Ben Shapiro defines "America Lasters" as traitors siding with Iran, Russia, and China, citing Tehran's ballistic missile strikes on Diego Garcia and Dimona as proof of their deceptive threat narratives. He condemns figures like Tucker Carlson and Zhang Shekin for promoting conspiracy theories about secret societies enforcing a "Pax Judaica" while undermining U.S. hegemony. The host further attacks the Democratic shutdown of Homeland Security, labeling it blackmail over ICE funding, and contrasts this with Trump's celebration of Robert Mueller's death and the restoration of Christopher Columbus statues, arguing that abandoning American strength invites global tyranny. [Automatically generated summary]
Do you agree with Chinese dictators Xi Jinping and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin about the world?
Are you convinced that America ought to surrender its global power to a multipolar order?
If so, you might be a Quizling, a fifth columnist, an America Laster.
And there are plenty of them.
They've spent years lying about America, about our history, about our foreign policy, about our enemies, about our allies.
In the end, the only unifying feature of their bizarre amalgam of conspiracism and untruth is an agenda.
an agenda to reduce America's role in the world.
Today, we're going to talk about the America Lasters, the people who play defense for Iran and Russia and China, but who go on offense against the allies who fight alongside the United States.
What do these people want?
What is their actual agenda?
And why?
Why do they so despise America's dominant role in the world?
This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
To understand the America lasters, we first have to understand a basic reality.
They're liars.
They are lying about the nature of reality.
And they have to lie because their lies are the only path toward American defeat, particularly in the current conflict with Iran.
I've been telling you for weeks, those who most ardently oppose President Trump's action are at best misinformed.
And at worst, many of them are lying on behalf of the Iranian regime.
Their argument has been since the beginning that Iran was not a true threat to America or her interests, that President Trump was bamboozled into the war by lying, nefarious Israelis and domestic American voices.
Ooh, that all of this with regard to Iran is overblown, or even that Israel is the bad guy with regard to Iran.
Well, over the weekend, Iran blew that entire narrative up.
Over the weekend, Iran demonstrated full scale that all of their defenders were useful idiots or America Lasters.
The fools who claimed that Iran posed no threat beyond the immediate region, well, they were parroting Iranian lies.
Just a few weeks ago, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Arakhi, who is likely not long for this non-72 virgin world, announced that Iran had limited its own missile range to 2,000 kilometers.
That would be 1,200 miles.
That would make Iran a threat to the Middle East, but not to the heart of Europe.
Iran has always had a space launch program, which is flimsy cover for the first part of that intercontinental missile program.
I haven't seen any Iranian astronauts in space lately.
And second, they have medium-range ballistic missiles, which already have a re-entry vehicle.
So if you crudely married those two technologies together, I've heard some analysts say that Iran could have had a functioning intercontinental missile to threaten the United States in as few as six months.
Well, over the weekend, U.S. officials announced that Iran had launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, that is a joint U.S.-UK airbase in the Indian Ocean.
The missiles didn't hit the target.
Diego Garcia is 4,000 miles away.
So what does that mean?
Well, let's take a look at this map.
What you see here is a map of the area of 1,000-kilometer ballistic missile range.
That is the interior circle here.
And you see that it covers all of the Middle East.
It covers parts of India.
It goes into parts of Russia.
And then you see what the 2,000-kilometer range would look like.
And the answer is the entirety of Europe, like all of Europe.
If you're audio only just listening to this, the map shows virtually all of Europe in Iranian ballistic missile range based on the attempt to hit Diego Garcia airbase.
So the Iranians appear to have been lying, which is not a shock because they lie all the time, the Iranian government.
Just like they've been lying about their nuclear program and their terrorist support all over the region.
And, you know, everything else.
The Europeans apparently are within direct missile range.
So what would a world with a burgeoning Iranian nuclear program with intercontinental ballistic missile capacity look like?
Well, that is precisely the threat laid out by President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu over the course of the last several years.
They've already developed missiles that can threaten Europe and our bases overseas, and they're working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America.
You know, Iran talks about death to Israel, death to America.
They just see us as a stepping stone to getting to America with ICBMs, you know, long-range missiles that can be targeted on any American city with nuclear bombs.
So we're fighting our battle for sure.
We're fighting the free world's battle against the barbarians.
An Iranian regime armed with long-range missiles and nuclear weapons would be an intolerable threat to the Middle East, but also to the American people.
Now, again, we were told by the America Lasters that all of this was untrue.
