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3/9/26: Trump Doesn't Rule Out War Draft, Fox Coverup On Trump Fallen Soldier Disgrace, Desalination Plants Struck · Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

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Speaker 2: We're going to be covering the Iran war from every aspect.
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Speaker 2: Trump out with some new comments saying that it will
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Speaker 2: be a mutual decision between US and Israel when this
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Speaker 2: war ends.
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Speaker 4: So that's pretty interesting.
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Speaker 2: We've also got Trump's disrespectful display at the dignified transfer
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Speaker 2: of service member remains. We'll show you that and how
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Speaker 2: Fox News try to cover it up. Water sources are
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Speaker 2: now being attacked. This is extraordinarily dire for a region
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Speaker 2: that does not have sufficient freshwater there locally, so we'll
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Speaker 2: break down what that means for the war and escalation.
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Speaker 2: We're also going to have an analyst oil analyst on
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Speaker 2: what that means and also what happened with Ron's attempted
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Speaker 2: de escalation in the region. Jeffrey Sachs believes we are
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Speaker 2: already in a world war. We will discuss and debate,
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Speaker 2: and Lindsey Graham is a psychopathic warhawk and also apparently
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 3: Even the Iranians are like, hey, man, if somebody did
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Speaker 3: But as you said, let's start with these new comments
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Speaker 3: from Donald Trump, the President, onboard Air Force one on
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Speaker 3: returning from that dignified transfer of the fallen American service members.
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Speaker 3: Here he is talking about boots on the ground, refusing
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Speaker 3: to rule it out.
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Speaker 1: Let's take a listen.
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Speaker 4: Think the map of Iran will look the same the.
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Speaker 6: Worst complicated enough without having getting the currents in.
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Speaker 2: Both And do you think the map of Iran looks
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Speaker 2: the same after this is all done, and.
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Speaker 5: I can't tell you probably not circumstances.
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Speaker 1: You said it ground troops. How are you thinking about that?
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Speaker 5: Why don't you want to talk about it now? I
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Speaker 5: mean that I don't think it's an appropriate question. You know,
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Speaker 5: I'm not going to answer it. Could there be possible
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Speaker 5: for a very good reason, have to be a very
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Speaker 5: good reason, And I would say if we ever did that,
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Speaker 5: they would be so decimated that they would be able
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Speaker 5: to fight at the ground level. Them negotiating leverage maybe maximum,
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Speaker 5: but we're not looking to settle. They'd like to settle.
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Speaker 5: We're not looking to sell. If they're on their third
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Speaker 5: or fourth level of leadership, and they have leaders right
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Speaker 5: now that nobody even knows who they are. That they're
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Speaker 5: being decimated now, you know, at some point, I don't
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Speaker 5: think there'll be anybody left maybe to say we surrender,
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Speaker 5: but they're being decimated.
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Speaker 4: From Uranians are concerned that the Kurds will carve out
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Speaker 4: kind of an autonomous region if they did in Syria.
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Speaker 5: Any rock we're not having.
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Speaker 6: We're not looking to the Kurds going in. We're very
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Speaker 6: familiar with the Courags, as you know, but we don't
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Speaker 6: want to make the war anymore complex, and we don't
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Speaker 6: want Yeah, I have ruled it out. I don't want
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Speaker 6: the Curds going in. I don't want to see the
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Speaker 6: Kurds get hurt, get killed. We've had a good relationship.
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Speaker 6: They're will need to go in, but we really I've
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Speaker 6: told them I don't want them to go in.
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Speaker 3: So completely all over the map comments, but the most
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Speaker 3: noteworthy one is not ruling out boots on the ground,
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Speaker 3: saying if we did do, I mean, you can see
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Speaker 3: it's it's probably going to happen now at this point.
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Speaker 3: But secondary to that are these imperial comments at the
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Speaker 3: very top that we showed you Crystal, him saying that
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Speaker 3: the map is not going to look the same. And
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Speaker 3: even though he is talking there about quote ruling out
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Speaker 3: the Kurds, he didn't rule out the Kurds. The Kurds
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Speaker 3: ruled it out themselves. The Iraqi Kurds were like, hey man,
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Speaker 3: we want no part of this. And I'll say why,
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Speaker 3: Because they're right in the range of all of these
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Speaker 3: short range missiles. The Iranians have already been firing stuff
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Speaker 3: at them, including the US bases. They have no appetite
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Speaker 3: for some Irani rock war reducts remember at one point
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Speaker 3: was that I think, what are the bloodiest conflicts in
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Speaker 3: human m Almost nobody ever pays any attention to it,
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Speaker 3: but over a million people died in that conflict. They
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Speaker 3: want nothing to do with any sort of incursion which
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Speaker 3: will put them at risk. But that doesn't mean that
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Speaker 3: we're not going to have all kinds of CIA sponsored
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Speaker 3: groups inside of the country. Potentially the Iranian courage who
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Speaker 3: were already there could be armed if the Turks obviously
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Speaker 3: would get involved. But the comment there, I mean, at
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Speaker 3: every turn, all this man does is make it even
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Speaker 3: more existential for the people of Iran. The map is
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Speaker 3: not going to look at what would you do if
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Speaker 3: somebody said that imperially decided we're going to redraw your
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Speaker 3: borders like it's some Syke's Peako time, which, by the way,
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Speaker 3: they're talking about in Israel. In Israel, they're like, hey,
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Speaker 3: psychs p CO again, it's an opportunity to redraw the
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Speaker 3: maps of the Middle East. You will fight to the death,
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Speaker 3: will you not. I mean, that's if we're going to
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Speaker 3: burn your oil supplies. So we're going to talk about
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Speaker 3: here in a bit, we are going to drop bombs
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Speaker 3: all over you know, collapse, the police forces kill the
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Speaker 3: Ayatola sponsor, some third party groups, and the president says,
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Speaker 3: we're going to redraw your map. What do you think
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Speaker 3: that the going to do as a result of this?
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Speaker 3: Is an attack on the polity itself, not just on
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Speaker 3: the regime, on the entire nation state of an idea
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Speaker 3: of Iran. So yeah, they're almost certainly going to just
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Speaker 3: continue to use this, especially Iranian state propaganda.
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Speaker 1: There's been no.
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Speaker 3: Widespread protests, despite the fact that everybody promised it, and
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Speaker 3: at every turn, all he is doing is turning the
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Speaker 3: switch up for escalation, which of course is disastrous for them,
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Speaker 3: disastrous for US. I'm another American Service member was just
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Speaker 3: confirmed Kia in the operation. Not to mention for the
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Speaker 3: Iranian people and especially for everybody else in the region,
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Speaker 3: it just means wider wars even more.
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Speaker 2: Like, Yeah, and you've had in addition to those seven
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Speaker 2: officially Kia, you have two others who have died, one
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Speaker 2: allegedly of a medical episode, the other allegedly of an accident.
