

20:57

to the mid 20th century. So

20:59

we're talking after World War II, roughly

21:01

from the First Opium War in

21:03

1839 to the end of the Chinese

21:06

Civil War in 1949. This era

21:08

is characterized by foreign imperialism. I

21:10

said you'd hear imperialism again. You hear

21:12

that a lot. Professors love to

21:14

throw that around. People going in

21:16

and taking stuff that, you know, is

21:19

debatable. Internal strife, significant

21:21

loss of Chinese territory and

21:23

sovereignty. So

21:25

the century of humiliation, I believe

21:28

I got these in chronological order. The

21:30

key aspects of the first

21:32

opium war, which I mentioned, were

21:35

1839 and 1842. Britain defeated

21:37

China, leading to the Treaty of

21:39

Nanjing, which ceded Hong Kong

21:41

to Britain and opened several Chinese

21:43

ports to foreign trade. We're

21:46

getting into why China is not that big

21:48

on foreigners, either. We have a hell of

21:50

a time trade there. I don't think we

21:52

can. The next one was the

21:54

Second Opium War. 1856 1860

21:56

like I mentioned this time. It was

21:58

Britain. I'll get out to get

22:00

in this later But it was this

22:02

time was great Britain France a

22:04

little bit of the US they forced

22:06

China now to legalize the opium

22:08

trade and grant further territorial and trade

22:10

concessions China's getting backed up. They

22:12

have long memories There's treaties and treaties

22:14

treaty ports and Just crap like

22:16

the foreign powers established treaty ports where

22:18

they enjoyed extra territorial rights That

22:20

means is their citizens were subject to

22:23

their own laws rather than Chinese

22:25

laws when they went there. Kind of

22:27

like in the military, there's a

22:29

status of forces agreement. Similar to that,

22:31

you're under the uniform code of

22:33

military justice, not whatever. Spain comes to

22:35

mind because that's the first port

22:37

people pull in after crossing the Atlantic.

22:39

And then Marines, man, they can

22:41

get nuts. I saw dudes

22:43

come back in Spanish uniforms. They traded their uniforms,

22:45

but that's another story. I got to get a Marine

22:47

on here in an interview. We'll do that. There's

22:50

a Taiping rebellion. This is a

22:52

little bit later, 1850 to 1864. Same

22:54

kind of time for him, but

22:56

that's a massive civil war that

22:59

devastated large parts of of China

23:01

and this is the I want

23:03

to say the King dynasty Qing

23:05

a week in that dynasty Again,

23:07

they don't forget. There's the Sino

23:09

-Japanese war. Sino -Sino -Japanese war. That's

23:11

a kind of a word for

23:14

Chinese Here's a here's a newsflash

23:16

China and Japan didn't like each

23:18

other. They still don't but Japan

23:20

defeated China leading to the Treaty

23:22

of Shimano Seki which ceded Taiwan

23:24

to Japan. So there's Taiwan

23:26

again, away from China. This

23:29

is as the Chinese say, this is more

23:31

humiliation. There was the

23:33

Boxer Rebellion 1890 -1901, an

23:35

anti -foreign uprising that was suppressed

23:37

by an eight national lines resulting

23:40

in further concessions and the word

23:42

of the decade is reparations. But

23:44

China's, you can see why they're

23:46

getting upset because they keep losing

23:48

and then they're losing territory, losing

23:50

wars, losing morale. There were

23:52

unequal treaties a series of

23:54

treaties imposed on China by foreign

23:56

powers that included territorial loss

23:59

again indemnities and other unfavorable terms

24:01

the warlord era from 1916

24:03

to 1928 that's We're talking right

24:05

around a World War one

24:07

ish Following the collapse of the

24:09

King dynasty China was fragmented

24:12

by various warlords leading to further

24:14

instability. We've seen that in

24:16

a lot of different places Afghanistan

24:18

comes to mind after The

24:21

Soviet invasion and how we went

24:23

in there and gave them stingers

24:25

the Mujahideen beat the Russians, but

24:27

then they came after us Another

24:29

one, but then another one was

24:32

a Japanese invasion and World War

24:34

two. So this is 1937 19

24:36

to 1945 so in between that

24:38

I mean you're talking Germany Blitzkrieg

24:40

Luftwaffe and 1945 when we're dropping

24:42

bombs all over the place, but

24:45

Japan invaded And Japan's

24:47

full scale invasion of China led

24:49

to widespread devastation and atrocities including

24:51

and this will be a full

24:53

episode the the Nanjing massacre that's

24:55

a the rape of Nanjing I

24:57

believe is the name of the

24:59

book not our non -king is

25:01

something similar they changed the name

25:03

but it was a massacre the

25:06

estimates very wildly of the death

25:08

toll ranging from 40 ,000 Chinese deaths

25:10

to 300 ,000 with the Chinese

25:12

government often citing 300 ,000 is the

25:14

official figure. We're going to go

25:16

high there. The international

25:18

military tribunal for the Far East estimated

25:20

at 200 ,000 deaths. That's a lot

25:22

either way. 40 ,000, 200 ,000,

25:24

300 ,000. A lot of people dying in

25:26

this. Some of the

25:29

atrocities that I researched

25:31

was Japanese soldiers committed

25:33

systematic massacres, mass

25:36

executions. They raped and estimated,

25:38

again, these are estimates, but

25:40

20 ,000 to 80 ,000 women.

