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Blaine Holt | Brigadier General Speaks on the Latest from the Middle East · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: General Blaine Holt. Good morning, General Holt.
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  Speaker 2: I need coffee after hearing that long string for you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's the end of the segment after we finally finished.
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  Speaker 3: That was like a 12-minute intro. Now, Blaine lives in Idaho.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Blaine, why Idaho?
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  Speaker 2: Well, because it's the safest distance from Washington, D.C. that
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  Speaker 2: you can get in this country.
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  Speaker 3: And the potatoes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And it's gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: And I love it. And we've got a beautiful tract
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  Speaker 2: of land here that we hope to build on soon
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  Speaker 2: with the company I'm building.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when they come out with these lists of
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  Speaker 1: the best places to live in America, there's always times
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  Speaker 1: in Idaho that make that list.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. It's.
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  Speaker 2: It's really breathtaking, and we've got our little problem with
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  Speaker 2: Marxists here as well, but people have a pretty good
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  Speaker 2: set of values, and you just really can't beat it.
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  Speaker 2: It's still the home of the rugged individualist, still the
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  Speaker 2: home of people who cherish their freedom and their personal choices.
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  Speaker 1: General, no doubt I'm sure you've been watching what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in Iran. What do you think? What's the latest?
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  Speaker 1: What do you know? What can you tell us?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we got a little kinetic with throwing some
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  Speaker 2: missiles back at the Iranians in the past couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: Here's why. Look, they're dying out now. The IRGC has
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  Speaker 2: very little left, and they were making a last gas
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  Speaker 2: to remind the Straits. We caught it immediately because we're
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  Speaker 2: dominating the Straits from a naval perspective.
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  Speaker 4: And then they threw missiles at our bases.
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  Speaker 2: But the targeting is really, really off. They're essentially blind,
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  Speaker 2: but firing in all directions. And at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: there's no money. One of the generals in this war
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  Speaker 2: is Scott Bessette. He has absolutely not only sealed the
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  Speaker 2: door on any money getting into Iran whatsoever, but he's
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  Speaker 2: taking down illicit banks around the world, from Hong Kong
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  Speaker 2: to Egypt. And this is making a huge difference, but
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  Speaker 2: this is all setting the ground to be very fertile
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  Speaker 2: for what's to come, and that is a revolution. This
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  Speaker 2: regime is not going to survive this.
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  Speaker 1: So how long do we have to wait for that
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  Speaker 1: to happen?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the problem. So the good news is you
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  Speaker 2: don't have 130,000 U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Forces on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: You've got six months of war, not six years of it.
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  Speaker 2: And when we do those types of things, we're very
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  Speaker 2: predictable about when we're going to take you down. But
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  Speaker 2: this revolution, they've got to find their feet. Use their equipment.
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  Speaker 2: Use their organization. It'll take them a little time. It'll
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  Speaker 2: be a little messy, probably a few months. But what
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  Speaker 2: we'll provide them is air power, and they'll get bombs
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  Speaker 2: wherever they want them. You just got to call it in,
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  Speaker 2: and they do have the ability to call and talk
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  Speaker 2: to us. You've got the Kurds in the north that
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  Speaker 2: are going to squeeze on that side. The IRGC can't flee.
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  Speaker 2: There's nowhere to run. And China and Russia right now
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  Speaker 2: have agreed that they're going to stay on the sidelines.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing coming in by land. So it looks like
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  Speaker 2: it's all penned off to give the Iranians back their country,
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  Speaker 2: but they're the ones who have to take it to
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  Speaker 2: the last mile.
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  Speaker 1: So there obviously can't be a timeline because you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to signal when this is going to take place.
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  Speaker 2: Well, when it's going to take place, that I can
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  Speaker 2: tell you about. That is a conditions-based checklist that Admiral
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  Speaker 2: Brad Cooper keeps. where these conditions have to be met,
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  Speaker 2: the IRGC has to be this vulnerable, there has to
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  Speaker 2: be this much crisis financially on the streets, there has
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  Speaker 2: to be this much disarray and chaos in what was
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  Speaker 2: the leadership.
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  Speaker 4: And when those conditions are all met.
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  Speaker 2: Then he'll advise the president, and the president will give
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  Speaker 2: the word that, okay, tell the Iranians now is their chance.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but General, can I ask you this question? Because
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  Speaker 3: Iran's president yesterday said, said that Iran would return to
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  Speaker 3: that ceasefire, that memorandum of agreement that was signed, what
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  Speaker 3: was it, June or July? Maybe June, right? If the
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  Speaker 3: United States agrees to return. So I have really two
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  Speaker 3: questions for you. First is, why in the world do
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  Speaker 3: they think that President Trump is going to return to
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  Speaker 3: a ceasefire that they never held in the first place?
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  Speaker 3: And two, do you think he should?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the shelf life of an agreement in Iran is
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  Speaker 2: approximately eight minutes. That's one thing. The other thing is
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  Speaker 2: we now finally have them in a moment of desperation
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  Speaker 2: where they're willing to say anything if it's going to
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  Speaker 2: save their necks. The only reason that Pazheshkin is allowed
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  Speaker 2: to call himself president is because he found a phone
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  Speaker 2: with a camera on it and has a microphone and
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  Speaker 2: can get a word out. And that's what makes him president.
