Captain James Fennell
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523 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Aug
Captain James Fennell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because we were getting reports from the Pacific from people down in the below the Admiral's level that were calling back to the Congress and saying, I can't believe what we're doing.
I can't believe we're talking to the Chinese about this.
I can't believe we're talking about that.
I was on the Kitty Hawk in 2004 in Port Hong Kong.
We gave the Chinese Hong Kong Garrison Act.
They came aboard and saw our carrier.
Uh they they've been on the East Coast, on board carriers and nuclear submarines on the East Coast.
We've had a generation, generation, 30 years, 20 to 30 years of admirals in the United States Navy that have said, Hey, we're we're going to engage with China.
And uh we did and we showed him things that we probably never should have because we thought
A lot of reasons, but one of them was well engagement's good and it'll it'll it'll help everything get better.
And by any objective measure, things have not gotten better and this policy has been destructive.
And what they don't want to hear and what they can't stand is what Natalie did, which is when you put the names out there, because it blows up this this mythology that they're these guaranteers of our national security.
When they're actually guys that are feathering their beds, getting paid uh, you know, through
you know, workarounds or whatever.
And they're and and I'll say this, I don't think they're all evil people, but I think they've been misguided and they've been
In this belief that America's in decline, that Chinese Communist Party's
uh mantra.
America's in decline, China's on the rise.
And we bought into that, it uh as you call them, the credentialed class in Washington bought into that and they told the Pentagon officials, if you want to become an admiral or a general, then you got to follow this kind of general thesis.
And they did.
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