Trump Plans INVASION of Iran, Military Draft & World War 3 FEARED
Tim Pool analyzes U.S. plans to occupy Karg Island in Iran to secure the Strait of Hormuz, dismissing viral draft fears as largely AI-generated panic while acknowledging the physical possibility if escalation occurs. He highlights Israel's strike on a natural gas field and Iran's threats against civilians, noting the lack of a clear casus belli complicates domestic support compared to Iraq or Afghanistan. Ultimately, Pool warns that ground troop deployment could fracture Republican midterm support, drawing parallels to pre-WWI alliances and suggesting current global tensions in Ukraine, Venezuela, and the Taiwan Strait risk triggering World War III. [Automatically generated summary]
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Iran escalates.
The U.S. is now preparing a plan in which they would occupy Karg Island.
This would be boots on the ground in Iran.
While this is not the main body of Iran and would not have an impact on occupying the country, it is still occupying an island controlled by Iran for the purpose of forcing them to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
Now, let me just stop the more esoteric of this conversation and start here.
Israel has stated that if we want regime change in Iran, we will need boots on the ground.
And I explicitly warned of this weeks ago, that if we go into Iran, if we are doing a bombing campaign, you will not get regime change unless you have boots on the ground because, I'm sorry, but bombers and fighters can't occupy street corners.
And Iran is a mountainous country with 90 plus million people who are not going to just abandon their ideology.
While the United States and Israel have flattened the leadership and wiped out many people, that is not how you're going to bring about regime change.
Now we are fearing boots on the ground and it's looking like it may escalate to the point we remain optimistic that it does not get that far.
But that being said, fears of a military draft are going nuts on social media, largely fueled by leftists and anti-Trump personalities and fake news to trick young people into thinking that Trump wants to draft you and send you to Iran.
Not going to happen.
Now, that being said, there's always a possibility because we're not talking about crackpot conspiracies like the moon is made of cheese.
I mean, drafts exist.
It is possible this happens.
But the information surrounding this is coming from AI generated polls.
What?
Posted by MS Now, what?
And a fake news meme going around to freak people out.
So I would just say to the young people who find their way to this video, guys, chill out.
We are nowhere near that level.
We have a military.
We don't need to draft people, especially not for whatever it is that's going on in Iran.
Now, several U.S. allies have committed to a coalition to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
And this is a territory just south of Iran in the Gulf region, this body of water, where 20% of the world's natural gas and oil flows through.
To prevent mass disruptions of the global economy, Donald Trump and our allies in the United States of the United States are seeking to find ways to keep that straight open as Iran is threatening and has reportedly already mined the strait.
Several ships have been shutting off their transponders to try and get through this 20-mile wide passage, but Iran is threatening to take them down.
Things are getting spicy, my friends.
Israel bombed a natural gas field.
Then Iran responded by bombing a Qatari natural gas field.
And this threatens to drive up energy costs around the world.
And the American people will feel it if we do not get a handle on this very, very quickly.
Setting politics aside.
You can support Trump or oppose Trump.
Facing this head on is the most important thing anyone can do.
If you want the Democrats to win, fine.
You better understand what's happening lest you get something wrong and Trump pulls out victorious in this, lowering prices.
At the same time, Republicans are adamant that they're enjoying massive support for this.
And while they are in the Republican Party, moderates are breaking.
And if you do not face that, you will have a shortfall come this midterm.
The prediction markets are already saying the Republicans are going to lose this house.
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Here's a story from The Guardian.
U.S. considering occupying Karg Island to force Iran to open Hormuz Strait.
Say reports.
Trump is claimed to be weighing up a change of heart over boots on the ground as Iran says it will hunt down U.S. and Israeli officials.
Now, my friends, I know many of you already know this, but bear with me for those that are unfamiliar because this is the goal we have here, to make sure you all understand what is going on in this war so that you can vote effectively come November and make the proper decisions.
What we have here, my friends, is Iran to its west, Iraq, to its east, Afghanistan.
The U.S., of course, for a long time occupied these countries.
We then have the Persian Gulf, where you have the Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia with access to ship oil and natural gas out of the Gulf through the Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman, and then into the Arabian Sea, and of course, out into the rest of the world.
