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War Resumes?; Putin's Survival?; Antisemites; Mifepristone | Yaron Brook Show · Yaron Brook Show

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Speaker 1: Fund of principles, self and individual loss.
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Speaker 2: This is the show, all right, everybody welcome there one
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Speaker 2: book show on this Monday, April fourth.
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Speaker 1: I hope everybody is starting up the week. Well, this
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Speaker 1: is uh the week of what is it? Operation Freedom?
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Speaker 1: Trump has finally, after weeks and weeks and weeks and
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Speaker 1: weeks of me complaining, I finally decided that he wants
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Speaker 1: to open up the Homost Straits. He's calling it Project Freedom,
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Speaker 1: saidcom earlier today announced that you military support for Project
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Speaker 1: Freedom would include guided missile destroyers, over one hundred land
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Speaker 1: and sea based aircraft, multi domain unmanned platforms, and fifteen
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Speaker 1: thousand service members. So the idea is to use the
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Speaker 1: navy and to use drones and aircraft to basically start
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Speaker 1: escorting or facilitating the movement of ships out of the
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Speaker 1: Homos Strait. It's exactly what is actually going on in
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Speaker 1: terms of the operation. That is, they are conflicting. There's
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Speaker 1: conflicting news, but supposedly to US, destroyers entered the straits
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Speaker 1: and were attacked by Uranian vessels, both with missiles, the
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Speaker 1: Ranians some claiming that they only fired warning shots, but
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Speaker 1: supposedly the US. Even though he want claims to have
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Speaker 1: hit the destroyers no damage. No damage is to be
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Speaker 1: done to a ships. Two freight ships, not oil ships.
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Speaker 1: Freight ships bearing a U S flag exited the Homo
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Speaker 1: Straits as part of this early I guess Iran time
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Speaker 1: it would be earlier tonight or earlier this afternoon, but
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Speaker 1: it's not clear if that is continuing that as more
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Speaker 1: ships are coming out or not. It's also sancom Is
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Speaker 1: also announced that they have destroyed seven Uranian what are
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Speaker 1: called fast boats. These boats that can carry explosives, potentially
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Speaker 1: can lay mines, I guess, but they've destroyed seven of
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Speaker 1: those in the Gulf. Iran has potentially hundreds of those.
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Speaker 1: It's hard to tell how many, and it's hard to
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Speaker 1: tell how many people they have to man those boats.
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Speaker 1: But seven were destroyed. So there's a history here, I
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Speaker 1: mean in terms of escorting ships out of the Homo Straits.
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Speaker 1: This is not the first time the United States has
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Speaker 1: been has chosen to do this. During the late stage
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Speaker 1: of the yuon Iraq War, this is in the late
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, the United States launched something called Operation Earnest
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Speaker 1: will escort all tanks through the states of Hormones Homos
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Speaker 1: after Iranian forces began targeting and threatening commercial shipping in
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Speaker 1: what became known as the Tanka Woar. So I'm reading
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Speaker 1: from a post by John Spencer. The mission placed US
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Speaker 1: naval forces directly between Iranian threats, mines, small boat attacks,
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Speaker 1: and missiles, very similar to today. On April fourteenth, nineteen
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Speaker 1: eighty eight, when the USS Samuel B. Roberts struck an
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Speaker 1: Iranian mind that nearly sank the ship, the US launched
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Speaker 1: Operation Praying Man. That was an April eighteenth, the largest
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Speaker 1: U s naval surface engagement, largest US naval surface engagements
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Speaker 1: so as World War two. In other words, it's sort
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Speaker 1: of bombarding the Iranian coast. It destroyed massive portions of
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Speaker 1: the Uranian navy and infrastructure in a matter of hours.
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Speaker 1: The US military destroyed two or platforms used for military staging,
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Speaker 1: sank multiple Iranian warships, and effectively dismantled a significant portion
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Speaker 1: of Yuan's operational navy, re establishing the turns and signaling
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Speaker 1: that attacks and the US forces of maritime commerce in
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Speaker 1: the Straits would tricker overwhelming retaliation. So well, kind of
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Speaker 1: back in that situation, the Iranians are still trying to
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Speaker 1: hit chips that are coming out of the straits of
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Speaker 1: Home Wars in spite of Project Freedom, in despite of
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Speaker 1: the fact that it is underway. How the US is
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Speaker 1: going to respond to that is un clear at this point.
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Speaker 1: That is, uh, what it's not going to do. I
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Speaker 1: I again, there are well not again. There are rumors
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Speaker 1: that is all in the US are about to start
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Speaker 1: striking as r Uranian targets again that uh, within twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours, that will start maybe even later tonight iwon
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Speaker 1: time it'll start. I there's no confirmation of that. We
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Speaker 1: don't again, we don't know. It seems to make sense,
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Speaker 1: but we will see. UH. Other ships, as I said,
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Speaker 1: have been attacked by the Iranians. So there is a
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Speaker 1: there is an ongoing kind of fight out there in
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Speaker 1: the streets of almost with with the US Navy targeting
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Speaker 1: the Iranian small boats that are attacking UH these uh
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Speaker 1: these ships alright, UH beyond that, Iran has chosen to
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Speaker 1: attack today UH as I guess a response to Operation
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Speaker 1: UH Project Freedom or whatever it's called, they have decided
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Speaker 1: to attack the UAE. They have been five or six
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Speaker 1: rounds of missile and drone attacks against the UAE, and
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Speaker 1: reports claim that the Israeli anti drone anti missile defense
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Speaker 1: system has been engaged and is actually shut down. So
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Speaker 1: this is the first verifiable news of the Israeli system
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Speaker 1: in the UAE shooting down Uranian Uranian ballistic missiles and drones.
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Speaker 1: The only place that's been hit is an important place.
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Speaker 1: So the one place that's been hit is the UAE
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Speaker 1: is oil facility on the other side of the straits,
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Speaker 1: that is on the side of the Oman of Oman.
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Speaker 1: So this is the old facility that the Yui has
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Speaker 1: been pumping oil to get around the Homelo Straits. Ships
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Speaker 1: then dock there, take the take the oil and have
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Speaker 1: a clear shot out of there without engaging the Iranian
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Speaker 1: the Ranians, so it's not affected by the closure of
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Speaker 1: the Homo Straits. So they've been pushing about one point
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Speaker 1: five uh, one point five what is it million battles
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Speaker 1: of oil a day through this pipeline. I think it
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Speaker 1: could go up to one point eight. It's on the
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Speaker 1: Gulf of Roman, as I said it said, BI passes straight.
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Speaker 1: It was hit today, so it doesn't seem like their
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Speaker 1: defense systems were placed to protect this facility. Although it
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Speaker 1: seems like the obvious, the obvious place to protect the
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Speaker 1: obvious place the Iranians would go after. Maybe it was
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Speaker 1: more focused on protecting Dubai and in the other cities
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Speaker 1: in the U. A. E said, it's hard to tell
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Speaker 1: what the damage is. There's a big fire burning, but
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Speaker 1: that could be a storage facility, it could be the pipeline,
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Speaker 1: it could be the loading facilities. It's it's hard to
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Speaker 1: tell whether how to what extent this is going to
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Speaker 1: hamper the ability to to export oil. Again, that was
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Speaker 1: in one of the first rounds, maybe the first round
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Speaker 1: of drone and missile attacks. They have been five since
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Speaker 1: four or five since then, uh and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: kind of a constant barrage of missiles. I mean each
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Speaker 1: one of them is fairly small. Three four ballistic missiles
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Speaker 1: being launched from from southern Iran towards Uh, towards this.
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Speaker 1: Remember the cease fire. I mean, this is the stupidity
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Speaker 1: and the and the just the the the lack of strategy.
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Speaker 1: The ceasefire has basically allowed the Iranians to excavate all
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Speaker 1: their blocked entrances to the tunnels that they have stored
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Speaker 1: all the missiles and the launchers. And since the ceasefire began,
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Speaker 1: they've been excavating that up the tunnels, and then moving
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Speaker 1: the launchers to various locations around Iran to facilitate renewed hostilities.
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Speaker 1: So I mean, it's just we were so close before
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Speaker 1: this is fire that it seems it seems bizarre. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard to tell exactly what this is
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Speaker 1: all going to lead to. Attacking so far, they've only
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Speaker 1: attacked the UOE. Part of their message the UAE is,
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Speaker 1: you guys are cooperating with Israel. You guys have an
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Speaker 1: Israeli defense system there. You guys are part of you know,
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Speaker 1: Desigonists whatever, and we are coming after you. Were coming
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Speaker 1: after you more than anybody else than not striking anybody else.
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Speaker 1: You know. Trump is making big statements, he said earlier today.
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Speaker 1: At some point, Yon just made a big mistake, to
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Speaker 1: beg is mistake in its history. Hard to tell what
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Speaker 1: that means. The OUE is strongly condemning the Iranian strikes
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Speaker 1: and actually says stated that it has a full and
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Speaker 1: legitimate right to respond to these attacks. Of course, it
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Speaker 1: had the full and legal and everything legitimate right to
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Speaker 1: attack when they were attacked, you know, before the cease fire,
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Speaker 1: and yet they did nothing. Neither Saudi Arabian nor UE,
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Speaker 1: in spite of having pretty advanced air forces and military,
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Speaker 1: and in spite of spending tens of billions of dollars
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Speaker 1: on defense and building up a military, did not join
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Speaker 1: Israel and in the United States and attacking run before
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Speaker 1: the ceasefire. It's going to be really interesting to see
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Speaker 1: if they do now. I mean, the UEE has what
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Speaker 1: should be a pretty competent air force and should have
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Speaker 1: the ability to strike, to significantly strike the the Iranians,
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Speaker 1: particularly given the fact that the Israelis and Americans have
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Speaker 1: demolished their defense systems. Maybe the UAE will wait until
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Speaker 1: Israel comes back into the fight and again demolishes whatever's
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Speaker 1: left or whatever new edifs systems the Iranian might have
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Speaker 1: they might have gotten from China from Russia, and then attack.
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Speaker 1: But it would be I think really really important uh
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Speaker 1: and and and make a real statement if at this
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Speaker 1: point the the ue joined the fight. I mean, imagine
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Speaker 1: the UE and Israel fighting side by side against the Iranians.
