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And welcome, folks!
This is Truth vs. News, Incorporated, and it should be never, it's supposed to never happen, because Truth in News View won, and we almost didn't make it today, but we're here, and we're gonna have a heck of a show here on April 15th, Tax Day!
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So we got Jim Fesher who's got written several important books about Sandy Hook and JFK and American nuke.
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Then we also have here, we have Brian Davidson.
And he's a private investigator out of Houston, Texas.
I guess you got a lot of action going down there, and we got a lot of action going on in the Middle East.
We've had a war started and stuff.
What's the update on that?
We've got the latest information, Jim.
You got it.
You got it.
Well, before the event, Levi Netanyahu was vowing to harm anyone who attacked Israel.
This is before the strike occurred.
Netanyahu is fully aware Israel faces a growing problem with Iran.
Unlike Gaza, however, Israel cannot deal with the Iranian problem alone.
Netty needs help from the United States.
That's because the Ayatollahs made developing a formidable air defense network a priority.
He knew the day would come when Iran would need a good air defense.
That time has arrived.
Iran's air defenses are not something Israel can handle by itself.
That, we suspect, was the reason behind the attack on Iran's consulate in Damascus, a calculated provocation intended to elicit a bloody response.
This could come in a large-scale Iranian drone and missile strike on the Zionist stadium, and when it happens, the senile dupe in the Oval Office can be manipulated into ordering wide-ranging U.S.
strikes on Iran, possibly with Israeli assistance, or so the Zionist hardliners hope.
Whether it turns out that way remains to be seen.
Six months ago, for example, Netanyahu pledged Israel's ground offensive in Gaza would crush and destroy Hamas.
Six months later, however, Israel is hardly closer to eliminating Hamas than it was in October of last year.
Here he is, declaring Thursday to harm anyone who attacks Israel amidst fear that Iran is poised to launch an unprecedented direct missile attack.
The Prime Minister said, whoever harms us, we will harm them.
After U.N.
intel warned Tehran is preparing a strike That would, or could, plunge the Middle East into a new war.
Israeli jets carried out drills simulating a strike on Iran.
Global media reported while Western and Arab diplomats scrambled to persuade the Islamic Republic against military action.
Elite Iranian forces based in Syria have moved into civilian hotels in anticipation of blows.
You can't make it today?
Uh oh.
Okay.
Okay.
Don, that's going out over the air.
You know that, right?
Okay.
Good enough.
We'll see you here.
That's fine if they weren't good tomorrow.
Don, that's going out over the air.
You know that, right?
Okay.
Good enough.
We'll see you here.
Israeli jets carried out drills simulating a strike on Iran.
Local media reported while Western and Arab diplomats scrambled to persuade the Islamic Republic against military action.
Elite Iranian warship base in Syria moved into civilian hotels in anticipation of Israeli blowback.
Admiral Daniel Hegari, Israel's chief military spokesman, said civilians were not being told to make any special preparation, but added the country was highly prepared for a range of scenarios.
Well, here's the report.
A synopsis of what has happened.
Hello my dear friends, you're in the Military Summary channel and this video we're going to discuss Iranian strike on the territory of Israel with significant number of drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.
As you know, on the night from 13th on the 14th of April the Iran launched a very powerful attack and that was like the response to Israel attack on Damascus on the, let's say, some buildings and diplomatic council building of Iran.
And the Iranians called the evening operation the Faithful Promise.
The sources associated with the Shiite Axis claim that the Iranian attack consists of three phases.
Launching the, let's say, drones from Iran, launching drones of missiles from the Axis countries like Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemeni to make it difficult for the Israel air defense systems and launching cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.
So, a lot of questions, a lot of videos, a lot of geolocations, a lot of very interesting things.
And today with this video I would like to discuss with you and to receive probably the answer to the most important question.
What is going to be next?
What is going to be next?
Ok, first let's start.
Before the beginning of the operation most of the countries in the regions blocked their closed airspace.
We know that Egypt closed its airspace.
We know that Let's say Syria closed its airspace, Lebanon closed its airspace, Israel closed its airspace, and of course Iran itself closed its airspace.
And there were some doubts about the behavior of the country by the name of Jordan because we know that the Western countries, the United States of America, could use the territory of Jordan for air defense and probably for counter-attacks on the territory of Iran.
So the Ministry of Defense of Iran, before the situation started, stated that any country that opens its airspace or territory to target Iran and help Israel will face Iran's decisive-decisive response.
So that's why we haven't received any reports whether the Jordan was involved in this situation.
The only thing we have that Jordan declares a nationwide state of emergency.
So once again, as we discussed, Iran were using significant number of different types of weapon, missiles and drones.
And the most important, Iran was using significant number of types of carriers.
The Iran was attacking the Israel with ballistic missiles ground to ground, surface to surface, right?
So, in this video, for example, we can see the Iranian missiles heading on the territory of Israel.
The sources reported that Iranians were using also the ships and the Navy fleet to attack the territory of Israel.
The only thing we haven't received, whether the Iranian forces were using aircraft like strategic aviation Like the Russians were using like 22 to 116 when attacking Ukraine.
We haven't seen something like this from the territory of Iran, from Iranian side.
So this is very interesting.
The Israeli from their side also were using different types of air defense.
The Israeli forces for example were using F-16s aircraft with the air-to-air missiles to bring down and to destroy the Iranian drones and Iranian, let's say, cruise and ballistic missiles.
Also, United Kingdom was helping Israel with air defense.
There was reports that British fighter jets took off from Cyprus to intercept the UAVs and missiles launched from Iran towards Israel.
