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Operation Epic Fury, Iran retaliation, Europe’s energy panic, NATO intercepts, and the nuclear spiral after New START expires · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning.
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  Welcome.
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  I'm Samuel Trapp.
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  This is International Flavor.
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  I'm glad you're here with me this here
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  morning from the Lake Ozark Real Estate of
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  the Art Studio coming to you with all
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  kinds of interesting news, lots of stuff going
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  on, lots of opinion.
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  And allegedly, and I believe this to be
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  true, but I don't have any proof to
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  back it up, but the story is that
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  European nations are really facing hell right now
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  over the Iran war energy disruption, that prices
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  are just astronomical, that they have gone way
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  in the hell up based on the things
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  in the war.
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  We're over here banging our drums and talking
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  about the glory of war, and Hagseth gets
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  to come out and talk about how glorious
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  it is, and he's standing next to whichever
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  general this is on TV.
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  I can't see that far.
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  Epic Fury.
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  We have Epic Fury going on, people.
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  We always have the cool names, you know.
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  Desert Storm, Epic Fury.
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  We're really name-heavy.
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  I wonder who makes those up.
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  I wonder if they have a crew of
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  people sitting in a room going, how do
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  we sell this to people?
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  People can't be for this because folks are
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  going to die, and we're just killing them
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  off.
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  So we want them to join us.
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  We want them to buy t-shirts that
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  say Desert Storm and advertise this from their
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  lemonade stands over the weekend.
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  And that's what we want, so we should
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  sell them the right name for our new
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  venture.
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  And our new venture is called Epic Fury.
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  My fury is of epic proportions.
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  That's what it is, folks.
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  I feel echo in here today.
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  What is it?
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  Could I have a little more echo on
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  my voice, please?
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  I want to be Elvis Presley.
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  Oh, no.
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  Let's throw some of that in there.
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  Anyway, I hope you're having a good morning.
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  I, for my part, am extremely tired.
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  I did not sleep but a wink, if
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  that, last night.
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  The last I recall looking at the clock,
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  it was about 4.10 in the morning.
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  And I don't know what is going on,
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  but there was no sleep.
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  Yesterday, I spent my day in the hospital
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  getting some, well, not in the hospital, the
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  clinic, getting some treatment.
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  Had to get that done.
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  And then I went to, since I was
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  in Columbia, I went to one of my
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  favorite restaurants from years and years ago, but
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  I haven't been in Columbia in ages.
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  And I went to Teller's, and I was
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  looking forward to something they call bangers and
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  mash.
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  And if those of you who don't know
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  what bangers and mash are, it's a nice
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  sausage, similar to Polish sausage, but more the
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  British variety or Irish variety or whatever that
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  they get in there.
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  And then they put it with some mashed
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  potatoes.
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  Sometimes they throw some kraut on the top.
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  Well, they didn't have that on the menu
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  anymore.
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  And I was alarmed, troubled.
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  I was like, what in the hell?
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  Teller's been around 100 years and no bangers
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  and mash anymore?
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  It's un-American.
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  Well, it's not American in the first place.
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  It's actually, I think, Irish, but I don't
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  remember.
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  But I like it either way.
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  And so then they brought me out this
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  plate.
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  They said, well, try the menu.
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  Here's the menu.
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  And I look at the menu, and they
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  had something like a sausage with some kraut.
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  So it comes out, and guess what it
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  is?
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  It is a sauerkraut and sausage on a
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  hoagie over a bed of mashed potatoes.
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  Pretty much bangers and mash.
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  And they give it to you with some
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  mustard.
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  It was pretty much the same thing.
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  Tastes were pretty good.
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  And so it looks like I got it
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  in the first place, or in the second
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  place, or however you want to call it.
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  But that's not what I was going to
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  discuss today.
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  But it was very tasty when I got
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  up there.
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  And I'm in the market for new bicycles,
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  so I wanted to get to the bicycle
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  shop as well.
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  I went and I had some bread.
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  Since I was gone, anyway, I didn't want
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  to go up there for one little thing.
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  And so anyway, that was my day yesterday.
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  And I don't know why, but I can't
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  sleep after when I got home.
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  There was no sleep in Samuel's deal.
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  I watched a whole bunch of video and
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  a bunch of opinion on the military action
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  all over the Gulf states and all the
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  stuff that's going on.
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  I am not for it.
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  There's no need to hide any of that.
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  I'm just not for it.
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  I don't see the need.
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  I don't see the reason.
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  I don't believe the reasons they are giving
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  me.
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  So I'm a bad person to talk about
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  it.
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  And I don't think it's justified, no matter
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  how you slice it.
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  It's not justified.
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  You can't justify me going around to the
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  other side of the world to beat the
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  crap out of somebody for a region I
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  don't really care about.
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  We don't give a shit about that side
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  of the world.
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  We just don't.
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  And what difference does it make to us
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  as real Americans?
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  Our desire, at least mine and many, many,
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  many other Americans desire to be the policemen
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  of the world for Israel is nil, null
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  set, the zero set, as they call that
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  in your absolute geometry, in your absolute stuff,
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  the null set, zero.
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  There is no need for us to be
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  there.
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  And we don't need to do what we're
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  doing.
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  And the Department of War, renaming it the
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  Department of War was like, oh my gosh,
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  it's like a forecast.
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  It's like a prophecy.
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  We call it the Department of War.
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  And suddenly, Trump doesn't get peace prizes.
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  He's going to war, hell with it.
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  And there are a lot of people against
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  it.
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  Spain.
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  So there's some Spain.
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  I watched a Spain thing.
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  And Spain is not happy over this.
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  And I think I have some audio to
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  play for you on that topic.
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  And truly, I am, I think, similar to
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  what they think.
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  There have been, even England has said, you
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  can't take off from our bases necessarily.
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  Starmer hasn't been a fan of this.
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  And he's not for this.
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  This is the US and Israel.
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  And now they have gotten a little bit
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  of support from a few of the states
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  in their countries in the Gulf.
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  Qatar has joined in a little bit.
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  Bahrain.
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  But Bahrain is subject to their own.
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  Bahrain is more Shia than it is Sunni.
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  And so they're looking at some troubles there.
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  The ruling part of the ruling clan is
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  Sunni.
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  But they are certainly outnumbered by the rest.
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  And there's a showing of dancing in the
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  streets by the Shia in Bahrain, which is
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  where, which fleet is that?
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  The Fifth Fleet is there.
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  And we should pay attention a little bit
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  to what there is, because all the Americans
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  running around here, glorifying us, kicking the crap
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  out of Iran, and they couldn't find Iran
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  on a map, just like Ukraine drives me
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  bananas.
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  You know, you can't go, you wouldn't know
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  how to find it.
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  You wouldn't know crap about it.
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  You haven't ever chosen to go there and
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  see some of the historic.
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  I want to go to Iran.
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  I want to go to Tehran and see
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  some of the 2700 years of history of
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  the Persian Empire and some of the beautiful
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  buildings that they have.
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  And, you know, instead we're blowing them up.
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  Israel is attempting to destroy them.
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  And now that nobody has any air defense,
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  I watched a pretty interesting air defense deal.
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  Who is that from?
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  Let me see if I can find it,
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  because I was actually going to play some,
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  a small set of it.
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  Here's a guy.
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  So sometimes I watch a girl who used
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  to be a, if I remember her history
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  correctly, she used to be a host on
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  a regional, I want to say Dallas or
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  something like that, regional TV news cast.
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  And now she just does her own.
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  A lot of people start their own channels.
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  I started my own channel.
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  Hers is reasonably successful.
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  She has however many, she had 63,000
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  views.
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  Last night it was it was only 18
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  ,000 views.
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  And this came out yesterday.
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  And the guy she was interviewing is a
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  guy named Mark Sloboda.
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  And Mark's interesting.
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  I've watched him in quite a few different
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  formats and he's got his own.
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  It's pretty cheaply run.
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  He doesn't know how to control his green
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  screen in the background.
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  And so it's highly distracting even when he
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  was talking with Rachel, but it was a
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  good, a good show and a decent amount
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  of, it was knowledgeable.
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  He put some knowledgeable information out of there.
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  So look up Mark Sloboda, S-L-E
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  -B-O-D-A and Rachel Blevins.
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  And she has 175,000 subscribers, something like
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  that.
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  So she gets, she gets some of her
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  stuff.
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  And she, the two of them were talking
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  about a lot of the issues going on
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  in, oh, they're, they're putting pictures of U
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  .S. service members killed in the Kuwait strike,
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  Sergeant First Class from Noah Taitjens from Bellevue,
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  Nebraska.
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  Captain Cody Cork from Winter Haven, Florida.
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  Sergeant First Class Nicole Amore from White Bear
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  Lake, Minnesota.
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  And Sergeant, whose name I didn't catch, it
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  flashed too soon, were killed in the, in
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  this so far.
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  And now they're talking, putting boots on the
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  ground.
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  Yep.
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  Here we go.
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  Anyway, this guy, Mark Sloboda, was talking about
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  the U.S. and, and Trump's talk on
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  Truth Social, whatever his platform is, that he
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  was, you know, we got tons of weapons
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  at the upper level at this.
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  He was giving far too much detail.
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  For my comfort level, why in the world
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  are we even talking about it?
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  We can go on for months, you know.
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  But everybody's denying that.
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  Ukraine is denying it because Ukraine can't get
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  weapons fast enough and they're worried about losing
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  their, you know, their monopoly on getting U
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  .S. weaponry through, you know, being paid for
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  doubly through Europe.
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  And they were talking about where Rachel Blevins
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  and Mark Sloboda were going, man, Europe's always
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  taking it in the shorts.
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  They can't catch a break for nothing.
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  Now they took a beating because Russian cheap
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  oil and gas were gone and they were
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  already paying, you know, several times more than
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  they needed to pay for it from the
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  United States, especially the liquid natural variety.
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  And now it's gone up another 50%.
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  There's talk of, in Germany, of reopening the
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  lines to Russian, at least LNG.
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  And so there's been a lot of talk
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  about that.
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  And so watching what is going on in
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  the world should frighten you.
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  If anybody, and I said it again, then
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  these two said the same thing.
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  And it was actually a little bit alarming
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  to me that they are thinking the same
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  way I am, because I'm a bit of
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  a doomsayer and I don't mean to be.
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  But when it comes to pushing buttons and,
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  you know, creating ultimate risk scenarios, we're pretty
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  damn good at it.
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  And, you know, we don't, we don't make
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  any bones about Trump's all happy about it,
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  you know.
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  And I believe that the most likely person
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  to push a nuclear button is Benjamin Netanyahu.
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  That is what I believe.
