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From Women’s Day Protests to Iran Oil Wars: Vice, Maduro, Hegseth, and America’s Habit of Selling Empire as Security · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning, and welcome.
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  I am Samuel Trapp.
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  This is International Flavor.
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  It is already Monday.
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  Isn't that depressing?
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  Oh, here we were having a nice sunny
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  weekend.
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  It was a beautiful day yesterday, talking about
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  the International Day of Women Celebrations.
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  I want to talk a little bit about
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  that, because that is a holiday not very
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  well represented in America, usually.
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  It was a day of protest around the
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  world yesterday, actually.
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  Protests everywhere.
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  There was one in, where was the one
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  that they were doing that?
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  Oh, it was in Spain.
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  It was in Spain.
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  There was a video of, so behind jail
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  bars, there was Trump, there was Netanyahu, and
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  Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, all behind bars in orange
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  jumpsuits in Spain.
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  I forget which city, but it was International
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  Women's Day, and there was women marching all
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  around the world against war.
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  I don't remember there being a lot going
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  on in America.
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  Of course, we have protests every Sunday in
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  America.
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  You can always find somebody protesting.
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  I remember the ones in Florida.
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  You're just like, look, I just want a
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  coffee.
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  All I want is a coffee.
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  Why are you marching around in front of
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  my Starbucks?
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  This is the one I like to go
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  to.
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  Couldn't you go somewhere else?
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  But no.
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  Let's see.
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  Oh, here's a good one.
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  The Voice of America layoffs have been overturned
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  by a judge.
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  Well, there you go.
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  Voice of America.
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  Voice of America is not journalism.
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  Just for those of you who are wondering,
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  that is the furthest thing from real stories
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  that you get.
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  But I tell you what, I watched a
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  lot of a lot of stories over the
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  weekend, and I tried, I mean, I'm telling
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  you, I'm trying to be objective about this,
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  and I'm having my own difficult time.
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  Part of me wants to grab a sign
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  and get marching, because what we're watching is
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  as big a farce as it was during
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  George W.
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  Bush's time.
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  I wish I could find the clip, and
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  I haven't been able to find it.
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  I never saw the movie.
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  I only saw the clip, and I've seen
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  this clip once before, but last night it
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  was on Solovyov, and so I thought it
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  was pretty damn comical that a clip of
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  a severe left-wing show, and maybe somebody
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  more gifted than I in finding clips can
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  find this, but way back, way back, yeah,
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  back in the good old days of 2018,
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  when Sam Rockwell was playing George W., and
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  Christian Bale was playing Dick Cheney in a
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  movie called Vice, we got to see a,
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  I sure wish there was the whole video
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  somewhere, but I haven't been able to find
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  it, and basically it was the show of,
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  and Sam Rockwell, truthfully, is one of my
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  favorite actors anyway.
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  I just, I like that guy.
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  I like listening to the guy.
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  I think he's a hell of an actor.
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  He's a hell of a dancer, apparently, too.
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  You always see him on late-night shows
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  doing cool dances.
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  That dude is a mover and a shaker,
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  but no, we don't get to see them,
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  all they have out there on YouTube that
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  I've been able to find lately are trailers,
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  and he's a good, he's a pretty good
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  George W.
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  He really is, and so anyway, I might
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  have to go back and find that clip
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  for you, find the actual movie, download the
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  movie, cut the clip, and actually do some
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  work instead of just going out to YouTube
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  and trying to find it, but last night,
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  and it's pretty funny when a Russian commentator
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  is using this as bait.
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  He didn't say it was a history show.
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  He said it was somewhat satirical, and well,
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  somewhat.
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  The whole thing's a bit loopy, but I'm
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  much more inclined to, I don't know, forgive
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  the overreach, I suppose, now that we know
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  how blatantly foolish the whole Iraq BS of
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  weapons of mass destruction was.
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  I believe Dick Cheney was not anything but
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  a liar.
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  That's me, and no, you don't have to
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  believe that.
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  You can believe that he was one of
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  the good guys if you'd like to.
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  I don't, and part of me thinks that
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  the Bush family was in it as well.
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  I hate to think that way about any
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  president.
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  In fact, even the doddering old, he never
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  should have been president.
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  Somebody should have rescued him from himself, but
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  I don't want to say anything just because
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  he was old.
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  Everybody gets old.
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  That's how it is.
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  I just hope that somebody stops me before
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  I get that bad off, and certainly doesn't
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  allow me to become president, which is pretty
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  likely.
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  I might become the president at some point.
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  Who knows?
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  But I think I'd be better suited on
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  an international level than are our fearless leaders
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  today, and that's probably the most brutal thing
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  I will say about them.
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  I don't want to beat up on them
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  non-deservedly, but they deserve it, and this
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  scam that they are selling us right now,
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  and I really, really, really got pissed off
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  yesterday, and all it took was the clip
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  where there has been talk since day one
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  in international news, and everybody knows it, and
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  it's been dived into by other
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  journalists, by other people, and even the Pentagon
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  has tried to find out where the mistargeting,
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  which is what they originally sold it as,
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  took place.
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  I brought it to you last week sometime
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  about the girls' school where they killed, showed
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  the burial, showed all the kids, showed the
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  parents screaming, and showed the the leftover parts
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  of the missiles.
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  They showed them, and they're U.S. missiles.
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  I mean, you know, they sent an international
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  group there to look, and they've been checking
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  this out, and they have Trump derangement syndrome
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  with Carville.
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  Carville's a nut anyway, but Carville's out there
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  yelling and carrying on.
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  He's embracing his Trump derangement syndrome that they
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  gave to him, and Carville was always a
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  cool guy.
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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 way
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  he talks.
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  At any rate, this bombing of the girls'
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  school.
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  Now, when they took out Khomeini, and here's
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  where I want you to look, okay?
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  I want you to think about this, because
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  this is how I think about it, and
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  maybe I'm thinking incorrectly, but I don't want
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  to be one of them nuts that just
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  automatically says, you know, Trump bad, me good,
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  or whatever, but this is bad news for
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  all of us people.
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  This is bad news, and it's always about
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  the oil, always about the oil, always about
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  the oil.
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  Why is Maduro sitting in a federal jail
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  cell up in, where is he, New York?
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  Why is he sitting in there?
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  He's sitting in there because Trump wanted his
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  oil, and he saw that China was going
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  to get a better grip on it than
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  we are, so he stopped it.
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  Now, some of you can support that.
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  I don't.
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  I don't like how it happened.
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  I don't like being, if you're going to
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  do that, sell it from the beginning.
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  Don't lie about it.
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  Don't tell me it's narco terror.
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  Don't go blowing up a bunch of little
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  boats so that we all get used to
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  the idea of seeing how, geez, we're taking
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  the right moves against this narco terror.
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  Surely, we have to go after Maduro, who
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  is nowhere close to the kingpin that they
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  thought he was.
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  If that's the case, why aren't we taking
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  out Colombia?
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  What about Nicaragua?
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  I mean, it's like, come on.
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  Don't lie to me, and that's the part
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  that I don't like, is twisting all this
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  crap and selling me a bill of goods
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  that doesn't exist.
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  That's the part I don't like.
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  Don't go saying all the Venezuelan people are
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  rooting for you as an American, because trust
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  me, they aren't, and don't tell me that
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  they don't want to run their own country.
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  They'd prefer that, and they sure as hell
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  don't want Donald Trump picking their president, and
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  so what do we do?
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  We take the most corrupt guy in Venezuela,
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  and this is a friendly version of it.
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  You take the most corrupt guy, and you
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  put in the second most corrupt guy.
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  Okay, yeah, because we threaten them, we scare
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  the crap out of them, and say, well,
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  you're next, bozo, and we'll come in, and
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  we convince, we pay off a bunch of
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  people with making them wealthy, and so that
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  they help us, and then off we go,
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  and then everybody forgets about it.
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  You walk away.
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  We forget about it.
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  Well, it looks like we got 50 billion
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  barrels of oil, Donald Trump says the next
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  morning.
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  That's not what he's, that's not what he
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  sold me.
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  He sold me this was narco-terrorism.
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  There's been a dramatic decline in drugs coming
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  the country.
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  Oh, really?
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  Trust me, the people who want their drugs
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  are gonna find them, okay, Donald Trump, and
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  they're not going to Venezuela to get them,
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  and they weren't anyway, and so it's, that's
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  a nonsensical proposition.
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  It always has been, and you sold it
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  to me, but the trouble is Donald Trump
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  is a dude who comes clean the very
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  next day.
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  Well, we wanted that oil.
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  What are they after now?
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  Seriously, in Iran, what are they after?
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  If you believe the movie Vice, it was,
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  there was a whole lecture that Solovyov showed.
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  It was pretty funny, and it was the
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  lecture by Dick Cheney about the grand jewel
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  of them all.
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  We have bases all around it.
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  We have bases everywhere in the country.
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  I mean, I'm sorry, everywhere in the Middle
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  East except Iran, and if we could just
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  get Iran, 80% of their oil is
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  going to China, and that's true.
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  80% of their oil is going to
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  China, and where does most of it get
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  refined and processed?
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  A little island, a little island right off
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  the Straits of Hormuz, which name I forget,
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  and that is the next target of a
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  military operation.
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  Nobody will let him keep it, though, whether
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  it's Iran or anyone else.
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  The U.S. won't take it, and it'll
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  stay there, trust me.
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  The Iranians will blow it up themselves, and
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  they aren't going to give that to Donald
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  Trump.
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  It's not going to happen.
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  Why do we have five groups, Navy groups,
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  aircraft carrier groups, going?
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  Five.
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  Seven, if you count the one coming from
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  France and the late one, we don't need
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  you, Trump says to Starmer.
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  You're late.
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  You don't need to come because you're late.
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  Oh, and you're early.
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  You know, you're late, too.
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  You didn't think this well enough through.
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  You know, I said at the beginning, and
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  many people say the same thing.
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  If Iran can make it through the two
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  weeks to get past, and we're what, nine
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  days in?
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  Nine days in to this horror story that
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  we shouldn't be involved in in the first
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  place, where Hegseth, do you see, that guy
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  looked like an idiot yesterday, standing behind Trump,
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  shaking his head like one of them little,
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  the bobblehead dolls, you know?
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  Yeah, yeah, we got this.
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  We're kicking the crap out of him.
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  That guy's, he's like the football, the bench
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  player sitting on the football field, and I
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  was having a discussion, who the hell was
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  I discussing this with over the weekend, that
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  Hegseth just reminds me of a guy who
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  in high school either didn't make the football
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  team at all, or he made the football
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  team, but he got, you know, they let
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  him carry the ball, you know, once on
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  his final game so that he, you know,
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  could claim glory days of some sort, and
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  that's Hegeseth's military career, okay?
