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Bannon`s War Room

Episode 5147: An American Tet Offensive; Remembering Robert Duvall

17 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What are the current threats to American democracy discussed in this episode?

36.565 - 58.007 Steve Bannon

as I read. But let's not miss the fact that we have a coordinated, well-funded, and I think insurgencies of terrorist organizations, however you want to call it, literally trying to prevent legal laws from being endorsed in the United States, enforced in the United States. That's customs and border head Rodney Scott testified before Congress. I continue on in this piece.

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58.027 - 74.783 Steve Bannon

The man speaks the truth. The mainstream media continues to push the narrative that all we are seeing are peaceful protests. Most conservative commentators remain content to ridicule participants in the ongoing anti-ICE actions. around the country and dismiss them with derogatory comments and sarcasm.

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75.325 - 93.461 Steve Bannon

No one, it seems, wants to take the time to step back and appreciate the magnitude of what we are facing. There is a growing Marxist revolutionary movement in this country. Its goal is not to reform, it is the destruction of the existing political, economic and social order. It operates coast to coast. It is well funded.

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93.842 - 111.426 Steve Bannon

Many of the organizations within it have ties to hostile foreign governments like Cuba and Communist China, left as billionaires. Dark money NGOs pump vast quantities of cash into an infrastructure designed to collapse the republic and replace it with an expressly Marxist totalitarian state.

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Chapter 2: How does the concept of an American Tet Offensive relate to current events?

111.406 - 140.637 Steve Bannon

This movement is emboldened. It regards the withdrawal of ICE from Minneapolis as a victory. It has now set its sights on May Day actions nationwide. That, too, will be the end of nothing. The battle will continue and intensify until the goal is achieved. That article is from an American Tet Offensive. It is by the great Sam Faddis. Let me bring in Sam Faddis now. Thank you for the music, guys.

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141.376 - 161.765 Steve Bannon

We can bring that down. Thank you very much. Sam, thank you for the music also. Sam Faddis, I am shocked. Your amazing piece on And Magazine about an American Tet offensive, what has shocked me is that so many people I know that are quite sophisticated When they read it, they can't believe it.

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Chapter 3: What does the guest mean by a growing Marxist revolutionary movement?

161.785 - 179.373 Steve Bannon

They can't connect the dots. They don't think it's this serious. They think it's, we've got these Democrats and these are peaceful protesters. And yes, there's some bad elements of Antifa and some of this got out of control, but we tried our best and we took out a couple thousand bad hombres and picked up some kids.

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179.854 - 197.32 Steve Bannon

And so, and Tom Holman told us over the weekend, it's successful and we're gonna try to do it in other cities. You were the first person, I think, to lay it out and say, you're not seeing what's happening here. This is a Tet Offensive. People remember in Vietnam, the Tet Offensive caught us totally by surprise.

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197.44 - 216.608 Steve Bannon

It was not totally successful, but it was an inflection point to put the communist on the path to victory. What did you mean by that? What do you mean that this was what happened in Minneapolis, what's happening around the country is an American Tet Offensive? And what do you mean by this is a Marxist revolutionary movement that we're up against?

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218.596 - 235.526 Sam Faddis

Well, I think you just put your finger on it, Steve, when you said, look, people trivialize this. And by people, I mean the people on our side, right? Yeah, there's some crazy people with green hair out in the street and they're screaming or they're assaulting individual officers.

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Chapter 4: How is the mainstream media portrayed in the context of protests?

235.626 - 258.063 Sam Faddis

But OK, this is all it doesn't really threaten the republic as such. And it's all sort of disjointed and it's annoying, but generally inconsequential. And that is by orders of magnitude missing the point. I mean, that's why I use the analogy of the Tet Offensive. We were sitting there in 1968 talking about declaring victory.

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258.143 - 282.962 Sam Faddis

We're winning the war and the ground catches fire under our feet all over the country. I mean, in the Tet Offensive, all of a sudden, we turned around, and the U.S. Embassy in the heart of Saigon was under siege. We missed it completely, and that is exactly what's happening now. You have massive organizations. That song you just played by the Communist Party of the USA, I didn't make that up.

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282.982 - 308.453 Sam Faddis

You can pull that off their website. Every time you see one of these big demonstrations or actions in a city, you will see these guys marching by the hundreds and thousands with banners and signs. You've got guys like Neville Roy Singham, but there's a dozen, two dozen of them, billionaires working with hostile foreign powers pumping hundreds of millions of dollars probably into this effort.

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Chapter 5: What are the implications of foreign funding on domestic movements?

308.934 - 341.23 Sam Faddis

And it is not about ICE. It's not about Palestine. I mean, it's not about any one of those specific issues. in and of itself. It is about literally destroying the republic. Democratic Socialists of America, which would be Zoran Mamdani's party, also AOCs, et cetera, they just had a seminar called Abolishing the Family. Their express purpose is to do away with the building block of society.

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341.53 - 351.764 Sam Faddis

We've got a massive ongoing communist revolutionary movement in the country, very well-funded, the communist Chinese chip in, the Cubans chip in, all kinds of bad actors chip in.

