‘Woefully unprepared for war’: Jim Molan’s critical warning in final must-watch interview

The late Senator Jim Molan used his final interview before he died to urge the government and Australians to begin preparing for war as he declared China is determined to become the “dominant power” in the Western Pacific.

In the wide-ranging interview, Mr Molan assessed Australia as being “woefully unprepared” for a regional conflict between China and the United States.

Mr Molan died in January following a two-year battle with cancer and filmed his final interview with Peter Stefanovic for the Sky News Australia documentary Are We Ready For War? which airs on Wednesday February 15 on Sky News Australia at 7:30pm AEDT.

In the interview, the former army major general said China is determined to become the “dominant power” in the Western Pacific – and even perhaps across the whole world.

“The big threat to us is that somehow someway China will challenge us as a liberal democracy, it might be in direct conflict with us, it might be in a war with us and our great and powerful friend, the Americans, with us as collateral damage to that particular war,” Mr Molan said.

“And because the Americans are out of the region, we become fundamentally a tributary state to China, and we lose our liberal democratic nature. That’s what we’ve got to defend.

“We are woefully unprepared for a regional war in relation to the resilience of our nation.”

After serving in Australia’s armed forces for 40 years, including stints in East Timor and Iraq where he served as Chief of Operations, Mr Molan made a move to politics.

In the lead-up to the 2013 election, Mr Molan helped design the Operation Sovereign Borders policy and went on to serve as then prime minister Tony Abbott's Special Envoy for Operation Sovereign Borders from 2013 to 2014.

[Grumpy-sywr]

11:30 He was absolutely right. We're right back where we were in the 1930s. Importing almost everything we use, and paying for it with exports of a few valuable resources. We have well and truly forgotten the lessons WW2 taught us.

[AlexSimo-ss]

A very wise man and we are so much worse off without him

[BasedinReality]

I really miss this man’s wise words
RIP you were a good man and a true patriot.

[raymondparnell]

Defence should be 100 percent right now, we will lose everything otherwise.

[andrewrice]

Re-arm the population. Our polititions can't defend us. We must defend ourselves.

[andrewbaker]

A great Australian gone too soon. RIP Jim Molan

[SGI]

Scary stuff. Appeasement and apathy from the region and politicians
WHY do we not have industries in Australia. We import everything and export very little.
The downgrading of TAFE systems has resulted in a lack of trained personel and if war comes and a blockade becomes a China strategy, we would be in very BIG trouble. We do not make what we need onshore and we have a habit of selling property, including g ports to China

If China decided to storm our beaches after blocking imports and exports we’d be up shite creek.beaches My partner always laments the fact that so many firearms have been destroyed in Australia for a very good reason. He always hopes that they have not all been destroyed and have been stockpiled somewhere by the armed forces, so individuals and communities don’t have access to weapons.
Business owners take their industries offshore, again with a high proportion oOur universities have a high percentage of students from other nations including a vast China contingency.

[wilowest]

Build your bunkers like Austria has, your kids might be thankful for your forward thinking .

[marcatkinson]

As an American, I wish we had a Jim Molan.
What a bright, insightful, clear thinker.
RIP, sir.
I don't think we are ready for the coming war, either.... Not with the demented mbecile we have in the white house now.

[raymondparnell]

With or without the whole world I will fight them till my last breath.

[nathantruong]

A great man passed away too soon, now more than ever the world need more man like him.

[WatchingYouTube]

Watching from the USA. This is a very sobering discussion.

[falseprofitu]

I will miss Jim's knowledgeable and common sense POV

[whiskeygamer]

Defending and fighting for Wokeness isn't worth it👎🏽

[concernedaussie]

Fantastic interview as always. Much more needs to be said. This conversation needs to snowball.

[keza]

Why didn't this man receive a state funeral for dedicating his life to the Australian state an people

[aussiefan]

RIP Jim Molan. You were one of the few Politicians that were any good. Now with you gone there is hardly anyone left.

[wytrose]

Article 5 gives you a choice read it you have the right to say no.

[sfd]

He should have been Prime Minister-we need a JIM MOLAN for PRESIDENT OF THE US

[briananderson]

The taking of easy access to weapons in 1996 may come back to bite us .