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- 0:00Hello, good evening. Welcome. I am Samuel Trapp. This is International Flavor. You are listening
- 0:07to DAM Radio. Right now it is 9 p.m. on the, where are we, the 19th of March. I did a show this
- 0:19morning and I had to cut it loose. I drove all night and I probably shouldn't have risked it,
- 0:25but I chose to do it. And I've decided not to upload it into the atmosphere. I think I'm going
- 0:32to do, I'm going to do a whole new show on it. And I, but I didn't want to miss it. Last show
- 0:37of the weekend, a lot of, a lot of big topics talk about, and I've now had a bit of sleep.
- 0:42I'm not even going to go back and listen to it. What I started with this morning
- 0:46that I'm going to repeat some of today and hopefully be a little more coherent
- 0:52for the recorded version is, not that I wasn't, but I think I was too tired. No,
- 0:58my thoughts weren't as put together as I would have liked them to be. But I drove all night
- 1:05and I drove, I was, you know, checking out gas prices nationwide is what I was doing,
- 1:10at least in the Southeast. I drove from Missouri to Florida and then around Florida a little bit
- 1:16and drove from Miami back to Missouri. It's like a 23 hour route from Miami to Osage Beach or Lake
- 1:26Ozark. I am coming to you live from the Lake Ozark real estate of the art studio. You can listen
- 1:33live all the time at damradio.com forward slash live. You can phone in should you feel the urge
- 1:39573-746-8020. And I may even take a call or two should you feel the urge, but I'm at a
- 1:46different time slot right now trying to replace what I had this morning. And so tomorrow is the
- 1:5320th, obviously since today's 19th and on the 20th at we're going to be on 7 a.m. tomorrow
- 2:01with civic outlaws. Usually we go 730 to 845, but I want to do a little bit more clean and have a
- 2:11standard slot. We're going to move to 7 o'clock and go 7 o'clock to 830 for civic outlaws. And
- 2:17we'll change that time. We'll make sure that it's all done appropriately. I'm also going to try to
- 2:22do my Russian program, Russian speaking tomorrow morning if I get enough sleep, but I may do it
- 2:29over the weekend. I think I'd prefer to do that one on a weekend. I'm going to look for a Sunday
- 2:34morning or something like that is what I think I'm going to do. Anyway, and so that'll probably be,
- 2:41you know, nine o'clock ish as well. Big topic on everybody's lips. People are arguing about it,
- 2:50that are good friends arguing about what, whether it should or should not be a war.
- 2:55And we argue about it here on damn radio. We have several people who think this is a God's
- 3:03gift to the planet, and that we should be all happy to be going to war with Iran. And I'm one
- 3:10of the people who believes that we followed Netanyahu. And I wanted to find that clip.
- 3:18It's the only one I didn't find. I didn't go out looking for it, but the Rubio clip, you know what,
- 3:23I really think it's in the, I think I will be able to play that for you because the big news
- 3:29is the, the, and I watched the whole two hour, two hour discussion between Tucker Carlson and
- 3:37Joe Kent. I've watched people beat up on him most of the day today. Now there's a story that I was
- 3:44reading just recently. Where is this? Why is the FBI investigating now? This is bullshit. Pardon
- 3:53my French, but this is bullshit. The FBI is now investigating the former counter-terrorism chief
- 3:59who opposes the US-Israeli war on Iran. I oppose it too. I think we followed along. We were led
- 4:06by the leash, by the Netanyahu leash, leash. And now we have Trump and Netanyahu saying, oh geez,
- 4:13we don't have that leash, but we always follow these guys. I am no fan of Netanyahu. I think
- 4:19he's a brutal, brutal man. Listening to Joe Kent with Tucker Carlson for the two hours
- 4:27on the Wednesday night show and listening to him explain why was actually kind of
- 4:35enlightening and interesting because he feels the same way. That, that these people, Israelis
- 4:42are and have been at war and they look at things differently than we do. I do not like,
- 4:52absolutely do not like, and am no fan. I think it is un-American for us to be associated with
- 5:00such a brutal, brutal man. That's a brutal man. They have a brutal point of view on this. They
- 5:08have no problem killing women and children. Oh, we're going to be fighting them later,
- 5:13so let's kill them. I think that is wrong. I think that 67,000 Palestinians is wrong,
- 5:20no matter how you slice it. And dealing with terror in America does not mean going to Iran
- 5:29and blowing the whole place up. They've been around for 2,500 plus years. They're not going
- 5:36anywhere. And I don't think we're going to force them to. But now the FBI investigating Joe Kent,
- 5:43this is how it goes. You beat up on the messenger who you don't like. It's the exact same,
- 5:49whether you're Republican, Democrat, maggot, doesn't matter. If somebody says something,
- 5:53suddenly you disagree with, you crucify him, you slaughter him. And that's what's going on with
- 5:59Joe Kent. He wrote a letter, said why he was leaving. He met with the president, told the
- 6:05president why he was leaving, told him what he was going to do. He said it didn't go poorly,
- 6:11but it didn't go horrible either. And now Joe Kent, who claims that Israel influenced President
- 6:18Trump, is being probed as a leak, a person who leaks, because that's what you do. You have to
- 6:25destroy him, not for the message. No, no, no, no, no. You got to destroy him for something completely
- 6:32unrelated. Good. We had to get rid of him anyway, says Trump. He needed to go anyway. He's bad.
- 6:39Now he's bad. He wasn't bad when you appointed him, but now he's bad. By the way, he said the
- 6:44same thing in 2024, when you were running for office about Iran, that he's saying today,
- 6:50maybe he is bad, but he's consistent. And you hired him anyway. And so former head of the,
- 6:58he resigned in protest over the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Now he's under investigation,
- 7:05according to Semaphore. A probe into alleged improper sharing of classified information
- 7:11was opened before Kent quit his post and accused the Israeli government of manipulating intelligence
- 7:18to influence Donald Trump's decision to launch a bombing campaign aimed at toppling the Iranian
- 7:24government. Now I'm going to play the, if I can find it, I'm going to play the clip of Rubio the
- 7:30day after saying that they knew that Netanyahu was going and they chose to go along with him.
- 7:37I, if you say you're not being let in by Netanyahu, you're full of crap. You know, we're exactly
- 7:44following their playbook. And we are exactly following their slaughter of people, whether
- 7:53it's Palestinians, whether it's Iranians, they are still people. You claim you're going to make
- 7:58some kind of change over there. You will not. There will be no change. We're not going to have
- 8:02a new, different sort of government instead. Now you've created another generation of martyrs.
- 8:10That's what you've done by killing all these people. You are the decapitations I totally
- 8:18disagree with. And I believe it's un-American. That is not what we do. And now we have our own
- 8:26leaders. We don't do that. Israel does that. Ukraine does that. They attack the individual.
- 8:38They're killing individuals. Now I'm completely against that form. I believe it's a form of
- 8:45terrorism. Now you probably think that's a bit much for me, but you know, what are you creating?
- 8:50Martyrs? This is not a good plan, Mr. Netanyahu. And this is what he does. And when we follow
- 8:58him and do exactly what he wants, we are painted with the same brush.
- 9:06Listen to this and how this goes. This is callous, callous, callous, callous discussions.
- 9:12And these are people we're talking about. You disagree with them, they're your enemy, whatever.
- 9:18You know, let's, okay, let's bring them in and fillet them. Why don't we slice off layers of
- 9:23their skin? Why don't we torture them? Why don't we go back to what it was in the Middle Ages
- 9:28and skin them? We'll just skin them. Why don't we go back to this torture? Because they are
- 9:34less than people. And same thing that went on in Ukraine when they're taking Russians
- 9:39and they were pissing on them and they were torturing them, they were shooting them in the leg
- 9:47and torturing them right there. There's videos of it. It's the exact same BS all the time.
- 9:54And the more harsh you are, the better it is for you, I suppose. I disagree. And you know,
- 10:01that is why we have the Geneva Convention. You don't torture people. You don't decapitate.
- 10:06Now, that's not in the Geneva Convention. You can't decapitate, but you can kill them.
- 10:13You can decapitate, strike, but you don't kill in this manner. I think it's just wrong. It's
- 10:20inhuman. It has nothing to do with right, wrong, and whether Israel, who believes they're the
- 10:26chosen ones, get to slaughter at will, because it's another generation of people that are going
- 10:32to slaughter us if we don't. So hell with it. Let's slaughter them all. Men, women, children.
- 10:38You know, if we've killed their dad 20 years from now, they're going to be the people that
- 10:42come after us because they remember that we killed their dad. So we need to kill the children too,
- 10:47right? That's how it goes. I mean, you bomb a school because you want to get the Navy.