That was all a lie.
And then, of course, the lie was put to their lie by the fact that there was, in fact, a long-range missile that was aimed at Diego Garcia, which is thousands of miles from Iranian territory.
Well, the Europeans, who are now apparently under the possibility of an Iranian missile umbrella, they appear to be doing, you know, as usual, not very much, because that's what Europeans do.
NATO head, Mark Rudy, keeps providing rhetorical support.
The good news is that these 32 countries are following the president's leads on making sure that we free up the strait of Hormuz.
Obviously, the military campaign is still ongoing, so that's why we are working now, these countries together and also with the U.S. to make sure that we assess what, when, and how we can do this.
Well, the European support, if it's going to kick in, it ought to kick into high gear now.
It seems we're already on the verge of the Arab world stepping in full scale.
The United Arab Emirates presidential advisor Anwar Gargash put out a statement over the weekend: quote: As we confront the brutal Iranian aggression and discover our steadfast strength in resilience and endurance, our thinking does not stop at a ceasefire, but rather toward the solutions that ensure lasting security in the Arabian Gulf.
Curbing the nuclear threat, missiles, drones, bullying of the straits, it's conceivable this aggression should turn into a permanent state of threat.
In other words, no more stopgap measures, no more kicking the can down the road.
Iran appears to be on its last legs.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besson appeared on Meet the Press over the weekend.
According to Axios, U.S. and Israeli intelligence think that the Gayatolla, Moshtaba Khomeini, might still be alive, but they really have no evidence that he is, according to Axios.
Quote, a U.S. official said it's beyond weird.
We don't think the Iranians would have gone through all this trouble to choose a dead guy as the supreme leader.
But at the same time, we have no proof he's taking the helm.
Two senior Israeli officials claim the Larajani assassination expanded the power vacuum and that it was being filled mainly by the IRGC.
That's the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The IRGC are taking over Iran and they are crazy, a senior Arab official told Daxios.
They are highly ideological and they are ready to die and meet Khomeini Sr.
Iran is in pretty serious trouble and they know it.
And that is why they are doing truly idiotic things, like not at any strategic level.
What they just did over the weekend is really stupid.
Firing a long-range missile that exposes their most far-reaching capacity is a dumb thing to do.
They know they are in trouble and they are throwing anything they can at the wall.
They are hurling spaghetti at the wall at this point.
Aside from firing new long-range missiles at American bases in the middle of the Indian Ocean, they also, over the weekend, fired a missile at the center of the old city of Jerusalem, which is where the Dome of the Rock is.
That is where the Al-Aqsa Mosque is where the Temple Mount is.
Here's footage of an Iranian missile fragment landing in the old city of Jerusalem.
I know exactly where this area is.
It's a highly trafficked area.
People walk in this area all the time.
And you can see the missile fragment blowing a gigantic hole basically in the road.
That's about 1,200 meters from the Temple Mount itself.
They are clearly trying to light the region on fire as a last resort.
They're setting the building on fire because they're hoping that the cops won't enter.
They also fired missiles at Dimona and Arad in Israel.
Those are civilian centers.
Presumably, they were trying to fire at Israel's nuclear reactor in Dimona.
They missed.
Instead, they hid an area between apartment buildings.
It wounded over 100 people in this, including children.
Here's some aerial footage of what the damage looked like.
Again, this is an ultra-Orthodox area.
And it was lucky that the missile didn't hit the building directly.
It actually hit between the buildings.
It did a lot of damage to people anyway who weren't in their mamads.
Those would be their safe rooms.
Killing civilians, firing long-range missiles, targeting religious holy sites, including Muslim religious holy sites.
None of this is the mark of a regime empowered and strengthened and in great shape in this war.
It is the mark of a regime on its way out.
In just a second, we'll get to Iran's only true point of leverage.
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So today in the mailbag, Sarah has found this one.
I saw news over the weekend of conflicting intelligence reports about ICBM development in Iran.
Apparently, Gabbard testified last year that they weren't developing them.
Well, Tulsi Gabbard, as DNI, let us just say that she has not been a boon.
So the problem with ODNI, Tulsi Gabbard, is that she has always been oriented very much in an isolationist, sort of quasi-anti-American direction when it comes to foreign policy.
And there have been serious questions about how she shades the intelligence.
The way that we examine our intelligence information, a bunch of raw information comes into our intelligence apparatus.
And then how you analyze that information is sort of a choose your own adventure game.