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  He, you know, what was he, a major
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  or something, and so they placed him in
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  charge of all these generals, and so right
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  now he gets to tell them, well, geez,
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  you should have promoted me a hell of
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  a lot quicker, you know, I should have
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  been in charge of the world way back
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  then, and old Trump is the only one
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  who sees my worth.
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  No, I see that you're over your head,
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  and that's where you are.
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  It'd be like putting me in charge of
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  the Pentagon.
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  I was a sergeant, for God's sake.
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  I never learned the skills that generals learned,
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  and I just never did, and frankly, I
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  think if you're gonna put somebody in charge
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  of a military mission, sure as hell ain't
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  Pete Hegeseth, and that guy, he's over his
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  head, and so all he can do is
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  bob his head and not deny, although I
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  will give him credit.
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  What he said was when they're on Air
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  Force One, and Trump's talking about, oh, yeah,
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  Iran blew up their own people, their own
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  kids.
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  You know, they saw girls and a half
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  over there, and they behead all their women.
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  What in the hell are you talking about?
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  That is not accurate at all.
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  Am I saying it hasn't happened in the
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  past?
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  Sure it has, and in all likelihood.
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  Was I there?
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  Did I see it?
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  No.
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  Is that something that happens today?
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  That is not what's going on in Iran,
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  and if you believe that, you got a
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  bigger problem than Donald Trump.
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  You got a bigger problem than that.
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  You don't understand your history at all, and
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  you don't understand your cultural things at all,
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  and so I encourage you to learn, if
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  you care, because there's 60 percent of America
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  right now.
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  Do you know that little swing vote part,
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  that 60 percent?
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  There's 60 percent of the country against this
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  war, and it's growing.
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  It's not shrinking.
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  They showed something on TV the other day
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  that just pissed me off to no end,
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  and I'm reasonably religious.
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  I have my beliefs.
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  I don't talk about them, but I've got
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  my own beliefs.
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  I was sickened to watch a blessing of
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  the president in office.
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  Those things do not mix.
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  If we're running the world like, oh gee,
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  God's chosen, that is wrong.
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  It's just as wrong as claiming Netanyahu's God's
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  gift to the planet.
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  He is not, and it forgives everything that
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  they are allowed to do.
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  It forgives it.
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  It says, oh geez, well he just killed
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  an infidel.
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  That's great.
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  He's killing infidels.
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  Infidels are people too.
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  Whether you believe them infidels, they believe you're
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  an infidel, and this is why the world
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  needs to calm the hell down and come
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  down a few notches.
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  This is such crap, and I tell you
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  what.
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  I've been ranting here for a little while.
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  I want to get back to my topic
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  part because I did go through quite a
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  bit of this over the weekend.
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  Let's see.
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  I had to go look up my thing.
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  Here's what it discovered whilst I was sitting
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  here.
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  The film you are thinking of is Vice.
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  It's the 2018 political biographical film directed by
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  Adam McKay.
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  Christian Bale plays Dick Cheney, and Sam Rockwell
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  plays George W.
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  Bush.
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  Did you ever see Rockwell in that movie
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  called Moon?
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  That was good stuff.
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  You should watch it if you get a
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  chance.
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  I wonder who that is.
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  Well, these damn TVs, they're killing me.
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  The movie satirically dramatizes how Cheney shaped US
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  foreign policy and the road to the Iraq
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  war.
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  The scene I'm remembering.
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  In the film, there's a famous scene where
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  Cheney is discussing Middle East strategy and the
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  strategic value of controlling the region's energy resources.
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  The idea presented in the scene, and it
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  is the real prize in the Middle East
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  geopolitical game isn't Iraq itself.
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  The quote is, the big gold piece in
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  the center of the room is Iran.
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  The movie frames Iran as the central strategic
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  target in a long-term regional strategy involving
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  Iraq, energy routes, and power projection in the
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  Gulf.
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  On Russian political shows, they do use that
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  scene because it's an American Hollywood film.
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  It criticizes US policy from inside the US
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  itself, and it's a rhetorical device.
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  Look, even America made movies about this.
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  And I would like the exact clip.
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  Pull.
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  I wonder if it'll really do this for
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  me.
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  Pull the clip and tell me where I
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  can show it.
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  How about that?
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  Let's see what happens if that shows up
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  in the meantime.
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  Meanwhile, I want to get to some of
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  the news pieces.
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  Mojtaba Khamenei was named as Iran's next supreme
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  leader.
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  It looks very much like his father did
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  30, 40 years ago.
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  I tell you what, the Israelis are saying,
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  look, it doesn't matter.
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  And this sickens me as well, okay?
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  And this truly happened over the weekend.
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  And Trump says, by the way, $100 a
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  barrel is a very small price to pay
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  for Iran war.
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  That's it.
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  That's it.
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  It's a small price to pay.
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  What about the trillions we're going to spend
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  on getting involved in another conflict that we
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  don't need to get involved in?
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  I am just sickened.
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  I hope he ain't sending any of my
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  sons over there.
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  The Israeli army says it will target Ayatollah
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  Khamenei's successor amid the ongoing war in the
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  Mideast.
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  These people are sick, okay?
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  This is sick.
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  And their politicians are, if anything, worse than
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  ours, okay?
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  The Israeli defense force has threatened to assassinate
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  anyone that replaces Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Iran's
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  supreme leader.
• 21:49
  Now, these decapitation strikes are BS anyway.
• 21:57
  Arguably, they could have done the same thing
• 21:59
  to Maduro, but at least they allowed him
• 22:03
  to live in a prison.
• 22:05
  These kings of the world, I'm the king
• 22:07
  of the world.
• 22:08
  I wonder why DiCaprio is not the king
• 22:10
  of the world.
• 22:11
  I thought he was, but apparently it's Trump.
• 22:13
  Trump gets to pick, according to Trump, he
• 22:16
  gets to pick the next leader of Iran.
• 22:21
  Oh, that's going to go over like a
• 22:22
  lead balloon.
• 22:23
  Yeah, he gets to pick who, just like
• 22:29
  in Venezuela, we're taking over the world.
• 22:36
  Now he says he's going to do it
• 22:38
  to Cuba.
• 22:39
  The guy's a nut.
• 22:41
  I can't wait for the three years to
• 22:43
  be over.
• 22:44
  I got to tell you, if this is
• 22:45
  the world that we got to live in,
• 22:47
  I can't wait for this to end.
• 22:49
  This is bad news all around.
• 22:53
  Do you know, I saw a report yesterday
• 22:55
  that the only sane voice in the room,
• 23:00
  the only sane voice in the room, and
• 23:03
  where's he been lately, is J.D. Vance.
• 23:09
  You don't see him, yeah, you don't see
• 23:14
  him Pete Hegsething it everywhere.
• 23:15
  You don't see him slapping backs and carrying
• 23:18
  on.
• 23:19
  You don't see him Rubio in it.
• 23:21
  No, no, no.
• 23:23
  And you don't see him hanging out and
• 23:25
  going to dinner with, or traveling to Israel
• 23:30
  or to Ukraine with the evil congressional folks.
• 23:38
  You don't get to watch him doing that.
• 23:41
  The people have dreamed about this.
• 23:43
  All the neocons have been dreaming about this.
• 23:46
  Our nation is back, bigger, better, richer.
• 23:49
  Yeah, Donald Trump, stand with him.
• 23:53
  Get your prayer shawls on and stand with
• 23:55
  him.
• 23:56
  I'm against that.
• 23:57
  I don't like mixing religion and state.
• 24:02
  I don't like it.
• 24:03
  There are too many people who disagree with
• 24:04
  that point of view.
• 24:06
  And with the, what do you call it,
• 24:13
  religion and state shouldn't go together.
• 24:15
  And I'm really starting to worry about our
• 24:17
  fearless leader.
• 24:19
  Anyway, Khomeini and several other senior Iranian officials
• 24:24
  were killed in the very first wave.
• 24:26
  By the way, that school that they blew
• 24:29
  up was one of the schools where their
• 24:33
  children went.
• 24:35
  Okay.
• 24:36
  That's why I believe that it was either
• 24:39
  targeted specifically, or they were attacking some buildings
• 24:44
  next door that housed a lot of the
• 24:48
  leadership.
• 24:51
  But what difference does it make?
• 24:53
  Why in the world would you say that
• 24:55
  on the day that you killed the top
• 24:58
  40 leaders in the nation that you didn't
• 25:03
  kill their children too?
• 25:05
  I mean, it just makes no sense that,
• 25:09
  oh gee, there are 40 missiles floating around
• 25:14
  killing 40 separate people in 40 distinct locations.
• 25:18
  And then one the same day to blow
• 25:21
  up a school, right?
• 25:23
  That the Iranian sent themselves, they blew up
• 25:26
  their own children for the better, you know,
• 25:28
  the better good, right?
• 25:30
  Nonsense.
• 25:31
  And nobody believes that, including Donald Trump.
• 25:34
  He's selling you something.
• 25:35
  Pete Higgs sat in the back and said,
• 25:37
  oh yeah, boy, the only ones that target
• 25:41
  civilians, the only ones that target civilians are
• 25:44
  Iran.
• 25:46
  Where the hell did you pull that out
• 25:47
  of your ass?
• 25:48
  It's like, what did you target?
• 25:51
  Day one, civilian leadership of Iran.
• 25:57
  And now you're denying it on a plane.
• 26:00
  The only ones that target civilians are us,
• 26:02
  right?
• 26:03
  The only ones that target and decapitation strikes,
• 26:07
  you think Putin couldn't take out a decapitation
• 26:10
  strike Ukraine?
• 26:12
  They don't fight that way.
• 26:14
  Only Netanyahu and George Bush and Donald Trump
• 26:19
  fight that way.
• 26:20
  That is not, it is unacceptable to me.
• 26:24
  That's not how you fight.
• 26:26
  We are intentionally causing chaos, intentionally trying to
• 26:33
  cause chaos.
• 26:34
  There's plenty of reports out there.
• 26:36
  I forget who it was.
• 26:37
  It wasn't Sachs.
• 26:39
  It was somebody else.
• 26:41
  And I watched another show by that Khazin.
• 26:44
  He must have had a really good show
• 26:46
  the other day because he's gone from wearing
• 26:51
  normal, regular clothes like I would wear.
• 26:54
  Today, I'm wearing a pullover, button up, and
• 26:59
  that's what he would do.
• 27:00
  Well, I tell you what, he had his
• 27:02
  own show.
• 27:02
  He stepped it up a little bit, has
• 27:04
  Mikhail Khazin, and now he's got a formal
• 27:09
  background, a real podcast setting, movie podcast, YouTube
• 27:14
  channel.
• 27:16
  But I've listened to him for a while.
• 27:20
  I think he's smart.