As we know, the United States of America wasn't involved in that situation, so that was basically more or less, plus minus the conflict, the entire situation was just a game between Israeli, Iran, and Iranian proxies, like territory of Syria, territory of Iraq, and territory of Yemen.
So, once again, the question is what is going to be next?
Before we continue, a few things that we haven't seen during the previous night.
And this is very important.
Maybe from this perspective you might say that this is not important, but this is the most important thing.
You know that during the previous night there were no clashes on the ground.
There were no, let's say, offensive operations, storming of the cities, sabotage operations, explosions, terrorist attacks.
So there were no, simply say, there were no ground operations.
So basically that was a missile war.
And when talking about missile war, there is just one option, just one, let's say, end of this operation.
Who has more missiles is winning this war.
So we can say, the main answer to the question, who is going to win, if the conflict continues, who is going to win the conflict, is the answer to the question, who has more missiles.
Either missiles and drones and different types of attack weapons.
Either Iranians have more drones and ballistic and cruise missiles, or the Israelis have more air defense missiles.
So this is very simple and so that's why both countries either Israel and Iranians try to show and to present the best work of air defense from the Israeli side and missile attack from the drone strike from Iranian side.
So, Israel, of course, at the beginning of that attack wanted to stay on the safe side.
They understand that the most important thing, the most expensive thing is air defense missiles.
Because Israel belongs to the Western countries, that means that everything is very expensive.
Missiles, air defense weapons are very expensive because they're buying these mainly from the Western countries, from the NATO, from the United States of America, which is very expensive.
And when talking about Iran, everything is very cheap.
Everything is very cheap, but the only problem of Iran is technologies to get the necessary equipment, necessary parts and so on.
But anyway, an Iranian weapon is much more cheaper in comparison with an Israeli one.
So that's why Israelis understand that.
First of all, they need to save their potential as long as possible during the night.
And they need to, let's say, destroy and suppress the proxies.
Because proxies is the biggest danger that was in front of Israel.
Because proxies can attack easily not with ballistic missiles, not with cruise missiles, not with Shahid.
They can attack easily with basically multiple launch rocket systems.
And you also need to spend very expensive missiles to, let's say, destroy them.
So as soon as the operation started, Israel started bombing the southern part of Lebanon.
Just with one purpose.
To destroy the positions, possible positions of, let's say, multiple launch rocket systems in the area.
With just basic multiple launch rocket systems that Lebanon and the forces Hezbollah has on the territory.
So, there were very, very heavy explosions and during the night we received a significant number of them.
But, anyway, after a few waves of attacks from Israel's side, the Hezbollah forces managed to, how to say, to regroup in the area and they started bombing the territory of Israel with multiple anti-aircraft systems.
Of course, Israel was forced to use air defense, very expensive air defense, to bring these missiles down.
Somewhere at night we start receiving some approximate numbers of the cost of air defense from Israel.
And around, let's say, during the night we got the first number that Israel sources reported that the cost of the air defenses used so far for tonight has reached almost 1 billion.
Imagine yourself 1 billion just for one night.
Now, just from this perspective of the costs of air defense, could you ask yourself, let's say, for a question, how long the Israeli is able to, let's say, stand on their positions and to repel, let's say, an Iranian attack if one day costs one billion?
Of course, we're not saying that Iran has an endless number of missiles and drones and so on.
But, of course, this is an ongoing process during the special military operation in Russia.
They managed to establish lots of production, lots of factories.
Russia paid for everything, of course.
Everything was built mostly on Russian and Chinese money.
So that's why there is a real production of this type of weapon and maybe they are not able to hold this level, support this level of attack every single day, but few days, then small pause, another few days and so on.
And the question is whether Israel has the same possibilities to support the same level of production of air defense missiles.
Currently nobody can give us the answer to this question.
Maybe they can, maybe they're not.
But the problem is that the United States of America has a lot of conflicts all over the world.
Not just in Israel, but also Ukraine.
And we understand that the situation in Taiwan can go also in some very difficult direction.
And then obviously the Western production will not be able to support three regions.
against three very powerful economies in free three most important powerful productions in the world like Russia Iran and China and this is the biggest problem anyway let's return back and during the first phase of attacks the as once again we have for example on this video we can see The flight of a famous Iranian Shahed heading towards the territory of Israel.
On this photo we can see the swarm of drones heading towards Israel.
On this video we can see the flying of ballistic missiles.
Some sources were saying that there were around 200 missiles launched in the territory of Israel.
Some sources are saying that there were up to 1,000.
Maybe summarizing everything including Let's say, drones, missiles and also the missiles that were launched from the Praxis.
Very difficult, of course, to understand.
And during the first phase of attack, of course, the Israeli was very, very, very, we can say, professional, very successful with air defense.
Most of the missiles were brought down by the Israeli air defense.
And during the first, let's say, few hours, we were receiving just The, let's say, the missiles, the Iranian missile drones were brought down by the Israeli air defense and everything was, let's say, going according, let's say, on schedule.
So everything was fine.
But the more waves, the more missiles were launched on the territory of Israel and somewhere before the beginning of the morning we start receiving the first videos of how the Iranian Let's see, missiles broke through the Israeli air defense and reached the target.
And that… Hello, my dear… Let me say, I think that's quite brilliant.
Here we have two more stories before we take comments.
Iran struck important Israeli military targets.
This is from Russia Today.
Iran conducted a successful large-scale missile and drone attack against Israel.
The Islamic Republic managed to hit and destroy important military targets.
The strikes were a response to what Tehran called numerous crimes committed by West Jerusalem, including an alleged Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
The Islamic Republic attack involved more than 100 drones, Israeli and Western media reported.
The IDFs had tracked incoming unmanned aerial vehicles and intercepted them in midair with help from allies.