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Speaker 1: I think that would that would that would be an
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Speaker 1: important move uh and uh and and and signify the
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Speaker 1: fact that the Gulf States are willing to stand up
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Speaker 1: and fight for themselves and potentially. I mean, the reality is,
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Speaker 1: the reality is that Israel, u A, and Saudi Arabia
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Speaker 1: fighting against Iran would be enough. You don't need the
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Speaker 1: United States. So you know, this could be, you know,
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Speaker 1: a new military alliance and a new reshuffling of the
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Speaker 1: Middle East. I'm not trying to trust the Saudist, particularly
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Speaker 1: if you know the Coron Prince at some point might
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Speaker 1: be assassinated. Who knows, but everything relies really on him MBS,
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Speaker 1: So I don't trust the Saudis completely. YUE seemed more
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Speaker 1: solid at this point in terms of aligning themselves with
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Speaker 1: Israel and seeing the benefits of that and wanting to
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Speaker 1: westernize and be affiliated with the West. They're also very
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Speaker 1: very vocal in the UAE against the Muslim Brotherhood, against
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Speaker 1: Islamic Islamism. They're constantly chining the Europeans for not taking
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Speaker 1: an Islamic threat seriously enough. So you know, the YUI
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Speaker 1: does seem to be heading in the right direction to
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Speaker 1: lar extent. Now on x there's at least one UAE
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Speaker 1: analyst who is claiming the UE is going to enter
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Speaker 1: this fight and really thrash the Iranians. I'm still waiting
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Speaker 1: to see that again. I think the same kind of
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Speaker 1: rhetoric was used before the cease fire when Yue was
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Speaker 1: attacked and they did nothing. So I'm just not convinced
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Speaker 1: yet that they are ready to deploy military force against
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Speaker 1: the Iranians. I don't know why not, but again, well
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Uai is an ua is a country
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Speaker 1: with eleven million people live there. Eleven million people live
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Speaker 1: in the UEE, but they are only a million citizens.
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Speaker 1: So in terms of people who not vote but count,
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Speaker 1: I guess from the Emirates perspective, from the rulers' perspective,
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Speaker 1: it's only a million people. It's it's it's super small.
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Speaker 1: Everybody else is either workers from places like Pakistan and
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Speaker 1: India who helped build the ue in probably do almost
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Speaker 1: all of the service industry stuff, and expats from Russia,
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Speaker 1: Europe my guess is even probably Southeast Asia and the
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Speaker 1: United States who lived there, some of them billionaires, others
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Speaker 1: maybe more middle class, but a lot of expats living
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Speaker 1: in Dubai. Taxes are very very low, and supposedly quality
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Speaker 1: of life very very high, you know, in Dubai, but
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Speaker 1: so very few citizens in UAE. In terms of thinking
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Speaker 1: about public opinion or anything like that, not that it matters,
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Speaker 1: but the UEA has been super hesitant. Maybe maybe the
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Speaker 1: leadership at the UEE does not actually represent the million
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Speaker 1: citizens under it. Maybe they are more, you know, less
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Speaker 1: hostile to Iran, Maybe they are more hostile to Israel.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they the leadership is afraid of their will people
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Speaker 1: inciting too much with Israel in the United States against
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Speaker 1: another Muslim country anyone. I just don't know. It is interesting.
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Speaker 1: I think that's definitely the case in Saudi Arabia, but
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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the case in UAE, and
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Speaker 1: it would be interesting. I don't know how you would
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Speaker 1: find out. I don't think anybody does polls in the
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Speaker 1: ue I don't think anybody knows. But maybe people who
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Speaker 1: live there could tell us. And again we'll see, we'll
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Speaker 1: see what they do. I think that'll be indicative of
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Speaker 1: their actual not so much of their couragement of the
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Speaker 1: politics of the situation. Is this something that they can
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Speaker 1: do that they're willing to do? Although says I had
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Speaker 1: a flight to Dubai tomorrow, would you avoid going? Well? First,
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Speaker 1: from what I read earlier, the the air space is closed,
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Speaker 1: so as of at least today, flights are not going
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Speaker 1: to do, and I have a feeling that the air
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Speaker 1: space will probably can be closed tomorrow as well, unless
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Speaker 1: you Ron suddenly surrenders and capitulates, so your flight is
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Speaker 1: probably canceled. Lewis, I mean, the number of casualties in
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Speaker 1: Dubai itself in terms of in terms of the Iranian
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Speaker 1: missiles are being pretty minimal. I haven't heard of any
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Speaker 1: of the missiles being shot at Dubai today other than
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Speaker 1: the one in the oil facilities, actually on the one
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Speaker 1: oil facility actually hitting that. Their defense systems have done
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Speaker 1: a pretty good job, not Dubai Yuee, but protecting Dubai
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Speaker 1: and Abu Dhabi, the major cities. So you're probably fairly
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Speaker 1: safe going there. I don't think that's the problem, but
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Speaker 1: I think flying in and flying out is probably an issue.
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Speaker 1: I would say, Lewis, why not just wait? Why do
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Speaker 1: you want to be harassed by the fact that missiles
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Speaker 1: are coming in and live with that suspense and then
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Speaker 1: flights and the suspense of flights and all that. I would,
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Speaker 1: if you can afford to, I would just I would
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Speaker 1: just delay and wait until the next seas fire or
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Speaker 1: the culmination of this next stage of whatever it is
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Speaker 1: that's going to happen. So that would be that would
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Speaker 1: be my suggestion anyway, all right, so you know what's next.
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Speaker 1: It would seem like clearly ion has you don't engage
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Speaker 1: in hostile activities against the United States and against American allies,
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Speaker 1: and that the United States will respond, and that that
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Speaker 1: will mean a resumption of full military operations, and that
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Speaker 1: would mean the US starting to bother you on again
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Speaker 1: and you know, aggressively militarily trying to open the states
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Speaker 1: of homeores. My guess is if the United States engages
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Speaker 1: in that, they will ask Israel to join, and as well,
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Speaker 1: We'll be happy to join, I think, and I think
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Speaker 1: that is what people in Israel seem to be expecting
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Speaker 1: right now. The AERAG shelters, the public ARIAG shelters are
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Speaker 1: being opened, they're on hire alert, and I think they're
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Speaker 1: they're anticipating joining the fight. But it's Donald Trump, right,
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Speaker 1: So any prediction is a fool's erin because you don't
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Speaker 1: know what Donald Trump is gonna do. Who knows what
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Speaker 1: his preference, what he decides to do. He might say, no, no,
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Speaker 1: they never shot at us, They never did anything. So
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Speaker 1: they shot at the Oe. What can he do? You know,
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Speaker 1: let them, let them do something about it. It's impossible
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Speaker 1: to say, oh, I'm negotiating, there's a piece deal. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the regime is about to sign. I'm sure they're gonna
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Speaker 1: make concessions. So I don't think anybody knows what Trump
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Speaker 1: is gonna do. I certainly don't know what Trump is
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Speaker 1: gonna do. So we are we are left basically waiting
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Speaker 1: to find out. Uh and and to see I'm just
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Speaker 1: I'm just looking right now. So Katau has it looks
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Speaker 1: like Kata is just called the Emir of Qatau just
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Speaker 1: called the UE president to condemning Juan's attacks on civilian
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Speaker 1: sites and pledged full solidarity with the UE security. That
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Speaker 1: it is not something Kata does easily. Uh And and
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Speaker 1: maybe maybe this is a sign that the Gulf is
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Speaker 1: kind of uniting against the Uranians. The Europeans are now saying.
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Speaker 1: This is Osulla von de Lane. She's the President of
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Speaker 1: the EU. Of course she's saying today our partner, the
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Speaker 1: U a E was once again I target a vicious
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Speaker 1: missiles and a drone attacks originating from Yuan. I extend
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Speaker 1: my full solidarity to Muhammad bin Zayed, the people of
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Speaker 1: the UEE and our partner's accustom add least, these attacks
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Speaker 1: unacceptable and constituted cleve violation of sovereignty and international law.
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Speaker 1: Security in the region has direct consequences for Europe, so
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Speaker 1: we will keep working closely with our partners on de
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Speaker 1: escalation and diplomatic resolution. God they never learned to bring
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Speaker 1: an end to the Ranian regime's brutal actions, both against
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Speaker 1: its neighbors and its own people. No, yeah, they're back
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Speaker 1: to negotiating and whatever. So you know, nothing's new. You'd
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Speaker 1: think maybe Europe would would send uh would work with
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Speaker 1: the United States to open the straits, but so far
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Speaker 1: nothing and then let's see, so you know, that seems
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Speaker 1: to be the news. Isn't it interesting that, you know,
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Speaker 1: Yon can lob missiles against Israel all day long and
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Speaker 1: it's unlikely that European Union will say anything, But they
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Speaker 1: love a few missiles in the ue and suddenly the
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Speaker 1: Europeans all in a tizzy and and who knows, maybe
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Speaker 1: maybe they might even maybe they might even actually help
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Speaker 1: the United States get people out, get the ships out
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Speaker 1: of the homo streets. All right, it's quickly I'm quickly
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Speaker 1: looking to see if there's anything new, because it's all
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Speaker 1: breaking news. In terms of what is going on, I
21:18
Speaker 1: will say stocks are down, oil is up, gold is down,
21:27
Speaker 1: silver is down quite a bit, and interest rates are up.
21:31
Speaker 1: So interestates, particularly thirty year thirty year approaching an eighteen
21:35
Speaker 1: year high. They're really about to text five percent and
21:39
Speaker 1: maybe go above. The tenure bond is four point four
21:45
Speaker 1: four point five, So you're probably you know, said the
21:48
Speaker 1: mortgage rates. Mortgage rate's going to go up this week
21:51
Speaker 1: with they go up with a tenure and maybe with
21:54
Speaker 1: the thirty year it certainly with a tenure. Yeah, I mean,
21:57
Speaker 1: none of this is financially, none of this is is good.
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Speaker 1: But of course, if the United States actually acts and
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Speaker 1: wins this and ends it and opens up to almost
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Speaker 1: straight that would actually be quite positive, quite positive. All right, Yep,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of fake videos out there. I'm seeing
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Speaker 1: I'm watching one now, a video from nine years ago
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Speaker 1: that is supposedly an Iranian missile hitting American ship. But
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Speaker 1: it's not eight it's nine years ago, and uh it's
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Speaker 1: uh the ship is in New Hawaii, uh, and it
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Speaker 1: is being sunk on purpose because it just got decommissioned.