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  And that's not gonna, that's not gonna change.
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  And I'm telling you, if a nuclear button
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  gets pushed, it'll be pushed first by Israel.
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  No doubt.
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  And no doubt in my mind.
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  And where will they push?
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  Tehran.
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  You know, they would, you know, if they
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  don't get what they want, if the U
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  .S. abandons them, if they really do run
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  out of weapons.
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  We are so close to a nuclear holocaust
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  or nuclear tit for tat that, you know,
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  this is frightening.
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  And I don't like it.
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  And people of sane mind should be really
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  worried about this.
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  It's, this is not, this is not a
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  good scenario, no matter how you slice it.
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  You can get up and have, you know,
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  whatever his name, Hegseth, get up there and
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  cheer this on.
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  You can have Lindsey Graham slobbering at the
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  mouth for more war.
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  You know, he'd love to push it.
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  You know, geez, why don't we start one
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  while we're at it in Korea, North Korea,
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  South Korea, anywhere in those areas.
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  Let's do it.
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  Oh yeah, it's gonna be great.
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  That's him.
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  Let's do it.
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  And these people, Sloboda and Rachel Blevins are
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  talking about, and she let him go on
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  for quite a while about some of his
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  thought processes on this.
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  And he, he makes a lot of sense.
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  He really does.
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  And, uh, in, in what he is talking
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  about, and there is a lot of talk
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  around the world that the U S has
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  really bitten off more than it can chew.
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  And this is nothing but a slug fest.
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  Both sides are, uh, you know, their, um,
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  air defense capabilities are, are destroyed.
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  You know, they are, they are in bad
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  shape over this, both of them, that Patriots,
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  they've already been short, you know, and they've
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  already been short on that.
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  Iran's were allegedly beat up in the first,
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  um, in the first three, four days.
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  Um, they're saying that, uh, Qatar could last
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  three, four days with their defense.
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  I mean, and that, uh, they won't have
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  any soon.
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  Oh, here's Graham.
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  Oh, he's going to get up there.
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  Look at him.
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  Here he goes.
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  I wish I could see the text on
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  the bottom of this.
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  We put it in, you know, what he's
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  going to say more war.
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  That's what we should be listening to.
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  I need to learn how to run the
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  TVs so that I could listen to him
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  and make fun of him even more.
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  Cause he's going to go, we're winning.
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  We're winning.
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  That's all that matters.
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  It matters.
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  I, I drug dragged us in, I dragged
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  Trump into another war and, uh, you all
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  should be happy.
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  Operation epic fury.
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  I was going just how we wanted it
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  to go.
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  We're taking out an evil regime, evil regime.
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  Those would be the keywords he's going to
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  evil empire.
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  That's what this is.
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  And, uh, you know, we should remember that
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  that's our job to police the evil empires
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  of the world.
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  Now, now I did read also that the
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  old Trumpster now has, uh, four things that
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  he has outlined that are the goals now.
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  And suddenly the goal, the first day was
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  a regime change.
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  You know, we were gonna, you know, everybody
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  get up and go and, you know, take
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  over your government and run them, you know,
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  you know, get over there and take them
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  over.
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  That's what you, that's what you need to
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  do.
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  We've, we've helped you.
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  You haven't helped a damn thing truthfully.
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  And, uh, you haven't made it better for
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  their own country remotely.
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  You haven't helped.
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  And so, uh, the, the fact that you're
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  up here congratulating each other and slapping yourselves
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  on the back for all the great things
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  you've done, you're sadly mistaken.
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  And the world will judge you quite a
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  bit differently after another 20 years of turmoil
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  in another middle Eastern country.
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  So there you have it.
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  Um, I don't believe that, uh, this happens,
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  um, in a vacuum.
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  Lavrov, is this issuing a nuclear warning after
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  U S Israel attacks?
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  Um, you know, I only read part of
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  that.
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  I didn't get to the end of it
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  last night cause my eyes were bugging me,
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  but, uh, uh, I may, um, bring that
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  up to you.
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  There's a, a one that I did want
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  to share with you.
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  And this is from China.
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  Okay.
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  And, uh, China's military outlines five strategic lessons.
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  It says can be learned from the U
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  S Israel attack on Iran and warned against
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  blind faith and over reliance on outside power.
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  And this is what Israel Iran.
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  So the China military bugle, the official press
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  of China's armed forces published a bilingual graphic
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  on X on Tuesday with a commentary on
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  the U S Israeli attack on Iran, which
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  targeted government military nuclear sites cross country.
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  The strikes also killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
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  Khamenei and several Iranian top commanders in Tehran,
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  prompting Iranian retaliation against Israel and U S
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  military bases across the Gulf.
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  So the, uh, article laid out five key
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  takeaways.
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  First it labeled internal betrayal as the deadliest
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  threat in an apparent reference to recent anti
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  -government protests in Iran, which Tehran claimed had
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  were fueled.
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  And this is no doubt true by U
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  S and Israel.
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  In addition, the financial times reported earlier this
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  week that Khamenei's assassination is possible because of
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  Israeli Netanyahu to hack nearly all of the
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  CCTV cameras in Tehran.
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  And, uh, so the five lessons that they
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  post say the deadliest threat is the enemy
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  within costliest miscalculation, blind faith in peace, coldest
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  reality, the logic of superior firepower, the cruelest
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  paradox, the illusion of victory and ultimate reliance
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  is self-reliance.
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  That's China saying the five lessons, you know,
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  the deadliest threat, it will repeat them enemy
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  within costliest miscalculation, blind faith in peace, coldest
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  reality, logic of superior firepower, cruelest paradox, the
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  illusion of victory and the ultimate reliance is
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  self-reliance.
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  So the post, which was called blind faith
• 21:27
  in peace, um, you know, China has firmly
• 21:31
  condemned the U S and Israel strikes as
• 21:34
  unacceptable denounce.
• 21:36
  What it describes as the blatant killing of
• 21:39
  a sovereign leader and the incitement of regime
• 21:41
  change.
• 21:42
  No, I'm so against this.
• 21:44
  I can barely stand it.
• 21:45
  And, uh, uh, I'm as against this.
• 21:48
  In fact, even more so than I am
• 21:50
  against going and kidnapping a leader of a
• 21:54
  sitting country with zero international support.
• 22:00
  And by the way, the UN has been
• 22:02
  condemning this since it happened.
• 22:04
  And I don't mean Venezuela.
• 22:06
  I mean, condemning Washington and here Lindsey Graham
• 22:09
  is still up there, but I wish I
• 22:10
  could run this because I want to hear
• 22:12
  this nut.
• 22:13
  No, although you don't need to turn it
• 22:15
  on to know what he's saying, you know,
• 22:17
  the guy's a, uh, just a huge warmonger,
• 22:21
  you know, he has no use.
• 22:23
  There's zero use to that guy.
• 22:26
  He has one mission and one mission only
• 22:29
  more war and that's that.
• 22:32
  And, uh, so it's, it's, uh, the, the
• 22:36
  rest of the world is very much against
• 22:38
  this though, except those who've been dragged into
• 22:41
  it against their will.
• 22:44
  Uh, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi has also
• 22:48
  made his concerns known to his Israeli counterpart,
• 22:52
  Gideon Saar telling him during phone call that
• 22:55
  Iranian us negotiators had reached significant progress in
• 23:00
  the now collapsed nuclear talks.
• 23:03
  He said that the negotiations also addressed Israeli
• 23:06
  security concerns and Beijing calls on all sides
• 23:09
  to keep the strategic Strait of Hormuz open.
• 23:12
  Several lawyer tank oil tankers in the area
• 23:15
  have been hit and maritime traffic is plunged
• 23:19
  by 70%.
• 23:21
  China buys more than 80% of Iran's
• 23:25
  total oil output according to various estimates.
• 23:30
  So when I was a kid and, and,
• 23:33
  uh, growing up and listening to some of
• 23:36
  the religious stuff, I always remember one of
• 23:38
  the things that I always liked to, uh,
• 23:42
  you know, big eyed sitting in church, you
• 23:44
  know, on a Sunday and you'd hear about
• 23:45
  somebody up there giving a speech or a,
• 23:48
  you know, I don't know what it, what
• 23:50
  do you call it?
• 23:51
  Sermon or whatever.
• 23:53
  And, uh, you would hear about, and in
• 23:55
  that time and trouble is, is I found
• 23:59
  Monty Python after that Monty Python had a
• 24:03
  lot of the same stuff.
• 24:05
  And so it kind of ruined me for
• 24:06
  life.
• 24:07
  But you would remember, uh, and in that
• 24:09
  time a man shall steal another man's hammer
• 24:12
  and no one will be sure where they
• 24:15
  put the little things that they could find
• 24:17
  just the day before, but they had no
• 24:18
  idea where they were now.
• 24:20
  That's a Monty Python for you.
• 24:22
  But in church, I remember hearing, uh, there
• 24:25
  will be wars and rumors of wars.
• 24:28
  And I remember hearing that quite a few
• 24:30
  times, um, in my life and saying that
• 24:35
  when, when this time is upon you, you're
• 24:37
  in the end times, friends and neighbors.
• 24:39
  And, uh, and I'm not in charge of
• 24:41
  all of that.
• 24:42
  You know, I'm, I'm, I worry about it.
• 24:44
  Like the next person, I have my share
• 24:46
  of beliefs and they are my own.
• 24:48
  And, uh, but if you're one of those
• 24:51
  people that watches your revelations, uh, which I
• 24:54
  recall from way back in the day, uh,
• 24:57
  geez, we're right in the middle of it,
• 24:59
  you know, and everybody's justifying it.
• 25:02
  And how are we justifying it?
• 25:04
  As I told you repeatedly in the last
• 25:07
  few days, I am against this, uh, sort
• 25:11
  of religious deal.
• 25:13
  There was an article I read in the,
• 25:15
  in a us news paper.
• 25:17
  I wish I could remember which one where
• 25:19
  they are chastising quite a few military leaders
• 25:24
  who are calling their troops into battle in
• 25:28
  a battle of good and evil and saying,
• 25:31
  you know, God's on our side and military
• 25:33
  leaders doing this.
• 25:35
  And that's frightening to a lot of people
• 25:37
  going, what in the world, you know, the,
• 25:39
  the U S military doesn't fight for God,
• 25:42
  fights for the state period.
• 25:45
  And, uh, that was a big deal when
• 25:48
  I was in the military, you're not going
• 25:49
  to get out there and, you know, thump
• 25:51
  your Bible in front of the troops.
• 25:53
  It's not how it goes.
• 25:55
  And it's not, and I'm not against Bible
• 25:57
  thumping just to the right audience.
