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June 26, 2025 - Jim Fetzer
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The Raw Deal (25 June 2025) "Fearsome Threesome" edition with Russ Winter and Joachim Hagopian
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Well, this is Jim Fetzer, your host, on the raw deal, right here on Revolution Radio Studio B this 25th day of June 2025 with a fearsome threesome edition.
Russ Winter here, Joaquina Gopian to join.
We have numerous developments.
Shaky Israel-Iran ceasefire appears to hold after Trump tells Israel to stop the bombing.
A fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran appears to be halting after it got off to a shaky start.
And President Trump publicly urged Israel to stop the bombing.
Trump announced a truce Monday night, followed by a heavy Israeli attack on Tehran.
Then Iran hit back with several waves of ballistic missile attacks itself.
Iran violated it, but Israel violated it too, Trump told reporters at the White House.
Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and dropped a load of bombs, the like of which I've never seen before.
The biggest load we've seen.
I'm not happy with Israel.
Indeed, he's made a rather strong statement here.
To my surprise, carried by multiple media.
Check it out.
Here it is.
The Trump administration violated the peace agreement and the ceasefire agreement.
Do you believe that Iran still committed to peace?
Yeah, I do.
They violated it, but Israel violated it too.
Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before.
The biggest load that we've seen.
I'm not happy with Israel.
You know, when I say, okay, now you have 12 hours, you don't go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them.
So I'm not happy with them.
I'm not happy with Iran either.
But I'm really unhappy if Israel's going out this morning because of one rocket that didn't land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn't land.
I'm not happy about that.
You know what?
We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Do you understand that?
No, that was quite an F-bomb, and it's been widely reported.
Meanwhile, U.S. Intel says U.S. didn't destroy Iran's nuclear sites.
CNN reported Tuesday that an initial U.S. Intel assessment had found the U.S. bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites did not destroy the core components and likely set back the nuclear program by only a few months.
The assessment was prepared by the Pentagon Defense Intelligence Agency and was based on a battle damage assessment from U.S. Central Command, which could change as the U.S. gathers more intel, but I think highly unlikely.
So the DIA assessment that the U.S. sent them back maybe a few months off, the source told CNN.
The report also added, U.S. strike didn't destroy Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium, and the centrifuges were largely intact.
The assessment contradicts President Trump's claim.
The bombing of the Fortune Tens and Israel sites totally obliterated their facilities.
Joaquim, your assessment, your response.
Well, Donald Trump is finding out that it was a complete failure.
It has not intercepted or interrupted, I don't believe, any of the nuclear enrichment of uranium program that they have going in a number of locations inside Iran.
And you better believe every single one of them is a few hundred feet below the surface.
The only thing that we know was taken out were the buildings at the surface on top of that mountain.
That was taken out.
But the enrichment facilities and equipment are still intact.
Iran prudently had moved them prior to the bombing.
So it was a complete failure, as I read it.
Only the buildings at the top that were empty pretty much.
And they didn't lose anything important as far as nuclear bomb making material.
So yeah, I think it was a complete failure.
But, you know, the showman has to be the showman and show that, hey, look what I did.
I got a ceasefire just like that.
You know, I'm so great.
You know, I'm just tired of this guy.
Russ, your thoughts.
Well, I was curious that when he was in Europe with NATO, he was interviewed and fessed up that, yeah, Israel got their asses kicked.
He says, man, those ballistic missiles just massacred them.
So he figured that out, I guess, 13 days after Israel attacks, after what is called a 12-day war.
On day 13, they kind of admitted that Israel was crushed, and they really were.
We covered some of this last week, and they even got better.
I mean, they toned their attacks, they brought in better weapons, they're still loaded to bear.
So, this is totally about Israel calling Uncle.
And they owe Trump one, but I don't know if Trump's going to use any of his good faith brownie points to try to control Israel.
Is Israel just going to come back and put themselves right back in the same situation and force this constant babysitting from Trump to bail them out, get them out of harm's way?
That's the question I have.
Well, if you go by history, of course they are.
They're not done, you know, and they've been seeking regime change all along.
So all this nuclear stuff is just secondary.
It's side stuff.
The real issue for Iran and America were they were seeking regime change.
They failed.
Iran people are backing the government.
They unified them, actually.
If there was any dissent, it was unified by this whole action.
So, yeah, I think it's an utter, complete failure.
So, Shoman has to go out there and say, look what I did, you know, to get some kind of credit from it.
Also, he heard from Putin and Putin told him, hey, you know, we're sending some nukes to Iran, you know, we're going to help them out.
So you better, you know, get on the stick here, man, or you're going to be in real trouble.
So yeah, I think he clicked his heels for Putin and Pakistan was also planning to send their nuke missiles to Iran.
So yeah, it was a lose, lose, but you know, the showman always has to end up the big guy.
So there he is.
One of Israel's big gun military guys was on an interview and said that we're doing pretty well on our offensive end.
We can strike hard offensively, but we're greatly weakened on defense.
Well, so what does that mean?
That means you've lost.
And they can't replace these armaments and defense missiles easily at all.
The timeline production lines in the United States where they get them are slow, dragging out.
The United States has to...
Yeah, I've been talking about this for a year.
Yeah.
And now it's come to head.
So everybody's admitting it.
Trump's admitting it.
Trump admits they got hit hard.
The Israelis themselves are saying they're diminished defensively.
That's the most honesty I've seen out of Israel in this whole affair.
So that might be signaling that they might want to try to stick with their ceasefire and may not want to go after Iran anytime soon.
Right.
They want to be a nation.
We have another report about Russia supplying Iran with nuclear warheads, but let me say, this is being settled.
I think we cannot take for granted that it's going to happen.
Yeah, they pushed Iran right into, you know, making nuclear bombs now, just for self-defense.
Hello, I'm C.J. Welleman, and in this episode, we reveal how Trump's missile strikes against Iran have not only completely backfired, but also brought Israel to the brink of extinction.
But first, please remember to like and subscribe to our show.
Now let's get into it.
After Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles at one of the most fortified US military bases in the world, and only after Tehran warned the strikes were coming in retaliation for the US bombing of Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend, Trump took to social media on Monday to announce a ceasefire had been reached between the United States, Iran and Israel.
Even though no official ceasefire actually exists.
Here's Israel bombing Tehran 20 minutes after Trump's so-called ceasefire went into effect.
This online meme perfectly captures the stupid logic that sits within Trump's buffoonish brain.
Iran, after being attacked unprovoked, is suddenly not going to grant Israel or the United States the luxury of unilaterally defining the terms of peace.
And if Trump knew anything about Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, then he would know that wars rarely go the way the Americans think they will.
the enemy gets a vote as well.
Israel has absolutely zero desire to curtail its genocidal and homicidal activities in the region.
It needs perpetual war to keep its enemies in a state of chaos, and it must continue to dispossess, displace, and kill in order to keep its Greater Israel project alive and well.
We are talking about Israel, a criminal enterprise that doesn't even know what a ceasefire means, having committed at least 962 ceasefire violations in the first phase of its ceasefire agreement with Hamas in Gaza, and having also committed 2,740 ceasefire violations against Lebanon.
Hezbollah mistakenly took Israel on its word and now Hezbollah is gone.
To trust the Zionist regime is to put your life in immediate and direct danger.
There's just no bargaining with thieves.
Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before.
The biggest load that we've seen.
I'm not happy with Israel.
You know, when I say, okay, now you have 12 hours, you don't go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them.
So I'm not happy with them.
I'm not happy with Iran either.
But I'm really unhappy if Israel's going out this morning because of one rocket That didn't land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn't land.
I'm not happy about that.
You know what?
We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f they're doing.
Do you understand that?
And while Iran may seek permanent peace with the United States, it knows that it can no longer coexist with Israel.