• 27:21
  And now he's wearing a suit and tie,
• 27:29
  which is cool.
• 27:30
  I'm okay with that.
• 27:32
  It just, there it is.
• 27:33
  But the statement, Khomeini and several other officials,
• 27:36
  after a week of deliberations, the assembly of
• 27:39
  experts, a body of clerics tasked with vetting
• 27:42
  and selecting a new supreme leader, announced Monday
• 27:45
  that Khomeini's son, Moshtaba, has been chosen to
• 27:49
  succeed him.
• 27:50
  In a statement posted on the IDF's Farsi
• 27:53
  account hours before, the Israeli army issued a
• 27:57
  warning to its members.
• 27:59
  The hand of the state of Israel will
• 28:02
  continue to pursue every successor and every person
• 28:07
  involved in his appointment, the IDF said, adding
• 28:11
  that it would not hesitate to target the
• 28:13
  clerics attending the assembly meetings.
• 28:16
  This is who we're supporting, people that are
• 28:20
  targeting religious leaders.
• 28:25
  They are extremely warlike, and they can be
• 28:31
  because they got Donald Trump on a leash,
• 28:33
  and that's what they got.
• 28:36
  Pete Hegseth on a leash, just like they
• 28:39
  had leaders before him.
• 28:42
  It's no different than it has been for
• 28:44
  at least my lifetime.
• 28:46
  Last week, Israel struck the assembly's headquarters in
• 28:50
  Qom, but the attack failed to derail the
• 28:53
  selection of the new leader.
• 28:56
  Ali Larijani, Iran's top security official, said Moshtaba
• 29:00
  Khomeini's appointment demonstrates that the U.S. and
• 29:03
  Israel failed to use Ali Khomeini's death to
• 29:06
  sow chaos in the country.
• 29:08
  U.S. President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister
• 29:11
  Netanyahu both cite regime change as the war
• 29:16
  goal, that and stealing oil, right?
• 29:21
  Trump has demanded unconditional surrender and said the
• 29:24
  Supreme Leader won't last long unless Iran bows
• 29:29
  to his demands.
• 29:31
  Iranian officials and the military have vowed to
• 29:33
  continue their resistance.
• 29:39
  The surge in oil prices won't stop the
• 29:42
  U.S. from waging war on Iran, Trump
• 29:44
  says, after Brent crude is now past $100
• 29:48
  a barrel Sunday, the biggest daily gain since
• 29:52
  COVID-19.
• 29:53
  In response to the U.S. and Israeli
• 29:55
  airstrikes, Iran has closed the Straits of Hormuz
• 29:58
  and struck tankers attempting to cross the waterway,
• 30:02
  which serve as a route for one-fifth,
• 30:05
  some say it's one-fourth, of the world's
• 30:08
  oil supply, or even a third.
• 30:10
  Iraq, the UAE, and Kuwait, all major oil
• 30:14
  producers have cut output after running out of
• 30:17
  storage space.
• 30:19
  On true social, naturally you have to rule
• 30:22
  by true social, Trump downplayed the effects of
• 30:25
  the war on global trade.
• 30:27
  Short-term oil prices, which will drop rapidly
• 30:31
  when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat,
• 30:33
  this isn't about the nuclear threat, this has
• 30:36
  nothing to do with a nuclear threat, is
• 30:40
  a very small price to pay for USA
• 30:43
  and world safety and peace.
• 30:47
  Only fools will think differently.
• 30:49
  Well, sir, I'm a fool then, because I
• 30:53
  don't believe a word you're saying.
• 30:55
  And if you were smart, not him, but
• 30:58
  you, listener, you'd go and listen to some
• 31:01
  reality checks as well.
• 31:04
  During his campaign, Trump promised cheaper gas and
• 31:08
  no war.
• 31:10
  There was something I saw.
• 31:13
  What was it?
• 31:14
  It was the head of the front cover
• 31:18
  of a magazine.
• 31:20
  What was it?
• 31:21
  Times?
• 31:22
  I don't know what it was.
• 31:23
  It was a Time magazine, was it?
• 31:26
  That showed the wars that Trump has started.
• 31:30
  And he didn't get his much-desired Nobel
• 31:37
  Peace Prize, and it's a good thing he
• 31:39
  didn't.
• 31:41
  It's a good thing he didn't, because he
• 31:43
  doesn't deserve it.
• 31:45
  First, he was stretching the other ones that
• 31:47
  he settled in a day, and he can't
• 31:50
  settle the Ukraine, he hasn't started other ones,
• 31:54
  he's going to blow up Greenland, he's going
• 31:56
  to take over Cuba.
• 31:59
  This is a peacetime precedent for sure, right?
• 32:02
  And there's a bunch of people out there
• 32:05
  thumping their Bibles and getting ready to go
• 32:07
  to war on behalf of Israel.
• 32:10
  It makes no sense to me at all.
• 32:13
  But during the re-election campaign, I actually
• 32:16
  was on the side of the Trumpster.
• 32:22
  I've never been on the side of the
• 32:24
  Trumpster internationally.
• 32:26
  I've always been worried about that, because he's
• 32:29
  just another arm of the neocon world, unfortunately.
• 32:36
  And they are certainly in charge of him
• 32:38
  now, at least as far as everything that
• 32:43
  he's doing.
• 32:43
  He's not making these choices himself, in no
• 32:46
  way.
• 32:47
  I doubt he even understands them, to be
• 32:49
  truthful.
• 32:50
  Um, let's see.
• 32:52
  American Automobile Association stated that the national average
• 32:56
  price of regular gasoline has risen by 15
• 33:00
  percent over the past week, to $3.45
• 33:03
  a gallon.
• 33:05
  Some areas reporting 30 percent.
• 33:08
  I've told you, mine right here, it wasn't,
• 33:11
  uh, in fact, it was just about two
• 33:13
  weeks ago, where I said that I paid
• 33:16
  $2.69. $2.69 for gas.
• 33:24
  And I had heard that there was a
• 33:26
  $2.49 somewhere, under $2.50. And, uh,
• 33:33
  now, we are at $3.45 a gallon
• 33:38
  on average.
• 33:40
  I'll have to look out the window, um,
• 33:43
  uh, on my way to, uh, the office
• 33:47
  later, and see what, uh, where the places
• 33:51
  are that I pay, what they have gone
• 33:55
  up to.
• 33:56
  And that idiot Besant was out the other
• 34:00
  day.
• 34:00
  What a nut!
• 34:02
  This guy, you never know what the hell
• 34:04
  he's gonna say.
• 34:05
  And I shouldn't call him an idiot, that's
• 34:07
  not nice.
• 34:08
  That, that is, but, but what is he
• 34:11
  selling?
• 34:12
  This guy is out there, he's like a
• 34:14
  cheerleader, too.
• 34:15
  And he's doing the same thing.
• 34:17
  Guess what he said?
• 34:18
  He said, he said that Donald Trump has
• 34:22
  given permission.
• 34:24
  Here's, he has been given permission to, he
• 34:28
  has given permission to Modi and India to
• 34:32
  buy Russian oil for a month.
• 34:35
  They never needed your permission.
• 34:37
  They never took your permission.
• 34:39
  In fact, they never quit buying Russian oil.
• 34:42
  And now, why in the world are we
• 34:44
  trying to make it sound like they stopped?
• 34:47
  They didn't.
• 34:48
  Have you listened to anything that these people
• 34:51
  say and have said over the last six
• 34:54
  months?
• 34:54
  No.
• 34:55
  It's our, it's our, uh, one of the,
• 35:00
  one of the key elements that we need
• 35:02
  to work with.
• 35:03
  You don't get to dictate how much we
• 35:05
  pay for oil.
• 35:05
  You don't get to.
• 35:07
  Sorry, that's not how it works.
• 35:09
  And, and, and they haven't done it.
• 35:12
  And they haven't, um, you know, succumbed to
• 35:15
  the tariffs.
• 35:16
  And, and I, I think that there's a
• 35:19
  lot of negatives going on in the old
• 35:21
  Trumpster regime these days.
• 35:23
  And it's, um, it's, these are not good
• 35:28
  times that we are living in.
• 35:30
  Uh, but here goes Besson.
• 35:32
  First of all, he claims on Friday that
• 35:35
  Washington is exploring additional measures to lower oil
• 35:39
  prices.
• 35:40
  Gee, I wonder what they are.
• 35:41
  He has unsanctioned Russian oil.
• 35:45
  He says that he's going to lift all
• 35:47
  sanctions on Russian oil.
• 35:49
  But I thought they were the antichrist too.
• 35:53
  We just, well, you know, that's not important
• 35:56
  anymore.
• 35:58
  Ukraine, that's not important.
• 36:00
  We don't care.
• 36:01
  It never was important by the way, but,
• 36:04
  but now it's, it's, you know, well, we're,
• 36:07
  we're just going to unsanction that oil.
• 36:08
  We can sanction it again.
• 36:10
  Once we, once we, uh, uh, seize control
• 36:13
  of, uh, the oil fields in Iran or
• 36:15
  destroy them or destroy that Island whose name
• 36:19
  I can't recall.
• 36:21
  Um, Oh boy.
• 36:24
  Energy secretary, Chris Wright pledges to bring gasoline
• 36:28
  back below $3 a gallon before too long.
• 36:31
  Well, that's, that's commitment before too long.
• 36:35
  I'm going to stop cheating on my wife
• 36:37
  before too long.
• 36:39
  That's a great, that's a great measuring stick.
• 36:42
  Isn't before too long.
• 36:44
  Thank you, Mr. Chris.
• 36:46
  Right.
• 36:48
  Last week, the treasury formally allowed, formally allowed
• 36:52
  India to temporarily buy oil from Russia with
• 36:57
  Besant saying the U S could potentially unsanctioned
• 37:00
  more of Russia's energy exports.
• 37:03
  Remember I told you last week that they
• 37:05
  were on behalf of Mertz in Germany because
• 37:08
  Mertz came over and he, he bent the
• 37:10
  knee to the old Trumpster and said, uh,
• 37:13
  please, please, please let us buy oil through
• 37:17
  Luke oil and Rosneft in, um, in Germany,
• 37:21
  you know, you sanction them and boy, we
• 37:23
  can't have that.
• 37:24
  And so guess what happened on behalf of
• 37:28
  Mertz?
• 37:28
  They allowed that to happen.
• 37:30
  JP Morgan, chief economist, Bruce, Bruce Kassman told
• 37:35
  Reuters that the near term scenario could see
• 37:39
  cruise prices spike to $120 a barrel before
• 37:46
  settling at an $80 a barrel level throughout
• 37:51
  the mid year.
• 37:52
  If the conflict persists, Russian presidential investment envoy
• 37:57
  Kirill Dmitriev said on Monday that oil prices
• 38:01
  will exceed $200 a barrel in the event
• 38:05
  of a prolonged conflict.