RAINNIAN MILITARY MEDIA PUBLISHED SEVERAL SHORT CLIPS PREPARING TO SHOW THE MOVEMENTS OF MISSILES AT THEIR TARGETS IN ISRAEL.
ONE WAS SET TO BE FROM A SETTLEMENT IN THE NEGEV DESERT IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY.
THE VIDEO SHOWED WHAT APPEARED TO BE SEVERAL MISSILE-STRIKING TARGETS.
ARTIK COULD NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CLIPS.
IDF has confirmed only minor damage to a single military base.
Only person injured, they claim, was a 10-year-old child in southern Israel, but this appears to be a major effort to conceal the success.
In the wake of the strikes, Israeli media reported the government planning a massive retaliation.
Channel 12 cited a senior official saying an unprecedented response to the attack is in the works.
Israel's culture and birth minister stated West Jerusalem received broad informational legitimacy tonight to strike Iran with unprecedented force, which suggests to me even the contemplation of nuclear weapons.
Here is the accurate impact report of what actually happened.
44 Mossad operatives killed at the Nevada Mir base.
Intelligence community sources confirmed the following battle damage information after the Iranian retaliation against Israel.
Iran fired 185 drones.
All 185 were either shot down or otherwise crashed en route to targets.
Iran fired 36 cruise missiles.
All 36 were shot down.
Iran fired 110 ballistic missiles.
103 were shot down.
Seven got through and impacted Israel.
Those seven ballistic missiles they got through and impacted were all hypersonic.
A particular hypersonic missile that got through, where one's pictured here, the Fatah-1.
Not one was shot down.
Meanwhile, Accuracy points out these missiles have maneuverability to cross missile shields.
Clearly, that capability worked last night as a result of the missile impact.
Two Israeli air bases sustained significant damage.
Including at least the death of at least 44 Mossad personnel having been killed.
Brian, your thoughts?
Well, every forest fire starts with a single spark, and in this one, the single spark was the fake October 7th attack that has now continued until it set up all of Gaza for disaster.
Lots of dead people, lots of dead children, apparently more dead children than in all the other wars in the previous decade combined happened over there.
So now you've got this forest fire that's beginning to burn out of control all through the middle of the East.
Of course, the predictable response from Western allied nations is, hey, everybody better settle down.
But they just continue to fund Israel's ability to defend themselves with their Iron Dome system.
It appears to me that the drone attacks were And the ballistic missiles were largely ineffective due to Iron Dome, but I think it was just a penetration test to determine what Israel was capable of and what Israel was not.
The hypersonic missiles apparently got through and apparently did some real damage, which, of course, Israel is going to come downplay the actual damage that took place.
But I can't see Iran spending a half a billion dollars in missiles just for a couple of targets to hit Israel.
At the end of the day, everybody's just spending money left and right to take care of this problem.
You've got all these Western nations allied saying Iran ought to back down.
Now the Saudis are putting pressure on Iran to back down as well.
Of course, they're allied with the West on most issues in terms of the royal family.
The French are telling Iran to back down.
The rest, Macron wants the whole world to Basically shut down trade with Iran.
They're finding themselves more and more isolated as Western powers take Israel's side in this particular situation.
Meanwhile, India says, Iran, fair play until Israel stops attacking Gaza.
That's the way it's going to be.
Putin's sitting back saying, hey, can we all just settle down here?
This forest fire is getting totally out of control.
This is benefiting no one.
All we're doing is killing people.
And at the same time, you've got Israel over here in Congress asking for billions and billions of more dollars to continue.
They've got to show the big threat.
So, the whole thing is turning into massive flames.
And the question is, what other Middle Eastern nations are going to take Iran's side, team up with Iran, and understand that Iran is doing what it can to try to get Israel to back down on the Palestinians?
Meanwhile, on the Palestinian side, there's only four or five different scenarios that can be played out that are going to settle the whole thing down.
And so those scenarios are Full reoccupation of Gaza by Israel, which would be unsustainable in the long term as Gaza continues and whatever's left in the Palestinian resistance continues to set up.
Number two is Israeli military control with Palestinian authority governing Gaza's civil affairs, and that's going to lead to continued conflicts.
That's not going to be Acceptable in the long haul.
Israeli military control with civil administration by moderate Arab states like Egypt or the United Arab Emirates is another option for settling things down.
But it's unlikely that these other nations are going to want to take sides in such a weird, unsustainable conflict of that.
Or full Israeli withdrawal and establishment of an independent Palestinian state in Gaza.
Which the damage is already done.
That is improbable given the sort of right-wing Western allied Israeli government.
Even given the public opinion against it, Israel feels like it's got the power to continue to do that.
And then the fifth scenario is Israel fails to eliminate Hamas, in which case the group's ideology And the revenge mindset is going to persist, leading to continued violence and unrest in Gaza, and the forest fire continues to go out of control.
It seems to me the only option left here, with Iran threatening the whole Middle East to upset the entire power structure, is that Israel backs off on Gaza, leaves them alone, lets them have their own state, Tells everybody to settle down and all the conflicts stop and it goes back to diplomacy like it should have been at the beginning.
I don't know if any of this is actually going to play out in a way that's peaceful at all.
I think there's going to continue to be a tremendous amount of bloodshed that takes place over there.
And the only question is how long can we sustain these wars and all this political unrest without the entire economy Catching fire, too.
And that may very well happen as well, in which case the clock is ticking on central bank digital currencies, which might be what the globalists want anyway.
That was an exquisite critique and analysis of the big picture, Brian, which I greatly value.
Iran accomplished multiple tasks.
