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June 24, 2025 - Jim Fetzer
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The Raw Deal (23 June 2025) with co-host Joe Olson and special guest Jared Osterhold
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Let it rip.
This is Jim Fetzer, your host on the Revolution Radio Raw Deal.
He got us set up here.
Apparently, we seem to have made contact.
I'm very, very pleased by this.
Thank you.
Here we are.
Ms. Jim Petzer, your host on the raw deal, right here in Revolution Radio Studio B this 23rd day of June 2025.
The situation is rather stunning internationally.
Let's begin with Trump strikes Iran hard and the world waits for what comes next.
By way of background, we know a lot of what has come next.
President Donald Trump has taken the United States to a place no previous president was prepared to go, launching an OLAP assault on Iran's nuclear facilities with the goal of denying the Iranians the capability to produce a nuclear weapon.
Having started down this path, the president and the world will await the Iranian response and whatever wider consequences follow.
There's no way to overstate the significance of what Trump has set in motion or to predict how it will end.
The attack, both extraordinary and unprecedented, represents a watershed moment in the history of the Middle East.
Yes, indeed.
And I believe will prove to have been a colossal blunder.
Meanwhile, officials assess damage from U.S. strikes, Trump raises a possibility of regime change in Iran.
This is from the Washington Post.
Updated today.
U.S. emphasizes U.S. ambassadors in the region urge increased caution.
Democrats, some Republicans question Trump's unilateral attack.
Gulf countries that host U.S. bases make preparation for conflict to spread.
We have a map of the facilities attacked.
President Trump said U.S. airplanes carried out a very successful attack on the Iranian sites, including the Fordham nuclear enrichment facility, which is hundreds of feet below ground.
He did not cite evidence regarding the strike's impact.
All three facilities sustained extremely severe damage and destruction, said the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Kane, citing initial damage assessments.
Israeli military spokesman Effie Diffren said Sunday that strikes were carried out in full coordination with the Israeli Defense Forces without giving further detail.
Well, that's what we're being told.
Here's what experts worry about what's happening here, that it could be consequential.
James Acton, who is joining us now on the phone.
James, don't know if you were able to hear my conversation right before, but just trying to get a better sense, James, of the types of facilities, these three nuclear facilities that the Trump administration says were taken out.
It was a successful series of strikes, they say.
Talk to us more about what was there and what the United States and Israel were most worried about.
Good evening.
The facilities that the United States attacked this evening were those that were designed to produce the highly enriched uranium for use in a nuclear weapon.
They were involved in converting yellow cake, refined uranium ore, into a form of gaseous uranium, and then enriching that into highly enriched uranium.
The problem the United States and Israel have is Iran almost certainly has materials and equipment whose location we don't know about.
So I've heard a lot this evening about the success of the attacks and how about the United States and Israel have destroyed facilities.
But the problem that we now face is we haven't destroyed knowledge, we haven't destroyed materials, and we haven't destroyed equipment.
And I don't think this attack has set Iran back nearly so far as some of the suggestions have indicated.
So James, let me ask you more about that, because that is a suggestion that maybe you can't take out the knowledge, maybe you can't take out all of the equipment and facilities, but if you can set them back a number of years, that you weaken them dramatically, you could potentially reset peace talks or nuclear negotiations in the future.
How much of a setback do you think a strike like this could be for Iran?
Well, there's two things that I'm very worried we haven't destroyed.
The first thing is Iran's highly enriched uranium that was previously stored at Isfahan.
Now, that was one of the facilities that was attacked tonight.
But the Iranians have claimed, and I tend to believe them, that the highly enriched uranium had already been moved from Isfahan.
This is material that is stored in things that look very much like scuba tanks.
It's that small.
Tracking that material is going to be exceptionally difficult.
After the collapse of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the IEA lost the ability to monitor the components that go into the centrifuges that Iran uses to enrich uranium.
In my opinion, they've likely been spread around the entire country.
What this means is that Iran has the ability to reconstitute its program probably in a short number of years.
And don't forget, one of the arguments against the joint comprehensive plan of action was that 10 to 15 years wasn't good Enough of a delay.
So, I think the reason why this is the beginning, not the end, of conflict is because when evidence emerges that Iran is rebuilding its nuclear weapons program, as I believe is likely to happen, are we the United States prepared to bomb it again?
And if it starts to reconstitute again, are we prepared to bomb it again after that?
Exactly.
And how long of a prolonged conflict could this mean that the United States just got itself involved in?
James Acton, thank you so much for your time.
We really appreciate it.
Yeah, that was an excellent report.
However, there appears to be a gross exaggeration of the extent of the damage.
Here's a wonderful interview that I believe is completely accurate with Judge Napolitan and Scott Ritter.
And it's very significant that the judge, right off the bat, condemns what happened here.
Sunday, June 22nd, 2025 of Judging Freedom with Scott Ritter.
Before Scott and I begin our conversation as to what the President of the United States ordered and the military carried out last night and this morning in Iran, a brief statement from me.
What the President of the United States did was profoundly unconstitutional, absolutely unlawful, was an impeachable offense, and was a war crime.
Under our Constitution only, the Congress can declare war, not the President.
And Congress can only declare war on a country that poses an immediate and grave military threat to the United States of America.
President Trump has started a war with Iran, which poses no threat, let alone immediate or grave whatsoever, to the national security of the United States of America.
Under an unconstitutional statute, but still the law, the war powers resolution, the president is required to give notice to Congress and give Congress an opportunity to respond before he attacks a foreign country.
He can carry out the response, but he has to tell Congress and give Congress an opportunity to respond.
He not only ignored the Constitution, he ignored that law.
As unconstitutional as it is, it hasn't been tested by the courts.
It is still the law.
The president ignored it.
Killing people and destroying property in another country without a just cause is a war crime.
It is the moral and legal equivalent of a high crime and misdemeanor.
It is an impeachable offense.
And it is time for the American public and the Congress to do something about it.
Now to the military aspects of all of this.
Scott, what did the United States military do last night and this morning in Iran?
Well, what they did is carry out an illegal war of aggression.
It's a war crime.
It's not just a war crime.
Judge Jackson from the Nuremberg trial period, lead prosecutor of the Nazi war criminals, asserted that a war of aggression is the ultimate war crime because from this war of aggression, all other crimes emanate.
This is what we did.
I don't know why Americans are proud of this.
This is an act of perfidy, a surprise attack, an undeclared act of aggression that had no foundation and justification.
Again, to justify something like this, which is the equivalent of what we would say a preemptive, you know, a preemptive act of self-defense, there needs to be an imminent threat, an imminent threat that can only be dealt with through this act of aggression.
Iran was in the process of negotiations that would resolve all of the issues that could be perceived as a threat.
So there is no imminent threat.
Moreover, we know that the sites that had been targeted, three nuclear sites, Isfahan, Natans, and Fordeau, were empty, that these strikes would have zero impact on an Iranian nuclear program that had long since been evacuated from these sites and sent to other locations.
It's come out that this strike plan, which was done in cooperation with Israel, was something that had been planned more than a year ago and actually been practiced by the United States and Israel.
So this was a pre-planned strike against three designated sites that had no military value.
So this is purely an act of theater, and any military commander that put American lives at risk to carry out an act of political theater should literally have their commissions revoked and be drummed out of the service.
There was no justification for this.
But moreover, the attacks didn't even accomplish what they claimed to have accomplished.
We had one B-2 bomber drop two GBU-57s on the Natan's facility.
What is that?
What is the GBU-57?
Is that one of these 32,000-pound monsters?
Yeah.
Correct.
They're the massive ordnance penetrator weapon that only the B-2 can carry.
And it's upon the shoulders of this weapon that the United States has based its hopes of interdicting Iran's nuclear program.
But Natans had been struck at least twice and probably three times by the Israelis prior to this attack.
And whatever was in Natans, that centrifuges, et cetera, of value had long since been evacuated.
