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Iran, Oil, Empire & the Vice Clip | Women’s Day Protests, Maduro, and Hegseth · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning and welcome. I am
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  Samuel Trap. This is International
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  Flavor. It is already Monday.
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  Isn't that depressing? Oh, here we were
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  having a nice sunny weekend. It was a
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  beautiful day yesterday. Uh talking
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  about the uh International Day of Women
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  Celebrations. So I want to talk a little
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  bit about that because uh that is a
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  holiday not very well represented in
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  America usually was a day of protest
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  around the world yesterday actually
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  protests everywhere. Uh there was one in
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  where was the one that they were doing
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  there? Oh it was in Spain. It was in in
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  Spain. There was a a video a video of uh
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  so in behind jail bars there was Trump,
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  there was Netanyahu
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  and Vladimir Vladimir Putin all behind
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  uh bars in orange jumpsuits in uh um in
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  Spain. I forget which city but uh it was
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  international women's day and there was
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  women marching all around the world uh
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  against war and I don't remember there
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  being a lot going on in America of
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  course we have protests every Sunday in
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  America
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  somebody you can always find somebody
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  protesting um I remember the ones in in
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  Florida like look I just want a coffee
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  all I want's a coffee why are you
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  marching around in front of my Starbucks
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  the one I like to go to couldn't you go
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  somewhere else. But no. Um, uh, let's
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  see. Oh, here's a good one. The Voice of
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  America layoffs have been overturned by
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  a judge. Well, there you go. Voice of
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  America.
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  Voice of America is not journalism, just
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  for those of you who are wondering. That
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  is the furthest thing from from real
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  real stories that you get. But uh uh I
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  tell you what, I watched a lot of uh a
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  lot of stories over the weekend and I
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  tried I I I mean I'm telling you I'm
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  trying to be objective about this and
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  I'm having my own difficult time. Part
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  of me wants to grab a sign and get
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  marching because what we are watching is
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  uh is
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  as big a farce as it was during uh
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  George W. Uh farce about Iraq. Um I wish
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  I could find the clip and I haven't been
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  able to find it. Um that
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  I I never saw the movie. I only saw the
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  clip and I've I've seen this clip once
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  before, but last night it was on uh
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  Soliv and uh so I thought it was pretty
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  damn comical that uh a clip of a of a
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  severe left-wing show and maybe somebody
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  more gifted than I in um finding clips
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  can find this. But, uh, way back, uh,
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  way back, yeah, back back in the good
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  old days of 2018 when, uh, Sam Rockwell
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  was playing George W and Christian Bale
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  was playing Dick Cheney in a movie
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  called Vice. Uh, we got to see a uh
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  I sure wish there was a uh the whole
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  video somewhere, but I haven't been able
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  to find it. And uh basically it was the
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  show of and Sam Rockwell truthfully is
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  one of my favorite actors. Anyway, I
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  just I I like that guy. I like listening
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  to the guy. I think he's um um a a hell
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  of an actor. He's a hell of a dancer,
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  apparently, too. You always see him on
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  uh uh late night shows doing uh doing um
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  cool dances. That that dude is a is a
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  mover and a shaker. But no, we don't get
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  to see them. All they have out there on
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  YouTube that I've been able to find
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  lately are trailers. And he's a good uh
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  he he's a he's a pretty good George W.
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  Uh he really is. And uh so anyway, I
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  might have to go back and find that clip
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  for you. Find the actual movie, download
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  the movie, cut the clip, and actually do
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  some work instead of just going out to
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  YouTube and trying to find it. But last
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  night, and it's pretty funny when a
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  Russian um a a Russian commentator is
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  using this as,
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  you know, bait like like this. And he he
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  didn't say it was a history show. He
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  said it was somewhat satirical and uh
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  well, somewhat. It uh the whole thing's
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  a bit a bit loopy. Um but
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  I'm much more inclined to
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  I don't know. Forgive the overreach, I
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  suppose, now that we know how blatantly
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  foolish the uh the whole
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  uh Iraq BS of weapons of mass
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  destruction was. I believe Dick Cheney
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  was not anything but a liar. That's me.
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  And uh No, you don't have to believe
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  that. You can believe that he was one of
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  the good guys if you'd like to. I don't.
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  And uh part of me thinks that the Bush
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  family was was uh was was in it as well.
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  I hate to think that way about any
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  president. In fact, even the daughtering
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  old
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  uh
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  he never should have been president.
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  Somebody should have rescued him from
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  himself. Uh but I don't want to say
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  anything just because he was old.
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  Everybody gets old. That's how it is. I
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  just hope that somebody stops me before
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  I get that bad off, you know.
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  um and uh uh and certainly doesn't allow
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  me to become president. So, which uh you
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  know is pretty likely. You know, I might
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  become the president at some point. Who
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  knows? Uh but uh I I think I'd be better
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  suited on an international level than
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  are our fearless leaders today. And
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  that's probably the most brutal thing I
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  will say about them. I don't want to
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  beat up on them uh uh non-deservedly,
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  but they deserve it. and uh this this
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  scam that they are selling us right now.
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  And I really really really got pissed
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  off yesterday and and all it took was
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  the clip where
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  uh there has been talk since day one in
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  international news and everybody knows
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  it and it's been uh uh dived into div
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  by uh by other journalists by other
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  people and even The Pentagon has uh
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  tried to find out where the
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  mistargeting, which is what they
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  originally sold it as, took place. I I
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  brought it to you last week sometime
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  about the the girls school where they
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  killed. Showed the the burial, showed
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  all the kids, showed the parents
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  screaming and uh showed the uh the uh
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  the the leftover parts of the uh of the
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  missiles. They showed them and uh
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  they're US missiles. I mean, you know
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  that they sent an international group
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  there to look uh and and they've been
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  checking this out and um
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  they have Trump derangement syndrome
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  with Carville. Carville's a nut anyway,
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  but Carville's out there yelling and
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  carrying on. He's embracing his Trump
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  derangement syndrome that they gave to
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  him. And uh Carville was always a you
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  know cool guy. Um
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  I think he's a lunatic but he's funny.
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  That guy's always been funny. And the
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  way he talks the at any rate what this
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  uh this bombing of the girls school now
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  when they took out now now and and
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  here's here's where I want you to look.
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  Okay? I want you to think about this
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  because this is how I think about it.
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  And maybe I'm thinking incorrectly, but
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  I don't want to be one of them nuts that
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  just automatically says, you know, Trump
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  bad, me good, or whatever. But this is
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  bad news for all of us people. This is
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  bad news. And it's always about the oil.
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  Always about the oil. Always about the
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  oil. Why is Maduro sitting in a federal
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  jail cell up in uh where is he? New
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  York. Why is he sitting in there? He's
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  sitting in there because Trump wanted
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  his oil and he saw that China was going
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  to get a better a better grip on it than
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  we are. So, he stopped it. Now, some of
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  you can support that. I I don't I don't
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  like how it happened. I don't like being
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  If you're going to do that, sell it from
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  the beginning. Don't lie about it. Don't
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  tell me it's narco terror. Don't go
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  blowing up a bunch of little little
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  boats so that we all get used to the
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  idea of seeing how uh gez we're taking
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  the right moves against this narco
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  terror. Surely we have to go after
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  Maduro who is nowhere close to the
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  kingpin that they thought he was. If if
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  that's the case, why aren't we taking
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  out Colombia? What about Nicaragua? I
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  mean, it's like come on. It's it's it's
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  don't lie to me. And that's the part
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  that I don't like is is twisting all
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  this crap and selling me a bill of goods
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  that doesn't exist. That's the part I
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  don't like. Don't go saying all the
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  Venezuelan people are are are rooting
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  for you as an American cuz trust me,
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  they aren't. And don't tell me that they
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  don't want to run their own country.
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  They'd prefer that. And they sure as
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  hell don't want Donald Trump picking
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  their president. And so what do we do?
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  We get take the most corrupt guy in uh
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  Venezuela and this is a friendly version
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  of it. You take the the most corrupt guy
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  and you put in the second most corrupt
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  guy. Okay. Yeah. Because we we threaten
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  them. We scare the crap out of them and
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  say, "Well, you're you're next, bo." And
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  uh we'll come in and and and and we
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  convince we pay off a bunch of people
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  with make them wealthy and so that they
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  help us. And then off we go. And then
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  everybody forgets about it. You walk
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  away. We forget about it. Well, looks
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  like we got 50 billion barrels of oil,
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  Donald Trump says the next morning.
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  That's not what he's That's That's not
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  what he sold me. He sold me this was
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  narco terrorism. There's been a dramatic
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  decline in in in drugs coming the
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  country. Oh, really?
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  You
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  trust me, the people who want their
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  drugs are going to find them. Okay. Uh
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  Donald Trump and they're not going to
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  Venezuela to get them. And they weren't
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  anyway. And so it's it's uh that's a
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  nonsensical proposition. It always has
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  been. And you sold it to me. But the
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  trouble is Donald Trump is a dude who
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  comes clean the very next day. Well, we
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  wanted that oil. What are they after
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  now? Seriously, in Iran, what are they
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  after? If you believe the movie Vice, uh
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  it was a there was a whole lecture that
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  Soliv showed. It was pretty funny. And
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  uh it was the lecture by Dick Cheney
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  about the grand jewel of them all. We
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  have bases all around it. We have bases
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  everywhere in the country. Uh I mean,
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  I'm sorry, everywhere in the Middle East
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  except Iran. And if we could just get
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  Iran, 80% of their oil is going to
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  China. And that's true.
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  80% of their oil is going to China.
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  And where does most of it get refined
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  and processed? A little island, a little
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  island right off the street, which name
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  I forget.
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  And that is the next target of a
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  military operation. Nobody will let him
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  keep it though. They whether it's Iran
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  or uh anyone else. The US won't take it
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  and it'll stay there. Trust me, the the
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  Iranians will blow it up themselves.
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  They aren't going to give that to uh
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  Donald Trump. It's not going to happen.
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  Why do we have five uh five uh groups,
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  navy groups,
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  um aircraft carrier groups going? Five,
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  seven if you count the the the the one
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  coming from France and the the late one.
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  We don't need you. Trump says to to
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  Starmer, "You're late. You don't need to
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  come cuz you're late. Oh, and you're
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  early. you know, you didn't, you know,
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  you're late, too. You didn't think this
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  well through well enough through, you
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  know. Um I said at the beginning, and
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  many um many people say the same thing.
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  if Iran can make it through the the the
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  two weeks
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  um to get past and we're what nine days
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  in.
