Retired Army Colonel John Mills
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Now, Acting President Choi Sang-mok has urged law enforcement to execute the arrest warrant while minimizing violence, expressing his concerns over potential clashes between police and the presidential security forces. Meanwhile, public opinion is divided, with protests both supporting and opposing Yun outside his compound amid freezing temperatures.
As the situation unfolds, concerns about potential violence and its impact on South Korea's political stability continue to grow. For more on this, we're joined by retired U.S. Army Colonel John Mills. Colonel, thanks very much for coming on the Situation Report. We appreciate it. Oh, thank you, Mike. Always an honor to be on the show with you. I appreciate that.
And that makes me question your judgment. But let's start with this South Korean hoo-ha. Tell me about this. The president refuses to, who's been impeached, refuses to come out of the presidential compound.
Aber lassen Sie mich Sie fragen, warum ist es, ich meine, in Ihrem Ausschuss, warum ist die Legacy-Media es so falsch, dann? Sind sie ignorant oder ist es nicht in Ordnung mit ihrer Agenda, vielleicht? Ich meine, was ist der Grund, warum?
So, but where does it go, John?
I mean, because I don't see, I mean, it's not a good optic for the White House, regardless of who's sitting in there, to suddenly throw their support behind someone who, I mean, again, I understand what you're saying and I agree, but I'm just, the optic of the White House saying, well, we're now supporting the guy who declared martial law and also, by the way, who's barricaded himself in the presidential compound.
I don't know that you get the White House to do that. So where does this go?
That would be right in line with the Chinese regime's practices and behavior, is to be providing a variety of types of support to those protests that were taking place. Now, is there any media inside South Korea that is covering this from your point of view in an appropriate manner? Or are they all just all in on the standard narrative?
The strengthening alliance between Japan, South Korea and the US clearly has pissed off the Chinese regime, Xi Jinping. Oh, absolutely. You can see that there are responses in a variety of ways now to that. So what is Yuan's... plan here? Is it simply to sit tight, stay in there, barricaded until the inauguration in the US?
I'm sorry, did you just patent a new phrase involving Trudeau? You've turned it into a verb now. It is a verb. The situation report is educational on so many levels. Colonel, if you'll stay right where you are, don't move. We've got to take a quick break and then we'll be right back with Colonel John Mills. Welcome back to the PDB Situation Report. Joining me once again is Colonel John Mills.
Colonel, let's move from South Korea over to, I don't know, let's go to Panama. An welchem Punkt werden wir den Panama Canal zurücknehmen? Es gab eine sehr interessante Pressekonferenz, die der Präsident Trump nicht so lange hergestellt hat, über die Bedeutung des Panama Canals und die Bedeutung dessen, dass wir es in irgendeiner Art und Weise kontrollieren. Erzähl mir, was du da denkst.
Warum bringt er plötzlich den Panama Canal?
Siehst du? Null. Ich wusste es. Ich wusste es. Null.
Well, I mean, John, you could argue that, look, that's been the pattern of activity. in South America, Central America for decades, right? We've had a tendency, a variety of administrations, to ignore or act as if it's just not important to put our top resources in that region. And then we get what we get, right? Which typically is governments coming in that are hostile to US interests.
Or, as you pointed out, the Chinese regime coming in, which they've been doing now for years, not just there, but also in Africa and elsewhere. doing just that, increasing their presence, building infrastructure, whether it's crappy or not, and locking down permits for a variety of rare earth and critical minerals. So Panama is just one more example of that.
That would not go over well in the meeting. And I also like how you said, if I had $10 for every time, which is really inflationary.
was Trump tut.
Und ich denke, das ist ein klassischer Beispiel, in Bezug auf das, was die immediate Reaktion von den Medien natürlich zu seinen Kommentaren, nicht nur von Panama Canal, sondern von Greenland, das typische Pearl-Klatschen, das man von den Medien bekommt, weil sie alles, was er literally sagt, nehmen, statt die Persönlichkeit zu verstehen, die die Person ist, die jetzt zurück in die White House steigen wird und denkt, naja, vielleicht sind das hier Taktiken für Negotiierungen.
So maybe he's talking about these things for a specific reason and you shouldn't perhaps just take everything he says literally.
Let's move if we could, because there's so much going on in the world. And look, we're only a few days into 2025. So I think that you and I are going to be sitting down talking on the Situation Report and elsewhere numerous times during the course of this year. But let's move to another development, another issue. And that would be the vulnerability of undersea cables.
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