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Kharg Island - Economic Disaster, Hurting China, and Unintended Benefits for The USA · World Ablaze with George Fontes

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Welcome back to World of Blaze. This is episode 121, recorded the 29th of March, 2026.
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This episode is a solo episode, and before we get into it, I want to address a few things
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regarding this show, its future, and what you can expect moving forward.
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firstly let me address something that I've been thinking about for a while when it comes to this
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show and if you're a first-time listener please bear with me because I'm going to be getting into
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some important information regarding Iran the operations as they're happening and how things
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are unfolding so just hang in there for all of my longtime listeners who've been with me through
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the changes look this is my third year doing this show I think within three years I've done
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very well. I have charted two years in a row in the top 100 on Apple in politics. I have charted
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in the top 10 in geopolitics. And I think overall, we've done well. We have done well.
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I appreciate you coming back. I appreciate you listening. But there's one thing that I am
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very good at, and that is being very astute to the business side of things.
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and when I'm looking at it, and I'm looking at the analytics,
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I have noticed that you seem to prefer my solo episodes to my guest episodes.
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And the reason I think that is, well, the reason I know that is,
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is because unfortunately for some of my guests,
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by the time we get them on here to record,
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what they have to say I don't believe is necessarily relevant to what's happening now.
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perfect example
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John Carlos Frey
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six time award winning
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journalist
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Emmy award winning journalist
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great episode
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great conversation
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the problem is
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is right when we recorded
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and this was about to release
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that episode was going to be released
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the Iran conflict broke out
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and of course
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that episode got completely buried
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because
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well
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people wanted to hear
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what was going on with Iran
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so I feel sorry for John
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great guy, great journalist
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had a lot to say
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I'm definitely going to do another episode with him down the road here
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but
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these things tend to happen and that happens with
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quite a few of my guests
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so what I'm going to start doing is
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we're going to slow down on the guests a bit
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my goal is maybe we do them
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once a month
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or unless there's
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a hot topic going on and I happen to get a hold
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of a subject matter expert that
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has relevant information
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to what's going on in the world at the time.
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Okay?
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So in that case, yeah, I'll have that guest on.
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But for the most part, this is what we're going to do.
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I'm going to focus on what the show started as.
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And what it started doing in the beginning
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was focusing on domestic politics,
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current events, and geopolitics.
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Not to say that my guest did not fit that criteria,
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but the problem is
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the subject matter
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that we discussed at times
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was not necessarily
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again as I said
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relevant to what was happening
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in the world
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so we're still going to have guests
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because I love having guests
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I love picking their brain
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I like hearing what they have to say
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they're considered subject matter
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experts within
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their certain
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well area of expertise
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not to sound redundant
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sounded kind of redundant I guess
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but
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we're going to slow that down
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so I'm going to try to have guests
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maybe once a month
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maybe a little bit more
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just depending on how things are going.
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But you're going to get more of me.
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You're going to get more solo episodes.
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And if you're a first-time listener or a listener that just came on
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based on my guest episodes, you're going to see another side of me
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that you don't see in my guest episodes.
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I hold myself back a lot in my guest episodes
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because I want to hear what they have to say.
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But moving forward, we're going to get back to business here.
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Okay?
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We're getting back to business.
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And the other thing that we're going to do,
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I've decided that we're going to ramp this up.
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We're going to do twice-a-week episodes
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because one episode a week is just not enough.
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it's just not cutting it.
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We need to do it twice a week.
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There's just way too much going on.
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The world's moving too fast.
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And so we're going to do two episodes a week
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and we're going to get back to basics here.
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We're going to get back to what the show was meant to be.
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And that's giving you the information,
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the facts, the data,
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calling people out in their bullshit
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and just telling it like it is.
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I'm going to do my best to keep my bias out of it.
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I've always been a little bit more center
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than all right.
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Definitely never been really left, to be honest.
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But I see their perspective.
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So I have no problem looking at things from their side of the aisle at all.
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But getting to the episode at hand, this episode, 121.
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Now that I got that out of the way.
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Now that I got that out of the way.
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Let's move forward.
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Let's talk about Iran.
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Let's talk about what's happening.
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First off, majority of people out there don't know what the hell is happening.
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They don't know what's going on with the wrong.
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And the other unfortunate truth right now is there are too many people listening to half-baked history cherry picking dipshits out there that really don't know anything.
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And I'm talking about people like Dave Smith.
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Now, I'm not one of those guys who likes to get into the podcast bro wars or any of that crap.
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but lately the misinformation has been ramping up.
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And I say it's misinformation versus disinformation because these people,
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they're kind of on the target,
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but they don't,
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I don't think they fully grasp what's happening.
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They're not,
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and I don't think they're intentionally going out there to give you the wrong
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information.
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They're just stupid.
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And you know,
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you,
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you have Dave Smith,
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you have Tucker Carlson,
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which I don't even know where his head at is at these days.
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You have Candace Owens.
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you have all of these people, the Nick Fuenteses, all these people out there
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intentionally going out of their way to basically keep people distracted,
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separated, and to be quite honest, stupid.
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Like they're intentionally keeping you dumb because they're engaging
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and they're entertaining.
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And unfortunately, too many people are eating up their bullshit.
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So let's not be stupid.
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Let's listen to people who actually know what they're saying.
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You want to know what's going on with conflicts and geopolitics?