25:43

civilians caught in the crossfire

25:45

are subject to torture

25:47

the city was was extensively

25:49

looted and and burned

25:51

and the rape of non

25:53

-king yes still recognized on

25:55

December 13th as a

25:57

as a national day of

25:59

mourning and then there

26:01

was a Chinese civil war

26:03

which was 1945 to

26:06

1940 49 this was between

26:08

nationalists and communists sound

26:10

familiar The CCP, the

26:12

Chinese Communist Party, ended with

26:14

the Communist victory and established the

26:16

People's Republic of China. So

26:18

the century of humiliation is a

26:21

significant part of Chinese historical

26:23

memory and national identity. It is

26:25

often invoked by the Chinese

26:27

government to underscore the importance of

26:29

national unity, sovereignty, and

26:31

the need to prevent

26:34

such humiliations from reoccurring.

26:37

So They're teaching their

26:39

youth about the greatness of

26:41

China, the humiliation of China, why

26:43

they need to band together, why foreigners are

26:45

bad and how we need to be strong.

26:47

We need to avoid these humiliations. And

26:49

unlike a lot of us, instead of teaching

26:51

our kids to hate our own country with

26:53

the help of algorithms from China, and

26:55

then just teaching them we're based on all

26:58

this horrible stuff, even though you'll notice every

27:00

country, every piece of land was. basically look

27:02

none of us were there and they were

27:04

all uh formed by bad not necessarily bad

27:06

actors but of the time stuff that's not

27:08

nice i guess but they're teaching their kids

27:10

this is what we need to do you

27:12

got a great country you're a great person

27:14

you're smart and they are they are smart

27:16

so uh they don't want to be humiliated

27:18

again and that's where we are with this

27:20

the the uh century of humiliation that's in

27:22

their history they're teaching it to them and

27:24

this is why they're serious this is what

27:26

we're getting into i'm going to go over

27:28

a couple things right now but Backing

27:31

up a little bit, I'm going

27:33

to get into the opium wars.

27:35

I think they're the most important

27:37

of the century of humiliation, leading

27:39

to why we are where we

27:42

are. But the first opium war

27:44

began when China destroyed British opium

27:46

stocks in 1839, prompting Britain to

27:48

send a naval expedition. And it

27:50

ended with the Treaty of Nanjing

27:52

in 1842. Nanjing was a capital.

27:54

of China at the time and

27:56

I think it was a capital

27:58

China for you history buffs has

28:00

been around a long time and

28:02

they've had a few capitals I

28:05

think Nanjing was a capital four

28:07

times it still recognizes one of

28:09

China's great ancient capitals but the

28:11

first opium war ended with ceding

28:13

Hong Kong to Britain and

28:15

opening up more treaty ports that

28:17

I mentioned before. So welcoming

28:19

in more foreigners, Britain owns Hong Kong.

28:21

It's marking a significant loss of

28:24

Chinese sovereignty. The immediate cause of

28:26

the first opium war was China's enforcement of

28:28

its opium prohibition. Britain wanted to bring the opium

28:30

in. They wanted to get rid of it

28:32

because they saw what it was doing to the

28:34

Chinese people. And

28:36

it culminated in their commissioner, Lin

28:38

Zeyzou. My Chinese is horrible. I'm not

28:40

going to pretend to know it

28:42

if I say it wrong. correct

28:44

me, but that commissioner

28:46

destroyed British opium stocks in

28:48

1839. This action was

28:50

part of a broader effort

28:52

to address the outflow

28:54

of silver and the social

28:57

harm caused by addiction. That's

29:00

interesting, isn't it? Britain supported

29:02

by merchants and the East India

29:04

Company, which was their company,

29:06

who owned the opium trade, demanded

29:08

compensation and insisted on free

29:11

trade principles leading to escalating tensions.