People should understand that Natans is the principal home of centrifuge cascades of the oldest type, the IR-1 centrifuge, which is a very inefficient centrifuge that Iran had long since replaced with these more modern centrifuges that are in Fordot.
So to strike Natans doesn't put back the Iranian program at all.
And anything of value in that program had been evacuated.
So we put a B-2 bomber over a target to drop two very large bombs that accomplished nothing.
They literally put two additional holes in the ground of a piece of terrain that had no military, scientific, or meaningful value.
It was purely a political act.
The same with Isfahan.
We fired 30 cruise missiles into the Isfahan nuclear complex.
It appears that even the U.S. government is admitting that these missiles didn't accomplish the level of destruction that they were hoping to, that the Isfahan facility was deeper underground and more protected.
So in normal circumstances, and this dates back to my time as a battle damage assessment officer during the First Gulf War, this would be immediate reattack, which means that because we initiated this, if there was legitimate military purpose to this attack, we would have to reattack to achieve those objectives.
It appears, though, that Donald Trump says, no, we're done.
We're willing to be done with this, which means, again, this wasn't about achieving anything meaningfully, militarily meaningful on the ground.
This was an act of pure politics.
And then we get to Ferdot, the crown jewel of the three targets, a facility that's 90 meters or 90 feet underground, 100 feet underground, but that's street level measuring.
What they're not counting are the ridges above the facility that make it even three or four times deeper than this.
We struck with six B-2 bombers, each of which carried two of these massive ordnance penetrators.
And the best that we could accomplish is that we did damage to one entrance and one exit of a facility that has five exits.
We didn't do damage to the hall.
We didn't penetrate.
But even more critical is that we know the facility was evacuated.
There is satellite imagery that shows on June 18th and 19th, the Iranians had brought up trucks to remove the high value centrifuges that were stored at Fordo.
And these centrifuges have been moved to other facilities around Iran that we don't know about, together with the totality of Iran's enriched uranium.
You know, that 60% uranium that everybody says could be converted into a bomb in three to five days.
We didn't destroy that.
That's all moved.
So these attacks accomplished nothing in terms of retarding or limiting Iran's nuclear enrichment program.
These attacks were purely an act of political theater for a president who's desperate to be seen as being a decisive leader, but all he showed was American impotence.
I'm really sorry to say I think that Scott Rears got it exactly right.
I'm joined by Joe Olson, who's an engineer qualified in many areas, also very knowledgeable about nukes.
Joe, welcome here.
It appears to me these attacks where I thought Trump would take advantage of the fact that these are uranium enrichment facilities to use tactical nukes.
I thought for sure, because then it could be covered by the claim that any radiation that emerged was because, not from the bombs, but because of the uranium enrichment.
But Iran knew they were coming.
They transferred all their important enriched uranium out.
They've had no interest in developing nukes.
We'll address that further this morning.
Well, what's your take on the attack and its seeming insignificance other than politically, where I think the consequences are going to be enormous?
Joe.
Well, first of all, let's correct a couple of things.
One thing I know for certain is that the GUB, GBU-57, can be dropped by B-52s because that's what we did when we dropped one in Afghanistan.
And these things have a limited shelf life and they start chemically decomposing.
So we had several of these things in inventory.
They're not glide bombs.
They're gravity bombs, which means you have to be directly over the target.
And here's some information on that.
B-52, cruise speed, 650 miles per hour.
We have 72 of those active at this point.
The B-1 bombers, which might be able to carry those, I don't know.
I hadn't brought that particular subject up.
They're barely supersonic.
They go 950 miles per hour maximum, but that really reduces their range.
So their cruise speed is 647 miles per hour.
We have 45 of those active.
And our glorious B-2s, those are $2 billion apiece.
We bought 20 of them from Northrop and two of them self-destructed, one of them at Andrews Air Force Base and then one of them out in Guam.
And so they are restricted to air-conditioned hangars because the stealth coating on them delaminates and they're not stealth for anything outside of certain radar frequencies.
So now the Chinese and the Russians are using microwave, which bounces off the ionosphere, and they're able to see over the horizon.
They can see the signatures of infrared and from the reflection of the quote stealth B-2 bombers very easily.
And they could have very easily taken those bombers out, but they knew they couldn't present any real threat to them as long as they weren't dropping nukes.
And America's got to be real careful about using first strike nukes because it ends up opening the whole world to nukes.
But as far as people...
Keep going, Joe.
Keep going.
Yeah, as far as people with nukes, we know 100% that Israel has nukes and that one of their Samson options was that they sent suitcase nukes to Israeli consulates in a number of major cities.
And that's what they used, four of them, on the World Trade Center building on 911.
And that knocked out World Trade Center 1, 2, 6, and 7. And so that's exactly what they're planning on doing this time.
And that's part of the extortion that they have over Trump.
They've also got blackmail for him and his first wife, Ivanka, who was BFF with Ghislaine Maxwell for 10 years.
And they roamed around in limos together, passing out cards to high school Girls standing on the street corner waiting for the bus to go to modeling, and Ghislaine is an admitted bisexual.
So, bottom line is: Trump's three first children all have a mother with a very questionable past that, if that came out, would be a real problem.
Wow, Joe, you're covering quite a bit of territory there.
I didn't expect it to go there as yet because Iran seems to have hacked into the most odds.
Even BBN, you know, his personal blackmail file, and they seem to have a vast amount of information.
This wasn't his.
Just days before the strike, some have speculated they moved up the date of the attack because of it.
So what you're addressing is highly relevant to understand the big picture aspects of the event.
Would you agree with Scott Richards' assessment that this appears to have done minimal damage to the three nuclear enrichment sites?
Since Iran is only seeking to enrich uranium for peaceful nuclear energy purposes, the whole event was grossly misconceived.
It's just creating a predicate, a presumption, a basis for justifying a tax that otherwise have no basis.
And because as Judge Napoletan was observing moments before you joined, this act is unconstitutional.
It's in violation of international law, the Geneva Convention, the UN Charter.
Because a nation is only allowed to conduct a preemptive strike when it faces an imminent threat.
Not only was there no imminent threat, but the United States is not facing a threat of any way, shape, or form.
So I think as Nepal Tona was emphasizing, I think Trump has committed clearly.
I don't think this is even debatable, impeachable hack.
He's violated his oath of office.
He didn't consult with Congress.
Give us more of your thoughts, Joe.
Yeah, that was actually the IRGC hacked in that material, and it was made public on the people's voice.
And that was a couple of days before the Friday 13th sneak attack.
And what Israel did was absolutely a war crime attack in Iran, but they thought that they'd be able to do a big enough strike, and they underestimated what Iran's missile capability is.
And now Iran has been hitting them constantly with missiles that they can't stop.
And when you blow the facades, the glass curtain walls off of skyscrapers, and you leave them exposed to elements for about three or four months, they end up decaying enough that you can never recover those buildings.
You can't go in and clean out all the debris and get rid of all the mold and mildew and all the rotted furniture that was inside those buildings.
And so bottom line is they're systematically destroying the entire infrastructure of the occupier state exactly like the occupiers did to Gaza.
And now they're not allowing any water into Gaza.
And you can die within a day from renal poisoning if you don't get water.
And so basically they're exterminating the 1.8 million Gazans that are left.
And we're sitting here saying this is our greatest ally.
Absolutely insane.
And Trump lives in an echo chamber that's controlled by Susie Wessels and John Radcliffe.
And both of them are totally 100% scientists.
And so he's...
I believe, though, we can't hear it, that there's a break on Revolution Radio.
So let's just relax for a few minutes while that takes place.
Glad to have you here, my friend.
Yeah, sorry, I've got a little bit of a problem.
But that's okay.
We'll work our way through it.
Thank you.
Jove, I got this right.
We're back off the break.
Welcome back where Joe Holson is joining me today.
We have a report from RT.