Even though the two countries and the US have cooperated together in the past, with Israel arming Iran during the 1980s and Iran helping the US invade Iraq and Afghanistan in the early 2000s.
But today, after unprovoked Israeli and American attacks, there's no going back to this past, and certainly not while the Iranian regime smells Zionist blood in the water.
Israel is now cloaked in the stench of its inevitable defeat.
You see, Tehran knows that the Zionist regime is running desperately low of interceptor missiles for its overly hyped air defense system.
But there's a growing concern that Israel is burning through its defensive weapons.
And its aero interceptors, which play a key role in taking out Iran's ballistic missiles, are in short supply, according to a U.S. official.
The United States, which has been helping Israel shoot down threats, is also expending its munitions.
The U.S. official and analysts familiar with the numbers say that Iran has more missiles than Israel and the U.S. have interceptors, raising concerns about Israel's ability to defend itself long term.
Compounding Israeli woes is the fact that Iranian ballistic and hypersonic missiles have completely overwhelmed Iron Dome, leading to unprecedented and widespread destruction throughout Israel's major cities, from Tel Aviv to Haifa to Beersheba.
Israelis are finally getting a taste of their own medicine.
I think that's a sensational report now, Moachim.
Finally, Israel is getting what it deserves.
That's the way I'm looking at it.
They've been the offender, you know, assaulting other countries, genociding people, getting away with murder, literally, for what?
As long as they've been a country, they've engaged in all kinds of criminal activity with their neighbors.
And finally, karma is due for Israel.
I just want to make up on the claim that Russia is going to supply nukes to Iran because I have a well-connected source who says it's categorically false.
Only a month or so ago, Putin himself was in Israel shaking hands, expressing support for Israel.
I find all this very, very troubling.
But this source went so far as to suggest that if Russia were to supply news, they might be booby-trapped, just as were those phones that were distributed to Hezbollah.
I'm very, very troubled.
Your thoughts, Joaquin?
I don't think Putin would resort to that.
I know that he called this strategic alliance a little bit.
He pulled it back with Iran, and he made the excuse, which is legit to an extent, that he said that over half the people, Israeli citizens speak Russian, so he's got to stay on good terms, you know.
And overall, through the years, until relatively recently, he always has had a good relationship with Israel.
So that really all doesn't surprise me that much.
But he knows that Iran and China and Russia are the bulwark of the multipolar world to oppose and get rid of the Western hegemony.
And I don't think he's going to suddenly shift sides and go with Israel.
No way.
Rush, your thoughts.
A key component of the Silk Road, this railroad that runs from China, Western China, up into Siberia and then plunges down into Iran and goes to the coast has been completed.
So they're going to really be building that infrastructure up even further.
A lot of trade that's they're opening up new resources.
It's no longer necessary even for Iran to ship their oil by tanker.
They can send it by rail into China.
So the economics are going to, the money and the economics is going to determine that.
Now, whether they provide them with a nuclear bomb, I don't think they would because they don't want, what if they used it, right?
You know, they don't have any control over that.
However, I think that Iran could pick up a nuke from North Korea, just buy it off the shelf or Pakistan.
They're out there.
It's not a big deal.
So the whole thing about nuclear weapons is completely overblown because they're on the market.
Countries have them.
They can provide them.
And Iran has the launch capacity.
They've already shown that.
This last week, it pretty much sinks the whole nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
I mean, no country is going to abide by it like it has for the last many decades.
So, yeah, it's really undermined that treaty.
And, you know, they're saying, well, you know, I think if they got it, well, so why shouldn't I?
You know, it's just going to spread.
So yeah, you know, the U.S. and Israel have created a monster now where probably there's going to be a number of nations that are going to be grasping for nuclear weapons.
I think that's absolutely right.
Meanwhile, CNN reports, a majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's Iran airstrikes, a CNN poll raw fact.
President Trump's decision to launch airstrikes against Iran is broadly unpopular with Americans, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS after the strikes.
Americans disapprove of the strikes, 56 to 44, according to the survey, with strong disapproval, outpacing the share who strongly approve.
Most distrust Trump's decision-making on the use of force in Iran, with about six in 10 worried that the strikes will increase the Iranian threat to the United States.
Sharp partisan divides cut through nearly every question act in the survey.
Democrats are broadly opposed to the strikes as are most Republicans support them.
Though younger GOP supporters and Republican-leaning independents are more skeptical than others in their party.
And there's another poll, short leash, warning for Trump as surprise poll offers harsh verdict on Iran's strikes.
Are you surprised Trump moved so quickly to force a ceasefire?
Read the striking news survey data and you won't be.
Americans don't trust him to wage a long war.
If any political commentators or Democrat politicians are tempted to see the political battle over Trump's bombing of Iran through the prism of the run-up to the Iraq war two decades ago, here's a tip.
Don't.
For politicians and pundits of a certain age, it's normally assumed that military action will unleash a rally around the flag of fact, leading the public to reflexively approve the decisions by the commander-in-chief, particularly if he's a Republican, and automatically see criticism of him as unpatriotic.
But it's unlikely that we'll see a similar dynamic this time around.
A surprising new CNN poll shows why.
It finds 56% of Americans disapprove of Trump's bombing in Iran, only 44% approve.
Strikingly, 60% of independents disapprove, suggesting the middle of the country is not with Trump on any of this.
Tuesday, while leaving the NATO summit, Trump erupted at Israel and Iran for violating a ceasefire.
He denounced untrue social fuming.
They don't know what the heck they're doing.
Iran launched a strike after the ceasefire, but Israel's response appeared deliberately limited, suggesting both countries want a lasting truce, which Trump highlighted to claim victory.
Joachim.
Yeah, we know how U.S. and Israel operate when there's ceasefires.
They regroup and then come back.
That's the bottom line.
Every treaty that's ever been made, they violate.
They're the most notorious backstabbers after agreements, signed agreements, than I think any other countries in the world, actually, in the last, especially the last five decades or so.
So yeah, we know that regime change is not over yet as far as the U.S. and Israel.
But I also have to realize, as I do on every broadcast, that it's hard to speak in terms of nations alone because there's always the masters behind the puppet politicians that are the leaders of these nations.
And if you look beyond that, they want World War III.
I just don't see how we're going to escape it with people like Trump and Netanyahu and Zelensky and the EU and NATO and now the NATO conference.
NATO should have been broken up decades ago.
You know, it's all about war.
They have no purpose without war, you know, and oh, Russia, Russia, Russia, you know.
I mean, it's all just divide and rule.
So more wars can happen.
So the military-industrial complex gets stronger and more powerful.
They move towards central government, you know, centralized control over everything.
You know, the whole thing with Palantir, you know, where it's headed is very scary for every American and I dare say every human on earth because they don't want humans on this earth.
They want the AI robotics.
That's what they're out there.
Russ.
Well, I wonder what the poll results are now that the attempt to wipe out the nuclear facilities failed.
And so now we're doing engineering spin.
So let's take from beginning to start of this 12-day operation.
They failed to knock out these facilities.
I don't know, maybe they sent them back a week or two or a month.
That's possible.
But it hasn't stopped anything.
So that's a pretty big gamble to unload thousands of missiles on Israel and turn the place into a parking lot.
Is that what the big brains behind this operation calculated?
Because that's the end result.
So the people that are answering this poll are idiots.
You know, you're not based in reality.
And I've seen that over and over again in the comments on social media.
People are just in la-la land about what the consequences.
I mean, the keyword are consequences.
Did you fail in your mission?
Yes.
You can spin it, but you failed.
Is Israel in dire trouble?
Are they running out of defensive measures?
Yes.
Do you really want to go back?
I mean, you're lucky you got yourself a ceasefire, Israel.
You're damn lucky.
Because, I mean as far as I'm concerned, I think Iran should have just continued.