You even have on the other side of Saudi Arabia, a lot of this oil makes its way through the Red Sea into the Mediterranean to help fuel Europe.
But 20% of oil and natural gas are flowing through this strait.
Now, as you can see, Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, which of course you've got split between to itself, the Emirates and Oman.
Iran is threatening to destroy ships that try and go through this strait.
They are saying it's our way or the highway.
Donald Trump wants that straight open and wants oil and natural gas to flow so that your prices don't go up.
and we don't see a disruption of the global economy.
Now, over here to the west of the Persian Gulf, you can see Karg Island or Kark, as it's called on Google Earth.
I'm sorry, Kark is the city and Karg is the island.
The plan for boots on the ground would be to occupy just this island to keep oil and energy flowing and to force Iran to keep this straight open.
This way, your prices don't go nuts.
Now, I'm going to add to this real quick before we jump over to the official reporting and we'll fly over to Venezuela, which you can see is just right here.
I surmise, and I think it's a fair assessment, that the reason the U.S. went in and removed Maduro was to secure our oil assets, which had been seized in 2009 by the Chavez regime.
Donald Trump knew we were going into Iran.
I do not believe for a second they were unprepared for this.
And the move made against Venezuela was to make sure we had oil flowing and natural gas around the world, because if we lost control of the Gulf and 20% got hit, and then Venezuela also was controlling this oil, we would be in deep trouble.
The U.S. seized those oil assets back, which were taken back in 2009, so the flow could at least remain somewhat stable.
There's a lot going on in the world today, my friends, of which these only are a small part.
And that's why many people actually are entertaining the possibility of a military draft.
Carolyn Levitt was asked, is a draft on the table?
And she said the president will not take anything off the table.
But I'm just going to pause right now and say this.
It's certainly possible.
It is in the realm of physical possibility, but I do not see it as being anywhere near probable.
The Guardian reports, the U.S. is reportedly considering plans to occupy or blockade Iran's Karg Island to pressure Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, despite earlier suggestions by Donald Trump that he was not leaning towards putting boots on the ground.
The claims made on the Axios website followed previous reporting that the U.S. was considering occupying the key Iranian oil terminal.
The report emerged as Iran's military threatened it would hunt down officials and military commanders from the United States and Israel wherever it could find them in the world.
We are watching your cowardly officials and commanders, pilots and wicked soldiers.
From now on, based on the information we have on you, the promenades, resorts and tourists and entertainment centers in the world will not be safe.
I would like to stress that is an overt threat of terrorism, mind you.
Now, I understand that war is insane and civilians take damage, die.
There's collateral damage, injuries, etc.
The point is we always condemn the intentional strikes on civilians, be it Trump or Obama or anybody else.
And if it is true that the U.S. intentionally blew up this school with a tomahawk missile, there must be accountability.
We are the good guys, my friends.
We do not tolerate these kinds of actions.
That being said, Iran is explicitly threatening to target civilians.
That is wrong.
And we got this, my friends, from the Daily Mail.
Similar reporting that Trump is considering ordering U.S. troops to seize or blockade Iran's Karg Island, but risks irrevocable damage to global economy, as Netanyahu also hints at putting boots on the ground.
I know a lot of people don't want to hear it, but we talked about this in the past week.
And I warned you, not because I'm smart, not because I can see the future, but because there is a basic fact.
You will not occupy a country and force regime change without human beings on the ground controlling what these people do.
As I already stated, satellites, predator drones, bombers, they cannot occupy street corners.
So if you want to force a change in how policing is done, how the military handles things in the country, you will need an occupying force with a monopoly on violence.
I do not see that as being a simple ask.
Iraq and Afghanistan were very different countries, and even that was difficult.
Afghanistan, substantially weaker in terms of any kind of military power.
Iran is a mountainous, defensible nation with 90 plus million people.
They will not just bend.
The Hill reports, Netanyahu says revolution in Iran will require ground component to war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said that overthrowing Iran's regime will require a ground component along with the revolution as the U.S.-Israeli conflict with the Middle Eastern country nears the start of its fourth week.
It is often said you can't win.
You can't do revolutions from the air.
That is true.
You can't do it only from there.
You can do a lot of things from the air and we're doing, but there has to be a ground component.
There are many possibilities for this ground component, and I take the liberty of not sharing with you all the possibilities.
