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Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
We think too much, feel too little.
More than machinery, we need humanity.
We know the air is unfit to breathe, our food is unfit to eat, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.
We know things are bad, worse than bad.
They're crazy.
You've got to say, I'm a human being!
God damn it!
My life has value!
You have meddled with the primal forces of nature!
Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think, or what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men!
Machine men with machine minds and machine hearts.
Hey everybody,
Jason Burmess here.
And unfortunately, it is my great displeasure to announce the words regime change are now together again for the very first time.
And I say that very unironically.
It is a great disappointment that the guy who many people voted for every time, mainly because he claimed to be anti-war.
Growing Followers, Cleaning Words00:05:12
Now, there were shades of aggression in his first administration.
The strikes in Syria after the non, and I want to say this again, the non-chemical attack on whatever happened in Douma.
The Soleimani strike, where whether you liked that military leader or not, he was immensely popular in Iran and had allied with the United States when taking out quote-unquote ISIS in Iraq and other regions in the Middle East.
Now, a lot of these things are uncomfortable to talk about to some people because, number one, either their head has been completely in the sand, or unfortunately, number two, they have been unable to criticize an individual who they have idolized.
And let me just show you something.
You know, it's always kind of been a gag to me.
But, you know, here's Trump literally portrayed as like an angel.
And it's far from the only thing.
And look, I'm not going to lie.
Again, even with this, although it's teetering away, although it's not, you know, something that's hard to do, still the best president of my lifetime.
And some people will be mad I'm even saying that right now.
Well, I guess if we don't, if we get into World War III, it won't be.
Okay?
Well, I'll cut the line there.
So we have these strikes.
We're going to play a small clip from Heg Seth.
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Look, I'm a peace guy.
Follow me on X. There's somewhere where it's very tough to grow.
It seems like the only time I grow there is if I go on another show.
I think we're down about six or seven followers today.
We kick and scrape for everyone.
And you should also be following my next guest, Stuart J. Hooper, who we're going to be talking to about not only what has just happened, but really about what we've talked about in the past.
You know, and many people have called us alarmists, Stuart.
They said this day would never come with a strike against Iran.
Well, now it is here.
And don't get me wrong.
I've now had to discuss this as a reality over the past two decades.
Literally, since I came on the scene with 9-11, if I were to ignore the words of Wesley Clark, who was a high-ranking general at the time, that Iran was on the table, North Korea was on the table, Iraq was on the table.
This was all pre-Iraq war.
I would have been remiss.
That clip still goes viral to this day.
So, Stuart, before we get started, let everybody know who you are, where they can follow your work, because your work has now picked up quite a bit, but a lot of that having to do with what I would call anti-truth trolls, pro-war trolls.
I mean, these people are bloodthirsty.
And I haven't seen the attacks on accounts that, of course, have anonymous avatars on them.
You scroll through them.
They're very politically motivated, team baseball style, etc.
Really cleaned up that bot problem, Elon, just like you cleaned everything up with Doge.
So I've ranted and raved here for five minutes.
Stuart, let everybody know who you are.
And then I want to get your initial reaction to the announcement of these strikes last night.
Well, thanks so much, Jason.
Great to be back with you as always.
And yeah, for your audience, I'm an academic, small-time academic, admittedly.
Been producing independent alternative media content for a while, got a little bit of traction here and there, got a few thousand followers here and there.
You were pretty instrumental in me coming up in this sphere and really looking at issues from a critical perspective as opposed to this left versus right paradigm, which I would argue after today, or after yesterday really, has been truly shattered.
We had a savior of the left, Obama.
Now we've had a savior of the right in Donald Trump, and both sides have been betrayed.
Strikes and Nuclear Shadows00:15:26
So I don't come at this really from a, I absolutely love Donald Trump or I absolutely hate Donald Trump.
I just tried to come at it from a critical perspective.
Trying to look at it as down the line as possible and weigh up some of the good and some of the bad.
And I was actually really optimistic about Donald Trump's second term, really optimistic.
And we've spoken about that before plenty of times.
I had an article published at the Ron Paul Institute called The demands of an America-first foreign policy, where I laid out basically, well, this is what Trump promised.
This is what he should do.
Unfortunately, he's gone in practically the complete opposite direction to that.
And as you said, we've been going back and forth on this bandwagon for a while now.
I was 10 years old when 9-11 happened.
So, old enough to remember it, old enough to know that it was really important and that the world was going to change as a result of it.