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Speaker 2: And then you know there are a number of injuries.
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Speaker 2: There's a hospital that's been closed for labor and delivery
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Speaker 2: to handle the wounded. US Service members coming out of Iran,
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Speaker 2: so that's already where we are. I also have to
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Speaker 2: just say, you know, for these like diaspora Iranian monarchist
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Speaker 2: what like, you thought that Trump really cared about freedom
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Speaker 2: for the Iranian people. You know, the people were the
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Speaker 2: biggest critics of the Iranian regimer in Tehran, and now
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Speaker 2: they're have an oil rained down on them, apocalyptic fires
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Speaker 2: like it genuinely looks like a literal movie of a healthscape.
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Speaker 2: That's your you know, your Iranian freedom. I'm sure the
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Speaker 2: women are really grateful for their kids breathing in toxic
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Speaker 2: fumes that are probably going to cause them to have
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Speaker 2: cancer ten or twenty years in the future. And meanwhile
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Speaker 2: you have Trump coming out and saying, yeah, Ron will
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Speaker 2: probably break apart, like I mean, just absolute, absolute insanity.
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Speaker 2: And it speaks to the fact that the goal now
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Speaker 2: is Israel' skol. It's civil war, it's regime collapse, it's chaos.
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Speaker 2: The only reason, as you said, the Kurds aren't getting
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Speaker 2: involved also is not only are they worried about the danger,
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Speaker 2: but they're like, listen, you people have, especially Trump in particular,
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Speaker 2: have screwed us over multiple times in the past, like
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Speaker 2: how many times are we gonna have to get the
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Speaker 2: Felfer It again award before we say, you know what
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Speaker 2: this battle is yours go good luck, We'll see what
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Speaker 2: happens on the other side of it. So that's where
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Speaker 2: things stand as of right now. I want to go
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Speaker 2: ahead and play this next piece, which is extraordinarily significant.
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Speaker 4: So it has now been.
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Speaker 2: Confirmed that it was the US that struck that girls
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Speaker 2: school and murdered those one hundred and sixty eight children,
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Speaker 2: mostly girls ages seven to twelve. There have been multiple
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Speaker 2: analyzes and now we have actual video of the Tomahawk missile.
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Speaker 2: Those come from US, not for Israel, not from Iran,
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Speaker 2: those come from US. Okay, Tomahawk missile that was dropped
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Speaker 2: on that school. And recall also there's reporting this was
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Speaker 2: a double tap strike. So in any case, this is
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Speaker 2: now incontrovertible, you know, as much as you can learn
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Speaker 2: anything definitively in war. We now though this is the case,
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Speaker 2: Trump gets asked about it and what he did, what
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Speaker 2: does he do?
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Speaker 4: He just outright lies. Let's take a listen.
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Speaker 1: Did the United States bomb a girls elementary school in
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Speaker 1: southern Iran on the first day of the war and
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Speaker 1: kill one hundred and seventy five people.
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Speaker 6: Based on what I've seen, that was done by i Ran?
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Speaker 1: Is that true, mister, except it was Iran who did that.
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Speaker 3: Certainly investigating, but the only side that targets civilians is Iran.
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Speaker 1: We think it was.
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Speaker 6: We think it was done by Iran's very inaccurate. As
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Speaker 6: you know, with their munitions, they have no accuracy whatsoever.
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Speaker 3: Who's done by Iraq disgusting, So you saw Pete Hegstath
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Speaker 3: won't back them up on that investigation since we're investigating it. Look,
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Speaker 3: I mean, as you said, there's a video, it's literally
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Speaker 3: a Tomahawk missile. There's only one person in the entire
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Speaker 3: conflict that uses a Tomahawk missiles. So the last time
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Speaker 3: I checked, that's the only time that it could have happened.
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Speaker 3: And all of the background on the strike makes sense
9:34
Speaker 3: not to devolve too much, but it shows you the danger.
9:37
Speaker 3: And also I've always warned about this with air campaigns
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Speaker 3: and everything was, oh, the most sophisticated military. I'm not
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Speaker 3: denying that, but also there's a lot of error. So
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Speaker 3: let's say you have this IRGC base which has a school.
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Speaker 3: We attached to it, right and years ago it was
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Speaker 3: only IRGC and it wasn't a school. It's very obvious
9:55
Speaker 3: that they didn't update whatever their strike package was. And
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Speaker 3: whoever's programming these coordinates into the Tomahawk, they have no idea.
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Speaker 1: They're can passed on by the Pentagon.
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Speaker 3: So whoever it is that put that you know, coordinate
10:05
Speaker 3: into the strike package sent it along to the Tomahawk,
10:07
Speaker 3: they're the ones who are responsible. In the old times,
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Speaker 3: this is a massive scandal. I covered the Kundu's hospital
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Speaker 3: incident in twenty fifteen. I mean that was front page
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Speaker 3: news of every paper in the country. The military, look,
10:23
Speaker 3: you know, hated Obama and all that, but there were
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Speaker 3: still at least some rules and all that at the time.
10:27
Speaker 3: And at the Pentagon, I mean, their feet were held
10:29
Speaker 3: to the fire whenever that hospital in Afghanistan was struck.
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Speaker 3: This time around, it's like Tomahawk missile video. You've got
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Speaker 3: multiple geolocated pieces of evidence. By the way, the military
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Speaker 3: themselves are leaking to Reuters into everybody else, they like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: it was probably US, okay, and now if they never
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Speaker 3: confirm it, and Trump is like, oh, it was Iran,
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Speaker 3: which was some Israeli claim. Just so everybody understands that
10:51
Speaker 3: was a claim grown around by Israel literally completely fake.
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Speaker 3: It's Gaza level stuff. Oh a rocket that come that
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Speaker 3: bingo exactly, misfire that came down and that killed them.
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Speaker 3: This is this is like a serious shameful and even
11:05
Speaker 3: Laura Ingram is like, Hey, somebody's head needs to roll
11:08
Speaker 3: for this, right but this, you know, this is the gods,
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Speaker 3: this is what happens when we get in bed with
11:12
Speaker 3: the Israelis. We're going to adopt their talk, their tactics,
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Speaker 3: and their talking points. We're literally eroding our entire national
11:18
Speaker 3: sense of honor in the Iraq War. I can tell
11:20
Speaker 3: you this right now, this might have happened, but seriously,
11:23
Speaker 3: something actually would have happened at the military command level.
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Speaker 3: You think Hegseth and Trump are going to do anything?
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Speaker 1: Zero course? Okase disgraceful.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the moment that the media stops asking them those
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Speaker 2: questions will never hear bout.
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Speaker 4: We'll never know that's what's going to happen.
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Speaker 2: And one last piece on this, because it's important something
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Speaker 2: we've been focused on. Very very possible that Ai anthropics
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Speaker 2: Claude in particular, was involved in picking this target.