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Speaker 1: So but Iranian channels are sending this out to tell you, Oh,
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Speaker 1: we've sunk at American ship. There's so much disinformation online
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Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing. Uh. Let's see. Yeah. I think that's
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Speaker 1: all the updates I have from the Middle East. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure we'll know more tomorrow. I'm sure tonight is gonna
23:08
Speaker 1: be quite active. And of course we'll find out one
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Speaker 1: way or the other overnight. UH what Israel and certainly
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Speaker 1: what the United States have decided UH to do in
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Speaker 1: terms of UH respond and and of course we'll also
23:23
Speaker 1: find out if if the UEE actually does something about
23:29
Speaker 1: uh it being attacked. UH. So we will see, we
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Speaker 1: will see. Uh. Let's see. Yeah. I mean, the US
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Speaker 1: UE reports that they have drop they have down twelve
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Speaker 1: ballistic missiles, three cruise missiles, and four UH drones all
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Speaker 1: targeted and intercepted since the beginning of the war weeks ago. Right, Uh,
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Speaker 1: the ue has downed is into ACEP did two two
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty drones, twenty nine cruise missiles and five
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Speaker 1: hundred and forty nine ballistic missiles. It would be interesting
24:09
Speaker 1: to find out of those how many it was the
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Speaker 1: Israeli of the Israeli Air Defense System that actually knocked
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Speaker 1: them out of the sky. I'm not surely the EYUOE
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Speaker 1: is quite ready to disclose that they have the system.
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Speaker 1: Never mind how well it's doing, all right. I mean again,
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Speaker 1: Trump is threatening. So from Trump's rhetoric, it would appear
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Speaker 1: that the United States will do something and do something soon.
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Speaker 1: So we will we will see. I'm sure by tomorrow
24:42
Speaker 1: we will know a lot more. I guess so much,
24:47
Speaker 1: so much news out there, and it's you know, there's
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Speaker 1: just too much going on that it is probably wrong.
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Speaker 1: You know. One possibility is that that Trump is calling
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Speaker 1: up Europe and maybe some of the countries in Asia
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Speaker 1: like Soul and Tokyo and encouraging them to send ships
25:09
Speaker 1: to help with the opening up of the Homo straits.
25:13
Speaker 1: This is what I thought should have been done in
25:16
Speaker 1: the first week and and formed kind of a coalition
25:19
Speaker 1: around this to do it. It's you know, now he
25:24
Speaker 1: can say, look, I'm trying. It's your ships. You're the
25:27
Speaker 1: ones dependent on this oil. You're the ones who need
25:30
Speaker 1: this oil. We don't in America. Come help. Whether that's
25:34
Speaker 1: even doable possible, I don't know. I mean, he's burned
25:39
Speaker 1: so many bridges with so many of our allies, all right.
25:43
Speaker 1: The second big story I think out there right now
25:47
Speaker 1: is reports from CNN, the Financial Times, and I guess
25:52
Speaker 1: an investigative outlet called I can't pronounce it, it's a
25:56
Speaker 1: Russian name, a bit called Important Stories, which came out
25:59
Speaker 1: this morning. And all of these outlets are reporting basically
26:05
Speaker 1: the same thing, and that is that the Russian regime
26:13
Speaker 1: of Vladimir Putin is right now terrified of a potential
26:18
Speaker 1: coup inside Russia, and the Putin himself is terrified of
26:23
Speaker 1: being assassinated, and that there is you know, he is living.
26:30
Speaker 1: The Putin right now is living in a bunker somewhere.
26:34
Speaker 1: That the security measures are ridiculous and absurd in terms
26:39
Speaker 1: of getting given close to Putin, but ridiculous and episode
26:45
Speaker 1: not so much if you think you're going to be killed.
26:46
Speaker 1: I guess maybe they're appropriate in that case. They've even
26:50
Speaker 1: named the main person who might be engaged in this,
26:54
Speaker 1: and this is Sage showed gu who I think was
26:58
Speaker 1: the head of the military and is now, you know,
27:02
Speaker 1: head of the security Council and a buddy of a
27:06
Speaker 1: fishing body of Putin. But generally, stories are coming out
27:11
Speaker 1: of Russia and have been for days, are real angst
27:14
Speaker 1: among Russian elites. You know, the one Ukraine is going badly.
27:21
Speaker 1: It's going really badly Ukraine. Ukraine is now has systems
27:27
Speaker 1: in defense systems that are knocking out many of the
27:30
Speaker 1: missiles that the Russians are sending their way and the drones.
27:35
Speaker 1: You know, of the fifty nine ballistic missiles that were
27:39
Speaker 1: launched against Ukraine last year, fifty eight were downed, so
27:42
Speaker 1: only one made it. These are this is the big
27:46
Speaker 1: Kinzal ballistic missiles. You know, thirty three cruise missiles have
27:53
Speaker 1: been disabled in the first three months of this year.
27:57
Speaker 1: Ten thousand or more drones knocked down. I mean, this
28:01
Speaker 1: is huge amounts of money. The bilistic missiles well of
28:05
Speaker 1: one hundred million worth, the cruise missiles about one hundred million,
28:09
Speaker 1: the drones maybe two hundred and fifty million. This is
28:12
Speaker 1: huge amounts of money not having an impact, not having
28:16
Speaker 1: as much into an impact on Ukraine. Ukraine, in spite
28:19
Speaker 1: of the massive attacks against it by Russia, is holding out.
28:23
Speaker 1: It's surviving somehow on the front itself. The reality is
28:29
Speaker 1: that Russia is on net losing ground, not making ground. Now,
28:34
Speaker 1: It's not losing huge amounts of ground, but it's not advancing.
28:38
Speaker 1: This was supposed to be the year twenty twenty six.
28:42
Speaker 1: This is the season, the Spring Offensive, where Russia was
28:45
Speaker 1: supposed to break through and take much of the Dumbas.
28:50
Speaker 1: This is what Putin told Trump. This is what he
28:53
Speaker 1: told his own people. His big argument about, you know,
28:58
Speaker 1: Ukraine should give up the Dumbash, just give the territory
29:00
Speaker 1: to Russia because they're gonna take it anyway, so you
29:02
Speaker 1: might as well save lives. Well, they're not moving anyway,
29:05
Speaker 1: They're just not moving, you know. Ukraine using drones and
29:11
Speaker 1: robots has created this massive kill zone and they are
29:14
Speaker 1: unbelievably effective in killing Russians. Indeed, the kill rate as
29:20
Speaker 1: a record highes even relative to injuries. They're mainly just
29:24
Speaker 1: killing Russians. It's really bad for Russia right now. So
29:30
Speaker 1: on the front things are going really really badly. But
29:33
Speaker 1: even across the world, Russia is doing badly. I don't
29:36
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't cover the story, but it's I
29:38
Speaker 1: think it's a significant story. It's important. You know. In
29:43
Speaker 1: the Sahal in Africa, this is the area just below
29:48
Speaker 1: the Sahara Desert. It's an area that's still mostly desert,
29:51
Speaker 1: but it's the bridge between that and kind of some
29:55
Speaker 1: Sahara what's called, you know, the more lust of Saharan Africa.
29:58
Speaker 1: This is an area in which Isis and al Qaeda,
30:02
Speaker 1: in other words, jihadists have been dominating the Sahara over
30:07
Speaker 1: the last ten years. And this scenario where France and
30:12
Speaker 1: the United States had military operations and had alliances with
30:16
Speaker 1: countries like the United States had a base in Mali
30:19
Speaker 1: and had a relationship with the Mali government. Anyway, there
30:23
Speaker 1: was a coup. The Americans were kicked out of Mali.
30:26
Speaker 1: The French had been kicked out from the whole region Mali, Niger,
30:30
Speaker 1: and other countries in that area. And the forces that
30:36
Speaker 1: came in to replace the Americans in the French were Russian.
30:40
Speaker 1: So Russian troops came in with the idea that they
30:43
Speaker 1: are going to protect these regimes from the Islamists, from
30:48
Speaker 1: the Jihadis. Well, the reality is that last week the
30:53
Speaker 1: Jihades launched a massive operation in Mali. They surrounded the capitol.
30:59
Speaker 1: They they defeated Russian forces and generally attacking Russia forces
31:07
Speaker 1: across the entire Sahal. This is an area that Russia
31:10
Speaker 1: thought they would dominate. It's an area that's important because
31:13
Speaker 1: it's an area where a lot of the migrants travel
31:16
Speaker 1: through in order to get to the north, to across
31:21
Speaker 1: the Mediterranean to Europe. This is a drug smuggling route.
31:24
Speaker 1: This is the route in which much of the cocaine
31:28
Speaker 1: that comes in from South America, it goes to Africa,
31:32
Speaker 1: then it goes up into the Mediterranean, across the Mediterranean
31:36
Speaker 1: into Europe. So it's it's it's a money making operation
31:40
Speaker 1: for the Jihades. Their Jihades are the ones smuggling the money,
31:44
Speaker 1: the drug. Sorry, this is also strategic because remember that
31:49
Speaker 1: a lot of mines in central Africa, a lot of
31:55
Speaker 1: anyway from gold all the way to railroad materials or
31:58
Speaker 1: different materials that the russ want to control, and they've
32:02
Speaker 1: tried to they've tried to increase their influence. You know, Africa,
32:07
Speaker 1: a place with chaos and anarchy, is an ideal place
32:11
Speaker 1: for the Russians to kind of play. And they are
32:13
Speaker 1: being defeated. They're being defeated in the Sahal, They're being
32:16
Speaker 1: defeated by jihadists and it you know, this is I
32:21
Speaker 1: think taking a significant toll on Russia. Again, another area,
32:27
Speaker 1: another place in which they are losing they are actually
32:32
Speaker 1: taking casualties, right, So you know what they call the
32:38
Speaker 1: African Corps, which is a group of Russian mercenaries who've
32:42
Speaker 1: been operating in Mali since twenty twenty one, and in
32:46
Speaker 1: a retreat, they've already abandoned Kindal, which is the mineral
32:50
Speaker 1: rich city in the north. And this all seems to
32:56
Speaker 1: be at the beginning of the end of Moscow's influence
32:59
Speaker 1: on the African continent. We'll see what happens, but it
33:03
Speaker 1: certainly seems that way. But ready generally the Russians are
33:11
Speaker 1: losing in all fronts. Yeah, I mean, this is a
33:18
Speaker 1: lever of the Russian Foreign Minister in the past pledged
33:21
Speaker 1: to quote broaden the scope of Russian African relations, contributing
33:25
Speaker 1: to the emergent emergence of a justin democratic, multipolar world order.
33:29
Speaker 1: So this is their attempt to kind of have influence
33:32
Speaker 1: in the world not working out too well, and they're
33:35
Speaker 1: getting you know, they're getting pushed back from jihadis, who
33:42
Speaker 1: the US was better at restraining, holding back, not defeating,
33:46
Speaker 1: but holding back at least. So we will see if
33:48
Speaker 1: this is permanent. Oh, this is just a temporary setback.
