Scott Bessent: “Increasingly, we are confronting sophisticated organized…”

“But as the threat of terrorism evolves, the institution tools that defend against it must adapt. We once understood terrorism principally as an external menace that is no longer the world we inhabit. Increasingly, we are confronting sophisticated organized networks across borders to incite violence within them. Meanwhile, Old ideological boundaries are now giving way to new operational alliances. The unified front between international Marxism and radical Islamic movements need not share the same ultimate vision to share the same immediate enemy of free and self governing societies.” (39:38–39:47)

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