So you'll hear CIA Director John Ratcliffe say things.
And then you will hear Tulsi Gabbard, who is the DNI theoretically overseeing the CIA, and they will say two different things.
So the question is to whether they are quote unquote developing ICBMs.
The question is not really how fast are they?
What are they?
The question is, could they and what is their intent?
And that's difficult to discern based on the raw intelligence.
And so that's why you can have two intelligence officials in the same exact administration saying two things that appear to be in direct conflict.
Okay, so let's talk about the only hope for Iran.
The only hope left for Iran is that the West gets tired.
And their only true point of leverage remains oil prices, which means really the Strait of Hormuz.
President Trump knows that.
He's pretty much done with it.
That's why Sunday evening he put out the following tweet, quote, peace through strength, to put it mildly.
That was on Truth Social.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says we are already moving to destroy fortifications along the Strait of Hormuz.
Again, if you look at sort of a map of the Strait of Hormuz, it kind of looks like this.
Well, the sort of northern point of that spear right there on the Iranian shore, that is the territory that Iran has to hold in order to fire drones at shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
The United States has been expending resources blowing that stuff out of the ground.
Well, over the weekend, President Trump pulled out the stops rhetorically.
He made a threat on Saturday that basically sent the markets into a tizzy.
He said, quote, if Iran doesn't fully open without threat, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 hours from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various power plants, starting with the biggest one first.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Trump.
UN Ambassador Mike Walls on the Sunday shows made clear that President Trump was not joking.
Here's what he had to say on CBS with Margaret Brennan.
Well, I think I would encourage and will encourage the Secretary General to point out the 20 to 30,000 Iranians that the regime massacred at scale, the civilian infrastructure that they're attacking.
But when you have a regime that has its grips and so much critical infrastructure that's using it to further not only the repression of its own people, to attack its neighbors, and in contravention of UN sanctions, to march towards a nuclear weapon, then that makes those legitimate targets.
Well, Walls also added that this was in fact a credible threat that when President Trump says we'll bomb their power plants, he was not joking about this.
Well, I would never take anything off the table for the president, certainly not on national television.
However, there are larger plants.
There's one outside of Tehran.
There are others outside of other cities that are gas-fired, thermal-powered.
I think the important point here is to understand the IRGC, a declared terrorist organization, not only by us, but a number of European countries, controls a huge swath of Iran's critical infrastructure, their economy, and certainly many of their governing institutions.
And so to the extent we're degrading their military capability and their defense industrial base, all options should be on the table.
Even Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, who is hoping for the overthrow of the regime, clearly, came out against that measure, given it would chiefly affect the Iranian people rather than the regime in his mind.
Well, in response, Iran is both pretending that the strait is currently opening and also threatening retaliation for any action against Iranian power plans.
Mazoud Pazeshkian, who is walking around with an eye on the sky these days, he says the illusion of erasing Iran from the map shows desperation against the will of a history-making nation.
By the way, nobody is talking about erasing Iran from the map.
They're talking about the fall of a regime that has terrorized 80 to 90 million people for two generations at this point.
Threats and terror only strengthen our unity, says Pazeshkian.
The Strait of Hormuz is open to all except those who violate our soil.
We firmly confront delirious threats on the battlefield.
Right now, Iran is trying to charge people $2 million apiece to transit the Strait of Hormuz.
Abbas Iraqi, the foreign minister, he put out a statement, quote, Strait of Hormuz is not closed.
Ships hesitate because insurers fear the war of choice you initiated, not Iran.
Well, actually, they hesitate because they're afraid that Iran is going to hit their ships with drones.
No insurer and no Iranian will be swayed by more threats.
Try respect, says Iraqi.
Freedom of navigation cannot exist without freedom of trade.
Respect both or expect neither.
Well, now, Iran is also threatening to hit other infrastructure in other countries.
In the Middle East, they're threatening to hit energy fields and desalination facilities.
The truth is, of course, they've already been hitting infrastructure throughout the Middle East throughout this war.
Here's a mere partial list of resources hit by Iran during the current conflict.
They hit the Aramco complex at Raz Tanura.
They hit the Ras Lafan LNG complex, that would be liquefied natural gas complex in Qatar.
They hit the Havshan gas facility and Bab onshore oil facility in UAE.
They hit a water desalination facility in Bahrain.
Well, as it turns out, the Iranian regime may be talking tough while negotiating their own disarmament with President Trump.