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Speaker 4: And so you know, and I mean, which.
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Speaker 2: Opens up a whole other basket of questions about the
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Speaker 2: way AI is being utilized. We know that AI continues
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Speaker 2: to hallucinate, you know, obviously this uh you know, begs
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Speaker 2: the question of who then, who is responsible if it
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Speaker 2: was AI that it and there wasn't sufficient human involvement
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Speaker 2: in review. So just I mean just horrifying.
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Speaker 3: Well, you can see how it happens. You're like, hey,
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Speaker 3: give me a list of IRGC bases.
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Speaker 1: Here you go. Yeah, it just pills from an old
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Speaker 1: data map. You don't radar whatever, right exactly, and.
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Speaker 3: That what you've got fifty different strike power how many
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Speaker 3: they said in the first day of the campaign that
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Speaker 3: they did double the amount of strikes that they didn't
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Speaker 3: shock and on Iraq it's a one strike was bad.
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Speaker 1: But this is the problem.
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Speaker 3: This is why you're supposed to have people with, you know,
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Speaker 3: some actual intelligence and others looking it over, because as
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Speaker 3: Tomahawk missile doesn't just fly somewhere without a serious level
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Speaker 3: of checks in terms of people who are like, let's
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Speaker 3: do the intelligence. Here we go, here's the picture of it.
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Speaker 3: This is why it needs to be struck. Here's its impact.
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Speaker 3: And this I mean seriously, a massively shameful incident. Honestly
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Speaker 3: a huge smirching on the entire honor of the United States.
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Speaker 3: Let's put a three up here next on the screen,
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Speaker 3: just to show you everything is rolling towards ground trips
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Speaker 3: right now. I just I don't see a way out
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Speaker 3: of it. And news Trump has a privately shown interest
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Speaker 3: in US ground troops in Iran. His comments have been
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Speaker 3: focused on the idea of a small contingent of troops
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Speaker 3: that we use for specific purposes. Let's go to the
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Speaker 3: next one, just to continue to fill this out. This
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Speaker 3: is from A four. There's been a cancellation of an
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Speaker 3: Army exercise, quote fueling speculation about Middle Eastern troop deployments.
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Speaker 3: The elite eighty second Airborne Division, which specializes in ground
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Speaker 3: combat and other fraud missions, is now awaiting new orders.
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Speaker 3: After an unexpected change of plans, the Army abruptly canceled
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Speaker 3: this major training exercise. This station at Fort Bragg in
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Speaker 3: North Carolina, brigade combat team of four to five thousand
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Speaker 3: soldiers ready to deplore on an eighteen hour notice for
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Speaker 3: missions as varied as seizing airfields and other critical infrastructure.
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Speaker 3: So you could see paratroopers now who are getting involved here,
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Speaker 3: and in fact, what we see initially is that some
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Speaker 3: shape of what this strike would look like or for
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Speaker 3: ground troops. Let's put a six please on the screen.
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Speaker 3: This is from friend Shelby Talcott over at Semaphore. Trump's
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Speaker 3: Iran options include a special Operations raid on nuclear sides.
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Speaker 3: So what it would do is a special unit mission
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Speaker 3: has long ready to quote counter MWMD mission where their
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Speaker 3: job is to go in and get loose nuclear like
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Speaker 3: loose nuclear material, fissile material centrifuges, destroy them. And this
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Speaker 3: is part of the folly of the entire thing. We're
14:23
Speaker 3: told that this is all about nuclear sites. Well, we've
14:25
Speaker 3: bombed some of the nuclear sites, but by US intelligence's
14:28
Speaker 3: own admission, it's all now underground and they can't get
14:31
Speaker 3: to it. They can't continue to bombit. So to go
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Speaker 3: and get it, what do you have to do? Boots
14:35
Speaker 3: on the ground. And so in this instance, you can't
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Speaker 3: just have some special Operations team insert when the Iranians
14:42
Speaker 3: know you're probably coming. That's why you would have the
14:44
Speaker 3: eighty second airbords. They're gonna have to send thousands of
14:46
Speaker 3: troops in, so you know, the special operation can do it.
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Speaker 3: Those guys have to provide security, you know, to be
14:51
Speaker 3: able to come in if anything goes the rod to
14:53
Speaker 3: airlift them out of here. You can easily see how
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Speaker 3: much of a disaster that this could easily be inside.
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Speaker 3: What you think that the Iranians don't read the news?
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Speaker 3: What do you think they're gonna do right now? They're
15:03
Speaker 3: going to surround that thing and turn it into, you know,
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Speaker 3: a death trap. And I'm not saying that we're not
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Speaker 3: capable of doing something like this, but perhaps it would
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Speaker 3: cost a lot of lives. And what's shocking too is
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Speaker 3: the cavalier nature that they're already talking about death, not
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Speaker 3: just of but not just of Iranians, but of Americans.
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Speaker 3: With Iranians, I mean, heg sad, he's a psychopath. He's
15:24
Speaker 3: like anybody's still alive, they may not be alive. I
15:26
Speaker 3: mean that he's literally like a video game character. And actually,
15:30
Speaker 3: I do think it's worth meditating here on the White
15:32
Speaker 3: House is propaganda. Everything is like Iron Man Tropic Thunder,
15:36
Speaker 3: like they're trying to mean this into existence. It's some
15:39
Speaker 3: of the worst aspects of like two thousand and three,
15:42
Speaker 3: you know, raw raw Americanism, which south Park used to
15:45
Speaker 3: do such a good job of parroting. But to show
15:48
Speaker 3: how insane things are in the White House, they will
15:51
Speaker 3: not even rule out a draft. Okay, so a five.
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Speaker 3: Let's take a listen.
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Speaker 7: Mothers out there are worried that we're gonna have a draft,
15:59
Speaker 7: that they're going to their sons get and daughters get
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Speaker 7: involved in this. What do you want to say about
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Speaker 7: the president's plans for troops on the ground. As we know,
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Speaker 7: it's been largely an air campaign up until now.
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Speaker 8: It has been and it will continue to be. And
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Speaker 8: President Trump wisely does not remove options off of the table.
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Speaker 8: I know a lot of politicians like to do that quickly,
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Speaker 8: but the president, as commander in chief, wants to continue
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Speaker 8: to assess the success of this military operation. It's not
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Speaker 8: part of the current plan right now. But the President
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Speaker 8: again wisely keeps his options on the table.
16:35
Speaker 3: Wisely keeping his options on the table for a draft.
16:39
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's first of all politics wise, think
16:42
Speaker 3: about that. That's going to rocket to every mom of
16:45
Speaker 3: a seventeen year old in the entire country.
16:48
Speaker 1: Voted for Trump.