33:52
Speaker 1: But anyway, a putin is under norms passia, enormous passia,
33:59
Speaker 1: and he is he is overcome by fear. You know,
34:03
Speaker 1: yesterday Ukrainian drones hit Moscow and the elites in Moscow
34:11
Speaker 1: are terrified. Uh, and this is exactly the kind of
34:14
Speaker 1: situation where coup rumors accelerate. So sources within European intelligence
34:23
Speaker 1: are quote floating in, you know, claiming that this is
34:27
Speaker 1: this is imminent or happening. Now you know, who knows
34:30
Speaker 1: if that's true. It could even be the you know,
34:33
Speaker 1: the Russians are planning all these stories, but it's multiple sources.
34:37
Speaker 1: And I believe the Putin is terrified. I believe the
34:41
Speaker 1: Putin really does live in a bunker a fear of
34:45
Speaker 1: being eliminated or fear of a Ukrainian drone hitting him,
34:49
Speaker 1: or coup within Russia. Putin's the coward. We saw that
34:54
Speaker 1: during COVID where he didn't meet with anybody, and we
34:57
Speaker 1: saw that when he did meet with somebody who was
35:00
Speaker 1: one of these massive tables where mccorn was on the
35:03
Speaker 1: other side of the planet and he was talking to
35:05
Speaker 1: So Putin is a coward. He's afraid of personally getting hurt.
35:10
Speaker 1: He can start wars from afar but he's afraid of
35:13
Speaker 1: personally getting getting hurt. And you know, so supposed he
35:20
Speaker 1: Putin no longer his facilities in the Moscow region. He
35:25
Speaker 1: works for weeks at a time in a modernized bunker,
35:29
Speaker 1: and there are actually several of them, so that he's
35:31
Speaker 1: never in the same place for too long. And state
35:34
Speaker 1: media reports broadcasts pre prepared video footage, so nothing nothing
35:41
Speaker 1: live in a sense, people who are in the immediate
35:45
Speaker 1: vicinity of Putin are prohibited for using smartphones. He's afraid
35:50
Speaker 1: the Ukrainians attracking those smartphones will know where he is
35:53
Speaker 1: and send a drone to kill it. And the homes
35:57
Speaker 1: of service employees, chefs, photographs, assistance and so on all
36:02
Speaker 1: being monitored. And yeah, and of course there's a clampdown,
36:08
Speaker 1: and Russians complaining about there's a significant clampdown on internet
36:14
Speaker 1: usage and communication usage in Moscow and in the surrounding,
36:20
Speaker 1: in the surrounding areas. Anyway, that seems to be what's
36:27
Speaker 1: going on now. Putin is also announced a cease fire
36:31
Speaker 1: between eighth and the tenth of May. Now, remember May
36:35
Speaker 1: eighth is the big celebration of the victory over the
36:40
Speaker 1: Nazis in Europe, and typically on May ninth, there is
36:44
Speaker 1: a massive military parade in Moscow that he attends and
36:50
Speaker 1: where you get tanks and missiles and all the latest
36:53
Speaker 1: greatest Russian equipment is on display. Well, this year, they're
36:57
Speaker 1: still a parade, but they've canceled the military aspect of
37:01
Speaker 1: the parade, so there will be no display of weaponry
37:04
Speaker 1: at the parade. And I mean there's speculation about why this, says.
37:08
Speaker 1: One is all the military equipments at the front, they
37:11
Speaker 1: don't have anything to spare. A second is they're afraid
37:14
Speaker 1: of a drone attack that day on the parade that
37:18
Speaker 1: will destroy the equipment and make them look terrible. He's
37:23
Speaker 1: really really worried about a Ukrainian drone attack while he
37:28
Speaker 1: is there, and maybe the targets him. Again, the reality
37:37
Speaker 1: is that Ukrainians are flying drones into Moscow in spite
37:40
Speaker 1: of the fact that the Russians have brought most of
37:43
Speaker 1: their air defense systems into the Moscow region in preparation
37:47
Speaker 1: for the May ninth event, and they still couldn't knock
37:53
Speaker 1: down the Ukrainian drones. And you know, so putas scared.
38:00
Speaker 1: Putin scared, which is good. I like, I like dictators
38:03
Speaker 1: being scared. They're afraid of their own people. They're afraid
38:07
Speaker 1: of the enemy. Uh, and so they are, they are petrified.
38:15
Speaker 1: Let's see, So the parade is going to be an
38:20
Speaker 1: embarrassment because there are no tanks, no weapon systems, know
38:22
Speaker 1: all of that. So it's gonna be it's gonna be embarrassing.
38:25
Speaker 1: But you know, it's supposedly going ahead again. Putin announces
38:29
Speaker 1: cease fire. It's not clear if Ukraine is accepted. It
38:33
Speaker 1: hasn't accepted it yet. And you know, the the the
38:39
Speaker 1: the Russians afraid that last night's attack on Moscow is
38:42
Speaker 1: basically a rehearsal for a strake a strike four May ninth,
38:48
Speaker 1: you know, the the whatever whatever hit Moscow successfully bypassed
38:52
Speaker 1: all the layers of Russian capitalist defenses. So yeah, all right,
38:59
Speaker 1: and let's see if there's anything else. Yeah, that's about
39:03
Speaker 1: the strike means in retreat, that's that. Yeah. One of
39:11
Speaker 1: Russia's most popular bloggers is the Russian Elite about oust Putin,
39:15
Speaker 1: replacing him with a weak pro Western puppet, ussuing him
39:19
Speaker 1: once again a new Gobratrov esque time of Petroshka to
39:24
Speaker 1: convince the West to remove sanctions. Well, in the background,
39:26
Speaker 1: warring clans will battle over the nation, i e. Putin's wealth.
39:34
Speaker 1: You know, this blog also cites the armed Russians returning
39:39
Speaker 1: from the front are going to descend onto the country,
39:43
Speaker 1: are going to put the country into into violent chaos,
39:48
Speaker 1: and that inter ethnic violence will explode. Couldn't happen to
39:52
Speaker 1: a nicer country, what can I say? So Russia's in trouble,
39:56
Speaker 1: and we talked about the Russian economy being flat, I mean,
39:59
Speaker 1: completely devastated by the war, by sanctions, by everything else.
40:06
Speaker 3: All right.
40:06
Speaker 1: Over the weekend there was a I don't know, a
40:10
Speaker 1: spat of anti Semitic, anti Israeli commentary that starting from
40:19
Speaker 1: the commencement address at the University of Michigan, of all places,
40:23
Speaker 1: where the professor, the Professor Derek Peterson went off script.
40:31
Speaker 1: I'll show you the video off script. So I'll show
40:35
Speaker 1: you the video of Peterson, and then we'll also look
40:40
Speaker 1: at a couple of other videos the same thing. Let's
40:44
Speaker 1: see if this is gonna work. So let me let
40:47
Speaker 1: me try this. Please let me know if you can.
40:51
Speaker 1: You should be able to see it now. But what
40:54
Speaker 1: I need to know from you guys is whether you
40:56
Speaker 1: can hear it. I think you will be able to,
41:01
Speaker 1: but let's uh, let's see all right.
41:10
Speaker 4: Uh all right, so if I first played there, let
41:18
Speaker 4: me just monitor this.
41:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me know if you can't hear it. All right,
41:21
Speaker 1: here we go.
41:26
Speaker 5: Sing for the pro Palestinians studid activists who have over
41:37
Speaker 5: these past two years opened our hearts to the injustice
41:41
Speaker 5: and inhumanity of Israel's war in.
41:44
Speaker 1: Dozen I mean, uh so he was doing sing to this,
41:55
Speaker 1: sing to that in terms of the positives and highlighting
41:58
Speaker 1: and sing to the Palestinian student, the pro Palestinian student activist.
42:02
Speaker 1: Although he should have said the Pajamas student activists, Greg said,
42:06
Speaker 1: we can't. You guys are saying you cannot hear all right,
42:09
Speaker 1: Let's see how I can get this so you can
42:13
Speaker 1: hear it. I'll play it again and see if you
42:20
Speaker 1: can hear it. Although I am repeating what he said,
42:23
Speaker 1: he didn't say that much. But I'm also worried about
42:26
Speaker 1: the next, the next one. Let me just play around
42:29
Speaker 1: with this once again. Dum let's do this, Okay, we'll
42:45
Speaker 1: do that. I can't do both a right, I'm gonna try.
42:57
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try this so see if you can hear
42:59
Speaker 1: it better with this.
43:06
Speaker 5: Sing for the pro Palestinian student activists who have over
43:18
Speaker 5: these past two years opened our hearts to the injustice
43:22
Speaker 5: and inhumanity of Israel's war in Gozen.
43:28
Speaker 1: I mean no, not a word about October seventh, not
43:34
Speaker 1: a word about Ramas, just praising the student activists. Now,
43:42
Speaker 1: supposedly the presidents of the university were shown on video
43:46
Speaker 1: in the audience, I guess clapping or nodding his head
43:49
Speaker 1: while he said this something that today he had to,
43:55
Speaker 1: you know, apologize for. And and they've taken the viewdeo
44:00
Speaker 1: off off the University of Michigan's website, and the president
44:04
Speaker 1: has apologized for the whole speech and reprimanded the professor
44:08
Speaker 1: for going off script because this wasn't in the script
44:11
Speaker 1: approved by the university for the commencement address. UH and
44:14
Speaker 1: uh and everything else. So University of Michigan. Uh. And
44:19
Speaker 1: in addition, you cannot hear the audio is happening, I
44:27
Speaker 1: Harper campbells says he can hear. Fine. I don't know
44:30
Speaker 1: how how are that's possible. Some of you can hear,
44:32
Speaker 1: find some of you cover a few gobblet sounds at first,
44:35
Speaker 1: but no audio. That's weird. But there was, yeah, Greg
44:43
Speaker 1: says there was a there was like a short squeak
44:46
Speaker 1: in the video began. Anyway, this is what he said, right,
44:49
Speaker 1: he said, sing for the student protesters, and then he said,
44:55
Speaker 1: who taught us you know about the injustice of of Israel?