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  nine days in um to um this
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  horror story that we shouldn't be
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  involved in in the first place where Heg
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  says, "Do you see that guy looked like
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  an idiot yesterday standing behind Trump
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  shaking his head like one of them little
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  uh the the the bobblehead dolls, you
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  know?" Yeah. Yeah. We got this. We're
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  kicking the crap out of them. That guy's
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  a he's like the the the football the
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  bench player sitting on the football
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  field. And I was having a discussion,
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  who the hell was I discussing this with
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  over the weekend that Heg Seth just
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  reminds me of a guy who in high school
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  uh either didn't make the football team
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  at all or he made the football team but
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  he got, you know, they let him carry the
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  ball, you know, once on his final game
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  so that he, you know, would could could
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  claim glory days of some sort. And
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  that's that's Hegs military career.
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  Okay. He he you know what was he a a
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  major or something? And so they placed
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  him in charge of all these generals. And
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  so right now he gets to tell them,
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  "Well, geez, you should have promoted me
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  a hell of a lot quicker. You know, I
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  should have been in charge of the world
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  way back then. And old Trump is the only
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  one who sees my worth." No, I see that
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  you're over your head and that's where
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  you are. It'd be like putting me in
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  charge of the Pentagon. I was a sergeant
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  for God's sake. I never learned the
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  skills that generals learned and I just
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  never did. And frankly, I think if
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  you're going to put somebody in charge
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  of a of a of a military mission, sure as
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  hell ain't Pete Hegsith. And uh uh that
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  guy, he's over his head. And so all he
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  can do is uh bob his head and not deny.
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  Although I will give him credit. What he
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  said was uh when he they're on Air Force
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  One and Trump's talking about, "Oh yeah,
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  Iran blew up their own pe their own
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  kids. You know, they saw girls in half
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  over there and they behead all their
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  women." What in the hell are you talking
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  about? That is not accurate at all. Am I
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  saying it hasn't happened in the past?
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  Sure it has. And uh and in all
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  likelihood, was I there? Did I see it?
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  No. Is that something that happens
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  today? That is not what's going on in
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  Iran. And if you believe that, you got a
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  bigger problem than Donald Trump. You
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  got a bigger problem than that. You You
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  don't understand your history at all.
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  And you don't understand your cultural
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  things at all. And so I encourage you to
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  learn if you care because there's 60% of
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  America right now. Do you know that
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  little swing vote part that 60 60%
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  every there's 60% of the country against
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  this war and it's growing. It's not
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  shrinking. This isn't they they showed
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  something on TV the other day that just
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  pissed me off to no end. And I'm
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  reasonably religious. I have my beliefs.
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  I I I I don't talk about them, but but
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  I've got my own beliefs. I was sickened
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  to watch uh a a blessing of the of the
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  president in office. Those things do not
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  mix. If we're running the the world like
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  uh OG, God's chosen, that is wrong. It's
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  it's just as wrong as claiming
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  Netanyahu's God's gift to the planet. He
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  is not. And it it forgives everything
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  that they are allowed to do. It forgives
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  it. It says, "Oh geez. Well, he just he
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  just he just killed an infidel. That's
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  great. He's killing infidels. Infidels
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  are people, too. Whether you believe
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  them infidels, they believe you're an
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  infidel. And this is why the world needs
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  to calm the hell down and come down a
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  few notches. This is such crap. And uh
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  uh I tell you what, I've been ranting
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  here for a little while. I want to get
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  back to my topic part because I I did go
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  through quite a bit of this over the
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  weekend and uh the the let's see I had
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  had to go look up my thing. Here's what
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  it discovered whilst I was sitting here.
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  Uh the film you are thinking of is Vice.
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  It's the 2018 political biographical
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  film directed by Adam McCay. Christian
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  Bale plays Dick Cheney
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  and Sam Rockwell plays George W. Bush.
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  Did you ever see Rockwell in that movie
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  called Moon?
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  Um, that was good stuff. Um, you should
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  watch it if you get a chance.
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  Um, I wonder who that is. Well, these
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  damn TVs, they're killing me. Uh, the
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  movie satirically dramatizes
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  how Cheney shaped US foreign policy and
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  the road to the Iraq war. The scene I'm
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  remembering in the film, there's a
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  famous scene where Cheney is discussing
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  Middle East strategy and the strategic
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  value of controlling the region's energy
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  resources. The idea presented in the
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  scene and uh it is the real prize in the
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  Middle East geopolitical game isn't Iraq
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  itself.
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  The big the quote is the big gold piece
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  in the center of the room is Iran. The
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  movie frames Iran as a central strategic
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  target in a long-term
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  regional strategy involving Iraq energy
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  routes and power projection in the Gulf.
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  On Russian political shows, the they do
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  use that scene because it's an American
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  Hollywood film. It criticizes US policy
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  from inside the US itself and it's a
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  rhetorical device. Look, even America
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  made movies about this. And uh I would
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  like um the exact clip. Pull.
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  Wonder if it'll really do this for me.
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  Pull the clip and tell me where I can
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  show it. How about that? Let's see what
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  happens if that shows up in the
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  meantime. Meanwhile, I want to get to uh
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  some of the news pieces. Moshaba Kamini
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  was named as Iran's next supreme leader.
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  Uh he looks very much like his father
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  did uh 30, 40 years ago. Um
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  I tell you what, um
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  the Israelis are saying, "Look, it
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  doesn't matter." And and and this
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  sickens me as well, okay? And this truly
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  happened over the weekend. And uh Trump
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  says, "By the way, $100 a barrel is a
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  very small price to pay for Iran war."
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  That's it. That's it. It's a small price
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  to pay. What about the trillions we're
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  going to spend on on getting involved in
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  another conflict that we don't need to
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  get involved in? I I I am so I am just
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  sickened. I hope he ain't sending any of
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  my sons over there. Um, the Israeli army
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  says it will target Ayatollah Kmeni's
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  successor amid the ongoing war in the
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  Middle East. This is the these people
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  are sick. Okay. This is sick. And and
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  their politicians are are are if
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  anything worse than ours. Okay. Uh the
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  Israel Israeli Defense Force has
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  threatened to assassinate anyone that
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  replaces Ayatollah Ali Kmeni as Iran
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  Supreme Leader. Now, these decapitation
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  strikes are are are BS anyway. You know,
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  it's uh
• 21:57
  arguably they could have done the same
• 21:59
  thing to Maduro, but uh you know, at
• 22:02
  least they allowed him to live in a
• 22:04
  prison. These kings of the world. I'm
• 22:07
  the king of the world. I wonder why
• 22:09
  DiCaprio is not the king of the world.
• 22:12
  Thought he was, but apparently it's
• 22:13
  Trump. Trump gets to pick. According to
• 22:15
  Trump, he gets to pick the next leader
• 22:19
  of Iran. Oh, that's going to go over
• 22:22
  like a lead balloon. Yeah. He gets to he
• 22:25
  gets to uh uh he gets to pick who the
• 22:29
  Just like in Just like in Venezuela. I
• 22:32
  get it.
• 22:34
  We're taking over the world. Now he says
• 22:37
  he's going to do it to Cuba. The guy's a
• 22:40
  nut. There's something going I I can't
• 22:42
  wait for the three years to be over. I
• 22:44
  got to tell you, if this is the world
• 22:46
  that we got to live in, I can't wait for
• 22:48
  this to end. Uh this is this is bad news
• 22:53
  all around. Do you know I saw a report
• 22:55
  yesterday that uh um
• 22:58
  the only sane voice in the room, the
• 23:01
  only sane voice in the room, and where's
• 23:03
  he been lately? Is um
• 23:07
  JD Vance is the And he's he you don't
• 23:12
  see him. Yeah. You don't see him Pete
• 23:14
  Heg Sething it everywhere. You don't see
• 23:16
  him slapping backs and carrying on. You
• 23:19
  don't see him Rubioing it, you know. You
• 23:21
  don't No, no, no. And you don't see him
• 23:24
  uh hanging out and going to dinner with
• 23:26
  uh um or or traveling to to Israel or to
• 23:31
  uh uh Ukraine with um uh the the evil
• 23:36
  congressional folks. You know, you don't
• 23:39
  get to watch him doing that. The people
• 23:41
  have dreamed about this. All the neocons
• 23:44
  have been dreamed about this. Our nation
• 23:46
  is back. Bigger, better, richer. Yeah,
• 23:50
  Donald Trump. Stand with him. You know,
• 23:53
  get your prayer shaws on and stand with
• 23:56
  him. I'm against that. I I I I don't
• 23:58
  like mixing religion and state. I don't
• 24:02
  like it. There are too many people who
• 24:04
  disagree with that point of view and uh
• 24:06
  with with the the uh what do you call
• 24:10
  it?
• 24:13
  Religion and state shouldn't go
• 24:15
  together. And I'm really starting to
• 24:16
  worry about our fearless leader. Uh
• 24:19
  anyway, Kani and several other senior
• 24:22
  senior Iranian officials were killed on
• 24:25
  the very first wave. And by the way,
• 24:28
  that school that they blew up was one of
• 24:31
  the schools where
• 24:33
  their children went. Okay? That's why I
• 24:37
  believe that it was either targeted
• 24:40
  specifically or they were attacking some
• 24:44
  buildings next door that housed a lot of
• 24:48
  the the uh leadership. But what
• 24:52
  difference does it make? Why in the
• 24:54
  world would you say that uh on the day
• 24:56
  that you killed the top 40 leaders in
• 25:00
  the u in the nation that you didn't kill
• 25:03
  their children too?
• 25:05
  I mean it just makes no sense that that
• 25:09
  oh gee there there there are 40 missiles
• 25:13
  floating around killing 40 separate
• 25:15
  people in 40 distinct locations and then
• 25:19
  one the same day to blow up a school.
• 25:22
  right? That the Iranians sent
• 25:24
  themselves, they blew up their own
• 25:26
  children for the better, you know, the
• 25:28
  better good, right? Nonsense. And nobody
• 25:32
  believes that, including Donald Trump.
• 25:34
  He's selling you something. Pete Heg
• 25:36
  says sat in the back and said, "And Oh,
• 25:38
  yeah. Um, boy, the only ones that target
• 25:41
  civilians,
• 25:43
  the only ones that target civilians are
• 25:45
  Iran. Where the hell did you pull that
• 25:47
  out of your ass?" It's like, what did
• 25:50
  you target day one? Civilian leadership
• 25:55
  of Iran
• 25:57
  and and now you're denying it on a
• 25:59
  plane. The only ones that target
• 26:01
  civilians are are us, right? The only
• 26:04
  ones that target and decapitation
• 26:06
  strikes. You think you think Putin
• 26:08
  couldn't take out a decapitation strike
• 26:11
  Ukraine? They don't fight that way. only
• 26:15
  Netanyahu and G and George Bush and uh
• 26:18
  and Donald Trump fight that way. That is
• 26:21
  not It is unacceptable to me. That's not
• 26:24
  how you fight. You know, we we want we
• 26:28
  are intentionally causing chaos.