16:49
Speaker 3: All these young and who voted for Trump. I mean,
16:54
Speaker 3: I have no words. By the way, I mean, I've
16:56
Speaker 3: given you my counterintuitor to take. I support a draft
16:58
Speaker 3: for exactly this reason. I'm like, hey, if you want to,
17:00
Speaker 3: you know, if you want to send America's sons and
17:02
Speaker 3: daughters to the war, the whole population better be bought
17:05
Speaker 3: in or people should riot over the In the First
17:10
Speaker 3: World War, the Prime Minister of the UK, his son
17:13
Speaker 3: was killed on the front line. The entire highest echelon
17:17
Speaker 3: of society, all of their sons were killed and like
17:19
Speaker 3: actually thrown into combat, not some rear, you know, reaction.
17:23
Speaker 3: And that showed that the society as a whole was
17:26
Speaker 3: actually into the war. And I'm saying the war was good,
17:28
Speaker 3: but that's the last time that we've ever seen anything
17:31
Speaker 3: like that.
17:31
Speaker 1: From that point.
17:31
Speaker 3: Forward, the elite of the elite, they always get in
17:34
Speaker 3: the rear echelon. And of course since Vietnam in particular,
17:38
Speaker 3: the way we got around that one is all poor
17:40
Speaker 3: young and black, young black and white men are the
17:43
Speaker 3: people who went and fought and died in the war.
17:45
Speaker 3: Same thing, unfortunately happened with the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
17:48
Speaker 3: They all volunteer military force. They have primarily targeted. I mean, look,
17:52
Speaker 3: it was a military culture in the South and a
17:54
Speaker 3: lot of these working class communities literally across America, and
17:57
Speaker 3: they're the ones who predominantly suffered while people like me,
18:00
Speaker 3: you know, got to go to college. Is shameful actually
18:03
Speaker 3: that they're allowed to perpetuate something like that.
18:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, my daughter's a senior in high school.
18:06
Speaker 2: The recruiters are at the high school all the time,
18:08
Speaker 2: you know. And who is interested in that? The people
18:11
Speaker 2: who yeah, they're not on the college track. They're looking
18:13
Speaker 2: at the economy. They're you know, this is a way
18:15
Speaker 2: to be able to have a stable job, and next
18:18
Speaker 2: thing you know, you're being sent off, sent off to
18:19
Speaker 2: fight some war for Israel in the Middle East. Just
18:22
Speaker 2: to I just want to drill down a little bit
18:24
Speaker 2: on why there is increasing likelihood, if not certainty, that
18:29
Speaker 2: US ground troops are going to be on the ground,
18:32
Speaker 2: because you know, I think part of why we're in
18:35
Speaker 2: this place at this point. And Robert Pape, Professor Pape
18:38
Speaker 2: has been doing a lot of this analysis in predicting
18:40
Speaker 2: this for a while, which is why it's worth listening
18:42
Speaker 2: to what he says is, you know, you are not
18:45
Speaker 2: going to be able to accomplish either a regime change
18:48
Speaker 2: or destroying the nuclear material from the air. So you know,
18:53
Speaker 2: in a rock it took a year of searching the
18:55
Speaker 2: country to figure out there were no w MD. Okay,
18:59
Speaker 2: so you are not going to be able to figure
19:01
Speaker 2: out where it is. You are not going to be
19:03
Speaker 2: able to vomit into oblivion or have confidence that you've
19:06
Speaker 2: bombed it into oblivion without being there on the ground.
19:10
Speaker 2: So option number one is you fail, right, Trump Tacos,
19:14
Speaker 2: That's what I'm hoping for. Trump Tacos, you know, bombs
19:17
Speaker 2: something or kills the next Supreme leader and it is like, Okay,
19:19
Speaker 2: we're done, great job, everybody, let's go home.
19:22
Speaker 4: In that scenario number one.
19:24
Speaker 2: Israel of course not going to be satisfied with that.
19:26
Speaker 2: Number two, it's not clear that Iran would accept that
19:29
Speaker 2: at this point because they're looking at this Their new
19:32
Speaker 2: Supreme leader just had his father, mother, wife, and son
19:36
Speaker 2: murdered by the US and Israel. So I don't think
19:40
Speaker 2: he's going to be in like a really conciliatory mood
19:42
Speaker 2: here number one. Number two, their strategic calculus now is
19:47
Speaker 2: that they have to hit us hard. They have to
19:49
Speaker 2: make us pay and suffer so that we don't do
19:52
Speaker 2: this again. So even if Trump Taco's at this point,
19:55
Speaker 2: it is no guarantee that the thing is going to
19:57
Speaker 2: be over. So that's option number one. Of of course Trump,
20:00
Speaker 2: you know, he wants to save face, et cetera. So
20:02
Speaker 2: and you've got a lot of forces from Israel that
20:05
Speaker 2: are continuing to push in this direction. Number two is
20:08
Speaker 2: that you have some sort of ground invasion to try
20:12
Speaker 2: to obtain and destroy this nuclear material so that you
20:15
Speaker 2: can have your mission accomplished moment there. Number three, I
20:20
Speaker 2: guess is that you like deploy a nuke or something
20:22
Speaker 2: completely insane like that, which we're going to talk about
20:24
Speaker 2: a little bit more of the possibility of that in
20:26
Speaker 2: World War three, which quite frankly, at this point, you
20:28
Speaker 2: can't put anything with Netanyahu and Trump in charge. You
20:30
Speaker 2: cannot put anything off the table because the level of
20:34
Speaker 2: death and destruction that these men are comfortable with is
20:36
Speaker 2: completely insane. I think Trump thinking about his legacy, I
20:41
Speaker 2: don't think he cares whether that legacy is like as
20:44
Speaker 2: a good leader or as as like notoriously evil leader.
20:49
Speaker 2: I think he's just more interested in leaving a gigantic
20:52
Speaker 2: mark on the world and wanting to be remembered, and
20:55
Speaker 2: so listen, if you're going in that direction, being the
20:58
Speaker 2: you know, first president since World War Two to drop
21:00
Speaker 2: a nuke again. I'm not saying that's what's gonna happen,
21:02
Speaker 2: but I don't think that you can fly.
21:03
Speaker 1: I wouldn't rule it out the table.
21:05
Speaker 3: I actually wouldn't rule it out, not just because of Trump,
21:07
Speaker 3: but really because of Baby. Let's put a seven up
21:09
Speaker 3: there on the screen. Trump says to the Times of
21:11
Speaker 3: Times of Israel, it'll be a mutual decision with Netna
21:14
Speaker 3: who regarding when the war ends so America literally, you know,
21:17
Speaker 3: we're giving up all of our sovereignty. It's a mutual
21:19
Speaker 3: decision with bby netnya who literally a client state, not
21:23
Speaker 3: exactly somebody who's an equal ally slash partner in this
21:26
Speaker 3: entire thing. But he's the one who's gone all in.
