Jack Posobiec hosted retired lieutenant and intel operative Tony Shaffer on his show, Human Events Daily, Wednesday to expand on the idea of a “turbo America” that is “hurtling blind into World War III” with the Wall Street Journal reporting “every single US base in the Middle East right now is being threatened by attack.”
Posobiec noted that it “sounds like it might be a little bit more than just Hamas that's going to respond” to a ground counteroffensive from Israel.
Turbo America, he explained, is the idea "that the United States should attempt to expand and extend its military and economic hegemony across the globe, and essentially tell every country how they should behave and how they should act in every situation."
Shaffer likened America’s involvement in foreign wars to Romans “crossing the Rubicon” when Germans centuries ago convinced them to “overextend their military ability and slaughter.”
“It's a trap,” he stated. “It's not something we should be engaged in, we should be very careful on how we do this.”
“I think in many instances, we'd be better off making friends with some of the countries we currently consider adversaries,” he continued. “There's other countries who are pretending to be our friends who are out to stab us in the back and we have an administration who is tone deaf to the the different elements of the world and how it works.”
He elaborated that by wanting to be in a position to not lose, government officials “don’t want [America] to win either.”
“And that's why you see this bifurcation of policy,” he stated, “where on one hand, you have US Marine Corps generals advising the Israelis on how to conduct a ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza. At the same time, you got Joe Biden behind the scenes, funding Hamas, making our job more difficult and working essentially in ways that would go against the Israelis by forcing the encouraging the world to encourage the Israelis to have a pause to do a ceasefire.”
“So that very example shows,” Shaffer warned, “the Biden administration doesn't know what it's doing. And yeah, I think they're trying to gain influence globally for purposes of influence, but not understanding that our enemies see that and see that they're going to use that to their advantage eventually.”