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  Speaker 2: And that's exactly how chaotic it is.
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  Speaker 4: And so As the embers are.
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  Speaker 2: Falling in around them, he's like, hey, what about the MOU?
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  Speaker 2: And it's we understood what the Iranian strategy would be,
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  Speaker 2: which is to kick the can down the road, fake
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  Speaker 2: out everybody about the MOU and try to bide for
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  Speaker 2: time and scream bloody murder. They thought they'd make it
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  Speaker 2: to the midterms. Well, it's obviously they're not going to.
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  Speaker 2: And and President Trump, in the meantime, has said, hey, revolutionaries,
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  Speaker 2: here's your gear. Here's your stuff. Get organized. Get ready
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  Speaker 2: here because here it comes. So we actually use their
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  Speaker 2: strategy against them.
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  Speaker 3: So you probably agree with me that Trump will not
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  Speaker 3: go for it. Well, I'm kind of curious as to
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking as soon as I was reading the article,
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  Speaker 3: I think was like in the Associated Press or something.
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking to myself, knowing Trump as well as
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  Speaker 3: I do. What do I think? He knows that, as
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  Speaker 3: you just said, they cannot be trusted. At the same
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  Speaker 3: point in time, he knows that. But he also wants
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  Speaker 3: the Strait of Hormuz opened so that the naval blockade,
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  Speaker 3: which is still going to stay there, they can get
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  Speaker 3: some relief themselves. It's a very perplexing situation. I'm curious
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  Speaker 3: as to how do you think he's going to play it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, At the core, the president understands at the strategic
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  Speaker 2: level that now that we have undertaken this mission, you
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  Speaker 2: cannot leave our grandchildren with revenge-minded Armageddon psychopaths in perpetuity
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  Speaker 2: who will only go pursue that nuclear weapon as fast
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  Speaker 2: as they can and actually light it off. So that's
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  Speaker 2: off the table. And then you have to pull your
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  Speaker 2: lens out and say, well, who is the president wanting
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  Speaker 2: to make a deal with? And certainly Iran is on
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  Speaker 2: its way to having a free government. But it's also
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  Speaker 2: a leg of the City of London and the financialists
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  Speaker 2: called Lloyds of London that Bessette has told us about
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  Speaker 2: many times. Those are the people who should be trying
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  Speaker 2: to cut a deal with right now because that's what
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  Speaker 2: this war is really rolling up to, is sovereigntists versus
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  Speaker 2: the globalists who are very upset that they used to
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  Speaker 2: control all the resources in the straits, and now they don't.
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  Speaker 2: So those legs are being destroyed. Wait a minute. The
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  Speaker 2: president pulled them right off balance because what happened over
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  Speaker 2: the weekend? You had the Venezuela oil deal, and now
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  Speaker 2: it looks like the United States is on track to
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  Speaker 2: not own but control up to 80% of energy stocks
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  Speaker 2: and energy in the world. And so now if you're
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  Speaker 2: a financialist who has been living off of this and
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  Speaker 2: living off of these fake wars over decades, you're on
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  Speaker 2: the run. You're in desperate spaces. You're the one who
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  Speaker 2: wants to cut a deal. So you're going to probably
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  Speaker 2: see banks getting very cozy with Scott Pesent saying, can't
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  Speaker 2: we work it out?
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  Speaker 4: We used to have such a good deal.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking with General Blaine Holt. What do we know
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  Speaker 1: about these revolutionaries who would be involved in any kind
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  Speaker 1: of uprising in Iran?
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  Speaker 5: Who are they?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Iranian people, but when you say Iranians, you're only
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  Speaker 2: really talking about 60% of them being Persian descent. You've
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  Speaker 2: got Zoroastrians, Christians, Hindus. You've got Jews. You've got the
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  Speaker 2: Kurds in the north. They've been organizing not completely along
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  Speaker 2: sectarian lines but more geographic southeast, southwest, and northwest. are
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  Speaker 2: your predominant groups. The last item in the checklist that
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  Speaker 2: had to get them ready to go is that the
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  Speaker 2: economy now with the door shut on illicit monies is
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  Speaker 2: so sealed that the economic pain is there that the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the population knows they had better put their
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  Speaker 2: hearts and minds with the revolutionaries because there's no other
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  Speaker 2: way out of this.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm embarrassed to say that I get a fair,
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  Speaker 1: I've spent a fair amount of time watching TikTok. And
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  Speaker 1: a fair amount of these videos from Iran have showed
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  Speaker 1: up in my feed where it's people showing how desperate
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  Speaker 1: it is there right now, waiting in these long gas lines,
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  Speaker 1: waiting to get groceries. So I imagine that's all going
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  Speaker 1: to play into this, no?
