Tucker: Pentagon isn't doing anything about these threats

good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight the united states remains the most powerful country in the world that's the good news what's interesting is that this country has occupied that position for so long that relatively few americans have considered what would happen if we slipped from that perch would it matter if america became subordinate to other nations there's a debate about that let's see at work does it matter to you who the boss is it probably does matter that's the person who can fire you and the world isn't so different from that the top countries give the orders the rest of the planet takes the orders whether they like it or not we've lost sight of that because for more than a century america effectively has been in charge of much of the world and that's exactly why we have stayed rich and free for that time most americans on some level understand that this is an arrangement worth preserving if only because the options to it are so much worse how'd you like to be forced to obey the chinese communist party not so much how would you feel about surrendering the us dollar as the world's reserve currency and immediately going bankrupt no thanks most of us would like to avoid outcomes like that and that's why we spend more than any country in the world on our military there's a reason the department of defense is our largest government agency it's not just because defense contractors are powerful it's because we all agree it's really important in exchange for all that money and all that power and all the little oversight we give it we expect in return the pentagon will stay up late thinking of ways to keep america strong the question is have they been doing that when you can judge for yourself most of the generals we see quoted in the press seem more committed to meeting some counterproductive diversity goal hiring more pregnant air force pilots assembling the world's first transgender seal team than on defending the united states the conflicts the pentagon says it's preparing for often seem comically small and outdated almost from colonial times whether it's wrangling with illiterate tribesmen in afghanistan that's very important or ramping up for some new war against a remote group of buildings in syria where the hell syria is can poor irrelevant countries really be our gravest enemies we act like it but they're not and that's been confirmed tonight by the way this nation's most forbiddable foe the new defense secretary just told us is the weather itself going forward the u.s military has declared a hot war on global warming today no nation can find lasting security without addressing the climate crisis we face all kinds of threats in our line of work but few of them truly deserve to be called existential a climate crisis does deserve to be called existential existential if you've got a cliche he will read it on television lloyd austin of course lloyd austin is a former defense contractor not surprisingly he's a full-time audio log as well having lloyd austin at the pentagon is like handing control of the entire us military to the editorial page of the new york times here is lloyd austin explaining that the single scariest risk our soldiers face is the possibility they might have to serve alongside americans who didn't vote for joe biden and if confirmed i will fight hard to stamp out sexual assault and to rid our ranks of racist and extremists the job of the department of defense is to keep america safe from our enemies but we can't do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks he's a joke and a mediocrity and of course he was confirmed by the senate as if he was impressive but he's not and the results are entirely predictable a new report in revolver news puts a finer point on what exactly is happening at the pentagon under lloyd austin austin has hired an activist type called bishop garrison as the head of the military's vast diversity and inclusion apparatus a group of offices that has nothing to do with fighting and winning wars just spend five minutes googling bishop garrison treats yourself he's a lunatic a few years ago he announced that anyone who supports donald trump that would be tens of millions of american citizens many of whom have served in the military is a white supremacist and by the way he said there is no room for nuance quote on that question garrison wrote a lot of things like that again like that you can google it again you should now and this is the point he's one of the most powerful officials in the us military democrats in congress are thrilled as they watch this their party now has all the tanks and drones what's strange is that republicans don't seem to have noticed that it happened they're still giving the same vacuous speeches about the troops and then of course signing off on ever expanding defense budgets with no oversight the effect the same fighting force that for generations we have been so proud of the people who stormed saipan and guadalcanal have been captured without a shot by people who seem like rejects from the google hr department and its defenders the defenders of the troops can't be bothered to say a word about it do they have television have they seen the army's latest recruiting ad this is the story of a soldier who operates your nation's patriot missile defense systems it begins in california with a little girl raised by two moms although i had a fairly typical childhood took ballet played violin i also marched for equality i like to think i've been defending freedom from an early age a way to prove my inner strength and maybe shatter some stereotypes along the way i also march for equality oh shut up who cares please stop talking about yourself for once it is boring and irrelevant and insulting this is not just your country it belongs to all of us your job is to defend it please do so yet it's becoming clear they have no interest in defending it and here's the latest evidence of that it comes from cbs last night this is a clip from a 60 minutes report on of all things ufos and the u.s military watch this [Music] a navy air crew struggles to lock onto a fast-moving object off the u.s atlantic coast in 2015. [Applause] recently