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Listen to specific geopolitical figures.
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Listen to specific analysts that know what they're talking about.
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They're not popular.
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They're not at the top of the podcast charts because facts and data just never were that popular.
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They're not sensationalizing.
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They're not dramatizing.
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They're not giving you entertainment.
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But those are the people you need to start looking for.
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If you want to know what's really happening,
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you need to listen to those people
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and stop giving these other fake podcast wannabes
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any more air.
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Let's just stop.
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Let's just stop.
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And that also goes not just for those people I've mentioned,
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but also these, you know, these ex-CIA spooks
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like Sarah Adams,
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Sean Ryan.
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I know, I know.
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Who am I to say anything about Sean Ryan?
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Everybody loves Sean Ryan.
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Look,
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he and Sarah Adams
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have both criticized
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many people for not having
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real informed opinions.
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Don't know what they're talking about.
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They have no inside info.
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They say all these things.
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Hate to break it to you,
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but Sean and Sarah,
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Both of you are no longer involved in the government.
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Both of you do not have the contacts you used to have.
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You don't have the inside track on anything.
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You haven't for quite some time.
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You've been out of government service for a long time.
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I don't even believe you guys are even contractors anymore.
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So the reality is you're just talking heads like anybody else.
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You're just blow-hearted opinionists.
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what I can say
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is we value your opinions
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because you have the experience
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that many others
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including myself
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don't have
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but we're going to take your opinion
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with a grain of salt
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because the reality is
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you don't know anymore
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you're not actively involved
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in intelligence
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you don't
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have the contacts
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you used to have
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okay
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you're just talking heads now
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That's it.
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Probably more respected than most because of your real-world experience,
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but the reality is that's what you are.
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So stop with the bullshit.
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At this point, your opinion holds no more weight than honestly mine.
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So with that being said, what is happening with Iran?
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What is going on?
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Well, there's too much for me to talk about in this episode.
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So moving forward, I'm going to be probably bringing up Iran quite a bit.
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But what I will say is the rhetoric going around that this was a sudden decision by Donald Trump,
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that this was something that just came about and was suddenly decided
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because Israel decided for the U.S. that we should be fighting Iran is a bunch of bullshit.
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We've been on a 50-year collision course with the Islamic regime.
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period.
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And if anything,
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okay,
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the one thing I'm really good at,
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now,
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I'm not a trained intelligence expert
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or analyst.
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I have relationships with those people.
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I'm smart enough to shut my mouth
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and soak up their knowledge.
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But what I am good at
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is reading the damn tea leaves.
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Okay?
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And I'll say some things
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that you're not hearing in the news
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that the podcast bros aren't talking about
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because simply,
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But the podcast brills don't know a fucking thing.
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And the news outlets are only going to regurgitate what they're being told.
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They're not really analyzing anything.
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They're just parrots.
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Parrots with oftentimes an agenda.
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But they're just parrots.
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That's all they are.
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They're just parroting stuff that they're told to say.
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So, Iran.
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Again, we've been on a 50-year collision course with the Islamic regime,
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not necessarily the nation-state of Iran, but the Islamic regime,
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the IRGC as well.
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And the reality is we're dealing with a leadership
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whose foreign policy is death to America and the destruction of the West.
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Now, I'm not going to get into all the politics
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and do a deep dive into how Iran
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and the associated Islamic terrorist groups
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are going about trying to conquer the West
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because not all of it is through kinetic force.
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A lot of it is due to soft invasion tactics,
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which I'm going to go over in another episode.
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But in this episode, what we will discuss
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is that the fact is,
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if Donald Trump didn't do this,
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the next president probably was going to happen
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or the president after.
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This was going to happen.
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This needed to happen.
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And if everyone out there is acting so shocked and surprised,
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look, Donald Trump has been talking about Iran since the 80s,
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before he even had presidential aspirations.
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Well, maybe he had them then.
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Who knows?
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But the reality is,
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he's not a stupid person as everyone's trying to make him out to be.
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He knows what's going on.
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Is he the smartest guy in the room of all time?
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No, I'm not saying that.
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But we're not going to say he's the stupidest person in the room at all.
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And so when it comes to Iran,
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this regime, the Islamic regime,
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has been allowed to grow and fester for years.
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In fact, some of our own people,
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past presidents like Barack Obama and Joe Biden actually funded or gave them money to the tune of billions.
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There a lot of questions there as to why the real reasons behind that But Iran needs to be dealt with Okay They are the number one state sponsor of terrorism
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And I don't give a fuck what your counter argument is.
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It is the fact you can tell me that America created this,
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America created that America funded this group, that group.
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Look, there's a lot of nuance in there.
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And the problem is not everything that you hear or regurgitate is the truth.
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And so just because you heard a podcast bro tell you that America sponsors terrorists doesn't make it true and doesn't mean that you can just regurgitate it as a counter argument because it's just fucking not a counter argument.
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You don't even begin to grasp all the details in between what's coming out of your mouth and your ass, to be honest.
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So let's squash that there.
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the thing the thing with iran right now is everybody believes that america is just being
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a big bully we're just there for the oil it's all about the oil no it has nothing to do with
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the terrorist actions that were funded by iran has nothing to do with the massive amounts of
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weapons that were handed to uh these terrorist organizations that are literal proxies of iran
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like do everything on on at the beck and call of iran so that iran could throw their hands up and
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say, hey, we had nothing to do with it.