In the first place, the drone attack and even many of the ballistic missiles consumed vast resources of Israel.
We even had a report they were running out of anti-aircraft or anti-missile munitions.
The drones are cheap.
The anti-missile munitions are not.
Also, it exposed how Israel would respond precisely as you observed.
So now the Iranians have pretty much a map of exactly where these resources are located and how to cope with it, especially because the seven hypersonic hit their targets.
That was actually the objective.
All the rest, I think, function as a diversion, but they destroyed two airports that were related to the attack on the Consulate in Syria and killed 44 Mossads.
The Israeli population is traumatized.
The illusion that they had complete security with the Iron Dome has been shattered.
Thousands are leaving Israel, fleeing for their lives.
This has been a powerful psychological blow.
And in addition, The entire Arab world and Islamic community has been elated over action actually having finally been taken to defeat Israel, to stand up to the monster and bring about an end of the slaughter, even though it wasn't initiated
By the genocide, it's being widely interpreted as having had an effect, and indeed we already have reports that Israel has pulled its forces out of Gaza and away from Rafa, and it may very well be Along the lines you sketched, that we're going to find a return to a more peaceful relationship.
But look at the devastation they have done to Gaza.
I mean, it's unconscionable.
Now, here are two more stories to add to the mix.
Biden tells Netanyahu it's a win and that the United States won't back retaliation against Iran.
President Biden told Israeli PM Netanyahu Saturday Washington will not support an Israeli retaliatory attack for Iran's drone and missile assault, saying a senior White House official.
Iran fired more than 300 missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles on Saturday night in what Tehran said was retaliation for the April 5 killing of several Republican Guard Islamic Republican Guard officers in Syria.
The U.S.
and other countries helped Israel shoot down the projectiles, roughly a 99% success rate.
If there were 307 got through, that's 98 or so, pretty close, according to the IDF.
American military intercepted over 100.
You gotta win!
Take the win, Biden told Netanyahu amid fears of a regional war should Jerusalem respond.
Netanyahu reportedly said he understood when Biden told him the U.S.
will not participate in an offensive military operation against Tehran.
Biden condemned the Iranian assault, which marked the first direct attack on Israel from Iranian territory, at my direction to support the defense of Israel.
The U.S.
military moved aircraft and ballistic missile defense destroyers to the region over the past few weeks.
Thanks to the deployments and the extraordinary skill of our service members, we helped Israel take down nearly all the incoming drones and missiles.
I've just spoken with a Prime Minister to affirm America's ironclad commitment to the security of Israel, that Israel demonstrates a remarkable capacity to defend itself and even defeat the unprecedented attacks, saying a clear message to foes that they cannot effectively threaten the security of Israel.
Tomorrow, I convene my fellow G7 leaders to coordinate a united diplomatic response to Iran's brazen attack.
My team will engage with counterparts.
We will stay in close touch with Israel's leaders.
While we have not seen attacks on our forces or facilities today, we will remain vigilant to all threats.
Iran is threatening a larger attack if Israel responds militarily, also warning the United States against further involvement.
We used an attack with ballistic and cruise missiles.
The operation is signed to attack the air base from which Israeli planes attacked the consulate in Damascus were launched.
There were direct hits in the attack.
We only targeted military bases, said Mohammed Bakri, chief of staff of the Iranian army.
We sent a message to the U.S.
If it cooperates with Israel, then except its bases, we'll not be safe.
Iran's mission to the U.N.
said the attack was in response to targeting the consulate in Damascus.
Even though Israel has not taken responsibility, reports suggest the building hit was the local headquarters of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Should the Israeli regime make another mistake, Iran's response will be considerably more severe.
It is a conflict between Iran and the rogue Israeli regime from which the U.S.
must stay away.
Thus, following Biden's suggestion, Netanyahu claims success in defeating the Iranian attack.
Israel has successfully repelled a huge Iranian drone and missile attack launched overnight, Prime Minister Netanyahu said.
His comments come after the Israeli military claimed a 99% interception rate.
Tehran launched an extensive barrage on the Jewish state over the weekend, which the IDF said included more than 300 missiles of various types and kamikaze drones.
The attack came in retaliation for what Iran claimed to be the Israeli airstrike on its consulate in Damascus earlier this month, which killed several senior Iranian military officers.
Sunday, in his first public comments, Netanyahu has sent a brief message claiming success in repelling the onslaught.
We intercepted, we blocked.
Together we will win.
Those remarks were echoed by the Defense Minister Gallant, who insisted Israel and the U.S.
thwarted the attack in a way that is unparalleled.
He said it helped the world see the true face of Iran, which he described as a terrorist state.
IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said 99% of the threats launched toward Israeli territory were intercepted, hailing the development as a very significant strategic achievement.
He said it was based on the technological superiority of the IDF and the support of a strong coalition.
At the same time, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said they ran advantage and destroy important military targets.
Without providing further details, the IDF had indeed acknowledged one of its bases had sustained what it claimed to be only minor damage.
Brian, your thoughts?
Well, the Ayatollah Khomeini came out and condemned the Israeli attack the airstrike on their own on their own land which consulate which led to
This entire thing, what he said was the malicious regime itself, which is all malice, evil and error, added another mistake to its own errors by launching an attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria.
And the Khamenei said nothing that the consulate.
Noting that the consulate and embassy offices in any country where they exist are regarded as the soil.
Of the country to which the embassy belongs.
He said that those actions should be punished and will be punished.
And those missiles and the drone strikes and the ballistic missiles and the hypersonic missiles were the reaction.
Stating that we have shown you what we're capable of if you ever attack us again.
But he also tried to satisfy the United Nations people by saying that should end the issue.