Just continued to just lob missiles on them day after day after day.
So I think I think the problem what I understand is the hardliners are in control in Iran.
And anybody that's negotiated, that's operated in good faith, has gotten egg on their face.
They're out of power.
The hardliners are in control.
So I think Iran is just chopping at the bench to hit Israel again.
That's my feeling on this.
I think my penny manager, when we return from the break, it will see some evidence that Iran has won the war and Israel has suffered consequences beyond its imagining.
We know the confrontation between the defense minister and the angrier Israelis admitted they had underestimated Iran's ballistic capabilities.
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Thank you.
Well, here's a report: epic footage: airline passengers over Saudi Arabia captured the launch of ballistic missiles from Iran, headed toward Israel.
Let's see what we have here.
What?
Can you imagine?
Can you imagine being on a caroliner?
It's a good one.
It's a booster.
Are you going to get a caroliner?
No, no.
They're going to get a caroliner.
Wow.
Are you going to get a caroliner?
Russ, I couldn't agree more from a military-political point of view, Ryan ought to keep hammering Israel.
Israel is suffering massive destruction.
We have a series of photographs showing what's happened here.
Take a look.
This is a very good video.
Very good video.
It shows a lot.
You can go to YouTube, you can see dozens of people.
I have one of them here, Russ.
I just wanted to show the photographs initially.
This is not what Israelis were looking for.
Much of Israel is being reduced to rubble, very much like Gaza.
And the population is insensed.
They felt that their government was going to protect them.
But just look at the damage after damage after damage.
There's a tremendous upset.
And let me see if I don't have one of those videos you're talking about.
They've covered up a lot of their hits on their military because that's kind of top side.
And cohos.
Yes.
Yes.
And they're letting you see the extensive damage to the residential areas because they want the world to see that.
Yeah, look at these buildings.
They're going to have to come down.
The Middle East sky turned red again.
But this time it wasn't just a symbol of resistance.
This was the day Israel was truly silenced.
Not because they ran out of missiles, but because they were starting to fear.
The sirens wailed in Tel Aviv no longer as a warning, but a sign that no place was safe.
Iran was pounding from all directions, missiles, drones, kamikazes, and silent attacks from thousands of kilometers away all with one clear message, Israel was not immune.
And this was no ordinary attack, no bluff, no drill, but a retaliation that tore apart the defenses they had been so proud of.
But what was most surprising was not the explosion, but the silent reaction from within Israel itself.
But politics, internal chaos, and a new fear that could not be covered up by propaganda.
In this video we will reveal what really happened after the rain of missiles.
Buildings could be in order but fear and disorientation in the Israeli military.
And if this is just the beginning, what will happen in the next round?
Of all the cities hit by the attack, Batam suffered the most.
This is where the vital missile hit a mountain at surprising speed.
No sirens warned, no iron dome could save.
That night, Israel's air defenses completely failed.
The explosions shook apartment buildings, flattened several houses, and left debris scattered.
Nine people were killed, including three small children, but more than lives were lost.
Trust in their proud defense system was destroyed right from the heart of the city.
Not far from Bam, the city of Ryzen Legion was also targeted.
Although initially not widely reported, the attack was no less terrible.
Not just ordinary damage, Ryzen looked like a mini-version of Gaza.
Missiles hit residential areas and industrial areas directly.
Buildings collapsed, roads cracked, and blasts flew, hitting everything around them.
In one amateur video, you can see how the ruins of buildings covered the street, cars were crushed, and residents stood frozen in shock.
Now the fear that they had spread abroad had returned to hit their own yard.
the trauma no longer belonged to Gaza, but also to them.
The night of June 13 was a turning point.
At a time when many believed that the Israeli defense system was able to close all the gaps, one missile managed to get through and not just anywhere, but hit the Kirya complex, the heart of all Israeli military operations.
This is where the IDF headquarters of the Ministry of Defense and the Intelligence Command Center are located.
This super-tight area is surrounded by layers of the most sophisticated defense systems ranging from Irondum, David Sling to Radre.
But that night all this sophisticated technology failed.
One missile penetrated and hit without being able to be prevented.
Although the government insisted that there were no casualties, the psychological shock could not be hidden.
If Kyria, which should be the safest, could be penetrated, then is there still a truly safe place in Israel?
This is not just an attack, this is a warning that the myth of Israel's military invulnerability has been cracked.
The next target is much quieter, but even more terrifying.
The Women Institute in Rehof, this place is not just an ordinary research center.
This is where Israel's secret nuclear and military technology projects are developed in secret.
And that night Iran hit it right on target.
There was no official statement, no media broadcast, but eyewitnesses reported the sound of a large explosion and black smoke billowing from the campus building.
Several important laboratories were badly damaged, including what was said to be a key facility.
And all this happened in a location that had previously been considered taboo to touch.
Aranta only hit the facility, they were hitting symbols, sending messages, even the brain of the Israeli war machine was no longer immune.
The attacks did not stop.
Now it was Ramat Gam's turn, a city that had previously been considered safe and far from the line of fire.
Reez's calm was Touched.
But that night, everything changed.
The missile hit a place in the heart of the city, destroying a large apartment block.
The explosion shook the entire district.
Thick smoke covered the sky.
One building was destroyed.
Its walls collapsed.
The streets were covered in debris.
The surrounding houses were also destroyed.
In a matter of seconds, Rama turned from the residential city into rubble and dust.
This was not only physical destruction, but also a psychological blow because now there was no longer a safe zone in Israel.
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That's pretty damn fascinating.
The destruction is massive.
And Iran appears to be capable of hitting targets at will.
And Israel has no longer any defense against them.
And I know they're increasing the force and precision of the missiles they are firing.
Trump, I think, is desperate for a ceasefire to protect Israel from further onslaught by the Iranians.
Rots, you are further.
I'll play it later when I do the Round the West, but even Steve Bannon said as much.
He says, that's the reason there's a ceasefire.
Trump's trying to save Israel's bacon.
So, yeah, that's the conclusion.
Anything else is a spin?
Okay, and speaking of regime change, I don't know that Netanyahu's days are much longer.
I think he's going to be gone.
That regime's going to be gone, I believe.
Yeah, and here we have JD Vance.
Don't worry.
By the way, earlier today, from Gaza, there was an incident, quote unquote, where 11 IDF were killed and 16 were wounded by Hamas sappers.
Great.
Fascinating.
Meanwhile, JD Vance says, don't worry about war with Iran because President Trump isn't dumb.
I'm not sure how many would buy that today.
Vice President Vance said Sunday that Americans who are opposed to another war in the Middle East shouldn't worry because President Trump isn't dumb.
I think that's what they said in World War II about Hitler.
We're good to go.
Is that kind of what they were saying then?
The vice president comments in an interview with NBC where he justified and defended President Trump's bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities, which was carried out without congressional approval, making it illegal under the Constitution.
I certainly empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East.
I understand their concerns.
But the difference is, back then we had dumb presidents.
And now we have a president who actually knows how to accomplish America's national security objective.
Let's hear him saying this.
I certainly empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East.
I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents, and now we have a president who actually knows how to accomplish America's national security objectives.
So this is not going to be some long-drawn out thing.
We've got in, we've done the job of setting their nuclear program back.
We're going to now work to permanently dismantle that nuclear program over the coming years.
And that is what the president has set out to do.
Simple principle.
Iran can't have a nuclear weapon that has animated American policy over the past 130 days.
It's going to continue to be a driving force of our policy in the Middle East for the next three and a half years.
Vice President.
Yeah, I don't think anyone's convinced by that.
Joachim, your thoughts.
Iran has every right to have nuclear weapons for self-defense at this point.
Obviously, you know, Israel illegally stole secrets from America, stole uranium from America, killed JFK because he was going after them to stop them from a nuclear weapon.