21:28
Speaker 3: We're gonna talk later about those oil strikes. It was
21:30
Speaker 3: Israel apparently, and they're saying, oh, the US, they would
21:33
Speaker 3: be very upset about the strike, fake whatever. If you're
21:35
Speaker 3: not gonna do anything about it, don't don't. Don't leak
21:37
Speaker 3: it to baracra V, just like Joe Biden's entire presidency did.
21:40
Speaker 3: But their level of barbarism which we all sawt Remember
21:45
Speaker 3: it's not just Gaza, because Gaza was barbarism at it
21:48
Speaker 3: like a humanitarian level, but their barbarism in terms of
21:52
Speaker 3: their like gangster action in the whole region is really
21:55
Speaker 3: what showed. It's like, oh, these fuckers will do anything,
21:57
Speaker 3: ye like Doha, Qatar, Jordan's or Lebanon, like all.
22:02
Speaker 4: Over the Lebanon right now.
22:05
Speaker 3: Literally, I mean they're saying we're going to turn Dahia
22:08
Speaker 3: area of Beirut into communists. This is smoke trick. They
22:12
Speaker 3: say this stuff out loud. How they're going to level.
22:15
Speaker 3: I've seen, you know, hotels, buildings just completely collapsing in
22:19
Speaker 3: the middle of that city. So that is why I
22:22
Speaker 3: actually wouldn't rule out anything, because you never know where
22:25
Speaker 3: Israel will force your.
22:26
Speaker 2: Well, and especially when you layer on the number of
22:29
Speaker 2: like religious fanatics who are wanting to bring about the
22:33
Speaker 2: end times, Like, how can you rule anything out? And
22:36
Speaker 2: that's you know, that's an Israel and that's here too.
22:38
Speaker 2: So I again, I sort of feel like I had
22:41
Speaker 2: a blind spot for how much that ideology is significant,
22:46
Speaker 2: both in terms of the some of the base of
22:48
Speaker 2: the Republican Party, but more importantly in terms of the leadership.
22:51
Speaker 2: I mean, you think about how couldy you think about
22:53
Speaker 2: heg Seth, you think about the you know, Trump's spiritual advisor,
22:56
Speaker 2: and then he has this messianic vision of himself. This
23:00
Speaker 2: scary stuff that we're playing with, very scary stuff that
23:02
Speaker 2: they're playing with.
23:03
Speaker 1: Let's turn out to Donald Trump here. This should be
23:05
Speaker 1: a national scandal. You know.
23:07
Speaker 3: I thought that the remember what the tan suit Latte salute,
23:11
Speaker 3: all that stuff under Obama?
23:12
Speaker 1: That was Fox News fair.
23:14
Speaker 3: Here was Trump at the dignified transfer literally dead American
23:18
Speaker 3: serviceman where he's supposed to be saluting, and he's wearing
23:21
Speaker 3: a baseball cap.
23:22
Speaker 1: Take a look at this.
23:24
Speaker 3: I mean, every other person is not wearing a baseball cap,
23:27
Speaker 3: because that's not what you're supposed to do in this
23:29
Speaker 3: type of situation. The USA cap apparently it's the exact
23:31
Speaker 3: same USA cap that was worn whenever he announced that war,
23:36
Speaker 3: remember in the middle of the night, literally at what
23:39
Speaker 3: two am, and then we didn't hear from him for
23:41
Speaker 3: like twenty four hours on what the hell was going
23:44
Speaker 3: on there. What's even crazier is this Fox News and
23:47
Speaker 3: the way that they covered it, where they actually played
23:50
Speaker 3: old footage of the dignified transfer, apparently to cover up
23:53
Speaker 3: the baseball cap. Let's go ahead and put this up
23:55
Speaker 3: here on the screen so as you guys can see
23:58
Speaker 3: all here.
23:58
Speaker 1: They used old footage of.
24:00
Speaker 3: A previous dignified transfer, apparently to mislead the audience about
24:04
Speaker 3: the fact that he did wear a baseball cap during
24:06
Speaker 3: that's so I mean, that is so crazy now, Fox News,
24:10
Speaker 3: I guess, to their credit, did eventually apologize after this
24:13
Speaker 3: was pointed out.
24:14
Speaker 1: Let's take a listen.
24:15
Speaker 9: Before we move on, we want to acknowledge a mistake
24:17
Speaker 9: made earlier on our program. During our coverage of yesterday's
24:20
Speaker 9: dignified transfer, we inadvertently aired video from an older dignified
24:24
Speaker 9: transfer instead of this ceremony that took place yesterday. We
24:28
Speaker 9: deeply regret the error and extend our respecting condolences to
24:32
Speaker 9: the service members' families. We honored the sacrifice of those
24:35
Speaker 9: six American heroes.
24:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, I'm sure that's an Inverton, just a little
24:41
Speaker 2: oopsie editing together a clip with a previous dignified train.
24:44
Speaker 3: I mean, especially, here's why I actually don't believe it,
24:46
Speaker 3: because did none of the hosts, like everyone saw the
24:49
Speaker 3: pictures and then they played that immediately. If you and
24:52
Speaker 3: I were doing that, I'd be like, hey, that's the wrong.
24:54
Speaker 3: How did something like this happen? Nobody in the control room? Nothing, Yeah,
24:58
Speaker 3: not buying it. That only happen and because it got
25:01
Speaker 3: leaked out there. But what's even worse. Look, I mean,
25:04
Speaker 3: as people know, I'm an dress code fanatic. But you know,
25:07
Speaker 3: it's not just about that. It's also about what it represents,
25:10
Speaker 3: which is about it's called a dignified transfer. It's about
25:13
Speaker 3: respect for the people who are dead. What's even more
25:15
Speaker 3: disrespectful is Trump basically saying, yeah, this is probably going
25:19
Speaker 3: to be the first of many. I hate to do it,
25:21
Speaker 3: but that's part of war. Whatever, right, literally, Lord farquad mean,
25:25
Speaker 3: let's take a listen.
25:26
Speaker 9: I'm going to end up coming back to Dover for
25:28
Speaker 9: more of these such dignified transfers.
25:33
Speaker 5: Sure, I hate to do but it's a part of war.
25:38
Speaker 5: Who are you with at Washington Post? What do you say?
25:41
Speaker 5: It's a part of war?
25:44
Speaker 9: The deaths are.
25:46
Speaker 5: Part of Warrio, it's a part of war. It's a
25:48
Speaker 5: sad part of them.
25:49
Speaker 1: It's the bad part of one, sad part of war,
25:52
Speaker 1: bad part of war.
