and the plight of the ethiopia navy. our 6th neat is on. navy bragged about new talks about building the ethiopia navy. do you feel safer? -- fleet. they transported 663 metric tons of relief supplies in the wake of a cyclone. that was nice. in honduras we have 400 american troops. the air base squadron helped extinguish an air fire and they are building water tanks in an elementary school. these are all good works. done at taxpayer expense by the united states. but what about us? we are being invaded. no offense to the ethiopia navy, but we could use american troops closer to tijuana than africa. troops protecting our own people? that's fascism! only in washington do people believe that. this is a retired colonel and the author of a book. he joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. this is in no way to denigrate the service of our troops who improve the lives of foreigners in a lost different places. why is it so repugnant to the leadership they would help protect us? >> contrary to what brother boot is saying there are no armies waiting to

the ethiopian navy needs a lot of help considering ethiopia is entirely landlocked as a country fair ank heaven for our sixth fleet, they are on it for the navy had a press release last week bragging about new talks with the ethiopian government to "discuss the inciting task of building an ethiopian navy." do you feel safer? the people of mozambique feel safer. u.s. military aircraft reported 60 missions, transported more than 66300 metric tons of relies supplies in the wake of a cyclone. that was nice. in honduras, we currently have 400 american troops stationed. 612 airbase squadron recently helped establish a wildfire in a small city. in malaysia, meanwhile, u.s. navy amphibious construction battalion is rebuilding water tanks at an elementary school. we could go on and on. these are all good works, virtuous things. done at taxpayer expense by the most altruistic country in history of the world, that his office, the united states. but what about us? what about our country? we are being invaded. no offense to the ethiopian navy, but we could use american troops a lot closer to tijua

if ethiopia doesn't have a coastline, egypt is building a navy, this is a fast changing geostrategicterrain and when you look at commercial competition with india and china you are competing with countries in the region including turkey and the uae, chinese infrastructure been is they want to continue in this region is in direct competition with turkish construction companies, and roddy shipping and this competition is multilayered in that way and frankly we are not going to rebuild these places. that is an option for the chinese we can't tell the region to say no to fully. maybe 41/2 interests in the middle east. it overthrows leaders because they worry they are next. that is a clear and consistent, relatively consistent interest. they want to sell weapons and this is proof of concept for them and their ability to sell weapons and use them and they're willing to accept reputational costs of the human rights abuses and war crimes committed with their hardware. they want to undercut us leadership in the middle east and prove there is an alternative model and they want to enhance their

ethiopia does not have a coastline in the building the navy, saudi has a navy, this is a fast changing train. frankly, when you look at the commercial competition with india and china we also compete with turkey and the eod. they want to continue in this region is in direct competition with construction companies, shipping, port builders, this competition is multilayered in that way. i think frankly we are not going to rebuild these places. that creates an opportunity for the chinese that we can't really tell the region to say no to fully. russia, i think they have four and a half interest in the middle east. the first regional stability. they see color revolutions that overthrow leaders because they are worried that their next and that is clear and consistent interest. they want to sell weapons. this is also been a proof of concept for them. what they've done in syria. the ability to sell weapons and use them and they're willing to accept the reputational cost of the human rights abuses and war crimes that have been committed with the hardware. they want -- four and half they want to