• 26:31
  Intentionally trying to cause chaos. Uh
• 26:35
  there's plenty of reports out there. I
• 26:36
  forget who it was. It wasn't Sachs. It
• 26:39
  was somebody else. Um, and I I I I
• 26:42
  watched another show by that Kazine. He
• 26:44
  must have had a really good show the
• 26:46
  other day because he's gone from uh
• 26:49
  wearing uh normal uh regular clothes
• 26:53
  that like I would wear. You know, today
• 26:55
  I'm wearing a you know a pullover button
• 26:58
  up and that's what he would do. But I
• 27:00
  tell you what, he was he had his own
• 27:02
  show. He's he's stepped it up a little
• 27:04
  bit. has Mkhazine
• 27:06
  and now he's got a uh a formal
• 27:09
  background, a real podcast setting,
• 27:12
  movie podcast, YouTube channel and um
• 27:16
  Kazine is but I've listened to him for a
• 27:20
  while, you know. I think he's smart and
• 27:22
  uh uh and now he's um
• 27:26
  now he's wearing a suit and tie,
• 27:30
  which is cool. I'm okay with that. It
• 27:32
  just uh there it is. But the statement
• 27:34
  Khmeni and several other officials after
• 27:36
  a week of deliberate deliberations the
• 27:39
  assembly of experts a body of clerics
• 27:41
  tasked with vetting and selecting a new
• 27:43
  supreme leader announced Monday that
• 27:46
  Kamini's son Mashtaba has been chosen to
• 27:49
  succeed him in a statement posted on the
• 27:52
  IDF's Farsy account hours before the
• 27:56
  Israeli army issued a warning to its
• 27:58
  members. The hand of the state of Israel
• 28:02
  will continue to pursue every successor
• 28:06
  and every person involved in his
• 28:08
  appointment, the IDF said, adding that
• 28:11
  it would not hesitate to target the
• 28:13
  clerics attending the assembly meetings.
• 28:17
  This is who we're supporting.
• 28:20
  People that are targeting religious
• 28:22
  leaders.
• 28:25
  This is this they are extremely warlike
• 28:30
  and and they can be because they got
• 28:32
  Donald Trump on a leash and that's what
• 28:35
  they got. Pete Hegsth on a leash just
• 28:38
  like they had had leaders before him.
• 28:42
  It's no different than it has been for
• 28:44
  at least my lifetime.
• 28:47
  Last week, Israel struck the assembly's
• 28:50
  headquarters in Kolm. But the attack
• 28:52
  failed to derail the selection of the
• 28:54
  new leader.
• 28:56
  Ali Larani, Iran's top security
• 28:59
  official, said Moshtaba Kmeni's
• 29:01
  appointment demonstrates that the US and
• 29:04
  Israel failed to use Ali Kmeni's death
• 29:06
  to seow chaos in the country. US
• 29:09
  President Trump and Israeli Prime
• 29:11
  Minister Netanyahu both site regime
• 29:13
  change as the war goal that and stealing
• 29:19
  oil. Right. Trump has demanded
• 29:22
  unconditional surrender and said the
• 29:24
  next Supreme Leader won't last long
• 29:28
  unless Iran bows to his demands. Iranian
• 29:32
  officials and the military vowed to
• 29:34
  continue their resistance.
• 29:39
  The surge in oil prices won't stop the
• 29:42
  US from waging war in Iran, Trump says
• 29:45
  after Brent crude is now passed $100 a
• 29:49
  barrel Sunday, the biggest daily gain
• 29:51
  since CO 19 in response to the US and
• 29:54
  Israeli air strikes. Iran has closed the
• 29:57
  straits of Hermuz and struck tankers
• 30:00
  attempting to cross the waterway which
• 30:02
  serve as route for 15th. Some say it's
• 30:06
  1/4 of the world's oil supply or even a
• 30:09
  third. Iraq, the UAE, and Kuwait, all
• 30:13
  major oil producers have cut output
• 30:16
  after running out of storage space. On
• 30:19
  True Social, naturally, you have to rule
• 30:22
  by True Social. Trump downplayed the
• 30:25
  effects of the war on global trade.
• 30:27
  Short-term oil prices, which will drop
• 30:30
  rapidly when the destruction of the Iran
• 30:33
  nuclear threat. This isn't about the
• 30:35
  nuclear threat. This has nothing to do
• 30:38
  with a nuclear threat is is a very small
• 30:42
  price to pay for USA and world safety
• 30:46
  and peace. Only fools will think
• 30:49
  differently. Well, sir, I'm a fool then
• 30:52
  because I don't believe a word you're
• 30:54
  saying. And if you were smart, not him,
• 30:58
  but you listener, you'd go and listen to
• 31:00
  to uh some reality checks as well.
• 31:04
  During his campaign, Trump promised
• 31:06
  cheaper gas gas and no war.
• 31:11
  There was just something I saw. What was
• 31:13
  it? It was the the the head of a of a
• 31:17
  the front front cover of a magazine.
• 31:20
  What was it? What was it? Times. I don't
• 31:22
  I don't know what it was. It was a a
• 31:24
  Time magazine. was it? Um that showed
• 31:27
  the wars that Trump has started and uh
• 31:31
  you know he didn't get his u he didn't
• 31:33
  get his
• 31:35
  his muchdesired Nobel Peace Prize and
• 31:39
  it's a good thing he didn't. It's a good
• 31:42
  thing he didn't cuz he doesn't deserve
• 31:44
  it. First he was stretching the the
• 31:47
  other ones that he settled in a day, you
• 31:49
  know, and and he can't settle Ukraine.
• 31:51
  He hasn't and he started other ones.
• 31:54
  He's gonna blow up uh Greenland. He's
• 31:56
  gonna take over Cuba.
• 31:59
  This is a peacetime president for sure,
• 32:02
  right? And and there's a bunch of people
• 32:04
  up out there thumping their Bibles and
• 32:06
  getting ready to go to war on behalf of
• 32:09
  Israel. It makes no sense to me at all.
• 32:13
  Um, but during the re-election campaign,
• 32:15
  I actually was on the side of the
• 32:19
  Trumpster and uh I I I've never been on
• 32:24
  the side of the Trumpster
• 32:25
  internationally. I've always been
• 32:27
  worried about that because he's just uh
• 32:30
  he's just another arm of the neocon
• 32:34
  uh world unfortunately. and they are
• 32:37
  certainly in charge of him now and at
• 32:40
  least as far as uh everything that he's
• 32:43
  doing. He's not making these choices
• 32:44
  himself in no way. He he I I doubt he
• 32:48
  even understands them to be truthful. Um
• 32:51
  let's see. American Automobile
• 32:53
  Association stated that the national
• 32:55
  average price of regular gasoline has
• 32:58
  risen by 15% over the past week to 3.45
• 33:04
  a gallon. some areas reporting 30%. I've
• 33:08
  I've told you mine right here. It wasn't
• 33:10
  uh in fact it was just about two weeks
• 33:13
  ago where I said that I paid $269
• 33:21
  $269
• 33:23
  for gas and I had heard that there was a
• 33:26
  $249
• 33:28
  somewhere under $2.50 50
• 33:31
  and uh uh now we are at $345
• 33:38
  a gallon on average. I'll have to look
• 33:41
  out the window um uh on my way to uh the
• 33:47
  office later and see what uh
• 33:51
  where the places are that I pay what
• 33:54
  they have gone up to.
• 33:57
  And that idiot Bessant was out the other
• 34:00
  day. What a nut. This guy you you you
• 34:04
  never know what the hell he's going to
• 34:05
  say. And I shouldn't call him an idiot.
• 34:07
  That's not nice. That that that is but
• 34:11
  but what is he selling? This guy is out
• 34:14
  there. He's like a cheerleader, too. And
• 34:16
  he's doing the same thing. Guess what he
• 34:18
  said? He said he said that Donald Trump
• 34:22
  has given permission.
• 34:24
  Here's he has been given permission to
• 34:28
  he has given permission to Modi and
• 34:31
  India to buy Russian oil for a month.
• 34:36
  They never needed your permission. They
• 34:38
  never took your permission. In fact,
• 34:40
  they never quit buying Russian oil. And
• 34:43
  now, why in the world are we trying to
• 34:45
  make it sound like they stopped? They
• 34:48
  didn't. Have you listened to anything
• 34:50
  that these people say and have said over
• 34:52
  the last six months? No. It's our it's
• 34:57
  our uh
• 35:00
  uh one of the one of the key elements
• 35:02
  that we need to work with. You don't get
• 35:03
  to dictate how much we pay for oil. You
• 35:06
  don't get to. Sorry, that's not how it
• 35:09
  works. and and and it and they haven't
• 35:11
  done it and they haven't um you know
• 35:14
  succumbed to the tariffs and and I I
• 35:18
  think that there's a lot of negatives
• 35:20
  going on in the old Trumpster regime
• 35:22
  these days and it's um it's these are
• 35:27
  not good times that we are living in. Uh
• 35:31
  but here goes Bessant. First of all, he
• 35:33
  claims on Friday that Washington is
• 35:36
  exploring additional measures to lower
• 35:39
  oil prices. Gee, I wonder what they are.
• 35:41
  He has unsanctioned Russian oil. He says
• 35:46
  that he's going to lift all sanctions on
• 35:48
  Russian oil, but I thought they were the
• 35:51
  antichrist, too.
• 35:54
  We just Well, you know, that's not
• 35:56
  important anymore. You know, Ukraine,
• 35:59
  that's not important. We don't care. It
• 36:01
  never was important, by the way. But but
• 36:04
  now he it's it's, you know, well, we're
• 36:07
  we're just gonna unsanction that oil. We
• 36:09
  can sanction it again once we once we uh
• 36:12
  uh seize control of uh the oil fields in
• 36:15
  Iran or destroy them or destroy that
• 36:18
  island, whose name I can't recall. Um,
• 36:23
  oh boy. Energy Secretary Chris Wright
• 36:26
  pledges to bring gasoline back below $3
• 36:29
  a gallon before too long. Well, that's
• 36:33
  that's commitment before too long. I'm
• 36:36
  going to stop cheating on my wife before
• 36:38
  too long.
• 36:40
  That's a great that's a great measuring
• 36:42
  stick, isn't it? Ah, before too long.
• 36:45
  Thank you, Mr. Chris Wright.
• 36:48
  Last week, the Treasury formally allowed
• 36:51
  formally allowed India to temporarily
• 36:55
  buy oil from Russia with Bessant saying
• 36:58
  the US could potentially unsanction more
• 37:01
  of Russia's energy exports. Remember I
• 37:03
  told you last week that they were on
• 37:05
  behalf of Merittz in Germany cuz Merittz
• 37:08
  came over and he he bent the knee to to
• 37:11
  the old Trumpster and said, "Uh, please,
• 37:13
  please, please let us buy oil through
• 37:17
  Luke Oil and Ross Neft in um in Germany.
