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March 26, 2025 - Jim Fetzer
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Truth vs. NEW$, Inc Part 1 (25 March 2025) with Don Grahn, Joachim Hagopian, and Brian Davidson
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Three, two, one.
And welcome, folks, to Truth vs.
News Incorporated.
And this is March 25th, 2025.
Oh, boy.
What a hot time this is, getting to be springtime and everything else.
We've had some...
Great things going on in the past, shows for the last 14, 15 years, led by the one and only Jim Fetcher, who's the star of our show and especially the leader of everything.
He does everything.
He's written some books, like this little one here about JFK, who, how, and why.
This is the book of the week, book of the year, book of the century.
And he's in charge of that, plus so many more things.
He's blessed us with hundreds of stories every week and things.
Jim, we just owe you a great deal of benefit and gratitude, and we salute you.
And we also salute Bryan Davidson, a private eye out of Texas, who seems to have the insights on what's really going on that we need to know about and that you won't hear anywhere else.
Plus, we have Joaquin, who's all the way from Bali, who has got some keen things.
He's got a heck of an article in this week's show.
So what do you say we get started?
I guess it's pretty heavy here right now.
In fact, I think this is going to be our heaviest of shows because the news is getting worse and worse.
And this might be the worse-er-est as it's getting here because Putin wants to reject ceasefire and start war with Ukraine and things.
Oh my God.
Lead on I hope it's gonna be good.
Let me just add that, you know, my work on JFK, like on so many other subjects, is collaborative.
I bring together the best experts and publish our results and give a distillation overview of what we have found.
Because it's right here, this show couldn't succeed without Brian and Joaquin as contributors to our efforts to relate what's going on in the world.
We begin with Putin rejecting a ceasefire and escalating attacks on Ukraine because he wants something permanent.
The anticipated 30-day ceasefire has been dismissed by Putin following an extensive phone conversation with Trump of nearly two hours.
Now, this is about a week ago.
Despite opposing an immediate cessation, Putin chose not to follow that.
He agreed to a limited ceasefire originally.
Russia and Ukraine accused each other of new attacks.
Russian drones hit hospitals and sumian homes.
This is a propaganda piece.
Zelensky, who backed a full ceasefire, used global action to stop Russia.
This is just rather ridiculous from big breaking wire.
Shortly after the call, there were alarms in Kiev and other cities as Russia launched a wave of attacks.
147 Iranian-made drones.
It is true, Russia has benefited from Iranian drones, just as Iran has benefited from Russian missiles.
Putin's words have no credibility, all except a local Kiev native, but of course that's ridiculous.
Putin's the one guy whose words do matter.
He stands by his promises, declarations, and treaties.
The United States, alas, does not.
Steve Whitcock, President's Special Envoy, was present.
While there had been progress in dialogue regarding energy and infrastructure, agreements for settlement were lacking.
Not yet to happen.
Adding to the intrigue, the Gremlin has reportedly amplified its demands, pressing for Ukraine to drop down its troop levels and stop its mobilization efforts.
Well, we've all done what Putin wants.
He's going to keep all the territories Russia has taken.
No NATO for Ukraine.
He wants a demilitarization of what remains of Ukraine and denazification, which is going to be the most difficult.
It's claimed Russian forces have nearly regained dominance over Kursk.
That turns out to be 100% correct, including here it states North Korean soldiers, but it's unclear whether that is true.
Meanwhile, discussion between U.S. and Ukraine over a ceasefire or a peace settlement have not gone well.
Ukraine's talk with the U.S. ended in Riyadh.
They did not go well at all.
The deputy director of Zelensky's office, Palisa, shown above, refused to comment, but the Ukrainian delegation would not meet with the Russians in Riyadh.
Zelensky and Zavis making the rounds seem to be saying all the wrong things.
Zelensky will not allow UN peacekeepers on the ground.
Insisting NATO membership and NATO boots on the ground is the only way forward.
So no to UN peacekeepers.
Yes to NATO boots on the ground.
That's what you would say if you wanted the war to continue.
Meanwhile, Lieutenant General is telling Zelensky to blow up all their nuclear power plants if Ukraine loses the war.
This would be catastrophic.
Budarov is the Ukrainian military leader, served as the chief of the main director of intelligence of the Ministry of Defense since August of 2020.
This is a very important guy.
He briefly served as deputy director of the Department of Foreign Intelligence Service and holds the rank of lieutenant general three stars.
He proposed to the president's office a plan to blow up all Ukrainian nuclear power plants.
Oskai Arrestovich, who is a Ukrainian political advisor, former military officer, and columnist.
Also a theologian.
He was a speaker for the Trilateral Contact Group in Ukraine.
He reveals the plan was developed in case of a lost war.
They, the U.S., perceive us as a monkey with a grenade.
They simply want to take dangerous toys under the control.
They know about our plan to blow up all the nuclear power plants if Ukraine loses.
Budinov ran with us about a year and a half ago.
Blow them up!
All the Russian ones we can reach, all of ours, so no one gets anything.
He brought it seriously to the office and offered the principle, we will die.
We'll take everyone with us.
How grotesque is that?
Here's a map where the power plants are located.
The darker are circled, the lighter, and there are two or three are not.
Meanwhile, a buried trial verdict confirms a false flag made in massacre in Ukraine.
We know, of course, that this was promoted by the United States, using $5 billion of American money to precipitate a coup.