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We're over here. The Houthis are
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over there. Hezbollah's over there.
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Wasn't us. Those guys.
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Not Iran.
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Problem is,
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the world isn't that stupid.
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Iran.
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The world knows. They've known for years.
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Everybody knows.
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The people of Iran themselves that were
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fortunate enough to get out of that
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country,
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they know. And they've been
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very vocal. So a few weeks back, Iran decided that they were going to literally murder 30,000
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to 40,000 of their own people just for protesting the government. Because it's not a democracy
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over there. It's not a democratic government whatsoever. It's authoritarian. An authoritarian
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government based off of a fake religion devised by a power-hungry fake prophet.
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There, I said it.
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And I'm waiting for all the feints.
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And oh my God, I can't believe he said that.
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Did he say that?
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Oh my God, how racist.
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It's not racist.
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Not racist.
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No.
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You know why?
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I'm criticizing your fake religion, not you.
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as an Iranian, Iranian, a Muslim,
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whatever you want to call yourself,
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I'm criticizing the religion,
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the doctrine that has been used
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as a key tool
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to keep people in line, in check,
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in subjugation.
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The book that has been used
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to lay out the map
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and plans for conquest
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around the world.
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That's right.
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And so with that being said,
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we're not compatible.
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Uh-oh, did I say something else offensive?
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Yeah, I fucking just did.
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We're just not compatible.
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We're not.
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And I'm not going to change my position on this.
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And I don't care how you feel about me.
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I don't care if you call me bigoted,
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racist, intolerant,
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because none of those things are true.
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What is true is we're not compatible.
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Okay?
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The doctrine of Islam is not compatible
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with Western values. The doctrine of Islam is not compatible with the Judeo-Christian society.
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And sure, you can argue that, let's say the West isn't a Christian society anymore because
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they're very secular. Sure, there's secularism in it, but its foundation is based on Judeo-Christian
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values, period. That's not going to change. Well, it might if we keep letting all these
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migrants come in for no reason that add no value to any of our Western nations.
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We'll slowly be bred out, like literally bred out,
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like we'll no longer exist.
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And it'll just be a different place in the world,
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probably within, I don't know, 100 years, maybe even sooner.
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Does that matter though?
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Does it matter if our white skin is gone?
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If all we see is a sea of brown around the world?
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No, because what will happen is once these Islamic extremists take control of the world and everybody's brown,
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they're going to start turning on you other brown people because you don't practice Islam extreme enough.
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What you're eating is haram.
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Your culture is not compatible.
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Did I just say that?
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Yeah, well, be honest.
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That's how the Islamic regime looks at you and me.
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We are incompatible with their culture.
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we must become converted or be killed.
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So this is what we're dealing with.
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This is the Iran that we're dealing with right now.
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And it's unfortunate for the Iranian people
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who hold the land dear to their hearts,
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who can't even live freely,
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can't do anything without being under the thumb
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of the Islamic regime
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or being punished under threat of death
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or even actually literally killed by the IRGC.
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And so here we are.
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Here we are.
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So about Iran.
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Is it about the oil?
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It kind of is and kind of isn't.
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And the way that it is about the oil
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isn't the way you're thinking about it.
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Which brings us to Karg Island.
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the hot topic, the thing that everyone's talking about.
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And let me just say this before we move on to Karg Island.
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What I can tell you is this.
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The U.S. is about to do something that is well beyond just bombs.
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We have a military presence in the Gulf.
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In fact, the Marine Corps' 31st MEU based out of Japan
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has been deployed over to the Middle East.
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which will include approximately 2,200 Marines.
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Now, attached to this 31st MEU is the 3-1,
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based out of San Diego,
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and my nephew is a part of that.
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So everything I'm going to have to say about Iran
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and the reason I'm going to be covering this
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is because this is important,
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not just to the U.S.,
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not just to all Western nations,
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but because my nephew's going to be in the fight.
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And so, yeah, I have a definite interest in this.
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And I'm in a position where we need to focus,
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or I need to focus, but everyone else,
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away from the protesting, the rhetoric, the bullshit,
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and realize that we have American troops
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serving their country, doing what they signed up for.
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and they don't get to choose where they go.
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They don't get to choose the conflict or the fight.
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They just know that whatever it is they're doing,
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they're doing it for you and me.
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So we could do things like, you know,
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dye our hair blue,
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wear bull rings on our nose and rainbow Crocs,
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or in my case, talk shit on a microphone.
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So let's have a little empathy for our troops.
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Let's go ahead and support their efforts
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because in the end, these are our people.
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now also aside from the 31st
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MEU being deployed there's another
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thousand or so 82nd
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airborne from the US Army that's going to be
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out there
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so this all signifies
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one thing the United
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States is serious Donald Trump
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has made up his mind
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there will be boots on the ground
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well that being said though
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this is in a lot of troops
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to make a dent in
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any kind of operation or mission against Iran,
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not Iran proper,
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but this is where the Karg Island comes into the discussion.
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You see, the Karg Island,
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the reason that's being discussed so much
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is because it's a significant,
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significant piece of land
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contributing to the overall economic stability of Iran.
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So let's talk about Karg Island.
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Why is Karg Island so significant?
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Why do we care about Karg Island?
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Why are they talking about possibly taking over Karg Island?
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Well, here's the reason.
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Karg Island is the economic jugular vein of Iran.