I'm going to tell you this, my friends, boots on the ground will be politically devastating for the Trump administration.
I'm going to say it.
I know the Republicans and Trump and Trump supporters are completely behind him.
But you will see moderates and independents break in two seconds with boots on the ground.
We have what I call post-intervention stress disorder, or pissed, as Ian pointed out.
My life, and most people, witnessed the failures of the Iraq campaign, Afghanistan, these wars.
We have learned the lessons of Vietnam.
And now many people want to say there were at least some victories there.
It wasn't a total victory.
I'm telling you, Iran is a different beast.
And the American people are fed up with being sent to occupy foreign countries, especially without a cassus belly.
One of the most biggest political mistakes made by the Trump administration was entering this war without what's called a cassus belly, which means cause for war.
Usually, there is some action taken against us, which is used to rally the American people behind these wars.
And when it came to Saddam Hussein, and when it came to the Taliban, they said they were aiding and abetting, I'm sorry, Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, I'm sorry, in Afghanistan.
They were hiding him.
And this was a justification to go in and get him because of 9-11.
With Saddam Hussein, they said there was some support for 9-11, but he had weapons of mass destruction.
And if he was allowed to use these weapons, it would be devastating.
And people got behind George W. Bush largely.
We had a, let's call it a unified narrative machine.
And you had 9-11.
One-Way Street with NATO00:07:47
People were freaked out and they were angry.
We had been attacked.
It's what they told us.
Now, I think it's fair to say the full details, we'll never know.
We only have the official public reports, which I believe largely are true.
And from this, we've seen, I know a lot of people are going to question that.
And I'm not going to get into 9-11 stuff.
I'm not saying I trust the government.
But we have seen the shielding of the Saudis in this capacity.
Right now, we have entered this war from the air with Israel without a strike against the American people.
Marco Rubio stated that Israel was going to take action against Iran, and we were concerned about maintaining a defensive posture because that could result in Americans losing their lives.
And you know what?
Unfortunately, for Rubio, if that's the real reason and a genuine concern, well, being noble is only going to cost you.
The reality is when it comes to war, you'd need a cause for war.
And if Iran struck, I'm sorry, if Israel struck Iran and then Iran killed Americans, you'd actually have somewhat of a cassus belly.
Instead, we joined a preemptive strike against Iran, which people were calling a preemptive defensive strike, which is just silly.
This means that American support for the war will be minimal.
And many people are now warning that the U.S.'s only option will be a false flag on the American people.
It's hard to know what to believe, my friends.
We call this the fog of war.
Now, PBS reports, Trump says he's been rejected by NATO, most allies to join mission to secure critical strait of Hormuz.
However, seven U.S. allies are backing a potential Strait of Hormuz coalition.
Trump's pissed.
Okay, he's telling NATO, he's telling our allies, guys, if we don't keep this straight open, energy is going to go nuts for everybody.
The unfortunate reality is Israel wanted this war.
The U.S., of course, as I already stated, was preparing for this.
I think it's a fair assessment, especially with the raid on Venezuela.
But Israel wanted this war, and it took these actions before I believe the world, the West, was prepared to maintain control of the region.
Israel's motivation largely based on the fact that Iran is funding Hamas, Hezbollah, and militias in the region, which are trying to destroy Israel.
The U.S., of course, it's largely about controlling oil and the petrodollar.
And Iran has been a thorn in our side for quite some time.
But nothing had happened, at least for now, that would drive the U.S., or I should say, there was no Casus Belli.
So because Israel decided to make this move, the U.S. gets dragged in and our NATO allies are saying, we don't know about all that.
Trump is pissed.
He's called them cowards.
Quote, I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend hundreds of billions of dollars per year protecting these same countries, to be a one-way street.
We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us.
So where does this go?
There is a fear that because there's a lack of support, the U.S. has just rolled the dice and things are going to get bad.
If we do not keep the Strait of Hormuz open, gas prices, let's just call it 20%, even though it's not mathematically how it works, but let's say 20% of the world's energy supply gets cut off.
What do you think that's going to do to the price of your milk, bread, and eggs?
Gas prices through the roof, a political apocalypse for the Republican Party, generally just bad.
So what could the alternative be?