• 38:08
  Yeah.
• 38:09
  They better unsanctioned that Russian oil or the
• 38:13
  U S is going to pay and who,
• 38:14
  and who's better Russia or Iran.
• 38:16
  Now there's talk that in the Eastern half
• 38:18
  of Iran, that, uh, in the, the Eastern
• 38:21
  half, which hasn't been beat up upon yet,
• 38:24
  China and Russia are still there and, uh,
• 38:28
  uh, China and Russia are fueling that.
• 38:34
  Um, there's plenty more news that I wanted
• 38:36
  to get into, but I also wanted to
• 38:38
  go back through, uh, where is Maduro?
• 38:42
  I wanted to say where he was.
• 38:43
  Let's get to, uh, the Hegseth credibility problem.
• 38:48
  Um, he said this, uh, uh, school strike
• 38:52
  was under, um, uh, was under, um, investigation
• 39:00
  by the Pentagon and in his own, you
• 39:04
  know, when he wasn't in an airplane standing
• 39:06
  behind Trump, he said that they were checking
• 39:09
  into it.
• 39:10
  And, uh, he was very, uh, flustered at
• 39:13
  that time.
• 39:14
  It, and this was his, uh, briefing on,
• 39:17
  uh, what was it Friday?
• 39:19
  Let's see.
• 39:20
  I want to go to, uh, I want
• 39:23
  to get to this.
• 39:25
  Uh, he, cause that's not what he said
• 39:28
  earlier.
• 39:29
  And this is even Reuters says the earliest
• 39:37
  U S assessment points toward us being responsible
• 39:41
  for that.
• 39:42
  And that's Reuters and, uh, you know, Trump
• 39:46
  trying to deflect attention by going, they cut
• 39:49
  babies in half there.
• 39:50
  Yeah.
• 39:51
  Happens every day.
• 39:53
  Um, that's how public trust is broken with
• 39:56
  certainty vagueness.
• 39:58
  And now suddenly we're up to, well, it's
• 40:00
  an ongoing review.
• 40:01
  You know, we're not the ones that target
• 40:03
  people.
• 40:03
  They are.
• 40:04
  Yeah.
• 40:05
  Yeah.
• 40:07
  Nuts.
• 40:08
  Um, Missouri Maduro has disappeared from the headlines,
• 40:11
  but he's still in a holding facility.
• 40:14
  Um, the bigger question is not where is
• 40:17
  he, but why has any, you know, once
• 40:20
  the regime change spectacle is over, nobody cares
• 40:23
  anymore.
• 40:23
  It's over onto the next regime change, right?
• 40:27
  Um, oil is the recurring ghost in the
• 40:30
  room here.
• 40:31
  Where are we?
• 40:32
  Venezuela oil, Iran oil, Iraq oil.
• 40:40
  Um, let's see the, the, the official excuse
• 40:46
  making lines.
• 40:47
  Uh, they don't line up with strategic reality.
• 40:50
  Uh, NATO speaks in lawyerly half sentences.
• 40:55
  Washington wants to manage fallout from this ugly
• 40:59
  civilian strike story.
• 41:00
  Do you know, I usually like watching, what's
• 41:03
  her name?
• 41:03
  Uh, Trump's girl, uh, speaking in front of
• 41:06
  the white house.
• 41:07
  I forget her name.
• 41:08
  And, uh, uh, that, that gets to talk
• 41:10
  all the time.
• 41:10
  And she's usually pretty well-spoken.
• 41:12
  She sounded like a cheerleader and a religious
• 41:15
  nut.
• 41:15
  Uh, the other day, I don't like that
• 41:18
  in a, uh, in a press secretary.
• 41:20
  I think that's just wrong.
• 41:24
  So, uh, that I don't, I don't like
• 41:27
  that.
• 41:28
  Um, the Russian official line is, uh, the
• 41:34
  similar to mine.
• 41:35
  So I read this, this morning in here,
• 41:37
  but I, but I'm telling you what, I've
• 41:39
  been having trouble with this all weekend.
• 41:41
  Um, watching the U S official channels get
• 41:45
  nuttier and nuttier as we go.
• 41:48
  The official line from Maria Zakharova is, uh,
• 41:52
  another reckless U S Israeli escalation, unlawful according
• 41:57
  to UN charter.
• 41:58
  They haven't followed that.
• 42:00
  They never do.
• 42:01
  Um, regional wrecking, which says we have a
• 42:05
  very big habit of that and spilling outward.
• 42:08
  Um, she described the crisis as the result
• 42:12
  of an unprovoked U S and Israel attack
• 42:15
  in Iran.
• 42:16
  It's always that way.
• 42:18
  They didn't attack first Iran did not attack
• 42:21
  Israel first.
• 42:22
  And now they like to claim, uh, you
• 42:24
  know, they, they like to claim that everything,
• 42:26
  everything is blamed on Iran, everything.
• 42:30
  And, uh, so used to be, well, who
• 42:33
  are we taking out the Palestinians?
• 42:36
  Now, forget it.
• 42:38
  It's not the Palestinians.
• 42:39
  We're after, we're after Iran.
• 42:40
  It's Iran.
• 42:41
  Everybody, you hear them all chanting Iran, but
• 42:44
  they don't know crap.
• 42:45
  They don't know this history.
• 42:48
  They just don't.
• 42:50
  And that is not the middle East.
• 42:52
  Okay.
• 42:52
  They're also trying to claim the Turkmenistan that
• 42:55
  Azerbaijan, that some of these places are gonna,
• 42:57
  uh, effectively, um, like, like, like the, uh,
• 43:03
  Kurdish people in there, uh, on the Eastern
• 43:07
  half of Iraq that they're going to be,
• 43:09
  they're going to be the ground forces.
• 43:11
  They've said no to that.
• 43:12
  There were two or three reports on that,
• 43:15
  uh, that, uh, the old Trumpster has been
• 43:17
  trying to get them in on the game.
• 43:20
  Um, the U S hasn't put enough ground
• 43:24
  troops into, um, the region like they did
• 43:28
  before the Iraq war.
• 43:29
  We had like some hundred thousand on the
• 43:32
  ground, uh, before invading Iraq, complete with all
• 43:38
  their tanks and everything.
• 43:40
  That is, hasn't been prepared for here.
• 43:44
  They, they truly thought, you know, did Hegseth
• 43:47
  and his, and his, uh, and his cronies
• 43:50
  up at the top thought that, um, a
• 43:54
  few missiles would, uh, be enough to, uh,
• 43:59
  to take them down.
• 44:01
  Um, let's see, I have another couple of
• 44:08
  stories.
• 44:08
  Let's get to something lighter than this.
• 44:12
  Uh, let's see.
• 44:15
  Israel has threatened the new leader and this
• 44:19
  one just came out.
• 44:20
  Um, Donald Trump has warned also that, let's
• 44:28
  see.
• 44:28
  Oh, here's Lindsey Graham.
• 44:29
  Again, Trump issued a similar warning to the
• 44:34
  IDF saying that they're going to kill the
• 44:37
  next leader.
• 44:37
  And, Iran's next leader won't last long without
• 44:41
  U S approval said that I ran must
• 44:44
  comply with Trump's demands to avoid further escalation.
• 44:48
  I wonder where Trump figured out that he
• 44:52
  was the King.
• 44:54
  I really wonder this and I've never seen
• 44:58
  anything like this in my lifetime where, uh,
• 45:04
  the president comes out and demand, demand, demand
• 45:08
  in this way, you know, in the way
• 45:12
  that he's doing.
• 45:13
  And he just so blunt about it.
• 45:16
  And it's like, who in the world do
• 45:18
  you think you are?
• 45:19
  And, and why does international law not apply
• 45:25
  to you?
• 45:26
  And, and this is troubling to me, you
• 45:30
  know, at least other people pretended to, uh,
• 45:34
  uh, follow international law.
• 45:36
  He doesn't even, he makes no bones about
• 45:38
  it.
• 45:39
  He doesn't have to, he does what he
• 45:41
  wants.
• 45:42
  And that is that, and the worst scenario
• 45:45
  is Netanyahu's right there with him.
• 45:49
  That 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 U S uh, because it
• 46:01
  sure as hell isn't, isn't Trump in charge
• 46:04
  here or at least that got us in
• 46:07
  now he has to show that he didn't
• 46:09
  make the wrong decision.
• 46:11
  And so therefore he's going to make it
• 46:14
  look like all this was his doing and,
• 46:17
  uh, and, and the only way he can
• 46:19
  do that is one Upsmanship.
• 46:20
  He has to go larger.
• 46:22
  He has to go bigger, bigger, harder.
• 46:25
  He has to bring in five aircraft carrier
• 46:28
  groups.
• 46:29
  That's what he's got to do.
• 46:30
  And, uh, Israeli defense forces, Trump issues, the
• 46:34
  warning, uh, Senator Lindsey Graham, of course, as
• 46:37
  told Fox news at Washington will make tons
• 46:41
  of money.
• 46:42
  If it succeeds in overthrowing Iranian leadership, Graham
• 46:47
  and, uh, Graham and, uh, uh, what's his
• 46:50
  name?
• 46:52
  Uh, Christian bail need to get together and,
• 46:55
  uh, you know, they can both act as
• 46:57
  if a Dick Cheney is still in the
• 46:59
  room.
• 47:00
  Uh, Graham made the remarks as global prices
• 47:03
  surged to a hundred dollars barrel with the
• 47:05
  Strait of Hormuz shipping route closed.
• 47:08
  Iran has closed the waterway, which carries a
• 47:11
  fifth of the world's oil supply and struck
• 47:14
  tankers attempting to pass through in retaliation for
• 47:17
  the U S Israeli strikes.
• 47:19
  Trump has dismissed this spike in oil prices.
• 47:23
  It's a very small price to pay.
• 47:25
  He says for the U S Israeli war
• 47:28
  and that they will drop rapidly when destruction
• 47:31
  of the nuclear threat is over.
• 47:32
  This is not about a nuclear threat.
• 47:37
  I ran a state.
• 47:37
  It has no ambition to make a nuclear
• 47:39
  weapon.
• 47:41
  Can't believe that.
• 47:42
  Can we, as of Monday, the U S
• 47:44
  Israel attacks have killed 1,255 Iranian civilians.
• 47:50
  According to data from Iran, the single deadliest
• 47:53
  incident was, uh, I can't speak incident was
• 47:57
  a strike on a girl's school in Manab
• 48:00
  killing 168 children.
• 48:03
  The U S Israeli strikes on oil facilities
• 48:05
  near Tehran have produced a black rain of
• 48:09
  toxic oil and soot online images and footage
• 48:13
  show thick smog over the Capitol residents report
• 48:17
  breathing difficulties.