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It handles approximately 90% of all Iran's crude oil.
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This is the island where basically just about all the crude oil that Iran produces is stored and then offloaded into ships and shipped around the world.
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So it has a capacity to handle millions of barrels per day.
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The island acts as a central hub for selling Iranian crude, feeding directly into the national budget.
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And its strategic location and infrastructure, unlike the shallow mainland coast,
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Karg is surrounded by deep waters
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suitable for deep draft super tankers
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and has an immense storage capacity
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of roughly 30 million barrels
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so here's Karg Island
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it's not too far off the coast of Iran
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at least looking at this map right
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but strategically
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a strategic location
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is easy enough for Iran to defend
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far enough to have deep waters around it.
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And then looking at this,
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here's another picture here.
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Looking at this, you're kind of like,
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well, how's the oil get there?
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Well, if you're looking at this picture here,
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and for those who are just listening,
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if you look on YouTube and watch this video,
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for example, or just Google anything about Karg Island,
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you'll see it.
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You'll notice these pipes right here.
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Well, these pipes are subsea pipes.
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And they all get fed from the main island of Iran.
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Here's the big tanks right here that store all the oil.
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And again, they can store up to 30 million barrels.
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So these subsea pipelines, they connect to the mainland,
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particularly through the onshore terminal.
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I think that's pronounced Ganava or Ganava.
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I'm not good at pronouncing these things, but anyway, G-A-N-A-V-E-H
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for those who are listening.
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From there, large tankers load the oil at deepwater jetties for shipments.
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So the subsea pipelines, there's six or seven of them.
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And they include pipes that are 30 to 52 inches in diameter.
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So there's quite a bit of oil that just flows through these pipes on a consistent basis.
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The storage capacity of the island features large storage tanks that hold millions of barrels of oil,
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which I already said that, but it's something that is significant.
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It's something to keep bringing up because...
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taking over Karg Island,
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taking over and controlling that island
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could be the death blow
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to the Iranian regime,
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the Islamic regime.
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Because without money,
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they can't continue to operate.
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Honestly, I mean,
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they can't pay their proxies,
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their terrorist proxies.
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They can't pay their military.
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They can't produce drones.
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They can't do anything without that money.
25:05
It takes money to wage war or to enter a conflict.
25:10
Even if you're defending yourself, it costs money.
25:14
So the significance of this island cannot be understated.
25:19
And the fact that we have roughly around 3,000 troops at the ready.
25:23
You see, 31st MU, those Marines have been training in the Indo-Pacific region for almost a year.
25:31
Actually, maybe it has been a year.
25:35
Special tactics known as island hopping.
25:39
Well, how coincidental you may think.
25:41
You see, again, these things don't just happen in a vacuum.
25:46
There's been a lot leading up to this.
25:48
The U.S. has been preparing.
25:50
For those who think that there isn't any intelligence
25:54
being delivered to Donald Trump or that he just ignoring it it just false Again I good at reading the tea leaves I can see how all of this has been developing over time
26:05
from how we handled our own hemisphere by taking Maduro,
26:12
by putting a stranglehold on Iran's presence there in Venezuela,
26:17
which, by the way, it was said that there was about
26:19
three to 400 IRGC and Quds Force members there in Venezuela.
26:26
You see, they had a 20-year-long relationship of setting themselves up in Venezuela
26:31
in an attempt to influence, control, and counteract America,
26:37
the United States of America, to influence the West.
26:41
And after taking out Maduro, that went away.
26:44
that also took away China's ability
26:47
to get oil from sanctioned countries
26:51
such as Venezuela and Iran.
26:56
So there's a lot more to the story with this conflict
26:59
than people are leading you to believe.
27:02
Sure, there is an incompatible, cultural,
27:05
fanatical, religious component to this
27:07
on the side of the Islamic regime.
27:10
I mean, sure, let's talk about the
27:13
47-year policy of death to America
27:18
and destroying the West.
27:21
We can talk about that too.
27:24
But some of this is also China.
27:28
Some of this is also China,
27:30
which I'm going to get to in a bit.
27:33
So with that being said,
27:36
let's get back to
27:38
how much money Iran is making here.
27:43
Just off of this Karg Island installation.
27:47
The petroleum crude oil fuel and refined products is by far Iran's largest export to dollar value,
27:56
which accounts for over 80% of total export revenue.
28:01
80% of the revenue comes from oil.
28:08
Crude oil and refined oil.
28:11
Oil, over 80% of the revenue comes from oil.
28:15
That's 80% of what they need to continue to fund terrorism.
28:20
Okay, I know that was an opinion.
28:21
Sorry, sorry, not sorry.
28:23
It's true.
28:25
So who's their major customer?
28:28
Ooh, let's re-enter the China component here.
28:33
Okay, so let's get back to what I was reading here.
28:35
The dollar value of crude oil to Iran,
28:41
handled by Carg Island itself,
28:44
accounts for over 80% of the total export revenue,
28:47
with estimated oil sales exceeding $35 billion to $45 billion.
28:52
And these were just numbers from 24 to 25.
28:55
China.
28:56
China is the primary destination.
29:00
China purchases 90% of Iran's oil.
29:05
90%.
29:07
Remember in the beginning episode,
29:12
I said this was kind of about the oil,
29:14
but not about the oil.
29:16
Well, maybe it is,
29:17
but not the way that you think it is.