• 37:21
  You know, you sanctioned them and boy,
• 37:23
  we can't have that." And so, guess what
• 37:27
  happened on behalf of Mertz? They
• 37:29
  allowed that to happen. JP Morgan chief
• 37:32
  economist Bruce Bruce Casman told
• 37:35
  Reuters that the nearterm scenario could
• 37:39
  see crude prices spike to $120
• 37:44
  a barrel before settling at an $80
• 37:49
  a barrel level throughout the midyear if
• 37:52
  the conflict persists. Russian
• 37:56
  presidential investment envoy Kuriel
• 37:58
  Deitriv said on Monday that oil prices
• 38:01
  will exceed $200
• 38:04
  a barrel in the event of a prolonged
• 38:07
  conflict.
• 38:09
  Yeah, they better unsanction that
• 38:11
  Russian oil or the US is going to pay.
• 38:14
  And who and who's better, Russia or
• 38:16
  Iran? Now, there's talk that in the
• 38:18
  eastern half of Iran that uh in the the
• 38:21
  eastern half, which hasn't been beat up
• 38:23
  upon yet, China and Russia are still
• 38:27
  there. And u uh China and Russia are
• 38:31
  fueling that. Um there's plenty more
• 38:35
  news that I wanted to get into, but I
• 38:38
  also wanted to go back through uh where
• 38:41
  is Maduro? I wanted to say where he was.
• 38:44
  Let's get to uh the Heg Seth credibility
• 38:47
  problem. Um he said this uh uh school
• 38:52
  strike was under um
• 38:57
  uh was under um
• 39:00
  investigation by the Pentagon and in in
• 39:03
  his own you know when he wasn't in an
• 39:05
  airplane standing behind Trump he said
• 39:08
  that they were checking into it and uh
• 39:10
  he was very uh flustered at that time it
• 39:14
  and this was his uh briefing on uh what
• 39:18
  was it? Friday. Let's see. I want to go
• 39:21
  to uh I want to get to this.
• 39:25
  Uh he because that's not what he said
• 39:28
  earlier. And
• 39:33
  this is even Reuters says the earliest
• 39:37
  US assessment points toward US being
• 39:40
  responsible for that. And uh that's
• 39:43
  Reuters and uh you know Trump trying to
• 39:47
  deflect attention by going they cut
• 39:49
  babies in half there. Yeah. Happens
• 39:52
  every day. Um that's how public trust is
• 39:55
  broken with with certainty vagueness and
• 39:58
  now suddenly we're up to well it's an
• 40:00
  ongoing review. You know we're not the
• 40:02
  ones that target people. They are. Yeah.
• 40:05
  Yeah.
• 40:07
  Nuts. Um, Mur Maduro has disappeared
• 40:10
  from the headlines, but he's still in a
• 40:12
  holding facility. Um, the bigger
• 40:16
  question is not where is he, but why has
• 40:19
  any, you know, once the regime change
• 40:21
  spectacle is over, nobody cares anymore.
• 40:23
  It's over. On to the next regime change,
• 40:26
  right? Um, oil is the recurring ghost in
• 40:30
  the room here. Where are we? Venezuela.
• 40:33
  Oil.
• 40:35
  Iran. Oil. Iraq oil.
• 40:41
  Um, let's see. The the the official
• 40:45
  excuse making lines, uh, they don't line
• 40:48
  up with strategic reality. Uh, NATO
• 40:52
  speaks in lawyerly half sentences.
• 40:55
  Washington wants to manage fallout from
• 40:58
  this ugly civilian strike story. Do you
• 41:01
  know, I usually like watching uh, what's
• 41:03
  her name? Uh, Trump's girl uh, speaking
• 41:05
  in front of the White House. I forget
• 41:07
  her name and uh uh that that gets to
• 41:10
  talk all the time and she's usually
• 41:11
  pretty well spoken. She sounded like a
• 41:14
  cheerleader and a religious nut uh the
• 41:16
  other day. I don't like that in a uh in
• 41:19
  a press secretary. I think that's just
• 41:21
  wrong.
• 41:24
  So uh that I I don't I don't like that.
• 41:28
  Um
• 41:30
  the Russian official line is uh the
• 41:34
  similar to mine. So, I read this this
• 41:36
  morning in here, but I but I'm telling
• 41:38
  you what, I've been having trouble with
• 41:39
  this all weekend. Um, watching the US
• 41:43
  official channels get nuttier and
• 41:46
  nuttier as we go. The official line from
• 41:50
  Maria Zaharva is another reckless
• 41:54
  USIsraeli escalation, unlawful according
• 41:57
  to UN charter. They haven't followed
• 41:59
  that. They never do. um regional
• 42:03
  wrecking, which that's we have a very
• 42:05
  big habit of that, and spilling outward.
• 42:09
  Um she described the crisis as the
• 42:12
  result of an unprovoked US and Israel
• 42:15
  attack on Iran. It's always that way.
• 42:18
  They didn't attack first. Iran did not
• 42:20
  attack Israel first. And now they like
• 42:23
  to claim, you know, they they like to
• 42:25
  claim that everything everything is
• 42:28
  blamed on Iran. Everything. And uh so
• 42:32
  used to be, well, who are we taking out?
• 42:34
  The Palestinians.
• 42:37
  No, forget it. It's not the Palestinians
• 42:39
  we're after. We're after Iran. It's
• 42:40
  Iran. Iran. Everybody. You hear them all
• 42:43
  chanting Iran, but they don't know crap.
• 42:46
  They don't know this history. They just
• 42:49
  don't. And and that is not the Middle
• 42:51
  East. Okay. They're also trying to claim
• 42:53
  the Turk menistan that Azerbaijan that
• 42:56
  some of these places are gonna uh
• 42:59
  effectively
• 43:00
  um like like like the u Kurdish people
• 43:05
  in there uh on the eastern half of Iraq
• 43:08
  that they're going to be they're going
• 43:10
  to be the ground forces. They've said no
• 43:12
  to that. There were two or three reports
• 43:14
  on that uh that uh the the old
• 43:16
  Trumpsters been trying to get them in on
• 43:18
  the game.
• 43:20
  Um the US hasn't put enough ground
• 43:24
  troops into um the region like they did
• 43:28
  before the Iraq war. We had like some
• 43:31
  hundred,000 on the ground u before
• 43:34
  invading Iraq
• 43:37
  complete with all their tanks and
• 43:39
  everything
• 43:41
  that hasn't been prepared for here. They
• 43:45
  they truly thought, you know, did Heg
• 43:47
  Seth and his and his uh and his cronies
• 43:50
  up at the top thought that um a few
• 43:54
  missiles would uh be enough to uh
• 43:59
  to take them down. Um let's see.
• 44:05
  I have another couple of stories. Let's
• 44:09
  get to something lighter than this. Uh
• 44:13
  let's see.
• 44:16
  Israel has threatened the new leader.
• 44:18
  And this one just came out. Um,
• 44:24
  Donald Trump has warned also that let's
• 44:28
  see. Oh, here's Lindsey Graham again.
• 44:33
  Trump issued a similar warning to the
• 44:35
  IDF saying that they're going to kill
• 44:36
  the next leader and u Iran's next leader
• 44:40
  won't last long without US approval.
• 44:43
  said that Iran must comply with Trump's
• 44:46
  demands to avoid further escalation. I
• 44:49
  wonder where Trump figured out that he
• 44:53
  was the king. I I I really wonder this
• 44:57
  and and I've never seen anything like
• 44:59
  this in my lifetime where
• 45:03
  uh the president comes out and demand
• 45:07
  demand demand in this way, you know, in
• 45:12
  the way that he's doing and and he's
• 45:14
  just so blunt about it. And it's like,
• 45:17
  who in the world do you think you are?
• 45:20
  And and why does international law not
• 45:24
  apply to you? And and this is troubling
• 45:28
  to me. You know, at least other people
• 45:31
  pretended to uh uh follow international
• 45:36
  law. He doesn't even he makes no bones
• 45:38
  about it. He doesn't have to. He he does
• 45:41
  what he wants. And that is that. And the
• 45:44
  the worst scenario is
• 45:47
  Netanyahu is right there with him. That
• 45:49
  guy's a lunatic and has been forever.
• 45:52
  You know, he just he's finally got a
• 45:55
  willing uh a willing um I don't know,
• 45:58
  lackey in the US. Uh because it sure as
• 46:02
  hell isn't isn't Trump in charge here or
• 46:06
  or at least that got us in. Now he has
• 46:09
  to show that he didn't make the wrong
• 46:10
  decision and so therefore he's going to
• 46:14
  make it look like all this was his
• 46:15
  doing. and uh and and and the only way
• 46:18
  he can do that is oneupsmanship. He has
• 46:21
  to go larger. He has to go bigger,
• 46:24
  bigger, harder. He has to bring in five
• 46:27
  aircraft carrier groups. That's what
• 46:29
  he's got to do. And uh Israeli defense
• 46:32
  forces Trump issues the warning. Uh,
• 46:35
  Senator Lindsey Graham, of course, has
• 46:38
  told Fox News that Washington will make
• 46:41
  tons of money if it succeeds in
• 46:43
  overthrowing Iranian leadership.
• 46:47
  Graham and uh Graham and uh uh what's
• 46:50
  his name? Uh
• 46:53
  Christian Bale need to get together and
• 46:55
  uh you know, they can both act as if
• 46:58
  Dick Cheney is still in the room. Uh
• 47:00
  Graham made the remarks as global prices
• 47:03
  surged to $100 a barrel with the
• 47:05
  straight A to Hormuz shipping route
• 47:08
  closed. Iran has closed the waterway
• 47:11
  which carries a fifth of the world's oil
• 47:13
  supply and struck tankers attempting to
• 47:16
  pass through in retaliation for the
• 47:18
  USIsraeli strikes. Trump has dismissed
• 47:21
  this spike in oil prices. It's a very
• 47:24
  small price to pay, he says, for the
• 47:27
  USIsraeli war and that they will drop
• 47:30
  rapidly when destruction of the nuclear
• 47:32
  threat is over. This is not about a
• 47:35
  nuclear threat.
• 47:37
  Iran has stated has no ambition to make
• 47:39
  a nuclear weapon. H can't believe that,
• 47:42
  can we? As of Monday, the USIsrael
• 47:45
  attacks have killed 1,255
• 47:48
  Iranian civilians, according to data
• 47:51
  from Iran. The single deadliest incident
• 47:54
  was the I can't speak incident was a
• 47:58
  strike on a girl school in Manab killing
• 48:02
  168 children. The USIsraeli strikes on
• 48:05
  oil facilities near Thrron have produced
• 48:08
  a black rain of toxic oil and soot.
• 48:12
  Online images and footage show thick
• 48:14
  smog over the capital. Residents report
• 48:17
  breathing difficulties. Iran's Red
• 48:20
  Crescent Society warned that the rain
• 48:22
  could be highly dangerous and acidic and
• 48:25
  pose serious health risks. US Central
• 48:29
  Command says eight soldiers have died in
• 48:31
  operations linked to Iran.