45:00
Speaker 1: You know we'll get in Gaza or whatever. Uh? And
45:04
Speaker 1: what's upsetting and particularly the number of cheers of the students. Now,
45:08
Speaker 1: if you listen carefully, I guess you can't hear. But
45:11
Speaker 1: if you listen carefully, there is booing in the background
45:15
Speaker 1: towards the end of what he says. But but not
45:19
Speaker 1: but when he actually said it as well, there was
45:22
Speaker 1: a huge amount of cheering and copying and celebration. So sadly,
45:26
Speaker 1: all right, so you guys couldn't hear. I wonder if
45:29
Speaker 1: I don't see how you're gonna hear this other stuff either.
45:32
Speaker 1: So I don't know how to I'm not sure how
45:35
Speaker 1: to deal with this. I need I need to travel
45:39
Speaker 1: with a mixer now, right, God, If I want to
45:41
Speaker 1: show videos while I'm traveling, then I need a mixer
45:45
Speaker 1: with me as well. Let me see I have any
45:51
Speaker 1: ideas and what could be done here? I don't really
45:54
Speaker 1: there's no way for me to Let's let's try this
46:03
Speaker 1: just for this. Let's try this for a second. Let
46:06
Speaker 1: me know if you can hear with this, this is
46:09
Speaker 1: going to be now a segment from Joe Rogan. I
46:13
Speaker 1: think you can see it. I'm pretty sure you can
46:15
Speaker 1: see it. Yes, you can't see it. Here's here's a
46:17
Speaker 1: segment from Joe Rogan. Hopefully this you can hear.
46:22
Speaker 3: God, wouldn't you live in Israel? It's a place where
46:23
Speaker 3: he's most protected. Yeah, but you know that's like the
46:25
Speaker 3: number one place where like sex offenders go from America
46:28
Speaker 3: that are Jewish, they're in trouble. Yeah, I don't know that.
46:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, take anybody out.
46:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially Jewish people'll just take care. Wow, Jews, I
46:37
Speaker 3: had a run get made off Weinstein every steam the
46:41
Speaker 3: other guy.
46:43
Speaker 1: Yeah.
46:43
Speaker 3: Kind of proves with Kanye's plaint a little bit.
46:45
Speaker 1: I don't know.
46:46
Speaker 3: It is amazing how many high profile Jewish people just
46:49
Speaker 3: they have an opinion about everything. But when he gets
46:53
Speaker 3: to this, yeah, they just avoid that or come up
46:59
Speaker 3: with someone ran them.
47:01
Speaker 1: You guys are not hearing any of this, all right,
47:06
Speaker 1: that's weird. Right. You can see the captions. Read the captions. Uh,
47:15
Speaker 1: and uh, you know what we'll do this, We'll do
47:19
Speaker 1: this another time. Let me skip these. We'll talk about
47:22
Speaker 1: these another time at home, when when that can actually
47:26
Speaker 1: get you the sound and do it properly. So let's see,
47:32
Speaker 1: we'll go to this. Yeah, all right, sorry about that.
47:35
Speaker 1: I thought this would work. Let me go back to
47:38
Speaker 1: the original audio setting, all right. I thought that would work.
47:43
Speaker 1: Not sure why it didn't, but it could be that
47:46
Speaker 1: it's it's shutting down the sound from there for some
47:49
Speaker 1: bizarre reason. And I don't know what it is. But yeah,
47:52
Speaker 1: a spike in in Joe Wrogan just ugly, really really
48:00
Speaker 1: really explicitly ugly, not even anti Israel straight, anti Semitism
48:05
Speaker 1: straight the Jews. Maybe Kanye West was right, is part
48:09
Speaker 1: of a stake and and and then THEO Vaughn I
48:13
Speaker 1: think was the other one. Just ugly stuff. So I
48:16
Speaker 1: will show that to you when I'm back home.
48:20
Speaker 4: And uh, al right, so let's uh, let me just
48:27
Speaker 4: do something one second, look at the.
48:35
Speaker 1: All right, So let's skip ahead to the abortion pale
48:43
Speaker 1: and then we'll call this the news. All right. So
48:46
Speaker 1: we talked about this on the weekend that miffir pristone.
48:52
Speaker 1: Miff pristone had been the ability to get the fifth
48:58
Speaker 1: circuit Court put out a ruling said you cannot get
49:04
Speaker 1: mifor pristone without seeing a doctor, so, in other words,
49:08
Speaker 1: killing the ability of people of women to get me
49:11
Speaker 1: for pristone, the abortion the abortion pill, uh you know,
49:16
Speaker 1: in the mail through telemedicine. And that is true, which
49:21
Speaker 1: means that women in many most red states can't get
49:27
Speaker 1: the bortion pill because their local doctors are not allowed
49:29
Speaker 1: to prescribe it and they would have to travel to
49:32
Speaker 1: a blue state to see a doctor get the pill,
49:35
Speaker 1: take the pill in the blue state, adding huge amount
49:37
Speaker 1: of costs and inconvenience for them, you know, truly violating
49:42
Speaker 1: the rights of women to determine their own fate and
49:45
Speaker 1: to make their own decision about their lives. Anyway, this
49:49
Speaker 1: was appealed. The fifth Fifth Si Court decision was appealed
49:54
Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court immediately by the two drug companies
49:58
Speaker 1: that make mif pistone and Judge Alito, who I guess
50:04
Speaker 1: is the guy at the Streme Court reviewing the emergency petitions.
50:08
Speaker 1: Judge Alito basically put a one week hold on any
50:12
Speaker 1: major changes to how abortion pill can be prescribed. That is,
50:16
Speaker 1: he is reversing the Fifth Circuit Court for a week
50:21
Speaker 1: and during that week, right during that week, he has
50:25
Speaker 1: asked all the parties involved to submit arguments to the
50:33
Speaker 1: court in writing. So they have to file briefs by Thursday,
50:44
Speaker 1: May ninth at five pm. So you can imagine all
50:46
Speaker 1: the law firms are hustling to get there, to get
50:50
Speaker 1: this stuff ready so we will know. So it's already
50:53
Speaker 1: at the Sureme Court. I said there would be an
50:54
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1:00:19
Speaker 1: Michael has a few of them. Nick Foyantis won his
1:00:23
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1:00:29
Speaker 1: woman to the ground. Have you seen the video? How
1:00:32
Speaker 1: could anyone think this is justified? Stephen Crowder and the
1:00:37
Speaker 1: other right wing pundits celebrating his victory as a defense
1:00:40
Speaker 1: of private property. Oh, I haven't seen this video, so
1:00:45
Speaker 1: I don't know. Why was he shoving her to the ground?
1:00:48
Speaker 1: Is it because she was trespassing? Was she threatening him?
1:00:54
Speaker 1: Did she have I don't know, a fist in his face?
1:00:58
Speaker 1: What exactly was going on, so it's hard for me
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1:01:05
Speaker 1: I'll look for the video and lets you know what
1:01:07
Speaker 1: I think once I see it. But look, Stephen Crowder
1:01:11
Speaker 1: and all these guys have been super friendly to Nick Frantis.
1:01:14
Speaker 1: I mean, this is my point about the rise of
1:01:16
Speaker 1: anti Semitism among these influences. You're seeing it from the left,
1:01:21
Speaker 1: which is you know, the University of Michigan, and you're
1:01:26
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1:01:31
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1:01:34
Speaker 1: a middle or whatever. But you're just seeing a rise
1:01:36
Speaker 1: of it among influences, and it is spooky and bad
1:01:41
Speaker 1: and horrible. So anybody defending Nick Fotis about anything. I mean,
1:01:47
Speaker 1: at the best, you should ignore, you know, the most
1:01:49
Speaker 1: you should do is ignore him if you're not totally
1:01:52
Speaker 1: condemning him. But to defend him even when he's right
1:01:55
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. Just ignore him when he's right and condemn
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Speaker 1: it for all the evil that he does in the world,
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Speaker 1: and he does a lot of it, so he should
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Speaker 1: be He should be condemned regularly. Liam. Many Slamist ideologies
1:02:16
Speaker 1: are at war with the human soul. Oh sorry, many
1:02:20
Speaker 1: statist ideologies at war with the human soul. Concentration camps
1:02:26
Speaker 1: and gulags were created to break man's will and spirit.
1:02:29
Speaker 1: While the welfare state is nowhere near as brutal, is
1:02:33
Speaker 1: the intention behind it, fundamentally the same towards whom towards
1:02:39
Speaker 1: the people paying the taxes to give it to the
1:02:41
Speaker 1: welfare recipients, So towards the welfare recipients themselves be treated
1:02:46
Speaker 1: as you know, as infantile. You know, I don't think
1:02:52
Speaker 1: it's the same, right, So we need to be able
1:02:54
Speaker 1: to differentiate between the pure, unadulterated evil of the concentration
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Speaker 1: camp and the gulag and the clear motivation there to
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Speaker 1: destroy the human soul and to destroy will and spirit,
1:03:08
Speaker 1: as you say, and between other forms that are significantly
1:03:12
Speaker 1: milder milder and are still ultimately the result is the
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Speaker 1: destruction of man's will in spirit. I think that's what
1:03:21
Speaker 1: the welfare state does to the recipients, and you know,
1:03:25
Speaker 1: is just a harassment of the people who actually pay it.
1:03:29
Speaker 1: But it's not necessarily done on purpose. I mean, the
1:03:32
Speaker 1: fact is that almost everybody supports the welfare state, but
1:03:35
Speaker 1: you wouldn't say that everybody is explicitly geared towards breaking
1:03:39
Speaker 1: man's will in spirit. Now, this is more implicit. This
1:03:44
Speaker 1: is more the pretense of helping the self. Delusion and
1:03:48
Speaker 1: evasion involved in pretending that it's helping, you know, while
1:03:53
Speaker 1: while ignoring what it actually does, what the actual consequences are,
1:03:58
Speaker 1: both to the people who have to pay it and
1:04:00
Speaker 1: to the people who actually receiving it. So I don't
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Speaker 1: think that it's the I don't think it's explicity intention,
1:04:08
Speaker 1: even though it is the outcome. And look, I think
1:04:11
Speaker 1: all collectivist ideologies, all stated statist ideologies, are destructive to
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Speaker 1: the human soul, even when they don't do so, even
1:04:21
Speaker 1: when they're not trying to do so explicitly. It's just
1:04:23
Speaker 1: their very nature is to be, is to condemn the
1:04:27
Speaker 1: individual and turn them into a coggin in some collectivistic machine,
1:04:34
Speaker 1: and that in and of itself is destructive to individual soul.