29:19
So taking out Karg Island,
29:21
there's a couple of things.
29:22
It destroys the economic stability of Iran,
29:25
their ability to further get money
29:27
to fund their operations,
29:29
to build weapons,
29:30
to fund their proxy organizations.
29:32
and it deals a major blow to the oil needs of China themselves,
29:40
which, by the way, them, China, and Russia,
29:45
have been providing intelligence data to Iran
29:50
so that could remain in the fight.
29:53
So this is a multi-pronged effort, attack effort.
29:59
taking this island has very significant strategic importance and to be quite honest as expensive as
30:06
it is to either wage a war to defend oneself to enter into a conflict costs money and if we remove
30:15
the money component from things it makes it a lot harder for a nation to truly defend itself
30:22
it really does it doesn't mean the will of the people
30:25
are decimated.
30:28
It doesn't mean that.
30:29
It doesn't mean the will of people is decimated,
30:31
but the ability to continue
30:33
to fund the operations,
30:37
to purchase and build the munitions,
30:40
the defensive mechanisms,
30:41
and fund the forces
30:43
and said allies that you need,
30:46
that all goes away.
30:49
So there's your significance.
30:50
That is why we are so interested in Karg Island.
30:53
Is it going to be easy to take?
30:54
No.
30:55
it's not.
30:57
You may even ask, well, how in the hell are we going to get there?
31:00
Well, it's important to realize this.
31:04
We have many bases in the area.
31:06
Looking at this map here, you can see here's Iran.
31:10
Here is the Gulf area right here, the Pershing Gulf.
31:15
Here's the Strait of Hormuz right here.
31:17
Strait of Hormuz is right here.
31:19
And you can see why the Strait of Hormuz is such a big thing
31:22
because just geographically,
31:24
it creates a natural choke point,
31:26
which makes it very easy for Iran to control
31:28
the flow of ships going in and out of the Strait of Hormuz.
31:32
You have to go through the Strait of Hormuz
31:34
to get into the Persian Gulf,
31:36
which is where Karg Island is.
31:38
And if we control that island,
31:40
well, then we control, to a degree, Iran.
31:46
And how do you do that?
31:47
We say, well, we have multiple bases right here.
31:51
surrounding Iran.
31:54
We have Al-Uded Air Base right here out of Qatar,
31:57
which is our largest base in the Middle East, by the way.
32:01
We have the U.S. Navy 5th Fleet right here out of Bahrain,
32:05
right on the coast, right there on the coast of the Persian Gulf.
32:09
So how are we going to achieve taking Karg Island?
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Well, through airstrikes and air support
32:18
and through amphibious operations
32:20
involving our Marines.
32:22
That's how we're going to do it.
32:23
Is it going to be easy? No.
32:27
Can we do it?
32:28
Yes. Our military
32:29
is one of the most highest
32:31
trained militaries in the entire world.
32:34
We're not the only
32:35
military. That's tough. Let's just admit that.
32:38
We're not the only military with capabilities.
32:40
But dammit, we are
32:41
the best funded.
32:44
We have some of the best technology
32:46
and we have some of the
32:48
toughest sons of bitches
32:49
there is in the world,
32:51
ready to lay down their life for their country.
32:56
I'm not getting into the debate
32:58
of the war, whether it's moral,
33:00
just, whether people
33:02
should die for Israel as people
33:04
are trying to peddle that rhetoric.
33:07
What I am saying is
33:09
if the U.S. wants to take
33:11
Karg Island, they're going to take
33:13
Karg Island.
33:15
And there's nothing Iran can do about it.
33:17
Iran can give us hell for sure.
33:19
They can make it hard.
33:20
But in the end, it's happening.
33:23
If they fuck around too much,
33:25
there's nothing stopping us from sending our B2s
33:27
and just decimating the entire oil supply.
33:31
Now that'd be something, wouldn't it?
33:35
And as crazy as Donald Trump is at times,
33:38
I can see that happening.
33:42
So we take it by force, we control it,
33:45
or we just decimate it.
33:50
Either way, Iran has a choice here.
33:54
America has a choice here.
33:56
And I think in the end,
33:58
that choice is going to favor
33:59
the United States of America,
34:01
no matter how you slice this,
34:03
no matter how you want to serve it up,
34:05
no matter how you want to mix it up,
34:06
no matter how you want to bake this cake,
34:09
no matter how much icing you put on it,
34:11
in the end, it's going to taste like victory
34:14
for the United States of America.
34:15
period. It just is.
34:17
The means and methods of how we do
34:19
it, the outcome, the fallout,
34:22
well, those are other things we need to
34:23
discuss. But
34:25
Cargill Island will be
34:27
the United States of America.
34:29
It will be under our control.
34:31
It will be under the control of the
34:33
USA.
34:35
Bottom line.
34:38
So, we have the bases.
34:40
We have the strategically
34:41
located bases around the area.
34:43
we have the trained personnel
34:46
we have the technology
34:48
we have the means
34:49
we have the methods
34:51
and yes something is happening
34:54
something will happen the news isn't really talking about it
34:56
the news hasn't been talking about it
34:58
they're just barely bringing it up
34:59
but we've been talking about this
35:02
for a while and for anybody who
35:04
thinks that oh all of a sudden you have an
35:06
opinion on Iran well no I
35:08
don't just suddenly I've been talking about Iran since I
35:10
gotten behind this mic three years ago
35:12
And in fact, before I even was on the microphone and doing this podcast, I was talking about Iran.