released images may not convince ufo skeptics but the pentagon admits it doesn't know what in the world this is or this or this oh ufos they're spooky and kind of funny crazy people believe in them up until you get to the line the pentagon admits it doesn't know what in the world this is and that's where you pause because from a national security perspective that is a very big problem how big a problem is it one navy pilot said that the u.s military has observed unidentified flying objects maneuvering in restricted airspace off the coast of virginia quote every day for two years the pentagon confirms these are images of objects it can't identify lieutenant graves told us pilots training off the atlantic coast see things like that all the time every day every day for at least a couple years wait a minute every day for a couple of years every day for gears now flying in restricted airspace is not a small thing try that in your cessna 172 off virginia beach sometime you will get very wet very fast you'll be killed actually yet the pentagon after every day for two years of daily incursions didn't appear to do anything about it why didn't they we're just guessing one possible explanation they couldn't our military was completely outmatched technologically by whatever these were and whatever they were they were not weather balloons here's lou elizondo the former director of the advanced aerospace threat identification program you know how this sounds it sounds nutty wacky look bill i'm not i'm not telling you that that it doesn't sound wacky what i'm telling you it's real imagine a technology that can do six to seven hundred g forces that can fly at 13 000 miles an hour that it can evade radar and that can fly through air and water and possibly space and oh by the way has no obvious signs of propulsion no wings no control surfaces and yet still can defy the natural effects of earth's gravity that's precisely what we're seeing sound like a potential threat you think so what is the pentagon done about it well we don't know the full story as of tonight but we don't know they've done anything about it other than ignore it and then cover the fact they ignored it by declaring the whole subject classified for decades and then spending the rest of the day thinking about how to bomb syria again and rid the marine corps of people who voted for donald trump the sad thing is we have a whole new branch of the military that might be perfectly designed to assess what these things are and figure out if they're a threat or not maybe respond if there was ever a reason to have space force this might be it but space forces otherwise occupied these days they're busy conducting political purges of their own ranks as all the branches the military are here's lieutenant colonel matthew lohmeir he commanded a space force unit until the white house decided that his politics were not acceptable since taking command as a commander about 10 months ago i saw what i consider fundamentally incompatible and competing narratives of what america was is and should be that wasn't just prolific and social media or spreading throughout the country uh during this past year but it was uh spreading throughout the united states military and i had recognized uh those narratives as being marxist in nature so every day for two years unidentified flying objects behaving in ways that seem to contradict what we know about physics and the us military is spending its time as of right now purging its strengths what does this remind you maybe the soviet army 1938 a clear and present threat appears on the horizon but people in charge are so obsessed with political purity and loyalty to the party that they can't respond because they're absorbed in attacking their own organization when they say that all revolutions are the same they're right ufos it turns out are real and whatever else they are they are a prima facie challenge to the u.s military they are doing things the u.s military does not allow and they're doing it with impunity and they appear to be focused on the us military ufos for decades appear to have clustered around our military installations our ships and our aircraft with no real response except more secrecy at one point unidentified flying objects apparently shut down a nuclear weapons facility at an air force base in the state of montana 10 icbms inter ballistic missiles intercontinentalistic missiles were temporarily knocked offline at the same time based security noticed a glowing red object floating in the sky it sounds like out of a movie but it happened that was decades ago many more ufos have been cited near our nuclear weapons facilities since around the country according to journalist george knapp quote all of the nuclear facilities los alamos livermore sandias savannah hill all had dramatic incidents with these unknown aircraft appearing over the facilities and no one knew where they were from or what they were doing there again for decades this has happened apparently no one knows why no one seems especially alarmed in the 1950s some people were worried about this the classified fbi document from 70 years ago describes unknown flying objects measuring 50 feet in diameter in the vicinity of los alamos more recently the pentagon is declassified footage from the u.s ufo incident in 2004 and two ufo incidents from 2015 you're seeing that footage it was recorded by navy pilots during training flights we have no explanation for what these objects are just days ago the pentagon confirmed that an 18-second video of three ufos harassing a u.s warship called the uss russell is in fact real that footage was shot in july of 2019 and collected by the ufo's u of pentagon's ufo task force then went up in the hands of jeremy corbell the journalist who put it online so the question is what are these things why are they buzzing our skies why do they seem attracted to the united states military and why above all isn't the pentagon more focused on this it seems like a threat if there ever was one hey sean hannity here hey click here to subscribe to fox news youtube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else

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Length: 12min 59sec (779 seconds)

Published: Tue May 18 2021