• 48:19
  Iran's red Crescent society warned that the rain
• 48:22
  could be highly dangerous and acidic and pose
• 48:25
  serious health risks.
• 48:28
  U S central command says eight soldiers have
• 48:31
  died in operations linked to Iran.
• 48:35
  At least 13 Israelis have been killed so
• 48:38
  far in crossfire.
• 48:40
  Iran's retaliatory strikes on U S bases have
• 48:43
  killed at least four in the UAE, six
• 48:46
  in Kuwait, two in Saudi Arabia.
• 48:49
  Trump claims that U S forces has significantly
• 48:52
  degraded Tehran's Naval and missile capabilities, saying they
• 48:57
  have sunk all Iranian ships and destroyed most
• 49:00
  missile launch platforms with only 20% remaining.
• 49:04
  Is that a Donald Trump 20% or
• 49:07
  a real 20% Uh, Russia's proposing UN
• 49:11
  security council resolution urging members to express, uh,
• 49:15
  concern over the current military escalation in the
• 49:19
  middle East, as well as to mourn the
• 49:21
  loss of life.
• 49:22
  It also urges all parties to stop their
• 49:25
  military activities condemned in the strongest terms, all
• 49:28
  attacks against civilians and return to negotiations.
• 49:33
  Uh, Turkish air defenses intercepted an Iranian ballistic
• 49:37
  missile with some degree falling near the city
• 49:41
  of Gaziantep, not far from the Syrian border
• 49:45
  said the defense ministry saying that there were
• 49:48
  no, uh, injuries.
• 49:52
  Um, let's see.
• 49:56
  I wanted to, because Turkey is no huge
• 50:01
  friend to Israel.
• 50:04
  Let's see.
• 50:06
  Well, Ankara become Jerusalem's next target.
• 50:13
  Let's see.
• 50:15
  Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett recently made
• 50:20
  a bold statement regarding Turkey and its president
• 50:24
  receptor you part of gun effectively laboring and
• 50:28
  Cara as a new strategic threat to Israeli
• 50:31
  security.
• 50:32
  Here we go.
• 50:35
  Bennett accused Turkey of supporting Iran and several
• 50:39
  groups in the middle East that Israeli Israel
• 50:43
  classifies as terrorist organizations.
• 50:46
  All you got to do is yell terror,
• 50:48
  narco terror, you know, in the U S
• 50:52
  terror, terror in Israel.
• 50:54
  And suddenly you get to blow up whoever
• 50:56
  you want.
• 50:56
  Just call them a terrorist.
• 50:58
  These terrorizers, we got to go get them
• 51:00
  in an interview.
• 51:01
  Bennett described her to gun as a sophisticated
• 51:05
  and dangerous adversary who wants to encircle Israel.
• 51:10
  He urged Israel and its allies, not to
• 51:13
  turn a blind eye to in car as
• 51:15
  actions and develop a comprehensive policy of containment.
• 51:19
  So now Israel has to contain Turkey.
• 51:28
  Isn't that great?
• 51:33
  No.
• 51:33
  Why is mom Bonnie's wife on the TV
• 51:36
  here?
• 51:36
  What is the story with this?
• 51:38
  We might have to look at this.
• 51:42
  Hmm.
• 51:45
  Well, they're saying she faces scrutiny for terrorizing
• 51:48
  anyway.
• 51:50
  Then it's a assertion about the emergence of
• 51:52
  what he termed a monstrous axis of Islamic
• 51:56
  political forces deserves attention.
• 52:00
  He claims that Qatar and Turkey acting in
• 52:03
  Syria and Gaza are bolstering networks linked to
• 52:07
  the Muslim brotherhood.
• 52:08
  By the way, I wanted to bring up
• 52:10
  the attacks that, uh, that perhaps Qatar should
• 52:20
  forgive or forget about the, uh, the targeting
• 52:26
  of U.S. bases in, uh, in its
• 52:30
  own country.
• 52:32
  Why they didn't say crap about the, uh,
• 52:35
  the targeting by Israel using their, you know,
• 52:39
  launching into their airspace and attacking, uh, who
• 52:43
  they got to say are our enemies.
• 52:47
  Anybody can cross the state if you're Israel
• 52:50
  and nobody will do anything in the U
• 52:52
  .S. will stand up for it.
• 52:54
  Um, there's, there's, there's some reasonably serious talk
• 52:58
  about, um, getting rid of the U.S.
• 53:03
  bases in the Middle East because they are
• 53:07
  a threat for everybody.
• 53:08
  Uh, Dubai, that I read an article yesterday
• 53:11
  called, uh, something along the lines of, uh,
• 53:14
  goodbye, Dubai.
• 53:16
  And, and good riddance, you know, basically nobody
• 53:20
  needed you there anyway, you know, the decadent
• 53:23
  and the, uh, you know, full of hookers
• 53:25
  and full of, uh, cause it is and,
• 53:28
  um, high dollar ones, but they're still hookers.
• 53:31
  And, uh, uh, it's, uh, uh, you know,
• 53:35
  the, the, the most, uh, longest profession, you
• 53:38
  know, all over, uh, UAE.
• 53:41
  And, uh, uh, I I've seen, I've seen
• 53:44
  quite a bit of political discussion about, uh,
• 53:47
  take, getting the U.S. out of the
• 53:49
  Middle East as well.
• 53:50
  Plenty of it.
• 53:52
  And, uh, saying, look, uh, you being here
• 53:54
  is not good for us.
• 53:56
  We, you know, why in the world are,
• 53:57
  well, if it was just us, we'd get
• 54:00
  along in a, but we don't need you
• 54:02
  here stoking the fires of war on behalf
• 54:06
  of Israel.
• 54:07
  Israel is the one causing all this, by
• 54:09
  the way, it's not Iran.
• 54:11
  Iran wouldn't have attacked anybody if they weren't
• 54:14
  attacked first.
• 54:15
  That's all there is to it.
• 54:17
  And you don't need Sam to tell you
• 54:19
  that that's absolutely true.
• 54:21
  And that's, is not what's been going on.
• 54:24
  And so, um, anyway, this assertion about the
• 54:28
  emergence of the monstrous action of Islamic political
• 54:32
  forces, Qatar, Turkey, Syria, Gaza, bolstering networks like
• 54:38
  the Muslim Brotherhood.
• 54:39
  He hinted at Doha's financial and political influence
• 54:43
  over Israeli officials, said an additional domestic political
• 54:47
  layer in his statement.
• 54:48
  So, uh, Qatar, since they are the richest
• 54:50
  country on the planet, they allegedly are funding
• 54:54
  both sides.
• 54:58
  Bennett had earlier articulated the notion of a
• 55:02
  new threat from Turkey at a conference of
• 55:07
  American Jewish organizations in Jerusalem.
• 55:09
  He mentioned a scenario where Ankara would align
• 55:12
  with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in a military
• 55:15
  political pact, predicting this would create a new
• 55:19
  center of power with regional ambition.
• 55:22
  The deterioration of relations between Turkey and Turkey
• 55:25
  and Israel has been gradual rather than abrupt
• 55:28
  since Erdogan has risen to power and strengthened
• 55:32
  his justice and development party.
• 55:34
  Ankara's foreign policy is ideological.
• 55:37
  The concept of political Islam that underpins the
• 55:40
  party's ideology calls for strong support of the
• 55:44
  Palestinian cause and views Israel as an oppressor
• 55:47
  of the Palestinian people.
• 55:49
  Well, they are.
• 55:50
  And this shift has naturally impacted bilateral relations.
• 55:54
  Yeah.
• 55:54
  If you don't bend over to Israel, suddenly
• 55:57
  you support the Palestinians, right?
• 56:00
  If you question them at all, suddenly you're
• 56:04
  anti-Israel.
• 56:05
  That's not, no.
• 56:06
  Why isn't there the ability to be seen
• 56:08
  as a middle of the rotor?
• 56:10
  For a long time, Turkey attempted to balance
• 56:13
  among various power centers on the one hand
• 56:16
  as a NATO member and regional neighbor.
• 56:19
  Ankara aimed to maintain strategic ties with Israel
• 56:22
  while on the other, it wanted to assert
• 56:25
  its own leadership in the Muslim world.
• 56:27
  Turkey is Muslim.
• 56:28
  The dual approach drew criticism from both sides.
• 56:32
  Islamic nations accused Turkey of not taking a
• 56:35
  firm enough stance against Israel while the West
• 56:37
  criticized it for excessive politicization and anti-Israel
• 56:42
  rhetoric.
• 56:43
  You can't be anti-Israel or you're the
• 56:47
  bad guy.
• 56:48
  You don't even have to be anti.
• 56:50
  You just got to say something not in
• 56:53
  their favor.
• 56:54
  And that's the end of the world for
• 56:55
  you.
• 56:57
  You need to be slobbering a sycophantic Lindsey
• 57:02
  Graham type on Israel or you're an enemy
• 57:06
  of Israel, right?
• 57:07
  One of the most significant and symbolic transformative
• 57:11
  episodes in Turkey-Israel relations was the Mavi
• 57:15
  Marmara accident in May 2010.
• 57:18
  This set the course for deterioration of bilateral
• 57:22
  ties.
• 57:23
  The MV Mavi Marmara ship was part of
• 57:26
  the so-called Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which aimed
• 57:30
  to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza
• 57:34
  by delivering humanitarian aid.
• 57:36
  And they can't have that.
• 57:37
  You can't give food to starving people.
• 57:40
  That's not good.
• 57:42
  You're not allowed to do that.
• 57:43
  The mission of the Freedom Flotilla was to
• 57:46
  break through a naval blockade imposed by Israel
• 57:51
  after Hamas.
• 57:53
  Israel viewed this as a breach of security
• 57:55
  and a potential threat.
• 57:57
  Yeah, giving people food is a potential threat.
• 58:00
  Asserting that the cargo could be used for
• 58:02
  military purposes during the interception operation, Israeli soldiers
• 58:08
  boarded the vessel in international waters.
• 58:11
  The situation escalated into violent confrontation and resulted
• 58:15
  in the death of several Turkish citizens.
• 58:18
  This prompted a fierce reaction from Ankara when
• 58:22
  Turkish officials condemned Israel's action and the violation
• 58:26
  of international law.
• 58:27
  They were and demanding official apologies, compensation for
• 58:32
  the victim families, and the lifting of the
• 58:34
  blockade on Gaza.
• 58:36
  This Mavi Marmara incident became more than just
• 58:40
  a diplomatic crisis.
• 58:41
  It marked a turning point in Turkey's relations
• 58:44
  with Israel.
• 58:45
  This is when they figured out that Israel
• 58:47
  is not the good guys and never will
• 58:49
  be.
• 58:51
  Turkey recalled its ambassador, downgraded relations, and effectively
• 58:55
  dismantled any military cooperation, which had been a
• 58:59
  cornerstone of cooperation between the two countries.