1:04:43
Speaker 1: All right, upper Campbell. Europeans tell me it's better being
1:04:49
Speaker 1: a work in Europe because you can't get fired and
1:04:51
Speaker 1: get mandatory paid vacations. But is it hard to find
1:04:55
Speaker 1: a good paying job in Europe? Everyone resents each other's
1:04:59
Speaker 1: positions to the altruism of the employers employment dynamics. Yeah,
1:05:03
Speaker 1: it's very hard to find a good paying job in Europe,
1:05:05
Speaker 1: and this is why wages in Europe is significantly lower
1:05:09
Speaker 1: a GDP, capital, significantly lower wealth income. By every measure,
1:05:14
Speaker 1: Europeans have a lot less. They live in smaller houses,
1:05:17
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Speaker 1: the luxuries that Americans do, or the non luxuries that
1:05:25
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1:05:28
Speaker 1: employed a lot of vacation time off. They don't work
1:05:31
Speaker 1: that much. But the more essential question is what does
1:05:37
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1:05:41
Speaker 1: fired and you get mandatory paid vacation, and you're taking
1:05:46
Speaker 1: care of by any state or than any company, and
1:05:49
Speaker 1: you're not helped to be responsible yourself. What does that
1:05:54
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1:05:57
Speaker 1: under that world and where all your co were Because
1:06:00
Speaker 1: they're the same, even the competent ones will never get fired,
1:06:03
Speaker 1: never lose their job. They get the same vacation as
1:06:07
Speaker 1: you do, They get treated the same as you do.
1:06:09
Speaker 1: Because they believe in equality, we would want to discriminate.
1:06:13
Speaker 1: What does that do to you? Who the hell wants
1:06:15
Speaker 1: to work in that kind of work environment. So I
1:06:17
Speaker 1: think the work environment is oppressive. They make a lot
1:06:20
Speaker 1: less money, They quality of life, stand of living a
1:06:23
Speaker 1: significantly lower, wages are lower. Ambition doesn't exist. You might
1:06:30
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1:06:34
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1:06:41
Speaker 1: then you wouldn't want a job in Europe. You wouldn't
1:06:47
Speaker 1: want that kind of a job. It's a job for
1:06:50
Speaker 1: people who don't have any self respect or don't don't
1:06:54
Speaker 1: want self esteem. My guess is when good ideas win,
1:07:03
Speaker 1: not many people will know who came up with them.
1:07:07
Speaker 1: They will be taken for granted by most people. Would
1:07:10
Speaker 1: you care if most public didn't acknowledge you for changing
1:07:13
Speaker 1: the world? Would Rant care? Well? I mean Rand's dad,
1:07:16
Speaker 1: so she clearly doesn't care. And I certainly don't care
1:07:19
Speaker 1: because I don't think it's my ideas that will change
1:07:21
Speaker 1: the world. It's Rands. But I don't think that's true.
1:07:25
Speaker 1: What you're saying that is, you know, in a world
1:07:31
Speaker 1: that's really changed. I think they you know, they would
1:07:34
Speaker 1: study Rand in school, and I think that there would
1:07:38
Speaker 1: be quite likely be some kind of there would be
1:07:41
Speaker 1: sculptures and and maybe a national holiday to celebrate her life.
1:07:48
Speaker 1: So I think that when things are really based on
1:07:54
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1:08:00
Speaker 1: then there will be I think very much a recognition
1:08:05
Speaker 1: of the woman who provided the ideas for that change.
1:08:11
Speaker 1: I think the kind of intellectuals that would dominate in
1:08:14
Speaker 1: that world are the kind of intellectuals that would want
1:08:17
Speaker 1: to pay their respects to the founder of this philosophy,
1:08:21
Speaker 1: to the founder of these ideas. So I mean, John
1:08:26
Speaker 1: Locke is well known and celebrated, you know, across the
1:08:31
Speaker 1: suddenly dignaled Saxon world. And I think even beyond that,
1:08:34
Speaker 1: the French Enlightenment is recognized, Newton is recognized. So there
1:08:38
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1:08:40
Speaker 1: about Leonardo, think about the Greek philosophers. They're all recognized
1:08:45
Speaker 1: and appreciated in the modern world, in spite of the
1:08:49
Speaker 1: fact that in the modern world we don't have a
1:08:51
Speaker 1: complete understanding other than Iran of the role their ideas
1:08:56
Speaker 1: played in history. But we recognize something unique about them
1:09:00
Speaker 1: and celebrate that. All Rightum, Michael, thank you, Michael. That's
1:09:13
Speaker 1: three fifty dollars questions. I think that's amazing. Plus I
1:09:16
Speaker 1: think you've got some more twenties and stuff. When the
1:09:20
Speaker 1: COVID lockdowns first began and when ICE first unleashed its
1:09:23
Speaker 1: wave of terror, I thought the country is becoming authoritarian.
1:09:26
Speaker 1: But it didn't. Freedom bounce back. They say freedom is fragile,
1:09:30
Speaker 1: but authoritarian measures a wolf fragile. I mean in America,
1:09:34
Speaker 1: and I think in a country that is in Europe,
1:09:37
Speaker 1: maybe in countries that are where the expectation is freedom.
1:09:42
Speaker 1: You can get away with it with the authoritarian climbed
1:09:45
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1:09:49
Speaker 1: demand differently. An argument hasn't been made and why your
1:09:54
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1:09:56
Speaker 1: people have not bought into it yet. So yes, I
1:10:00
Speaker 1: I think freedom is fragile in the sense that there
1:10:04
Speaker 1: are measures that are taken. For example, there's never there
1:10:08
Speaker 1: hasn't been a repudiation by our government of lockdowns, so
1:10:13
Speaker 1: that now is in the toolkit of our government post COVID.
1:10:17
Speaker 1: So we're less free post COVID because that's in the toolkit.
1:10:22
Speaker 1: The ICE has not gone away. Ice is still there
1:10:27
Speaker 1: and could escalate at any point. So each one of
1:10:30
Speaker 1: these occurrences makes us a little less free, and that
1:10:33
Speaker 1: erosion over time will have an impact and make emergency
1:10:39
Speaker 1: provisioning anti freedom emerging provisioning in the future ever worse.
1:10:44
Speaker 1: But yes, it's gonna take a while for freedom to
1:10:47
Speaker 1: go away. It's hard, James. The Roman Empire lasted a
1:10:53
Speaker 1: thousand years, did it? I mean which Roman empire? The
1:10:59
Speaker 1: Western Roman Empire. I think it's more like six hundred years.
1:11:02
Speaker 1: I don't know. A thousand years seems like more a lot.
1:11:06
Speaker 1: America is not likely to collapse after only two fifty well,
1:11:10
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not sure what they parallel with the
1:11:12
Speaker 1: Roman Empire means. I mean, it's not like history repeats.
1:11:15
Speaker 1: So there's nothing about the fact that their own empire
1:11:20
Speaker 1: survived a thousand years, which reassures me about America. So
1:11:25
Speaker 1: I don't see the connection between the two, even though
1:11:27
Speaker 1: I agree with you that America is not going to
1:11:29
Speaker 1: collapse after two hundred and fifty years. But it's not
1:11:31
Speaker 1: about the number of years. It's about the fact that
1:11:35
Speaker 1: we're wealthy, were successful. There's a lot of goodness in America.
1:11:38
Speaker 1: Most American people are basically good people. The authoritarian tendency
1:11:42
Speaker 1: is isolated on the kind of extreme right and extreme left.
1:11:46
Speaker 1: So I I really don't think that we're in danger
1:11:51
Speaker 1: of collapse. But that again has nothing to do with
1:11:53
Speaker 1: the Roman Empire. We're just slowly descending. I fear stagnation
1:11:57
Speaker 1: more than they do collapse. Michael, Part one, can you
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Speaker 1: interview Aviv Reti Go, an Israeli journalist and commentator. He
1:12:08
Speaker 1: made the point that Isuel' success is that it's the
1:12:12
Speaker 1: first nation to successfully mix individualism with collectivism. Well, that's
1:12:15
Speaker 1: not a good statement. That Israel both harnesses the innovation
1:12:21
Speaker 1: of individuals lism with the will to fight of a
1:12:25
Speaker 1: Middle Eastern collectivistic clan. Yeah. I mean, look, I don't
1:12:30
Speaker 1: think it's a good point. I don't think it's true.
1:12:34
Speaker 1: I don't want to promote that kind of idea that
1:12:36
Speaker 1: you can mix individualism collectivism. I think that's evil and bad,
1:12:40
Speaker 1: and I don't like inviting people onto my show that
1:12:43
Speaker 1: I land up having to debate. I follow Haviv Rettigua
1:12:47
Speaker 1: and a lot of his stuff I like, but it's
1:12:49
Speaker 1: stuff like this that I think is just superficial and bad,
1:12:53
Speaker 1: and to the extent that Israel is collectivistic. To that extent,
1:12:57
Speaker 1: it's no good, and I think that it's because it
1:13:02
Speaker 1: has a strong individualism streak in it. That's what allows
1:13:06
Speaker 1: for the willingness to fight. Because people are fighting for
1:13:08
Speaker 1: their own life, their own land, their own family, their
1:13:12
Speaker 1: own happiness. That's what they're fighting for. And as a
1:13:15
Speaker 1: threat is real, individualists fight. This suggests that individualists wouldn't fight,
1:13:21
Speaker 1: and I think all of that as well. So I
1:13:23
Speaker 1: would debate Javiv, but I don't like debating on my show.
1:13:29
Speaker 1: I don't want to just interview him. All right, Michael,
1:13:36
Speaker 1: that's case of a law and IRGC think the West
1:13:38
Speaker 1: will ultimately lose because individualism makes people rich, and rich
1:13:43
Speaker 1: people become soft and ritualistic or warrior collectivist clans will
1:13:47
Speaker 1: never stop fighting. Well again, I mean there's a lot
1:13:52
Speaker 1: in here. Since when is Europe individualistic or Europe is
1:13:59
Speaker 1: just another form of collectivism, kind of a weak collectivism,
1:14:02
Speaker 1: but it's a collectivism. It's not like Europe is. It's
1:14:10
Speaker 1: not like Europe is individualistic. If it was, it wouldn't
1:14:13
Speaker 1: tolerate what the Islamists are doing. I think it's well,
1:14:16
Speaker 1: I know i GC view the West as weak, not
1:14:19
Speaker 1: because of collectivism individualism, because they view the West is
1:14:23
Speaker 1: weak because it cares too much about you know, consumer,
1:14:29
Speaker 1: the consumer. I think the American right thinks the West
1:14:31
Speaker 1: is weak because of the same reason they think the
1:14:34
Speaker 1: West is weak because it's secular. They think the West
1:14:38
Speaker 1: is weak because because it has shown weakness, because the
1:14:43
Speaker 1: West can't win a war because it won't fight. But
1:14:47
Speaker 1: none of that has to do with individualism, not as
1:14:50
Speaker 1: we understand it. It has to do with Christianity and
1:14:55
Speaker 1: the morality of altruism. And it's not true that warrior
1:14:59
Speaker 1: collect stivistic clans will never stop fighting. I mean, it's
1:15:04
Speaker 1: a unique collectivisty klan and the unique, and it's not
1:15:08
Speaker 1: a clan because it's a universalist phenomena. Islam is not
1:15:13
Speaker 1: a clan. Islamism is not a clan. It's a religion.