On Monday morning, President Trump put out a statement suggesting, quote, all outstanding issues were close to being resolved with Iran through back-channel negotiations.
He put out this statement, quote, all caps, I am pleased to report that the United States of America and the country of Iran have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East.
Based on the tenor and tone of these in-depth, detailed, and constructive conversations, which will continue throughout the week, I've instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Now, again, he is only pledging that there will be no hits on the power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period.
All the rest of the strikes will continue.
So it could have been that President Trump's original statement that came out again Saturday morning on power stations may have been a negotiating tactic to up the ante.
So what would a negotiated outcome look like?
Well, according to Barack Ravid over at Axios, the administration has set out six terms.
One, no missile program for five years.
Two, zero uranium enrichment.
Three, decommissioning the nuclear reactors at Natan's Isfahan and Fordau.
Four, strict outside observation protocols around centrifuges.
Five, arms control treaties with regional countries, including a missile cap of 1,000.
And six, no financing of proxies.
Now, I will admit, to me, this sounds fanciful.
Iran is currently saying that they want a permanent ceasefire, right?
A commitment never to renew attacks and also reparations for damage done.
Like we're going to pay them.
And they've said repeatedly in the past they will not commit to ending their nuclear program.
And I will say that these conditions appear under-inclusive on their face.
There are other nuclear facilities outside of Natan's, Isfahan, and Fordau, including, for example, Pickaxe Mountain.
It would require American inspectors on the ground to truly ensure centrifuge monitoring and arms control monitoring as well.
Like, who's actually going to testify that Iran is keeping its commitments?
And if anyone believes the Iranian government is going to be bound by some sort of arms control treaty, including a missile cap of 1,000, that sounds, again, delusional to me.
Iran has already fired approximately 600 missiles in the last three weeks.
And again, their entire strategy relies on being able to overpower air defenses because the vast majority of those have been shot down.
Well, as of this morning, the Iranian foreign ministry was denying negotiations altogether.
So while the president is saying the negotiations are ongoing, the Iranian foreign ministry is saying that's not true.
So you have to decide who to believe.
They're claiming they backed President Trump down, which seems doubtful.
Quote, we deny the statements of U.S. President Donald Trump regarding the negotiations taking place between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Islamic Republic of Iran maintains its positions against any negotiation before Iran achieves its war objectives.
Now, my sources suggest the negotiations have, in fact, been taking place.
The Iranians claiming that the negotiations are not taking place and that they back Trump off the ball.
That seems like an unwise approach.
Now, there are some other possibilities here.
It is possible that President Trump is announcing diplomatic efforts in order to show the American people that he's availing himself of all options.
So if he has to go even harder, they'll understand he tried to talk this through with the Iranians before we went really, really hard.
So say before we take Harg Island, he's showing we tried to talk it through and then we had to do what we had to do.
And the most likely reality, of course, is that President Trump put out the statement because he wants to signal to the markets that there will be an end to the war at some point in the fairly near future, and he wants the price of oil to drop.
After all, this is exactly what happened last week.
You remember, Israel struck an Iranian gas field, South Pars, and America did approve of it.
And then the price of oil spiked.
And so President Trump said the Israelis did it on their own and that this wouldn't happen again.
And then the price went down again.
Well, the same thing happened right here.
Immediately upon announcing the postponement of those strikes on energy plants, the price of Brent crude dropped from near $110 a barrel to below $100 a barrel.
This is the balancing act the administration is trying to play here.
They want the Iranian regime to be defenestrated.
At the same time, they want to keep the oil prices as low as possible in order to maintain public support for the action.
The Trump administration understands the American people will keep supporting what has to be done in Iran so long as it doesn't hit them too hard in the pocketbook.
That would be the point, for example, of relieving certain sanctions in order to press down the oil prices.
Because right now, the United States is talking about, believe it or not, relieving Iranian oil sanctions in order to allow them to ship oil out, continue to ship oil out, and keep the price of oil down.
Here was Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, explaining the sanctions calculus to Kristen Welker and NBC.
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If the point of the sanctions was to stop funding the Russian war machine, why is the administration effectively rewarding Russia?
Does Russia get more money if oil goes to 150 and they get 70% of that?
That's 105, or if oil stays below 100, so they're getting less money.
Our analysis shows, our analysis shows that the maximum extra amount that Russia could get would be $2 billion, which is one day of the Russian Federation's budget.
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But understood, but they wouldn't have gotten any of that within the US.