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352.485 - 374.834 Sam Faddis

And we're busy arresting individual persons in the street in Minneapolis for assaulting an ICE agent, which obviously we should, and doing nothing to tear this thing out by the roots, which ought to be our number one priority. cutting off the funding and the organizers and conspirators ought to all be in custody.

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376.922 - 393.908 Steve Bannon

David Horowitz, who along with Trevor Loudon, I think are two of the individuals, David Horowitz's passed away, but the great David Horowitz, who used to be, I think, a Marxist as a young man, supported the Black Panthers. That transition became a hardcore conservative, someone I was honored to know for a number of years.

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394.288 - 402.579 Steve Bannon

In fact, he was in a movie that I made with Andrew Breitbart about this very topic. He's the one that taught me this phrase, and I would like you to describe it, what it means to the audience.

Chapter 6: How does the guest connect historical events to today's political climate?

403.06 - 410.029 Steve Bannon

He said, Steve, the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution. What do they mean by that?

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411.072 - 439.332 Sam Faddis

Yeah. So the goal is revolution, which means, as I said in the article, destroying completely the existing political, economic and social order. I add social because, as I said, these guys want to do away with the family union. So anything you are screaming about and using as a cause is just a lever, is just a You know, it's just a point at which you can divide society. It's a means to the end.

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440.173 - 464.842 Sam Faddis

The point here is not to stop ICE deportations or any other cause of the week. Those are just tools to use. And the goal is absolutely as breathtaking as it probably is for most Americans to destroy everything. politically, economically, and socially. And here's the scary part. These guys are way down the road.

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Chapter 7: What strategies are suggested for addressing current political challenges?

465.363 - 485.055 Sam Faddis

The DSA, Democratic Socialist America, is an expressly communist organization dedicated to that proposition. Well, their guy is the mayor of New York City now, and they have substantial representation in Congress, and they're getting ready to take over the entire Democratic Party. That's not a joke or an exaggeration. They stand on the verge of doing that.

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485.423 - 505.812 Sam Faddis

These guys are way down the road and we're still sitting here pretending like it's not happening. Like back to Tet, you know, we'll turn around tomorrow. Everything will be on fire around you when you will be scratching your head saying, where did this come from? Well, it's right in front of you, man. Just wake up.

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506.99 - 527.985 Steve Bannon

We started the morning show with over an hour just on Colorado, the voting systems, Georgia, the fights we have down there. One of their purposes is to create chaos, and from chaos comes anarchy, and then they want the government to overreact, and then they take it and they play with their media partners to ratchet it up.

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527.965 - 547.449 Steve Bannon

Why do we seem that there are very few people at a senior level that actually understands that this is organized with the deep state to take down the United States of America? They must take down the United States of America to destroy Judeo-Christian civilization and the Christian West, sir.

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549.411 - 559.637 Sam Faddis

Well, I mean, there's the $60,000 question, but I think basically on some level, we just don't want to face the enormity of I mean, back to my analogy about Minneapolis.

Chapter 8: How does the episode conclude regarding the future of American society?

560.118 - 583.228 Sam Faddis

OK, if somebody is assaulting a nice agent in the street in Minneapolis, should they be arrested? Obviously. Is that the solution to this problem? No, that's not the solution to this problem. The solution to the problem is to tear out by the roots the organizations, the revolutionary organizations on our soil. that are doing this, that are setting the country on fire.

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583.349 - 612.008 Sam Faddis

And absolutely, they want chaos. They also lie. Let's just keep that in mind. When the Bolsheviks took over in 1917, before they staged the coup, when they got themselves elected, they ran on a platform of peace, land and bread. They didn't say anything about show trials and firing squads and killing millions of people in famine. They told you whatever you needed to hear in that moment.

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612.028 - 616.478 Sam Faddis

The goal remains the same. The goal is to destroy the republic.

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616.947 - 623.978 Steve Bannon

And they were pretty obvious, we're not going to give land to any of the serfs or any of the peasants.

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625.34 - 625.62 George Papadopoulos

Yeah.

625.64 - 641.792 Steve Bannon

They're very well organized in two things. Number one, I'm going to talk about DSA and the organization. But also you see these young people, they've used the schools. This was all the... Controlled opposition to the Republican Party never took serious education. We'd play on the margins of it. Yes. Right?

641.812 - 663.749 Steve Bannon

But they've used these schools, the private schools, the top schools in the country, they've used the public schools to be basically a madrasa for revolution. And that's why these, the kids you see, and they see him coming out of taking these, going to the streets with the teachers with the pink hair saying it, it's like you're watching the movie, The Village of the Damned, right?

663.809 - 677.312 Steve Bannon

Or The Children of the Damned. You don't recognize these kids, but they are, they are the red guard, just like the red guard drove the struggle sessions back in the Chinese Communist Party during the sixties. You're seeing it now, sir.

678.187 - 698.438 Sam Faddis

Yeah, well, I think the Red Guard analogy is dead on. And also, let's keep in mind, I mean, I always say the injection point of all this ideology was the colleges and universities. Okay, but... It didn't start last week. It didn't start last year. This started decades ago. So it's not just that if your kid goes to Harvard now, he's going to be fed communist ideology.

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