Kash Patel: Putin, Xi 'taking advantage of America's weakened posture in the world' under Biden

The Russian and Chinese presidents are exploiting a weak U.S. under President Joe Biden, despite having no intent to invade their neighboring countries, Kash Patel warned in an interview on Tuesday.

Patel, former chief of staff to the acting secretary of defense under former President Donald Trump, told the John Solomon Reports podcast that the Biden administration's politicization of national security is weakening the U.S.

"The Biden administration has, unfortunately, come in and said, 'What did Trump do? Oh, he did 'x,' we're going to do 'y'.' That's the ultimate politicization of the national security apparatus," Patel said.

The result of such politicization is "Xi Jinping and the CCP dictating to America how the South China Sea and Taiwan are gonna go; Putin flexing, again, over the Ukraine, threatening an invasion and another land war, just to get his name out front of the United States," Patel said. "And he succeeded in that effort."

"Look," he continued, "I'll be the first one to tell you: Vladimir Putin is not starting another war. He's too smart to go invade … the Ukraine. And Xi Jinping's not going to invade Taiwan. But both of them are operating off the same playbook. 

"They're taking advantage of America's weakened posture in the world to say ... 'We — the Russians and Chinese — can have a lot of fun at the expense of the U.S. and the American citizens, not going to cost us a lot of money, and the world's media apparatus will be focused on us showing and telling the Americans what to do.' And unfortunately, they're winning."

Patel also discussed his new online payment processing company, Paytriots.

After discussing the censoring of Mike Lindell and Trump and GoFundMe shutting down Canadian truckers protesting border COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Patel said that Paytriots will not censor anyone or aggregate and sell their data.

"[W]e said, 'We're going to build an entire ecosystem for everybody,'" Patel recounted. "'We're not going to shut down your payment processing, your merchandise sales, your fundraising because you voted for this person or you believe in these rights, or you want to drive a truck from Canada to Washington, D.C. to protest your First Amendment rights.'"

"So Paytriots is an all-encompassing patriotic payment processing company, you can find us online," he continued. "And if you raise money, if you sell anything from widgets to farm animals, if you have a brick and mortar store, you sell hamburgers and T-shirts, or you have online sales, Paytriots will guarantee to process your payments."

Recalling that Amazon Web Services took the conservative Twitter alternative, Parler, offline last year following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Patel explained: "We are not on Amazon Web Services, and here's the most important thing: We will not aggregate and sell your data like every other payment processing platform, to the Googles and Facebooks of the world. Your data is your own, you own it. We will do it for cheaper, faster, and more secure."

Patel said the discount code for getting started on Paytriots is "justnews".