• 59:03
  The Turkish public came to view Israel as
• 59:05
  a state that uses force against Turkish citizens
• 59:09
  engaged in humanitarian mission.
• 59:12
  They do.
• 59:13
  That's what they do.
• 59:16
  Conversely, in Israel, the incident reinforced the view
• 59:20
  of Turkey as a supporter of political factions
• 59:23
  hostile to the Israeli policy in Gaza, of
• 59:26
  kill them all and let God sort it
• 59:28
  out.
• 59:29
  Even if they're women and children, they're still
• 59:31
  in Gaza, and Gaza's ours.
• 59:34
  That's how that's supposed to be viewed, right?
• 59:37
  Trump's supposed to build a new Mecca there,
• 59:41
  apparently.
• 59:42
  Despite subsequent attempts at partial normalization of relations,
• 59:46
  including apology and discussion over compensation, trust was
• 59:50
  never restored.
• 59:52
  Moreover, the Amavi Marmara incident represented a point
• 59:55
  of no return.
• 59:57
  Prior to 2010, tension was primarily rhetorical and
• 1:00:01
  ideological.
• 1:00:02
  Afterward, they are permanent and official.
• 1:00:07
  So, from diplomatic strain to strategic mistrust.
• 1:00:14
  Since then, every escalation of Israel-Palestine has
• 1:00:19
  automatically impacted relations between Ankara and West Jerusalem.
• 1:00:24
  The events of 2023 only exacerbated the existing
• 1:00:28
  mistrust.
• 1:00:29
  The tragic events of October 7, 2023, followed
• 1:00:33
  by Israeli military actions in Gaza, led to
• 1:00:36
  further deterioration.
• 1:00:38
  Ankara's response was highly critical.
• 1:00:41
  The Turkish authorities publicly called the action of
• 1:00:44
  the IDF disproportionate.
• 1:00:46
  They were and condemned the mass civilian casualties
• 1:00:50
  in Gaza.
• 1:00:51
  So do I.
• 1:00:53
  From that moment on, bilateral relations were frozen
• 1:00:56
  and characterized by confrontational rhetoric and strategic distrust,
• 1:01:02
  close to a cold war between Israel and
• 1:01:06
  Turkey.
• 1:01:08
  Within Israeli political landscape, some advocate for a
• 1:01:12
  more rigid stance toward Turkey, while others favor
• 1:01:15
  a more pragmatic approach.
• 1:01:17
  However, the general stance regarding Turkey is similar.
• 1:01:21
  Naftali Bennett has long been known for his
• 1:01:24
  anti-Turkish position, viewing Ankara as a potential
• 1:01:27
  strategic adversary that will emerge as Israel's next
• 1:01:31
  significant threat after Iran.
• 1:01:34
  They 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?
• 1:01:45
  I mean, geez, all you got to do
• 1:01:46
  is allege that Turkey wants nuclear weapons, right?
• 1:01:49
  In contrast, Prime Minister Netanyahu, despite his personal
• 1:01:53
  animosity toward Erdogan and his occasional sharp comments,
• 1:01:57
  typically adopts a little bit more pragmatic approach.
• 1:02:00
  His rhetoric often leaves room for normalization, grounded
• 1:02:04
  in the idea that Turkey and Israel do
• 1:02:07
  not have direct territorial conflict.
• 1:02:10
  They do not.
• 1:02:11
  And there is potential for economic and energy
• 1:02:15
  cooperation.
• 1:02:16
  Another point of contention for Israeli leadership is
• 1:02:19
  Turkey's growing ties with Islamabad.
• 1:02:22
  Pakistan is the only nuclear power in the
• 1:02:25
  Muslim world with a firm anti-Israel stance.
• 1:02:28
  And Israel views the deepening military-political relationship
• 1:02:32
  between Turkey and Pakistan as the emergence of
• 1:02:35
  an alternative power center.
• 1:02:38
  Netanyahu has indicated that following Iran, Pakistan will
• 1:02:43
  come under scrutiny as a strategic threat to
• 1:02:46
  Israel.
• 1:02:47
  It's never going to end.
• 1:02:48
  Everybody's a strategic threat to Israel.
• 1:02:51
  And the U.S. is opposed to, you
• 1:02:54
  know, I don't know, have 50 bases outside
• 1:02:57
  of Israel.
• 1:02:58
  You know, not an Israeli terror story.
• 1:03:00
  Geez, we got to bring in more Israelis.
• 1:03:03
  But they need to get the richest land,
• 1:03:07
  and then the U.S. can have the
• 1:03:08
  desert out to the east.
• 1:03:10
  We'll just kick out another country.
• 1:03:11
  It doesn't matter.
• 1:03:13
  Netanyahu had indicated following Iran, Pakistan will be
• 1:03:17
  the next.
• 1:03:18
  Increasingly similar assessments are being echoed beyond Israel's
• 1:03:22
  borders.
• 1:03:23
  American journalist Tucker Carlson recently remarked that Turkey
• 1:03:27
  poses a challenge for Israel precisely because its
• 1:03:31
  foreign policy is difficult to control and does
• 1:03:34
  not fit rigid alliance structures.
• 1:03:37
  Well, how can it?
• 1:03:38
  The Straits of Bosphorus are the window to
• 1:03:41
  east and west and have been for centuries.
• 1:03:46
  Centuries.
• 1:03:47
  Friends and neighbors.
• 1:03:49
  And it's been that way.
• 1:03:52
  And we're a blip to the world of
• 1:03:57
  Iran, Turkey, the Turkish hordes, you know, from
• 1:04:03
  way back when.
• 1:04:05
  And the Hindu.
• 1:04:08
  I mean, think about it.
• 1:04:09
  The Mongolian hordes before that.
• 1:04:12
  The Tatarstan Empire.
• 1:04:16
  There's some great history over there.
• 1:04:18
  It's been going on for thousands of years.
• 1:04:22
  And you're not going to solve it in
• 1:04:23
  a day.
• 1:04:24
  And Trump's not going to solve it in,
• 1:04:27
  you know, a two week war with Iran.
• 1:04:31
  It ain't going to happen there.
• 1:04:33
  What are we supposed to blow up their
• 1:04:35
  all of their temples and things that have
• 1:04:40
  been around literally for thousands of years?
• 1:04:42
  Is that what we target next?
• 1:04:44
  Probably so, you know, destroy their culture.
• 1:04:47
  And I tell you what, you're not going
• 1:04:49
  to have any friends over there in Israel.
• 1:04:51
  The theme of external danger generally unites their
• 1:04:56
  society when faced with a threat.
• 1:04:59
  Political disagreement receded into the background.
• 1:05:02
  Therefore, discussion about who might pose the next
• 1:05:06
  challenge.
• 1:05:08
  After Iran are not merely strategic or fuller
• 1:05:12
  in policy consideration, they also have significant implication
• 1:05:15
  for domestic politics.
• 1:05:18
  The government must demonstrate that it has control
• 1:05:21
  over the situation and is prepared to confront
• 1:05:25
  any potential adversary.
• 1:05:27
  They aren't even done with Iran yet.
• 1:05:29
  And they're already moving on to Turkey and
• 1:05:31
  Pakistan.
• 1:05:32
  Nonsense.
• 1:05:36
  Excuse me.
• 1:05:37
  The narrative surrounding the so-called axis of
• 1:05:39
  resistance, which traditionally encompasses Iran and its proxies,
• 1:05:44
  is gradually expanding within the rhetoric of certain
• 1:05:48
  Israeli politicians.
• 1:05:50
  Now, in addition to Tehran, Ankara and Islamabad
• 1:05:53
  are also mentioned as potential power centers capable
• 1:05:58
  of limiting Israel's maneuverability in the midterm.
• 1:06:03
  Turkey is seen as a nation with ambition
• 1:06:06
  for regional leadership and independent defense industry, ideologically
• 1:06:11
  driven foreign policy.
• 1:06:13
  Pakistan, on the other hand, is viewed as
• 1:06:15
  a nuclear power with a deep seated anti
• 1:06:19
  -Israeli stance and growing ties to Ankara.
• 1:06:23
  From Israel's strategic perspective, this configuration is perceived
• 1:06:28
  as a potential new element of pressure.
• 1:06:34
  Not a new war yet.
• 1:06:36
  Israel has consistently maintained that it views Iran,
• 1:06:40
  Turkey and Pakistan as rivals that are different
• 1:06:43
  in nature, but comparable in scale, because they're
• 1:06:48
  all three huge.
• 1:06:49
  And Pakistan is nuclear.
• 1:06:52
  And these three are somewhat natural allies.
• 1:06:57
  And you piss off Iran, you are pissing
• 1:07:01
  off Turkey for a large part.
• 1:07:04
  It was Turkey that talked the Kurds out
• 1:07:06
  of attacking, is one of the stories that
• 1:07:10
  I've heard about why the Kurds are not
• 1:07:12
  going in.
• 1:07:13
  The Pakistanis are trying to work with the
• 1:07:16
  Azerbaijanis, is what I heard, and the Tajikis
• 1:07:21
  to keep them out of the out of
• 1:07:24
  the fray.
• 1:07:26
  You know, Pakistan is attempting to keep this
• 1:07:31
  on the down low.
• 1:07:33
  But I also heard stories to say that
• 1:07:35
  Pakistan, you know, if anything happened where Israel
• 1:07:39
  attacked Iran with nukes, that the retaliation would
• 1:07:42
  come from Pakistan.
• 1:07:44
  It's a crazy world out there.
• 1:07:47
  Nonetheless, Israel is known for its long term
• 1:07:50
  strategy.
• 1:07:52
  The approach it gradually creates a favorable international
• 1:07:55
  environment through collaboration, false collaboration, in my view,
• 1:08:00
  with allies, sanctions, information campaigns, and regional alliances.
• 1:08:06
  They've had they've had at least 60 years
• 1:08:09
  of US butt licking support, in my view,
• 1:08:16
  where we've done nothing.
• 1:08:17
  We don't question a damn thing.
• 1:08:19
  We just jump on board.
• 1:08:21
  They bomb somewhere, we start bombing the same
• 1:08:24
  place.
• 1:08:24
  And Trump's done that twice already.
• 1:08:27
  And maybe more, or in most time, we
• 1:08:31
  just ignore it and allow them to get
• 1:08:33
  away with it.
• 1:08:33
  And any of the condemnations that happen in
• 1:08:35
  the UN, we kind of overturn.
• 1:08:38
  Anytime they get how many times they are
• 1:08:40
  the most, what do you call it sanctioned,
• 1:08:45
  condemned, what do they call it when the
• 1:08:48
  UN does it, they give them a rhetorical,
• 1:08:56
  you know, they want them to be sanctioned,
• 1:08:59
  basically, but it's, but it's not sanctioned sanction,
• 1:09:02
  it's a, they condemn them for what they
• 1:09:05
  are doing.