• 25:59
  And that is not the right audience.
• 26:02
  You know, that is, you have people from
• 26:04
  all over the place that believe different ways
• 26:07
  and don't believe that we should be fighting
• 26:09
  a war with the Muslims just because they're
• 26:12
  Muslims.
• 26:13
  It's nonsense.
• 26:14
  You know, you, there's an evil regime.
• 26:16
  Why is it evil?
• 26:19
  Nobody can dictate what that is.
• 26:21
  You know, nobody there, nobody can tell us
• 26:24
  what that is.
• 26:26
  It's an evil regime because Israel says so
• 26:28
  Israel gets to be the good guys.
• 26:30
  Why?
• 26:31
  Because the Christian Bible says so, Oh, you
• 26:34
  know that, uh, you know, the 12 children
• 26:36
  of Abraham or whatever it was that, uh,
• 26:39
  that were there in Judah is the one
• 26:40
  that's the good one.
• 26:41
  What?
• 26:42
  You know, that, that's, that, that shouldn't be
• 26:45
  driving the train, uh, you know, 2,500
• 26:49
  years later.
• 26:51
  And it's offensive to me that it is
• 26:55
  so, uh, Tehran for its part.
• 26:59
  And I wanted to share this with you
• 27:01
  because I think it's important.
• 27:03
  Uh, Tehran's under intense bombardment and, uh, Iran
• 27:08
  is condemned as wickedness and depravity us intense
• 27:13
  airstrikes on Iran, uh, us and Israeli bombardment
• 27:18
  of Iran and Lebanon has continued on Wednesday
• 27:21
  with fresh strikes reported at a hotel near
• 27:24
  Beirut and multiple districts of Tehran.
• 27:27
  The death toll is over 800 across both
• 27:31
  countries.
• 27:32
  U S central command, Admiral Brad Cooper said
• 27:36
  more that Brad Cooper, Bradley Cooper's an Admiral.
• 27:40
  Oh my God.
• 27:42
  I didn't know.
• 27:42
  Um, I thought he was great in that
• 27:44
  movie.
• 27:45
  Uh, what was it called?
• 27:48
  Oh, the one where he was a chef
• 27:50
  in, in, uh, um, well, I can't remember
• 27:53
  the name of it sad, but true, but
• 27:56
  I do like Bradley Cooper.
• 27:57
  He's been in several, several good shows.
• 27:59
  Uh, Oh, and you know what else he
• 28:00
  was good.
• 28:01
  And he was the one with a lady
• 28:02
  Gaga.
• 28:02
  I did like that movie and I've surprised
• 28:04
  that I liked a remake.
• 28:06
  You know, I was a little surprised on
• 28:08
  that.
• 28:08
  Although, uh, I must say I do enjoy
• 28:11
  the Dune remake quite a bit anyway.
• 28:14
  Well, I digress.
• 28:15
  Uh, but Admiral Bradley Cooper, uh, said more
• 28:18
  than 50,000 American troops, 200 fighter jets,
• 28:23
  two aircraft carriers, and strategic bombers are involved
• 28:26
  in the operation and U S secretary of
• 28:29
  war.
• 28:29
  I get every time I say, I gotta
• 28:32
  say it, that, you know, the secretary of
• 28:33
  war, that he can't be a defensive guy.
• 28:36
  He's gotta be the war, man.
• 28:37
  Uh, egg says, said that more are in
• 28:40
  route to the combat zone.
• 28:42
  Great.
• 28:43
  Let's dig in.
• 28:45
  This is BS friends and neighbors.
• 28:47
  Tehran launched a fourth consecutive night of retaliatory
• 28:50
  strikes on Israel and U S targets across
• 28:53
  the region.
• 28:54
  Strikes are reported on Washington consulate in Dubai
• 28:58
  and port and for, uh, Fudgy, uh, Fudgyra
• 29:02
  in the UAE and the U S embassy
• 29:05
  in Riyadh was bombed that, that looked horrifying.
• 29:10
  What I saw that, you know, there, I
• 29:12
  can't imagine, you know, although the, the U
• 29:15
  S allegedly told their people to shelter in
• 29:17
  place and not come to work to stay
• 29:19
  in their, their, uh, um, homes, you know,
• 29:22
  in, uh, Saudi Arabia, the U S embassy
• 29:25
  workers and stuff.
• 29:27
  Israeli foreign minister Gideon SAR called on foreign
• 29:30
  governments to sever ties with Iran.
• 29:33
  Iran's Islamic revolutionary guard core claims it has
• 29:37
  established full control over the state of Hormuz
• 29:40
  a choke point for roughly a third of
• 29:42
  the global seaborne oil trade Asian markets plunged
• 29:46
  as the escalating war rattled investors and fuels
• 29:51
  more fear of major energy disruptions is where
• 29:56
  Europe takes it in the shorts.
• 29:58
  Uh, the initial strikes on Saturday, blah, blah,
• 30:02
  blah.
• 30:02
  We already know about that.
• 30:03
  Uh, so say they say that, uh, several
• 30:07
  senior officials and hundreds of civilians, including in
• 30:11
  Tehran, 168 school children killed in a strike
• 30:16
  on an elementary school.
• 30:18
  The video of that, um, is not pretty.
• 30:23
  It is that is, uh, seriously depressing, uh,
• 30:27
  U S confirmed six service members killed.
• 30:30
  Um, 12 in Israel, Russia has condemned what
• 30:35
  it calls the U S practice of political
• 30:38
  assassination and the hunting of leaders of sovereign
• 30:42
  States.
• 30:44
  Um, they're trying to get some de-escalation
• 30:47
  if at all possible.
• 30:48
  There was an interesting article I read that
• 30:51
  I wanted to share with you to U
• 30:56
  S president.
• 30:58
  Trump's order to attack Iran has drawn very
• 31:03
  mixed reactions among Americans polls showing a clear
• 31:08
  public split and statements from lawmakers exposing divisions
• 31:13
  in both the Republican and democratic parties.
• 31:16
  Trump claims that the joint U S Israeli
• 31:20
  military campaign launched on Saturday operation epic theory
• 31:26
  was necessary to dismantle Iran's nuclear and ballistic
• 31:32
  missile programs.
• 31:34
  Not for the U S it wasn't not
• 31:38
  for the U S it matters to us.
• 31:41
  Not at all.
• 31:43
  Uh, Tehran insists the strikes were entirely unprovoked
• 31:47
  and has retaliated with missile and drones targeting
• 31:50
  Israel and U S bases across the middle
• 31:52
  East.
• 31:53
  Analysts note, the campaign launched mere days before
• 31:58
  primary contest began for the November midterm general
• 32:02
  elections in the U S by the way,
• 32:04
  my thought is my bet is this hurts
• 32:08
  Trump far more than it helps him.
• 32:11
  And I believe this means the, Senate and
• 32:15
  the house are lost.
• 32:17
  Now that's typical midterm anyway, and that he's
• 32:20
  no longer been going to be in the
• 32:22
  driver's seat.
• 32:23
  Uh, that's what I believe.
• 32:25
  Um, anyway, uh, has the lowest starting support
• 32:29
  in American history, the, the, uh, um, midterms
• 32:34
  coming up.
• 32:35
  How has the general public reacted?
• 32:39
  Opinion polls show growing public discontent with the
• 32:44
  campaign, a U gov snap poll conducted on
• 32:49
  the first day of strikes found that 34
• 32:52
  % of Americans supported the 44% opposed
• 32:58
  marking a historic low in initial support for
• 33:03
  a major U S military campaign, as opposed
• 33:07
  to the war in Afghanistan, 92% initial
• 33:11
  approval, which I think is a BS number.
• 33:14
  I don't believe it was that high.
• 33:16
  Anybody who had their head up their rear
• 33:19
  end was certainly a believer back then.
• 33:22
  Why in the world would anybody get it?
• 33:25
  Obviously they've never watched the princess bride, never
• 33:30
  get involved in a land war in Asia,
• 33:32
  you know?
• 33:32
  And the second truth is never go up
• 33:34
  against a Sicilian when death is on the
• 33:37
  line.
• 33:38
  And do you remember those lines from a
• 33:39
  beautiful movies?
• 33:40
  If you don't understand your princess bride, if
• 33:44
  you never saw it, maybe you were stupid
• 33:47
  enough to believe that getting into Afghanistan was
• 33:50
  a really good idea.
• 33:52
  Lindsey Graham.
• 33:53
  No, it wasn't.
• 33:55
  It was stupid.
• 33:57
  And in hindsight, it's too easy to see.
• 33:59
  Isn't it?
• 34:00
  Same with direct Lindsey Graham.
• 34:03
  What in the hell are we doing there?
• 34:04
  We had 71% approval of that in
• 34:07
  the beginning and a Reuters Ipsos poll released
• 34:11
  the next day, Sunday showed an even lower
• 34:13
  backing, which is 27% approving the U
• 34:17
  .S. strikes against Iran and 43% opposed.
• 34:23
  56%, including one in four Republicans, said Trump
• 34:28
  is too willing to use military force under
• 34:33
  the pretext of advancing U.S. interests.
• 34:38
  If I had been asked, I'd have said
• 34:40
  exactly the same thing.
• 34:42
  He's doing the exact same thing that's been
• 34:44
  going on for 30 to 50 years, making
• 34:47
  stuff up, using it as a basis for
• 34:51
  this or stretching the truth.
• 34:53
  Narco terrorism in Venezuela.
• 34:56
  No support from the U.N. No U
• 34:59
  .N. Security Council action.
• 35:01
  Nothing.
• 35:02
  Him acting all by his lonesome because he's
• 35:05
  the king of the world.
• 35:06
  And we've done the same thing only here.
• 35:10
  Now we're just following the Netanyahu's of the
• 35:15
  world.
• 35:15
  That's it.
• 35:16
  There's several articles out there that say Netanyahu
• 35:20
  had already started war and that we were
• 35:25
  late to that party that Rubio said that,
• 35:28
  you know, that we followed them after they
• 35:31
  had already done it, even the second time.
• 35:33
  That was clearly true several months ago, whatever
• 35:35
  it was, six, eight months ago.
• 35:37
  And now here we are.
• 35:40
  And here here's a quote for you.
• 35:42
  I don't see how the math works in
• 35:43
  our favor, or at least it seems unlikely
• 35:46
  it will work in our favor.
• 35:48
  I'm so against it.
• 35:49
  Damn it.
• 35:50
  Mike Walsh was the guy's name that put
• 35:53
  that out.
• 35:54
  And many said their support hinges on death
• 35:58
  of U.S. troops in the conflict, the
• 36:00
  first of which were reported by U.S.