And interestingly enough, you mentioned that this attack on Iran has been going around and around and around really since then.
Earlier today, I was watching an old South Park episode called More Crap, which is ultimately about can Randy Marsh do the world's biggest crap.
There is a gag in that episode, which I looked up.
It actually was first aired in October of 2007.
And one of the gags in that episode is they're sitting down watching TV, and the news comes on the TV.
And the reporter starts saying, It looks like we just lost them for a minute.
They're unfortunately coming.
Wait, wait, hold on.
We lost you for a second there.
A little connection issue.
So start back where you were talking about what the reporter was saying.
Yeah, so the news reporter comes on this South Park episode and he's saying that we are seeing and hearing that there may be about to be an attack on Iran.
And this, of course, is going to be the next step in the war on terror.
But now let's go back to the man who's trying to do the world's largest crap.
So point being in 2007, this was a central gag in a South Park episode.
This has been going on for a very long time.
This has been the overarching agenda of a lot of people for a very long time.
And now we see that Trump has been the president to fulfill this neocon dream.
So that's about where I come at this from where we are now.
And yeah, lots more to talk about, as always.
Yeah, and unfortunately, you know, this was something that I discussed a lot prior to the first administration.
You know, from the rhetoric before the second administration, it seemed like he had learned his lesson.
Tulsi Gabbard, who, you know, was an appointee and somebody just months ago saying that Iran did not have nuclear capabilities, seemed like a good move, right?
Seemed like a de-escalatory move.
But just like you said earlier today, you know, you talk about 2007.
You know, I did a whole video on how Operation Top Gun Maverick was a complete success.
You know, it was in the middle of the summer of 2022, just at the end of May when everything's coming up, that we had this plot where, lo and behold, Tom Cruise goes in there with the new special plane.
Remember, this wasn't a drone attack, supposedly.
Remember, he outdoes the drones.
And it's the evil Middle Eastern nation that's been enriching uranium in the mountains.
I mean, it's literally what, first of all, I don't know what technology we use to do these strikes.
I know what they said, but how much human involvement was here?
They could be high-level drone strikes.
They could be space weapon strikes.
I know a lot of people don't want to talk about those things, but they happened in quick precision with zero retaliation.
With basically them finding out as these areas were blown apart.
And again, that narrative has been around 20 plus years.
And this was the big America comeback movie during the Biden administration before, you know, had the Lockheed Martin and the skunk work.
So there really is something to be said about not only predictive programming, but keeping these things in the public eye.
So when something actually like this happens, so many people shut off that brain.
You know, I want to talk about this.
You know, Miga has been around for some time, and that's make Israel great again to people who were very critical of his relationship with Bibby, Netanyahu.
And in many cases, rightfully so, after what we've seen, he's now put out a post basically saying make Iran great again with regime change, extremely alarming, and I'll get to why in a moment.
And the other thing is they're saying that this is a, you know, we took the bomb out of their hands.
That narrative is going to last.
It already hasn't lasted.
You know, it's been moved and they'll have a weapon here.
And Hegseth already discussed that there are other targets that they can hit.
And then you have the regime change after the fact.
We're going to play a question from Hegseth in a moment.
But when you see these moves now that everything has failed with trying to rein this in, with Trump saying beachfront property on Palestine, no movement there.
Lebanon now, you know, basically almost waving the white flag saying, we don't want to be involved at all.
We're done.
We're not going to let the Iranians in.
Please stop.
You've already heard us.
Because they realize they've already been in these limited strikes and now it is game mother trucking on.
I'm going to tell people right now, there is nothing positive going on with this.
So when you hear regime change, I know a lot of people are like, oh, well, it's the Moolahs.
It's the Ayatollah.
Hey, what about when Ahmed Denijad was in there?
He wasn't a Moolah.
Did we need regime change then?
They sure acted like it.
So I would like you to take that term and what you think that means in the next coming days and months.
Yeah, I mean, excellent breakdown there, too.
Briefly also, let's just talk about the strikes themselves.
Yeah, it's possible that these were done with some kind of experimental technology.
The Pentagon loves to actually have a live test of its technologies out in the field.
That's one of the big reasons the war in Ukraine has been continued for as long as it has been, because the Pentagon has gotten to test, well, can an Abram's battle tank actually match Russian battle tanks like for like?
How would this play out on a larger, broader scale?