And then they took out RFK because he was trying to enforce the law that says a foreign agent cannot operate inside American halls of government.
And they took him out partially for that.
So yeah, I think basically the world has realized that the U.S. backing Israel and Israel are pariah nations to the whole entire world now.
Trump has shown that he's all about Israel and not about America.
Everybody gets it now.
He doesn't have, he only got the mega crowd still loyal to Israel behind him.
That's the only people in America that are still in support of Trump.
Everybody else is now turned against him because he's shown himself to be a totally incompetent, unstable, mentally unstable fool that flip-flops every other day, very erratic, unpredictable.
And when people get desperate that are mentally and emotionally unstable, horrible things can happen.
And that's what we have to be bracing for at this point.
I couldn't agree more.
Russ, do you want to end to that?
Well, besides what we've been discussing, that Israel is clearly losing the war and had to get a ceasefire to save their bacon, the people they're going to be negotiating with in Iran continuing forward to try to resolve this matter are hardliners.
I'll repeat that again.
If anything happened with the 12-day war, the Iranians have dug in even further with hardliners now in control.
So they have no opening whatsoever for any kind of diplomacy.
They've done that, been there, done that.
Any observer, anyway.
They're not going to get fooled again by America.
Yeah, not going to get fooled again by America.
And any intelligent observer anywhere in the world, regardless of your nationality or even your stance on this stuff, could see that.
Unless you're going to threaten them, unless you just want to keep threatening them.
And we'll go down that path, too.
So we'll keep threatening them, and we'll just see Iran unleash another thousand missiles on Israel.
Here's something pretty weird.
Trump has turned-You saw the news, but Fox News is claiming President Trump is declining in the polls.
And President Trump responded, So now, Newsmax is conducting its own poll on President Trump's job performance.
It takes just a minute to vote, so let us know.
Donald Trump just took the most dangerous and disturbing step yet in his illegal escalation of war with Iran and a truth social post that not only exposes his lies, not only is idiotic and misspelled, but directly turns on and contradicts Pete Hegseph and the insane statement that he just made.
We are going to get into this very disturbing breaking news, but first, I want to start with what Senator Tim Kaine had to say today, which I think is the most important context of what Donald Trump just lied about.
Look, America was lied into a war in 2002 against Iraq with a Republican administration giving us false information about Iraq's weapons program.
I have grave concern that we're going down the same path.
Donald Trump's own national security officials have stated that Iran was not close to having a nuclear weapon.
And Shannon, just Friday night, the Israeli foreign minister said that its bombing campaign over the last nine days had set back the Iranian nuclear program by at least two or three years.
There was no imminent threat to the United States from this nuclear program.
It was an offensive war of choice by a president without consultation with Congress.
We're going to have the briefing this week.
We'll have a vote.
I know many Republicans will fall in line and say a president can do whatever he wants, but I hope members of the Senate and the House will take their Article I responsibility seriously and say, you didn't even notify us, much less get an authorization.
The U.S. should not be at war without a vote of Congress.
We are being lied to right now.
Not only is Donald Trump's attack on Iran illegal because he bypassed Congress, being the dictator on day one that he promised he would be, but it's important why he's bypassing Congress.
It's not because he thinks that he needs to act immediately and in the interest of our safety, protecting the American people, as Pete Hegseth and J.D. Vance will claim.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's because he doesn't have the evidence, the intelligence to back up the claims that he's making.
It's the reason he is acting as Dictator Donald, and it is incredibly scary, especially when the lies being pushed by J.D. Vance, but most importantly, directly from Pete Hegseth today, this morning, were just contradicted by the insane post Trump just made.
And we can see those lies from the two of them right here before we check out that post.
My first question, Mr. Vice President, is the United States now at war with Iran?
No, Kristen, we're not at war with Iran.
We're at war with Iran's nuclear program.
And let me just say, Kristen, that we're incredibly grateful and proud of the American Air Force pilots who did an incredible job last night.
The operation.
They didn't land a single time.
They dropped 30,000-pound bombs on a target the size of a washing machine and then got back home safely without ever landing in the Middle East or ever stopping other than to briefly refuel.
And of course, they did that in the air.
So it's really an incredible operation, a testament to the power of American military.
And I think what shows what can happen when you have that great American military in the hands of capable presidential leadership.
What we did is we destroyed the Iranian nuclear program.
I think we set that program back substantially.
And we did it without endangering the lives of the American pilots.
That's an incredible thing.
And I think we all should be proud, whatever our politics, we should be proud of what these guys accomplished.
A very, very high impact mission under a lot of pressure.
Me?
So is regime change off the table, Mr. Secretary?
And to the Chairman, you said the battle damage assessment is still ongoing, but do you believe that some nuclear capability in Iran remains?
This mission was not and has not been about regime change.
The President authorized a precision operation to neutralize the threats to our national interests posed by the Iranian nuclear program and the collective self-defense of our troops and our ally, Israel.
Thanks for your question.
J.D. Vance is telling us that this conflict will not escalate.
This was a single military action.
This was a solo operation.
It is a one and done.
Pete Hegset says that there's no interest in regime change from the Trump administration.
That is his position as our Secretary of Defense.
We're not interested in regime change.
Well, what did Donald Trump just post?
I think you can guess.
Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, it's not politically correct to use the term regime change, but if the current Iranian regime is unable to make Iran great again, why wouldn't there be a regime change?
Make Iran great again?
Trump also followed that up with this misspelled nonsense.
The great B-2 pilots just landed safely in Missouri.
Thank you for a job well done.
Donox J. Trump, President of the United States?
Language is our first tool.
Our first.
You know, the plan would have been regime change if Israel had a defense.
Clearly, if they could have stopped the largely stopped the retaliation from Iran, they would have really pushed for regime change and they would have wrecked Iran as much as possible and made life miserable from them.
But that didn't work either.
They miscalculated there.
Yeah, indeed, indeed, indeed, indeed.
I think everything's been going backwards for Israel.
All their best-late plans have gone awry.
Joachim, your assessment?
I mean, the more Vance and Higgs and Trump try to defend themselves, especially contradicting the assessments of the intelligence agency, the more ridiculous and discredited they become.
They are self-destructing before our very eyes, more effectively than those Buddhist monks self-immolating the protests of Vietnam War.
Joaquin.
I think more and more people are realizing these guys are total liars.
They are so removed from reality and the truth.
And I think more and more people are finally realizing this.
And I don't see his mega base at all with him anymore.
We're done with him.
It's time for impeachment, although Vance is not going to be the guy we want.
But Trump is incompetent.
I think it's before the world.
Everybody's seeing this now.
You know, the way he flip-flops and is really unstable, I believe.
So, yeah, it's not a win situation for America.
Well, you know, the Mega Base, I think, are bandwagon type people.
They like to get on the bandwagon.
And they thought in the past that they had a winner, which they did.
They kind of perceived Trump as a winner.
But I don't think that they're interested in losers.
I think it's just, you know, when you have your cocktail parties and you have your 4th of July celebrations and talk to your neighbors and your relatives and you're a Trump supporter, I mean, what a loser.
I mean, it's just they're a bunch of losers, clearly.
So I think they're going to.
I think that's what's coming down here.
Perfect.
I'm making you host, my friends.
When we turn from the break, which is about to be upon us, we can turn to some of your stories.
And indeed, if you would like, we can go there now.
But I think that this has proven to be a fiasco.
I think Israel is suffering massively.
As Joaquin has suggested, what is the prospect of regime change, not in Iran, which I think is improbable in the extreme, not going to happen, but in Israel?
I think the Israelis have to be furious with Bibi Menya and would like nothing better than to get rid of him.
I've even heard the IDF might be trying to track him down to take him out.
Joaquin, your thoughts?