• 36:02
  Central Command on Sunday night.
• 36:04
  Nobody's for the death of American soldiers there,
• 36:08
  there.
• 36:10
  Whatever happened to defense, we're on the offense
• 36:13
  and it's nuts and we shouldn't be.
• 36:16
  Is this a way to since Russia is
• 36:19
  otherwise occupied since China, you know, people say
• 36:23
  that Russia and China are both supporting Iran
• 36:27
  on the on the back end, Russia.
• 36:32
  So if you remember the the Shahid drones
• 36:38
  that Russia was using in the beginning, the
• 36:41
  cheap Iranian version drones.
• 36:45
  OK, these drones were supplied to Russia in
• 36:51
  large quantities.
• 36:52
  OK.
• 36:54
  And the Russians took them and upgraded them
• 36:58
  dramatically.
• 36:59
  And there are several reports that I saw
• 37:02
  yesterday that say that these drones have now
• 37:06
  made full circle.
• 37:07
  So the Iranians, when they produced them, they
• 37:10
  produced them in massive quantities for the Russians
• 37:13
  and the Russians were buying them in massive
• 37:16
  quantities.
• 37:16
  And then when they were coming in, the
• 37:18
  Russians improved them dramatically.
• 37:21
  They have their own EW systems in their
• 37:24
  electronic warfare, that they have their own electronic
• 37:27
  warfare platforms embedded in the drone.
• 37:32
  And these drones are now called the Duran,
• 37:34
  the geranium.
• 37:35
  And these drones are pretty good size, you
• 37:39
  know, little.
• 37:40
  They look like a stealth bomber, but small,
• 37:43
  very small.
• 37:44
  You know, maybe what two meters across five,
• 37:48
  five, six feet.
• 37:49
  Right.
• 37:50
  And they're they're they're everywhere.
• 37:53
  The Russians are manufacturing, but tons of these,
• 37:57
  as are the Iranians.
• 38:00
  And now the Iranians are getting them from
• 38:02
  the Russians and the the Chinese are supplying
• 38:07
  through the back end.
• 38:08
  You know, this is Iran is one of
• 38:12
  the largest contributors, a large member of the
• 38:15
  BRICS alliance and has avoided sanctions, you know,
• 38:20
  for years.
• 38:21
  And the training, the trading, I mean, between
• 38:24
  these three countries is deep.
• 38:27
  And, you know, if anybody, all of the
• 38:30
  the Qatar, who'd they call Russia?
• 38:33
  Can you help us out?
• 38:36
  Can you help us out?
• 38:37
  Will you talk to Iran?
• 38:38
  We don't want them bombing us.
• 38:40
  We don't want to have to join the
• 38:41
  U.S. And Russia said, geez, you guys
• 38:43
  made your bed.
• 38:45
  You know, you're the ones there.
• 38:46
  There's a lot of talk that this is
• 38:49
  going to boot the U.S., even on
• 38:50
  the Western sides, that this is going to
• 38:53
  boot America out of the Persian Gulf.
• 38:57
  And a lot of people, they're quite happy
• 38:59
  about that eventuality.
• 39:02
  Get the Americans out.
• 39:04
  What would the world we do in there
• 39:05
  anyway?
• 39:05
  You know, except the bidding of Israel.
• 39:10
  Seriously, what do we do in there?
• 39:13
  And people are wondering, why are our people
• 39:18
  now over there dying for something very, very
• 39:21
  few of us care a lick about?
• 39:24
  You know, we don't.
• 39:26
  And that's how it is.
• 39:27
  Anyway, the Reuters poll said that Trump, you
• 39:34
  know, remember that poll, 56, one in four
• 39:37
  Republicans said Trump is too willing to use
• 39:39
  military force under the pretexts of advancing U
• 39:43
  .S. interests.
• 39:44
  It's definitely a pretext.
• 39:45
  Many said support hinges on the death.
• 39:48
  CENTCOM said three members have been killed.
• 39:52
  Now we're up to six, allegedly.
• 39:54
  I believe it's much higher than that, but
• 39:56
  that's me.
• 39:56
  I don't believe numbers ever come out accurately.
• 40:02
  And this is nonsense.
• 40:04
  CNN poll conducted and released on Monday found
• 40:08
  nearly six in 10, 59 percent of Americans
• 40:13
  oppose military action against Iran.
• 40:16
  Some 60 percent believe Trump lacks a clear
• 40:20
  plan.
• 40:21
  I believe he lacks a clear plan.
• 40:23
  And 62 percent say he should be required
• 40:27
  to obtain congressional approval for further actions.
• 40:33
  One of the Republicans said reaction on Capitol
• 40:36
  Hill is split, reflecting divisions in both parties,
• 40:40
  bipartisan concern that Trump failed to seek required
• 40:43
  congressional authorization for preemptive strikes.
• 40:49
  Early reports said Secretary of State Marco Rubio
• 40:54
  only notified the Gang of Eight, a small
• 40:58
  bipartisan group of congressional warmongers, I call them,
• 41:04
  hours before the operation began.
• 41:06
  Most Republican senators defend Trump's decision.
• 41:12
  Lindsey Graham, of course, is out there praising
• 41:15
  Donald Trump for setting in motion the end
• 41:17
  of evil and darkness in the Middle East.
• 41:20
  My ass, if you believe that, you don't
• 41:23
  know a damn thing about the Middle East,
• 41:25
  do you?
• 41:27
  They see us as the evil in darkness,
• 41:31
  especially in Iran.
• 41:34
  So House Speaker Mike Johnson said Iran is
• 41:37
  facing the severe consequences of evil actions.
• 41:40
  Who gets to decide who's evil?
• 41:43
  I mean, seriously, that's the problem.
• 41:46
  And that's what I always talk about.
• 41:47
  It's always in who's making the interpretation.
• 41:52
  So Trump, you know, he argued, did Speaker
• 41:57
  Johnson.
• 41:57
  Trump has made every effort to pursue peaceful
• 42:01
  and diplomatic solutions.
• 42:03
  That is not true either.
• 42:05
  They were actually having discussions.
• 42:10
  Those were false, according to Netanyahu.
• 42:13
  He said, no, we made this plan two
• 42:16
  weeks ago.
• 42:17
  We knew we were bombing two weeks earlier.
• 42:20
  Once again, the Americans and the Israelis kept
• 42:26
  the speech going to hide the ball.
• 42:33
  Senator Tom Cotton says, a vital mission of
• 42:38
  vengeance.
• 42:39
  Who are we to give vengeance to somebody
• 42:41
  for Israel of injustice and safety?
• 42:45
  What is justice?
• 42:46
  Where where do you get this definition?
• 42:50
  However, a faction of Republicans has broken ranks,
• 42:54
  citing constitutional concerns and a betrayal of campaign
• 42:59
  promises.
• 43:00
  This is what I don't like.
• 43:01
  I'm one of those people who believes Trump
• 43:04
  was going to be the president of peace.
• 43:06
  Right.
• 43:08
  But nope, he is just as bad as
• 43:10
  the other warmongers, at least as far as
• 43:13
  war goes and start your own, you know,
• 43:16
  World War three actions.
• 43:18
  Thomas Massey, a congressman from Kentucky, said the
• 43:22
  war contradicts Trump's America first slogan.
• 43:27
  Rand Paul opposes the strikes on constitutional grounds,
• 43:31
  saying the power to declare war belongs to
• 43:33
  Congress.
• 43:33
  That's true.
• 43:34
  But we know presidents have been ignoring that
• 43:37
  for 30, 40 years, which I disagree with.
• 43:41
  But hell, nobody's paid attention to that.
• 43:45
  Former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene accused the administration
• 43:49
  and I saw this one who's with Megyn
• 43:51
  Kelly.
• 43:52
  Wow.
• 43:52
  She was harsh.
• 43:53
  And I may even have that for you
• 43:55
  somewhere.
• 43:56
  She accused the administration of abandoning its no
• 43:59
  more foreign wars platform, calling the escalation a
• 44:03
  letdown for the movement.
• 44:07
  And you know what?
• 44:08
  Let me see if I got that.
• 44:09
  She was on a tear when I saw
• 44:13
  that.
• 44:13
  Let me see if I can find her,
• 44:16
  because that was hella.
• 44:20
  She was on a roll.
• 44:22
  Let me see.
• 44:22
  And I know I watched that.
• 44:24
  I just got to find it.
• 44:26
  Oh, here it is.
• 44:28
  Now, I don't like it.
• 44:29
  Unfortunately, I couldn't find it separately.
• 44:32
  So there's some guy chatting about it first.
• 44:34
  And I want to make sure I take
• 44:35
  off this stuff that was only talking about
• 44:38
  her.
• 44:39
  And I don't want to hear the the
• 44:42
  dude that was making comment on it.
• 44:46
  I only want to hear her.
• 44:47
  So here we go.
• 44:49
  And yep, she was with Megyn Kelly.
• 44:52
  And I'm on the wrong channel.
• 44:54
  But here's what we're going to listen to.
• 44:56
  She has a nice room that she does
• 44:58
  her videos out of on the Megyn Kelly
• 45:00
  show, you know, his mental state.
• 45:03
  And who is he doing this for?
• 45:06
  Because it's not for the American people.
• 45:08
  He's lying.
• 45:09
  He's done.
• 45:10
  Okay, let's listen to that again.
• 45:12
  Because I missed it in the first.
• 45:13
  Who is he doing it for?
• 45:15
  That's a legitimate question.
• 45:17
  And I'm no huge Marjorie Taylor Greene fan.
• 45:19
  I don't I don't care one way or
• 45:21
  the other.
• 45:21
  Everybody has their own, you know, agenda.
• 45:24
  And she's got her own.
• 45:25
  I don't know what her plans are in
• 45:27
  the future.
• 45:27
  But I always thought she was pretty straight
• 45:29
  up, called it said it like it was,
• 45:31
  you know, she's a huge Trump supporter.
• 45:33
  And I didn't really pay much attention to
• 45:35
  her leaving or anything like that.
• 45:38
  But here we go.
• 45:41
  Let's listen to this, though.
• 45:43
  Oh, now I get a spinning wheel.
• 45:45
  Hold on.
• 45:46
  And I know you're not willing to go
• 45:48
  there.
• 45:48
  But I am.
• 45:48
  I really want to know what is his
• 45:51
  mental state and who is he doing this
• 45:54
  for?
• 45:55
  Because it's not for the American people.
• 45:57
  He's lying.
• 45:58
  He's gone back on what he promised.
• 46:00
  No more foreign wars.
• 46:02
  No more regime change.
• 46:03
  All right, folks.
• 46:05
  Yeah.
• 46:05
  And that's the quote I wanted to get.