I guarantee they would have had similar tests yesterday as they conducted this operation with whatever weapon system it was that they used.
And interestingly, as you mentioned, yeah, it's possible the Iranians moved most of this stuff because as far as I've seen so far, there have not been any reports of radiation leaks or anything like this contamination of any of these sites, which is, of course, a good thing in the grand scheme of things because, yes, these attacks themselves, they were risking massive potential environmental devastation as a result of this.
Just go and look at what happened at Chernobyl, an accident, and then compare it to this.
You could have had a very similar situation playing out in the Middle East.
But yeah, nothing on these levels that I've seen so far.
Which, again, brings us to the next point.
Well, maybe the Iranians then actually will now pursue a nuclear weapon.
And there are lots of critical foreign policy analysts that are now suggesting this because you have just said to Iran, the one reason we are attacking you is so you cannot get a nuclear weapon.
Because we know we can attack you because you haven't got a nuclear weapon, so you can't really respond in kind if it escalates all the way up the ladder.
So the Iranians now are going to be fully incentivized to go ahead and try to acquire a nuclear weapon.
They look around the Middle East.
What do they see?
Saddam Hussein gave up his weapons of mass destruction, got overthrown.
Mumar Gaddafi gave up weapons of mass destruction, got overthrown.
Then they look over to Asia.
They see North Korea.
They see nuclear weapons.
They see a regime that's still in power.
So this could be a very powerful incentive for the Iranians to try to now get a nuclear weapon.
And let's stop for a second because I think it's important to say this.
Maybe they had a nuclear weapon.
Maybe they didn't.
We haven't seen any evidence that they have had that weapon.
We've had to basically go on hearsay and the line, which again, just like you said, you know, when they talk about war with Iran all the way back in 2007, is they're two weeks away from a nuclear weapon, six months away from a nuclear weapon, 11 weeks away.
I mean, it's just the revolving door.
They provided zero evidence of it.
And like you said, right now, as far as I know, there have been no readings that show that there were any nuclear material at any of these sites, any uranium enrichment at all.
Nothing even dirty bomb level.
Now, whether or not we're ever going to get that evidence, I don't know.
I do know, again, immediately after these strikes, yes, there were a couple videos that showed, you know, the aftermath.
We still haven't seen as the strike happened.
And there were a ton of videos out there that were separate strikes in Syria from months and months ago.
I mean, right now, and most Americans who are not politically savvy, whatever the television tells them.
And the other groups that aren't that savvy, whatever their favorite podcaster is telling them, whatever's in their news feed.
You know, I saw some of these videos going out by people that have a lot of following is all I'm going to say and have a lot of clout in the quote-unquote Magasphere or in this thing.
So the bottom line on the nuclear stuff is we also have to realize that whether they have nuclear weapons, you have large-scale military industrial complex companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook that are masquerading as, oh, you've got to trade around the stock market.
Masquerading as private companies that are about to launch massive AI data centers that are run by nuclear energy and small-level nuclear reactors in the AI war.
And you're essentially telling this nation that has an average IQ of 104, which we should be envious of, of 90 plus million people, you can't have that either.
Because how would they power the AI, everybody?
I mean, people do not even realize that, quite frankly, this really has nothing to do with their weapons program, even if it existed.
That is facade bull snap.
That is what is told around the war room by the true believers.
But at the end of the day, you know, those that head up Section 802 and the Mossad and the Knesset, quite frankly, that vote on all this, the ones that really, they know it's not about that at all.
It's about total spectrum dominance in the Middle East, the Greater Israel Project, and that neocon wet dream that they wrote up in a project for a new American century.
Spin it any other way you want it.
That's the reality.
Go ahead, Stuart.
Yeah, no, no, completely.
And yeah, in 2007, there was actually a really large push to go to war with Iran here because, of course, that was the dying days of George W. Bush's administration.
Webster Tarpley used to cover this stuff ad nauseum back in the day.
But yeah, 2007, that was a dangerous, dangerous year for the Middle East, for Iran, for the potential for all of this.
But yeah, to finish my other point there, yeah, Iran is now truly incentivized to try to get a nuclear weapon to keep its regime, its government intact.
And that's not trying to justify their acquisition of a nuclear weapon either.
I would love to live in a nuclear-free world, but you also have to live in reality.
And when you make certain moves on the geopolitical chessboard, like were made last night, unless you get someone in checkmate, which appears the Americans have not done to the Iranians yet, you're going to have to expect their next move.