Well, you know, just before he did his little bomb job on Friday the 13th, the Nesset government voted by two votes to avoid a reelection of Netanyahu, which everybody knows he would lose.
And he came fresh off of being in court, too.
So he realized this is a do or die moment for me.
I'm either going to go down in flames as this wartime president or prime minister, or I will lose my chance to go after Iran.
And so he took it, but now he's on the losing end.
And yeah, I don't think he's going to last too much longer.
People are so fed up now.
Russ, I love your meme there of Tucker interviewing Ted Cruz.
Tucker, you clearly don't understand the Bible.
4,000 years ago, God promised Netanyahu American bunker monsters.
I think that summarizes it.
That's pretty much what he said.
If you listen to the interview, it's pretty much what he said.
Tucker kind of challenged him on it.
So the Bible says that the current state of Israel, that's what this is all about.
That's what somebody says that gets about $2 million from APAC.
I think he's one of the top paid Congress people.
Russ, we're going to hit the break in about a minute.
Go ahead if you want to start with a story.
We're good.
They're fessing up.
While Israel could have continued the war offensively, its defensive capabilities were running dry.
There was no way out, Israeli media.
So the Israeli media is basically reporting the farce.
That is the spin of the Israeli nationality.
Hold it.
their rest will return right after this break.
Thank you.
Russ, take us out.
Take us in.
Give us your power.
Steve Bannon commenting on all this.
Yesterday they took the ceasefire was as much the citizens fire was as much the same.
That's the hidden story here.
They picked up way more than they could true.
They were played out as far as yesterday was a brutal day for the citizens of Israel, took horrible incomings, particularly in Tel Aviv and I guess Beersheba also.
They needed this because they were running a defensive ammunition.
And President Trump stepped in there with the help of Qatar.
Look, we've come a long way since seven years ago when Qatar would not work with us on stopping the financing of Islamic terrorism, the financing of it.
They've stepped in the middle of the situation and they stepped in the middle of here.
President Trump is going to praise him.
he's not going to have his way to praise Netanyahu's government, which I think is getting to be an issue.
Okay.
Yeah, I think it's very telling that they're admitting that Israel has been shellacked I think this is very, very tough.
I'd like to think that he's actually breaking with Israel.
Who owns him?
It's basically the city of London owners of Israel.
The banking cabal, the money changers.
They own him.
You know, along with all the rest of the donors and the rest.
They own him.
And so yeah, I would love to see him break with Israel.
the whole world would be behind him probably if he did but i don't think he will they got him blackmailed and tried i don't russia israelis banned from flying out and This is terms of Israel on the 20th.
Government restrictions against flying out of the country in the wake of Israel's attack against Iran on Friday are facing tough legal questions.
As apparently, large numbers of Israeli citizens seek to leave the country for various reasons are currently being prevented from doing so.
A small number of foreign citizens and Israelis have been able to leave through Israeli citizens have not been able to consider information security during the ongoing conflict with Iran.
But we'll see what happens now.
So now there's a little bit of a ceasefire.
Will we see hundreds of thousands of Israelis clear out?
That's Israeli democracy at work, keeping them all locked in to die, you know.
And what a hit to their economy.
Yeah, there's 7 million of them, you know, and 2 million that are Arab.
And there's going to be a mass exodus.
I don't see Israel even surviving as a nation, even if they aren't blown to smithereens through war.
I don't see them surviving because their economy is going to tank.
Everything's going to fall apart there.
JD Vance's wife is Jewish?
Yeah, JD Vance married to a chosen one.
She looks apart.
Okay, so here's the story.
They're called the Telugu Jews because they speak the language of Telugu, our small community living primarily in a Gotha-Reddy Palam, a village outside of, I can't even pronounce these things, Gutar district.
So you got a little bit of a Jewish population in India.
Yeah, well, yeah.
There always has been.
I don't know how large it is.
So she was born in...
Her dad was a mechanical engineer from Madras and lecturer at San Diego State.
I mean, just almost like Kamala Harris, the same type of lineage.
Yeah.
Well, he came out of nowhere.
You know, the idea that this Vance was elevated to be the VP nominee just threw me for a loot.
No one had ever heard of him.
He had no national reputation.
So what the hell is going on here?
He's called Volunteer.
Yeah, go ahead.
Elaborate.
Okay, so we got the, we covered the RGC hardliners have already de facto seized power in Iran.
Let's see what the story is here.
No, I wanted to Joaquin to elaborate about JD Vance first.
Peter Thiel put him through Yale University.
He took him on as the protege.
And the guy's been owned.
He's totally controlled by the big tech industry and basically human harvesting all of us to put us into categories.
Are you with us or against us?
And anybody that speaks their mind for truth obviously is going to be a dissident on the list.
And that's what Palantir does.
And they're involved in also helping Israel go after certain Gazan people that they don't want a lot, you know, like journalists, UN personnel.
They had a part playing in the taking out of the generals and the scientists in Iran just a couple of days ago.
So yeah, yeah, it's no good.
We're all Gazans, basically.
We're all Palestinians, according to Palantir, if you have a mind of your own.
Go ahead, Bus.
Okay, so this is The Economist.
So notice I'm kind of going with mainstream media as much as possible where they start figuring things out and start, you know, getting the narratives halfway correct.
So the Republican Guard, the IRGC hardliners have already de facto seized power in Iran in outrage over perceived weakness leadership of the clerical elites.
So clerical elites tend to be kind of soft pedal and try to work with the West and try to be reasonable.
And, you know, they're not hardliners.
And that's why it's so crazy that Trump's threatening a supreme leader.
Because if they take him out, then you're going to really see these, it's going to be a dictatorship of military.
Well, he's a spiritual leader of 200 million Shia Muslims.
He's a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad.
If they take him out, I think there's going to be a holy war in the Middle East, unlike any ever before observed.
I think it's going to be stunning.
The article goes on and says that the war has triggered a nationalist surge and has narrowed the gap between the ruler and the ruled.
No one has responded to calls from Benjamin Netanyahu or Reza Pavlavi, the royalist pretender for a popular uprising.
Early admiration of Israel's military prowess has turned into outrage as its targets have widened and the death patrol has mounted.
Scorn for the RCG's haplessness has turned into pride at the speed of which it is reconstituted.
So, yeah, I mean, Iranians have got to really be proud of their performance of hitting Israel.
That's interesting.
They bring the Shah's son out just when they're ready for a regime change, you know.
Hey, we got the replacement.
It's not working, though.
You know, unless they've got some traders in top ranks that can just somehow seize power.
But I don't see how that's going to happen.
The bench is too deep.
It's not like Syria or Hezbollah.
It's a state, and they have a deep bench, and they've been in power for a while.
So you knock one guy out, or one trader emerges, somebody else pops up and takes the position.
So this narrative around a regime change in Iran is just really loony-bin type stuff.
More unrealistic nonsense.
The seventh nation on that seven-nation takedown and five-year list that Bush had.
You know, the last one alive still here.
Charlie Kirk tries to respond to the Talmudic to Talmudic quotes.
4713 refers to Jesus being a fornicator.
Gitton 56 refers to Jesus burning in hell and shit.
Shabbat 104B says that Mary was a fornicator.
Baba Messiah 24A reads that if a Jew finds an object that a Gentile boy has lost, does not have to return it.
Yebima 98A says all children of Goham are animals.
Touchbox, Jebemiah 84B says, if you eat with a goy, it's the same as eating with a dog.
Baba Messiah 114B says Gentiles goys are not demons, they are beasts.
All of which are legitimate verses.
All of which are legitimate verses are Judaism.
Here's my opinion.
We'll just disagree.
I believe that Paul said in the New Testament, we must bless the Jews.
We must bless the Jews.
That's the argument.
That's so bad.
He acknowledges the evil of the Talmud and the fundamental sickness of these people.