- 10:53This is a naval children's school for Navy people. Let's bomb that. Nobody knows that
- 11:00was really a mistake. Who gave the targeting? Was it Israel that gave you the targeting for that
- 11:07to create these sorts of things with a war you cannot get out of? If you think Iran is
- 11:12going to capitulate based on this, you better think again. It's incorrect. But if you have
- 11:17people giving this message, like I'm giving, and I'm not Joe Kent, I'm nobody, but Joe Kent gives
- 11:25this similar thing. He said that the right people were not consulted and that there's kind of a
- 11:33cabal of people. And it's always a cabal. It's always the Lindsey Graham's going out and, oh,
- 11:39geez, they're going to get nuclear weapons. They're enriching uranium. Enriched uranium doesn't mean
- 11:44you have a nuclear weapon. Doesn't mean it. And by the way, they've had a fatwa on nuclear weapons
- 11:51for a long time. And so we don't believe him. All right. But we believe Netanyahu. If he opens
- 11:56his mouth, we ought to believe him, right? Oh, geez, he's Israeli. He's God's chosen one. He can
- 12:01do whatever he wants. He's a brutal, murdering guy. But geez, he's God's chosen one. What are
- 12:07we supposed to do? Didn't you learn that in Sunday school, Sam? I sure did. But I disagree with it
- 12:13because you do not slaughter women and children. You don't do it. It's just wrong. You do not
- 12:20decapitate, strike and kill the leaders, creating martyrs. This is your policy. It's a B.S. policy.
- 12:29Listen to this clip. OK, this this is this is I'm embarrassed for Mike Huckabee. I'm embarrassed for
- 12:35Netanyahu. Of course, he's always an embarrassment in my view. But now I'm embarrassed for Mike
- 12:41Huckabee. This is this is nonsense. I disagree with this. Now, you might agree with it and go,
- 12:45geez, it's just like throwing the playing card to Saddam Hussein playing cards at people. Oh,
- 12:51what do you got? I got the ace of spades. Look, we we blew this guy away. That is un-American.
- 12:58OK, I never liked it then. I don't like it now. You don't just kill people. You know, I mean,
- 13:05you can be at war with them. That is different on a battlefield where you go. But decapitation
- 13:11strikes and blowing up a meeting place of of people running the country is crap. Bombing into
- 13:17Qatar without telling Qatar because there are some Hezbollah leaders who are negotiating.
- 13:22They were called there to negotiate Israel. And so what do you do? You blow up the place inside
- 13:28of Qatar. That is crap. And you didn't even tell Qatar about it. And but of course, Qatar can't do
- 13:35anything about it. Why? Because the U.S. won't do anything about it. If the U.S. isn't ever going,
- 13:40nobody will ever limit Netanyahu. That is a huge beef for me. And I am one of the people who
- 13:47believes that whatever Israel says, we just bend over or we take our leash. You know, America on a
- 13:53dog leash. You got to put some kind of meme about that. Maybe I'll have a I create one and use it
- 13:59for this show. But we're going to listen right here to. This embarrassing piece between Netanyahu
- 14:08and Mike Huckabee, this is this is embarrassing. So let's let's hear. Now, the backdrop for this is
- 14:15there's been some claims on social media in the last few days that Netanyahu was dead. So he went
- 14:22to a coffee shop. There was a discussion about his fingers in the videos in the coffee shops
- 14:27that it was a I generated because he had six fingers at a couple of points. And then so they
- 14:32did it again and he was somewhere else. And in that one, he didn't have a ring and he did have
- 14:38a ring and he didn't. And the ring kept going back and forth where he would have a ring and
- 14:42he didn't have a ring. So everybody was all up in arms about that, said these are a I generated.
- 14:46Well, just because it's a I generated doesn't mean a person is dead. Those two things are not
- 14:53mutually exclusive. When you go to your logic class, those two things don't go together or don't
- 14:58have to go together in order for both to be true. Just because one is true doesn't mean the other
- 15:04is true. Just because he has a ring and then doesn't have a ring or even that the video is a I
- 15:09generated doesn't mean that he's dead or alive. You could be creating a I videos because you don't
- 15:14want to go to a damn coffee shop, but he wants to appear like you went to a coffee shop. That
- 15:18doesn't mean he's dead. So that's the dispute. And it's been quite a big, quite a big deal that
- 15:25people are passing around stuff about that. But while that was going on, this backdrop says,
- 15:29geez, we want to make sure that you're really alive. And here's Huckabee talking with and it's
- 15:34only a minute, 18 seconds. So let's let's hear what these bozos have to say. Where is it? Hope
- 15:42it's not too loud for you. I've had a little trouble with the volume. Mr. Prime Minister,
- 15:47I want you to know the president asked me to come and make sure you were OK.
- 15:52Yes, Mike. Yes, I'm alive. I checked that and I'm happy to see that. But he wanted to make sure
- 15:59because, you know, you guys get along too well. I know. And we shake hands with five fingers in
- 16:05each hand. Five fingers. You mentioned that I'm alive and he pulls out a list. Oh, and yeah,
- 16:13don't read it. So it's a punch card. Today, I raised two names on the punch cards. And you see
- 16:20how many more to go on this batch. You know what the good news is? My name is not on the punch
- 16:27card. Your name is on the list of the good, good guys. Thank you. And and what the president,
- 16:35the U.S. forces are doing is incredible. We're very proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with him.
- 16:42He should say we're very glad that we were able to suck them in to come into this war.
- 16:47This is a killer. OK, that's a killer. I got a list in here and we're going and killing these
- 16:53guys. There was something on last night that said without any further without any further
- 16:59discussion, none. They can target and kill anybody that is anywhere in any leadership,
- 17:07that that's just an open kill order. Like if they ever see any leader, let's say you go to a
- 17:12negotiation and there's a leader sitting in there or you happen to know that he's going to be there
- 17:17having a meeting of something else. You don't have to question. You don't have to ask. You
- 17:21don't have to go up the chain of command to find out if we're killing these leaders. You don't have
- 17:27to do any of it. Nope. Kill them. And you can kill them quite a few levels down. And if you're
- 17:33an Israeli murderer, you know, and I shouldn't call him that, an Israeli killer. OK, because
- 17:39it's it's it's still war. But we we we go hunt them down and we kill individuals at every level.
- 17:47They want to go down so far that they have no no level. There's ninety two ninety three
- 17:52million people in Iran. Trust me, the level you'd have to go to is very, very far down.
- 18:02And I believe I've had this discussion three or four times right here on this show,
- 18:06the danger of a nuclear weapon being used and escalation escalation will never die.
- 18:12This this is an escalation hound. This guy, Netanyahu, is Mr. Escalation. And if if Iran,
- 18:23you know, you bring a knife, I'll bring a gun. You bring a gun. I'll bring a machine gun. You
- 18:28bring a machine gun. I'll bring a cannon. You bring a cannon. I'm bringing a tank. You bring
- 18:34a tank. I'll bring a battleship. And that is this guy. And he will he will always one up the risk
- 18:42of nuclear button being pushed. Is this killer right here? That is more likely than any other
- 18:51scenario. Nobody is close to a weapon in Iran. There's nothing that says that they are except
- 18:59enriched uranium and enriched uranium is now the discussion. It doesn't it doesn't have anything
- 19:04do. They already said. So President Trump says no, no nuclear weapons. These guys say, all right,
- 19:09no nuclear weapons. You're negotiating while you're negotiating. Israel blows up the place you're
- 19:15meeting in. It's nonsense. This is not negotiation. This is not diplomacy by any stretch at all.
- 19:24And so this joke, I didn't like this at all. This joking about about killing and murder.
- 19:30I am not a fan of that. So did Kent. So a report on Thursday coincided with efforts by Trump
- 19:39administration allies and of course, pro-Israel commentators now get to say that Kent was a
- 19:47known leaker and they've already started it. He's an anti-Semite. If you say anything like
- 19:54I just said about Netanyahu, you are anti-Semitic. Suddenly, you're an enemy of Israel because you
- 20:01are anti-Semitic. You can't have a disagreement without being anti-Semitic. If you're instantly,
- 20:08again, your equation, your logic equation where the two don't equal, that's okay. When you're
- 20:14talking about when you're talking about Israel, you know, I, you know, what it's like, what, what,
- 20:20what color uniform you're going to wear. Well, it doesn't matter. Well, that's not a good example.
- 20:27I was going to put an example of, of where to touch this, these logic, these wacky logic change
- 20:35that these guys use to turn everybody into an anti-Semite. If you say something, anything
- 20:42remotely like it, if you don't fall over immediately and start, oh geez, we love the
- 20:47Israelis, then you're an anti-Semite. At what level do you become, you know, pro-Semitic?
- 20:57I mean, where does that happen? Do you, if you're not pro, then suddenly you're anti, right? It's a
- 21:02plus or a minus. That's it, black or white. There's no levels that I like, you know, I don't give a
- 21:07crap. You want to be a people, you want to live over there. As long as you aren't dragging me
- 21:12into unnecessary wars, I give a shit. I don't care. But if you're going to drag me into wars,
- 21:19I don't want anything to do with you. And Netanyahu is dragging us into wars. So Kent's
- 21:26resignation letter blamed the consequences of the new Middle East conflict on Israel.
- 21:31I happen to agree with him. Early in this administration, high ranking Israeli officials
- 21:37and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign
- 21:43that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to
- 21:53encourage a war with Iran, he wrote to Trump. This echo chamber is used to deceive you into
- 22:00believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States and that you should strike now.