Okay, so again, the Treasury Secretary is good at this.
From the outside, I have to say this looks like a hard strategy to pull off.
Every time the administration backs away from hard power in favor of some sort of temporary expedient on oil and gas prices, presumably that embolds the Iranian regime to lever up the economic pain.
If they feel like that is their leverage point, they will use it.
Or it's possible that the people in the know, in the Trump administration or in Israel, know something that we don't, that Iran militarily is on its last legs.
So it actually doesn't matter very much what they do, that if they have a little bit of extra money, that's not going to save them.
So if we can keep the price of oil down while finishing them off, maybe that is the best possible solution.
Meanwhile, there is hiding just out of sight the 800-pound guerrilla in the room, and that is the Iranian people.
What happens when the people of Iran take to the streets in the aftermath of all this damage to the Iranian regime?
Because make no mistake, that is going to happen.
If Iranians took to the streets by the millions before all of this, in the face of the IRGC and Basij, killing them by the tens of thousands, what happens after the United States and Israel have killed all of Iran's top brass and they're hitting all of the field commanders of the Basij in the streets with individual suicide drones?
Well, here's U.S. NCOM Chief Brad Cooper talking to the Iranian people saying, don't go yet.
Well, the range of outcomes runs from the pretty good to the excellent.
Iran's missile and drone capabilities have already been largely destroyed.
Its Air Force and its Navy are no longer existent.
Its top regime figures are all dead.
Even if the U.S. were to walk away right now, Iran would be so much weaker than they were even one month ago.
But the best outcome, in my opinion, is still on the table.
Keep slamming them.
I think we ought to cut off their oil supply entirely by taking Kharg Island.
Reopen the Strait of Hormuz by wreaking havoc on the coastal areas surrounding the strait.
Continue to destroy Iran's military hierarchy.
Open the way for a true domestic uprising.
Sure, Iran could theoretically lash out in its death rows still further.
Over the weekend, they apparently initiated, they activated some sort of terrorist cell in London to burn some Hatzalah vans.
Hatzalah is a Jewish emergency medical services group.
So they activated one of their terror cells to burn some cars.
The solution is not to leave the Iranian government in place to do all of this with greater power in the future to develop more missiles to redevelop its nuclear program when President Trump is not in the White House.
That would be like arguing we ought not put down a rabid dog because, hey, it might bite us, ignoring the fact that if you leave the rabbit dog alone, that's going to lead to a far greater spread of rabidity and far more damage.
Well, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, I think, had an excellent take on all of this in short form on the all-in podcast.
So why should we be optimistic about a positive outcome in Iran?
Because again, if you flip the table, assume for a second that Iran had been hitting the United States to the tune of killing the president, killing the vice president, killing our entire military infrastructure, destroying our entire missile arsenal, destroying our Air Force and our Navy, and we had basically been relegated to shutting off some of the waterways.
Would that be a win or would that be an L?
The reality is that three weeks of heavy bombing runs, completely unfettered by anything like an Iranian air defense, is not a win for Iran.
And what happens next over the course of the next couple of years is going to tell the rest of the story.
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So do you think there's any chance that the conflict in the Middle East will ultimately result in full-scale war over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem?
Iran, I think, would love nothing better at this point than to blow up al-Aqsa from the outside, blame Israel for it, claim that Israel is going to build the third temple on that territory, and that now all the Muslims all over the Middle East must side with Iran.
I think that was their actual goal in firing missiles at the, I mean, this is insane.
What they're trying to do right now is totally, totally crazy.
But do I think they're going to succeed in that?
No.
Do I think the Israeli government knows what they're trying to do?
Yes.
Do I think the Saudi government knows what they're trying to do?
Yes.
The reality is everyone in the region is now allied.
Everyone is now allied against Iran.
There are rumors over the weekend that the Qataris are doing what they do best, trying to bribe the Iranians, like trying to pay them billions of dollars to allow some shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
And there's some people playing both sides in the Middle East.
But overall, do I think that that is a likelihood or even really a possibility?
I do not.
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How can the Iranian people rise up as long as they don't have guns?
And if we're destroying all of Iran's military capacity, where will a hopefully secular new government get their guns from?
And I think the answer right now is nobody kind of knows who has guns, who doesn't, and what's going to happen next.
So you would presume that there would have to be some storming of some arsenals.
We know they're limited weapons.
There are some guns.
We just don't know who has them or how many.
There are the outlying areas.
