{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Paul Truesdell Podcast","title":"A Time For Choosing, 2026","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2007,"description":"A Time For Choosing, 2025By Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF, CLU, ChFC, RFCThe Truesdell Companies of Ocala, FloridaThank you for the opportunity to share with you a talk I’ve titled: A Time For Choosing, 2025. I have borrowed the title from the October 27, 1964, speech by Ronald Reagan on behalf of Senator and Republican nominee for president, Barry Goldwater. And so, I want to talk about something most Americans do not want to face We Are At War Right Now. Not a future war. Not a hypothetical war. A real war.Now, this is not the kind of war we grew up watching on television. There are no G.I. Joe columns marching across Europe. There are no battleships parked off the coast of Normandy. And this is not the Gulf War. which, for many Americans, was the last time war felt familiar: tanks in the desert, jets taking off from carriers, a clear enemy and a clear front line. That era is gone. What we are witnessing today in Ukraine is the future — drones by the thousands, satellites blinking on and off, electronic warfare scorching entire brigades, artillery adjusted by cell phones, soldiers hiding under trees to avoid thermal detection, and billions spent on tanks that are being taken out by drones that cost less than a night in a Holiday Inn Express. Ukraine is showing the world exactly what the next war will look like — fast, chaotic, technological, and lethal beyond anything most people can imagine.This war is multi-front and dimensional. It’s global, and relentless. It involves cyber warfare, industrial sabotage, drone swarms, satellite tracking, financial manipulation, propaganda, espionage, and psychological operations delivered straight through your television, your phone, your smart refrigerator, your security cameras — everything in your kitchen, everything in your garage, everything you plug in.And I want to make this perfectly clear: the war is already inside the American home.If you bought it from China — and most people have — it can be accessed, mapped,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/115-XsjkdwCpJ99xv-8oZ76t6jr8ScWEC5MYSKzL0ig/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MTUx/OWRiNTc0NTk0Y2Nk/M2VjYTliMGVhN2Zm/YTZkZi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}