• 46:07
  The rest of it was some some guy
• 46:09
  talking about analysis there.
• 46:11
  I wanted to get it.
• 46:12
  Jeffrey Sachs calls him a psychopath.
• 46:15
  He went pretty far.
• 46:17
  And I thought about playing that one, but
• 46:20
  I really didn't want to put him in
• 46:22
  there.
• 46:23
  And, you know, it's it's an unbelievably interesting
• 46:32
  time in which we live.
• 46:37
  And you know what?
• 46:38
  I'm going to take a bit of a
• 46:39
  break right now because here it is about
• 46:42
  halfway through the show.
• 46:43
  And I have been into old, old music
• 46:48
  recently.
• 46:49
  And here is something from 1963.
• 46:57
  And whether you like the guy or not,
• 47:00
  this is something pretty darn cool.
• 47:04
  And many of you may know it already,
• 47:07
  but it's Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk
• 47:12
  Festival in 1963.
• 47:16
  And I'm going to share it with you
• 47:18
  and then we'll get back to our topic
• 47:21
  of the day.
• 47:37
  And this is a song about iron ore
• 47:41
  mines and iron ore town.
• 47:55
  Come and gather round friends and I'll tell
• 47:59
  you a tale.
• 48:01
  Of where the red iron ore pits run
• 48:04
  a plenty.
• 48:06
  But the cardboard filled windows and old men
• 48:09
  on the benches.
• 48:12
  Tell you now that the whole town is
• 48:15
  empty.
• 48:19
  In the north, in the town, my own
• 48:22
  children have grown.
• 48:24
  But I was raised on the other.
• 48:29
  In the wee hours of youth, my mother
• 48:32
  took sick.
• 48:34
  And I was brought up by my brother.
• 48:40
  Oh, the iron ore poured as the years
• 48:44
  passed the door.
• 48:45
  The drag lines and shovels, it was a
• 48:48
  humming.
• 48:49
  Oh, one day my brother failed to come
• 48:53
  home.
• 48:55
  The same as my father before him.
• 49:04
  With a long winter's wait from the window
• 49:08
  I watched.
• 49:09
  My friends, they couldn't have been kinder.
• 49:13
  And my schooling was cut as I quit
• 49:17
  in the spring.
• 49:19
  To matter John Thomas, a miner.
• 49:25
  The years passed again and the giving was
• 49:29
  good.
• 49:30
  With the lunch buckets filled every season.
• 49:34
  But with three babies born, the work was
• 49:38
  cut down.
• 49:39
  To a half a day's shift with no
• 49:42
  reason.
• 49:46
  And the shaft was soon shut and my
• 49:49
  work was cut.
• 49:51
  And the fire in the island fell frozen.
• 49:55
  Until a man come to speak.
• 49:58
  And he said in one week that number
• 50:01
  11 was closing.
• 50:07
  They say in the east they are paying
• 50:11
  too high.
• 50:12
  They say that your ore ain't worth digging.
• 50:16
  That it's much cheaper down in the South
• 50:20
  American towns.
• 50:21
  Where the miners work almost for nothing.
• 50:28
  So the mining gates locked and the red
• 50:31
  iron rotted.
• 50:33
  And the room smelled heavy from drinking.
• 50:37
  And the sad silent song made the hour
• 50:41
  twice as long as I waited for the
• 50:44
  sun to go down.
• 50:49
  I lived by the window as he talked
• 50:53
  to himself.
• 50:54
  The silence of tongues it was building.
• 50:59
  Till one morning's week they bet it was
• 51:03
  bad.
• 51:04
  And I slept alone with three children.
• 51:07
  And this summer is gone.
• 51:13
  The ground's turning cold.
• 51:15
  The stars one by one they're folding.
• 51:20
  My children will go as soon as they
• 51:24
  grow.
• 51:27
  For there ain't nothing here now but to
• 51:30
  hold them.
• 51:36
  Pretty cool, huh?
• 51:38
  I like watching those old music festivals and
• 51:45
  stuff like that.
• 51:49
  You can go out and find them on
• 51:51
  the internet.
• 51:53
  You can watch Woodstock.
• 51:55
  You can get some of that and see
• 51:57
  some of the very interesting shows.
• 52:02
  Now, that particular video, if you can find
• 52:04
  it, it's Bob Dylan and the North County
• 52:07
  Blues using Newport Folk Festival in 1963.
• 52:13
  And it's, you know, I never thought of
• 52:16
  Bob Dylan that way.
• 52:19
  And pretty darn interesting.
• 52:22
  Anyway, I have a pretty wide and varied
• 52:26
  musical taste.
• 52:29
  And so I have quite a bit of
• 52:33
  stuff.
• 52:34
  So allegedly in this war that right now
• 52:37
  would there have been that NATO is intercepting
• 52:41
  Iranian missiles near Turkey.
• 52:45
  So a Turkish airspace through Syria, said Turkey.
• 52:51
  NATO's anti-aircraft systems in the eastern Mediterranean
• 52:54
  shot down an Iranian ballistic missile headed for
• 52:59
  Turkey, the country's defense ministry said.
• 53:02
  The projectile was detected traveling through Iraq and
• 53:06
  Syria and was destroyed in a timely manner
• 53:10
  by the U.S.-led military bloc, said the
• 53:13
  Turkish defense ministry.
• 53:15
  Debris from the interceptor missile used to destroy
• 53:19
  fell in the southern Turkish province of Hatay,
• 53:22
  if I've said that correctly, although it inflicted
• 53:25
  no damage on the ground.
• 53:26
  We urge all parties to refrain from taking
• 53:29
  steps that lead to further spread of conflict
• 53:32
  in the region.
• 53:33
  We will continue to consult NATO and our
• 53:36
  other allies in this context, it said.
• 53:38
  Ankara reserves the right to respond to any
• 53:41
  hostile action against our country and will take
• 53:43
  every step necessary to defend our territory and
• 53:46
  airspace.
• 53:47
  Turkish military did not elaborate on where exactly
• 53:50
  the debris was shot down.
• 53:52
  Ankara distanced itself from the ongoing U.S.-Israeli
• 53:56
  attacks on Iran, insisting it had not helped
• 54:00
  Washington in any fashion.
• 54:02
  Now, quite a few countries have done this,
• 54:04
  and Turkey is one of them.
• 54:05
  Turkey does not permit any of its air,
• 54:10
  land, or maritime assets, including its airspace, to
• 54:15
  be used for operational purposes in any conflict
• 54:19
  or war to which it is not a
• 54:22
  party.
• 54:23
  And there's been some real fallout over this,
• 54:26
  not just from Turkey, but for the U
• 54:32
  .S., I mean.
• 54:33
  This is why Spain is so upset.
• 54:37
  Spain said, nope, you can't use our airspace,
• 54:41
  you can't use airfields in Spain to launch,
• 54:44
  you know, even though they're joint-housed, that
• 54:48
  the U.S. and Spain.
• 54:50
  Now, this is a big deal, right?
• 54:52
  Well, Spain says, oh, no, no, no, no,
• 54:57
  we don't want anything to do with this.
• 54:59
  And they do not.
• 55:00
  And Starmer has said similar things.
• 55:03
  He said that he isn't allowed.
• 55:04
  So there is some certain large rifts going
• 55:08
  on right now over this action.
• 55:13
  And the U.S. has overstepped once again.
• 55:17
  And there's a reason that 60% of
• 55:19
  us are against this action.
• 55:23
  You know, who in the world?
• 55:24
  I don't know.
• 55:25
  I hear so many people say, oh, gee,
• 55:27
  it's an evil empire.
• 55:28
  Oh, yeah, there we go.
• 55:30
  The evil empire thing again.
• 55:32
  OK, Lindsay, you know, the hope hope you
• 55:35
  get elected again.
• 55:36
  You know that now that the military industrial
• 55:39
  complex will send you some more money, that's
• 55:42
  good.
• 55:43
  Claims circulating on certain social media platforms that
• 55:46
  Turkey supports the recent attacks against Iran are
• 55:50
  entirely unfounded and constitute disinformation aimed at misleading
• 55:57
  the public, said the country's Center for Combating
• 56:01
  Disinformation on Saturday.
• 56:05
  That's what Turkey has said.
• 56:08
  So I tell you what, like I said
• 56:13
  yesterday, day before, I believe ultimately this leads
• 56:17
  to nuclear issues.
• 56:22
  Using, you know, Israel will be the first
• 56:26
  to use them, no doubt in my mind
• 56:28
  who it would be.
• 56:31
  And Sergei Lavrov, I told you I only
• 56:34
  read part of this article, but I want
• 56:37
  to share it with you.
• 56:39
  So Lavrov said that the U.S. and
• 56:43
  Israeli attack on Iran could spurt nuclear problems.
• 56:49
  Washington and West Jerusalem say they launched their
• 56:52
  joint assault on Saturday to prevent Iran from
• 56:57
  obtaining nuclear weapons, repeating the justification they used
• 57:01
  last year in attacks on Iran.
• 57:05
  On Tuesday, Lavrov criticized Whitkoff, Stephen, one each,
• 57:11
  special envoy for President Donald Trump for calling
• 57:15
  Iran's insistence on its right to uranium enrichment
• 57:19
  unacceptable.
• 57:21
  Whitkoff told Fox News, we of course responded
• 57:25
  that the president feels we have the inalienable
• 57:28
  right to stop you dead in your tracks.
• 57:31
  Where do you get the inalienable right?
• 57:35
  Inalienable?
• 57:36
  Why that particular adjectival use of a word?
• 57:41
  Nonsense.
• 57:42
  Maybe you think you have the right, but
• 57:43
  what makes it inalienable?
• 57:47
  I got the inalienable right to kick your
• 57:51
  ass.
• 57:51
  What?
• 57:53
  Where are you from?
• 57:55
  Why do you speak like this?
• 57:56
  Nonsense.
• 57:57
  If this logic is pushed, I guarantee the
• 58:01
  powerful forces will arise in Iran seeking exactly
• 58:05
  what the United States seeks to prevent, to
• 58:09
  make a nuclear bomb because people who have
• 58:12
  nuclear bombs don't get attacked by the U
• 58:16
  .S., said Lavrov.
• 58:18
  Iran's right to a peaceful nuclear program, including
• 58:23
  uranium enrichment, is recognized under the nonproliferation treaties,
• 58:28
  which allows such activity with IAEA safeguards.
• 58:34
  In a seemingly paradoxical twist, the declared noble
• 58:39
  cause of preventing nuclear proliferation through war will
• 58:44
  stimulate the opposite trend.