But apparently Paul on the road to Damascus or someplace, apparently was recorded as saying, many, many years ago, we must bless the Jews.
If that's even true.
Some people even question that passage.
And they're not the original Middle East Jews anyway.
They're Ashkenazi Khazarians.
Yes, yes, yes.
So we're not talking about the same group.
Even if that were true, Paul's saying, he's not talking about the same population as today.
Right.
So I comment, I'm amazed that this guy referring to Charlie Kirk still has an audience.
Yeah, yeah.
And is that quote about Jesus in hell?
He's supposed to be in a bat of boiling excrement?
I mean, it's pretty nasty stuff.
Now, the story is that there's like there's 377,000 missing Palestinians from Gaza.
And that, you know, remember when Trump was talking about 1.8 million Gazans?
You know, like 400,000 or so are missing?
Yeah.
Breaking the does anyone have any serious doubt about where that guy went?
Well, originally there was 2.3 million Gazans, but it's dropped significantly.
And I believe that 400,000 are dead.
Definitely.
Yeah, or maybe some of them have left.
I don't know.
I have a theory that some of them have been buying their way out.
A lot are under the rubble right now.
Right.
So this is a data set hosted by Harvard.
Shows Gaza's population has dropped.
They are people in northern Gaza who endured the heaviest bombing, residents of Rafa's eastern districts now flattened, and families in zones of total communication blackout.
So there's some people that are just kind of stranded.
You know, probably living under unimaginable conditions in the rubble, living in the rubble.
It's worth hearing.
Rush, could you go back to that statement there?
Jews are losing their support.
The one before this, you just flip by it.
I mean, it was there.
We were starting to see it go down.
No, go down.
I'm sorry, you had it there, and now it's gone.
Maybe the previous article?
Okay, maybe it's in the what happened.
When I dropped the screen, what we're seeing is all-time low support now for Israel and America, really.
They're two peas in the pod.
They're two peas in the pod.
Yeah, I don't see anything on the support.
That's kind of a given.
Yes.
So here we have, you know, big brain Trump falsely claims Fordo is destroyed.
He just came right out before they had any opportunity to have any kind of damage assessment or anything.
He just says it, we destroyed him.
Before they're even able to do the damage assessment.
Very irresponsible.
And I know, just if you're paying attention to Trump, you have to kind of completely dismiss him because of this type of thing.
You don't just jump in front of the story and make up your narrative like you want it to be true before the bombing is even assessed.
He's got zero credibility now.
He's got zero credibility now.
The economics of war.
The economics of war.
In this frame, 12 Israeli pick and three missiles fail to intercept one Iranian FATA missile.
The cost of each pick and missile is $12 million.
Total cost of an unsuccessful interception, $144 million.
The FATA, which is what, you know, that's an advanced missile.
So yeah, they are probably going to try to hit it with extra missiles.
$200,000.
$144 million for $200,000.
$144 million for $200,000.
$144 million for $200,000.
Just flew right by him.
And it couldn't stop.
Just flew right by him.
Not going to stay in business that way.
Here's some shots of Tehran and the period before the war in Tehran.
So I think people, I see a lot of Islamophobia.
You know, of course, I've made it known that I'm a member of an, you know, have in-laws that are Iranian.
So I kind of know what they're like.
But I see a lot of really weird Islamophobia shit out there.
They've been demonized.
They're like Russia.
They've been demonized for so long now.
Right, right, right.
Even Hollywood has contributed to the propaganda.
They've been seeding anti-Iran stories of terrorism for decades, even though they have no basis in fact.
Even though it's Israel and America that support, finance, train, and arm them, the terrorists.
Yes.
So the people in this clip on May 18th, which is right before the war, okay, May 18th, this was taken, look like the cut.
You know, I make a comment.
I can confirm.
I've met most of the cousins, aunts, and uncles.
You know, I know all these.
They're really a big family.
There's a couple cousins in Cologne, Germany that I've met, really like those guys.
The Maryland area.
Here's what they look like.
This is what they're like.
Iran.
This video, that video, It completely debunks the whole image, the propaganda that the Western media show, where they all are covered up, the women are covered up, you know, when they're religious.
They look very modern, very fashionable, very sophisticated, very normal.
You couldn't get similar footage in New York City if you tried of people who look that well-capped, that appropriate, that proper, that decent and humane.
You wouldn't find that in New York City.
They put American cities to shame now.
You know, the drug addicts, the homeless, it's terrible.
I agree.
If you come to the house, you can go to the government's office.
The place where the time is going to make a note.
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i think part of the plan for iran is arrested development because clearly it's got i think it's got a lot of potential as a nation and so they could emerge as a pretty powerful positive force against in the middle east in general and uh a leader in the g the the the middle east but they want them to be arrested development that's why you got all the sanctions that's why you got the warfare and to some extent the installation of this the clergy does that too but
i don't think the clergy is that bad i mean i've i've talked to my my um daughter-in-law about this she she's when she grew up she hated the clergy you got a colonel mcgregor video the iran israel war is not over could we catch that or part of it right at do you see there oh yeah okay sorry i kind of lost it well
the persian people are also very educated their technology is way up there their military advancements are way up there um you know they're they are the leader of the middle east basically and now with israel shrinking uh you know they are the foremost regional power i can't get i can't get the one on mcgregor it was kind of uh yeah but
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they come up with oh yeah i've seen this one go ahead for all your evil people if you're not this upon yourself it's your time to be boom boom it's your time to be able to make
your time Some
good points, that's for sure.
Hit the break.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think that the use of this phony aid organization created just months before to drop Palestinians out for food when they're starving and then slaughter them very, very bad.
And, you know, it's just really stunning what's been going on here.
We're going to have more to cover when we return from this break.
Stand by.
Stand by.
Stand by.
No, I need to incorporate it.
Very good.
Then I need two letters, you know, two statements that just show where you should be saying.
I know I have a rumble.
I'm not sure I got the picture.
Okay.
Okay, excellent.
I think the court has jurisdiction, so they have to get the picture whether you have it or not.
Right, of course.
I'm going down tomorrow morning and I'll have to find that out.
And I'm going to get them notarized tonight and I'll take them down to the court tomorrow morning and see them there.
Is it possible the court may not have jurisdiction?
It's possible that the courts have their jurisdiction.
So if anything is possible, I think that even the case there shouldn't be jurisdiction, but it's ultimately the judge.
Oh, you know what I'm saying?
Maybe take them as if we're under advisement to send to a judge.
No, I think the judge can ultimately determine, or I guess the clerk, but maybe the document can ultimately determine But they're not a data jurisdiction.
Okay, so I'll be leaving them with them, but they won't have stamped them yet, so I can't take them and have them mailed out yet.
That's why it might take a little while for them to leave the documents, and then once they go ahead and are ready, they will either send them out or you can then send them out.
Some of them are too abroad, you know, non-US addresses, where they'd be able to do that too.
I'm honored to be able to do that.
They're all going to the US, which I've done.
I don't have a couple of US headquarters.
Okay.
Okay.
Should they be probably Canada?
What was that?
I, I, I. Yeah, I think that's right.
I think it's more likely that court couldn't be able to do it.
Yes, I think there's some of the people that are in Canada.
Yeah, I think that's good.
So we only have three or four for each, right?
That's correct.
Each for a minute shoot and three for a moment.
Okay, good.
Good, Susan.
I'll be looking at it over the break.
Mimi.
Yeah, I will see them.
Thanks so much.
Bye.
By my calculation, we're back on the air.
Trump has made any number of statements, some of which are rather, in my opinion, outrageous.
This is about what I think are false claims of a threatened attempt to assassinate Trump, where he's saying that Iran would be obliterated were that to prove to be the case.