Again, over the weekend, the New York Times reported that the United States has fallen out of love with the idea of Iranian Kurds leading an armed rebellion in the Kurdish region of Iran.
We know they have guns.
So we will see.
We'll see how that plays out.
However, I think one of the moves here would be don't disband, for example, the Iranian army.
Get rid of the IRGC and the Basij.
Those are the ideological repression machines inside Iran.
The Iranian army is devised for the defense of Iran.
They are significantly more moderate, supposedly, than the IRGC or the Basij, which is why the IRGC and the Basij exist.
So, it's sort of the difference between, say, the German army officers in 1932 versus some of the paramilitary groups that were run by the Nazi Party.
So, that's sort of the analogy here.
So, those people presumably would not go home.
They would continue to do policing functions, for example.
Okay, so Chen Sen Huang over at NVIDIA is right.
The world will be far better off for what President Trump is doing right now.
Because it turns out that what we are doing right now is not just destroying Iran's forward capacity.
We are also reshuffling the deck with regard to global power.
We are telling the Chinese that we are unwilling to allow for their global domination or for the rise of a sphere of influence.
We are telling the Russians that we do not wish for them to continue to have massive impact in the Middle East.
A world in which the United States acts as an unchallengeable global hegemon is better.
It is better than a world of multipolarity.
Multipolarity is an anodyne term for a world in which the tyrannical, evil communist Chinese party flexes its muscles over a large part of the globe, and the tyrannical and evil Russian government does the same in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
Multipolarity is bad.
It is not morally neutral.
It is bad because what it means practically is that China controls a lot more territory and Russia controls a lot more territory.
And China threatens our allies and Russia threatens our allies.
The chief advocates for multipolarity, unsurprisingly, at this point in time, are the Chinese and the Russians.
So, Xi, the dictator of China, explained in 2024 he sought, quote, an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization.
And what does he mean by that?
That's fancy talk for we want more power.
We want our sphere of influence.
And when they say they want equal rights, the hell they do.
They don't want Taiwan to have equal rights.
They certainly didn't want Hong Kong to have equal rights.
Vladimir Putin visited China and said in 2025, he totally mirrored Xi, he said, quote, a unipolar world is unfair.
You see, it's unfair if Russia doesn't get its own sphere of influence.
Again, this has been a long time Russian belief.
Alexander Dugan, who's sort of Putin's brain, has explained this.
I've done full episodes exploring what Dugan thinks.
He says that the Russian ambition in the world cannot be territorial.
It has to be imperial.
That basically it can't just be Russia rules its own roost.
It has to be that Russia seeks power all the way out to the Atlantic Ocean, which means domination of Europe.
Putin said, quote, it's obvious the world must be multipolar, which means that the actors of international communication and international relations must be equal.
There must be no one more equal than the others.
A unipolar world must cease to exist.
Now, again, recognize this is the Russian government that just invaded Ukraine and seeks to turn it into a vassal state.
Now, members of the grievance party, the America Lasters, people who actually really do despise America's history and her present, are openly siding with China and Russia, just as they have with Iran in the current conflict.
Tucker Carlson, who has been openly identified by Dugan as an ideological ally, recently told this to The Economist.
In many ways, the United States cannot compete with China, certainly on manufacturing production across a wide range of industries, can't compete with China in a wide range of diplomatic areas.
And this is very disruptive, probably would be intrinsically disruptive because this is a change of power and a change of the international order.
And I think we all feel that it's not a temporary phenomenon, but really the end of the U.S.-led geopolitics and even more fundamentally, the end of the Western-led geopolitics.
What I would do is basically sit down everyone, okay, including Russia, China, Iran, and say, it's time for a new world order where we are partners in this relationship, right?
Before America was a hegemon, before the U.S. father was the world reserve currency.
But now what we want to do is open a dialogue where everyone is respected, where America is no longer the bully, but a willing partner in creating a new economic order that benefits everyone and not just a few.
So Israel is the tiny country in the Middle East is standing, not the United States, Israel, because Israel, of course, is the one that's blackmailing America into not giving up its global power.
And you should recognize that what he is talking about right there, Tucker with Zhang, what he is talking about right there is what you might call a new world order.
You might call it that.
Literally a partnership between the United States, China, and Russia to restructure global economics to quote unquote not benefit a few.
That's what that is.
If you don't find that alarming, it's because you are full-scale ignoring what Tucker Carlson is saying and what Zhang is saying right there.