• 1:09:06
  There's an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in the
• 1:09:09
  ICC.
• 1:09:10
  And rightly so, you know, I mean, he's,
• 1:09:13
  according to all reasonable review of international law,
• 1:09:20
  he's a war criminal, period.
• 1:09:24
  According to the UN law, the US is
• 1:09:27
  now war criminals too, because we haven't done
• 1:09:31
  any UN, there was nothing, no, this is,
• 1:09:35
  it takes a UN Security Council.
• 1:09:38
  The UN means absolutely nothing.
• 1:09:40
  The UN, I don't know why we're paying
• 1:09:42
  the hundreds of millions of dollars that we
• 1:09:45
  do for the UN.
• 1:09:47
  And I don't mean us, I mean, every,
• 1:09:49
  the whole world.
• 1:09:50
  What is the point if it's only a,
• 1:09:53
  an agency that condemns, I don't know, China
• 1:09:57
  or Russia, that's it.
• 1:10:00
  It only condemns them.
• 1:10:02
  And it cannot condemn the US for illegal
• 1:10:06
  actions in Venezuela.
• 1:10:11
  It will never condemn it.
• 1:10:13
  Well, it does condemn Israel, but nothing ever
• 1:10:15
  comes of it because the US vetoes any
• 1:10:18
  sort of condemnation of them, of Israel, for
• 1:10:22
  attacks, for blockades of humanitarian aid to get
• 1:10:28
  to citizens, you know, they create the next
• 1:10:32
  generation of person just by keeping them in
• 1:10:37
  the, in the poor and unfed regions.
• 1:10:43
  So I don't know, considering these scenarios, Turkey
• 1:10:46
  might emerge as a more probable adversary than
• 1:10:50
  Pakistan, because Pakistan has Iran in between it.
• 1:10:54
  But if they really piss them off, the
• 1:10:56
  Arab countries, the big ones are going to
• 1:11:00
  come to the defense of Iran instead of
• 1:11:03
  Israel.
• 1:11:04
  And because, trust me, none of them are
• 1:11:07
  really all that jazzed up about Israel.
• 1:11:10
  Remember me telling you the stories about when
• 1:11:12
  you're in Qatar, you, you don't normally, you're
• 1:11:16
  going to get a lot of questions if
• 1:11:17
  you're, if your passport has a lot of
• 1:11:23
  stamps of travel, recent, or any to Israel.
• 1:11:30
  And so they will give you in Israel,
• 1:11:33
  a separate page to stamp that you can
• 1:11:36
  remove.
• 1:11:38
  So it's not a stamped inside of your
• 1:11:41
  passport.
• 1:11:45
  So this logic about Turkey and Pakistan does
• 1:11:50
  not imply suddenly emerging into a new confrontation,
• 1:11:54
  but rather gradually building a deterrence infrastructure.
• 1:11:59
  For now, Iran remains Israel's primary adversary, but
• 1:12:04
  trust me, they'll find more.
• 1:12:07
  They always do.
• 1:12:09
  It doesn't matter.
• 1:12:11
  However, Israel will continue to regard both Turkey
• 1:12:15
  and Pakistan as potential competitors.
• 1:12:19
  For Ankara, this means that current disputes must
• 1:12:22
  be viewed within the context of Israel's long
• 1:12:26
  -term logic.
• 1:12:27
  The situation in the Middle East remains unstable.
• 1:12:30
  Power dynamics will shift, but distrust among nations
• 1:12:35
  is unlikely to dissipate anytime soon.
• 1:12:41
  And I wanted to share that with you.
• 1:12:43
  That was by a guy named Farad Ibrahimov,
• 1:12:48
  who's a lecturer at, at the faculty of
• 1:12:52
  economics at the Institute of Social Sciences.
• 1:13:00
  Let's see.
• 1:13:04
  There's a, let's see here.
• 1:13:10
  Where were we going after this?
• 1:13:17
  Old Zelensky, the Z monster has been telling
• 1:13:21
  more, more stories here.
• 1:13:25
  Um, Ooh, goodness.
• 1:13:33
  So they, they did have a film.
• 1:13:35
  This is new.
• 1:13:36
  Here's a, here's something new.
• 1:13:37
  This just came out like minutes ago.
• 1:13:40
  So there's a U S Tomahawk missile filmed
• 1:13:44
  hitting near the, this girl's school.
• 1:13:49
  So videos released online verified by a number
• 1:13:54
  of news agencies have amplified accusations that the
• 1:13:58
  U S is behind the strike on the
• 1:14:01
  girl's school that left over 160 people dead.
• 1:14:07
  The footage it's a film shows a U
• 1:14:11
  S Tomahawk missile impacting near the school in
• 1:14:14
  Manab.
• 1:14:14
  The video was shared by Mayor News that
• 1:14:18
  showed the moment when Israel and American terrorists
• 1:14:21
  struck the Manab school on February the 28th,
• 1:14:25
  both the Washington post and the New York
• 1:14:29
  times verified the authenticity of the footage used
• 1:14:33
  satellite imagery, social media posts, and other geo
• 1:14:37
  located video.
• 1:14:39
  The Washington post citing eight independent munitions experts
• 1:14:45
  described the clip as the latest indication of
• 1:14:49
  likely U S involvement in the strike.
• 1:14:51
  It noted that the missile hit next to
• 1:14:55
  an Islamic revolutionary guard court, naval complex adjacent
• 1:15:00
  to the school CBS news reported and cited
• 1:15:05
  a person familiar with the classified intelligence assessment
• 1:15:09
  that the U S is likely responsible for
• 1:15:12
  the attack, but said it may have been
• 1:15:14
  caused by error, possibly to the use of
• 1:15:17
  dated intelligence.
• 1:15:20
  But that isn't what Donald Trump said.
• 1:15:23
  And that is not what Hagseth said.
• 1:15:25
  Although Hagseth was in the damn briefing U
• 1:15:29
  S officials have confirmed the use of Tomahawk
• 1:15:32
  missiles, which have a range of 1600 kilometers
• 1:15:35
  in strikes on Iran.
• 1:15:39
  The U S is the only party involved
• 1:15:41
  in the conflict, possessing Tomahawks West Bryant, a
• 1:15:45
  former U S army special operations targeting expert
• 1:15:50
  told the Washington posts that the missile outlines
• 1:15:58
  correlated to those of a Tomahawk Jeffrey Lewis,
• 1:16:01
  a professor of global security at Middlebury college
• 1:16:06
  separately confirmed the assessment.
• 1:16:08
  He added that the missile did not resemble
• 1:16:12
  any known weapons in Iran's arsenal images from
• 1:16:17
  the aftermath of the strike show the girl's
• 1:16:21
  school roof collapsed onto the children below with
• 1:16:25
  witnesses describing mutilated children's bodies strewn across the
• 1:16:31
  area on March 3rd, thousands packed the streets
• 1:16:35
  of Manab for a mass funeral with a
• 1:16:37
  hundred graves dug side by side.
• 1:16:41
  This comes after investigations by AP, CNN, you
• 1:16:45
  New York times and the post suggested that
• 1:16:49
  the school was likely destroyed in a U
• 1:16:51
  S strike.
• 1:16:52
  U S president Trump denied U S responsibility
• 1:16:56
  based on what I have seen.
• 1:16:59
  I think it was done by Iran.
• 1:17:01
  Trump said on Saturday and then he turned
• 1:17:04
  back to Hagseth and I hate to laugh
• 1:17:07
  about this.
• 1:17:08
  It's really sad.
• 1:17:10
  And this, this, this joke of commentary right
• 1:17:15
  here, instead of accepting responsibility and saying, we'll
• 1:17:19
  do the right thing.
• 1:17:20
  If it was us, this is an American
• 1:17:24
  period.
• 1:17:25
  And I don't accept this based on what
• 1:17:28
  I've seen.
• 1:17:29
  I think it was done by Iran.
• 1:17:31
  We haven't seen a thing then have you,
• 1:17:33
  or you haven't bothered to look.
• 1:17:35
  That is nonsense said Trump on Saturday describing
• 1:17:40
  Iranian munitions are very inaccurate.
• 1:17:44
  Yeah, that's it.
• 1:17:45
  That's your answer.
• 1:17:46
  Defense secretary Pete Hagseth standing behind him, shaking
• 1:17:50
  his head.
• 1:17:51
  Yeah.
• 1:17:52
  Yes, sir.
• 1:17:53
  It said the Pentagon is examining the, the,
• 1:17:56
  the incident incident said that the only side
• 1:18:00
  to target civilians is Iran.
• 1:18:02
  Yeah.
• 1:18:03
  Why don't we go spread that lie while
• 1:18:06
  you, while you let everybody else come up
• 1:18:09
  with the truth here.
• 1:18:10
  Just be truthful for God's sake.
• 1:18:13
  Do you know how, how easy it would
• 1:18:15
  be to just be truthful?
• 1:18:17
  It's not the freaking problem that it's, that
• 1:18:21
  destroys you.
• 1:18:23
  It's the freaking cover up.
• 1:18:24
  Why are we covering this up?
• 1:18:26
  All you got to do is admit it
• 1:18:29
  and say, do you know what that was
• 1:18:31
  terrible?
• 1:18:32
  And, and it shouldn't have happened.
• 1:18:33
  And it was based on old data or
• 1:18:36
  it was based on a miss targeting or
• 1:18:38
  a targeting mistake, something like that.
• 1:18:41
  And a person like me will understand that
• 1:18:45
  don't care if it's an obvious slide, nobody's
• 1:18:48
  going to believe it, but Nope, you keep
• 1:18:51
  selling it like Hillary Clinton would.
• 1:18:53
  You are Hillary Clinton.
• 1:18:55
  If you're doing this and that's an insult.
• 1:18:57
  Okay.
• 1:18:58
  Nobody wants to be that woman.
• 1:19:00
  Yuck, yuck, yuck.
• 1:19:06
  Sorry.
• 1:19:07
  I shouldn't talk like that.
• 1:19:08
  I suppose she's not really yuck.
• 1:19:10
  Depends on who your audience is, I suppose.
• 1:19:16
  So did you see that there was a
• 1:19:19
  video of a UAE ship getting blown up
• 1:19:28
  by another drone Iranian type.
• 1:19:34
  And tell you what, the Israeli military has
• 1:19:39
  begun a wide scale wave of strikes on
• 1:19:41
  unspecified targets in Tehran, Isfahan and Southern Iran,
• 1:19:45
  said the IDF footage shows two of the
• 1:19:50
  Iranian cluster bomb impacts in central Israel during
• 1:19:54
  ballistic missile strike.