Iranian media assesses damage from U.S. attack.
President Donald Trump has claimed Tehran's nuclear facilities were, quote, completely and totally obliterated, end quote.
Iran's Fordow nuclear research site did not suffer any serious damage in the attack launched by the U.S., FARS news agency reported Sunday.
U.S. President Trump claimed the Fordow, NATANS, and Ezdahan nuclear sites were completely and totally obliterated by the American strikes.
Rossi, who is a member of the Iranian parliament, told the agency that contrary to the claims of the lying U.S. president, the Ford nuclear facility has not been seriously damaged, and most of what was damaged was only on the ground level and can be restored.
The lawmaker described the effect of the American bombing as superficial, saying there were no fatalities and no radiation leaks have been observed.
Here's more now in terms of consequences.
Iran's parliament votes to close the straits of Hormuz.
Red Sea next.
Oil markets frozen.
Global supply chain on edge.
The fuse is lit.
Iran's parliament just voted to close the straits of Hormuz.
Not a bluff, not a leak, a formal vote.
The chamber stood and backed the move unanimously.
The final call now sits with the Supreme National Security Council in Ayatollah Komene.
That's the last gate.
If they sign off, the strait shuts.
This isn't just a regional tantrum.
The strait of Hormuz is the artery moving nearly 25% of the world's seaborne oil.
That's 21 million barrels a day.
The waterway is 33 kilometers wide at its narrowest.
The shipping lanes are only 3 kilometers across in each direction.
One mine, one missile, one blockade, and the global energy market collapses.
One more.
Russia says countries are ready to arm Iran with nukes.
Ford's uranium was moved.
Polymarket odds dropped to 60%.
Fortah was destroyed.
Clearly, it was not.
The strike was supposed to end it.
Instead, it cracked the ceiling.
After the U.S. dropped 14 bunker busters on Iran's Ford facility, the world expected silence.
What followed was a Russian official stepping to a podium saying a number of countries arrayed to directly supply RAN with nuclear warheads.
That's not a rumor.
That's a declaration from the chairman of Russia's Security Council.
The statement came hours after satellite images showed Portow's entrances buried in ash and dirt.
The ridge above the facility is cratered.
The Pentagon called the operation a success.
Trump said Portau is obliterated, but the numbers are shifting.
Polymark traders had the odds of Portau's destruction at 90% Saturday night.
By Sunday afternoon, the number had dropped to 60%.
Something is off.
Now, Joe, I believe that Iran will shut the Strait of Hormuz, but it will do so on a selective basis.
In other words, just as the Houthis are only attacking ships that are headed for Israel now because of the American intervention, American ships, but not others.
I believe the Iranians will allow neutral ships of neutral nations or those who are supporting Iran to pass, but not American or Israelis support him.
Your thoughts, Joe?
Yeah.
Supposedly, they've got ship-to-shore missiles all along the coastline of the Strait, and so they will be able to attack anybody that tries to attack them.
So basically, we're on an escalation ladder that if we don't get off of real quick, it's going to deteriorate very, very quickly.
And Trump was assured by the Zio echo chamber that he surrounded himself with in the JSC that this would be a one-off deal and that once we neutralize their nuclear weapons, he could say to Bibi, okay, I've done what you wanted me to do.
And so now we're not going to have any further involvement.
So that's one possible exit.
But now that we know that what they did was superficial and had no effect at all, then now he's going to be subject to another level of extortion for another level of escalation to protect Israel from what they can't protect themselves from, which is our phony baloney iron dome, which is not protecting them at all.
Excuse me.
Yeah.
And the...
Uncerned.
Yeah, one possible reason why Iran was reluctant to accept a lot of Russian influence and weapons at this point is because Putin has admitted there's over 2 million Russian expats that are Israeli citizens that could end up being an enormous problem for them and for them and for
his ability to work as a mediator and provide weapons.
So that's the reason why they've been reluctant.
Well, I dare say I believe there may be more to it than that, but Colonel McGregor is very worried about what's going on here.
Let's make up with a bit of what he has to say about these events.
The interest you are about to learn is almost never described publicly.
And they don't have a weapon.
But that's really irrelevant at this point.
I think the real goal is to destroy Iran as a large nation state, to weaken it, and then to replace its government.
I don't think you can do it with air and naval power alone, not even close.
But that's where we're headed.
So, Colonel, we've been talking about the Russians.
And what is, I mean, there's a great bit of confusion about this because we're constantly being sold the idea that the Russians are going to invade Western Europe and all the rest of it.
But my sense is that's not the Russian objective at all.
I mean, in your professional assessment, what are the Russians attempting to do and where will they stop?
Well, I think it's important to understand a couple of things.
I'll address what the Russians are about, but then we have to understand what the Russians have confronted in Ukraine.
The Russians, quite frankly, when they first entered Ukraine, did so because their citizens in Ukraine, in other words, Russians, were being treated very badly as second-class citizens.
And in fact, in many cases, they were simply being killed, murdered.
And Putin had tried through the Minsk Accords to come to an arrangement that would allow Ukraine to stay together as this multinational, multicultural state, in return for which the Ukrainians would respect the Russian people's desire to speak their language, to live in their communities without being forced to quote unquote Ukrainianize.
Well, he discovered that was hopeless.
And he also saw very clearly that we in the West, particularly the United States and its principal allies, Germany, France, and Great Britain, were trying to transform Ukraine into a kind of military battering ram that could be used against Russia for the purpose of not just recovering Crimea, which was historically never Ukrainian, but also destroying the Russian state.
People decided that it was in the interest of the United States and Europe that the Russian state be destroyed and that its country be carved up into pieces.
And one of the things that was particularly obnoxious to the globalists that currently rule in the West was the existence of a Russian Orthodox Christian country.
The idea that Russian ethnicity, language, culture, and religion were things that should be preserved was anathema to the people that are globalists.
I mean, you're facing something similar to this in Ireland.
We are facing something similar to this in the United States.
So ultimately, Putin throws up his hands and recognizes that he can't allow this to go on.
The Minsk Accords were a fraud, as we later found out from Chancellor Merkel, who admitted that the Minsk Accords were simply offered to buy time for the Ukrainians to build up their military capability.
So he moved into eastern Ukraine.
He didn't go very far, and he did not go in with guns blazing because he thought he was sending a signal to the West that the West would take advantage of and find a way to negotiate out of the problem.
Well, he discovered two things.
First of all, that the Ukrainian military was far more potent than he anticipated, and that the West had absolutely no interest whatsoever into coming to any sort of arrangement that respected Russia's legitimate security interests.
So then he found out that he didn't have an army that was strong enough and capable enough to do the job.
So eventually he pushes back the Ukrainians and then goes over to what we call a strategic defense.
And the strategic defense has always worked very, very well, Eddie.
And in World War I, for instance, the advancing German forces never moved beyond Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland into Russia.
That was it.
That was their limit of advance, and they established defensive, a strategic defense.
The Russian army was utterly destroyed attacking the German strategic defense in World War I and ultimately lost the war.
This time, the Russians turned the tables.
They established the strategic defense.
And then on the bad advice given by the US, UK, senior military leaders to the Ukrainians, the Ukrainians began launching pointless attack after pointless attack into the teeth of these defenses.
And does that account, sorry, Colonel, does that account for the numbers you gave earlier in our discussion on the deaths?
Ukrainians lost at least 1.5 million dead on the battlefield.
That's very important to understand.
That's not a made-up number.
That's quite real.
That number has been compiled by many different sources by looking at graveyards that are filled to capacity and new ones that are being opened, looking at hospitals and the number of dead that were removed from the hospitals and then the many, many more thousands of people severely wounded who will never live normal lives.
And when you look at those numbers and you look at the things that are eventually announced in obituaries, you come up with 1.5 million as a good, solid number for the numbers of dead.
And you have to look at these monstrous operations in which tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers were sent to their deaths.