- 22:05There was a clear path to a swift victory. He added there isn't, by the way, suggesting Israel played
- 22:11a significant role in previous regional conflicts, including Iraq and Syria. All true. Such accusations
- 22:19are uncommon in mainstream U.S. political discourse, where they can prompt allegation
- 22:25of anti-Americanism or more likely anti-Jewish bigotry, unlike criticism of a country's own
- 22:33leadership. So we can criticize our own leadership all day long and twice on Sunday.
- 22:40But you cannot criticize Netanyahu without suddenly being an anti-Semite. Nonsense.
- 22:49Such accusations are uncommon, right? Over the years, Trump's domestic critics have called him
- 22:55a Russian puppet. Remember that? An insurrectionist, a convicted felon who must be barred from serving
- 23:01a second term. Now, left-wing commentators like Rachel Maddow claim the president attacking Iran
- 23:08after being corruptly influenced by Arab Gulf monarchies. I don't say that. I think she's
- 23:14nuts and she's wrong. I think he's been influenced and followed Netanyahu. So what are Kent's national
- 23:23security credentials? Kent is a military veteran who served 11 tours in Iraq, mostly, before becoming
- 23:29a CIA paramilitary officer. His first wife, Shannon, served in the U.S. Army's Intelligence
- 23:35Support Activity Unit, was killed in a terrorist attack in Manbij, Syria in 2019. He's been a vocal
- 23:41supporter of Trump and the Make America Great Again agenda. Before his appointment to the second
- 23:47administration, he publicly opposed war with Iran. And he really did. Let's listen to what he said,
- 23:55told, what's his nuts, Tucker Carlson. Ready? Here's the Tucker part.
- 24:03Who later went on to become, until yesterday, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
- 24:08Here it is. What do you think the immediate and then longer term effects of a war with Iran would
- 24:12be on the United States? Immediately, it would be very bloody. I have no doubt that we could probably
- 24:20defeat some of their air defense and go in there and have another shock and awe campaign. But again,
- 24:24we saw how the shock and awe campaign in Iraq really didn't actually work in the long run.
- 24:29So I have no doubt that we'd have some immediate results that people would cheer about here in the
- 24:33United States. But Iran, Persia, has always been an empire. It's been around longer than any of
- 24:39the other players in the modern Middle East right now. And they are not going anywhere.
- 24:43If we get deeply involved and deeply entangled with Iran, we are playing right into China's
- 24:49hands because China would like nothing more than for us to be committing our military industrial
- 24:54base to a war in Eastern Europe, in Ukraine, and then to be committing our conventional military
- 24:59power, our blood and our treasure, back in the Middle East. That will make the Pacific,
- 25:04our actual border, extremely vulnerable to Chinese aggression. Or China will simply just watch us
- 25:11bleed out economically as we bleed out on the battlefield on these couple of different theaters.
- 25:16It's absolute insanity. It's opening up Pandora's box. And again, for what gain to the American
- 25:22people. Now that was 2024. And I do encourage you, here I am looking at it, last night when I watched
- 25:30it, there were like 200,000 views or something. Right now there's 1,728,208 views of the video
- 25:40he posted yesterday. And you know, that's a big deal. And the clips of it, I think people need
- 25:49to pay attention to. This echo chamber BS that we need to take out Iran. It's nonsense. It is
- 26:00complete untruthful crap being pumped down your throat to join another war in another place that
- 26:09we don't belong. And somebody asked me to provide this today. So I'm going to.
- 26:17There's some good music too. We'll play that later. But I have another one. Where in the health
- 26:22is this? Here is, it's called, and I went and found it. It's called Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,
- 26:35the old Trumpster. I got a bunch of music on here, so I got to scroll through it. But here's
- 26:39Donald Trump for two minutes and people on his behalf for two minutes talking about his views
- 26:49on war. Hang on one second. We're going to make sure it gets right where we need it to be.
- 26:55So we get every moment of this hilarious video in the privacy of your own home. Ready? Here we go.
- 27:04Here's Donald Trump a bunch of times for a whole two minutes and other people speaking on his
- 27:10behalf. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace. People don't believe that.
- 27:16A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for a man who wants to end wars, not start them. We do not want
- 27:24war with Iran. We actually want peace. The Iranians are clearly not very good at war.
- 27:29Perhaps they should follow President Trump's lead and give peace a chance.
- 27:32Kamala is campaigning with warmongers like Liz Cheney. How do you think that is?
- 27:37She picks Liz Cheney, whose father virtually destroyed the Middle East. Liz Cheney,
- 27:44she talks big. Oh, I want war. She always wants war. Every time I was with her in the White House,
- 27:48we should attack this nation, that nation, nations that people never even heard of,
- 27:53we should attack. She's a big, big, tough guy. She sits back in Washington. Oh,
- 27:58we ought to go and attack Iran, Iraq. We're going to attack everybody. That's why I broke up with
- 28:04her. All she wanted to do is go to war with everybody. These war hawks, they want to draft
- 28:10your kids to die in wars, and they will never fight themselves. You know, we'll stay around
- 28:15the country for 15 years, just bomb the hell out of everybody, make everybody miserable.
- 28:20Nobody knows why we're there, you know, the wars that never end. These endless wars that we've been
- 28:25I've gotten us out of so many. We don't want to get into wars. We're tired of fighting. I'm the
- 28:30only president in the last 84 years that didn't start a war. Under Trump, we will have no more
- 28:36wars, no more wars, no more wars. We will have prosperity and peace. We will have prosperity,
- 28:42and we will have peace. Remember, I'm the president of peace. They said he will start a
- 28:46war. I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop wars. He's going to start a war. I said,
- 28:50no, no, no. My rhetoric is going to keep us out of wars, and that's what happened.
- 28:55My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker. That's what I want to be,
- 29:00a peacemaker. We will measure our success not only by the battles we win,
- 29:05but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.
- 29:14Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate.
- 29:21He's weak, and he's ineffective. I believe that he will attack Iran sometime prior to the election
- 29:28because he thinks that's the only way he can get elected. Isn't it pathetic?
- 29:36Quite pathetic, frankly, that we have to go to war. I, for one, disagree. I am not a fan.
- 29:49International flavor does not support war in Iran. It's just wrong. I don't support war
- 29:58for other countries. I think it's wrong. I don't care about Iran, and if Iran are bad guys, great.
- 30:07Be bad guys in Iran. You're not going to get rid of ... Let's say you kill the top million,
- 30:12okay? Let's kill off the top million people. You still got 91 million below that who think the same
- 30:19way, right? This nonsense about, oh, geez, they just want democracy, and they want to overthrow
- 30:26their government, and it's going to be better. No, it's not. It's not any better in Venezuela.
- 30:32You take out the most corrupt person and put in the second or third most corrupt person. It's not
- 30:38changing, and then you steal the oil, so that's okay. We've taken the oil, right? This is good
- 30:44stuff. We've taken the oil. We have regime change. Now, what we've regime changed with
- 30:49decapitation strikes in Iran, and it will not work long term. We're writing the same old crap.
- 30:57Now, there's been some talk about J.D. Vance, and I haven't done enough research on it, but
- 31:02boy, now it's coming up that he hasn't been there beating the drum, excuse me,
- 31:09for the old Trumpster beating the war drums for Iran, because everybody's supposed to be
- 31:15beating the war drum now. We're supposed to be very pro blowing shit up and killing people,
- 31:21and decapitation strikes, and taking out individuals, and finding out where they're
- 31:26having coffee, and blowing up the entire coffee shop to kill one person. I listened to an Iranian
- 31:32show last night. Well, actually, it wasn't, but an Iranian man, very well-spoken, English-speaking,
- 31:39and one of them was in Qatar, and I really should find that video. This guy was nuts.
- 31:47There was a U.S. guy that was speaking, an economist, and his theory was,
- 31:54now, I admit, my economics degree is University of Illinois, okay? That'll tell you how mine is,
- 32:02and it was many years ago. So, it's economics, Russian studies. So, that's me. I have a law
- 32:11degree, but big deal. The economics, I'm no economic genius, but I'm a lot smarter than this
- 32:17poor guy. He gets up there. Excuse me. I don't know his background, but he was put on as he was
- 32:25representing some company, not government company. So, this was an Al Jazeera English interview,
- 32:35three participants, one American, one Iranian, and one Chinese guy, okay? Because the person,
- 32:45the moderator was the guy asking the questions. He was in Doha, in Qatar, and he starts talking
- 32:56about, he starts with the American guy, whatever his name was, and he starts with that guy,
- 33:01and he says, all right, so the prices of gas and the prices of liquid natural gas have gone up
- 33:06dramatically since the start of the war in Iran, and this guy says, oh, that's not a problem for
- 33:11America. He said, America, it's all okay. I'm driving at the time, paying $4 a gallon for gas
- 33:19on the way back home, and I was just pleased a month ago here in Missouri to say, geez, I just
- 33:25paid $2.49, and they say it's going to drop to $2.39, and I said at the time, I was like, you know,
- 33:32I generally support Trump nationally. I don't support him. I think he's a mess internationally,
- 33:38and I don't support hardly any of the things he's doing internationally,
- 33:42but if he keeps my gas prices low, I suppose I won't bitch too much.