• 48:35
  At least 13 Israelis have been killed so
• 48:38
  far in crossfire. Iran's retaliatory
• 48:41
  strikes on US bases have killed at least
• 48:44
  four in the UAE, six in Kuwait, two in
• 48:48
  Saudi Arabia. Trump claims that US
• 48:51
  forces have significantly degraded
• 48:53
  Tehran's naval and missile capabilities,
• 48:56
  saying they have sunk all Iranian ships
• 48:59
  and destroyed most missile launch
• 49:01
  platforms with only 20% remaining. Is
• 49:04
  that a Donald Trump 20% or a real 20%.
• 49:09
  Uh Russia is proposing UN Security
• 49:11
  Council resolution urging members to
• 49:14
  express uh concern over the current
• 49:17
  military escalation in the Middle East
• 49:19
  as well as to mourn the loss of life. It
• 49:23
  also urges all parties to stop their
• 49:25
  military activities condemned in the
• 49:27
  strongest terms all attacks against
• 49:29
  civilians and return to negotiations.
• 49:33
  Uh Turkish air defenses intercepted an
• 49:37
  Iranian ballistic missile with some
• 49:39
  degree falling near the city of Gazian
• 49:44
  not far from the Syrian border said the
• 49:46
  defense ministry saying that there were
• 49:49
  no
• 49:50
  uh injuries.
• 49:52
  Um let's see.
• 49:57
  I wanted to because Turkey is no huge
• 50:01
  friend to Israel.
• 50:04
  Let's see.
• 50:07
  Will Anara become Jerusalem's next
• 50:11
  target?
• 50:14
  Let's see.
• 50:15
  Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali
• 50:18
  Bennett recently made a bold statement
• 50:21
  regarding Turkey and its president
• 50:24
  receptar
• 50:26
  effectively laboring Anara as a new
• 50:29
  strategic threat to Israeli security.
• 50:33
  Here we go.
• 50:35
  Bennett accused Turkey of supporting
• 50:37
  Iran and several groups in the Middle
• 50:40
  East that Israeli Israel classifies as
• 50:44
  terrorist organizations. All you got to
• 50:47
  do is yell terror narco terror you know
• 50:51
  in the US terror terror in Israel and
• 50:54
  suddenly you get to blow up whoever you
• 50:56
  want. Just call them a terrorist. These
• 50:58
  terrorizers we got to go get them. In an
• 51:00
  interview, Bennett described Erdogan as
• 51:04
  a sophisticated and dangerous adversary
• 51:07
  who wants to encircle Israel. He urged
• 51:11
  Israel and its allies not to turn a
• 51:13
  blind eye to Anara's actions and develop
• 51:16
  a comprehensive policy of containment.
• 51:20
  So now Israel has to contain
• 51:24
  um
• 51:27
  Turkey. Isn't that great?
• 51:30
  Um,
• 51:33
  now why is Mambani's wife on the TV
• 51:36
  here? What is the story with this? We
• 51:39
  might have to look at this
• 51:42
  H.
• 51:45
  Well, they're saying she faces uh
• 51:47
  scrutiny for terrorizing. Anyway, uh
• 51:50
  Bennett's assertion about the emergence
• 51:52
  of what he termed a monstrous axis of
• 51:56
  Islamic political forces deserves
• 51:59
  attention. He claims that Qatar and
• 52:02
  Turkey acting in Syria and Gaza are
• 52:04
  bolstering networks linked to the Muslim
• 52:07
  Brotherhood. By the way, I wanted to
• 52:09
  bring up the uh attacks that uh
• 52:16
  that
• 52:17
  perhaps Qatar should forgive or forget
• 52:22
  about the uh
• 52:25
  the targeting of US bases in
• 52:30
  uh in its own country. Why? They didn't
• 52:33
  say crap about the uh the targeting by
• 52:37
  Israel using their, you know, launching
• 52:39
  into their airspace and attacking
• 52:43
  uh who they got to say are our enemies.
• 52:47
  Anybody can cross the state if you're
• 52:49
  Israel and nobody will do anything and
• 52:52
  the US will stand up for it. Um there's
• 52:55
  there's there's some reasonably serious
• 52:57
  talk about um getting rid of the US
• 53:03
  bases in the Middle East because they
• 53:06
  are a threat for everybody. Uh Dubai I
• 53:10
  read an article yesterday called uh
• 53:12
  something along the lines of uh goodbye
• 53:15
  Dubai
• 53:17
  and and good riddance. You know
• 53:19
  basically we nobody needed you there
• 53:21
  anyway. you know, the decadent and the
• 53:24
  uh, you know, full of hookers and full
• 53:26
  of because it is and um, high dollar
• 53:30
  ones, but they're still hookers. And uh,
• 53:32
  uh, it's uh, you know, the the most uh,
• 53:37
  longest profession, you know, all over
• 53:39
  uh, UAE.
• 53:41
  And uh, uh, I I've seen I've seen quite
• 53:44
  a bit of political discussion about uh,
• 53:47
  take getting the US out of the Middle
• 53:49
  East as well. Plenty of it. and saying,
• 53:53
  "Look, you being here is not good for
• 53:55
  us. You know, why in the world are if it
• 53:58
  was just us, we'd get along and uh but
• 54:02
  we don't need you here stoking the fires
• 54:04
  of war on behalf of Israel. Israel is
• 54:07
  the one causing all this, by the way.
• 54:10
  It's not Iran. Iran wouldn't have
• 54:12
  attacked anybody if they weren't
• 54:14
  attacked first. That's all there is to
• 54:16
  it. And and you don't need Sam to tell
• 54:19
  you that. That's absolutely true. And uh
• 54:22
  that's is not what's been going on. And
• 54:24
  uh so um anyway, this assertion about
• 54:28
  the emergence of the monstrous action of
• 54:31
  Islamic political forces uh Qatar,
• 54:34
  Turkey, Syria, Gaza bolstering networks
• 54:38
  like the Muslim Brotherhood. He hinted
• 54:40
  at Doha's financial and political
• 54:42
  influence over Israeli officials said
• 54:45
  additional domestic political layer in
• 54:48
  his statement. So uh Qatar since they
• 54:50
  are the richest country on the planet
• 54:53
  they uh allegedly are funding
• 54:56
  both sides.
• 54:58
  Bennett had earlier articulated
• 55:01
  the notion of a new threat from Turkey
• 55:05
  at a conference of American Jewish
• 55:08
  organizations in Jerusalem. He mentioned
• 55:10
  a scenario where Anara would align with
• 55:13
  Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in a military
• 55:15
  political pact predicting this would
• 55:18
  create a new center of power with
• 55:20
  regional ambition. The deterioration of
• 55:23
  relations between Turkey and Turkey and
• 55:26
  Israel has been gradual rather than
• 55:28
  abrupt since Erdogon has risen to power
• 55:31
  and strengthened his justice and
• 55:33
  development party and K's foreign policy
• 55:36
  is ideological. The concept of political
• 55:39
  Islam that underpins the party's
• 55:41
  ideology calls for strong support of the
• 55:44
  Palestinian cause and views Israel as an
• 55:46
  oppressor of the Palestinian people.
• 55:49
  Well, they are. And this shift has
• 55:51
  naturally impacted bilateral relations.
• 55:54
  Yeah. If you don't bend over to Israel,
• 55:57
  suddenly you support the Palestinians,
• 56:00
  right? If you question them at all,
• 56:02
  suddenly you're anti-Israel. That's not
• 56:06
  No. Why isn't there the ability to be
• 56:08
  seen as a middle of the rotor? For a
• 56:10
  long time, Turkey attempted to balance
• 56:13
  among various power centers. On the one
• 56:16
  hand, as a NATO member and regional
• 56:18
  neighbor, Anara aimed to maintain
• 56:20
  strategic ties with Israel, while on the
• 56:23
  other, it wanted to assert its own
• 56:25
  leadership in the Muslim world. Turkey
• 56:27
  is Muslim. Uh the dual approach drew
• 56:30
  criticism from both sides. Islamic
• 56:33
  nations accused Turkey of not taking a
• 56:35
  firm enough stance against Israel, while
• 56:37
  the West criticized it for excessive uh
• 56:40
  politicization and anti-Israel rhetoric.
• 56:44
  You can't be anti-Israel or you're the
• 56:47
  bad guy. And you don't even have to be
• 56:49
  anti. You just got to say something uh
• 56:52
  not in their favor and that's the end of
• 56:55
  the world for you. Um, you you need to
• 56:58
  you need to be slobbering a sickopantic
• 57:02
  uh Lindsey Graham type on Israel or
• 57:05
  you're an enemy of Israel. Right. One of
• 57:08
  the most significant and symbolic
• 57:10
  transformative episodes and Turkey
• 57:13
  Israel relations was the Mauvi Marmara
• 57:16
  accident in May 2010. This set the
• 57:20
  course for deterioration of bilateral
• 57:22
  ties. The MV Mauvi Marmara ship was part
• 57:26
  of the so-called Gaza Freedom flotillaa
• 57:29
  which aimed to break the Israeli naval
• 57:32
  blockade of Gaza by delivering
• 57:35
  humanitarian aid and they can't have
• 57:37
  that. You can't give food to starving
• 57:40
  people. That's not good. You're not
• 57:42
  allowed to do that. The mission of the
• 57:44
  freedom flotillaa was to break through a
• 57:49
  naval blockade imposed by Israel after
• 57:52
  Hamas. Israel viewed this as a breach of
• 57:55
  security and a potential threat. Yeah,
• 57:57
  giving people food is a potential
• 57:59
  threat, asserting that the cargo could
• 58:02
  be used for military purposes. During
• 58:04
  the interception operation, Israeli
• 58:07
  soldiers boarded the vessel in
• 58:09
  international waters. The situation
• 58:12
  escalated into violent confrontation and
• 58:15
  resulted in the death of several Turkish
• 58:18
  citizens. This prompted a fierce
• 58:20
  reaction from Ankara when Turkish
• 58:22
  officials condemned Israel's action as a
• 58:25
  violation of international law. They
• 58:27
  were and demanding official apologies,
• 58:31
  compensation for the victim families and
• 58:33
  a lifting of the blockade on Gaza. This
• 58:37
  Mavi Marmara incident became more than
• 58:39
  just a diplomatic crisis. It marked a
• 58:42
  turning point in Turkeykey's relations
• 58:45
  with Israel. This is when they figured
• 58:46
  out that Israel is not the good guys and
• 58:49
  never will be. Um, Turkey recalled its
• 58:52
  ambassador, downgraded relations, and
• 58:55
  effectively dismantled any military
• 58:58
  cooperation, which had been a
• 58:59
  cornerstone of cooperation between the
• 59:02
  two countries. The Turkish public came
• 59:04
  to view Israel as a state that uses
• 59:06
  force against Turkish citizens engaged
• 59:10
  in humanitarian mission. They do. That's
• 59:14
  what they do.