29:13

Free trade. Zero tariffs maybe

29:15

escalating tensions sound familiar history, baby

29:17

Now the war began with

29:19

the British Naval Expedition in June

29:21

1840 leveraging superior military technology

29:24

to bombard Chinese coastal cities and

29:26

Key event include the capture

29:28

of it was called Canton. I'm

29:30

assuming the British named that

29:32

Gang's howl is what is called

29:34

now, I believe, could be

29:36

wrong, but they captured Canton

29:39

in May of 1841 and

29:41

the eventual siege of Nanjing,

29:43

which forced China to the

29:45

negotiating table and the conflict

29:47

ended with the Treaty of

29:49

Nanjing in August 29th, 1842,

29:51

marking China's first formal treaty

29:53

with a Western power. And

29:56

the treaty imposed significant

29:58

congestions on China and

30:00

I wrote them down here. The

30:02

territory they gave up was a Hong

30:05

Kong island and smaller islands to Britain. They

30:08

controlled those until 1997. Treaty

30:11

ports were established, five ports open, Shanghai,

30:13

Canton, Ningbo,

30:15

Fuzhao, and Xiamen, and

30:18

the reparations, China to pay, 21

30:20

million silver dollars in reparations six million

30:22

immediately the rest and insulations That's

30:24

what the silver came from I guess

30:26

and the legal privileges granted most

30:29

most favored nation status and Extra territoriality

30:31

great word to Britain These terms

30:33

were all deeply humiliating and again if

30:35

you're if you're surrendering you're not

30:37

going to get the best deal But

30:39

China didn't like it and it

30:42

established a precedent for unequal treaties that

30:44

they're going to do it now

30:46

They'll do in the future and marking

30:48

the beginning of Western dominance in

30:50

China, which they do not like. Then

30:53

followed up by the Second

30:55

Opium War, that's in 1856, lasted

30:57

four years, triggered by further

30:59

trade disputes and the Arrow Incident.

31:03

The Arrow Incident, its

31:05

Pivot Incident was the

31:07

boarding of a British

31:09

registered ship Arrow in

31:11

1856. What they would do

31:13

is the British would use

31:15

Chinese ships, but they would fly

31:17

the Brit flag. they would

31:20

you well they should have British

31:22

captains but when the arrow

31:24

was taken by the Chinese the

31:26

skipper was not on board

31:28

but there were reports of the

31:30

the flag being lowered and

31:32

trampled which again you're gonna get

31:34

an emotional response led to

31:36

Britain France and the US to

31:38

respond this led to Britain

31:40

demands for apologies and what's our

31:42

favorite word reparations And

31:44

why did France join? Well, France joined

31:46

the conflict following the execution of

31:48

a French missionary. And this is,

31:50

again, history. We don't know all about it,

31:52

but this is what I found. It

31:55

refers to the killing of

31:57

Auguste Chat Delaine, a French

31:59

Catholic missionary from Paris Foreign

32:01

Missionary Society in China on

32:03

February 29th. He was killed

32:05

in China. February 29th,

32:07

1856. Chat Delaine.

32:09

He was born in Normandy,

32:11

France in 1814 and he'd

32:14

been ordained a priest in

32:16

1843 and arrived in China

32:18

right around 1852 to join

32:20

the Catholic mission. He's

32:22

going to spread Catholicism. At

32:24

the time, foreigners were forbidden from

32:26

entering this region due to

32:28

heightened suspicion of Christians amid the

32:30

Taiping rebellion which had to

32:32

stabilize the Qing dynasty and fueled

32:34

anti -foreign sentiment. There that is

32:36

again. Chat Delain was arrested

32:38

by local Chinese authorities while conducting

32:40

missionary work. He was tortured

32:42

and executed reportedly being beaten and

32:45

then placed in a cage

32:47

where he died. He was put

32:49

in there because he refused

32:51

to renounce denounce his Catholic faith.

32:53

The execution took place in

32:55

an area not open to foreigners

32:57

violating the Limited rights Western

32:59

missionaries had under existing treaties France

33:01

used this incident as a

33:03

pretext to join Britain in the

33:05

second opium war Which was

33:07

already brewing due to the trade

33:09

disputes French government under pressure

33:11

from Catholic interests and seeking to

33:13

expand its influence in China

33:15

sided the missionaries death and priest

33:17

death as Cassius Belly to

33:20

just to basically be be lie

33:22

be it's it's less Latin

33:24

it basically means to justify military

33:26

actions alongside Britain despite initial

33:28

neutrality in the conflict. Historians have

33:30

said they use this as

33:32

an excuse to further their state

33:34

and expand trade routes. Again,

33:36

it's all about trade. Historians

33:39

have argued that chapter lane's execution

33:41

was exploited for, in other words, you're

33:43

going to hear a lot of

33:45

imperialist gain, imperialists. France had not typically

33:47

launched punitive military expeditions for the

33:49

death of missionaries anywhere else in the

33:51

world. And

33:55

the broader geopolitical context Britain's likely

33:57

victory and France's desire for Imperial

33:59

expansion in China suggests the incident

34:01

was a convenient excuse rather than

34:03

the sole cause of French involvement

34:05

That's debatable. They might have used

34:07

it. They might have been pissed

34:10

about them killing one of their

34:12

guys But they did go in

34:14

and trade was involved Lord Elgin

34:16

the British High Commissioner noted the

34:18

French ultimatum over chapter lanes death

34:20

as a calculated move The war

34:22

resulted in the treaties of Tianjin

34:24

and the Convention of Peking, which,

34:26

among other concessions, granted Christians the

34:28

right to spread their faith and

34:31

allowed French missionaries to hold property

34:33

in China, as stipulated in Article

34:35

6 of the Sino -French Peking

34:37

Convention. And again, yeah,

34:39

the missionary was killed and that's bad.

34:41

He was tortured. That's bad, but we're

34:43

moving. We're getting more territory for France

34:45

and for Britain. But anyway,

34:48

the missionary, the priest, Chap

34:50

Delain, was later beatified in 1900.