- 33:48Maybe I'm the one that caused all this because as soon as you mention something, it's like, well,
- 33:53it gets taken away, you know? Well, don't mention it. Don't mention that you're only paying $2.50
- 34:00for gas, and this guy who they had interviewed, and he said, well, for us, gas and oil, the prices
- 34:07for us, they only rise in America. We supply all of our own gas now. We're self-sufficient,
- 34:12and we're a net exporter, right? And he says, so that being the case, our gas prices are more
- 34:21reflective of the national market and not the international, and the only, the way I took it,
- 34:25he said it wrong probably, is that the reason the gas prices are going up is because of the
- 34:31international issues, but that they don't really need to because everything is produced in the
- 34:37United States. Everything is for us. We're a net exporter, so if that is truly the case,
- 34:45why in the world are our prices going up? Because they're price gouging me for $1 to $1.50 a gallon?
- 34:51Is that what's going on? Because you can, so you might as well. Not that you have to.
- 34:56You know, you've already got the gas. Those prices should be three, four weeks behind at least,
- 35:01but they're not. They instantly go up, and diesels are like $5.50. Nonsense. I'm glad I no longer
- 35:09drive my Passat, the Volkswagen. Anyway, I realize I'm bitching on this. This morning I was too damn
- 35:16tired, and now I'm on a roll. Still got a bit of a cough. Emphysema, probably be dead in a week.
- 35:24Who knows? I don't have emphysema, and I shouldn't make jokes about that. I'll be as bad as
- 35:29Netanyahu and Huckabee joking about the kill list. You know, let's go, here's your deck of
- 35:36cards with Saddam Hussein on it. We're going to kill him. I didn't like it then. I don't like it
- 35:44now. It's un-American. Let's see. Where else? The Piers Morgan show. This guy's a genius anyway,
- 35:51but let's listen to this. We're going to listen to just the tiniest bit, because here's
- 35:58Lindsey Graham, of course, going to town on, and the lies he tells right here, or the stretching
- 36:06of the truth right here. Let's put it that way. Pay attention to this. This is how you get
- 36:12eternal war. You put a guy like this in charge of your purse. Oops, I've turned it down. Now
- 36:21I messed it up. Had it all lined up and put it on push-click. Now I got to go back a couple seconds
- 36:28to make sure we get it all. But he had some guy bitching about money that was pretty damn funny.
- 36:34He said it was millions of dollars. Anyway, here we go. I wanted to skip that part.
- 36:39A retired Green Beret and a veteran of 11 combat tours, 20 years service in the US Army. He blamed
- 36:46the October 7th terror attack on America's failure to curtail Iran's threat. And amid a flurry of
- 36:52media criticism about reported links to far-right groups, he publicly disavowed the likes of Nick
- 36:57Fuentes. All of this earned him the endorsement of the American conservative commentators as he
- 37:01sought political office. President Trump then appointed him as the top counter-terrorism
- 37:05official in the US, a position from which he dramatically resigned yesterday. His statement
- 37:10said, I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent
- 37:15threat to our nation. It's clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its
- 37:19powerful American lobby. Well, Joe Kenton is now facing the full force of the war spin machine,
- 37:24spearheaded by Ben Shapiro, Lindsey Graham and Mark Levine, who says he should be investigated
- 37:29for espionage. Yeah, here comes Lindsey Graham. We need to take that guy down. Are you ready?
- 37:35What are you doing? You're giving aid and comfort to a lie. He's the lie right here. How much more
- 37:42evident could you be? Where's the imminent threat? Listen to his justification for imminent threat.
- 37:48This is the guy you got to watch out for. This guy will stand there naked and say he's wearing
- 37:55the emperor's new clothes. This is the guy. Within two weeks, having enough material to
- 38:02make 10 bombs, how close could you come? Not much. And even if they have one, so what?
- 38:09That is conspiracy trash. It's also kind of strange since President Trump has said that
- 38:14it's conspiracy trash. So apparently Trump is so deeply, deeply enthralled to those strange,
- 38:21powerful American lobbies. We're not going to say we're not going to say that he apparently
- 38:25has been so bamboozled by them that he's still under the impression that he's his own man.
- 38:30Well, for his part, President Trump appointed Joe Kenton as the director of the National
- 38:35Counterterrorism Center, said he's not a smart person and has always been weak on security. If
- 38:40else, it's not a lesson. And this is what I hate about Trump. So Trump, if you turn on him,
- 38:46he does the exact same thing. Well, he was stupid anyway. Well, good. We should have gotten rid of
- 38:52him. But you're the one who hired him. You picked him. You chose not to listen to him. You choose
- 39:01to listen to people. Same old people, same old crap, same old, same old.
- 39:10What do you call it? Deep state actors, Lindsey Graham. Tell you what, it will not change now.
- 39:18No, no, no. The big part is comes to. We're going to. So we've heard all the videos that I'm going
- 39:25to show right now. We're not going to listen to that guy. Hegseth has a couple of things going
- 39:30on. He needs two hundred billion dollars. The war has already cost twelve billion dollars,
- 39:36three weeks, twelve billion, four billion a week. Now it's not going to last only two weeks. It's
- 39:42going to work six. It was another person I listened to that on another show that said,
- 39:48oh, no, no, no. We're about halfway through. She was an American spokesperson. She did work for the
- 39:52government. Wish I had kept her name. But we're we're we're halfway through this. We're almost
- 39:56done. Now it's no longer a two week or a three day or any sort of war like that. Now it's suddenly
- 40:02six weeks. And at the end of six weeks, I don't know. We're close. It'll be 12. Right. It's
- 40:10this is this is nonsense. And Hegseth is here pitching for more money. This guy, you know,
- 40:16I used to enjoy watching him sometimes on Fox News. I thought he was he was an interesting guy.
- 40:22Now he's angry. He's he's angry all the time. Kill him. Kill him. Kill him. He wants to kill
- 40:29people. The Biden administration, according to him, depleted the U.S. weapons stock by sending
- 40:35it to Kiev. The Pentagon chief says Pentagon is now prioritizing refilling its own weapons stock
- 40:42instead of sending weapons to Ukraine, says Hegseth. He blames the Biden administration for
- 40:48any challenges the U.S. military has been facing in supplies and equipment lately.
- 40:54He made these remarks Thursday during a media briefing along Air Force Colonel Dan Cain,
- 41:00chairman of the Joint Cheeks, Cheeks, but Cheeks asked about the reported 200 billion dollars
- 41:08more war chest they have been seeking from Congress to fund the Iran war.
- 41:15Hegseth confirmed the discussions were ongoing and appeared to imply the requested supplement
- 41:20could grow even beyond that. As far as 200 billion, I think that number could move. Obviously,
- 41:29listen to this. Here's here's another great, great guy. It takes money to kill bad guys,
- 41:36said Hegseth. The additional funding is needed to replenish U.S. military stocks to ensure that
- 41:43we're properly funded for what's been done and for what we may have to do in the future now that we're
- 41:49the war department and not the Department of Defense or the Department of War. And so you
- 41:57name it, you know, appropriately at least. And he pointed fingers, of course, just like all
- 42:02Trumpsters at previous administrations. They're all stupid. We're geniuses. And we've got it
- 42:08going on now. I support Trumpster home at home. If you wanted to pump up some things to combat
- 42:16terror here. All right. You know, prior administrations have stolen some of our
- 42:21rights in that regard anyway. You want to beef up some crap here. Fine. This getting into new
- 42:28wars. Screw that. I have no interest in it and I don't want to do it. And by the way, I'm not alone.
- 42:35It's more than half of America that think like me. And I don't mean that means it's OK. I've
- 42:41been the Lone Ranger on several things before. It doesn't mean I'm not right. I am right.
- 42:46But it's you know, it's it's when you're asking what the people want and who's going to send their
- 42:52kids to fight. When the hell is Lindsey Graham going to be out there with a with a with a weapon?
- 42:58You know, stand to post there, buddy. We're here's Hegseth. We are also still dealing
- 43:05with the environment that Joe Biden created. These guys are continually blaming others,
- 43:10which was depleted those stockpiles and not sending them to our own military, but to Ukraine.
- 43:16Which is every time we reach back and look at any sort of challenge we have, it goes back to,
- 43:22well, send this to Ukraine. Ultimately, we think these munitions are better spent in our own
- 43:28interests at this point. Tell you what, it'd be great if you'd have done this back when I said
- 43:36to do it. When you first took office, all you had to do was cut off Ukraine. That would be over
- 43:41right now. We have nothing to do with it. If you didn't cause the war in Iran, that sucker would
- 43:47be over, too. Let Netanyahu fight his own crap. We don't have anything to do with it, nor should we,
- 43:56regardless of any justification, regardless of, oh, you're an anti-Semite if you're not
- 44:01willing to send a million troops over to invade Iran. Twenty five hundred troops on their way from
- 44:10Singapore or wherever they were stopped. It's taken them like a week and a half to get their
- 44:15ship from wherever they were stationed, starting in Japan. They were in Singapore last I heard,
- 44:21and now they're going to be about a week and a half, 10 days until they get to to the Gulf
- 44:27so they can go in there and try to take this Kark Island, which is nonsense, too, because nobody's
- 44:33going to let you have it. If you go in there and take that, it doesn't take any genius
- 44:39to know that if I can't have it, neither can you will be the game. And the one upsmanship
- 44:45being played right now, will you bomb our oil fields? What does Iran do? They send over the
- 44:52leaflets and the flyers and they put out the radio thing that says, listen, we're coming to Qatar.
