"Rank Your Biggest Threats" - Ex-CIA Officers Clash Over China, Israel & Islam

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:00)
What is your portfolio of paranoia, okay? And which countries are you most paranoid to? Let me explain what I mean by this, and then I want you to write down your portfolio of paranoia. So think about if you have a million dollars to invest, you'll say, I'll put $250,000 in gold, $250,000 in bitcoin, $100,000 in small cap funds, $400,000 in large cap, whatever. The same way you diversify.
Both of you were in the CIA, I'm gonna give you four countries to be paranoid about. Which of them would you give you the biggest percentage all the way to the smallest? So think about it, you have a round, like literally it's gonna look like a pie chart, and then you put the names in there, okay? So you have these four categories, you have Islam. So within Islam, we have IRGC, Qatar, just include all of them. We have Israel, because you know Israel is also coming up a lot of different places. Then we have China, and we have Russia.
Where does your paranoia lie the most for the next 10 years with these four different countries as well as Islam? I'll give you a minute to draw it up.

**Sarah Adams** (1:05)
Is it jumping up in here for us? You see? I got it.

**Patrick Bet-David** (1:08)
There you go.

**Sarah Adams** (1:09)
Okay. So we just rank him in order.

**Patrick Bet-David** (1:10)
Just rank him in order and give like 45% would be Islam, 25 would be this.
China, Islam, Israel and Russia. What should we be most paranoid about? Maybe you're going to be like 25, 25, 25, kind of a boring portfolio. Maybe you're going to go 90 and 1 and fully paranoid. You know, maybe it's a, you know, 40, 40, 10, 10 I don't want to mess with you. You pick and choose. Do you have yours?

**Sarah Adams** (1:56)
Yeah.

**Patrick Bet-David** (1:56)
All right, let me see what you have on yourself.

**Sarah Adams** (1:59)
Okay.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:03)
Really interesting. Let me see yours. Okay. Would you mind showing to the audience so they know and then I give you your answer? You can start off first.

**Andrew Bustamante** (2:10)
Yeah. So China takes the massive chunk of pie for me. And now we're talking about paranoia, not money.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:18)
Purely paranoid. We'll get to money as well. Purely paranoia.

**Andrew Bustamante** (2:20)
China takes it. China is the number one strategic threat to the United States.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:24)
What did you put on China?

**Andrew Bustamante** (2:25)
50%.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:26)
Okay.

**Andrew Bustamante** (2:27)
It's the number one strategic threat to the West. It is the thing that will end democracy everywhere in the world. Islam, I gave 5%.
I'm not worried about Islam. There are other countries that need to worry about Islam, but we're not one of them. Russia, I gave 20%, mainly because of the threat that it kind of constantly sends to Europe and how dependent Europe is on us. And then Israel, I gave 25%, so I am actually saying we should be more paranoid of Israel than Russia.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:54)
And Islam. Five times Islam.

**Andrew Bustamante** (2:56)
Five times Islam.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:57)
I actually love that because hers is different. Go for it.

**Sarah Adams** (2:59)
Yep. Same reason for China. Obviously, they want a world that we are one of their subjects in, not really equal partners. So that's 40%.
Islam, 30%, because I think we've seen the greatest kind of successes of terrorists in the last few years after the fall of Afghanistan, the fall of Syria, potentially soon the fall of Mogadishu, and then obviously likely we'll have the fall of Mali. So they're starting to feel, hey, the Caliphate's coming back. You know, they're aligned with Qatar and Turkey on that plan. So very, very dangerous, besides bin Laden's four sons planning an attack here. Russia, 30%, because Russia's always playing the game, and Russia will play with any enemy we have, and they don't care. They play dirty, and we can never underestimate them. Israel, I don't lose any sleep above Israel. They're the tiniest country in the world, and if they ever became a problem, we could bomb them to oblivion in five minutes. So I don't know why anyone loses sleep over them. But those are my numbers.

**Patrick Bet-David** (4:01)
I actually love that.

**Sarah Adams** (4:02)
So let's do this.

**Patrick Bet-David** (4:03)
Since China and Russia, you guys both agree on, 50 and 40, let's cross that one out. Within 10%. Within 10%.
And since Russia, you're within the same, which is 20 to 30, within 10%, we'll cross that one out. Let's start off with Islam first, and then we'll go to Israel. Why did you put Islam, the lowest out of all of them, at 5%, and then you at 30? Will you go first?