Well, it turns out it was even confirmed.
by a court trial.
Nearly a million-word verdict from Ukraine's maiden massacre has confirmed what many maiden activists were shot not by members of Ukraine's Berkowitz Special Police Force, but by snipers in the far-right controlled hotel, Ukraine, and other maiden controlled locations.
The verdict, handed down on October 18, 2023, says specifically The hotel was controlled by Maiden activists that an armed far-right Maiden group was in the hotel firing from it.
Confirms there was no Russian involvement in the massacre, that no massacre orders were issued by then-President Viktor Yankovych or his ministers.
The verdict concludes the Euro Maiden was at the time of the massacre not a peaceful protest but a rebellion.
Involving the killing of Merkut and other police personnel.
This is an important visual acknowledgement.
Not only because the violent represents the most significant case of mass murder, violent crime, and human rights violations in independent Ukraine to that point.
But because of the subsequent conflicts to which it later contributed, it precipitated the overthrow of Yankovich and his government, falsely blamed for carrying it out, then spiraled into the Russian annexation of Crimea, subsequent civil war, Russian intervention, and the Donbass, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, now Russia and the Western powers?
Wow! There has been a blackout, however, at the Burkitt's confirmation of the maiden snipers in the Ukrainian media, with a few exceptions.
It has been repeatedly claimed, falsely, that the Burkitt police were responsible for the death of 40 of the 48 protesters.
It also turns out they whitewashed the existence of the snipers and the far-right's involvement, labeling it a conspiracy theory.
My understanding, by the way, they brought in Soviet weapons to be used here.
Victoria Nuland, of course, funding the whole thing.
The verdict by the Ukrainian Tavshov District Court in Kiev, along with the findings by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office, comprise a de facto official admission on the part of Ukraine's judicial system, no less.
And on February 20th, 2014, At least 10 of the maiden activists killed, 115 of the 175 wounded were not shot by the police, firing from government-controlled areas, but by snipers operating in a maiden-controlled location.
They admitted one dead protester, 77 wounded maiden activists were not shot from the police-controlled area and therefore did not charge anyone with those crimes.
The verdict, issued by the court before the 10th anniversary, showed that the narrative that has been propagated by governments of mainstream and info warriors in the West is false.
Proponents of the narrative have called a peaceful protest, present the massacre of the protesters as a crime perpetrated by government snipers on the orders of Yankovic and his government.
The prosecutors Victims, lawyers, New York Times, and other mainstream Wikipedia, self-proclaimed experts, info-warriors, denied the existence of the snipers at the hotel and other maiden-controlled buildings, the shootings of the protesters by the snipers, and the far-right's involvement in the mass killing, claiming instead it was Russian disinformation.
Where have we heard that before?
Joaquin. Your thoughts?
Well, every time you have a war, the first thing that goes out the window is the truth.
Propaganda is how wars are waged to basically justify the battlefield deaths.
And in this case, Ukraine, the United States, and the West in general are full of shit.
Over and over again, they've been caught in lies.
Russia probably does a little bit of propaganda themselves.
Every side engages in a certain degree.
But it's been proven over and over and over again that it's almost always Ukraine or the United States or one of their allies or together with NATO.
That's the false propagandists.
Every single time.
So when you have a history stacked up like that, you know that anything that comes out from Ukraine is bullshit.
It's all propaganda to justify whatever they're doing and justify all their demands that are unrealistic.
It's never going to go anywhere if they demand...
That they become a member of NATO, that NATO troops go on the ground in Ukraine.
This is all bullshit, you know?
That's never going to happen.
And Russia has, from the very beginning, been very consistent about what they demand, even prior to February 22, 2022.
And that has not changed.
But Ukraine and the United States, they still...
Haven't accepted the basic four terms that all the territory, Crimea, Zaporizhia, Kherson, Donbass region, Lugansk and Donetsk, they're all Russian ethnic residents that wannabe had, what, 97% vote.
In resolutions to become annexed to Russia.
It was given away by Khrushchev in the 50s because he was from Ukraine.
So it never should have happened.
And obviously, we have all this huge problem from it.
But that's going to stay Russian, obviously.
So that has to be.
And then they just want a neutral country on their border.
Hey, America demanded it.
Way back in, what, 1962 with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
It's only fair.
Every country, and according to UN Charter and all international law, they, every country deserves to have a neutral border or to be able to adjudicate whatever conflicts arise with a...
Bordering nation.
So this is all that Russia has been demanding.
And then, of course, let's denazify this Madonna neo-Nazi outfit that the United States and NATO has funded and trained and financed.
So, I mean, you know, it's all basic stuff that Russia requires.
And any...
Fair person would say, yep, yep, yep, those are legitimate demands.
But Ukraine, West, they will not accept.
So, I mean, it may take all the way to the border of Poland and all that.
We hope not.
We hope that through America's intervention, something can be resolved with Russia.
But the demands going in...
With U.S. talking to Russia finally after all these years, their demands are not going to be met because Russia holds to the same rule that they will not deviate from.
So we'll see what happens going forward, but it's not a good sign because Ukraine and the United States are both holding out with bullshit demands.
Brian? Well, the whole thing with Russia could have been avoided had we just simply complied with the Minsk agreements, but it's too late for that.