• 59:16
  Conversely, in Israel, the incident
• 59:19
  reinforced a view of Turkey as a
• 59:21
  supporter of political factions hostile
• 59:24
  to the Israeli policy in Gaza of kill
• 59:27
  them all and let God sort it out. Even
• 59:29
  if they're women and children, they're
• 59:31
  still in Gaza, and Gaza is ours is how
• 59:35
  that's supposed to be viewed, right?
• 59:37
  Trump's supposed to build or build a new
• 59:40
  Mecca there, apparently. uh despite
• 59:43
  subsequent attempts at partial
• 59:44
  normalization of relations including
• 59:47
  apology and discussion over compensation
• 59:50
  trust was never restored. Moreover, the
• 59:53
  Mavi Marmara incident represented a
• 59:55
  point of no return. Prior to 2010,
• 59:59
  tension was primarily rhetorical and
• 1:00:01
  ideological. Afterward, they are
• 1:00:04
  permanent and official.
• 1:00:07
  So from diplomatic strain st to
• 1:00:12
  strategic mistrust
• 1:00:14
  since then every escalation of Israel
• 1:00:17
  Palestine has automatically impacted
• 1:00:21
  relations between Anara and West
• 1:00:23
  Jerusalem. The events of 2023 only
• 1:00:26
  exacerbated the existing mistrust. The
• 1:00:29
  tragic events of October 7, 2023,
• 1:00:33
  followed by Israeli military actions in
• 1:00:35
  Gaza, led to further deterioration, and
• 1:00:38
  CAR's response was highly critical. The
• 1:00:41
  Turkish authorities publicly called the
• 1:00:44
  action of the IDF disproportionate. They
• 1:00:47
  were, and condemned the mass civilian
• 1:00:50
  casualties in Gaza, so do I. From that
• 1:00:53
  moment on, bilateral relations are were
• 1:00:56
  frozen and characterized by
• 1:00:58
  confrontational rhetoric and strategic
• 1:01:02
  distrust close to a cold war between
• 1:01:05
  Israel and Turkey.
• 1:01:08
  Within Israeli political landscape, some
• 1:01:11
  advocate for a more rigid stance toward
• 1:01:13
  Turkey, while others favor a more
• 1:01:15
  pragmatic approach. However, the general
• 1:01:18
  stance regarding Turkey is similar.
• 1:01:21
  Napali Bennett has long been known for
• 1:01:23
  his anti-Turkish position, viewing
• 1:01:26
  Ankara as a potential strategic
• 1:01:28
  adversary that will emerge as Israel's
• 1:01:30
  next significant threat after Iran. They
• 1:01:34
  just get to pick them off, especially
• 1:01:37
  with Donald Trump in your corner, right?
• 1:01:39
  So, is Donald Trump going to next attack
• 1:01:42
  Turkey on behalf of Israel? I mean, gez,
• 1:01:46
  all you got to do is allege that Turkey
• 1:01:47
  wants nuclear weapons, right? In
• 1:01:50
  contrast, uh, Prime Minister Netanyahu,
• 1:01:53
  despite his personal animosity toward
• 1:01:54
  Eric Deon and his occasional shop
• 1:01:57
  karmas, typically adopts a little bit
• 1:01:59
  more pragmatic approach. His rhetoric
• 1:02:01
  often leaves room for normalization
• 1:02:04
  grounded in the idea that Turkey and
• 1:02:06
  Israel do not have direct territorial
• 1:02:09
  conflict. They do not. And there is
• 1:02:13
  potential for economic and energy
• 1:02:15
  cooperation. And another point of
• 1:02:17
  contention for Israeli leadership is
• 1:02:19
  Turkeykey's growing ties with Islamabad.
• 1:02:22
  Pakistan is the only nuclear power in
• 1:02:25
  the Muslim world with a firm anti-Israel
• 1:02:28
  stance and Israel views the deepening
• 1:02:31
  military political relationship between
• 1:02:33
  Turkey and Pakistan as the emergence of
• 1:02:36
  an alternative power center. Netanyahu
• 1:02:39
  has indicated that following Iran,
• 1:02:41
  Pakistan will come under scrutiny as a
• 1:02:44
  strategic threat to Israel.
• 1:02:47
  It's never going to end. Everybody's a
• 1:02:50
  strategic threat to Israel. And the US
• 1:02:52
  is supposed to, you know, I don't know,
• 1:02:55
  have 50 bases outside of Israel, you
• 1:02:58
  know, not not on Israeli territory. Gez,
• 1:03:00
  we got to bring in more Israelis. But
• 1:03:04
  they need to get they they need to get
• 1:03:06
  the richest land and then the US can
• 1:03:08
  have the desert out to the east. We'll
• 1:03:10
  just kick out another country. It
• 1:03:11
  doesn't matter. Uh Netanyahu had
• 1:03:14
  indicated following Iran, Pakistan will
• 1:03:17
  be the next. Increasingly, similar
• 1:03:19
  assessments are being echoed beyond
• 1:03:22
  Israel's borders. American journalist
• 1:03:24
  Tucker Carlson recently remarked that
• 1:03:27
  Turkey poses a challenge for Israel
• 1:03:29
  precisely because its foreign policy is
• 1:03:32
  difficult to control and does not fit
• 1:03:35
  rigid alliance structures. Well, how can
• 1:03:38
  it? The straits of Bosphorus are the
• 1:03:40
  window to east and west and have been
• 1:03:43
  for centuries,
• 1:03:46
  centuries, friends and neighbors. And uh
• 1:03:50
  it has been that way. And and we're
• 1:03:53
  we're a blip to the to the to the world
• 1:03:56
  of Iran, Turkey, uh the the the Turkish
• 1:04:02
  hordes, you know, from way back when.
• 1:04:05
  And uh the in the the Hindu, I mean,
• 1:04:08
  think about it. The Mongolian hordes
• 1:04:10
  before that,
• 1:04:12
  the the the Tatarstan Empire. Oh,
• 1:04:16
  there's some great history over there.
• 1:04:18
  It's been going on for thousands of
• 1:04:21
  years and you're not going to solve it
• 1:04:23
  in a day. And Trump's not going to solve
• 1:04:26
  it in u you know a two week war with
• 1:04:30
  Iran. It ain't going to happen. There
• 1:04:34
  what are we supposed to blow up their uh
• 1:04:36
  uh all of their uh uh temples and things
• 1:04:39
  that have been around literally for
• 1:04:41
  thousands of years? Is that what we
• 1:04:43
  target next?
• 1:04:45
  Probably. So, you know, destroy their
• 1:04:47
  culture. And I tell you what, you're not
• 1:04:49
  going to have any friends over there. In
• 1:04:51
  Israel, the theme of external danger
• 1:04:54
  generally unites their society. When
• 1:04:58
  faced with a threat, political
• 1:04:59
  disagreement receded into the
• 1:05:01
  background. Therefore, discussion about
• 1:05:04
  who might pose the next challenge
• 1:05:09
  after Iran are not merely strategic or
• 1:05:12
  fuller in policy consideration. And they
• 1:05:14
  also have significant imp implication
• 1:05:17
  for domestic politics. The government
• 1:05:19
  must demonstrate that it has control
• 1:05:22
  over the situation and is prepared to
• 1:05:24
  confront any potential adversary. They
• 1:05:27
  aren't even done with Iran yet and
• 1:05:29
  they're already moving on to Turkey and
• 1:05:31
  Pakistan. Nonsense.
• 1:05:36
  Excuse me. The narrative surrounding the
• 1:05:38
  so-called axis of resistance, which
• 1:05:41
  traditionally encompasses Iran and its
• 1:05:44
  proxies, is gradually expanding within
• 1:05:46
  the rhetoric of certain Israeli
• 1:05:49
  politicians. Now, in addition to Tran
• 1:05:52
  and Kar and Islamabad are also mentioned
• 1:05:55
  as potential power centers capable of
• 1:05:59
  limiting Israel's maneuverability in the
• 1:06:02
  midterm. Turkey is seen as a nation with
• 1:06:05
  ambition for regional leadership and
• 1:06:08
  independent defense industry
• 1:06:10
  ideologically driven foreign policy.
• 1:06:13
  Pakistan on the other hand is viewed as
• 1:06:16
  a nuclear power with a deepseated
• 1:06:18
  anti-Israeli stance and growing ties to
• 1:06:23
  Ankara. From Israel's strategic
• 1:06:25
  perspective, this configuration is
• 1:06:28
  perceived as a potential new element
• 1:06:32
  of pressure.
• 1:06:34
  Not a new war. Yet, Israel has
• 1:06:38
  consistently maintained that it views
• 1:06:40
  Iran, Turkey, and Pakistan as rivals
• 1:06:43
  that are different in natural nature but
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  comparable in scale because they're all
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  three huge and uh Pakistan is nuclear
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  and these three are are uh somewhat
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  natural allies and you piss off Iran,
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  you are pissing off Turkey for a large
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  part. It was Turkey that talked the
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  Kurds out of attacking is what I is one
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  of the stories that I've heard about why
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  the Kurds are not going in. The
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  Pakistanis are trying to work with the
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  Azerbaijanis is what I heard. Um and the
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  uh Tajikis to to keep them out of the
• 1:07:24
  out of the fray. um you know Pakistan is
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  attempting to keep this uh on the down
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  low. But I also heard stories that say
• 1:07:35
  that Pakistan you know if anything
• 1:07:38
  happened uh where Israel attacked Iran
• 1:07:40
  with nukes that the retaliation would
• 1:07:42
  come from Pakistan.
