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Trump’s New Counterterror Strategy Rewrites the Rules · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The president fought. I think originally that if we showed determination,
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Thursday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got a major
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  Speaker 3: story for you coming out of the White House. The
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration has now put out a new counter terrorism strategy.
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  Speaker 3: It will be an aggressive response with border security and
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  Speaker 3: what they're describing is hemispheric safety. In translation, the Trump
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  Speaker 3: administration is declaring war on the drug cartels. So what
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  Speaker 3: does that mean, Well, explain it all to you. It's
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  Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: Number one, we are now getting new information that the
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  Speaker 3: President of United States of America certainly is not just
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  Speaker 3: focused on Iran, but the president now has a new
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  Speaker 3: agenda item, it is counter terrorism strategy that is going
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  Speaker 3: to be aggressive in its response as well as border
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  Speaker 3: security and hemispheric safety. So what does that actually mean. Well,
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  Speaker 3: the new White House counter Terrorism Strategy document is now
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  Speaker 3: looking to seize the initiative from terrorists as well as
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  Speaker 3: criminal cartels by taking aggressive action against tostile regimes, keeping
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  Speaker 3: America's borders secure to minimize threats at home, and also
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  Speaker 3: they say to push malign foreign influence out of our
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  Speaker 3: western hemisphere. Quote. Our new US counter terrorism strategy is
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  Speaker 3: a return to common sense and peace through strength, the
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  Speaker 3: President said, and is forward to the plan as I
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  Speaker 3: said after our first successful counter terrorism mission just days
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  Speaker 3: after I was and back into office, if you hurt
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  Speaker 3: Americans or planning to hurt Americans, we will find you
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  Speaker 3: and we will kill you, the president, not backing down now.
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  Speaker 3: Trump's introduction and the rest of the document were highly
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  Speaker 3: critical of the counter terrorism strategies that we've had in
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  Speaker 3: the past. They've been pursued by the way, by both
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  Speaker 3: Republican and Democrats, and Trump said he returned to the
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  Speaker 3: White House in twenty twenty five to find four years
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  Speaker 3: of weakness, failure, surrender, and humiliation under the last Biden administration. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the body of the White House Counter Terrorism Strategy Document
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  Speaker 3: made it very clear that it faulted the Biden administration
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  Speaker 3: for perverting national security into an endless crusade against its
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  Speaker 3: domestic political enemies that would obviously be Donald Trump and
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  Speaker 3: other conservatives that destroyed public confidence in the honesty and
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  Speaker 3: accountability of American security agencies. The document also blasted the
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  Speaker 3: Democratic President Joe Biden and Barack Obama for ignoring what
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  Speaker 3: is described as a growing threat of criminal cartels, appeasing
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  Speaker 3: hostile powers and ways that made further hostility look profitable,
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  Speaker 3: and above all, for throwing the borders open to admit
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  Speaker 3: everything from vicious criminals to hostile foreign operatives, including those
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  Speaker 3: on the Terrorists Watch List. Not to be clear, this
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  Speaker 3: wasn't all partisan, because the Trump team also criticized the
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  Speaker 3: Bush administration for failing to confront the dangers of Islam
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  Speaker 3: head on, giving a hostile ideology plenty of time to
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  Speaker 3: put down roots on American soil. Now, both Democrat and
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  Speaker 3: Republican administrations have clearly been slow, not only to condemn
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  Speaker 3: or counter jihadi purges against Christians in the Middle East
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  Speaker 3: and Africa and the Trump administration saying that indifference not
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  Speaker 3: only was brutal to the persecuted Christians, but it was
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  Speaker 3: also dangerous for the entire world because it allowed Jihadis
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  Speaker 3: to consolidate their rip On territory as well as sees
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  Speaker 3: money and resources to continue to operate and grow and
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  Speaker 3: to begin dismantling the weakened governments of Africa as well.
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  Speaker 3: So this new counter terrorism strategy number one, it recognizes
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  Speaker 3: the threats close to the American homeland and says those
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  Speaker 3: the most immediate and dangerous. It prioritizes neutralization of hemispheric
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  Speaker 3: terror threats by incapacitating cartel operations. Let me say that again,
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  Speaker 3: incapacitating cartel operations until these groups are incapable of bringing
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  Speaker 3: their drugs, their members, and their trafficking victims into the
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  Speaker 3: United States of America. Now, let's just stop there and
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  Speaker 3: break that down. When you look at what the President
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  Speaker 3: just used in his words in the White House saying
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  Speaker 3: he's ready to incapacitate cartel operations, that means going after
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  Speaker 3: their drug operations. That means going after the drug houses.