And this may be it.
And by the way, let me just stop you there too.
If they want to do a checkmate move, they're going to kill a lot of civilians.
Period.
I want everybody to realize that.
You know, today, earlier in the broadcast, I showed the largest mall in the world.
It is in Iran.
Okay?
What they are showing you in that culture, that would be like if everybody that saw what went down in America, you went to the biggest redneck spot in upstate New York and the swampiest swamp in Florida, and you were showing them those people.
They are not showing you the reality of that country or their military or their culture.
Okay?
I mean, people need to get with it.
I don't want more death, and death begets death.
And the other thing is that we haven't talked about what retaliation could be real and what retaliation could be a false flag to further get this thing going.
Please continue.
Sorry.
No, I get it completely.
Yeah, so when it comes to their acquisition of a weapon, my take on the academic literature on that is that they've probably gone back and forth through different Iranian administrations closer to or further from a nuclear weapon, but they've never actually crossed the line over into actually its acquisition.
Protecting Forces Proactively00:15:13
Now, yeah, let's perhaps move into regime change, which I think was actually the root of your original question.
And what form might that take?
This will not go well in any conceivable scenario.
So if they go after the Ayatollah, they go after the Iranian government.
This is not going to go the way that Nessan Yahoo and Trump thinks it will because it never does.
Look to World War II.
World War II is a great example of this.
Hitler really wanted to bring the United Kingdom into the Reich, really thought he had a good shot of doing that politically.
And then when that didn't pan out, what did he do next?
Well, he said, let's just bomb them into submission.
What did that do?
It completely galvanized the British against the Germans and made the entire country willing to sacrifice essentially their entire lives to fight back against Hitler and the Germans.
I believe if they try to do some kind of decapitation strike on the Iranian government, you are going to see from this civilization of 90 plus million people in a relatively economically and technologically advanced country, immense pushback.
I mean, it's going to make Iraq look like a child's play.
It's going to make Iraq look like a school playground.
This is going to be a battle for the ages, which again, perhaps then brings us into the point on retaliation.
That could come in various different forms.
Iran, if it really wanted to have a huge impact, it would do something in the Strait of Hormuz.
So that's this waterway, which exists right there, right next to Iran, where anywhere from one-fifth to one quarter of the world's oil supply travels through.
And the point that I made in my video last night was, what do you think is going to happen to the price of oil if one-fifth to one quarter of the supply is all of a sudden removed from the market and there is no idea in sight of when it's going to be back on the market?
Absolutely nothing good.
That's recession level damage that you're going to cause around the world.
How could Iran do this?
They got a few options.
They could use anti-ship missiles to try to sink the oil tankers as they're passing through, cause lots of debris and damage throughout the strait.
They could also mine the strait as well.
That's been a big one that I've seen discussed.
So just dropping these sea-based mines throughout the strait, just making it very treacherous.
Those probably wouldn't sink a tanker on their own.
But again, what's that going to do to shipping insurance prices?
You want to bring your tanker through the Strait of Hormuz?
Well, the insurance company will probably let you do it if you pay a massive premium, which again destroys the price as well, destroys the economy as well by default.
The Iranians also do have a navy that's somewhat capable, although if you put it up against the full force of the American Navy, it probably would be wiped out pretty quickly.
But at the same time, China gets about 20% of their oil from Iran directly.
Now, that's directly.
Again, we're talking about a region of the world where not the vast majority, but you're talking about a significant portion.
If 20% is coming directly from Iran, you're probably talking about 35 to 50% minimum of their oil coming through that region.
So all of a sudden, it's not just Iran's navy.
There's the good chance that China does jump in here.
We haven't even talked about Russia yet.
Again, because they get oil from Iran as well.
Both of them are incentivized to utilize their navy to ensure what Iran wants so that there's not more destabilization.
Oh, joy.
Yeah, exactly.
This is what we've warned about now for months, if not years at this point.
But that also too is perhaps one of the reasons why Iran would be cautious to pull this lever as well, because it probably would really anger the Chinese.
It would drag them into it.
And they would probably, like you were alluding to there, they may have to get involved in some way, perhaps in escorting ships or something like that.
Something far more than they're doing right now.
Let's put it that way.
And when it comes to Russia, this is also a point I made yesterday.
What is Russia currently getting from Iran?
Quite a significant amount of military technology, which it is using to fight its war in Ukraine.