35:18
Iran has been a significant thorn in the side of all Western nations for a long time.
35:27
And it's time to take that Islamic regime out.
35:30
And aside from that, it's time to turn the screws on China and maybe even Russia.
35:39
Sounds tyrannical, doesn't it?
35:40
but it's not.
35:43
It's not.
35:44
It's just facts.
35:46
Because when I was talking about Venezuela
35:47
and why we did that,
35:48
so you're connecting the dots,
35:50
the Iranian presence in Venezuela,
35:54
while there was also a Chinese presence.
35:55
It's funny, you know,
35:56
Iran and China,
35:57
how they were both there
35:58
making inroads in our own hemisphere
36:01
in the southwest hemisphere
36:05
there of the United States.
36:06
Yeah.
36:07
They were doing that.
36:08
they had their reasons
36:10
it wasn't for diplomatic reasons
36:13
whatsoever, it wasn't for diplomacy
36:15
they were
36:17
setting up strategic operations
36:19
and trenching themselves
36:21
into a strategically located
36:23
place that they can operate out of
36:25
and so we had to
36:27
put a stop to it
36:27
and so the next step
36:31
is taking
36:33
Karg Island
36:34
that is their strategic importance
36:37
this is why
36:38
this is the next thing,
36:41
the next proposed operation
36:42
that people are talking about.
36:44
We take out that island.
36:46
We take out the economic stability of Iran.
36:49
And this absolutely, if done right,
36:52
can lead to the downfall of the regime.
36:56
But is it over?
36:58
No.
37:00
It won't be over.
37:03
And let me circle back to that a minute
37:05
because I wanted to not forget to talk about the China component, okay,
37:10
and the reliance on Iranian oil and how this is a blow to not just Iran,
37:16
but also China.
37:19
So China is the world's largest crude oil importer, not exporter, importer,
37:27
which means they buy a significant amount of oil that they need from other sources.
37:31
their key oil sources
37:34
and logistics are the Middle East
37:36
approximately 40 to 50%
37:39
from Saudi Arabia
37:42
Iraq, the UAE
37:44
Oman, Kuwait
37:46
and Qatar, they're all crucial
37:48
they all have many shipments
37:50
navigating the strained Strait of Hormuz
37:52
Russia also
37:54
supplies China
37:56
but most of the oil that China needs comes
37:58
from the Middle East, comes from the Gulf region
38:01
Now, there are sanctioned sources that they get their oil from.
38:06
About 20% of that comes from sanctioned sources.
38:09
Well, those were Iran and Venezuela.
38:12
Well, we stopped the Venezuela thing.
38:13
That's done.
38:15
There's no more boats of oil coming out or ships of oil coming out of Venezuela going to China.
38:20
That's just not happening.
38:21
So the other source they have is Iran.
38:23
Remember when I said China buys 90% of Iran's oil?
38:27
So again, significant financial blow to Iran,
38:31
significant blow to China in terms of their oil needs.
38:34
They're going to lose a huge source of oil.
38:36
20% is not insignificant.
38:38
That's a huge amount.
38:41
And with that being said here,
38:43
China is heavily reliant on foreign oil.
38:46
They import 70%, 70% of its consumption.
38:51
It due to rapidly expanding industrial demand outstripping its domestic production capabilities So China gets 70 of its oil needs from other sources
39:07
There's another graph, though, that I wanted to show you,
39:10
put out by Politico, and this is really cool.
39:12
I'm going to go back to this screen here.
39:14
So this graph here shows the reliance of oil
39:19
or how much oil is coming out of that Gulf region
39:22
and the countries that rely on it.
39:26
So if I mouse over on China here,
39:27
you'll see that 50% of the crude oil imports
39:30
come from the Gulf countries.
39:36
But 20% of China's overall oil
39:40
that they need comes from Iran itself.
39:44
India also gets 46% of its oil
39:48
from the Gulf countries.
39:49
but Pakistan gets 93%.
39:53
98% of crude oil imports
40:01
come from Gulf countries for Oman.
40:06
Bangladesh, 91% of the oil comes from Gulf countries.
40:11
Myanmar, 92%.
40:13
Sri Lanka, all of their oil comes from the Gulf countries.
40:18
Vietnam, 82% of all oil in the need comes from Gulf countries.
40:22
The Philippines, 94% comes from Gulf countries.
40:25
Japan, 91%.
40:27
So you're starting to see how important capturing Karga Island is.
40:34
That's not just going to lead to the economic blow that we need to deal to Iran,
40:38
but it's also going to give us control back of the Strait of Hormuz.
40:42
This will open the door for everybody to start getting their oil again.
40:46
But this also leads to another potential beneficial byproduct
40:53
to all of these operations for the United States of America.
40:55
A lot of people don't even realize that the U.S.
41:01
is the number one country of oil production.
41:11
Now, we don't talk about it much because we're not the number one exporter.
41:15
That's the thing.
41:16
Saudi Arabia has got its beat there.
41:18
I believe they export more oil than anybody, I believe.
41:21
But in terms of oil production,
41:23
the United States is number one.
41:25
13.58 billion barrels per day.
41:30
Russia trails behind.
41:32
They're at 9.87 million barrels a day.
41:35
Saudi Arabia, 9.51 million barrels a day.