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  Speaker 3: That means going after their manu factoring houses, many of
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  Speaker 3: those by the way are in Mexico, and then he says,
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  Speaker 3: We're not stopping until these cartels are incapable of bringing
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  Speaker 3: their drugs. He noticed that he uses drugs first, then
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  Speaker 3: their cartel members second, and their trafficked victims into the US.
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  Speaker 3: So what the President is doing is declaring war on
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  Speaker 3: the drug cartels and declaring war not only in their
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  Speaker 3: drugs but also their members. Quote At the same time,
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  Speaker 3: we will continue to find and remove the cartel and
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  Speaker 3: gang members who were let into our country under the
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  Speaker 3: Biden administration, while using foreign terrorist organization designations to strangle
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  Speaker 3: the commercial and logistical connections of their organizations, the Trump
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  Speaker 3: White House has vowed.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: The White House also held up its strikes against cartel
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  Speaker 3: drug boats and the capture of narco terrorist dictator Nicholas
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  Speaker 3: Maduro of Venezuela as examples of its aggressive approach to
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  Speaker 3: hemispheric security. The document noted that maritime drug smuggling has
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  Speaker 3: decreased by more than ninety percent since the drug boat
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  Speaker 3: strikes began, and some of those smuggling and financial networks
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  Speaker 3: are also used by Islamic terriss now. The White House
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  Speaker 3: argued that making its determination to achieve hemispheric security clear
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  Speaker 3: and demonstrating America's ability to act decisively towards that goal
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  Speaker 3: is crucial to bring America's neighborhoods into the Western Hemisphere
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  Speaker 3: and bringing them on board. So the President is now
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  Speaker 3: saying clearly, we're moving on to step two. Phase two.
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  Speaker 3: We are going after the drug dealers, the drug cartel members,
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  Speaker 3: the leadership, and where they're making their drugs. Now, much
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  Speaker 3: of this criticism is directed to prior administrations, concerned that
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  Speaker 3: the mixed signals sent by a combination of lofty pronouncements
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  Speaker 3: and tepid action as security threats in Latin America were
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  Speaker 3: allowed to fester for years on end. The White House
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  Speaker 3: sets in contrast, what the President was saying today is
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  Speaker 3: he's now making it clear that not only is his
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  Speaker 3: determination to secure the hemisphere against terrorism and organize crime
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  Speaker 3: crystal clear, but doing it in a way that only
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  Speaker 3: kinetic action meaning they're going to use guns, folks, and
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  Speaker 3: assertive prosecutions can do it. Now, this new strategy also
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  Speaker 3: has a second priority, and that is this the targeting
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  Speaker 3: and destruction of the top five Islamic terror groups that
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  Speaker 3: have the intent and the capabilities to execute external operations
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  Speaker 3: against the United States of America. That is also in
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  Speaker 3: this document from the White House. Now, these groups would
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  Speaker 3: include al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and their most aggressive
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  Speaker 3: subgroups such as Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula or ISIS.
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  Speaker 3: The White House argued the importance of including the International
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  Speaker 3: Muslim brother as a terrorist organization as well, a Stephan
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration took in January of this year, and then
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  Speaker 3: the third priority of this new CT strategy was to
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  Speaker 3: depoliticize security agencies that were weaponized under the Biden Obama administrations.
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  Speaker 3: They want to take action against the growing threat of
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  Speaker 3: violent left extremist groups in this country, whose bloody handiwork
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  Speaker 3: included the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a radical who
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  Speaker 3: espoused extreme transgender ideology. Again, this is in the White
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  Speaker 3: House's document. In addition, it says to cartels and Islamic
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  Speaker 3: tear groups, our national CT activities will also prioritize the
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  Speaker 3: rapid identification and then neutralization of violent secular political groups
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  Speaker 3: whose ideology is anti American, radically pro transgender, and anarchists,
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  Speaker 3: the document said, noting that some of these groups have
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  Speaker 3: ties to dangerous international organizations. The documents specifically mentioned the
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  Speaker 3: left wing terror group an Tifa as a priority now
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  Speaker 3: of the White House to target. That is massive.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: The fourth priority of this strategy singled out a special
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  Speaker 3: strategic category all on its own, and that was the
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  Speaker 3: combat what they described as non state acquisition and use
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  Speaker 3: of weapons of mass destruction, especially the terrorists use of
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  Speaker 3: nuclear or radiological devices. The strategy document placed the current
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  Speaker 3: operation against Iran specifically into that category, since Iran is
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  Speaker 3: a state actor but the proxy groups it might furnish