• 1:19:55
  Have you seen these?
• 1:19:56
  If you, if you haven't seen these, you
• 1:19:58
  should get on YouTube and check them out.
• 1:20:00
  They're the Iranians have cluster munitions.
• 1:20:04
  Okay.
• 1:20:05
  And these clusters are making it near impossible
• 1:20:09
  for Israel with, you know, their iron dome
• 1:20:13
  that, that, that myth has been pretty much
• 1:20:18
  poked full of holes recently.
• 1:20:22
  Anyway, the, the cluster munitions that showed up
• 1:20:28
  there, they're, they're bombing the crap out of,
• 1:20:32
  out of Israel here.
• 1:20:34
  And so the aftermath of, of, of the
• 1:20:39
  blow ups going on, you're not there.
• 1:20:41
  Not much is getting out of, um, is
• 1:20:45
  getting out of, uh, Israel as far as
• 1:20:50
  being able to see it.
• 1:20:51
  It's pretty hard to get to see it.
• 1:20:54
  And so, uh, you, you can only see
• 1:20:58
  limited vision of it, but every once in
• 1:21:01
  a while they come up there and over
• 1:21:02
  the last few days, there have been a
• 1:21:04
  ton of these cluster munitions coming up.
• 1:21:07
  So there was also news that a hypersonic
• 1:21:10
  missile was, it was, uh, uh, that the
• 1:21:13
  Iranians have hypersonics.
• 1:21:14
  If they have them, they got them from
• 1:21:16
  Russia, no doubt.
• 1:21:17
  And, um, well, I would assume cause they
• 1:21:20
  don't, they didn't have their own hypersonics unless
• 1:21:23
  they'd been developing jointly with Russia, but they
• 1:21:26
  have hypersonics, um, or allegedly have, have sent
• 1:21:29
  one.
• 1:21:31
  Um, let's see.
• 1:21:34
  We're going to see if we can't switch
• 1:21:35
  to a lighter topic.
• 1:21:38
  See if we can find another Sam, uh,
• 1:21:42
  uh, Rockwell, Sam Rockwell movie.
• 1:21:46
  Um, I wanted to tell you a little
• 1:21:48
  bit about where is he?
• 1:21:51
  So Zhirinovsky as everybody remember who Zhirinovsky is,
• 1:21:56
  I've brought him up before in the past
• 1:21:59
  and I've got some, some information.
• 1:22:02
  So he was, he was very, very, he
• 1:22:04
  passed away like, I don't know, not several
• 1:22:07
  years ago.
• 1:22:07
  I don't remember the exact time he passed
• 1:22:10
  away, but the guy called all of this
• 1:22:13
  10, 12 years ago, he called it all.
• 1:22:15
  And so over the last, uh, little bit,
• 1:22:19
  um, last, oh, gee, four or five months,
• 1:22:23
  there have been plenty of discussions about Zhirinovsky
• 1:22:28
  and I gotta get to his, to his,
• 1:22:32
  where's my dashboard here.
• 1:22:35
  Um, and I have a pair of glasses
• 1:22:36
  right here in my grubby little pockets.
• 1:22:41
  I want to tell you about Zhirinovsky.
• 1:22:47
  Uh, geez, I ought to share this one
• 1:22:53
  with you.
• 1:22:53
  I forgot about this.
• 1:22:54
  His entire brief is here.
• 1:22:56
  I've, I've Hegseth, Hegseth's whole brief I ought
• 1:22:59
  to share with you.
• 1:23:02
  Um, here you go.
• 1:23:05
  The United Arab, I'll get to, I'll get
• 1:23:07
  to, uh, oh gee, if I have time,
• 1:23:09
  uh, I'll, I'll quickly go through this and
• 1:23:11
  then I'll get back to Zhirinovsky.
• 1:23:13
  Cause I want to share that.
• 1:23:14
  Um, a United Arab Emirates flag tugboat, the
• 1:23:18
  Musafah 2 has sunk in the Straits of
• 1:23:22
  Hormuz.
• 1:23:22
  Three crew members are missing, including Indonesian nationals.
• 1:23:27
  Jakarta's foreign ministry says the Musafah 2 has
• 1:23:30
  seven crew members from Indonesia, India, and the
• 1:23:33
  Philippines.
• 1:23:34
  Four of the crew members survived.
• 1:23:36
  Three remain missing.
• 1:23:37
  UN international maritime organization confirmed the incident, but
• 1:23:42
  said that it resulted in four facilities and
• 1:23:44
  three others were severely injured.
• 1:23:47
  There is no clarity on the discrepancy, why
• 1:23:49
  it exists.
• 1:23:50
  Jakarta added that before the vessel sank, the
• 1:23:53
  boat experienced an explosion that caused it to
• 1:23:58
  catch fire and an investigation is underway.
• 1:24:01
  Security firm Vanguard said the tugboat was struck
• 1:24:04
  by two missiles while attempting to provide assistance
• 1:24:08
  to the Malta flagged container ship Safin Prestige.
• 1:24:12
  Traffic through the choke point is ground to
• 1:24:15
  a halt as the conflict in the region
• 1:24:17
  escalates with U S Israel and Iran pressing
• 1:24:20
  on with strikes and counter strikes.
• 1:24:22
  This is the ninth day of the war
• 1:24:24
  in, in, um, um, the region Iran is
• 1:24:27
  challenging U S and Israel on the battlefield.
• 1:24:30
  Um, let's see.
• 1:24:32
  Iran isn't backing down regardless of the kind
• 1:24:35
  of hits that has already taken.
• 1:24:37
  Let's take a look at Iran's missile arsenal.
• 1:24:41
  It is one of the largest in Western
• 1:24:44
  Asia before the 12 day war with Israel
• 1:24:48
  in June of last year, Israeli military system
• 1:24:52
  assessments estimate that Tehran possessed 3000 ballistic missiles
• 1:25:00
  during the fighting.
• 1:25:02
  Israel said it destroyed hundreds of missiles along
• 1:25:05
  with several launch sites.
• 1:25:06
  But since then, uh, Iran has rebuilt its
• 1:25:10
  missile according to its own defense forces.
• 1:25:13
  Tehran's arsenal has recovered to around 2,500
• 1:25:17
  ballistics.
• 1:25:18
  Most of these fall in the short range
• 1:25:20
  and medium range ballistic missile category.
• 1:25:23
  Short range ballistics can travel up to a
• 1:25:25
  thousand medium range are capable of traveling up
• 1:25:28
  to 3000.
• 1:25:29
  These ranges allow Iran to target most of
• 1:25:33
  West Asia or Western Middle East from Western
• 1:25:37
  Iran.
• 1:25:37
  The distance to central Israel is 1200 kilometers.
• 1:25:42
  Um, and Gulf States are only 500 kilometers
• 1:25:45
  away.
• 1:25:46
  Many of Iran's early missiles use liquid propellant,
• 1:25:50
  a technology that, uh, requires a longer prep
• 1:25:54
  time before launch.
• 1:25:56
  They are the Shahab one and the Shahab
• 1:25:57
  two with range of 300 to 500 kilometers.
• 1:26:00
  And these missiles carry large warheads and relatively
• 1:26:04
  low accuracy.
• 1:26:05
  And they sometimes missed their targets.
• 1:26:07
  Later versions of Shahab three, the Ghadar and
• 1:26:10
  the Ahmad improve and range and precision.
• 1:26:13
  The Ghadar missile can travel up to 2000
• 1:26:16
  kilometers and means Israel is within range from
• 1:26:19
  deep inside Iran.
• 1:26:21
  So those are important.
• 1:26:23
  Um, let's see.
• 1:26:24
  And I wanted to get to Zhirinovsky quickly,
• 1:26:28
  uh, because Zhirinovsky in 2009, and this is
• 1:26:32
  very short.
• 1:26:33
  Um, let's see.
• 1:26:37
  Uh, talk about the, and I'm translating from
• 1:26:41
  Russian on the fly here.
• 1:26:42
  So it's kind of, uh, let's talk about
• 1:26:45
  the service of civilization, of modern civilization.
• 1:26:49
  The Western world is, uh, thinks it's much
• 1:26:54
  smarter than us and it will go from
• 1:26:57
  Afghanistan will then go to Iraq.
• 1:27:01
  And unfortunately, um, there is one other, but
• 1:27:07
  in there, but they won't go.
• 1:27:09
  And that is Iran and they will not
• 1:27:15
  go there, but they will enforce power there
• 1:27:19
  such, and they will back another power there.
• 1:27:23
  They were saying that the U S won't
• 1:27:25
  go there.
• 1:27:26
  They would have gone and they went to
• 1:27:28
  Afghanistan and they went to Iraq.
• 1:27:29
  And this is what Zhirinovsky said in 2009.
• 1:27:33
  And he said, and, and the, the, the
• 1:27:36
  video clip is really interesting.
• 1:27:37
  And he said the same thing about Ukraine.
• 1:27:40
  He said that Ukraine was going to start
• 1:27:42
  a third world war and that it would
• 1:27:44
  continue into Iran.
• 1:27:46
  And he said, that's, and it was all
• 1:27:47
  going to be brought upon by Israel going
• 1:27:50
  into Iran and being blindly backed by the
• 1:27:53
  United States.
• 1:27:55
  Here we are.
• 1:27:56
  And that, uh, the U S itself along
• 1:27:59
  with the West will, uh, believe that they
• 1:28:01
  can push Russia to the brink.
• 1:28:03
  That's what he said about Ukraine and, uh,
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  and absolutely correct.
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  And such a decision in Israel was taken,
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  unfortunately, and, and here is the problem.
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  It will, what will happen with the Islamic
• 1:28:18
  world?
• 1:28:19
  There will be a full destab stabilization of
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  the near East of the Kafkas, which is,
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  uh, you know, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tatarstan, all of
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  those areas, uh, East of Ukraine, just East
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  and South Ukraine and the Kafkas and Po
• 1:28:37
  and, and, uh, Kordia and around the entire
• 1:28:39
  world, because aside from the West, there, uh,
• 1:28:45
  are other governments interested in these powers.
• 1:28:49
  Wow.
• 1:28:50
  I didn't translate that properly.
• 1:28:51
  I should have translated it beforehand, but I
• 1:28:53
  didn't anyway.
• 1:28:54
  Uh, hope you joined me tomorrow.
• 1:28:56
  We'll continue on with these hilarious moments, uh,
• 1:28:58
  on damn radio and international flavor.
• 1:29:01
  I am Samuel trap.
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• 1:29:05
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• 1:29:09
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• 1:29:12
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• 1:29:16
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• 1:29:17
  Uh, we will talk about, uh, some of
• 1:29:20
  the things going on here in Missouri.
• 1:29:23
  I hope you have a beautiful mid Missouri
• 1:29:27
  day so long.