You know, one of the most famous was down in Kherson, where they attempted an amphibious assault across the Dnieper River.
I mean, a monumentally stupid idea.
But who did you have advising these people?
You had U.S. four stars and UK four stars and three stars egging them on.
And the Ukrainians were annihilated.
So the Russians spent a lot of time on the strategic defense until finally the Ukrainians were so weak they can't put up much resistance at all.
So you still have occasionally a little pocket of resistance, and the Russians have been very interested in avoiding unnecessary casualties.
We estimate that they've lost between 110 and 120,000 dead, and that they probably have as many wounded, although the difference is that the Russians have a very good system of evacuating wounded so that the far, far more wounded recover from their wounds and return to duty.
At the same time, they become very methodical and deliberate in how they approach their enemy on the battlefield.
And they're willing to do it slowly, taking as much time as necessary in order to avoid losses.
In fact, I've said it many times.
I think in the history of Russia, no Russian leader has expressed and demonstrated more concern for the lives of his soldiers than Putin has.
So the Russians have come out of this thing to this point infinitely stronger from this very small army, which was designed for nothing more than border defense or regional defense.
They now have probably the most professional and capable ground force in the world.
And they're quite capable of launching major offensives, but they're not interested in doing that.
They would like to come to an end.
They want to put this to bed.
The problem is that we won't allow it.
We keep shoveling cash.
And now increasingly these medium and long-range strike weapons that only require a very few number of people, many of whom are Westerners in any case, contract people that used to be in the British, American, or German militaries or French militaries.
And these are more annoyance weapons than anything else.
They're not going to change the fundamental outcome on the ground.
But I think they're getting very close to realizing that they're going to have to march to the river.
They're probably going to have to cross it and take Odessa because Odessa will then eliminate an outlet to the sea.
And that outlet is still very, very vital to the arrival and introduction of weapons and military equipment into Ukraine.
And at the same time, I think they're probably going to have to cross the Dnieper River and go straight into Kiev.
They've got to destroy this regime.
And that's not something they really want to do.
Remember that Kiev is very unique in Russian history.
They don't want to see it damaged in any way.
But they're coming around to the understanding that there's no alternative to this because we haven't allowed this to end.
And remember that Donald Trump, who boasted he could end it in 24 hours and never understood the complexity of the issues at stake, nevertheless could have already brought this to an end by doing a couple of very important things.
Number one, end all further aid, military aid to the Ukrainians.
Now, people say, oh my God, how could you do that?
Well, you can do it.
You want to stop the dying?
Stop the aid.
They're the first thing you do.
And that means no more cash.
And we estimate about a third or more of all the cash that we've sent into Ukraine and probably the same amount of military equipment has ended up being sold on the black market.
Remember, Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
So you have battalion commanders in the Ukrainian army, along with brigade commanders and others and generals and colonels, stuffing cash into their pockets at the expense of the Ukrainian people.
And they continue to pretend that they have 100% manning or 90% manning in many units when in fact they're below 50%.
They haven't reported all the dead because frankly, the Ukrainian state doesn't want to have to pay the widows and orphans.
And at the same time, that means that the pay for these dead Ukrainian soldiers continues to arrive and that pay then goes into the pockets of the officers.
I mean, the corruption is horrendous.
The other thing that we needed to do was to get all of the Americans in or out of uniform out of Ukraine.
And that's something that President Trump could have done as well.
But President Trump has turned out to be the sort of person who is much more of a politician than anybody gave him credit for being.
He likes to be a little bit pregnant.
In other words, he really doesn't want to bring the child to term.
He just wants to be a little bit pregnant, look pregnant, but ultimately not produce the baby.
So he has been unwilling to take the kind of decisive action to end the war that's needed.
And of course, this has helped the globalists in Western Europe stay in power.
So I think at this point, two things are happening.
The Russians are advancing.
They will eventually do the things that I just outlined.
So I think that the Ukrainians will end up losing everything east of the Dnieper River, along with Odessa.
They're talking about sending 10,000 Russian troops to protect the Russians in Moldava.
So that means there'll be a lifeline from Odessa to Moldava, where you have Transnistria, which is a Russian republic left over Soviet era.
That will happen.
And then I think President Trump will gradually, gradually, slowly, quietly reduce the aid to a trickle.
And he'll pretend that he's walked away, that he's no longer interested and he's not going to be part of it.
So his dream of getting a Nobel Peace Prize for intervening to produce peace has given way to embarrassment.
Everything he's done has failed.
And he has also failed, most important, in restoring some sort of normalization to relations between Russia and us, which is vital and essential.
We have no interest in being in a state of permanent hostility with the Russians or they with us.
So those are the problems that continue.
But the war, from a purely military standpoint, is effectively over.
People will continue to die, sadly, because no one in the West will stop it.
I think that the Colonel is just the best political military commentator on the face of Earth, Joe.
Your thoughts about everything he had to say?
Well, let's put things in context.
The Bolshevik Revolution by European American bankers.
Hang on, something's going on in here.
No, we are.
Thank you.
There's like a gazillion hours of me on the internet in almost every case I'm talking about the universe black holes the big bang time travel God What I'm gonna do in this masterclass is teach you how to think The goal here is to train your mind how to see the world differently how to question what others say I've come to realize that there are three categories of truth personal truth political truths and
the objective truths that shape our understanding of the universe the interesting thing about an objective truth sorry about that Joe go for it my friend go for it yeah the Bolshevik Revolution was a Jewish funded revolution and Jewish operated and after they overthrew the czar uh Morgan J.P. Morgan and Armin Hammer went in there and asset stripped the country and so when they did 911 or
excuse me when the Iron Curtain fell George Bush went in and got Operation Hammer bonds to fund $330 million worth of seed money so that more Jewish oligarchs could go in and asset strip Russia Putin had to spend a decade getting his country released from the iron grip of these Jewish oligarchs in Russia but he wasn't able to control the Jewish oligarchs in Ukraine who are the ones that put
a Jewish puppet in as president and so basically they've killed probably a half a million Russians and a million and a half Ukrainians that were all Orthodox Christians in order to clear up the real estate so the Kazarian mafia if they have to flee from the Mideast have another former home country that they can go to and that's what this is all about it's absolutely 100 genocide
on to the benefit of the Kazarian mafia yeah Joe very good very good very good I'm very very troubled that in fact the the bombing of uh Iran is gonna be continued Trump threatened to do it again here's a pretty fascinating report by Scott Ritter this was prior to the USA entry about how much damage Iran is doing how much
damage Iran is prepared for doing long-term conflict Iran this isn't about you know for instance the Israeli tactic of initiating a war that's supposed to be over in in in a matter of days Iran has prepared for a conflict that's designed to last months so Iran is prepared for this two the Iranians have offered Israel the opportunity
to end this conflict at any time the war will end today if Israel stops bombing Iran that's that's it so Iran has put the power of stopping this war in the hands of Israel and the fact that the Israelis won't end this war is sort of an act of suicide on the part of Israel today one week into this
conflict Israel has suffered a half a trillion dollars worth of infrastructure damage a half a trillion dollars worth of infrastructure damage um it's a small country this has already made this if the war stopped today israel would not be able to recover from this conflict economically a half a trillion dollars if this war continues for another week two weeks or three weeks you're looking at the physical
destruction of israel literally the physical destruction of israel which makes israel's survivability as a nation state impossible israel is committing suicide as we speak because of the iranian strategy so for the critics what did they want i mean the critics of iran were they looking for iran to defeat israel iran is defeating israel and iran is defeating israel in the only manner that is politically possible for
israel to make the decisions that lead to its destruction not iran a key aspect to this the iranian strategy is to keep america out of this conflict um because that's the only hope israel has of survival is direct intervention by the united states and so far iran has been very successful in this regard um but i i do think we need to understand this is an existential war of survival between iran and
israel um only one nation walks away from this victorious and it will be iran because of the strategic direction and thinking of their leadership so for the people that wanted iran to be more aggressive and to do more things i would say that you might get a different outcome than what you have right now the strategy of the iranian government is a very pragmatic responsible realistic strategy um that's that's premised on as you indicated
a war of attrition but it's not necessarily a war of attrition of israeli um ballistic missile interceptors and iranian missiles we've already shown the iranians have already shown that israel can't defend against iranian missiles so it doesn't matter how many missile interceptors israel has they could have an infinite number of missile interceptors iran has devised the ballistic missile solution to the iron dome the iron dome cannot defeat
iran even the iron dome enhanced with american support the fad missile the aegis systems satellites etc can't defeat the iranians the iranians are defeating the iron dome so while people say well in 12 days iran or israel may run out Of missiles.