• 58:47
  He added that foreign diplomats told him the
• 58:50
  fate of Libyan leader Gaddafi, who abandoned his
• 58:54
  nuclear program only to be overthrown and killed
• 58:58
  in the 2011 NATO-backed uprisings, serves as
• 59:02
  a powerful argument for getting nuclear weapons.
• 59:06
  Iran maintains that weapons of mass destruction are
• 59:09
  forbidden under Islam.
• 59:11
  The late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei assassinated
• 59:15
  in the opening phase issued a spiritual decree
• 59:18
  against nuclear arms in the 1990s.
• 59:22
  Tehran denies Israeli claims that it secretly seeks
• 59:25
  nuclear capability in violation of the fatwa.
• 59:31
  Meanwhile, France is expanding its nuclear arsenal, according
• 59:36
  to Macron.
• 59:37
  No nation could shield itself from a nuclear
• 59:41
  strike, the president has said.
• 59:44
  France will expand its nuclear arsenal as part
• 59:47
  of the nation's new nuclear strategy.
• 59:50
  Macron argued that the nation can only ensure
• 59:54
  its security by being feared.
• 59:58
  Here we are with peace through strength again,
• 1:00:00
  right?
• 1:00:01
  The announcement came during a keynote speech on
• 1:00:04
  Monday at a military base hosting the country's
• 1:00:07
  ballistic missile submarines.
• 1:00:09
  He justified the need to review the nuclear
• 1:00:12
  posture and the need to adapt to what
• 1:00:14
  he says is a new reality.
• 1:00:17
  Russia's ongoing development of its nuclear arsenal and
• 1:00:20
  China's efforts to catch up militarily with the
• 1:00:23
  US as a key threat.
• 1:00:26
  The EU and NATO have used the supposed
• 1:00:29
  Russian threat to justify massive military spending hike.
• 1:00:34
  I have decided, said Macron, to increase the
• 1:00:38
  number of warheads of our arsenal.
• 1:00:41
  He said, if we have to use our
• 1:00:44
  arsenal, no state, however powerful, could shield itself
• 1:00:49
  from it and no state, however vast, would
• 1:00:53
  recover from it.
• 1:00:56
  Well, since I was in the treaty business
• 1:01:01
  years ago, I also wanted to share this
• 1:01:05
  with you.
• 1:01:06
  It's an article shared on the 29th of
• 1:01:10
  January, so a little while ago, a little
• 1:01:13
  more than a month ago.
• 1:01:16
  It's called No Treaty, No Rules.
• 1:01:20
  What the expiration of the START, the New
• 1:01:23
  START Treaty, means for deterrence, transparency, and the
• 1:01:27
  global order.
• 1:01:29
  Why the collapse of the US-Russia arms
• 1:01:32
  control framework is more about transparency and missile
• 1:01:38
  defense.
• 1:01:40
  I don't agree with this, by all of
• 1:01:41
  it, but it's a good point of view.
• 1:01:45
  On February 5, the New START Treaty between
• 1:01:48
  Russia and the US officially expires, lifting the
• 1:01:52
  legally binding limits on global nuclear arsenals.
• 1:01:55
  Essentially, this means that the world would enter
• 1:01:58
  a potentially dangerous phase of unlimited nuclear arsenal
• 1:02:03
  expansion, like what Macron is planning.
• 1:02:08
  New START was signed in 2011 for a
• 1:02:11
  term of 10 years and an option to
• 1:02:12
  extend it for another five, a provision that
• 1:02:16
  Moscow and Washington utilized in 2021.
• 1:02:20
  But the agreement does not allow for further
• 1:02:22
  extension.
• 1:02:23
  And last September, President Putin proposed to Washington
• 1:02:28
  that both sides continue to adhere to the
• 1:02:30
  treaty's quantitative limits on strategic nuclear forces for
• 1:02:35
  another year.
• 1:02:37
  President Trump called this a good idea, but
• 1:02:40
  the US has yet to respond officially to
• 1:02:43
  Putin's initiative.
• 1:02:44
  The treaty limits the number of deployed strategic
• 1:02:47
  nuclear warheads for both countries to 1,550,
• 1:02:52
  including 800 deployed and non-deployed launchers and
• 1:02:56
  700 deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine launch missiles
• 1:03:02
  and heavy bombers.
• 1:03:04
  As of January 2025, according to the Stockholm
• 1:03:08
  International Peace Research, Russia possesses a total of
• 1:03:13
  4,309 warheads and the US has 3
• 1:03:17
  ,700.
• 1:03:18
  Generally, experts see little risk of a rapid
• 1:03:23
  increase in deployed nuclear arms as a system
• 1:03:26
  of nuclear deterrence developed over the past decades
• 1:03:30
  functions effectively.
• 1:03:32
  Therefore, sudden shift toward an arms race between
• 1:03:35
  the two nations is unlikely, according to a
• 1:03:39
  guy named Pavel Sharikov, a researcher at the
• 1:03:45
  European Integration Studies.
• 1:03:47
  But the US may begin developing missile defense
• 1:03:52
  systems to bolster its nuclear intent.
• 1:03:55
  That is almost certain.
• 1:03:58
  Trump has already announced plans for a Golden
• 1:04:00
  Dome missile defense system and his ambitions to
• 1:04:04
  acquire Greenland fit this trend, said Sharikov.
• 1:04:09
  For the past several years, the US is
• 1:04:11
  pursuing a policy aimed at revising or even
• 1:04:15
  dismantling arms control treaties.
• 1:04:18
  In 2002, the US withdrew from the 1972
• 1:04:23
  anti-ballistic missile treaty.
• 1:04:27
  During Trump's first term, Washington exited two other
• 1:04:31
  key agreements, 1987 INF Treaty and the 1992
• 1:04:36
  Open Skies Treaty.
• 1:04:38
  Trump's lack of interest in extending start and
• 1:04:42
  the desire to instead conclude some other great
• 1:04:45
  deal are consistent with his general foreign policy
• 1:04:49
  strategies, or lack thereof, I would say.
• 1:04:53
  The most significant blow to the arms control
• 1:04:56
  system after the expiration of New Start will
• 1:04:59
  be a general decline in transparency and trust
• 1:05:03
  between nuclear powers.
• 1:05:06
  I happen to agree with that.
• 1:05:08
  That's exactly what's going to happen.
• 1:05:10
  The most we can hope for is a
• 1:05:12
  politically binding agreement on adhering to limits on
• 1:05:15
  launchers and warheads, achieving a comprehensive agreement like
• 1:05:19
  the New Start sign in Prague would take
• 1:05:21
  years.
• 1:05:25
  One of the key factors hindering establishment of
• 1:05:28
  new strategic arm reduction treaty is China's growing
• 1:05:32
  nuclear arsenal.
• 1:05:34
  The US expressed a desire to involve Beijing
• 1:05:37
  in nuclear deterrent talks, citing the need to
• 1:05:40
  increase China's nuclear transparency.
• 1:05:44
  China currently possesses about 600 nuclear warheads and
• 1:05:48
  this arsenal is expanding faster than that of
• 1:05:51
  any other country by about 100 warheads a
• 1:05:55
  year since 2023.
• 1:05:57
  Experts note that by the early 2030s, China
• 1:06:01
  will catch up with Russia and the US
• 1:06:03
  in the total number of warheads.
• 1:06:07
  No one is stopping China from expanding and
• 1:06:10
  it doesn't have to answer to anyone about
• 1:06:13
  it.
• 1:06:14
  That's why Trump wants Beijing involved in the
• 1:06:17
  agreement.
• 1:06:18
  However, this is a complicated process and it's
• 1:06:21
  hard to envision how to transform from a
• 1:06:24
  bilateral agreement, Moscow Washington, into a trilateral one,
• 1:06:29
  including Beijing.
• 1:06:30
  Moscow shares similar concerns about Europe's nuclear arsenal,
• 1:06:35
  which Macron says we're gonna build some more,
• 1:06:41
  you know, which is also not restricted by
• 1:06:44
  any deterrents.
• 1:06:46
  None.
• 1:06:46
  The only two that had any were the
• 1:06:48
  US and Russia and US doesn't want any
• 1:06:51
  of that stuff.
• 1:06:54
  France and the UK have 290 and 225
• 1:06:58
  warheads respectively.
• 1:07:01
  Germany, which lacks its own weapons, participates in
• 1:07:05
  NATO's nuclear sharing program.
• 1:07:08
  Dmitry Peskov, who's a presidential spokesman for Russia,
• 1:07:13
  noted in January, we must not forget Putin's
• 1:07:16
  statement that discussing a new treaty without considering
• 1:07:20
  the arsenal of France and the UK is
• 1:07:23
  not feasible.
• 1:07:25
  Thus, both the US and Russia are looking
• 1:07:28
  to expand the list of participants in a
• 1:07:32
  new comprehensive nuclear arms limitation treaty.
• 1:07:36
  And remember, I reported to you a couple
• 1:07:38
  of weeks ago, the guests who wants to
• 1:07:40
  have their own nuclear weapons.
• 1:07:43
  And I imagine they will.
• 1:07:44
  So I don't know why we're all bent
• 1:07:46
  out of shape about Iran wanting them, because
• 1:07:49
  Poland sure as hell wants them.
• 1:07:51
  And they say they're gonna get them.
• 1:07:53
  And Germany still wants them.
• 1:07:55
  And they say they're gonna get them.
• 1:07:57
  Where are the talks about non-proliferation for
• 1:08:01
  them?
• 1:08:02
  Where's that?
• 1:08:04
  Nobody even mentions that part, do they?
• 1:08:07
  There's also a risk of how non-nuclear
• 1:08:10
  states will react as they watch the action
• 1:08:13
  of Russia and the US.
• 1:08:16
  A guy named Nikolai Sokov, a senior fellow
• 1:08:20
  at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non
• 1:08:22
  -Proliferation, published an article on the organization website.
• 1:08:26
  For years, non-nuclear weapon states have increasingly
• 1:08:31
  criticized nuclear arms states for failing to implement
• 1:08:36
  Article 6 of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which
• 1:08:41
  obliges them to pursue nuclear disarmament.
• 1:08:45
  The expiration of the new start only months
• 1:08:48
  before the NPT review conference, beginning on the
• 1:08:53
  27th of April in New York, will likely
• 1:08:56
  intensify these concerns.
• 1:08:58
  A joint US-Russian announcement committing to observe
• 1:09:02
  at least some element of the expired treaty,
• 1:09:06
  especially if paired with a pledge to resume
• 1:09:08
  negotiations, would help mitigate a looming crisis.
• 1:09:14
  Experts say that after the expiration of the
• 1:09:16
  new start, the focus will shift toward defensive
• 1:09:20
  measures and missile defense systems rather than the
• 1:09:24
  development of offensive weapons.