25:52
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just so comfortable with the deaths of
25:55
Speaker 3: American servicemen, you know another thing, and we shouldn't let
25:57
Speaker 3: this one go on. Knows anyone noticed Tulsi Gabbard there
25:59
Speaker 3: in full doing her salute. How many times had her
26:02
Speaker 3: on the program talking about, Oh, I never want to
26:04
Speaker 3: see Americans come back. You know, my time as a
26:07
Speaker 3: medic really informed my views. There she is sitting in
26:11
Speaker 3: front of coffins coming back from this now war with
26:14
Speaker 3: Iran again. One of them literally a twenty year old
26:17
Speaker 3: kid born four to five years after nine to eleven.
26:19
Speaker 1: It's so disgusting.
26:21
Speaker 2: She and Jad have been very quiet having me on
26:24
Speaker 2: the very quiet. I mean it is utterly shameful and insane.
26:28
Speaker 2: I mean, we're now at a point where they're actively floated.
26:31
Speaker 2: Now we can't rule a draft out where it's almost
26:34
Speaker 2: certain that we're going to have boots on the ground,
26:36
Speaker 2: where they're so cavalier about the death that is going
26:40
Speaker 2: to come to US service members and additional injuries and casualties,
26:45
Speaker 2: just really wild stuff. And then in terms of you know,
26:48
Speaker 2: the costs for everyday Americans, we're going to talk more
26:51
Speaker 2: extensively about the price of the pump, what that's going
26:54
Speaker 2: to mean, not only there, but we all live through COVID.
26:56
Speaker 4: We know the way this ripples.
26:57
Speaker 2: Surround the economy, that we know the level of disruption
27:00
Speaker 2: and how much ordinary people suffer when you have these
27:05
Speaker 2: kinds of supply shocks. So Trump got asked, hey, are
27:07
Speaker 2: you worried about gas prices? And so cavalier about this
27:11
Speaker 2: as well. Very easy when you're a billionaire, I guess
27:13
Speaker 2: let's take a listen to that.
27:14
Speaker 1: What about gas prices?
27:16
Speaker 5: Right now?
27:17
Speaker 10: This is a short excursion into something that should have
27:21
Speaker 10: been done for forty seven years. Forty seven years it's
27:25
Speaker 10: taken to do this, and no president had the guts.
27:27
Speaker 5: To do it.
27:28
Speaker 4: Short excursion, No big deal.
27:30
Speaker 2: There's a new talking point from his lackeys, his administration lackeys,
27:35
Speaker 2: which is like short term pain for long term gain.
27:38
Speaker 2: That's what they're selling to the American amount.
27:40
Speaker 3: What for some fake threat from Iron exactly? Bullshit exactly.
27:44
Speaker 2: And also the pain what they're projecting is not going
27:46
Speaker 2: to be short term either.
27:48
Speaker 4: Let's be clear about that too.
27:49
Speaker 3: Even then, I mean, people spent like two hundred million
27:51
Speaker 3: dollars more on gas last week than they would have previously.
27:54
Speaker 3: That's a lot of money. Last time I checked. I mean, look,
27:57
Speaker 3: just we're gonna talk to Rory Hearin a bit. This
27:58
Speaker 3: just came across the Why are four ninety nine a
28:01
Speaker 3: gallon today for diesel five dollars a gallon? I mean,
28:05
Speaker 3: does anybody else for how many segments we do here
28:06
Speaker 3: on this show about diesel and trucking and food inflation.
28:10
Speaker 3: This is where it all comes from. And apparently they
28:12
Speaker 3: don't give us, They do not care at all about us. Okay,
28:15
Speaker 3: let's get to water desalination, because that's very important and
28:18
Speaker 3: a major escalation in the war.
28:22
Speaker 2: We have now had multiple attacks on regional desalination plants,
28:27
Speaker 2: including a strike on a significant one within Iran. This
28:32
Speaker 2: is obviously a war crime, but it's also opened up
28:35
Speaker 2: a new escalatory front. That's actually some of Professor Jang
28:37
Speaker 2: talk to us about how vulnerable this entire region is.
28:41
Speaker 2: And actually the GCC countries outside of Iran, they're the
28:44
Speaker 2: ones who are more reliant on these desalination plants because
28:48
Speaker 2: they lack freshwater sources within their own countries. Let's go
28:52
Speaker 2: and take a listen to Trump getting asked about a
28:55
Speaker 2: US attack on an Iranian desalination.
28:57
Speaker 1: Plantanesday, hitting with a desalidation plan in and they said no, no,
29:04
Speaker 1: I'm I open the door of other strikes on.
29:06
Speaker 5: Infrastructure, not must also open the door to other strikes
29:10
Speaker 5: against seven.
29:11
Speaker 1: Look responds to that allegation at the US head of
29:13
Speaker 1: den Run.
29:14
Speaker 6: They are among the most evil people ever are They.
29:17
Speaker 5: Cut babies heads off, they chop women in have what
29:21
Speaker 5: they did? Take a look at October seventh, take a
29:23
Speaker 5: look at what they've done over the last forty seven years.
29:27
Speaker 5: So I know nothing about a desalinization plant, other than
29:31
Speaker 5: to say, if they're complaining about a desalinization plan, we
29:35
Speaker 5: complain about the fact that they should be chopping babies
29:38
Speaker 5: heads off.
29:39
Speaker 2: Okay, So complete deflection there, and then just uses some
29:42
Speaker 2: of the Israeli like atrocity propaganda.
29:45
Speaker 1: What does he mean talking about what's what's.
29:48
Speaker 4: The October seventh?
29:49
Speaker 2: Yes, and he's claiming that Iran is now behind which
29:52
Speaker 2: you know, all of the reportings suggests Run had nothing
29:54
Speaker 2: to do with October seven outside of Hamas obviously being
29:57
Speaker 2: you know, allies of Theirs. But the yeah, just complete deflection,
30:02
Speaker 2: uses all of this debunked atrocity propaganda, tries to make
30:06
Speaker 2: it so that Iran is directly responsible for October seventh,
30:09
Speaker 2: et cetera. And we're already seeing the consequences of this
30:12
Speaker 2: new escalatory front. Let's put B two up on the screen.
30:15
Speaker 2: We now have Iran struck cause material damage to a
30:19
Speaker 2: desalination plant in Bahrain. First time they say an Arab
30:23
Speaker 2: country has reported Iran striking a desalination plant. So just
30:27
Speaker 2: to be clear, US strikes an Iranian desalination plant.
30:30
Speaker 4: And then they say, okay, all right, game on.