- 44:57Here's the gas. Here's the LNG. Here's the oil fields that we're going to strike. We are striking
- 45:04these facilities. Get the civilians out because we're going to blow them up. And there aren't any
- 45:10patriots left. There's no defense, nothing going on over there. And they can get them through anyway,
- 45:15just and they have and they've done. And so it's back and forth and it will be one upsmanship
- 45:21all the way down the line. That's what's going to happen. Kiev is displaying its ever growing
- 45:28appetite for more Western funding and military deliveries with the conflict. And they routinely
- 45:34accuse their backers, which includes us, with not providing enough support. Yeah,
- 45:41we need you guys to move quicker. We need you to give us more money. These guys haven't paid
- 45:47for anything in their own with their own economy because they don't have one. It's destroyed.
- 45:52You have Ukraine, the beggar state right now. That's it. It's the beggar state. They don't
- 45:58produce anything except maybe some. I heard an article that said they had some pretty good
- 46:06FPVs for first person view drones. These these drones that go out because when they send these
- 46:12drones into Belgrade or into Briansk regions of Russia and then they send them over there,
- 46:20they send they send several. So they'll send several attack ones and then a couple of video
- 46:24ones. And so they can keep track of the attacks and where they're going. And there's something
- 46:29going on with Elon Musk in the Starlink stuff, because Starlink doesn't stop at the borders,
- 46:38but Russia can't have it. And so Starlink, there are going to be problems there. But what they've
- 46:44been doing in the Ukrainians have their Starlink and the Russian terminals have all been shut off,
- 46:50which is creating a few problems for them. And I talked to you about that within the last month or
- 46:54so, and it is causing some issues. But in the reverse side, Ukraine can send over these attacks
- 47:01into the Russian territories and are still getting coverage from Starlink inside of Russia.
- 47:11Interesting, and I'm not sure how that ends up. Now, Russia's got the Sputnik type and I forget
- 47:17what the name of it is. It's not Sputnik, but it's the type of Sputnik where they're sending up
- 47:22their own satellites in conjunction with some of the China ones to implement their own sort of
- 47:29Starlink as well. That will give it back to them. But they're behind in that respect, in that regard.
- 47:36But Kiev, Zelensky's advances have been snubbed by, oh, I missed a sentence here.
- 47:43Zelensky claims that Washington as well as the Gulf states have sought Kiev's help in fending
- 47:49off Iranian retaliatory strikes and floated swapping Ukrainian interceptor drones for U.S.-made
- 47:57anti-aircraft Patriot missiles. Give us some Patriots and we'll give you the interceptor
- 48:02drones. Russia created the interceptor drones, by the way, and they're having dogfights with drones.
- 48:09Drones are taking out other drones. Russia's got a laser one. It's pretty damn cool.
- 48:14Zelensky's advances were snubbed by President Trump, who said that Washington had not sought
- 48:19Kiev's help in the Iran war at all. The U.S. President took personal jabs at the Ukrainian
- 48:25leader, stating that the last person we need help from is Zelensky. Well, at least we're in
- 48:32agreement on that. But you should have cut these bozos off a long time ago. The war would be over.
- 48:41But, oh, no, it's really frustrating to me that he can't do the things he promised when he was
- 48:47running for office. And those are the things I don't like. And it's all international crap,
- 48:54all of it. The stuff that he's been doing inside the country, I'm not against it. I'm not one of
- 49:01necessarily for it. I don't despise people that come from other countries. I don't care. It doesn't
- 49:07bother me. Just come in, live like we do. I'm a happy clam. Come legally. I'm good with that.
- 49:15And as long as you block them, every other country blocks people from coming in without a visa,
- 49:21without being legal. I'm getting my Russian one repeated right now. And I also want to go to a
- 49:26lot of places. But it's a process. Follow the damn process. And I have no problems with you,
- 49:33boy. I've been all over the place here. But I've been on a roll. So I'm happy with that.
- 49:37So there have been some Ukrainians arrested in India. Ready? Ukraine has the arrest of six
- 49:46Ukrainian mercenaries in India with subversive activities is a setback for Kiev's ties with
- 49:53New Delhi. A global strategic analyst tells RT India on March the 13th, six Ukrainians and one
- 50:01U.S. citizen were taken into custody by India's anti-terrorism agency for alleged links with
- 50:08insurgents in Myanmar. They've been accused of of subversive activities in India's northeast
- 50:15region, bordering Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, China and Bangladesh. One Ukrainian national who was
- 50:21arrested is also linked to the notorious neo-Nazi community in Kiev. India has made the seven names
- 50:29all public. Ukraine's foreign ministry demanded that detainees receive unhindered consular access.
- 50:37Asked how this would complicate bilateral ties.
- 50:44Shashi Astana said he's a you Indian political person. This is somehow a setback.
- 50:54In a manner that you have seen these mercenaries coming here and creating problems.
- 50:59And India has been quite transparent with them. The Ukrainians will continue to receive unhindered
- 51:04access. That's how the judicial process works. Doesn't mean they're not going to be kept in
- 51:09custody. Regarding the Ukrainian foreign ministry statement that its embassy in India hasn't received
- 51:15an official notification. He said maybe this is what they told me at the media to justify the
- 51:21audience in Ukraine or Kiev. As far as consular access, there is no problem getting it in India.
- 51:27Even the terrorists who killed people in Taj Hotel in Mumbai in 2008 were given consular access.
- 51:34This American, Matthew Aaron Van Dyke, is the kingpin in the manner that he calls himself a
- 51:41security specialist. He has been fighting ISIS, Libya, Ukraine, and other places.
- 51:47Their credentials are in the media. All seven of them. The U.S. citizens' credentials look like he
- 51:54is on a drone selling spree. India's National Investigative Agency reportedly found evidence
- 52:02that multiple consignments of drones from Europe were delivered by these individuals into groups
- 52:09in Mizoram. Well, that's mercenary stuff. Ukrainian mercenary activity in India is very disturbing.
- 52:17New Delhi does not agree to Kiev's request to release the suspects detained by an anti-terrorism.
- 52:25Recently uncovered Ukrainian mercenaries activity is very disturbing. The group,
- 52:31the anti-terrorism organization, National Investigation Agency, last week arrested the
- 52:36seven, six Ukrainians and a U.S. man for training and supplying weapons to insurgents in Myanmar.
- 52:44The men had crossed into India's eastern neighbor's territory and back through the
- 52:52state of Mizoram, which restricts the entry of non-Indian citizens. The lack of Myanmar army
- 52:58personnel on the border is a significant movement of the people, said former Director General of the
- 53:05Assam Rifles. Here's the quote. The Ukrainian embassy has asked for their release, but we are
- 53:12not going to give them up because it is very, very clear that they entered this part of India
- 53:19illegally. Chauhan said the suspect will be charged for violation of Indian law.
- 53:28Ivan Sukhmanovsky is Ukrainian.
- 53:34Stepan Kiev Mariam, that last name, so Mariam Stepan Kiev.
- 53:40Han Sharuk, Maxim Han Sharuk, and Viktor Kaminsky are four of the five.
- 53:49That have been arrested. He said the region around Myanmar is a hotbed of insurgent activity.
- 53:55Those arrests could have been in the region to,
- 53:58arrestees could have been in the region to train insurgents to fight Myanmar. However,
- 54:03many of these groups are also helping our insurgent groups that are operating inside of
- 54:09India. And so it is a disturbing factor. The India-Myanmar border is 1,643 kilometers long
- 54:18and the lack of a continuous fence, the issue with our Northeastern borders, a lot of people
- 54:25are trying to fish in these troubled waters. I'm not sure which foreign powers are involved in it,
- 54:34but we will come to know, and we have the capability to deal with this very soon.
- 54:41So who is Matthew Van Dyck? American film maker turned mercenary at the center of the terror
- 54:47probe. He fought in global conflicts. He was held as a POW during a civil war in Libya,
- 54:54and he fought in Syria and Ukraine. And now he's involved in some drone plot in
- 55:07Myanmar. Tell you what, it's quite a world out there. I suppose we should all get out and go
- 55:12sell drones. Be a very good deal. Let's see here. Ukraine is an enemy of Iran.