1:15:19
Speaker 1: It's a fanatical religion. And I think what they think
1:15:23
Speaker 1: will never stop fighting is a fanatical religion backed by Allah,
1:15:29
Speaker 1: and you know, granted superiority by Allah and a promise
1:15:37
Speaker 1: to win in the end by Allah. That's what they believe.
1:15:41
Speaker 1: It's not an issue of collectivism versus individualism in their
1:15:44
Speaker 1: mind at all. It's an issue of Islam versus the
1:15:47
Speaker 1: rest of the world, and Islam's superiority, and therefore they
1:15:50
Speaker 1: will win because they're superior. It's inevitable. And then they
1:15:55
Speaker 1: see the West as weak, which it is. I don't
1:15:58
Speaker 1: think they label it they do as individualism. If they do,
1:16:02
Speaker 1: they're wrong. But they see it as weak because the
1:16:05
Speaker 1: West won't fight, won't stand up for its own values.
1:16:08
Speaker 1: I think they're right in that the West has no philosophy,
1:16:11
Speaker 1: no values, nothing to fight for. And that's not a
1:16:15
Speaker 1: consequence of individualism, as a consequence of more of a
1:16:19
Speaker 1: nihilism and a consequence of Christianity, and a consequence of
1:16:23
Speaker 1: altruism and a consequence of a rejection of the Enlightenment
1:16:32
Speaker 1: postmodernism in Europe. Stephen Hoppap, I cannot do stickers or
1:16:37
Speaker 1: super chats on my cell phone, but they work okay
1:16:41
Speaker 1: on my laptop. That's weird. I won't be able to
1:16:43
Speaker 1: do any well. I am traveling that is in Okon
1:16:46
Speaker 1: until I fix the issue. Well, thanks all letting me know, Stephen,
1:16:50
Speaker 1: I understand no problem. Hopefully he can get it fixed,
1:16:54
Speaker 1: but if not, we'll just wait for you to be
1:16:56
Speaker 1: at your laptop, at your actual computer. Molten splendid. Does
1:17:01
Speaker 1: the Iranian Parliament meet together. If so, has it ever
1:17:05
Speaker 1: been possible or even suggested to attack it. They do
1:17:09
Speaker 1: meet together, but I don't think they meet together during
1:17:12
Speaker 1: a war exactly because they're afraid of being attacked. I
1:17:16
Speaker 1: don't know that it's ever been suggested it's possible to
1:17:20
Speaker 1: attack them. Would have to be a surprise attack, because
1:17:23
Speaker 1: they wouldn't meet if they thought an attack was imminent.
1:17:26
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any of us suggest it. I've suggested it.
1:17:29
Speaker 1: I suggested attacking the parliament, the Council of whatever, and
1:17:35
Speaker 1: also the religious leadership of Iran, but it's been done
1:17:41
Speaker 1: only on a very limited scale. All right, Roman, what
1:17:53
Speaker 1: is the best way for full Lazipah capitalism to deal
1:17:56
Speaker 1: with negative externalities without imposing regulation? Well, what do you
1:18:00
Speaker 1: mean by negative externalities? What is a negative externality? Because
1:18:04
Speaker 1: one of the things that lezafia capitalism does is it creates,
1:18:09
Speaker 1: you know, basically internalizes most externalities through private property. So
1:18:18
Speaker 1: if rivers and lakes privately owned, then it's on externality
1:18:22
Speaker 1: to dump your garbage in the river. It's a violation
1:18:25
Speaker 1: of somebody's property rights, and arguably even pollution, given that
1:18:30
Speaker 1: you breathe it and you suffer from it. You can
1:18:32
Speaker 1: sue the company because you your health is being detrimentally
1:18:38
Speaker 1: affected by somebody's action. Now, externality is caused by I
1:18:44
Speaker 1: don't know, cor pollution, the fact that the millions have
1:18:47
Speaker 1: caused in the street and they are causing pollution. I
1:18:50
Speaker 1: don't think there's anything to be done about that. I
1:18:53
Speaker 1: think people will gravitate towards cleaner cause because they want
1:18:56
Speaker 1: to live in a cleaner environment. But who are you
1:18:58
Speaker 1: going to sue? Who you're going to go after, So
1:19:01
Speaker 1: there's no basis, and that kind of pollution doesn't really
1:19:04
Speaker 1: it does very minimal harm, so I don't think it's
1:19:07
Speaker 1: the kind of thing the government should regulate. And of course,
1:19:10
Speaker 1: if you really offended by the pollution in la you
1:19:13
Speaker 1: can move to Montana, so that's easy to take care of.
1:19:18
Speaker 1: I don't know. If people are smoking in the restaurant,
1:19:21
Speaker 1: you don't want the negative externality of inhaling their smoke,
1:19:24
Speaker 1: don't visit that restaurant. So almost all negative externalities are internalized. Now,
1:19:32
Speaker 1: if you're doing something that clearly and equivocally places the
1:19:36
Speaker 1: lives of property of other people at risk at high risk,
1:19:40
Speaker 1: then the government has a role to come in and
1:19:42
Speaker 1: quote regulate or pass laws to stop that behavior. So
1:19:46
Speaker 1: the only kind of behavior that the government can stop
1:19:49
Speaker 1: is behavior that involves risky That is risky behavior. It
1:19:55
Speaker 1: involves a real threat to the life and property of
1:19:59
Speaker 1: other people. I don't know. You're building something and the
1:20:03
Speaker 1: stuff it looks like it might collapse onto the street.
1:20:06
Speaker 1: You're driving like a crazy person on the on the road.
1:20:11
Speaker 1: You're spewing some chemical into the air that there's good
1:20:15
Speaker 1: reason to believe is going to kill people. Then the
1:20:18
Speaker 1: government asked us step in and stop you. Olie having
1:20:28
Speaker 1: issues sending a sticker, so sending this thank you, Olie.
1:20:31
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I should probably thank all the stick
1:20:33
Speaker 1: of people because they did see a few stickers come by.
1:20:37
Speaker 1: But thank you, Ali, let me see thank you, Roland
1:20:44
Speaker 1: to the thumb. Who else do we have a lot
1:20:50
Speaker 1: of stickers with lots of questions? That's good. Gail, thank you,
1:20:56
Speaker 1: CP Milkan, thank you, and Mary Eleen thank you. Thank
1:20:59
Speaker 1: you guys. All right, leam, is Israel thoroughly winning a war?
1:21:06
Speaker 1: Is Israel thoroughly winning a war? Too egoistic? That's why
1:21:10
Speaker 1: it's not allowed. Yeah, I mean, it's too assertive, it's
1:21:13
Speaker 1: too egoistic too, yes, and Israel strong and the other
1:21:18
Speaker 1: countries are weak, and we should we should grant some
1:21:22
Speaker 1: leeway to the week. So I think suddenly the rest
1:21:25
Speaker 1: of the world view is it that way, and some
1:21:27
Speaker 1: people within Israel view it that way. But Israel's I think,
1:21:31
Speaker 1: changed a little bit since the past, and it's much
1:21:35
Speaker 1: more inclined to win wars thoroughly today than it was
1:21:43
Speaker 1: before October seventh. So I think the existential threat that
1:21:46
Speaker 1: October seventh posed became very real to Israel, and it
1:21:49
Speaker 1: now is quite more willing to fight those kind of words.
1:21:53
Speaker 1: The rest of the world hasn't learnt their lesson, though, James,
1:21:58
Speaker 1: what did Aristotle mean when he said skeptics are like vegetables.
1:22:03
Speaker 1: I've never heard that statement from Aristotle. That's a good
1:22:07
Speaker 1: question to ask somebody like Greg Solimerri who's an Aristotle scholar. Jacob,
1:22:16
Speaker 1: Since there wasn't a hunde hundred million dollar bet on
1:22:20
Speaker 1: Brent Krude's spiking before the attack, it means us Intel failed.
1:22:25
Speaker 1: Iran should have told Witkoff beforehand. I guess that's right.
1:22:30
Speaker 1: No inside of trading, so the inside is the new
1:22:33
Speaker 1: and that's a failure of American intelligence because they're the
1:22:35
Speaker 1: ones who provide the insiders with the information. YEP, all right,
1:22:41
Speaker 1: Neil Khan. Russia's failures in Ukraine, Syria and Mali exposed
1:22:47
Speaker 1: the facade Vladimir Putin built. His policies have not only masked,
1:22:52
Speaker 1: but accelerated Russia's decline absolutely. And Russia is massively in declined.
1:22:57
Speaker 1: It was already in decline before the war in Ukraine.
1:23:00
Speaker 1: It's got an aging population, young people, the most productive
1:23:04
Speaker 1: young people have left, the people who they're not having kids.
1:23:10
Speaker 1: It's got ethnic groups all over that are resentful of
1:23:13
Speaker 1: Russian rule. Russia is in bad, bad, bad shaped and
1:23:17
Speaker 1: has been for a long time, and what Putin has
1:23:20
Speaker 1: done has accelerated it. JJGBS, I sent you a link
1:23:27
Speaker 1: to watch An Officer and a Spy. Saw that the
1:23:30
Speaker 1: Polanski film. I actually want to say that I got it,
1:23:33
Speaker 1: but I haven't seen it yet. I do want to
1:23:35
Speaker 1: see it. I'm really interested in the whole Alfred Dreyfer's affair.
1:23:39
Speaker 1: And I did I think did I read An Officer
1:23:42
Speaker 1: a Spy? Or I know I started An Officer and
1:23:45
Speaker 1: a Spy. I don't think I ever finished the book.
1:23:47
Speaker 1: I should, but I did definitely start the book. Hupercambo.
