You can now get Eargo at no cost to you. Brian shake up at the Brian shake up at the pentagons top leadership, reportedly, raising fears among military officials and reporters that the? U DOT S will accelerate withdrawal from troops from Afghanistan. Maybe South Korea lets bring in Fox NEWS senior strategic analyst retired four STAR General Jack Keane. I watched you last night with Martha. You are not somebody thats alarmed about the change at the top jack, no im, not because ive been told- and I take it at Face- Value- that Secretary Esper, who, by the way I provided advice to- and I thought, was doing a pretty good job to be frank about it, but the trump administration- and I think the president himself felt that Secretary Esper was was not following the presidents agenda and he has every right to remove a cabinet official for whatever reason but thats the stated reason- and I take it at face value.

I dont buy into the hype thats coming out of this, that theres a plot here, thats taking place by by his removal and others, and the president will rush through troop redeployment home that are not planned. Based on what ive been told, our planned deployments in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and the timetables associated with them remain in place. No change Brian General, in doing interviews for veterans Day when some veterans have trouble adjusting back at home. You know what really hurt them and I dont have to explain it to you, but maybe the audience is when they watch what they did in Iraq in the surge get overrun when we pulled out and the creation of ISIS they said, was this all worth it to lose life and limb? For this? If thats, indeed the case, do you worry about the same thing in Afghanistan among those who sacrificed so much over the last

twenty years? If we pull it out and the Taliban comes back Jack, I personally went through this over the Vietnam WAR, the commander paratroopers, and then we walked away from it at the end, because it was too politically tough to deal with most definitely. The situation in Afghanistan certainly rises to that level, but violence is up. Fifty percent in the country President Gani after I had spoken to he said he would have a cease fire, which is what would normally happen when peace negotiations are taking place between his government and Taliban theres no cease fire. Quite the contrary. The violence has increased. Yes, if we just walk away from that, that would be an absolute disaster for the country for the american people, security.

How we end the conflict Brian is actually more important than how we began it. The end has a legacy all of its own and it sends a message to our allies and friends, but also to our adversaries, Brian right Jack, the mental toughness it takes to end the conflict favorable to the United States is, I think, in our national interest. Weve got a handful of people, a few thousand that are helping the Afghans. Do the fighting Brian, if you are in wheelchair, making your way through the kitchen. You are proud of what you do, but if we go away damage to the young man in Iowa or Montana, I picked up the New York Times today in Alaska, one of the fishing boat captains said: are we being invaded

or are they breaching national air security? What message are we supposed to take from this jack? They took a page out of what the Iranians are doing with proxies and what it is. They are operating below the the level of conflict as much as they can to intimidate and coerce our allies to test the United States resolve what Putin in particular is doing. He loves the international press. He gets out of this and whats that about hes playing to his own audience at home. Russia is back on the world stage as powerful country. His narrative is not that hes violating our rights but theyre violating his rights or Russias rights thats. What he uses this for its largely for domestic audience, good news, putins popularity is tanking in Russia due to economy or handling of the pandemic.

They dont have the hospital infrastructure to support the number of cases they have people hospitalized Brian Amazing, the vaccine didnt work, who would have thought companies that invest in China that has anything to do with the chinese military thats now banned really what took so long, and this might be an executive order that even Joe Biden would have trouble overturning, if indeed he does emerge to President Jack. I think President Elect Biden if he becomes our president, certainly has an opportunity to build on some of the successes that the Trump Administration has had in dealing with the Chinese Communist Party. All that said this, yes, why did it come so late? I can only surmise Brian the major issue that took almost two years with the Trump administration in dealing with the Chinese Communist Party was

the trade imbalance and tariff war that we are involved with and and any ancillary issue would have distracted and hurt leverage delisting chinese companies on the stock exchange is another thing that the Congress is advocating and something we should do, because one they dont abide by our rules and two. Some of the companies are also supporting the development of chinese military capability. Brian general thanks so much always great retired four STAR General Fox NEWS, strategic.