- 55:21Okay. EU facing energy price tsunami, says an envoy from Russia that the prices are going to go way
- 55:30in the hell up. That's a big story. Lebanon is waiting for an Israeli onslaught. You know,
- 55:37they're going to go into there again, slaughter some more people. I suppose good for them. But
- 55:44long as it doesn't involve us, I'm not going to bitch about it. Actually, I am,
- 55:50because it always involves us. Let's see. The US has been drawn by Israel into an unlawful war
- 56:02against Iran and needs help to disengage, says Omani foreign minister.
- 56:10In an opinion piece published by The Economist on Wednesday, the Middle East nation's top diplomat
- 56:18called on US allies in the region to tell the truth about the conflict and admit that Washington
- 56:27has lost control of its own foreign policy. There are two parties to this war who have nothing to
- 56:35gain from it, and that is the US and Iran. The only ones who have anything to gain is Israel.
- 56:42I happen to agree with this point of view. The part of it, the US maintains close security and
- 56:49defense partnership with six Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman,
- 56:58and has a significant military presence in the region, including bases and naval facilities.
- 57:04The escalation has had economic and security consequences for both for those states,
- 57:09with Iran retaliating against targets in their own territory, and Gulf officials have reportedly
- 57:15complained they were not consulted or warned before the US and Israel launched the campaign
- 57:24against Iran on February 28. Why? Because they would have said, no, don't do it. That's why you
- 57:32don't consult them. Israel would never consult them. Israel consults no one. They tell the US
- 57:39what they're going to do, and the US follows along. I do need to share that clip with you.
- 57:44Where is it? Let's see. I think it's here. Let's follow on a little bit until I find him,
- 57:51but I'll keep looking for it and make sure that we have the Rubio
- 57:58commentary. Where is Mr. Rubio? Still looking. Hold on. But the Gulf states and Oman,
- 58:11I told you a little bit about the statement that they made saying they were not warned,
- 58:24knew nothing about it before they did it. Truthfully, that's a bad deal. Why wouldn't
- 58:31they tell them? I mean, why not? Seriously. It makes no sense to not tell them, and the one
- 58:39reason to not tell them is because Israel didn't want them to know. That's how it is.
- 58:50Because if you'd have told them, they'd have done something to try to stop it.
- 58:54That's what I believe, and I guess I'm not going to be able to share the Rubio
- 58:59quote. I wonder if I could find it separately, but there you have it. I have a thing about
- 59:04Israeli settlements that are going to spell the end for Christians that want to visit the Holy
- 59:12Land, the America First folks, the Christians that want to visit the Holy Land. West Jerusalem
- 59:19is doing nothing to prevent violence against Christian communities in the West Bank.
- 59:26Unabated settler violence, which is everywhere, along with Israel's continued settlement policy
- 59:34taking other people's property and giving it to Israelis, will spell doom for the remaining
- 59:41Christian communities still located in the Holy Land, says Jason Jones, founder of the Vulnerable
- 59:48People Project. Israel has allegedly approved the demolition of thousands of homes in the West Bank
- 59:57that belong to Christian communities and is encroaching on the territory of some of the
- 1:00:04oldest Christian populations in the area, particularly around Bethlehem, as well as
- 1:00:11villages such as Tebe, says Jones. The settlement of Shtema, located on the site of the former
- 1:00:20Israel military base just east of Bethlehem, will be the settlement, meaning the settlement
- 1:00:28of Israelis settling it. This will be the end of the Christian community in the Holy Land.
- 1:00:34He's raising an alarm. It will be the end of the oldest Christian community in the world,
- 1:00:41because settlement was legalized by West Jerusalem last year. Settlement, all you got to do is go in,
- 1:00:48pick a property, you go over there, and it's yours. You know, it's nobody else's. It's yours
- 1:00:54now. The end, you know, and off you go. And so we're authorizing this settlement. Go over there
- 1:00:59and we'll build some new stuff. We'll bulldoze everything down and build some new crap for you.
- 1:01:04It's like President Trump said, well, gee, what if we put up a real great Trump Tower here?
- 1:01:09You know, wouldn't that be nice? Get rid of all these stones. Why would you want to live in these
- 1:01:13old stone structures anyway? Oh my God, let's bulldoze all this and create a new Trump Tower,
- 1:01:20right? The NGO founder is an NGO whose organization operates in the West Bank and other territories
- 1:01:28warned that local Christian communities are also being attacked by settlers. There is direct
- 1:01:34physical violence. There is separating of the communities. Neither West Jerusalem
- 1:01:41nor Washington is willing to act. And the U.S. chooses to be on the side of the oppressor.
- 1:01:48Israel says Jones, Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel is just ignoring the
- 1:01:54issues. According to Jones, Huckabee, who is a former Baptist minister, was not man enough
- 1:02:02to rise to the occasion and speak the truth, said Jones. He has a full interview,
- 1:02:08um, which I was going to share part of it with you and I might just, uh, his name, um,
- 1:02:15where's his name? Hold on. Let's see what we got here.
- 1:02:21Disturbing reports are emerging out of the historic Christian village of Taipei
- 1:02:24in the West Bank. Now residents say settlers attacked their community while Israeli forces
- 1:02:31were present in the area. What really happened and why are some prominent Christian voices
- 1:02:38acknowledging it while others say the reports are exaggerated or false?
- 1:02:44I'm Scotty. No Hughes. And this is America first.
- 1:02:58We're present in the area during
- 1:03:01about the safety of ancient Christian. I went too far. Sorry. I have lived in that region
- 1:03:06for centuries. Now Taipei is one of the last remaining majority Christian Palestinian villages
- 1:03:13in the Holy land. It's churches and traditions trace back generations. You got to see these
- 1:03:19videos deeply significant when they allow settlement, they let people go in there and
- 1:03:23they just beat people. They beat them out of the place. This is nonsense. Some journalists
- 1:03:28with the military stand around and watch as evidence of growing dangers for Christian
- 1:03:33communities that are in the region, while others have dismissed the claims as misleading
- 1:03:38or even exaggerated. So how do we actually separate the facts from the narratives from falsehoods?
- 1:03:46Yeah. All we get to do is listen to what the other bits, it's an interesting interview.
- 1:03:50And if, if you want to watch it, I'll, uh, I'll share the video on my, um, uh, YouTube page
- 1:03:56so that you have it. Um, where are we here? It is, uh, I still have time to put this in here.
- 1:04:05Don't I? So I shared part of this with you the other day, and I never got to finish it.
- 1:04:14And this was the article by Farhad Ibrahimov, the lecturer at the facility of economics. He's in
- 1:04:22the faculty of economics, department of political science, um, financial university of the Russian
- 1:04:29Federation. And the story talks about how Ukraine became an enemy of Iran. So allegedly these two
- 1:04:43are also on a, uh, collision course, right? Oh, geez. Now here's, here's one of the TVs up here.
- 1:04:52Now we've got Bill O'Reilly interviewing Lindsey Graham. Oh, they want to support anti-terror.
- 1:05:00Yeah. This is not anti-terror measures. This is slaughter.
- 1:05:08Nuts. Tehran has effectively acknowledged Ukraine is a legitimate military target.
- 1:05:14So the head of the Israeli Iranian parliament, national security made this statement in a post
- 1:05:19and the next day, Iranian foreign ministry accused Ukraine's Zelensky of being involved
- 1:05:26in the conflict. And in diplomatic terms, this indicates that Tehran, Tehran elite
- 1:05:31aligns KIVS action with those of aggressors like us and Israel. So this suggests that bilateral
- 1:05:40relations between Ukraine and Iran are going to be more hostile. So Iran stance toward Ukraine
- 1:05:48has undergone a significant transformation over the years because of, you know, in the last few
- 1:05:55years, Tehran has ceased to regard KIVS as neutral or a peripheral player and has begun to
- 1:06:02see it as part of a hostile anti-Iran coalition associated with Western military bloc. In this
- 1:06:08context, the claim of recognizing Ukraine as legitimate military target, which they have
- 1:06:13should be viewed not as a Southern political gesture, but as a culmination of systemic
- 1:06:18contradiction in bilateral relations. Ukraine has long been a source of irritation for Tehran.
- 1:06:23And it was only a matter of time before these relations soured. Historically, relations between
- 1:06:30Iran and Ukraine have lacked depth or significance. They were limited and primarily revolved around
- 1:06:36economic interaction. But over the past decade, trade between Tehran and KIV showed stability.
- 1:06:41However, the lack of solid mutual interest decreased political engagement. Trade volume
- 1:06:47is below 500 million a year, despite growth potential. Tehran showed greater interest
- 1:06:52in Ukraine in 2010 to 2014 when the country was ruled by the proper president. It was
- 1:06:59President Viktor Yanukovych. However, following the coup that Western led, we should do that
- 1:07:05diplomatically. We should do that like they do Putin's war. You can't have just a war in Ukraine.
- 1:07:12It's got to be Putin's unprovoked war in Ukraine. That's what it is. So we should call it, you know,
- 1:07:17Viktor Yanukovych is gone. So we should, when we call it a coup, you can't just call it a coup.
- 1:07:23We should call it a U.S. and Western backed allies coup that removed President Viktor Yanukovych.