41:39
Iran is number seven on the list here,
41:43
producing 4.19 million barrels a day.
41:46
so the United States of America is the largest producer of oil in the world,
41:51
period.
41:52
And the reason we don't export or we're not the number one exporter is because
41:56
we actually consume most of all,
41:59
all the oil we produce,
42:00
whatever's left,
42:01
we then export.
42:02
But if we control,
42:04
if the United States takes control of Karg Island and they deal the blow that
42:10
they need to Iran economically, and they control all of that oil.
42:20
This means that renewed contracts, or there might be more reliance on the Gulf states,
42:26
which will actually help them out more.
42:28
But it also means that because we are the largest producer in the world, the United States
42:31
of America is, that this could mean an unintentional opportunity for the United States to become
42:40
one of the leading exporters and supplier of oil
42:42
to other countries in the world.
42:45
Especially if we go back to this chart here.
42:50
We're going to click on that.
42:52
If we have inroads with Pakistan, for example,
42:55
Japan, for example, can get most of all its oil from us.
42:58
The Philippines can get all of its oil
43:00
from the United States of America.
43:02
Vietnam, for sure, can get all of its oil from us
43:05
if we wanted to be able to make that happen.
43:08
so there's all these countries
43:10
even India for example
43:11
maybe they can get some oil from us
43:13
South Korea
43:15
South Korea out here
43:17
I mean as it is they get 69% of the crude oil
43:19
from the Gulf countries
43:20
I'm just saying
43:21
a lot of people make fun of Trump
43:26
and say ah this guy is playing checkers
43:28
not chess
43:28
well look
43:31
controlling our hemisphere by taking out
43:33
Maduro which
43:35
led to ousting the
43:37
Iranian presence there, or at least very, very much limiting what they're trying to do there,
43:41
which struck a blow to China's presence in Venezuela and what they were trying to do there.
43:45
We did what we had to do. So we cut that ability for them to operate in our
43:50
southwestern hemisphere. We're now taking control of it back. If we take Karg Island,
43:56
we cripple Iran. We have the ability to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
44:02
we then now become in a position
44:06
whether this was intentional or not
44:08
to become the world's largest exporter of oil
44:11
so yeah
44:13
I will say this conflict was partially about the oil
44:16
was it really all about Israel?
44:18
hell no
44:19
and anybody spreading that rhetoric
44:22
I gotta be honest is a fucking idiot
44:23
they really are
44:24
don't believe what you hear
44:25
don't believe the whole Joe Kent story
44:27
don't believe what Tucker's trying to push on everybody
44:31
Don't believe what Dave Smith is spitting out of his fucking giant asshole face.
44:37
Look, the United States is reasserting their power as the global economic powerhouse as well as the military powerhouse that they are.
44:48
The United States has been sleeping at the wheel for quite some time.
44:53
But here we are.
44:54
Here is the U.S. taking charge once again.
44:57
And many could argue that the U.S. is being tyrannical,
45:02
that they're imposing their will on everybody.
45:05
And there is a good argument for that.
45:07
I'm not saying there isn't.
45:09
But let me ask you this.
45:11
Who would you rather have in control,
45:13
the United States of America or China?
45:16
Think about that.
45:17
Don't just answer.
45:19
Don't let your leftist heart answer so quickly.
45:22
Trust me.
45:24
Think about that.
45:24
China or the United States
45:28
because China's made it clear
45:30
that they want to take
45:31
the United States' place
45:32
on the global stage
45:34
and they are going to do so
45:38
by any means necessary
45:39
this operation
45:43
this blow to Iran
45:44
is killing
45:47
so to speak
45:48
I'll just use the saying
45:49
it's killing two birds
45:51
with one stone
45:51
probably three
45:53
the reality is
45:56
we are getting ahead of the situation
45:58
of
46:01
a regime that's been
46:02
ramping up their efforts
46:04
their funding of proxy terrorists
46:07
their ability
46:09
to produce
46:10
nuclear weapons
46:12
by the way
46:12
it's been confirmed
46:14
it's not a lie
46:15
they have been enriching uranium
46:18
to the point of about 60%
46:20
60%
46:22
Now, we may have dealt a blow to them and their ability to create a nuclear weapon by taking out their facilities, but we don't stop them from going back to the drawing board and continuing to enrich uranium.
46:35
This is something they want to do.
46:36
They've made it very, very clear that they are going to produce a nuclear weapon.
46:44
This is what their goal is.
46:45
combine that with their proxy terrorist efforts
46:49
and the soft invasion tactics
46:52
of all of these refugee,
46:56
big old air quotes,
46:57
refugee Muslims entering Western nations,
47:00
you can clearly see the plan that Iran has.
47:03
And for those who don't want to see the plan,
47:06
you're intentionally not seeing it.
47:08
You're like, you're intentionally not seeing it.
47:09
You're literally not seeing it
47:10
because you don't want to.
47:12
You want to believe we live in this big kumbaya world.
47:15
Well, you can take that bullshit and just fucking kick that can down the street because that is not the truth of the matter.
47:24
I've said it before, I said it again.
47:26
We've been on this collision course with the round for about 50 years.
47:29
This was going to happen.
47:30
If it wasn't Donald Trump, it was going to be somebody else.
47:33
Believe me, it was going to be somebody else.
47:35
And this is what the news guys don't want to tell you.