Again, Zhang is a Chinese Communist Party propagandist.
We should talk about Zhang for just a moment, because to understand why the America Lasters seem to have such unique power in the online space, we have to understand that the America Last philosophy is rooted in a deep conspiracism about the United States.
See, here's the thing.
To the untrained eye, the eye of a normie American who grew up in America, who loves America, who was born in America, a world with more American power is a better world, a freer world, a more prosperous world.
That untrained eye, when I say untrained, I mean non-conspiratorial eye, might look at the increase of power of America since World War II and see overall unprecedented, unprecedented economic prosperity, the defeat of the Nazi Empire and the Soviet Union, the spread of democratic values, the spread of economic freedom.
America Lasters, though, see something else.
And again, they are both of left and of right.
On the left, they see a worse world since World War II, a world of evil American capitalism destroying local communities of quote-unquote racist military might, overwhelming people of color everywhere.
The story of the world since World War II in the left-wing America last vision is a world of unending tragedy, the failure of the Marxist dream of the Soviet Union, the collapse of a fairer vision to the reality of free markets, the emptying out of left-wing thought in favor of neoliberalism.
Well, on the right, the America Lasters see a worse world since World War II as well.
A world of evil American capitalism, emptying out the communitarian world of real America.
A world of American imperialism spreading vile secularism abroad.
A world of false meritocracy providing cover for an emptying out of so-called heritage Americanism, decided by bloodline rather than American ideals.
Those are ideals that they consider a sham and a ruse.
This would be why America Lasters are fully in favor of the destruction of American power abroad.
But to destroy American power, first you have to change American minds.
To do that, you have to explain that a world of increased American power is actually terrible, darker, more evil.
And to make that claim, you have to believe a bunch of conspiracies.
You have to believe that American meritocracy is actually a lie, that the Declaration of Independence is a lie, that in reality, America is run by a secret coterie of evildoers who manipulate systems and events for their own specific insular benefit.
So, you know, that prophet Tucker was talking to Zhang.
Here he was explaining his views on America in a recent interview with fellow America Lass hosts over at a podcast called Breaking Points.
That is why Tucker likes the Chinese communist propagandas.
Now, again, Zhang believes that this big conspiracy ends with wait for it, wait for it, wait for it.
I know you won't believe it.
Pax Judaica, in which secret societies based in Jerusalem run the world.
Again, he's speaking basically on behalf of the Chinese communist government, which is right now controlling a billion people and trying also to grab hold of Taiwan and threaten American interests not only in the region, but across the world.
Now, there is a legend that Adam Washaught, when he created, after he created the Illuminati, he encouraged his followers to infiltrate another organization called the Freemasons.
He's right on the 100 members of European society.
These are intellectuals like Goethe.
These were nobility.
These were bankers.
And so this is the framework that controls the world.
The Illuminati was able to penetrate the Freemasons.
So now you have an alliance of the Jesuits, the Jews, the September Frankists, the Catholics, and the Freemasons.
Well, unsurprisingly, Joe now seems to find the views of the America Lasters convincing.
It turns out, if you believe enough nonsensical theories about the evil societies that secretly run America, you end up wanting America because it's run by a secret evil society to reduce its global influence.
Now, this phenomenon is present on the right in the form of that grievance party, but it's mainstream on the left, where people like Hassan Piker are welcomed into the highest circles of democratic politics.
Hassan Piker, who again holds hands with people like Tucker Carlson when it comes to foreign policy, spent his weekend when he wasn't bloviating about the evils of America attempting to defenestrate the mullahs, giving sensual massages to the Cuban communist government while wearing, I kid you not, $1,500 designer Cartier glasses.
The average annual salary in Cuba is currently $156.
So he's doing great.
He was in Cuba with the morons over at Code Pink, again, another foreign front group, doing some true poverty tourism.
They held a big concert, Code Pink, over in Havana with kneecap.
And apparently, by the way, the power that was utilized for this concert did not go to local hospitals.
Hassan Piker is also staying at a five-star hotel in Cuba, which he says is his moral duty.
Well, just to prove the point that third worldism is a philosophy of envy and evil, these moral derelicts, again, spent their time on the impoverished island complaining about Israel during a kneecap concert.
So they're there with a government that represses its own people, keeps them in abject poverty.
Again, $156 in salary a year.
But they're there to chant about freeing Palestine with kneecap.
Third world is a man.
It's a thing.