It doesn't matter.
Israel could have infinite numbers of intercept missiles, and it's not succeeding in stopping the Iranians.
Meanwhile, the Iranians continue to unveil more and more and more modern missiles that are capable of defeating this defense shield.
So I think Iran is on a path of strategic victory against Israel.
And if the United States stays out of this conflict, and Israel doesn't use nuclear weapons against Iran, Iran wins this war.
But now we've come up to the...
I think Scott Ritter's got it exactly right, Joe, that if the U.S. were to stay out, which it is, and Israel does not resort to nukes, which it very well may, Ren defeated Israel.
It's already, as Scott's explained, inflicted over half a trillion in damaged Israel.
By Scott's estimate, Israel can never recover economically what's happened already.
So what are your thoughts?
Yeah, when you have a hypersonic blast inside an urban area, you blow the veneers off of the curtain ball veneers off the skyscrapers, and then they're exposed to the elements, and you leave them exposed for several months.
They'll rot beyond the point of being able to be repaired.
So basically, everything on the Tel Aviv skyline is going to be a hollowed out skeleton for the next 10 years because they can't be recovered.
So that will be a daily testament to the people of Israel of what you've been doing to the entire world your whole entire existence.
And it's time for you to completely surrender and quit this deviant synagogue of Satan behavior that you've been perpetrating on mankind for 2,500 years.
Joe, that's perfect.
We're taking a break.
We'll be right back and joined by Jared Hosterholt, who has a wonderful gallery in New Orleans for a change of base and a break from the war of mayhem and the damage being inflicted upon the world.
Stand by.
Hey, Jim, have I come in?
Yeah, Jared, you're just fine.
Stand by.
Oh, okay, great.
Yeah, I didn't even know if I was connected.
Jared, we're live.
We're live.
It's going on.
You can't hear it, but we're live.
Stand by and I'll bring you in.
Okay.
I just want to verify that we're broadcasting.
Yeah.
Okay.
Thank you, Michael.
Thank you.
I'm Jim.
I'm trying to see.
Can I speak right now?
Hang on, Jared.
Okay.
There's a problem.
When I made you host, you don't have sharing turned on, so we couldn't see the screen.
Can you do that?
What am I supposed to?
Let's see.
Stand by, stand by, stand by.
Okay.
Welcome back here to the raw deal, right here on Revolution Radio.
This studio meeting the 23rd day of June, 2025.
I'm joined by Jared Oosterholt, who has a marvelous gallery in New Orleans.
You're seeing here.
Those who are catching the video version.
one of his masterful paintings.
Jared, if you could turn your video on as well as your sound, we can...
Oh, here we go.
Okay.
Jared, I'm glad to have you here.
Give us a little message about yourself and your gallery.
Well, hey, yes.
My name is Jared Osterhold.
I am from New Orleans.
I'm a New Orleans native.
I've lived here my entire life.
I've been making money from art since I was a small child, actually, freelance and professionally.
One of my first after-school jobs in high school was working in the Mardi Gras business, helping to construct Mardi Gras floats, props, painting floats.
From there, I got into various graphic design jobs, then later on went into prop making and illustration and just always juggled multiple things evolving art.
Let's see.
Yeah, we got your background and everything, Jared.
So you're welcome to give us a tour of the gallery, the title.
Yeah, the whole bit.
See if I can turn the screen around here.
I'm not too familiar with Zoom, but let's see.
Oh, we're seeing with paintings in the background.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So here's an example.
Here's my gallery.
So everything in here is my art.
As I said, I'm a professional prop maker.
Some of my props have been on various television shows.
I also do live event painting where people book me to come to events and I do a speed painting in about three and a half to four hours.
The majority of those are usually weddings, but I do conventions, concerts, private parties, a variety of things.
I do tons of commissions as well.
Besides that, I do my own various series of art subjects that I'm interested in.
I do take on commissions from people.
You know, and they're all based on, as I said, the various series that I have.
I'd love for you to focus on some of your specific paintings and tell us about them.
Sure, but I was just trying to give a little more of a lot of my background because I've done so many various things.
I've also illustrated professionally about 26 books, mainly children's books.
These were from the Olivia Nickelodeon animated show.
I've also done a how to draw incredible ocean animals for Smithsonian.
So I do some signed and personalized copies of those here.
But some of the most popular pieces, obviously, here in New Orleans, have had to do with the spooky side of New Orleans, the voodoo.
It seems to be very, very popular.
So this is one of my most popular sellers right now.
And also anything that has to do with the ghosts and the local folklore, those have been super popular for me so far.
But as I said, I'm always juggling a variety of things.
I'm inspired by many different things.
I do some that are landscape inspired, our local landscape with the live oaks and Spanish moss.
I have a series here of some of the classic movie monsters as well that I've started for various shows over the years.
I also make handmade one-of-a-kind custom masks as I showed these larger heads over here, but these are smaller handmade masks, which are obviously for either Halloween or Mardi Gras.
Let's see here.
Now, a lot of these pieces that I have in here, my originals have been sold.
I do have some originals here mixed in, but I sell a lot of retouched canvas prints as well.
A lot of people, Jared, I dare say, have seen your art without knowing that it was yours because it's been in comic books and illustrations and television shows and the whole like.
Am I right?
Yeah, yeah.
I've had my art used in a variety of professional circumstances.
So, yeah, I've had my props, as I said before, used on various TV shows like NCIS New Orleans, been on the First 48, Storage Hunters a few years ago, Expedition Unknown with Josh Gates.
Because these here are gigantic masks.
We call these walking heads.
And you actually wear these for basically Mardi Gras parades, but I've had people commission these for their business mascots or for tailgating or for their own personal use.
This as well is like a large sculpture.
It's kind of built using the Mardi Gras prop building techniques.
And as you see here, I have more canvas prints of some of my popular pieces right now.
Let's see, I can maybe take us outside out front here.
I'm located right in the center of the French border on Royal Street.
So here we are.
This is I'm at 614 Royal Street.
This is the very front of my gallery.
Hopefully that's coming in well.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
We can see everything, Jared.
or anything?
Sure.
What was that?
I'm sorry, Jim.
No, I'm saying we can see everything.
Yeah, it's all good, Jared.
Fascinating.
Now, of course, the audience can't see it until they catch the video version, the Zoom version of the show.
But I'm telling you, this is really great stuff.
I'd love again if you were to focus on some individual pieces and tell us about them.
Sure, sure.
Let's see.
Well, as I was shown before, some of the most popular pieces, this one I call Samity New Dip.
This is basically, as I showed before, the most popular seller right now.
And this character, this is a famous voodoo character named Baron Samity.
It's part of voodoo lore where he's the guide of the dead souls.
He's also portrayed as a kind of a raunchy party animal type character.
So it's very popular here.
Yeah, it's this, as I said, I do such a big variety of topics and subject matters, but this has been what the public so far has been the most interested in of all of my different pieces.
I've also done some portrayals of the Anne Rice characters right here.
This is from the Interview with the Vampire series, and this is an actual original that I've painted on a roofing slate.
This is a roofing slate tile that came from the roof of a famous restaurant here that ever since COVID has kind of gone into dilapidation.