But since we didn't comply, obviously that makes negotiations very, very difficult when you can't trust the person that you're negotiating with.
The good news is it seems that Trump seems to be playing his cards quite well, given the situation, but...
Whether or not these talks will break down.
It's hard to do negotiations when you have a bunch of personality conflicts.
Russians and Americans, they've been so betrayed by the West for so long.
It's going to be very, very difficult.
I predicted a long time ago that it would continue to be very, very difficult to enforce that situation.
But one thing, you know, I've been thinking about the big picture here.
For a long time, I want to point this out, and this is a broad stroke that has to deal with a lot of government, but we had something called the Emoluments Clause built into the Constitution.
It was basically set up by George Washington at the very beginning, and the idea was to prevent foreign entanglements and to focus on what happens within our own borders more than dealing with Getting involved with other nations.
And if you think about the foreign entanglements that we've been involved with for the last 60, 80 years in terms of worldwide pegemony and domination, you can begin to realize how bad things have gotten and why the founding fathers put the emoluments clause in place.
It was to prevent corruption because basically the ideal of public service was to serve as a public trust.
Rather than a path to non-enrichment.
It's funny that nobody ever talks about that particular issue anymore, but it really needs to come back to the forefront, especially with AIPAC and the war machine related to Zelensky and related to many other issues.
We need to focus on our politicians as serving the public rather than straight-up self-enrichment.
It was very important for the early founding fathers to build in the Emoluments Clause.
The problem was they didn't put any penalties in place.
And so it's basically unenforceable.
And if you think about all the different conflicts of interest that begin to arise when it comes to military contractors being given contracts by different committees and all these other things, there's huge incentive.
Well, add to it, APAC.
Tell me that's not a foreign entanglement related to all these wars and all these other things.
We need to bring back the emoluments clause and put some teeth into it so that we can prevent politicians from benefiting from these foreign entanglements in the future.
That was a very big part.
Theoretically, all the presidents have voluntarily supported it.
Even Trump, his hotels have made a tremendous amount of money.
From international politics and issues related to people staying at his hotels, politicians traveling in, lobbyists traveling in, spending a bunch of money at his hotels.
Most of our previous federal officers took the emoluments clause very seriously, but in the last 40 to 60 years it's been completely abandoned.
making the job of deciding who's going to be the winner and who's going to be the loser in any conflict come down to simply who pays the biggest bucks to the politicians that I have one other thing to say.
I think it was a couple weeks ago I confused the Bay of Pigs with the Cuban Missile Crisis in a show.
I didn't even notice it, but I've had...
A commenter pointed out multiple times that I need to issue a retraction about that.
So I made a mistake and didn't get my research right.
I'm just trying to satisfy this commenter that keeps putting messages out there.
The retraction is made.
I made the mistake.
We all from time to time.
Meanwhile, breaking.
Trump orders a decisive combat operation against Yemen.
The White House announced Trump had ordered...
Opposite Yemen, the Navy confirmed the 5th Fleet has entered a period of sustained combat operations.
The 5th Fleet is responsible in the Arabian Gulf, Red Sea, and the Arabian Sea.
Its headquarters located in Bahrain.
It shares that command headquarters with the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.
Yemen has reinitiated a sort of naval blockade in the Red Sea.
Which also affects the Suez Canal against the state of Israel because Israel is forbidding food, water, electricity into the Gaza Strip for over two weeks.
Yemen has declared war on Israel.
Why that's not mentioned here is beyond me.
Over 1.5 million people remain in Gaza.
Yemen halted its activities in the Red Sea when negotiations opened between Hamas, In Israel, and when aid was allowed through, food, water, and electricity flowed.
Something went wrong, however, which is really Netanyahu restarting the genocide.
Israel cut off food, water, and electricity, which is especially devastating because they need electricity to desalinate the water to have potable or drinkable water.
After 10 days of no food or water, Yemen announced they were giving Israel four days to restore the flow, which they did not do.
So Yemen resurrected the blockade of commercial shipping to and from Israel in the Red Sea.
The U.S. says a blockade of international shipping, even though it's over genocide, adversely affects the United States.
It told Yemen to cease its threatened and actual attacks against shipping.
Yemen, of course, has not complied.
Over the past weekend, the U.S. has made dozens of heavy air strikes to convince them to stop.
Despite at least 52 killed in Yemen, they were not convinced.
Yemen then announced, in retaliation, all American ships in the Red Sea will now also be subject to Yemeni attack.
Then directed the military to engage in decisive combat operation, which ain't going to happen.
No matter what they do to the Houthis, it's not going to be decisive.
They will be unrelenting.
They are the most resilient military force in the world today.
No word yet of any boots on the ground.
Yemen doesn't have an army, a navy, or an air force.
They utilize missiles allegedly provided by Iran.
In the past, they have successfully attacked a number of merchant vessels traveling to and from Israel.
Hal Turner.
Today's escalation is extremely serious.
How the world's most powerful military can attack a country with no army, navy, or air force is not a good look at all.
It's more than not a good look.
Maybe pressure should be brought on the...
Bear on the country actually causing all this.
You know Israel?
How Israel can apply group punishment to one and a half million Palestinians in Gaza over the actions of a few hundred members of Hamas seems un-American.
Denying food and water to one and a half million over the actions of a few hundred seems unthinkable to civilized people.
It's also illegal under the Geneva Conventions, the UN Charter, and a host of other international laws.