- 1:07:29You have to say the whole sentence. That way, when you report it every time, people don't just hear
- 1:07:33the word coup, which doesn't mean anything. They hear who started it and why the U.S. and U.S.
- 1:07:40Agency for International Development and other underhanded people wanted to get rid of the
- 1:07:47pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych. He just wasn't anti-Russian. Viktor Yanukovych, he was a middle
- 1:07:55of the road guy. He liked both the West and the East. He didn't want to destroy everything.
- 1:08:00That's not good enough. If you're in the U.S., you have to go and back a coup with people like
- 1:08:07Lindsey Graham in the deep state. This is how they do it. And so they backed this U.S.-led,
- 1:08:14Western-backed and finance coup to get rid of President Yanukovych and his government.
- 1:08:20And then Ukraine, gee, guess what they did? Made a sharp pivot toward the West and said,
- 1:08:25well, look at this. Just like Venezuela, when we go move, remove their leader, the next leader
- 1:08:32is going to kiss the ass of America for a little while before the next president comes along.
- 1:08:38That's what's going to happen. Despite this, prior to the start of the Russian military,
- 1:08:44listen to this. Here's Lindsey Graham. He's speaking right now.
- 1:08:48We will guarantee you spent fuel supply forever. He turned it all down. This is where he stretches
- 1:08:53this crap that just because you have enriched uranium says you got a nuclear weapon.
- 1:08:58Guy's a nut. I took the nuclear courses. I understand them probably better than he does.
- 1:09:04And you don't get a nuclear weapon just because you have enriched uranium. But that's what they're
- 1:09:09trying to sell them here. Nonsense. So it's just crap. And it doesn't mean they're not going to go
- 1:09:17get it. You know, it's not. And then he switches. Oh, man, I could go on for that for days on that
- 1:09:23topic because it's all about same thing. More war, more war, more Israel, more let's steal the
- 1:09:30oil from whoever we got to steal it from, because we're America. That's what we do.
- 1:09:34I disagree with that approach. Despite this, prior to the start of the Russian military
- 1:09:39operation in 2022, relations between Ukraine and Iran were mostly neutral. The absence of
- 1:09:45serious political contradiction allowed for minimal level of necessary diplomatic interaction.
- 1:09:51The turning point came in January 2020 when Iran shot down Ukrainian International Airlines flight
- 1:09:59752 after its departure from Iman Khomeini International Airport. This tragic incident
- 1:10:05unfolded amid escalating tension between Iran and the U.S. following the assassination of IRGC
- 1:10:12General Qasem Soleimani and the U.S. strike in Iraq. And amid fears of a potential attack,
- 1:10:20Iranian air defense mistakenly identified the civilian aircraft as a threat which led to a
- 1:10:26catastrophic error. Despite Tehran's swift acknowledgement of responsibility and subsequent
- 1:10:32apologies, the incident acted as a powerful catalyst for the deterioration of relations
- 1:10:38between Iran and Ukraine. No surprise there. Kiev adopted a hardline stance insisting on
- 1:10:45international investigations, compensations, legal accountability that should be perceived anyway.
- 1:10:51This was perceived by Iran as a form of political pressure by Western nations. He wanted to have
- 1:10:57Western nations come do it. Zelensky asked in such a way that left Tehran little room to
- 1:11:03deal with him directly. Since 2020, the relations have steadily worsened and were exacerbated
- 1:11:09further by broader geopolitical shifts. After the Russian military operation, Iran maintained a
- 1:11:18neutral position. This approach stemmed from Tehran's desire to distance itself from a conflict
- 1:11:23in which it was not involved and to avoid escalation. In official statements, Iran
- 1:11:29emphasized the need for political and diplomatic resolution and urged both sides to engage in
- 1:11:35dialogue like many countries are. But they're not supplying targeting data. At the same time,
- 1:11:44at the UN, Iran voted against anti-Russian resolutions initiated by Western countries
- 1:11:51and Kiev. Tehran refrained from making a direct anti-Russia statements. And Kiev indirectly,
- 1:11:58if you don't, it's the exact same thing. If you don't condemn Russia, if you don't condemn Iran,
- 1:12:05if you just say it's not our dispute, that's not enough. If you don't condemn them and lick the
- 1:12:12end of Netanyahu and Zelensky, you are anti-Semitic and anti-Ukrainian. Crap. It's nonsense. That's
- 1:12:24why I'm sharing this article with you. With Iran, a significant portion of society and public
- 1:12:29opinion leaders view Russia's actions as a necessary response in the prevailing political
- 1:12:37military climate. The turning point in the summer of 2022, when late Supreme Leader Ayatollah
- 1:12:45Khamenei placed the blame for escalating tensions squarely on NATO, by the way, that's where they
- 1:12:51belong, which the Iranian leadership saw as a destabilizing force in the entire region. Also
- 1:12:58true. Khamenei particularly noted that NATO's eastward expansion and increased military support
- 1:13:06for Ukraine created conditions under which Russia felt compelled to act. A, what do they call it?
- 1:13:15A existential threat, which is exactly what Iran is claiming right now. It's an existential threat.
- 1:13:26With Israel doing what they're continually doing, Iran's not going to capitulate, which means
- 1:13:34everybody has to escalate. Every time Netanyahu decides to bomb an oil field,
- 1:13:44that's the same thing that Iran does. They bomb another oil field. You bring a gun, you bring a
- 1:13:51knife, I bring a gun, you bring a gun, all that stuff we already went through, right? It's the
- 1:13:55exact same thing. Now you blew up my largest airfield. All right, I'm going to take out two
- 1:14:00of yours. I'm going to take out all the shipping. I'm going to take the island of Kharq. Well, guess
- 1:14:05what? I'm going to blow up the island of Kharq because if I can't have it, neither can you.
- 1:14:10That is where we're going. And the most likely person, and think about this from the Iranian
- 1:14:16perspective, okay? And I'm not saying they're right. I don't care if they're right. I don't
- 1:14:21care if Netanyahu's right. That doesn't enter into it. What enters into it is we shouldn't be there
- 1:14:27as the United States. It's BS for us to be there, number one. And number two, the risk of a nuclear
- 1:14:34button being pushed because you keep one upping, it is far more, since there are no nuclear weapons
- 1:14:42in Iran, and it's an existential threat for Iran, which means they're never going to capitulate,
- 1:14:49which means that Israel will then be justified in taking whatever measures are necessary.
- 1:14:55They already do that. They slaughter women and children. They don't care. They kill them
- 1:15:02because they're in the way. And, you know, we've been fighting this war for 40, 50, 60,
- 1:15:08whatever years, 1948, was it? You add it up. We've been fighting this war, and if we don't kill them
- 1:15:14all, they'll just be back. There's the theory, right? And that's okay if you're Israel because
- 1:15:23you've been fighting this war for a long time. It's not okay for the United States,
- 1:15:27and we shouldn't be involved in it. Period. End of sentence. Not end of show. Still got some more
- 1:15:33time to go here. Anyway, these statements made by Khomeini in 2022 outlined Iran's position
- 1:15:44and pushed it beyond a stance of strict neutrality. That's not strict neutrality,
- 1:15:48which I'm not either. I believe that it's not a neutral thing. I believe that NATO intentionally
- 1:15:56pushed Russia, created Russia as an enemy, just like they've done for Iran for the last 60 years.
- 1:16:06You know, so Iran hates Americans. So if they're not coming to America, I give a crap. You know,
- 1:16:14means I can't go to Iran, and frankly, I want to. I want to see some of those Persian sites that
- 1:16:20have been around for 2,500, 3,500 years. When I went over to the Silk Road in Uzbekistan,
- 1:16:28in Kazakhstan, and those, it was freaking amazing. They have mosques that were built,
- 1:16:34you know, 2,000 years ago. I mean, it's fantastic to go see this culture. I am anti-war.
- 1:16:43Where the hell is diplomacy? I thought Donald Trump was the negotiator and the deal guy.
- 1:16:49He's not the negotiator and the deal guy now. He's the big swinging dick, and he's got,
- 1:16:55you know, Heg Seth on the end of it. It's nonsense. Sorry, that was crude. I shouldn't
- 1:17:02say stuff like that, but that's exactly what we have here. It's nonsense. We're fighting in a
- 1:17:08place where we don't need to be. The next Iraq, the next Syria, the next Afghanistan, now Iran.
- 1:17:16The end. Now we're pissing off all the Gulf states too. So all these creations of, you know,
- 1:17:25Netanyahu saying, oh, like I could lead Donald Trump. Donald Trump's going to be, okay, fine,
- 1:17:30but I believe that he's been, I don't want to say lied to, but things have been stretched.
- 1:17:39If you have to go around and advertise by Lindsey Graham that they're just steps away from a nuclear
- 1:17:45bomb, that is crap. The IAEA was in there all of last year and said, that's not the case.
- 1:17:53There are plenty of documents that say that's not the case, but we're out here lying. And what was
- 1:18:00this for regime change? Is this because they had nuclear weapons? Is this because Israel attacked?