Could it be a military draft?
Well, I don't think so, as I've already stated.
But take a look at this report from MS Now.
Young men fear a possible Iran war draft and they feel duped by Trump with 77,922 views.
Yeah, the only thing is, this guy says they did an AI online assessment and found that people feared a military draft.
Sure, I guess.
Come on.
We have this from the hill.
Trump hasn't ruled out a draft for war with Iran, but is conscription constitutional?
Yes, it is.
It would be a miserable disaster.
You should not do it, and I don't think it's going to happen.
But in the event someone does clip these segments of me where I say I don't think a military draft is possible, let me just say it is possible.
I think it's unlikely.
But if it happens, I'd probably be surprised, but it is possible.
And I say that because you never know how bad things could get.
If there is an attack by Iran on the United States in some capacity, a terror attack or otherwise, a sleeper cell, which we've been warned about, the American people are going to demand.
They are going to demand that we do something about this.
But understand this.
After 9-11, we did not need a military draft.
Brave men and women in this country volunteered because they saw this attack.
They were motivated.
They were inspired and they were angry, rightfully so.
So many young men and women enlisted and joined the efforts and were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Whether it was right or wrong, these individuals made a brave decision, an honorable decision.
In the event there's a justifiable war with Iran.
As of right now, I say, certainly we have cause to go against Iran.
They have killed Americans for a long time now.
Whether or not that justifies full-scale war, I don't know.
I'm skeptical.
But if the Iranians, in their rage, getting flattened by our airstrikes, decide to engage in terror on American soil, you better believe you don't need a draft because the honorable, brave men and women of this country are going to stand up and say, you crossed the line.
Now, don't get me wrong, many liberals are going to say, we started the war first.
They're retaliating.
I don't care.
I literally do not care.
I'm going to tell you something.
I said this yesterday.
We were debating tariffs and other issues.
And we were debating Venezuela and the war with Iran.
And I said, in 2009, the Venezuelan regime seized our oil assets.
We had a treaty with Venezuela.
We agreed to build oil infrastructure and we would both profit.
And you know what?
They were the wealthiest country in South America.
They seized those assets from us and we did nothing.
We complained, we sued and we lost.
I should say our companies did.
They paid taxes too, right?
Well, Trump said, I'm going in, I'm taking it back.
And he did.
And I say, good.
That's justice.
Ian then asked, what about the Chinese farmland?
Right?
They seized our assets because they felt that they should for their country.
Well, the Chinese are buying up farmland in this country.
And I say these are entirely different scenarios.
The Chinese are not buying directly working treaties out with the U.S. government.
There's a treaty they went in and they started buying up farmland near military bases and just farmland in general.
And that is a national security threat.
So we say enough.
We're going to put a stop to that.
And we work on legislation to say no more.
But we didn't outright just seize everything, but I wouldn't be surprised, nor would I be upset about if we did.
And then I was asked, but aren't these the same thing?
Doesn't a country have a right?
First and foremost, again, they're different.
When we agree to build oil infrastructure for Venezuela and they profit from it, that's an agreement in good faith.
When they seize it from us, that's bad faith.
When the Chinese come and buy farmland in our country, that's bad faith.
We won't tolerate it.
But I will make one thing absolutely clear.
I don't care anyway.
I will always advocate for the benefit of these United States.
So if there's a minor infraction committed by the Chinese on land in this country, I'm going to have a heavy hand in favor of the United States.
And if there's a major infraction committed against our companies that agreed to work with Venezuela, I am going to have a heavy hand in favor of the United States.
And I hope that's clear.
And I have absolutely no problem saying my bias will always be to support this country.
Rage Bait and Draft Roles00:05:33
Now, as of right now, again, people are concerned about the prospect of a military draft with Fox 11 Los Angeles saying, U.S. military draft disqualifications list, see if you're exempt.
This is, in my opinion, rage bait, clickbait, nonsense, trying to get people all amped up.
They say the automatic selective service registration system is in effect under the current NDAA.
The U.S. government no longer relies on manual sign-ups.
Instead, selective service system automatically registers all eligible citizens using federal records, such as DMV and Social Security data.
Failure to register classifies a felony, but again, I'm going to say everybody's automatically registered.
Do immigrants need to register?