If it's okay for Israel to apply group punishment to all Palestinians in Gaza for the actions of a few, would it then also be okay for the world to apply group punishment to all Israel-types Jews for the ongoing genocide in Gaza?
May be something the world has to consider.
Over the next few days.
Meanwhile, Trump to Iran.
Cut off Houthis or face annihilation.
Simply absurd.
Trump issued a blunt warning to Iran Wednesday demanding to cut off all support to the Houthis or face devastating consequences from the U.S. Whether ran backs off or not, the Houthis Or on a path to total annihilation if Trump has his way.
Trump boasts at slamming Tehran's supply shipments of the terrorist faction, despite easing off on military hardware.
Iran must stop sending these supplies immediately.
Let the Houthis fight it out themselves.
Either way they lose, but this way they lose quickly.
Trump added that the group was right suffered tremendous damage.
That's not even a fair fight anymore, promising they will be completely annihilated, because that's the Trump way.
The war involves a major escalation in Yemen, where Trump authorized airstrikes, continuing to hammer Houthi strongholds, including the heavily fortified Sada province.
The strike resumed after the Houthis restarted that campaign.
Called wartime terrorism, but it ain't because they're at war with Israel.
Why is even Hal Turner not making this statement?
This is, of course, past his article.
Threatening global shipping lanes and U.S. Navy assets.
Since the Iran-backed group declared war, here we go.
Good. In solidarity with Hamas last October, they've targeted dozens of international ships, including vessels not even affiliated with Israel.
Despite claiming to champion resistance, the Houthis have shown their equal opportunity and terrorists, I deny that, attacking even Russia or Chinese-linked cargo.
Trump postures a total reversal from the Biden-era appeasement.
Where Biden offered a hallow statement, Trump has made it clear, any attack carried out by the Houthis will be treated as a direct act of Iranian aggression.
Every shot fired by the Husis will be looked upon from this point forward as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of Iran.
In other words, this is a fantasy.
You've got two different nations.
One is taking the action.
The other is not.
But he's going to blame it on the other anyway.
Bowing dire consequences for the regime in Tehran.
This isn't just a regional skirmish anymore.
It's a global test of American resolve.
I don't think so.
President Trump is passing that test with flying colors, making it clear to Rand and his terrorist proxies, the U.S. is back.
There's a new sheriff in town.
Meanwhile, there are calls for incompetent headsets and walls to resign over a signal group chat that included the Atlantic editor, who's a notorious Critic of Trump, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic, reported Monday.
U.S. President Trump's inner circle included him in a signal chat room about the military's recent airstrikes on the Houthis in Yemen, showing, he declared, the ineptitude of Trump's team.
Goldberg wrote he was aware of the 15 march strikes U.S. carried out on Yemen before the first explosion.
Because Pete Hegsath, former Fox News Weekend host, claimed the role of Defense Secretary, texted him about the plans beforehand, including precise information about weapon packages, targets, and timing.
Joaquin. Well, yeah, I think that is a...
I think the left is going after Trump.
You know, the approval ratings of Trump, you know, with Musk and cutting all the waste and the U.S. aid and all the corruption and the fraud and all this.
And so they're on the hot seat.
So what they have to do is go after Trump administration.
And I think this is their shot across the bow.
To try and regain a little stabilization for themselves and put all the focus, the wag the dog misdirection focus onto Trump and the failure of his administration to even get things straight with top secret classified war plan information.
Yeah, I think it's a complete ruse.
I think it's a false flag.
I don't believe it for a second.
These guys, they have been trained in the military.
They know what top secret classified material is all about.
I don't believe it for a second.
So I think it's all bullshit.
I wrote an article within the last 24 hours on this.
And then regarding the earlier material you presented, you know, it's like everything is in verse.
You know, there's the United States supplying 2,000 pound bombs.
There is the Netanyahu who knows he has no political life at all without war.
And the killing of thousands upon thousands, I guess it's, you know, probably.
Those estimates that they always give you, you know, they're not even close.
There's so many lives that have been buried in Gaza under the rubble still to this day that are rotting.
So it's like totally inverse.
You know, women and children, innocent civilians constantly being massacred with U.S. bombs.
The U.S. It's an accomplice to genocide.
The government needs to answer for it from both the last administration with the Democrats.
It doesn't matter whether it's Republican or Democrat.
They're all guilty of genocide.
And, of course, the war criminal Netanyahu and his staff need to be held accountable for their crimes, their war crimes, their genocide.
And yet, this little country, the little underdog country that they can never resolve as far as getting rid of, along with Hamas, they're not going to be able to do it.
These are resistance forces.
They have grown up all their lives being subjugated to the West oppression and death machine.
And they're not going to give up.
This is a country that suffered through Saudi Arabia and the United States with famine and all kinds of horror in their war.
Where there are thousands that died of hunger and on and on.
This is a nation that has survived against the odds.
And yet, they keep going.
They know how to make their cheap drones that go all the way into Israel.
And all those outposts that the U.S. occupiers of the Middle East have, well, yep, they can even go that far.
They're a remarkable group.
I'm all for them because they stand up for principles, for morality.
The United States and Israel are the opposite.
They're the devil.
So, you know, there you go.
You brought it very well.
I love the Houthis.
Brian? Yeah, so the Houthis supposedly fired a missile from Yemen.