We've retaliated and that's all that we're going to do.
But he warned that considerably more severe consequences would take place if Israel continued to attack Iran.
And so the question is, does it satisfy the matter or is the matter only going to continue to grow out of control?
Everybody's warning that the whole thing could catch fire and it could get even worse unless everything settles down from here on out.
Well, let me just add, Iran knows now that its hypersonic missiles can penetrate the Israeli defense.
That's something they needed to find out.
They were successful— Go ahead.
By the way, I don't think the scattering of all the Israelis is such a good thing, you know?
At least we knew we were fighting.
And where they were concentrated at, now they're going to spread out all over the rest of the world and continue to do what Zionists do.
Is this a good thing?
I don't know.
It might have been better to sink the whole ship while the ship still had all of its crew on board.
Well, it was inevitable this would happen once the Israelis realized that the Iron Dome wasn't all it was reputed to be.
So I think that it was going to happen one way or another, and it's a powerful effect.
To have the population of Israel terrified that they might be next.
I don't think that's bad, but I, of course, agree that it's kind of like a disease.
Are we talking about some kind of spreading of the disease like a contagion?
Meanwhile, punishment of Israel complete, says Tehran.
Iran has no intention of continuing its operation against Israel, which included massive drone and missile strikes.
The chief of staff at the Air Force, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, has said.
Saturday night, Tehran launched an extensive barrage on the Jewish state, which the Israeli Defense Forces estimated to have included more than 300 missiles and kamikaze drones.
In fact, aiming retaliation for what Iran claimed to be an Israeli airstrike on Tehran's consulate in Damascus, which killed several senior Iranian military officers.
Speaking in the wake of the attack Sunday, Bagheri explained the reason for the attack was the Zionist regime crossed a red line in a way that cannot be tolerated.
Israel's actions, the general continued, Could not have gone unanswered.
The Supreme Leader also said that punishment will be carried out, and thank God the operation was carried out, with the efforts of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the help of other armed forces.
We see this operation as a complete, and it has ended, in our opinion.
We have no intention of continuing.
WARNING ISRAEL THAT IF IT TAKES FURTHER ACTION AGAINST IRAN, THE NEXT WILL BE FAR MORE EXTENSIVE.
The Chief of General Staff added Iran's military target at a large information center, providing intel to Israel, and Nebit Tamir Base, which he said hosted U.S.-designed F-35 fighters involved in the raid on the consulate in Damascus.
Well, both bases were destroyed.
Tehran did not attack population centers.
The general asserted Israel, of course, acknowledged 99% of the Israeli drones and missiles have been shot down, acknowledging only minor damage to one base, whereas Brian previously observed they're going to minimize what has happened.
Another reason for U.S.
hesitancy to join Israel in any attack on Iran?
Gulf states have warned the U.S.
even before the attack, not to launch strikes on Iran from their territory or airspace.
The U.S.
Gulf allies are working overtime to shut down avenues that could link them to a reprisal against Tehran or its proxies from bases inside their kingdoms, according to a senior official who spoke with Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity.
As tensions flare, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Kuwait have raised questions about the intricate details of basing agreements permitting tens of thousands of U.S.
troops to be stationed across the oil-rich Peninsula.
They're also moving to prevent U.S.
warplanes from flying over their airspace in the event the U.S.
conducts a retaliatory strike on Iran.
The U.S.
has spent decades investing in military bases in the Gulf.
Given their close proximity to Iran, those air bases would be the most convenient launching pad for the U.S.
against the Islamic Republic, current and former official told MEE.
The Gulf monarchy's re-elections, however, is complicating the Biden admin preparation as it wargames how to respond to a potential Iranian attack on Israel, which, of course, has now taken place.
Current and former officials told MEA they believe the attack is imminent.
They were right, as has been previously reported elsewhere.
It's a mess, a senior official told Middle East Eye.
The official, along with two former senior U.S.
officials, outlined three scenarios.
Why does planning for Iran's expected retaliation for a strike on its consulate in Damascus earlier this month blamed on Israel?
Iran could strike Israel directly from its territory.
A second option would be a coordinated attack by Iranian proxies on Israel using Shia paramilitaries in Iraq, Yemen's Houthis and Lebanon's Hezbollah, the latter being the most powerful proxy in Iran's arsenal.
A third option would combine the two.
Houthis, or Yemenis, struggle to breach Israel's U.S.-supplied Iron Dome defense immediately after October 7.
With the Biden-Edwin is concerned a multifaceted attack could overwhelm those defenses.
Iran could also strike Israeli embassies, including those in the Middle East or Israeli troops, in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
President Biden said he informed Israeli PM Netanyahu the U.S.
commitment to Israel's security was ironclad.
But the Biden admin had divided over what level of support to give Israel.
The president's highest-ranking national security officials have staked out different positions.
Some, like Meher Bitar, director of intel at the National Security Council, are urging restraint, while Brett McGurk, Biden's top Middle East envoy, is advocating for a tougher response.
The Biden admin fear of becoming embroiled in a wider war and of U.S.
elections is also weighing on those discussions.
The Gulf state's cold feet amid the crisis comes after years of complaining the U.S.
has not done enough to protect them from attacks by Iran's proxies, particularly the UAE and Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, and Abu Dhabi, due to the Biden admin's response to the Houthi drone and missile attack as taboo and a move to patch up ties with Tehran.
Gulf leaders are now walking a tie-broke between their U.S.
ally Iran and their populations who are seething with anger at Israel over its offensive on Gaza that has killed more than 33,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children.
The White House did not respond to Middle East aide's request for comment by the time of publication.
The U.S.
note has at least 40,000 troops in the Middle East, the majority located in the oil-rich Gulf states, where they are based at a string of strategic air and naval bases.