If you're an 18 to 25-year-old immigrant, you are required to register.
Are women required to register?
Despite previous discussions, no, women are not required to register.
Who is exempt?
Non-immigrant men and women, those on vowed student visitor, tourist, or diplomatic visas, people who are already in the military, cadets training to be in the military, incarcerated and institutionalized individuals.
There's also ministry and divinity deferments, hardship deferments, conscientious objectors.
Why you should care.
The Iran factor.
The last time the U.S. held the draft was 1973 during the Vietnam War.
However, the scale of the current Iran conflict has strained the all-volunteer force.
Pentagon officials have noted that while a draft remains a measure of last resort, the infrastructure for a lottery-based call to service is fully operational for the first time in over 50 years.
If the president and Congress were to authorize a draft today, it would begin with a lottery based on birthdays followed by a physical and mental evaluation at military entrance processing stations.
Even with automatic registration, attempts to dodge or interfere with the process can carry heavy penalties up to five years in prison and fines of up to $250,000 plus ineligibility for federal student loans, job training, or government employment.
I say this, until women are required to register for the draft, men should not be either.
You want to play these games?
We can play these games.
Now, I certainly think women should not be drafted for combat operations.
There are still things they can do to benefit our military.
There are tremendous women who serve in our military to a great degree.
In terms of the draft, there are supporting roles they can take.
We don't need combat infantry women.
Although, if it really got bad, yikes, that's when you know things are cooked.
Check this out.
From the AFP.
Fabricated post stokes fears of imminent U.S. draft to Iran.
They are trying to rile you up, freak you out, and piss you off about Donald Trump.
This is more so, in my opinion, an attempt to win the midterms than anything else.
Or just, I mean, to be honest, some people just do this.
This post said, according to Project 2025, draft opens up for all public high school seniors for a two-year commitment.
Private school students are exempt.
Classist, they'll send your kids off to die, but not their own.
And they're quoting a post from Trump that says, we hope it never comes to this, but Americans should be ready for the possibility of being drafted if our country needs us.
We must stay strong and prepared America first.
Trump never said this, and nowhere in Project 2025 does it entertain the possibility of a draft.
They don't bring that up.
It's not a thing.
This is a manipulation.
It's designed to trick you into thinking that Trump is bad.
Carolyn Levitt has the post.
She says, as I've recently repeated, as I've said repeatedly, she said, Americans trust President Trump as their commander-in-chief and support his efforts to eliminate terrorist threats and keep us safe.
There is no MAGA fracturing, no matter how many times the media tries to claim otherwise.
With all due respect, this is spin.
I like Carolyn Levitt.
She does her job well, and I respect what she is trying to do.
MAGA or not, the majority of Trump supporters back Iran's strikes.
Let me show you the poll she's highlighting.
Share of Americans split by whether they self-identify as MAGA or non-MAGA Republicans who support or oppose the joint U.S.-Israel military strikes in Iran, the killing of Iran Supreme Leader, et cetera.
Among people who say they are MAGA, 81% support Trump.
Fantastic.
Among Republicans who do not identify as MAGA, 61% support Trump.
Overall, overall, 43% with 33% opposition.
So Trump certainly is enjoying a plurality of individuals.
This is a mistake that they're making, but I understand why they're doing it.
The Trump administration is not going to come out and say that we're doing a bad job and everyone's mad at us.
They want to maintain morale, and I can respect that.
I can.
And I have no problem pointing out that every press secretary, be it left, right, up, down, whatever, are going to spin.
Same is true for Spicer, Kaylee McEnenny, Coolyn Levitt, and of course, Jen Sackey and Corine Jean-Pierre.
This is what their job was.
That being said, Corine Jean-Pierre was just like the absolute worst.
Come on, Jen Sacchi was a good spinster.
I give her that credit all the time.
Kaylee McEnenny was the best because it was actually just smacking down the fake news overwhelmingly.
Don't get me wrong, the spin's going to happen, and I'm not opposed to it.
but I know why they do it.
But Kaylee McEnany largely was just debunking the lies.
I love that.
So I can respect and understand why they're saying this, but I think it's important to the betterment of the American people and the Republicans that you tell them moderates, independents are breaking on this.
We've also had over the past few days that the White House has been backing off of mass deportations.