1:23:53
Speaker 1: What is the course you're teaching in Austin? Is it
1:23:56
Speaker 1: for graduate students and UT or for ARU? Either it's
1:24:00
Speaker 1: neither for UT or for AARU. It's for the University
1:24:03
Speaker 1: of Austin. That's a new university here which only has
1:24:09
Speaker 1: so far freshman and sophomore. They'll have a third year
1:24:13
Speaker 1: coming in in the fall, so they're just this is
1:24:16
Speaker 1: it's a two year older university and I'm teaching a
1:24:19
Speaker 1: fourteen hour course on capitalism. Two students, ten students. They
1:24:27
Speaker 1: are first and second year at this university, brand new university.
1:24:32
Speaker 1: Look it up University of Austin, University of Austin Clerk.
1:24:42
Speaker 1: Is anti Jewish racism considered more acceptable than anti black
1:24:46
Speaker 1: or anti immigration racism? Well, I mean it all goes together.
1:24:50
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that they're anti Semites. The anti Jewish
1:24:53
Speaker 1: racists are also anti black and anti immigration. I'm sure
1:24:58
Speaker 1: they all are well well in one way or another.
1:25:02
Speaker 1: But you know what's unique about the anti anti Jewish
1:25:06
Speaker 1: is that it's across left and right. Even the left
1:25:09
Speaker 1: that claims not to be racist is racist against Jews,
1:25:13
Speaker 1: uh and uh. And the right, which is racist against everybody,
1:25:16
Speaker 1: but the Jews always at the at the at the
1:25:18
Speaker 1: conspiracy level. It's worse than the others in a sense
1:25:24
Speaker 1: because Jews are responsible for all the other problems. Right,
1:25:28
Speaker 1: So the right believes that it's Jews that created the
1:25:33
Speaker 1: immigration problem into the United States. They fund all these
1:25:37
Speaker 1: immigrants to come in. I mean that that attack on
1:25:39
Speaker 1: the synagogue in Pittsburgh years ago by a right winger
1:25:43
Speaker 1: was he was attacking them because supposedly they were responsible
1:25:47
Speaker 1: for all the immigrants coming across the border. And you know,
1:25:51
Speaker 1: they run the world, and they create all the evil
1:25:54
Speaker 1: in the world, and they're the ones that are really
1:25:56
Speaker 1: the bad guys in the world. So it's it's a
1:25:59
Speaker 1: part and parcel and it explains everything else. Right, So
1:26:04
Speaker 1: it's it's Jews that are trying to undermine whites by
1:26:08
Speaker 1: encouraging giving blacks equal rights and by bringing in brown
1:26:13
Speaker 1: people through immigration. That's part of the conspiracy. Mary Ellen,
1:26:20
Speaker 1: I thought the current issue with pristone was that it
1:26:26
Speaker 1: had to be picked up in person and couldn't be
1:26:29
Speaker 1: delivered by male. Is there more to it, Well, it
1:26:34
Speaker 1: doesn't just have to be picked up a person. It
1:26:36
Speaker 1: has to be it has to be you have to
1:26:40
Speaker 1: be have an exam, that is, you have to go
1:26:43
Speaker 1: to a doctor and the doctor has to see you
1:26:46
Speaker 1: and then prescribe you the medication and pick up in person.
1:26:50
Speaker 1: But it is about not being able to get it.
1:26:52
Speaker 1: Therefore through telemedicine and by male and the challenge there
1:26:57
Speaker 1: is women in Red States who are not a lot
1:26:59
Speaker 1: of abortions and cannot get the abortion drugs in the
1:27:03
Speaker 1: state can do a consultation with the doctor in California
1:27:08
Speaker 1: and New York and then get the drug by mail
1:27:11
Speaker 1: delivered to them. This would make it impossible for them
1:27:13
Speaker 1: to do them. Ian, I just found out that A
1:27:19
Speaker 1: Man Fall Seasons is free with ads on YouTube right now.
1:27:23
Speaker 1: Definitely relevant for our modern time. Yeah, A Man Fall
1:27:27
Speaker 1: Season is a great movie. It's about a man of principle,
1:27:30
Speaker 1: not principles I agree with, but still a man of
1:27:32
Speaker 1: principle standing up to the King of England. It is
1:27:36
Speaker 1: a really really well made movie, powerful movie. I encourage
1:27:39
Speaker 1: you to watch it. Encourage you to watch it. So
1:27:43
Speaker 1: Ian says, it's on YouTube with ads for free, all right,
1:27:51
Speaker 1: excellon Tuma or something like that. Was the Israeli government
1:27:55
Speaker 1: publicly can as the Israeli government public can condemned the
1:27:58
Speaker 1: recent antisemitic violence North London, I believe so. I haven't
1:28:02
Speaker 1: followed it if these raelly governments specifically did, but I
1:28:05
Speaker 1: would be shocked if they didn't. And I don't know
1:28:07
Speaker 1: what the motivation would be not to condemn it. So
1:28:11
Speaker 1: I'm sure they did. I'm sure they did.
1:28:15
Speaker 3: So.
1:28:15
Speaker 1: My wife tells me they absolutely did, so I'm not
1:28:18
Speaker 1: sure what would motivate the question. Averison a flag on
1:28:25
Speaker 1: the Moon by feed Rate Command is a lively and
1:28:29
Speaker 1: enthusiastic celebration of the efficacy of man's reason. Check it
1:28:32
Speaker 1: out on Spotify. I think it's Spotify. Yep. Now Chavi
1:28:37
Speaker 1: jago with them. So long as the nihilistic left controls
1:28:40
Speaker 1: the universities, there's no hope for reason. Well, I wouldn't
1:28:42
Speaker 1: say that there's new universities popping up like the University
1:28:48
Speaker 1: of Austin. There are programs within the universities that are
1:28:51
Speaker 1: not nihilistic, like Terra Smith teaching at the University of
1:28:54
Speaker 1: Texas here and in Austin, and Greg slam Mary teaching there,
1:28:58
Speaker 1: and you know, Golan teaching this. So that I don't
1:29:01
Speaker 1: think it's all or nothing, right, there's still some hopeful
1:29:05
Speaker 1: signs out there in spite, in spite of everything molten splendor,
1:29:09
Speaker 1: why hasn't Why hasn't the years of huge donations from
1:29:14
Speaker 1: Arab countries to US universities being more publicized. Clearly this
1:29:18
Speaker 1: investment has paid off for them. Yeah, I mean, why
1:29:23
Speaker 1: it's not being publicized because I think nobody's really motivated
1:29:27
Speaker 1: to do it. The universities want to take the cash.
1:29:30
Speaker 1: It's a huge revenue source for them. The professors don't
1:29:33
Speaker 1: want to be identified the left. Most of this money
1:29:38
Speaker 1: flows to leftist programs, but the right is doesn't want
1:29:43
Speaker 1: to offend these Arab countries, like I mean, Tucker Causin.
1:29:47
Speaker 1: But even Trump is very friendly with KATA. And the
1:29:50
Speaker 1: fact that KATA is pouring money into American universities to
1:29:53
Speaker 1: promote leftist causes, particularly the leftist causes generally, but particularly
1:29:58
Speaker 1: anti Israeli an anti American causes, his willingness to be
1:30:04
Speaker 1: friendly or his eagerness to be friendly with the Katawis
1:30:08
Speaker 1: is much more important to him than that fact. So
1:30:11
Speaker 1: I think that's what explains it. Rob says, I recently
1:30:18
Speaker 1: watched you a video for a few years ago on
1:30:19
Speaker 1: your recommendations from modifications to the US Constitution. Just excellent,
1:30:25
Speaker 1: thank you, Oh my pleasure. I appreciate that, appreciate It's
1:30:28
Speaker 1: great that some of my older videos are still being watched.
1:30:32
Speaker 1: That makes my day. Thank you. Not you average algorithm.
1:30:36
Speaker 1: You can't seize the means of production when the means
1:30:38
Speaker 1: of production is man's mind. Sure that is true, but
1:30:42
Speaker 1: you can seize the physical manifestations of those and you
1:30:45
Speaker 1: can of course deny the man's mind the ability to
1:30:50
Speaker 1: use it, which is what happens. Harrison says, did you
1:30:57
Speaker 1: catch to Kiak Calson? This is Tucker saying that City
1:31:01
Speaker 1: Bank is more dangerous to Americans than comas. All anti
1:31:04
Speaker 1: semitism does come home come from anti capitalism. Huh. I
1:31:09
Speaker 1: mean they're linked, They're linked closely together. Capitalism is the
1:31:14
Speaker 1: idea of freedom, Capitalism rested individualism, you know. Anti semitism's
1:31:19
Speaker 1: rejection of freedom, rejection of individualism, and generally anti capitalism
1:31:25
Speaker 1: has a massive distrust of finance, and financiers often have
1:31:29
Speaker 1: been in history offered Jews, and that connects to them
1:31:31
Speaker 1: as well. But yes, I didn't see that. I need
1:31:35
Speaker 1: to look for that clip I'll played for you. But yeah,
1:31:38
Speaker 1: Tucker's just the same old anti Semitic claims just keep
1:31:43
Speaker 1: coming back. They never go away. Neil, Will America be
1:31:49
Speaker 1: isolated after Trump? I mean to some extent, it'll be
1:31:52
Speaker 1: more isolated. I don't think we can completely isolated because
1:31:55
Speaker 1: still depends on America. So the Europeans still depend on
1:31:58
Speaker 1: us to provide them with way happens, if not, to
1:32:00
Speaker 1: provide them with defense. So it won't be totally isolated.
1:32:04
Speaker 1: But people around the world are going to be suspicious
1:32:10
Speaker 1: of America because if we can elect Trump, who else
1:32:15
Speaker 1: could we elect? Who is next? They think we're crazy,
1:32:20
Speaker 1: and they're right. We are a little crazy or a
1:32:22
Speaker 1: lot crazy. All right, guys, thank you. We really appreciate
1:32:28
Speaker 1: the supports and we did great today, so I appreciate that.
1:32:34
Speaker 1: I will be back tomorrow and Wednesday. I'm not sure
1:32:36
Speaker 1: about Thursday, Friday, Saturday, well, I know, no, Saturday, I
1:32:40
Speaker 1: know no, Friday, Thursday probably not well no, well, maybe
1:32:45
Speaker 1: maybe I might be able to do a show to
1:32:46
Speaker 1: Friday Thursday. We'll see, but there will be one tomorrow
1:32:50
Speaker 1: and I think Wednesday, So stay tuned. I will be
1:32:55
Speaker 1: updating you when we know more about the war. It's
1:32:59
Speaker 1: going to be an interesting next few hours and uh yep,
1:33:03
Speaker 1: I'll see you all tomorrow. Bye everybody, I'm off the
1:33:05
Speaker 1: class at the University of Boston teach him about capitalism. Bye.