Saudi Arabia's Brent Sultan Air Base is home to the 378th Air Expeditionary Wing, which operates F-16 and F-35 jet fighters.
The U.S.
operates MQ-9 Reaper drones and jet fighters out of the UAE's Al Dhafra Air Base.
Kuwait's Ali Al Salem Air Base is home to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing.
Qatar's Al Udeid Air Base hosts a regional headquarters for the U.S.
Central Command.
It's also hosted some Israeli military officials, as MEA has previously reported, but it's not clear if those officials remain in the country.
The island kingdom of Bahrain is home to around 9,000 U.S.
troops who belong to the headquarters of the U.S.
Naval Forces Central Command and the U.S.
5th Fleet.
Oman also allows U.S.
military overflights and port calls.
Brian, your thoughts?
Well, everybody's blaming everybody.
Of course, the left here in America are blaming Donald Trump.
The right know that everything goes all the way back to Obama when a plane load of money arrived in exchange for lightening up sanctions on Iran.
The good news is there's a lot of nations over in the Middle East that are beginning to side with Iran.
Iran did what they did.
They announced 72 hours in advance to their neighboring countries that they were going to do it.
They went ahead and did it.
They said that should end the matter.
For now, trying to settle everything down, but the rest of the world is still on fire related to how long is this going to last and how bad is it going to get?
The simple fact of the matter is the economy is a fickle thing and war in the Middle East could break What is already turning America into a third world country in terms of what it's going to do to our dollar if we continue to support Israel with, and by the way, Israel's very first response with Biden was to call up the White House, ask more money.
And then, of course, Biden's response was, let's we need to have a summit.
Let's call another G7 summit and talk about all this and go through all the details.
So at least there are signs that diplomacy is still working.
But the real matter, the foundation of all of this still has to do with Israel and Gaza until Israel backs off the genocide that they've been committing over in Gaza.
I don't think you're going to be able to settle down the Middle East whatsoever or settle down India whatsoever.
And of course, this is setting the whole rest of the world on fire.
So I think Israel is going to be stuck with no choice other than to back off on what's been going on in Gaza, although the damage is already done.
Brian, I think that's a correct assessment, very subtle and perceptive.
I think that this attack has been like a whole bowl of ice water in the face of Israel, or a hard slap to the face to the idea of.
I think they felt they were invulnerable.
It's clear they are not.
Iran has their number.
I believe we're going to see a modification in the behavior of Israel, which it would appear has already begun, which is going to be good for a situation in the Middle East.
Well said.
Meanwhile, Iranian officials threat the U.S.
not to retaliate to its attack on Israel.
Iran Sunday warned Israel and the U.S.
it would carry out a larger attack if either country retaliated against Tehran's overnight missile and drone attack, saying U.S.
military bases could be in the crosshairs.
Iran launched explosive drones, shot missiles at Israel late on Saturday in what has been described as its first direct attack on Israel.
The Islamic regime said the attack was warranted after Israel bombing a Syrian compound in early April, killing seven members of its Revolutionary Guard Corps dead, given especially that it was sovereign Iranian territory.
Israel, in other words, hit Iran before Iran retaliated by hitting Israel.
Our response will be much larger than tonight's military action if Israel retaliates against Iran.
Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Mohammed Bagheri told state-run media Sunday, saying Iran has warned the United States any support of an Israeli counterattack would lead to American bases being targeted.
All U.S.
bases and assets in the region could be targeted, he added.
Mr. Abedolani called the attack, exercising the right of legitimate defense, said it showed Iran's responsible approach to regional and international peace and security.
He added that Iran had notified the U.S.
of the impending attack.
Early Sunday, in a message to the White House, we announced our operation would be limited and minimalistic and aimed at legitimate defense and punishing the Israeli regime.
Iran vowed repeatedly that it would respond to an apparent Israeli strike on an Iranian diplomatic compound in Damascus that killed two generals.
Sunday's assault allowed the Islamic regime to show to its citizens it won't stand by when its assets are attacked, and that was serious when it threatened revenge.
But Israeli officials suggested the Iranian attack was mostly a failure, saying most of the 300 or so drones or missiles that launched were intercepted.
Bibi Netanyahu wrote on social media, We intercepted, we blocked.
Together we will win.
And Israeli Army spokesman Daniel Hegari told the AP, 99% of the drones and various types of missile were intercepted outside of Israeli territory.
Again, repeating, one missile caused minor damage, another injured a seven-year-old girl, when in fact, 44 Mossad were killed, and the damage to two airbases was substantial.
Neither the Israeli government nor the U.S.
has indicated whether there will be retaliatory strikes, but anonymous White House officials have told multiple outlets that Washington will not get involved.
At the same time, Saturday, Iran's Revolutionary Guard confirmed to news outlets it had seized an Israeli-linked cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, considered one of the world's key shipping choke points.
It comes amid months of attack carried out by Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists—I'se call them freedom fighters—unshipped passing through the area.
Brian, your further thoughts?
Well, I don't have much more to say about it, except that what's interesting that's happening globally at the same time, remember that old group that was getting all that traction called BRICS?
Well, they've come together and put together a whole envoy, and they're saying it's time to change the economy.
It's time to issue a new monetary system globally to all BRICS members.
The clock is ticking on the economy.
I spent most of the week and looking at the economy in terms of where is it going?
Where are we at?
Why are we here?
And what's going to last and what's not going to last?
And my overall impression is that all the analysts out there are saying that it's a crash is coming.
Well, that may very well happen as a result of the war and maybe it's something that they want to happen.
The question is.
What's going to happen when it does?