Now they moved locations, but the restaurant is called Tujac's, and these were taken from the roof of the restaurant.
Let's see, something else I can focus on for you.
This piece right here, which is obviously Chewbacca, but this was Chewbacchus.
This was commissioned by, we have a local Mardi Gras crew here called the Crew of Chewbacchus, which is a sci-fi spoof-themed Mardi Gras crew.
The reason for the name, one of our most popular Mardi Gras parades here in town is the Crew of Bacchus.
So these guys formed a crew about 15 years ago and called it Chewbacchus, and they've become very famous over the past, I said, 10 to 15 years.
And they all got together and commissioned this piece for me.
They asked me to create my impression of Chewbacque.
So it's a little comical fun, but of course, people love this one.
Again, here's another portrayal of the voodoo character, Baron Samity, in kind of the party atmosphere here, obviously on Bourbon Street.
I based him on an actual street performer who I watched play some blues guitar all day.
One of my recent, each year I do a signature piece for Halloween.
So this past year, I did a New Orleans themed Ouija board.
This is still my original.
And what I did was add, you know, New Orleans themed characters here into it.
That's been pretty popular so far.
It's relatively new compared to a lot of my other pieces.
This is from this previous Halloween.
Let's see what else we have here.
Here's another landscape.
Those trees have to be hundreds of years old.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
We have a famous tree here in the back of Audubon Park near the Audubon Zoo, which has to be about a thousand years old, is my guess.
It's very famous and huge.
Yeah, we have a few oak trees marked with plaques that they were here during the Revolutionary War.
Let's see what else.
So we also have, here's another one of my large masks, which is similar to like a Norwegian troll, but that's actually wearable.
See what else I can focus on.
This one has also been popular recently.
This is a newer series I started about a year and a half ago that has more of a watercolored, washed out gray dripping effect to the background.
And I've inserted a few more celebratory characters.
This is more of a Mardi Gras style piece.
This one is also in that same series.
And again, using the same skeleton character that's been popular for me so far.
Yeah.
Let's see what else.
This is still one of my original paintings that I've actually had since I started the gallery about seven and a half years ago, which was based on a photographer friend of mine and did tons of photography for JazzFest.
So this depicts a famous Mardi Gras Indian chief named Chief Monk Boudreau performing with some well-known musicians.
Let's see.
This is another similar piece to that one I just showed, the dance and mornithraw one.
This is...
Yes, yes, yes, Jared.
Steve else.
And right here, I have a variety of pieces that are still original, although the lighting's not too great in this spot.
And these are original.
I've also had a lot of luck with mermaids seem to be a popular subject matter for me.
So, of course, when I portray those, I try to give those a New Orleans flair.
Yes.
Again, here's another original painting of a Mardi Gras Indian, which is part of our local culture and traditions.
Here's another one of my larger masks, a big head mask, which, you know, I usually do wear this one on Halloween and take hundreds and hundreds of pictures with people.
Yes, yes, yes.
And of course, like I said, we had done some stand-in work on definitely NCIS with these.
Let me just announce for the audience that we'll do this segment with Jared.
Then at the bottom of the hour, I'll return to reporting on news because you cannot see the paintings.
But Jared, this is fascinating.
I love it.
And everyone who watches the Zoom version of the show, I think, is going to really appreciate what you are doing.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
This is one of my most recent smaller pieces, which let's see here.
I'm not sure if the glare.
Yeah, the band, a band, a band.
Yeah.
No love.
Swab, mermaid in a swab.
Yes, yes.
Again, one of our jazz skeletons and these as well.
Most of these are painted on the founded roofing slates from here in the city.
Yeah.
Very colorful stuff.
Yeah, I think your mix of colors is sensational, Jared.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And of course, I also dabble in some surrealism.
As you can see, I have a lot of fantasy that is interwoven in the themes.
I basically say the majority of my series are New Orleans fantasy.
And a lot of it is, as I mentioned before, inspired by my work growing up working in the Mardi Gras business and being involved with everything that has to do with Mardi Gras.
So I'm very blessed and lucky that I grew up here with all that inspiration.
Let's see what else I have.
But the majority of these back here are originals.
Well, here's another just fantasy type scene.
And this is an original.
The dragon is type.
Right here, I did a self-portrait.
This is still my original.
It's me as almost like the Holy Roman Emperor.
So it's up here as an example.
I've had a few people, a few of my customers request commissions of similar paintings.
So I had a recreation I did of Henry VIII for a customer, but this is one of my favorites that I'm, of course, keeping, but it's here to show that if someone wants a commission of themselves or a loved one like this, it can be done.
Yeah.
And show us any types you haven't shown us already.
Yeah, continued.
Okay, yeah, let's see.
This one, for the longest time when I first opened the gallery, this was the bestseller, which was actually a surprise because as you see, the wide variety that I have, I started with a wide variety of my basically New Orleans themes, you know, music, architecture.
And I only had a few that had the voodoo theme.
But everyone went for it.
It seemed to be what everybody wanted.
In fact, this one image was basically almost 50% of all of my sales for the first, before the COVID shutdown, first two years.
Well, let's say, yeah, two and a half years.
This was the number one bestseller.
So that's what inspired a continuation of this character in all these different scenes that I've done.
It was highly requested.
So it's kind of became one of the main themes.
So from there, that's, as I showed you with all the others.
Yes.
But as I also said, some of these were commissioned by people, the originals.
So I started one of my first.
Hopefully this is coming in clear.
One of my first super like ghost themed paintings or supernatural paintings was this one, which this is actually a canvas print.
And the original was my kind of simple, fun, inspired idea.
And it sold so well, I expanded on this theme as well to where now anything that I have with the with the ghost subject matter is is very popular for me.
So started with this one, which basically, I guess it's like a Confederate soldier and antebellum ghost strolling through near Jackson Square, near the St. Louis Cathedral.
And from there, I've had various customers request a similar painting.
So from that, someone had me do this one, which is basically a sequel to that.
Hopefully that's coming in.
Yeah, this was it.
Yes, yes.
And this one's been a really good seller for me so far.
So from this, I've done a variety of others.
Let's see.
In fact, let's see.
This is one of another one that's brand new that is actually still my original painted on one of the roofing slates, as I mentioned, from a historic building here that became dilapidated after COVID.
And so, you know, business had been okay, although over the past couple of years, it's actually slowed down a lot with things that are going on in the world.
You know, I know we're going to maybe talk about some of that a little bit, but it's been a pretty hot topic out here among business owners.
And, you know, we do talk about the world events and how it's affecting the economy because it definitely has.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah, there's we've had a lot of people who had shut down, you know, during COVID.
Yeah, I made it through barely.
The decision to shut down America.
Right.
It's unbelievable.
A single worst decision any American president has ever made.
Possible exception of what Trump's doing today, attacking Iran.
I'm not happy with that whatsoever.
And the consequences, I fear, are going to be catastrophic.
Yeah, let's hope not.
But yeah, of course, I'm not happy about it either.
Yeah, let's see what else.
Up here as well, I have another gigantic head, which is also another wearable giant mask.
Looks a lot like Bronco Bob.
So many people have said that.
I didn't intend for it to look like him because the funny thing, I've intended that to kind of be non-racial to where I could add hair or mustaches, different things to the head.
Because this head here, his hat actually comes off.
So he was going to be an interchangeable character.
So I tried to do the same thing with the guy up here.
But yeah, now I've had so many people come in and go, is that Obama?
It's really not supposed to be.
He's, like I said, I wanted him to be able to easily change race if need be.
But he really hasn't gotten too much activity.
I've only worn him around once or twice.
Let's see what else we can focus on here.
Oh, another popular topic, which is still in the supernatural vein, which, as I said, I was surprised how popular the supernatural theme is down here.
The original one that I did, this is a canvas print.
My original has sold years ago, was painted on a found piece of wood, and it's supposed to be the legend of the rougaroo, which is a Cajun folklore creature down here.