President Trump warned months ago that he'd given his advisors instruction to obliterate Iran if the regime carried out alleged long-standing plans to assassinate him.
The wild claim was made long before the president's controversial decision to join Israel's war against Iran and came after three men were charged over a foiled plot by the Iranian regime to kill Trump while he was campaigning to return to the White House last year.
I've never believed there was any Iranian attempt to assassinate Trump.
If they did that, they would be obliterated, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office in February when asked about the plot.
Notice, of course, no consultation with Congress required.
Then we have claims, I think, intended to bolster the very idea.
Feds arrest dozens of Iranian special interest aliens amid heightened security concerns.
The center square.
Prior to President authorizing targeted strikes against Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday, federal agents in Texas Department of Public Safety troopers have been arresting Iranian nationals, nearly all men in the U.S. illegally.
In the past few months, federal prosecutors have also brought terrorism charges against Iranians, including those in the U.S. working for the Iranian government.
Iran is a designated state sponsor of terrorism.
That, of course, is a false designation in my judgment.
Israel ought to be properly designated a sponsor of terrorism.
But Israel, even though it has undeclared weapons of mass destruction and nuclear arsenal, cannot legally receive U.S. foreign aid under the law.
Nevertheless, it's all ignored.
We go ahead.
We support Israel.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Sunday issued a warning to all Americans to be on a heightened threat alert.
The ongoing Iran conflict is causing a heightened threat environment in the United States, DHS warned.
Low-level cyber attacks against U.S. networks by pro-Iranian hacknivists are likely, and cyber actors affiliated with Iranian government may conduct attacks against U.S. networks.
Iran also has a long-standing commitment to target U.S. government officials it views as responsible for the death of an Iranian military commander killed in January 2020.
Of course, that's Soleimani.
That was such an outrageous act of perfidy that has stained the history of the United States forever.
Trump admin briefed top Republicans before the Iran strikes, but not Democrats.
President Donald Trump and his team were in contact with top congressional Republicans before strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, but some key Democrats were supposed to have been informed were not told of his plans until after the bombs had dropped.
According to multiple sources familiar with the plans, the top Republicans, House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Toon, were both notified of the U.S. strikes ahead of time.
People familiar initially told CNN Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries received notifications shortly before the public announcement, but after the attack itself.
Joaquin, your thoughts?
What's going on here?
Well, I think that they're always trying to conjure up bad publicity propaganda against Iran.
And, you know, I'm smelling what could end up a false flag.
I think it could be coming to blame Iran, whether it's an attack on our military or ships in the Middle East or a homegrown attack of a sleeper cell in America.
Yeah, they got to justify their whole thing with standing with Israel against Iran.
And so they have to manufacture all this bullshit so that we can, so that basically people are brainwashed to always think badly of, just like with Russia, and the same applies to Iran.
It's over and over.
And of course, we saw the exact identical process going on just ahead of the Iraq war.
You know, they had to convince the public to go along with that.
You know, the invasion of Iraq.
So yeah, it's the same tools, the same war machine operation with propaganda.
Same deal.
Russia.
There's about half a million Iranians living in the United States.
The great majority of them are legal.
Here under legal status.
Maybe a small group of illegals.
So that's a lot of people to try to spy on and do surveillance.
Yeah, but they're working on, you know, 330 million Americans being spied on and volunteer.
Now, you know, one possible false flag might be assassination of Trump and blame it on Iran.
Of course.
Trump's expendable.
Could Israel itself feel that Trump has not been sufficiently supportive of the Jewish state and take him out?
Would that be a really that's kind of probably why he just gives him 100% cooperation right there?
So no, he's floundering so bad that, yeah, he is expendable, I think.
They would think of him as expendable, I believe, because he's been floundering so badly.
Here we have more in the way of anti-democratic behavior by Trump.
Rips Massey over Rand Strike Orm and threatens a campaign for primary challenger.
This is the guy who I regard as the most honest, sincere member of the United States Congress, Trump, going after him, hammering tongs.
President Donald Trump lashed out at Kentucky Representative Thomas Massey, a fellow Republican, over his criticism of the U.S. airstrikes on the three Iranian nuclear sites and threatened a campaign for a person running against him in the Republican primary next year.
Soon after the military op amid the Israeli-Iran war was announced on June 21st, Massey said the move was not constitutional.
The day after the strike, Massey said it was a good week for the neocons in the military-industrial complex who want war all the time on face the nation.
Massey said his side of the mega base is made up of non-interventionists who are tired from all these wars.
And of course, I stand with him.
Thomas Massey, I think, has got it exactly right.
Trump ripped into the seven-term lawmaker shortly afterward, saying he was not mega, even though he likes to say he is actually MAGA doesn't want him, doesn't know him, doesn't respect him.
He wrote on Truth Social on June 22nd, he is a negative force who almost always votes no, no matter how good something might be.
That's, in my opinion, just a silly, silly state.
Well, you know, you know, the thing is, we're talking about Massey's district.
Of course, they know him.
So I don't know what Trump's talking about.
Trump's not, Massey's not on the national stage.
So it's just kind of an absurd comment.
They don't, Magna doesn't know him.
But I would say at this stage that it's Trump that's toxic, not Massey.
I agree.
I agree completely.
Joachim, your thoughts.
Yeah, Massey has been there basically saying, hey, we should not be allowing this foreign agent called AIPAC into our country and controlling our politicians, telling them how to vote on every bill.
You know, he's been, yeah, I agree with you, Jim, that he's probably the best congressperson that we can see by his actions, not by the words, the hot words of propaganda, propping everybody up.
So, yeah, I think he's he's, I think he should run for president.
I think he'd have a good shot, actually.
Yes, yes.
I think he'd be a very strong candidate.
Meanwhile, you're well, I have one more comment on him.
You know, within two weeks after he went on Tucker Carlson and said that, you know, AIPAC sends out handlers for every politician, within two weeks, his wife died.
They were high school sweethearts and went to school together and all of this 20-something year marriage.
And all of a sudden, she died.
She'd gone on vacation.
I see she was up in the mountains.
And all of a sudden, bam, two weeks after the Tucker Carlson, I bet Israel got her.
Yeah, I don't think anyone would be surprised, Joaquin.
I don't think anyone would be surprised.
Terrible.
Ross, your thoughts?
Yeah, I mean, that's probably my sentiment as well.
I don't have proof, but.
Well, the Iranian parliament has voted to close the straits up Korbov.
I believe it will be selective.
That nations like China, which are supportive of Iran, are going to have free access.
They're not going to have any problem with the straits.
On the other hand, oil headed for America is going to be stopped and halted very much as the Houthis are doing.
They're continuing to take out ships with supplies for Israel and now American ships because the Americans attacked them, though it may be now, since America has stopped attacking them, they're stopping attacking American ships.
The Houthis, like the Iranians, are very noble.
They're very honest.
They're very committed.
Iran said long ago, it's easy to stop the war.
Israel just has to cease attacking Iran.
Joaquin, your thoughts?
Yeah, I agree.
I think the Houthis are basically the David and Goliath, the underdog that comes through.
And look what they went through prior to this whole thing going down with Israel.
The war with Saudi Arabia, backed by the United States and Israel, of course, and starvation.
They went through so much for, what, eight, nine years in a war with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states and America and Israel.
And then they went straight from that into defending the Gaza Palestinians and being the only one outside of now Iran and Hezbollah, the only ones in the Arab Islamic world that have come to the defense of the Palestinians.
They're the only ones.
All the rest, all those Gulf states, you know, the monarchies that are all with Israel and America, they don't do shit.
All they do is talk, oh yeah, yeah, you know, like that.
We're for them.
But no, they're not.
If you base on actions, you know that they're for Israel and America because they've been in the pocket of them throughout the whole history of the Middle East.
So, yeah, you know, the Islamic world's big, especially in the Middle East, but there hasn't been very much support from fellow Islamic populations.