Is there going to be a new central bank digital currency issued?
How are people going to respond?
Will they be able to continue to buy, sell, and trade like they're used to doing?
Or will we have to go back to an old-style barter system?
I don't know the answer to that, but it looks like the real estate market is getting very close, and the banking market is getting very close to crashing.
Apparently the banks have lent out all their money for cheap mortgages.
Now the mortgage rates are going up, the banks are losing money on every mortgage that they've got out there, and they don't have enough cash to cover the deposits which allowed the mortgages to take place in the first place.
So you've got a real bubble that's beginning to develop in the economy that could cause, you know, a third world style crash here in America.
Will we continue to print money and allow inflation to continue taking place?
I don't know what's worse, whether I'd rather have A bullet to the head quickly, or whether I'd rather be starved to death with inflation.
I really don't know which is going to be worse and how it's going to play, but I can tell you that, you know, the grocery cart that I used to spend $125 on is now $350.
This is getting out of control.
On top of that, we've got our fuel prices that are causing everything, and insurance rates seem to be going up across the board.
Now, this is causing real trouble for a lot of people here in America, so I think Domestically, we've got our own problems that we have to deal with, while at the same time, we seem to be printing a tremendous amount of money giving to the NGOs, which are helping all the border crossers come in.
So, we've got big problems at home, and I hate to say it, but we got a lot of focus on what's happening in the Middle East.
The one thing is, oil exports will continue to go up, and the oil and gas continue to run the economy, but how long will it last?
I don't know.
Brian, I think that's very, very sophisticated.
What is going to be the impact of six million illegals coming into the country in relation to housing, mortgages and the like?
What in the hell is going to be the consequence?
A declining middle class.
As we get more of these workers that come in and take away the lower paying jobs, the middle class is going to find themselves out of work more and more with artificial intelligence and the advances in technology right now.
I really think that our middle class is going to continue to decline.
I think that's what they want.
I think if you ask yourself the question, what do the globalists want?
To achieve, they're going to say, we want to continue to make the gap larger between the upper classes and the lower classes.
And that means that the middle class, as a result of inflation, are going to find that their resources don't go far enough.
They're going to fall deeper into debt, causing more fear, more concern, and less spending overall.
And you're going to find a middle class that crashes first.
Whereas the poor people, you'll always have them.
They'll always be around, but it's the middle class that has kept America strong for so long.
Now we're going to find ourselves with two classes, a ruling class and a slave class.
Very good.
Okay.
Another story.
This is rather fascinating.
The anti-New York Times want to challenge everything we've been addressing.
Israel reports light damage after Iran launches large strike.
Iran's leaders say retaliation is over unless Israel strikes back.
Rebuttal by the anti-New York Times.
As expected.
As specifically and repeatedly predicted by the editorial boards of the anti-New York Times ever since this scene of the movie began last October.
The fake Wag the Dog War in Gaza.
Which was triggered by October's fake Hamas raid on Israel, is now spreading and threatening World War III.
Iran's, or Iran's airstrikes on Israel itself didn't actually do any damage.
Most of the missiles being intercepted by the U.S.
and Israel, but If subsequent attack by either side should lead to bloodshed, we know the blood will be fake and the crisis actors will be from White Hat Studios.
This is all fake.
But for the good!
The anti-New York Times of October 23rd, 2023!
If this thing should snowball into a global conflagration World War III scenario—Russia, China, Iran, Hezbollah, et al.
versus NATO—Jews will indeed be blamed, including by many normies and newbies in the United States of the West.
Let's not tell the normies the looming crisis.
We'll all be safely scripted with crisis actors, theatrical dust, and special effects.
Let them shart their undies and beg for Trump to return and bring peace.
This is the first-ever attack on the heart of Israel itself, and the masked actor playing the already-deceased BB-Satan-Yahoo is vowing a response.
I establish a clear principle.
Whoever hurts us, we will hurt them.
We will defend ourselves from any threat, and we will do so calmly and with determination.
I know that you, the citizens of Israel, are also keeping calm.
I urge you to listen to the directives of the Home Front Command.
Together we stand, and with God's help, together we will overcome all our enemies.
As worldwide normiedom anxiously awaits Israel's response.
The anti-New York Times advises, relax, pass the popcorn, enjoy the imaginary apocalypse.
Trump and the patriots are in control.
Here we have, the attack itself amounted to nothing but a light snow.
Maybe Satan Yahoo hit it at a response.
Again, with a sudden change of color along the mask line, the 9-11 plotter BB was executed several years ago on the order of Commander Trump.
What's going on with the world?
Everybody's fighting.
Russia, Ukraine, Israel, the Middle East is blowing up.
Everything is blowing up.
China is going to be next with Taiwan.
Because of weakness, China is going to be next.
Bring Donald Trump back as president, it will all stop.
Trump quote above, image well played, commander well played.
Presidential agent behind Trump holds up a Q on his phone.
If the Q team script writers have Israel respond to this harmlessly symbolic tit-for-tat attack in a much deadlier, fake, and escalatory manner, then world condemnation of the shitty little state will reach a fever pitch.
In terms of public relations, the playacted genocide in Gaza, which the anti-New York Times has thoroughly proven to be a combination of crisis acting and AI imagery, is bad enough, but at least that's contained.
A fake war on Iran, however.
A nation backed by Russia and China, instigated by the SLS, which is backed by the US and the UK.
Well, very frightening, though imaginary.
World War 3 implications.
Heck, you guys think the SLS reputation is in the toilet now?
White hat Twitter anti-Semitism is on the chart and totally uncensored now.
Just wait until the world starts blaming the usual suspects for taking us all to the brink of World War 3.
