The West Needs to Stop Being Arrogant Why Diplomacy Does Not Always Work
Show Notes
Can a single word reveal the flaws in modern diplomacy? Join us as we unpack the use of "Don't" by figures like Vice President Kamala Harris and President Biden, juxtaposing their approaches with those of past leaders such as Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. We'll explore the failures of the current administration’s diplomatic tactics with nations like Iran, China, and Russia, and argue that perceived weakness and arrogance have eroded the West's global standing. This episode promises to challenge your understanding of international relations and the Democratic Party's stance on global issues as we stress the importance of strength and decisive action for maintaining global stability. Words alone are insufficient in the complex landscape of geopolitics, particularly in the volatile Middle East.Â
00:00:00.119 --> 00:00:05.352 Like we said, we look like we're live, but we're really prerecorded today.
00:00:05.352 --> 00:00:07.969 I hope everyone is enjoying your Friday.
00:00:07.969 --> 00:00:14.651 This is noon Eastern and David and I really aren't here because we prerecorded this broadcast.
00:00:14.651 --> 00:00:23.355 So if it seems a little off, because it is, I'm going to say to you, David, one word Don't.
00:00:23.355 --> 00:00:29.620 Don't.
00:00:29.620 --> 00:00:30.141 It came from.
00:00:30.141 --> 00:00:30.481 Vice President.
00:00:30.501 --> 00:00:31.364 Kamala Harris to the Ayatollah Khomeini.
00:00:31.964 --> 00:00:33.988 It came from President Biden.
00:00:33.988 --> 00:00:35.612 It came from the press secretary.
00:00:35.612 --> 00:00:37.040 It came from Blinken.
00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:38.201 It came from everyone.
00:00:38.201 --> 00:00:47.450 One word from 2020 onwards Don't Welcome everybody to the Red Network.
00:00:47.450 --> 00:00:48.610 My name's Stuart Briscoe.
00:00:48.610 --> 00:00:49.892 That's my co-host.
00:00:49.892 --> 00:00:51.914 The red shirt Looks familiar.
00:00:51.914 --> 00:00:54.197 Eh, he's wearing the same shirt that he wore before.
00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:59.231 As we peel back layers on a multitude of topics without holding back a thing.
00:00:59.231 --> 00:01:12.605 Here, we're all about raw and filtered dialogue that serves as your outlet to voice opinions, exchange ideas and share experiences, and we really look under every corner as we dive into this current political issue.
00:01:12.605 --> 00:01:27.085 We cover pop culture, quirks of existence and whatever the hell pisses us off that day, whether it's venting over daily life's frustrations or tackling some big question Like who deserves to be the president of the United States of America.
00:01:27.085 --> 00:01:33.087 So sit back and relax as I continue to punt this ball over to my partner in crime.
00:01:33.087 --> 00:01:38.867 David, you know, normally in an election cycle, you have a clear income.
00:01:38.867 --> 00:01:45.228 In history, only once before you have a president going up for re-election.
00:01:46.820 --> 00:02:04.478 I got to tell you it's very weird hearing Kamala Harris, tim Walz, talk about how Donald Trump, donald Trump, ignoring the fact that Biden and Harris have been in power for the last three and a half, almost four years, and clearly the world doesn't.
00:02:04.478 --> 00:02:09.030 A half, almost four years, and clearly the world doesn't give them an ounce of respect.
00:02:09.030 --> 00:02:11.137 Now, you wouldn't know this.
00:02:11.137 --> 00:02:19.320 If you watch regular mainstream TV, you would see Biden looking seriously in the camera with his finger up, going don't.
00:02:19.320 --> 00:02:22.506 And I started the broadcast with saying don't.
00:02:22.506 --> 00:02:28.395 Now, when Donald Trump said don't, people stopped.
00:02:28.395 --> 00:02:33.949 When Ronald Reagan said don't, a wall came down.
00:02:33.949 --> 00:02:37.555 You got to think about this for a second.
00:02:37.555 --> 00:02:40.443 What did Obama do?
00:02:40.443 --> 00:02:43.169 Absolutely nothing.
00:02:43.169 --> 00:02:45.153 Let me say that again Sounds like a son.
00:02:45.153 --> 00:02:46.758 Absolutely nothing.
00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:51.126 The world was weaker under President Hussein, barack Obama.
00:02:51.126 --> 00:02:52.328 Why?