Well, it's no shock that all these figures on all sides of the American last movement are radically anti-Israel because Israel actually is a powerful ally acting in concert with the United States.
Israel has spent decades building its military power, sharing intelligence and tech with the U.S., destroying incipient threats to the West, from the Iraqi nuclear reactor back in the 80s to the Syrian nuclear reactor in the mid-2000s to Iranian proxies and now the Iranian government.
And all these people despise Israel for it.
Hassan Piker, Tucker Carlson, and propagandists for the Chinese government, all on precisely the same page.
How little must you think of America to believe that those governments, China and Russia, ought to have more influence in the world and that this would somehow be better for the world and America?
American hegemony is the best thing for the world.
It is we who keep the trade routes open, ensuring freedom of the seas and the trade that provides the lifeblood of the global economy.
It is we who stand down the world's most evil regimes, achieving the world's most dangerous weapons.
It is we who support the rise of allies who share our values.
It is we who prevent the spread of perverse, cancerous power emanating from imperialist tyrants of communist and fascist persuasion.
The alternative world, the one that the America Lasters want, is dominated by the same people who ran the one child program and who currently throw dissidents in concentration camps to linger and die like Jimmy Lai.
A world run by people who currently chuck their political opponents from the roofs of buildings or poison them with nuclear materials, as the Russians have done, while allying with regimes that murder people who oppose radical Islam and supporting radical Islamic terror all over the world.
No American should be indifferent to the rise of our enemies globally.
Well, meanwhile, closer to home, the Democratic shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security continues to wreak havoc with our travel system.
Here's some footage of two to three hour lines at the Atlanta airport over the weekend.
Again, this is not the actual, this is not like lines to get on the planes.
These are the lines to get to security.
I mean, look at those lines.
They're just astonishing lines.
And again, this is because Democrats just won't fund the Department of Homeland Security.
Craziness.
Well, Elon Musk actually offered to pay TSA salary.
He said, I'd like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country.
Democrats, however, are perfectly happy with keeping people miserable in their travel lives.
Schumer's new gambit is he's only going to threaten to fully fund TSA, but not the rest of ICE, not DHS.
He says Republican senators will be forced on the record they can either vote to fund TSA for good or be fully responsible for its continued shutdown.
So basically, he now wants to blackmail the American people by saying he will not fund TSA unless he is able to defund ICE.
So the White House has responded by saying, well, why don't we just go get ICE agents to do TSA's job?
I know there are a lot of people freaking out about this.
I'm just going to point out.
I mean, listen, we've all been through TSA a thousand times at this point.
Do we really think that ICE agents are incapable of doing TSA's job?
That stellar, stellar job training over at TSA?
That is something that ICE agents just cannot handle.
I mean, we have the same policies in place we had during Obama and Biden and Clinton and Bush one and Bush two.
So the policies really hasn't changed.
It's the execution of those policies that we're talking about.
And look, we're having good conversations, but more conversations need to be had because we certainly can't surrender ISA's authorities and their congressionally mandated jobs.
So we're having no discussions.
It's really about policy execution more than policy.
It is the Democrats who are stopping this from happening.
And meanwhile, there was a bad headline for the Trump administration over the weekend.
President Trump is busily winning one of the great victories in American history, I believe, in Iran.
It's reshaping the world map.
That's why what he was doing over the weekend, slamming Robert Mueller after Mueller's death, is wrong and morally foolish and also wildly counterproductive.
So Robert Mueller, of course, was the man who was in charge of the Mueller report.
That was the Russiagate investigation that was a complete dud and a waste of time.
Trump put out a statement on Truth Social, quote, Robert Mueller just died.
Over the weekend, the White House installed a new statue of Christopher Columbus using pieces of a monument destroyed by rioters in Baltimore in the BLM fever of 2020.
You remember this?
In Baltimore, they knocked over a big statue of Columbus and shattered it, and then they dumped it into the Baltimore Inner Harbor.
So the Trump administration retrieved some of the pieces and had the new statue commissioned and built.
And it is installed outside the Eisenhower executive building is what it looks like.
Now, you remember that when the statue was torn down in 2020, the Baltimore then mayor, a guy named Jack Young, said the monument, quote, may represent different things to different people.
He said, we understand the dynamics that are playing out in Baltimore are part of a national narrative.
Well, that national narrative was stupid.
I am glad that national narrative is over.
Christopher Columbus is, in fact, a hero of a Western civilization.
And it is a good thing that Western civilization came to the Americas.
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