34:52

Beatification Catholic is a formal

34:54

process in the Roman Catholic Church

34:56

by which the deceased person

34:58

is declared blessed. So he's

35:00

definitely in heaven. They're

35:03

in heaven and can intercede

35:05

on behalf of those who pray

35:07

to them pray for them.

35:09

I lost my shit. Please find

35:11

it for me It's a

35:13

step toward canonization, which is a

35:15

process of becoming a saint

35:17

and he was canonized by Pope

35:19

John Paul II on October

35:21

1st 2000 as one of 120

35:23

Christian martyrs who died in

35:26

China between the 17th 20th centuries

35:28

This event remains a significant

35:30

point of contention in Sino Sinome,

35:32

I said it wrong, Western

35:34

relations, Chinese Western relations, reflecting the

35:36

broader tensions over foreign influence

35:38

and missionary activities during the King

35:40

dynasty's decline. Anyway, both powers

35:42

sought to expend trading privileges, including

35:44

the legalization of opium and

35:46

access to more ports. So the

35:48

war began, second opium war

35:50

began with British and French forces

35:52

attacking Canton in 1856. capturing

35:54

the city by late 1857 and

35:56

by May of 1858, Allied

35:58

troops reached Tianjin, forcing negotiations that

36:00

resulted in the treaties of

36:02

Tianjin. However, tensions escalated in

36:04

1860 when Chinese forces resisted,

36:06

leading to the sack of Old

36:09

Summer Palace, Yuanming

36:11

Yuan, and the occupation of

36:14

Beijing, or Peking at the time.

36:16

The convention of Peking Signed

36:18

later October of 1860 confirmed

36:20

the earlier treaties and imposed further

36:22

concessions that resulted in the

36:24

treaties of Tianjin and the Convention

36:26

of Peking the legalization of opium

36:28

and again the Expanding of foreign

36:31

privileges and further weakening China so

36:33

China is getting pretty pissed

36:35

off here and all of this

36:37

stuff the two especially the two

36:39

opium wars led to the The

36:42

decline of the King dynasty, the social

36:44

disruption from the opium, the shift in

36:46

the global power dynamics, because China was

36:48

the most powerful country economy in the

36:51

world. This brought it down. Now we

36:53

started to favor Western interest and imperialism.

36:55

There's our word again. Or

36:57

imperialism based on what your professor told you. They

36:59

love that word too. That's why I

37:01

was bringing up Bernie Sanders, oligarchy. They

37:04

left the lasting legacy on

37:06

China's national identity. And

37:08

they're proud. and foreign relations

37:10

so to recap the king

37:12

dynasty recognizing the detrimental effects

37:14

of opium issued multiple bans

37:16

including edicts in 1729 this

37:18

is way before the war

37:20

1799 1814 1831 but smuggling

37:22

corruption undermined these efforts the

37:24

chinese governments attempt to suppress

37:26

the trade particularly the destruction

37:28

of those 20 000 chests

37:30

of opium set stage for

37:32

conflict. So what were

37:34

the outcomes of the second opium

37:36

war that further eroded Chinese

37:38

sovereignty was the legalization of opium,

37:41

officially legalized, and that just

37:43

hurt society. Additional treaty

37:45

ports, 10 more ports. China

37:47

doesn't like that. Neither would you, man.

37:49

I mean, we got PO to China

37:51

for getting down there in the Panama

37:53

Canal, but now foreign companies have access

37:55

to China. territorial expansion because britain gained

37:57

control of a couple different places all

37:59

adjacent to hong kong which i had

38:01

from the first one and diplomatic privileges

38:03

foreign diplomats granted residence in beijing peaking

38:05

um and that's again the foreign influence

38:07

coming in it's like the spies that

38:09

go to nyu and columbia they're uh

38:11

they're very influenced uh it's like the

38:13

the honeypots that go up to congressman

38:15

and sleep and learn all the secrets

38:17

and then blackmail them You don't hear

38:19

a lot of politicians talking about China.

38:22

When they have meetings, they don't really bring up the

38:24

fentanyl because the button paid for, a little blackmail

38:26

here and there. Again,

38:28

these treaties, Western

38:31

influence, and it's

38:33

almost like China thought of themselves as

38:35

a semi -colonized state. Again, a professor

38:37

word there. They had a

38:39

profound effect on China. weakening

38:41

the dynasty, exposing its military administrative inadequacies,

38:43

which a lot of people are saying can

38:45

happen right now because they haven't really

38:47

been to war in a while. How are

38:49

they going to be? I hope we

38:51

don't have to find out. But the political

38:53

decline, the King dynasty's government inability to

38:56

resist Western powers, the people don't like that.

38:58

The Western powers were undermining their authority,

39:02

contributing to internal rebellions

39:04

like the Taiping rebellion.