47:37
This is what your podcast bros aren't telling you.
47:39
They're all playing you like fiddles for likes and clicks.
47:42
I'm going to tell you the truth.
47:43
I'm going to tell you like it is.
47:44
where are my sources to be quite honest sources that the news people have.
47:49
They should have the same access that I do.
47:52
I happen to know people that are kind enough to give me information when they
47:57
can.
47:58
They can't tell me everything.
48:00
And I respect that.
48:02
But again,
48:03
I'm smarter enough to shut up and listen when I need to.
48:06
And the other part of this is I'm doing nothing more than what any of you can
48:10
do.
48:10
Like I can go a lot deeper in this episode and give you a lot more facts and
48:13
data.
48:13
But right now, I wanted to give you an overview.
48:17
I wanted to paint the picture for you so that you can get an idea of the whys, the what's, of what's happening here.
48:26
The so what's, as they say.
48:29
Oil is part of the issue here, is part of this conflict.
48:34
But it's not in the way that you originally thought it was.
48:38
And I just explained all that.
48:41
And taking out the Islamic regime is key.
48:43
They must go.
48:45
They are on a relentless path to destroy America and destroy the West.
48:52
And if you don't believe that, then you're going to lose your life, your way, and everything that you are due to your tolerance, your empathy, and your acceptance.
49:08
And that's fine for you.
49:09
That's what you want.
49:10
but why don't you just fast track it
49:13
move your ass to the Middle East
49:15
get out of here
49:16
that's where I'm at with it
49:18
Iran has been setting themselves up
49:22
in our western hemisphere
49:24
our southwestern hemisphere
49:25
for over 20 years
49:26
they have inroads and relationships
49:27
with Venezuela
49:28
which we just put the kibosh on
49:30
they've been doing the same thing
49:31
with Cuba
49:32
they know what they're doing
49:34
they have been circumventing sanctions
49:36
they've been doing everything they can
49:38
to position themselves
49:39
to attack the United States of America
49:42
if they move forward with it.
49:45
We've had more than enough terrorists
49:46
come to our borders in 2025 alone
49:48
to put 80 terrorists
49:51
in the United States of America
49:52
in each state.
49:53
80 in each state.
49:54
It's something I've said before.
49:55
I'm going to keep hammering it
49:56
into your skulls
49:57
until you actually grasp what that means.
49:59
80 trained, known terrorists
50:02
in every state of the United States of America.
50:07
combine that with Iran's inroads
50:10
and relationships they've been creating in Venezuela
50:13
over the last 20 years.
50:15
The relationships and inroads they've been creating
50:18
for the last 20 years with Cuba.
50:20
Cuba.
50:23
If you can't read these tea leaves
50:25
and you can't come to the same conclusions that I am,
50:29
rewind this episode, hear it back,
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listen to other known intelligence experts
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that are way better at reading the situation than I am.
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But do yourself a service.
50:42
Stop listening to these bloated,
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half-baked podcast bro motherfuckers
50:48
who are just leading you down the wrong path.
50:51
All they want to do is keep you engaged and entertained.
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I want to tell you the truth.
50:55
I'm going to expose the truth.
50:57
And I encourage you to listen to others
50:59
that will do the same.
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Hell, I'll tell you what.
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Here's a good one.
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Listen to my buddy, Curvin.
51:04
This week, explain.
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he and his wife
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this is what they do
51:07
they break down
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the conflicts
51:08
the geopolitics
51:09
the geopolitical relationships
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he's a veteran
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army intelligence
51:16
veteran by the way
51:17
still active
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in the intel community
51:19
so the guy knows
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what the fuck
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he's talking about
51:20
okay
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you got Daniel
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from HM Intelligence
51:25
I believe is pronounced
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Hugin and Mugen
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which was from
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an old Norse legend
51:31
really cool choice
51:32
of a name there
51:33
another guy that knows
51:34
his shit
51:35
I'm just saying, there are people out there
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that you can listen to or even watch in podcast form.
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Don't just keep listening to these mainstream idiots.
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All right?
51:47
I know how I sound.
51:49
You're probably thinking, well, who are you to say
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that these guys are idiots?
51:53
Well, I'm a guy who cares.
51:56
I'm a guy who was skin in the game.
51:57
I'm a guy whose nephew is out there
51:59
wondering right now if he's probably going to come home from this conflict if the decision is
52:05
actually made to deploy and take the island. And who even knows if that's where they're going to
52:13
land first. There might be something else here that I'm not seeing. But I care enough
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because my nephew's out there and because I'm tired of the misinformation,
52:27
the deliberate disinformation
52:29
and the half-baked opinions
52:33
by these so-called podcast bros
52:39
who don't know their head from their ass.
52:42
So that's where we're at.
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With that being said,
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I hope you all listen again.
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I'm sure that's a side
52:49
that many of you haven't seen in a while.
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But the reality is
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I'm going to be following this up
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with another episode very shortly.
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We're going to do two a week.
52:56
I'm going to concentrate
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on what's happening with Iran.
52:58
And we're going to continue to also go over
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all the political hoopla and BS
53:03
that's happening in the United States of America.
53:05
And please like, subscribe,
53:08
turn on your notifications,
53:09
share the show with others,
53:10
and always go behind the headlines.
53:15
Dig a little deeper.
53:17
Devils hide behind redemption.
53:21
Honesty is a one-way gate to hell.
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Bye.