So if you're Putin and you're fighting a war in Ukraine and you're claiming this is for your existence, for the future of the motherland, all these big grand scale claims that Putin has made, take him at his word at all of that, right?
Let's just take him at his word, just for argument's sake.
If another actor comes in and tries to take out this other country that you've been dealing with to fight this war for your survival, how is that going to be looked upon by the Russians?
Not well.
It's going to be looked at: hey, look, the United States is interfering in our ability to defend ourselves.
The United States is interfering with one of our allies that we need right now to continue fighting this war in Ukraine and to hopefully try and win this war in Ukraine.
So yeah, this has lots of potential geopolitical impacts.
And Pakistan's been a big one here.
Pakistan came out immediately after the strikes from Israel and they put out in a tweet that they want to bring the entire Ummah, which means the entire Islamic world, to defend Iran.
Now, since then, you had Trump come out and say, well, we're going to give it two weeks and we're going to try to go the diplomatic method.
Then Pakistan nominates him for the Nobel Peace Prize, perhaps just trying to give him the old pat on the back there and try to convince him in some way that he can really pull this off.
And then what does he do?
He goes ahead and pulls the proverbial trigger.
And Pakistan is now sitting there with egg on its face, not looking too great at all.
But yes, what is Pakistan?
A nuclear power, a nuclear power that could step in.
We just saw this blow up between Pakistan and India.
India has been on the side of Israel and the West throughout all this.
So all of the components are here for this to completely blow up in all of the wrong ways.
I really hope I'm wrong on all of these predictions, which is also something that a lot of other people have been saying right now, Tucker Carlson and others, other commentators.
Yeah, we want to be wrong.
We want this to not blow up.
We're not looking forward to this in any conceivable way whatsoever.
And my big reply to, I think not all of them were bots, but I think some of them were just anonymous trolls last night was, well, I hope if you're egging this on, tomorrow morning, Monday morning at 8 a.m. sharp, you better be at the enlistment office.
Go pick your branch and you better be signing your name on the Dossi line to go and fight in this.
Or otherwise, I don't really want to hear your opinion on why this is a good thing.
Yeah, exactly.
Listen, I want to get into some of the other things that could occur, especially the fact that there is this narrative out there that Iran was somehow behind the assassination attempts of Donald Trump, or that that's a possibility.
He's certainly given them the incentive with Soleimani, which makes it believable.
Now, especially with these targets, which makes it believable.
But even if that were to occur, if you don't think that they would need the help of Israeli and U.S. intelligence to pull that off, you are sorely mistaken.
But I want to get there in a moment.
After we play this clip of Hegseth, who gave his basically, you know, his reiteration of what Trump said yesterday in front of the press yesterday.
And he gets asked basically, is this just another forever war that we got with the Bush administration?
Thank you very much.
General Kane, I understand OPSAC.
I respect OPSAC.
Can you say at all what security procedures are being taken to protect U.S. troops in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East?
And, Secretary Hakeseth, as a global war on terrorism veteran, what do you say to veterans who may be concerned the U.S. is getting into another open-ended war in the Middle East over weapons of mass destruction?
Thanks, sir, for the question.
I won't comment on what force protection measures are being taken in the region.
What I will say is we're being proactive and not reactive and being very thoughtful about ensuring that we do all that we can to protect our forces out there.
And I would just say, as the president has directed and made clear, this is most certainly not open-ended.
It doesn't mean it limits our ability to respond.
We will respond if necessary.
The most powerful military in the world is postured and prepared to defend our people.
But what the president gave us, as I said, was a focused, powerful, and clear mission on the destruction of Iranian nuclear capabilities.
Those were the targets.
That's what was struck.
That was overwhelming.
That's what was overwhelming.
That's what the Iranian regime needs to understand, as the president put out last night.
He wants peace.
There needs to be a negotiated settlement here.
We ultimately demonstrated that Iran cannot have a nuclear capability.
That is a very clear mission set on this operation.
So really didn't answer the question.
Again, you know, the weapons of mass destruction analogy is a correct one.
We already discussed earlier in the program how they've never given us any evidence of nuclear capabilities of Iran.
I mean, think about this, folks.
They've never even had to roll out a Colin Powell-type person to show you phony satellite photos.
But hey, like I said, we had Top Gun Maverick, so that's just as good as better because, hey, Tom Cruise looks great for 60.
So now let's talk about this possibility.