00:02:52.328 --> 00:03:02.550 Because he cow-tipped to what I'm going to call the axis of evil, people that want to seek to destroy the Western society.
00:03:02.550 --> 00:03:11.289 That includes China, to destroy the Western society.
00:03:11.289 --> 00:03:13.098 That includes China, russia, iran and many others.
00:03:13.098 --> 00:03:22.344 And you know, in politics today, david, the word don't is meaningless when it comes from an invertebrate and when a party is an invertebrate only seeking to appease its enemies.
00:03:22.344 --> 00:03:35.097 Only seeking to appease its enemies, not realizing that there's no peace through love, warm and fun, but by strength throughout 250 years of history.
00:03:35.097 --> 00:03:45.614 Why do these people think Warman Fozzie is going to convince Ayatollah Khomeini that his tentacles of evil actually are going to listen.
00:03:47.161 --> 00:03:51.145 Stuart, I got to tell you it makes me ill, and it's not just Biden.
00:03:51.145 --> 00:04:01.081 I got Trudeau doing that here in Canada, we've got others that they believe diplomacy, that word, diplomacy I am, you know.
00:04:01.081 --> 00:04:02.705 I got to tell you.
00:04:02.705 --> 00:04:07.633 I hear that and my one word comes to mind Arrogance.
00:04:07.633 --> 00:04:13.770 It is beyond fucking arrogant, and I do rarely swear on this channel, but it angers me.
00:04:13.770 --> 00:04:20.774 It is arrogant that the West continues to believe they know better.
00:04:22.341 --> 00:04:27.209 The United States wants to be isolationist, fine.
00:04:27.209 --> 00:04:29.913 You want to be a world leader?
00:04:29.913 --> 00:04:37.348 Fine, pick your role, please, because you can't be both.
00:04:37.348 --> 00:04:44.550 But the United States continues to tell, and Joe Biden, who didn't want to go after Osama bin Laden, didn't want to kill him.
00:04:44.550 --> 00:04:51.564 Let me remind everybody, okay, that Joe Biden, as Stuart has said many times, been on the wrong side of history when it comes up to foreign affairs.
00:04:51.564 --> 00:04:55.420 What he is to throw out the word don't, kamala Harris?
00:04:56.863 --> 00:04:57.586 What does that mean?
00:04:57.586 --> 00:05:07.947 Your words are meaningless and you're talking about a society that doesn't give a hoot about your feelings and your words, in fact the opposite.
00:05:07.947 --> 00:05:12.380 They're waiting for the useful idiots to rebel in the United States.
00:05:12.380 --> 00:05:14.605 They're waiting, they're loving the fact that.
00:05:14.605 --> 00:05:16.629 Look what diplomacy has done?
00:05:16.629 --> 00:05:20.803 Diplomacy in the United States has created more racism.
00:05:20.803 --> 00:05:35.408 Diplomacy in the United States has brought in terrorists and racists into government, universities, business, wonderful, that's what diplomacy has done, because you're not dealing with a group of people who are interested in diplomacy.
00:05:36.331 --> 00:05:51.028 Israel has put on the table six times opportunities for a negotiated settlement, for for two-state solution, and in each occasion, not only was it rejected, but war broke out.
00:05:53.312 --> 00:05:55.062 We've had intifada, whatever.
00:05:55.062 --> 00:06:00.494 Saudi Arabia was ready to sign the Abraham Accords, and what ends up happening?
00:06:00.494 --> 00:06:06.982 Hamas attacks October 7th and on October the 8th, hamas on October 7th and Hezbollah on October the 8th.
00:06:07.744 --> 00:06:09.208 Where's the diplomacy, joe?
00:06:09.208 --> 00:06:22.826 The diplomacy right now doesn't exist in this region, because you need two people, two groups of people, to sit down at a table who are interested that side that you want to.
00:06:22.826 --> 00:06:37.166 It's interesting how you deal with diplomacy, joe, you and Kamala, the people who are attacking you're not threatening, you're not choking but the democratic society, the democratically elected government of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel.
00:06:37.166 --> 00:06:42.615 You're choking them by saying do what I want, because I'm going to cut you off.
00:06:46.408 --> 00:07:04.720 And it's arrogance to believe that Joe Biden knows best Stuart and Kamala Harris God help us knows even less than Joe Biden, but if this is how you want to approach the world, it's no wonder Russia, north Korea, china, iran are flexing their muscles and, believe me, more to follow.