- 1:18:05And it looks like we have a good shot at jumping in and taking out people we've hated for years
- 1:18:10and killing all their women and children. And you know, that way we can get rid of several
- 1:18:15generations, all 92 million. All it takes is a nuclear weapon, right? All it takes is Netanyahu
- 1:18:21pushing a button. His problems are solved, right? This is nonsense. This escalation crap.
- 1:18:29Despite the Biden administration offering to revive a nuclear deal, if Iran cut ties with
- 1:18:35Russia or China, Iran refused to negotiate with ultimatums, especially given the deep seated
- 1:18:44mistrust of America. And again, that's a theme that I constantly say, you can't trust them
- 1:18:52because four years later they change horses and those horses change everything. Treaties,
- 1:19:01they don't matter. UN charter, that doesn't matter either. Not if you're America, you don't
- 1:19:07have to follow those rules. And I'm not anti-American, I just believe in rules. And the
- 1:19:12rules, we don't follow them. We try to force them on other people, but we don't follow them.
- 1:19:18Iran has joined both the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS. They're members. Now,
- 1:19:25those aren't defensive at all. Those are economic. And so Ukraine repeatedly resorted to diplomatic
- 1:19:32protests. They summon the Iranian ambassador into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of their country
- 1:19:39all the time. Bilateral relations are marked by uncertainty and the nature of interaction
- 1:19:45are increasingly hostile. Essentially, Iran and Ukraine relations entered a phase of rapid
- 1:19:51decline driven by differing interpretation of the cause and nature of the very conflict.
- 1:19:58You either believe Zelensky, that oh gee, there we were one day and nothing was going on and we
- 1:20:05weren't bombing anybody. There we were just simple Ukrainian farmers trying to do what we do every
- 1:20:11day and just be Ukrainian, just trying to live. And along came the big bad Russian bear and ran
- 1:20:17in and did something. There was no referendum. Nobody heard that word before. Nobody's even
- 1:20:23acknowledged that there was eight years where they were bombing the crap out of Donbass from Ukraine
- 1:20:30and killing ethnic Russians. Nobody paid any attention to it. None. And it was being built
- 1:20:37up as a huge problem all the way down the line. But nobody listened to it. And anybody that was
- 1:20:42around in 2022 in February knows that the initial thing that we heard in America, those of us who
- 1:20:49didn't knew better, obviously knew that wasn't the case. But the only thing that Americans were
- 1:20:55being told was here comes big bad Russia ran into those poor Ukrainians. We need to send money and
- 1:21:00weapons to the Ukrainians. And that's exactly what we did. And more than half of the population
- 1:21:06had no idea where Ukraine is or how to find it on a map. They just heard Russian bad guys.
- 1:21:12They've always been the bad guys. And so therefore, let's send money and let's wave a
- 1:21:17Ukrainian flag in the front yard. Same crap we're told all the time about Israel. There's not a
- 1:21:24bad. They can do no wrong. None. And therefore, Iran's an evil empire. Oh, really? How come they've
- 1:21:33around 2,500 years if they've been just nothing but evil? They have a culture and a history that
- 1:21:40is different than ours. But if you don't understand culture and history and what is going on,
- 1:21:46they're extremists on both sides. An extremist from Israel is just as bad as an extremist
- 1:21:53from a Muslim country, including Iran. They're the same cloth. And Netanyahu is a killer,
- 1:22:05just like Khomeini was, if you believe all the Khomeini things. And I believe most of it. I
- 1:22:12believe that there were death to this, death to that, chanting this, chanting that. Well,
- 1:22:16what are they doing in Israel? Same damn thing. Kill them all. Let God sort it out.
- 1:22:22Just like American special forces.
- 1:22:26An additional factor contributing the deterioration of relations between
- 1:22:32Iran and Ukraine was the claim made by the West and Ukraine that Iran is supplying Russia with
- 1:22:40Shaheed drones. This was picked up by the media and was pressed everywhere to say that Iran is
- 1:22:48providing all these drones to America. We need to sanction Iran more for the drones and for all
- 1:22:54of that. Right. This was picked up by the media and is one of the key tools to pressure Tehran.
- 1:23:00Iranian and Russian officials deny these things. They had the Shaheed drone. I forget what they
- 1:23:07renamed it, but Russia took. They don't buy them from Iran. They create them based on the Iranian
- 1:23:14model. That's what they do. So you say it's a Shaheed drone, but it's not. The Russians call
- 1:23:20it something else and have rebuilt it. And if anything, Iran's been buying Russian drones
- 1:23:25of the reverse because Russia took them, took the model, upgraded it, rebuilt them,
- 1:23:31repurposed them, made them better and used them in the war in Ukraine. And that means that Iran is
- 1:23:37now suddenly the enemy. Right. And they've been using that as well, because anytime you can take
- 1:23:44a dig at Iran, you do. That's how it works. And these bilateral relations have been in rapid
- 1:23:52decline, driven by different opinions caused by the nature of the conflict in these deterioration
- 1:23:59relations. Now we're talking about potential retaliation, right? The open endorsement of
- 1:24:10U.S. sanctions against Iran by Ukrainians saying, yeah, sanction Iran, along with other demonstrative
- 1:24:18support for U.S. President Trump's anti-Iran policies, were seen as attempts to, by Tehran,
- 1:24:25as an attempt to line a broader strategy to pressure Iran. All of this led to Iran becoming
- 1:24:32increasingly concerned that Ukraine might provide Israel not just with political but military
- 1:24:39technical support. And now Ukraine is offering exactly that. Iran drew particular attention to
- 1:24:48its readiness to assist Arab nations in creating counter drone threats. Iran interprets this as
- 1:24:57anti-Iran, as they should. And all of these have led to the increasing perception of Ukraine
- 1:25:04as a hostile actor to Iran. Should Iran confirm Ukraine's direct involvement in actions? Ready?
- 1:25:13All these factors have led to this perception. The situation reached a climax when Iranian
- 1:25:19politicians, particularly Ibrahim Azizi, stated that Tehran no longer views Ukraine as neutral.
- 1:25:27Azizi, a former prominent military general and respected figure in the IRGC, holds a key
- 1:25:33position in the parliament and wields significant authority in the political hierarchy of Iran.
- 1:25:39His words have particular meaning, is what that means. And as the head of Iran Parliament's
- 1:25:45National Security Commission, he articulates sentiments and parliamentary speaker,
- 1:25:51Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, cannot openly express. Many Iranian lawmakers have advocated for
- 1:25:59severing ties with Ukraine until another administration comes to power that might be
- 1:26:04willing to normalize relations. Should Iran confirm this involvement, Tehran would swiftly
- 1:26:11resort to a full range of retaliatory measures. In such a scenario, Iran would activate an extensive
- 1:26:18arsenal of strategies from military technical responses to others. This strategy is deeply
- 1:26:24rooted in the logic of Iranian foreign policy. Tehran's shift toward a harsher rhetoric about
- 1:26:30Ukraine specifically is a logical culmination of accumulated contradictions. Given the ongoing
- 1:26:37U.S. aggression against Iran, it seems increasingly likely that Tehran will adopt an even tougher
- 1:26:44stance on Ukraine, particularly if Kyiv maintains its current course of action, means supplying
- 1:26:51anti-drones and all that other stuff. So this is escalating. This is not going away,
- 1:26:56friends and neighbors. I tell you what, I do not like this war. I do not like that we're involved
- 1:27:05in this BS. And I really do feel, I saw something on the TV a little while ago from Netanyahu,
- 1:27:13was on Fox earlier, talking about, you know, the war in Iran, of course, and saying that,
- 1:27:22you know, we're not leading the U.S. in this garden path. No, no, no. You think Donald Trump
- 1:27:29is going to listen to us? Well, he is. And he's in there because of you, because you have been
- 1:27:39pushing, you personally have been pushing war with Iran for 20 freaking years, as have
- 1:27:46anybody, many, many, many, many, many others, including Lindsey Graham. They're all on the
- 1:27:51talk circuits. They're all whipping stuff up to create another forever war that we have nothing
- 1:27:58to do with, nor should we. So I'm against it. I'm very glad you stuck in today and listened to me,
- 1:28:04and I realized that this is not the proper time slot. Tomorrow morning, the 20th of
- 1:28:12March, we'll be doing Civic Outlaws, got a remake. We've got, boy, there's some information going on
- 1:28:21tomorrow. I hope you listen up tomorrow on Civic Outlaws, coming to you tomorrow, 7 a.m.
- 1:28:28to 8.30 a.m. Central Standard Time. I'm also going to do my Russian show. I think I'm going
- 1:28:34to pick a time. I'm going to say Sunday at 9 a.m., also Central Standard Time. I'm going to come in
- 1:28:40and do my Russian version of the show. You can always listen to International Flavor at
- 1:28:46www.internationalflavor.com. I have all the shows on there, and we have all of the
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- 1:29:06hosts on Dam Radio. And we hope you do go out and listen to the podcast of everyone.
- 1:29:13Thank you for joining in this evening. I will be taking the weekend off, at least from
- 1:29:20International Flavor, doing my Russian version. I thank you very much for listening. See you
- 1:29:24tomorrow for Civic Outlaws.