• 1:09:27
  And if you believe that, I don't believe
• 1:09:32
  that.
• 1:09:33
  They're going to stay on offense, no doubt,
• 1:09:36
  in my humble opinion.
• 1:09:41
  So, well, France is going to build up
• 1:09:44
  its nuclear stockpiles.
• 1:09:46
  We're going to love that.
• 1:09:49
  Lavrov on his, let's see, we already shared
• 1:09:55
  this.
• 1:09:56
  Where else are we going?
• 1:10:01
  Did everybody hear Trump call Zelensky P.T.
• 1:10:07
  Barnum?
• 1:10:08
  I wish I had that.
• 1:10:09
  I don't, but I wish I did.
• 1:10:12
  And that was, it's a comical, comical deal
• 1:10:20
  here.
• 1:10:22
  Thousands, where is this?
• 1:10:24
  Trump and Zelensky, here it is.
• 1:10:26
  This is funny stuff.
• 1:10:29
  So, P.T. Barnum is now comical.
• 1:10:35
  U.S. President Trump, oh, I watched a
• 1:10:37
  really interesting show, Maria Zakharova, and I wish
• 1:10:41
  you guys spoke Russian along with me because
• 1:10:43
  I can't, I don't have a translation, but
• 1:10:45
  it was harsh when she was talking about
• 1:10:48
  Zelensky.
• 1:10:48
  And she did like a 15-minute, she
• 1:10:51
  was getting interviewed by somebody and some channel
• 1:10:54
  in Russia.
• 1:10:55
  And it was all about Zelensky and her
• 1:10:58
  thoughts on Zelensky and how, you know, he
• 1:11:00
  started out as a clown.
• 1:11:02
  He was a druggie, huge.
• 1:11:04
  He loved Russia, huge, for years and years
• 1:11:07
  and years, and talked all about his recruitment
• 1:11:09
  to be the face of Ukraine and how
• 1:11:14
  that went on, his lies about all of
• 1:11:17
  the election nonsense or the lack thereof.
• 1:11:25
  And boy, that was a harsh one.
• 1:11:27
  And I might have to share a little
• 1:11:29
  bit with you tomorrow on that because it
• 1:11:32
  was a good one.
• 1:11:32
  But there's another one where Trump says Zelensky's
• 1:11:35
  P.T. Barnum.
• 1:11:37
  So, U.S. President Trump made the remarks
• 1:11:41
  Tuesday while criticizing Joe Biden for providing unconditional
• 1:11:46
  military aid to Ukraine.
• 1:11:48
  In a post on True Social, Trump wrote,
• 1:11:51
  U.S. munition stockpiles have never been higher
• 1:11:54
  or better.
• 1:11:55
  Now, why in the world do you got
• 1:11:56
  to put that out?
• 1:11:58
  Why?
• 1:11:59
  Seriously, he's putting that out because everybody's saying
• 1:12:03
  that the U.S. doesn't have the capacity
• 1:12:05
  to continue this forever.
• 1:12:08
  So, no, no, no, we're great.
• 1:12:10
  Why?
• 1:12:11
  Why are you talking?
• 1:12:13
  Why respond with information that nobody needs to
• 1:12:17
  know?
• 1:12:18
  I don't understand this, that he must report
• 1:12:21
  every thought that he has.
• 1:12:23
  It's got to be put out there on
• 1:12:25
  True Social.
• 1:12:26
  Sleepy Joe, here's the next one.
• 1:12:29
  It's always about Biden.
• 1:12:31
  I don't understand this.
• 1:12:32
  Sleepy Joe Biden spent all of his time
• 1:12:35
  and our country's money giving everything to P
• 1:12:39
  .T. Barnum, Zelensky of Ukraine, hundreds of billions
• 1:12:43
  of dollars worth.
• 1:12:45
  And while he gave so much to of
• 1:12:48
  the super high end away free, he didn't
• 1:12:51
  bother to replace it.
• 1:12:52
  So first, he says we can go on
• 1:12:55
  forever.
• 1:12:55
  Then he says he didn't bother to replacement.
• 1:12:58
  Fortunately, I rebuilt the military in my first
• 1:13:01
  term and continue to do so.
• 1:13:04
  He rebuilt the military in his first term.
• 1:13:06
  But according to him, Sleepy Joe gave it
• 1:13:09
  all away.
• 1:13:11
  Right.
• 1:13:12
  Oh, my God.
• 1:13:13
  Look at this.
• 1:13:15
  Here we are talking about Lindsey Graham on
• 1:13:19
  March the third is going all the way
• 1:13:20
  back to 1979.
• 1:13:23
  And that's that's all that matters to him
• 1:13:25
  is 1970 guys.
• 1:13:26
  Oh, I shouldn't say stuff like that.
• 1:13:28
  I don't mean to.
• 1:13:30
  Anyway, Trump has previously dubbed Zelensky, the comedian,
• 1:13:33
  actor and TV producer, the greatest salesman on
• 1:13:36
  earth.
• 1:13:36
  Who knows how to convince people to open
• 1:13:38
  their wallets better than Barnum did.
• 1:13:42
  So that's funny.
• 1:13:46
  Spain.
• 1:13:47
  Well, I already told you about that.
• 1:13:49
  Oh, geez.
• 1:13:53
  Here's Serbia coming out, though.
• 1:13:55
  Serbia is no fan of this.
• 1:13:58
  Alexander Vukic in Ankara, Turkey.
• 1:14:02
  Let's see.
• 1:14:03
  European nations are facing hell over Iran war
• 1:14:08
  energy disruption.
• 1:14:11
  European nations are facing literal hell due to
• 1:14:14
  energy price surge caused by the Israel U
• 1:14:17
  .S. war with Iran, said Serbian President Alexander
• 1:14:21
  Vukic.
• 1:14:22
  Tehran's retaliation to the regime change military action
• 1:14:26
  launched on Saturday disrupted crude and LNG throughout
• 1:14:30
  the Straits of Hormuz, a critical maritime choke
• 1:14:33
  point with markets already in shock.
• 1:14:36
  Import dependent nations are on the brink of
• 1:14:40
  a major crisis.
• 1:14:42
  We are entering an impossible situation.
• 1:14:46
  If this continues, everyone in Europe will have
• 1:14:49
  a literal hell.
• 1:14:51
  Unless the Strait of Hormuz is opened, oil
• 1:14:54
  prices will kill us all.
• 1:14:56
  Belgrade is preparing to roll out fuel subsidies
• 1:15:01
  and is fortunate to have significant reserves, he
• 1:15:04
  said.
• 1:15:05
  Thousands of commercial ships are unable to transit
• 1:15:09
  the strait due to the hostilities.
• 1:15:12
  Iranian forces have threatened to attack any vessel
• 1:15:15
  attempting to cross and have struck several oil
• 1:15:18
  tankers.
• 1:15:19
  Tehran aims to raise the cost of the
• 1:15:23
  attack for the U.S. and its allies.
• 1:15:25
  The Americans, with debts of thousands of billions
• 1:15:28
  of dollars, it's actually trillions, are dependent on
• 1:15:31
  the region's oil.
• 1:15:32
  But they should know that not a drop
• 1:15:35
  of oil will reach them, said Ibrahim Jabari,
• 1:15:38
  commander of IRGC.
• 1:15:42
  U.S. President Trump announced on Tuesday that
• 1:15:46
  Washington intends to offer insurance at a very
• 1:15:49
  reasonable price.
• 1:15:51
  Yeah, that's going to help.
• 1:15:53
  Why don't I give you insurance if you're
• 1:15:55
  if you're afraid of dying?
• 1:15:57
  Well, you know, don't worry about that.
• 1:15:59
  We'll have insurance while the unfolding energy slump
• 1:16:03
  poses a global risk.
• 1:16:06
  U.S. allies in Europe are particularly vulnerable
• 1:16:09
  due to their politically motivated rejection of Russian
• 1:16:13
  supplies and reliance on LNG imports, including from
• 1:16:18
  Qatar.
• 1:16:19
  European gas reserves are depleted.
• 1:16:23
  Germany, the EU's largest consumer, began March with
• 1:16:27
  a storage at 27 percent of capacity compared
• 1:16:31
  to an average of 64 percent for this
• 1:16:34
  time of year since 2023, according to industry
• 1:16:38
  data.
• 1:16:40
  I think it's important to look at how
• 1:16:43
  the energy markets have responded.
• 1:16:47
  Yesterday, they say that oil jumped 15 percent,
• 1:16:53
  topped $84 a barrel.
• 1:16:56
  European gas has surged 30 percent.
• 1:17:00
  Energy markets have come under pressure.
• 1:17:03
  U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have
• 1:17:06
  prompted Tehran to retaliate with missile and drone
• 1:17:09
  strikes on Israel and U.S. bases.
• 1:17:12
  Iran has also targeted oil facilities.
• 1:17:16
  There was a big hit in Bahrain at
• 1:17:20
  the largest oil refinery.
• 1:17:23
  There was one in Qatar at the largest
• 1:17:26
  oil refinery.
• 1:17:27
  Saudi Arabia's largest oil refinery have all been
• 1:17:32
  struck, all of them.
• 1:17:34
  And they were hit because there aren't enough
• 1:17:37
  defense.
• 1:17:40
  Qatar said it had three, four days of
• 1:17:42
  defense.
• 1:17:44
  And by the way, all the Iranians have
• 1:17:47
  learned from the Russians in Ukraine what to
• 1:17:52
  do.
• 1:17:53
  And the nonsensical Zelensky goes out there and
• 1:17:58
  says, listen, Qatar and Saudi Arabia and all
• 1:18:02
  you guys down there, if you can talk
• 1:18:03
  Putin into giving us a ceasefire for 30
• 1:18:08
  days, I'll come down there with our guys
• 1:18:10
  and we'll protect you.
• 1:18:13
  We'll show you how to defeat the drones
• 1:18:16
  that Russia upgraded for Iran.
• 1:18:21
  All you got to do is, according to
• 1:18:24
  Zelensky, is get Russia to agree to a
• 1:18:27
  30-day ceasefire.
• 1:18:29
  The guy's a nut.
• 1:18:30
  He's in some kind of dream world.
• 1:18:33
  So is oil pricing in a wider war?
• 1:18:37
  Oil prices surged more than 15 percent, extending
• 1:18:42
  gains on Tuesday because it's getting worse.
• 1:18:45
  Brent crude topped $84 a barrel on Tuesday.
• 1:18:50
  I paid for gas yesterday and I was
• 1:18:53
  all excited about this for the last couple
• 1:18:56
  of months.