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  Speaker 2: It absolutely are all factors that were strategically architected between
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  Speaker 2: Admiral Brad Cooper and Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. You're watching
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  Speaker 2: a phased operation that goes back and forth between kinetics, communications, information,
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  Speaker 2: psychological warfare, and then financial operations. So when I see
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  Speaker 2: people getting into stovepipes and saying, oh, we're flailing, we
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  Speaker 2: don't know what we're doing, it's a quagmire, I'm like, hey, look,
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  Speaker 2: I'll show you a quagmire. It ended with bodies flying
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  Speaker 2: off of my C-17 in Afghanistan after 20 years of nothing.
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  Speaker 2: just a lot of misery and pain and death, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of it on our side. So this is going
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  Speaker 2: extremely well. I think the president's going to get to
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  Speaker 2: take a victory lap. He has proven that he has
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  Speaker 2: much tougher steel than the midterm shot clock, and I
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  Speaker 2: think he's going to benefit from it.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, this September 24th, I think St. Nicholas
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  Speaker 6: Church or St. Nicholas Chapel, St. Nicholas Standard World Trade Center,
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  Speaker 6: is having a big dinner, and you know who they're honoring?
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  Speaker 2: Blaine Holt? Zielinski.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Zielinski, okay.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 6: As the highest lay person in the Greek Orthodox Church,
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  Speaker 6: I did not... know the committee of St. Nicholas picked that.
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  Speaker 1: You would have been against that?
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  Speaker 6: I would have been. I would have scratched my head
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  Speaker 6: a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I mean, in general, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I bought a table. I'm obligated to buy a table.
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  Speaker 6: You're always welcome to come as my guest if you're
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  Speaker 6: going to be in New York.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 6: But I guess it'll be interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it'll be interesting to hear what he has to say.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you also about these revolutionaries and
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  Speaker 1: if they're able to come to power, what kind of
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  Speaker 1: government would they form?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, we're going to find out. So I think
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  Speaker 2: it'll probably be a parliament system. I think they'll get
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  Speaker 2: some advice from the United States since we were their
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  Speaker 2: benefactor and helped them. Here's what would be my caution
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  Speaker 2: if I had a coveted seat in.
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  Speaker 4: The situation room is I would lay out.
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  Speaker 2: The very clear history that the United States has of
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  Speaker 2: blundering when we pick, air quotes, our guy. And so
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  Speaker 2: what I would say is, Look, through this revolution, I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure they've produced their own Thomas Jeffersons, Ben Franklins, and
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  Speaker 2: George Washingtons. In other words, let them pick. Let them
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  Speaker 2: do it. Self-governance is really sexy and in vogue these days,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll do a lot better with the future Iranians
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  Speaker 2: if they're self-governed. and they have their freedom, and they
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  Speaker 2: have a very friendly United States.
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  Speaker 4: Always willing to lend a hand.
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  Speaker 2: And then we get in return to take that uranium out,
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  Speaker 2: investigate it, do a forensic analysis to find out where
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  Speaker 2: it came from in the first place, maybe look at
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  Speaker 2: a few documents, find out about some shady relationships with
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  Speaker 2: the United States. I think it could be a very,
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  Speaker 2: very good mutual win-win relationship, benefit our country, benefit theirs.
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  Speaker 3: General, do you think that what's really causing the... Desire
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  Speaker 3: of the president of Iran to try to create a
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  Speaker 3: deal with Trump is the fact that they saw like
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  Speaker 3: almost a one and a half percent increase in terms
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  Speaker 3: of the loss of the value of the real the
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  Speaker 3: other day. I think it's almost like two point one
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  Speaker 3: four million real to the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Dollar.
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  Speaker 3: How did they stay alive that way economically?
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  Speaker 2: They absolutely don't. It's an Armageddon type or a Mad
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  Speaker 2: Max economy on the ground. It's all black market. You barter,
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  Speaker 2: you shift, you shape, you try to get some water.
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  Speaker 2: But the fact of the matter is all.
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  Speaker 4: The businesses are out of business. Anybody with any.
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  Speaker 2: Money whatsoever is probably a bad guy from the revolutionary standpoint.
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  Speaker 2: You're absolutely right about the economic factors. But this guy, Pejeshkian,
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  Speaker 2: he's like, can't we work it out? Because there's two
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  Speaker 2: seconds left on his shot clock, and he's only got
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  Speaker 2: a Hail Mary pass. And it's not going to work.
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  Speaker 2: He may find– now, Pejeshkian is a pretty sly one.
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  Speaker 2: He may find a way into the government, a way
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  Speaker 2: into the parliament, kind of like a Delce Rodriguez role
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  Speaker 2: had in Venezuela. If he's smart, that's the deal he'll take.
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  Speaker 2: But we're not going to know if he took that
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  Speaker 2: deal because if that was known in Iran, the IRGC
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  Speaker 2: would go assassinate him in eight seconds.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think we should send him that John
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  Speaker 3: Lennon song, We Can Work It Out, because I think
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  Speaker 3: that's about the last chance that this guy has when
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  Speaker 3: he's going to be dealing with Trump on this one.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Where did we go so wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you could say that again.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it'll be interesting to see if this holds true,
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  Speaker 1: if the uprising takes place. Awfully interesting to talk to you,
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  Speaker 1: General Blaine Holt. Thanks for coming on with us.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, always. Sure.
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  Speaker 3: What the heck is going on here?