00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:06.622 China, iran are flexing their muscles and believe me more to follow.
00:07:06.641 --> 00:07:17.055 David, don't think for a second that Bibi Netanyahu doesn't have a unique position in history.
00:07:17.055 --> 00:07:32.985 With an invertebrate American government without being able to control the Middle East, bibi Netanyahu could actually go in and do what's needed to be done for literally 40, 50, 60 years.
00:07:32.985 --> 00:07:48.399 The fall of Iran, to the Ayatollah viewpoints of modern right-wing movement, has darkened the Middle East from an oasis in the world.
00:07:48.399 --> 00:08:04.838 You know, I want people for a moment to go on the Internet and Google 1970, iran, 1960, persia, 1960, beirut and I want you to look at the pictures you're going to find.
00:08:04.838 --> 00:08:24.834 It's going to look like a metropolitan oasis Peace for the most part, people without humility, without fear, walking around the streets.
00:08:24.834 --> 00:08:28.519 And the word don't by Biden is continuing to echo all over the world because it's an insult.
00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:40.865 It's an insult as that is the deterrent, that someone who only wants to do appeasement, a party of appeasement, a party of inclusionary.
00:08:40.865 --> 00:08:42.573 There is no difference.
00:08:42.573 --> 00:08:45.059 We should all be friends and I'll forgive you.
00:08:46.081 --> 00:08:53.004 My bubby used to tell me constantly Stuart, apologize, stuart, apologize, stuart, apologize.
00:08:53.004 --> 00:08:56.437 At some point you have to stop.
00:08:56.769 --> 00:09:02.143 And Bibi Netanyahu is at a point in history where the United States can't stop him.
00:09:02.143 --> 00:09:22.115 They're not sharing, because I truly believe the progressive left was feeding its enemy, israeli's enemy, with what they were actually doing and today what you're seeing is a country defending itself better than the United States ever has.
00:09:22.115 --> 00:09:25.886 Look at our southern border it really wasn't discussed.
00:09:25.886 --> 00:09:27.754 Look at all the crime in America it wasn't discussed.
00:09:27.754 --> 00:09:29.101 Look at all the insanity on college campuses it wasn't discussed.
00:09:29.101 --> 00:09:30.168 Look at all the crime in America it wasn't discussed.
00:09:30.168 --> 00:09:34.500 Look at all the insanity on college campuses it wasn't discussed.
00:09:34.500 --> 00:09:38.029 No, lying, incessant lying wasn't discussed.
00:09:38.029 --> 00:09:48.993 So when you say the word don't and you don't have a single thing behind you to support it, you sound like little Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
00:09:48.993 --> 00:09:53.878 I don't want to step on the head.
00:09:54.057 --> 00:09:54.938 No, I wouldn't even go there.
00:09:54.938 --> 00:09:59.743 I think you're underestimating, I don't think you're making it strong enough.
00:09:59.743 --> 00:10:02.706 How about Obama's red line with Syria?
00:10:02.706 --> 00:10:08.322 When Barack Obama said here's the red line and Syria crossed it and then here's the red line.
00:10:08.322 --> 00:10:09.975 That is what you did.
00:10:09.975 --> 00:10:14.899 It's like saying don't but and if you do it, I'm going to say don't again.
00:10:14.899 --> 00:10:18.418 Joe Biden has no intestinal fortitude.
00:10:18.418 --> 00:10:20.812 Never did, never will Not.
00:10:20.812 --> 00:10:32.753 He, not Barack Obama and people took full advantage of these two presidents, advantage of these two presidents.
00:10:32.773 --> 00:10:35.181 In the last 16 of the last 20 years, stuart, you've seen conflict after conflict after conflict.
00:10:35.181 --> 00:10:45.832 When did you not see and JD Vance, on Wednesday, said it a few times in the four years of Donald Trump as president, stuart, you did not have a global conflict.
00:10:45.832 --> 00:10:47.976 And what is the left like to tell you?
00:10:47.976 --> 00:10:55.659 Well, of course, because Putin and Xi, they're all in Donald Trump's pocket, they're all buddies, they're all friends.
00:10:55.659 --> 00:10:59.294 You know what that statement shows you?