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  Speaker 3: with nuclear weapons are not. The White House vowing to
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  Speaker 3: ensure that the regime in Tehran is no longer a
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  Speaker 3: threat to the United States of America, either directly or
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  Speaker 3: through many of its tentacles, hamas hesblog Ara, Malitias, and
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  Speaker 3: the Huthi terraces of Yemen, who must never again, they say,
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  Speaker 3: be allowed to hold strategic waterways such as the Strait
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  Speaker 3: of Vermuz or the Red Sea Hostage. Now, this CT
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  Speaker 3: strategy presented the destruction of the Islamic state the Caliphate
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  Speaker 3: during the first Trump administration, and they used as an
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  Speaker 3: example of the swift and decisive action the Obama administration
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  Speaker 3: and vision. The isis Caliphate is a generational threat to
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  Speaker 3: be slowly degraded over years and decades. The President Trump
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  Speaker 3: unleashed the greatest fighting force in the world that we've
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  Speaker 3: ever seen, and within a matter of weeks, the jihadi insurgency,
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  Speaker 3: which controlled vast territories across Iraq and Syria, well they
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  Speaker 3: were gone. Isis then fell back to Africa, and that
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  Speaker 3: is leaving governments like Nigeria and Somalia with solid control
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  Speaker 3: over mere fractions of their own territory.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 3: The Trump twenty twenty sixth strategy, they say, in vision
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  Speaker 3: tackling these threats by rebuilding bilateral ct relations with African governments,
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  Speaker 3: who had been ignored or insulted, they say, by the
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  Speaker 3: Biden era neocolonial policies focused on globalist, left wing cultural issues. Now,
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  Speaker 3: this was a blunt acknowledgment of the uncomfortable truth that
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  Speaker 3: some African nations have grown reluctant to partner with America
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  Speaker 3: or Europe on security issues because they fear agendas like
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  Speaker 3: homosexual and transgender rights will be forced upon them. Some
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  Speaker 3: of those nations prefer to partner with Russia China as
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  Speaker 3: a result, and the results have been disastrous for Africa
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  Speaker 3: and world security. So the Trump White House has proposed
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  Speaker 3: reversing the dynamics by marrying CT cooperation with the stabilitizing
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  Speaker 3: effort and effect of heightened trade and commercial relations, as
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  Speaker 3: witnessed by President Trump's historic peace deal between Rwanda and
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  Speaker 3: the Democratic Republic of the Congo. An example of our
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  Speaker 3: security is a prerequisite, he says, for prosperity. So here
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  Speaker 3: we are common sense and realism. That is the major
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  Speaker 3: theme of this new strategy laid out by the White House,
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  Speaker 3: especially on the delicate subject of expecting allies like the
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  Speaker 3: Europeans began shouldering more of the burden of their own security.
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  Speaker 3: The document blasted the European governments for creating a permissive
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  Speaker 3: operating environment for plotting against Europeans and Americans by allowing
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  Speaker 3: a conglomerate of nefarious actors like al Qaeda, ISIS, cartels,
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  Speaker 3: and state actors to exploit Europe's wheat borders and diminish
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  Speaker 3: CT resources, saying this it is unacceptable that wealthy NATO
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  Speaker 3: allies can serve as financial, logistical and recruitment hubs for terrorists.
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  Speaker 3: The document bluntly declares unfettered mass immigration has been the
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  Speaker 3: transmission belt for terrorists that warned can be strong again
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  Speaker 3: if it rediscovers traditional principles of freedom of speech, has
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  Speaker 3: honest conversations about Islamism, devote sufficient resources to mitigate terrorism
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  Speaker 3: and cartel threats within its nations, and then get serious
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  Speaker 3: about global threat intelligence. Finally saying this, it is clear
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  Speaker 3: to all the well organized hostile groups that have exploited
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  Speaker 3: the open borders and related globalist ideals. The more these
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  Speaker 3: alien cultures grow and the longer current European policies persist,
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  Speaker 3: the more terrorism is guaranteed. This is the new ringing
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  Speaker 3: of the alarm bell that no prior administration of either
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  Speaker 3: party would have been willing to touch. September the eleventh
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  Speaker 3: of two thousand and one. But what the White House
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  Speaker 3: has just laid out is an America First counter terrorism
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  Speaker 3: strategy that they say will bring security not only to
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  Speaker 3: the US but across the world by setting successful examples
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  Speaker 3: of border security and threat detection that Allied nations can follow.
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  Speaker 3: The Trump administration and the White House say, America first
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  Speaker 3: and only is an expression of what we need, but
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  Speaker 3: it's common sense and honesty that would guide and inspire
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the civilized world. This now is the
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  Speaker 3: new priority of the President clearly thinking far beyond what's
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  Speaker 3: happening right now in Iran.
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