39:06

We mentioned that earlier. The

39:09

social disruption of the opium,

39:11

because of legalization, it made the

39:13

addiction a lot worse, social

39:15

decay, economic strain, and

39:18

the opening of the treaty ports facilitated

39:20

greater foreign economic domination, often at

39:22

the expense of local industries. And then,

39:24

of course, they're nationalists, man. They're

39:26

proud nationalists, the Chinese people, and this

39:29

is national humiliation. The wars marked

39:31

the beginning of China's century of humiliation, which it

39:33

got into. The loss of Hong

39:35

Kong and the sacking of the

39:37

Old Summer Palace remains a potent

39:39

symbols of this era with cultural

39:41

artifacts like the 12 bronze animal

39:44

head statues that were looted, seven

39:46

of which were returned in December

39:48

of 2020. But the

39:50

war is also prominent social

39:52

reform with the King Dynasty

39:54

initiating modern educational institutions like

39:56

the Sinnoh Western College, 1895,

40:00

the Nanyang College,

40:02

1896, And

40:04

that's a predecessor to Shanghai and

40:06

Jiaotang University. And they're

40:08

basically putting these together so you can

40:10

learn from the West, which,

40:12

you know, they're kind of doing now,

40:14

but they're doing it a different way. So

40:17

what are the lasting

40:19

effects of the opium

40:21

wars? They, I

40:23

mean, they left a legacy on

40:26

China's relations with the West, underscoring

40:28

the importance of national strength. You

40:33

know a sovereign Chinese nation they

40:36

and they're teaching about this so that

40:38

they want to have a strong

40:40

They don't have strong political discourse in

40:42

China. They're teaching their people that

40:44

too. They're not teaching them how bad

40:46

they are They're actually playing the

40:48

victim and they're playing it pretty well,

40:51

but now they're do a point

40:53

where even their Fairies that bring people

40:55

back and forth the worker made

40:57

to military specs in case the Great

40:59

War starts I'd also highlighted the

41:01

ethical dimensions of imperialism Like

41:04

you go in there. I mean,

41:06

is it imperialism? Is it is it

41:08

that with the the professors like

41:10

to say possibly but Yeah, you know,

41:12

what was everyone's role in promoting

41:14

opium addiction you can blame a lot

41:16

of this on opium and the

41:18

Chinese do again the victim research suggests

41:20

the Britain leaders were aware of

41:22

opium's habit forming properties, but They were

41:25

just saying it's legit to the

41:27

the war economically the war had mixed

41:29

effects with the treaty ports accelerating

41:31

industrialization through technology transfer

41:33

and Market access but also the long

41:35

-term impact is evident in modern China's

41:37

emphasis on avoiding weakness That's what they're

41:39

good at. They always project strength. They

41:41

rarely admit fault. They never admit fault

41:43

and they'll lie straight to your face

41:45

one of their Sayings to this I

41:47

like to actually highlighted I lit it

41:49

for myself was if you are backward

41:51

you will take a beating So these

41:53

opium wars I'm just I'm getting deep

41:55

into this so you can kind of

41:57

understand what they're teaching their kids and

42:00

you're not gonna No one's going to

42:02

go over this on TikTok or actually

42:04

only have a set amount of time

42:06

or characters, but the opium wars were

42:08

a returning point in Chinese history. But

42:10

they're still teaching it today, which is important.

42:12

They know their history, at least their perception

42:15

of history. They

42:17

teach a period of foreign domination, internal

42:19

strife, and this lasted over a century.

42:22

These wars expose the vulnerabilities of the

42:24

King dynasty, the aggressive expansion, Western

42:26

powers. I mentioned that before leaving a

42:28

lasting imprint on China's identity and

42:30

global position. It reshaped China's

42:32

internal dynamics and the way they

42:34

teach it is it really keeps

42:36

it keeps their people pissed off

42:39

essentially and they still want revenge

42:41

They're even teaching today that this

42:43

Western incursion turned China into a

42:45

minor power in the world They

42:47

consider the great drug this the

42:49

greatest drug war in modern history

42:52

Over in China they actually teach

42:54

never forget Our biggest problem over

42:56

here is we keep forgetting to

42:58

never forget, but they they still

43:00

want to avenge the opium wars

43:02

is the total theme of today

43:04

what I'm talking about the They

43:07

think that not only is poisoning

43:09

your enemy justified. It's patriotic About

43:11

60 years ago just after the

43:13

beginning of communist China the party

43:15

started pushing opium into Japan So

43:17

now they got their opium that

43:20

part of the world opium is

43:23

There's no love lost there with Japan

43:25

and China, so they start pushing

43:27

opium into Japan now, about 60 years

43:29

later. So just after the Communist

43:32

Chinese party took rise, they're still avenging

43:34

their loss to them, and the

43:36

US was not far behind. The

43:38

CCP tried to get opium into the US

43:40

at first through ports in San Francisco and

43:42

New York. They were seized. They were successful

43:45

getting it in Japan, and the addiction led

43:47

to everything. power,

43:49

secret, strategic material, spies you to the same

43:51

way they honeypot our politicians. You get them

43:53

addicted, what are they gonna do for more?