00:10:59.294 --> 00:11:13.116 That, instead of showing power and leadership and listen, I'm not saying Donald Trump is my inspiration and my leader and whatever, but he scared the crap out of leaders and in certain parts of the world.
00:11:13.116 --> 00:11:14.000 That's what you need.
00:11:14.210 --> 00:11:15.836 You're not going to do this to the United Kingdom.
00:11:15.836 --> 00:11:17.494 You're not going to do this to France.
00:11:17.494 --> 00:11:18.658 I get that.
00:11:18.658 --> 00:11:19.620 You're not going to do it to Canada.
00:11:19.620 --> 00:11:23.740 You're not going to be violent with those countries.
00:11:23.740 --> 00:11:25.796 You're not going to show force with those countries.
00:11:25.796 --> 00:11:27.280 But guess what?
00:11:27.280 --> 00:11:29.634 Russia only understands that.
00:11:29.634 --> 00:11:31.240 China understands that.
00:11:32.854 --> 00:11:34.780 North Korea understands that.
00:11:34.780 --> 00:11:38.513 The Middle East understands that, africa understands that.
00:11:38.513 --> 00:11:41.339 Parts of South America and parts of Asia understand that.
00:11:41.339 --> 00:11:47.096 The more countries in the world understand force over words.
00:11:47.096 --> 00:11:51.864 And when you say don't, they laugh, david, hold on.
00:11:51.864 --> 00:11:53.836 Let me finish with this last comment.
00:11:53.836 --> 00:12:00.275 But if you show that you have a bigger stick than the next one, they back down.
00:12:00.275 --> 00:12:02.476 It's fascinating how that happens, stuart.
00:12:04.701 --> 00:12:09.144 David, there's actually I've got to bring up something you mentioned red line.
00:12:09.144 --> 00:12:24.534 It's actually a very famous, notable phrase used by Iga Alon in 1975 when he said that Washington has managed to draw a red line which all Arab countries know they must not cross.
00:12:24.534 --> 00:12:50.116 Now you know the history of the red line phrase goes back to like the 1920s between the largest oil companies US, france and Britain at the end of the Ottoman Empire, and you know the red line theory is something that is only enforced and means something when the person saying it actually is willing to do so.
00:12:50.116 --> 00:12:50.957 On it.
00:12:50.957 --> 00:13:00.934 Now, today, you have you have members of the kinesin that are no longer saying words against bb.
00:13:00.934 --> 00:13:03.243 Yeah, a lot of them have silenced themselves.
00:13:03.243 --> 00:13:14.644 Bb, yeah, who has said there will be retribution in a time and place and a choosing in which we will do Take your step forward, Just your point further.
00:13:14.965 --> 00:13:19.493 Someone who opposed him this past weekend joined his coalition.
00:13:19.493 --> 00:13:20.455 To your point.
00:13:20.980 --> 00:13:25.687 I understand, I know, but most people in America don't follow it, so I'm trying to keep it very cursory.
00:13:25.687 --> 00:13:27.490 People in America don't follow it, so I'm trying to keep it very cursory.
00:13:27.490 --> 00:13:28.812 Now let me just say one thing.
00:13:28.812 --> 00:13:38.408 In history, you have now seen the entire Gaza Hamas destroyed.
00:13:38.408 --> 00:13:43.269 All the people on the board got X's on them, the ace of spades, all the way down to the jack of clubs.
00:13:43.269 --> 00:13:45.807 Now you have Hezbollah.
00:13:45.807 --> 00:13:48.529 The entire leadership has been wiped out.
00:13:48.529 --> 00:13:57.437 When Israel went and did that, and then they started firing rockets at Israel 180-plus rockets.
00:13:57.898 --> 00:13:58.620 Iran sent them.
00:13:59.663 --> 00:14:00.446 Iran sent them.
00:14:00.446 --> 00:14:05.511 Now there's no one between Israel and Iran and there's no way to communicate.
00:14:05.511 --> 00:14:12.768 And now they took the Ayatollah and put him in a bunker in fear that Israel was going to go in.
00:14:12.768 --> 00:14:17.409 And you know what Israel, I don't think, wants to kill the Ayatollah he's a religious leader.
00:14:17.855 --> 00:14:18.379 No, they're not going to.
00:14:18.460 --> 00:14:29.188 It is for the Iranian people to go and prove that they want to be free of tyranny and that is the most important part.
00:14:30.020 --> 00:14:31.166 I'm going to give you an example.