Because quite frankly, you know, I think before the first attempt on Trump's life, I played it down a little bit.
I really thought it wasn't as possible as, say, them putting him in jail, which, you know, all the actions seemed.
I get things wrong.
I really truly think they did try to kill him a couple times.
Now, how easy would it be for that to lead back to some Iranian Patsy or plot and forget about it?
Now, as grotesque as that sounds and as alarming as it would be to have a JD Vance in charge after something like that with Peter Thiel as his mentor, I got to tell you, that would be the soft way to do it compared to a nuclear device going anywhere, going off anywhere in the Western world.
Because as we've discussed ad nauseum, that changes everything instantly.
And forget about it.
The fear that people will have and the actions that the military will take will be overwhelming and feel insurmountable at that time.
So I would just like to get your take on whether or not you think it's a possibility that now Trump's life is actually in more danger that he's escalated this from an Iranian-framed plot.
Yeah, completely.
And in the small academic literature that exists on political assassination, leaders do not generally target the leaders of other nations because what's probably going to happen to you?
You, as the leadership class, you're going to be targeted next in retaliation for that.
So, this again is another reason why if there is this significant shift towards regime change, towards targeting the Iranian parliament, targeting the Ayatollah, targeting the clerical leadership in Iran.
Yes, that will again incentivize some bad actor out there to perhaps try and come after Trump, tries to come after Netanyahu.
And what do we get?
A continued spiral of violence.
So, this has to stop as soon as possible.
So, yes, I do think it's a real possibility.
And also, two other points from that video clip there from the Pentagon briefing, two important ones.
That first question was on false protection.
How is the US protecting its troops in Iraq and all these other bases?
The 40,000 of them that are currently there, that all now have a target on their backs.
Well, thanks, Donald Trump.
Well, I think the US, and I don't have numbers on this, but of course, they're not going to really give us clear numbers on this.
But I think they may face some false protection problems because the US is not only trying to defend its own forces, it's been funneling lots of its false protection technologies to Ukraine and to Israel.
More reasons why we do not need to have conflict after conflict after conflict, because when something happens or you start something, obviously, which was a very bad move, how are you going to deal with all of this at the same time?
This is almost textbook imperial overreach that leads to the collapse of militaries, the collapse of empires, the collapse of economies.
And there was, I think it was someone on Tucker who he recently interviewed, that former Pentagon guy, who was saying that there are now reports that the US had to divert shipments that were destined for Ukraine to Israel to defend Israeli cities.
Well, now are those shipments going to have to be diverted from Ukraine to Israel or now actually just to the straight up US bases?
This is imperial overreach.
This is going to, this will be the thing that collapses the American Empire.
If you're trying to have your fingers in all of these geopolitical pies at the same time, and especially when there is zero political will for this, there was a poll that came out a couple of days ago that said only 18 18% of Trump voters thought this was going to be a good idea.
And the rest of them obviously didn't.
And then the other thing in that press conference there was Hegseph's question on a clear mission.
G7 Meetings and Political Shifts00:14:10
And he said that they got a clear mission from Donald Trump to just go after the nuclear sites and they completed their clear mission.
Isn't that always the way?
Isn't that what we always hear for all of this stuff?
Oh, yeah, we've just got this one objective and we're going to go and achieve that and then we're going to leave and everything's going to be happy and fine and the world's going to be in a state of peace.
Well, that never happens.
Iraq, of course, is the prime example of this.
It goes from getting rid of Saddam Hussein and finding weapons of mass destruction to then dealing with the civil war and the looting that breaks out to then bringing about democracy to then stabilizing the government to then realizing that, oh, look, what have we done?
We've knocked over Saddam Hussein and we've made a power vacuum that is now friendly to Iran, which is another thing.
There is not a single example of any of these regime change operations in recent history that have been successful.
If there was one that we could point to, I probably wouldn't be as opposed to this, right?
Well, you know, mate, it actually kind of works in Iraq.
Iraq's a thriving democracy now.
They've got a great economy.
People go there on vacation all the time or in Syria.
Oh, oh, wait, that's not the case in any of these places.
Now, what just happened in Syria today, suicide bombing in a church.
There is no example where this has worked.
And I think it's just this, if you want to boil it down to the root cause of it, it's this inability to accept complete failure on the domestic front for these governments.
Kia Starma, I mean, you're talking the worst prime minister in God only knows how long, completely collapsed approval ratings.