All the way up into Israel the other day.
Let me remind you that Houthis are guys that basically couldn't operate a toaster.
Shooting bullets at ships that go through the Red Sea.
Remind you also that it's over 1,300 miles from the capital of Yemen to Jerusalem.
So you're telling me these guys figured out how to go ahead and launch a guided missile from Yemen all the way up into Israel?
Sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me, which is what always happens when war propaganda begins to beat on the drums.
Remember, Israel's biggest threat right now is Iran, who is closely teaming up with Russia.
This sounds like a George Bush warmonger maneuver to blame Iran for whatever happens with the Hooties.
Down in Yemen, these guys can, you know, they're going to fire a bullet through a three-inch hull of a ship that's going through.
Okay. I'm not saying that it's totally useless.
Obviously, there are serious people who have a serious beef to take up.
But remember that Yemen and Israel are basically separated by Saudi Arabia.
If we wanted Saudi Arabia to take care of the problem, they ought to be getting involved.
It's funny how Saudis seem to be so aloof and separate when it comes to domestic issues on their own borders.
They don't seem to really care, and they seem to have plenty of money, but they don't seem to do anything at all about it.
But the Saudis also are on the border with Iran, so that goes nowhere.
As for the signal chats, yeah, it was National Security Advisor, I think his name was Brett Hughes, that confirmed that the chats were legit.
But what's interesting is that the Atlantic editor that was involved with this is making claims, but he won't say what was discussed that was classified.
Well, at the meantime, other people that were involved in the chat session on Signal said that nothing was discussed that was classified.
So I know that they gave some screenshots about things that were being talked about.
And I think the whole purpose of including the Atlantic, you know, obviously anti-Trump editor of a magazine into this was to basically create a setup in the first place.
I don't know who included his name in this list with all of these high-powered national security people, but whoever did it obviously had the purpose of trying to set up the cabinet for failure or trying to get involved in a conversation that they shouldn't be party to either way.
But the whole thing makes Hegseth look bad.
Hegseth, therefore, is obviously a threat to The Democrat establishment in many, many ways.
They've been going after him completely.
A lot of people say he's not ready for prime time.
I would say Hegseth is probably in similar shoes to where Trump was on his first term, sort of not really understanding the rules of the road in D.C., but Trump is changing the rules of the road, so I don't think the signal chat conversation snafu is going to have any real impact, although the Democrats...
Specifically, Elizabeth Warren and many others that are on the Armed Services Committee are going to obviously bang the war drums and threaten legal action and make a big deal out of it using the Mockingbird media.
So that's basically the situation as far as I can tell.
I don't think it's going to go anyplace.
As for a war with Iran, let's hope that this is avoided otherwise.
Well... Maybe it's a good thing that it'll be avoided, because I can see Iran dropping a nuke on Israel and pretty much turning the whole place into glass.
Now, that would get rid of the Gazans as well, but sometimes problems just need to be solved by local nations that are willing to do it.
You've got to realize that an event like that would definitely culminate in World War IV, World War V, whatever we happen to be on right now.
Israel's a big problem for everybody right now.
What's interesting is something I found out this week is that DNA tests are outlawed in Israel.
I wonder why.
Yes. Because they would show they aren't genetically related to the type of data.
They don't have an actual...
Right. Tulsi testified before Congress.
There was no classified info.
She was on the chat.
And Waltz, the National Security Advisor, was on with Laura just coming on saying there was nothing classified there.
I only take exception to it.
The Houthis fired a hypersonic missile and it hit Ben Gurion Airport.
That was announced by a spokesman for the...
Houthis, and they are truth-tellers, they are not liars, unlike the United States and Israel.
If the Houthis say it, or Iran says it, you can count on it being true, but not for the other party.
Yeah, it's also an issue to bring up Hamas.
I mean, nothing Israel says about Hamas and their real nature seems to be in accordance with reality.
They're always telling their people that they're killing off these Hamas guys.
At the same time, they're saying there's still too many of them out there.
If you take a look at the full devastation, it seems like Hamas is basically the puppet of Israel to make a boogeyman to allow the political impulse to rise that is enough for them to continue wiping Gaza off the map and expanding their greater Israel project.
The Houthis also said that they...
Actually launched a missile at the USS Truman, Harry Truman, and other warships alongside the aircraft carrier.
Well, Trump is dispatching a second carrier group, Carl Vinson, and I predict they're both going to wind up at the bottom of the Red Sea.
Does the U.S. military even know why it's bombing Yemen?
This is excellent.
Responsible statecraft.
Sources tell Military.com there have been no attacks against the Navy since before Trump's inauguration.
Secretary of Defense Hegg said, told Fox last weekend, U.S. military had launched ops against the Houthi because ships haven't been able to go through for over a year without being shot at, claiming in December we sent a ship and it was shot at 17 times.
Military sources.
Who spoke the military dot com are puzzled.
There were two attacks, of which they know in December, against a merchant vessel and U.S. warship, but the munitions used didn't appear to add up to 17, and nothing after that until March 16th, when Uthies launched missiles and a drone against Harry Truman in the Red Sea in response to U.S. air strikes on March 15th.
They may have been intercepted, but I do not believe they're all going to be intercepted, and I do believe the Houthis will be successful.