Beginning Stages of Global War00:05:08
So there is going to be a big risk for the Republicans in the midterm.
And to be honest, they may have resigned themselves already.
Now, responsible statecraft has the question you all want to hear.
Are we on the precipice of World War III?
Countless potential black swan events could spark a collapse of our fragile geopolitical order.
Shortly after U.S. and Israeli bombs and missiles began falling on Tehran, Iranian missiles flew in all directions.
We all know this.
They say, imagine a chart depicting the world's alliances, treaties, trade agreements, cultural bonds.
We get it.
Our civilization could end in minutes, and it will only be a matter of luck if any human being survives.
Yikes, talking about nuclear weapons.
The global situation, eerily similar to 1913 in the years leading up to World War I. European leaders created an intricate system of alliances.
France and Russia signed a mutual defense pact.
Germany and Austro-Hungary had a similar arrangement.
The Russians had a cultural bond with their fellow Slavs in Serbia.
So when France, Ferdinand, and his wife were murdered by a Serbian nationalist in June of 1914, the resulting diplomatic crisis and war declaration by Austria-Hungary against Serbia pulled Russia into the war.
The Russian mobilization prompted the Germans to mobilize.
In quick succession, the Germans declared war on Russia, France, and Belgium.
When German troops entered Luxembourg and Belgium, Great Britain declared war on Germany, and World War I began.
They called it the Great War.
The funny thing is, all the royals were related.
How stupid.
The world is vastly more complex today.
In 1913, there were approximately 61 sovereign states.
Today, there are 195.
We may already be in the beginning stages of a global war.
Victor Davis Hansen wrote about how World War II only looks like World War II in hindsight.
For the people living through it, especially in the beginning, World War II looked like a series of rather ordinary border conflicts and territorial conquests.
The Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931, and then further expanded the conflict with China in 1937.
Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935.
Germany remilitarized in the Rhineland in 1936, annexed Austria in 1938, and occupied the Sudetenland six months later.
And this is the point that I have been making for quite some time.
We may be in that war now.
We can't see the forest for the trees.
We look back on hindsight, and they will say World War III began with Ukraine, perhaps.
Most people, when you ask them when World War I or World War II started, they really don't know.
I mean, U.S. involvement was until way late into World War II anyway.
And we only call it World War II because Japan was invading and then in Europe they were invading and we weren't really involved in it.
And then Pearl Harbor happened.
There's a lot of arguments about why Pearl Harbor happened.
One of them is that the U.S. had been supplying Britain with weapons.
And we had been expanding our Pacific fleet.
Japan was angry.
They were aligned with Germany despite not really having contact.
They were allied and they were doing trade and they were things like that.
But I don't believe they had any direct military contact.
Germany was pissed because we were supplying the British with weapons.
So we were effectively in the war.
And then Japan, pissed about the expansion of U.S. in the Pacific, preemptively took a strike against Pearl Harbor, believing that we were about to enter the war.
And maybe we were.
There's a lot of arguments that the U.S. let Pearl Harbor happen because we needed a castus belly.
Well, read your history and choose what you want to believe.
In the end, the U.S. decided to drop two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not because they needed to, because we wanted to send a message and put a stop to this war.
And we did.
Because you don't mess with us.
That's the way America cooks.
Now, I'm not going to panel like those were good things, but it did end the war.
And the argument is we didn't need to.
Maybe we didn't.
Maybe we did.
Hindsight being 2020, really, we don't know.
Looking back on everything we're seeing now, the world that we live in, this may be World War III.
The question is, will it result in nuclear bombs dropping?
But let me just explain to you all right now.
The war in Ukraine rages on.
There are battles happening in Russia and Ukraine.
The West is funding that war.
Russia, of course, is pushing back.
North Korea has joined the Russians.
We've attacked Venezuela.
That was a quick, easy thing.
Cuba is falling.
Now we're at war in the Gulf region with Iran.
And China is sending military vessels around.
I'm sorry, in the Gulf with Iran, and China's sending military vessels to Taiwan.
So many onwards.
It looks like things are escalating dramatically.
It's Friday.
I am cooked.
My friends, this could be World War III, but we don't know.
I ask only that you remain apprised to what is going on to make the appropriate decisions you need for yourself.