But he was super happy about these American strikes today.
He almost couldn't contain himself because what does this do?
It distracts from all of his domestic failures.
And let me just talk about that for a little bit because you're getting into like the Anglo-American Israeli establishment, right?
And last week, we had Bilderberg going on, and literally as they dined on the Builder boat, the bankers, the big tech gang of the West, the media representatives, all of them.
You had those first bombs going into Iran, and then the strikes back into Israel that went into the Tel Aviv IDF.
If you don't think all those people were 110% smiling and happy about the whole thing, and all of them didn't benefit financially, you don't get who those people are.
And then it's only a week later, a week later, that the United States, because when Israel strikes them, I believe we put our first permanent base in Israel.
It was either 2017 or 2021, but it was basically always a Middle Eastern base where, you know, don't get me wrong, we stab each other in the back all the time.
There's a lot of lying going around, but essentially we look at each other as our allies, right?
And that's our base in the Middle East.
All the bombing, I mean, as Ted Cruz let you know on Tucker Carlson, while they had the argument, was U.S. directed in the first place.
So everything that was going on in that week-long span, U.S. directed, NATO-directed, Stoltenberg loving it, you know, Karp loving it, Teal loving it, Schmidt, love it.
Just a love fest, Builder boating, eating some caviar on the Builder boat, putting all of our lives and our ways of lives at risk.
Total insanity.
Total insanity.
Now, here, the real question is: Israel's already told us what they want.
They want more.
They want more of that region.
They want the dome of the rock, some of these religious zealots that are right in line with the military zealots.
And Trump just seems to be rat-tat-tattling wrong with anything they say.
I'll tell you what, you want to get the whole Muslim world involved.
Do something to the dome of the rock.
Just have something happen there.
That's all you need.
So when you see what's going on, I've said it before.
I'll say it again.
If you keep giving the people that are destroying everything what they want, they will continue to destroy everything they want and take it as they've already told you.
Is there any line in the sand at this point?
Or are we tumbling into this at a rapid fashion in a full clip, if you will?
Yeah, unfortunately, I'm kind of on the pessimistic side of that.
I mean, you just look at Trump today.
He came out and said that regime change, this is a politically correct term and we shouldn't be afraid to use it.
And we should actually embrace the concept of regime change.
And this is actually a great thing.
Again, I think it's just really unfortunate at this point.
Trump is really going to go down as one of the biggest wasted opportunities in American history.
I mean, you control the presidency.
You control the Senate, the House, even the Supreme Court.
You could have done literally anything.
You could have completely reshaped the country.
You could have completely reshaped American foreign policy, as I was advocating for.
And instead, this is where we are.
It's like we're back in 2007 again.
But this time we've actually pulled the trigger and now we're going forward with this on perhaps every conceivable level.
I mean, you must, you look around and you look at what these people in the Bush administration and what they must be thinking.
And some of them are actually telling us what they're thinking.
Like John Bolton, he was on national news all over the place today.
He was almost jumping up and down in excitement.
Oh, John Bolton.
And something else I think is important to point out here is that the G7 was also meeting last week.
And the G7...
Oh, yes, the G7, which...
No, we got you back.
And by the way, the G7, you know, Trump left early while this was all going on as well.
So go ahead, continue.
Yeah, completely.
They essentially came out with a statement that said this was the right thing to do.
The G7.
Who is the current membership of the G7?
Well, the world's biggest economies right there that are all part of this.
Well, look at all of the leaders.
Look at the photographs there.
Should Donald Trump be on the same side as those people?
Really?
I mean, is that where we want Donald Trump to be?
We want Donald Trump to be in agreement with Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macrone and the German leadership.
So you're telling me the globalists are saying this is a fantastic idea and Trump is now lockstep in line with them.
Again, MAGA voters out there, I promise you, I am not happy that this is the way this has gone, right?
I'm not some Trump hater that's all of a sudden feeling vindicated.
Quite the opposite.
I was very optimistic about Trump, very optimistic about the future here.
But instead, this is where we are.
He's now in line with the G7 leadership.
He's got people like John Bolton jumping up and down, super happy about him.
Keir Starmer, again, complete globalist.
And David Lamy, he's foreign minister.
He was in attendance at the Bilderberg meetings for years before even being in power when the Conservatives were in power in the United Kingdom.
You had this Labour Party member, David Lamy.