Reporter Constantine Torpen said as of Thursday, the Pentagon and Trump had been yet to fully explain what popped at the resumption of ops against the Iranian-backed rebel group after months of relative quiet, when he asked specifically, He has directed a public statement by Trump and other officials, which have been less than clarifying.
The fifth official did tell Military.com the air campaign could have gone for a month or so, meaning this massive onslaught by the U.S. against the Houthis, that there's less reluctance to hold off striking targets based on the casualties that may result, meaning they're going to be willing to hit civilian areas knowing damn well they're civilian areas.
They also said there was a very clear end state to this, but the officials wouldn't go into detail about what aim they were trying to achieve.
Of course, they're all doing this because BB wants them to do this.
Houthi attacks have caused economic disruption for merchant ships, which in a minority case have been damaged.
Global shifting, mostly connected to European commerce, had been rerouted.
Newsies have basically for insurance purposes made it virtually impossible to transit commercial shipping through the Red Sea.
The Washington Post says the industry doesn't plan on returning to the Red Sea routes anytime soon, has adapted to the disruption, has even profited from a surge in shipping rates.
Defense priorities Military analyst Jennifer Kavanaugh said freedom of navigation is a core U.S. interest with disruption to impede U.S. economic security.
But in this case, it is not.
First, U.S. vital economic interests and economic security are not at risk in the Red Sea, even if Houthi attacks continue.
Second, U.S. military ops have not deterred or degrade the Houthis in a meaningful way.
Unlikely to do so going forward, even if Trump expands a target list.
But the U.S. appears committed to fighting the war alone anyway, expending not limitless resources to over a billion in the anti-Houthiom since October 2023, with no congressional war authority or any obvious oversight at all.
Washington is just too distracted.
Interestingly, Trump has all but pledged to rain hell on another country, Yemen, to destroy a militant group of Houthis, much as the Israelis vowed to relentlessly bomb Gaza to destroy a mosque.
Tremendous damage has been inflicted upon the Houthi barbarians.
Watch how it will get progressively worse.
It's not even a fair fight and never will be, Trump said.
They will be completely annihilated.
I find it a disgrace the U.S. is even attacking the Houthis.
Analysts, if long question, given the capabilities and guerrilla-like tactics of both groups, meaning Hamas and the Houthis, whether the goal of destruction could ever be achieved without crippling the civilian population of each place and diminishing the resources and credibility of the more powerful states, the U.S. and Israel.
The idea that it's possible to destroy Hamas.
To make a mosque vanish?
That's throwing sand in the eyes of the public, said IDF's spokesman, Rear Admiral Danny Hagarian, in June of 2024, before his words were clarified by the government.
They turned out so far to be very prescient.
For whatever reason, the Hague said that the Pentagon is doing this, it may want to consider the consequences long-term and short.
Limits on an already stretched military End the instability humanitarian crisis causing Yemen after a month or so of airstrikes.
If that's not compelling enough, how about the constant danger that's in putting the Navy in?
And for what?
For shipping costs?
For Israel?
To send a message to Iran, which likely no longer has control over the Houthis anyway?
Perhaps this is too much of a price to pay, and we keep our powder dry.
For actual national security threats and interests to come.
Meanwhile, Ron Paul, President Trump, stop bombing Yemen and exit the Middle East.
Here's a guy who's constantly been a source of common sense and wisdom.
Over the weekend, Trump ordered a massive military op against Yemen.
Was Yemen in the process of attacking the United States?
No. Did the president go to Congress and seek a declaration of war against the country?
No. The fact is, Yemen hadn't even threatened the U.S. before the bombs started falling.
Last year, candidate Trump strongly criticized the Biden admin's obsession with foreign interventionism to the detriment of our problems at home.
In an interview at the Libertarian National Convention, he criticized Biden warmongering to podcaster Tim Poole, saying...
You can solve problems over a telephone.
Instead, they started dropping bombs.
Recently, they're dropping bombs all over Yemen.
You don't have to do that.
Yet, once in office, Trump turned to military force as his first option.
First option.
Since the Israeli Abbas ceasefire plan negotiated by Trump's national envoy, Yemen, had left Red Sea shipping alone.
However, After Israel implemented a toll blockade of humanitarian relief to citizens of Gaza last week, Houthi leaders threatened to begin blocking Israel's Red Sea shipping activities again.
That was enough for President Trump to drop bombs and launch missiles for hours, killing dozens of Yemeni citizens, including women and children, in the process.
After the attack, he not only threatened much more force, but also threatened Iran.
National Security Advisor Walsh added the U.S. may start bombing Iranian ships, a move that would certainly lead to a major Middle East war.
Like recent President Bush and Obama, candidate Trump promised peace after four years of Biden warmongering and World War III brinkmanship.
There's little doubt.
A war-weary population.
This proved to be the margin of victory, unfortunately.
And with Bush and Obama, now that he's president, he appears to be heading down a different path.
The Republican Party is gradually becoming a pro-peace America First Party, but the warmongers and neocons in the old line of the party are not going to go easily, unfortunately.
Many of these dead-enders have found their way to senior position in Trump's admin.
With voices of restraint and non-intervention nearly nowhere in sight among his top tier of advisers.
To solve the imminent problem, we must understand it.
Russian and Chinese ships, for example, are not being threatened because they're not enabling the Israeli demolition of Gaza.
The slaughter there has been facilitated with U.S. money and U.S. weapons.
It's the U.S. doing Israel bidding.
