Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn: ‘I tell people that I'm not anti-war. I'm anti-stupid-war.’

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This is the 30 minute TV version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with Mike Flynn. The longer-form version was released on Epoch TV on December 27, 2024.

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Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has been advising President-elect Donald Trump’s national security team. At Turning Point USA’s AmFest conference in Phoenix, Jan Jekielek sat down with him to discuss key challenges facing the incoming administration.

About America’s wars: “We went to war in Afghanistan, then we went to war in Iraq. Now we're looking at war in Eastern Europe. We still see the wars in the Middle East. We have the rise of the Chinese Communist Party globally, around the world, and they constantly present a threat. So my point is, is that we have to recognize that in order to understand the way the world is. we cannot be in this constant state of war, we just can't be. We have to return to a place where peace is the norm and war is the aberration.”

About Trump’s appointees and his own role: “What I have been doing is, you know, because my background is intelligence, national security, foreign policy, you know, certainly the military. And so I have been working with and advising, sort of in a background way, because that's the way I, like I want to be, you know, as things are now, particularly during this transition with the national security team that President Trump has assembled. So, you know, from people like Tulsi Gabbard, who I've known for a long time. When Tulsi first came in as a first term Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii, I got to know her then, and we've maintained that relationship for a long time, as well as, you know, Kash Patel, Mike Waltz, who's going to be the National Security Advisor… Tom Holman, I've been in touch with Tom Holman off and trying to help him to, you know, to navigate. Tom doesn't need a lot of navigation. Tom knows exactly what he wants to do.”

CHAPTER TITLES
0:00:12 - Introduction to General Michael Flynn
0:00:24 - China's Influence in South America
0:00:34 - Discussing General Flynn's Current Role
0:01:05 - The Trump Administration's Approach to National Security
0:03:01 - Peace Through Strength
0:04:16 - General Flynn's Views on War
0:08:14 - China as a Strategic Threat
0:13:02 - Possibility of Improving Russia-US Relations
0:15:46 - Challenges in Improving Russia-US Relations
0:19:13 - Citizen Responsibility for National Impact
0:21:29 - General Flynn's New Film "Flynn: Deliver the Truth, Whatever the Cost"

Flynn: “George Washington said in order to preserve our country, we have to present ourselves as a strong nation. And he always believed that, because he was a soldier, he was a warrior, he was a general. And Trump, in a lot of ways, has those same characteristics, about doing things, just using good, common sense, but also making sure that the country is strong and presents ourselves as a strong, healthy country. Because I think that's what matters. And I think with the advent of bringing Bobby Kennedy into the team, that's going to be a component of our nation, is not just health of your body, but health as a nation. And I think that Trump has this idea of peace through strength, that is his fundamental idea about how the United States of America needs to present itself around the world.”

“The United States military cannot be a social experiment to test things about how people should behave in their lives.”

Flynn about China: “As a military guy, I look at them as adversaries. And frankly, you know an enemy when, and you know, if we had ever to address them from a military perspective. And I think what people need to understand is that the sort of the shift of what China has been doing globally. So if you really understand their one belt initiative, right? One Belt, One Road, whatever you want to call it, is a global economic, financial, political, certainly military and information war that they are waging globally.”

According to Flynn, “China is the dominant player right now, between us and them and the way the world is moving. And yet we have people in our government that go Russia, Russia, Russia. Russia is actually a declining population. They're a declining economy. I mean, there's still a world superpower, because they have the most nuclear weapons on the planet."

“80% of the largest ports in South America, in the Southern Hemisphere, of our own hemisphere, either the Chinese own them, or they control some component of the largest ports in our own hemisphere. ”

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