It's a werewolf-like swamp creature.
And I had always heard those stories growing up, but figured it was 100% folklore that was used to frighten the kids into behaving.
That's what we heard.
It was, you know, don't go too deep into the swamp.
The Roobaroo will get you in these kind of things.
But in the past few years, just looking around online and researching it, there's supposedly been sightings of something.
So, you know, who knows ultimately?
Go up to the one above which has been so popular.
Oh, yeah.
I'd like to conclude with a discussion about this once again.
I think it's fascinating and beautiful.
I can understand why it would be so popular.
If this were a straight video show, I would continue for another 30 minutes, but because it's radio, because the audience can't hear it, Jim, they're going to love it.
Those who see the video version.
We'll conclude with this.
You have about a minute more.
I would like you to talk just as your finale.
Oh, sure.
Well, yeah, I appreciate you having me on, Jim.
You know, and obviously we have mutual friends and mutual interests.
And so I really appreciate it.
And yeah, if anybody's interested, they can get in touch with me.
You know, I have obviously my main website, which is at www.artgallerynola.com.
Yes, sir.
Jared, thank you so much, my friend.
Absolutely sensational.
Love you.
Thank you, Jim.
Thank you.
Bye for now.
Okay, bye-bye.
Okay.
Okay.
Thank you.
Well, following that visual interlude, and when you, those of you who see the video version, are going to appreciate the fascinating character of Jared's work.
We have Iran vowing to continue enriching uranium after the U.S. strikes now.
I think Donald Trump really does lack knowledge of the Middle East.
He doesn't really understand what he's done here.
The Iranian people have an ancient civilization going back thousands of years.
They're far more principled and dedicated in abounded integrity compared to Western nations.
And I don't exclude the United States.
And they have profound religious beliefs, including that the President Ayatollah is a direct descendant of the prophet Muhammad.
Now, if you go back in Iranian history, you'll see there have been glorious episodes in which small groups of Iranians stood against overwhelming numbers and sacrificed their lives as martyrs for the glory of then Persia.
And I expect the same to be true today.
Iran is not going to fold.
And whether Russia comes to its defense, China comes to its defense, regardless, Iran is not going to fold.
And the fact is, it has a lot of resources, a lot of military equipment.
It's been preparing for this for a very long time.
Remember, the theme that Iran was seeking to produce nuclear weapons has been about since 1984.
1984.
Bibi Netia, who for more than 30 years has been insisting Iran was on the verge of making nuclear weapons.
In spite of the fact that Iran has no interest in nuclear weapons, Iran hasn't wanted nuclear weapons, but now I dare say Israel is forced and the United States are forcing Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.
They don't even have to produce them themselves.
The other nations, as I've already reported, they're eager to give Iran nukes.
And even though I think Iran would prefer not to have them, I think out of self-defense, they have to acquire them because they're so symbolic and meaningful to the other nations who would threaten Iran.
Once Israel knows Iran has nukes, I expect the attitude of Israel and even of the United States to change even profoundly.
Of course, there are no guarantees, but it would most certainly be in the best interest of Iran to declare that it must now possess nuclear weapons.
It has withdrawn from the non-proliferation treaty.
It's acted in accordance with international law, the Geneva Convention, the UN Charter, which the United States and Israel have not.
Here we have a report from Infowars, and I got to say, Alex Jones has been reporting a lot of the latest news and appears to be on the whole very accurate.
Iran has reacted with defiance to U.S. strikes on its nuclear facilities, vowing to continue enriching uranium.
Are you surprised?
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran issued a statement in which it condemned the strikes as barbaric and said the national program for enriching uranium, quote, which is the result of the blood of nuclear martyrs, will Not be stopped.
This action, contrary to international law, was unfortunately carried out in the shadow of the indifference and even the complicity of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The international community is expected to condemn the lawlessness based on rules of the Jongal and support Iran in achieving its legitimate rights.
They are correct.
Iran is correct.
Remember, when the earlier deal was negotiated under Obama, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Iran allowed inspectors.
Iran was conforming.
There was regulation.
There was no risk of exceeding limits necessary for the production of the peaceful use of electricity.
Trump.
Trump in 2018 pulled out of a completely successful nuclear deal that virtually guaranteed Iran was not developing the nuclear weapons it doesn't want and has never sought.
But now the situation has changed.
Why did he do that?
I'm convinced it's because B.B. Netanyahu, who had been making this argument for 30 years, and now he couldn't make it any longer as long as there were UN inspectors that confirmed that it wasn't happening.
So he had Trump pull out so he could resurrect the argument as bad as it has always been.
And you see the result today.
Meanwhile, there's a report that Ren is now preparing for the prospect of a long war.
Here's Trump's address, and I dare say virtually everything he says here is false.
I mean, it's embarrassing.
Listen.
Here it comes walking down to the podium.
This is not what I expect from a president of the United States.
Thank you very much.
A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Ford, Natans, and Esfahan.
Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise.
Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror.
Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.
Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.
Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace.
If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.
For 40 years, Iran has been saying, death to America, death to Israel.
They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs.
That was their specialty.
We lost over a thousand people and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of the hate.
In particular, so many were killed by their general, Qasem Soleimani.
I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen.
It will not continue.
I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.
We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before.
And we've gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel.
I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they've done.
And most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight and all of the United States military on an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades.
Hopefully we will no longer need their services in this capacity.
I hope that's so.
I also want to congratulate the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Raisenkane, spectacular general, and all of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack.
With all of that being said, this cannot continue.
There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days.
Remember, there are many targets left.
Tonight's was the most difficult of them all by far and perhaps the most lethal.
But if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed, and skill.
Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes.
There's no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight, not even close.
There has never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago.
Tomorrow, General Kane, Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, will have a press conference at 8 a.m.
at the Pentagon.
And I want to just thank everybody.
And in particular, God, I want to just say we love you, God, and we love our great military.
Protect them.
God bless the Middle East.
God bless Israel.
And God bless America.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Now, if one would offer a critique, here you have the President of the United States talking about the U.S. having committed a violation of international law.
This was an illegal strike.
This was a war crime, violating the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions.
They were treating a peaceful nuclear energy production Processing sites, three in number, as though they were devoted to developing nuclear weapons.
But even if they were, contrary to the facts, developing nuclear weapons, there's no imminent threat.
A preemptory strike of this kind under international law is only permissible if a nation confronts an imminent threat.
There was none.
Manifestly, especially not to the United States.
His describing Iran as a terrorist state is ridiculous.
Iran is the most peace-dedicated nation in the world by my accounting, not having launched a war of aggression against any other state since 1775.
I never tire of explaining.
The Constitution was ratified in 1787.
George Washington elected our first president in 1789.
So for longer than the United States has existed as a constitutional republic, Iran has not launched a war of aggression upon any other state.
How many acts of aggression has the United States launched?
100, 200, 1,000?
The number is legion.
It's stunning.
The foremost terrorist state in the Middle East is not Iran.
It's Israel.
The world recognizes this.
It's not really a debatable proposition.
United States and Israel are the two greatest terrorist states in the world today.
And attributing to Iran use of these improvised explosive devices, which were used in Iraq.
I mean, this is, look, this is all the culmination of after 9-11 brought to us by Bibi Net Yahu and Ehud Umurt, that was an Israeli op, 9-11, an Israeli op to create a pretext for American forces to become engaged in the Middle East and take out the modern Arab states and serve as a counterbalance to Israel's domination of the entire region.
Beginning with Libya, Iraq, through an Afghanistan, ending with Syria and the Persian nation of Iran.
Many commentators have observed with the fall of Syria, only the seventh, Iran, remains on the list.
And this is all to create the greater Israel of Zionist aspirations, which includes a chunk of Egypt, virtually all of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, even parts of Iraq.
From the Nile to the Euphrates.
Those are the two blue lines on the Israeli flag.