In Gaza, and in the Red Sea, then painting a target on us and unnecessarily putting our troops at risk of retaliation.
Yes, doing the bidding of Israel.
The U.S. government, starting with Biden, continuing with Trump, seems eager to make this war our war, even though, as Thomas Massey pointed out, Red Sea shipping is of minor importance to the U.S. economy.
In a real America vs.
foreign policy, We'd be following the Russian and Chinese leaders staying out of the conflict.
It's not our war.
End U.S. military involvement in the Middle East and our troubles disappear.
It really is that simple.
Joaquin. Well, the Founding Fathers came up with the concept that a standing army that's defending its empire all over the world, quote, defending, Trump is the way to failure.
They knew it.
We know it.
Everybody knows it except Trump and his administration that are all war hawks, all Israel lovers.
They do what they're told.
City of London ruled.
So, I mean, that's why now we have Trump in office.
His job...
As basically the polarizer, the slammer, the battering ram, to basically create World War III in defense of Israel.
Quote, defense again.
It's always offense.
And that's the story.
That's why he's in office right now.
To bring on World War III against Iran.
And, yeah, of course, if you go against Iran in a world war, you're going to be going against Russia and China, its closest military and strategic allies.
And yet, you know, this guy's trying to fucking make peace in Ukraine.
Oh, shut up.
You know, I mean, this is all a horrible joke being played on humanity.
It's got to stop.
Brian. There's a lot of history that's been taking place in Yemen for a long time.
In January, prior to Trump even taking office, the U.S. moved to redesignate the Houthis in Yemen as a terrorist group.
Let me remind you that Yemen is oil and mineral rich and also controls a very important shipping port or passage right through the Red Sea.
So again, we might be...
Being telegraphed that all of this is chaos that's being spread by the Houthi authorities.
The Houthis control approximately one-third of Yemen.
But these strikes have been going on for a long, long time, even prior to Trump getting in office.
But what's most important about it is that Netanyahu ordered the destruction of the Houthi infrastructure prior to Trump even taking the office.
And that was on December 23rd, 2024.
And literally, like three days later, we started hitting Yemen over and over and over again.
So again, we're doing the bidding of Israel.
And I think that a lot of this probably has to do with controlling those assets, just like Ukraine was controlling the assets.
But I've been looking through headlines that go back, you know, September of 2024, August 2024.
It was all happening back then, so why is it all of a sudden rising to the front right now?
Are we specifically sick of these actions against these quote-unquote terrorists?
You know, what's coming up right now?
Well, what's going on right now is that Lavrov already had a meeting with the Yemeni foreign affairs leader.
And Yemen's tightening up their relationship with Russia, as well as their relationship with Iran.
So you've got sort of this axis of power that's beginning to completely resist the American-Israeli-Western-led coalition of NATO activities and mineral...
Swaps that are coming out.
And so all of a sudden you've got these quote-unquote missiles that are, what, this is new?
No, this has been happening for a very long time.
And again, at the order of Netanyahu, we started up with the actions shortly after that.
And then when Trump took office, obviously it's just getting stronger and stronger and stronger as the...
Propaganda continues to reach new levels.
So it's quite possible that Russia was providing the missiles and handling the dispatch of the missiles if they were taking place.
But I don't see that because Russia's been such a patient, sort of, they wouldn't attack.
And I can't see Russia getting involved in this particular situation.
Again, this feels more to me like a wealth snatch than it is Then it is a real threatening issue.
But of course, Israel is always claiming that they're being hit with missiles that are coming from here, coming from there.
And that's justification for American action to get involved like we don't give these guys enough money.
So again, there's nothing new.
This is old play that's been being played for a long, long time on the American people.
Don't be deceived.
They're bringing it up right now because they're trying to force a new reorganization of the world.
Into a sort of centralized government theme that I think they're going to be successful at implementing.
Very good.
Meanwhile, the Iran war plan.
Pentagon gears up for a major war with Iran.
Trump menu of options for dealing with Tehran now includes one he didn't have his first term, full-scale war.
Pentagon and Company contracting docs, I've obtained, describe a unique joint-stab planning effort underway in Washington and the Middle East to refine the next generation of a major regional conflict with Brandt.
The new planning effort, sometimes referred to as the SEED project, covers everything from subtle tools like military deception, right up to the rather less subtle use of nukes.
The plans are the result of a reassessment of Iran's military capabilities as well as a fundamental shift in how America conducts war.
Many in the media incorrectly dismiss a recent U.S. attack on the Houthis as little more than a continuation of what the Biden admin was already doing.
The new Iran war, perhaps, make clear the U.S. is exploring a far more aggressive approach.
Following his successful assassination of Iran's top-general Qasem Soleimani in 2020, for which, in my opinion, he may never be forgiven, Donald Trump seemed to have taken the lesson that aggressive action is relatively cost-free.
The Pentagon, meanwhile, has watched Iran develop into a major missile and drone power over the past decade.
Hardly anyone believes any longer Iran is interested in any kind of ground invasion of its neighbors, the previous planning assumption.
Iran's nuclear program is also no longer the Pentagon's highest concern.
The war, in many ways, is already here.
The combination of narrow pinbrick attacks by proxies, Iran's various covert and influence campaigns, and its use in proliferation of long-range drones and
missiles No war today is fought solely by the military.