• 1:07:45
  Crazy world out there. Um, nonetheless,
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  Israel is known for its long-term
• 1:07:51
  strategy approach. It gradually creates
• 1:07:54
  a favorable international envir
• 1:07:56
  environment through collaboration, false
• 1:07:58
  collaboration in my view, with allies,
• 1:08:01
  sanctions, information campaigns, and
• 1:08:04
  regional alliances. They've had they've
• 1:08:06
  had at least 60 years of US
• 1:08:13
  buttlicking support in my view where
• 1:08:16
  we've done nothing. We don't question a
• 1:08:18
  damn thing. We just jump on board. They
• 1:08:21
  bomb somewhere, we start bombing the
• 1:08:24
  same place. And Trump's done that twice
• 1:08:26
  already. And uh maybe more or or most
• 1:08:30
  time we just ignore it and allow them to
• 1:08:33
  get away with it. And any of the
• 1:08:34
  condemnations that happen in the UN, we
• 1:08:37
  kind of overturn anytime they get how
• 1:08:39
  many times they are the most uh what do
• 1:08:42
  you call it? Sanctioned um
• 1:08:45
  condemned uh what do they call it when
• 1:08:48
  the UN does it? They uh uh give them a
• 1:08:51
  uh uh uh
• 1:08:55
  rhetorical, you know, they want them to
• 1:08:58
  be sanctioned basically, but it's but
• 1:09:01
  it's not sanctioned sanction. It's a uh
• 1:09:03
  uh they condemn them for what they are
• 1:09:06
  doing. Uh there's an arrest warrant for
• 1:09:08
  Netanyahu in the IC
• 1:09:11
  and rightly so. You know, I mean, he's
• 1:09:13
  according to all reasonable
• 1:09:17
  review of international law, he's a war
• 1:09:21
  criminal. Period. Um, according to the
• 1:09:25
  UN law, the US is now we're war
• 1:09:29
  criminals too because we haven't done
• 1:09:31
  any UN uh there was nothing. No, this is
• 1:09:35
  it takes a UN security council. The UN
• 1:09:38
  means absolutely nothing. The the UN I
• 1:09:42
  don't know why we're paying the hundreds
• 1:09:43
  of millions of dollars that we do for
• 1:09:46
  for the UN. And I don't mean us, I mean
• 1:09:49
  every the whole world. What is the point
• 1:09:52
  if it's only a a an agency that condemns
• 1:09:56
  I don't know China or Russia? That's it.
• 1:10:00
  It only condemns then them and and it
• 1:10:04
  cannot condemn the US for illegal
• 1:10:07
  actions in uh um Venezuela. It will
• 1:10:12
  never condemn it. Well, it does condemn
• 1:10:14
  Israel, but nothing ever comes of it
• 1:10:16
  because the US vetos any sort of
• 1:10:18
  condemnation of them of Israel uh for
• 1:10:22
  for
• 1:10:24
  attacks for blockades of humanitarian
• 1:10:27
  aid to get to uh uh citizens, you know,
• 1:10:31
  they create the next generation of u of
• 1:10:34
  person just by keeping them in the uh
• 1:10:39
  in the poor and unfed regions.
• 1:10:43
  So I don't know considering these
• 1:10:46
  scenarios Turkey might emerge as a more
• 1:10:48
  probable adversary than Pakistan because
• 1:10:51
  Pakistan has Iran in between it. But if
• 1:10:54
  they really piss him off the the Arab
• 1:10:58
  countries, the the big ones are going to
• 1:11:00
  come to the defense of Iran instead of
• 1:11:03
  Israel. And because trust me, none of
• 1:11:07
  them are really all that jazzed up about
• 1:11:09
  Israel. remember me telling you the
• 1:11:11
  stories about uh when you're in Qatar,
• 1:11:14
  you you don't normally you're going to
• 1:11:16
  get a lot of questions if you're if
• 1:11:18
  you're v if you're
• 1:11:21
  passport has a lot of stamps of uh uh
• 1:11:26
  travel recent or any to Israel. And so
• 1:11:31
  they will give you in Israel a separate
• 1:11:33
  page to stamp that you can remove um so
• 1:11:39
  it's not a uh stamped inside of your
• 1:11:42
  passport.
• 1:11:45
  So
• 1:11:47
  this logic about uh Turkey and Pakistan
• 1:11:50
  does not imply suddenly emerging into a
• 1:11:53
  new confrontation but rather gradually
• 1:11:57
  building a deterrence infrastructure.
• 1:11:59
  For now, Iran remains Israel's primary
• 1:12:03
  adversary, but trust me, they'll find
• 1:12:06
  more.
• 1:12:08
  They always do. It doesn't matter. Um,
• 1:12:11
  however, Israel will continue to regard
• 1:12:14
  both Turkey and Pakistan as potential
• 1:12:18
  competitors. Frankara, this means that
• 1:12:20
  current disputes must be viewed within
• 1:12:23
  the context of Israel's long-term logic.
• 1:12:27
  The situation in the Middle East remains
• 1:12:29
  unstable. Power dynamics will shift, but
• 1:12:33
  distrust among nations is unlikely to
• 1:12:38
  dissipate anytime soon. And I wanted to
• 1:12:42
  share that with you. That was by a guy
• 1:12:44
  named uh Farad Ibrahimov who's a
• 1:12:48
  lecturer at uh and at the faculty of
• 1:12:52
  economics
• 1:12:54
  um at the Institute of Social Sciences.
• 1:13:00
  Let's see.
• 1:13:04
  There's a uh
• 1:13:09
  let's see here. Where were we going
• 1:13:12
  after this?
• 1:13:15
  Uh,
• 1:13:17
  old uh, Zalinski, the Z monster, has
• 1:13:20
  been telling more uh, more stories here.
• 1:13:25
  Um,
• 1:13:29
  oh goodness.
• 1:13:33
  So, they they did have a film. This is
• 1:13:36
  new. Here's a here's something new. This
• 1:13:38
  just came out like minutes ago. So,
• 1:13:41
  there's a US tomahawk missile filmed
• 1:13:44
  hitting near the uh this girl's school.
• 1:13:50
  So, videos released online and verified
• 1:13:53
  by number of news agencies have ampli
• 1:13:56
  amplified accusations that the US is
• 1:13:59
  behind the strike on the girls school
• 1:14:03
  that left uh over 160 people dead. The
• 1:14:07
  footage, it's a film, uh, shows a US
• 1:14:11
  tomahawk missile impacting near the
• 1:14:13
  school in Manab. The video was shared by
• 1:14:16
  Mayor News that showed the moment when
• 1:14:19
  Israel and American terrorists struck
• 1:14:23
  the Manab school on February the 28th.
• 1:14:26
  Both the Washington Post and the New
• 1:14:29
  York Times verified the authenticity of
• 1:14:31
  the footage used satellite imagery,
• 1:14:35
  social media post, and other geollocated
• 1:14:39
  video. The Washington Post citing eight
• 1:14:43
  independent munitions experts described
• 1:14:46
  the clip as the latest indication of
• 1:14:49
  likely US involvement in the strike. It
• 1:14:52
  noted that the missile hit next to an
• 1:14:55
  Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval
• 1:14:58
  complex adjacent to the school. CBS News
• 1:15:03
  reported and cited a person familiar
• 1:15:06
  with the classified intelligence
• 1:15:09
  assessment that the US is likely
• 1:15:11
  responsible for the attack, but said it
• 1:15:13
  may have been caused by error, possibly
• 1:15:16
  to the use of dated intelligence.
• 1:15:20
  Um, but that isn't what Donald Trump
• 1:15:22
  said and that is not what Hegs said.
• 1:15:25
  Although Hegsith was in the damn
• 1:15:28
  briefing, US officials have confirmed
• 1:15:31
  the use of Tom to Tomahawk missiles
• 1:15:33
  which have a range of 1,600 kilometers
• 1:15:37
  in strikes on Iran. The US is the only
• 1:15:40
  party involved in the conflict
• 1:15:42
  possessing tomahawks. West Bryant, a
• 1:15:45
  former US Army special operations
• 1:15:48
  targeting expert, told the Washington
• 1:15:53
  Post
• 1:15:56
  that the missile outlines correlated to
• 1:15:59
  those of a Tomahawk. Jeffrey Lewis, a
• 1:16:01
  professor of global security at Middbury
• 1:16:05
  College, separately confirmed the
• 1:16:07
  assessment.
• 1:16:09
  He added that the missile did not
• 1:16:11
  resemble any known weapons in Iran's
• 1:16:15
  arsenal. Images from the aftermath of
• 1:16:18
  the strike show the girl's school roof
• 1:16:22
  collapsed onto the children below with
• 1:16:26
  witnesses describing mutilated
• 1:16:28
  children's bodies strewn across the
• 1:16:31
  area. On March 3rd, thousands packed the
• 1:16:34
  streets of Manab for a mass funeral with
• 1:16:37
  a hundred graves dug side by side. This
• 1:16:41
  comes after investigations by AP, CNN,
• 1:16:45
  New York Times, and the Post suggested
• 1:16:49
  that the school was likely destroyed in
• 1:16:51
  a US strike. US President Trump denied
• 1:16:54
  US responsibility. based on what I have
• 1:16:58
  seen, I think it was done by Iran,"
• 1:17:01
  Trump said on Saturday. And then then he
• 1:17:04
  turned back to Heg said, and I hate to
• 1:17:07
  laugh about this, it's really sad. Um,
• 1:17:10
  and and this this this
• 1:17:13
  joke of commentary right here instead of
• 1:17:17
  accepting responsibility and saying,
• 1:17:19
  "Well, do the right thing if it was us."
• 1:17:22
  This is unamerican. Period. And and I
• 1:17:26
  don't accept this. Based on what I've
• 1:17:29
  seen, I think it was done by Iran. Well,
• 1:17:31
  you haven't seen a damn thing then, have
• 1:17:33
  you? Or you haven't bothered to look.
• 1:17:36
  That is nonsense, said Trump on
• 1:17:38
  Saturday, describing Iranian munitions
• 1:17:42
  are very inaccurate. Yeah, that's it.
• 1:17:45
  That's your answer. Defense Secretary
• 1:17:48
  Pete Hegsith standing behind him shaking
• 1:17:50
  his head. Yeah. Yes, sir. said the
• 1:17:54
  Pentagon is examining the dis the the
• 1:17:57
  incident incident and said that the only
• 1:17:59
  side to target civilians is Iran. Yeah.
• 1:18:03
  Why don't we go spread that lie while
• 1:18:06
  while you let everybody else come up
• 1:18:09
  with the truth here? Just be truthful
• 1:18:12
  for God's sake. Do you know how how easy
• 1:18:15
  it would be to just be truthful? It's
• 1:18:18
  not the freaking uh problem that's that
• 1:18:22
  destroys you. It's the freaking cover
• 1:18:24
  up. Why are we covering this up? All you
• 1:18:27
  got to do is admit it and say, "Do you
• 1:18:30
  know what? That was terrible and and it
• 1:18:33
  shouldn't have happened and it was based
• 1:18:35
  on old data or it was based on a
• 1:18:37
  misargeting or a targeting mistake,
• 1:18:39
  something like that." And a person like
• 1:18:42
  me will
• 1:18:44
  understand that. Don't get if it's an
• 1:18:47
  obvious lie, nobody's going to believe
• 1:18:49
  it. But nope, you keep selling it. like
• 1:18:52
  Hillary Clinton would. You are Hillary
• 1:18:55
  Clinton if you're doing this. And that's
• 1:18:57
  an insult. Okay. Nobody wants to be that
• 1:19:00
  woman. Gh.
• 1:19:02
  Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.
• 1:19:07
  Sorry, I shouldn't talk like that. I
• 1:19:09
  suppose she's not really yuck. Depends
• 1:19:11
  on who your audience is, I suppose.