30:33
Speaker 2: Let's go two can play this game as well. Let's
30:36
Speaker 2: put B three up on the screen, just so we
30:38
Speaker 2: can take a measure of how impactful this is. So
30:41
Speaker 2: these are the countries in the region, listed out here
30:45
Speaker 2: by their level of dependency on these desalination plants, which
30:50
Speaker 2: of course convert salt water into fresh water. Okay, the
30:54
Speaker 2: most dependent ninety percent of their water coming from desalination
30:58
Speaker 2: plants is Kuwait, then at eighty six percent, Oman, then
31:02
Speaker 2: it's seventy five percent, Israel, then it's seventy percent, Saudi
31:06
Speaker 2: at sixty percent, Bahrain, which was just struck, fifty percent,
31:09
Speaker 2: Katar forty two percent. The UAE and Iran, now they
31:14
Speaker 2: have some water issues, but it is not nearly the
31:17
Speaker 2: level of the GCC or Israel only two percent Iran
31:22
Speaker 2: is The tweet here says three percent dependent on desalination.
31:26
Speaker 2: The chart says two percent US allies in the region
31:28
Speaker 2: at forty to ninety percent.
31:31
Speaker 4: Think about that. Think about that.
31:33
Speaker 2: If you are whole like Kuwait is basically wholly dependent
31:37
Speaker 2: on these plants, which are vulnerable at the US, you know,
31:40
Speaker 2: running out of interceptors and not doing a good job
31:42
Speaker 2: of defending these allies anyway, and your move is to
31:46
Speaker 2: attack an Iranian desalination plant, just completely opening up that front. Yeah,
31:51
Speaker 2: this is extremely dire for these centuries.
31:53
Speaker 3: I will also raise another one, Are we sure it
31:55
Speaker 3: was us? Are we sure it was in the Israelis?
31:57
Speaker 3: Because this is something that they love, right to see
31:59
Speaker 3: the broad war and then immediately the strike that happened
32:02
Speaker 3: back on the GCC countries. As we've been talking about,
32:05
Speaker 3: they don't care at all about the GCC. They would
32:07
Speaker 3: be happy to see them collapse. Also, if you know,
32:09
Speaker 3: it's funny, and when I lived in Qatar, all of
32:12
Speaker 3: the Americans we would always joke because gas was literally
32:15
Speaker 3: cheaper than water than water, So gas would be like
32:18
Speaker 3: eighty nine cents a gallon, whereas water would be a
32:21
Speaker 3: dollar a gallon if you wanted to buy it from
32:23
Speaker 3: CBS or like some sort of grocery store. That is
32:25
Speaker 3: how different like things actually are over there, especially for
32:29
Speaker 3: fresh water. So you can think and just talk about
32:32
Speaker 3: how you've got only a certain amount of runway whenever
32:34
Speaker 3: it comes to water desalination. But the bigger point is
32:37
Speaker 3: about civilian infrastructure. So this strike on the water desalination
32:42
Speaker 3: plant and the closure of the Straits of Hormuz literally
32:45
Speaker 3: is a choke point for every single person who lives
32:48
Speaker 3: in the Gulf, because think about it, You've got everyone
32:51
Speaker 3: talks about the Straits of Hormos just for oil, but
32:54
Speaker 3: it's not Remember they have huge you know, food, like
32:57
Speaker 3: all their food comes in from there. Everything if you've
33:00
Speaker 3: ever been to these countries, everything is imported.
33:02
Speaker 1: Literally, there's nothing out there. It's a desert. Yeah, for fresh.
33:06
Speaker 2: Flood food, so non water sufficient, everything has to be.
33:09
Speaker 1: Everything is either flown in or shipped in.
33:12
Speaker 3: And if you two weeks is all they have for
33:15
Speaker 3: runway whenever it comes to food or water. I mean,
33:18
Speaker 3: it is a disastrous situation, especially for the civilian populations
33:22
Speaker 3: of a lot of the not to mention what a
33:24
Speaker 3: million plus Americans who are all living in the country.
33:27
Speaker 3: Good luck getting out right now, look to do buy airport.
33:29
Speaker 3: You know, we're going to show you some of that
33:31
Speaker 3: stuff later on. I mean, the civilian infrastructure attacks, this
33:33
Speaker 3: is designed to inflict maximum damage on all of the population.
33:37
Speaker 1: So it's really dangerous.
33:39
Speaker 4: And to your.
33:39
Speaker 2: Point about who did this, so put B six up
33:43
Speaker 2: on the screen. The Israelis blamed UAE okay Ua is
33:48
Speaker 2: completely denying this, that they struck this desalination facility, and
33:53
Speaker 2: they also hit back at what they described is inappropriate
33:58
Speaker 2: is really conduct, So you know it definitely there is
34:02
Speaker 2: a full scale disinformation campaign coming from the Israelis. Why
34:08
Speaker 2: because they don't want this to be a limited conflict.
34:12
Speaker 2: There incentives are all in the direction of dragging as
34:16
Speaker 2: many countries into this thing as they possibly can. So
34:20
Speaker 2: you know, I think given the breadcrumbs here, I think
34:23
Speaker 2: you're probably right, the most likely suspect here is Israel.
34:27
Speaker 2: But ultimately it doesn't matter from a you know, whether
34:30
Speaker 2: it's the US or Israel, because certainly the Iranians blame
34:34
Speaker 2: us for everything that's being done to them right now,
34:37
Speaker 2: and you already had We're going to talk to Trita
34:39
Speaker 2: more about this, but you've already had you know, the
34:42
Speaker 2: Iranians made this sort of outreach like okay, regional Arab countries,
34:47
Speaker 2: if you don't attack us, we're not going to attack
34:49
Speaker 2: you back. Trump immediately comes in and undermines that.
34:53
Speaker 4: And now you know that very fragile sort of accord.
34:57
Speaker 2: To limit this and contain the conflict and step back
35:00
Speaker 2: from escalation chain that has already been completely destroyed. And
35:04
Speaker 2: clearly Israel here trying to keep that regional escalation going
35:08
Speaker 2: by saying oh it was UAE. They're denying it and saying,
35:11
Speaker 2: you know, basically you all are outrageous for the you know,
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Speaker 2: the disinformation that you're spreading. We can put B seven
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Speaker 2: up on the screen here as well to see you
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Speaker 2: know this This analysis senior analyst on Israel, the Crisis
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Speaker 2: Group says much of what Israel Israeli media is reporting
35:28
Speaker 2: in Golf States's disinformation appears to be part of an
35:31
Speaker 2: effort to escalate the war further between Gulf and Iran
35:34
Speaker 2: and the the you know, I think that's just like
35:37
Speaker 2: undeniable at this point what they are up to. But
35:41
Speaker 2: last thing here, put before up on the screen. You
35:43
Speaker 2: can see the way that the Iranians are reacting. So
35:47
Speaker 2: this is the Foreign Minister of Iran. He says, the
35:50
Speaker 2: US committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a
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Speaker 2: freshwater desalination plan on Cusham Island. Water supplying thirty villages
35:57
Speaker 2: has been impacted. Attacking Iran's infrastructure is dangerous with grave consequences.
36:01
Speaker 2: The US set this precedent not a run.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why. That's why they already attacked in what
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Speaker 1: is it in Bahrain?