43:55

They're gonna start telling you stuff. The

43:57

CCP started their major push in

43:59

the 50s and we're looking for

44:01

partners to expand it in the

44:03

West. Here's where it gets really

44:05

interesting too because we've seen some

44:07

movies about Vietnam. You've probably met

44:09

Vietnam veterans. China was involved

44:12

in a lot of our fights. You're

44:14

involved in Korea. I've heard

44:16

stories of... a million

44:18

men fighting, Chinese fighting

44:20

Americans, U .S. Marines who

44:22

were like 17 years old, Jeff Gumb's grandfather. Jeff

44:25

Gumb, my buddy from Shingalife, tells a story

44:27

about like when he's working out or hurt

44:29

or sore and he thinks of his grandfather

44:31

who had like 17 or 18, had been

44:33

shot a couple times. He's fighting a million

44:35

people. His story, he tells it

44:37

better than me, but you get the gist. But

44:41

China was fighting us there.

44:43

They're fighting us in Vietnam. By

44:45

the early 1960s, they were

44:47

hitting major ports in the US,

44:49

and they were starting to

44:51

focus more efforts on the GIs,

44:53

the troops in Vietnam. China

44:56

was already supporting the NVA,

44:58

the North Vietnamese Regulars and the

45:00

Viet Cong, with weapons of

45:02

training, kind of like we do in

45:04

some places, if you notice. But also,

45:06

they started pumping in heroin, like not

45:08

the skunk shit either. the good stuff.

45:11

Chinese officials were bragging all over the

45:13

world that they were growing the finest

45:15

opium in the world, and they were

45:17

giving it to US soldiers in Vietnam

45:19

and other places around Asia and Japan

45:21

on the cheap. And

45:23

what they were saying was, do you remember what

45:26

they did to us? And yes,

45:28

they do because they teach their history. Their

45:30

plan was to use heroin to shatter the

45:32

morale of troops in the jungle. The US

45:34

will never see it coming, so they started

45:36

targeting troops. all over asia will never see

45:38

it coming maybe we see it coming but

45:40

we refuse to believe it because we're big

45:42

believers that just because we're not at war

45:45

with someone it must mean they're not at

45:47

war with us not the case there was

45:49

a three star this is a cool story

45:51

there's a three star uh general us marine

45:53

louis waltz this dude fought and wrote dude

45:55

this kick -ass warrior this general officer fought in

45:57

world war two where he was awarded two

45:59

navy crosses i mean That's

46:02

kick -ass times too and he

46:05

also fought in Korea. He

46:07

later became the assistant commandant of

46:09

the US Marine Corps and

46:11

one of his quotes was because

46:13

he was sent over to

46:15

Vietnam to Address or at least

46:17

investigate the deal with heroin

46:19

and he said in June of

46:21

1970 immediately after our Cambodian

46:23

incursion South Vietnam was flooded with

46:25

heroin of Remarkable purity and

46:28

he said it was 94 percent

46:30

to 97 percent which was

46:32

sold at the ridiculously low price

46:34

of one buck or two

46:36

bucks a vial. And this is

46:38

telling something because dudes addicted

46:40

to heroin, even on an E2

46:42

pay in Vietnam in the

46:44

70s, they'd still pay five, 10

46:46

bucks without batting an eye

46:49

to get their fix. The

46:51

same vial in New York City at that

46:53

time cost $250. And dudes

46:55

over there getting high on

46:57

10%, they're pumping 97 %

47:00

pure. And so I mean

47:02

it's so it's so obvious because this the

47:04

pump in heroin into Vietnam was not for

47:06

profit It was political revenge for what? The

47:08

opium wars they remember their heritage they

47:10

wanted as many troops hooked as fast

47:13

as possible and they wanted them hit

47:15

as hard as possible Because they're getting

47:17

you from the inside. They're screwing with

47:19

morale If someone's high they don't have

47:21

your back. What am I doing in

47:23

this jungle? Why am I fighting the

47:25

heroin did not help the same general

47:27

said the distribution was carried out with

47:29

military precision highly coordinated,

47:32

97 % pure in people in

47:34

New York, 10%. And the drugs

47:36

turned out to be just

47:38

as effective as they had planned.