00:14:31.166 --> 00:14:34.831 Okay, and I'm fascinated how Americans don't even know their own freaking history.
00:14:34.831 --> 00:14:49.811 Let's go back to the 1960s, the Cuban-US crisis, the 12 days of hell that the United States, most Americans, didn't even realize that Kennedy was living through is how did Kennedy repel Cuba and, by extension, the Soviet Union?
00:14:49.811 --> 00:14:59.951 Luck, luck and force Luck Because the Russians underestimated Kennedy's attitude.
00:14:59.951 --> 00:15:01.813 Bluff, what's that?
00:15:02.434 --> 00:15:02.774 Bluff.
00:15:02.774 --> 00:15:06.669 It was the biggest poker bluff in history.
00:15:06.669 --> 00:15:07.030 What?
00:15:08.562 --> 00:15:17.490 But Kennedy put up a show of force and because the Soviets weren't sure if Kennedy would go through with it, they backed down.
00:15:17.490 --> 00:15:28.094 You're right, it could be luck, it could be a lot of other things and if you go through and it's a study, by the way if you go through this, there was a big study about how Kennedy came to the decisions and what have you.
00:15:28.094 --> 00:15:32.009 But it was a show of force.
00:15:32.009 --> 00:15:45.774 Now, I'm not saying we need to go to war like Vietnam, that's not what I'm stressing here but the United States deterred Soviet capabilities and other capabilities with their own nuclear capabilities.
00:15:45.774 --> 00:15:48.844 I'm not suggesting we build more nuclear bombs with their own nuclear capabilities.
00:15:48.844 --> 00:15:49.826 I'm not suggesting we build more nuclear bombs.
00:15:49.826 --> 00:15:55.293 What I'm saying is certain leaders, certain dictators, governments, only know one thing force.
00:15:55.293 --> 00:16:01.288 And if your stick is not as big as mine, they will take advantage of you.
00:16:01.288 --> 00:16:05.649 And if they believe that you are not going to do anything, they will do whatever they want.
00:16:05.649 --> 00:16:14.193 And we have example after example after example after example, not in 100-year-old history, in the last 25-year history.
00:16:14.654 --> 00:16:23.214 Okay, the Russians went into Crimea, took over the Ukraine with barely a shot, because the United States wasn't going to stand with Ukraine.
00:16:23.214 --> 00:16:24.034 Look at what Obama did.
00:16:24.034 --> 00:16:24.760 And now the same thing occurred under Biden.
00:16:24.760 --> 00:16:24.582 And look at what Obama did.
00:16:24.582 --> 00:16:27.640 And now the same thing occurred under Biden.
00:16:27.640 --> 00:16:34.126 Russia goes into Ukraine because they know that the United States will not do what they say they're going to do.
00:16:34.126 --> 00:16:36.308 This is what the world is.
00:16:36.308 --> 00:16:40.511 So when I hear Joe Biden's don't you know what it is?
00:16:40.511 --> 00:16:45.777 The world is saying yep, we're going to do, because you are going to do shit.
00:16:52.700 --> 00:16:57.306 David, we're going to wrap up this prerecorded broadcast, that's broadcasting Wednesday no, it's Friday, it's going to be on Wednesday.
00:16:57.326 --> 00:16:57.645 That's okay.
00:16:57.645 --> 00:17:01.350 Let's hope that our conversation is really valid on Friday.
00:17:01.630 --> 00:17:01.931 It is.
00:17:01.990 --> 00:17:05.776 And if it's not, we apologize to all our listeners and viewers all over the world.
00:17:05.776 --> 00:17:18.241 But I want to also remind you Monday is October the 7th, the one-year anniversary of the most disgusting, heinous act since World War II to have occurred and true to form.
00:17:18.241 --> 00:17:25.375 David and I will be broadcasting all about what happened October 7th 2023.
00:17:25.375 --> 00:17:35.413 On that note, I wish everyone a happy and healthy New Year's those celebrating the Jewish New Year, those who are not, who have the freedom of driving up and down a highway with less traffic.
00:17:35.413 --> 00:17:53.236 I know you appreciate the fact that we're taking the day off and if you just want to take the day off with us and help celebrate New Year's, I dip an apple in some honey and have all a sweet New Year and that I'm going to wrap up today's episode without getting David a final word Don't, and remember that word.
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