• 1:19:17
  So, did you see that that there was a a
• 1:19:19
  a video of a UAE ship getting um
• 1:19:25
  um
• 1:19:27
  blown up by another drone
• 1:19:32
  um myrranian type and uh
• 1:19:36
  tell you what the Israeli military has
• 1:19:39
  begun a widescale wave of strikes on
• 1:19:41
  unspecified targets in Thran, is Fahan
• 1:19:44
  in southern Iran, said the IDF. Um,
• 1:19:48
  footage shows two of the Iranian cluster
• 1:19:51
  bomb impacts in central Israel during
• 1:19:54
  ballistic missile strike. Have you seen
• 1:19:56
  these? If you if you haven't seen these,
• 1:19:58
  you should get on YouTube and check them
• 1:20:00
  out. They're uh the Iranians have
• 1:20:03
  cluster munitions. Okay. And these
• 1:20:06
  clusters are making it near impossible
• 1:20:09
  for Israel
• 1:20:12
  with, you know, their Iron Dome. That
• 1:20:13
  that that myth has been um uh pretty
• 1:20:17
  much uh poked full of holes
• 1:20:21
  um recently. Anyway, the um
• 1:20:26
  the cluster munitions that showed up,
• 1:20:30
  they're they're they're bombing the crap
• 1:20:31
  out of uh out of Israel here. And so the
• 1:20:36
  aftermath of of of the blowups going on,
• 1:20:41
  you're not there. Not much is getting
• 1:20:43
  out of um is getting out of um Israel
• 1:20:50
  as far as being able to see it. It's
• 1:20:52
  pretty hard to get to see it. And uh so
• 1:20:56
  uh you you can only see limited vision
• 1:20:59
  of it, but every once in a while they
• 1:21:02
  come up there and over the last few days
• 1:21:04
  there have been a ton of these cluster
• 1:21:06
  munitions coming up. So there was also
• 1:21:08
  news that a hypersonic missile was sh
• 1:21:11
  was uh uh that the Iranians have
• 1:21:13
  hypersonics if they have them. They got
• 1:21:15
  them from Russia, no doubt. And um well,
• 1:21:18
  I would assume cuz they they don't they
• 1:21:21
  didn't have their own hypersonics unless
• 1:21:23
  they've been developing jointly with
• 1:21:25
  Russia, but they have hypersonics um
• 1:21:28
  allegedly have have sent one. Um
• 1:21:33
  let's see. We're going to see if we
• 1:21:35
  can't switch to a lighter topic.
• 1:21:38
  See if we can find another Sam uh uh
• 1:21:43
  Rockwell Sam Rockwell movie. Um, I
• 1:21:47
  wanted to tell you a little bit about
• 1:21:49
  where is he?
• 1:21:52
  So, Jirroanovski, does everybody
• 1:21:54
  remember who Jironowski is? I've brought
• 1:21:57
  him up before in the past and I've got
• 1:22:01
  some some information. So, he was he was
• 1:22:03
  very very he passed away like I don't
• 1:22:06
  know not several years ago. I don't
• 1:22:08
  remember the exact time he passed away,
• 1:22:10
  but the guy called all of this 10 12
• 1:22:14
  years ago. He called it all. And so over
• 1:22:17
  the last uh little bit um last oh gee
• 1:22:22
  four or five months there have been
• 1:22:24
  plenty of discussions about Jidonowski
• 1:22:29
  and I got to get to his to his where's
• 1:22:33
  my dashboard here? Um and I have a pair
• 1:22:36
  of glasses right here in my grubby
• 1:22:38
  little pockets.
• 1:22:41
  I want to tell you about Jirin Novski.
• 1:22:47
  Uh
• 1:22:51
  jeez, I ought to share this one with
• 1:22:53
  you. I forgot about this. His entire
• 1:22:55
  brief is here. I I have Heg Seth
• 1:22:58
  Hegsth's whole brief I ought to share
• 1:23:00
  with you.
• 1:23:02
  Um here you go. The United Arab
• 1:23:08
  uh Oh, gee. If I have time, I'll I'll
• 1:23:10
  quickly go through this and then I'll
• 1:23:12
  get back to Judonowski because I want to
• 1:23:14
  share that. Um, a United Arab Emirates
• 1:23:16
  flag tugboat, the Musafa
• 1:23:19
  2, has sunk in the straits of Hormuz.
• 1:23:22
  Three crew members are missing,
• 1:23:24
  including Indonesian nationals.
• 1:23:26
  Jakarta's foreign ministry says the
• 1:23:29
  Mustafa 2 has seven crew members from
• 1:23:32
  Indonesia, India, and the Philippines.
• 1:23:34
  Four of the crew members survive, three
• 1:23:36
  remain missing. UN International
• 1:23:38
  Maritime Organization confirmed the
• 1:23:41
  incident but said that it resulted in
• 1:23:43
  four facilities and three others were
• 1:23:46
  severely injured. There is no clarity on
• 1:23:48
  the discrepancy why it exists. Jakarta
• 1:23:51
  added that before the vessel sank, the
• 1:23:54
  boat uh experienced an explosion that
• 1:23:57
  caused it to catch fire and an
• 1:23:59
  investigation is underway. Security firm
• 1:24:02
  Vanguard said the tugboat was struck by
• 1:24:05
  two missiles while attempting to provide
• 1:24:07
  assistance to the Malta flagged
• 1:24:10
  container ship Safen Prestige. Traffic
• 1:24:13
  through the choke point is ground to a
• 1:24:15
  halt as the conflict in the region
• 1:24:17
  escalates with US, Israel and Iran
• 1:24:20
  pressing on with strikes and counter
• 1:24:21
  strikes. This is the ninth day of the
• 1:24:23
  war in in um um the region. Iran is
• 1:24:27
  challenging US and Israel on the
• 1:24:29
  battlefield. Um, let's see. Iran isn't
• 1:24:33
  backing down regardless of the kind of
• 1:24:35
  hits it has already taken. Let's take a
• 1:24:38
  look at Iran's missile arsenal. It is
• 1:24:42
  one of the largest in Western Asia.
• 1:24:46
  Before the 12-day war with Israel in
• 1:24:49
  June of last year, Israeli military
• 1:24:51
  assess assessments estimate that Thran
• 1:24:55
  possessed 3,000 ballistic missiles.
• 1:25:01
  During the fighting, Israel said it
• 1:25:03
  destroyed hundreds of missiles along
• 1:25:05
  with several launch sites. But since
• 1:25:07
  then, uh, Iran has rebuilt its missile
• 1:25:10
  according to its own defense forces.
• 1:25:13
  Thran's arsenal has recovered, uh, to
• 1:25:16
  around 2500 ballistics. Most of these
• 1:25:19
  fall in the short range and medium-range
• 1:25:21
  ballistic missile category. Short range
• 1:25:24
  ballistics can travel up to a,000.
• 1:25:26
  medium range are capable of traveling up
• 1:25:28
  to 3,000. These ranges allow Iran to
• 1:25:31
  target most of West Asia or Western
• 1:25:35
  Middle East. From Western Iran, the
• 1:25:38
  distance to central Israel is 1,200
• 1:25:41
  kilometers. Um, and Gulf States are only
• 1:25:44
  500 km away. Many of Iran's early
• 1:25:48
  missiles use liquid propellant, a
• 1:25:50
  technology that uh requires a longer
• 1:25:53
  prep time before a launch. They are the
• 1:25:56
  Shahab 1 and the Shahab 2 with range of
• 1:25:59
  300 to 500 km. And these missiles carry
• 1:26:02
  large warheads and relatively low
• 1:26:04
  accuracy and they sometimes miss their
• 1:26:07
  targets. Later versions, the Shahab 3,
• 1:26:10
  the Gdar, and the Ahmad improve in range
• 1:26:12
  and precision. The Gdar missile can
• 1:26:15
  travel up to 2,000 kilometers and means
• 1:26:17
  Israel is within range from deep inside
• 1:26:20
  Iran.
• 1:26:22
  So, those are important. Um, let's see.
• 1:26:24
  And I wanted to get to Jirroenovski
• 1:26:28
  quickly. Uh because Jiranowski in 2009
• 1:26:31
  and this is very short. Um
• 1:26:34
  let's see.
• 1:26:37
  Uh talk about the and I'm translating
• 1:26:41
  from Russian on the fly here. So it's
• 1:26:43
  kind of uh uh let's talk about the
• 1:26:46
  service of civiliza of modern
• 1:26:48
  civilization. the western world is uh
• 1:26:53
  thinks it's much smarter than us and it
• 1:26:56
  will go from Afghanistan
• 1:26:59
  will then go uh to Iraq and
• 1:27:02
  unfortunately
• 1:27:04
  um there is one other but in there but
• 1:27:08
  they won't go and that is Iran and they
• 1:27:12
  will
• 1:27:15
  not go there but they will enforce power
• 1:27:19
  there such and and they will back
• 1:27:22
  another power there. They were saying
• 1:27:24
  that the US won't go there. They would
• 1:27:26
  have gone and they went to Afghanistan
• 1:27:28
  and they went to Iraq. And this is what
• 1:27:30
  Jiranowski said in 2009.
• 1:27:33
  And he said and and the the the video
• 1:27:36
  clip is really interesting and and he
• 1:27:38
  said the same thing about Ukraine. He
• 1:27:40
  said that Ukraine was going to start a
• 1:27:42
  third world war and that it would
• 1:27:44
  continue into Iran. And he said that's
• 1:27:47
  and it was all going to be brought upon
• 1:27:49
  by Israel going into Iran and being
• 1:27:52
  blindly backed by the United States.
• 1:27:55
  Here we are. And that the US itself
• 1:27:59
  along with the west will uh believe that
• 1:28:01
  they can push Russia to the brink.
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  That's what he said about Ukraine. And
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  and absolutely correct. And such a
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  decision in Israel was taken
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  unfortunately. And and here is the
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  problem. It will what will happen with
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  the Islamic world there will be a full
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  destabilization
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  of the near east of the Kafkaz which is
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  uh you know Turkey Turk menistan um
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  Tatarstan all of those areas uh east of
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  Ukraine just east and south of Ukraine
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  and the Kafkas and po and and according
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  and around the entire world
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  because aside from the west there uh Are
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  other governments interested in these
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  powers? Wow, I didn't translate that
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  properly. I should have translated it
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  beforehand, but I didn't. Anyway, uh
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  hope you join me tomorrow. We'll
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  continue on with these hilarious moments
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  uh on DAM Radio and International
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  Flavor. I am Samuel Trap. You should
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  join me every morning from 7:30 until 9
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  a.m. Here on Damradio, you can go to
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  internationalalfflavor.com and get all
• 1:29:12
  past shows. Fridays,
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  Civic Outlaws. Very good show. Uh where
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  we will talk about uh some of the things
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  going on here in Missouri. I hope you
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  have a beautiful mid Missouri day. So
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  long.