47:40

Dudes were getting addicted, slammed

47:42

around. It actually contributed to the

47:45

Nixon administration starting a massive pullout. That's

47:47

not in our history books, is

47:49

it? Then the

47:51

US government was realizing they could have better

47:53

trade with China. So that's when

47:55

the drug talk started to fade. They were bringing it

47:57

up before they sent the general over. But now, wait,

47:59

wait, wait, we can trade with these guys. We can

48:01

make money. So we don't need to

48:03

talk about how the GIs are getting killed. We don't

48:05

need to talk about the morale, why we're in

48:07

Vietnam, that kind of stuff. They didn't want to mention

48:09

it because it could have a negative effect on

48:11

their personal finances and power. Does that sound

48:13

familiar? I mean, before

48:16

that, at the time, we were flying

48:18

recon missions over Southeast Asia to see these

48:20

poppy fields like Cambodia, Laos, Burma. But

48:23

those were brought to a halt by then

48:25

Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. Burma

48:27

was a major ally of the Chinese Communist

48:30

Party. We don't want to damage business, no

48:32

matter what's happening to the dudes on the

48:34

ground. And we've been meeting with

48:36

China. In

48:38

the Biden administration, they met quite

48:40

a bit. The Trump administration

48:42

is now. But whenever they went

48:44

over to meet with China,

48:46

they talked about everything important. Ukraine,

48:50

climate change. Taiwan, which is

48:52

important to bet, you know,

48:54

but they didn't talk about

48:56

They did talk about WMD nukes

48:58

are bad, but they didn't

49:00

talk about The WMD is weapons

49:03

of mass destruction fentanyl is

49:05

fentanyl fentanyl takes about a hundred

49:07

thousand at least it was

49:09

hundred thousand Americans a year. It's

49:11

a it's a synthetic opioid

49:13

Think about this the fentanyl crossing

49:15

our southern and northern border It

49:18

takes more lives in a

49:20

year than the wars in Afghanistan,

49:22

Iraq, and Vietnam combined. It

49:24

takes more lives than the bomb

49:26

that we dropped on Nagasaki. Fentanyl

49:30

is the leading cause of death for

49:32

Americans under the age of 45. It's

49:34

intentional. It's being

49:36

covertly distributed, aimed at American

49:39

citizens by a superpower, and

49:41

is the most lethal

49:43

peacetime attack in world

49:45

history ever. period

49:50

and and and the deaths have been

49:52

unintentional by the victims because they the military

49:55

precision we talked about we're talking about

49:57

plants that are making fake people people think

49:59

they're taking prescription drugs sometimes they're taking

50:01

a full blast of fentanyl and it kills

50:03

him sometimes it's um it's laced in

50:05

in weed it's laced and blow and that's

50:07

not people taking prescription drugs they're just

50:09

trying to get the freak on they're just

50:11

trying to get little fired up on

50:13

that early Saturday morning. There was,

50:16

I don't know if you remember, here's the

50:18

fentanyl, and this is a story too

50:20

wasn't there, but this couple years ago a

50:22

group of dudes from West Point went

50:24

to Fort Lauderdale, and four of these

50:26

dudes bought cocaine, you

50:28

know, Party Central, shouldn't be doing that gentlemen,

50:30

that's one of the first rules of whatever

50:32

they teach in the Army, but I know

50:34

that Zero tolerance is one of them. But

50:36

four of them brought cocaine. It was laced.

50:38

They immediately went into cardiac arrest, right? So

50:40

these four dudes are down. Then three dudes

50:42

try to give them CPR. They

50:44

went into cardiac arrest. That's how strong the

50:46

stuff is. They all went to the emergency room.

50:48

They all survived. But right now, the way

50:50

the China's working with getting the stuff over here,

50:52

having the plants here, getting across, they're working

50:54

with the cartels. Cartels are not good dudes. They're

50:57

pretty vicious. Even they call fentanyl

50:59

L Diablo. It's the

51:01

deadliest drug out there and it should

51:03

be I mean we've had people in the

51:05

government trying to label it as a

51:07

weapon of mass destruction Which it is but

51:09

the logistics to get there are this

51:11

they get the material to make the fentanyl

51:13

and produce it in Mexico in Canada

51:15

fake pill plants in Mexico in the US

51:17

to distribute and the facilitation to get

51:19

it in the streets and high -level Chinese

51:21

Communist Party are involved because of the layers

51:23

involved and Because of the layers involved

51:25

they can deny it which they do we

51:28

believe them because our media and our

51:30

politicians who might be complicit want us to

51:32

believe that we believe what we're told. Our

51:34

lawmakers have been in denial. They've even lied about

51:36

it. Why is that? How

51:38

many California congressmen or senators

51:40

mention China ever? They don't. Why?

51:44

Congress has evidence and it's easily accessible

51:46

that China is involved in this,

51:48

but they stay away from that. I

51:50

mean, even right now, we're talking

51:52

about China, but more in trade and

51:54

tariffs. What happened on day

51:56

one? But the money is so good. I

51:59

mean, how many times have you heard someone say,

52:01

we just don't want to disrupt the US -China

52:04

relationship? Well, they're disrupting the shit out of it.

52:06

We're not even really talking about it. I

52:08

mean, we are, but not as much as we

52:10

should. This is a major invasion. This is warfare. China's

52:13

actually had officers openly admit to

52:15

this. And they've done

52:17

it before with heroin, meth, Vietnam.

52:20

There's a book they wrote this two officers

52:22

wrote called unrestricted warfare I think it's

52:24

really hard to find them I haven't I

52:26

wrote it down because it was in

52:28

some of Peter Schweitzer's notes, but allegedly they

52:30

got this book and they They got

52:32

the China wanted it gone because they didn't

52:34

want They didn't want people to know

52:36

what they were doing but they they they

52:38

they told their officers they want to

52:41

think outside the box non military weapons they

52:43

can use against their adversaries or Enemies

52:45

and nothing was too extreme. Nothing was forbidden

52:47

That's why they don't care about killing

52:49

innocent people with these drugs. They

52:52

agree this type of incursion would result

52:54

in massive addiction across the United States, which

52:56

we see, and that would spiral. What

52:58

does it ruin? It ruins the family. It

53:00

ruins the nuclear family because the addiction.