He was there year after year after year, lying in wait in this two-party system where they try to convince you that, you know, these are actually very different entities and they believe very different things.
Well, that's funny because when they get in power, they tend to always do the same things.
And unfortunately, that is now holding true even for Donald Trump, who promised us the complete opposite.
So MAGA people, I would urge you to get behind people like Marjorie Taylor Green, get behind Thomas Massey, get behind Rand Paul, get behind Tucker Carlson, and just really think this through.
Yes, we liked Trump.
Yes, we've had hope for Trump, but something's happened here since he's got in office.
So we can either acknowledge that reality or we can just put the blinders on and just say, well, it's still Trump.
Trust the plan.
Or it's 4D chess.
Or what are we at now?
I don't know, 7D, 8D, 9D chess, or whatever people are saying now.
I mean, be real.
Do you want to be fighting in World War III?
Do you want to see the bright flash in the sky?
Do you want your kids and grandkids dying in the deserts of Iran?
I mean, for what?
Right, for what?
What is the point in this?
I think perhaps maybe you could get Donald Trump back on track in some way if you really made him see the long-term ramifications of all of this, which for the Republican Party is not going to be good at all.
I've been predicting now for a good few weeks that they face electoral annihilation in the midterms if they do something in Iran and it goes badly.
Voters will hold them to account, which is why, again, Trump really needs to be careful here.
If he is impeached, but it looks like his approval rating is about to fall off a cliff or is in the process of falling off said cliff, there will be congressional Republicans that will look at him and say, you know what?
He's on his way out in a few years anyway.
I want to stay in office.
I don't have term limits.
I want to be re-elected.
They will look after their own skin.
So there is a threat of this.
But again, I think we're far more tilted towards the escalation side of this and the threat of this blowing up and getting out of control.
I really want to see it de-escalate.
You know, just one final thought.
David Petraeus wasn't at Bilderberg this year.
And I really wonder, especially if he's back next year, you know, this is a guy that's been with the military-industrial complex, the Middle East war of terror for a long time, whether or not he wasn't part of the operational things that were going on during those strikes that weekend and into now.
I'd like to know what he's up to.
I haven't heard from Petraeus in a while.
We got a last few minutes of the broadcast.
What would you like to leave the audience with?
And please let everybody know where they can follow you and support your work as well, my friend.
You know, thanks again for the invite, Jason, as always.
You can find me on Twitter, X, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube.
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You'll find me over there.
I put out regular independent analysis on all these issues.
Again, not coming at it from the perspective of I hate Trump or I love Trump, just from a critical perspective that's trying to avoid global conflicts.
And as someone that has grown up through the war on terror and seen absolutely nothing good come of it.
So that's really the perspective that I come at this from.
It's not really ideological.
It's just from a perspective of trying to avoid the mistakes of the past more than anything else.
And overall, yeah, I'd leave people with the message that think about what you voted for.
I live in the United States.
Yes, I'm from Britain, but I live in the United States.
I can't vote here, didn't vote here, never voted here.
Maybe one day I will.
But at this point, I think either you get the Republican Party on track because we know that the Democratic Party is a complete mess.
There's no hope whatsoever over there.
Which again, Marjorie Taylor Greene did a good job of pointing out with people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over there saying that this was a completely unjustified attack on Iran all the while she's been approving the funding of the endless war in Ukraine, of course.
So that's a disaster.
But I think there is a route to getting the Republican Party on track, like with Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massey, Rand Paul.
Listen, I got to tell you, I hope so.
But I mean, again, with somebody like Tulsi Gabbard, who couldn't stand up to all this craziness, you know, RFK Jr. has been a bright spot in the administration.
I hope it continues to go that way.
But his take on, you know, what was happening in Gaza was horrible.
Vivek Ramaswamy, you know, when he was picking up steam, I talked to his guy in the hallway, and they can't speak out against Israel with the Republican Party.
It's crazy.
So, again, I've never loved the two-party system.
I really hate the current system of media that we have as well, mainstream and alternative.
We're in some pretty damn dire straits, but you're doing a hell of a job.
I hope that people follow you as well, Stuart.
And I hope that we're wrong, and I hope that everything dies down.
I'm wondering whether it can.
I mean, that's really the goal of this, and to have these conversations to maybe reach somebody that can de-escalate this, but I'm not sure it's there.
Thank you, brother.
It's good talking.
Yeah, thanks again, Jason.
Love talking with you as always.
As always.
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