36:09
Speaker 4: Bahrain?
36:09
Speaker 1: And just I mean Bahrain.
36:11
Speaker 3: Remember where are all those Americans who are in the
36:13
Speaker 3: Gulf in Bahrain, like in Kuwait? And all of these
36:16
Speaker 3: countries are massively dependent on these water desalinations. So I
36:20
Speaker 3: actually think, look, this is a broader war theory, Like
36:23
Speaker 3: what do you do? Let's go back to the history
36:25
Speaker 3: of all warfare. It starts out just troop on troop.
36:28
Speaker 3: Then it's like, well, when you get gridlocked, what do
36:31
Speaker 3: you do?
36:31
Speaker 1: Oh?
36:32
Speaker 3: Well, now we have to wage war on the enemy's
36:34
Speaker 3: ability to sustain the front. So what do you do?
36:37
Speaker 3: You no longer care as much about that airpower is
36:40
Speaker 3: going to go and attack. Remember ball bearing factories and
36:43
Speaker 3: all of these places of infrastructure that sustained the war effort.
36:46
Speaker 3: This is what if you think back to World War One,
36:48
Speaker 3: what do they do? Why did they have unrestricted suburb
36:51
Speaker 3: or U boat bombing back then to literally make sure
36:54
Speaker 3: that the Britons couldn't continue the war effort on their
36:57
Speaker 3: home island, so that they couldn't continue to send food
36:59
Speaker 3: or supplies to the people who are on the front.
37:02
Speaker 3: The same things that the Allies did to the Germans.
37:04
Speaker 3: We would attack their food supplies and all these other
37:06
Speaker 3: things again same thing. We wanted to cause mass famine
37:09
Speaker 3: to make sure that the population would stop supporting the war.
37:11
Speaker 1: This is what total war looks like. The Civil War?
37:13
Speaker 1: How did it end? Go through Atlanta? Burn everything to
37:17
Speaker 1: the ground.
37:17
Speaker 3: This is the problem with sustaining these types of conflicts,
37:20
Speaker 3: and it's literally a fight literally to the death. And
37:22
Speaker 3: then you have to say who has the ability and
37:25
Speaker 3: the will or at the very least the will to
37:28
Speaker 3: want to fight to the death. I don't even want
37:30
Speaker 3: to pay fifty cents more per gallon. The number of
37:33
Speaker 3: American dead for me is already it's seven too high.
37:36
Speaker 3: Who are confirmed? Who knows what the real number is?
37:38
Speaker 3: So for the rest of us, we're out here being like, oh,
37:40
Speaker 3: diesel five dollars a gallon, huge disruption to our life.
37:44
Speaker 1: Jet fuel is going up. Anybody who wants to fly
37:46
Speaker 1: by the way.
37:47
Speaker 3: Our Asian allies are getting hammered, you know, the South
37:49
Speaker 3: Korean and the South Korean index is down fifteen percent
37:52
Speaker 3: over the last five days. They're getting destroyed because all
37:55
Speaker 3: their oil comes from the Straits and hormones. The Japanese
37:58
Speaker 3: ninety percent of their oil comes from the Middle East.
38:00
Speaker 3: The n K two twenty Vivee I checked this morning
38:02
Speaker 3: is down like nine percent over the last five days.
38:04
Speaker 3: They're getting hammered the entire world for what for literally nothing,
38:08
Speaker 3: And then you've got interceptor stocks that are all following
38:11
Speaker 3: civilian infrastructure.
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Speaker 1: This is textbook for how a war.
38:14
Speaker 3: For any war which doesn't initially find smashing success in
38:18
Speaker 3: the first couple of days, it has to expand it
38:20
Speaker 3: doesn't have a choice by strategic logic, I mean theoretically
38:23
Speaker 3: you do, which is to say, oh my god, this
38:25
Speaker 3: is a horrible idea.
38:26
Speaker 1: Trump's not going to do that.
38:27
Speaker 3: And even if you wanted to do that, Israel is
38:29
Speaker 3: not going to let him at this point. And even
38:30
Speaker 3: if they did, then what are the Iranians just going
38:32
Speaker 3: to say, yeah, okay, they're like no, no, no, We're not
38:34
Speaker 3: done with you yet.
38:35
Speaker 2: And normalizing those attacks on civilian infrastructure. That is to
38:40
Speaker 2: Aron's benefit because this is the sort of stuff that's
38:43
Speaker 2: very easy to attack with the drone, right and you know,
38:46
Speaker 2: so this is a game they can play all day long.
38:50
Speaker 2: And so what have you accomplished so far in this war?
38:52
Speaker 2: You have a you know, decapitated the head of the regime.
38:57
Speaker 2: Now you've got a harder line person who has been
39:00
Speaker 2: named as the supreme leader, the son of the previous
39:03
Speaker 2: iatola who just had his whole family murdered by you.
39:05
Speaker 2: So congratulations, You've got another company who is more hardline
39:09
Speaker 2: than the previous one who's now in charge. Okay, you've
39:11
Speaker 2: likely unified actually the Iranian people behind this government, given
39:15
Speaker 2: that they are under siege and under attack. You have
39:18
Speaker 2: now your economy being destroyed in real time, I mean
39:22
Speaker 2: true threat of like a global depression situation already, just
39:27
Speaker 2: with the closure of the Strait of Hormus you are
39:29
Speaker 2: now in. You have failed to accomplish whatever the goals are,
39:33
Speaker 2: not that you've been real clear about what those goals,
39:35
Speaker 2: even are, so it kind of makes them unaccomplishable. But
39:38
Speaker 2: you have not collapsed the regime. There isn't civil war.
39:42
Speaker 2: There is not certainly a regime change. You do not
39:45
Speaker 2: have control of the nuclear materials. They continue to be
39:48
Speaker 2: able to, you know, to strike within Israel. I'm seeing
39:51
Speaker 2: lots of reports this morning about attacks from Iran in
39:54
Speaker 2: Israel and also on GCC member states as well. So
39:59
Speaker 2: and now you're in sort of this bind where you're
40:02
Speaker 2: very likely to end up sending ground troops in and
40:04
Speaker 2: having many, many more Americans dead. That is what's been
40:08
Speaker 2: accomplished quote unquote so far in this war. It could
40:12
Speaker 2: not be more of a cluster like it's just an
40:15
Speaker 2: absolute disaster and very hard to see how we get
40:19
Speaker 2: out of this anytime soon because Trump, you know, there
40:23
Speaker 2: are no good options for Trump to walk away. And
40:24
Speaker 2: as I said before, even if Trump tried to walk away,
40:27
Speaker 2: not at all clear that the Iranians would be like, Okay, good,
40:30
Speaker 2: let's let's go back to the way things were, because
40:32
Speaker 2: they know that they would just be courting another attack
40:34
Speaker 2: yet again in the future.