53:02

A bad family can ruin the neighborhood and

53:04

the community. I mean,

53:06

based on crime alone, people start stealing

53:08

stuff because they need to get there fixed.

53:10

Lots of addicts resort to theft and

53:12

violence. Mean

53:15

gangs get worse in certain areas, too

53:17

We've seen it with all kinds of drugs

53:19

just because the demand skyrockets and just

53:21

if you think about the reason China is

53:23

doing this and it's blatantly obvious the

53:25

question would be why aren't why aren't we

53:27

more serious? I mean we are now

53:29

sort of But I mean we're more talking

53:31

about I mean bad things happen when

53:33

we open the borders and millions of people

53:35

came in there's no denying that We

53:37

do mention fentanyl. It's why isn't there an

53:39

outcry for a hundred thousand Americans dying

53:41

in a year? I mean there's it's brought

53:43

up the families are obviously pissed Is

53:45

that an outcry? Really? Is there? Yeah,

53:50

I don't know. But that's why I wanted to

53:52

give a quick lesson on history. That's why the

53:54

fentanyl's coming here. That's why they're trying so hard

53:56

because they're at war with us. And

53:59

that influences everything.

54:01

If everyone's high, maybe

54:04

the trade won't be so good for

54:06

us. They could take advantage of it,

54:08

the tariff war. Thank God. I'm just

54:11

talking from the community, the nuclear family.

54:14

But it adds up so that's

54:16

I just wanted to give a

54:18

little bit of a Just a

54:20

history lesson on why they would

54:22

want to use that because we

54:24

use it against against them before

54:26

so Take for what take it

54:28

for what you will And that

54:31

is that so it's interesting though

54:33

with the tariffs and whatnot There

54:35

should be more conversation about this

54:37

but that's sort of a history It

54:40

makes sense if you think about it

54:42

and a lot of stuff too from

54:44

the algorithm that China will send here

54:46

for our kids to look at anti

54:48

-American propaganda, why they would send fentanyl

54:50

through places, why they would be in

54:52

cahoots with layered intel going through cartels

54:54

so they have the plausible deniability. They

54:56

can say that, you know, they can

54:58

say they're not doing it in our

55:00

politicians that they've either paid off or

55:03

blackmailed. They're not going to roger it

55:05

up either. It's

55:07

really hard to... Not hard

55:09

to comprehend but it once you once you

55:11

pull the wool off like I mentioned at

55:13

the beginning about emotions They can cloud your

55:15

your thinking. I mean, it's pretty obvious what's

55:17

happening too. It's Look with the terrace now

55:19

to look at some of the stocks. Well,

55:21

I mean the NBA is taking a hit

55:23

I mentioned with John Cena speaking Mandarin apologizing

55:25

because the movies they want the market and

55:27

People will do anything for the money the

55:29

NBA wants the market the Nike gets some

55:31

sweet deals You know a lot of a

55:33

lot of stuff's bought in China because I

55:35

mean you don't want to know why but

55:37

it's a lot cheaper over there Not the

55:39

same regulations, and they're allowed to do stuff

55:41

that's untoward. I love that phrase, untoward. Word.

55:44

But yeah. So I did get some

55:46

feedback from the last one, the tariff

55:48

thing, which I mentioned at the beginning

55:51

of this in last week's episode, which

55:53

is 130, which you can check it

55:55

out, because hopefully my explanation of tariffs

55:57

made sense. Not my explanation of tariffs,

55:59

though. I need to mention my financial

56:01

advisor. I'm actually going to give you

56:03

his number, and I'm not even BSing.

56:06

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he's got Johnson Financial Group in Tyler,

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56:12

went and whenever I have any issue

56:14

this I'm just telling you because this

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giving him a shout out because

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57:01

so I hope you enjoyed the, uh,

57:03

just a little bit of a history lesson

57:05

again at the operator podcast on Instagram

57:07

at McCoya again. I will X and Twitter.

57:09

I will sometimes look at those. Uh,

57:11

I've been a bit busy with some stuff,

57:13

big stuff coming up too. I got

57:15

some trips coming. Trying to get

57:17

some, uh, dudes involved with future projects. So I'm

57:19

very excited about that. I'm excited to tell you

57:21

about it. Got to get their, uh, their

57:23

go ahead, but it's, it's some of

57:25

them are people you've heard of and, uh,

57:27

some of them are people you haven't

57:29

heard of yet. but I wish you, I

57:31

hope you do and wish you had

57:33

or whatever. So yeah, just

57:35

just hang out there, get

57:38

your finances or don't be afraid

57:40

of the tariff. Stop making

57:42

decisions based on emotion and avoid

57:44

fentanyl and you're never out

57:46

of the fight.