• 1:18:56
  I've been talking about the average price of
• 1:18:58
  gas being $2.69 or whatever.
• 1:19:04
  And every third, third, what you call it,
• 1:19:10
  I'll put in a premium, right?
• 1:19:13
  Premium's already at $3.89 or something to
• 1:19:17
  buy premium, depending on where you go.
• 1:19:20
  And to get a regular, it's full $3.
• 1:19:26
  It's gone up like 30, 40 cents.
• 1:19:29
  And so there you have it.
• 1:19:32
  So the highest level benchmark hit $82 the
• 1:19:35
  previous session.
• 1:19:37
  So this is the highest since 2024, mid
• 1:19:41
  -24.
• 1:19:42
  Traders are pricing in a significant risk premium
• 1:19:45
  amid concerns that escalating military action would grow.
• 1:19:48
  Analysts are warning prices will go higher than
• 1:19:51
  $90 a barrel if that waterway continues to
• 1:19:55
  be disrupted.
• 1:19:56
  Europe's gas shock natural gas prices have gone
• 1:20:00
  way up, $700 per thousand cubic meters, the
• 1:20:04
  highest since 2023.
• 1:20:06
  Spike follows Iran's retaliatory strikes on Qatari liquefaction
• 1:20:11
  facilities, prompting Qatar Energy, the world's third largest
• 1:20:15
  LNG exporter, to halt production entirely.
• 1:20:21
  With 20% of global LNG transiting the
• 1:20:25
  Strait of Hormuz and Qatar's export corridor with
• 1:20:29
  no bypass capacity, analysts warn a severe supply
• 1:20:34
  tightness.
• 1:20:35
  That doesn't do anything bad for America.
• 1:20:38
  That'll help us make some big money to
• 1:20:40
  fund our wars, right?
• 1:20:42
  Allegedly.
• 1:20:42
  But if we could get out of debt,
• 1:20:45
  but we'll go into further debt because all
• 1:20:49
  these missiles being taken out by Iran drones
• 1:20:52
  and that they're using, tell you what, those
• 1:20:56
  are multi-million dollars for each one fired.
• 1:21:02
  You know what we should look at?
• 1:21:04
  Let's look at, because we don't have a
• 1:21:06
  whole lot of time here remaining today.
• 1:21:09
  Let's go back and say how much money
• 1:21:15
  has been spent on missiles fired into
• 1:21:25
  Iran by the US?
• 1:21:30
  What does it cost?
• 1:21:32
  Let's see here.
• 1:21:33
  How much could the Iran war cost the
• 1:21:38
  United States?
• 1:21:39
  Here is what we know.
• 1:21:43
  Predicting the total cost of course is difficult,
• 1:21:46
  but 200 fighter jets, where are they going
• 1:21:50
  to get the fuel?
• 1:21:51
  Well, seriously, long running confrontation between the US
• 1:21:55
  and Iran entered a new phase Saturday.
• 1:21:58
  Trump signals that operations will last four to
• 1:22:01
  five weeks is what he says.
• 1:22:03
  That's nonsense.
• 1:22:05
  It'll go much longer than that.
• 1:22:06
  In my humble opinion, somebody can tell me
• 1:22:09
  I'm wrong later.
• 1:22:11
  On February 28, Trump confirmed an eight minute
• 1:22:14
  video posted on True Social that the US
• 1:22:17
  is in a major combat operation in Iran.
• 1:22:21
  Pentagon later said the mission, blah, blah, blah,
• 1:22:24
  to ensure that Iran does not obtain a
• 1:22:27
  nuclear weapon.
• 1:22:29
  That's it.
• 1:22:30
  We're going to destroy their missiles and raise
• 1:22:33
  their missile industry to the ground.
• 1:22:36
  It will be totally obliterated.
• 1:22:39
  The US military said it struck more than
• 1:22:41
  1250 targets in Iran since Saturday.
• 1:22:46
  In a separate statement, CENTCOM said it struck
• 1:22:49
  and destroyed 11 Iranian ships.
• 1:22:52
  There was also one I saw that was
• 1:22:54
  off of Sri Lanka was destroyed by a
• 1:22:57
  submarine.
• 1:22:58
  US sub took out an Iranian ship over
• 1:23:01
  there, allegedly.
• 1:23:03
  The operation reportedly involved airstrikes, sea launch cruise
• 1:23:06
  missiles, coordinated attacks on nuclear facilities, as well
• 1:23:09
  as on senior figures linked to Iran's defense.
• 1:23:13
  On Monday, Trump promised to pursue the war
• 1:23:16
  for as long as necessary, suggesting it will
• 1:23:19
  extend several weeks.
• 1:23:20
  On Monday, Iranian Red Crescent said that 555
• 1:23:24
  people killed in 130 locations.
• 1:23:26
  How much has the US already spent since
• 1:23:30
  2023 in the Middle East and Israel?
• 1:23:34
  According to Brown University 2025 Cost of War
• 1:23:38
  Report, since October 7, 2023, the day that
• 1:23:48
  Israel had that, the US has given Israel
• 1:23:52
  $21.7 billion in military aid.
• 1:23:58
  In addition, the American taxpayer has funded US
• 1:24:02
  operations in support of Israel in Yemen, Iran,
• 1:24:06
  and the wider Middle East of $9.65
• 1:24:09
  billion to $12.07 billion.
• 1:24:13
  That brings total US spending connected with the
• 1:24:16
  conflict to between $31.35 billion and $33
• 1:24:20
  .77 billion.
• 1:24:23
  Which weapons systems are being used in Iran?
• 1:24:27
  According to CENTCOM, Epic Fury involves more than
• 1:24:31
  20 weapons systems across air, sea, and land
• 1:24:34
  missile defenses.
• 1:24:35
  CENTCOM says more than 1,000 targets have
• 1:24:38
  been struck using more than 20 different systems.
• 1:24:40
  The focus of the US and Israel is
• 1:24:42
  now to blunt or degrade as quickly as
• 1:24:44
  they can the offensive capabilities of Iranians to
• 1:24:48
  keep wreaking havoc.
• 1:24:49
  You want to stop these attacks or at
• 1:24:51
  least diminish them as much as you can.
• 1:24:53
  I say, had you not attacked, they wouldn't
• 1:24:56
  have occurred.
• 1:24:57
  The Iranians have only fired back.
• 1:25:02
  That's it.
• 1:25:03
  You know, there wouldn't be any threat if
• 1:25:07
  you hadn't started the war.
• 1:25:10
  So the focus, you know, being to blunt
• 1:25:12
  them.
• 1:25:13
  Here we go.
• 1:25:13
  Campaign relied heavily on air assets.
• 1:25:17
  B-1 bombers, B-2 stealth bombers, F
• 1:25:20
  -35 Lightning II and F-22 Raptor, advanced
• 1:25:24
  stealth F-15 fighter jets.
• 1:25:26
  Three were lost in an incident over Kuwait.
• 1:25:29
  F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-18 Super Hornet,
• 1:25:33
  and A-10 attack jets all confirmed for
• 1:25:35
  strike and support roles.
• 1:25:36
  EA-18 Growlers used for electronic attack and
• 1:25:40
  suppressing enemy air defense.
• 1:25:42
  Airborne early warning and control aircraft for your
• 1:25:45
  AWACS providing command and battle.
• 1:25:48
  Drones and long-range strikes, unmanned Lucas drones.
• 1:25:52
  This operation marks first combat use of the
• 1:25:55
  low-cost unmanned combat attack system.
• 1:25:58
  One-way drones, reverse engineered from Iranian designs.
• 1:26:03
  So the US has stolen Iranian technology and
• 1:26:06
  is creating their own design for these Lucas
• 1:26:09
  drones.
• 1:26:09
  MQ-9 Reaper drones, active in surveillance and
• 1:26:13
  precision strikes.
• 1:26:14
  M-142 high mobility artillery rocket HIMARS.
• 1:26:19
  Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from naval assets.
• 1:26:22
  Patriot intercept missiles.
• 1:26:25
  And THAAD, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, used
• 1:26:30
  to intercept Iranian ballistic missiles and drones.
• 1:26:33
  And they are working very well, by the
• 1:26:35
  way.
• 1:26:35
  Two carrier strike groups led by the Gerald
• 1:26:38
  Ford and Abraham Lincoln providing massive sea-based
• 1:26:42
  power.
• 1:26:42
  P-8 Poseidons conducting maritime patrols.
• 1:26:45
  Cargo and tanker C-17 Globemaster, C-130
• 1:26:48
  Hercules, and various aerial refueling tankers maintaining logistics.
• 1:26:54
  How much it will cost.
• 1:26:56
  The Pentagon has not published that information, so
• 1:26:59
  we can only speculate.
• 1:27:01
  But there's a lot of moving pieces and
• 1:27:03
  we can speculate on the cost of the
• 1:27:06
  individual weapon.
• 1:27:08
  Reports by the Anadolu News Agency estimate that
• 1:27:14
  the US may have spent $779 million during
• 1:27:21
  the first 24 hours of Operation Epic Fury.
• 1:27:27
  The pre-strike military buildup, including repositioning aircraft,
• 1:27:32
  deploying a dozen naval vessels, and mobilizing regional
• 1:27:35
  assets, is reported to have cost an additional
• 1:27:39
  $630 million.
• 1:27:41
  According to the Center for New American Security,
• 1:27:44
  it costs approximately $6.5 million a day
• 1:27:49
  to operate a carrier strike group like the
• 1:27:53
  USS Gerald Ford.
• 1:27:56
  Gerald Ford is the newest United States aircraft
• 1:27:59
  carrier in the world's largest with more than
• 1:28:01
  5,000 sailors on board.
• 1:28:04
  And this has allegedly horrible sanitation problems because
• 1:28:09
  these guys haven't been home in over a
• 1:28:11
  year.
• 1:28:12
  And allegedly, they're sabotaging the own toilet networks
• 1:28:15
  and there are 45-minute lines to use
• 1:28:18
  the bathroom, was what was reported by that
• 1:28:20
  Rachel Blevins and company yesterday.
• 1:28:24
  So big time money being spent.
• 1:28:28
  Well, we're going to continue in this tomorrow.
• 1:28:31
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  24 hours a day, seven days per week.
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  Join me again tomorrow morning for the last
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  international flavor of the week.
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  7.30 to 9 tomorrow morning.
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  And I shall be continuing in this topic
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  and then Friday will be another version of
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  Civic Outlaws coming to you on the Friday
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  morning show.
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  I hope you have a very good day
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  today.
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  And coming up next is the damn swag.
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  I hope you enjoy it.
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  Have a very nice day.
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  See you tomorrow.