They want it all.
They want it all.
And for Trump, the president has come up and take credit for what is in fact a massive commission of war crimes.
I mean, look, you can't make this stuff up.
The guy who is supposed to be the peace candidate has turned out to be a war hawk.
As we've already observed, Scott Ritter, Colonel McGregor, he could have ended these wars virtually overnight.
Just cut off the supplies, cut off the money, cut off the weapons, cut off the bombs.
To Zelensky on the one hand and Netanyahu on the other.
And these events end virtually forthright.
And as I believe Job was observing, and I have been worrying, what happens to Palestinians while the missiles are flying between Israel and Iran?
What is happening to the Palestinians?
Is this a cover for the mass starvation of over a million Palestinians?
I'm telling you, that's part of what's going on here.
Stunning.
Meanwhile, I got to say, I've been just dumbfounded to discover that Germany is in the mix.
Germany!
What the hell has Germany got to do with this?
Germany's murder says Israel doing dirty work for us in Iran.
The German Chancellor's support comes amid fresh strikes, launched by both Israel and Iran.
Meanwhile, in Gaza, dozens were reported killed at a GHF.
That's a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, this shell company created, run by former CIA and military, which has been used as bait to lure Palestinians who are starving to food supplies to shoot them, to kill them.
Just outrageous what's going on here.
Part of the report, Germany's chancellor defended Israeli attacks on Iran, saying it was dirty work Israel is doing for all of us.
How can that be true?
Yes, President Trump says he wants a real end to the conflict rather than a ceasefire.
Yes, he wants unconditional surrender by Iran.
Ludicrous.
Ludicrous.
This just betrays his massive ignorance.
The Iranians will never surrender.
Trump seemingly threatens to take out Khamenei if civilians or U.S. soldiers are targeted.
Yeah, basically saying, we're going to come and we're going to hit you.
We're going to attack your nuclear, your uranium enrichment sites, and you may not do anything about it.
We're going to come back and hit you harder.
How disgusting is that?
You talk about a thug, a bully in the Middle East.
It is the United States and Israel.
There's just no room for doubt about it.
Meanwhile, Israel's defense minister is just a warning to Rand's supreme leader?
Yes, yes, yes.
There have been calls for his assassination.
Well, that works more ways than one, frankly.
I believe so many in the IDF and so many Israeli civilians are upset about the massive destruction now being inflicted upon Israel.
That BBNet, yeah, who has a very dramatically reduced lifespan as I see it.
And I think there may even be Americans who are so upset with Donald Trump, not only that he should be impeached, but removed from office.
I do not advocate violence, but frankly, the assassination attempts of the past have been feeble, insignificant in comparison to what may now take place.
The IAEA said the Israelis striked to have directly hit enrichment halls at the tense nuclear complex.
Maybe so.
But basically, the Iranians knew what was coming.
They'd evacuated whatever was most important here from those sites.
They knew it was going to happen.
More.
German government supports Israeli war of aggression.
How is this even possible?
I am so floored.
The German government has bledged its full support to Israel following its attack on Iran.
Chancellor Frederick Bertz of the Christian Democrats, Vice Chancellor Vals Kings Isle, Social Democrats, and Foreign Minister Yeoman Westfall, Christian Democrats, have justified the unprovoked assault on the country of 90 million with Israel's right to self-defense.
Well, there wasn't any threat to Israel there.
There was no imminent threat.
Iran isn't seeking to produce nuclear weapons.
So what in the world is going on here?
Completely outrageous.
Yes.
Say that again.
Thanks.
Thank you, Michael.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I've just said a remark there by a phone that I normally wouldn't take that Iran has struck a U.S. base in Qatar.
A U.S. base in Qatar.
Remember, there are at least 20 bases within the range of Iranian missiles.
They've said that if the U.S. were to attack them, they would respond.
They made it very clear those U.S. bases are among the targets they're going to hit, and now they are doing that.
And Germany's right in their pitching.
In doing so, that is to say, by supporting the unprovoked assault on a country of 90 million, the German government not only scorns the facts, but international law, their support for Israeli aggression, shall stop at no crime in pursuit of their geopolitical objectives, having already backed the bombing, starvation, and displacement of 2 million Palestinians.
They are now defending the targeted assassination of senior Iranian military-figured politician and scientists, the bombing of Iranian high-rises, industrial facilities, and fuel depots, and Israel's attempt to set the entire region ablaze.
I am stunned.
Mertz commented on Friday's first wave of Israeli attacks with a statement.
We, meaning the German government, reaffirmed that Israel has the right to defend its existence and the security of its citizens.
He described Iran's nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel, effectively giving it a blank check to wage war.
It's absurd.
A peaceful nuclear energy program is not an existential threat to anyone.
And the idea that the German government would be endorsing blatant propaganda that's been issued for over 30 years, when we even have the American intelligence community rejecting it, where Tulsi, of course, is now in disfavor with Adonald because she spoke the truth.
Very upsetting.
Here's Glenn Greenwald reminding us of what's really going on.
really going on.
In bombing Iran is his recent assertions that they are developing a nuclear weapon and could have them in weeks or months, even though that is not what our intelligence community thinks.
He reiterated that earlier today, saying they could have it in weeks.
And when he was told that our intelligence agencies, which just once again reiterated that that is not the case, when he was asked about that, he said that our intelligence community is wrong.
And so this is feeling super run up to the war in Iraq, just again, baseless belief that we have to go in there because of weapons of mass destruction.
And one of the interesting sort of factional fights that developed from this was that to assert that, he had to contradict Tulsi Gabbard specifically, who had testified in March that they were not developing a nuclear weapon.
And he seems dead set on the idea that she was wrong.
And that was fascinating.
Tulsi Gabbard maybe being pushed out of the administration because she stood for the truth for once.
And we have a little bit of an update on that.
But first, here is Donald Trump being asked about this disagreement.
I think within a matter of weeks, or certainly within a matter of months, they're going to be able to have a nuclear weapon.
We can't let that happen.
What intelligence do you have that Iran is building a nuclear weapon?
Your intelligence community has said they have no evidence that they are at this point.
Well, then, my intelligence community is wrong.
Who in the intelligence community said that?
Your director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
She's wrong.
She's wrong.
And remember, Tulsi Gabbard didn't just say that they don't have weapons.
Like a week ago, she put out a really flashy Russian-style video about World War III.
She seems to actually not want us to engage in actions that could lead to nuclear war.
And so finally, you have Donald Trump, who seems to be willing to gobble up propaganda and spread it baselessly to get us into a war, and Tulsi Gabbard standing for the truth, which after the last few years is refreshing.
And if that makes you uncomfortable, it's not actually going in that way because Tulsi Gabbard just tweeted, the dishonest media is intentionally taking my testimony out of context and spreading fake news as a way to manufacture division.
America has intelligence that Iran is at the point that it can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months if they decide to finalize the assembly.
President Trump has been clear that can't happen.
And I agree.
They took it out of context.
She said in March, the U.S. continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon.
And Supreme Leader Khamene has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.
Yeah.
She didn't want to lose her job.
That's it.
This is utterly pathetic.
I'm so glad you read that second comment, John, because I was about to give her credit.
And I did when it first happened.
I was like, huh, I thought Tulsi was going to be in favor of war against a Muslim country, to be honest.
And so I didn't believe her that she was anti-war.
And so when she came out and said, oh, no, Iran's not developing a nuclear weapon.
I was like, well, all right, where credit is due.
That's true.
And that's kind of an anti-war position.
I now take it all back.
Let me just say, well, you don't want to take it all back.
Spend as much time with your family, your friends, and people you love and care about.
We do not know how much time we have left.
And as you can see, with Iran striking American bases, World War III is upon us.
Donald Trump will respond.
We'll find out if Putin has a spine where China stands and other nations.
I guarantee now we are in the thick of it.
So use what time you have left wisely.
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