Come on, BB.
You gonna let those Iranian mullahs get away with this?
A tough guy like you?
Bomb them Muslim back to the Stone Age.
Get Biden to help you.
A World War III scare event blamed on the usual suspects will not end well for them this time.
World War III scare event.
Open hatred of Jews surges globally and blamed by gods of war.
Iran attack on Israel, prelude to World War III.
Colombian president blames U.S.C.
world leader's reaction.
We are saving Israel from last, Q Post 916.
Sorry, Ari, but the H card has lost its old black magic.
That's a MOO holocaust, reminding us of the victims Israel or Jews have been in the past.
It's not playing well anymore.
Meanwhile, Boobus Americanus, I read in the New York Times today that Rand says it's a tally-ation for Israel's attack on its embassy in Syria is over.
Boobless America on us, too.
That's good.
The score is even now, and nobody has been hurt.
There's no reason at all for Israel to strike back and escalate this now.
And I say this as someone who has many Jewish friends.
Saint Sugar.
Wag the cat, BB.
Wag the frickin' cat.
Editor!
If that happens, there'll be nobody left in the SLS corner but the rapture-ready evangelical Scofield Tards.
Here we have... ...or the impact... ...new video shows Russian troops near the Syrian bolon hide...
Russia raises heat to the moves along the Israel border.
Putin's new move is scary message at Netanyahu.
Russia makes gold boots.
Syria's colon fights after Israel's attack on Iran's consulate.
Russia's defense, the Israeli ship.
We are dispatching forces at Dnepropetrovsk.
The opening ceremony of the initial observation post was attended by Russian officers.
Military posts belonging to Syrian military are located below Russian observation.
Russian forces repeatedly will help de-escalate tensions after increasing Israeli attack.
The Russian warship was specifically entered Red Sea.
*music* Now a new question about Russia's intentions in the Middle East.
Moscow is a clear message of Jerusalem and a lot of involvement in the region.
Israel relations strained since October 7, but they haven't reached a breaking point yet.
Yeah, who's still after the potential diplomatic.
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Personally, I like that.
I think the more Russian involvement, the better.
Your take, Brian?
Well, I'm glad anti-war is addressing the Q phenomenon.
I would like to believe it.
I have spent some time analyzing it.
And I wanted to believe it until the 2020 election.
Now we're coming into 2024 and we still haven't seen any obvious public explanation for what the phenomenon actually was.
But we keep getting these sort of cryptic hints floating around all over that these hangings have taken place and reason and this and that and I do see a lot of evidence that the actors seem to be being replaced by People in masks and that there seems to be substitutionary actors playing all sorts of roles.
And that's the only thing that gives the movement any credibility for me whatsoever at this point in time, is that it just doesn't make sense that there's been absolutely no movement.
I mean, you tell me Hillary Clinton is still functioning exactly the way she used to function?
I thought she was on the verge of death years ago.
And we've got all the same players.
We've got a Joe Biden character that seems to be, you know, playing this role successfully in terms of what the White House is doing.
You've got Trump playing a role that seems, but he's raising billions of dollars.
I can't trust him.
I don't see any indication that he's saying anything that that's happening.
So I guess the only question for me is how long will the show go on?
If this queue operation is somehow actually has any credibility whatsoever.
Because sit back and enjoy the show doesn't seem to be working for most Americans.
There's a revolution going on now where people are beginning to see that the only way that they can function to change this corrupt governing system is to break loose from it and continue to form whatever they can form locally to resist whatever's coming.
But I mean, I appreciate antiwar.com sticking to the path.
I just, I have a hard time coming into the 2024 elections thinking that there's anything to it.
I think it's going to continue to be the show as usual, and the show will continue to go on as it's going on.
Yeah, I like Mike King, the editorial board of the New York Times.
I've interviewed him on my show, but I think that the Q narrative has worn very, very thin, and I see no evidence to substantiate its anticipations of the course of events.
I greatly value your comments on all of this, Brian.
Don, take us out.
Oh yeah, I have a few questions.
First, they're talking about white hats and black hats.
Who do you think is wearing a white hat, and who's wearing a black hat in all this Middle East and on the domestic side?
It looks like we've got a... Who can you believe?
Who's telling the truth?
This is truth versus news, and it looks like there's an awful lot of news that is all garbled up and confusing, so...
Can you help me straighten this out?
Can you straighten it out for me?
Well, you can get more truth from Moscow and Tehran than you can from the New York Times or Washington DC, Don, for a certainty.
Brian, your further observations?
Gold is up a tremendous amount over the last month.
I don't know if anybody's noticing, but it's trading at over $2,300 an ounce right now in the spot price.
That's a big increase over where it was.
It was at 2,000 about a month ago.
So that's a 15% increase in one month.
Why?
Why?
And how come silver hasn't caught back up?
I don't know.
But I think it's very interesting to see that a lot of people are starting to get back into the precious metals.
And I think that has a lot to do with the volatility related to Bitcoin.
I mean, Bitcoin's way down.
Gold is way up.
What's going to happen?
I don't know, but if I had more precious metals, I'd feel a lot better right now, because I sure don't feel good about cash in the bank.
Cash in the bank does not look attractive to me right now.
Don, take us out.
Take us out.
Yeah, I guess so.
So this has been one heck of a show here on Tax Day, slaving and taxing and farming.
Just the first hour.
This is just the first hour, Don.
Remember.
Oh, OK.
OK.
So anyway, this has been a heck of a first hour of our show today.
So thank you so much for watching, and come on back for more.
This is a show where we need you to see all kinds of good things there, Jim.
Thank you so much for a great broadcast today.
We're missing Scott, but he'll be back next week.
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