I believe now, of course, the United States entering the fray, attacking the sites that the Muslim nations are going to come together in support of Iran.
Oil tankers are turning around at Hormuz.
Lawmakers bought war stocks before the worst first strike.
How bad is that?
The Strait of Hormuz is not closed, but it might as well be.
Tankers are turning around, routes are shifting, risk premiums are climbing, and the oil market is holding its breath.
At least three oil tankers changed courses today, diverting away from the Strait of Ormuz.
That is not routine.
That is a signal.
Writers confirmed the rerouting.
Bloomberg tracked the vessels.
The Cost Wisdom Lake and South Loyalty both entered the strait, then reversed.
These are not fishing boats.
They are super tankers, each capable of hauling 2 million barrels of crude.
They turned around and sailed south away from the Gulf.
That is not hesitation.
That is avoidance.
The Strait of Ormond moves 20% of the world's oil daily.
It also handles 83% of the liquefied natural gas bound for Asia.
When ships stop moving through it, the global energy market does not blink.
It convulses.
Rababank warned that even without a formal closure, war insurance costs alone could spike.
Oil in LNG Bryce says Goldman, Sachs, and Brent could hit 110 if low dropped by half for a month.
That is not a forecast.
That is a scenario already in motion, meaning oil hitting 110 a barrel.
The Greek shipping ministry issued a notice to its fleet, reassess package, wait at safe ports, do not enter unless absolutely necessary.
That is not a drill.
That is a government telling its tankers to stay out of the blast radius.
China is watching too.
Beijing buys 90% of Iran's crude exports.
It also pulls massive volumes from the Gulf.
Chinese link tankers are now idling east of our moves.
Some are rerouting through the Red Sea.
That had days of delivery time and millions in fuel cost.
But they're doing it anyway.
That is not inefficiency.
That is risk management.
Gentlemen, I'd like your thoughts about Russ begin.
Well, the oil market hadn't responded to any of that.
You know, once the ceasefire was put in place, oil dropped down to 68 bucks.
So it's just deadlining.
Personally, I don't think Iran is going to cut the straits off because I think they want to try to maintain reasonable relationships with the countries there, with the Persian Gulf states.
They've kind of rebuilt their status and relationships with them.
So I don't think that's going to happen.
Now, the insurance cost is very real if the bullets start flying.
And of course, you've got the American fleet in the neighborhood.
They could be targeted.
But so far, the oil market's just not responding to any of this.
Well, I mean, it's hard to say how Iran's going to respond as far as the control over that or move straight, whether they enforce any kind of restriction or not with a ceasefire supposedly in place.
But, you know, it's really kind of up in the air, I think.
But obviously, the instability has caused so many companies and insurance companies to really start rethinking about their use of that waterway for the purpose of cargo ships.
So I don't know.
It's kind of all up in the air right now.
Russ, if you have a leg-breaking story, I'm glad to make you host again for us.
Go back and see.
We have about five minutes remaining yours.
Okay.
Well, we haven't mentioned Ukraine and Russia at all because everything is like wag the dog move from this wag the dog scene to the next scene.
But I think that my understanding is Russia is making major gains in moving across the Dnieper River and headed basically to Kiev.
I'm pretty sure it's within, I don't know, probably by the end of the summer, that's what I'm estimating, that they are going to probably be closing the war down at that point.
I don't think Zelensky has much more time either.
Go right ahead, Russ.
Yeah, let me finish up this one little thing we were running.
I thought it was pretty good.
There's a minute left on it.
You got the mothers.
You want kids?
Come back to the mothers picking the babies out with their hands.
Tell that to cancer patients gasping for oxygen as the hospital walls collapsed around them.
You want sympathy.
You had two years of global silence and that still wasn't enough for your bloodlust.
You've been had.
You've been took.
You've been hoodwinked.
The world was hoodwinked into believing you were victims while you turned cities into cemeteries.
You don't get to cry now.
Not after you made mourning a crime in Gaza.
You don't get to scream now.
Not after you silenced every voice that dared to say enough.
You bombed hope.
You buried mercy.
You murdered truth.
And now you want the people's pity.
We don't mourn for war criminals.
We don't cry for colonizers.
We cry for the silence.
For the crush.
For the medics you left in the dirt.
But something's changed.
The world sees you now.
The veil is off.
The lie is dead.
The lie is dead.
The lie is dead.
The altar is here.
You think I am, but I am not like you.
No, I am not like you.
It's interesting, all these anti-Israel venues now they couldn't get away with this just like a month ago.
But since this whole unprovoked war happened, now it's open season to really be critical of Israel.
The whole world, I mean, with the genocide, they were already against Israel, but now it's like there's no breaks to and they're gonna try, as they have all along, if you criticize Israel, you're anti-Semitic.
They're gonna try that, go that route, but too many people are seeing through it, and they're not afraid to criticize Israel now.
Well, there's signs now that the X is cracking down on us.
The ADL is really pushing X. So you're not...
It's not like an anything goes platform like Rumble and BitChute, where you can just slander people and do defamation.
But you can certainly criticize Israel.
But that might be changing.
So there might be some censorship kind of entering into X. There's signs of it.
But yeah, these videos that I just showed you, they're all over the place.
I saw another really good one.
They're very hard-hitting and effective.
It's Amir Ben Gavir calls on the public to snitch on its neighbors and report anyone watching Al Jazeera to the police.
Al Jazeera!
Yeah, what a tame network.
It's Al Jazeera's nothing.
I think they outlawed Al Jazeera in Israel.
They can't even show it.
Yeah, the Al Jazeeras can't cover Gaza, can't cover Israel.
So the Israel preparing the Dihaya Doctrine for Iran.
I think that's what they wanted to do, but they kind of got cut off at the pass because they can't defend against Iran.
So the Haya Doctrine is the suburb of Beirut where they basically destroyed their infrastructure.
Hardly even livable anymore.
That's what they want to do with Iran.
But it's been postponed.
Gentlemen, in the moments we have that remain, please give me your overall assessment of where things stand.
Russ first, go right ahead.
Where do things stand, Russ?
Well, Iran's winning the war.
I'm anticipating that probably it'll rupt back again and put us back to where we were a couple days ago.
And then what's Trump going to do?
Because I don't think Trump wants to engage with Iran.
He knows it's going to cost American lives.
So that's going to put an egg on his face and make his regime look bad.
So his goal, I think, is to try to keep the ceasefire going and just keep a low simmer.
I think they're going to come up with a false flag and then go and be blaming Iran.
You know, I don't think they can allow peace.
You know, Israel's going to do something.
So, yeah, I think it's going to go unstable.
I think that the economy is going to be cracking more wide open worldwide, really.
But especially.
Well, the false flag makes sense because they need to mix up the MOMO a little bit.
The MOMO is not right right now.
It's gone against them.
They can't just continue day after day the way it is today.
You know, a ceasefire where Iran is ultimately is winning.
They have to change the MOMO up.
So the false flag has got to be coming.
My take: Israel lost, Iran won.
The false flag is going to be transparently fabricated.
Trump has lost his base.
He's made too many wrongful decisions.
He's embarrassing himself, as is his vice president, by going against the reports from the Intel community, which are obviously well-founded.
His dismissal of Tulsi was a colossal blunder.
In my opinion, she ought to resign in principle and reiterated that it's the finding of the Intel community that RAND was not pursuing nuclear weapons and posed no imminent threat.
That would have been in her and the nation's best interest.
Thank you, gentlemen, once again.
Meanwhile, everyone, spend as much time as you can with your family, your friends, and people you love and care about.
We do not know how much time we have left, and obviously, there are threats abounding.
I am an agnostic.
I nevertheless appeal to the phrase, God willing.
We'll be back on Friday.
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