The war plan Emphasizes an holistic approach to planning coordination and synchronization of U.S. government activities, says one doc.
CENTCOM, Pentagon's regional command responsible for Middle East and Iran, is tasked with creating a family of plans incorporating U.S.-only bilateral and multilateral ops with partners and allies, according to the documents.
As active activities around the ISIS war and our support for Israel and Gaza has shown, war planning has to be more multilateral in nature, taking into consideration everything from the use of allied bases and airspace to gaining political support for the fighting.
Thus, Tulsi was seeking to find other nations who'd be willing to join in a war against Iran.
It ain't gonna happen.
The new war plan construct is itself brand new, in that a multilateral component includes Israel working in unison with Arab Gulf partners for the first time, either indirectly or directly.
The plan also includes different contingencies and levels of war, including from crisis action, mean response to specific events and attacks, to deliberate planning.
Set scenarios that flow from crises that escalate out of control.
One doc learns of the distinct possibility of the war escalating outside the U.S. government's intention impacting the rest of the region, demanding a multi-faceted approach.
As a result, CENTCOM has been tasked with creating a set of strategies, campaign plans, commander's intent, concept of operation, theater plans, Operational orders and synchronization efforts to incorporate all interests that involve parties, but it's going to be very few.
The various planning documents being reworked include global campaign plan for RAND, addressing the most pressing trans-regional and multi-functional strategic challenges across all domains, conventional and special forces, air, ground-sea, subsea, cyberspace, CENTCOM campaign, primary plan through which CENTCOM commander executes day-to-day campaigning.
Operational plan up to a level four detail for Iran.
Op plans are now prepared at four levels.
One, commander's estimate of courses of action and military options.
Two, base plan laying out approved course of action.
Three, full concept plan.
Four. Full operational plan with allocation of specific units and mobilization and deployment procedures.
Decision support book to guide the president and senior decision makers in the first 96 hours of the execution of the level 4 op plan.
Multiple multilateral combined op plan, including multilateral engagement strategy to obtain access basing and overflight.
Discreet strike option plan.
Prepare for specific target sets, such as Iranian leadership and or nuclear capabilities.
For preparation for Iran, the contracting dock state, taking place at the top secret, sensitive compartmentalized information, special access programs, special technical ops, sensitive activities, and focal point levels of classification, which are among the highest.
The whole effort is so closely held that the contracting companies supporting war planning are warned.
Even mention of unclassified portions is prohibited.
Disclosure of any information related to this contract, classified or unclassified, is strictly prohibited without the express written consent of CENCOM.
This includes but not limited to use or information in unclassified brochures.
Promotion, sound literature, remorse to stockholders, or similar material.
CETCOM did not respond to my request for comment about the Iran war plans.
However, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell alluded to the question at Press Weaving Monday.
Reporter, is the U.S. military considering a military option for Rand Parnell?
All options are on the table at this time.
For the Pentagon, All options is a bit of boilerplate answer, but certainly more belligerent than the messaging of the Bayan era.
When Trump talks about his ill-defined policy of applying maximum pressure on Iran, all options now include all-out war.
While a range of military options are often provided to presidents in a passive-aggressive attempt on the part of the Pentagon to steer them to the one favored by the brass, Trump already has shown his proclivity to select the most provocative option.
Trump reportedly stunned Pentagon officials in 2020 when he chose to assassinate Iran's top-general from his menu of choices.
This week, spokesman Barnell also referred to Trump's post on True Social, vowing dire consequences for Iran In the event of Houthi retaliation, Trump had just conducted a strike on Houthi leadership as well as command and control, an unprecedented escalation from previous ops, and a clear indication were at war with Iran.
The Trump admin has used a Houthi strike to differentiate itself from the Biden admin, as Trump National Security Advisor Walsh told ABC.
The difference As these were not pinprick back and forth, what ultimately proved to be feckless attacks.
This was an overwhelming response that actually targeted multiple Houthi leaders and took them out.
And the difference here is one, going after the Houthi leadership, and two, holding Iran responsible.
As if direct military inaction had possibly replied, well, all options are on the table, but Iran needs to hear them loud and clear.
Well, we'll not only hold the Houthis accountable, we're going to hold Iran, their backers accountable as well.
And if that means they're targeting Shep, they put it to help.
They're Iranian trainers.
The IRGC and others, Intel, are the things that have put to help the Houthi attack the global economy.
Those targets will be on the table, too.
2024 may be behind us, but its lessons aren't.
Wren's assassination of top Hezbollah officials in Lebanon was largely perceived by Washington to be a resounding success with few downsides.
Trump likely took back the same message, leading to his strike on Houthi leadership this week.
If the news media are seeing all what's going on, As some repeat of Biden tit-for-tat or limited attack on Israel or Iran's early warning in air defense, they are not understanding what's going on behind the scene.
What Trump can now do, which is right out of the Israeli playbook, which is right out of the Israeli playbook, is attack Iran's command and control, including Iran's leadership, if for no other reason to emphasize the new boss ain't the same.
As the old one.
Let's take our break, Don.
Take us out.
Oh, Jim, you took us out.
What an hour.
This is probably the heaviest hour we've ever had when we're talking about all-out war and things.
It's here.
It's time.
It's something else.
I want you to show this because nobody else is really talking as heavy as we are, but this is a great show, so come on back for the second hour if you dare.
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